rediscover posted:

i like how in mgs2 you can shoot a guy's radio so that when he sees you he can't call in an alert and you can just kick hiss rear end for being so stupid

As a Millennial I posted:

here's a fun thing to try in mgs 3: hold up a guy with an empty gun, then pull the trigger

elf help book posted:

fatman fight was fun

elf help book posted:

fatman fight was fun

Lunchmeat Larry posted:

I love how he keeps saying "laugh and grow fat" in inverted commas as if it's an actual quote that we're supposed to understand, when it's insane and meaningless, and owns

quote:

Google provides numerous sources for this phrase, so many that I was unable to find one I could call the oldest. One source describes it as "an old adage," and surely it is.

A series of prints dating from 1761-1766 includes: "Laugh and grow Fat

Chas. Corbet fecit
London. Printed for Robt. Sayer, No. 53 Fleet Street
A portly gentleman with his left hand on his hip laughs out loud and holds his right hand to his belly.

31.4 x 25.3 cm.
Yale Center for British Art (B1970.3.1110)" The description is of a print reproduced on the website, at:
http://www.lclark.edu/~jhart/mezzoto1770/mezzodated1761to66.html

From an 1832 book about Punch and Judy we have: "Mr. Punch is one jolly good fellow,
His dress is all scarlet and yellow,
And if now and then he gets mellow,
It's only among his good friends.
His money most freely he spends;
To laugh and grow fat he intends,
With the girls he's s rogue and a rover;
He lives, while he can, upon clover;
When he dies-its only all over;
And there Punch's comedy ends." See (inter alia):
http://www.spyrock.com/nadafarm/html/punchTrumpet.html

An 1851 letter from Tahiti tells us, among much else: "The natives are the happiest run of mortals I have ever seen; always good-natured, with no care or trouble. They laugh and grow fat."

An Ohio broadside (single printed sheet) from the 1850s bears this title: Laugh and Grow Fat. Comic Concert. For the benefit of the Old Auctioneer! W. A. Moyston.

It is the title, and provides one track, of a well-received CD by the Ill-Mo Boys, from guess where.

It appears to exist as the title of a video game.

There are many other examples of the use of this saying from the 18th century until our times. Plainly, before the formation of our modern scientific concepts concerning health and diet, "Laugh and grow fat" was considered a good precept. A number of cited sources use it as a slogan representing the salubriousness of being cheerful, others, more recent, warning that, while laughter is just fine, growing fat is not a good recipe for that healthy glow. In older writing one often finds and association of being cheery and jolly with being fat. Think of Jolly Old Saint Nick, with his belly resembling "bowlful of jelly."
SS

FactsAreUseless posted:

elf help book posted:

oh a retina scanner, i know ill knock this guy out and drag him up to it! why is my codec ringing i figured it out shut up. why isnt it working??


"Raiden! The Biometric scanner only works if the person being scanned is alive and alert! Do not try knocking them out!"


....

elf help book posted:

i just did the harrier fight and its really started to hit me how drat good this game is

ArfJason posted:

alright its been long enough. I think its time to test out emulating mgs3

ArfJason posted:

connection been running like rear end the past few days: gonna take 8 hours to download directly form emuparadise lmao

i miss underground-gaming

net cafe scandal posted:

Some?

elf help book posted:

I wouldnt highly rate calls like "press the action button to open the door". But Rose going off about Raidens bedroom for 5 minutes after a save with swelling dramatic music is something else. Or Snake explaining Vamps name

Austrian mook posted:

The bedroom call is probably the thing I remember immediately and most vividly when anyone brings up MGS2

In Training posted:

Good luck

Austrian mook posted:

The bedroom call is probably the thing I remember immediately and most vividly when anyone brings up MGS2

In Training posted:

Mine is the first time the Marine commander incredulously shouts "the La Li Lu Le Lo?"

FactsAreUseless posted:

Did I miss the revelation of why they're called that in MGS2, or is it in a different game?