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I wanted to make a joke about Allison moving to Canada now, but she's released a nice video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJc_gKuFsoU And let's just appreciate that.
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Had to quit halfway through for personal emotional reasons, but it's a super nice video and I'm glad she made it.
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This is cool and good. I'll be interested to see what Hbomb thinks of DS3 when he gets around to playing it. The game was good, but to me it felt like it was constantly screaming "HEY KIDS REMEMBER THIS poo poo YOU LIKED FROM THE FIRST GAME!? IT'S BAAAAACK!" To Hbomb: For something similar to Game Conditioning is "First Order Optimal Strategy" which I don't think was first coined by Extra Credits but that's certainly the most popular use according to a quick google search. A FOOS refers to a tactic or ability that is disproportionately powerful for how easy it is to do. Like, say, using a shield in any of the Souls games. This doesn't mean it's the most efficient or most powerful, but just that its power and ease of use make it the backbone of how many people will play the game. Parry and riposte is the most efficient way or dispatching an enemy in Dark Souls 1, and sidstepping to a backstab for Dark Soulses 2 and 3, but they all require much more risk for only a marginally better reward (killing an enemy a fraction of a second faster, and a slightly higher soul income in DS1). A FOOS is purely mechanical, while your Game Conditioning seems to be more about presentation, but it might be worth looking up if you haven't heard of it.
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I absolutely adore Bloodborne. I wish it had better magic and ranged options but the changing weapons did give you a ton of varied options. I like Dark Souls a whole lot but the combat in Bloodborne just did it for me a whole lot more. It was one of the few games where I could actively see my progress get better because I didn't have that shield crutch. One boss in the dungeons kept giving me a hard time but after a hour the thing couldn't touch me and when I fought it again in a different chalice dungeon, I beat it on my first try getting hit once or twice. Some bosses I didn't like - the final DLC boss comes to mind, but overall I hope they make a sequel to the game and add more to the multiplayer before they move on to other projects outside the Soul-like games.
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I like Bloodborne because of how ridiculously anime it got towards the end. Like the final boss was literally teleporting while fighting with a giant anime scythe that transforms into a fuckoff huge blade. Or how the dlc boss is pretty much a donut steel. Twin blades, nono dual wielding blood blades, nono dual wielding swords that spew flaming blood. Bloodborne is the ultra violent anime I always wanted as a kid is what I am saying. Annointed fucked around with this message at 20:42 on Nov 10, 2016 |
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Nov 10, 2016 20:36
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Deport The Irish posted:This is cool and good. I'll be interested to see what Hbomb thinks of DS3 when he gets around to playing it. The game was good, but to me it felt like it was constantly screaming "HEY KIDS REMEMBER THIS poo poo YOU LIKED FROM THE FIRST GAME!? IT'S BAAAAACK!" If you listen to podcasts at all Bonfireside Chat is just about done with the main game of DS3 and they've basically been saying that the entire time. Mechanically the game is extremely good (aside from the poise nonsense) but it's leaning way too hard on callbacks all around.
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Bloodborne makes me sad that I don't have a PS4, but I suppose I could just make a strong dude in DS2 and roll around with a tree. I definitely cannot wait until the DS2 video comes out because I always thought the community was a little too hard on it and was amused when suddenly there were people who started appreciating it after they played DS3.
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MonsieurChoc posted:I wanted to make a joke about Allison moving to Canada now, but she's released a nice video: She really knows how to deliver that message. I don't know if she still reads this thread, but that's just the right way to reach out and connect to someone who might be about to do something rash right there in the moment. It's a very kind gesture, and done well.
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i am tim! posted:Bloodborne makes me sad that I don't have a PS4, but I suppose I could just make a strong dude in DS2 and roll around with a tree. I definitely cannot wait until the DS2 video comes out because I always thought the community was a little too hard on it and was amused when suddenly there were people who started appreciating it after they played DS3. 2 makes me very happy because fist weapons and other niche little killtoys got to be fun and good for once.
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Yardbomb posted:2 makes me very happy because fist weapons and other niche little killtoys got to be fun and good for once. I do genuinely really like 2 since it seemed a bit more willing to experiment. Mechanically Demons Souls and Dark Souls 1 and 3 feel mechanically quite similar. That's not a bad thing but 2 had stuff like power stancing, the torch (even if it was more or less useless), extremely diverse DLC, breakable chests, soul memory, weapon durability repairing at bonfires, etc to name some of the big and small things as well as the good and bad. DS3 feels very safe overall and it's still a drat fine game but, as I said, it's kind of safe compared to DS2 or Bloodborne.
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MonsieurChoc posted:I wanted to make a joke about Allison moving to Canada now, but she's released a nice video: loving hell, there's always some MAGA shitposting among the majority of "thank you for this, I needed it". Never read the comments folks.
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Alright, took some time off for personal reasons, but I'm back with the Doctor Who book review everyone was waiting for, "Love and War" by Paul Cornell.
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somekindofguy posted:loving hell, there's always some MAGA shitposting among the majority of "thank you for this, I needed it". Never read the comments folks. "Hurr fuckedy durr people are just overreacting *Ideological diarrhea erupts from all orifices*" - Straight internet right-wing man
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Yardbomb posted:"Hurr fuckedy durr people are just overreacting *Ideological diarrhea erupts from all orifices*" - Straight internet right-wing man I'm getting these comments from self righteous white liberals who think they can play 5 dimensional chess at the lost of millions. Few things tick me off more than people who claim to be good but prove their vindication outweighs their morals. Hell the poo poo rear end corporate media is so stupid in their arrogance in their rich bubble they can't realize that maybe, just maybe, they should have listened to the people instead of their donors. Annointed fucked around with this message at 00:12 on Nov 11, 2016 |
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Democrats aren't introspective. Neither is the mainstream media. You'll be seeing that a lot for the next decade on social media, unfortunately. The sooner mainstream media crashes and burns the better off we'll be.
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The problem seems to be 24-hour standard for news networks. In order to fill all that airtime you need a lot of pointless nonsense (e.g. pundits) that does more harm than good.
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Yardbomb posted:2 makes me very happy because fist weapons and other niche little killtoys got to be fun and good for once. If you didn't have a character in DS2 with two bonefists and zero shirts, you didn't play the game right. DS2 is the game I have the most hours in because the amount of dumb but still usable ways you could kit out your character was amazing. Fist weapons, mashing people up between two greatshields like the worst pac man reboot, power-stancing those giant hammers from the tower DLC that required 105 str to pull off.... Deport The Irish fucked around with this message at 05:23 on Nov 11, 2016 |
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Jack Gladney posted:She really knows how to deliver that message. I don't know if she still reads this thread, but that's just the right way to reach out and connect to someone who might be about to do something rash right there in the moment. It's a very kind gesture, and done well. Thanks a lot, I'm really glad it seems to've helped people. It's the least I can do right now. somekindofguy posted:loving hell, there's always some MAGA shitposting among the majority of "thank you for this, I needed it". Never read the comments folks. Just went through and deleted those. Normally I don't delete comments unless they're really heinous, but my video isn't their venue.
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TheMaestroso posted:The problem seems to be 24-hour standard for news networks. In order to fill all that airtime you need a lot of pointless nonsense (e.g. pundits) that does more harm than good.  We didn't need a play-by-play from every news network when one hour of reporting when the results came in would've done. Also all those inaccurate pre-election polls didn't help when they lured the Dems into not working as hard as they could have.
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Jimbot posted:Democrats aren't introspective. Neither is the mainstream media. You'll be seeing that a lot for the next decade on social media, unfortunately. The sooner mainstream media crashes and burns the better off we'll be.
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Forgall posted:We'll be so much better off then breitbart and infowars are the only news sources. You do realize that corporate media is beholden to their masters while online liberal media is actually about the truth and not being literal nazis?
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Annointed posted:You do realize that corporate media is beholden to their masters while online liberal media is actually about the truth and not being literal nazis?
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Kinky Cookie Bunny posted:I was trying to remember what the anime abandon guy was called and I ended up finding his list of reviews page and the most recent review was is that giantness vore, because woah that's new.
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Miss Wallace posted:Thanks a lot, I'm really glad it seems to've helped people. It's the least I can do right now. That is a sweet video and I think it was a good idea to make it. It didn't feel partisan in a political way, just supportive. 
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Kinky Cookie Bunny posted:I was trying to remember what the anime abandon guy was called and I ended up finding his list of reviews page and the most recent review was Bennet's talked about weird/gross anime before, nothing new 
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Kinky Cookie Bunny posted:I was trying to remember what the anime abandon guy was called and I ended up finding his list of reviews page and the most recent review was He's already talked about the anime starring the chick with three dicks, what's a little more porn? If you haven't seen any of his videos as Suave, his character is literally being a gigantic loving pervert.
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Yardbomb posted:Bennet's talked about weird/gross anime before, nothing new She knows. That's not why she posted that :P
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Been a while since I first touched on Yu Yu Hakusho. Well, it's back, and this time I use the show as a gateway to talk about some very basic concepts of character design.
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poparena posted:Been a while since I first touched on Yu Yu Hakusho. Well, it's back, and this time I use the show as a gateway to talk about some very basic concepts of character design. Man, I love this show. So glad you're still doing videos on it! EDIT: Joseph Anderson provides his take on SOMA. TheMaestroso fucked around with this message at 20:05 on Nov 12, 2016 |
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Miss Wallace posted:Thanks a lot, I'm really glad it seems to've helped people. It's the least I can do right now. Thank you Allison. It seems pretty unreal to me - I'm in a different country - but it affects the whole world. It's strange to know that we as critics *can* help people so profoundly, even if it's just by making them laugh in a difficult time. Fingers crossed for the best of America right now to triumph over the worst of it.
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Wednesday's video is on Brigadier Gerard, the thing Arthur Conan Doyle REALLY wanted to write, not this Sherlock Holmes crap.
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Huh skimming and it's an interesting vid, I'll check that out. I actually read the complete brigadier gerard not too long ago. I was a childhood sir Arthur Conan Doyle fan and yet somehow I'd never even heard of the stories or gerard's existence until like a year ago Entertaining stuff, I wonder if I would've preferred him to Sherlock as a kid. Seems blasphemous to contemplate but Gerard is way more cavalier, oblivious, and amusing
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poparena posted:Wednesday's video is on Brigadier Gerard, the thing Arthur Conan Doyle REALLY wanted to write, not this Sherlock Holmes crap. Not had a chance to watch the video yet but I had always heard that when Sherlock and Moriarty went off the waterfall that was him wanting to be done with the character but fan outcry, even back then, was so strong he basically had to bring him back. Tracula fucked around with this message at 01:21 on Nov 17, 2016 |
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The new Anime Abandon's up, and it's on something called The Weathering Continent. 
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The next episode's gonna be fantastic though. It's Cyber City Oedo  .
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Neddy Seagoon posted:The next episode's gonna be fantastic though. It's Cyber City Oedo I've been waiting for this.
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After watching Todd's newest video, I remembered that it's almost the end of the year, which means it's time for predictions of the best/worst of the year! I sadly can't comment on that since I haven't kept up on current music that much, but I'm sure others here can.
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