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TheBigAristotle posted:He was a fuckin weirdo in the football thread as well. Ever hear that story of Leicester City winning the English Premier League last year on 1000-1 odds? Guess who was suddenly a fan that season? (He's not anymore, naturally) Is he a Chelsea fan again?
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Moose. Terrifying? Not really. You'd have to be in three feet of cedar swamp to even get close to one. I've interacted* with moose on like a dozen occasions, and they tend to just ignore you because you're not an immediate threat. Moose on the road are bad though. *been relatively close to in the woods
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Javes posted:Matt's point about the connection between gamer culture and libertarianism is interesting. 
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Jonas Albrecht posted:Which is so loving weird to me, because pro-consumerist ideas are antithetical to libertarian ones. There's a weird pseudo-libertarianism at work in a lot of gaming culture--for example, a guy will complain that a game he perceives as "liberal" doesn't deserve to succeed because it won't succeed in the marketplace. If it does succeed, he whines about an SJW conspiracy of "virtue signaling" as the only reason people bought it. When this leads to him getting banned from a privately-owned Internet forum, he will then whine about censorship. I've seen this a hundred times. It's an ideology that overlaps libertarianism and liberalism: God is the Market, and you pray to Him via the Internet. The Market will answer your prayers if you post enough--whether you pray for more female action movie heroes, or for video game protagonists to be brown-haired white men for the next millennium, the approach is fundamentally insane. SMP posted:Matt is mostly right as hell about video games but I'm still going to play them. I don't think video games are any more of a dead end than any other medium at the moment though. They might have a bigger hurdle to clear than movies/tv/books, but I think at some point we'll get to that horizon Alex claims is there. Probably after the completely collapse of the AAA industry due to untenable budgets/profit margins.
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What I mean is that gamers often have this pro-consumer ideology regarding companies not loving them over, and that protection only comes from solid regulations.
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Jonas Albrecht posted:What I mean is that gamers often have this pro-consumer ideology regarding companies not loving them over, and that protection only comes from solid regulations. Gamers think that pro-consumer just means bigger boobs and/or jiggly boob pre-order bonuses in the games that they have to spend hundreds of dollars in microtransactions and DLC to be able to fully experience\, because 'gamers', the ones who take on the media they consume/buy as their only identity, are all stupid as poo poo. bvj191jgl7bBsqF5m fucked around with this message at 20:54 on May 26, 2017 |
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Lord Frisk posted:Moose. Terrifying? Not really. You'd have to be in three feet of cedar swamp to even get close to one. I've interacted* with moose on like a dozen occasions, and they tend to just ignore you because you're not an immediate threat. Moose on the road are bad though. I've had them wander through camp, we just kind of froze and it kept going, no big deal. On the other hand one charged at my jeep as we were driving an old forest service track, it backed off after getting within a few feet, but speaks to their temperament, and it was big enough that if I was on foot it would have hosed me up super bad.
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If it's rutting season or if they have calfs, they are incredibly dangerous.
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Lord Frisk posted:Moose. Terrifying? Not really. You'd have to be in three feet of cedar swamp to even get close to one. I've interacted* with moose on like a dozen occasions, and they tend to just ignore you because you're not an immediate threat. Moose on the road are bad though. https://youtu.be/xct0WYyY2jk
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even a loving deer will gently caress you right up if you get close to it like a moron
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Halloween Jack posted:I just listened to the podcast. Doesn't he say that all art is reactionary? I get that the media industry is very liberal in its ideology, but that's pretty grim. What's the call to action there? The Internet is, in his words, a "poo poo tornado," so it's not like we can switch to consuming only the modern equivalent of zines.
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Gamers literally believe that if there was only one digital distribution platform on PC (steam) and one console (pick you poison) they would actually have better and cheaper games. Also gamergate lmao.
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Sandweed posted:Gamers literally believe that if there was only one digital distribution platform on PC (steam) and one console (pick you poison) they would actually have better and cheaper games. Also gamergate lmao. Yes this type of jagoff certainly haunts the video game threads.
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Gamers kick rear end.
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coathat posted:Gamers kick rear end. Gamers suck poo poo and I love to beat them up and shove them into the girl's bathroom so the girls freak out hahaha
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https://twitter.com/virgiltexas/status/868179341246685189 Wait, holy poo poo traister is back https://twitter.com/Bro_Pair/status/868194503781384192 Sushi in Yiddish fucked around with this message at 21:25 on May 26, 2017 |
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Mr. Lobe posted:If it's rutting season or if they have calfs, they are incredibly dangerous. This goes for pretty much any ungulate
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Gamers still think steam and valve is their friend.
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Sushi in Yiddish posted:Wait, holy poo poo traister is back quote:But was she right that she couldn’t have expressed her anger in that debate? There are plenty of people who yearned for Clinton to get mad; during the campaign, an imagined litany of Clinton’s fury entitled “Let Me Remind You Fuckers Who I Am” went viral. “Oh, I am [pissed],” she says. But as a woman in public life, “you can’t be angry for yourself. You just can’t. You can be indignant, you can be annoyed, you can be frustrated, but you can’t be angry … I don’t think anger’s a strategy.”
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Narrator: She didn't
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Zikan posted:Narrator: She didn't lmao
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Halloween Jack posted:I'm very interested in the MGS series, but frankly don't have time to play all the games and don't particularly want to play really old games. Is there a particular LP that's ideal for experiencing the first games, and any particularly good sites/threads/whatever for analysis? The Chip and Ironicus ones have both informed discussion and high level play.
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Cross came off kinda pedantic is this one. Needing to stop and over explain every joke/tweet and fight Amber over year old venison lol.
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Zikan posted:Narrator: She didn't *ukelele music* now the story of a political dynasty who lost everything and the one daugher who had no choice but to pick up their frustrated political ambitions
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Reassuring to know that even in Earth-2 where Hilldawg won, we'd still be led by a president with no firm grasp on the truth or reality.
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This is the same neurosis that gave us those bizarre "if Hillary had won" twitter accounts. It's like we're watching "Good Bye, Biden!" or something. fomo sacer fucked around with this message at 21:58 on May 26, 2017 |
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Sushi in Yiddish posted:
"I feel GREAT!"
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Deadulus posted:Cross came off kinda pedantic is this one. Needing to stop and over explain every joke/tweet and fight Amber over year old venison lol. I thought he was pretty good. The "Mike Huckabee!" wacky theme was enough to make the whole thing worthwhile.
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Slanderer posted:Wrong Nah man, it's meandering and pointless and has conversations about poetry that I learned were pretty easy to skip because I could just skim ahead to when paragraphs of dialogue stopped being a page long. Delany can write normal books that aren't nonsense and are good, it's a shame that he only got remembered for Dhalgren.
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Meandering is actually good.
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Halloween Jack posted:I'm very interested in the MGS series, but frankly don't have time to play all the games and don't particularly want to play really old games. Is there a particular LP that's ideal for experiencing the first games, and any particularly good sites/threads/whatever for analysis? Metal Gear Solid is basically the poster child for telling a story in a way that couldn't be done as effectively in any other medium, so there's no LP that's ideal for experiencing any of the games
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Halloween Jack posted:I'm very interested in the MGS series, but frankly don't have time to play all the games and don't particularly want to play really old games. Is there a particular LP that's ideal for experiencing the first games, and any particularly good sites/threads/whatever for analysis? that poster chip cheezum does really thorough lps of them all and shows off as much content as you could ask for. in terms of analysis, there is basically no good critical analysis of MGS published anywhere. the book ashly and anthony burch wrote is unbelievable trash.
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the gamer fantasy of libertarianism combined with consumer's rights plays exactly into the fantasy of agency games provide. Consumer's rights is a way of saying "legislation that bends towards fulfilling my individual fantasy of a world oriented entirely around me." Which is fundamental both to the libertarian ideal of young disaffected men and to the actual design goals of most video games.
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i never thought i would see people take a break from bashing capitalism to take a poo poo on consumers rights
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the oligarch class must be dismantled, but until then, lol at anyone who wants to legislate protections for their victims
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lmfao the whole point is that most gamers idea of consumer protections is pressuring steam to release hentai videogames without the need to crack open up the nude scenes themselves. if they actually organized around busting monopolistic control in games it'd be great. Jim Sterling at least does some of this but of course he takes massive heat from half the drat "gamer community" whenever he criticizes a zelda or something.
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Gamers actively shun other distribution platforms and are constantly talking about how they want everything on Steam. I certainly sympathize because it's convenient to have all your friends on one platform that works well, but c'mon...
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Under the vegetable posted:the oligarch class must be dismantled, but until then, lol at anyone who wants to legislate protections for their victims No one's arguing this, ya crumb bum
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Impermanent posted:lmfao the whole point is that most gamers idea of consumer protections is pressuring steam to release hentai videogames without the need to crack open up the nude scenes themselves. if they actually organized around busting monopolistic control in games it'd be great. Jim Sterling at least does some of this but of course he takes massive heat from half the drat "gamer community" whenever he criticizes a zelda or something. maybe if jim sterling would stop wearing an insane cartoon fascist costume people would take him more seriously
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