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Game Ogre is so great. More Simone is great. More Pat is great. Both of them together is even greater.
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# ? Jan 23, 2018 01:44 |
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# ? Jun 10, 2024 07:08 |
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I really like Pat's continued use of "slice the pie" in the new game ogre episode, when it's just one person entering a room. ninja edit: i guess it can be a one person thing, but I've always thought it referred to teams of people
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# ? Jan 23, 2018 17:21 |
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Polygon is doing a big stream day on youtube. Pat and Simone did Monster Hunter earlier, and said there'll be a Pat/Griffin/Chelsea/You??? multiplayer stream tomorrow. Simone ate a banana and it was the worst thing I've ever seen or heard. Next up seems to be Griffin, Justin and Russ streaming Sea of Thieves in a few minutes, and there's apparently two more streams later today, including The Polygon Show probably.
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# ? Jan 25, 2018 17:32 |
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Goddamn I have not been as frustrated as I am watching Russ play a loving video game in a looooong time. He can't use his loving eyes. He might literally be blind. I don't understand how he doesn't understand basic loving systems. Hey Russ, you piece of poo poo, a rudder works like a car. You turn it a little bit, get your heading correct, and then straighten it back out. You don't keep jamming the wheel left and right and left and right like mickey loving mouse you incompetent moron.
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# ? Jan 25, 2018 20:40 |
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Russ isn’t here friend.
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# ? Jan 25, 2018 20:49 |
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I am Russ
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# ? Jan 25, 2018 20:51 |
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Judge Schnoopy posted:Goddamn I have not been as frustrated as I am watching Russ play a loving video game in a looooong time. Sir this is a McDonald's
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# ? Jan 25, 2018 20:54 |
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y'all gonna tell me we have a polygon thread in which we're not allowed to yell at russ really what's the loving point
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# ? Jan 25, 2018 21:09 |
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Not Operator posted:I am Russ You're terrible at everything and I find it both amusing and frustrating.
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# ? Jan 25, 2018 21:09 |
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I love Russ and his stupid jokes followed by his nervous laugh. Unironically
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# ? Jan 25, 2018 21:22 |
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Quest For Glory II posted:I love Russ and his stupid jokes followed by his nervous laugh. Unironically Did you watch the Sea of Thieves stream? I used to think this. But loving hell he's SO BAD at video games. And he doesn't understand that he's bad. Everybody is searching an island and Russ is jumping through brush back and forth and back and forth over the same patch of land, not looking at anything, not accomplishing anything. He's absolutely the loving worst.
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# ? Jan 25, 2018 21:24 |
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I’m not quite as passionate about it but I don’t disagree with the facts. For someone who’s profession is video games, he doesn’t seem very good at them, and not in a “my comedy gimmick is being bad at games” way I don’t care too much but it’s puzzling
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# ? Jan 25, 2018 21:26 |
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He seemed pretty alright at Spelunky. I guess maybe he's more of a 2d guy?
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# ? Jan 25, 2018 21:29 |
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He's good at games that he practices. He has the ability to be good at games. But his ability to learn a game is like watching a toddler trying to ride a bike. He seems completely clueless and unable to learn, and he just shuts down and stops making rational decisions in favor of blind thoughtless panic and 'doing things for the sake of doing things'. He loses any semblance of intelligence and turns into an ape-like creature mashing buttons.
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# ? Jan 25, 2018 21:32 |
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Russ is pretty good at a very particular type of game, which is 2D platformers. He's been mediocre or worse at basically everything else. Like, he's already bad at the games, but then also hams it up to 11. Sometimes this leads to watching him stare at a toilet while his teammates are slaughtered off-screen, but sometimes this also results in him causing a complete party wipe by driving into a bale of hay for fun. Overall, I like Russ, but I can understand why people might be put off by him. At the very least, he adds more than he detracts overall, and the rest of the staff seem to like him well enough. I give Russ Frushtick a 7.5 out of 10, for a rating of "Above average". Thanks for tuning in, and be sure to like share and subscribe.
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# ? Jan 25, 2018 21:33 |
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i do not like the man named russ. replace russ with pat
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# ? Jan 25, 2018 21:35 |
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I'm fine with having a wildcard in the group like Russ. It can be really funny. But knowing there are three competent players doing something cool, I don't want to be stuck looking at a game through the viewpoint of the idiot wildcard being a loving idiot. Literally anybody streaming would be better than Russ. Why do they insist that he is the best person to stream everything? He shows absolutely no talent for video games or recording video games. Does his uncle work for nintendo?
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# ? Jan 25, 2018 21:36 |
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Serf posted:i do not like the man named russ. replace russ with pat I'm in favour of this unless it means less baseball game. Where's the basball game Patrick? Get Allegra do more baseball game, this isn't complicated. I need to hear film critic discussion about where and when Final Fantasy characters go to the bathroom to pee.
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# ? Jan 25, 2018 21:38 |
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Judge Schnoopy posted:He's good at games that he practices. He has the ability to be good at games. Maybe he just gets stage fright and panics while trying to learn while recording? Although again; puzzling career choice I dunno, he’s a nice guy and I don’t really go to polygon for my hard hitting games journalism, I like them for funny videos so I’m not angry about Russ. I do like pat more though
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# ? Jan 25, 2018 21:39 |
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Sea Rats stream was fun.
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# ? Jan 25, 2018 21:39 |
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Russ as a wildcard is fine but not as the cameraman. Awful Squad makes me want to fall over because he is always looking at the wrong thing. It's like he has a curse.
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# ? Jan 25, 2018 21:49 |
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Maybe I'm misremembering, but doesn't Russ play with his graphics settings and whatnot purposefully low to help stream consistency or something?
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# ? Jan 25, 2018 21:53 |
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Inzombiac posted:Russ as a wildcard is fine but not as the cameraman. He’s ok when he’s in observer mode but he cannot play and stream at the same time and it’s confounding that they put him in charge of it when other people are clearly capable
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# ? Jan 25, 2018 21:59 |
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I dunno if you guys are trying to rewrite history or something, but I distinctly remember that the last time someone other than Russ streamed, the whole stream was inflicted with a terrible curse. I'm not about to open myself up to that for nothing.
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# ? Jan 25, 2018 22:02 |
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I don't mind him very much but I wish Russ would quit interfering in elections
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# ? Jan 25, 2018 22:10 |
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Eox posted:I don't mind him very much but I wish Russ would quit interfering in elections Chemtrails too. My Orgone Chembuster can barely keep up!
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# ? Jan 25, 2018 22:29 |
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Ariong posted:I dunno if you guys are trying to rewrite history or something, but I distinctly remember that the last time someone other than Russ streamed, the whole stream was inflicted with a terrible curse. I'm not about to open myself up to that for nothing. The couple of times Griffin was cameraman it was great.
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# ? Jan 25, 2018 22:36 |
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Russ is disastrously bad at PUBG. I simultaneously love and hate it. "Actually, I prefer the UZI." - an idiot. Also lmbo at the Justin and Griffin exchange (random group chatter) Justin: Sh-uh-- I can't hear the world, guys... Griffin: Oh, you want me to get out my loving acoustic guitar when you can't hear the world?! Wasabi the J fucked around with this message at 00:46 on Jan 26, 2018 |
# ? Jan 26, 2018 00:40 |
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Griffin is a big butthead during awful squad though. Half of the fun I've had in the streams is watching Russ nearly cause a complete meltdown in Griff. Intentional? Maybe. Hilarious? To me, yes.
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# ? Jan 26, 2018 00:40 |
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Shinjobi posted:Griffin is a big butthead during awful squad though. Half of the fun I've had in the streams is watching Russ nearly cause a complete meltdown in Griff. Intentional? Maybe. Hilarious? To me, yes. Yes I can't get enough of how much they're only held together by a thin veneer of professionalism.
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# ? Jan 26, 2018 00:47 |
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Watching this sea of thieves stream and it's a real russer Griffin (with his head sticking out of a cannon): Russ shoot me out of this cannon Russ (frantically trying to shoot the visibly empty cannon next to griffin): What? how? I don't understand how the cannon works!
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# ? Jan 26, 2018 00:50 |
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Thank Russ for Russ
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# ? Jan 26, 2018 00:53 |
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*Griffin and Justin are raiding a pirate ship, exclaiming how exciting their adventure is. Meanwhile, Russ stares at a bush on a completely unrelated area on the map* It's like a Simpsons gag or something.
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# ? Jan 26, 2018 01:50 |
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It's hard to tell how much of that disaster was Russ getting lost and fumbling with a new game and navigating in a new 3d environment, and how much was how (deliberately?) baffling and user-unfriendly Sea of Thieves seems to be. His work on Awful Squad's improved a lot since the beginning, to the point where he's in the right place looking in the right direction more often than not, so it's clear that he can get it together with enough practice. It's just a long road to get to that point, and I don't think SoT is the kind of game that's interested in making any of that easier. Anyway, the truth is that the best Polygon game stream is a laid-back show with Pat and Allegra or Simone or Old Brian, playing something low-key and just chatting to each other about it, or breakfast, or whatever. The second best would probably be Simone and Ashley yelling at Overwatch, if they ever got some goddamned soundproofing for the lounge.
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# ? Jan 26, 2018 06:04 |
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The best in Polygon programming is a video that's just Simone laughing for 30 minutes straight. The game involved is irrelevant.
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# ? Jan 26, 2018 07:42 |
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Shinjobi posted:The best in Polygon programming is a video that's just Simone laughing for 30 minutes straight. Game?
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# ? Jan 26, 2018 08:04 |
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that describes the extremely good puyo puyo tetris stream iirc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbm5W3NGBio
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# ? Jan 26, 2018 10:19 |
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That stream is pretty much a perfect representation of what playing it is like. What a great game.
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# ? Jan 26, 2018 10:47 |
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Shinjobi posted:The best in Polygon programming is a video that's just Simone laughing for 30 minutes straight. One of my favorite Polygon videos is still the Spelunky one where Russ is trying to teach her how to play it well, and none of it is sticking, and she's just laughing at how almost indescribably bad she is at the game. Her breakdown at the very end brings me so much joy that I'll actually bring it up on days when I'm feeling down and it'll get me out of whatever funk I've put myself in. Simone is magical.
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# ? Jan 26, 2018 17:04 |
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Ainsley McTree posted:Watching this sea of thieves stream and it's a real russer The two best parts of the Sea of Thieves stream were the two times Russ went to launch himself out of a cannon and Justin aimed it straight up and fired it. Simone’s laugh is good, but Justin’s red-faced guffawing after doing that is extremely choice.
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