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Is RDR really even that good? I didn't get the first one because I had made the switch to PC when it came out, but people act like it's the cat's blowjob (mixing metaphors here).
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And I'm late to the party but I'm finally watching Thor 3 and I've got to say... I loving HATE Takika Waitiwati or whatever's sense of humor. He's got a great sense for visual direction. He's got a great sense for directing his actors. He clearly brought a lot of great things to Thor 3. But his sense of humor is the hackiest bullshit I've ever had to sit through. I want to twist him by his ear like a naughty schoolboy and go over the fundamentals of comedy after nearly every joke, which almost always takes the laziest, cheapest, quickest approach you could have possibly taken for any given situation.
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Feb 2, 2018 20:08
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mind the walrus posted:Is RDR really even that good? I didn't get the first one because I had made the switch to PC when it came out, but people act like it's the cat's blowjob (mixing metaphors here). I played it for the first time recently and it’s really good but not like a top 5 game ever
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Feb 2, 2018 20:12
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Humans are too stupid/ignorant/stubborn to pull our heads out of our asses about climate change. We will not be able to control the feedback loops that are already being activated. The next 100 years will see a global collapse of all societies. Bringing a child into this world is the most disgustingly selfish and short sighted thing anyone could do. Buuut humans humans are short sighted and stubborn, and humping feels good, so we're going to keep doing it.
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Feb 2, 2018 21:25
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Henchman of Santa posted:Its actually dope and I don’t know why the idea of playing mobile or on a console wouldn’t be wanted I can see why that's cool. I guess mobile gaming consoles dropped of the face of the earth for me ever since phone internet got decent, and I haven't had a TV that wasn't either a computer or just a projector for the computer in so long that consoles seem clunky and irrelevant. It's me, I'm the ancient nerd.
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Feb 2, 2018 21:26
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Well, that's part of why Nintendo piles on the gimmicks. On some essential level they understand that they're never going to be the "smart center of the living room" that Sony/Microsoft have been trying and failing to be for the last 12 or so years, and instead are focused on reasons why their plastic toybox can do poo poo no other box you can buy can. grumplestiltzkin posted:Humans are too stupid/ignorant/stubborn to pull our heads out of our asses about climate change. We will not be able to control the feedback loops that are already being activated. The next 100 years will see a global collapse of all societies.  it's me I'm the one not stockpiling
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Feb 2, 2018 21:51
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grumplestiltzkin posted:Humans are too stupid/ignorant/stubborn to pull our heads out of our asses about climate change. We will not be able to control the feedback loops that are already being activated. The next 100 years will see a global collapse of all societies. apparently you haven't heard of the coal cleaning process. Who knew just washing it off with a sponge could save the planet?
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mind the walrus posted:Is RDR really even that good? I didn't get the first one because I had made the switch to PC when it came out, but people act like it's the cat's blowjob (mixing metaphors here). Yeah it's pretty great. E: it's got better writing and a more consistent tone than any of the GTAs, and doesn't just go for cheap cynical satire. I'm guessing RDR2 will come to PC eventually like Rockstar's other recent stuff. Doctor Spaceman has a new favorite as of 23:52 on Feb 2, 2018 |
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Feb 2, 2018 23:17
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yeah I eat rear end posted:I like good games and all but can you seriously not wait until the weekend? The first one is my favorite game and I took time off then to play it too. I think it comes out on a weekend though right? So Monday/Tuesday is probably all I'd need. edit: I just realized I was 29 when the first one came out....that was probably too old to take time off work to play with toy as well. Solice Kirsk has a new favorite as of 02:30 on Feb 3, 2018 |
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Feb 3, 2018 02:26
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I think that should be a fireable offense so I hope you are good at convincing them that you're sick. If you actually get sick with your excuse a couple weeks later it's kind of awkward though, speaking from experience.
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Feb 3, 2018 02:29
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Or, I could use two of my personal days, vacation time, or just ask them to find other coverage for me those days.
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Feb 3, 2018 02:32
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yeah I eat rear end posted:I think that should be a fireable offense so I hope you are good at convincing them that you're sick. If you actually get sick with your excuse a couple weeks later it's kind of awkward though, speaking from experience. Ladies and gentlemen... a genuine bourgeois.
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Feb 3, 2018 02:34
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I just now had to google wtf a “switch” is and frankly it seems like it’s a barrage of features that no one would want combined? But I guess someone does bc it’s a hot item?? Nobody loves the hardware of the Switch. It's just a necessary item to play some great games. It's like one of the fastest selling consoles of all time right now, but I'm going to wait for the next revision before buying it.
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Feb 3, 2018 02:35
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Mu Zeta posted:Nobody loves the hardware of the Switch. It's just a necessary item to play some great games. It's like one of the fastest selling consoles of all time right now, but I'm going to wait for the next revision before buying it. The Switch hardware is really good. The only common criticism i've heard is that in handheld mode it's too big to fit in your pocket.
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Feb 3, 2018 02:46
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I'm confident that in the next version they'll put a better scratch resistant screen on it, larger battery, and probably get rid of the kick stand.
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Mu Zeta posted:I'm confident that in the next version they'll put a better scratch resistant screen on it, larger battery, and probably get rid of the kick stand. The kickstand got a weird amount of focus in the original video, it's funny.
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Why are you confident there'll be a next version? The Wii U didn't have a revision, the Wii only got a revision after like 5 years and it was terrible, the Gamecube and N64 didn't have revisions. There's no track record of Nintendo coming out with new versions of their home console.
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Feb 3, 2018 03:11
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Anyway we got a baked artichoke app that includes about six baked artichokes... and then a whole 6x9 bowl of sauce that used to contain the artichokes. After we ate them all there is still a shitload of the sauce. It is not weird to save this delicious buttery parm tomato sauce. Everyone here has literally eaten from that using the same utensil and it's going to get thermonuked before being re-eaten so like..... what is gross? U-DO Burger posted:Video game censorship is good because I like watching people melt down over it
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Feb 3, 2018 03:16
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yeah I eat rear end posted:I think that should be a fireable offense so I hope you are good at convincing them that you're sick. If you actually get sick with your excuse a couple weeks later it's kind of awkward though, speaking from experience. In real countries you're entitled to time off and it belongs to you as the employee to do with as you see fit. Guy Goodbody posted:Why are you confident there'll be a next version? The Wii U didn't have a revision, the Wii only got a revision after like 5 years and it was terrible, the Gamecube and N64 didn't have revisions. There's no track record of Nintendo coming out with new versions of their home console. Because the current one is bad.
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Guy Goodbody posted:Why are you confident there'll be a next version? The Wii U didn't have a revision, the Wii only got a revision after like 5 years and it was terrible, the Gamecube and N64 didn't have revisions. There's no track record of Nintendo coming out with new versions of their home console. Because Sony and Microsoft have started doing mid-cycle hardware updates and Nintendo has already done it with their 3DS as well. And little things like getting rid of the kick stand probably makes it cheaper to manufacture. Consoles nowadays are expected to run for 10+ years and people want to buy new stuff earlier than that.
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I like casual gaming. It's fun to admire the environment, geek out over game physics, enjoy the music and learn about the world the first time through. I'll kick up the difficulty on subsequent passes, but my first round's always, "That's a neat idea!/What track is that?/I walked through a river and I'm only wet up to my chest!/GOD RAYS, HOT drat!" A lot of people put a lot of work into making this thing and I want to be able to take a nice stroll through to admire their efforts. My other game PHUO that has come up before and I think most folks here agree on: Sex scenes in games are awkward as gently caress and unsexy as hell. It's not fun to watch dead-faced polygons pantomime sex. Quit it.
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My PHUO is that I'm so burnt out on AAA games. They are technically impressive, but I haven't cared about completing one in years.
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The last AAA game I started playing was Fallout 4, and it was cool I guess, but then I started spending too much time building up villages and gathering copper or something, and forgot to actually play the story. Still plan to finish it some day.
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The last one I really gave a serious effort to was probably The Witcher 3 and while the presentation was amazing, the gameplay was so drat sluggish and the soft-tutorials interminable (while promising a ton more of the same). I'm an old man. I'm going to die in like 50 years. Get to the fun poo poo dammit. Guild Wars 2 might be shallow as hell by comparison, but there's no waiting around save for the elective story missions which have only gotten better with each expansion. mind the walrus has a new favorite as of 10:20 on Feb 3, 2018 |
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yeah I eat rear end posted:I think that should be a fireable offense so I hope you are good at convincing them that you're sick. If you actually get sick with your excuse a couple weeks later it's kind of awkward though, speaking from experience. Don't you live in Germany, where you get reasonable PTO and vacation time? Aside from that, if he wants to take time off from work, using vacation time and personal days, why be such a stupid rear end in a top hat about it? Oh, no, he's earned some time off and wants to use it doing something fun and non-work related! The horror! How dare he enjoy himself!
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Leavemywife posted:Don't you live in Germany, where you get reasonable PTO and vacation time? Aside from that, if he wants to take time off from work, using vacation time and personal days, why be such a stupid rear end in a top hat about it? I'm not a german citizen and my job doesn't specify any of that in the contract so the general atmosphere is "don't do it unless you're really sick". Usually when you hear people saying they are taking days off work to play a video game they are talking about using sick days, which is what I assumed. In any case, I think there are better uses for vacation days than playing some video game that's probably not going to live up to the hype, but to each their own.
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As long as he gives proper notice and doesn't abuse absenteeism what's the problem? I'm being serious here. Is it one of those things where the morale of the 'harder' workers suffers if others make plain that their priorities ultimately don't lie with their work life?
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mind the walrus posted:As long as he gives proper notice and doesn't abuse absenteeism what's the problem? I'm being serious here. I was just being a dick. I do think though that even if you are well within your rights to take a vacation day but you admit that it's to play a video game, some managers might use that against you in the future.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I can see why that's cool. I guess mobile gaming consoles dropped of the face of the earth for me ever since phone internet got decent, and I haven't had a TV that wasn't either a computer or just a projector for the computer in so long that consoles seem clunky and irrelevant. It's me, I'm the ancient nerd. Video game consoles aren't that compelling over PC gaming if there isn't a console exclusive game that you want to play and you don't play multiplayer games in person, and not online with friends. However, TV streaming set-top boxes (like the Roku products & the Amazon TV products) are pretty well-designed and are good products. They are pretty affordable (you can get a good one for like $50 or less), and they are really so much more convenient than using a keyboard and mouse from your couch to select the Netflix TV show you want to watch on your PC connected to your TV.
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silence_kit posted:However, TV streaming set-top boxes (like the Roku products & the Amazon TV products) are pretty well-designed and are good products. They are pretty affordable (you can get a good one for like $50 or less), and they are really so much more convenient than using a keyboard and mouse from your couch to select the Netflix TV show you want to watch on your PC connected to your TV.
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Tiggum posted:You can use an XBox controller as a mouse. It works pretty well. Or there are remote-control style controllers specifically designed for watching TV on a computer. Yikes, that still sounds pretty inconvenient--logging into Windows, clicking through a series of menus, and typing in hulu.com in your web browser with a controller or TV remote sounds annoying just to watch Modern Family on TV. PC software interfaces are not really designed for couch use. On a $50 Roku streaming set top box, it is a few clicks on a remote, and you are there. The user interface is designed to minimize text input, however if you need to type in text to search for a new show or movie, I use the Roku app on my phone to type in the text on my cell phone keyboard. I'm not that fond of the following technology, but on streaming set top boxes, you can use voice recognition features to input text into search fields as well. This is a way more convenient way to watch Netflix on your TV, and it doesn't cost very much at all. silence_kit has a new favorite as of 15:07 on Feb 3, 2018 |
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silence_kit posted:Yikes, that still sounds pretty inconvenient--logging into Windows, clicking through a series of menus, and typing in hulu.com in your web browser with a controller or TV remote sounds annoying just to watch Modern Family on TV. PC software interfaces are not really designed for couch use.
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Doctor Spaceman posted:You can get them to boot straight in video playing software and use a controller or remote. It takes a bit of effort to set up though.
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I like videogames but just can't bring myself to read any of these fuckin posts
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Feb 3, 2018 15:30
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I'll change it up. The haka is not intimidating at all.
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Solice Kirsk posted:I'll change it up. Yeah to me it just looks silly. Maybe if they were actually people that were about to kill me I'd be intimidated, but it would be by their weapons they were going to put inside of me, not the song and dance. Everyone has such "i'm taking this seriously" faces on that it's hard not to laugh at it when a bunch of rugby players or whatever do it.
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I think the haka is cool but I doubt any adult finds it intimidating these days. I imagine most people’s first experience is like this: https://youtu.be/zDucvQYlWj4
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Feb 3, 2018 15:51
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Henchman of Santa posted:I think the haka is cool but I doubt any adult finds it intimidating these days. I imagine most people’s first experience is like this: Yup. http://www.espn.com/extra/fiba/boxscore/_/id/400575474
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Attached earlobes are weird and gross. Detached earlobes are cool and sexy.
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Henchman of Santa posted:I think the haka is cool but I doubt any adult finds it intimidating these days. I imagine most people’s first experience is like this: I've never seen it look that lovely before. All those close-ups completely ruin it. "Hey, you know what would be a great way to present this? Intercut it with close-ups the opposition players looking dopey and confused. And never let the audience get any impression of what it looks like as a whole."
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