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Raxivace posted:The worst book I’ve owned and actually read is the Boss Fight Books...uh, book about Shadow of the Colossus. Legit worst piece of critical writing I’ve ever read. What did they get wrong about it.
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I mean there are times where that kind of reading is valid. Like that's a pretty common way to look at tentacle hentai.
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Mar 7, 2018 15:09
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Really Pants posted:what if there's a penis No such thing. Penises are tentacles. Everything else? Is penis.
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Really Pants posted:what if there's a penis swords and guns
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Mar 7, 2018 15:11
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FirstAidKite posted:No such thing. you can't not have penises, that's just nonsensical
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FirstAidKite posted:What's the worst book any of you have ever owned Probably something by Piers Anthony in the 90s. The worst book I voluntarily bought and read for myself as an adult is whichever of the Wheel of Time books I quit the series on, googling suggests it was 9 out of an eventual 14.
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Mar 7, 2018 15:11
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the worst book i ever read... that's right... it's ya freaking post history !! 
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codenameFANGIO posted:swords and guns Tired: Swords as a symbol for penises. Wired: Swords that are literal penises.
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exquisite tea posted:What did they get wrong about it.
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exquisite tea posted:Tired: Swords as a symbol for penises. It's time for another Saint's Row.
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Raxivace posted:It's more that they say almost nothing about the game despite hyping up how they've been thinking hard about it for over a decade. Instead most of the book is a Let's Play in written form. A lot of game criticism is like that unfortunately. To be honest despite loving SotC I have yet to read or see a longform critique of it that's any more insightful than some posts I've read in this subforum.
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Mar 7, 2018 15:15
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Clearly some people didn't watch Adam Sandler's seminal epic Reign Over Me
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Mar 7, 2018 15:18
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one of the worst books I've ever read was Bob Chipman's Mario Bros 3 book which devolves into loving madness and extremely pitiable personal tales, like how he would sit in the driveway after work to play Gameboy or drink whiskey to get through playing Mario Bros
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Ah, found the review.L. Sanchez posted:This review is full of phallic symbols, too.
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haveblue posted:Probably something by Piers Anthony in the 90s. Winter's Heart has a really good ending. The next book, Crossroads of Twilight, is bad. It's basically 1300 pages of catch up for characters that haven't been in the last few books. Then the author up and died and someone else finished the books and those books are good, fun, pulpy trash.
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I own a random L. Ron Hubbard book that’s pretty dire, though it’s still better than Misery.
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Work is canceled because of snow today! I started the day by reading Fellowship of the Ring in bed for two hours while drinking coffee. Now I'm making strawberries and waffles and some more coffee. Pretty soon I'll be resuming my best run of FTL to date (which will probably end in sadness and disappointment before too long - I'm approaching 30 hours and still no wins). Snow days as an adult rule.
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oddium posted:the worst book i ever read... that's right... it's ya freaking post history !! ...!  
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I got somewhat invested in the Hunger Games books. They were never incredible but I found them to be decently entertaining. The final one, Mockingjay, was seriously a steaming pile of poo poo. Katniss spends the majority of the book faffing about, or getting people killed. Storylines are hastily wrapped up in the most sloppy way possible. The political stuff is meant to be "BUT SHADES OF GREY, RIGHT?!" but ends up feeling completely pointless by the end.
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ONE YEAR LATER posted:Winter's Heart has a really good ending. The next book, Crossroads of Twilight, is bad. It's basically 1300 pages of catch up for characters that haven't been in the last few books. Then the author up and died and someone else finished the books and those books are good, fun, pulpy trash. Yeah, that sounds more right. I remember the specific reason I quit was that I realized I had just finished an entire book that covered the same span of time that had been covered by one chapter of the previous book. haveblue fucked around with this message at 16:39 on Mar 7, 2018 |
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The worst book is the Final Fantasy 9 BradyGames PlayOnline Strategy Guide.
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My friend gave me his copy of Final Fantasy XV for free, so now I'm downloading 30gig patches and staring at store pages as I try to deduce what I need for this game. And that's not even touching the background material. I sincerely love it! it's a multimedia experience. I love that FF15 is relatable mess that stands as an eternal testament that "Video Games Are Extremely Hard To Make"
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Mar 7, 2018 16:19
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He's married
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FF15 was really good but also felt really disjointed so just set your expectations accordingly. It probably would help to watch Kingsglaive too.
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Birdo as Commentary on the Iran-Contra scandal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQkSmyzSGw8
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Looper posted:He's married Well poo poo, what's my excuse then?
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Looper posted:He's married You can't marry your loose cartridge of Duck Hunt except maybe in the state of Nevada.
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al-azad posted:You can't marry your loose cartridge of Duck Hunt except maybe in the state of Nevada. *quietly removes wedding ring*
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suuma posted:FF15 was really good but also felt really disjointed so just set your expectations accordingly. It probably would help to watch Kingsglaive too. for a long while, FF15 is a wonderful game about the adventures of a young prince and his buddies cruising the countryside of his kingdom, doing oddjobs and winning favor with the common man while uncovering various magic objects in his ancestors' tombs to become a better king, while also battling annoying encroaching armies. Then, in the latter third of the game, you are literally railroaded into a series of decreasingly fun scenarios in a rapidly unwinding story, which is only saved by two aesthetically extraordinary final bosses. I played at launch so maybe the game is much much better now though. I was kind of pissed that so much extra content only came waaaaaay after release but I'm glad other people on PC will likely have a really great experience with what looks like a very nice port. DLC Inc fucked around with this message at 18:13 on Mar 7, 2018 |
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Yeah, I thought it was great. But every hour or two there's what feels like 5 minutes of backstory or cinema missing from the story. It almost made me feel like I was accidentally skipping stuff.
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The part where you defend the powerplant was so weird i still have no clue wtf led me there, why i had to do it, or what they were thinking
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Have any of you ever messed around with modding the game Tales of Maj'Eyal?
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Real hurthling! posted:The part where you defend the powerplant was so weird i still have no clue wtf led me there, why i had to do it, or what they were thinking the big reveal about one of the characters afterwards, and the subsequent "who cares" shrug that follows, is one of the most amazing examples of indifference in a game story ever
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That power plant was Jared's favorite power plant and it would be shameful if you allowed anything to happen to it. edit: Fun fact the strategy guide has a chart that explicitly spells out who certain characters like Jared are, because lol if you thought the game was going to.
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i read multiple plot summaries for kingsglaive and the anime and the lore guide in the tutorial. i am ready
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Also you need to watch the Brotherhood anime
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DLC Inc posted:the big reveal about one of the characters afterwards, and the subsequent "who cares" shrug that follows, is one of the most amazing examples of indifference in a game story ever Huh, I wonder how that's gonna come up again. Ron Howard Voiceover: It would never come up again.
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if you were doing a book about anime a to ____ why would you stop at p. i mean i guess all the q anime i can think of are fanservice crap but shes talking about overfiend so clearly that isnt a barrier to entry.
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Real hurthling! posted:The part where you defend the powerplant was so weird i still have no clue wtf led me there, why i had to do it, or what they were thinking They've since added a tiny bit of dialog before that happens saying you got a call from Cindy saying the mythril needed to be refined in that power plant before the same disjointed events happen. Before it was literally just a tooltip on the loading screen between leaving that area and going to the power plant telling you what was happening.
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FirstAidKite posted:Have any of you ever messed around with modding the game Tales of Maj'Eyal? Do you mean just adding mods, or actually making mods?
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