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quote:October 31st, 2012 is a day I will always remember. It was the day I became cynical, bitter, and distraught. You may call it an overreaction for me to feel this way simply because of the business practices of a single video game company, but let me explain what all of this means to me. The DLC in question was a silly alt-history scenario for a mapgame involving the Aztecs invading medieval Europe. Is this a real meltdown or some elaborate satire? I can't tell the difference anymore so it goes here.
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# ? Sep 20, 2019 00:10 |
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# ? May 27, 2024 03:54 |
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I am pretty sure Crusader Kings is the one where through some trickery, you could get horses ruling a fair chunk of the planet. Or get castrated, and have Satan give a whole new set of bits. So realistic.
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# ? Sep 20, 2019 02:00 |
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AngryRobotsInc posted:I am pretty sure Crusader Kings is the one where through some trickery, you could get horses ruling a fair chunk of the planet. Or get castrated, and have Satan give a whole new set of bits. Sunset Invasion was waaaaay before either of the DLCs that enabled those options. Prior to Sunset, the released DLCs had been about playing as Muslims or Republics in a Mostly Serious History Simulator. Still an over-the-top meltdown for what it was. To such a degree that one of the Paradox devs who posts here had it as their avatar text for a while.
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# ? Sep 20, 2019 02:35 |
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AngryRobotsInc posted:I am pretty sure Crusader Kings is the one where through some trickery, you could get horses ruling a fair chunk of the planet. Or get castrated, and have Satan give a whole new set of bits. This is correct.
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# ? Sep 20, 2019 03:14 |
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This is a serious question: But apart from the targeted, petty, and personal harassment of some women who dared to intrude on their hobby, what have "Gamers" actually achieved actually achieved in the real world? Seriously, has any 'Gamer' activism, or campaign, or anythiong along those lines actually done anything, good or bad, of any worth or lasting impact.
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# ? Sep 20, 2019 03:35 |
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Loot boxes are now condemned by the Church of England so I guess that?
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# ? Sep 20, 2019 03:37 |
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BrigadierSensible posted:This is a serious question: There's a lot of very good charitable fundraising that the gamer community generates.
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# ? Sep 20, 2019 03:56 |
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Which was the map game where they added female generals/rulers/whatever and gamers threw a fit about "this isn't historically accurate"
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# ? Sep 20, 2019 04:02 |
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Nostradingus posted:Which was the map game where they added female generals/rulers/whatever and gamers threw a fit about "this isn't historically accurate" Total War: Rome 2. They only added female generals to factions that historically had them as well (i.e. not Rome).
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# ? Sep 20, 2019 04:09 |
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Fragmaster reading of the infamous Final Fantasy on Xbox 360/“Square just shot themselves in the foot” meltdown from (IIRC) NeoGAF: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-uTnqYHZ-I
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# ? Sep 20, 2019 06:32 |
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While I didn't witness any of the incidents, I've had this masterful summary saved on my computer for years. I hope it still speaks for itself.quote:And Aja Spake Unto the Multitudes
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# ? Sep 20, 2019 09:52 |
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BrigadierSensible posted:This is a serious question: Child's Play, which has raised multiple millions of dollars to help sick kids in hospitals was started as a spite campaign because the Penny Arcade guys were pissed at Jack Thompson.
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# ? Sep 20, 2019 10:14 |
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Sprite Stitch, a site that's focus is on patterns (typically cross-stitch, but other crafts as well) that are video game or other "nerd" fandom based, has in the past had community members stitch at least 13"x13" scenes from video games, made them into a quilt, and then auctioned off the result for Child's Play. This is 2014's. As far as I know, it hasn't been done the past couple years, but there are plans to bring it back.
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# ? Sep 20, 2019 12:38 |
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There was that accidental pandemic in WoW that ended up being studied by epidemiological researchers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrupted_Blood_incident https://allthatsinteresting.com/corrupted-blood quote:Yet another interesting observation for the epidemiologists is what Fefferman refers to as the “stupid factor.” Players logged on to take a quick look at the epidemic and its accompanying hysteria for the sake of curiosity only to contract, then spread, the disease themselves. This type of irrational behavior is actually present in real epidemics as well. Purely mathematical models don’t account for journalists, public health researchers, or Average Joes who get closer than they should.
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# ? Sep 20, 2019 13:27 |
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1000 Brown M and Ms posted:On a similar line, when Disney bought Star Wars, I remember some nerd saying that he'd punch someone if he saw anything Star Wars at Disneyland. He forgot about Star Tours, huh?
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# ? Sep 20, 2019 14:35 |
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Patrick Spens posted:Child's Play, which has raised multiple millions of dollars to help sick kids in hospitals was started as a spite campaign because the Penny Arcade guys were pissed at Jack Thompson. Games Done Quick raises millions of dollars every year for Doctors Without Borders and cancer research
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# ? Sep 20, 2019 15:15 |
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Extra Life does good stuff for sick kids.
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# ? Sep 22, 2019 14:34 |
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1stGear posted:Sunset Invasion was waaaaay before either of the DLCs that enabled those options. Prior to Sunset, the released DLCs had been about playing as Muslims or Republics in a Mostly Serious History Simulator. People hating on the ridiculous things has always confused me as you can just disable the parts you don't like. In the case of horses ruling the world it's extremely unlikely to happen accidentally. Granted part of the fun of that game is just seeing the ridiculous poo poo you can make happen. I really feel like Paradox has been looking at the way people play the game and just letting the madness happen. You can play it as a Super Serious History Simulator or you can do random crap like "what happens if I put a Viking bear that worships Satan in charge of Venice?"
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# ? Sep 22, 2019 14:55 |
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AutumnDDP2 posted:It's gotta be this F-Zero GX rant, covered by Fragmaster. Oh god yes. I only wish I could get Fragmaster to read the internet to me all day every day.
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# ? Sep 22, 2019 15:45 |
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1stGear posted:Sunset Invasion was waaaaay before either of the DLCs that enabled those options. Prior to Sunset, the released DLCs had been about playing as Muslims or Republics in a Mostly Serious History Simulator. The best part is there was never a reason that one had to buy sunset. It added those wacky features and that's it. Don't want those wacky features then don't buy the dlc. These idiots act like there were some major patch elements or other things that required them to buy it lol
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# ? Sep 22, 2019 16:20 |
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I think it was also made by dev's spare time, so it's not even that they took official development time and resources to make.
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# ? Sep 22, 2019 21:01 |
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ToxicSlurpee posted:I really feel like Paradox has been looking at the way people play the game and just letting the madness happen. This is exactly what happens.
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# ? Sep 23, 2019 09:51 |
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ToxicSlurpee posted:People hating on the ridiculous things has always confused me as you can just disable the parts you don't like. In the case of horses ruling the world it's extremely unlikely to happen accidentally. Granted part of the fun of that game is just seeing the ridiculous poo poo you can make happen. I really feel like Paradox has been looking at the way people play the game and just letting the madness happen. Like half the fun of Paradox games is finding amusing ways to make world history go way the gently caress off the rails.
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# ? Sep 23, 2019 10:03 |
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Though paradox has been pushing the off the rails poo poo so much you hardly have to do much and it honestly makes it less fun
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# ? Sep 23, 2019 23:21 |
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Patrick Spens posted:Child's Play, which has raised multiple millions of dollars to help sick kids in hospitals was started as a spite campaign because the Penny Arcade guys were pissed at Jack Thompson. Child's Play is a glorified money laundering tax shelter where publishers donate money and the charity buys their games at retail prices so they still get a boost to their income and sales figures while everyone involved gets a fat tax writeoff. It's a bunch of gullible nerds being fleeced out of some misguided desire to NO YOU SHUT THE gently caress UP DAD people telling them that there are more important things in the world than video games.
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# ? Sep 24, 2019 02:45 |
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Sleeveless posted:Child's Play is a glorified money laundering tax shelter where publishers donate money and the charity buys their games at retail prices so they still get a boost to their income and sales figures while everyone involved gets a fat tax writeoff. It's a bunch of gullible nerds being fleeced out of some misguided desire to NO YOU SHUT THE gently caress UP DAD people telling them that there are more important things in the world than video games.
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# ? Sep 24, 2019 02:50 |
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Sleeveless posted:Child's Play is a glorified money laundering tax shelter where publishers donate money and the charity buys their games at retail prices so they still get a boost to their income and sales figures while everyone involved gets a fat tax writeoff. It's a bunch of gullible nerds being fleeced out of some misguided desire to NO YOU SHUT THE gently caress UP DAD people telling them that there are more important things in the world than video games. I can't tell if this is true or just another fan meltdown.
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# ? Sep 24, 2019 03:01 |
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Sleeveless posted:Child's Play is a glorified money laundering tax shelter where publishers donate money and the charity buys their games at retail prices so they still get a boost to their income and sales figures while everyone involved gets a fat tax writeoff. It's a bunch of gullible nerds being fleeced out of some misguided desire to NO YOU SHUT THE gently caress UP DAD people telling them that there are more important things in the world than video games. Yes, it’s a charity.
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# ? Sep 24, 2019 03:04 |
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This is the thread for meltdowns, you'd think you'd get more mileage out of the Penny Arcade guys' multiple public diaper fillings over their rape wolves comics or their designated Diversity Zones at their convention or them trying to hire a person to do five jobs at once for minimum wage rather than about how epic it is to throw money at millionaires to own the guy from 20 years ago who said small children should maybe not be buying R-rated movies. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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# ? Sep 24, 2019 03:19 |
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Literally anything involving timed exclusivity re: the epic game store. Just wait a year and it'll be on steam. Play one of your other hundreds of video games in the interim.
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# ? Sep 24, 2019 03:28 |
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Sleeveless posted:This is the thread for meltdowns, you'd think you'd get more mileage out of the Penny Arcade guys' multiple public diaper fillings over their rape wolves comics or their designated Diversity Zones at their convention or them trying to hire a person to do five jobs at once for minimum wage rather than about how epic it is to throw money at millionaires to own the guy from 20 years ago who said small children should maybe not be buying R-rated movies. Always nice when we get a self-sustaining reaction in a mock thread.
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# ? Sep 24, 2019 03:41 |
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also like giving toys to children's hospitals is kind of one of the most fundamentally Good Person things i can think of there are reasons to donate to Child's Play other than a desire to own the libs, such as "the thought of possibly being Literally Santa Claus for a kid with cancer"
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# ? Sep 24, 2019 03:56 |
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Sleeveless posted:This is the thread for meltdowns, you'd think you'd get more mileage out of the Penny Arcade guys' multiple public diaper fillings over their rape wolves comics or their designated Diversity Zones at their convention or them trying to hire a person to do five jobs at once for minimum wage rather than about how epic it is to throw money at millionaires to own the guy from 20 years ago who said small children should maybe not be buying R-rated movies. The Jack Thompson defender has logged on, everyone.
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# ? Sep 24, 2019 04:32 |
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Sleeveless posted:This is the thread for meltdowns, you'd think you'd get more mileage out of the Penny Arcade guys' multiple public diaper fillings over their rape wolves comics or their designated Diversity Zones at their convention or them trying to hire a person to do five jobs at once for minimum wage rather than about how epic it is to throw money at millionaires to own the guy from 20 years ago who said small children should maybe not be buying R-rated movies. It's nice when threads last long enough to generate their own subject matter.
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# ? Sep 24, 2019 04:43 |
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Took a whole two pages lol.
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# ? Sep 24, 2019 04:43 |
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One More Fat Nerd posted:The Jack Thompson defender has logged on, everyone. yeah uh that guy has (*had, was disbarred) well established career as a legal troll completely outside his interactions with the PA dudes, the fact that he wound up in a fight with other lovely people doesn't actually lend him or his opinions any respectability lol at caring about PA so much that you stan Jack Thompson
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# ? Sep 24, 2019 05:20 |
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Unfortunately that seems to be incomplete, as the "Read next page" button looks like it was broken by the archiving, so you can't read the best part (where he goes so over the top that he starts burning every bridge in his life and pushes for this stuff so hard that he gets banned by wikia themselves.)
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# ? Sep 24, 2019 06:11 |
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Gloomy Rube posted:Unfortunately that seems to be incomplete, as the "Read next page" button looks like it was broken by the archiving, so you can't read the best part (where he goes so over the top that he starts burning every bridge in his life and pushes for this stuff so hard that he gets banned by wikia themselves.) Yeah the next part where he starts spreading the theory into other silent hill games and banning other mods/admins is the juiciest bit. I hope someone can find it. Is there a mental illness term for when someone latches on to an idea like this and inserts it into everything, eventually self destructing their hobbies/relationships/life? Do they make a pill for this?
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# ? Sep 24, 2019 13:21 |
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Sleeveless posted:(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST) lmfao did you just
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# ? Sep 24, 2019 21:35 |
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# ? May 27, 2024 03:54 |
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One More Fat Nerd posted:Yeah the next part where he starts spreading the theory into other silent hill games and banning other mods/admins is the juiciest bit. I hope someone can find it. the "obsession" from obsessive-compulsive disorder
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# ? Sep 25, 2019 00:28 |