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crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

r*p*f*c*

Vitamin P posted:

If Pacific Rim is a boring movie tell me two movies that aren't boring you degenerate.

pirates of the caribbean and.... hmm, you're right, movies are bad!

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crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

r*p*f*c*
actually fury road was pretty good too

Hardon Crime
Jan 15, 2020

hubba hubba hubba hubba
alien (1979)
the thing (1982)

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

i believe you'll find adam sandler's dramatic turn in punch drunk love to be quite the pleasant surprise

Kunster
Dec 24, 2006

3 hours to get from the start of the game to the end of the first Hell Kitchen mission is rather... impressive for Bruce Balden as someone who didn't play Deus Ex for ages, isn't exactly a gaming person and has to handle the Liberty Island mission almost blindly.

I'm not being sassy about that by the way. If you ever were the kind to go pick up the download on Planet Deus Ex that let you install on the demo the gameplay story all the way to that part, that's somewhat quick!

Mr Hootington
Jul 24, 2008

I'M HAVING A HOOT EATING CORNETTE THE LONG WAY

i say swears online posted:

also do people itt think he is actively directed toward certain things or did they hire him because he was already doing the gullible work of empire

Yes. A good example of this is how they ignored that Turkey, Saudis, and the USA armed and funded isis.

Edit: If I remember right the Bastards pod likes to leave out the USA role in the rise of dictators and the genocides they commit.

Mr Hootington has issued a correction as of 11:32 on Jun 8, 2020

I Before E
Jul 2, 2012

Vitamin P posted:

If Pacific Rim is a boring movie tell me two movies that aren't boring you degenerate.


Branded To Kill and The Protector

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

Kunster posted:

3 hours to get from the start of the game to the end of the first Hell Kitchen mission is rather... impressive for Bruce Balden as someone who didn't play Deus Ex for ages, isn't exactly a gaming person and has to handle the Liberty Island mission almost blindly.

I'm not being sassy about that by the way. If you ever were the kind to go pick up the download on Planet Deus Ex that let you install on the demo the gameplay story all the way to that part, that's somewhat quick!

Brase effortlessly being a better gamer than Felix is hilarious.

thotsky
Jun 7, 2005

hot to trot
The liberty island mission has tons of content. It's quite easy to spend more than three hours there, especially if you're dying and/or savescumming.

xtal
Jan 9, 2011

by Fluffdaddy

i say swears online posted:

also do people itt think he is actively directed toward certain things or did they hire him because he was already doing the gullible work of empire

Now I can't decide if it's like Tor Project where the Navy funds it because it benefits them, or WikiLeaks where they've been co-opted entirely

MonsieurChoc
Oct 12, 2013

Every species can smell its own extinction.

Ramrod Hotshot posted:

It almost sounds like the funding they get is more for making sure "he isn't an issue" than "make him useful to Western imperialism". Like the CIA might've been shocked and a little disconcerted he found their supply line to Syria. So here's some hush money from now on, sure you can play geopolitical intelligence analyst if you want or just go to the beach whatevs lol

This reminds me of STRATFOR, another private "intelligence agency" that was discussed in D&D every now and then in the mid 2000's. They billed their services as a "objective, non-partisan intelligence" lol. Are they still around? There has to be some dirty laundry surrounding their whole operation.

Lol STRATFOR are the main villains in the visual novel/anime Steins;Gate 0.

Best Friends
Nov 4, 2011

I had conservative friends really into stratfor like a decade ago. I forget the details but stratfor got them all amped up about some huge coming war or something that was completely made up, and since then i haven't heard anyone talk about them until this thread. so they blew their load on some random, possibly unintentional (stratfor seemed coked out and slightly nuts imo) disinformation.

Paffgen
Jul 13, 2009

Sphyre posted:

anyone know why liz bruenig's been melting down and vagueposting all over twitter recently

I've been seeing tweets about her being fired, but that's based on nothing more than her tweets so who knows. edit: She said she wasn't fired as of an hour ago.

Paffgen has issued a correction as of 17:19 on Jun 8, 2020

Mr Hootington
Jul 24, 2008

I'M HAVING A HOOT EATING CORNETTE THE LONG WAY
Bruenig wouldn't be fired. She is a project. They hope she goes full trad-cath

Xaris
Jul 25, 2006

Lucky there's a family guy
Lucky there's a man who positively can do
All the things that make us
Laugh and cry

Kunster posted:

3 hours to get from the start of the game to the end of the first Hell Kitchen mission is rather... impressive for Bruce Balden as someone who didn't play Deus Ex for ages, isn't exactly a gaming person and has to handle the Liberty Island mission almost blindly.

I'm not being sassy about that by the way. If you ever were the kind to go pick up the download on Planet Deus Ex that let you install on the demo the gameplay story all the way to that part, that's somewhat quick!
i watched that live, it was fun since i hadnt played DX in 14+ years and i forgot how much content there is, and also lot of hellworld similarities. lol the 6-3 scotus on zoning. there's a shitton of just throw-away lines n emails/papers and Blanc Billden was doing a lot of reading out loud and still i think he missed a lot of content and was mostly indirectly bee-lining but that's ok

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

Best Friends posted:

I had conservative friends really into stratfor like a decade ago. I forget the details but stratfor got them all amped up about some huge coming war or something that was completely made up, and since then i haven't heard anyone talk about them until this thread. so they blew their load on some random, possibly unintentional (stratfor seemed coked out and slightly nuts imo) disinformation.
He predicted this at the start of Japan's decline

https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Coming_War_with_Japan.html?id=Kn9epJ8hEfkC&source=kp_book_description

Ferrinus
Jun 19, 2003

i'm finding this quite easy, i guess in part because i'm a fast type but also because i have a coherent mental model of the world
pacific rim was fascist. but also, incredibly, it was murky and boring

Gripweed
Nov 8, 2018

Pretty pathetic What a Time To Be Alive this week

Mr Hootington
Jul 24, 2008

I'M HAVING A HOOT EATING CORNETTE THE LONG WAY

Gripweed posted:

Pretty pathetic What a Time To Be Alive this week

I bet Shelby was arrested during a protest and they have no one to edit.

Kunster
Dec 24, 2006

Atrocious Joe posted:

Brase effortlessly being a better gamer than Felix is hilarious.

Xaris posted:

i watched that live, it was fun since i hadnt played DX in 14+ years and i forgot how much content there is, and also lot of hellworld similarities. lol the 6-3 scotus on zoning. there's a shitton of just throw-away lines n emails/papers and Blanc Billden was doing a lot of reading out loud and still i think he missed a lot of content and was mostly indirectly bee-lining but that's ok

What surprised me is that Deus Ex honestly suffered from being one of the first games that played very, very differently from other games at the time and had a honestly hard difficulty spike right on the first mission. If you can easily saunter thru Liberty Island, there's a great chance you played it over and over again as a teen or are very, very highly suspectible to the "TIME TO REINSTALL DEUS EX" meme. Him using GMDX certainly helped, and an audience that was kind enough to be his guide on Battery Park and the like without being mean to him was a great boon! Deus Ex is leagues harder than MGS and certainly wouldn't be the first game I'd pick for someone who doesn't necessarily advertise themselves as a gaming person.

Victory Position
Mar 16, 2004

I have never played Deus Ex or System Shock and don't feel particularly better or worse for it

Slanderer
May 6, 2007

Paffgen posted:

I've been seeing tweets about her being fired, but that's based on nothing more than her tweets so who knows. edit: She said she wasn't fired as of an hour ago.

lmao star reporter material right here

https://twitter.com/Finger_Gunzz/status/1270011901636833280

StashAugustine
Mar 24, 2013

Do not trust in hope- it will betray you! Only faith and hatred sustain.

i get why someone would dislike bruenig but it's funny that he focused on her rather than ross "franco had some good ideas really" douthat

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

StashAugustine posted:

i get why someone would dislike bruenig but it's funny that he focused on her rather than ross "franco had some good ideas really" douthat

liberals, socialists, fascists, etc

StashAugustine
Mar 24, 2013

Do not trust in hope- it will betray you! Only faith and hatred sustain.

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!! posted:

liberals, socialists, fascists, etc

yeah but he's also calling for weiss and stephens to get fired; but really i should just stop expecting dumb twitter people to be ideologically coherent

HannibalBarca
Sep 11, 2016

History shows, again and again, how nature points out the folly of man.
there's no ideology more powerful or prevalent throughout human history than "these people are personally annoying to me"

Victory Position
Mar 16, 2004

HannibalBarca posted:

there's no ideology more powerful or prevalent throughout human history than "these people are personally annoying to me"

embrace Kefkaism and incinerate your online foes with a beam of magical light

Mr Hootington
Jul 24, 2008

I'M HAVING A HOOT EATING CORNETTE THE LONG WAY
Going to beat a dead horse, but robert evans had a lot of really fine rear end takes he deleted about bolivia.
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1270075165553184768?s=19

Kunster
Dec 24, 2006

Latest Chapo is just Matt doing a summation of his streams with Chris for the podcast-only audience Right when he finally gets to grill on stream + some words about the protests, which at this point you're better off with the Bruce Balden take on it that's on the soundcloud preview since its more succinct and to be honest kind of less intelligence insulting. Did you, after listening to all of the streams, enjoyed Matt's conclusions? You'll really like this episode and probably will use to show other fans what Matt's philosophy is about. Did you otherwise feel like you're being brownbeaten and bored by them? This will just be a confirmation that you'll be better off listening to anything else.

Doc Hawkins
Jun 15, 2010

Dashing? But I'm not even moving!


"browbeaten"

Ramadu
Aug 25, 2004

2015 NFL MVP




brace is hosed

Xaris
Jul 25, 2006

Lucky there's a family guy
Lucky there's a man who positively can do
All the things that make us
Laugh and cry

Ramadu posted:



brace is hosed

u know erdogan is hatelistening to trueanon like d&d libs n chapo

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
Erdogan gonna call up Michael Flynn again for another extradition plot

Doc Hawkins
Jun 15, 2010

Dashing? But I'm not even moving!


https://twitter.com/cot_n_walk/status/1270176030234423296

believable, but if i were him i wouldn't take any long flights.

Civilized Fishbot
Apr 3, 2011

Doc Hawkins posted:

https://twitter.com/cot_n_walk/status/1270176030234423296

believable, but if i were him i wouldn't take any long flights.

I'd take one long flight, immediately

Doc Hawkins
Jun 15, 2010

Dashing? But I'm not even moving!


Civilized Fishbot posted:

I'd take one long flight, immediately

given his history that's the first thing they'd expect :v:

MizPiz
May 29, 2013

by Athanatos
This about sums up my reaction to the last couple chapos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj0-g-isN28&t=98s

Algund Eenboom
May 4, 2014

MizPiz
May 29, 2013

by Athanatos

Lay off, I couldn't find an actual clip of it and was too lazy to cut it myself.

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Victory Position
Mar 16, 2004

Xaris posted:

u know erdogan is hatelistening to trueanon like d&d libs n chapo

broke: The Dragon of Budapest
woke: whatever they call Erdogan

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