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YeahTubaMike
Mar 24, 2005

*hic* Gotta finish thish . . .
Doctor Rope
Once I noticed Elvis the Alien's chuckle at the end of like every scene, it kind of almost ruined his videos for me. I still laughed my rear end off watching his reviews for Countdown, A.M.I., and The Open House this past weekend. :haw:

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Kim Justice
Jan 29, 2007

Some cockface hacked Scott The Woz's Twitter and is using it to say racial slurs and promote shady crypto bullshit.

Arc Hammer
Mar 4, 2013

Got any deathsticks?
Twitter was a mistake

achillesforever6
Apr 23, 2012

psst you wanna do a communism?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0yvSzPSqrQ
Voidburger is getting into video essays with a game near and dear to most Online Reviewer watchers

Grunch Worldflower
Nov 16, 2020
Bummer that Unraveled is ending, was always a good day whenever a new one dropped. Though whatever BDG does next is probably also gonna kick rear end so I guess it's okay.

The Shame Boy
Jan 27, 2014

Dead weight, just like this post.



achillesforever6 posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0yvSzPSqrQ
Voidburger is getting into video essays with a game near and dear to most Online Reviewer watchers

was confused on how i wasen't already subbed to her but then i saw that there wasen't a space in the username

The Burger with no space

achillesforever6
Apr 23, 2012

psst you wanna do a communism?

The Shame Boy posted:

was confused on how i wasen't already subbed to her but then i saw that there wasen't a space in the username

The Burger with no space
Yeah I guess she is using separate youtube accounts for stuff

Baka-nin
Jan 25, 2015

achillesforever6 posted:

Yeah I guess she is using separate youtube accounts for stuff

Its increasingly common and recommended for uploaders who make several different types of content to host them on seperate channels. One of the few known things about the algorithim is that it likes regular upload schedules and it likes all content to be samey so its easy to recommend.

I didn't listen so my channels a clusterfuck of audiobooks, history podcasts, strange edits of internet poo poo, lost public domain films Ive managed to find, and rare docs and foreign movies no western company seems to care about cashing in on. I have ok sub numbers, and zero audience. :classiclol:

RareAcumen
Dec 28, 2012




TF2 must've updated recently, I'm seeing new TF2 stuff recommended now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3u8JBh3ciIs

Arc Hammer
Mar 4, 2013

Got any deathsticks?
TF2 makes me sad because I barely recognize it as the game that had me hooked for hours when it first came out with Orange Box.

flatluigi
Apr 23, 2008

here come the planes
it's a better game for its updates, it just suffers these days from valve's inability to support anything they do that doesn't get enough people in the company ecstatic about working on it

Zedd
Jul 6, 2009

I mean, who would have noticed another madman around here?



Arcsquad12 posted:

TF2 makes me sad because I barely recognize it as the game that had me hooked for hours when it first came out with Orange Box.

It is no doubt harder to land good games nowadays but every once in a while I still play it with buddies and when it is good, it is still SO good.

Vagabong
Mar 2, 2019
Yeah, as someone who was stuck playing vanilla tf2 on the xbox, it's hard to be overly nostalgic for the early years. There's been some missteps, but I'd say the games mostly improved over the years.

Weird Sandwich
Dec 28, 2011

FIRE FIRE FIRE hehehehe!
TF2 peaked around 2010, with the engineer update. After this point the weapon and cosmetics bloat started to hinder the readability of the classes, which was one of the early strengths of the game. It's also no coincidence that this was the last update before the lootboxes were added.

Weird Sandwich fucked around with this message at 11:32 on Dec 30, 2020

flatluigi
Apr 23, 2008

here come the planes
I still disagree but also you really should make the cutoff at least after the pyro updates that made the class more playable and more interesting

RareAcumen
Dec 28, 2012




TF2 stopped being good 11 minutes, 23 seconds and 3.548 picoseconds before the Manniversary Update & Sale patch.

Not really because of it just kinda happened coincidentally.

Zedd
Jul 6, 2009

I mean, who would have noticed another madman around here?



Going to play some mann vs machine soon I hope, I love MvM.

SteelMentor
Oct 15, 2012

TOXIC
TF2 is still immensely fun as a game, its core loops and class design satisfying as all hell, but for every game where you get a chill server who might even pull a successful conga off, you'll get 20 stuffed with slur-slinging aimbots or people straight up screaming Nazi poo poo at each other.

Shout out to the month I stuck #transrights in my steam name and every game became a coinflip whether I'd get kicked or merely have suicide statistics snidely posted at me.

That said, Uncle Dane and LazyPurple never fail to get me in the mood to play, their enthusiasm is infectious.

DC Murderverse
Nov 10, 2016

"Tell that to Zod's snapped neck!"

Spark That Bled posted:

I've watched both Todd and Fantano's worst songs of 2020 lists, and I find it funny that both of them have put different versions of the same song at the top of their lists.

It is bleakly remarkable that Justin Bieber could have so many songs on a Worst of 2020 list for such varied reasons. It’s not just that they’re poorly made and conceived generally, but each of them is poorly conceived in a slightly different way.

*One’s about being a wife who loves Jesus (featuring the other most notable Jesus-y wife guy, Chance the Rapper, who spent 2020 repeatedly getting owned on Twitter)
*One’s about being a wife guy, released with a video and tone so cynical that it could make Drake look sincere
*One’s about being a wife guy that has the most grossly catchy chorus in many many moons that just makes me want to take a shower even thinking about it
*One is about how sad Justin Bieber is and how hard it is to be famous when you’re a piece of poo poo
*One tried to be a charity single raising money during the pandemic but was just wildly tonedeaf and painted staying home during the lockdowns as a fun staycation.

Terrible Opinions
Oct 18, 2013



flatluigi posted:

I still disagree but also you really should make the cutoff at least after the pyro updates that made the class more playable and more interesting
The pyro update was before the engineer update.

Bug Squash
Mar 18, 2009

Terrible Opinions posted:

The pyro update was before the engineer update.

Pyro update brought in the back burner with added health, resulting in weeks of resurgent cHAoS PyRos. The update that fixed that was the real Pyro update. :colbert:

ZenMasterBullshit
Nov 2, 2011

Restaurant de Nouvelles "À Table" Proudly Presents:
A Climactic Encounter Ending on 1 Negate and a Dream

flatluigi posted:

I still disagree but also you really should make the cutoff at least after the pyro updates that made the class more playable and more interesting

I will never forgive the bastard cowards at valve for what they did to the Axestingusher. Just murder a class's on way to stay aggressive and powerful in what was supposed to be their wheelhouse (Close quarters/cornered opponents) and replace it with nothing for years and then a few situational and kind of lovely new weapons.

Also the phlog sucks to play against and to use what a poo poo weapon holy poo poo. And the backburner is for people that should just be playing spy instead.

It's me the girl with 1000 hours as pyro who has only been hurt with every update.

ZenMasterBullshit fucked around with this message at 16:38 on Dec 30, 2020

Catgirl Al Capone
Dec 15, 2007

launch overwatch had some "just loving around" tf2 energy that seemed to dissipate really quickly around all modes when ranked was added, it was kinda sad to experience

The REAL Goobusters
Apr 25, 2008

CYBEReris posted:

launch overwatch had some "just loving around" tf2 energy that seemed to dissipate really quickly around all modes when ranked was added, it was kinda sad to experience

It really was. The direction they took with their balancing (lmao) also ruined that energy too. I would love to play launch overwatch again

ZenMasterBullshit
Nov 2, 2011

Restaurant de Nouvelles "À Table" Proudly Presents:
A Climactic Encounter Ending on 1 Negate and a Dream

CYBEReris posted:

launch overwatch had some "just loving around" tf2 energy that seemed to dissipate really quickly around all modes when ranked was added, it was kinda sad to experience

The problem with OW was that it was always 6v6 and incredibly focused on its objectives so even 1 person goofing around just killed any chance you had to progress and thus open up the map to goofing off more. TF2 doing 12 or 20 man teams lets like half the server just Goof or Team Deathmatch while a handful pushes the cart or whatever.

Also the maps were infinitely shittier. Every OW map is 2fort/Turbine level garbage.

JordanKai
Aug 19, 2011

Get high and think of me.


3v3 deathmatch was the real Overwatch mode.

ZenMasterBullshit
Nov 2, 2011

Restaurant de Nouvelles "À Table" Proudly Presents:
A Climactic Encounter Ending on 1 Negate and a Dream
Also removing ammo from your shooter kind of killed any real idea of map control outside of the health packs where are infinitely less useful because healing in that game is so plentiful and massive. Infinite Ammo means you dont ever have to pull away from a fight to restock which makes the ambush focus characters much much shittier since the game is entirely Murder Ball so they've had to buff and redo the cast so much.

Dapper_Swindler
Feb 14, 2012

Im glad my instant dislike in you has been validated again and again.

SteelMentor posted:

TF2 is still immensely fun as a game, its core loops and class design satisfying as all hell, but for every game where you get a chill server who might even pull a successful conga off, you'll get 20 stuffed with slur-slinging aimbots or people straight up screaming Nazi poo poo at each other.

Shout out to the month I stuck #transrights in my steam name and every game became a coinflip whether I'd get kicked or merely have suicide statistics snidely posted at me.

That said, Uncle Dane and LazyPurple never fail to get me in the mood to play, their enthusiasm is infectious.

i need to start playing that game again. i was always a decent sniper.

VoidBurger
Jul 18, 2008

A leap into the void.
The burger in space.

achillesforever6 posted:

Yeah I guess she is using separate youtube accounts for stuff
Yeah, I started a new channel for any video essay things I do because I figured someone who found me via the video essay would be dismayed to see that my hundreds of other videos are Let's Plays and streams and not much video essay stuff. Less rude to say "Hey, I also have a gaming channel with thousands of hours of stuff that isn't this." and just link it than make people wade through tons of vids in the vague hope that one of them is similar to the content they originally came for.

Also: Hi, everyone.

Casey Finnigan
Apr 30, 2009

Dumb ✔
So goddamn crazy ✔
At a certain point there was so much weird poo poo and strange weapons flying around in TF2 I eventually no longer even knew what people were holding or what their weapons could do.

I could still hop into a server as a scout or a heavy or something and do pretty well, but by the end I was just bewildered all the time and I didn't feel like putting in the effort to learn about all 800000 weapons.

Overwatch was dire from the beginning. It's like a shooter with "no fun allowed" as its guiding principle

fun hater
May 24, 2009

its a neat trick, but you can only do it once
welcome back voidburger. thanks for the new stuff

Dias
Feb 20, 2011

by sebmojo
OW was pretty fun for a while, but attack/defense was always a bit miserable as a casual player. Then comps just got tankier and tankier for a while.

Groovelord Neato
Dec 6, 2014


Not the best idea to make your FPS's lead designer the guy you hired for WoW from your poop socking EQ raiding guild.

The REAL Goobusters
Apr 25, 2008

Dias posted:

OW was pretty fun for a while, but attack/defense was always a bit miserable as a casual player. Then comps just got tankier and tankier for a while.

Once Brigitte was added, the game literally died. Don’t think people even picked DPS heroes for a long time cuz they didn’t have to. Now role queue is forced on everyone since blizzard gave up on balancing the game correctly

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

the last time anyone thought about Overwatch was when someone tweeted "PornHub deleting all of its SFM videos is the final nail in the coffin for Overwatch"

Zedd
Jul 6, 2009

I mean, who would have noticed another madman around here?



OG Brigette was bullshit and I was part of the problem, but now she is apparently p much useless?

Dias
Feb 20, 2011

by sebmojo

The REAL Goobusters posted:

Once Brigitte was added, the game literally died. Don’t think people even picked DPS heroes for a long time cuz they didn’t have to. Now role queue is forced on everyone since blizzard gave up on balancing the game correctly

That's when I mostly stopped playing, yeah. Brigitte was some bullshit. I'll say that Aria is pretty fun to play as tho.

RareAcumen
Dec 28, 2012




The REAL Goobusters posted:

Once Brigitte was added, the game literally died. Don’t think people even picked DPS heroes for a long time cuz they didn’t have to. Now role queue is forced on everyone since blizzard gave up on balancing the game correctly

drat, I never played the game and just enjoyed the fanart and stuff since Blizzard wasn't making a story here, but I thought the game died when they retuned how Symmetra's laser gun worked.

JordanKai
Aug 19, 2011

Get high and think of me.


VoidBurger posted:

Yeah, I started a new channel for any video essay things I do because I figured someone who found me via the video essay would be dismayed to see that my hundreds of other videos are Let's Plays and streams and not much video essay stuff. Less rude to say "Hey, I also have a gaming channel with thousands of hours of stuff that isn't this." and just link it than make people wade through tons of vids in the vague hope that one of them is similar to the content they originally came for.

Also: Hi, everyone.

Welcome black! I'm glad your ban could be overturned.

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Nuebot
Feb 18, 2013

The developer of Brigador is a secret chud, don't give him money

ZenMasterBullshit posted:

I will never forgive the bastard cowards at valve for what they did to the Axestingusher. Just murder a class's on way to stay aggressive and powerful in what was supposed to be their wheelhouse (Close quarters/cornered opponents) and replace it with nothing for years and then a few situational and kind of lovely new weapons.

Also the phlog sucks to play against and to use what a poo poo weapon holy poo poo. And the backburner is for people that should just be playing spy instead.

It's me the girl with 1000 hours as pyro who has only been hurt with every update.

On the other hand, nothing made me happier than the ol' airblast and flaregun combo and I was really disappointed they never released a flamethrower that was just 100% airblast so I could go ham with it. By the time I stopped playing I'd gotten ungodly good at airblasting every projectile except scout milk. Playing pyro wrong and out sniping snipers became a small but delightful passtime during longer games.

VoidBurger posted:

Yeah, I started a new channel for any video essay things I do because I figured someone who found me via the video essay would be dismayed to see that my hundreds of other videos are Let's Plays and streams and not much video essay stuff. Less rude to say "Hey, I also have a gaming channel with thousands of hours of stuff that isn't this." and just link it than make people wade through tons of vids in the vague hope that one of them is similar to the content they originally came for.

Also: Hi, everyone.

Your stuff is rad and it's cool to see you back.

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