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Blue Labrador: Feb 17, 2011

Oh sick, thanks for elaborating, everybody. I'll probably check it out soon, especially if it's only 12 episodes.

# ? Mar 22, 2021 06:45

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# ? May 31, 2024 16:44

Booky: Feb 21, 2013; Chill Bug

Acerbatus posted:

There are people that don't fall asleep listening to longform video essays...?

if it's interesting... nop 💃

# ? Mar 22, 2021 06:46

Rinkles: Oct 24, 2010; What I'm getting at is...
Do you feel the same way?

FirstAidKite posted:

Here's an image gallery then of some good bits to give the general tone and setting.

https://imgur.com/a/YzScOGF

I'd recommend Urasawa to almost anyone, just don't go in expecting typical manga tropes. (Based on what I've read myself) his stuff is pretty serious and can get a bit dry.

# ? Mar 22, 2021 06:57

goblin week: Jan 26, 2019; Absolute clown.

I said come in! posted:

Everyone abandoned Tumblr awhile ago. The platform as far as I know is pretty dead now.

This is something that people say constantly and it's buck wild for me, a tumblr user, because the website seems just as active as it ever was? I assume people who say this only went there to jack off to porn lol

# ? Mar 22, 2021 08:25

goblin week: Jan 26, 2019; Absolute clown.

The other possibility is that they at some point read the news about it being sold for 3 million dollars to the wordpress guy and decided that website quality and engagement is coupled with its monetary value

# ? Mar 22, 2021 08:28

Rarity: Oct 21, 2010; ~*4 LIFE*~

goblin week posted:

I assume people who say this only went there to jack off to porn lol

This was about 70% of Tumblr, yes

# ? Mar 22, 2021 08:32

Cardiovorax: Jun 5, 2011; I mean, if you're a successful actress and you go out of the house in a skirt and without underwear, knowing that paparazzi are just waiting for opportunities like this and that it has happened many times before, then there's really nobody you can blame for it but yourself.

goblin week posted:

The other possibility is that they at some point read the news about it being sold for 3 million dollars to the wordpress guy and decided that website quality and engagement is coupled with its monetary value

That's really all they could get for it? Wow, that's really just sad, considering how much of a household name tumblr was for a while. Guess that proves that enforcing some sort of quality control is in fact a good thing even on the internet.

# ? Mar 22, 2021 08:36

Rinkles: Oct 24, 2010; What I'm getting at is...
Do you feel the same way?

Cardiovorax posted:

That's really all they could get for it? Wow, that's really just sad, considering how much of a household name tumblr was for a while. Guess that proves that enforcing some sort of quality control is in fact a good thing even on the internet.

Yahoo bought it for over a billion dollars. Six years later, Verizon allegedly disposed of it for 3 million, after they ate up Yahoo.

# ? Mar 22, 2021 08:50

VideoGames: Aug 18, 2003

Did not get a chance to post yesterday after my stream because I pretty much went downstairs to take some more medicine but Dark Souls II is proving to be more and more fun the more I work my way through it.

Iron Keep being hidden in a windmill is wild and I cannot help by love how bonkers that is.

It makes sense to me in my theory of what the game is saying:

This world is a distant and breaking down memory of Lordran. Those four primal souls being the lost souls of the original lord vessel souls helps to substantiate that this is a remembered version of Lordran and all it was and that the memory is not strong enough to accurately recall just where Iron Keep (Lost Izalith/Demon Ruins) was placed at the time. In fact everything about Drangleic represents a half remembered version of DS1's locations and the struggle for why NPCs cannot remember so much is almost the solipsism of the player character coming through. They embody the last soul memory of the original player character who has these fragments of people they once spoke to scattered and tattered around the world. Mopey guy by the statue is the firelink mopey guy as an example

If I am correct, I seriously like the way this is going.

Also I beat quite a few bosses and had a moment where I ran into a boss zone and completely forgot every control in the game and just kept eating fruit in front of them as rats and a giant toxic wolf attacked me.

# ? Mar 22, 2021 08:53

Cardiovorax: Jun 5, 2011; I mean, if you're a successful actress and you go out of the house in a skirt and without underwear, knowing that paparazzi are just waiting for opportunities like this and that it has happened many times before, then there's really nobody you can blame for it but yourself.

That would have been so much cooler than the actual plot and reason for why the world doesn't make sense (it's because the developers paid no attention.)

# ? Mar 22, 2021 08:56

Obligatum VII: May 5, 2014; Haunting you until no 8 arrives.

I think it was definitely intentional to give everything a dreamlike quality to it.

VG probably shouldn't read this bit till he finishes the non-DLC portion of the game:
Scholar of the First Sin's stuff gets pretty explicit in it's message that maybe constantly repeating Gwyn's gently caress-up of trying to drag out the age of fire is a bad thing. A lie is still a lie. They continue to hammer home on this with 3, the series is basically screaming it at you by that point.

# ? Mar 22, 2021 09:06

Last Celebration: Mar 30, 2010

Cardiovorax posted:

That would have been so much cooler than the actual plot and reason for why the world doesn't make sense (it's because the developers paid no attention.)

i thought it was because the development was an over ambitious shitshow before someone competent had to take over and make a passable game out of everything salvageable

# ? Mar 22, 2021 09:07

Cardiovorax: Jun 5, 2011; I mean, if you're a successful actress and you go out of the house in a skirt and without underwear, knowing that paparazzi are just waiting for opportunities like this and that it has happened many times before, then there's really nobody you can blame for it but yourself.

Last Celebration posted:

i thought it was because the development was an over ambitious shitshow before someone competent had to take over and make a passable game out of everything salvageable

Works out to about the same thing, doesn't it?

# ? Mar 22, 2021 09:12

Shinjobi: Jul 10, 2008; Gravy Boat 2k

I beat Miles Morales Spider-Man on ps4.

Good game, but there's no reason why this couldn't have been a DLC. Felt very, very thin. Was it a full price game on release? I confess I received it as an Xmas gift, so I've no clue how much the game cost.

# ? Mar 22, 2021 09:13

Goa Tse-tung: Feb 11, 2008; ;3; Yams Fan

Cardiovorax posted:

That would have been so much cooler than the actual plot and reason for why the world doesn't make sense (it's because the developers paid no attention.)

but they did? just listen to the NPCs and follow their stories

# ? Mar 22, 2021 09:14

CubeTheory: Mar 26, 2010; Cube Reversal

As someone who has played every Dark Souls and Souls-like game with just punching, let me tell you, Dark Souls 2 is the best one.

# ? Mar 22, 2021 09:17

Cardiovorax: Jun 5, 2011; I mean, if you're a successful actress and you go out of the house in a skirt and without underwear, knowing that paparazzi are just waiting for opportunities like this and that it has happened many times before, then there's really nobody you can blame for it but yourself.

Goa Tse-tung posted:

but they did? just listen to the NPCs and follow their stories

I've played that game to death and I think it's definitely something you could reasonably read into it, but I don't think it can be considered a fact. Not really something I want to have a debate about, though, hope you don't mind.

# ? Mar 22, 2021 09:17

FirstAidKite: Nov 8, 2009

Cardiovorax posted:

Works out to about the same thing, doesn't it?

Nah, there are ways to achieve that effect without the game's dev problems that resulted in them just having to mash different places together in ways that didn't always work, it is also why the dlc is largely more cohesive and coherent in design.

# ? Mar 22, 2021 09:20

Last Celebration: Mar 30, 2010

Cardiovorax posted:

Works out to about the same thing, doesn't it?

I guess, but one implies they didn�t care and the other implies they bit off more than they could chew and wanted to do things right, which feels like a kinda important distinction given how much people hate on Dark Souls 2

# ? Mar 22, 2021 09:20

Cardiovorax: Jun 5, 2011; I mean, if you're a successful actress and you go out of the house in a skirt and without underwear, knowing that paparazzi are just waiting for opportunities like this and that it has happened many times before, then there's really nobody you can blame for it but yourself.

Last Celebration posted:

I guess, but one implies they didn�t care and the other implies they bit off more than they could chew and wanted to do things right, which feels like a kinda important distinction given how much people hate on Dark Souls 2

I suppose I can see where you're coming from there, so fair enough. It was a screw-up, but they did what they could with what they had at that point.

# ? Mar 22, 2021 09:23

FirstAidKite: Nov 8, 2009

Also, something that is kinda neat I saw someone point out is that with all of the game's main paths, you tend to get a sorta day to night cycle going so idk how intentional that was but it is neat how the paths to the 4 primal bonfires tend to follow a rough area progression of day to night.

# ? Mar 22, 2021 09:23

VideoGames: Aug 18, 2003

The primal bonfires were pretty awesome also very funny moment when the last one exploded and sent me flying back in my attempt to light it!

Plus when going up against the Duke's Freya and seeing that old one dragon stuck in the ceiling having been slowly devoured was creepy and incredible set design. This was the part on stream where someone mentioned the old souls and it clicked that the Duke's archives in DS1 was linked to the new Duke in DS2 and that this was effectively Seath's soul reborn elsewhere.

Goodness! I truly do enjoy the heck out of this game

# ? Mar 22, 2021 09:33

Jay Rust: Sep 27, 2011

I�ve been trying to remember, some racing game or such that had a course wherein you go through a tunnel and the time of day changes, like maybe sunset to nighttime

# ? Mar 22, 2021 11:46

Rarity: Oct 21, 2010; ~*4 LIFE*~

Ninja Gaiden II:

That metal fish boss can get right in the bin, ugh

# ? Mar 22, 2021 11:50

exquisite tea: Apr 21, 2007; Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."

Whole lotta question marks on release dates for the games I'm most looking forward to in the back half of 2021. I wouldn't be too surprised if none of them made it into this year.

Resident Evil Village - May 7th
Guilty Gear Strive - June 11th
Kena: Bridge of Spirits - August 24th
Life is Strange: True Colors - September 10th
Horizon Forbidden West - ???
Stray - ???
Graven - ???
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge - ???
Baldur's Gate 3 (full release) - ???

# ? Mar 22, 2021 13:18

Zedsdeadbaby: Jun 14, 2008; You have been called out, in the ways of old.

CubeTheory posted:

let me tell you, Dark Souls 2 is the best one.

this but unironically

I know it gets slated a lot, but I enjoyed 2 more than the other From games simply because of the build varieties and how quickly it is to get into a specific playstyle that doesn't need some time investment to get going properly. The smooth stone coop mechanic that lets you trade rewards for crafting items is a great mechanic that lifts the game up enormously. It spurs on the coop gameplay and gifts you handsomely for being a helpful player.

DS2 may be the runt of the litter but to me its systems mesh together so well.

# ? Mar 22, 2021 13:36

VideoGames: Aug 18, 2003

Right now I am enjoying Dark Souls 2 more than 1 (but as was pointed out yesterday, I also dig the Bed of Chaos and my favourite zone is Demon Ruins/Lost Izalith. :3:

)

Dark Souls 1 took me a few sessions to get into the swing of it, but I did come straight from Bloodborne.
Dark Souls 2 I came straight from Dark Souls and right off the bat I connected with it.

# ? Mar 22, 2021 13:52

Weedle: May 31, 2006

how is games chat celebrating meat week?

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# ? Mar 22, 2021 14:08

Amp: Sep 10, 2010

Weedle posted:

how is games chat celebrating meat week?

Still hungover from infrastructure week

# ? Mar 22, 2021 14:11

Rarity: Oct 21, 2010; ~*4 LIFE*~

I just shoved a whole pork pie down my throat

# ? Mar 22, 2021 14:23

Electric Phantasm: Apr 7, 2011; YOSPOS

Weedle posted:

how is games chat celebrating meat week?

This is making me realize people that are really into meat are obnoxious.

# ? Mar 22, 2021 14:23

Amp: Sep 10, 2010

Electric Phantasm posted:

This is making me realize people that are really into meat are obnoxious.

Anyone who bases their personality around what they shove into their face hole is obnoxious.

e: lol at the idea of THE MEAT FANDOM

# ? Mar 22, 2021 14:24

Weedle: May 31, 2006

Electric Phantasm posted:

This is making me realize people that are really into meat are obnoxious.

i don't know anything about michael kelsey but kevin stitt is definitely an insufferable rear end in a top hat

# ? Mar 22, 2021 14:24

Cardiovorax: Jun 5, 2011; I mean, if you're a successful actress and you go out of the house in a skirt and without underwear, knowing that paparazzi are just waiting for opportunities like this and that it has happened many times before, then there's really nobody you can blame for it but yourself.

Steak is pretty good. Goes well with a nice salad.

# ? Mar 22, 2021 14:24

Simone Magus: Sep 30, 2020; by VideoGames

I said come in! posted:

I haven't had a Twitter account in over 2 years myself. Its been great.

I've never had a Twitter account and I literally never look at it.

It legitimately depresses me that so few people are willing to just ignore all this stupid bullshit.

# ? Mar 22, 2021 14:27

Rarity: Oct 21, 2010; ~*4 LIFE*~

Electric Phantasm posted:

This is making me realize people that are really into meat are obnoxious.

Eating meat is somehow a big political thing for toxic masculinity groups (see Jordan Peterson's raw meat diet, soyboy insults and the idea being vegan gives you estrogen)

# ? Mar 22, 2021 14:29

VideoGames: Aug 18, 2003

Do you think they call them "Meat and Greets"?

# ? Mar 22, 2021 14:30

Cardiovorax: Jun 5, 2011; I mean, if you're a successful actress and you go out of the house in a skirt and without underwear, knowing that paparazzi are just waiting for opportunities like this and that it has happened many times before, then there's really nobody you can blame for it but yourself.

I mean, meat is pretty ace, but making that part of your identity is just ugh. Seriously pathetic. What kind of person has literally so little to be proud of about themselves that they make a big deal out of what they eat, of all things?

# ? Mar 22, 2021 14:30

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Cardiovorax posted:

I mean, meat is pretty ace, but making that part of your identity is just ugh. Seriously pathetic. What kind of person has literally so little to be proud of about themselves that they make a big deal out of what they eat, of all things?

People who raise animals to sell for meat

# ? Mar 22, 2021 14:31

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# ? May 31, 2024 16:44

Simone Magus: Sep 30, 2020; by VideoGames

Cardiovorax posted:

What kind of person has literally so little to be proud of about themselves that they make a big deal out of what they eat, of all things?

Vegans

# ? Mar 22, 2021 14:34

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