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Inzombiac posted:More cute than funny but it reminds me of Thomas Romain, an anime artist who takes his kid's drawings and refines them. Mescal posted:fkn SICK yeah these fuckin rule
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To be fair the kids designing those are really good too.
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:yeah these fuckin rule I must be seeing the first one wrong because it looks like an anime artist took a kids weird drawing and added vulva. And completely ignored the feet being on fire.
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:I must be seeing the first one wrong because it looks like an anime artist took a kids weird drawing and added vulva. And completely ignored the feet being on fire. That's anime for ya
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Oct 4, 2021 19:11
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The Way of the Flaming Feet is a special technique they only use in rare situations when they absolutely cannot win any other way (they use it near the end of each episode).
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:added vulva have you ever been so terminally horny that you look at that picture and all you can think of is vulva... and feet?
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Oct 4, 2021 20:09
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interesting to know that the whole "kids write letters backwards!" bit has been around for a long time
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I wonder if the kid finds those drawings amazing or crushing
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Oct 4, 2021 20:24
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Al Jaffee drew them, probably copied from the models he had already made 
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Oct 4, 2021 20:26
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That cart having a proper box perspective with the fourth corner visible and everything, and the physical object being wedge-shaped is grating me extra.
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ToxicFrog posted:- every time you undock or jump between system you have a chance of getting jumped by 6+ pirate fighters and instantly blown up I know I'm late to Privateer chat but once you're in a well-outfitted Centurion (the big fuckoff space fighter that you're going to do most of the story missions in), 6-pirate engagements really only count as 4 ships because at least two of them are going to wind up smeared across your hull by the end of the fight The game sprites for the ship have a shark mouth painted on its nosecone, but IMO I ran over so many of those little pirate fighters over the years it should have been two staring eyes like the ramming prow of a trireme
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gbut posted:That cart having a proper box perspective with the fourth corner visible and everything, and the physical object being wedge-shaped is grating me extra. There isn't a hard vertical line in the drawing indicating the meeting of the two sides. The angle on the top that you're parsing as another side is instead a bump in the physical model.
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ToxicFrog posted:Everyone seems to love Privateer and I just cannot figure out why. It's awful! What you're missing is Privateer cane out in 1993. EV: Nova in 2003 and Freelancer in 2000. I wasn't aware of anything like that open space world in the mid 90s The storyline is okay, but I loved the openness of it, especially stuff like the hidden pirate bases and running contraband, or just becoming a pirate and having the different factions treat you differently.
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Oct 4, 2021 23:14
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There was, at the very least, Escape Velocity and EV: Override. I felt Nova was, though technically improved, mechanically and writing-wise a step back from Override. It just didn't feel as good to play; I couldn't nail it down even at the time.
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I loved the poo poo out of EV:Nova. I should go back and play Override.
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Override was my favorite of the trilogy too, but I still liked Nova. The original was pretty basic in comparison, still good though.
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If, like me, you loved the EV series back in the day, I'd like to take this moment to highly recommend Endless Sky (steam) It's deliberately a spiritual sequel to the series and it's very good at it. Also, it's free, and has been under active development for like 6 years.
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Glottis posted:interesting to know that the whole "kids write letters backwards!" bit has been around for a long time Us adults write those letters backwards due to years of the education beating us into submission to write them wrong. Kids are fully aware or which way those letters were always meant to go. 
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I had a look for Wing Commander-themed funny pictures but couldn't find any, so you get this instead. DeadlyMuffin posted:What you're missing is Privateer cane out in 1993. EV: Nova in 2003 and Freelancer in 2000. I wasn't aware of anything like that open space world in the mid 90s Elite, the type species for the genre, has been around since the 80s, and the original Escape Velocity was released in 1996. It's true that I didn't play Privateer until 2001-2002 or so, nearly a decade after it was originally released; on the other hand, I didn't play Wing Commander 1&2 until 2004 -- after I played Freespace 1&2 and Tachyon: The Fringe -- and despite the fact that they are both older games than Privateer, found that there was still a lot to enjoy there despite how dated they were. I did not have the same experience with Privateer. There's also no shortage of other games in other genres from that era that I didn't play until a decade+ after their release that I nonetheless enjoyed a great deal, like Marathon, Pathways into Darkness, System Shock, Ultima Underworld, Betrayal at Krondor, X-COM, Descent, and Star Control 2. Thus, I am brought inexorably to the conclusion that my problem with Privateer is not that it's old, but that it sucks on toast. Thank you for coming to my TED talk. (Although, in fairness, I must also admit that compared to Wing Commander 3 it's a work of staggering genius.) FFT posted:If, like me, you loved the EV series back in the day, I'd like to take this moment to highly recommend Endless Sky (steam) Endless Sky is cool and good, would recommend.
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FFT posted:If, like me, you loved the EV series back in the day, I'd like to take this moment to highly recommend Endless Sky (steam) This is the only description of Endless Sky that's ever made me want to even try it. Being free helps too. Loved EV back in the day. I used to play it on a pretty old mac that could barely run it and it was super chill going around exploiting markets and eventually building up a pretty unstoppable ship. I think I tried for something like 3hrs to conquer Earth one time. Then I discovered that a friend of mine had it too. Their computer was vastly superior to mine and watching him play was frantic and kind of crazy compared to what I was used to. I don't think I ever played it on my old poo poo box ever again after that. EV was also my first introduction to plug-ins & addons. I remember gleefully launching forklifts across space to utterly demolish my foes.
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lord funk posted:I loved the poo poo out of EV:Nova. I should go back and play Override. Get the total conversion mod.
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Man, I remember the first time I felt crushed by realizing not ALL games come out. I played the hell out of some demo that came on a PC gamer disc, cause it was a space dogfight kinda game but THE SHIPS HAD SHIELDS which was unheard of at the time. Like, you could actually see them when you shot them. It was badass. After a few months of no news I found the email of the company making it and was like WHERE IS IT and it apparently didn't do well against the budget so it got scrapped  This was around 94 or 95 I think. I'm still pissed about it. Haven't seen a good dogfighting game in space with those cool polygonal shields yet.
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The publisher for Escape Velocity, Ambrosia Software, is gone as a company, so the registration server is gone, and you can’t buy it anymore. Even if you had a legit version, it’s hard to get it working, but updated versions are here for anyone who wants to have a go again  : http://escape-velocity.games/ (Windows) and https://andrews05.github.io/evstuff/ (Mac). There are also links for the plugins for Override and Classic.EV Override is being remade as Cosmic Frontier, by the original scenario creator (Override was going to be a plugin for EV originally), by the way: https://evocationgames.com/.
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ToxicFrog posted:I had a look for Wing Commander-themed funny pictures but couldn't find any, so you get this instead. I got Privateer a few years after it came out. I hadn't played any other space traders before. The appeal was all the stuff that makes space traders good, plus it being set in the Wing Commander universe. That's all. But, I mean, it was competently executed. To your original complaints, though, you don't get jumped by hordes of hostiles unless you're in a more dangerous area, or if you have missions active (especially hard ones from the merchants/mercenaries guilds). As for grinding to get stuff, I mean it does sound like you were doing it wrong.
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ToxicFrog posted:Elite, the type species for the genre, has been around since the 80s, and the original Escape Velocity was released in 1996. I tried some of the elite games at the time, but found them very dull compared to Privateer, but I was a kid. Escape velocity was 2D. That was a show stopper for me. I did like Project Nomad tho. ToxicFrog posted:I played Freespace 1&2 and Tachyon: The Fringe -- and despite the fact that they are both older games than Privateer, found that there was still a lot to enjoy there despite how dated they were. I did not have the same experience with Privateer. All those games are significantly newer. Freespace games were awesome though. Definitely better than Prophecy. And since that was my opinion as a middle schooler it must still be true 25 years later 
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ShadeofBlue posted:EV Override is being remade as Cosmic Frontier, by the original scenario creator (Override was going to be a plugin for EV originally), by the way: https://evocationgames.com/. quote:Project updates will be posted here in future as development proceeds towards our planned July 2021 release date. 
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ToxicFrog posted:I had a look for Wing Commander-themed funny pictures but couldn't find any, so you get this instead. ANAL NASA is a hell of a username
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bike tory posted:ANAL NASA is a hell of a username https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fd_zv6DhQlI
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Waiting to hear about his archnemesis Moore Burninating
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FFT posted:If, like me, you loved the EV series back in the day, I'd like to take this moment to highly recommend Endless Sky (steam) Endless sky is very good, I have wasted a huge amount of time playing it.
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Data Graham posted:Al Jaffee drew them, probably copied from the models he had already made This isn't funny but I just remembered Jaffee is alive and 100 years old.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:This isn't funny but I just remembered Jaffee is alive and 100 years old. I'm still pissed off my local comic shop promised to get me a copy of the retirement special Magazine and didn't deliver.
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Whoever designed that identity had to be loving with the owner, right? (For the US: The Parachute Regiment is the British military unit that shot 26 Irish civilians on Bloody Sunday in 1972, in the city that ice cream shop is in, and people sneak their badge and burgundy into/onto things as a weird gently caress you statement.) 
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