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Neo_Crimson posted:Garbodor doesn't deserve to be lumped in with Notch. Yeah Notch is more like Bidoof
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Dec 7, 2021 02:59
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you can't catch four shiny notchs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NSS_adEekw
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Dec 7, 2021 03:05
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Comrade Fakename posted:The funniest thing about Bioshock Infinite is that after years of fever-pitch hype, just three months later it was utterly and completely overshadowed in everything it attempted to do technically and emotionally by the then relatively unanticipated The Last Of Us. Like, Bioshock had all this talk about the incredible technology to have Elizabeth as an AI hanging around with you, and then immediately afterwards Ellie (almost the same name, even!) is quietly a hundred times more impressive. Even going backwards, I have never seen anyone articulate why Elizabeth is in any way more impressive than Alyx from the Half-Life episodes. Also as I am wont to bring up, still weirded out by the intentional or not implications of saying one of Elizabeth's best aspects is that she doesn't get in the player's way.
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Dec 7, 2021 03:08
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How many times is this thread going to say "Here's Dan Olson being a massive loving piece of poo poo" and then have it be revealed three posts later that the context was blown completely out of proportion
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Dec 7, 2021 03:28
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John Murdoch posted:Even going backwards, I have never seen anyone articulate why Elizabeth is in any way more impressive than Alyx from the Half-Life episodes. Does Alyx toss you ammo? That's the only thing I can think of, but even that's pretty weak as I can't think of any cool sequences you have with Elizabeth like you do with Alyx.
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Dec 7, 2021 03:41
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i cant believe you would talk about ken levine's daughter like this
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Dec 7, 2021 04:08
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Alaois posted:i cant believe you would talk about ken levine's daughter like this Get back to me when she can man a sniper rifle while I'm being attacked by Combine Headcrab Zombies. 
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Dec 7, 2021 04:16
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They definitely talked up how much Elizabeth could do on her own pre-release, when the actual game she became someone who just occasionally tossed you health and ammo, and would open a tear if directed. As much as they talked about seeing the chaos happen instead of watching the aftermath, they do skip over the actual chaos immediately. There's a tiny section where people leave, but before that people are still walking around enjoying things, and after that things are just empty.
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Dec 7, 2021 04:27
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Comrade AI characters that won't stop in a doorway or block you from opening a chest or something is a big plus. Mastering the technology to keep AI from using cat instincts and swerving back and forth in front of your path is a marvel in and of itself.
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Dec 7, 2021 04:37
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RareAcumen posted:Comrade AI characters that won't stop in a doorway or block you from opening a chest or something is a big plus. Mastering the technology to keep AI from using cat instincts and swerving back and forth in front of your path is a marvel in and of itself. yea resident evil 4 kicks rear end
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Dec 7, 2021 05:08
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BrianWilly posted:How many times is this thread going to say "Here's Dan Olson being a massive loving piece of poo poo" and then have it be revealed three posts later that the context was blown completely out of proportion he's just a milquetoast dude talkin' bout film theory and sometimes chicken nuggets. he's kind of a boring guy to go after
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Dec 7, 2021 05:12
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The 7th Guest posted:seriously lol did u ever consider that he said suicide squad has bad editing once
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Dec 7, 2021 05:15
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BrianWilly posted:How many times is this thread going to say "Here's Dan Olson being a massive loving piece of poo poo" and then have it be revealed three posts later that the context was blown completely out of proportion Not until people leave behind the belief that slaying a name brand on twitter gives you their lost vitality.
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Dec 7, 2021 05:22
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Alaois posted:did u ever consider that he said suicide squad has bad editing once
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Dec 7, 2021 05:24
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Farm Frenzy posted:yea resident evil 4 kicks rear end It's a genius action movie solution. Just tell them 'wait here until the shooting and screaming stops, I will come get you' and boom, no more NPC wandering into where you just threw your grenade.
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Dec 7, 2021 05:28
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Are there people who like Suicide Squad?
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Dec 7, 2021 05:31
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RareAcumen posted:Comrade AI characters that won't stop in a doorway or block you from opening a chest or something is a big plus. Mastering the technology to keep AI from using cat instincts and swerving back and forth in front of your path is a marvel in and of itself. Also the Sam & Max solution where Sam flings Max thirty feet straight into the air whenever Max gets in his way.
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Dec 7, 2021 05:33
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:Are there people who like Suicide Squad? Yes. I don't know if they're posting in here though.
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Dec 7, 2021 05:37
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My father told me he genuinely enjoyed Suicide Squad during Thanksgiving dinner this year, specifically praising Jared Leto's performance as the Joker In true Thanksgiving fashion we all just went, "wow, really!" and promptly changed the subject to something less polarizing
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Dec 7, 2021 05:46
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it has more to do with my general disinterest in superheroes than a sign of high or low quality, but you couldn't pay me to sit through a superhero movie as long as the snyder cut and i've watched all of the quinton reviews icarly videos
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Dec 7, 2021 06:17
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Comrade Fakename posted:The funniest thing about Bioshock Infinite is that after years of fever-pitch hype, just three months later it was utterly and completely overshadowed in everything it attempted to do technically and emotionally by the then relatively unanticipated The Last Of Us. Like, Bioshock had all this talk about the incredible technology to have Elizabeth as an AI hanging around with you, and then immediately afterwards Ellie (almost the same name, even!) is quietly a hundred times more impressive. Nah Infinite is way more centrist than 2, it literally does a “both sides have their issues” in game rather than existing as a counterpoint to the first one. My biggest issue with Infinite is that it sort of fools you into believing that it’s going to be a polemic like Bioshock was but at the end the rug gets pulled out and it’s head-fully-up-its-rear end metaphysical bullshit. The political themes are window dressing and are treated with exactly that much nuance, which wouldn’t be quite so frustrating if they hadn’t hosed both things up so bad. Bioshock 2 *does* feature a villain who at first glance represents collectivism in a way similar to how Andrew Ryan represents objectivism, but there are a few differences that defang the criticism and keep it from feeling like just some Both Sides poo poo. The biggest is that Ryan’s beliefs are very explicitly drawn from one book and one person’s ideology, whereas Lamb is not representing any specific strain of collectivist thought (she’s not a Marxist or anything along those lines). Ryan most resembles titans of business like Disney, Ford, Rockefeller, and is right out of the mind of Rand, but Lamb is not a communist or a socialist, she’s more akin to a secular Jim Jones or Rajneesh guru-cult leader type. She’s a psychiatrist who has a large client-base of damaged people in a deeply unhealthy environment who decides to start a movement because as a space existing in a vacuum, Rapture magnifies any sort of ideological conflict into a fight for survival. Lamb exists in Rapture only as an opposing force, not inherently representing any specific ideology. It’s very likely she was created as an opposite of Andrew Ryan not to give the left it’s jabs but because creating a villain too similar to Ryan would just be retreading old ground. It’s not as incisive a commentary because it’s not as specific. This could be a knock against the game, but Bioshock 2 replaces political themes with more personal ones. The personal journey of Alpha is given more weight than the player-character in the first game (who is, in the most literal definition, a tool with no real driving force). It’s still not very much, but the relationship between Eleanor and Alpha is more fleshed out than any relationship in the first game (which is sort of an unfair criticism of the first game because it’s clear immediately that it’s not a game about personal relationships). It’s the right direction for a quick cash-grab sequel to take because actually going in and making a second full-on political commentary would require some real adjusting of the setting and more time than they had to make it, but it’s very easy to take the beautiful world that was crafted in Bioshock and make new stories in it, which is what they did.
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Dec 7, 2021 08:28
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BrianWilly posted:How many times is this thread going to say "Here's Dan Olson being a massive loving piece of poo poo" and then have it be revealed three posts later that the context was blown completely out of proportion Posting Twitter links should be probatable to be honest. At this point it's worse than anime.
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Dec 7, 2021 09:10
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BrianWilly posted:How many times is this thread going to say "Here's Dan Olson being a massive loving piece of poo poo" and then have it be revealed three posts later that the context was blown completely out of proportion Antigravitas posted:Posting Twitter links should be probatable to be honest. also his tweet about anime was kind of weird. so really it all comes back to anime
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Dec 7, 2021 10:15
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Our universe got the Far Cry series, where you play the same game over and over in different overseas vacation hot spots, but there's another timeline where they got a Bioshock series where you get to play the same game over and over in various failed Libertarian Utopian projects and I want to play that series. We've had undersea rapture and cloud rapture, but what about Mars Colony Rapture, Free State Project Rapture (the Big Daddies are just bears), Boat City Rapture (there's enough dumb stuff in seasteading to double dip), Cyberpunk Arcology Rapture, Why Are All Libertarians One Bad Day Away From Being Unironic Monarchists Rapture...
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Dec 7, 2021 10:44
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Acute Grill posted:Our universe got the Far Cry series, where you play the same game over and over in different overseas vacation hot spots, but there's another timeline where they got a Bioshock series where you get to play the same game over and over in various failed Libertarian Utopian projects and I want to play that series. After watching that video I posted earlier about Walt Disney’s plans for the original EPCOT my first thought was “oh this is the next Bioshock setting”, a corpo-fash future that looks not like Night City but Tomorrowland
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Dec 7, 2021 11:02
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:Are there people who like Suicide Squad? it is a revolutionary marxist post-racial interrogation of war on terror and prison industrial complex or something
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Dec 7, 2021 11:41
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:Are there people who like Suicide Squad? Not sure if "not hating it" counts as liking it. It had some decent moments, undercut by horrendous editing and some very poor writing. Also Leto's Joker was fine and fit fine with the stupidity of your average comic book movie. Its a very 5/10 movie, its not terrible but its also not good. It's just meh.
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Dec 7, 2021 12:14
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqWjq2SdzpI
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Dec 7, 2021 12:48
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Endorph posted:im going to combine these topics by pointing out that his evangelion video is founded on a completely untrue premise, namely that hideaki anno has something against otaku/pervy anime when the man owns 3 separate blu-rays of the strike witches movie. that is the only reason i dislike him. I generally like Dan’s videos but yeah his evangelion video was hilariously wrong about a lot of things and blindly took long-standing english fandom myths at face value. Augus fucked around with this message at 13:38 on Dec 7, 2021 |
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Dec 7, 2021 13:36
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:Are there people who like Suicide Squad? At one time, not unlike Trank's Fan4stic, I was curious to see the un-Frankenstein-ed version of the film but as more comes out about both original plans for the movies I feel confident enough to timidly suggest neither would have been very good either.
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Dec 7, 2021 14:04
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The dumbest thing Dan said was the bit about blizzcon that one year, don't criticize blizzard because 4chins likes it, when that guy in the crowd just asked "Is this an april fool's joke?" about the really bad Diablo mobile thing.
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Dec 7, 2021 14:11
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Dawgstar posted:At one time, not unlike Trank's Fan4stic, I was curious to see the un-Frankenstein-ed version of the film but as more comes out about both original plans for the movies I feel confident enough to timidly suggest neither would have been very good either. I wanna see that original cut just because the fact that a trailer company got final cut rights is completely insane to the point where I wanna see how that particular sausage was made.
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Dec 7, 2021 14:24
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Dawgstar posted:At one time, not unlike Trank's Fan4stic, I was curious to see the un-Frankenstein-ed version of the film but as more comes out about both original plans for the movies I feel confident enough to timidly suggest neither would have been very good either. Oh wow, is more info out about them both?
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Dec 7, 2021 14:54
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Dan was off about some background lore he mentioned in his Bloodborne endings video so now I’ve sworn a blood feud against him.
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Dec 7, 2021 15:08
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The Bee posted:Oh wow, is more info out about them both? It boils down to 'more Leto Joker' which no thank you ever and in the F4 flick how basically Sue was a supporting character which also no. (FF but make it body horror is still kind of interesting as an idea.)
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Dec 7, 2021 16:05
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Dawgstar posted:(FF but make it body horror is still kind of interesting as an idea.) Yeah but Batman Beyond still pretty much already did that idea twenty years before Trank.
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Dec 7, 2021 16:11
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Hope you're not sick of representation discourse yet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cR3b2Gblq0
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Dec 7, 2021 16:33
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Nuns with Guns posted:Dan was off about some background lore he mentioned in his Bloodborne endings video so now I’ve sworn a blood feud against him. All that other stuff is nothing compared to this. What the hell!!!!
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Dec 7, 2021 16:40
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Here's how all Twitter discourses should be resolved : the discourse subject being forced to watch more Evangelion
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Dec 7, 2021 17:05
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Augus posted:I generally like Dan’s videos but yeah his evangelion video was hilariously wrong about a lot of things and blindly took long-standing english fandom myths at face value.
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Dec 7, 2021 17:16
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