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GiantRockFromSpace
Mar 1, 2019

Just Cram It


I said come in! posted:

Didn't one of the PlayStation 1 games even have this as a mini-game?

There was a full fledged game for the PS2/PC about Quidditch.

That said lol at paying or promoting anything for Harry Potter nowadays.

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JollyBoyJohn
Feb 13, 2019

For Real!

Vermain posted:

it used to be that you'd learn your favorite childhood authors were monsters after they were dead and buried and someone cleaning out their closet found a racism journal hanging out in a box, but, thanks to the internet, they're instead annihilating their legacy in real time

still in denial about Roald Dahl

hatty
Feb 28, 2011

Pork Pro
Still laughing at Osamu Tezuka’s hidden furry porn stash. Sometimes post death reveals are fun instead of horrifying

bone emulator
Nov 3, 2005

Wrrroavr

if I was the author of the most profitable book series in human history, I would simply retire and enjoy the rest of my life in peace instead of writing terrible retcons and making people hate me for my lovely beliefs on twitter.

grieving for Gandalf
Apr 22, 2008

I remember reading an edition of tezuka's "the greatest robot in the world" to prepare for reading the fantastic "Pluto" by Urasawa and there was a quote on the back from Tezuka talking about how he had Astro boy's sister shirtless or something like that because he thought it was necessary to have a kind of eroticism for children

I said come in!
Jun 22, 2004

GiantRockFromSpace posted:

There was a full fledged game for the PS2/PC about Quidditch.

That said lol at paying or promoting anything for Harry Potter nowadays.

God I wish loving JK Rowling would drop dead already.

Jay Rust
Sep 27, 2011

As i understand it Quidditch has the golden snitch which is independent of all of the other rules and players and when caught means instant victory. Cool game

GiantRockFromSpace
Mar 1, 2019

Just Cram It


hatty posted:

Still laughing at Osamu Tezuka’s hidden furry porn stash. Sometimes post death reveals are fun instead of horrifying

I have things to tell you about artists buddy.


Jay Rust posted:

As i understand it Quidditch has the golden snitch which is independent of all of the other rules and players and when caught means instant victory. Cool game

Nah it just gives you the equivalent of 15 goals. But it's ok because it can take months to catch it sometimes.

Quidditch is clearly meant to take the piss out of sports and it's hilarious that there's people who actually play it irl minus the flying (and that even them want to cut ties with JK how can you ruin your brand so much in terms of public perfection).

Weedle
May 31, 2006




Jay Rust posted:

As i understand it Quidditch has the golden snitch which is independent of all of the other rules and players and when caught means instant victory. Cool game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPVhmZodaLA

Weedle
May 31, 2006




i had a quidditch game on my palm pilot

hatty
Feb 28, 2011

Pork Pro
Harry Potter is not worth all this drama, even if Rowling was a saint the series deserves to be forgotten. Everyone should read another book imo

Gaius Marius
Oct 9, 2012

hatty posted:

Harry Potter is not worth all this drama, even if Rowling was a saint the series deserves to be forgotten. Everyone should read another book imo

This but not because of Rowling

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

~*4 LIFE*~
The only Quidditch game I want is a management sim

Stux
Nov 17, 2006

GiantRockFromSpace posted:

I have things to tell you about artists buddy.

Nah it just gives you the equivalent of 15 goals. But it's ok because it can take months to catch it sometimes.

Quidditch is clearly meant to take the piss out of sports and it's hilarious that there's people who actually play it irl minus the flying (and that even them want to cut ties with JK how can you ruin your brand so much in terms of public perfection).

finally taking sportsball down a notch. those loving jocks wont knoww ahts hittem.

Macaluso
Sep 23, 2005

I HATE THAT HEDGEHOG, BROTHER!
There's no quidditch in the new game because rowling realized she made it a co-ed sport and didn't want to infect the minds of innocent youths with such ideas

Red Alert 2 Yuris Revenge
May 8, 2006

"My brain is amazing! It's full of wrinkles, and... Uh... Wait... What am I trying to say?"

Gaius Marius posted:

San Andreas actually

Jay Rust
Sep 27, 2011

Vice city
San Andreas
Gta4
Gta3
The psp ones
Gta5
The 2d ones I played

Rinkles
Oct 24, 2010

What I'm getting at is...
Do you feel the same way?

Gaius Marius posted:

San Andreas actually

top tier radios too

Weedle
May 31, 2006




gameplay ranking:
v
san andreas
iv
vice city
iii

story ranking:
san andreas
vice city
iv
v
iii

radio ranking:
vice city
san andreas
v
iv
iii

Stux
Nov 17, 2006

4
vice city






5
sa
3

hatty
Feb 28, 2011

Pork Pro
4 has the fun physics

Shinjobi
Jul 10, 2008


Gravy Boat 2k
III all the way

That's right, you found me, the world's biggest fan of El Burro of The Diablos

Jay Rust
Sep 27, 2011

The Sopranos
Boyz n the hood
Scarface (80s)
Whatever Gta3 draws from

Sakurazuka
Jan 24, 2004

NANI?

I've never played a GTA

The Dark Souls of Posters
Nov 4, 2011

Just Post, Kupo
They play Quidditch in the park near where I play softball and it’s always extremely challenging not to draw attention to my laughter when I see it in person.

Shinjobi
Jul 10, 2008


Gravy Boat 2k
A friend of mine from high school went on to be a "world quidditch champion" in like....2008-2009. That was about the time I realized people were playing it irl.


Still boggles my mind.

Jay Rust
Sep 27, 2011

Goons: "yikes... Quidditch irl? Cringe"
Also goons: "I'm gonna be a blitzball when I grow up"

Shinjobi
Jul 10, 2008


Gravy Boat 2k
How dare you

RBA Starblade
Apr 28, 2008

Going Home.

Games Idiot Court Jester

grieving for Gandalf posted:

I remember reading an edition of tezuka's "the greatest robot in the world" to prepare for reading the fantastic "Pluto" by Urasawa and there was a quote on the back from Tezuka talking about how he had Astro boy's sister shirtless or something like that because he thought it was necessary to have a kind of eroticism for children

:chloe:

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

~*4 LIFE*~

Jay Rust posted:

Goons: "yikes... Quidditch irl? Cringe"
Also goons: "I'm gonna be a blitzball when I grow up"

I'm not gonna be a blitzball that would be silly, it's like saying I'm gonna be a Golden Snitch

Ceyton
Oct 9, 2004

YOU'RE DEAD ARMITAGE!
YOU'RE DEAD ARMITAGE!
YOU'RE DEAD ARMITAGE!

It's weird how they called the first GTA game "GTA3"

Runa
Feb 13, 2011

I will be the golden snitch

dervival
Apr 23, 2014

Ceyton posted:

It's weird how they called the first GTA game "GTA3"

there's two others before it, but they lack the depth of later games so we don't talk about them

Sakurazuka
Jan 24, 2004

NANI?

GTA3 was the fourth game if you count GTA: London

Help Im Alive
Nov 8, 2009

GTA2 was pretty fun and for some reason was freeware on rockstar's website for like 15 years idk why

RPATDO_LAMD
Mar 22, 2013

🐘🪠🍆

GiantRockFromSpace posted:

I have things to tell you about artists buddy.

Nah it just gives you the equivalent of 15 goals. But it's ok because it can take months to catch it sometimes.

Quidditch is clearly meant to take the piss out of sports and it's hilarious that there's people who actually play it irl minus the flying (and that even them want to cut ties with JK how can you ruin your brand so much in terms of public perfection).

Rowling just didn't really plan the rules of Quidditch in advance or think them through in a broader context, she just threw poo poo at the wall as she wrote. Like the golden snitch clearly only exists as a way for the children's book protagonist to make a big dramatic game-winning play in one scene and then never show up again. She didn't carefully consider its impact on the dynamics of the game or whatever, she just wanted to write Harry winning big and added in a mechanism for that to happen.

The same thing happens in a lot of cheesy YA books, where the 16 year old protagonist will discover "woah, turns out the secret to finding the ancient treasure that the whole country has been looking for for 3000 years was holding the map upside down, good thing i'm the first one to think of that!"


FlowerRhythmREMIX posted:

They play Quidditch in the park near where I play softball and it’s always extremely challenging not to draw attention to my laughter when I see it in person.

The dorks call it "quadball" now.
Good on them.

RPATDO_LAMD fucked around with this message at 23:26 on Sep 2, 2022

The Dark Souls of Posters
Nov 4, 2011

Just Post, Kupo
Ah, that’s good to know. My laughter will be a little softer when I walk by to my blitzball match

Khanstant
Apr 5, 2007
good gtas: yakuza (any), cyberpunk 2077, gta2.

RPATDO_LAMD
Mar 22, 2013

🐘🪠🍆
is breath of the wild a gta-like

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No Dignity
Oct 15, 2007

RPATDO_LAMD posted:

is breath of the wild a gta-like

No it's a Strand-like

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