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Arivia posted:Are you sure about that do I need to post the special move from legend of dragoon where a party member spreads her legs and a black hole comes out I mean that's just weird more than anything, but there were plenty of western games where sex and titillation was literally the entire point. Hell, God of War loved its topless women and sex scenes and that's one of the biggest Western franchises of all time.
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BioEnchanted posted:Also a whole cultural thing that didn't age well was the whole "Scifi fans/gamers are weird virgins" idea because not only is it implying that nerds are unappealing unilaterally, it's also implying that if you are a virgin it's because there's something wrong with you, when you may just be asexual and not care about it. I've been a virgin my entire life and it's simply because I don't care about that kind of thing, not because I'm a weird nerd (shut up, I know this potentially walks me into a dumb joke and am willing to take that risk) I'm absolutely sure if you watch every current running CBS show airing right now that will come up at least once a week. Ditto for the other big networks.
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Speaking of G4/Xplay/TechTV something that aged badly when it was done was when they did the survey of which one of their women would the public want to see in Playboy and they'd do a shot. I forget the other three candidates but the winner of course was Morgan Webb who politely declined. I think this aged as soon as it happened because: 1) it was going for the horny nerd demo reducing women to nudity. 2) Clearly they thought they could pressure Morgan Webb into doing it by putting her on the survey and not asking her about it.
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So what's Adam's SA name, 'cuz this is some goony rear end posting.
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https://twitter.com/AdamSessler/status/1632121484167757829 Phenomenal levels of persecution complex
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Waste of Breath posted:https://twitter.com/AdamSessler/status/1632121484167757829 https://twitter.com/dril/status/549425182767861760?lang=en
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Arivia posted:Are you sure about that do I need to post the special move from legend of dragoon where a party member spreads her legs and a black hole comes out My god, it's full of stars...
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Waste of Breath posted:https://twitter.com/AdamSessler/status/1632121484167757829 I'm not sure it's a complex, dude has been catching non stop poo poo from chuds on Twitter for the last two years after coming to the defense of a queer co-worker. If someone is going to compulsively touch the poop there's worse results than calling gamer gaters a bunch of piss-swilling nazis.
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Yes I’m sure chuds are absolutely looking to crush him for his racism in the early 2000s
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The tweet he's responding to is the softest ball possible, and the original tweet didn't even mention him by name. If he feels attacked by that, that's the definition of a persecution complex.
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Waste of Breath posted:The tweet he's responding to is the softest ball possible, and the original tweet didn't even mention him by name. The person doing the review was him lol
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CelticPredator posted:The person doing the review was him lol Hey now, both hosts were casually being racist, it was a team effort.
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Randalor posted:Hey now, both hosts were casually being racist, it was a team effort. Even by 2006 standards that was a wildly poo poo review that was 3/4th yelling Sake! because it sounded like the characters name, also not remotely funny. Also, 2006, like drat, that was 5 years after FFX sold 10 million copies when games were a massive success if they sold 2 mil.
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Last I really looked at Sessler's TL he was yelling at everyone even slightly to the left of Hillary. So yeah he's just kind of a weirdly combative shitlib who gets cornered of Twitter way too often and will resort to calling you a chud, or worse, a Bernie supporter.
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grittyreboot posted:Last I really looked at Sessler's TL he was yelling at everyone even slightly to the left of Hillary. So yeah he's just kind of a weirdly combative shitlib who gets cornered of Twitter way too often and will resort to calling you a chud, or worse, a Bernie supporter. Adam Sessler’s entire Twitter feed is just him yelling at everyone on his timeline, so just statistically and demographically speaking he ends up making GBS threads on rear end in a top hat CHUDs, like, 60% of the time. Last time I read his tweets he was completely, retroactively, and justifiably renouncing gamer culture in its entirety and dealing with the insane backlash that came with that.
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It all looks incredibly weird to me. Like, do I understand it right that the reason a 15-year old 1-min video about a forgotten video game was posted now was so people would understand why some don't like the term JRPG? But the review didn't even say "JRPG"? Nor was it a review of anything, just some lame attempts at humor, which I guess is bad if you like the game. Did they review other games normally, but this only got 40 seconds of skits? I used to play JRPGS back then, but I don't understand a loving thing about this.
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Man I used to watch the hell out of Tech TV. Then it became G4/Tech TV and got really loving weird. It tried so goddamn hard to be edgy, and I was coming from the Tech TV side of it so that was jarring. Then they just fired/dropped everyone from the Tech TV side, but kept the dumb gaming show, renamed it to X-Play to fit with the rest of the awful edgy bullshit. I never liked Adam Sessler, but boy did I have a crush on Morgan Webb from her Screen Saver days, on Tech TV. Didn't they also have an official "who would you like to pose for Playboy?" poll? Looking back that guy who hosted The Screen Savers was creepy as hell. I remember he once commented on the size of the women cohosts' breasts. One thing I remember finding kind of amusing about Tech TV is that for all of their 7 hours of daily programming, they had the same people hosting different shows.
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X-Play's worst sin was giving Jedi Outcast a 2 out of 5
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Offler posted:It all looks incredibly weird to me. Like, do I understand it right that the reason a 15-year old 1-min video about a forgotten video game was posted now was so people would understand why some don't like the term JRPG? But the review didn't even say "JRPG"? Nor was it a review of anything, just some lame attempts at humor, which I guess is bad if you like the game. Did they review other games normally, but this only got 40 seconds of skits? I think your trying way to hard to overthink this. It was just a really bad review of a game that honestly wasn’t even very good to begin with
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In retrospect a lot of the mockery of 'weeaboos' and 'those wacky japanese' could and usually did extremely quickly descend into frothing racism by any standard.grittyreboot posted:Last I really looked at Sessler's TL he was yelling at everyone even slightly to the left of Hillary. So yeah he's just kind of a weirdly combative shitlib who gets cornered of Twitter way too often and will resort to calling you a chud, or worse, a Bernie supporter. Reminded back in the day I heard you can search the Twitter timeline of that type of dude (gender neutral term) for 'asian' and you're guaranteed to get some spicy takes. Phylodox posted:Adam Sessler’s entire Twitter feed is just him yelling at everyone on his timeline, so just statistically and demographically speaking he ends up making GBS threads on rear end in a top hat CHUDs, like, 60% of the time. Last time I read his tweets he was completely, retroactively, and justifiably renouncing gamer culture in its entirety and dealing with the insane backlash that came with that. It'd probably help if he'd actually change his behaviour to go with it rather than acting exactly the same.
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grittyreboot posted:X-Play's worst sin was giving Jedi Outcast a 2... out of 5 ftfy
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Maxwell Lord posted:ftfy lol
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Offler posted:It all looks incredibly weird to me. Like, do I understand it right that the reason a 15-year old 1-min video about a forgotten video game was posted now was so people would understand why some don't like the term JRPG? But the review didn't even say "JRPG"? Nor was it a review of anything, just some lame attempts at humor, which I guess is bad if you like the game. Did they review other games normally, but this only got 40 seconds of skits? You missed the fact that the video on Twitter is a cut down version. Somebody linked the full version upthread.
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Is this guy the gaming host who got his show back on air, tried to push crypto stuff on it and then it got canceled again?
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Aces High posted:What about shows like Monkey Dust? I only know about that one because of the Pedofinder General clips making their rounds when #metoo was starting to kick off. I presume it (as a sketch series) had its own share of The Monkey Dust thing I remember was the series of sketches about a "terrorist" who was all "Now brothers we must smash the western imperialist state ..." etc. but his recruits/fellow jihadists were a couple of subcontinental teenagers from Birmingham. Complete with Brummie accents and their mum coming in every now and again to offer tea and biscuits to her sons and their nice bearded friend. I thought it was sweet.
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Arivia posted:Are you sure about that do I need to post the special move from legend of dragoon where a party member spreads her legs and a black hole comes out
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Splicer posted:Singularities? In my vagina? Better than a white dwarf
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Arivia posted:Are you sure about that do I need to post the special move from legend of dragoon where a party member spreads her legs and a black hole comes out Better than the original which apparently had red blood instead of Mystery Black Liquid.
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I always liked Milenia from Grandia 2, I liked her whole vibe and her initially parasitic relationship with Elena developed in interesting ways.
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Arivia posted:Are you sure about that do I need to post the special move from legend of dragoon where a party member spreads her legs and a black hole comes out Gods, yeah, as much as I liked Rose, that spell creeped me out so hard I tried to avoid ever having her in my party if I could help it.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:I'm assuming it's a reference to the boob physics they bring up in the review. Of course, that whole game kind of falls into the category of maybe not fitting in this thread because it aged poorly from the start. I think my favorite was the thug's AI bark at your police officer character, "Who are you supposed to be, Barney Miller?", referencing a show that had been off the air for 16 years at that point IRL and the game was set in 2037. Cribbing Daikatana's ad campaign slogan of "I'm gonna make you my bitch!" was another highlight, though at least that was a recent reference at the time. And then there are charming bits like the hidden security camera room on one level where you can watch the aforementioned antagonist masturbate in a hot tub. A true gem of late '90s gaming!* *Admittedly the gameplay was alright for the time and I did have a lot of fun in multiplayer battles with that game. OTOH, SiN was also infamous for shipping with a bug that required a 31mb patch to fix, which was so onerous for download speeds at the time that Activision offered shipping of a free CD with the patch as an alternative.
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Edgy attention-getting marketing in the 90s was just, as the old man said, the style at the time.
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the_steve posted:Gods, yeah, as much as I liked Rose, that spell creeped me out so hard I tried to avoid ever having her in my party if I could help it. It was funny, I was like "I should look this up to see if it's as bad as I remember just in case someone calls me out on it." and then I looked it up and it was EVEN WORSE.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Edgy attention-getting marketing in the 90s was just, as the old man said, the style at the time. Look how big these polygons are, don't they make you horny?! Also, I know I push this show a lot but Adam Ruins Everything did a good thing on why videogames were a boys hobby for a long time.
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