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I’ve been researching this nonsense for a podcast and I like how Genvid’s whole thing they doing is trying to create this weird massively multiplayer live event thing that will one day plug into the Metaverse and the best they can accomplish is basically Telltale’s The Walking Dead except your choices don’t matter with writing and acting so bad that those AI accusations almost come off as a compliment.
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Dec 10, 2023 07:47
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The Saddest Rhino posted:i just watched that video on starfield and... there are no aliens in the sci-fi space exploration game??!?
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Dec 10, 2023 07:53
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Endorph posted:there are occasional alien creatures but no sentient aliens (and alien creatures are a minority of the enemies) Thank you for reminding me that Bethesda are so bad at naming things that there's an alien called the terrormorph.
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Dec 10, 2023 09:51
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Fil5000 posted:Thank you for reminding me that Bethesda are so bad at naming things that there's an alien called the terrormorph. Odd you call this a terrormorph even though it’s a obviously a rejected Skylander
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Dec 10, 2023 09:53
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saw a terrormorph the other day. horrible creatures
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Dec 10, 2023 09:56
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Grassy Knowles posted:Odd you call this a terrormorph even though it’s a obviously a rejected Skylander It's an Albany expression. (also the quest to determine where the terrormorphs have come from is dumb as poo poo and suggests that literally no one has attempted any sort of study of any life forms the human race has encountered throughout all of their time in space)
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Dec 10, 2023 10:06
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Sardonik posted:So what I'm hearing here is Bethesda made an inferior version of The Outer Worlds this seems impossible as The Outer Worlds was inferior version of the Bethesda formula but in space that's like doing a crayon drawing of a photocopy of a painting fez_machine fucked around with this message at 12:16 on Dec 10, 2023 |
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Dec 10, 2023 12:02
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…With some rejected pages from a Futurama script awkwardly stapled onto it.
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Dec 10, 2023 12:15
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fez_machine posted:this seems impossible as The Outer Worlds was inferior version of the Bethesda formula but in space The real hilarity would be if Starfield retroactively makes TOW look better in comparison
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Dec 10, 2023 12:19
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Annointed posted:Peter coffin posted some videos that YouTube recommended to me. The title and description seem to want to focus on something about systems and martyred Peter Somerton, but I didn't watch em. Don't feel like watching anything of Peter Coffin when he kept going for right-wing bullshit. Oh yeah he also defended pedophile Caleb Maupin. Assuming this isn't actually from the video as it's just too stupid, but while bored and trawling through a twitter search for "somerton" I found some peter coffin fans/viewers trying to spin a conspiracy about how HBomb's taking down of Somerton was ordered from Nebula execs because they were...jealous I guess of Somerton's crowdfunding of the movie studio thing and wanted to take out 'competition'.
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Dec 10, 2023 13:05
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OneMoreTime posted:I’ve been researching this nonsense for a podcast and I like how Genvid’s whole thing they doing is trying to create this weird massively multiplayer live event thing that will one day plug into the Metaverse and the best they can accomplish is basically Telltale’s The Walking Dead except your choices don’t matter with writing and acting so bad that those AI accusations almost come off as a compliment. I haven't followed it much but what I gather from clips is it's a silent hill game where occasionally other players will show up in your game as NPCs. So you can get weedlord bonerhitler showing up in your silent hill to talk about their jam making hobby, or equivilent dialogue written by chatgpt.
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Dec 10, 2023 13:17
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fez_machine posted:this seems impossible as The Outer Worlds was inferior version of the Bethesda formula but in space It is remarkable just how wrung dry the Bethesda open-world format is at this point. But I guess Starfield sold well, so it seems that's just what people are into. I'd love to say it's bland enough that nobody will come back for the next game, but if they came back after FO76, then I doubt Starfield would be the thing to put them off.
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Dec 10, 2023 14:09
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Ok Comboomer posted:“livvy rizzed up baby gronk” I kinda want to go back to this post because that particular episode could become a Whang Video in the future: The whole thing came from a reaction to a jokish article on a comedy video on an event that Baby Gronk's dad decided to overhype. A lot of people on my feed were like "Oh no, what is this doing to the future of journalism" and as someone who followed SbNation and Defector bc of Jon Bois, I kinda saw the whole story going up as soon as the first hit popped.
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Dec 10, 2023 14:18
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I liked The Outer Worlds.
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Dec 10, 2023 14:25
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Garrand posted:Assuming this isn't actually from the video as it's just too stupid, but while bored and trawling through a twitter search for "somerton" I found some peter coffin fans/viewers trying to spin a conspiracy about how HBomb's taking down of Somerton was ordered from Nebula execs because they were...jealous I guess of Somerton's crowdfunding of the movie studio thing and wanted to take out 'competition'. People on Coffin's Discord cooked up a conspiracy theory and then Coffin signalboosted it:  Here's the conspiracy post: https://amitriptyline.substack.com/p/nebula-and-james-somerton quote:[intro snip]
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Dec 10, 2023 14:26
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Throughts on James somerton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNLvRCDAVwo
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Dec 10, 2023 14:29
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My conspiracy theory: people who were plagiarized by a hateful moron talked to each other. Performing research is a conspiracy
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Dec 10, 2023 14:31
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:People on Coffin's Discord cooked up a conspiracy theory and then Coffin signalboosted it: welp, shows me for giving that idiot the benefit of the doubt.
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Dec 10, 2023 14:32
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:People on Coffin's Discord cooked up a conspiracy theory and then Coffin signalboosted it: What a massive load of poo poo with literally nothing to back it up other than vibes. Edit: Which Coffin is only boosting at all because he doesn't like the people involved. Just an unscrupulous opportunist piece of poo poo. Fil5000 fucked around with this message at 14:37 on Dec 10, 2023 |
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Dec 10, 2023 14:33
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Grassy Knowles posted:My conspiracy theory: people who were plagiarized by a hateful moron talked to each other. Oh my god, how deep does this rabbit hole go?????  The central pole of their conspiracy of "Nebula's bosses told their creators "We cannot have competition for this. Kill Somerton’s company"" doesn't make a lick of sense, it's so bizarre
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Dec 10, 2023 14:34
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somerton was the only queer voice left
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Dec 10, 2023 14:39
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killed by the coward hbomberguy
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Dec 10, 2023 14:39
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They do know you don't need the consent and express permission of the guilty party when publishing an expose on them? Hbomb had legal assistance to cover his arse but he was never obliged to speak to any of the plagiarists.
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Dec 10, 2023 14:41
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quote:Thanks to everyone on Peter Coffin’s discord for helping me put these ideas together. Everyone in that discord needs to touch grass
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Dec 10, 2023 14:45
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Inspector Gesicht posted:They do know you don't need the consent and express permission of the guilty party when publishing an expose on them? Hbomb had legal assistance to cover his arse but he was never obliged to speak to any of the plagiarists. Also like it isn't obvious what would have happened if he'd talked to Somerton first. The entire first 90 minutes of the video is why he didn't approach him first, he'd have gone straight into damage control mode, made hbomb into the villain of the piece (yeah there's still some that think he is but he could have got out in front of it and convinced more of them). What do these people think would have happened, he'd have apologised, given compensation to all the people he plagarised and reedited all the videos to give proper credit? We saw him invent the excuse for plagarising Avila and refine it over the course of that live stream, he'd have made some poo poo up.
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Dec 10, 2023 14:48
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Inspector Gesicht posted:They do know you don't need the consent and express permission of the guilty party when publishing an expose on them? Hbomb had legal assistance to cover his arse but he was never obliged to speak to any of the plagiarists. its required that you talk to the pathological liars when you write an investigative piece on them
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Dec 10, 2023 14:49
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By Coffin Logic, being a gay creator is a highlander thing.
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Dec 10, 2023 14:50
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Inspector Gesicht posted:By Coffin Logic, being a gay creator is a highlander thing. it is
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Dec 10, 2023 14:51
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in the end, there can be only one
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Dec 10, 2023 14:51
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Well why wouldn't Nebula be downright terrified of a money pit independent studio that never actually produced anything.
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Dec 10, 2023 14:52
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John Murdoch posted:Well why wouldn't Nebula be downright terrified of a money pit independent studio that never actually produced anything. Same thing happened to take down 38studios
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Dec 10, 2023 14:53
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Also obviously the concept of a queer-focused movie studio didn't exist until the brave James Somerton
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Dec 10, 2023 14:54
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he just needed to find the right queer book to rip off and make into a movie first....
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Dec 10, 2023 14:56
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James Somerton presents: Gaydolf Twinkler
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Dec 10, 2023 14:56
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16-bit Butt-Head posted:James Somerton presents: Gaydolf Twinkler Somerton: so this is based on the book ‘My Camp’
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Dec 10, 2023 14:58
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Anyway, re: Starfield. I feel like its biggest problem, at least for me, is not the formula breaking down or being outdated or whatever. To me it boils down to lacking any kind of interesting hook. Like compare it to the nothing that was the ES6 teaser - people instantly started speculating what part of Tamriel it was hinting towards. Both TES and Fallout have established lore and worlds where it's actually pretty easy to draw me in, and it helps that aesthetically they really lean into their respective genres. Meanwhile, with Starfield, the answer to every question is the same. What is the game's hook? Space! What do you actually DO in the game? Space! What are the NPCs trying to accomplish? Space! Well at least the game has a distinctive art style, right? ...Right? It feels like an executive explaining how they used to build model rockets as a kid and golly isn't space just so cool? And like I don't really feel that way but regardless your game can't just be "look, space!" Edit: And to be clear, I felt the exact same way about No Man's Sky. "We've simulated a gazillion planets like a real universe, don't you want to go find out what's on 'em?" NO. John Murdoch fucked around with this message at 15:16 on Dec 10, 2023 |
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Dec 10, 2023 15:13
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John Murdoch posted:Anyway, re: Starfield. I feel like its biggest problem, at least for me, is not the formula breaking down or being outdated or whatever. To me it boils down to lacking any kind of interesting hook. Starfield does the usual Bethesda thing of the side quests being the meat of the game and the main story being pretty lacklustre. There's what I think is meant to be a "big reveal" at what I assume is somewhere around the midpoint and it made me go "oh. That's your idea? I mean I guess it works". Then I stopped doing the main quest and just did other stuff until I got completely bored and put the game down. But also yes, SPACE
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Dec 10, 2023 15:19
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starfield will kill off your most used companion for shock value and you cant avoid it which means if you use a companion for their useful skills you lose them for no reason and you cant get them back or replace them i believe bethseda thought this would be deep and meaningful and not annoying and pointless
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Dec 10, 2023 15:21
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16-bit Butt-Head posted:starfield will kill off your most used companion for shock value and you cant avoid it which means if you use a companion for their useful skills you lose them for no reason and you cant get them back or replace them i believe bethseda thought this would be deep and meaningful and not annoying and pointless Does it not depend on whether you stay at the lodge or go to the eye? Because I already thought that poo poo was dumb as it was but if it doesn't make any difference it's even dumber
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Dec 10, 2023 15:23
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Fil5000 posted:Does it not depend on whether you stay at the lodge or go to the eye? Because I already thought that poo poo was dumb as it was but if it doesn't make any difference it's even dumber its tied to the companion you use the most in the game you have no choice except to know ahead of time and use another companion more so they die instead
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Dec 10, 2023 15:24
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