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stev posted:'which game has a plumber in it'. e: Which had a handheld version released in 1982 Guavanaut fucked around with this message at 00:06 on Dec 28, 2023 |
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Dec 28, 2023 00:03
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stev posted:Yeah I was wondering that - would they accept either? What about Metal Gear Ac!d? the theme of the bonuses was "games released in 1998"
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Dec 28, 2023 00:06
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stev posted:Yeah I was wondering that - would they accept either? What about Metal Gear Ac!d? I remember Only Connect once had four Sonic characters in that round where you pick the four related things and I don't even think Sonic was one of them, so that's a start I guess. But at this point videogames are so absurdly popular and part of the cultural zeitgeist that we should just sneer at them for being so uncultured.
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Dec 28, 2023 00:09
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smellmycheese posted:What is the name of the game set in Black Mesa featuring Gordon Freeman Black Mesa  If anyone hasn't played Black Mesa by the way I highly recommend it, it's probably my favourite half life game at this point (I have not played Alyx because I'm not buying a VR headset) Really good update of the source material and also a really nice change to the HL2-style combat, the guns are a bit more accurate so you really get rewarded for being able to run and gun accurately. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 00:13 on Dec 28, 2023 |
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Dec 28, 2023 00:11
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Julio Cruz posted:the theme of the bonuses was "games released in 1998" stev posted:which game has a plumb Railroad Tycoon II Brian Lara Cricket
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Dec 28, 2023 00:18
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OwlFancier posted:Black Mesa Agreed. It’s great.
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Dec 28, 2023 00:20
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I'd still recommend watching a playthrough of Alyx, it's a lot of fun, ties into Half Life 2 and has some really fun set pieces of its own. Jeff was one of my all-time favourite parts of any game.
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Dec 28, 2023 00:23
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I think there are some mods that remove the VR and make the game play like any other HL now. I never finished it because a) I borrowed a VR headset and had to give it back, b) the spooky sections are way too spooky in VR and c) the concessions they made to make combat work in VR were odd, like you rarely fight more than two or three enemies at once.
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Dec 28, 2023 00:26
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:I remember Only Connect once had four Sonic characters in that round where you pick the four related things and I don't even think Sonic was one of them, so that's a start I guess. Someone on Only Connect is a Sonic fan for sure then, this is from last week's
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Dec 28, 2023 00:29
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Scrap Brain Zone is the new Liz Truss think tank.
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Dec 28, 2023 00:31
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Dec 28, 2023 00:32
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:I'd still recommend watching a playthrough of Alyx, it's a lot of fun, ties into Half Life 2 and has some really fun set pieces of its own. Jeff was one of my all-time favourite parts of any game. It does look very good from what I've seen, just not hundreds of pounds good.
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Dec 28, 2023 00:33
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This is great if anyone needs some post Xmas chill gaming of scuba diving and running a sushi restaurant 
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Dec 28, 2023 00:35
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i only really liked civs and city builders and the like played MSG in the late 1990s because of all the hype and thought it was corny AF even back then and waaay too short to justify what it cost 
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Dec 28, 2023 00:36
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crispix posted:i only really liked civs and city builders and the like Would you say it left you hungry for more soon after finishing?
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Dec 28, 2023 00:59
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Of course it's corny, that's what makes it good
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Dec 28, 2023 01:08
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sebzilla posted:Would you say it left you hungry for more soon after finishing? A weapon to surpass Monosodium glutamate... 
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Dec 28, 2023 01:10
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Dec 28, 2023 02:10
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This bollocks first came up a couple of years ago. Who exactly in Europe, and Champagne in particular, is going to be making special pint size bottles for the English Gammon market?
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Dec 28, 2023 02:13
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i would not have known those answers or any of the like science and opera bullshit they probably also asked i still rule
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Dec 28, 2023 02:14
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Precision. Precisely one wine maker will make a pint bottle. It will be some Pisswater fizzy wine from Sussex that tastes like mouldy elderberries mixed with lemonade. And it will be called “Farage Fizz” or “Britpane”
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Dec 28, 2023 02:16
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smellmycheese posted:This bollocks first came up a couple of years ago. Who exactly in Europe, and Champagne in particular, is going to be making special pint size bottles for the English Gammon market? oh this is much worse for pisscans like me. basically the price of wine will stay the same but the volume will go from 750 to 568 fortunately i buy my wine by the box
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Dec 28, 2023 02:17
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smellmycheese posted:Who exactly in Europe, and Champagne in particular, is going to be making special pint size bottles for the English Gammon market?
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Dec 28, 2023 02:18
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I honestly can’t see Moet or the Widow Cliquot retooling their production lines to accommodate a handful of angry ham men who order champagne at best once a year
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Dec 28, 2023 02:24
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smellmycheese posted:Some ridiculously easy videogame questions on University Challenge just now and they didn’t have a clue Its the celebrity version, so its a level easier. On the proper series of University challenge they've had a bonus round where the answers were Roguelikes, Metroidvanias and Dark Souls (Actually mentioning Miyazaki by name). Also, a timeloop game round featuring Majora Mask and Outer Wilds as answers. Think the most obscure game I've seen mentioned was Heavens Vault, thats a pretty deep cut. Fatty fucked around with this message at 03:19 on Dec 28, 2023 |
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Dec 28, 2023 03:08
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Fatty posted:Dark Souls (Actually mentioning Miyazaki by name) With a bonus round about the manga, Berserk.
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Dec 28, 2023 03:32
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Fatty posted:Its the celebrity version, so its a level easier. On the proper series of University challenge they've had a bonus round where the answers were Roguelikes, Metroidvanias and Dark Souls (Actually mentioning Miyazaki by name). Also, a timeloop game round featuring Majora Mask and Outer Wilds as answers. I mean I grant you that's better for sure, but really, if they're going to ask 'university' level questions for other topics then they should do so for vidya qs as well "What is the name of the game currently in Early Access being made by the team who originally created the Long War mod for the Firaxis remake of XCOM?" Terra Invicta "From which President and CEO of Atari Incorporated was the word Yar, of the game Yar's Revenge, derived?" Ray Kassar "Which character serves as your castle's librarian in Suikoden II?" Emilia
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Dec 28, 2023 05:24
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Ms Adequate posted:I mean I grant you that's better for sure, but really, if they're going to ask 'university' level questions for other topics then they should do so for vidya qs as well The point of University Challenge isn’t to ask “degree level” questions about subjects, it’s to show that students aren’t all lazy and feckless, only getting out of bed to do the bare minimum to pass their avocado studies course. The idea is that it asks questions that a well-rounded individual would have a reasonable chance of knowing through being a curious person who wants to know about things. Even my wife would get the Gordon Freeman question, and she’s never played a video game in her life. Edit: Nope, she guessed Portal Scientastic fucked around with this message at 10:30 on Dec 28, 2023 |
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Dec 28, 2023 09:14
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Scientastic posted:The point of University Challenge isn’t to ask “degree level” questions about subjects, it’s to show that students aren’t all lazy and feckless, only getting out of bed to do the bare minimum to pass their avocado studies course. The idea is that it asks questions that a well-rounded individual would have a reasonable chance of knowing through being a curious person who wants to know about things. lol, everyone knows portal is the one with shodan
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Dec 28, 2023 10:43
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Soricidus posted:lol, everyone knows portal is the one with shodan TBF, that's less of a wrong answer than most games would be.
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Dec 28, 2023 10:45
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The Question IRL posted:I can't remember if it was Nanette or another one of Gadsby's shows which included a part about marriage equality in their native Tasmania. But it included this part about how it shouldn't be a public debate which relies on a public vote to legislate for Marriage Equality, since that just puts LGTBQ people in the focus and increases the likelihood that they end up as a target. australia had a plebiscite on marriage equality solely as a compromise to resolve the ruling liberal (read: conservative if you are unfamiliar with aus politics) party's internal split on the issue, and this was very unpopular with australian lgbt people because we experienced an uptick in very public bigotry and hostility all in the name of 'debate' for a few months, just becoming collateral damage from the libs' internal problems. there was already a parliamentary majority in favour of it (between the socially liberal wing of the liberals, including the pm at the time, and most of labor) and polls had been showing significant public support for many years at that point, so it wasn't even like it was unpopular. there wasn't a constitutional change or anything, a future government could still easily undo it if they wanted. the plebiscite has indeed made it so any push to repeal marriage equality is off the table for the time being but i don't really expect that to last forever given the general rightward drift of the liberal party. do you think say, section 28 should have been repealed by any sort of public vote? repealing it was unquestionably the the right thing to do (despite labour taking forever to do so), and yet it very likely would have lost a public vote at the time it was repealed. putting minority rights up to a public vote is not a good experience for the minorities in question, even if they win, and much much worse if they lose.
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Dec 28, 2023 11:05
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Amusingly I’ve just discovered that the Ricky Gervais subreddit almost entirely hates the unfunny twat
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Dec 28, 2023 11:14
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That's great we need more subreddits just for the haters
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Dec 28, 2023 11:16
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James Acasters bit about Gervais really wound him up.
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Dec 28, 2023 11:25
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Why are you all letting Gervais live in your head rent free? I know you all hate landlords but cmon. Mega Comrade fucked around with this message at 11:36 on Dec 28, 2023 |
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Dec 28, 2023 11:30
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It's possible to post about Gervais for 3 seconds and then never think about him the rest of the year. I just did it.
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Dec 28, 2023 11:35
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Yeah, make some room for James Corden.
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Dec 28, 2023 11:35
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My dad also watched that Ricky Gervais dreck, but turned it off after a bit. He's picked up the idea from the cavalcade of twats that cross his Twitter feed that he should be sticking it to the wokes, but he really isn't that committed to it.
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Dec 28, 2023 11:43
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My dad and I had a big argument about trans rights and now he's watching the Abigail Thorn video I sent him. I'm trying to counteract the poo poo he gets fed daily by his Facebook and Youtube algorithms. He backed down about an argument over the Tavistock Clinic when I showed him he'd been lied to about why it closed down. He told me he liked Douglas Murray because he was good at putting forward an argument. I told him it didn't matter, if the premises are wrong then the argument is invalid, and Douglas Murray's premises are wrong. He disagreed, apparently it doesn't matter if the premises are wrong  With a lot of things over the many years I've argued with my dad, I think he is (and a lot of others like him are) a good person submerged under a torrent of right wing poo poo from social media, and a life spent voting Tory because he decided that's what would make him the most money, to provide for us. If you internalise the first thing you hear about a topic (usually a lie) and get frustrated when you get into an argument about it, it is inevitably very difficult to come to the truth when you're dug into that position. I did have to tell him to stop sending me links about the IDF killing people in Gaza, he is completely on the side of the Palestinians and we don't argue about it much but the constant barrage of "look what new poo poo thing happened!" was getting me down!
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Dec 28, 2023 12:01
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happyhippy posted:Yeah, make some room for James Corden. This kind of undermines my argument because I do find myself getting randomly pissed off about the existence of James Corden lol
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Dec 28, 2023 12:07
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