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Srice posted:I'm sure it's good, it's more that I don't watch much tv these days and with those kinds of podcasts I know I'll get way more out of them if I'm familiar with the specifics of what they're talking about. Maybe some day if I ever sit down to watch it! I've never watched an episode of the clone wars show and have enjoyed the podcast a lot
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Mode 7 posted:I liked the little environmental storytelling touches. I think my favourite being seeing the photo of Arabella on the meadow research trip, then finding the letter about the trip documenting the Professor of the group misidentifying a flower, Arabella pointing out that it may actually be a new species and his response being “haha I was just testing you”, and then later the newspaper where he takes credit for the discovery of a new species. I loved that in the epilogue it turns out that even though her book still ended up getting rejected she just went fuckit, and built her own classroom anyway and has students (who all had feminine names) and had correspondence from other people supporting her, and the students were all learning from her book anyway. The misogynist gate-keeping of science that was a theme running through all the environmental story could so easily have resolved into "and then she proved them all wrong and successfully became a part of the system and actually its ok that the system was not changed by this" and I really loved that they avoided that.
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homeless snail posted:and austin specifically continued to use it as an example for awhile Man, I didn't know they kept harping on it afterwards. Long past being surprised but it never stops being lame how seriously these people take themselves while not being much if at all different from random dipshit online personalities beyond getting company paychecks.
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Macaluso posted:Why would someone just say this? Because as usual a news article will try to just pluck the most inflammatory words possible to maximize pageviews. https://twitter.com/Qwik/status/1778269707575119977 He's more or less saying he wishes he can dump more money on singleplayer games that he really resonates with because there are no other ways to give them money (aside from like, buying copies for your friends) unlike a multiplayer game with constant DLC releases etc. Being American of course his first thought is "what if I could tip" while also being fully aware that people won't agree with his take. I broadly agree in that if there was a way I could put more money in the pockets of Larian devs directly I'd do it considering they made an incredibly huge game and everyone wanted to quit (allegedly) after it was done.
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I only listen to watch/read-along podcasts about things I have never watched/read and have no pressing desire to do so.
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It's still a pretty goofy thing for a former game exec to say, especially when all his examples are all massively successful titles that all have plenty of ways to give the devs (read: publisher) more than $70 whether it be DLC, limited edition, merch etc.
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Srice posted:I'm sure it's good, it's more that I don't watch much tv these days and with those kinds of podcasts I know I'll get way more out of them if I'm familiar with the specifics of what they're talking about. Maybe some day if I ever sit down to watch it! CharlieFoxtrot posted:I've never watched an episode of the clone wars show and have enjoyed the podcast a lot I did not know what Kit Fisto looked like until multiple seasons in when they had a discussion about how weirdly horny the show was for that guy
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Even if you don't watch Clone Wars or Rebels the episodes about the movies and Andor are also great.
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Captain Invictus posted:yeah that's the thing, they both give a rundown of what the episode was about and then talk about the theming and characters and stuff, include audio clips occasionally when relevant, mention things to look up if you absolutely need to see what something looks like visually, etc. I'd never even seen the show beyond screenshots until I watched a clip they talked about during one episode, and it was entirely possible to follow the podcast regardless. That's good to hear. I'll throw it on my podcast queue then! 
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Srice posted:Huh, didn't know he was doing that. I'm not hungry for podcasts about star wars or tabletop game sessions so I haven't checked those out (I'm sure they're good, just not what I'd want) but covering a book series sounds good to this gamer. It's probably the second best podcast that's covered New Sun but it can be occasionally incredibly frustrating when the main host misreads sections and then pulls the "Oh we aren't here to analyze things" poo poo whenever people point out they're wrong. He also seems to have an ax to grind against the idea that Wolfe had the entire series planned out in advance which might be an interesting thing to consider if we didn't know for a fact that it's wrong and that the whole work was drafted at once and then edited and released in order. They also don't shut the gently caress up about Homestuck for long stretches. All in all a thousand times better than Alzabo Soup.
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https://twitter.com/therealcliffyb/status/1779235918433391086?t=aZdeb0HDpSJhd4agWXvVPA&s=19 I actually thought Lawbreakers had a very fun concept and died way too quickly, might be neat to have it back online again
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DLC Inc posted:https://twitter.com/therealcliffyb/status/1779235918433391086?t=aZdeb0HDpSJhd4agWXvVPA&s=19 If only there were some kind of GameSpy where people could independently host servers for whatever abandoned online games that aren't popular or profitable enough for their original owners. Wouldn't be surprised if there were a bunch of dead games that are actually really fun if every player just gets all the stuff to mess with without any of the progression gambling.
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Sunsetting should become an industry norm for online games. Effectively planned obsolescence and releasing a final patch that allows players to host their own offline servers, with bots if possible. Is something like Foamstars going to set the world on fire? Probably not, but maybe that's some kids favourite game and it'd be cool if they could still play the drat thing. Unfortunately the reality is it oft times come down to licenses expiring and The Shareholders don't see any ROI on developing an offline patch. So why do it!
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Waffleman_ posted:Waiting patiently for the Gundam Evolution private servers to come up homeless snail posted:final fantasy 7 the first soldier emu Unironically want both of those. and Babylon's Fall 
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:What's the best podcast that covered New Sun ReReading Wolfe. Two people who've been in it since the Urthlist poring over every inch of the pages. Generally unhinged with an emphasis on highlighting random theories and ideas people in the community have had or held and always open to new perspectives or corrections on their own interpretations.
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Infinitum posted:Unfortunately the reality is it oft times come down to licenses expiring and The Shareholders don't see any ROI on developing an offline patch. So why do it! Yeah this is what it comes down to. Relying on goodwill for publishers to do the right thing will never end well. Really we need regulation to force devs to make a viable alternative if they plan on withdrawing a service that people paid for, but that'll never happen. Even just disclosing a planned end date at purchase would be something. Like a guarantee that a game will be functional for at least 5 years.
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:What's the best podcast that covered New Sun http://rangedtouch.com/category/shelved-by-genre/ Shelved by Genre by far was my favourite podcast to listen about discussion and analysis of the series. Not the most absolutely thorough read of the book but they bring a lot of interesting critique that three fairly educated people bring that I haven’t seen in other places. https://www.alzabosoup.com Alzabo Soup is a fun chapter by chapter breakdown if you just want to really just want to immerse yourself into the book but the analysis isn’t anything surprising or extremely deep but enjoyable hanging out with Wolfe fanboys. Re-reading Wolfe is garbage and the hosts just get caught up in stupid fan theories and miss a lot of the broader themes and ideas over tiny insignificant details. I went hard for these books last year and tried to find anything to consume about these books. Old Swerdlow fucked around with this message at 23:49 on Apr 13, 2024 |
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exquisite tea posted:I too remember Anthem's 10-year plan. I thought that was Destiny.
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Destiny was the OG 10-year plan, but Anthem wanted to be Destiny so badly it probably had one as well, even if they never got around to publicly saying it
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Old Swerdlow posted:http://rangedtouch.com/category/shelved-by-genre/ Lol my question was in reply to someone who was calling Shelved by Genre the second best one and also dunked on Alzabo Soup
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Old Swerdlow posted:http://rangedtouch.com/category/shelved-by-genre/ ReReading Wolfe talks about the themes and motifs in the post book synopses. The entire concept of the show is to analyze and discuss the ideas that come out of people who've been in the community for decades. Alzabo Soup is quite poor. Their conceit is illogical and leads to them deliberately falling down blind alleys and confusing their audience. They claim to want to not bring in the full novels and instead just go chapter by chapter but then import the Silk/Horn conflation into their analysis of Severian which has muddied the understanding of many new readers as to what and who the main character of the work is because they don't have full knowledge of where their conception of the character comes from.
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homeless snail posted:it's an adventure game that has a puzzle where a password is someone's deadname, it's a good puzzle and also works narratively to establish that the guy who's password it is is kind of an rear end in a top hat. the waypoint review of the game comes out, calls the game transphobic, and their tweet about it was just "don't. deadname. ever" and a picture of the games logo. which incites a lot of hate from the supposedly progressive readers of waypoint. the writer it turns out, is trans and that specific puzzle is drawn from their real life experience. waypoint follows up with an article that's a little bit conciliatory but their conclusion is "it's still hateful and they shouldn't have done it", and austin specifically continued to use it as an example for awhile yea lol. its cool to be subtweeted as a bigot because i think causing trans people getting harassed because some cis person got bad tummy feels is bad.
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this is like, quite literally the kind of thing trans creatives have nightmares about, and walker gleefully enabled it and then tried to defend it when called out on it. to this day red strings club's wikipedia page is 90% a section labelled 'controversy' about how transphobic it is. this is one of the first google results if you search for it. this is what he and his site did to a trans person's work. he is not a good person.
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People have a very skin deep understanding and tolerance of lgbt issues (not saying that I'm some kind of genius about them either) so it's no surprise that when confronted with something outside of making sure you use the right gender and pronouns their brains short circuit. See also the Attack Helicopter short story.
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:Lol my question was in reply to someone who was calling Shelved by Genre the second best one and also dunked on Alzabo Soup I have a lot of people on ignore in the forums. Whoops!
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its honestly an extremely similar situation to the attack helicopter story. a lot of the same 'concerns,' a lot of the same attacks, a lot of cis Queer people going out of their way to drop volleys on trans women for daring to write something that makes them uncomfortable. if it had blown up more it could have ended a similar way. trans people's participation in modern 'queer,' 'progressive' culture is extremely contingent on them never once daring to write, say, or do anything interesting, under penalty of exile.
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Waffleman_ posted:Waiting patiently for the Gundam Evolution private servers to come up They've got a public alpha going, we're close to returning!
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I'm stuck in bloodborne. I can't beat the watchdog of the lords in the defiled chalice. Stupid health reduction. Even using two summons I haven't been able to beat it.
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Eej posted:People have a very skin deep understanding and tolerance of lgbt issues (not saying that I'm some kind of genius about them either) so it's no surprise that when confronted with something outside of making sure you use the right gender and pronouns their brains short circuit. See also the Attack Helicopter short story. there's also a strong performative drive on places like twitter where people are socially incentivized to be righteous more than they are to be good
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Vermain posted:there's also a strong performative drive on places like twitter where people are socially incentivized to be righteous more than they are to be good i bet it's this
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Vermain posted:there's also a strong performative drive on places like twitter where people are socially incentivized to be righteous more than they are to be good yeah, and being the 'progressive games reporting site' is also kind of a perverse incentive because you kind of have to find things to tilt at
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Paying2Lurk posted:Unironically want both of those. GunEvo is being worked on
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