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Guy Mann
Mar 28, 2016

by Lowtax

LoveBoatCaptain posted:

Could somebody post a link to someone speaking with this "nerd accent"? I'm curious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t87QKdOJNv8

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CJacobs
Apr 17, 2011

Reach for the moon!
Ah, so the nerd accent is just "it's a normal sounding person but they're talking about NERRRD SHITTT", I see

Help Im Alive
Nov 8, 2009

I rate that nerd accent 3 gamexplain guys out of 10

codenameFANGIO
May 4, 2012

What are you even booing here?

Help Im Alive posted:

I rate that nerd accent 3 gamexplain guys out of 10

Yeah I was gonna say the Gamexplain guy is a pretty good example of the nasally thing I am talking about

CJacobs
Apr 17, 2011

Reach for the moon!
I think that's less to do with NERRRDDSSS and more that the guy just has an annoying-sounding voice :shrug:

Like, he'd be just as annoying to listen to if he were talking about the weather, it's got nothing to do with the subject matter

CJacobs fucked around with this message at 15:18 on Nov 5, 2016

I said come in!
Jun 22, 2004


That's actually perfectly fine. Here is a video from what I was talking about : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_AZ1S9t1EI

hostess with the Moltres
May 15, 2013
I feel bad for loving over fargoth after I gave him back his ring in Morrowind :(

codenameFANGIO
May 4, 2012

What are you even booing here?

CJacobs posted:

I think that's less to do with NERRRDDSSS and more that the guy just has an annoying-sounding voice :shrug:

Like, he'd be just as annoying to listen to if he were talking about the weather, it's got nothing to do with the subject matter

I think you're focusing too much on the "nerd" part here

hostess with the Moltres
May 15, 2013
Also, why do miners try to kill me when i enter the queen chamber in the bug mines?

CJacobs
Apr 17, 2011

Reach for the moon!

codenameFANGIO posted:

I think you're focusing too much on the "nerd" part here

I'm just saying that people sounding like comic book guy from the simpsons has little to do with what they're talking about, so having that be your reason to not like the subject matter is not a real good one, because there's infinity people talking about anything and I doubt they all sound like comic book guy

edit By which I mean, you should watch more let's plays. Everybody should.

CJacobs fucked around with this message at 16:07 on Nov 5, 2016

Lobok
Jul 13, 2006

Say Watt?

Comic Book Guy isn't a perfect example, but it's a good one to bring up because you can tell that he speaks differently than the other nerd characters on the show like Homer's college buddies or the nerdy kids at Springfield Elementary and that difference isn't just about being nasally or high-pitched.

corn in the bible
Jun 5, 2004

Oh no oh god it's all true!

Great Joe posted:

Same. I'd like to know how it differs from morning radio.

perhaps https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3769813 ???!??!?

Leper Residue
Sep 28, 2003

To where no dog has gone before.
I always associated the nerd voice with my experiences using team speak while raiding in WoW. Nerd voice galore.

Also major reason why I stopped using team speak and raiding in WoW.

Guy Mann
Mar 28, 2016

by Lowtax
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jb3UobSZl34

Purestrain nerd voice.

Jay Rust
Sep 27, 2011

I hate nerds :mad:

Sakurazuka
Jan 24, 2004

NANI?

This is my favourite nerd voice

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

Golden Goat
Aug 2, 2012

Lizard Wizard posted:

EDIT: I'm gonna need four rookies for tomorrow.

Throw me in. I'll die horribly.

LoveBoatCaptain
Aug 26, 2008

Celebrate as all our past ways wither, lead the way to an age of light
The important thing is that I don't sound like any of those nerd accent people.

Also,

What the hell is this?

Ometeotl
Feb 13, 2012



It's MISSEL! Or SISSLE!
I confused myself...



Lizard Wizard posted:


Welcome to the team, Ometeotl, also :rip:

sorry

Neat! I hope I do go-Oh... :rip:

Lurdiak
Feb 26, 2006

I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.


LoveBoatCaptain posted:

Could somebody post a link to someone speaking with this "nerd accent"? I'm curious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztWL4MQJqtc

CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK
Sep 11, 2001



Quest For Glory II posted:

Infinite Waiting in lobby



(windows store version has no cross-compatibility with steam lol)

haha microsoft

I said come in!
Jun 22, 2004

Quest For Glory II posted:

Infinite Waiting in lobby

(windows store version has no cross-compatibility with steam lol)

Hahahahahaha holy poo poo

Nasgate
Jun 7, 2011

hostess with the Moltres posted:

Also, why do miners try to kill me when i enter the queen chamber in the bug mines?

Which bug mine?

Lizard Wizard posted:

Today's op was, truly, a death tower.

EDIT: I'm gonna need four rookies for tomorrow.

Put me in coach

CJacobs
Apr 17, 2011

Reach for the moon!

Lizard Wizard posted:


Today's op was, truly, a death tower.

EDIT: I'm gonna need four rookies for tomorrow.

Do I win an award for "Least Wounded"?

Great Joe
Aug 13, 2008

Man, that guy's voice owns.

Zaphod42
Sep 13, 2012

If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.

I said come in! posted:

The other day I found what would be a fantastic Youtube channel for Warhammer 40,000 lore, but the narrator, while a fantastic source for Warhammer lore, has the most grating voice that I just cannot listen to.

There's lots of youtubes with annoying videos but if you sift through the garbage there's some diamonds in the rough

have you tried

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyPjE1Sn-Ts Luetin09 has a decent radio voice.

I'm gonna guess that the fantastic source of lore with a grating voice you're talking about is OneMindSyndicate and yeah its bad.

I said come in! posted:

That's actually perfectly fine. Here is a video from what I was talking about : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_AZ1S9t1EI

Hahahaha loving called it

corn in the bible
Jun 5, 2004

Oh no oh god it's all true!
http://i.imgur.com/i0jpARS.mp4

Help Im Alive
Nov 8, 2009

get rid of those sideburns

Scaly Haylie
Dec 25, 2004


Get it?


Because red. :shrug:


A little bit punk?


Ah, just like my favorite Smash Bros. character: all of them.

corn in the bible
Jun 5, 2004

Oh no oh god it's all true!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix7sLTudg5s

Golden Goat
Aug 2, 2012

So handsome! :sparkles:

Alfalfa The Roach
Oct 13, 2012

You need to be a badass first.

Lizard Wizard posted:


Ah, just like my favorite Smash Bros. character: all of them.

Oh poo poo, that's cool

I kinda look like Prince Charming with blue hair but that's fine

Scaly Haylie
Dec 25, 2004

Well I barely started the mission before having to go out but I think you're pretty hosed. Might give myself a mulligan or two on this one!

Viewtiful Jew
Apr 21, 2007
Mench'n-a-go-go-baby!
Was it wrong of me to not see that someone who ran a Metal Gear Solid website for over a decade and wrote vehemently about Sons of Liberty would also believe every conspiracy about Hillary and the election?

ONE YEAR LATER
Apr 13, 2004

Fry old buddy, it's me, Bender!
Oven Wrangler

Viewtiful Jew posted:

Was it wrong of me to not see that someone who ran a Metal Gear Solid website for over a decade and wrote vehemently about Sons of Liberty would also believe every conspiracy about Hillary and the election?

You probably should have seen it coming although it is forgivable since we've spent the better part of two decades as a nation looking for enemies out there that the conspiracy theory specialist has been hiding until the boogiemen of the 90s, the Clintons, came back into public view in such a way.

Snak
Oct 10, 2005

I myself will carry you to the Gates of Valhalla...
You will ride eternal,
shiny and chrome.
Grimey Drawer
Also this South Korea conspiracy kind of sets a new bar for what might be a believable conspiracy theory.

Help Im Alive
Nov 8, 2009

They won the overwatch world cup fair and square if you ask me

Red Bones
Aug 9, 2012

"I think he's a bad enough person to stay ghost through his sheer love of child-killing."

Lizard Wizard posted:


Because red. :shrug:

I hope I get to kill some aliens

I tried to play Super Time Force Ultra this afternoon and I found it too... confusing, I guess? Maybe I'm not good at twitch shooters, but I've tried to play it with a controller and keyboard + mouse and I really can't get the hang of it, it's like how easily you die and the whole time travel mechanic seem to push me to play methodically but then the time limit and how fast everything moves seem to push me to play it really twitchy.

bloodychill
May 8, 2004

And if the world
should end tonight,
I had a crazy, classic life
Exciting Lemon

Lizard Wizard posted:


A little bit punk?

Close enough to Marceline.

I get the nerd accent thing. But there are a lot of different nerd voices in popular culture. There's the super nasal thing, the good pronunciation with gravitas and arrogance, the quiet with awkward laugh, the quickly-talking morning DJ who is excited about everything no matter how trivial, the unending squeak, the unending sarcasm tenor, this list could go on forever. Voices are fun.

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precision
May 7, 2006

by VideoGames

Snak posted:

Also this South Korea conspiracy kind of sets a new bar for what might be a believable conspiracy theory.

I feel like what's happened in South Korea is the same thing that happens everywhere. Nancy Reagan had a personal astrologist, after all.

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