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pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

It sounded like everybody involved hasn't seen a South Park episode from the last decade and failed to consider the possibility that the show got worse with time.

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pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

Dezinus posted:

Not especially relevant, but I can't miss an opportunity to repost this.

What a weird thing Microsoft Games has become.

"Beta tested in the future" was better.

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

Their protracted disapproval of something that Watch_Dogs doesn't actually do was pretty stupid.

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

I have not played Watch Dogs and not interested in doing so, but my understanding of its mechanics is that killing people by any means negatively impacts your reputation, and no amount of positive reputation will stop civilians from calling the police on you if you fire your gun.

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

Nah, he discusses Koyaanisqatsi with his film club while sampling small batch craft beers.

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

If you were a true gamer, you would've bought or sold a small child. Possibly both in the same session.

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

Yeah, the Polygon Quick Look equivalents are pretty good, it's too bad they're mixed in with all the other worthless videos on their YouTube channel.

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

Sober posted:

Partially because if you wanted to discuss it anywhere on SA you would probably get laughed out of here

I take it you're not familiar with Something Awful? There's an unironic thread going on in GBS right now, next to the one where they're passing around links to child pornography.

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

Wow, a mythical "only listens to the podcast never visits the web site" unicorn has stepped out of the forest.

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007


Figure 1: A woman who isn't into games and doesn't particularly like them.

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007


Wow, they went from being sad they weren't on the conspiracy chart to finding the fastest and most direct way to get added.

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

Modding Minecraft consists of downloading a third-party launcher and clicking "Play"

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

Sober posted:

Well, that's disingenuous of you to say but the fact that modding is so prevalent even amongst children who play Minecraft is an awesome thing.

There's nothing disingenuous about it, that's how you play modded Minecraft -- you get the Technic Launcher or Feed The Beast or ATLauncher or whatever the launcher de jeur is, choose a modpack, and click play. There's basically no skill involved and any ten year old savvy enough to start Minecraft will be able to do it with no effort.

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

Randallteal posted:

Half Life 2 also has a really atmospheric world and a lot of restraint about showing it to the player. There aren't a ton of journal entries, audio diaries and NPCs lying around to demystify everything for you, and you only see some of the cooler things in passing or for brief moments, like the humanoid slaves in the tower at the end.

Or the propaganda posters showing the internals of high-ranking Combine soldiers, or listening to how Overwatch phrases orders to the troops, or Breen's rants, or the 7 Hour War newspaper.

Half-Life 2 is really good you guys.

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

So who else is looking forward to stories of the hell on earth that is LAX in this weeks episode of Idle Thumbs?

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

Hakkesshu posted:

Jake if you're reading this, tell Chris to check out Dreamfall Chapters. It's basically Mass Effect 1 citadel: The game.



If that doesn't sell you on the game, check out the Giant Bomb Quick Look. Shitbot is a contender for Character of the Year.

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

TetsuoTW posted:

Just a reminder that Totalbiscuit spent a year making GBS threads blood before thinking he should maybe go to a doctor.

Denial and terror of your own mortality are powerful things and not something you should mock somebody over.

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

He hates the crying baby mechanic.

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

The Milkman posted:

Until I got the internet I had no idea people liked Yoshi's Island for things other than the art and music, because that's the only good part of that game. That awful floaty jump, the egg reticule, crying baby, and it's not the game's fault but putting Mario World 2 on it was just a slap on the face.


What separates Mario 2/Majora's Mask from Yoshi's Island/Zelda II was the weird mechanics and changes were Fun, instead of Bad.

Weird how you put a good game and a bad game in the Fun category and you also put a good game and a bad game in the Bad category.

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

Counterpoint: Stories about that one time Dave Lang got drunk are boring.

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

Stan Taylor posted:

So did that Rock Paper Shotgun podcast reboot only last one episode or is my podcast app not picking them up or is the time between episodes just really long?

Their official RSS feed (which is what iTunes uses) is here: http://rps.libsyn.com/webpage and the most recent episode is from September 25.

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

This may surprise you, but TVs used to have dials and still do have tuners.

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

Patrick moving to Chicago didn't help either, both he and Ryan were cheerful assholes, which balanced out Jeff's cynicism and Vinny's mania.

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

ja2ke posted:

Here's what a PS3 supercomputer actually looks like btw:



A researcher there posted in the Thumbs forum about it.

That's not a PS3 supercomputer, this is:

(This is a US Air Force test for the 1700 console cluster they were planning shortly before Sony dropped Linux support.)

edit: Oh, they actually built the 1760 unit cluser -- it was the 33rd largest supercomputer in the world at the time and analyzed satellite imagery.

pseudorandom name fucked around with this message at 17:43 on Jan 14, 2015

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

http://shows.kingdomofloathing.com/ahd/videogameshotdog.xml lists episodes 100 through 183.

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

Red Red Blue posted:

Spirit Tracks was kinda whatever but Phantom Hourglass was great, and the controls were good

Phantom Hourglass suffered from the same problem that made Majora's Mask terrible -- you had to repeat the same drat thing over and over again with a time limit, which as a concept is inherently anti-Zelda.

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

Ah, yes, the concentrated Destiny shilling where Justin compares his Destiny habit to the physical addiction of smoking.

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

Hakkesshu posted:

Check out Link's Awakening if you haven't played that also. It's probably the closest in tone to Majora; though it doesn't get quite as dark, it's very melancholic and surreal.

And since it doesn't have any bullshit time limits or awful sailing mechanics, it is not a Bad Zelda.

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

It would be better if it were Kerbal Siege Program, though.

Imagine if all your controls corresponded to kerbals driving your machinery and you have to keep them alive otherwise your keybindings stop working.

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pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

Did this weeks Idle Thumbs go straight from the ad to the middle of the Full Throttle discussion with no introduction or theme song or do I need to redownload?

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