Jsor posted:

Yeah. No. Don't apologize. You keep apologizing every time you shitpost and everyone piles on you, but then (and here's the key) you keep doing it. Half the time about the same three topics! Don't apologize if you're not gonna learn anything. At the very least, I think you would have learned by now that 90% of the visitors of this thread vehemently disagree with you and you're just gonna get a pile-on again. Basic pattern recognition or something.

In an attempt to segue away from derailgate...

Spoony posted a video on Lawful Good.

I just don't like the Lawful/Chaos system. Oddly, I find it works better on the evil spectrum, because at least Devils being bound by their word to uphold contracts is interesting. The issue I have with Lawful Good characters is that they're bound to uphold a bad regime as long as the power was attained legitimately. They will take action to change it, but it will be purely internal action, which doesn't work well when your entire regime is corrupt. To me, the clearest example of Lawful/Chaotic Good is Yuri and Flynn from Tales of Vesperia. Flynn just doesn't get anything done until Yuri helps by basically being a murderer.

I strongly prefer neutral good for heroes. I usually play neutral-leaning-on-lawful, but full-on lawful (or full-on chaos where you just assume every regime is suspect) sucks. I think Lawful/Chaotic good alignments are a product of their settings more than an inherent trait. Robin Hood works as chaotic good because the Prince/Sheriff is a dick that rules with an iron fist. King Arthur or Sir Gawain work as Lawful Good because their regime is just. It's a matter of context in most adventures, and I doubt a real lawful good character could in good conscience continue being lawful just because a corrupt regime attained power legitimately.

I'm sure a very heavy RP-focused adventure could make changing a system from the inside engaging, but it would be difficult.

Gyges posted:

While weakly maintaining an argument that the whole thing sucks, he mostly talked about how the gamer gate people suck. Occasionally he would toss in that there were some examples of anti-gamer gate having doxxed and harassed gamer gate people. Mostly it was couched in a framing of gamer gate being so pathetic that seeking to eradicate every gater and the hashtag was more or less poor sport. How you can watch it and sigh about Joe just not getting it, why isn't he anti-gamer gate, is beyond me.

His main sticking point with regard to labeling himself anti-gamer gate, despite detailing how sexist and horrible gamer gate is, seems to be that he knows some people getting painted with a large brush. I'm assuming this because he mentions the lack of solidarity in a hashtag movement. Whether you find his neutrality an artifice, which it largely is, or a betrayal of his previous stances is up to you. Dude's pretty anti-gamer gate judging by what he actually said.

Testekill posted:

Or like the Barbie doll stuff in Small Soldiers being fetish poo poo. It's a Joe Dante film, how can you not understand that he has bizarre and deranged poo poo in his films for the sake of it being deranged.

Jack Gladney posted:

That seems like something that will eventually destroy kickstarter. I'm shocked there haven't been more high-profile frauds. I actually can't think of a single one.

Arcsquad12 posted:

Hey, maybe Doug should try reviewing anime then, as a new show. Because his Sailor Moon video was so well done, or his Porco Rosso Disneycember where he didn't understand that Porco was a goddamn pig.

Gyges posted:

If you want to name your toy skull and put it in all your backgrounds, fine with me. But it has to be a good toy skull that is crafted to look real, metallic, or crystal. Also, have the dignity to own the pretend skull of a person who went to the pretend dentist when they were pretend alive.

poparena posted:

Confused Matthew wouldn't get under my skin so much if he hadn't made multiple claims of being objective in his reviews. It usually boils down to something like "2001: A Space Odyssey is a bad movie because OBJECTIVELY it doesn't mean anything" and I hate him for it.

The Vosgian Beast posted:

Tarquinn posted:

Dude does not like Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines. Everything he says is wrong.

Sephiroth_IRA posted:

Yeah I heard that too. Not sure how anyone made it more than a few seconds into Kickassia though.

e X posted:

Seriously, you are actually going to link a 4chan post as a legitimate source? This is about as useful as the info you got of your friend whose uncle worked for Nintendo.

DStecks posted:

The art is loving wretched, and this is coming from somebody completely down with anime influence in western art. The problem is that it's aping late-80's teen anime, poo poo like Tenchi Muyo that never looked good in the first place, let alone after being run through babelfish.

Celery Face posted:

Loved the Loose Canon video, the Terry Pratchett joke killed me.

Tracula posted:

Holy poo poo. Spoony is streaming himself playing FFXIII-2 and I remarked "Oh wow, we're gonna get a review before 2016" and he blocked me on youtube

Edit: Yes it was a prick comment but to get so instablocked all things considered is pretty funny.

Rodyle posted:

Tracula posted:

Little off topic here but was gonna ask. Just got Brutal Doom and it's mostly working but any suggestions for getting all the configs and stuff in order for it?

OldTennisCourt posted:

Okay am I the only one who is honestly getting tired of this joke?

dijon du jour posted:

Is that from Mario Bro's. 3: Brick by Brick? I stumbled across it last time I was on Fangamer ordering Kari Fry's books. I remember because the reviews were overwhelmingly negative, all mentioning the numerous typos, how the book drones on and on about things that aren't nearly as interesting as Bob thinks they are, and how the margins are so hosed up you have to practically pull it apart to read the words that have plunged into the book's spine.

DStecks posted:

Man of Steel sucked, HBomberguy can suck my dick. What a joyless, pointless, aimless waste of my loving time. You know a movie's good when +50% of the dialogue is other people philosophizing about Superman, but by the end of the film I have no idea what Superman actually believes in or stands for. Like, I can't even say that killing Zod and all those implied civilians is out of character for him, because he never gets to assert his character. Clark Kent has no arc, he just is Superman and everybody spends the whole movie talking about "Wow, a Superman" or "Oh no, a Superman".

It's like Zack Snyder watched The Dark Knight and didn't get that when the characters were philosophizing about Batman, they were really talking about the War on Terror, and the accountability of authority in general; because in Man of Steel everyone is just philosophizing about Superman, in a way that has no value to a world without a Superman, i.e. the world which we inhabit.

Gyges posted:

On the SVU chat, was their video game episode better or worse than the CSI video game episode? In the CSI one they had silly masks and somehow had a group psychological break with reality so they all thought they were really playing a GTA style game.

Jimbot posted:

Was it over twitter? Because I have a sinking feeling McIntosh hijacks her twitter every time something doesn't agree with him. He has a real bug up his rear end for things he doesn't like. Which, as far as I can see, involves any kind of violence in any media ever.

e X posted:

and
The two pillars of Social Justice, feminism and mountaineering.

nine-gear crow posted:

Nah, Kane is an objectively better human being than Davis Aurini by every possible metric.

DStecks posted:

It's a good video, though once again I find myself kinda frustrated that the videos are so academic in tone. I totally 100% understand why they are like that, they are meant to be academic, but the video basically boils down to "Games often use women as rewards for in-game accomplishments, let me spend 30 minutes explaining the ways in which video games reward behavior in general because I do not assume that you know anything about video games at all." And it's valuable to have stuff like this, that doesn't make any assumptions, but for me personally I wish there was somebody discussing this stuff who doesn't need to take 5 minutes to explain what an achievement is.

Jimbot posted:

I wouldn't factor her twitter posts into what she puts into her videos. All of those are basically the exact same thing her boyfriend posts which leads me to believe that he just hijacks her account to leverage her fame into legitimizing his opinions. That's speculation, of course, but they say the exact same thing it's almost uncanny. He comes off as an insufferable, condescending prick while she has more tact and grace than that, despite what anyone thinks of her opinions or work.

Kunster posted:

His previous videos were "I can't enjoy a videogame without titty because science"

lornekates posted:

"Helloooo, I'm the Critic. I remember it because you do to!"

The Vosgian Beast posted:

Metal Gear Solid 5 is a ripoff of Kingdom Hearts 2.


_{In that they both have long divisive prologues and nothing else}

Cyron posted:

I can find you something more cookie cutter and safe, I forgot what it was but it was a FPS that is semi-futuristic clone of call of duty with the trailer having radioactive by imagine dragon. it came off like a stock image to play for a tv show.

it was posted in the games chat thread last month, that all I know.

MonsieurChoc posted:

MGS 2 is the ebst of the bunch because it's the biggest trolling attempt in gaming and it worked. It's also fairly visionary commentary on the following 15 years. And it's used to teach Information theory ins chools (or that could be an internet urban legend).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKl6WjfDqYA

Best 12-minute long speech in video games.

Augus posted:

Quiet ruined video gaming forever by having a dumb booby design

DStecks posted:

A part of me really wonders if that was the idea originally, because then the comment about "being ashamed of their words and deeds" could make some sense, if Quiet's nudity is a trauma coping mechanism. But, you know, this would make Quiet not sexy at all, and kinda gross to get turned on by (see also: Asuka from Evangelion), and Kojima wanted Quiet to be sexy, so it got changed to the current guilt-free "justification".

lornekates posted:

These hobbits are pawns!

I can't believe they will control the fate of Middle Earth.

Mokinokaro posted:

Just watch Evolution R and Revolution instead, which despite being a lot newer really capture the same spirit as the other TV series.

High Warlord Zog posted:

I'm fairly certain that the Goosebumps movie won't hold a candle to this episode from the radically rad 90's Ghostbusters toon.