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Beard Yawn posted:The letter in this week's Bonfireside Chat comparing Lords of the Fallen to a Fleshlight had me in tears. "I can masturbate just fine." -Gary Butterfield Welcome, 2015 podcast thread!
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icantfindaname posted:The problem with steampunk is that it's impossible to be punk by adopting the aesthetics and cultural background of a classist, sexist, colonial and white supremacist society. The aesthetic can work on its own by its own merits, but trying to be subversive with it is absolutely incoherent. While I've never actually seen anything steampunk do it successfully, what you're proposing here is essentially that you can't be subversive by re-appropriating something that is the opposite. I think that's wrong icantfindaname posted:Nerds don't understand history, politics, or culture, go figure But this is right icantfindaname posted:The Bioshock games are all about insipid attempts at political and social commentary, yes? And so is this, though I think Infinite is more trying to pull a "the sociopolitical story we started telling doesn't matter, this game is about a guy and guilt and loss and memory" and just doesn't excel at it because the sociopolitical stuff is so jarringly weird So eh
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Apr 3, 2015 16:44
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HMS Boromir posted:TotalBiscuit is an idiot and his mouth spews filth and grime but let's maybe leave his life-threatening illness out of it?? Not that I disagree w/ the spirit of this post, but in fairness he doesn't leave his life-threatening illness out of his internet arguments either
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Apr 6, 2015 13:22
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Ramagamma posted:TB's cancer is in remission so obviously some of you goons didn't cross your fingers when you wished it on him. Good? you're a loving weirdo Woffle posted:I'm going to check this out because they talk about Resident Evil. I have always loved, and sympathized with, Shawn Elliot's apologia for later day Resident Evil titles. Yes, I'm the guy who had fun playing RE6. Go ahead and shoot me and get it over with. I didn't play 6 but Resident Evil 5 was totally okay and I think it's weird that somebody could love 4 and despise 5
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Apr 8, 2015 17:54
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The Vosgian Beast posted:When you talked about how the Saw Cleaver's description talks about how it only grows in effectiveness the more monstrous the beast, I was wondering if it was just an in-game explanation for why your relatively puny weapon can take down a big nasty monster so well. I can't remember if Gary and Kole mention this in the episode but it definitely alludes to at least one gameplay element: the two saw-type trick weapons have a hidden damage modifier against enemies classified as beasts by the game (there are at least two enemy "type" flags, beast and kin, and then some that don't have either)
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Apr 19, 2015 00:23
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Timett posted:I guess FF4 has always been up there too but with all the jrpg fatigue you've both expressed I could see it not quite filing that role. They're replacing both of themselves with me and I'm doing the FF4 episode alone
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Apr 22, 2015 04:27
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Super Metroid is one of maybe five games that I actively lament my inability to ever play for the first time again, rip zapjackson. Have any of the Duckfeed casts or Idle Thumbs ever fielded "what video games do you most wish you could go back and play for the first time again"? This would actually be a pretty good user response question for WOFF or The Level imo. Or maybe it was done like a year ago and I just don't remember. I really envy the people playing Bloodborne without prior experience with any Souls games.
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Apr 22, 2015 21:47
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Akuma posted:So now you have things like people going around the internets saying the Cleric Beast was Ludwig with Vaati as the source  ja2ke posted:Thought some of you might enjoy this... The Wizard Jam game jam (a 2 week jam to make games based on Idle Thumbs episode titles... our forums did this not us) is over and some of the results are really great. Dibs on Crazy Crane's Deceit for next year (I don't make videogames, or know how to make videogames, but that is the game I want to play)
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Apr 27, 2015 06:43
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I hope you called him on that poo poo goddamnit.
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Song For The Deaf posted:If anyone here is curious about how the Watch Out for Fireballs! Soundtrack Showdown shook out, Final Fantasy VI was the winner. There's a full ranked list up at http://duckfeed.tv/soundtrackshowdown good.
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May 16, 2015 05:02
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Part of the lack of rapport on BFSC could just be the limitations of the Skype format rather than anything wrong w/ hosts, guests, or listeners; I think Gary and Kole are swell guys but it's pretty easy to be stiff and feel like you're talking to yourself when you're unfamiliar with that format, dealing with awkward delay stuff, and unable to read facial cues
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May 17, 2015 02:13
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Funkmaster General posted:Yo, you guys are bad at searching for porn, there's some NSFW Puggsy out there. I would've died wondering, and now I don't have to!!!
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May 19, 2015 13:44
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AAB posted:Game podcasts are absurd. Lets plays are better and thats saying something Thanks for the input, did you do a forum search for "cyclists" to get here or what
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May 29, 2015 09:29
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Jeff is still my favorite even on a bad day but if you asked me to explain why I probably couldn't Didn't realize there was a Vinnycast now tho, that's... excellent.
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May 30, 2015 13:38
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Woffle posted:This is the truth. Fallout is my favorite game series (probably even more so than Souls) so I feel a moral duty to eventually cover the whole series. *quietly whispers "final fantasycast" into your ear and then pours a viscous potion into it* sweet dreams......
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Jun 5, 2015 01:56
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Song For The Deaf posted:But the WOFF! form occasionally gets people suggesting we play "my dick". And right now, someone is filling it with titles of the grossest erotic visual novels that Japan has to offer (like "Ultimate Boob Wars" and "Harem Party"). It's funny, but annoying because I have to spend real time administering that list. I want you guys to cover my top 5 and you've already done FF6, Super Metroid, and Morrowind; what makes those so different from Ultimate Boob Wars and Harem Panty?
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Jun 5, 2015 18:54
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icantfindaname posted:You come off sounding sort of insufferable IMO i got this burn from last month's loot crate 
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Jun 8, 2015 22:57
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HMS Boromir posted:While Drakkhen is still fresh in everyone's minds, I'd like to make sure you all see whatever the hell this is. The SNES version is apparently slightly different sounding. A great deal of the game is a surreal nightmare and I'm amazed how neutral and flat Gary and Kole's reactions were. Your characters seem so small and vulnerable compared to the dangers of the world, many of which are gargantuan and inexplicable. It would be a perfect game for that creepypasta poo poo. Baku fucked around with this message at 20:37 on Jun 10, 2015 |
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Jun 10, 2015 20:32
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1) Illbleed is actually a lot like Deadly Premonition, a great terrible game. Abject Suffering needs more of those, but I'm not sure how many actually exist compared to films. 2) Is there a place to get that "mind melting" Cthulhu Mario romhack without signing into some weird shady foreign filedump site?
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Jul 21, 2015 08:45
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Phone posted:There was a study done recently that showed that the lower skill a male player is, the more likely he's going to hurl insults at a female player. Since this is a podcast thread this is kind of on-topic: there's a pretty good episode of This American Life about trolls where a feminist internet writer talks to the most virulent troll she ever encountered on a Skype call or something and he basically admits that he did it because he was a giant loser who felt bad about himself and resented that a woman he didn't find attractive was happy and apparently-confident. It simultaneously manages to depict his behavior as unambiguously wrong and pathetic while also humanizing him. I can't imagine why anyone interested in the games industry would find it interesting!
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Jul 23, 2015 08:53
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C-Euro posted:I thought it came out that part or all of this story was faked in some way, or highly embellished? Maybe I'm thinking of a different episode. It may be embellished, but I doubt it was mostly or totally falsified unless the people making that accusation have no way to prove it. TAL is usually very good at retracting stories they find out are bogus; there are multiple episodes with a single segment that was removed or has a disclaimer added, and there's one really infamous example (Mike Daisey's story about the abhorrent conditions at Apple manufacturers in China) where Ira Glass literally did a follow-up interview episode where he gets as angry as an NPR personality can get and nails the dude to the wall for representing his story as fact.
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Jul 23, 2015 12:40
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AllisonByProxy posted:I have very fond memories of SMRPG but I haven't played it since I was in like 8th grade. I'm not sure how I'd feel about it these days. I hadn't played it since it came out and replayed it about 2 years ago. It's fun, but shorter and shallower than I remembered, and I still can't do 100 consecutive jumps.
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Jul 24, 2015 14:31
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C-Euro posted:If anyone here likes Final Fantasy VI, Top Score's latest episode is about ludomusicology and how the opera scene in that game is an allegory for the game's whole story. That game rules and the first time I got to that part of the game was a big turning point for my interest in video games, as cliche as that sounds. Thanks. It's the best game and I'm glad people who actually understand things about how music works (I don't) are having the same conversations about it I have.
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Aug 3, 2015 05:03
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Woffle posted:"LOL JAPAN!?" You're worrying more about this than you need to be. I Accept You.
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Aug 8, 2015 19:50
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icantfindaname posted:you look at the sort of person who seems physically incapable of not launching into a whiny rant about how anime is terrible every time it gets mentioned in any way, and IMO racism/bigotry/whatever you want to call it is a big part of the motivation icantfindaname posted:pseudo-sociological explanations lol
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Aug 9, 2015 00:29
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Honestly LP is like any other kind of performance art. There's a skillset related to the actual technical aspects of the performance (i.e. musicianship, in this case skill and knowledge about the game) and a skillset related to engaging and working an audience and dealing with the pressure of having one. That form is nascent and you can tell nobody agrees on who the masters are or even what the criteria for judging them should be yet. It's like watching 17th-century stand-up comedians or something.
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Aug 9, 2015 17:21
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You should really consider just doing one episode on both games. The 2nd Runner isn't terribly dense, either, and it goes loving bonkers. It's certainly worth playing.
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Aug 11, 2015 09:57
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It's worth the price of admission just to poke around in and admire the weird audacity of. Good loving luck accomplishing anything of note with it, especially if you're not willing to play strategically and want to do things like put the guy whose class is "trickster" in charge of stuff to see what goes wrong.
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Aug 12, 2015 04:34
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If you like Cowboy Bebop you should watch Samurai Champloo and Space Dandy, at which point the gateway drugs will be in your system and there will be no escape from Big Anime.
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Aug 12, 2015 19:34
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Opposing Farce posted:
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Aug 17, 2015 22:00
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Woffle posted:We're working on the logistics for the milestone goal as we speak. i'll make the website  ElMaligno posted:While I do have my suspicions I don’t think Gary and Kole are robots. the thing that boggles my mind about it is that they like, found each other; I've started actually recording a film discussion podcast and even assembling the troops on a biweekly basis with peoples' busy varying schedules and poo poo is tough
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Aug 18, 2015 22:17
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Nier has been on the list of games I've been boosting for the WOFF treatment for a long time. It's both interesting and flawed in ways that I think would specifically push Gary and Kole's buttons, and provoke a thoughtful conversation and possibly two different conclusions.
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Aug 19, 2015 07:14
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Woffle posted:I'm somewhat put off by what I've heard that you more or less have to beat it twice to get the effect but I'm fascinated enough by the good I've heard to be willing to give it a shot. Kind of. You have to play through the second half of the game multiple times, but it's a New Game+ system so you can storm through it at higher levels and there's additional story content that recontextualizes the thing you already played.
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Aug 19, 2015 08:02
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There are more hostile threads than this in games, but few more inexplicably so
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Aug 23, 2015 09:57
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I mean, it's an hour. I'm prepared to give the final Kojima Metal Gear game less than the runtime of Spy Kids to justify itself.
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Sep 5, 2015 02:57
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Woffle posted:Somewhere along the way, I seem to have given the impression I think MGS5 is bad or that I think an hour of tutorial is too much and that isn't my stance. The sequence is: On the other hand... die!!!
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Sep 5, 2015 04:51
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idk why that guy who quoted gary talking about me said i didn't believe in mental illness or whatever, i don't know anything.
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Sep 5, 2015 20:36
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Ramagamma posted:The giant bomb thread is a cool and good place where people have fun talking about games and anime without the air of snobbery this thread could be accused of permeating. Hakkesshu posted:I love the GB tread. This loving thread, meanwhile...... this thread rules actually because it's one of those SA threads where you get the full cross-section of posters and when somebody says mean words you never know if they're just funnin' on a comedy forum, if they're sincerely attempting to make a salient point and maybe just in a bad mood or overreacting, or if they're one of those internet people who has homemade assassin's creed sleeve daggers, a collection of japanese child pornography, and a pile of bones that may or may not be human in their crawlspace
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Sep 11, 2015 07:20
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Beard Yawn posted:There are plenty of reasons to dislike Arthur Geese but trying to be more inclusive in his language is not one of them. Nuts may not seem like a term worth expunging from your vocabulary but your experience is different than everyone else's. Guess I'll have to start using "family jewels" in my Craigslist personals
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Sep 18, 2015 11:26
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pseudorandom name posted:Stigmatizing mental illness discourages people from seeking treatment. You realize "mental" is slang for "crazy", right? Please refer to this as brain illness in the future. I was going to see a therapist about my pedantry but thanks to your ill-conceived post I probably won't.
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Stan Taylor posted:Also, a dumb thought. Since I don't really follow games press or hype, I am pretty susceptible to buying games when all the podcasts I listen to rave about them. I'm currently keeping myself from buying Mario Maker and MGSV after the past two weeks of hearing about how great they are. I used to have no problem waiting for sales! Lousy casts. If you actually care about money buy Mario Maker now because Nintendo takes forever to reduce the price of games, and buy MGS5 next year when there's a GOTY edition with bells and whistles on for $29.99.
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