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If you ever go to Los Angeles, and you want to see Buck Tooth Charlie's relatives, the La Brea Tarpits are worth a visit: http://www.tarpits.org/visit.
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If I remember correctly the last mammoths died out around the same time that the Great Pyramids of Giza were finished.
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ponzicar posted:If you ever go to Los Angeles, and you want to see Buck Tooth Charlie's relatives, the La Brea Tarpits are worth a visit: http://www.tarpits.org/visit. Ah, yes, The The Tar Pits Tar Pits! I've heard about this place! CJacobs fucked around with this message at 17:48 on Jun 11, 2017 |
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Zeniel posted:If I remember correctly the last mammoths died out around the same time that the Great Pyramids of Giza were finished. drat your eyes! I was gonna say that. Mastodon translates to 'nipple-tooth'.
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CJacobs posted:Ah, yes, The The Tar Tar Pits! I've heard about this place! ftfy. Thank god for Wikipedia, it makes being a pedant so easy.
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Alan Wake spoiling his own game is like someone spoiling Dark Souls by saying that at some point you fight a boss, or CoD by saying some levels end with a set piece exploding. Alan never gives enough information. Him writing "in the near future an enemy will have a chainsaw" isn't enough too warrant any opinions of emotions stronger than a mild intrigue. Anyways, maybe Alan Wake is a bad writer, which means I can write more meandering nonsense. Personally I don't think Alan Wake is supposed to be a "good" writer, and I don't think Remedy intended him to be. However, I think Alan Wake, in the game, appears worse than he is. I love the manuscript pages in their entirety. I like their idea as a collectible, how they give background information and tease the player, and how they play into the larger story. However, I will acknowledge that they don't display the best writing. This shouldn't be an indicator, or at least be a terminal indicator, for Alan Wake being a bad writer. Earlier, I mentioned that Alan's writing has to be filtered through the game's writers. They also pass through the filter of the game, as well. Each manuscript page is a single page, and not even a full one if you type it out in Word. Within that page, the game's writers had to put in a lot of information, or at least a lot of information that you probably don't notice. The game limitations restrict the game's writers, not so much Alan Wake. The game translates a large body of Alan's writing into a quick source for the player. Mediocre and bad writing transforms into bad and horrible writing due to this. When this game first came out, people seemed to be of the opinion that Alan was a bad writer, citing the manuscript pages as an example, but always forgetting that the manuscript pages served multiple roles other than being written by Alan Wake as an in-universe popular author. Especially with Rose, the game makes footholds for Alan being a bad writer. Rose represents a tasteless fan, whom Alan despises for being a fan. Alan, experiencing a crisis of talent, acknowledges he is not the best. Seeing Rose, a nobody in some nobody town with a nobody job as a waitress at a nobody diner, reinforces in Alan the doubts he has about his writing.
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CJacobs posted:Ah, yes, The The Tar Pits Tar Pits! I've heard about this place! It's in the tradition of Manos: The Hands of Fate.
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ponzicar posted:It's in the tradition of Manos: The Hands of Fate. Or a personal PIN number.
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Samovar posted:Or a personal PIN number. Or an ATM machine.
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Or the TTP project.
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Something Awful poster Fish Noise, who I do enjoy so much: you may be happy to know that The Binding of Isaac finally officially supports modding with lua and stuff. That means that I can finally make that fan art you drew back in the Dead Space 3 thread a reality!CJacobs posted:http://puu.sh/teHRo/90c987909c.webm CJacobs fucked around with this message at 00:35 on Jan 8, 2017 |
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CJacobs posted:Something Awful poster Fish Noise, who I do enjoy so much: you may be happy to know that The Binding of Isaac finally officially supports modding with lua and stuff. That means that I can finally make that fan art you drew back in the Dead Space 3 thread a reality! I completely forgot about the catheter joke and I'm glad it has not been forgotten.
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CJacobs posted:Something Awful poster Fish Noise, who I do enjoy so much: you may be happy to know that The Binding of Isaac finally officially supports modding with lua and stuff. That means that I can finally make that fan art you drew back in the Dead Space 3 thread a reality! 
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Zeniel posted:If I remember correctly the last mammoths died out around the same time that the Great Pyramids of Giza were finished. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrangel_Island#Flora_and_fauna
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   Alan has a problem with being maybe a little bit too literal sometimes.
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On Writing is probably one of the few King books with a decent ending, right? :iamafag:
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Still brilliant.algebra testes posted:On Writing is probably one of the few King books with a decent ending, right? :iamafag: Honestly, I kind of agree that King is "agressively mediocre" as a writer. He's like Michael Crichton without the talent or the ideas. To be fair, as I've gotten older I've gotten a lot more picky and nitpicky.
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I think Manual Samuel was the plot of one of the Discworld novels.
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Nice piece of fish posted:Still brilliant. It's actually really hard to write horror, now that I think on it. Film is a much better medium for horror, I think.
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Samovar posted:It's actually really hard to write horror, now that I think on it. Film is a much better medium for horror, I think. Stephen King's son, Joe Hill, has some pretty good poo poo like Heart-Shaped Box.
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chitoryu12 posted:Stephen King's son, Joe Hill, has some pretty good poo poo like Heart-Shaped Box. NOS4A2 is really good, too. Nice mix of realistic and supernatural horror. Plus, I can't help but think that Hill might have been channeling a bit of his own experience with his dad into it.
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Birds are the most annoying enemy in the game. You should shoot the ones that linger around the map.
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Scalding Coffee posted:Birds are the most annoying enemy in the game. You should shoot the ones that linger around the map. I agree, and I'm pretty glad they didn't come back for American Nightmare! What they were replaced by, on the other hand...
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CJacobs posted:I agree, and I'm pretty glad they didn't come back for American Nightmare! What they were replaced by, on the other hand... I just finished American Nightmare and boy, those flying monster trucks are killer.
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You know as much poo poo as you (rightfully) give the line about a 'story being a beast with a life of its own', it is kind of important to establish early on why Alan didn't just write, "And then all the bad things died and Alice came home with a briefcase full of money and we all lived happily ever after."
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Gothsheep posted:You know as much poo poo as you (rightfully) give the line about a 'story being a beast with a life of its own', it is kind of important to establish early on why Alan didn't just write, "And then all the bad things died and Alice came home with a briefcase full of money and we all lived happily ever after." The Dark Presence won't allow itself to lose unless it really believes it should have.
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Alan Wake as a video game novelist posted:Arthur grimaced at his fate, haunted by the demons of his guilty conscience, but also the actual demons, red and grinning menacingly from the blackened skies before him. One of them had landed a blow on him, obliterating his once shining armor. He was now stripped of the protection, of the warmth afforded against the dark evil night, stripped of his dignity... and maybe, just maybe, his humanity. He now shambled forth only in his underpants, decorated with hearts, which in the gloom appeared to him as a snow cone made by a particularly lazy teenager sick of their summer job... no, no, it was more like splatters of blood, uniformly cast against a field of snow as if by ritual... a once pure thing as freshly fallen snow now sullied... his thoughts turned to his dear Princess Prin Prin, and then to that wretched fiend Lucifer who stole her away. He would make the demons pay. He would make them all pay.
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That song at the end is by Poe, one of my favourite artists. She's Mark Z Danielewski's sister and the album Haunted is a companion to House of Leaves! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3lBF2h-Pl0
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Still love that song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szQNIRBV3WU Hey, I recorded my Summer Games Done Quick submission this morning. You should watch it, it went very well!
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Max Payne: A Man With No Frames To Lose Also I wish this was House of Leaves: The Game.
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I kinda also wish that. And hey, by the way, Something Awful user IronSaber. A year ago, you gave me a yearly PS+ subscription code you had lying around so that I could experience the online in Bloodborne, and this next coming month it finally is going to run out. I just wanted to say thank you very much, I got a lot of mileage out of it. It means a lot to me.
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 Thermy sez: "alwaayS use PROTEcTION while chaiinSAwing aas WOODCHIPS can FLy into Your EYES"
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NiftyBottle posted:
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I LOVE YOU THERMY
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That Max Payne run was a pretty good watch. I hope they greenlight it for SGDQ.
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I was equal parts bored and inspired.
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I'm doing a 12 hour streaming marathon on my youtube channel! Starting off with Dead Rising, everyone's favorite zombie massacre simulator. Come hang out!
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Zeniel posted:I was equal parts bored and inspired. Eh, I'd rather sit around the house and watch 'Leave it to Beaver'.
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CJacobs posted:I'm doing a 12 hour streaming marathon on my youtube channel! Starting off with Dead Rising, everyone's favorite zombie massacre simulator. Come hang out! I'm joining the stream several hours late and my first question after the video began streaming was "why is Leon dressed as a 1920's era mobster?". You were then promptly decapitated...
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I have split the archive on my stream and this is the new URL! come watch me play more videogames for 6h!
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