Baseball, Zizek, Hentai and Twitter - Let's Play The Closer!

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Night10194: Feb 13, 2012; We'll start,
like many good things,
with a bear.

Holy hell how did I miss this one until now.

This is incredible.

# ¿ Jun 4, 2019 16:44

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# ¿ May 10, 2024 20:26

Night10194: Feb 13, 2012; We'll start,
like many good things,
with a bear.

What I'm really enjoying is that this stuff proceeds by its own internal logic and consistent characterization. Somehow. Somehow a story about trying to fix a pitcher's game and teach him more pitches so he can close game 7 of the World Series by playing a magical A League of Their Own hentai novel with a weird philosopher actually flows.

# ¿ Jun 4, 2019 21:13

Night10194: Feb 13, 2012; We'll start,
like many good things,
with a bear.

thetoughestbean posted:

My only hope is that nobody in this thread ends up thinking that the real world Slavoj Zizek is worth listening to

Oh, God no, but he makes a hilarious jRPG character.

# ¿ Jun 6, 2019 13:05

Night10194: Feb 13, 2012; We'll start,
like many good things,
with a bear.

That's a very accurate description of Twitter.

# ¿ Jun 8, 2019 15:47

Night10194: Feb 13, 2012; We'll start,
like many good things,
with a bear.

Carlos Rodriguez is a very talented man.

# ¿ Jun 8, 2019 16:37

Night10194: Feb 13, 2012; We'll start,
like many good things,
with a bear.

How the hell do batters hit these things.

This only increases the menace of Carlos Rodriguez further!

# ¿ Jun 11, 2019 16:28

Night10194: Feb 13, 2012; We'll start,
like many good things,
with a bear.

Yapping Eevee posted:

It is a rare game indeed where you can manifest a representation of Twitter as a party member and have it seem completely in line with the rest of the game.

That is still the most impressive part about this game! None of this even feels all that out of left field. This is just a story where, logically, these things happen.

# ¿ Jun 16, 2019 01:42

Night10194: Feb 13, 2012; We'll start,
like many good things,
with a bear.

Zizek the solution to realizing you created an abomination against God and all of mankind by bringing Twitter into being is not to go and create more hideous things.

# ¿ Jun 19, 2019 20:20

Night10194: Feb 13, 2012; We'll start,
like many good things,
with a bear.

I respect our antagonist but still hope for his ultimate defeat.

He is a super talented and cool guy tho.

# ¿ Jun 20, 2019 02:46

Night10194: Feb 13, 2012; We'll start,
like many good things,
with a bear.

Jen X posted:

This really is baseball barkley 2, oh my god

This game is significantly better and funnier than Barkley.

I say this as a man who loves Barkley Shut Up And Jam: Gaiden.

# ¿ Jun 20, 2019 04:56

Night10194: Feb 13, 2012; We'll start,
like many good things,
with a bear.

Do you think the league gives out an award for Best JRPG Villain? Does the Hall of Fame consider your abilities at menacing rag-tag parties of weirdo friends when they consider admittance? Is that a stat in baseball?

# ¿ Jun 20, 2019 13:13

Night10194: Feb 13, 2012; We'll start,
like many good things,
with a bear.

I can't believe we lost one of the best characters to a lovely gritty reboot.

At the same time, yes, mock the perception of grounded realism as mired in swaths of blood and poorly handled maturity, game! Yes! Inject that into my veins.

# ¿ Jun 21, 2019 21:55

Night10194: Feb 13, 2012; We'll start,
like many good things,
with a bear.

We could have done so much good if we'd left Twitter to die instead.

# ¿ Jun 21, 2019 22:01

Night10194: Feb 13, 2012; We'll start,
like many good things,
with a bear.

This story has been wild as hell, maybe he'll find his way back after he comes to terms with his dark backstory. :unsmith:

# ¿ Jun 22, 2019 02:35

Night10194: Feb 13, 2012; We'll start,
like many good things,
with a bear.

At least Carlos Rodriguez didn't show up in the Gritty Reboot.

He was too cool for it.

# ¿ Jun 22, 2019 03:04

Night10194: Feb 13, 2012; We'll start,
like many good things,
with a bear.

Maybe FF6 will bring back Moose.

# ¿ Jun 24, 2019 04:01

Night10194: Feb 13, 2012; We'll start,
like many good things,
with a bear.

I also like that we've just completely forgotten about Sonic and Goku. They will continue to exist, here to find their way in a world alien to them, bringing and suffering great confusion.

Zizek is probably happy about that.

# ¿ Jun 24, 2019 04:19

Night10194: Feb 13, 2012; We'll start,
like many good things,
with a bear.

I have rarely been more glad to be right.

gently caress yeah, Moose is back.

# ¿ Jun 27, 2019 20:10

Night10194: Feb 13, 2012; We'll start,
like many good things,
with a bear.

KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:

it's because Dan Shaughnessey (that curly haired loving hack) in a rare instance of genius nicknamed Carl Everett "Jurassic Carl" after he gave this specific quote (in the first article you posted):

What, did he think Genesis was the account of a documentary camera crew, or did he somehow think someone interviewed the snake.

# ¿ Jun 28, 2019 17:38

Night10194: Feb 13, 2012; We'll start,
like many good things,
with a bear.

Better warm up that Dragon Slayer so we can defeat whatever one-winged angel-dragon this poo poo summons.

# ¿ Jul 5, 2019 19:04

Night10194: Feb 13, 2012; We'll start,
like many good things,
with a bear.

I always knew the Yankees' moment of triumph would end all that is.

# ¿ Jul 7, 2019 01:09

Night10194: Feb 13, 2012; We'll start,
like many good things,
with a bear.

It's a really good thing Moose taught us to save.

Thanks, Moose.

# ¿ Jul 7, 2019 03:30

Night10194: Feb 13, 2012; We'll start,
like many good things,
with a bear.

That was loving incredible.

How did this have a satisfying ending. The announcers covering the final battle was just wonderful.

# ¿ Jul 7, 2019 20:44

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# ¿ May 10, 2024 20:26

Night10194: Feb 13, 2012; We'll start,
like many good things,
with a bear.

The writing in this game was really impressive because absurdity is genuinely hard to do well. Managing to write a completely ridiculous plot where events actually do seem to flow from one to another, the payoff to the story actually does feel earned, and certain things are even foreshadowed (of course Carlos Rodriguez would possess powers of Philosophy; he was raised by the Illuminati!) is no joke. Same for doing it while maintaining consistent and interesting characters.

# ¿ Jul 8, 2019 17:48

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