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Solar Tornado
Aug 9, 2016

A true fool keeps on fighting, even when there is no more glory to be gained

Captain Invictus posted:

I was a mod for a sprite comic forum when I was a teenager, someone tracked me down and called my house because I banned them, poo poo was creepy as hell

Take my opinions about 8-bit Theater seriously, Captain Invictus! :argh:

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Solar Tornado
Aug 9, 2016

A true fool keeps on fighting, even when there is no more glory to be gained
Quinton Reviews Ready Player Two

https://youtu.be/zqltJyUkTDU

you guys have to watch this

Solar Tornado
Aug 9, 2016

A true fool keeps on fighting, even when there is no more glory to be gained
The only year-end review that matters:

Todd and Aaron's Game Awards 2020

Solar Tornado
Aug 9, 2016

A true fool keeps on fighting, even when there is no more glory to be gained

Srice posted:

https://youtu.be/xb-DtICmPTY

Tim Rogers put out a six hour long(!) review/documentary/LP video on Tokimeki Memorial. Looking forward to watching this over the course of a week haha. It's gonna rule.

a bunch of pages back, but I finally finished watching (and then rewatching once more) and it just hits so good.

at 4:26:40 he says (which is probably part of the thesis statement of this whole video, so I'll put it in spoiler. disregard this whole post if you have yet to watch this video and plan to do it) "when you make a game that feels like a person, you make a player that feels bad for treating that person like an object"

I've been playing a lot of Fire Emblem: Three Houses, and one of the mechanics is finding 'Lost Items' that belong to students and faculty members around the school. Upon returning these items the character will say something along the lines of "I've been looking everywhere for this!", and will fully fill their motivation bar.

Now, there are limited ways to raise motivation, and this one is pretty good. So you can hold off on giving these 'lost items' back, and return them to their owners when their motivation is low.

So the ludonarrative is: you're stealing items from your students and friends, and giving them back at your convenience in order to manipulate them to liking you and raising their stats.
Some of the items I couldn't find the owner. It makes me think that, had I not taken that item, that person would've retraced their steps and find it again. Now they'll never get it back.

Once you gamify relationships you're either an rear end in a top hat at best, or a complete sociopath at worst.

Solar Tornado
Aug 9, 2016

A true fool keeps on fighting, even when there is no more glory to be gained

No.1 Special posted:

Super Eyepatch Wolf - My Favorite Things 2021

https://youtu.be/_Xy44W1eIJQ

It all returns to nothing

WTF all of his favorite things are my favorite things
...
Am I SEW?

This honestly is the first time I watch his rundown of favorite things and I know almost all of them

Solar Tornado
Aug 9, 2016

A true fool keeps on fighting, even when there is no more glory to be gained

That's a pretty killer mix for a one hour video

Solar Tornado
Aug 9, 2016

A true fool keeps on fighting, even when there is no more glory to be gained

Endorph posted:

oh wait lmao lindsay did the contrapoints thing of 'here are these people who dared to criticize me, please go harass them'

How can you watch a 2 hour video about the shittiness of internet harassment and conclude that that was her intent?

Solar Tornado
Aug 9, 2016

A true fool keeps on fighting, even when there is no more glory to be gained

Endorph posted:


either shes stupid or thats her intent, take your pick.

From that vid, I'd say she's stupid.

But as an audience, how can one watch that whole video and decide that more harassment is the answer?

I'm pretty sure you can reach those tweets just from googling the quotes themselves, but I will admit that leaving usernames and avatars just makes the job easier.

Solar Tornado
Aug 9, 2016

A true fool keeps on fighting, even when there is no more glory to be gained
This is why I use Twitter only for artisanal softcore porn. Not much controversy there :colbert:

Solar Tornado
Aug 9, 2016

A true fool keeps on fighting, even when there is no more glory to be gained
Hey guys. I'm new to this whole series. In which order should I romance the kingdoms if I want to get the whole story?

Solar Tornado
Aug 9, 2016

A true fool keeps on fighting, even when there is no more glory to be gained

Kunster posted:

Years after it ran, I can see its appeal, but during its run it suffered somewhat from people selling it as "oh, you don't want your kid watching those japanese cartoons, do ya. Here's something you can show them if you want a regular kid" vibes.

Now it's only mentioned in context of the Digimon movie lol

Edit: I think even then Angela Anaconda was only ever talked about in the context of that movie, too

Solar Tornado fucked around with this message at 15:07 on May 4, 2021

Solar Tornado
Aug 9, 2016

A true fool keeps on fighting, even when there is no more glory to be gained

The Chad Jihad posted:

Free bit for any content creators: play this part then pause and cut to your face and say something like "Soooo, THAT happened...."


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbufNO_oGoE&t=646s

It's always weird to see the actual Nazis (funny I have to add "actual") in children's cartoons. It reminds me of that Veterans Day episode of "Hey Arnold," which was pretty good, I think

Solar Tornado
Aug 9, 2016

A true fool keeps on fighting, even when there is no more glory to be gained
Wanting to gently caress with checkmarked-people on twitter makes you morally justified. Wanting to gently caress with the dog vtuber makes you morally inept

Solar Tornado
Aug 9, 2016

A true fool keeps on fighting, even when there is no more glory to be gained

a cartoon duck posted:

the best gundam is the Big Zam

There exists a gundam piloted by a horse. So, that one

Solar Tornado
Aug 9, 2016

A true fool keeps on fighting, even when there is no more glory to be gained

Yardbomb posted:

...and when you get damaged your clothes start disintegrating, so it wasn't bad enough with the first part, had to make her this gross uwu noooo monsters don't explode my clothes off spankbait target as well.

Not specific to PE3, but you'd think as a gameplay mechanic it would be the other way around. The better you are at the game, the less clothes your character would have, and the more you get hit, the more clothes your character wears.

EDIT: wait, I think I'm describing Dark Souls

Solar Tornado fucked around with this message at 13:25 on May 16, 2021

Solar Tornado
Aug 9, 2016

A true fool keeps on fighting, even when there is no more glory to be gained
Lol I don't want to see the cool animation on screen, I want to read.

Solar Tornado
Aug 9, 2016

A true fool keeps on fighting, even when there is no more glory to be gained
I still believe that script was made up and not the real one. It feels too on the nose, and I refuse to believe someone looked at it and said "yeah, this is something a human would say"

Solar Tornado
Aug 9, 2016

A true fool keeps on fighting, even when there is no more glory to be gained

sexpig by night posted:

Shame about the rampant pedophilia and abuse that infested Nick at the time!

That rabbit hole is just bleak. Poor Amanda Bynes :(

Actually, poor any female child star

Solar Tornado
Aug 9, 2016

A true fool keeps on fighting, even when there is no more glory to be gained

Rockit posted:

Is potter fandom cursed or is just what happens when a lot of people like escapist media?

If it’s the former time I blame the story focuses on hierarchies. :p

Maybe Alan Rickman is hot enough to start cults :shrug:

Solar Tornado
Aug 9, 2016

A true fool keeps on fighting, even when there is no more glory to be gained

quote:

What's not to like? Everyone just goes with the flow of the system and enjoy an endless flow of cheap trinkets and gadgets to consume, an ever-increasing stream of free entertainment to fill every waking moment; movies and videogames and pornography and events. You can spend your Universal Basic Income on restaurants of all sorts and travel and thrilling "experiences" for pictures on social media. If somehow you still feel unfulfilled just consume a pile of self-help books that will teach you how to reach enlightenment by loving yourself more, manifesting your higher consciousness and finding the divine of your own self. If that doesn't help just smoke some weed, or seek something stronger from your doctor. You'll be content one way or another. Nobody will be around anymore to tell you about how you sin against God, to repent and humbly turn to Christ for forgiveness and salvation from the judgment that comes at the end of everyone's lives. That would be offensive, hurtful and harmful, and thus not allowed! You can say that Jesus loves you and wants you to live your best life, that's it! But... we're not there yet. The all-silencing Social Credit System is not yet here, and there's still time to sound the message of salvation.

:staredog:

How can you make a comic about a totalitarian-socialist-state where the nonbelievers of the state get punished, and then later write this??

Solar Tornado fucked around with this message at 11:49 on Jun 21, 2021

Solar Tornado
Aug 9, 2016

A true fool keeps on fighting, even when there is no more glory to be gained

Dapper_Swindler posted:

I think they are being sarcastic?

I don't understand which part of that paragraph you think is sarcastic? Did you read the comic and their ending thoughts?

of course the part about the "utopia" is sarcastic. I was trying to point out how trying to frame "living in a totalitarian-socialist state where all your needs are met so long as you don't talk poo poo" is bad and "living the Christian way" is good without mentioning how totalitarian Christians acted throughout history.
Maybe, as a Jew, the way some Christians talk about Christianity just rubs me the wrong way. "Nobody will be around anymore to tell you about how you sin against God, to repent and humbly turn to Christ for forgiveness and salvation from the judgment that comes at the end of everyone's lives"

Also, implying that UBI will be used for capricious things that are only done for social media is quite a take.

Solar Tornado
Aug 9, 2016

A true fool keeps on fighting, even when there is no more glory to be gained
I don't think the "she should've just said nothing" is entirely valid because she probably didn't expect it to cascade as far as it did. She probably thought that replying to her critique will be just another humdrum.

Solar Tornado
Aug 9, 2016

A true fool keeps on fighting, even when there is no more glory to be gained

MonsieurChoc posted:

Also Kill Six Billion Demons started on the MSPA forums.

Holy poo poo, I knew I didn't hallucinate that!

Prequel-Adventure also came out from the MSPA-forums, and that was... A thing.

Those forums churned out good and bad things, is what I'm saying

Solar Tornado
Aug 9, 2016

A true fool keeps on fighting, even when there is no more glory to be gained
Men fraternalising in nice and wholesome ways is called "broe-culture"

Solar Tornado
Aug 9, 2016

A true fool keeps on fighting, even when there is no more glory to be gained
Lmao at the people who don't like when SEW hams it up like that's not the selling point of SEW's videos. Like, why else are you watching?

Solar Tornado
Aug 9, 2016

A true fool keeps on fighting, even when there is no more glory to be gained

egg tats posted:

have we moved onto talking about how sew catastrophizing over a lovely, time consuming, potentially very expensive mistake is, like, mental illness stolen valor or something?

Only Endorph, currently

Solar Tornado
Aug 9, 2016

A true fool keeps on fighting, even when there is no more glory to be gained
Hazel waybacks her way to old games anime fansites she grew up with

https://youtu.be/DcTaI_Xq5yY

drat, this brings me back to the days I went on a Maple Story fan-forum throughout my school days

Solar Tornado
Aug 9, 2016

A true fool keeps on fighting, even when there is no more glory to be gained

Ok, does anyone else remember a cartoon where a bunch of high school football players become the Knights of the round table?

Solar Tornado
Aug 9, 2016

A true fool keeps on fighting, even when there is no more glory to be gained

I know this is so cliche to repeat but drat, are all cartoons in the 90s made to sell toys?

Solar Tornado
Aug 9, 2016

A true fool keeps on fighting, even when there is no more glory to be gained
My first exposure to Serious Sam was when I , as a kid, saw another kid play it at some random family gathering. For the longest time I thought it was some expansion for Unreal Tournament (because all FPS's were the same, see).

Giant lava monsters and Egyptian landscapes haunted my dreams for a good while after that

Solar Tornado
Aug 9, 2016

A true fool keeps on fighting, even when there is no more glory to be gained
Pong - the first souls-like

Solar Tornado
Aug 9, 2016

A true fool keeps on fighting, even when there is no more glory to be gained
TRO is alright if you love drama-related content, and he goes well in-depth about it. He shows the history of some person, the criticism on said person, and his own opinion about it.

I think there isn't much to talk about him specifically, though, because as someone who reviews drama he stays well away from it.

Solar Tornado
Aug 9, 2016

A true fool keeps on fighting, even when there is no more glory to be gained

Zetsubou-san posted:

anyway shodan is the real space waifu

Genocidal space mommy sorry space mommy sorry space mommy sorry

Solar Tornado
Aug 9, 2016

A true fool keeps on fighting, even when there is no more glory to be gained
He is a paragon for people who only think being offensive is funny and don't think about the ramifications of their actions.
These people are still in denial that the Internet has actual effect on the real world, like it's still 2003

Solar Tornado
Aug 9, 2016

A true fool keeps on fighting, even when there is no more glory to be gained
Everyone knows the best vtuber is Jerma

Solar Tornado
Aug 9, 2016

A true fool keeps on fighting, even when there is no more glory to be gained

Nuns with Guns posted:

Mother's Basement dropped a video on the waking nightmare that is the live action Netflix Cowboy Bebop:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gNCvrcztbQ




Watching this, I felt the need to say "if you want a live-action show about a found-family in Western-space, why not renew Firefly?" And felt old, cursed mechanisms moving again

Solar Tornado
Aug 9, 2016

A true fool keeps on fighting, even when there is no more glory to be gained

Bug Squash posted:

Honestly this thread is pretty guilty of amplifying toxicity and harassing people. Locking it would be a positive move.

It's kinda funny seeing the Lindsay Ellis discussion come up right after the Tom Scott discussion like it's two separate things.

Solar Tornado
Aug 9, 2016

A true fool keeps on fighting, even when there is no more glory to be gained

Rockit posted:

Some people have been a bit too bad faith about but for the most part even Ellis seems to agree with us on this: https://twitter.com/thelindsayellis/status/1475560170713333762

Have I jabroni'd myself...?

Solar Tornado
Aug 9, 2016

A true fool keeps on fighting, even when there is no more glory to be gained
NakeyJakey wakes up from his yearly slumber to talk about speedrunning

https://youtu.be/UDmtJIwSiIc

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Solar Tornado
Aug 9, 2016

A true fool keeps on fighting, even when there is no more glory to be gained

Danaru posted:

Still lollin' remembering when Trump threw a tantrum on twitter saying Trudeau forced the CBC to remove his scene in home alone 2, when in actuality that scene has been cut for time on every TV showing since its release :hmbol: god I wish Trudeau was even half as cool as right wing people say he is

Remembering the Fakeys award he did still makes me :hmbol:

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