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I think RagnarRox should get some more love tbh. He does a variety of games related videos, from game design to highlighting individual monsters in horror games. He has an accent that I am consistently flummoxed by even though I know where he's from. Some stand outs:
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Oct 20, 2020 08:08
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I'm getting some Disco Elysium vibes from that druids game and that scares me.
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Oct 30, 2020 19:40
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The thing that killed TF2 for me was the decline of the dedicated server. I used to play on two really good, friendly servers with a cast of regulars that were both really good at the game and really fun to play with. The admins were also online very often and would kick assholes from the server. It was a great experience that Valve sabotaged and I haven't played the game since…
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Dec 31, 2020 22:45
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Errant Signal covers Descent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlXQIDFtElM I remember playing this a whole lot on either Amiga or DOS. I have always been unbelievably bad at it. Now I get motion sickness from the game. 
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Jan 6, 2021 19:05
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Alaois posted:would AquaNox count as a Descent-like, being a 6-degree FPS but underwater instead of in space Schleichfahrt and Aquanox primarily count as loving AWESOME. I think I'd want a 3d maze like map for a Descent-like though. Aquanox is more a "what if space game, but submarines".
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Jan 7, 2021 16:53
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Aquanox is like Gothic. It's much, much better in German. The Aquanox intro video sounds like a Nature documentary in English, but in German you can hear the utter disdain in the protagonist's voice when he describes the setting. He's just so sick of this poo poo.
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Jan 7, 2021 23:51
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I still rewatch the VCR Golf episode from time to time. Luckily it made it off blip. 
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Jan 16, 2021 20:15
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The Shadowrun CRPGs, by the way, are good games. Especially Dragonfall and Hong Kong.
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Jan 20, 2021 00:15
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Bakeneko posted:This shouldn’t have come as a surprise after he raped Santa, honestly. Great, now I have the "let the ultimate warrior squirt all over your children" from the Ultimate Warrior bath squirt head thing in my head. It has been what, a decade at this point?
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Feb 5, 2021 15:08
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Also, his FMV game videos were comedy gold. And I don't just mean the FMV Golf games or the Birding one.
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Feb 9, 2021 16:29
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Pretty much everyone from that era of reacting to movies lists MST3K as their inspiration. That's throwing stones in a glass neighbourhood…
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Feb 9, 2021 16:49
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I interact with youtube effectively only via gPodder and my favourite media player so I don't see thumbnails or visit the site anyway. A good title is really all I need. Everyone I follow tends to be pretty good about titles.
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Feb 15, 2021 14:53
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I appreciate him going Full Method when he does. See also:  Oh no, what a snipe
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Feb 15, 2021 22:56
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Pretty much everyone in the (movie) reviewer scene wants to do their own writing eventually, it's kind of inevitable. I do prefer it when those skits are actually in service of the video though. Like, Philosophy Tube features a lot of skits but they are usually very topical and directly connected to the thrust of the video. I didn't know about Patrick Willems before so the skits are just confusing. When the skits develop lore, they become too much. I do like the more calm and collected internet creator people though.
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Feb 18, 2021 00:09
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Oh hey, our favourite badly lit Todd released a new video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXGq8UbktDM It's always fascinating since Todd is my only window into pop music, super market music excepted.
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Feb 22, 2021 21:30
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JordanKai posted:Let's face it: The Ring is ruined. If that were the case you wouldn't see so many people complain about the lack of ring on this site. 
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Mar 6, 2021 17:34
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Yardbomb posted:I thank god almighty that a dev confirmed that the full voice acting will have a toggle for on/off also, because jesus christ, I don't hate any voice acting period, but I prefer to read most dialogue in an RPG, even more so one with a ten billion quadrillion word script like Disco Elysium, I feel like I'd go insane if everything was voiced while I was also trying to preferentially read it without just hitting my keyboard mute, especially even one more word from Cuno. The only thing I really want from the new update is the extra side cases that are apparently coming with it too. I'm struggling through this in PoE2 right now. I start reading, then a few words in the VA cuts in and it completely scrambles my flow and I have to start over. I'm many hours in and it still happens. It's disruptive and unpleasant. And I want to introduce some of the voice actors to the invention of the de-esser. Jesus Christ. It's not as bad as Grieving Mother's VA, but still…
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Mar 7, 2021 21:42
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Mandalore on Tyranny.  One of the best CRPGs ever made.
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Mar 19, 2021 18:40
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MiddleOne posted:Quoting the Tyranny wiki:  
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Mar 20, 2021 08:47
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Ceterum censeo Twitterinem delendam esse.
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Mar 30, 2021 08:18
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That's extremely Twitter, yes. And now for something completely different: Dslyecxi, who usually just uploads videos of himself playing Arma, has begun making commentary and reviews of Arma operations. Specifically, things going horribly wrong during those ops. I won't ever play with such a group, but I find them fascinating. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xicZ-Gs89Ps
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Mar 30, 2021 12:42
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No.1 Special posted:Errant Signal - Gaming In The Quarantine Years The mention of slack notifications going off after work and gaming in the same room as working started a series of "what are you doing nooooo" for me.
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Mar 30, 2021 23:03
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Mokinokaro posted:Dan Olsen's fulfilled his Patreon goal of commenting on the failure of Doug's The Wall video.  
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Apr 13, 2021 19:11
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HMS Beagle posted:Once you finish the Dan video watch this. 2:21:31 Mein Gott. 
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Apr 13, 2021 19:22
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Impermanent posted:but what's the alternative? I'd just like to highlight Three Moves Ahead here because it ties into reviewers and being bad at games as well. It's a strategy game podcast by a number of people: Troy Goodfellow, Rob Zachny, Jon Bolding, Rowan Kaiser, and a number of people I forget. It's niche but really well made. And one recurring theme in the podcast is what a game is actually saying with its mechanics. In the episode on Dawn of Man they discuss how strange it is that the game completely leaves out the massive societal changes that came with the change from nomadic to settled. The period massively drove specialisation and stratification of society, but none of it is reflected in the game's mechanics. In other words, people in Dawn of Man don't live in a society. That observation made me look at some other strategy games and I realised how weird it is that a game like Surviving Mars barely acknowledges society existing either. I don't think you can start that kind of discussion withougt having a good grasp of the mechanics of a game. I consider it an important to engage with games not just on the textual level but subtext as well, and the mechanics are often the subtext of games. Like the Ur-example of Sim City demonstrates, the foundations of a game's mechanics are often deeply rooted in how someone sees the world, and that in turn influences what a game actually says. And also, Rowan Kaiser was correct regarding Stellaris.
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Apr 14, 2021 22:32
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The Chad Jihad posted:It's real hard to showcase that in a screenshot though vs "here's a joke I thought was funny" If I ever manage to to successfully convey the emotions of informing a woman her husband died through my posting I will have transcended posting. Like, gently caress me, the story goes from funny hijinks in a cursed commercial building to that. No matter how much of a disaster someone is playing, I'm willing to bet they are going to sober up for that one.
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May 7, 2021 12:48
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He was way too kind to the writing in that game. It's just…bad. Comically inept, cliched. I have no idea why the game has so much text in dialogue. It's no Planescape Torment, that's for sure. And the encounter design… I've played with rear end in a top hat GMs before, and that was exactly how this game felt. Old Sycamore Depths and its deluge of weak encounters that do permanent stat damage was so much fun without a cleric because the only cleric at that point decides to go with the Obviously Evil Designated Villain instead, because he's so trustworthy. Just the freshest of D&D tropes. I was not a fan.
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May 21, 2021 19:15
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Impermanent posted:boxxy? Jesus christ. 
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May 24, 2021 22:25
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Hbomb will never top this: Change my mind.
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May 26, 2021 23:25
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Jimbot posted:I'm always on that quest to find a spiritual successor to Gothic where you start at the bottom of the barrel where acting like a jackass and action hero gets you whooped then slowly become a walking demi-god but some games just take it too far and replaces the "and then you become an engine of destruction, a supreme being that's unkillable" end-game with "eh, you went from scum to peon, you're still trash". I liked Elex. It's very Gothic. I wonder what Piranha Bytes are making right now.
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May 31, 2021 23:11
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Bakeneko posted:A channel I’ve been binging recently is Josh Strife Hayes. He talks about MMOs, in particular roasting a bunch of terrible ones in his “Worst MMO Ever” series, which is exactly the sort of content I crave on Youtube. I scrolled through his channel and saw a video on Rizom. Hadn't heard that name in a long while. There's a really fascinating history with that project: It was a commercial flop but the community of the game really likes its roleplay and cooperative crafting, all assets and code were released after liquidation of the company, a few people got that mess into a state so it can run again and are hosting it ever since. I just checked and there are three people regularly committing code and none of them seem to be full time developers. There's some really interesting history here, it's basically a time capsule of a dead mmo from over 15 years ago. Had to turn the video off. He comes of as a huge prick talking repeatedly of hypothetical fans of the game screeching as he, rational objective man, explains things that the people still working on the game do not disagree with. Last time I looked the remaining players were downright apologetic about the poor onboarding, and here's this poo poo heel arguing with his straw man fans.
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Jun 3, 2021 16:06
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thetoughestbean posted:The Stanley Parable’s major point being the player ultimately only having the illusion of agency in games because just left me going “yeah, and?” Like, yeah, games are constructed and almost all actions you can take in them, especially in their narratives, are accounted for by the creator. Pointing that out doesn’t feel deep or meaningful, and kind of misses why choices in games can feel meaningful I think that's an incomplete read on The Stanley Parable. It is a game about a storyteller trying to tell a story despite a player using their powers to "evade" all that story content. That is obscured by the fact that the player doesn't control the storyteller, but as someone who has done a lot of DM-ing the game speaks to me. I've been that storyteller. Also, The Stanley Parable gave use the Raphael Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ-IcS7mRSk, which is extremely Art. I love how the voice actor reads the "very emotional" bit
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Jun 7, 2021 23:11
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Tim Traveller visits the disputed Franco-Belgian border: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ddlv47t1tQ I enjoyed that video quite a lot.
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Jun 8, 2021 18:09
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There's a very lengthy r/HobbyDrama post about the Snape cult, and it's… …well… "I HAVE HAD IT WITH THESE MOTHERFUCKING SNAPES ON THIS MOTHERFUCKING ASTRAL PLANE" 
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Jun 20, 2021 12:18
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Jimquisition just exhausts me to be honest. I get that the games industry is garbage with horrific working conditions. I get that high budget games are trying every trick in the book to nickel and dime players. I get all that. I don't play those games. I am actually having fun with games. I have so many of them, and so many good ones. I want to hear about more good games, or about something interesting about them. I hate Jacob Geller's beard with the force of a thousand suns, but he makes videos about interesting things in games, and I'm going to watch every single one of them. A video about the city in Disco Elysium vs. another video about how Ubisoft sucks is an easy choice. I already know Ubisoft sucks since they scammed me with Silent Hunter 3. I think they should just use their subscriber count to highlight some good stuff. Those demos Steam has going right now are great. Did you know the new Carrier Command of the resurrected Microprose is publishing seems to actually be good? Make a video on all the weird cool poo poo going on, spend less time on the "AAA".
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Jun 21, 2021 22:27
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Do Museums count as online creators? The Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg has been expanding their Youtube channel and while their videos are in German, English subtitles are decent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzWIB8fOEg4 I am extremely jealous of the amount of toys they have access to. And I don't mean just the models but their manufacturing abilities…
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Jun 25, 2021 09:10
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Alacron posted:The more I learn, the more I respect the hell out of localization work. Like, I always imagine a translator looking at a pun that actually gets drawn out visually on screen/panel and going "gently caress HOW DO I MAKE THIS WORK IN ENGLISH" This is why Erika Fuchs is a German national hero by the way. The work she did translating Carl Barks left a lasting legacy changing the character of the comics in German translations in addition to leaving her mark on the language itself. Erika Fuchs' Donald Duck often makes literary allusions that don't exist in the original works and it's one reason why in Germany, Donald Duck is far, far more popular than Mickey Mouse is.
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Jul 4, 2021 19:36
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A comic review show without the superhero malarkey would be pretty cool tbh. I sometimes stumble across some French ones, but my French is just not good enough to follow them.
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Jul 12, 2021 14:51
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Jordan7hm posted:Guy from India who I like quite a bit.  Let's see what wrong things earl grey has to say about Sky Doll.e: oh look a German. That accent…
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Jul 12, 2021 20:06
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His space jam video is amazing because it's such a weird movie and you can have a lot of fun with it. His workstation video isn't amazing because I've seen a dozen variations of the theme play out in my tickets at work and nobody has ever had their inner furry awaken by wasting money in a b2b setting. That's more the realm ob b2c.
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Jul 23, 2021 23:07
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