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Hell yeah! Welcome back, CJacobs!
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Shoot off Visari's limbs.
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Oct 26, 2022 03:39
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CJacobs posted:If he can't come to me, I'm a-gonna go to him. That Mississippi River, Lord? I'm gonna swim. "Tucker"? They sound like folks out of Red vs Blue. Also, Praise Altman and gently caress Musk.
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Oct 26, 2022 07:31
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painedforever posted:"Tucker"? I love that in the several months since we recorded that episode, Elon Musk has somehow found a way to be an ever bigger assrocket than he was at the time I made all those jokes about him.
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Oct 26, 2022 08:47
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"The worst action figure and hes unboxing himself" is a top-tier joke, and I appreciate it.
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Oct 26, 2022 09:25
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i am pleased to see altman jr again, the lil scamp i am very very happy to see cjacobs again!
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Oct 27, 2022 16:08
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What could be more appropriate than paying $5 to be told you aren't adequate and then paying even more for the chance to be slightly more adequate.
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Oct 27, 2022 19:59
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DreadUnknown posted:"The worst action figure and hes unboxing himself" is a top-tier joke, and I appreciate it.  i have my moments haha
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Nov 16, 2022 15:26
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 "I never wanted to hurt anybody." - Tucker Edwards, man who hurt everyone he knew and then some. Welcome to the Conning Tower! There were a few text logs that went unseen in the video: The former by Commander Dietz herself paints a portrait of someone stern who is handling a ship already sinking before there are any holes in it, and tells a familiar story to anyone who knows about the Marker's magic. The latter by Edwards, well... details the toll it takes when you do what he did to avoid complying with Scenario Five.   And, a snippet of the usual behind the scenes disasterpiece documentation which was originally for the folks on Patreon: Between Episode 5 and the creation and recording of this one, my operating system hard drive failed! This meant I lost all of my editing presets including project files, microphone and audio customization, transitions and video effects, you name it. It was basically the worst thing I could have lost aside from the footage itself. BUT the good news is, all my documentation and using these effects all over the place during the LP helped get things back in working order MUCH more quickly! I feel like Isaac himself running around patching up holes in the Ishimura sometimes. As an example of the effort which goes into each video effect that appears on screen, no matter how minor, here is a crappy placeholder overlay I made for the version we commentated over after the drive failure:  And here is the progression toward the finished version which appears in the episode:  I love this one personally but it's way too bright for Dead Space   And for your curiosity, the nicely nicely organized Photoshop layers for said overlay!  Basically every "mechanical part" on the overlay has its own group, with a highlight and emboss to give it depth or a three dimensional appearance. The idea is to mimic the game's interface stylistically and use personalized creativity to keep them visually separate. From there it's just a matter of adding texture and color, cutting the shapes to fit, and saving the layers separately to animate them! Though it only takes a few sentences to describe the process, in reality hours of love pass by while making each of these fun, intricate designs! Please feel free to really soak 'em in whenever you spot one. Not just mine but Visceral's too! CJacobs fucked around with this message at 03:14 on Nov 18, 2022 |
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Nov 18, 2022 00:56
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Excited for this one to drop... one because it was a lot of fun to do, of course, but more so we can all revel in the LP curse and failed HDDs!
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Nov 18, 2022 01:15
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And now you shall know the wisdom of backups, and then you shall discover the joy of trying to recover from untested backups. Also, drat, you put a lot of work into your video editing craft.
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Nov 18, 2022 02:10
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I mean, it feels dickish when you're playing it, but I do like the set-up of the Conning Tower. It's a change from the usual "walk-through-corridors-attacked-by-necromorphs" thing of Dead Space. But frankly, Tucker doesn't sound like he's smart enough to program the computer into doing his bidding and building traps...
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Nov 18, 2022 11:01
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painedforever posted:I mean, it feels dickish when you're playing it, but I do like the set-up of the Conning Tower. It's a change from the usual "walk-through-corridors-attacked-by-necromorphs" thing of Dead Space. It's quite interesting to contrast Tucker's characterization, by both others and himself, as this lazy, selfish, stupid prick during the "heyday" of the SCAF expedition to Tau Volantis, vs. how he acts during and after Scenario 5 when the poo poo hits and fan and he goes into raw survival mode. He was actually quite clever and motivated when his own rear end was on the line, and yet still overwhelmingly selfish, that part stays consistent pre- and post-massacre. It is also kind of ironic and very fitting that the guy nobody liked or who never really fit in with anyone else, even from the moment the Terra Nova deshocked into orbit above Tau Volantis, winds up being the guy who ends up all alone and isolated with everyone in his life dead around him and no means to escape the hell he helped build for himself both intentionally and inadvertently but a bullet, a bullet that it turns out had his name on it for a long time...
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Nov 18, 2022 18:21
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altman be hardnfard
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Nov 19, 2022 19:09
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nine-gear crow posted:It's quite interesting to contrast Tucker's characterization, by both others and himself, as this lazy, selfish, stupid prick during the "heyday" of the SCAF expedition to Tau Volantis, vs. how he acts during and after Scenario 5 when the poo poo hits and fan and he goes into raw survival mode. He was actually quite clever and motivated when his own rear end was on the line, and yet still overwhelmingly selfish, that part stays consistent pre- and post-massacre. Almost like his entire life there was a void looking to be filled...some sort of dead space.
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Nov 19, 2022 22:30
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biosterous posted:altman be hardnfard
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Nov 20, 2022 20:37
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MA-Horus posted:Almost like his entire life there was a void looking to be filled...some sort of dead space. between Tucker, Isaac, and Carver, it's not just Dead Space singular... but Dead Space 3
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Nov 20, 2022 20:38
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Sally posted:between Tucker, Isaac, and Carver, it's not just Dead Space singular... but Wait wait wait. Tucker is Dead, that makes sense. Isaac is... Space because... Arthur C. Clarke wrote Rama and 2001...? And Carver is 3...? Is that a reference to The Prisoner?
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Nov 21, 2022 07:05
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biosterous posted:altman be hardnfard
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Nov 21, 2022 07:12
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Nov 21, 2022 08:40
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BOTH COUNTRY SONGS ARE MISSPELLED
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Nov 21, 2022 08:40
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i see nothing wrong with Hard n'Fard
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Nov 21, 2022 08:49
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I was made the hers She was made the mine Like corn, bread, and butter
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Nov 21, 2022 09:00
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make whole the us altman n'praised
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Nov 21, 2022 09:01
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A handy link to The Extreme Music Library.
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Nov 21, 2022 09:05
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painedforever posted:Wait wait wait. Tucker is Dead. Carver is a Space marine. And Isaac is the 3rd person in relationship between Ellie and Norton.
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Nov 21, 2022 21:02
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nine-gear crow posted:Tucker is Dead. Carver is a Space marine. And Isaac is the 3rd person in relationship between Ellie and Norton. Oh blargh.  Sally posted:altman n'praised Hey! You keep that fatted calf nonsense out of this holy place. Altman Be Praised. Get it right.
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Nov 22, 2022 04:45
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Altman be Ballin'
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Nov 30, 2022 09:36
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Dead Space will return shortly, but first... Callisto was seriously amazing. The gameplay was so uniquely designed and interesting, the story hard a thumping heartbeat, and the graphics and sound gave it untold atmosphere for a world that quite literally hasn't been represented before. Without borrowing from a playbook of tropes besides the creators' own, Callisto Protocol grew into something really cool. As a brand new way to represent our galaxy, a new IP I guess, it blossomed from a little seed into a really personal-feeling gribbly flower by the end.  I stood atop Visceral's visual motif and it made me smile so much. Talk about Callisto in here if you've played it, why not! There doesn't seem to be a thread in Games about it so we can make this be our own temporary Glen Schofield Zone. I've streamed the opening hours if you would like to see them from the perspective of someone who had already beaten and loved it. CJacobs fucked around with this message at 09:32 on Dec 5, 2022 |
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Dec 5, 2022 08:42
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I'm super interested in the whole callisto protocol thing. No way do I afford the hardware or time to play it anytime soon, so a goon let's play would be the next best thing. Maybe a project for when this wraps up?
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Dec 6, 2022 09:02
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CJacobs posted:Callisto was seriously amazing. I read a review in which the reviewer said that while it looks gorgeous, the gameplay is confused (it wants you to use melee, but gives you too many guns), and there are too many enemies later on so it loses the tension of a horror game, and just becomes an action game.
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Dec 6, 2022 11:00
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Lol so it's just like dead space in that regards where you turn into the god-avatar of STOMP against waves of necros
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Dec 6, 2022 18:27
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painedforever posted:I read a review in which the reviewer said that while it looks gorgeous, the gameplay is confused (it wants you to use melee, but gives you too many guns), and there are too many enemies later on so it loses the tension of a horror game, and just becomes an action game. Quoting myself from the PYF Little Things thread where I gushed about its possibilities for quite a while- it doesn't even pretend to be a horror game, not for a moment, don't worry. It's an action/thriller. CJacobs posted:I backtracked a couple times to a previous store so I'm not sure what that complaint is about, usually you can't return to previous rooms in the middle of a chapter because An Elevator Shaft collapsed when you got on it or something. Seems pretty standard for gaming to me. CJacobs posted:For example, play Callisto like Resident Evil 4 exactly and it still works. Shoot enemies in the knees until they hobble and then run straight up to the bastard and suplex his rear end. Got an enemy with ranged projectiles? Pick one up out of the air and throw it back at him or just pick the bastard up and draw him to you so you can beat on him. The possibilities are just all over the game waiting for you to think of them. If you'd like to see all that in motion I'm streaming it right now! CJacobs fucked around with this message at 01:13 on Dec 7, 2022 |
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Dec 7, 2022 00:57
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You are the first person I’ve seen viewing the game positively. I find it frustrating and vapid and I’m *trying* to like it.
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Dec 7, 2022 02:29
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very good stream
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Dec 7, 2022 05:33
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Maximilian rage quitted and uninstalled the game on live stream. Though that probably says more about streamer mentality than the game itself. Still it was funny.
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Dec 7, 2022 19:40
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WaltherFeng posted:Maximilian rage quitted and uninstalled the game on live stream. Though that probably says more about streamer mentality than the game itself. Still it was funny. This is why I stream and LP still, in a nutshell. Someone needs to give games like this a fair chance, and audiences deserve somebody to watch that isn't being a manbaby. I checked out the stream and was sad to see that he simply wasn't using the systems, at all, and then just quit. If we, here, stop, then jerks like that will eventually be all that's left. It's worth it to continue to deeply examine fresh art even if it's a video game instead of a painting on the wall, to keep the spirit of fair analysis of media like this alive. SettingSun posted:You are the first person I’ve seen viewing the game positively. I find it frustrating and vapid and I’m *trying* to like it. You deserve big points for genuinely trying to like it though, regardless. Just giving the game a chance to prove itself in general. That's kinda why I'm being so relentlessly positive about it. More players should approach video games with an attitude like that in my opinion, the idea that it might not be immediately appealing and that's ok. Callisto sure wasn't to me, I almost quit after the opening act's gorefest, but it grew on me so very fast after that. I feel there are so many others who could have that experience, not just with Callisto but... anything. I attempted to eat spinach as an adult and it tastes like a wet dish rag and I dunno why anyone likes it, but there are so many wonderful dishes to be made with it that it was worth seeing if I liked spinach! CJacobs fucked around with this message at 20:56 on Dec 7, 2022 |
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Dec 7, 2022 19:46
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CJacobs posted:it grew on me so very fast oh poo poo the corruption got on cj
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Dec 8, 2022 00:46
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wtf you don't like spinach?
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i'm literally shovelling fistfuls into my mouth rn (Amaranthaceae be praised)
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