PYF Legends: Sam, it's me, Bare Assman.

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The Kins: Oct 2, 2004

ArfJason posted:

I dont exactly know how to describe the feeling of realizing this guy playing The Bouncer while stationed in fallujah under direct orders of big boss basically made me forget ebtirely about the yospos sex freak photographer who actually makes fairly loving chill electronic music, and how that was just 2 days ago.

we're only five days into meltdown march, what does the rest of this month have in store for us

# ¿ Mar 5, 2024 03:41

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# ¿ May 11, 2024 10:42

The Kins: Oct 2, 2004

Beware all ye who dare post... contrary positions. *cocks shotgun*

# ¿ Mar 5, 2024 10:39

The Kins: Oct 2, 2004

Didn't someone post a quote from that Discord of him in full internet-tough-guy mode announcing they'd be kicking out anyone who hadn't posted in a month as an anti-narc measure? This is probably that.

Anyway, the STALKER games are on console now if you want to get slaughtered by bandits, radioactive anomalies or programming glitches out in a Ukrainian forest from the comfort of your sofa.

# ¿ Mar 7, 2024 03:36

The Kins: Oct 2, 2004

had this sitting on my bedside table for a while now. no time like the present, i guess

# ¿ Mar 8, 2024 05:34

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16-bit Butt-Head posted:

lol every other mangaka: my job is hell... i work all week i never get to see my family

toriyama: lol just do it on the last day and turn it in at the last possible minute dude

The best cartoonists all have the work ethic of your average college student.

Kagaya Homoraisan posted:

yeah lol this just wordlessly happened the other day so the most cope game journalists of all time are saying its a sign a new one is coming (which i dont believe but i would love if true lol)

I'd say it's unlikely because Jim the EA producer who made the HD version of the first games happen (and pushed to get the C&C stuff included in this drop of old EA games on Steam) is involved with a Star Wars strategy game at the moment.

# ¿ Mar 9, 2024 03:24

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Cranappleberry posted:

idk if it changed because EA but tiberian sun+expansion, at least, was already free as late as last year because they fell under defunct IP. Not against copyright law to DL either.

also with RA2 and maybe some of the others, you have to finagle quite a bit to get them working on windows 10 and 11

The old freeware releases (which were actively done by EA as promotional events, it wasn't some legal thing) are still available through CnCNet, who run a new multiplayer server for all the games. EA are fully aware of them (they're mentioned in a credits textfile in the new Steam release) and seem perfectly happy to keep letting them do what they do.

From giving Red Alert 2 a quick spin, the Steam releases have some compatibility stuff thrown on so you can play single player out of the box, but the multiplayer still seems unpatched so you'll still need CnCNet to play online.

# ¿ Mar 9, 2024 08:19

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Plant MONSTER. posted:

Remember for the first star wars game on n64, the button presses for the cheat code to unlock everything was so convoluted you had to.hit like every button amd use your chin to operate the control stick

quote:

Start a game on the Medium difficulty setting, using "_Wampa__Stompa" as your entry name (note that there is one space before Wampa and two spaces before Stompa).

After that, begin the game on any level and pause the game. Now, hold C-Up + C-Right + C-Down + C-Left + L + R + Z + D-Pad Left. While holding all those buttons, move the Control Stick halfway to the left, and hold until you hear a sound effect, then move the Control Stick halfway to the right until you hear the sound effect again. Repeat this, holding the control stick halfway to the left, then the right, and finally the left again. If done correctly, you should see some purple text appear at the top of the screen with some info below it

# ¿ Mar 11, 2024 15:30

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Snow Cone Capone posted:

I thought it was pretty cool that they successfully hid the Naboo Fighter in the first Rogue Squadron game 6 months before Ep1 came out, and because datamining games wasn't a thing back then nobody found the code until Lucasarts revealed it after the movie was released

iirc there actually were crazy people datamining with gamesharks back then, so they took a lot of measures to keep it hidden, like scrambling the data and the cheat passwords, and not even telling some of the development team about it (and most of the people who did know weren't told the final passwords!)

# ¿ Mar 11, 2024 16:14

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Plant MONSTER. posted:

All my contact with the Star Wars franchise is entirely contained within the N64 games and I think this is probably the way to experience it correctly

i mean, there are worse ways

# ¿ Mar 11, 2024 16:15

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Feels Villeneuve posted:

I don't even think most of those devs from that game are left

They aren't. Everyone was fired except the founders, then the studio was sold to... Sumo Digital, I think, then the founders left. The only thing left is the name.

Just another piece of the utterly bewildering story of Bloodlines 2.

# ¿ Mar 11, 2024 17:00

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Half of Dracula posted:

You have to scramble the tilesets for a few important dungeons as a sacrifice of sorts to invoke powerful Gameplay innovations

the us version of lufia 2 is such a cursed artifact.

# ¿ Mar 12, 2024 10:13

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Bicyclops posted:

This reminds me that Will Wright is still trying to hype up whatever this is and I feel like his communication team doesn't know what it is besides the weird napkin sketches that have been on the website for six years, lol

will wright is completely done with videogames as a general concept and just wants to sit in a corner, burn millions of dollars on robots to prank people on the street with, and read books about the history of the soviet cosmonaut program.

Snow Cone Capone posted:

I knew things at maxis were getting wonky when they made that combat racing game

was fun to load in your sc2/3k cities though

a friend of mine is writing a book on the history of maxis and man, you don't know the half of it

you know a company is going through it when getting bought by ea and having them run riot on everything was the best possible outcome

Endorph posted:

every couple of months some clip of some twitch streamer who only plays cod and apex talking about games not being fun anymore shows up on my twitter feed, and its like dude you made your job playing poo poo games, go play xenoblade 3 or something

one guy i watch decided to proactively combat "playing games isn't fun anymore because i made it my job" by only streaming one specific genre. so only one genre is his job and he has tons of other games to play in his spare time to relax and enjoy. which, i mean, it seems to work for him?

Endorph posted:

oblivion also hits a sweet spot where its jank and weirdness becomes charming and memorable. skyrim has a lot of jank but it feels less interesting

i saw a lot of oblivion nostalgia on my social media timelines around the time starfield came out. very odd to see the internet's group consensus on a game suddenly screech from "ugly buggy piece of poo poo" to "i miss her bros" with all the gradient transition of a drunk teen wrapping a sedan around a power pole.

# ¿ Mar 15, 2024 06:56

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NoiseAnnoys posted:

sim... refinery?

NoiseAnnoys posted:

lol wait, this was a real loving thing? lmao.

simrefinery. a prototype training tool commissioned by chevron.

# ¿ Mar 15, 2024 16:03

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Snow Cone Capone posted:

when I was a kid the school computers had SimTown and SimFarm but I was always obsessed with SimTower

that one was made by a studio in japan (by the future creator of seaman, no less) and there were some sequels here and there.

# ¿ Mar 15, 2024 16:21

The Kins: Oct 2, 2004

tfw your greyhound comes last and you realize you can't afford your daughter's chemo anymore

# ¿ Mar 16, 2024 17:20

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Alaois posted:

the persona 2 duology is so cool, the current atlus devs would never have the balls to put themselves in the game the way the dudes back then did even though one of em is still there

iirc back in the day, kaneko didn't do concept art. he drew the sprites directly into the computer off the top of his head without any planning, then did the drawn version later for the strategy guides. absolute king poo poo.

# ¿ Mar 18, 2024 10:47

The Kins: Oct 2, 2004

switching gimmicks from gently caress My Wife to hosed Wife like a martial artist switching stances to catch an opponent off-guard

# ¿ Mar 20, 2024 16:41

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The Kins posted:

switching gimmicks from gently caress My Wife to hosed Wife like a martial artist switching stances to catch an opponent off-guard

realizing i should have said "marital arts" instead, staring blankly at the ceiling at 4am

# ¿ Mar 20, 2024 16:57

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Kagaya Homoraisan posted:

yeah the battlefront size ballooning is from what ive heard they did ai upscales of all the textures that dont look any better but are way bigger lol.

apparently they aren't ai upscales. or upscales at all. they just resized the textures in photoshop to 2048x2048. nobody's quite sure why. malicious fulfillment of a contractual obligation for "higher res textures"?

iirc there's also a bunch of garbage data and empty nonsense padding out the archives for some reason. i don't have the modding knowhow or tools to look deeper for myself but they're generally all like ~10x the size of the original game's?

Cranappleberry posted:

if you look at the game discs/isos of ps2 era going forward, you'll see most seem pretty full, using up almost all data on the disc. Wow they sure must have packed a lot in but then if you rip and extract the game data, it's way smaller.

it was common practice on disc-based systems (especially ps3 with its real slow blu-ray drive) to pack in a bunch of dummy data to push the game data to the physical edge of the disc so it could load faster.

most of the time it was just garbage, but other times for some reason they used things like source code or the south park pilot or whatever

# ¿ Mar 21, 2024 10:57

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Plant MONSTER. posted:

was worms butthole guy called worms butthole guy because of his avatar or something or did he always have pinworm. Or aws that just his name

copypasting from an old sagas thread:

The Kins posted:

Was once originally Methodis, who was so angry about Harmonix closing the Frequency forum he was a moderator on that he was ultimately banned from ever posting about Rock Band, Harmonix etc. entirely across the entire forum. The first forumban? (He also apparently only started posting here after getting the entire subject of Rock Band banned from NeoGAF...)

Went on to be such a historically bad poster across multiple usernames (Empress Brosephine, Fixins... were there any others?) that Imp Zone rebranded him in honor of Wormskull's plumbers-crack.

# ¿ Mar 22, 2024 06:14

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Coolguye posted:

Lmao wait didn�t imp zone have another guy who melted down over tails�s butthole

If you mean Fixins, the guy with Tails� hinders in his avatar: Same guy.

# ¿ Mar 22, 2024 09:03

The Kins: Oct 2, 2004

Never let the truth get in the way of a good story. :colbert:

# ¿ Mar 23, 2024 15:19

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Plant MONSTER. posted:

Capcom is making me go into crowded places to shout slurs just so I can fast travel??

working an extra shift at the slur factory so i can afford the cosmetic surgery dlc before we all get laid off and replaced with robots that use ai technology to combine syllables millions of times a second, inventing slurs with a greater speed or power than even the baldest of australians

# ¿ Mar 23, 2024 15:36

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Cranappleberry posted:

I hear that capcom is making people run around like jason statham, doing crazy stunts and electrocuting themselves to alter their toon's appearance

# ¿ Mar 23, 2024 16:35

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Deus Ex: Forum Divided

# ¿ Mar 23, 2024 18:15

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16-bit Butt-Head posted:

why does this keep happening lol whats going on is something in the drinking water

Meltdown ~~May~~ March coming to its usual apotheosis.

Hot Diggity! posted:

Terminal cancer survivor, porno actor, pregnant woman...a person of many talents

They were all in love with dyin', they were doin it in Texas.

# ¿ Mar 24, 2024 03:23

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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:

let's graph it out

hey i'm josh welcome to let's graph it out (snap-cut to a powerpoint chart that's on fire at 10fps)

# ¿ Mar 27, 2024 10:24

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sebmojo posted:

There was a poster called troika who got renamed ugh, it's troika, but i want euroshopper to learn to post better so i would not do that to them

i want euroshopper to post on another website that is not this one

# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 03:30

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Spanish Manlove posted:

I don't actually know if they're Finnish but they tick every box on the checklist

i hope they finnish up their time posting here soon

# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 15:36

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Dongicus posted:

its comin up
its comin up
its comin up
fae/faer oo

# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 17:08

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thenamedsavior was walking proof that stupid and angry ain't no way to live a life.

one or the other, sure, but not both at once.

# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 17:45

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Al! posted:

i "played" a lot of this "game"

i had this

i remember it having a big city-wide scavenger hunt where you find an item that unlocks a shelf or other container which contains another item which unlocks etc. etc. until you eventually get access to the stonecutters hall?

# ¿ Mar 29, 2024 04:12

The Kins: Oct 2, 2004

every zelda game is the same story being told by a bunch of different people in a bar trying to one-up each other

"oh YEAH? well I heard he built an airglider in a giant underground cavern!"

# ¿ Mar 29, 2024 06:42

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Tiny Myers posted:

Like you can admit they don't appeal to you without making GBS threads on them

(img - that "I DON'T LIKE THING" comic but it's about a 9 hour video regarding a videogame)

# ¿ Mar 29, 2024 09:47

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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:

also the totk paragliding quest icon does not tell you that it will give you the paraglider. I struggled for ten minutes before getting it

the game makes the unfortunate mistake of thinking that you'll hang out around lookout landing doing odd jobs until you unlock the paraglider and map towers and you're explicitly let off the leash

# ¿ Mar 30, 2024 17:00

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pentyne posted:

What was the "fascists of SA" twitter? Wasn't it just reposting D&D quotes and posters, and people were freaking out demanded Jeff find out who was running it?

Uhh, it was like one guy who got banned over Ukraine thread stuff IIRC and it lasted like three days before running out of steam.

# ¿ Apr 1, 2024 16:37

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Babe Magnet posted:

the vice article still being up sucks real bad

Don't worry. Vice itself probably won't be up much longer.

# ¿ Apr 2, 2024 05:28

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Babe Magnet posted:

there was a "legitimate" Forums Coup going for a minute lol

With a war-and-peace-length sticky announcement afterwards By The Gun Forum Moderator That We Are Forbidden From Describing trying to explain that the bad april fools prank actually had another bad april fools prank inside of it and furthermore

# ¿ Apr 2, 2024 05:33

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Fajita Queen posted:

How the hell was that four years ago already

Time flies when you're screaming internally during the 12th consecutive state-wide covid lockdown.

# ¿ Apr 2, 2024 05:34

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# ¿ May 11, 2024 10:42

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I know I shouldn't make this all about myself, but

# ¿ Apr 2, 2024 09:33

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