Lamp, broken circa 1988
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DAWN OF THE LAST DAY
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for Free to Play stuff, Team Fortress 2 is still the truth. I've heard a lot of good things about Warframe and Path of Exile, but those aren't really my kind of games. I would offer to jump you into League but I burned the bridge between me and my old team of regulars and I feel so much better without the game in my life. So I guess don't do that.
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4. The WWE Universe is way too big for just one Superstar! Collect a series of WWE Superstar action figures, each with unique abilities that unlock certain challenges and portals, and bring them to life on the big screen via your game console. Only you can put the right Superstar against the right challenge to save the WWE Universe. Put the action figures "in the ring" and let the adventures begin!This should happen anyways. Get on that Skylanders/Disney Infinity money before they eat all of those dollars.
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Fun Reminder: Ballots are due on Monday!
Less Fun Reminder: Yes, this is a ballot kind of thing, but if you want to just dump stuff in here that you liked that's cool too I guess. Not like I can stop you.
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I was going to be all "it was garbage, do people not remember it was garbage" then I realized I was 14 when this happened, and I do remember it, so now I'm just going to lament a terribly used youth. Have a nice day!
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NPR- I think this record is total bullshit, but a lot of people are super excited about it so if you're one of those people, have a good time.
As someone who is enjoying the record, I'm interested in hearing about why you feel this way.
They went from a four piece to a three piece and they had JUST gotten into a good groove of writing for two guitars. So the songs on this one (excepting Psychic Trauma) feel a lot shallower compared to their last record. When the band changed, they changed nothing at all about how they wrote or recorded. Kind of a bummer.
EDIT: This is significant because the transition from Cloud Nothings as solo bedroom rock project (Turning On) to band that had to exist physically (self-titled) to actual cohesive band (Attack On Memory) was such an incredible progression that seeing them stagnate at all is disappointing. But I guess it happens.
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This happens to include a list of other things AMC is working on, such as...
“Untitled Billy Corgan Wrestling Project” Smashing Pumpkins lead singer Billy Corgan pulls back the curtains on the pro-wrestling world as he takes over creative direction for the independent wrestling company Resistance Pro. Produced by Left/Right, LLC; Executive Producers: Banks Tarver, Ken Druckerman, Billy Corgan and Ghen Maynard.
haha, "ghen"
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STREAMSDAY.
NPR- I think this record is total bullshit, but a lot of people are super excited about it so if you're one of those people, have a good time.
"Here And Nowhere Else" by Cloud Nothings
1. Now Hear In
2. Quieter Today
3. Psychic Trauma
4. Just See Fear
5. Giving Into Seeing
6. No Thoughts
7. Pattern Walks
8. I'm Not Part Of Me
P4K- Insane noisy metal band + Insane noisy electronic producer = Your main event for this week.
"I Shall Die Here" by The Body (with The Haxan Cloak)
1. To Carry the Seeds of Death Within Me
2. Alone All the Way
3. The Night Knows No Dawn
4. Hail To Thee, Everlasting Pain
5. Our Souls Were Clean
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NEVER MIND THAT SHIT, HERE'S A SWANS SINGLE
"To Be Kind" is out May 13th. Yes, that's the cover art. Of course it is.
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ft. Juicy J
the future is fucking weird
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y'all bryan dudes are a bunch of lakers fans. he won three times on a row. chill.
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Dynasty Warriors was some good times until this last one, where they fucked up the frame rate that bad. Seriously, consistantly sub-15FPS for an action game is not acceptable. But yeah, I'll get down on those old PS2 DW games for days.
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Roman's in my favorite match of 2013 (Rhodes/Shield) and probably of 2014 (Wyatts/Shield), and he's a central part of why for both. Cena didn't have a down year from March to March, but Roman had a career-making one.
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IT'S THE RETURN OF THE STREAM POSTS, now that there's like multiple albums I can vet in a week.
NPR- Pretty opportune, given the last page of the thread!
1. Seasons (Waiting On You)
2. Spirit
3. Sun in the Morning
4. Doves
5. Back in the Tall Grass
6. A Song for Our Grandfathers
7. Light House
8. Like The Moon
9. Fall From Grace
10. A Dream of You and Me
NPR- The first words on this album are "take my pants off." If you can believe it, it gets better from there.
1. Mask Maker
2. Vox Tuned D.E.D.
3. I'm No Gold
4. Pro Anti Anti
5. Can't Hear Well
6. Mess On A Mission
7. Darkslide
8. Boyzone
9. Dress Walker
10. Perpetual Village
11. Left Speaker Blown
seriously this is my new favorite liars record
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FIFTEEN DAYS! OH NO! THERE'S ONLY FIFTEEN DAYS LEFT!
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I'm just curious if you've gotten into Jazzpunk (the game, not the music genre).
Can't. Watched Giant Bomb's video, and there's a gag with flies that basically ensures I'll never be able to enjoy that game. Serious nightmare fuel for me.
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don't know what the song is at 8:00 of the posted video, but I am going to check out more from this band as I am always on the search for new music.
That song is "An Apology," and the three songs that follow it are all from the album "In Evening Air," my favorite of theirs.
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I will cop to an over-sensitivity to the "hipster" thing. I've been getting that response for about seven years now everywhere I go whenever I try to share anything I like.
More relevant: so is the ballot thing never happening? it's like march
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"Different countries have different wrestling logic, ergo Blue Panther is bad!"
I will give you that Blue Panther would be bad as an American wrestler.
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The last thing I'm going to say about the whole "hipster" thing is this (and I guess this can also go to what I put on the music board): I have tried to put you guys up on the shit I'm into, no matter how obscure it is. That's why I posted so much in that "now playing" thread, or why I tried to post a bunch of free album streams in the music board. To put obscure shit on people's radars. I'm not interested in digging deep and then holding my nose up and claiming I have the high ground because you haven't heard of it. I look for different shit because I like it, and then I do what I can to share it. "I enjoyed this! You might!" That's all it is. I don't know what to say if people still think that's worth mocking.
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I dunno, man. I have the same internet you guys have. Although Monaco got fucking -buried- by the press due to the weirdness around its 360 release. Tragic.
What's great about the "hipster" thing is that I play enough mainstream games to piss off the people that are all about the indie shit, and enough indie games to piss off the people that are all about the mainstream shit. Really, I'm a PC guy and I know how to keep a system running for years and years. I just want to play new, different games, and it's cheaper to do it on PC than it is on any of the consoles.
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Starting university has lead me to both A) walk a mile four times a week (public transport) and 2) cut my food intake down since I'm on campus and don't have the money to eat out. Hella trail mix and chewing gum/water. I'm going to see if I can add in a gym routine after spring break.
So, uh, walk everywhere. I guess that's the answer.
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Now I really want to know what your GOTY is....
Two answers. Cop out, but, a distinction has to be made. I don't know why these are both stealth games, though. Maybe because I'm tired of action games trying to make sense of every character being a brutal mass murderer? At least Titanfall doesn't bother with such foolishness.
My singleplayer GOTY was Gunpoint.
-The trial and error part of a stealth game is handled beautifully (it keeps three autosaves marked by time before death, and a restart mission if you just want that).
-The main mechanical conceit of jumping is handled in a really cool way: basically you're charging and manually aiming the arcs of the jump. At first this is a detailed aiming process, but as you play more and get better and faster it becomes a muscle memory thing and it feels really good.
-The way it introduces nuances to the gameplay is nice and steady, and with two exceptions (magical building rewiring and [total spoiler]) totally optional. You can add and remove skills as you want.
-I don't know if the story is any good, but the setup is great and the dialog is too. Very snappy, appropriately pulpy for the setting.
My multiplayer GOTY was Monaco: The World Is Yours with at least three players.
-The level design is just fucking stellar. As a weird esoteric gamewriter I like once said, "when you're talking about a good game you have to be talking about good level design." Monaco nails art design, pacing, variance, and openness all at once.
-Everything is handled by your ability to feather an analog stick and press a single button, which all has a real mechanical clarity. Every weapon feels really heavy and dangerous, so getting caught is a fucking nightmare I couldn't stop laughing at.
-The class division is very strong, and once everyone has an idea of what they're doing they can play more expressively, which leads to some really fucked up levels. The game also doesn't explain everything about how each class works, so once you discover the more esoteric secret abilities you feel like a mad genius.
-The ending is absolutely perfect. So is the story explanation for how New Game + exists. I wouldn't dare spoil either.
As for which is ultimately better, I played more Gunpoint but had more fun with Monaco, so add that into your own value system and tell me.
Runner up goes to Gone Home, which as I've had more time away from it I recognize it as a really close miss to a really amazing idea. Whoever gets it right is going to really fuck some people's heads up.
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DVDVR BEST MUSIC OF 2013 Pimping Thread
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So I've started tabulating everything since I don't know that I'm expecting that many more ballots, and there's an absolutely expectedly absurd amount of one vote tie. So, the way this'll go is that the ties will be listed before the next tiebreaker (an album with the same number of points, but through multiple votes). So the first post will be a bunch of ties, and then the first tiebreaking album.
The alternative is full album art and embeds for 154 albums. Between timely results and flashy results, I'm choosing timely.
Anyways!
SIX HOURS REMAIN
(bonus fun fact! At time of writing, no album has more than three votes.)