Lamp, broken circa 1988
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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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I really like using my hands and really hate stories. It's taken me some weird places, but it's served me well so far.
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Be fair, though: that is also a problem GTAV has.
It doesn't, though. It is entirely up to the player whether or not to follow the storyline or fuck it off entirely and go play golf/run a triathlon/get a lapdance/rob liquor stores/smoke a cigarette on the pier while watching the sunset.
That's why I said "a problem." When you do the story, it has that problem. When you do the side content, it is boring and colors the story in an even worse light. The things you do that are non-violent have more mechanical nuance than anything that happens in the actual story, yet not enough mechanical nuance to build a whole game around. So returning to the story means returning to the violent content that is not as mechanically engaging as its peers, and stands out as being more tedious than the act of playing half a golf game. That is not a problem The Last Of Us has. The Last Of Us does, however, have that first problem real, real bad.
EDIT: Real quick, can we at least have a consensus that "functioning gameplay" =/= "good gameplay?" Everything in both games works and I never want to do any of it.
I would give them basically the same score, because to me they're the same game: really expensive, huge creations of incredible scale, respectable for the sheer human work it took to finish, mechanically floppy, totally hollow. The nicest thing I can say about either is that I'm glad they got most of the GOTY stuff and not Bioshock Infinite, despite enjoying playing Bioshock Infinite. That game has real, real problems. Like, "the industry is in a bad place" problems.
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every time someone says something good about final fantasy x, I just hear the Tidus forced laughter in my head
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Shibata's return is what got me back into New Japan after giving up on puro for a few years.
I have -never- seen what people see in Wagner. He's charismatic, annnnnnnd...
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Be fair, though: that is also a problem GTAV has.
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hi hello
although I'm in university and have a bunch of tests next week so I'm not really getting a lot in at the moment.Hit level six, discovered which maps I hate (CORPORATE CAN GO FUCK ITSELF), figuring out how to adapt my dont-stop-for-nothin' routine to the larger maps.
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Future Islands are amazing, and were before they ever got on Letterman. Break up anthem masters.
Skip to 8:00 to see the kind of singer he is. It is the kind of voice I would do almost anything to have.
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This world where tyler black is a wrestler I want to see and cuts promos that sell me on a story? This world is terrifying.
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Wait, Virus won?!?!
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Ray "Death" Rowe is an awesome name for not a pro wrestler. Like, maybe a biker?
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re: Dark Souls 2
getting it on PC, so I'll get back to you in May
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Bray just hasn't shown me enough in ring for me to feel comfortable about voting for him. He's got GIFs and quotes and only three matches that I remember anything about.
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PC version just unlocked. On a scale of 1-"You've got to be fucking kidding me," guess how up the servers have been.
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Virus is an utterly amazing worker, but Rush is the dude that got me back into CMLL and has kept me in. My vote's entirely emotional.
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given that Daisuke Sekimoto is eye-searingly terrible, and Shibata is responsible for several of my favorite puro matches, I went with Shibata
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Being fair, Bioshock wasn't supposed to come to PS3 either. At the same time, Titanfall uses microsoft server structure. So if anything is likely, it's that a sequel -might- come to PS4.
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40 pounds in three months
what the holy fuck
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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.