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    2014 VIDEO GAME CATCH-ALL THREAD

    in COMPUTERS & GAMES & TECH

    Posted

    Hey, you know who strikes me as a crowd that could use something that explores a more thoughtful approach to sexuality and human interaction than Bioware's "Time + Gifts = Fuck" system? Young adult males who play video games as their primary engagement with media and entertainment.

     

    Granted I have totally given up on video games as an artistic medium after an article pointed out that Gone Home, one of the more progressive pieces of game fiction and design currently available, is basically an OK young adult novel and I don't really have a way to disprove that. So if we've decided to just send a gigantic middle finger to another medium that could enlighten people, I'm fine with that. I'm just tired of the waffling between making toys and making art, or even worse trying to have it both ways.

    Random music thoughts

    in MUSIC

    Posted

    Oh! Not a band, but Oneohtrix Point Never (Returnal -> Replica -> R Plus 7) is pretty fucking all powerful, if a little impenetrable. If you can brute force through the first track of Returnal I'd say there's a 90% chance you end up hooked.

    TUESDAY IS SONG STUCK IN YOUR HEAD DAY!

    in MUSIC

    Posted

    My semester starts tomorrow! :D :D :D :D

     

     

    The car is on fire, and there's no driver at the wheel
    And the sewers are all muddied with a thousand lonely suicides
    And a dark wind blows

     

    The government is corrupt
    And we're on so many drugs
    With the radio on and the curtains drawn

     

    We're trapped in the belly of this horrible machine
    And the machine is bleeding to death

     

    The sun has fallen down
    And the billboards are all leering
    And the flags are all dead at the top of their poles

     

    It went like this:

     

    The buildings tumbled in on themselves
    Mothers clutching babies
    Picked through the rubble
    And pulled out their hair

     

    The skyline was beautiful on fire
    All twisted metal stretching upwards
    Everything washed in a thin orange haze

     

    I said, "Kiss me, you're beautiful -
    These are truly the last days"

     

    You grabbed my hand
    And we fell into it
    Like a daydream
    Or a fever

     

    We woke up one morning and fell a little further down
    For sure it's the valley of death

     

    I open up my wallet
    And it's full of blood

    Random music thoughts

    in MUSIC

    Posted

    Wire (Pink Flag -> Chairs Missing -> 154) leaps to mind as a pretty unfuckwithable trio of records. Just total growth over each record in just as many years. Also Lightning Bolt (Wonderful Rainbow -> Hypermagic Mountain -> Earthly Delights) and the mid-late 90s Boredoms (Chocolate Synthesizer -> Super ae -> Vision Creation Newsun).

     

    This one's personal only, but I'm a big fan of those first three Liars records (They Threw Us All in a Trench and Built a Monument on Top -> They Were Wrong, So We Drowned -> Drum's Not Dead)

     

    oh and probably Wolf Parade's three records. Every time I go back to Expo 86 thinking it's only okay I end up headbanging for the length of it.

    THE GOOD NEWS THREAD!

    in LAND OF CONFUSION

    Posted

    i don't share a lot about me but in my experience someone else has to know for something to become a reality in my life and the rest of my posse's asleep

     

    The shortest possible version of my story is that I buried my father at the start of high school, badly hurt my knee in high school, let myself stay in a shit relationship for five years, and then buried my closest uncle (bought my first guitar) at the end of that relationship and the start of college. Skip ahead a few years and I'm a 360+ pound ex-binge drinker who knows how to write songs. Last year was the first year things have started looking up, with getting into SDSU and finding a group of very intense and creative friends.

     

    NOW THE GOOD NEWS: I made two a-few-days-after-new-year's resolutions: play my first show, and get good at yoga. I ordered the DDPYoga set because I guess I'm still a mark, and I'm writing this after doing it the first time.

     

    I can do this.

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    Random music thoughts

    in MUSIC

    Posted

    FFS.

     

    If a child was born on the day Don't Look Back in Anger was released, they'd be 18 next month. Where the fuck has my life gone?

    secret candidate for post of the year right here, intentional or not

    UPCOMING VIDEO GAME RELEASES (2014 & Beyond)

    in COMPUTERS & GAMES & TECH

    Posted

    Honestly, I don't mind developers having the ability to patch games, or even the idea that I'm beta-testing something for full price at launch.

     

    For one, if a cartridge or an early disk system game shipped bugged/bad, you were basically stuck with bullshit forever. The ability for a developer to go in and fix mechanics is still pretty fucking magical compared to that part of my life.

    Secondly, I see no difference between buying a game day one and buying any other technology day one. The risk you run as an early adopter has been severe long before this specific scenario of patchable console games.

    Third, and this is personal, but I think when games break it's pretty fucking funny as long as it's not wiping save files. 

     

    I don't even mind the DLC thing that much! If I don't want that game's DLC, I don't buy it. The cases where it's "removing something from the game" are vastly outnumbered by cases where it's content that needed more time or it was just a weird passion project by a part of the development team. Where I draw the line is the X-Box One Microtransaction madness in games like Forza, Ryse and Crimson Dragon. The entire concept of paying for one-time use items or time-limited XP boosts is fucking deplorable to me.

     

    However, if I don't like a thing, I don't pay for the thing.

     

    This doesn't seem like a weird idea.

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    Raw 1-6-14 - Old School Raw

    in WWE PROGRAMMING

    Posted

    It's weird to deal with people who have the sort of childhood nostalgia for 1999 that I have for 1991. 

     

    I'm just saying.

     

    In six or seven years we're going to be dealing with people who grew up on the Spirit Squad or something.

    I literally had this conversation a few days ago. "man when I was watching there were these dudes that were all in like uniform and they were like evil cheerleaders? they were awesome." That time is a lot closer than six or seven years.

     

    also fuck off with Scotty 2 Hotty hate. A lot of that old Cruiserweight Champion era stuff is underrated.

    TUESDAY IS SONG STUCK IN YOUR HEAD DAY!

    in MUSIC

    Posted

    (I would embed a youtube video but the only copies of this song on youtube are static images with weird deformed anime girls and a live version with the wrong name attached to it that totally falls apart. this song is "II" by Perfect Pussy)

     

    I was understood to be living

    I existed only when seen

    So I died of self-importance

    I killed the parts of me that still wanted things

    I tremble with no desire, I need nothing

    In loss I discovered completion

    In having things stolen I found that I had more than ever
    in the absence of everything, I found all things

     

    And I understood myself

    So I understood nothing

    So I stopped questioning

     

    All things pass through me, I’m a tough boy

    Wild and innocent and dangerous as hell
    I’m awake

    And awakening

    I am here and I have died

     

    I killed the parts of me that said that I know

    I killed off all the parts that keep me awake
    I’ll die a thousand times to prove that I’m living

    I'll kiss myself to prove that I’m not afraid of snakes

     

    Nothing shakes me any more; I’m tough now, baby

    Really, I have lost all feeling

    And I've lost all desire for feeling

    And I can't thank you enough

    GOTY?

    in COMPUTERS & GAMES & TECH

    Posted

    I'm going to suggest this as the rule for remakes: this podcast I listen to called Insert Credit talked about when a remade or re-released games are new games (an argument inspired by the release of The Stanley Parable, which is a fine tuning and update of an old Half-Life 2 mod) and the conclusion they came to is that if the changes made effect the way you play the game then it's a new game. So by their logic, the PC release of Spelunky is a new game on account of the Daily Challenges and how that can change your strategy, where as Ducktales Remastered is not because there's no mechanical changes at all.

     

    We don't have to do shit that way but I think it's an interesting point.

    DVDVR BEST MUSIC OF 2013 Pimping Thread

    in MUSIC

    Posted

    I'm going to say No on Jai Paul. I took a pretty good amount of care in writing the rules in which I left out bootlegs as eligible releases, and I consider the whole scenario around the release of those songs as an unauthorized bootleg of unfinished demos. Or, put another way, I believe Jai Paul and XL are telling the truth about it being unauthorized.

    2014 VIDEO GAME CATCH-ALL THREAD

    in COMPUTERS & GAMES & TECH

    Posted

    so the main gameplay rule of Risk of Rain is that after selecting an initial difficulty (basically casual/hardcore/insane) the difficulty raises on its own over time, so you have to become efficient at farming and exploring while you progress through the levels of the game to avoid getting trapped at one of the higher difficulties and having to wait through harder waves to get things done

     

    the names of those higher difficulties? Insane, Impossible, I SEE YOU, I'M COMING FOR YOU, and HAHAHAHA

     

    I had just crossed over into I'M COMING FOR YOU when I beat the game for the first time

     

    i think i love this game

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