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  1. Lamp, broken circa 1988
    I AM LATE WITH THE MONDAY STREAMS FOR A GOOD REASON. This was going to be a one album week, then suddenly one of my favorite musicians up and released his new record. Be enthralled! "Future Proof" by Mesita 1. No Future 2. Firesign 3. Forward 4. XYXY 5. Hostages 6. Damage 7. Creature 8. Vigilant 9. Distance 10. Nothing Elsewhere, there is more manic ambient brilliance. "Virgins" by Tim Hecker 1. Prism 2. Virginal I 3. Radiance 4. Live Room 5. Live Room Out 6. Virginal II 7. Black Refraction 8. Incense at Abu Ghraib 9. Amps, Drugs, Harmonium 10. Stigmata I 11. Stigmata II 12. Stab Variation EDIT: By the way, in case you missed your chance to listen to "Carey's Cold Spring" by Frog Eyes, you can hear it in full and buy it here. EDIT THE 2ND: OH HOLY SHIT, I had no idea a Bandcamp for this even existed. Chinese Fugazi Worship GO GO GO "1984" by PK14 1. You and Me 2. Ice Age 3. May 4. Flowers In Hand, A Crazed Woman 5. Egyptian Rain 6. Song About Forgetting 7. One-Man-War 8. Future Mystery 9. Voyagers 10. 1984 part Ⅰ 11. 1984 part Ⅱ
  2. Lamp, broken circa 1988
    Oh my gosh, THREE albums worth streaming this monday. One rock, one electronic, and one rap. "Carey's Cold Spring" by Frog Eyes 1. The Road is Long 2. The Country Child 3. Your Holiday Treat 4. Don't Give Up Your Dreams 5. Needle in the Sun 6. Noni's Got a Taste For the Bright Red Air Jordans 7. A Duration of Starts and Lines That Form Code 8. Seven Daughters 9. Claxxon's Lament "Psychic" by Darkside 1. Golden Arrow 2. Sitra 3. Heart 4. Paper Trails 5. The Only Shrine I've Seen 6. Freak, Go Home 7. Greek Light 8. Metatron THIS ONE REQUIRES A SPOTIFY ACCOUNT "Old" by Danny Brown 1. Side A (Old) 2. The Return [ft. Freddie Gibbs] 3. 25 Bucks [ft. Purity Ring] 4. Wonderbread 5. Gremlins 6. Dope Fiend Rental [ft. Schoolboy Q] 7. Torture 8. Lonely 9. Clean Up 10. Red 2 Go 11. Side B (Dope Song) 12. Dubstep [ft. Scrufizzer] 13. Dip 14. Smokin & Drinkin 15. Break It (Go) 16. Handstand 17. Way Up Here [ft. Ab-Soul] 18. Kush Coma [ft. A$AP Rocky and Zelooperz] 19. Float On [ft. Charli XCX]
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    GTA5 Update: Just finished the torture bit. I'm sure that's been beaten to death in the GTA thread so I'll summarize with two words: "Not Cool." Taking a break from it for a while. PAC-MAN CHAMPIONSHIP EDITION DX+ - it's on steam now. you should get it. it is like infinite sparklers with house music. SHADOW WARRIOR: Conflicted. It's a total throwback FPS, right on down to multiple secrets, being scored at the end of every level, and slowly introducing weapons. I'm mostly enjoying it, but it will do three awesome things and then one really shitty thing, and so I don't have a great read on what I feel about it right now. This is the example I've been using with my friends. -Finish first major boss fight, which leads to actual character development. -Next world immediately introduces pretty major changes to how some enemies work. -Game quickly introduces a new weapon which offers a new solution to the new problem they've just posed. Weapon is satisfying, upgrade options are funny. -Next story point involves running into twin assassins with tight shiny body suits w/ chest windows who constantly coo at each other. When my character introduces himself, one says "he's not quite a genie but I'd still rub his lamp." So yeah. I like playing it and I wish that they left all the gross out of their throwback formula. Wait for a sale.
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    I only have one theater story and it is for Borat, which is the best time I've ever had at a theater. Every time something happened in that movie, there would be this awkward silence followed by someone going "heh!" making it okay for everyone to laugh. One exception: when Borat is despondent over losing everything and he angrily throws the suitcase w/ his chicken on the ground. It was so cathartic to just be able to laugh without fear of judgment that a few people started applauding.
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    Oh, I can use this to break a few brains this weekend. Thanks much.
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    pretty sure the team running steam is not the team making games, so them doing something with their Steam warchest =/= "avoiding half-life 3" the last thing I heard about the dev team is that they were making some totally bonkers space sim. There was a big NeoGAF thread on it.
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    The thing about Sleeping Dogs that I'm specifically drawing from is how the story starts, where there's this growing tension until the moment that everything escalates into guns, after which everything goes absolutely fucking crazy. Contrast that with GTA, which is "Dramatic intro! Flash forward! Normal life... grind a little bit... little bit more... DOZENS DEAD. Okay now go play with this dog." For $226million in production, I don't feel it's weird to be expecting more than that.
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    THIS WEEK for NPR's First Listen, the main album they're showcasing is one of the best albums I've heard this year, but also probably the single least approachable. It's not noise or anything, it's just... on its own trip. "R Plus Seven" by Oneohtrix Point Never 1 Boring Angel 2 Americans 3 He She 4 Inside World 5 Zebra 6 Along 7 Problem Areas 8 Cryo 9 Still Life 10 Chrome Country
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    GUNPOINT- Super Meat Boy stealth game. Very silly, very precise. The wiring mechanics are an excellent counterpoint to how that game feels once you have to start moving. Everything you physically do yourself feels very dangerous and heavy, and really satisfying when a plan works perfectly- or works despite your planning. CRITTER CRUNCH- Okay, it's old. It's an old PS3 release that ended up at Steam at...some point. Anyways, I was looking for a puzzle game to play, and Critter Crunch is a puzzle game I can play. The reference point it uses for its mechanic (Money Puzzle Exchanger) is so obscure that it probably will feel like a totally new idea if you've never seen either, so maybe give it a shot? It's like seven dollars. BROTHERS- Lucky enough to beat it in one sitting, although I apparently missed a lot. It's definitely interesting, and it seems like the most publicly accessible game making an attempt at emotional resonance so that is definitely valuable. There is one moment specifically that is excellently designed, but I've seen the exact moment before in a game basically no one dang played, so it was filtered through my experience there. Still. I definitely think people should play it, and I totally get anyone that cites it as a Game of the Year contender, even if I don't agree. OH NO THE END OF THE INDIE STREAK GTA5- So far, the main thought I've had while playing the game is "man, Sleeping Dogs was awesome." Four hours in, GTA is yet to leave any kind of impression on me. I just bought it because I didn't want my relationship with the game to be defined with the stories terrible people tell about the terrible things they do. That's not entirely about the thread here, but I'm not excluding it either. Oh, and Burnout Paradise still.
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    I really enjoyed this, but it didn't occur to me how little Cien Caras did until I came in here to read. Fair point, that. Favorite part of the match was the top wristlock counter spots, where Alfonso and Herodes both jumped up, clamped onto Andre's leg, and then hopped down and politely took bumps. Sangre Chicana, on the other hand, starts swinging and kicking his legs and shit, making it harder on Andre, so he just gets sack-of-shitted down to the ground. Really looking forward to seeing more of him now.
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    Technically an in studio performance, but that matters so little in this case.
  13. Lamp, broken circa 1988
    first time posting in a sports thread oh no i'm so scared aaaaaaaThe reason that Jacksonville doesn't sign Tebow is that if they sign him, he could win games. If he wins games, they lose their draft placement next year, AND get stuck with Tebow. The first pick they are on course to have right now is way more valuable than the potential jersey sales. Now if they go out next year and draft Bridgewater, only for him to get taken underground by some Old God's cult to be turned into a vessel for His dark message (or something season-ending like that) then yeah, maybe hire Tebow. Not this year.
  14. Lamp, broken circa 1988
    the 360 demo happens hours earlier in-game. Check out the pause screens at the end of it. PS3 reads 18:54, 360 reads 15:35. So really all that demo says is "we are not great at making side-by-side videos."
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    Re: Microsoft's statement dude ten years ago hardware manufacturers didn't respond to unsourced speculation, what are you doing
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    Burnout Paradise on PC. When we get down to "best xbox 360 era games", this or Gears will be #1 for me. Just utter emotion (largely joy, occasionally anger) every second of play.
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    Here's your next "Amazing Album Streaming For Free (I Cannot Believe This Wonderous Future)": San Fermin. Bonafide epic pop composition. http://www.npr.org/2013/09/08/219367757/first-listen-san-fermin-san-fermin 1 Renaissance! 2 Crueler Kind 3 Lament for V.G. 4 Casanova 5 Sonsick 6 Methuselah 7 At Sea 8 Torero 9 At Night, True Love 10 The Count 11 Bar 12 In Waiting 13 True Love, Asleep 14 Oh, Darling 15 In The Morning 16 Daedalus (What We Have) 17 Altogether Changed
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    The indie game rush continues. RECIEVER - Incredibly surreal dungeon crawler. The dungeon is randomly generated, and you start with the only weapon you have (of which there are three possibilities). There are only two kinds enemies. You are trying to pick up 11 pieces of treasure, and if you do that, you win. I am describing this so sparsely because I think saying a lot about it ruins the bewildering nature of the first few runs. If you're all about minimalism, go get this game. MIRRORMOON EP - Speaking of trying not to ruin the first run of a game, I'm not going to say shit about MirrorMoon EP other than "space is involved" and "non-violent exploration madness." HAMMERWATCH - Gauntlet. Like, to the point that the bonus levels are just Gauntlet arcade levels. So Gauntlet. Massively Gauntlet. None More Gauntlet.
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    25 and terrified. #gosh
  20. Lamp, broken circa 1988
    Piranesi is the hero this board deserves. That's all I really have to say about Raw.
  21. Lamp, broken circa 1988
    The whole place is dark Every light on this side of the town Suddenly it all went down Now we'll all be brothers of The fossil fire of the sun Now we will all be sisters of The fossil blood of the moon Someone must have set 'em up Now they'll be working in the cold, grey rock Now they'll be working in the hot mill steam Now they'll be working in the concrete In the sirens and the silences now All the great, set-up hearts All at once, start to beat After tonight, if you don't want this to be A secret out of the past I will resurrect it I'll have a good go at it I'll streak his blood across my beak Dust my feathers with his ash Feel his ghost breathing down my back I will try, and know whatever I try I will be gone, but not forever The real truth about it is No one gets it right The real truth about it is We're all supposed to try There ain't no end to the sands I been trying to cross The real truth about it is My kind of life's no better off If it's got the map, or if it's lost We will try,and know whatever we try We will be gone, but not forever Come on, let's try and know whatever we try We will be gone, but not forever The real truth about it is There ain't no end to the desert I'll cross I've really known it all along Mama, here comes midnight with the dead moon in its jaws Must be the big star about to fall (Long, dark blues) The will-o'-the-wisp The big star is falling Through the static and distance A farewell transmission Listen.
  22. Lamp, broken circa 1988
    Tragically, someone already beat the internet to "best use of MUGEN." It's called SaltyBet, and it's basically dog-fighting betting on horribly unbalanced fighting game characters. I have been thinking very hard about whether or not to stand up for it when year-end things start, because I've certainly had more fun with it than most any "major" release. seriously, at this point my top ten is nine indie games and Devil May Cry.
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    So, what did I miss about the Mega Man devs getting pissed at Capcom so that they're gonna do this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega_Man_Legends_3 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega_Man_Universe Capcom stonewalled development on new Mega Man games, and then cancelled them after Inafune left Capcom. So, basically, Capcom did some Capcom shit and now we're here. The last time they did this we got Platinum Games, and that worked out okay.
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    I try not to link kickstarters or video game things that much, but a Japanese team of veterans spite-developing a spiritual revival of the game they're known for is a fascinating sign of the times.http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mightyno9/mighty-no-9
  25. Lamp, broken circa 1988
    We upgraded internet in the house a while ago. This came with a "new" modem. Fuck this "new" modem. It's only "new" because it's new to the household: their website says they don't issue this particular model anymore. Hahahahaha. Fuck.
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