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one of these days i'm gonna idly log back in here and find it alive, but it's entirely bots talking to each other about sneaker deals back and forth forever
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we're still here you sob
 
we're still keeping a close eye on your ass
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yeah i tried that night in the woods game after hearing about how good it was but i could tell within about 20 minutes that the writing wasn't gonna do anything for me at all and got rid of the game.
 
it isn't really an age thing to me, or i don't think so. it seems like a taste thing. it's just middle of the road, gilmore girls quality dialogue. i mean not exactly gilmore girls, cos that's an old show, but that level of 'we're just ordinary folks writing a game for normal people' kind of thing. nothin goin on.
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more like joe hoe-gan amirite?
 
i like the sound of this joe hoe-gan customer.
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https://twitter.com/hellobalint/status/843211132689158147
 
pretty cool horizon effect, like the world is being stretched over a loom. needs to be applied to 3d
 
Nice idea. You made it?
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It doesn't even get that specific, really. The big problems is just that adults are corrupt and do bad things. They manage to have 2 major characters make several political speeches without touching on any political issue at all, except that adults are corrupt and that's got to stop.
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I played Persona 5 too, because I liked 4. I didn't like Persona 5 very much, although I completed it so it kept my attention anyway, although for stupid reasons in the end.
 
It starts off pretty well with all the Kamoshida stuff. I thought that was going to be the way of it as it went along, but none of the other villains were interesting to me. I dunno if the game gets worse as it goes along or if I just slowly realised I didn't like it. The writing is really bad, but not in an entertaining way. It's just extremely repetitive, clunky and a lot of the time barely even makes sense on a phrase to phrase level because the translation is so bad. The central concept is busted for a few reasons. Like you said Hundley, the antagonists are just a bunch of shitty people. They've got no depth to them except that they are bad, 'shitty adults'.  None of the villains have an interesting arc because they all proceed like so - 1. bad adult is doing a crime. 2. the phantom thieves go through a dungeon while the adult taunts them. 3. the phantom thieves beat the bad adult and then the adult has a personality transplant and now they are a good person and then they disappear forever from the game. it's just flat, doesn't reallly go anywhere. The thief element doesn't have any relevance to the rest of the mythology or story, either. The game barely even remembers to include 'treasure' that you steal to 'change a persons heart' later on in the game, because it's been irrelevant from the start. It doesn't really fit, there's no coherence.
 
So they were fighting against all of that to keep the game engaging, but they didn't do it. The characters are just a mix of anime archetypes, and like I mentioned, the writing is just so bad it's hard to care about any of them. The thrust of the story is that these pure hearted teens want to change Japanese society for the better but it never goes into depth on what the problems are or why they exist, it just presents you with a series of one dimensional stock villains and then at the end you fight a god who talks utter nonsense.
 
I dunno why I liked Persona 4 so much, but I remember having a good time with it. I guess the characters in that one came off as more human than this one, which feels like a product targeted towards an audience who wants what they are used to and has a juvenile perspective on everything it takes to do with. The problems for me with it are big like the entire premise just being dogshit, medium like the romance stories being perfunctory and ugly, and small like the battle system not really being interesting enough to sustain the length of the game. I can't think of many things to say that I liked about it, except some of the music (there isn't enough music in the game though, a bunch of songs get played relentlessly).
 
I thought it was going to be some good dumb and good-natured fun, but it was mostly just boring.
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anybody here do graphics/sprites?
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Final Fantasy 7 was a fricken weird game. It was all over the place in terms of tone, you could play it for an hour every day and experience something genuinely unique each time you play it. One day you're snowboarding, one day Tifa is slapfighting the shinra lady, the next you're doing that weird rts minigame for the super materia, then you're finishing red 13's quest and seeing his petrified dad in cosmo canyon, then youre breeding and racing chocobo, then youre having a random encounter with a house or like a naked torso swinging on a pendulum, then japanese dracula joins your party, then cloud becomes an invalid from mako poisoning.
 
FF7 was such a wild, wild game and my biggest fear with the remake is that they'll just drop everything that doesn't fit into their hardcore cool-kid modern vision. Like I'm sure the big iconic moments will be done well, but without all the weird nonsense in between then, well, it just won't be ff7.
 
that's true actually. usually when people list instances of things the way you did in that post, there are several exaggerations, but FF7 is actually pretty much like that. keeps changing all the time and a lot of it is really goofy and sometimes totally on purpose. 
 
yeah, that probably won't come through in the remake. it would be a nice surprise if it did.
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I'm almost definitely gonna play it at some point.
 
I played FF7 when it first came out when I was 8 so of course there is nostalgia, but that isn't really the word for it. It isn't 'ah, better times', Thinking about my feelings playing that game when I was 8 is like retreating to a prior level of cognisance. That in itself is compelling and reason enough for me to play this - the clash of those memories/feelings buried deep inside, my current feelings towards FF7, and the way I'll feel about the new one. It'll be an interesting experience pretty much no matter what unless it really is just utter garbage, which I doubt it will be.
 
It isn't that I was happier or that games were better back then (i don't think they were), but that I understood less and so things which now bore me immediately were interesting to me and revisiting FF7 in a remake will bring some of that up by being new but constantly referring back to the old. 
 
Also - there will be cool moments of visual exploration and sound etc which will probably still burrow their way into my skull like with anything. I can't really muster up enough of an interest in new games of this type because I approach it as a cynical adult thinking too much,but with FF7 I can access those cool moments while simulating, or trying to, that old feeling of curiousity for even something as silly as FF7.
 
I don't think anything is being lost. Sometimes you've just gotta dip back into your own past a bit for relief. That's about as good a reason I can express for the fact I'm almost definitely going to play it.
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i will take us on a guide of new steam game classics now
 
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hey jamie!!!!
 
the third season of Bojack is a little worse actually. some episodes were stronger than others, but the new characters aren't great and they kinda jumped the shark with the "Bojack is a sad guy who ruins other people's lives" concept. I think a great show would have had him continue his struggles this season, but he'd have learned something and made some sort of progress. I do like the characters, though. I like princess caroline, the cat lady, and mr. peanutbutter, the dog man, a lot. I also identify a lot with Bojack's loneliness and disappointment in himself, despite not really having achieved recognizable success myself and having a drastically different personality. it's also kind of a good take on hollywood, even though that's a boring subject.
 
 
having had one good experience with an adult animated comedy, I decided to try my luck with Archer. big mistake. holy shitsnacks (pause for genuine laughter), it is awful. that's even despite its voice cast and the fact that I'm a bit of a sucker for the campy secret agent theme. it's really terrible, folks. it has the aforementioned *blurts out something adult-sounding* humor all right, mixed in with family guy style pseudo-offensiveness. but it's also really ugly, and as we've sort of established recently in this thread, that might be the worst thing about it.
 
archer's one big special joke idea is 'this sentence follows into the-' character b speaks 'next scene.'. so they do that over and over, and have catchphrases. there are a couple of good episodes. i enjoyed the little arc where archer gets cancer but overall yes, i kind of view it similarly to how i see bojack. man i guess i'd need to watch bojack again to explain why i just thought it was really lame.
 
archer and bojack just seem to be both like comedy shows with no actual jokes. i think like denzquix says, archer tries to go for absurdity of the situation, like a sitcom, but its situations aren't funny inherently, they're cool inherently, and you're left with the characters to hilariously be out of context, except they all have 1 or 2 funny characteristics that get repeated over and over and no actual jokes are contained in the show.
 
you know why i think i don't like bojack, beside it not being funny (because i half-like archer, but it isn't funny), it's because it's just lazy hollywood creators writing about their own malaise. it isn't interesting at all. i've seen enough of this kind of material.
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thank you for the edit. we all must pay our penance due.
 
I'm watching Bojack Horseman, a netflix show that kind of looks like one of those Comedy Central or MTV cartoons where the art style is gritty and unusual and the dialogue has a bunch of adult-sounding things. unlike any of those shows that I'm aware of, in this show the adult-sounding things start to string together to form a coherent and likable narrative after a while. the third season comes out this week. and the deer lady is very pretty.
 
Hm. weird. I really didn't like the Bojack Horsman. I watched S1 and some of S2, haven't seen three. I really can't imagine it being better unless it's just totally different. It doesn't really have any good jokes, to me, and the stories are boring.
 
 
I'm watching the night of. It's all right. That's exactly what it is. I think the way it is shot is kinda crappy, but riz ahmed and john turturro are doing a decent job bringing some pretty basic material to life. The supporting cast are non-entities except for Michael K Williams, and he feels kind of irrelevant and also, cliched. Every show with a prison in it has the guy who inexplicably has a TV in his room. Whoah, this guy has KFC? How'd he get this mysterious power? Wow, good thing the main character is in his good graces! But nah it's all right, decent story going on with Nasir, really curious what REALLY went on that night and also what will happen to him regardless.
 
Also watched orange is the new black season 4 recently. big improvement on that show's previous seasons which had interesting moments but were way to network drama and just...mainstream bullshit for me. Jenji Kohan may be a horse's ass but this season was good and ended very strong, very interested in seeing next season of that.
 
i also continue to watch girls. last season was pretty good.
 
i might watch stranger things on netflix. haven't watched any of it yet, i'm curious.
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thinking i'lll probably do some more of this now.
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jamie. are you on the sauce.
 
 
i was. god damnit. don't worry old friends, i have had this under better control for long periods of time. it'll all be fine. i slipped up and came back to my old stomping grounds. apologies all round!
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Years later I see all this pretty differently. I dunno where or if Diet Coke is still alive but hey ya dick, how's it going, and thosepeople. I pretty much see where you guys were coming from back then. Looking over my old posts, I wasn't talking total shit, but I definitely get the exasperation and disinterest in this particular demographic. I've started thinking, for example, that feminism means different things to different classes of people. Some motherfuckers are talking about the principle of a tampon tax, some motherfuckers are talking about being forced into a lifetime of servitude and rape. There are degrees and priorities. I begin to see the frustrating stuff about that with a show like Girls, and by the way I stopped watching it in s3 cos it was too stupid by that point. 
 
Finally, I don't know if anyone is still here but hi!
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hi pisshead, do what i said.
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hi old buddies. i thought i would come back here and post a video i made this is new so here it is
 
https://youtu.be/CKu_gory5Qk
 
it is a new video. i still make videos and things. i hope you are all well!!!
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come on folks. pledge your life and soul to buck and miles.
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new vid:
 
http://square1.vg/videos/resident-evil-3-nemesis-playthrough-continues/
 
 
http://youtu.be/RnKlB_mHzH0