Basileus777
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But you can skip ahead on any of them as long as you're not watching live? I do this all the time.
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But you can skip ahead on any of them as long as you're not watching live? I do this all the time.
CoolBatteryCharge
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More specifically, I can binge watch a few of them within a few hours.
Death Metalist
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The problem is that memes aren't made by the game, they're made by the audience. What's in the game we refer to as jokes. I don't blame anyone for being turned off of Undertale by what the internet did with it; it can be hard to separate those things.
That said I didn't find the spaghetti running gag particularly funny anyway.
BreezyLimbo
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avengers23
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Basileus777
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The game is full of in-jokes, references, and the like. It's perfect fodder for memes.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Just like giantbomb!
AFAIK there was some joke early on that was actually a reference to an internet thing I can't even remember (Sans says it maybe?) and Megalovania has been around since before the game so...okay?
Twitter and Tumblr got too attached to a thing and stretched it thin and made it unwelcoming. That's not the game's fault, but I get why it can be hard to not have that garbage in the back of your head if you ever approach it.
While it's not quite the same thing, I can see being tired of the modern day Call of Duty games, of which there were only a few, but CoD4 did it so well and blew the fuck up so everyone else in the games industry tried to ape it and the whole thing got overbearing. I can't blame that on Infinity Ward, but goddamn if I wasn't just fucking done with it all by the time MW3 came out.
Now I've lost all interest in Giant Bomb.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
You haven't seen enough undertale art then.
Basileus777
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Well other than that girl there's just creepy heads and robots. I suppose more could be drawn of them fucking.
petethepanda
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Got to #6 in a Battlegrounds match, and man does it suck not being able to watch how the rest plays out.
This is pretty much what I was talking about re: Nier sounding like it scratches some similar itches to Undertale. Same goes for the Zero Escape series. I'm always excited to find another game that takes advantage of the medium like these.
This is pretty much what I was talking about re: Nier sounding like it scratches some similar itches to Undertale. Same goes for the Zero Escape series. I'm always excited to find another game that takes advantage of the medium like these.
Silent kid falls through a hole into an underground world of monsters and sets out to find their way back to the human world. Makes some friends and/or enemies along the way. (As the type of pretentious asshole who gets overly nostalgic and starts feeling ways about things, I'm compelled to also say that it's about the impact one can have on the world by choosing compassion over violence, and the irreparable damage one could do by choosing the latter.)
I can't look any of that up until I play the game for fear of spoilers, but lord do I believe you.
The dreaded fucking spoilers
Blitzrules240
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If Dan and Vinny can beat Contra in 9 episodes, Vinny can beat Dan in soulcalibur in 9 episodes too!
darkwing-buck
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Nintendo needs to up their meme game.
Piston Hyundai
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"ignore them until the next Mario Maker" sounds good to me
That feels like ignoring your mom until thanksgiving when she bakes a perfect apple crumble. She's only calling because she wants to know what the eggplant emoji is, she isn't tryin' to bother you... just talk to your mom, your nintendo mom.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Didn't mario kart usually sell exponentially more than Mario maker?
the best nerds.
petethepanda
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Mario Maker was one of those games that watched a shitload of online but spent almost zero time playing myself.
Basileus777
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Catching up on UPF, not even VR Rorie can make Rick & Morty entertaining.
Unfortunately, whoever was responsible for this was not devoted to their craft. If it was me, it'd have become a semi-popular website with its own Twitter account and Facebook page where people could discuss the things Alex has looked at.
Twin Tails
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I got one.
Alex looks at anime.
Alex looks at anime.
Hellsing321
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How do they not have the gifs of Alex staring into your soul?
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Because he can't look at things that doesn't exist.
MassiveNights
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There are teenagers getting into Giant Bomb who don't remember GBWest. Makes you think.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
I seriously doubt there's a sizable audience for giantbomb under 20.
Too old and you actually need to pay for content.
Too old and you actually need to pay for content.
Probably a decent number of people who see the GB stuff on YouTube and never visit the site.
Might not even realise there is Premium shit.
Basileus777
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Their most popular content is free. Most of the audience probably only listens to the podcast and E3 stuff anyway.
MassiveNights
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No shit.
Blitzrules240
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Dave Lang.
Large human male.
Large human male.
can't blame them in recent years
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
I'm more calling into question if there is any teenager getting into giantbomb nowadays. 
I mean there are probably some, but probably not the sizable audience that flock to youtubers like PDP or Jacksepticeye.
I mean there are probably some, but probably not the sizable audience that flock to youtubers like PDP or Jacksepticeye.
I'm more calling into question if there is any teenager getting into giantbomb nowadays.
Oh, oh fuck no.
edit; yeah exactly. I'm unsure what the appeal of current-day GB possibly could be for a teenage audience when there's the whole of YouTube to compete with, and personalities that are more tuned into capitalizing on their core audience.
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