Everyone will give a different answer.
Mine is THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD, Saturn porting: great dialogues and fiction, awesome animations, best aliasing I have ever seen. Love the low-def textures too.
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The Big Bang Theory is choosing between PS4 and XB1 #BOVESPA #DODONGO #BOJANGLES
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Everyone will give a different answer.
Mine is THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD, Saturn porting: great dialogues and fiction, awesome animations, best aliasing I have ever seen. Love the low-def textures too.
Sorry, I editited my response, so now I'm in with the cool kids, audi2000 bitches
Really shallow though.
Dark_castle
Junior Member
You do know that the scene was edited to lengthen the "awkward silence/fake laughter" in the video right?
There's a reason why I put laugh track in quotes. I know it's a live audience. I can handle the laughter in Friends, Seinfeld and a lot of older shows. But this show, (and most other recent sitcoms with audiences/laugh track) the laughter just comes in far too often for my tastes. Gets annoying.
And btw, the older shows, it's not about nostalgia or anything. Many of them, I only saw for the first time recently, people just weren't laughing at EVERY single little thing each character said in those shows (and it was still pretty frequent in Friends compared to the others). Friends' frequency was pretty much the limit for me.
Should've been first post!
inpHilltr8r
Member
Garth Marenghi avatar quote
Where can I apply for this free pass? I get bitched at all the time.
soxinthebox
Member
That was great
Fudgepuppy
Banned
David Jaffe?
Fattony12000
Member
I'm wearing a Family Guy t-shirt right now.
TechnicPuppet
Nothing! I said nothing!
I agree it was a poor attempt at a joke.
The IT Crowd joke about the internet being a small box > every joke ever on TBBT.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Spaced > IT Crowd > Community > Big Bang Theory.
Anyway, I suppose they should get points for at least getting the internet whining right. Although not choosing a console feels like such a copout ending, lest CBS offend any company.
In fact, this ended up being a lamer version of the South Park console wars trilogy.
Anyway, I suppose they should get points for at least getting the internet whining right. Although not choosing a console feels like such a copout ending, lest CBS offend any company.
In fact, this ended up being a lamer version of the South Park console wars trilogy.
if that isn't a sad indictment of contemporary society, I don't know what is.
It's rude to put Big Bang Theory's name next to those others.
My mom loves it, she's old
My neighbour keeps sending me clips that he loves, and it always makes me feel like an ass when I don't even laugh once. I did laugh at one episode where Sheldon makes a robot to go to work for him, but that was it.
lifeexpectancy
Member
He can find it hilarious if he wants to, that's his prerogative. Lots of people find the 3 stooges hilarious. Personally, I find it mind-numbingly idiotic and can't watch it. But do I belittle them? No.
OT: Just your typical cash-in on the latest pop culture topic du jour, although they're about 5 months too late. Should've aired an episode like this last fall sometime.
It'll be Destiny night. And everybody will play online, at his home with a microphone.
Split-screen co-op is dying.
Let's all cry together.
T.T
That's awkward. Do you just do that, Ha, Ha, yeah, that one part, oh yeah, no, yeah, omg so funny?
I just tell him straight up that, nope, didn't find that one funny either. Maybe that's not the best approach, but we do share plenty of things that we laugh about. Still, I wish I saw the magic.
Cizeta-Moroder
Banned
Apparently they had a Wii joke, but did they ever acknowledge the existence of Wii U? Because that would be the funniest thing if they didn't.
BigEvilTurtle
Banned
Well it doesn't make sense to just watch random clips from a show you aren't keeping up with. I've never in my entire life laughed at a clip from a sitcom I don't keep up with. I'm dead serious. I need context for humor, which clips typically don't offer.
They didn't mention the Wii U, however there are Wii Us in a shot behind Amy and Sheldon when Sheldon is trying to buy a PS4/ONE.
LordOfChaos
Member
Fair enough. And I don't think he even touched on the increased shader count and double the ROPs and TMUs which are arguably a bigger deal. But then, this isn't a show for geeks.
aparisi2274
Member
I wonder how the show approached Sony and MS over payment to use the names of the consoles and the boxes, because Sheldon mentions both PS4 and XBO by name a dozen or so times, but then the boxes have price stickers conveniently placed over the name of the system...
I wonder why that is....
I wonder why that is....
You presume anyone in this thread has tried to watch the show without a chip on their shoulder about it. It's an easy target because we all know the memes and how "funny" those are in and of themselves.
If neogaf were the arbiters of popular culture outside of video games we'd all be damned to horrible video game web shows and the very dreary and tired IT crowd.
ElectricBlanketFire
Member
Nothing to do with memes. Nothing to do with nerd humor.
Everything to do with the writing, acting, and studio audience.
thelatestmodel
Junior, please.
Fucking Big Bang Theory. Makes me cringe every time I end up watching it.
schwabdizzle
Banned
You would think someone with 2 PHDs has enough money to buy both consoles right? Unless his student loans are just downright unforgiving
You'd think he'd be happy with his Alienware PC. (Why does a genius buy Alienware?)
I bet that sounded a lot better in your head eh.
This. Love the show, who cares if its an exaggeration. Learn to laugh at yourself.
fallingdove
Member
No?
What games have you played if you hold Big Bang Theory in higher esteem than video game writing? The show is godawful garbage. Not to mention there are some really talented writers in the video game industry that have produced some great work. The writing in Portal 2 alone is an example of that excellence.
Except that they didn't?
I like BBT mostly because it's a WHAT IF sitcom.
WHAT IF one of the biggest geniuses around was a boy from Texas, kind of weird guy, raised by a strongly religious mother?
There's almost NOTHING in BBT related to my/our real-life situations. I have nothing in common with any of the characters of the show or the depicted fauna even if I share with them some of the life's pleasures.
The only funny similarity is that comic-book stores rarely see a cute girl in my city too
But that's just it.
I like the show because it's so evident that it doesn't take itself and our lives seriously, and so do I, and I enjoy it this way.
adamsappel
Member
I don't find it hard to believe that regular watchers find BBT funny. Any comedy will have at least one funny joke. I'm regularly exposed to awful tween comedies like Austin and Ally, Jesse, Dog with a Blog, etc., and as execrable as they are, I'll sometimes laugh and immediately feel ashamed. The laughs come easier as you come to know the characters. And I can see the nerd/geek/gamer demographic enjoying jokes about familiar territory.
What I can't believe is a studio audience plucked from random Hollywood tourists finding references to Windows 7 uproariously funny. They may film in front of a live audience, and I'm sure they laugh at the jokes (laughter is contagious), but they also have professional laughers planted in the audience and they surely add some in post, because every single joke gets a huge laugh.
What I can't believe is a studio audience plucked from random Hollywood tourists finding references to Windows 7 uproariously funny. They may film in front of a live audience, and I'm sure they laugh at the jokes (laughter is contagious), but they also have professional laughers planted in the audience and they surely add some in post, because every single joke gets a huge laugh.
Not a very funny show, but...
...Wow.
BigEvilTurtle
Banned
This thread is so amusing. Amazing how angry people get over a show they dislike.
ElectricBlanketFire
Member
And how defensive people get when a show they like is criticized.
BigEvilTurtle
Banned
Yeah. So weird for fans of a show to defend it when people bellow out in ridiculous tears over it.
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