You get his copy of Disney's Hercules.
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Giant Bomb #25 | A Fun Time with Friends
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stump sock
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um, actually
probably a lot of them aren't serious about it the same way we are sometimes serious about video games and sometimes we are not serious about video games
something something remix culture, something something prosumer, something something claiming ownership over cultural commonality, sharing economy, etc, etc
Heh, I haven't been there in a while. I thought people were more posi there. I'll need to chime in as well. I don't like their GOTY things either.
Buzz and Woody seems to be very close.
Sleeping Lesson
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That seems like an equitable deal! Fortunately I do speak German.
Hot Coldman
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Hercules is bad anyway so w/e
Piston Hyundai
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it's actually Mr. Satans
stump sock
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I only watch Disney movies in their native Japanese
DOOM is anime.
Doomslayer is so moe.
It ended super abruptly with an obvious sequel hook so maybe
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
Oh wait, that's what it means? I always thought "shipping" means turning a character into a ship. Like some people like to turn their favorite characters into animals. I thought like that. But with a ship.
I would actually like to see that
Piston Hyundai
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if you thought a Doom game where
you fought a Cyberdemon two thirds of the way through and fought the Spider Mastermind last
the ending was what it was, but it's not like it was RAGE
bigwinnerx
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Fultoning itensifies.
I mean if you want to see anthropomorphic ships fucking each other that is definitely something you can find on the internet.
stump sock
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well if you want ships that were turned into people, I can send you some links
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
I see that every night in my dreams, no need to bother the internet
Oh fuck ya it is! Been waiting ages for this to come out! This also coming to Vita?
what is going on
I think I'm happy I've been skipping Waypoint's GotY stuff. I've also been somewhat bored of their twice weekly podcast. Oddly enough, I miss still Match 3.
I mean game devs catch death threats on a consistent basis, there's always the extreme folk around.
Most shippers are normal people, hell most people who've gotten deep into a piece of media have shipped two characters.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
I also don't think people actually take shipping that seriously.
You get the ones who do, but you get that for everything. Doesn't mean that it's how everyone is.
You get the ones who do, but you get that for everything. Doesn't mean that it's how everyone is.
Hot Coldman
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I'm glad Waypoint exists and isn't just a Giant Bomb reskin.
Piston Hyundai
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I mean, if you're at the point where you're making your own stories up for fictional characters you may already be dabbling in "taking things too seriously"
it's the anime version of GB
Twin Tails
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Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Not really? People like creating stories, doesn't mean it has to be serious writing.
bigwinnerx
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Someone post this from the GB Reddit? User Carachmegil made a Hitman Best of Season 1 vid. Pretty great.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZmazUv-4mI&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZmazUv-4mI&feature=youtu.be
Incandenza
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What we do here with GOTY predictions is not that far off from shipping. I mean, I don't draw pictures of Hitman fucking DOOM
, but we've constructed a communal metagame based around picking favorites and then overanalyzing the core content to see if our favorite will become canon.
not on this website anyway
Maiden Voyage
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You have to look at the square to move in Hitman Go VR? That's disappointing. I was hoping you could pick him up and move him like a real board game.
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Piston Hyundai
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that's more speculation than fanfiction
you could make more of an argument for the "brad hates jeff/etc" shit
but that shit is stupid, too
stump sock
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holy shit, I almost made a "is it five minutes long?" joke before clicking the link
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
The only thing about "shipping" that I actually don't get is why it's so popular with Overwatch. There is no story, none of the characters are actually characters and what dialog there is is terrible. Is this just "I want to see these two "hot" fictional characters fuck each other"? I at least conceptually get saying "Oh how cool would it be if Nathan Drake and Lara Croft got together" or something like but with Overwatch it's basically "Oh man, what if the Medic class character from Battlefield 1 got together with Soldier #4 from Call of Duty!"
Not that I care, it doesn't hurt anybody so if it entertains you go for it. It's probably still better than anime.
Not that I care, it doesn't hurt anybody so if it entertains you go for it. It's probably still better than anime.
I mean there is lore and back-story outside of the game itself to pull from. Same thing with TF2 and Destiny, the stuff is there.
I think the fact that we still don't know much about the characters or the world is why people keep coming up with random stories for the characters.
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my problem with the Waypoint goty stuff is that it feels a little... self indulgent. in a writerly sort of way, ya know.
and that's fine, and maybe not for me or maybe I just don't get it yet and in a few months i'll love it or hate it or something, but then in the middle of all of it there's an actual article on Frog Fractions 2 and I just don't know how to parse any of it.
and that's fine, and maybe not for me or maybe I just don't get it yet and in a few months i'll love it or hate it or something, but then in the middle of all of it there's an actual article on Frog Fractions 2 and I just don't know how to parse any of it.
Shipping is especially popular for characters that are barely defined since you can define them yourself to a big degree at that point.
It's why stuff like Touhou and KanColle got so big.
The characters in that have like a couple of lines of dialogue per game (in Touhous case) which lead to fans just making stuff up and extrapolating things from said lines of dialogue. It's really interesting imo.
A lot of this is also true for Vocaloid stuff.
It's why stuff like Touhou and KanColle got so big.
The characters in that have like a couple of lines of dialogue per game (in Touhous case) which lead to fans just making stuff up and extrapolating things from said lines of dialogue. It's really interesting imo.
A lot of this is also true for Vocaloid stuff.
Incandenza
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Overwatch's characters were absolutely designed with shipping, cosplay, and fan art in mind (I mean, Blizzard put out official cosplay guides). All the characters are thinly sketched charicatures with ambiguous sexualities which makes them easy to drop into whatever scenario or relationship a fan wants them to be in. You could stick all the characters in a high school and as long as one of them says "Cheers, love!" and acts spunky everyone will recognize them as Tracer.
They're also easy characters to use if you're not a very good writer because their personalities are all one-note and easy to capture. Same goes for Fire Emblem characters, Homestuck characters, lots of anime characters, and other fiction that spawns a lot of fanfic
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
The comics exist and give some characters much more of a personality but I found them pretty dry. The animated shorts are really tiny snippets of who they are. Like the one about Hanzo and Genji was pretty well done. The rest were okay. I think we need a proper story mode or some animated feature length film/series to really understand who they are. But yea, right now, they're just archetypes with random one-liners.
Hot Coldman
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that fucking knife throw
oh my god
oh my god
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