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Giant Bomb |OT33| LOOK AT THAT CORN!
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Death Metalist
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im not stump but this
SunDimension24
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Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Wait, what DLC?
For the record I don't think you're harsh at all in regards to the GG shit. I think time beared it out that it was a major mistake on their part and more people including myself should have put their feet to the fire for it.
But there are degrees to it and I kinda feel like GG is several degrees above in severity compared to the south park review.
Thanks, only staying until just before Christmas so it's a pretty short stay!
If anyone's got any must-see/do recommendations for the NY/NJ area, let me know! Also, recommendations for distinctively American junk/fast food to eat while I'm here would be welcome. (Googling for my closest Taco Bell as we speak..)
I watched a few hours (yeah hours, I know, was in the background) of a twitcher playing the South Parks today and I noticed how every female on screen would get called a bitch or a whore. So that was weird. And twitch chat of course loved that it was going after the 'LOL SJWs" and enthusiastically responding 'LOL' when the notion of girl gamers was brought up in the game. The whole experience felt icky even if they 'take it to everybody'. One type of person was definitely having a great time with it and it wasn't the type of people I wanna hang out with.
The original Nier. Its very tedious and mainly just killing a ton of enemies.
but has music remixes and it messes with the visual style in interesting ways
and also has vague narration lines that Im pretty sure are the thing that explains
how it connects to Drakengard, based on nothing other than it talking about the one thing I know about the Drakengard ending that supposedly connects to this
and importantly also theres a like 8 minute long stretch you can easily loop to farm rare materials youd otherwise have to get from gathering spots on the ground
EDIT: Also to actually respond to the serious part of the post- yeah, even as the person who started talking about the review a lot, I really wouldnt have direcfly brought the GG stuff into this beyond being an example of how sometimes its important to speak up even if its just to show what you stand for and that you support people. I dunno.
Too late because 1. I beat it 2. Im farming for the Plat.
And yeah, Im gonna read the Grimoir once Im done.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
AuthenticM
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Yep. God that guy sounded like the worst. Can't believe how Jeff kept his cool.
Yep. I also remember the nadir of the "five guys" and Adam fucking Baldwin coining "Gamergate" and watching some youtube video where some douchenozzle afraid to show his face and instead with a picture of a Neil Patrick Harris lookalike in a powdered wig proselytized about Zoe Quinn having sex with reviewers for high scores while twitter fucking exploded, and how Giant Bomb was kinda relatively quiet about it until it crossed over a threshold where Jeff had to post that letter and they had collectively said "Hey, the parts of this community that suck? You're not part of our community," as though their relative silence hadn't helped cultivate that, or at least hadn't curbed the shittier parts.
They're better now, but like most of the game industry and the press around it, they didn't make nearly enough noise at the time. Part of fucking Milo Yiannopoulos' fame is around this garbage. It was a goddamn shitshow.
That was great, but is also sorta what I was getting at when I was talking about how people remain fans while still assuming the staff agree with them even though there are clear signs they dont. Obviously this is somewhat an extreme example, but still. I dont know if its just thinking youre so right that everyone normal agrees with you, or that feeling that youre close to someone who you see/hear constantly is sorta like a friend who of course would see things a similar way due to how much you agree about certain games, or what, but there were definitely a lot of fans like that (and hopefully less now).
This is why, though I know some people never learn and will just tell themselves that the staff secretly agree with their nonsense, I do think its valuable to like... just remind people sometimes what you stand for and what you wont tolerate? I know that seems super basic but it means its harder for them to ignore it.
Is that actually a prequel that I should watch first or is it part of the story now?
do I gotta read the Drakengard manga too
(Im playing 1 and 3 before Automata; you will not persuade me to do otherwise)
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
I mean it's also in the game itself but you also don't get to see a Japanese girl group doing this.
nothing says not politics and not anime quite like turning robots developed in two different countries into a needless matter of patriotism
Him and several other big names became big in the alt-right/white supremacist/conspiracy community as a result, yeah. Which isnt to say that other people wouldnt be there instead but... they built their following off GG.
petethepanda
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...man, I really need to go check out the ancillary Nier stuff already. I've had a few tabs open for the last six frigging months lol.
I'm just delighted that something so fucking weird has found an audience. (And also mildly worried that its sudden and significant success could ultimately hold back that weirdness in future projects? I guess time will tell.)
Edit: I had forgotten about the "silence isn't complicity" thing. Which, yeah, wasn't a great look at the time and is even harder to swallow in 2017.
I'm just delighted that something so fucking weird has found an audience. (And also mildly worried that its sudden and significant success could ultimately hold back that weirdness in future projects? I guess time will tell.)
I've never seen the show but I've listened to that and the other song a thousand frigging times.
Edit: I had forgotten about the "silence isn't complicity" thing. Which, yeah, wasn't a great look at the time and is even harder to swallow in 2017.
RubberLuffy
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What am I assuming they secretly think that they openly show they dont think?
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Oh shit, offline podcast was because Jason is in the hospital? Hope it all goes well
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Yeah best of luck to Jason.
Is it his kidney stone thing or did that happen alraedy?
Is it his kidney stone thing or did that happen alraedy?
I feel like Jeff would be more of a Blackpink guy, or maybe one of the groups that Hyuna has been a part of.
My thought isnt really that I think they secretly think its objectionable though? I dont think Dans keeping down Alexs secret opinion etc. etc. Its more that I think South Park gets away with things they and a lot of other journalists/reviewers/whatever would in fact object to otherwise. I mean, beyond just South Parks idealogy as whole, I think there are jokes that South Park makes that no one would find acceptable at all if anything other than South Park made them. But its ok because South Park has always made those jokes... even though it was always bad the first time it made them, but now its nostalgic, so...
I just want them to examine that more, and their nostalgia, and actually say something about it. The paragraph in Dans review that more or less started this discussion was him listing off some at the very least tone deaf things and then not actually commenting on it at all.
ThanksVision
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AuthenticM
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The video podcast is taking a while to appear on the site today.
there wasn't one
nckillthegrimace
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It was basically wrestling, so you missed nothing.
AuthenticM
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huh. Why?
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Gran Turismo Sport sounds INSANE.
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