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That was the best orchestral arrangement of video game music I've ever heard. Spectacular. I have the CD from the Skyward Sword special edition but I wish there were recordings of some of the stuff that isn't on that because it demands to be heard. I'm pretty sure they're still traveling around with this thing, so go if you get the chance.

I like the idea that the scratched Troll universe is all fanfiction written by Doc Scratch.

Karkat's first ten lines of dialog gave me the impression that he was going to be a miserably unlikeable character.

Why do people judge characters without knowing s*** about them?

The 3's & 7's chart in GH3 is actually fine, I shouldn't have listed it as a chart that I hate - but I really don't like the unnecessary use of hard to hit chords in it. I prefer the RB version a lot.

Paratroopa1 posted...
I think it'd be funny if the Scorpio sign turns out to be Nerdfang instead of Vriska.

Holy crap

Oh s***, I forgot to mention how terrible the boss battles are. It's kind of a fun mode to play with another person, but against the AI it's just terrible. The songs themselves are fun to play on their own, especially DWDTG which I admit is probably the coolest finale in any GH or RB game, but oh my god the boss battle mode. Ugggh it's just tedious and stupid.

It probably still is the second best in its series, but there isn't much competition. Guitar Hero 3 does beat out GH1 which has its own charms but is ultimately really unpolished and weird, and beats out GH80's which is really kind of limited and doesn't have a ton of fun songs to play either. GH2 is the best by a pretty wide margin. For me, after that, GH kind of died spiritually when Harmonix moved onto RB, which in my opinion remains the superior franchise. GH:WT and everything that followed just sort of unsuccessfully tried to follow in its footsteps.

EmDubyaSee posted...
From: Paratroopa1 | #039
Well, 1 for 1 on final four, with my remaining three (Kentucky, Ohio State, Kansas) still alive. This could turn out to be a decent bracket for a change.


I would be absolutely stunned if you did not go 4 for 4.

Welp, you were right. I went 4 for 4.

It's hilarious because my bracket was pretty much awful up to this point but now it's awesome because I nailed the final four.

It's especially funny because two of the #2 seeds are in it, and the other two #2 seeds lost to #15 seeds. I picked the right ones. Not that it was that hard given that Duke was a joke.

GH3 doesn't really have that much in the way of songs that are both challenging and fun. I'd pretty much narrow that list down to these:

Cliffs of Dover
Cult of Personality
Pride and Joy
The Metal
Black Magic Woman
Welcome to the Jungle
Impulse

Some songs in GH3 I really hate:

Raining Blood: Textbook artificial difficulty. Almost none of the charting in this song makes sense and it's just annoyingly hard, and that's coming from someone who nearly FCed it.

One: Really boring for a few minutes and then it has a stupidly hard solo that's actually charted faster than the notes are really played for the sake of artificial difficulty. Really unfun song to play.

Before I Forget: Holy s*** this song is murder on the wrists and for no other reason than for artificial difficulty.

Number of the Beast - Really awful 3-note chords.

Stricken - See above.

3's & 7's - See above.

The Way That It Ends - fhdsjghsjdhfsdjfh

Through the Fire and the Flames - Nothing needs to be said about how they vomited a ton of notes all over this one and called it good.

I think it'd be funny if the Scorpio sign turns out to be Nerdfang instead of Vriska.

azuarc | Posted 3/24/2012 10:30:53 PM | message detail | quote
The only reason I can think of why someone would single out GH3 and say it sucked was because RB1 came out at the same time, which cut into the audience of Guitar Hero players considerably. People who play for fun would naturally prefer Rock Band, whereas people who played for challenge would prefer Guitar Hero 3.

Opposite for me actually. Rock Band had three things going for it in the challenge department - new instruments to learn, stricter timing windows, and DLC that came out pretty fast that was harder than almost anything GH3 offered. Challenge isn't really the reason I dislike GH3.

That was solely my opinion and only mine. For everyone else it's great.

Well, 1 for 1 on final four, with my remaining three (Kentucky, Ohio State, Kansas) still alive. This could turn out to be a decent bracket for a change.

Although I'm not particularly a fan of Luke's character, I do actually have to give his writing some praise. They actually pull off the transition from giant jerk to nice guy a lot better than most stories do. He legitimately f***s up, he slowly realizes how much of a dickwad he was, the party doesn't forgive him immediately, and he actually goes through a character transformation that seems natural and has some room to breathe. By the time he's become a better guy, you actually feel like he has gone through some genuine hardships and actually learned some hard lessons. He starts out too obnoxiously terrible and ends up way too obnoxiously nice, but I think it's a fairly well-handled character arc.

I feel like I need a better explanation of what a "non-game game" is, because I've never once thought of DDR, Guitar Hero, or any other rhythm game as a "non-game game". They're games. Rhythm games.

Translation of that last page: "I'm not bringing Vriska back, she's done, end of story"

Oh my god. John is getting Jade and all of the consorts to play MMOs with him.

This is the best thing.

Here's the thing - okay, one thing - that I don't get about the Deleter subplot.

Are they seriously expecting us to care about this whole murder mystery intrigue about a bunch of guys who we've never met and have no f***ing clue about?

Okay, so Anthony we know at least, and while he's not a great character, he is at least developed enough for me to understand who he is and why I should care about him. The other four dudes? Nothing. They're just four random ass dudes. Yet they're somehow more f***ing important to the story than Samus is, and we're expected to be on the edge of our seat trying to figure out who the Deleter is. Except no, f*** you. Why in the world would you think we would care about this.

The most hilarious part of course, is that they hit you over the head with every plot point, to the point of Samus needing six or seven lines to narrate obvious things going on right in front of you, but then you're suddenly expected to infer a whole bunch of s*** about the Deleter plot like a goddamn psychic. And that's assuming you ever care, which you shouldn't. F*** this game.

Fund it? Man I'd just need to run a Mafia game and put that role in. I'm not gonna be the one to do that though I haven't played Mafia in years.

Okay guys, I have a new idea.

Mafia role: Deleter

Every night, the Deleter chooses someone to kill, and in the morning it is loudly announced that the Deleter killed someone, and who he killed. However, when the Deleter himself is killed, his death is not announced and the issue is immediately dropped and never brought up again.

you know what I noticed

samus never does anything

like seriously what does she actually do

she doesn't kill MB

she can't really be credited for killing ridley

she killed nightmare I guess? rescued adam's helmet? cool'

wait jesus christ she didn't even actually kill nightmare, it survived

what the hell

It might be dangerous for your men to go alone. Take this.

Wildlife here isn't very dangerous. There's like... maybe there's bears if you go far enough into the wild, I guess.

Well, I was near the Seattle earthquake in 2000. That barely qualified as a natural disaster really. The pacific northwest is awesome for natural disasters, it might be one of the safest places in the world.

wtf kansas?

kansas. not kentucky. wtf kansas.

Wait a minute, what's this?

A Spike episode?

And it wasn't completely f***ing awful?

~~~MIND BLOWN~~~

Yeah okay seriously though, this episode was pretty much a slam dunk all the way. Good jokes, funny character interaction, plot was an interesting change of pace, and even the character development and the moral was pretty reasonable. Pretty much salvaged Spike's character for me too, after Owl's Well that Ends Well was such an atrocious episode.

Okay, I have to agree. Karkat rambling excitedly about troll relationships to Dave is great. This is perfect.

TsunamiXXVIII posted...
A run all the way to the Final Four as an 11-seed, followed by a run to (at least) the Sweet 16 as a 12-seed.

what

Well, I'm through part 6 so far and all I can say about it so far is that I don't think people are blowing Other M out of proportion enough. I was going into this expecting it to be terrible, so I figured I'd probably be thinking "hey this game didn't look as stupid as I was expecting." No, it was way, way worse than I thought it would be. I'm kind of surprised people are defending to this game to be honest.

I want Peyton to go to Denver so he stays the f*** away from the NFC West.

CherryCokes posted...
uh

There are like a dozen teams good enough to win games in the big dance

Oh I know, it's not about that. It's just that the NIT is where all those teams go to die.

The hilarious thing is that I forgot that game even happened until well after all the games in the real tournament were done. Like I only just checked the score a couple hours ago. "Oh I wonder how Washington did. Oh they demolished Northwestern. K whatever."

The NIT is such a depressing wasteland of college basketball.

I can kind of root for Gonzaga but it's not really the same. All I can really do is root for exciting games and intriguing upsets.

I just realized, I was complaining about the lack of upsets up to a certain point and how all of the potential upset bids were falling short, and then BAM, Norfolk State > Missouri, Lehigh > Duke, Ohio > Michigan, USF > Temple. F***ing uncanny, seriously, it was like reverse murphy's law.

The Creighton/Alabama, Memphis/SLU, and Florida State/St. Bona games were all really good too. Best day of college basketball I recall in quite some time, even without having a horse in the race personally.

That particular conversation is one of the best in Homestuck, but again it totally requires John to ground it.

I was actually just talking about this with someone, and I actually think that Karkat and Dave don't make good foils for each other at all, despite being my two favorite characters.

See, John and Karkat are absolutely perfect for each other. John is a perfect straight man - he's innocent, naive, and he actually likes Karkat despite all the s*** he gets from him, and that's what pisses Karkat off the most. That makes their friendship a surprisingly endearing one, and almost all of Karkat's funniest lines are when he's talking to John because John is just the perfect setup guy for it.

With Dave, there's no real straight man. They're both like, trying to be funny, and their styles of humor don't mesh that well to me. Dave is also actually infuriating, which makes Karkat's anger seem less funny and more just justified. Meanwhile, Dave is just way too above Karkat's s*** and doesn't even deal with him on his level, which John is perfectly happy to do.

It's great for drama I guess, because they are definitely characters that will get on each other's nerves! But they're not especially funny together.

the baby. the baby. the baby. the baby. the baby. the baby. the baby. the baby. the baby. the baby. the baby. the baby. the baby. the baby. the baby. the baby. the baby. the baby.

Misogyny and violence against women didn't exist before the invention of pornography.

Inviso posted...
Define hardcore.

anything gay probably

also

"porn titans"

this is hilarious to me

Banning porn is probably the worst possible campaign platform you could possibly run on.

I lost an elite 8 team (UNLV and not Duke or Missouri, oddly enough) and I have three round of 32 matches where I have no team in them, but I'm still doing fine.

Man, f*** CBS, I was going to check in on that game but I saw it went final so I didn't bother and I left the TV for a moment. They made me miss a good game.

Ytterbium_70 posted...
I've never seen an NCAA bracket where 2 15 seeds win.

there's a reason for that

Wait, what the hell happened with Purdue/St. Mary's? I saw the scoreboard at the top of CBS flash red for St. Mary's, and I was like "oh wow, they came back and won", but then I see that Purdue won? What did I miss?

I have Duke losing to Xavier. This is totally fine for my bracket.

Two 15 > 2 upsets in one day. This is insane.

I always assumed it was alpha Dave, although I never really stopped to think about what that meant (that they're travelling through dream bubbles). It didn't really seem likely that it would be some kind of beta Dave, since there wasn't any realistic way for him to be hanging out with Equius.

DAVE: ill be the ambassador to your mom
DAVE: and no that wasnt actually meant as the sick burn it sounded like