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TopicPolitics Containment Topic 189: Flip or Flop
Mr Lasastryke
08/30/18 11:16:10 AM
#237
Corrik posted...
Probably shouldn't criticize things you also do.


please provide evidence of me ever linking to huffpost.
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TopicPolitics Containment Topic 189: Flip or Flop
Mr Lasastryke
08/30/18 11:07:55 AM
#235
Jakyl25 posted...
In what context?

Im not saying HuffPost has NEVER been used


Jakyl25 (Topic Creator)7/11/2018 4:48:29 PM#497
https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5b4587d7e4b07aea75454510

Just sharing this for the headline, which I like to imagine is meant literally


so yeah, i'll concede that in this particular case you did say you only shared it for the headline. harrich did unironically link to a huffpost article before, though.
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Topic*high fives ~70% of gamefaqs*
Mr Lasastryke
08/30/18 10:59:14 AM
#133
Vlado posted...
If you want to continue the conversation, please tell me a game with a simple story that's also an amazing story, as that'd be help me see where you're coming from.


as i said i'm not a game expert but if you insist... kana: little sister, maybe? i never beat that game but going by what i did play, i thought the story was quite good.
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TopicPolitics Containment Topic 189: Flip or Flop
Mr Lasastryke
08/30/18 10:47:21 AM
#230
Jakyl25 posted...
Uhhh where?


i ctrl+f'd "huffpost" in my archive to verify corrik's claim and the first result was you linking to a huffpost article dude >_>

corrik may talk out of his ass a lot, but he's right about this. (that is to say, he's right about people here linking to huffpost. he's not right that this somehow excuses trump linking to breitbart.)
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Topic*high fives ~70% of gamefaqs*
Mr Lasastryke
08/30/18 10:41:56 AM
#131
Vlado posted...
I mean, we've been talking in the context of games the whole topic, so...


uh, how is this a response to the post of mine you quoted? my question wasn't "why are you discussing storytelling in the context of games," my question was "why do you value complexity in storytelling so much in games, but not in other storytelling media?"
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Topic*high fives ~70% of gamefaqs*
Mr Lasastryke
08/30/18 9:02:21 AM
#128
i mean, nobody is arguing that video games aren't different from other media. a game is different from a novel, which is different from a movie, which is different from an instruction manual, etc. etc. i just don't see why you would go "complex stories are always better than simple stories, yet this ONLY applies to games."
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TopicPolitics Containment Topic 189: Flip or Flop
Mr Lasastryke
08/30/18 8:56:01 AM
#223
i don't think anyone here is president of the united states, though. trump should be held to slightly higher standards than random board 8 posters.
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Topic*high fives ~70% of gamefaqs*
Mr Lasastryke
08/30/18 8:07:39 AM
#126
i'm not much of a game expert so i'll leave that to other people. but why do you use different standards for games than other storytelling media?
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TopicPolitics Containment Topic 189: Flip or Flop
Mr Lasastryke
08/30/18 8:04:53 AM
#221
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1034990940593823746

trump literally using breitbart as a legitimate source
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Topic*high fives ~70% of gamefaqs*
Mr Lasastryke
08/30/18 7:40:53 AM
#124
Vlado posted...
2. Complex + well-written (like with FFVII) >> simple + well-written.


uh yeah, i can't take your stances on storytelling seriously when this is one of your points. some of the simplest stories in history are some of the best ones.
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TopicNew Mr. Plinkett review for Star Wars Last Jedi
Mr Lasastryke
08/29/18 5:24:08 PM
#46
ok that's fair. he definitely included some familiar criticisms, though he certainly included some more unusual criticisms as well. i had never seen anyone criticize the climactic lightsaber battle in TPM before, for instance.
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TopicNew Mr. Plinkett review for Star Wars Last Jedi
Mr Lasastryke
08/29/18 3:25:12 PM
#43
the prequel reviews are some of the most informative, in-depth and exhaustive movie critiques/analyses i've ever seen (and it's not like i'm not used to consuming in-depth movie information - had to do plenty of that when i was studying). it's fine if you don't like them but i can't understand how you can possibly think they're not insightful.
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TopicNew Mr. Plinkett review for Star Wars Last Jedi
Mr Lasastryke
08/29/18 12:59:04 PM
#36
Anagram posted...
Jay is a better movie critic in sterile descriptive terms, but Mike is funnier and more capable of breaking down what's wrong with a movie, which makes him much more entertaining.


true. i'd put rich in the mike category as well.
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Topic*high fives ~70% of gamefaqs*
Mr Lasastryke
08/29/18 12:56:38 PM
#116
Vlado posted...
It is certainly no coincidence that such stories in games have only ever been crafted in Japan.


i don't get why it's no coincidence. why would the japanese be the best at telling stories by default?
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TopicNew Mr. Plinkett review for Star Wars Last Jedi
Mr Lasastryke
08/29/18 12:48:44 PM
#34
PrivateBiscuit1 posted...
I watched Wish Upon and I seriously don't get Mike's obsession with it. Like it's not that horribly made of a movie. It's bad and dumb, but I enjoyed it more than a lot of horror affairs.

The thing that speaks of how much of a trainwreck it is is when the previews all have the guy say "When you make the wish, someone you love dies!" And then in the movie the line is changed to "someone you know dies!" This is because in the first cut of the movie, they realized that line makes no sense because people the girl barely cares about or has known more than ten minutes dies.

I kind of want to know what exactly Mike things is so legendarily bad and The Room-levels it is.


as much as i love mike, he often seems to see things in terms of black and white. jay is a lot more nuanced (and a way better movie critic imo).

reminds me of when they reviewed amazing spider-man 2 and mike went "THIS IS THE MOST HORRIBLE FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT EVER." yeah, it's not a good movie but it's not THAT terrible.
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TopicNew Mr. Plinkett review for Star Wars Last Jedi
Mr Lasastryke
08/29/18 7:55:17 AM
#31
azuarc posted...
Who's Mister...
*clicks on video*
"Stahrrr worrrs thelass jediii"
Oh god, not this guy.
*clicks off video*


Mac Arrowny posted...
I've only seen Plinkett's Phantom Menace review, but it was fucking terrible.



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TopicJohn McCain is still dead
Mr Lasastryke
08/29/18 7:50:32 AM
#14
ExThaNemesis posted...
I wish MWC wasn't banned


i never thought i'd see someone type these words
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Topic*high fives ~70% of gamefaqs*
Mr Lasastryke
08/29/18 7:46:57 AM
#94
Vlado posted...
Those who insist today's games are as good or better than games 15-20 years ago are the ones rejecting objective reality.


as far as i can tell, nobody is trying to claim that today's games are "objectively better" than popular games from 15-20 years ago or whatever - they happen to like some of today's games a lot and prefer it to some of those older games. i don't see how that's different from you saying that you're "not a fan" of some nintendo games from the late '90s, even though you can't deny that they're incredibly highly regarded and remain super popular to this day. the difference is that one is a positive opinion and the other is a negative one, but both are instances of a person going against popular opinion. just because your personal opinions don't align 100% with popular opinion (pretty sure nobody on earth will completely agree with popular opinion in every instance ever) doesn't mean you're "denying objective reality."
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TopicNew Mr. Plinkett review for Star Wars Last Jedi
Mr Lasastryke
08/28/18 3:19:01 PM
#12
yeah, mike actually adored TFA so the plinkett review was more of an analysis than a critique. it's good but obviously it's not on the level of the prequel reviews (what is?).
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Topic*high fives ~70% of gamefaqs*
Mr Lasastryke
08/28/18 11:57:13 AM
#77
Vlado posted...
The difference is that they consider today's games as good or better than games from 15-20 years ago.


i still don't see much of a difference.

"i'm not a fan of [insert popular '90s nintendo game], even though i recognize that it's popular" - totally fine

"i'm a fan of fortnite, even though i recognize that it's a fad game and will probably be forgotten in a few years" - LOL YOU'RE REJECTING OBJECTIVE REALITY

?
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Topic*high fives ~70% of gamefaqs*
Mr Lasastryke
08/28/18 11:52:34 AM
#73
Vlado posted...
Nope. I'm aware they're popular. In fact, today, Nintendo has remained as one of the select few best game companies - I can admit that even if I'm not a fan.


...then what's the difference between you and the people you were bashing? pretty sure nobody is denying that they're popular games.
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Topic*high fives ~70% of gamefaqs*
Mr Lasastryke
08/28/18 11:47:49 AM
#68
Vlado posted...
But Nintendo's big franchises are not my cup of tea in general,


how are they not your cup of tea? most of nintendo's big franchise games from the '90s are still highly praised and popular today. are you denying objective reality?
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Topic*high fives ~70% of gamefaqs*
Mr Lasastryke
08/28/18 11:41:49 AM
#63
vlado, what do you think about super mario 64?
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Topic*high fives ~70% of gamefaqs*
Mr Lasastryke
08/28/18 10:52:46 AM
#58
Jakyl25 posted...
He gave OoT a 6/10 IIRC so he kinda liked it


oh ok. i was just thinking back to '04 when vlado was always like "nintendo sucks and all of their popular franchises are shit."
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Topic*high fives ~70% of gamefaqs*
Mr Lasastryke
08/28/18 10:47:58 AM
#56
Vlado posted...
Do people care about Final Fantasy VII and Ocarina of Time? Yes.


didn't you hate the old zelda games?
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Topic*high fives ~70% of gamefaqs*
Mr Lasastryke
08/28/18 10:16:42 AM
#43
Vlado posted...
The main problem is most people can't make a distinction between well-known today and well-known 20 years from now.


captain tsubasa ii isn't well known today. neither was it well known 20 years ago, for that matter. must be a terrible game.
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Topic*high fives ~70% of gamefaqs*
Mr Lasastryke
08/28/18 10:14:56 AM
#42
banananor posted...
the argument as to whether or not fortnite was well known in the first place was a bit of a smoke grenade on the discussion

is what i meant

it should've just been readily accepted background information


ah ok.
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Topic*high fives ~70% of gamefaqs*
Mr Lasastryke
08/28/18 10:14:16 AM
#40
keep telling myself what? I'M not saying fortnite is amazing, i'm saying you are, going by the logic you're using.

are you arguing with yourself?
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Topic*high fives ~70% of gamefaqs*
Mr Lasastryke
08/28/18 10:11:59 AM
#36
banananor posted...
the point of which itself is a distraction from the fact that vlado was saying

well known == amazing

earlier in the topic


it's not a distraction, it's an illustration for why it's bullshit.

vlado: "well known = amazing"

fortnite is well known.

ergo fortnite, a game vlado hates, is amazing (???).
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TopicPolitics Containment Topic 189: Flip or Flop
Mr Lasastryke
08/28/18 10:06:59 AM
#90
if facebook is banning all conservatives (which isn't really what's happening - stefan molyneux's facebook page is still up, for instance), why don't conservatives make their own facebook and go post there? i find it hilarious how conservatives - who so often go "THE GOVERNMENT IS EVIL" - go to the government to cry for help instead of taking matters into their OWN hands.
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TopicPolitics Containment Topic 189: Flip or Flop
Mr Lasastryke
08/28/18 9:43:25 AM
#83
the point is that if facebook/twitter censors conservative views, it doesn't matter. if i want to see infowars shit (saying this site does nothing but publish "conservative views" is being way too kind but i digress) i can still go to infowars.com to get it. if i can't find infowars anywhere anymore then yeah, that's a problem, but that's not the case. the people who whine about facebook and twitter "censoring" stuff are no different than the 13 year olds on this site who go to hellhole to whine about their moderations. "wahhhhhhhh my stupid troll post was deleted my freedom of speech is totally being oppressed!" shut up already.

however, what DOES matter is if the president decides that facebook has to publish infowars stuff. if trump forces private companies to publish certain stuff, the US will become a "the government controls the media" country, like berlusconi's italy. scary as fuck - the country is rapidly approaching dictatorship territory.
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Topic*high fives ~70% of gamefaqs*
Mr Lasastryke
08/28/18 9:23:19 AM
#29
Vlado posted...
Maybe if you ask a random man in his teens, 20s or early 30s, there's a halfway decent chance they know it. That's about it.


and you think my grandma HAS heard of ocarina of time?
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Topic*high fives ~70% of gamefaqs*
Mr Lasastryke
08/28/18 8:22:41 AM
#19
probably not everyone but i'd guess plenty of people have heard of it, yeah. certainly enough that i wouldn't assume that if i'd ask a random person on the street if they've heard of it i'd get a resolute "nope."
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Topic*high fives ~70% of gamefaqs*
Mr Lasastryke
08/28/18 8:16:35 AM
#17
fortnite has literally been in the news several times, at least in my country.
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TopicPolitics Containment Topic 189: Flip or Flop
Mr Lasastryke
08/28/18 7:52:30 AM
#73
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1034373707047882759

Google & others are suppressing voices of Conservatives and hiding information and news that is good. They are controlling what we can & cannot see.


uh no don. YOU are controlling what we "can & cannot see."
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TopicWhat movies "have" to be viewed in theaters?
Mr Lasastryke
08/27/18 4:19:47 PM
#49
PrivateBiscuit1 posted...
It's a monumentally worthless movie otherwise.


this also applies to avatar, btw.
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TopicIt is time for gun reform
Mr Lasastryke
08/27/18 11:29:19 AM
#153
Jakyl25 posted...
We just need the right people in control, people that probably dont exist.


ocasio-cortez dude
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TopicIt is time for gun reform
Mr Lasastryke
08/27/18 11:27:06 AM
#152
f0olmor0n posted...
It's so weird how liberals hate the police and hate Trump but are still so gung ho about federal gun control and centralization of power.


you act like it's just liberals who do this. gun girl somehow manages to combine "the government sucks it's the problem not the solution" and "EVERYONE HAS THE RIGHT TO HAVE A GUN SECOND AMENDMENT BLAH BLAH." (unless you're saying gun girl is a liberal which is fair)
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TopicIt is time for gun reform
Mr Lasastryke
08/27/18 11:21:45 AM
#150
MariaTaylor posted...
yes, that is what we're talking about here. the point isn't "I have posted data that refutes every argument n existence." the point is that I have posted data in the past that refuted arguments, but the same people still come back and post the same arguments. the cited topic is one such example and the first one that came to mind that I could clearly remember. as you've confirmed -- the topic did exist. so I'm not going to bother going through the effort of posting data or even really trying to convince people anymore. it's an exercise in futility.

SEP is asking me to go and research data to refute the argument that he is making, and I'm saying 'no, I don't want to, and here's why.'


fair enough! i thought you were saying you posted that specific data in that topic but i guess that was a misinterpretation on my part.
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TopicGamefaqs user censored for making mild political statement
Mr Lasastryke
08/27/18 11:09:58 AM
#41
"saddam was literally hitler" - sephyg
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TopicIt is time for gun reform
Mr Lasastryke
08/27/18 11:07:38 AM
#143
FWIW i just reread that entire foolmo topic and i didn't see any data about civilians stopping shootings after 0-2 killings. the only data that was posted concerned less guns per person not leading to less gun violence.
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TopicIt is time for gun reform
Mr Lasastryke
08/27/18 8:24:54 AM
#131
oh hey, i just found the foolmo topic in my own archive so i can at least confirm it exists! might post the data lisel was talking about here later.
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TopicIt is time for gun reform
Mr Lasastryke
08/27/18 8:02:48 AM
#129
MariaTaylor posted...
so I don't know if the archive only covers things from a specific time period,


i'm not as much of an expert on the archive as GMUN but i can say it's wildly inconsistent in what it contains. it only contains topics from '11-'12 and '16-'18 (excluding one period) and GMUN only started archiving every single topic last year, if i'm not mistaken (the archive is missing all of the old DWMF topics). so yeah, it's very unreliable for looking up old topics.
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TopicGamefaqs user censored for making mild political statement
Mr Lasastryke
08/27/18 7:26:44 AM
#32

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TopicWhat movies "have" to be viewed in theaters?
Mr Lasastryke
08/26/18 9:23:02 PM
#2
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TopicPolitics Containment Topic 188: Two for Tuesday
Mr Lasastryke
08/26/18 5:50:30 PM
#476
milo: "hey joe rogan, i feel bad for you because you weren't raped as a child! ...hey why is nobody giving me attention anymore? wahhhhhhhhhh!"

still an absolute piece of shit and the less we talk about him, the better.
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TopicGuardians of the Galaxy 3 production halted
Mr Lasastryke
08/26/18 5:36:19 PM
#104
MoogleKupo141 posted...
out of curiosity I did a search and found someone else try to make the Roy Moore comparison

https://twitter.com/education4libs/status/1024059766530875392?s=21

so this is probably where Ulti got it because he doesn't actually come up with anything on his own


i still love how the people who usually won't shut up about "social justice warriors" and "political correctness" are now so SUPER HIGHLY OFFENDED by a bunch of tasteless james gunn jokes. so slimey and disingenuous.
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TopicPolitics Containment Topic 188: Two for Tuesday
Mr Lasastryke
08/26/18 12:15:51 PM
#454
Corrik posted...
Jakyl25 posted...
God isnt real. Racism is.

Lmfao


what's so "lmfao" about that? are you a christian?
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TopicFreedom, Liberty, Ron Paul - More Diversity Edition [dwmf]
Mr Lasastryke
08/25/18 12:44:29 PM
#25
SmartMuffin posted...
He passionately defends Trump when Trump is being attacked for something dumb with bad logic,


who the fuck cares? "person x sometimes gets attacked for something dumb with bad logic" applies to literally every politician ever. ocasio-cortez constantly gets attacked by the right for dumb shit that doesn't matter with bad logic, but woods doesn't give a crap about that. apparently only trump deserves to get this special treatment from him. "omg people are attacking trump for no good reason! how dare they! he's only a billionaire president!"

but he has not defended anything like warmongering, tariffs, etc. at all


no, but it's not like he spends much time attacking trump for these things either.

this is more about image than anything. even if woods' behavior is consistent with his libertarian principles, that doesn't mean his behavior is right. if libertarians are constantly passionately defending trump and are never attacking him for being a super big government president, how do you think this makes them look? hell, it's even worse, because libertarians who DO dare speak out against trump get attacked by other libertarians for doing this. i've seen you attack jeffrey tucker on facebook for attacking trump - you said he was a "cuck who didn't get it" or something like that.

at least i remember bob murphy saying that he realized constantly defending trump wasn't good for the image of libertarians and he needed to do something about this. he finally realized something super obvious that other libertarians - tom woods, lew rockwell, lauren southern, gun girl, you, etc. etc. etc. - still don't realize.
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TopicRate the live action Speed Racer movie. (spoilers)
Mr Lasastryke
08/25/18 10:11:29 AM
#6
huh, i had no idea people liked this movie.
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