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TopicDonald Trump is truly the absolute scum of the earth. he just tweeted that
MrMallard
08/16/20 2:43:02 AM
#12
Guide posted...
best topic so far

but

Blue_Inigo posted...
Where are the Vietnamese girls

srsly though this is a nice, goofy surprise and I'm glad it happened

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TopicMy favorite part of MGSV is...(spoilers)
MrMallard
08/15/20 1:23:15 PM
#37
armandro posted...
uhhhh
started mission 45
realized im not ready for this

how do i go back?? i wanna get some blueprints and level up my rocket

You can't go into the settings/restart mission menu and click "Abort/Return to ACC"?

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TopicMy favorite part of MGSV is...(spoilers)
MrMallard
08/15/20 1:19:11 PM
#36
I agree, shit's fucked. I love MGS5's gameplay, but those extreme mission recaps are total dogshit

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TopicI heard some companies won't hire if you don't have social media profiles
MrMallard
08/15/20 1:18:00 PM
#16
If you haven't googled yourself in a while, I would recommend doing so to see what sort of stuff pops up. You'd be surprised at how many pictures of yourself show up in Google searches, or what profiles pop up.

If something big comes.up, try and rectify that.

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TopicGenghis Khan is being cancelled on twitter right now
MrMallard
08/15/20 1:09:04 PM
#2
I mean, when worst came to worst, Genghis did rape and pillage. Can't fault them for taking issue with that.

obviously this is silly, and there's a lot to say about Genghis Khan uniting the Mongols and allowing nations to keep their culture and sovereignty upon assimilation, but like c'mon dude

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TopicI heard some companies won't hire if you don't have social media profiles
MrMallard
08/15/20 1:05:29 PM
#12
This was a huge talking point when I was in high school. Like #2 said, LinkedIn is a requirement for certain jobs, but I don't know if a public Facebook is a requirement for a job any more.

like obviously don't post a bunch of unemployable horseshit on your Facebook page, because they can and will Google you and come across your social media, but the fact that you don't maintain a public social media page shouldn't matter too much unless they specify that they're looking for someone whose involved with social media in some capacity. But that's just what I think.

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TopicSo is epic right in suing Google and Apple?
MrMallard
08/15/20 12:23:25 PM
#32
JE19426 posted...
It doesn't whether Epic are free speech champions or not. Apple shouldn't be prevented 3rd party apps from being installed on your iPhone, and Google shouldn't be requiring that any phone manufacturers that want Google Play installed by default, not also have 3rd stores by default.

I agree completely. I also agree that Apple/Google's 30% cut of all transactions is ridiculous, and that if this does result in that cut reducing, then that would be a net benefit.

The issue is in framing this as "good guys vs bad guys", because there is no good guy here. This is meant to drum up good publicity for Epic Games, and as seen from their Fortnite parody of the Apple II "1984" trailer, they're clearly painting themselves as some weak underdog challenging a greater system of oppression.

If their practices were targeted for being predatory, or greedy, or invasive, Epic Games would release a statement downplaying those concerns and trying to normalize a process that hurts consumer's rights to make them richer. Apple shouldn't be preventing 3rd party apps and Google shouldn't be forcing apps onto phones, I agree completely - but my argument is that if given the same chance to monopolize a platform of their choosing, Epic Games would do the exact same thing if they believed it would be profitable.

They are not the good guys, they are not a defiant other challenging the oppressive shackles of a greater evil. They're another head of the corporate hydra, thirsty to grow out and replace a head that has been cut down.


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TopicGot blacklisted from the MAGA board, AMA
MrMallard
08/15/20 12:01:00 PM
#48
TopKekBro posted...
look at that guys signature, dont take him seriously. I may block him

I mean, I did make the sig to troll a few weeks ago when I was drunk, but I'm posting earnestly and responding to feedback in a constructive manner.

I broached a subject that I didn't think through due to a limited perspective, which is my bad, Guide offered a solid counterpoint, and I took that on board. I'll make dumb memes and trolly posts, but I'm not out here trying to post dishonestly.

The sig is your call, but at the end of the day I'm not gonna lose sleep over a dude named TopKekBro blocking me in a thread about how he baited a MAGA board by calling someone a "secret hispanic".

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TopicGot blacklisted from the MAGA board, AMA
MrMallard
08/15/20 11:40:32 AM
#34
Machete posted...
The ninetails alt is banned now and his next alt is suspended, probably banned or soon to be banned. He claimed he wasn't tails and didnt know tails at all even though he posted the same trash, had 82 in his username and mentioned the character tails in his sig. I can't tell if he just trolls incessantly or has something serious going on...

Tails82: *runs a WordPress blog dedicated to victimising himself and framing the actions of others as abusive and unwarranted*

Also Tails82: *posts on Reddit about spamming GameFAQs with porn, makes jokes about moderators being fat by calling them transgender ("their breasts are coming in"), literally spent hours of his free time spamming a dude on Twitter trying to get him cancelled*

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TopicGot blacklisted from the MAGA board, AMA
MrMallard
08/15/20 11:34:36 AM
#32
Guide posted...
Eh, depending on the context. Us minorities use it plenty ourselves. My family is mostly dark, I came out with those old old spaniard phenotypes so I'm pale like a sheet. we're all Hispanic, but I'm the only white-passing Hispanic, and so I'm the one to talk to police if we get pulled over.

Fair point. I do think this is an odd context to use it in, but I did go heavy handed on the term at large without considering the wider use/scope of the term.

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TopicGot blacklisted from the MAGA board, AMA
MrMallard
08/15/20 11:20:52 AM
#22
TopKekBro posted...
> a guy who goes by the name of caution(numbers) got mad and replied racist things.

I was gonna say something rude about you and dip, but lol yeah that's caution all right. Always gets hung up on people bringing his shitty racist discord messages up, saying he's apologized and that everyone's being unreasonable for bringing it up all the time when he's already apologized, then keeps making barely veiled racist shitposts and going off on Reddit with the other chucklefucks.

Anyway, A) what were you doing on a board like that to begin with, and B) it feels pretty slimy to see people using terms like "secret hispanic". I understand that your point was to expose hypocrisy, but there's something extremely suss about referring to non-white races with terms like "white-passing" and "secret *ethnic group/race*".

Like lol @ caution having a racist meltdown, but I'm not exactly sympathetic to people who post topics about "secret Hispanics" on a MAGA message board.

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TopicI saw some working class people in the street today, yelling at their child.
MrMallard
08/15/20 11:08:35 AM
#6
Working hard, or hardly working?

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TopicSo is epic right in suing Google and Apple?
MrMallard
08/15/20 10:57:53 AM
#29
Google/Apple are corporations who keep tabs on every single thing you do on their tech products, and if you're anywhere in the vicinity of one of their smart devices they can keep tabs on your offline life too. These are companies who sift through every word you say/type in order to cater advertisements towards you and manipulate you into spending money, who hear domestic violence and rape through their devices and refuse to act on it because they would - justifiably - be called out as spying devices which would hurt sales. They employ real people to monitor audio, and they don't cover counselling or other mental health services in the event of a traumatic occurrence like listening to a man beat his kids or rape his partner.

Epic Games has had close ties to Tencent, with 48% of their stock being owned by the company at some point - though there's a solid chance that Tencent owns less stock than they used to. Because the Chinese government can have unlimited access to information that's stored on Chinese servers at any time, if Epic ever stores your personal information - name, address, bank details, spending habits, player engagement - on a Chinese server, your information is open to the Chinese government.

Basically, unless they store all user information in a location where that info is protected by the law - which a company working closely with China is unlikely to do, as keeping details of Chinese players away from the eyes of the CCP is most likely illegal - or handle information pertaining to Chinese players separately from information pertaining to international players - which is almost certainly impossible in a game where you can play online freely with Chinese players, guaranteeing that any information pertaining to their game time will be accessible to the Chinese government - your information is not secure when you give it to Epic Games.

And honestly, your data is never safe with anyone - including Google/Apple - because next to no-one wants to pay more for hosting than they have to, and companies want the freedom to profit off of your private information which would be restricted in a country where your privacy is protected by the law. But let's not kid ourselves here, Epic doesn't care about freedom. They would store an unsolicited picture of yourself doing something private and embarrassing, and they would sell it to as many paying companies as they could just to turn a buck.

The thing is, Apple and Google do the exact same thing, on a larger, more terrible scale. Your information is exploited just as much, if not moreso, and it's likely going to China just as much as your Epic account state are going to China.

Epic is not a lesser evil by being a smaller business than Apple or Google, and engaging in the same practices in an inherently smaller manner. They are not your friends.

TL;DR none of them are justified, none of them are more righteous than the other ones. Your information is money to them, and they'll squeeze as much blood out of that stone as they can. Epic are not free speech champions. Google/Apple are monopolistic hell-corporations who exploit your entire earthly presence for profit, and Epic Games is doing everything in their power to match exactly what they're doing.

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TopicI got moderated because I said Republicans are evil lol.
MrMallard
08/15/20 2:54:09 AM
#35
Republicans are evil.

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TopicI don't get the "weeaboo" comic
MrMallard
08/13/20 5:51:37 PM
#16
fuck it this is a pbf thread now


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TopicI don't get the "weeaboo" comic
MrMallard
08/13/20 5:48:57 PM
#13
Just had a look at the Perry Bible Fellowship homepage, and


he's still got it

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TopicI don't get the "weeaboo" comic
MrMallard
08/13/20 5:45:50 PM
#10
Metua posted...
I get that it's supposed to be a nonsense word, but I don't understand the comic itself. >_>

I don't think it's meant to make sense. A man said a certain word, workplace culture for some reason dictates that this word is grounds for a paddling, and every other office worker take it in turns paddling his ass like they're in a fraternity. It looks like this business trades in weeaboo or something, which would make it a pretty common word in that particular workplace.

It's just something offbeat and absurd, don't think about it so much.

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TopicHow to fuck with a home owner's association
MrMallard
08/13/20 5:42:50 PM
#31
fire_bolt posted...
Depending on the area a seller may literally not be allowed to sell you the house unless you sign and agree to participate in the HOA. It varies from state to state and even city to city in some states with HOAs having A LOT of power in some places. If you live in an HOA you do own the property but you are contractually obligated to certain duties and restrictions, usually including not renting it out and proper maintenance etc. I personally think they're just about the worst thing ever fucking created and am glad I live in a state that has given very little power to HOAs on what they are allowed to do at all

Yeah, there's no point to owning a home if you're going to be held to rental standards. What a bizarrely American thing.

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TopicI don't get the "weeaboo" comic
MrMallard
08/13/20 5:41:13 PM
#6
nemu posted...
That comic is what created the term, which was then turned into its current incarnation. Most of his comics are absolute nonsense, so don't put any thought into it.

Yep. Literally a nonsense term removed from whatever tenuous context it was born in and applied to a bunch of young, silly xenophiles.

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TopicHow to fuck with a home owner's association
MrMallard
08/13/20 5:36:14 PM
#26
Hexenherz posted...
They can take you to court and sue for the fines and if you refuse to pay in that case then they can get your house taken away.

Then I maintain - that's a glorified rental. If you're forced to join a home owner's association for a house you bought, where they can fine you for not meeting their standards and take you to court to get you evicted, then you don't really own that house. The HOA own that entire neighbourhood, including your house, and you're not actually free to live in it as you see fit. You really might as well have a fucking landlord.

Not all HOAs are equal though. I don't even know why the hell ours exists, like I said they barely give a shit what you do. You do still have to submit any sort of obvious modification plans to them (like if you want to get a fence installed or a completely new porch installed) but as long as it doesn't blatantly violate any rules of the HOA they don't care.

And like I said people have gone without paying for years and no one's done anything to them.

It feels like a technicality that we have it.

It's good to hear that some HOAs aren't known to fuck people in the ass, and as far as restrictions go the ones in your post at least sound reasonable. But the fact that there are ones that can go so far as to take you to court and try to kick you out of your home is a serious problem. Like that's some shit that happens when you're renting, just on a much larger scale.

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TopicHow to fuck with a home owner's association
MrMallard
08/13/20 5:23:16 PM
#17
Like, if you buy a house in a neighbourhood with a HOA, can you simply not pay their bills and refuse to take part in it?

Seriously, if you've put money down on a house, there should be no legal standing to evict you given that you're paying your taxes and utilities. A HOA can't reasonably evict you from a house you own, right?

Unless HOA houses actually count as belonging to the association, at which point you're paying top dollar for a glorified rental.

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TopicHow to fuck with a home owner's association
MrMallard
08/13/20 5:19:35 PM
#14
SolidShadow3 posted...
Never really understood how HOAs work.

"Okay, i'm so glad you became a Home Owner! Now that you Own your own house, here are some rules you need to follow regarding it. Also, we're going to need you to give us money, and if you do something we don't like, you're going to have to pay us for that as well AND stop doing it!"

If I buy a house and want to paint it purple, no one is stopping me.

Exactly. Once you put the money down on a house, you shouldn't be forced to work with a fruity organisation that bills you for hundreds of dollars if they don't like your mailbox. That shit is your property, and any superfluous committee who wants to police that can get fucked.

That doesn't mean "do what you feel like without any regard for your neighbours" - like don't blast thrash metal at full volume all week, don't leave clutter in your yard etc. Even if you keep to yourself, being a good neighbour is important. I just don't think a bunch of self-important dipshits should be policing anyone about their own property, much less issuing fines. That's demented.

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TopicHow to fuck with a home owner's association
MrMallard
08/13/20 5:02:56 PM
#1

God HOAs sound like dogshit

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TopicGeorgia HS With Viral Photo Reopens Again After 35 Students/Teachers Catch COVID
MrMallard
08/13/20 4:53:56 PM
#10
They opened the school, suspended a kid for showing a flagrant disregard for social distancing, shut down again after 35 people got sick with it... and now they're re-opening again.

Chances are, those 35 people infected even more people around them and the symptoms haven't begin to manifest, and they'll have to close the school when 100 of them come down with the virus. And then they'll re-open again after a surface level clean, and the people that those people infected will begin showing symptoms.

People are going to die from this, and the people responsible won't be the ones signing letters apologizing to families for killing their kids.

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TopicNew King Gizzard video, they're going all in on the microtones
MrMallard
08/13/20 11:30:59 AM
#1
https://youtu.be/R0BEw4pqvAo

I don't think this will be my type of album, but I'm down to support it.

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TopicI need a new, lighthearted game to play after this dark shit
MrMallard
08/13/20 11:24:06 AM
#29
averagejoel posted...
Untitled Goose Game

This is a good one. If you have Game Pass for Xbox or PC, you might be able to play this one for free.

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TopicI need a new, lighthearted game to play after this dark shit
MrMallard
08/13/20 11:14:19 AM
#26
If you like dark fantasy, Hand of Fate 2 might be a good time. It's not "happy" per se, moreso kind of grimy and gritty, but it's satisfying to play a campaign and win.

A Robot Named Fight has a dingy atmosphere, but if you like Super Metroid, you'll probably get a kick out of this game. The developer basically made a Metroid rogue-like, and there's dozens of items to come across and unlock for future runs. When you get into the game, it's like a brain massage.

You might benefit from Ring Fit Adventure, it has a very silly tone and the physical exercise aspect could help your brain release endorphins if you don't exercise regularly. Saying this from personal experience, for the record.

I haven't been playing a lot of happy games myself - Fallout 3, Skyrim and Metal Gear Solid 5. Outside of something like Animal Crossing, which is stressful it its own way, I don't have any outright positive games to recommend. But these games make me feel good when I play them despite their tone, and I hope you can get something out of these suggestions.

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TopicReminder that Trump willingly participated in NK propaganda
MrMallard
08/13/20 10:38:34 AM
#1
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/06/12/reporters-thought-this-video-was-north-korea-propaganda-it-came-from-the-white-house/

Trump paid lip service to a man who's executed people via anti-aircraft gun, sent secret police after fleeing families who have subsequently raped, killed and sicced attack dogs on people who haven't been able to leave, suppressed information and actively pitted people against the outside world while presenting himself as a god. This man is a despot who keeps families in poverty and has them shot like dogs for failing to praise him enthusiastically. He's intimidated other countries by flying dummy missiles over them, and he keeps the world focused on his country by threatening to launch nuclear weapons.

Donald Trump has characterised his correspondence with Kim Jong Un as "love letters". He's defended North Korea from criticism, and he's downplayed their human rights violations. He has enthusiastically rubbed elbows with a man who uses rape, murder and starvation to maintain control over his country's people.

Is it that much of a stretch to characterise someone who's spoken glowingly of a despot and a fascist -who has gone on to erode an essential service in his own country to limit the amount of mail-in ballots for an upcoming election, who has appropriated symbols of white supremacy and fascism in his campaign videos and merchandise - as a fascist sympathiser, or as a fascist himself?

Links to white supremacist symbol: https://twitter.com/brooklynmarie/status/1166890536885579776?s=20

Links to Nazi iconography on official merchandise: https://globalnews.ca/news/7130932/trump-nazi-eagle-logo-america-first/

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TopicM E G A, Upload to me To-day. Send me a file
MrMallard
08/13/20 10:17:47 AM
#4
Garioshi posted...
is this supposed to be a parody of mr sandman

I read it like that too.

M E G A, up-load to me to-day/
Send me a file, and make sure it's gay

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TopicTrump confessed on live TV to defunding the USPS to influence the election.
MrMallard
08/13/20 10:15:43 AM
#30
Just want to chime in to counter any "this is hopeless, no-one will stop anything, there's no point" sentiment. This is absolutely terrible what's going on, and considering how brazenly the Republican party have interfered with your right to vote, it's completely understandable to feel gutted about what's going on.

But the second you roll over, that's a win for the shitheads who have created this scenario. Above all else, you have to fight this to the bitter end. You need to exercise your right to vote, and you need to do everything in your power to attempt a challenge against these actions. Even if it fails, at least you can say that you tried to quell the rise of fascism.

The second you succumb to the doomer mentality, the Republicans have won a victory over you - all they have to do is demoralize and disenfranchise enough of their opponents to win, and submitting to this mindset makes their victory that much more certain. Even if it feels hopeless, to the point you've totally given up, even if the Republicans will do everything in their power to discount your vote and cheat their way to the top, you need to challenge it until the results are called. Even if the system has been intentionally fucked to discard your vote, you need to vote. If only to go down with the ship and say you tried, in the face of your rights as an American citizen being violated.

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TopicIs it okay to order pizza from the same place 2 days in a row?
MrMallard
08/13/20 5:21:20 AM
#12
Are you hungry? Are you gonna eat well if you don't get pizza?

If the answers to those questions are "yes" and "no", then get the pizza

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TopicWhat happens if Harris becomes president and gets pregnant?
MrMallard
08/13/20 4:44:14 AM
#14
Jacinta Ardern, the PM of New Zealand, had a child in office. Have some faith in your country, or concede that NZ is better lmao

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TopicA comedy blog from my childhood got rebooted as a cannabis blog
MrMallard
08/13/20 4:38:32 AM
#9
Man, I was the most annoying little shit on Newgrounds back in the day. I joined during its second iteration I think - like there's the recent overhaul, then there's the design before that one. I joined before that.

My account name was tittytoucher lmao

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TopicA comedy blog from my childhood got rebooted as a cannabis blog
MrMallard
08/13/20 3:59:32 AM
#2
Have you ever seen a website from your childhood get hijacked?

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TopicIf the rumors about what Sony will announce tomorrow are true...
MrMallard
08/12/20 4:49:48 PM
#36
DarthAragorn posted...
I can't imagine being excited for a fucking Final Fantasy game in 2020

I understand where you're coming from, but between Final Fantasy 7 Remake and Dragon Quest XI doing so well, I genuinely have hope that 16 might be a return to form of some kind.

I know how stupid it sounds, that the sixteenth installment of a franchise is going to be a good one, but I think they're putting out better games now than they did last gen or earlier in the current gen and I don't think they're going all out on the bluster like they did early in the PS3's lifecycle.

13 was divisive, and it took years of troubled production for it to come out. They threw tens of millions of dollars into that game, and they went all out on "turn-based battles are dead, we're modernizing the JRPG", and it didn't land. They had to recoup their costs by making a trilogy of XIII games with the same tech as the first game, shunting Versus to the side for years, while nuking the launch version of 14 and starting again from scratch. Then 15 came out and that was divisive - better received than 13, but it definitely had its failures, leading to planned content getting scrapped and its director leaving the company.

But since then, we've got a Final Fantasy 7 Remake that actually strikes a workable balance between ARPG and JRPG mechanics, and while I don't think any Dragon Quest game has been received poorly per se, it's still encouraging that XI has done so well. I honestly think that Final Fantasy XVI could cap off a trifecta of awesome releases, signifying that Square Enix has learnt from its biggest mistakes and are back in the business of making great games.

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TopicCreators of Avatar: Last Airbender leave Netflix remake
MrMallard
08/12/20 4:30:56 PM
#53
I mean the Air Nomads are based on Tibetian monks, the Water Tribes are based on Inuit people, the Earth Kingdom is based on China and the Fire Nation is based on Japan. Casting non-white actors to portray the main cast isn't "wokeness gone mad", and you're a fake fan if you think it is lmao

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Topic'Marvel's Avengers is a big budget, corporate-led waste of a good idea.'
MrMallard
08/12/20 2:34:42 PM
#112
Slayer_22 posted...
What? A game needs to be 'necessary'? No game is necessary.

All the Avengers stories(minus Infinity War) are totally obvious.

The game exists in it's own space, all it shares is similar designs to the movie, and only really Mark Ruffalo's Bruce Banner. The rest are similar enough to their comic book counterparts. Like...seriously, if not for Bruce Banner, they'd be the same as the comic book Avengers visually.

Imo, it fills a very important place for Marvel games: a multiplayer action game. Call MUA what you want, but it's no different from Diablo. And it isn't better than MUA1, more similar to 2, just a bit better. With a really, really odd system to unlock all the DLC characters that I'm not a fan of.

Plus it's Switch exclusive.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that those games feel like they exist for a reason, while this newest Avengers game feels like it's sprung out of the ether and trying to sell me something I don't want or need.

Ultimate Alliance 3 looks charming and stylised, and I'm interested in the experience it offers. The LEGO games, while not as good as they used to be, are like comfortable background noise that fill a gap. Spider-Man looks like a robust, fully-featured product that sells the experience of being Spider-Man.

The Avengers just doesn't feel like that to me. In comparison, it almost feels forced.

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TopicCreators of Avatar: Last Airbender leave Netflix remake
MrMallard
08/12/20 2:18:22 PM
#50
gfdi

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Topic'Marvel's Avengers is a big budget, corporate-led waste of a good idea.'
MrMallard
08/12/20 2:12:08 PM
#101
The thing is, this doesn't feel like a necessary game.

You've got Ultimate Alliance 3, PS4 Spider-Man and the LEGO games. They all pay lip service to the big hitters at Marvel, and they also engage in silly little homages to obscure scraps of Marvel history. Then you have a big, AAA game based on the popular movie Avengers... where the characters look very generic and un-like themselves, engaging in rubbish blockbuster cliches. Like what's the point of seeing a pointless, shitty conflict and team dissolution plot where a plucky young upstart has to get the band back together to save the world when it's obvious that Captain America is going to turn up at some point in the game and lead the Avengers to victory over MODOK or whatever bad guy they picked? They're not even hiding it in the promotional material, he's right there in the OP.

Like, the reason people like the movies is because they're a little offbeat at times, everything about the characters feels iconic, and while the stories are a bit cookie-cutter and tropey at times, the characters are charming and familiar enough to carry them. None of the characters in this game feel familiar - Bruce Banner looks like a budget Huey Emmerich from Metal Gear Solid, Iron Man and Thor are a bunch of generic-ass action figures with no personality, Black Widow looks terrible... the only character that looks okay is Ms. Marvel, presumably because there's no on-screen version of her yet and her design doesn't feel like an absence of something else. It wouldn't surprise me if this game showed up on What Happened in a couple of months with the info that the game was meant to feature the likenesses of the movie cast. And the dialogue shown so far sounds generic and trite. So there's a plot that - while probably passable on its own - hinges on a story detail that promotional screenshots of the game are spoiling, and subsequently can be worked backwards to a bunch of cliche faff, and characters who look bland as shit and who rattle off some of the most brain-dead, trite dialogue in promotional materials for the game. Literally the only thing I want to see in this game is MODOK, and I severely doubt his appearance alone justifies spending the rest of the game with a bunch of generic play-doh recreations of the Avengers.

And again - there have been Marvel games recently that have paid tribute to these characters and done them well enough. This game just looks tedious from the get-go, like it's not worth the effort. The only way I can explain how off-putting I find the designs is if they were planning to use the movie cast for ages, but then the contract ran out and they had to whip up some basic generic approximations of the characters.

Spider-Man is its own thing. Ultimate Alliance is its own thing. Even the LEGO games are their own thing. This feels incomplete, like it's chasing something, and I can't pin down its audience.

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TopicA comedy blog from my childhood got rebooted as a cannabis blog
MrMallard
08/12/20 1:30:04 PM
#1
Not gonna say the name, obviously, but it was centred around eating awful candies they found at dollar stores and shit. I'm talking "fizzy milk", where you drop a tablet into a glass of milk to fizz it all up, "circus peanuts" which are apparently like eating styrofoam packing peanuts, and the infamous bag labelled "pulp of tamarind" which was as sticky as rubber cement, obnoxiously sweet to the point of glurge, and ridiculously spicy.

The guys writing the blog would have been around college age at the time, which would make them roughly 35-40 depending on when the blog was started. It was around when I was on the internet, which started when I was 10-11 in 2005-6, and they had already stopped posting articles.

So one of the guys comes back in 2018, wipes all the old articles except for the first post, and makes an update post explaining his situation. He's hard on his luck, apparently slipping in and out of homelessness, and he's taken a shine to CBD oil and cannabis. He signs off by saying he can't wait to update "the world's best bad candy blog", and... bounces. for a month or something, idk. All the articles are accessible by month, and there are three articles in three months.

The old articles were written in an exaggerated, goofy way. Their pulp of tamarind has this bit where the writer describes scraping the pulp put of his mouth with a spoon because it's too thick to swallow, and the spoon bends. In one of their later articles, which was a lot more wacky and dumb, one of their friends dons a flamboyant Cuban persona and a fake mustache so his friends will let him test some awful candy, and it's so unpleasant that he rips his shirt open, fist fights a bunch of them and runs out into the street screaming "ay ay ay!". The article ends with them saying the cops needed to put three tranq darts in him before he went down, which confuses everyone because he's a pretty scrawny dude.

So you'd expect some of that punch to be in the next two articles. But it's not. It's a straight-up informational article acting as a buyer's guide for CBD oil. Dry tone, no personality. And the one after that is an article about kratom, which is this new niche shit that this guy preaches the value of. He revived the blog, got rid of the relevant posts, and used the site as a springboard to talk about cannabis products.

I feel bad for the guy, but this is a fucked up way to treat something I remember so fondly. trsrockin.com, another childhood haunt (where I discovered the existence of fanfiction, and learned about Pokemon glitching), came to an end because it was a HTML Pokemon fansite from the early 2000's generating no revenue, and the server costs for a dead website weren't worth paying any more - that's fine. This guy returns to a dead blog, deletes the articles and makes 2 posts talking about fringe weed shit before disappearing forever.

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Topicimagine living in a country where you can't rotate plugs 180 degrees
MrMallard
08/12/20 10:11:57 AM
#3
Imagine living in a country where your average cop is a jock with 4 weeks of training.

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TopicNow that the PS4 has almost wrapped up what has been the best Playstation?
MrMallard
08/12/20 2:14:58 AM
#6
PS2

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TopicPotheads of CE owe me an apology: Pot is addictive. Fact.
MrMallard
08/12/20 1:58:50 AM
#27
Of course it's addictive, anyone shouting about how it's a plant and how it can't be a bad thing because it's good for nature is a fucking idiot. I do think it's the safest drug, maybe even moreso than alcohol, and I think it has more business being sold as an 18+ substance than tobacco - but it is an addictive substance without a doubt, and it is bad for you.

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TopicI ordered my copy of Nonagon Infinity 4 months ago, and it arrived today
MrMallard
08/12/20 1:54:00 AM
#1


I got it for the cheapest price I could get it for - $18. Had to import it from Britain.

The booklet has a matte feel to it, and it looks very clean. The art on the CD is a bit underwhelming, but whatever. Not happy about it coming in a cardboard sleeve - it's hard to get the disc in and out, and I'm worried about scratching it. But hey, it was $18 or $30+, and absolutely fucking nowhere had it in stock. I'm just happy I got it.

I'm thinking about transferring the disc and booklet to a jewel case, I have a bunch of dogshit CDs I got for a dollar each that I wouldn't mind throwing out.

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TopicTransgender WOMAN shows off TRANSFORMATION! Are they better as MALE or FEMALE??
MrMallard
08/12/20 1:48:04 AM
#26
As a guy she had a bit of a BJ Novak look, very handsome. As a woman she reminds me a lot of Shelley Duvall with those big eyes.

The hands throw me off, but she does make for a nice-looking lady.

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TopicIs it scummy to join grindr to meet trans women?
MrMallard
08/12/20 12:16:45 AM
#9
CasualGuy posted...
Also this app is trash

Most people write something dumb as their name, don't have any pics (or only 1) and expect people to respond to them?

I would assume that people don't put so much effort into their profile because "any hole's a goal". Doesn't matter what someone looks like if they're down to plow.

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TopicIs it scummy to join grindr to meet trans women?
MrMallard
08/12/20 12:12:13 AM
#6
I mean, if they're on there...

If dudes are getting mad, try swapping out "no men" for "trans only". They might feel targeted by the former, and while dudes might still feel upset at being left out, the latter states exactly what demographic you're looking for.

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TopicImagine being an evangelical
MrMallard
08/11/20 11:56:43 AM
#1
Imagine

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TopicGod doesn't hate gay people, change my mind
MrMallard
08/11/20 11:55:30 AM
#21
DuranOfForcena posted...
wat

You heard me

coh posted...
Christianity teaches that God disapproves of homosexual acts but that doesn't mean God hates people for being homosexual

This is a hard concept to grasp for a lot of people
Is there a passage to explain this, or

R1masher posted...
Cherry picking

Prove it son

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TopicGod doesn't hate gay people, change my mind
MrMallard
08/11/20 11:43:01 AM
#14
Blue_Target posted...
its Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve
This, however, is flawless logic. I don't know why I supported bush and trump until this interpretation came along.

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