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Mead posted...

I know its a text document but they could still describe bloopers at the end

Hey, it ends with the world burning and everybody dying, that's plenty funny enough.
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I spent most of the 90s stuck in the 80s.
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Revelation34 posted...

I'll maybe check it out one day. Achievements would probably be easy to get.

Based on the released list, they really half-assed the whole thing. Made every achievement worth about 50 points each, and almost all of them are ones you get automatically in the course of the story.

Some of them might be a bit difficult, though (if you're planning to complete/platinum the whole thing). There are achievements for beating the game on Hard and Extreme, but there's also one for beating a Gauntlet mode that can be a bit annoying.
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Mead posted...

So why is it considered a comedy

The original definition of "comedy" and "tragedy" weren't "funny" and "sad", they were more indicators of whether or not a story was going to have a happy ending, or if the main character was going to be broken by the gods or their own hubris and suffer in a way that the audience can sympathize with. It's the definition mostly applied to stuff like Greek plays and Shakespeare.

Though you could also chalk it up to cultural differences. If you were living in a time with a 50%+ infant mortality rate where you could die from plague, famine, or neighboring tribes/nations coming to kill you to take your stuff any given week, you probably wouldn't be inclined to smile all that much either.
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PunishedOni posted...

who is the audience for this

The audience for SNL is the same audience for late-night talk shows. Namely, "Middle America". The "Fly-Over States". The same people who still watch "The Simpsons" 20+ years after it should have been cancelled.

At a certain point, people stop watching shows because they're good, and just keep watching them out of a sort of social inertia. "This is what I've always watched, so I will continue to watch" is a comfortable, stabilizing feeling for people in a world that can seem incredibly chaotic at times.

Also stoners. Stoners will watch pretty much anything late at night (Adult Swim has repeatedly proven this for years).



Mead posted...

13-14 year olds

this has always been the case

This has never really been the case.



Zangulus posted...

People don't seem to realize SNL has ALWAYS been hit or miss.

Yeah, but the trick is, SNL tends to cycle between periods where it's mostly hit/occasionally miss, where it's mostly miss/occasionally hit, and when it's a LOT of hits/very few misses. Or times like now, when it's almost entirely miss and where the hell are the hits?

There's a reason why people praise certain seasons (and casts) more than others, and why the show was almost cancelled in 1980. There's also a reason why so many movies have been spun off SNL in the past, but it's hard to imagine anyone making a movie about any of the current cast or their characters.

We're not talking about a show that has always churned out a lot of shit and a few memorable skits that sort of justify the rest. There were times when nearly every sketch was at least good (if not great), and there have been multiple times when people start asking "Why is this still on the air?" Usually, the success rate of the show shifts over the years as they change cast (with new, unexpected breakout cast members) and get new writers in, but SNL has sort of been in a slump for a long time now, and it seems less and less likely every year that we're ever going to get a new resurgent year where it's suddenly much better again.
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PMarth2002 posted...

Nope. You get into an accident on a motorcycle and you're probably dead.

This is more or less how my brother died. He was sitting at an intersection and a bitch in an SUV plowed into him because she was fucking around on her phone and wasn't paying attention.
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RE:V isn't even remotely as hyped as MGSV was. The memes certainly came hard and fast out of pretty much nowhere, but there were people who were turning MGSV into a borderline religion before it came out.
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DeltaBladeX posted...

Yup. I was doing Extreme with Cleric, and my Rogue had beaten the first run as well.

I just enjoy playing as Dorn for the ridiculous dialogue. And for the romance!
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You'll probably be less keen once you hit disc 2.
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DeltaBladeX posted...

Four. Archer sucked though. Needed more arrows all the time.

Three - Drizzt is an optional unlock, but you can't play as him when you first start. Your initial choice is basically Fighter, Sorceress, or shit Archer.

The starting options in DA2 were better - Barbarian, Cleric, Monk, Rogue, Necromancer.
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Why does everyone say "Elementary my dear Watson" and "Beam me up Scotty", in spite of the fact that those lines were never used in the original things they're from?
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DeltaBladeX posted...

Guessing they are ignoring the cliffhanger then?

As far as we know, yes.

It's not about any of the characters from the original games, it's about Drizzt and his crew. And it's about a thousand miles farther north. And about 20 years earlier.

So no, no mysterious evil dude from Mulhorand as the bad guy this time around.
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wolfy42 posted...

I still have my original BGDA but not 2 (which i liked a bit more).

I've got DA1 on the PS2 and DA2 on the Xbox.

I still have the original consoles so I COULD theoretically pull them out of storage if I wanted to play either, but it feels easier to just go with re-releases (if they're worthwhile) or rely on backwards compatibility (if it isn't too shit). I know when I played DA2 on my 360 the audio was a bit choppy (which is always a problem with emulated "backwards compatible" games) and lag was a significant issue.



wolfy42 posted...

The new BGDA3 they are making is totally different, and revolved around the Crystal Shard story by RA Salvatore.

It's basically Icewind Dale: Dark Alliance and not Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance.

It's why they literally took the "Baldur's Gate" out of the title and are just calling it Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance now.
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Smarkil posted...

I'm not going to sift through all the covid articles to find the data, but antivaxxers were definitely very popular among the more 'progressive' communities prior to covid. The hippie types. If anything, it was probably more left wing before this.

This, honestly. It was definitely a thing on both sides of the political spectrum, at least until Covid and the Internet turned it into yet another way to polarize over Trump, at which point it became more visibly Right.

Jenny McCarthy was one of the major anti-vax personalities years ago, and she's pretty strongly anti-Republican.
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Zeus posted...

or suggesting that Ric Flair cut his hair and adopt a gladiator gimmick to "get with the times"

Hey now, Spartacus would have revolutionized wrestling! Just look how popular it was 20 years later when Starz made a TV show about it.

Herd was a visionary!
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OneGrumpyUncle posted...

but they are combining all multi-platform games boards together so its just going to turn into a console war most the time probably.

That was my first thought as well.

"I'm having a problem with X. Any help/advice?"

"Just use cheats/edit your save file/use a mod."

"I can't do that, I'm playing on the PSexbox."

"lol play on PC, scrub."

Yes, that's some helpful advice right there!

Not that I'm likely going to be using the game boards anyway, because they've been shit for years and YouTube walkthroughs, game-specific Wikis, and Reddit are all better for figuring things out at this point than GameFAQs is.
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Applebees is about the only one I ever really went to on a semi-regular basis (maybe once every year or two).

Denny's is basically just a diner, so it's easy to just go to one of those instead.

I thought Golden Corral went out of business years ago.



party_animal07 posted...

There are mom and pop shops that do what most of those places do, but better, so I won't be too broken up.

Yeah, but how many of those mom & pop shops have been forced out of business themselves, either from competing with the chains or from the pandemic?

If chains are hurting, I can't imagine that smaller single places aren't.
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Mead posted...

but then they release and I play them and its like . . .oh

That was sort of my path for BG3 even without playing it.

They announced it and I was like "Holy fuck, BG3? YES."

Then I noticed Larian was working on it, and people mentioned it was probably going to feel more like a successor to Divinity than an actual BG game, and I was like "...meh."

Then they leaked that it was mostly going to revolve around mind flayers and the Gith, and I was like "Bleh."

Then it was released in year-long early-access beta and turned out to be a buggy, broken mess, and I was like "Ugh."

And then I watched a few let's plays of it on YouTube and was mostly like, "Man, this all looks like it pretty much full-on sucks."

At this point I can't imagine ever wanting to play it at all. And that sort of apathy then spreads, so now I barely give a shit about the existence of any other potential future D&D games either. Considering how badly it feels like they fucked this one up, I can't imagine a scenario where any other games are going to be any better. They're all probably just going to be shitty cash-ins on the existing IP brand recognition rather than worthwhile games in their own right.

BG3 feels like a cult brand IP that they could have slam-dunked, but they completely missed their shot on - and now they've burned most of that hype and goodwill up. They're never going to be able to cash that particular check again, and it's kind of a shame.

Then again, that seems to be the running trend lately. Cyberpunk and V:tM Bloodlines 2 sort of fall into the same sort of camp, and those were spectacularly fucked up as well.
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VioletMassacre posted...

So what, it will look like two different websites depending on where you are, social boards or game boards?

It will be the ultimate final evolution of the GameFAQs/GameSpot merger.
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JigsawTDC posted...

You can always tell when the people who complain about the most mundane shit obviously grew up/are privileged.

Wouldn't that mean you're the most overprivileged one of all because right now you're at the back-end of the human complainapede?
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Mead posted...

demand from a cult following will do that

It was almost certainly rushed out because, with the original announcement that Larian was working on BG3 (which feels a lot like BG in name only), a lot of old-school fans pointed out that they should have just revived the Dark Alliance franchise since in a lot of ways it meshes better with modern sensibilities in terms of gameplay.

With a lot of people talking up the old Dark Alliance games, someone in WotC or even higher up in Hasbro probably said "Man, we should rerelease that and try and cash in on this."

Either that, or since they were already working on what is essentially supposed to be "Dark Alliance 3" (which itself ironically has almost nothing to do with Dark Alliance and almost feels more like an Icewind Dale sequel), they figured a quick rerelease of the first two would be a nice, cheap way to get a bit of extra PR to help spur the hype for the new game.

WotC has been pushing real hard to get a bunch of D&D games into the pipeline while the popularity of the franchise is high again. We're probably going to see even more coming down the way soon.



Ferarri619 posted...

Can anyone tell me, how is the story? Is it good even if I'm unfamiliar with DnD/Baldur's Gate?

It's barely a story, and it's completely unrelated to the Baldur's Gate/BGII:Shadows of Amn/BGII:Throne of Bhaal games that were on PC.

The first Dark Alliance game is basically "You're a hero, there are bad guys, now go kill them." There's a bit more plot than that, but not much, and it's mostly self-contained in the game (so you don't really need to know much about the setting or the other games to understand it). It actually makes a nice, simplistic introduction to the setting if you're not familiar with the Forgotten Realms already (the Dark Alliance games were actually my first real introduction to the setting, and helped me get way more into it later). You basically start out playing as "Generic Fighter", "Generic Archer", or "Generic Sorceress", and you show up in the city of Baldur's Gate "for reasons". Then you get the cliched "go into the tavern basement and kill rats" starter quest, and then stuff happens.

The second Dark Alliance game has more story (though not a TON more, it's still a Diablo-clone hack-and-slash from 17 years ago), the five main characters are a bit more developed and interesting (and each gets their own unique sidequest), and the main bad guy is a little more robust, but it's mostly just a slight improvement on the original rather than a complete innovation.

If you've ever played the original Diablo games, I tend to think of the Dark Alliance games as sort of falling somewhere between the original Diablo and Diablo II in terms of both game and narrative complexity.
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I thought it was because you're supposed to use it to beat children.
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Mead posted...

They recently sharpened all the angles I think, for some reason

Well, no, that was just part of the plan to summon the Hounds of Tindalos.
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Personally, I don't get piercings, tattoos, implants, or cosmetic surgery in general, but nobody's listening to me either.
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adjl posted...

Maybe they're trying to make it look continuous with the ads to drive up accidental ad clicks for more revenue.

It's probably a case where, after the site changed owners last year, the new owners came in and went "We love everything so much, that's why we bought it. Now change everything so we can say we put our own distinctive mark on it." That sort of shit happens a lot with acquisitions.

And then Allen basically gets told by owners who barely know what they own that he needs to make radical changes, but he also knows the site's users will mostly hate any change he makes, so he's sort of forced into making minor cosmetic changes to justify keeping his job to the bosses, while not scaring off what's left of the dying userbase.
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Mead posted...

All I know are a couple of Styx songs that make reference to a Kilroy

and maybe a movie

That's actually what I was thinking of:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc6f_2nPSX8
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilroy_Was_Here_(album)
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DirtBasedSoap posted...

yeah it would be a great point if Nintendo of America wasnt a thing.

NoA has always been a bit of a paper tiger when it comes to actual company-wide decision-making. Most of the core administration comes from Japan, while NoA and the various other regional branches mostly exist to try and localize/market those decisions to the rest of the world. They're middle-management, not top-level admin.

Nintendo tends to operate on a mentality that they're making their products primarily for Japan, and if the rest of the world wants to buy them that's okay too, but they're not overly obsessed with catering to foreign expectations. They'll happily sell millions of consoles outside of Japan, but the vast majority of their design decisions are based on a Japan-first sort of mentality.
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I was going to make a joke about you being Kilroy, but it would probably fall flat because a) almost no one here is old enough to get the reference, and b) there actually used to be a Kilroy here.
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papercup posted...

I like how every couple of years they change the look of the site without actually doing anything to make the site more modern and relevant.

...while usually breaking at least 2-3 other things every time.

But hey, surely this will be the change that starts bringing in all the Tiktweetsnapgramming kids back in droves!
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adjl posted...

Sure, a save feature would have prevented the issue, but so would offering a confirmation menu and the option to not turn your system off in the middle of playing a game.

The PS4 allows you to keep playing without updating. It just doesn't allow you to use network features (ie, play online) unless you're fully updated after an update gets released.

I assume the PS5 probably works the same way.



adjl posted...

Roguelikes can have mid-run save features. You just have to lose progress when you die to qualify as a roguelike, not just when you turn the game off.

More importantly, any single-player/offline game not having a save feature (or an active pause) in 2021 is kind of BS.

When the average age of the people playing video games is mid-30s (and only about 30% are under 18), gaming is very much an adult hobby. And adults often have things called "lives" and "responsibilities", and occasionally have to stop to answer a phone, cook dinner, or keep a small child from crawling into danger. These sorts of things often happen without warning, and are rarely considerate enough to wait until you're at a quiet part of the game where you can just sort of stand in a corner safely.

Most adults don't actually have 8-10 hours straight to play any game without having to pause or save at least once. One friend of mine basically has about 1 hour every week (early Saturday mornings around 10am) to play, and any game that doesn't cater to that sort of schedule is a game he'll never, ever play. 80+ hour RPGs with complex narrative arcs are pretty much incomprehensible to him, because by the time he gets to a plot-point he's more or less forgotten most of the stuff that came before. Between that and the fact that it would probably take him 2 years to realistically beat one, he won't even play them.

For a lot of adults, playing a game for hours and then having all of your progress reset because you had to watch your kids or go to work means you will never play that game again. Because fuck that game.
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Here's a question I don't know the answer to:

How popular is Netflix in Japan?

Nintendo generally doesn't give a fuck about the world outside of Japan, and they tend to plan and design all their apps and features around what Japanese users want, not what the rest of the world might consider important.

If Netflix is relatively unpopular in Japan, they might not see the need to ever bother adding an app for it.
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LeetCheet posted...

I summon five Blue Eyes White Dragons and a Charizard and end my turn.

Draw your last pathetic card so I can end this duel!

I draw and play Wrath of God. Every creature in play dies.
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You should probably watch The Wire again.
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joemodda posted...

No work needed, just marry a rich dude and steal half his shit later

To be fair, he made most of his money in the first place by stealing other people's ideas and then selling them as his own. So in that sense, this would just be karma anyway.
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The cat should obviously be arrested for trespassing.
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Mead posted...

Deckard Cain

STAY A WHILE AND LISTEN!
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Metalsonic66 posted...

The series had a ton of great episodes after being brought back. The "real" finale was so much better than the "cancelled" finale

It really wasn't.
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Don't care, am barely paying attention.

But I always have a tiny little moment of surprise when older couples get divorced. Because I tend to assume if you've been together for 20+ years, and managed to survive having kids and dealing with financial issues, you should probably have successfully worked through most of the issues that could lead to divorce already. And social inertia/the comfort of familiarity/fear of abandonment/etc should probably make you more likely to just settle for what you have rather than leap into a radical life change over what might be incredibly petty reasons.

It just feels like people are willing to self-destruct one of the most important things in their life over mere lethargy or apathy. Obviously the public has no real idea of what kind of contentious arguments or building conflicts have been behind the scenes, so our perception is skewed, but it's always more surprising when the people in question have been together for decades and have always seemed to be affectionate towards each other, as opposed to the usual celebrity couple that metaphorically meet on a Tuesday, get married on Wednesday, and seem like they're already having problems by Saturday (and then get divorced on Sunday). If anything, I expect younger celebrity couples to collapse, and am more surprised when they actually succeed.
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A few video games from Amazon.
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THEGODDAMNBATMA posted...

Remember when they came out with four Futurama movies?

Yes, I remember them being mediocre and bleh.

Then I remember a series being restarted that should have stayed dead.

The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings was the perfect series finale for the show. Continuing after kind of ruined multiple aspects of the original series, and there wasn't a single new episode that justified the continuation. The new series was less funny, less interesting, and a lot of it was just rehashing things that had already been done.

Going on long after a show should have been cancelled seems to be Matt Groening's thing, though. So maybe it was destiny.
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FatBecky posted...

Punch cards!

Those tear and fray easily, though. Also, they can be folded, spindled, and mutilated.
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Mead posted...

damn that is a fucking cool ass name for something

can I use it sometimes?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamais_vu
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I do.
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OhhhJa posted...

True alpha males don't use Twitter

This.

What you're reading is cringe because you're reading a lot of loser guys pretending to be badasses. The real badasses are too busy off being badasses and not giving a shit about what people think to waste even a second of their lives jerking off on Internet social media.
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Criminalt posted...

Dinosaurs faked their own extinction and their technologically advanced civilization still thrives in a vast underground city.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1mMCdtHRVA
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Mead posted...

you see it in biology too with cell division over time

Yep - aging is basically when the copying process starts to wear out, and cancer is what you get when the copying process goes wrong and creates rogue cells.

It's part of why it's so hard to "cure" cancer - it's not an aggressive outside force in the way viruses or bacteria are, it's literally part of you, and created by the natural processes that your body engages in every second you're alive.

Also, I was already thinking about this, so now I'm going to post it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BvbvYnzSbg
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DeltaBladeX posted...

And what the fuck? Seriously? I own OR, going to be pissed if they cheaped out and now it is dying.

They're basically just SD cards. And most of those won't last more than 10 years, with an upper limit of 30 years or so.
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papercup posted...

This. All physical media will eventually be unreadable. Not just because of the change in technology, but because the data itself breaks down.

Often known as "bit rot" for media like CDs and DVDs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_degradation

The real problem is, even entirely digital media will also eventually become unreadable, because errors get introduced when you're dealing with data copied over and over and over and over and over again, sort of similar to how a Xerox of a Xerox of a Xerox eventually starts to look like shit.



Zeus posted...

Is there no format you can actually trust? =x

This is about the best we've come up with so far:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stele

We've basically spent the last few hundred years perfecting technology that can store more and more information, but in ways that last for less and less time. Books printed 500 years ago still exist, but mass market paperbacks printed even 50 years ago can easily have gone brittle, browned, and faded to almost illegibility due to cheaper paper and cheap acidic inks. Very few DVDs (or other optical disc media) will be able to survive a full century, and many will decay past the point of accessibility long before that.

We've basically set ourselves up for a massive collapse of knowledge if our infrastructure ever fails significantly. A thousand years ago it took a rampaging horde of barbarians riding in, setting fire to your libraries, and throwing all the books and scrolls in the river to really wipe out information - today, lack of electricity blanks out SOOOOO much data we depend on.
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captpackrat posted...

First Transformers movie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNdUjYi03Q8&t=0m42s
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Lokarin posted...

yes, in the game is like the only place it can be used

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyes_on_Me_(Faye_Wong_song)#Other_versions
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