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Zangulus posted...

Things change on the internet? Whoamahgawd

Things change everywhere. The question is, at what cost?

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Kaljinyu

I know we're on a forum now, but the forum nowadays might as well not exist. To be an important name on NeoGAF today means a lot less than it did... 7+ years ago.

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Kaljinyu

Every now and then talk of a Bully sequel crops up, but instead of starring Jimmy it would be female-centric. Not much talk happens, but if you sniff around you'll find a topic that people don't really like to talk about because it's a controversial one: "Would it be any good? I would've liked an all-female Ghostbusters, it just wasn't a good movie."

Let's say we take Bully as we know it, but apply a female veneer. All the themes are more or less the same, but the main characters are girls. Some people say "That's the way it should be, because boys and girls have equal capacity for equal life experiences." Some people say "No that's not the way it should be, boys and girls have unique life experiences that can never truly cross over."

But where do you stand? You don't have to actually talk about it, just vote in the poll.

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JixHedgehog posted...

So... is it offensive than an Asian American portrayed a broken English Asian?

Has America fallen off the wagon that much that we can cancel the dead?

Don't you remember how mad everybody got at John Wayne last year, despite him being dead?

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Kaljinyu

Judgmenl posted...

Yea there was a moment earlier where that was running through my mind.
I don't usually get the flu vaccine because this happens to me every time.

I never get the flu booster. I only recently learned that's a thing people do every year. I see no reason why I would get a shot every year, I've survived many a cold season no problem.

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Kaljinyu

I have to wonder at how worthwhile it is to be an advertiser. People are making millions off of ad revenue. But are the advertisers getting an equal return on their investment? I block ads. And when I don't block ads, I've never seen an ad that convinced me to buy anything. That's the goal, right? To get people to buy stuff? Are people buying stuff or are they blocking ads?

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Kaljinyu

Would you rather have died? Sometimes when I'm sick I pray for death.

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Kaljinyu

I would say get tested, but we know so little about this I'm thinking you might test positive for having it, but you actually don't and what's appearing on the test is leftovers from the last time you had it. There are so many pop-up rapid coronavirus test clinics in my area, I can't imagine every clinic is that precise.

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Kaljinyu

zebatov posted...

Social media.

And yeah. 261 is a cesspool and gives me the shits just thinking about going there for five minutes. Even left-leaners here hate it there.

Last time I went there I asked if I missed the AOC abuela threads, and they said Yes. Weve already decided that the right are a bunch of disingenuous assholes (rambling) and then the thread was closed by the time I got back. Lol.

I mean "when" was the turn.

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Kaljinyu

Mead posted...

Also this isnt a potd thing at all. All parts of the internet have become political.

That's true, but if I can figure out when PotD became so political, I can figure out when the rest of the Internet became so political. Because it happened to pretty much all of the Internet, it's probably because of the same factor.

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Kaljinyu

ReturnOfFa posted...

I'm pretty opinionated lol, and I 'came back' to PotD a handful of months back.

I'm talkin' about like the late 2000s/early 2010s. Were you active back then, making constant social commentary threads?

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Kaljinyu

agesboy posted...

it's always been political here, there's just a couple people who are way more polarizingly opinionated (like jen and zeus) so it's easier to see

But not this political. You mention Jen, last time I was really here she was the only one who was really sociopolitically minded. The hot topic topics were there, but they were rare. Now it's several every day.

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Kaljinyu

Far-Queue posted...

Pretty easy to ignore topics that don't interest you, bud.

And if there's no topics on this board that interest you, there's literally thousands of other boards to visit

And if there's still no topics that interest you, there's literally thousands of websites and forums to choose from all over the internet

But sure, bitch about a couple topics on this board

I never said I was upset about the politics, I am, but I never said I was. I'm just wondering when the turn for the political came about. Because it's not just PotD, it's much of the Internet.

And so it's intriguing to me how it is that so many places throughout all the Internet, who at one point weren't this political, suddenly decided to be this political.

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Kaljinyu

Cruddy_horse posted...

Because the world has rapidly become way more political in the last 10 years.

But when was the turn?

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Kaljinyu

VioletMassacre posted...

Nobody likes the politics board.

So this is a byproduct of the Politics board being created, people not liking it, and deciding to come here?

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Kaljinyu

I've been around in one form or another for a while, and every now and then I would see a thread about some sociopolitical issue. Like when DADT was repealed. But it was never as dominant as it is now.

Why do you all care? Wouldn't you rather talk about anything else? Anything at all?

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Kaljinyu

I've seen his old standup, he speaks better English than I do.

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Kaljinyu

A 2D Metroid. Not exactly AAA headline making. It's like announcing a 2D Mario game. "Oh that's nice, a New Super Mario Bros."

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Kaljinyu

Because to be a cartoonist you have to find cartoon women attractive. But that's not a conversation people are ready to have right now. Instead we say "No, no, cartoon butts are funny, not sexy! You're interpreting this the wrong way if you're seeing anything sexual about this!"

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YoukaiSlayer posted...

Well I mean, theres also just nothing to show or announce apparently so I'm pretty sure it'd be lame no matter the format.

The games are only a small factor, unless they're headline making. No, what I tune in for is the water cooler talk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=outJSCu3FOc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1vmrMAqeWM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vj92HGNO_k

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Kaljinyu

This pre-recorded Treehouse/State of Play format is not doing it for me. E3 used to be a real night at the movies. A joy to watch in discussion threads. Now? There's no "event" to it.

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Kaljinyu

Mead posted...

Is mortal Kombat not combo based?

The new ones are, that's why I wonder if Midway/WB Games is the West's Capcom/Platinum Games.

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Kaljinyu

Zeus posted...

Not really? Combos make sense for fighters, but variety of tactics make more sense for hack-n-slash and combos in beat-em-ups just make things more repetitive.

For fight games, probably an indie dev.

However, for hack-n-slash titles, doesn't the US *already* dominate Japan? I can't think of many big Japanese-made hack-n-slash games, certainly nothing on par with the Diablo series (although I guess the Dynasty Warriors titles are big, but that's almost like a separate genre)

Isn't Devil May Cry a hack and slash?

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Kaljinyu

What do all the reviewers say makes a good fighting game or beat-em-up or hack-n-slash? A rich, deep combo system. In Japan you could say the granddaddy of that genre is Capcom. Whose talent has gone on to create some of the most lauded games in the genre.

But that's Japan. Surely the West has made games like this too? Who is our best at that? Midway/WB Games?

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Kaljinyu

It's about owning the brands. They're on a buying streak.

I wish Nintendo would make some interesting purchases. But they almost never do. When they do, it's usually just to hire the game development talent, not to own any new IP. In fact, I can't think of one IP Nintendo bought for themselves.

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Kaljinyu

BlackScythe0 posted...

Maybe it comes from trying their best. Maybe they were in that situation because of their actions in the first place.

I personally think doing something so public the child can see isn't something a normal person does to get back at their ex.

How do you get back at your ex?

You gotta understand, plenty of parents get cheated by a system that is easily rooked. To lose your child for any reason is maddening. For it to get to petty spite is kinda the best case scenario. A lot of parents just kill themselves/others over losing their kids. It breaks you.

So how broken do you think a parent would be to lose their child, but also for unfair reasons? How angry are you allowed to be at that?

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Kaljinyu

Mead posted...

People with that kind of spite are not trying their best

That kind of spite only comes after trying their best. Are you saying that if you try your best, but fail, and then get angry that your efforts weren't enough, you somehow didn't try your best? Not every court or mother in the land is fair.

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Kaljinyu

Not the worst "I'm Finally Off Child Support" celebration I've ever heard of. Dads who pay child support do stuff like this all the time. It's not classy, but if you're in a situation where you have to pay child support, your life wasn't very classy to begin with.

Also, you don't have to absolutely shit the bed as a father to not get to see your kids. You can do your best but still fail. That's where this kind of spite tends to come from.

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Kaljinyu

TheFalseDeity posted...

Dont like Kojima or any of his games, dont know Snyder.

He was chosen to direct Justice League, but they tampered with his vision, then he released the Snyder Cut to prove he would've done a better job if they let him, and so Hollywood was like "Okay, he's clearly the name to back, let's let him do his thing." Then he made Army of the Dead.

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Kaljinyu

Judgmenl posted...

Kojima made 3 good games.
I have no idea who Zack Snyder is.

You haven't heard about this Snyder Cut stuff?

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Kaljinyu

Toobin recently turned 61. Imagine still feeling it between the knees at that age, let alone so badly that he's like "Nope, I have to do it. I cannot wait."

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Kaljinyu

Once upon a time there was a man. And he loved movies. But also maybe video games, a little bit? And so he set out to create things that were kinda both at once. Often reviewed with "I loved it, but it was crazy. And whoever made it is crazy."

But the fat cats. The big wigs. With their penny pinching and their bean counting. They would meddle with his creations. Because the fat cats, the big wigs, they only see value in monetary gain and industry dominance. And thanks to them this man's greatest artistic endeavor was hampered. What should've been a cultural force of nature more or less faded into irrelevance as the last whisper of better days.

The man fought his case. "I was gonna do so much more!" But the big fat wigs, they denied up and down the existence of any "epilogue" or "extra content" left on the cutting room floor. But in time the man proved there WAS such content, doing the best he could with what he had to create sort of a half-formed "Here's Some Concepts Of What I Wanted To Do If I Had All The Time, Money, & Freedom To Do It" piece. To which people said "See? He really is a genius of the craft! Look at what we might've gotten if he had been free to create! Those big cats puffing their cigars and wringing palms don't have an appreciation for art!" The man was declared the underdog victor against an industry that needed him more than he needed them.

And so the people put faith in him as an independent creator. Let him be free to do his absolute own thing. The fat cats had it their way and they failed. We saw what we might've gotten to have. Let's let the artist do his art. And so he did just that.

But when it was released, well, you could say response was mixed. Because upon seeing this thing, created with more freedom and resources than he had ever had before, a lot of people were like "Okay, yes, the last thing he made, the Whigs wouldn't let him do it. But does that really mean everything he touches is gold? Come to think of it, let's revisit some of the other stuff he made."

But a lot of other people were like "You're looking at this through the wrong lens. You're reviewing a pizza to see if it makes a good truck tire. Because you don't 'understand' the art this man makes. It's for people like us. And the French."

This man's story I guess you could say is the story of every man. Every man, woman, and child who dared to dream.

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Kaljinyu

Are you actually done after two? Or will it be years and years of checkup shots?

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Kaljinyu

TCU Chancellor Victor Boschini said the change is a non-story and the campus wont be enforcing the terms used by its students.

This didn't need to be a thing, the school itself is like "Please, just let this slide as dumb college stuff and move on with your lives."

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Kaljinyu

I don't wear underwear. But if I did, why would I change them unless I was stewing in my own filth? I'm definitely on the side of the 10-wear minimum.

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Kaljinyu

Here's a video from a guy breaking down what, in his opinion, makes a good liminal space.

But I don't think they're supposed to be unsettling/upsetting to look at, so much as they're meant to instill a subtle mood. Like how a Christmassy-looking picture evokes a Christmassy feeling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jIPVS3pHOA

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Kaljinyu

Zeus posted...

I'd get excited for a new Elder Scrolls game if they ever decided to stop remaking Skyrim

Here's another thing to notice about the industry over time. There was a point in time where a bunch of developers/publishers were like "This is it, this is kinda the magnum opus of the franchise, we can just Half-Life 2 this for the rest of our lives." For Elder Scrolls, it was Skyrim. For Grand Theft Auto, it was 5. And notice these games were made around the same time.

I think some time after this point there was a shift in the industry, where it was better to ride the reputation of a single game.

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Kaljinyu

By "love of video games" I don't just mean that you like a game, or like a few games. I mean you follow industry news, and engage in community discussion. It's E3 stream talkback threads, hype trains, "most wanted in Smash" forum games, that kind of thing. If you ever enjoyed that stuff, and if you ever stopped enjoying that stuff, when was it? And what were the reasons?

For me I wanna say it was probably around 2014/2015. But it was on its way as early as 2013. Today I look at an industry that is too foreign for me to love.

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Kaljinyu

I remember these.

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Kaljinyu

https://i.imgur.com/3SqRDxb.jpg

The answer is, none of the memes in the "2005-2013" Era are actually from 2005.

"Internet historians" keep making this mistake, assigning Trollface and Advice Dog/Animals to 2004 or 2005 when they're actually more recent than that. Why does this keep happening? I'm pretty sure it's because most people on the Internet today were too young to see these memes come about.

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Kaljinyu

SaltyAndSweet posted...

You need to do a better job explaining what kind of game youre looking for because your description applies to a ton of modern games

Based on your other posts I would recommend Katana Zero or My Friend Pedro

MondoMan180 posted...

You didnt say it had to be recent.

Its been awhile, but iirc Hybrid Heaven on N64 mighta been kinda like that?

These need to be franchises though, not one-and-dones.

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Kaljinyu

TheSlinja posted...

but gunstar heroes is 2d???

I would like it to be 3D, but Gunstar Heroes is technically 3rd person. I think?

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Kaljinyu

papercup posted...

Resident Evil 4-6?

I don't know about 4-6, but from the looks of the franchise as a whole, it seems to be more about running from danger, and meticulous management of resources.

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Kaljinyu

SaltyAndSweet posted...

you just described the majority of third person video games

congratulations, youve outdone yourself

I can't think of any that are about that. You might think maybe Silent Hill or Resident Evil, but those aren't what I'm looking for. I'm looking for something like Gunstar Heroes, but an actual successful franchise.

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Kaljinyu

ReggieTheReckless posted...

Hurray. I too detest stealth mechanics and hate stealth games

I don't necessarily hate it, but I'm interested to see if anyone's tried to capitalize on the idea.

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Kaljinyu

What I need: A third-person perspective game about infiltrating levels/areas with enemy combatants inside.

What I don't want: The slow calculating tactics of Metal Gear. I wanna bust in, and it's hot right away. I don't need frenetic combo-system combat, I'll take it, but I don't need it. I just need a game where I break in, and I have to fight my way through the place I'm in.

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Kaljinyu

SaltyAndSweet posted...

for an even LARGER percentage of people, the vaccine poses no risks whatsoever

Lots of things pose no risk to me. But I can't be assed to do them. It's like saying "Lock your doors to prevent burglaries." I could, but I'm already in bed. I don't feel like it. So I'm pretty sure the risks of getting burgled are low.

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Kaljinyu

AIDS is real, AIDS kills lots of people. The deaths surprised and scared people back in the 80s and everyone was like "Wear a condom."

But imagine you've been doing everything to everyone at every seedy all-male revue that the outskirts of town is zoned for. And so far you don't have AIDS. Or if you do have AIDS, you don't mind it. It's not giving you any symptoms you care about. Maybe at one point you were afraid of AIDS, but you've been very careless and so far nothing's happened to you. How are you supposed to feel?

Maybe you start to feel like you gotta be really unlucky to catch/suffer from AIDS. All those people in the hospital wasting away, they must've had something really wrong with them because you're not special, and yet AIDS hasn't taken you. Maybe you start to feel like AIDS isn't something normal healthy people have to worry about, it's only people who are already badly off health-wise.

This was the reality for a lot of people during the AIDS epidemic. Despite all the risk, they rolled the dice, and nothing happened to them.

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Kaljinyu

Metalsonic66 posted...

When was Rickrolling at its peak?

@Metalsonic66 Do you mean when it peaked on Google Trends? This video is a collection of when all the most notable memes of each time were born, how long they trended, when they died off, and whenever they were revived.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6vHHxWWT0Y

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Kaljinyu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OBlgSz8sSM

Apparently we have until May 23rd to watch this video before it's removed from YouTube. Why? Because someone bought it at auction as a "non-fungible token." You may or may not have heard of these. Best I can understand is that it's like a cryptocoin, in that it's a unique piece of digital art/information that only you own.

This is the future we live in, people. Someone paid actual money to "own" a video that they're deluding themselves into thinking they can keep off of the Internet. They think they can buy this and be the only one to enjoy it. It'll never work. It hasn't worked for anything you can put on the Internet.

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Kaljinyu