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MICHALECOLE posted...

What? That absolutely isnt true. Drew looks like he loves his job and loves doing that show

Yeah, I thought this, as well. Maybe he appeared different when he first started, I didn't watch much then, but he seems to legitimately like doing the show, now.

TheSavageDragon posted...

Funny Irish dude that plays a lot of Project Zomboid, does things like playing Sims with all sorts of dumb and amusing challenges along with a bunch of atypical indie games.

Oh, that sounds pretty cool, sorry to see him go, and even more sorry to see I never even knew about that content, since it sounds like something I'd enjoy.

Sorry if my post came off dismissive, I just legitimately didn't know because there's like a million Youtubers.

Full_Pokedex posted...

Ban all drugs. If you're not getting something from your doctor you shouldn't have it.

Yep, this was the response TC was hoping for, and of course it came from Duncan.

You do realize over the counter cough syrup, allergy medication, laxatives, etc. and so on are also drugs, too, right? Are you saying to ban those, as well?

I don't know who this is.

I watch very little Youtube, and so far the people I like still exist, but I also watch mostly smaller channels, and then like, maybe two big ones?

I like Ryan George, Daniel Thrasher, UpUpDownDown, Stache Club Wrestling, and then occasionally Atozy for my "Sometimes I just want a reaction Youtuber for dumb shit" choice.

Also, as much as it's fun to laugh at that girl, I think Bob was legitimately confusing her, at times. It's a high pressure situation, and several times, she noticed her mistake and was attempting to correct it like right before he pointed at it and went "You messed up," so I could see confusion growing from there.

DrizztLink posted...

I only notice my failure to type "lapel mic" now that it is too late.

You did the equivalent of using the 1 twice, and you can never take it back.

MysteryMan923 posted...

Seemed straightfoward to me. He "stole" someone else's girl. Generally, that's not a white meat babyface thing to do.

He didn't, though, because in the timeline that was created, they never even met. That dude likely ended up happy with somebody else. She only met the guy in the first place because Steve "died." In the timeline that was created, Steve just never fully "died." The version of the guy that actually ended up with Peggy literally knows no difference.

I assume call center people would absolutely love this, because from my former experience, call centers don't allow you bathroom breaks, you need to just go on your regular breaks.

MysteryMan923 posted...

It was a valid critique.

Was it? Was it even a critique at all? They didn't explain said viewpoint at all. They made an assumption, were proven wrong on said assumption, and then just... Gave a sarcastic reply. Not exactly a "critique."

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They're clearly talking about the value to, you know, the person actually getting the tattoo, so the subjective nature doesn't really come into play. The value of everything is subjective, not just art.

As for the actual topic post itself, yeah, tipping game devs is a hilariously stupid idea. I was just defending the idea of DLC, since it's not rotten, at its core. It can be done in rotten ways, but that tends to not be super common, and these games tend to get rightfully called out, when they do.

Granted, I'm also a bit biased, since DLC has extended the life of fighting games dramatically. In the past, if you wanted new characters, they just released a new full price version of the same game. Meanwhile, today, there got to be an entire 8 years between Tekken 7 and Tekken 8, because they added more and more new content to Tekken 7 and kept supporting it for years and years. I didn't need to buy Tekken 7, Super Tekken 7, Tekken 7 Champion's Edition, Super Tekken 7 Turbo, Super Tekken 7 Turbo: The New Challengers, etc. and so on. I just got to pick and choose which characters I wanted for the game I already owned.

deoxxys posted...

You need to stop looking for enemies where you have none.

Oh, don't worry, I know what you are.

Super_Slash posted...

Dude, that does not justify emotional abuse. Are you for real?

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An almost 22 year old account with less than 5 years worth of karma. No, they are not for real. This is a desperate Reddit chud who bought an old account, considering the active post count being so low.

WingsOfGood posted...

police pull you over "sir do you know why I stopped you?" dun dun dun

I bet the cop would be like "Holy shit you have theme music sir please move along, I envy you"

Cops seem like they'd be impressed by such things.

deoxxys posted...

Why are you so hung up on something so inconsequential? Like don't you have anything better to do with your time?

Sigh... You tire me out. I shouldn't have to sit here and explain my thought process to you like I'm being interrogated. But I will humor you since I'm cool like that.

To put it simply, the last story I read was exactly that. It was a story of a cis person being accused of being trans. Op's post doesn't help either with "from the we can always tell crowd", which kind of implies they can't tell. So it would totally make sense I would go in with the presumption it was a cis person.

You should try making your trolling less obvious. This is boring.

Sufferedphoenix posted...

Yeah I'm sure the AI just scoures the internet for images matching the description

Right. I just find it interesting that, even given vague descriptions, like with Cloud and Terry, the AI settles on using art for... Cloud and Terry. AI is crazy.

So, I'd literally have theme music, in real life?

You don't even need to give me the billion dollars. I mean, I'll take it, but...

Street_Genius posted...

You and her are bound to one another. You and her will never forget one another.

We won't, for better and worse! That was the intention.

Sufferedphoenix posted...

Ita close but not perfect clouds shoulder pad did not have spikes iirc it had bolts sticking out of it. The sword shape is also wrong. Close enough though

It's not perfect, but yeah, it clearly knew more than it should have. Same thing with Terry, where it knew the vest had a collar, it knew the exact ratio of white to red on the hat, and it knew the gloves had a square portion on them. It wasn't perfect, since Terry's vest doesn't have pockets, and the square on the gloves is just open skin, not a red area, but... The fact it added those details, anyway, despite the TC not even remotely prompting it to do so, is very intriguing.

Street_Genius posted...

Thank you. Money comes and goes; cant take it with you to your grave. Im just surprised nobody else is posting pictures of their ink.

Me and my girlfriend have each other's names on our wrists because we're both little bitches that couldn't stand to get anything more but we also decided... Fuck it, we feel like doing this. And then we figured even if we break up, we could make up funny stories about what the name means.

Granted, she won out. She got to get "Gina," I had to get "Hayley." I had to endure two extra letters, dammit.

FortuneCookie posted...

Nobody's posting anything weird. You just hallucinate whenever you eat gummies.

Yeah, this. Currently, the only actual topic on the board is one where everybody is posting Steve Harvey Family Feud reaction gifs. Every other topic is a hallucination.

LinkDaLunatic posted...

how do we also justify the costs of these characters? if the base game has 30 characters, and the game is $70, that's $2.3 per character... but the base game of course includes tons of other things, they had to create the engine, there's voice work for the story mode, tons of new music, etc. so realistically the characters probably aren't even half the cost of the game but let's say half to be generous, now we're looking at $1.16 per character

but when they are released as DLC it is of course a minimum of $5, sometimes more, sometimes there's no way to access them without buying a $30 season pass which includes only three characters at nearly half the cost of the fucking game

listen, i know this post is making wild assumptions and there's a lot to take into consideration but just hear me out, when you zoom the scope out a bit it's not hard to see how people are feeling cheated

To be fair, more effort goes into characters created after initial release than the originals, since you now have to rebalance everything. You have to balance the new character vs. the original 30, which is extra effort, and then you need to apply balances to other characters that already exist, to both make sure they're balanced vs. the new character, and also in reaction to the way the balance has shifted among the existing characters that already exist. And these balance patches are actually provided for free, it's only the character itself that costs money.

For example, the latest trailer for Mortal Kombat 1 is for Ermac. In that trailer, it showed Ermac fighting Reptile. Reptile used both a variation of an existing move that doesn't currently exist, as well as an entirely new move that doesn't currently exist. They put effort into trying to balance/improve Reptile, since he's, currently, an underused character. That balancing comes in the patch, everybody gets that for free, regardless. Ermac costs money, yes, but... If you don't want Ermac? You DO get other work they did, for absolutely free. They do that because they figure the money they make from Ermac will balance out the free work atleast somewhat, and they want to support the game, either way.

EDIT: The scummy part of MK1, for example, isn't the DLC... It's the "battle pass/season"-esque stuff, which... You'd see more of, in games, if DLC wasn't a thing. We don't want every fighting game to turn into Games as a Service-esque Brawlhalla, for example.

No. Never. "One Shot, One Kill" is the worst CoD4 mission by far, for a reason

Accolon posted...

I edited it into his post.

Thanks!

Okay, yeah, it totally somehow defaulted entirely to using actual Terry art as a base, since your prompt is otherwise vague.

That's extremely interesting, to me.

Sorry to triple post, but could you post the prompt for Terry? It got so many details right, or sorta right, that I'm very curious how specific you got, considering Terry otherwise feels... Bland, in comparison to so many of these other characters.

Accolon posted...

I was legitimately surprised at how accurate the inkling came out with that prompt.

Yeah, Inkling was incredibly accurate, and it's the one I can't make too much sense out of, like I can Cloud and Terry. Though I also haven't played a ton of Splatoon, so I have no idea how common that "default" Inkling look actually is.

Actually, the more I think about it, the more it makes sense.

Characters like Cloud and Terry are popular enough in certain markets that there is loads of art to pull from, for them, and they have incredibly consistent designs, outside of like, one or two deviations (Advent Children Cloud, Mark of the Wolves Terry). Meanwhile, Sonic has several different designs due to how many different forms of media he has appeared in. Classic game Sonic looks different than classic comic Sonic which looks different from classic cartoon Sonic which looks different from modern game Sonic which looks different from...

I think it's interesting how it seems to know characters like Cloud, Inkling, and Terry, to fill in details (even if not entirely accurate, such as Terry's gloves) that you likely didn't add to your prompt, but then it struggled with, like, Sonic.

Street_Genius posted...

Damn. Now that you mention their names I get it. Each has a symbol of my tattoo. Goro has a giant Hannya mask, Taigema has a single tiger and Kiryu is the Dragon of Dogima!

Yeah, I always thought theirs were the coolest, which made me instantly love what you've got.

The chest piece is nice too. I don't have even remotely a shred of the pain tolerance or confidence to get anything near what you've got, but I definitely appreciate the work you had to go through to get those.

Street_Genius posted...

The tiger is negative energy and the dragon is positive energy. The hanya mask is just a spectator of the battle. However, Ive played every Yakuza game to date. I prefer black and gray Japanese with the negative spacing since I dont like how that art style is done in color.

Cool shit, either way. You get why I instantly thought Yakuza, though. Kiryu/Majima/Saejima are awesome, though it could just be they gave them more common/"iconic"/whatever tattoos on purpose. Thanks for explaining it!

Regardless, that's so cool. I love it.

Also, I just want to say this is my favorite topic on this board possibly ever.

Accolon posted...

#61 Cloud

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/5/5cb5b7bd.jpg

brightly colored cartoon, 3d render. a serious anime man with spiky blonde hair and bright blue eyes. he wears a dark blue sleeveless shirt, dark blue pants and leather boots. he has leather fingerless gloves and a metal shoulder pad. he holds a huge blunt sword.

Holy shit, I thought Little Mac was incredible, but this is like, spot on.

LinkDaLunatic posted...

what about day-one dlc characters locked behind premium editions, etc? as in, content already finished and packaged with the game at the time of release, but which costs extra just because?

That I'm against, yes. I'm mainly talking about characters that were clearly added after the game finished. I know Capcom was super scummy about this with Street Fighter X Tekken, since the characters were literally on the disc. That's not very common, though, and we know this because people break games open like, immediately.

Street_Genius posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/9/9bf3b539.jpg

That's incredible, man. Is that a Yakuza reference? Or maybe it's just a coincidence and characters have those kinds of tattoos in Yakuza because it's a more common thing, I honestly don't know. I just assumed Yakuza reference since three major characters have the dragon, tiger, and Hannya.

deoxxys posted...

Of course you go for the worst possible interpretation . I just thought this was another story about a cis person who is mistaken for trans that's all nothing sinister or selfish. Try to think more positively.

Why, though? Why would "anti-trans" immediately make you think a CIS person was attacked?

deoxxys posted...

There's a urinal.... right there, the whole purpose is to whip out your hose and relieve yourself, If they're all up in my business and they get a free show that's on them.

That's so different than what you initially said that I can't even begin to take you seriously.

EDIT: Like, you realize there's a HUGE difference, right? You said "If they thought I was a girl, I'd get angry and whip out my dick right in front of them." There's a huge difference between somebody looking at you while you're using a urinal, and you just... Whipping your dick out to show somebody against their will, in a restroom. The latter is illegal.

masterbarf posted...

Selling a fighting game for $70 and charging extra for literal fighters is scummy as fuck.

No, what was scummy as fuck was the previous system of releasing a full priced game, adding four new fighters, and releasing an entirely new full priced game. What we currently have is much, much better. Why would you apparently want to return to that over being able to add them via DLC? Why would we want to return to fifty versions of Street Fighter 2, over just being able to choose to buy new fighters individually? Unless you're going to say new characters simply... Shouldn't be added at all, and people should just have to wait 3-4 years until the next game comes out?

EDIT: And before you say it, no, "Just add new characters and support the game for five years entirely for free" is not an option, because that's literally saying the devs should do work for you for free.

Turbam posted...

So what's the difference between this and the standard suggested songs playlist?

This one will presumedly learn and evolve on its own, instead of having bands/etc. manually input. Basically, not any noticeable difference to the actual consumer, other than being able to be more specific.

Mistere_Man posted...

Out of curiosity, when did they kill 12 people with one spell?

When he faked his own death with the explosion spell or whatever, he killed 12 people in the process. Sirius got blamed for it.

Ratchetrockon posted...

I've only been on 1 small-time streamer's discord channel and I was a top donater tbh lol (only like 50 bucks + some other favors that helped grow his twitch a little bit but not much because he got banned). his channel only had 200-something members. I was a mod too.

I'd unban toxic users if they pm'd me and I thought they weren't THAT bad. Never got in trouble for it i guess because I donated? well other mods would get upset that i'd keep unbanning them but they couldn't do anything about it.

Gross.

the_rowan posted...

I mean, this is basically just a more robust version of finding a playlist like you'd find with any other search query. Really, that's exactly what it is: a search engine, except trained for associations beyond literally finding the word you entered in the results.

Yeah, this literally sounds like a more specific search engine, that will likely learn based on how other people "search" and build from there. I'm not sure I see the big issue.

EDIT: It seems like a more advanced Pandora, which would basically "Here's a band we think is like the band you just listened to" and then "After listening, was this something you liked?"

masterbarf posted...

Advertising a fraction of a game as a full game, doesn't make it so.

Yes, it does, because if you bought the game, then you deemed it a full enough game to warrant your purchase. If it wasn't enough, then why did you buy it?

This is a bad argument. We shouldn't be answering bad arguments with bad arguments.

If they say "30 characters!" and you go "Take my money!" and then over the next two years they add 5 more characters, you don't get to suddenly demand them for free. That's like buying a movie ticket for a single movie, then insisting you should get to see every movie played in that theater after for free. A purchase is an agreement to what they advertise that you are purchasing.

pkmnlord posted...

Damn, I just finished 0 a few days ago. I have K1 + 2, as well as 3-5 downloaded, but after reading this topic I think I might want to just skip ahead to Like a Dragon (AKA 7). I was a little interested in K1 and K2 because of the Majima content, but IDK now lol.

They're still definitely worth playing. They're just not as good as 0. That said, 0 is so good, that they're still also good.

masterbarf posted...

If a game retails for $70, all dlc going forward should be free. If a developer isn't finished with their game when they put it up for sale, it shouldn't cost full price.

The Tweet in the topic post is dumb, but I'll also never understand this mindset, either.

Take a fighting game, for example. If they advertised 30 characters, and I bought the game because 30 characters was enough for me, cool. The game is complete, since they gave me everything they advertised that they'd give me before I spent my money. If they then add more characters later on as DLC, that doesn't mean the game is now suddenly "incomplete," because I had already decided what I was getting initially was worth the money I paid initially. They don't owe me anything more for free. It'd be nice if they give it, but they certainly don't owe it to me, because I deemed what they offered initially to be enough value.

To be fair, you did post

I get drunk sometimes and post unpopular opinions just flat out troll.

deoxxys posted...

I remember in kindergarten when two boys on the bus kept calling me a girl I got so pissed off that whipped out my dick. If I ever got confronted like this in a bathroom I'd probably be pissed off enough to do the same again. But since it's a bathroom in you're meant to do that there, there's no problem of getting in trouble in this scenario.

Edit:
Oh I thought this was another case of cis people being accused of being trans and being told they're in the wrong bathroom

...Oh.

Feels kinda weird that your first reaction to an "anti-trans" topic was "Think of the poor cis people who may be mistaken as trans."

EDIT: On second read, I'm also kinda disturbed about that "If somebody thought I was a girl I'd whip my dick out at them as an adult and I wouldn't get in trouble since it's a restroom" part.

Punished_Blinx posted...

The reason would be if Nintendo pays them enough to make it worth their while.

It's business, on all sides.

Nintendo doesn't want to pay too much because, ultimately, the legit impact those games would make probably has been estimated and calculated vs. the cost they're willing to pay.

Likewise, Square, Capcom, etc., have calculated the cost of what it'd be worth it to them to potentially cut into their eShop/collection sales by having the games on the subscription service.

It isn't just as simple as "Nintendo could just pay enough," because if Square/Capcom/etc. want more than it'd be worth to Nintendo, why would they pay it? Likewise, Square/Capcom won't accept less than they think would offset the cost of potential lost sales. It's easy to say "Nintendo isn't offering enough," but if what the other companies want is more than it'd actually be worth to Nintendo... Why would they? All of them are looking for profits, above all else.

EDIT: And yes, you could say "Nintendo could eat the loss for the consumers," but so could Square/Capcom/etc. It's not a one way street.

Wait until you find out the boys also don't wear pants