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i asked "y'all watch streamers" but i'm still a white nationalist and i got banned, what's the deal???

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can't wait to play this in winter 2013
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I really like the World Record Progression videos because they give me a deeper appreciation for certain runs and the history behind games I don't keep tabs on.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtUbO6rBht0daVIOGML3c8w
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Lightning Strikes posted...

though I will say that unlike last year the vast majority of the discussion has been very civil, I checked a bunch of sources and saw like three arseholes

UPDATE: it definitely appears to be a thing
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Okay so I'm just starting this GoW talk and wow shock BT has completely mischaracterized what Abby said

lol "I don't want to get too into it because I'll be hearing about it for the rest of my career"
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Probably because Rorie doesn't play many games. He wrote a list yesterday and it's a good read
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dude you're a millennial

we're all millennials

stop being a sexist gatekeeping jerk because nobody cares about your perspective and you'll only be ignored or antagonized
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LordoftheMorons posted...

but I want to mention that Shadows of Valentia is a pretty underrated game.

It's super good! I think it provides a strong base going forward.

anyway my list is weird because I haven't gotten around to the two big console games, which I really should do one of these days. Genealogy of the Holy War > Binding/Blazing Blades > New Mystery of the Emblem > Shadows of Valentia > Sacred Stones is probably my top 5.
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hence why i said explicit.
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there should really be an explicit option for heroes.
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this is like when oj wrote a book about how he murdered his ex-wife, even though he didn't* (*he totally did)

except oj had already been to trial, while kevin spacey is set to go to trial
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um

what
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yeah go my Alex, go hard for Yakuza 6
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really good subnautica discussion

I grabbed it on the Epic Store for free and want to make time for it
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tank for me daddy
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ninkendo posted...

I was a cool Big Boss guy with a Mega Man as my cat

no you're a pirate dark knight from ff14 with a mega man minion
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The Mana Sword posted...

I dont mind the new format, its nice to have a chance to talk about stuff that doesnt hang.

Also the runtime hasnt really changed, saw a count on Twitter and its still almost 25 hours of podcasts over the course of the week, so its all good.

wow it's not even a full smash soundtrack's length. cancelling my subscription.
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Kinda bummed they axed Best Character because that was always a fun category that held a lot of weirdly personal discussion in addition to like 'protagonist X from critical darling.' oh well.

Here's what I'd pick for each category. This isn't a prediction for GB's list.

Best Styyyyyle
WINNER: 428: Shibuya Scramble. HONOURABLE MENTIONS: GRIS, Ashen.

Best Music:
WINNER: Celeste. HONOURABLE MENTIONS: Splatoon 2: Octo Expansion, Dragalia Lost, Below (I don't care I went over here!!)

Best Debut
WINNER: Celeste. HONOURABLE MENTIONS: Unavowed, Into the Breach.

Hottest Mess:
"WINNER": Games industry chewing up and spitting out labour. DISHONOURABLE MENTIONS: Fallout 76, Toei undercutting the growing community of DBFZ.

Best Moment/Sequence:
WINNER: Carefully analyzing the map of Into the Breach and perfectly executing your plan without fucking up. HONOURABLE MENTIONS: Splatoon 2: Octo Expansion's final boss, when Ashen tells you that yes it is very much Dark Souls 1.

Best Story:
WINNER: Unavowed. HONOURABLE MENTIONS: Yakuza 6, The 25th Ward: The Silver Case

Best Ongoing Game:
WINNER: Final Fantasy 14. HONOURABLE MENTIONS: Overwatch, Assassin's Creed Origins

Best Looking:
WINNER: GRIS. HONOURABLE MENTIONS: Ashen, Assassin's Creed Odyssey.

Most Disappointing:
"WINNER:" The Fall Part 2: Unbound. DISHONOURABLE MENTIONS: Forza Horizon 4, Kentucky Route Zero Act 5 (for not coming out).

Best Game:
WINNER: Celeste. HONOURABLE MENTIONS: Monster Hunter World, 428: Shibuya Scramble.
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WazzupGenius00 posted...

Only one I know is that Colin Spacetwinks is back again, he was talking about it on twitter. He's gonna mention "The friends of Ringo Ishikawa" and he is absolutely right that people need to check this shit out

Yeah, saw that! I mentioned on Discord that Spacetwinks is the only one I know for sure did a list. I think it's shorter than last year too - barely.
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apparently we're all cool


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hey can I get in on the red dead hate too
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*cool tetris
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but DOOM didn't win that year partly because of that and Brad was backing it!
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Nameless2000 posted...

I would be very surprised if RDR2 wins with how much Dan and Jeff dislike it. Dan in particular had a lot of problems that can't be dismissed with "well, it's just not your kind of game."

have you met brad filibuster shoemaker
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you can play Tetris Effect without the VR! just play it in the dark with some nice headphones.
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I'm really curious about who Alex has pulled in for Guest top 10s. I think last year might have been the best yet.

What I'd really like to see (but won't happen) is Janine Hawkins post her top 10 but they're all illustrated. She does some really cool stuff:
https://twitter.com/i/moments/951993266530070528
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davidponte posted...

Is Spider-Man similar to The Witcher in it being the game that is critically acclaimed everywhere but no one on the staff feels incredibly strong about so they give it a low spot on the list just to recognize that it is indeed a great game?

Kinda? I feel like they're warmer on Spider-Man than they are the typical Sony game that's usually in this spot.

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I recognize its greatness! It's just not my kind of game unfortunately.

no you don't understand, you must like exactly what i do in exactly the same ways
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davidponte posted...

the only game I would actively not want to play is Hitman 2.

there is a briefcase slowly making its way to your location.

The Mana Sword posted...

Possibly Monster Hunter instead of Spider Man?

yeah I can see Obra Dinn, MHW, or DBFZ making it on instead of Spider-Man. Spider-Man just seems like a safer choice. It has recency bias in its favour and I think more people played it than the other three.
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LapisLazuli posted...

No schedule yet. What time do these podcasts usually go up again?

oh weird, they aren't. i saw the gb feed scraper pull up two videos (both sims, going up on tuesday at noon pacific) but nothing else. iirc they usually go up pretty early in the day, either 5 or 6am pst.
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davidponte posted...

This would be the finest top 10 in years imo

i couldn't care less about the top two, only love two games in total, and am ambivalent on the rest of it so i couldn't disagree more!
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Lightning Strikes posted...

Hottest Mess will be Telltale followed by Fallout 76 and Boss Key (remember Boss Key?).

remember how boss key launched a battle royale game this year and female characters were listed as "coming soon"

and then the studio shutdown two weeks later even though management assured staff everything was all good

and then several months later cliffy b bragged about how well he treated the employees he laid off, stating he paid several months into their severance and health insurance before an employee mentioned it was actually only a couple weeks
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here's my hot predix for GOTY:

1. RDR2
2. God of War
3. Celeste
4. Call of Duty
5. Into the Breach
6. Tetris Effect
7. Dead Cells
8. Hitman 2
9. Donut County
10. Spider-Man
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France has a pretty big market for Japanese media, doesn't it? that's always been my impression. seems like it has a healthy anime scene, and Japanese games tend to do better there than other parts of Europe.
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keeping this up. haven't read anything recommended yet, mostly been reading about penguins and whatnot.

think I'm gonna place an order for a couple of the more interesting recs, like Kaguya-sama, Innocent, and Flowers of Evil. ideally I'd like to go digital but Flowers of Evil has a nice big set of omnibuses, while Innocent is proving hard to find in English? unless I'm missing something, all the volumes on Amazon are in French, which isn't an impossible barrier but kinda annoying.
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iiicon posted...

emperor and i is so good holy shit

guys, the emperor is an emperor penguin

one day the penguin leaves the house to have a snack outside. he sees a cat for the first time ever, and surprised by this strange creature drops the fish he was holding. the cat quickly snatches up the fish and eats it. emperor, dejected, goes back inside. the cat feels bad for eating emperor's snack and catches a mouse, leaving it on emperor's doorstep.

that's it. that's the entire chapter. it's the greatest piece of literature i've ever read.
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emperor and i is so good holy shit
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MariaTaylor posted...

aku no hana; troubled teenagers struggle in a world where they feel no one else identifies with them

wait a minute

i watched this

don't try to trick me with these "japanese names"!!
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$6 for a volume of manga

and Marvel/DC wonder why their audience left
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Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai

This is an easy first rec, and a top two ongoing thing right now imo

Oh, this too.

Is it this?
https://www.amazon.com/Kaguya-sama-Love-War-Vol-1/dp/1974700305/
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Mac Arrowny posted...

Innocent - Kinda based on the life of Charles-Henri Sanson, the executioner from the French revolution, but with a whole lot of embellishment and changes.

This sounds pretty great!

MariaTaylor posted...

aku no hana; troubled teenagers struggle in a world where they feel no one else identifies with them

oh crap, you said the magic words

KamikazePotato posted...

Berserk
Berserk
Berserk

Oh, I've read this too. For possibly the nerdiest reasons: it was being covered on a Dark Souls podcast.
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handsomeboy2012 posted...

A Silent Voice

oh, I watched this movie! I liked it quite a bit.

handsomeboy2012 posted...

Detective Conan

gonna be hard for this to live up to the Detective Conan/Conan O'Brian feud tbh
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tfw you realize the reason i said not to recommend them is because the impetus of this topic was me giving viz money to read shonen jump manga
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it does but also the author of rurouni kenshin traffics in child porn so fuck that guy and anything he's made
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Most anime services that aren't CR are kinda... not good in Canada, or aren't even available. IIRC HiDive didn't launch in Canada when the service came out last year.
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oh god. I read Azumanga Daioh so long ago I'd completely forgotten I started to read Yotsuba&! because it was from the author of Azumanga Daioh.
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LapisLazuli posted...

Ironically Lustrous is on most everything but Crunchy. No season 2 confirmed, but it's possible. We'll received in acclaim and decently received in sales.

tbf I didn't say I watched it there. but I wanted to give someone money!

handsomeboy2012 posted...

Sounds like you favor shounen/long manga? I would probably recommend some but you might have heard of the popular ones already. Or maybe you like comedy?

Do I? I dunno if things like Nijigahara Holograph, Monster or A Drifting Life qualify. I mean, I guess there's DB and JoJo.
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LapisLazuli posted...

Yeah that narrows it down <_<

there were other series listed!!

LapisLazuli posted...

Land of the Lustrous also has an EXCELLENT anime, though it doesn't cover everything

Yeah, I watched it earlier in the year in one of my 'okay I'm gonna sub to CR for a couple months and watch a bunch of things I missed' binges. Is the anime coming back eventually to cover more material?

LapisLazuli posted...

Ah, also Vinland Saga, though I'm like 5 years behind on that one.

This, Kingdom, and Vagabond are long-running series I always think about (and mix up) but am intimidated by the huge number of volumes out there.
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Every year or so a new Yotsuba volume comes out in English. I buy it, love it, realize that hey, I like manga, but this phase only lasts a month. That's long enough to check out one or two other manga before my interest dies off, but it's not enough to build a habit.

Anyway. Last month a new Yotsuba volume came out in English. I read it and loved it. Coincidentally, Viz just restructured how they offer digital manga, meaning I'm now paying them $2 a month for Shonen Jump back catalogue access. Maybe now that I'm paying money regularly into the hobby I can actually turn it into my hobby. Maybe? So I'm looking for series, finished or not, that I might enjoy. I don't know if there's anything specific I'm looking for, but you might get a sense for what I'll like based on what I've read.

Here's what I've read and enjoyed:
- Yotsuba&!
- many things by Junji Ito
- many things by Inio Asano
- A Drifting Life by Yoshihiro Tatsumi
- Dragonball
- The first few volumes of Silver Spoon
- Nausicaa
- Monster
- JoJo

I guess an obvious thing to not recommend is anything in the WSJ vault, unless you think there's a series in there that I might overlook. I'm currently using it to read MHA and Haikyu!!
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can't believe PTRs killed Kingdom Hearts

what a world, what a world
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