dear developers

stop making star wars games

because they all suck
because star wars sucks

thx

It's the album cover for Year Zero by Nine Inch Nails. Probably my least favorite NIN record, containing some of the worst songs Trent has ever written or produced, but I happen to enjoy it more for the concept surrounding it than I do for most of the music. It depicts (from the view of a car seat) the hand of God penetrating the sky as a warning. The album explores themes of authoritarianism, the police state, etc. and essentially illustrates Trent's vision of what America will become by 2020 if we don't do anything to stop it from happening. There's a whole ARG surrounding the album, too, with a bunch of websites that were claimed to have been "sent from the future" and tie in with the album's narrative. It's very interesting and quite impressive.

My title bar was made by Nuka, and he did a bang-up job of making it match up with the avatar. The shadowy figures you see rather perfectly envelop the "big brother" theme that the album deals with, and it just looks nice overall.

The words "shame on us" are a line from my favorite song on the record—"Zero-Sum", the last song. It's about God finally growing fed up with humanity and unleashing his wrath upon us, from the perspective of a do-nothing father and his family. It's implied that it results in the end of the world; hence "zero-sum". Everyone's dead—game over.

I'd suggest looking into the ARG, but it's quite hard to follow these days. I'm not even sure if all the websites are still up.

butterface

Actually tempted to record some MGS reviews with my own thoughts. What do I need?

Written reviews are easier (unless you hate writing, I guess), because all you need is to extrapolate an opinion over all the primary facets of the game, but video reviews are a little bit more costly—both monetarily and time-wise.

Ideally, you're gonna need a good microphone (any will do as long as your voice can be clearly heard) and a capture card to record game footage, if you desire (I've never had one of these, so I couldn't tell you which one to get). Then comes the editing software. Audacity is a must, and for the video, I always tend to use WMM... <_< If you want something more higher-end, I can't really recommend anything that you wouldn't pirate, which I don't condone, so... Google-fu.

Speak clearly and enthusiastically. Make sure your script is concise and well-written, and that the game footage aligns well with what you're talking about (if you want to talk about a specific part you thought was annoying, for example, make sure to include footage of it on top of your commentary—this reduces your need to describe it yourself, and gives the audience a clear visual to go off of). Try to shoot under ten minutes, unless you really just have a lot to say.

Don't say shit like "rate, comment, and subscribe" and shit like that. People will subscribe if they want to.

That's all—you don't need anything fancy. Personally, a pen and paper is all I need. While playing new games (and old games too), it's important to take notes as you play, and maybe you can fit them in somewhere. If you're recording game footage, it's always important to keep back-ups of it, in case you lose it.

i meant that i triggered him by saying tool was metal, so he's not gonna come back to this thread lol

it was a joke

Quote from: Verbatim on September 06, 2015, 12:06:07 AM

i would hate to have to be the guy to play the lamest superhero of all time

I know, that poor Jeremy Renner

at least hawkeye is cool

cap was literally made just for jingoistic bleeding hearts

wtf I can't see the results?!

yeah, you can make it so we can see the results until the end

i think it's to prevent getting people like me all flustered over the standings, and then trying to skew the poll results

which brings up a question—if an alt votes, can the mods see that?

Wrecker Rho is up for grabs

also, someone explain to me the differences between death metal, black metal, and doom metal

protip:

you can't

Quote from: Verbatim on September 05, 2015, 11:29:38 PM

I mean, Kojima's said dumb shit before. I'm sure you all know he doesn't even consider games to be art.

I actually didn't know this. You'd think he'd be one of those guys that advocate games as art.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/news240106kojimaart

I mean, Kojima's said dumb shit before. I'm sure you all know he doesn't even consider games to be art.

Unless he changed his mind in the ten years he's made those comments, which, hey, he might have.

YouTube

Kojima's gone too far this time.

unsurprising

Did you see the video I posted? I couldn't believe what I was watching.

which

Newton doesn't surprise me. But I doubt Einstein did. He used to flash women, after all.

I only say it when I'm not being serious tbh

don't confuse me