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2551
« on: December 04, 2016, 11:00:26 PM »
I take them seriously in the sense that I want for them to be taken seriously--I don't want people to view it as a joke. I think it would be nice if video games had an equivalent to the Oscars or the Palme d'Or, where the art is taken seriously and we can truly assess each and every one of gaming's greatest/most important achievements of the year and celebrate them.
You know, instead of circlejerking over what the most popular games are.
The fact that we can't is what I'd consider a problem worth fixing and, yeah, complaining about. Taking seriously.
The issue is that even the Oscars are biased toward popularity. Just being nominated is a matter of wooing the electors through gifts and flattery, much less winning.
That's not to say that the winner is the one who paid the most, but there aren't many forms of media that have a completely objective reward show. And honestly, I don't think there ever will be. Art tenda toward subjectivity, so there's no hard and fast "best game".
Other than Tetris, of course.
I think there are objective things a game can be judged on. After all its a bunch of 1s and 0s and while stuff like looks and story will always be in the eyes of thr beholder I think the beautiful thing about gaming is that there are mechanics and tech and things we can objectively judge a game on.
It can be rated as a product, yes, if that's what you mean. Take a game like Skyrim; was it pretty for the time, or even now? Yeah, it's a pretty good looking game. Are its questlines and combat up to snuff? I'd argue not. Even still, many would argue that its many accolades were well earned. I'm not aiming to defame the game, but the point is that the only time people care about the tech is when they want something to blame or it's all the game has (MGSV is a good example).
2552
« on: December 04, 2016, 04:25:11 PM »
As a side note I don't think a game being released at launch is a valid excuse. Off the top of my head I can think of three games that released at launch (maybe 4, but I didn't pay attention to the 360 launch so I don't know if gears was actually a launch title or not) that were still good games.
Halo:CE, SSBM, and Super Mario Sunshine.
I don't think it's a good excuse either, except to argue that it was rushed in some way (I don't think it was). Was referring to Yoshida's statement on the game.
2553
« on: December 04, 2016, 04:24:02 PM »
I'm well aware of how metacritic works. I was using it as a quick and dirty resource to show the general reception to it. That being said your quote works against you because a game can have all the good ideas in the world, bit if it's bad at the execution, you know the actual game part of the game, it's still a bad game no matter how you try to spin it.
Which is why I say you're more forgiving than most since people will generally call a game bad if the game part of it isn't up to snuff.
I never said that it's a good game. It's not. I just think "panned" was a bit of an exaggeration.
2554
« on: December 04, 2016, 01:16:21 PM »
You nerds have probably already saw this, but if you play both trailers at the same time, you'll notice that when the baby disappears in the first trailer, it appears at the exact same time in the second trailer.
The Kojima ruse cruise never ends.
2555
« on: December 04, 2016, 01:14:48 PM »
The purpose of unprotected sex is procreation. You know full well going into it that there is a risk of having kids.
Reminder that using a condom has a theoretical 98% effectiveness, and in practice an 85% effectiveness. Very few options are close to 100%, of which total IUDs, vasectomies, and tubal ligation (AKA, effective sterilization), and total abstinence.
2556
« on: December 04, 2016, 01:07:05 PM »
Not sure how a game that was near universally panned got green-lit for a sequel, but ok.
Two words: Mark Cerny.
And I wouldn't call it "universally panned". It made some 4s, but then it made some 7s. Hopefully the sequel can patch up the problems.
Umm, the metacritc average is a 54. I also said "near universally" not universally. I'm well aware gamestops marketing magazine gave it a good score to sell copies.
50-ish is closer to "mixed reception" imo, but it's semantics.
And Game Informer gave it an 8.25 btw, Destructoid and VentureBeat gave it 7s.
You're pretty generous then because getting averaging at a 54 would be considered failing to most others.
Keep in mind that the average isn't the only factor that you should be looking at. There were few reviews that placed it dead in the middle. They either rated it "favorably" or "poorly". That's the primary reason that it's mixed, because there's not an actual consensus in the reviews. Even then, ratings tend to be kind of shit; it's better to look at what the actual review says. IGN, who gave it a 5.9, said " Knack's shifting size is a great idea that never really grows into anything substantial." Essentially, "Great concept, bad execution." I wouldn't call it a scathing review, but it doesn't hold much for buying the game (which nobody should, it wasn't very good). Hell, Shuhei Yoshida, while disappointed in scores, said that it's not the game that they ever expected to score highly with critics, and that its purpose as a launch title was to show that it catered to audiences other than the hardcore crowd. Now that they have feedback on everything they did wrong (all of the gameplay elements, basically), I feel a little more confident in the sequel, especially since they don't have the excuse of it being a launch title.
2557
« on: December 04, 2016, 12:50:31 PM »
Not sure how a game that was near universally panned got green-lit for a sequel, but ok.
Two words: Mark Cerny.
And I wouldn't call it "universally panned". It made some 4s, but then it made some 7s. Hopefully the sequel can patch up the problems.
Umm, the metacritc average is a 54. I also said "near universally" not universally. I'm well aware gamestops marketing magazine gave it a good score to sell copies.
50-ish is closer to "mixed reception" imo, but it's semantics. And Game Informer gave it an 8.25 btw, Destructoid and VentureBeat gave it 7s.
2558
« on: December 04, 2016, 10:38:20 AM »
Shot through the heart and you're to blame PS4 HAS NO GAMES
Would be funny if it didn't seem like every console has that problem this gen.
2559
« on: December 04, 2016, 09:57:25 AM »
Not sure how a game that was near universally panned got green-lit for a sequel, but ok.
Two words: Mark Cerny. And I wouldn't call it "universally panned". It made some 4s, but then it made some 7s. Hopefully the sequel can patch up the problems.
2560
« on: December 04, 2016, 09:55:16 AM »
I was listen to something like this on the radio the other day. Except it was Macedonia. VELES, Macedonia -- On the second floor of a noisy sports center in the Macedonian town of Veles, a teenage purveyor of fake news cracked open his laptop and laid out his case for why lying is more lucrative than the truth.
Real news gets reported everywhere, he argued. Made-up stories are unique.
“The fake news is the good news,” the 18-year-old said, pointing to a graph showing his audience figures, which reached into the hundreds of thousands, a bling watch clasped firmly around his wrist. “A fake news article is way more opened than any other.”
As President Barack Obama, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, journalists and academics argue over the impact of social media-driven propaganda on the latest American election, this sleepy former manufacturing town overlooking the Vardar River in central Macedonia has found itself increasingly drawn into the debate.
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BuzzFeed News identified Veles as a hub of the fake news industry seeding sensationalized or falsified information across Facebook. A reporter from Britain’s Channel 4 News chased the industry’s adolescent kingpins across town, cornering one 16-year-old fake news baron who said he had no plans to stop — even though he acknowledged it was wrong.
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But there were no such qualms from the teenager who spoke to The Associated Press at Veles’ Gemdidzii Sports Hall.
Retreating from a spirited indoor soccer game into an empty office, he walked an AP journalist through the ins-and-outs of his fake news operation on condition that neither he nor his stable of bogus news sites would be identified, because otherwise that would hurt his business.
He showed the AP how he ripped much of his material off The Political Insider, a right-wing news site that produces a steady drumbeat of pro-Donald Trump pieces. He then flipped over to Google Analytics, an audience tracking tool, to show that he’d managed to gather more than 685,000 page views a week.
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The teen said his monthly revenue was in the four figures, a considerable sum in a country where the average monthly pay is 360 euros ($383). As he navigated his site’s statistics, he dropped nuggets of journalism advice.
“You have to write what people want to see, not what you want to show,” he said, scrolling through The Political Insider’s stories as a large banner read “ARREST HILLARY NOW.”
Using the web intelligence service Domain Tools, the AP confirmed that the teen is behind more than a dozen different websites, including knockoffs of well-known U.S. media outlets. Typical headlines include “Wow! Queen Elizabeth Invited Trump - This Is A Game Changer” or “BREAKING: What George Soros Just Did Will Leave You SICK!” Both pieces carried untrue or questionable assertions.
A simple Domain Tools search revealed roughly 200 U.S.-oriented news websites registered in Veles, most created within the last 12 months.
These sites tend to follow one of two patterns: Some masquerade as well-known outlets like The New York Times or Fox News, while others operate under made-in-America-sounding names like USA Daily News 24. That latter site’s lead story — “Michelle Obama DEMANDS Americans PAY UP To Give Her Mom A Cushy $160k Pension” — is entirely false.
A message seeking comment from USA Daily News 24’s administrator, Goran Trajkov, was not immediately returned.
Most of the sites appear fueled by plagiarism. Stories are cribbed from blogs, conspiracy sites and fake news outlets, and reposted across social media.
For the residents of Veles, a Macedonian rust belt town of 50,000 people with shuttered factories and high unemployment, the thousands of dollars brought in by fake news operations aren’t necessarily unwelcome.
“They see it in a positive way,” said local journalist Petar Peckov. “They say, ‘The boys are working. There is money and we will benefit from it.’”
For everyone else on Facebook, Veles’ new cottage industry means a bewildering assault of misinformation and propaganda.
“Telling real from fake is difficult when people are intentionally trying to mask this from you,” said Robyn Caplan, a researcher at Data & Society, a New York-based institute that studies the cultural impact of technological change.
“The headlines that this Macedonian guy was using would have, could have been found a few years ago on something like — not in the same political sentiment — on Upworthy or on Elite Daily” she said in a telephone interview, referring to two websites that pioneered the viral news phenomenon. “They’re building off of practices that people have become really used to.”
The Macedonian teenager says he’s indifferent to politics. He sees it all as a money-making scheme, as well as a preparation for his career after high school, where he has been studying marketing and politics.
Shrugging off the handwringing over the ethics of fake news, he said the onus was on readers.
“They can read it if they want to,” he said. “I’m not the one pushing them to click on the article.” BuzzFeed makes me queezy, but it was verified by other sources mentioned in the article, including that channel 4 interview.
2561
« on: December 04, 2016, 12:36:12 AM »
I take them seriously in the sense that I want for them to be taken seriously--I don't want people to view it as a joke. I think it would be nice if video games had an equivalent to the Oscars or the Palme d'Or, where the art is taken seriously and we can truly assess each and every one of gaming's greatest/most important achievements of the year and celebrate them.
You know, instead of circlejerking over what the most popular games are.
The fact that we can't is what I'd consider a problem worth fixing and, yeah, complaining about. Taking seriously.
The issue is that even the Oscars are biased toward popularity. Just being nominated is a matter of wooing the electors through gifts and flattery, much less winning. That's not to say that the winner is the one who paid the most, but there aren't many forms of media that have a completely objective reward show. And honestly, I don't think there ever will be. Art tenda toward subjectivity, so there's no hard and fast "best game". Other than Tetris, of course.
2562
« on: December 03, 2016, 02:36:26 PM »
Surprised Mikkelson's army is curbstomping the city. The army looks pretty bare-bones tbh.
You deserve more likes for this
That's what I've been thinking all day fam
2563
« on: December 03, 2016, 10:03:23 AM »
Spoiler i was also kinda surprised that it was glossed over how much of a fuck up Drake made. His wife is very forgiving i guess..
what did he do
everything
2564
« on: December 03, 2016, 10:00:14 AM »
Surprised Mikkelson's army is curbstomping the city. The army looks pretty bare-bones tbh.
2565
« on: December 03, 2016, 09:48:21 AM »
Someone took a closer look at the uniforms of Mikkelson's squad. 506th infantry.
Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but they don't use WWII combat procedure. Something to do with Mikkelson, whose uniform is much more modern, I'd say.
2566
« on: December 02, 2016, 05:25:16 PM »
I can forgive a dumb CGI trailer because it had GdT. I only hope he and Norman Reedus are the PCs.
Well, if you believe the leaks, Spoiler Reedus is the PC
Mikkelson is in the bad guy faction, but the plot twist is that they are actually the good guys
GdT, Reedus' boss, took his child and told him that the Ludens did it
2567
« on: November 30, 2016, 07:16:58 PM »
False flag by the Trump regime
THEY'RE GOING TO TAKE OUR KNIVES FROM US
2568
« on: November 29, 2016, 06:48:52 PM »
Removing the reds atm
I'm going to probably give up on it.
Come on man, if you can photoshop dicks on people's faces, you can do this too! At least give him the Trump hair if he comes out tan or orange!
I didn't save it upon closing. :/
Wasted potential....
This was what I had. Just compress it some and it'll look fine.
Is that Rahjeed?
2569
« on: November 29, 2016, 09:09:21 AM »
i prefer coffee tbh
I enjoy coffee too, but caffeine isn't very good for my problems. Coffee isn't good enough to drink decaffeinated anyway imo.
2570
« on: November 29, 2016, 08:32:01 AM »
Why didn't you just reheat it
I did, but I didn't get to really enjoy it since it got so late.
2571
« on: November 28, 2016, 11:43:44 PM »
Made the tea, put the honey in it, then found it on the counter two hours later.
2572
« on: November 28, 2016, 11:30:58 PM »
2573
« on: November 28, 2016, 03:42:20 PM »
God I love George, I'd buy some george socks if I wasn't a money grubbing shekel hoarder. His video on bots and 3D gaming are really good, as well as his criticisms of games length and homogeneity in the AAA market.
I met him at DragonCon a couple years back. While his hatred of Peace Walker is anfoogivabaru, he was a pretty cool guy.
2574
« on: November 28, 2016, 03:02:07 PM »
Watch your kidney's there matey. One of these days ee's gonna wanna walk out on ya.
Don't you mean liver?
Alcohol abuse damages both.
Oh.
Well shit.
Are you kidney me?
That was atrocious.
2575
« on: November 28, 2016, 02:57:36 PM »
Watch your kidney's there matey. One of these days ee's gonna wanna walk out on ya.
Don't you mean liver?
Alcohol abuse damages both.
2576
« on: November 26, 2016, 04:21:31 PM »
finessing on grammar
2577
« on: November 25, 2016, 07:02:59 PM »
Empire will be preserved and remembered for being culturally, aesthetically, and historically significant. AoTC will not, it was a bad movie, not Phantom Menace bad but still bad.
I know, it just makes me right.
TPM was better than AotC
2578
« on: November 24, 2016, 05:20:15 PM »
Hey, how's it going?
Hey, pretty good.
2579
« on: November 24, 2016, 03:38:08 PM »
What programs do you use for making music/producing?
FL Studio 11, audacity, asio4all.
2580
« on: November 24, 2016, 03:34:27 PM »
Why is part 5 so short? I started reading it instead of just shitting on it and it's pretty fun, despite being a major tonal shift from part 4. But I'm half way through after only a few battles.
Scans switch to 2 page spreads halfway through, so it should be closer to a quarter in reality. Second half is also much longer than the second half of DiU. More "focused", if that's the right word, less side villains.
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