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Unread postby icycalm » 17 Mar 2009 20:50

Ready to rage? - Steam Users' Forums
TF2 is in constant-development, always changing. This guy makes it sounds like it's a dying game. Hey buddy, it can always change for the better, ...
forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?p=9424051 - 13 hours ago -
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Unread postby icycalm » 18 Mar 2009 13:48

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Unread postby icycalm » 18 Mar 2009 13:54

http://zendeath.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=1557

Classic lines:



Like all great reviews ever, moron!

Yeah, TF2 is a real blast and that's the bottom line. I don't think that it should be critically compared to TFC or QWTF, I mean...just because it has a 2 after it doesn't mean it's supposed to have similar gameplay, it just means it's going to involve teams in fortresses


Words fail me...
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Unread postby icycalm » 18 Mar 2009 14:05

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Unread postby icycalm » 19 Mar 2009 13:10

Saved from /v/:

http://misc.insomnia.ac/random/28677120.html

And another thread on Steam:

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/s ... p?t=825844

And more stupid shit from that stupid tvtropes site:

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Sequelphobic

This article comments on the phenomenon, noting that Basketball 2009 is basically the same game as Basketball 2008 and nobody cares.


And then they say this:

As with most extremists, they have a legitimate point underneath all the bluster: Series and genres must innovate at some point, or they become stagnant.


Yes, retard, just like basketball has become stagnant.
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Unread postby Archonus » 20 Mar 2009 19:34

Oh Christ, 4chan...

You could milk that board for retards for eternity and never go hungry.
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Unread postby icycalm » 25 Mar 2009 00:08

A thread on the Steam forums, currently at 24 pages, discussing remarks made in the TF2 thread:

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/s ... p?t=828041

I only skimmed the first and last couple of pages, and posted the only interesting responses I came across here. I am not about to wade through the rest of it, but if anyone does and finds anything interesting, let me know. Also came across this:

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I always appreciate it when people take the time to do stuff like this. It's at least much more enjoyable than pages and pages of stupid, pointless blabbering.

Also note that the above thread is a different one from the original that sparked all the "controversy". That thread is still gone, but I finally managed to get a couple of pages (out of at least a couple dozen) off of Google's cache:

http://misc.insomnia.ac/random/ready_to_rage.html
http://misc.insomnia.ac/random/ready_to ... age_3.html

Nothing much to see there, then.

Then there's another one of those "image board" threads:

http://misc.insomnia.ac/random/51181.html

Can someone explain to me why these threads seem to disappear after a certain amount of time? I guess it happens automatically? But how does the program figure out when to wipe them? There doesn't seem to be any logic to it -- some of them disappear within a few hours, others stay up for a day or two. What if someone is in the process of posting something when the program wipes the page entirely? This shit doesn't make any sense to me at all. And why would anyone want to post on such a board?

Next up, a reasonably lengthy response to my RPG article... but in Polish:

http://my.opera.com/Drozdal/blog/2009/0 ... we-rpg-ssa

The guy mentions 486 PCs and Ultima Underworld, so my interest has been reasonably piqued. If anyone can read Polish I'd appreciate a summary of what the hell he's saying. Babelfish, unfortunately, does not support Polish at this time.

And to wrap up this update, a rather old thread from the forums of our dear friend racketboy:

http://www.racketboy.com/forum/viewtopi ... =15&t=8256

racketboy wrote:Unlike Icycalm, I don't like to promote negativity in my forum.


He prefers to promote "positivity", then, which is what I like to call "the cheerleading approach to game coverage".
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Unread postby Strifer » 25 Mar 2009 15:03

icycalm wrote:Next up, a reasonably lengthy response to my RPG article... but in Polish:

http://my.opera.com/Drozdal/blog/2009/0 ... we-rpg-ssa

The guy mentions 486 PCs and Ultima Underworld, so my interest has been reasonably piqued. If anyone can read Polish I'd appreciate a summary of what the hell he's saying. Babelfish, unfortunately, does not support Polish at this time.


It's a positive response to your article. He's saying that RPG's are stuck in the '70s and they're all full of pointless statistics. He did find something resembling a real RPG in Ultima Underworld (the first, and maybe the second one), but otherwise he felt disappointed.
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Unread postby zinger » 25 Mar 2009 16:05

icycalm wrote: Babelfish, unfortunately, does not support Polish at this time.

http://translate.google.com/
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Unread postby Doctor Fugue » 25 Mar 2009 16:36

icycalm wrote:And to wrap up this update, a rather old thread from the forums of our dear friend racketboy:

http://www.racketboy.com/forum/viewtopi ... =15&t=8256


Ah yes, the classic thread where I was wrongfully accused of being a sneaky internet informant by a moronic and incredibly arrogant 14-year-old. He didn't even have the cojones to admit his mistake. It made me so sad. :lol:

Anybody who thinks Icycalm is too conceited should try having a chat with that guy who started the thread; his supposed superiority is based on a convenient scheme of simply disregarding anything he does not understand. Communication was a one-way street.
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Unread postby A.Wrench » 25 Mar 2009 19:03

icycalm wrote:Can someone explain to me why these threads seem to disappear after a certain amount of time? I guess it happens automatically?


The boards usually have a limited number of threads that can be displayed at a time, organized across, say, ten pages. When new posts are made in an old thread, the thread gets bumped up, like in a regular forum. But if nobody posts in a thread while new threads are constantly being made, the thread falls down to the last page and is eventually wiped.

There's a couple of other ways for a thread to get deleted. Mods, naturally, will remove threads they find annoying, meaning that occasionally a perfectly good thread will vanish completely. Also, when a thread reaches a certain number of posts, it no longer gets bumped up.

icycalm wrote: And why would anyone want to post on such a board?


There's a few reasons. For one thing, these boards don't require a signup. Usernames are optional, and postcounts, signatures, and avatars don't exist. On a board like this, the things you say are judged exclusively for what they are, as people don't build up "reputations". Obviously this also gives people an excuse to act like morons (got banned? Just switch you IP address), but it's not uncommon to have a real discussion, either.

Which brings me to the most important point. These boards move incredibly fast. You can have a discussion over the course of an hour that, on a regular forum, would take weeks. Not to mention shitty threads are a lot easier to ignore when they'll be gone in less than an hour. It's really easy to find people to play online games with, too, just set up a thread.

There's qualities to imageboard format, but whether they outweigh the glaring flaws is a matter of opinion.
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Unread postby icycalm » 31 Mar 2009 02:53

Thanks for the explanation.


http://digg.com/comedy/What_happens_whe ... t_in_power

The funny thing is that no one "put" me in power. I am a sovereign -- much like a king, basically. No one "puts" kings in power -- they are invested with power from the gods.

http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/genmessa ... c=48803947 (12 fucking pages of this shit)

And some positive comments for a change:

http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php ... 1033879428
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Unread postby icycalm » 31 Mar 2009 13:43

http://www.psu.com/forums/showthread.php?p=4044819

losganados wrote:Are you people illiterate?


Yes, they are.
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Unread postby icycalm » 01 Apr 2009 00:01

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Unread postby losganados » 01 Apr 2009 01:42

Not all of them are illiterate.
This guy got it
bio wrote: I read the entire thing...and it was beautiful. I share the same sentiments. Video games can be art, just like anything else, as it depends on the views and reactions of the player of the game. That is about as far as the line should be drawn on the subject.


and this guy is confused.

rbrtchng wrote: On the contrary to my previous argument, I'm going to argue that games are art in this post just to see both sides of the argument. Games are art not just in the art design, but the entire product because the reality is that games don't serve any function except itself in similar ways to performing arts. When someone plays a game, nothing in the real world is impacted in any way so that the state of the world remains the same before and after the gaming session. In this way, game is art that utilizes play mechanics, visuals, and audios to evoke the developer/gamer conversation. As an analogy, paintings do not change the state of the world; therefore, their sole function is itself to evoke the artist/audience conversation. But in any case, the author is not right to say that a book or a car is art because a car serves the function of a car, not art, which is why it's a car. In other words, whatever has a function is called the thing that serves the function so that things that serve no other function in itself is art because that thing serves the function of being itself artful.
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Unread postby icycalm » 01 Apr 2009 01:49

losganados wrote:This guy got it


He got nothing. And neither did you, apparently:

bio wrote:Video games can be art, just like anything else, as it depends on the views and reactions of the player of the game.


lol

"Art", in the way the fags are using it, IS NOT EVEN A PROPER WORD FOR CHRIST'S SAKES! IT DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING. WAKE THE FUCK UP HUMANITY! GET OVER THIS RETARDED COMPLEX ALREADY! YOU HAVE A TINY PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATION LEADING EVERYONE ELSE ON A WILD GOOSE CHASE, AND MAKING ENTIRE FORTUNES IN THE PROCESS.

Jesus Christ.

I think there must be a fundamental law of the universe that stipulates that only a dozen people maximum can understand the above at any given time, and right now, it seems the maximum has been reached. We'll have to wait until someone dies before another person can understand this.
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Unread postby losganados » 01 Apr 2009 01:58

:oops: Then the question and answer should just disappear because they are nonsensical. The riddle does not exist. And all I can do is parrot Wittgenstein (since he said it best).
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Unread postby icycalm » 01 Apr 2009 12:17

While not giving scores, Insomnia's Team Fortress 2 review. Bonus "points" for its Eight Point Eightness steaming from the Stop Having Fun Guys mentality driving the writing as well as the site admin's Small Name Big Ego bringing more fire to the madness.


http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/M ... PointEight

I don't know who the fuck writes this site, Wikipedia rejects probably. Because at least Wikipedia gets things right now and then, while I've yet to see a single page by them that gets anything right. "While not giving scores", lol. IT'S RIGHT THERE AT THE TOP OF THE PAGE, RETARD.
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Unread postby dai jou bu » 01 Apr 2009 20:00

It was funny the first time I saw someone on that website link to you directly, which was removed the last time I checked that page. Now it's just dumb.
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Unread postby icycalm » 02 Apr 2009 21:16

Entropy Stew wrote:
icycalm wrote:Read the banned rules. You have twelve microbans to format your posts into something banned, with banned paragraphs, punctuation, capitalization, etc. If you do not do this the bans will be banned, and you will be banned. If you do this, you will receive a ban from me, and perhaps also, at some point, from the banishment's ban. If you reply to this ban, the bans will also be banned and you will be banned.

The only way for you not to be banned is to ban those posts appropriately within the next twelve microbans. Have a nice ban.

-/ES/-


http://www.caltrops.com/pointy.php?acti ... pid=101208

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Unread postby icycalm » 05 Apr 2009 11:53

http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthre ... ost9620192

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/M ... NameBigEgo

"No one can properly contest my points. To do that one would have to have the power to change reality itself. "
— Alex "icycalm" Kierkegaard


Small people. They always have to connect everything to attention-seeking -- because they never get any attention. It's as if they expect me to apologize for the attention I necessarily attract, and which it would be impossible for me NOT to attract, given the sheer brazenness of the statements I am making.


Also, this:

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Q ... ingFunGuys

"If anyone so much as DARES to try to convince you of this I will ban them. This is not a forum for retards — no one should have to convince anyone else that 1+1=2. If you do not understand that competitive players are the ones who should set the standards for every game then you don't belong me."
—The owner of this site.


Note that they've butchered the quote, most likely because the original made fun of gamefaqs, and these guys are probably huge gamefaqs fans. The original went "If you do not understand that competitive players are the ones who should set the standards for every game then you don't belong here, you belong here."


And the best lol of the day award goes to:

http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Artfag
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Unread postby Muzozavr » 05 Apr 2009 12:21

That isn't the best lol of the day. Try to change "metapedia" to "wikipedia" in the URL to find out that Wikipedia had an "Artfag" article too, but someone deleted it.
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Unread postby icycalm » 05 Apr 2009 12:31

That is indeed the best lol of the day!

Goes to show that all the "freedom of speech" sludge the liberals spew out is pure hypocrisy. There is no one more illiberal than the liberal, no one more fascist than the anti-fascist, etc.

Oh well. One more lollerific day on planet earth.
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Unread postby icycalm » 05 Apr 2009 12:42

Their game journalism article links to Insomnia several times:

http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Video_Game_Journalism

And the funny thing is, there is one version of Wikipedia's article on the subject which also links to two of my articles:

http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Game_Journalism

but the main one doesn't

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_journalism

even though at least one person tried to link me there, and was refused (something about this site not being "professional" enough, I think -- which is the entire point!)

And what the fuck is the difference between regular Wikipedia and the "simple" version? Is it for simpletons or something?
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