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Unread postby icycalm » 04 Dec 2011 15:59

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

Raiden IV (雷電IV, Raiden Fō?) is an arcade game that follows up from the events of its precursor, Raiden III.
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Unread postby Somali Pirate » 18 Apr 2012 15:57

http://games.ign.com/articles/122/1223117p1.html

Not really lol but I don't know where to put it elsewhere. I am speechless.
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Unread postby icycalm » 18 Apr 2012 19:52

The title of the article is correct. It's just his examples that are stupid. As for his argumentation, I didn't bother reading more than the first couple of lines, so I can't say.
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Unread postby Worm » 29 May 2012 01:39

Jonathan Gottschall wrote:If you're a big failure in the real world, the virtual world starts to look pretty attractive. You can go in there and be a success, have big muscles, respect, and authority. I know guys that have been playing World of Warcraft practically since the beginning, and they have these characters who are just juggernauts. They're really somebodies in that world, while they're kind of nobody in their own world, so I think that is dangerous for people who really have no life in this world.

But what's interesting to me is to project out 20 or 30 years and look at people who are successful in this world. I think there comes a point where it's cooler to be a king in the virtual world than to be a king in the real world.


http://killscreendaily.com/articles/int ... m-stories/
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Unread postby ingolfr » 27 Sep 2012 01:52

https://twitter.com/desensitisation/sta ... 9832132608

I really detest seeing well-known journalists spread stupid, stupid ideas like "we don't need a Women in Gaming panel".


https://twitter.com/elizabethdanger/sta ... 7992002560

Okay seriously I'm not even involved with the ladies in gaming panel but I will protect it like my own fucking child.


I for one eagerly await the theoretical insights to come from this panel. lol
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Unread postby icycalm » 23 Dec 2012 10:55

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Unread postby ingolfr » 12 Feb 2013 14:29

I am a Gamer
http://youtu.be/4pXWiG2B4zk

"People spend an entire salary to travel, and I can't help but laugh."
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Unread postby icycalm » 12 Feb 2013 17:40

The worst thing about the video is not what he says but how he says it. He sounds like a shrill idiot at times, even when he's talking about reasonable things, like how petty and boring most people's goals are. As for the plane ticket thing, I'll say this much: considering how most people take holidays, jumping on a plane and going somewhere for a week to spend half the day in their hotel room and the other half queuing up at some tourist site, I'd take videogames too. I HATE going somewhere for only a week. It beats the entire point of traveling, as far as I am concerned. A month is the minimum for me, otherwise I might as well stay home and play games.
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Unread postby ingolfr » 25 Apr 2013 16:19

Anna Anthropy reads a poem about Women's Issues in videogames: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t_0sTq1hIo

I almost cried laughing.
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Unread postby icycalm » 04 May 2013 19:06

http://www.learntocounter.com/forums/in ... 8#msg57488

Proto Cloud wrote:I can't wait until their next game that's set beneath the earth in a post-apocalyptic setting where you're stuck in a German utopia inspired by the works of Nietzsche. Is God dead? Will this be pretentious bullshit? Are you good? Are you Evil? Are you beyond that? Only Ken Levine knows.


http://www.learntocounter.com/forums/in ... 3#msg57493

Shoggy wrote:setting: A post-apocalyptic underground city named Abyss is ruled by a mad genius tyrant philsopher king named Liquid Lowell. The city was built by a billionare who wanted to create a society free of slave morality that would foster the creation of Nietzschian ubermen. The city is totally self sufecient thanks to geothermal energy and genetically engineered fungus crops that can feed people and livestock. The scientist of the city, free of moral constratins of the surface world, developed Dionysian Tonics.If a person imbibes a Dionysian tonic and has suffecient will he can alter the very fabric of reality. Everybody that took these tonics wanted turned into a Nietzschean caricature and became a crazy Nazi/LaVeyan Satanist. Society went mad because the most powerful people didn't care about what was best for society as a whole and tried to carve thier own empires.

openin scene: You are a rugged mercenary with awesome biceps that has been hired by a mysterious German man named Surth to travel to the udnerground city and rescue a man named Jefferson Libertas. You reach the drill room, a room filled with vehicles that look suspeciously like NOD subterranean APCs, and travel to the "Welcome Plaza". When you reach welcom Plaza you see a tatue of Nietzsche with a plaque beneath it. The plaque says: " Behold, I teach you the overman. The overman is the meaning of the earth.Let your will say: the overman shall be the meaning of the earth! I beseech you, my brothers, remain faithful to the earth, and do not believe those who speak to you of otherworldly hopes! Poison-mixers are they, whether they know it or not. Despisers of life are they, decaying and poisoned themselves, of whom the earth is weary: so let them go.
Once the sin against God was the greatest sin; but God died, and these sinners died with him. To sin against the earth is now the most dreadful thing, and to esteem the entrails of the unknowable higher than the meaning of the earth...
What is the greatest experience you can have? It is the hour of the great contempt. The hour when your happiness, too, arouses your disgust, and even your reason and your virtue.
The hour when you say, 'What matters my happiness? It is poverty and filth and wretched contentment. But my happiness ought to justify existence itself.'
The hour when you say, 'What matters my reason? Does it crave knowledge as the lion his food? It is poverty and filth and wretched contentment.'
The hour when you say, 'What matters my virtue? As yet it has not made me rage. How weary I am of my good and my evil! All that is poverty and filth and wretched contentment."

GET IT THAT'S WHY IT IS UNDERGROUND STUPID
The statue is vandalized with quality lines like "welcome to Abyss prepare to gaze into the Abyss".

When you get to the city and kill some ubersplivers you meet up with Jefferson Libertas. When you meet somone sane and ask them about Jefferson Libertas they agree to take you too him. Turn out Jefferson Libertas isn't a person it's the codeword for a communist/socialist revolution led by Surth and he tricked you into going into the city in a mad gambit because appearantly he thinks an outsider could win the revolution where his group has failed because the right man in the wrong place can make all the difference or whatever.

final boss: Liquid Lowell is not REALLY the boss he was just the second most powerful uberman. The REAL boss is a genetic clone of Surth named Zoroaster. See Surth is appearntly the most powerful Dionysian Tonic user of ALL TIME but he refuses to use his powers to win the revolution. In his mad pursuit of power Zoroaster has sacrificed his very body. He is nothing more than a disembodied head with an epic moustache floating in a jar full of various Dionysian tonics. The jar is of course mounted in an epic robot with life support gear. THe only thing keeping him alive at this point is his awesome will power. After you kill him you turn the city over to Surth and usher in an age of utopian socialist society of equality or become the new tyrant. The ending you get is based on how many amoral decisions you made like did you steal Dionysian tonic from a baby?
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Unread postby icycalm » 27 May 2013 07:17

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Unread postby icycalm » 31 Jul 2013 14:22

Ten By Eight, by Action Button Entertainment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yABN5nU-6sw
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Unread postby icycalm » 05 Oct 2013 19:50

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Unread postby Amor fati » 02 Dec 2013 20:11

In a hilarious encounter gamer and writer Charlie Brooker does his best to try and teach Jon Snow how to play computer games on the new PlayStation 4 console.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FLVjfFKy58
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Unread postby icycalm » 13 Jan 2014 01:08

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Unread postby icycalm » 24 Jan 2014 21:47

http://us.battle.net/hearthstone/en/for ... 1421462178

Teelo wrote:Achievement suggestion

Task: On the jungle tileset, click on the campfire so many times that a flag is dropped, declaring the camp site as being owned by you.
Achievement name: Mein Kampf
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Unread postby icycalm » 25 Jan 2014 08:21

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Unread postby icycalm » 14 Feb 2014 00:48

http://www.learntocounter.com/forums/in ... pic=6658.0

DJ Orwell wrote:What if Flappy Bird were inspired by other games?

The other thread is a load of flap, so I made this one.

What if Flappy Bird were inspired by other games?

Flappy StarCraft — Click the bird to select it, then click the button to flap.

Flappy StarCraft II — Click the bird to select it, then spam-click the button to queue flaps, which execute automatically.

Flappy DotA — Flapping has a cooldown.

Flappy Deus Ex — Each pipe has three gaps of equal width, offering a profound degree of choice to the player.

Flappy WarioWare — Game ends after five seconds, then repeats indefinitely at escalating speeds.

Flappy Bayonetta — Flapping within a pipe gap with exact timing just above the lip of the lower pipe activates FLAPPY TIME, which grants slow-motion and double points for the next fifteen seconds.

Flappy Tetris The Grand Master — Gravity increases every 100 pipes. After 500 pipes, the bird becomes invisible. After 999 pipes, the pipes become invisible too, as the (very short) credits scroll by slowly in the background.

Flappy The Stanley Parable — A British narrator mercilessly mocks you for playing this game. It's satire, you see.

Flappy Spec Ops: The Line — WHY DID YOU FLAP??

Flappy Kirby — No pipes.

Flappy Dark Souls — Nothing changes.

Flappy Demon's Souls — Nothing changes, but less people care.

Flappy DoDonPachi — Added chain meter alongside score counter. Tap button to bomb, which clears all pipes on screen, but resets your chain meter to zero. You have more bombs than you'll ever use.

Flappy Ketsui — Best played strictly for survival. Also, the bird is gay.

Flappy Battle Garegga — Extra life every 10 pipes. Gaps become gradually thinner until they are impossible to pass. Crashing into a pipe causes the gaps to widen again.

Flappy Ikaruga — Pipes are either white or black, in a static patterned sequence. The bird is either white or black, and you may tap the button to change its color. Pipes of the same color as the bird may be passed through without harm.

Flappy Quake III Arena — All distracting and superfluous graphics are removed, instead displaying solid color hitboxes for hardcore competitive play.

Flappy BioShock — TWIST ENDING: You were manipulated into flapping through those gaps!

Flappy Far Cry 2 — Flappy Bird gets dizzy spells from so much fucking flapping. Shake your device to revive him!

Flappy Super Mario Bros. — Fuck those cheep-cheep bridge stages.

Flappy Joust — RIP Midway ;_;
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Unread postby Some guy » 14 Feb 2014 01:41

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Unread postby icycalm » 20 Feb 2014 19:47

https://twitter.com/Krauserpua/status/4 ... 8790980608

Nick Krauser wrote:I wonder if Sid Meier's next game is going to be called "DeCivilisation" and feminism and multiculturalism are now playable factions.
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Unread postby Some guy » 15 Mar 2014 19:01

Platinum Games is dumbing you down and here is how and why: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuNSA5YJK-w

Quentin Daiquentin wrote:Popular game developer Platinum Games is working for the Japanese government with the goal of making the general population dumber for future enslavement. How they are achieving this goal is explained throughout the video.
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Unread postby Some guy » 09 May 2014 02:44

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Unread postby zinger » 09 May 2014 16:13

lol pretty good review of The Sims.
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Unread postby icycalm » 09 May 2014 20:46

Pretty much what I would have said in my review of it. It's such a boring game that I find even the IDEA of playing it boring, never mind actually playing it (which I haven't so far).
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Unread postby System Blower » 16 May 2014 04:46

http://nonfictiongames.neocities.org/

a nonfiction game is a game in which the play is based on rules and outcomes that are necessarily true for all potential players.


Who needs Insomnia when we have this trailblazer?
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