Bloodporne

12 hours ago, SFLUFAN said:

I am not familiar with "American cheese"- what is it?

Don't you live in WASHINGTON DC? If so, this does not surprise me. It's probably a punishable offense there to eat something with the word 'American' in it. 

Most active fucking thread I've seen in a while on this here video game forum and it's about...American cheese combined with racial stereotypes. 

I knew I chose the right forum when migrating from NeoGAF.

There's a whole bit in Undercover Brother about black people hating mayo and I had to ask an ex if this was true. That's probably why she dumped me, constant 'is this black??' questions!

6 minutes ago, Chris- said:

 

Cheese in non-omelette eggs; obviously cheese in an omelette is normal, but I've never seen white people just throw cheese on some scrambled eggs.

You should "get jiggy with it" and try it, fellow white man.

A-ha ha ha ha ha!

And by the way, roast beef is literally Honecker. 

6 minutes ago, Chris- said:

I'm honestly shook, and you people (i.e. adding-additional-sugar-to-your-sauce people) are monsters.

I don't do that sugar in the sauce thing, that's nasty. I've just observed real-deal guidos doing it.

Spoiler:

I hate tomato sauce. 

27 minutes ago, Chris- said:

Is this a black thing? I did not know it was a thing until I worked at a black school with black cafeteria workers. I was appalled.

I do this all the time, I'm European. 

22 minutes ago, Chris- said:

Also, putting sugar in spaghetti sauce HAS to be a black thing; I've seen students do it, staff members do it, parents do it. The black internet should cease to make fun of white people potato salad for having the audacity to add sugar to jarred tomato sauce.

Also false, I live in Queens and see Italians do that shit. Along with raisins...raisins in pasta, yes.

1 hour ago, Anathema- said:

It goes really nicely in a roast beef sandwich. I want to taste the beef more than the cheese and American is just right.

This also sounds profoundly sexual, I dig it. 

Pussy

Just now, skillzdadirecta said:

 

You have to watch it... there were some folks that suspected her.

They should've hired you as PR guy because nobody has ever more effectively convinced me to watch something I thought I'd rather gouge my eyes out than see.

11 minutes ago, atom631 said:

 

I wish I had it in me to do that. No way I can fire up a game at 12 and then play till 2-3 and be able to function at work the next day...unless I call in sick! 

The last time I tried this knowing farce of a move was when Bloodborne came out and I told myself "only an hour to check it out". Called in sick at work at 6:30 AM and ended up playing until like 10AM and fucked up my entire sleep rhythm on top of wasting a vacation day. 

High five. 

Just now, skillzdadirecta said:

 

Oh you're not a dickhead for laughing... I STILL laugh at the shit  The Netflix doc just showed there was more going on than what we saw in the press.

Okay, I can't stop now...

Please, did they explain in detail how the FUCK whoever was in charge at her local NAACP chapter did not smell bullshit? That may be the best part about it. There must've been a bunch of members going "come on now...we all know...but this is just too fucking awkward to accuse someone of, right? Right?"

7 minutes ago, skillzdadirecta said:

 

 

All I'm going to say is watch the doc if you can. Not justifying what she did, but there's definitely more to the story and she definitely has... "issues".

I'll be honest. I don't have enough empathy in me for it and can't care about the finer details of why some white lady in black face and a fake afro was elected as NAACP branch president. In my head, this is a real-life Chappelle Show skit and I'll fully accept the responsibility of being a dickhead for laughing at her. 

Actually, I laughed at the entire situation as a whole. It's all certified asinine. 

16 minutes ago, skillzdadirecta said:

 

The doc about her on Netflix is fascinating stuff.

I can't get myself to waste more time on that wacko than I already have sadly.

5 minutes ago, Spork3245 said:

 

But what if you just went overboard with your self-tan cream and thought “might as well go full Dolezal”?

 

Please don't remind me of Rachel Dolezal, my stomach muscles aren't equipped right now. 

Her 'case' initially hitting the news is still one of the funniest fucking things I've ever seen. I was working with this dude at the time who was like Fat Albert crossed with Dave Chappelle and we were literally in hysterics in our office laughing at the staggering absurdity of it all. I'll never forget the sounds of that man's laughter. 

"REALLY BITCH, REALLY...?"

Me.

I was really intrigued because I do love Spaghetti Westerns and the game looks visually absolutely stunning. That being said I had already decided not to buy it based on simply not having the time and/or patience for these type of 'substitute for life' type games. 

What did cement my decisions was reading several reviews this morning out of curiosity and seeing that the controls, character movement and gunplay still seem to be stuck in typical R* mode. The Kotaku paragraphs on movement and gunplay particularly were downright ugly for my tastes. 

Love what the game is doing visually and whole ultra-detail thing but overall as an actual game, it turns me off almost completely. 

It's probably unfair but when I see "free to play" my mind immediately goes to "oh...what's wrong with it?".

Since Halloween is upon us and we're in autumn, I thought some of you into more adventurous music would enjoy one of my favorite obscure weirdo albums for this season:

Comus - The Herald

Comus was technically considered a Prog Rock band in their day, but well, there is zero Rock in their sound and by my definition they sound like some sort of Pagan Dark Folk with some typical counter-culture flavor for its day. However, this is shockingly grim lyrically and even musically at points for its release date of 1971. The band's peak of popularity was opening for David Bowie on an unsuccessful tour and basically selling zero copies of their one and only album after dissolving with much drama and label pressure like so many experimental groups did.

This is my favorite song although slightly uncharacteristically calm possibly for the rest of the album which is slightly darker in tone. The whole LP basically works best when taken as a whole however I assumed that may be a bit much for anyone potentially interested. This is kind of the musical equivalent of some weird Pagan folk tales coming alive in the woods at night. 

Lyrics:

As a single star glides swiftly down the night
A soft wetting note issues from the time-worn flute
Frowning slightly the herald listens wistful across the night
And from way back behind the day comes the echoed answer
The day advances oh so softly his shadow lengthens and his voice is mute
But clear his flute and sadly walks forward followed by the day
Herald of morning walks across the earth eternally

[Acoustic Guitar Solo]

And somewhere in the black distance
Another herald puts down his flute
And the dewy dawn creeps on
And the night withdraws

The day advances oh so softly his shadow lengthens and his voice is mute
But clear his flute and sadly walks forward followed by the day
Herald of morning walks across the earth eternally

And here is the complete album if interested: 

Comus - First Utterance
 

41 minutes ago, Nokra said:

I finished Dorian Gray this afternoon and gave it 5/5 stars on Goodreads. By the last third one knows what's going to happen but the journey of getting there was supremely enjoyable to me. It is a very simple but elegant tale of morals and character; I can absolutely see why it's considered a classic of English literature. 

 

Have you read anything else by Wilde, 

@CastlevaniaNut18 ?

Glad to see you liked it. I always love seeing people sink their teeth into some classics despite vastly differing standards compared to our modern story-telling styles and so on.

I just broke out the following due to the autumnal season:

Woman In Black by Susan Hill

The original novel the rather semi-shitty (well, the sets were amazing at least) Daniel Radcliffe film is based on. Perhaps not considered a masterpiece but I personally love it. Very atmospheric, eerie and an absolutely fantastic setting. I'm a sucker for this type of almost folklore based Horror so it's a 5/5 from me. Almost my third time reading it. 

1 hour ago, CitizenVectron said:

What are the US' major victories since WWII? Gulf War I? Is that it? Does the Bosnian air campaign count for anything?

Vietnam, obviously. 

Of course. The US doesn't really do "defeat" very well historically. 

I thought it was...pretty funny and okay but really nothing memorable for me personally. 

The main selling point in the end was that I found the actress to be have some pretty great, funny delivery. The actual movie around her was thoroughly mediocre I thought. 

I'm going to take this opportunity to educate you all on some great German 80's Metal, whether you like it or not. 

Sodom - Nuclear Winter