Bloodporne

2 minutes ago, Hurdyb1 said:

Resident Evil's typewriter save areas was the first thing that popped in my mind when I saw this title. Like you said, nothing could touch you. It really was a major stress reliever. 

These are absolutely the pinnacle of this concept. Love the melancholic mood of the themes as well, a perfect touch.

Bloodborne would be second for me as well despite not really liking the concept of even having this after Dark Souls I's world design. 

Nioh's hot springs are pretty cool too although not really isolated areas.

4 hours ago, Paperclyp said:

It’s tough, because this stuff needs to be disclosed and he needs to lose his job and probably never work in this industry in that capacity again BUT

 

he still doesn’t deserve to be harassed. And I’m talking true harassment, not people making jokes at his expense. 

I completely agree on that much. I meant memes and shit, not go on Twitter and threaten to firebomb his home. I even felt bad for people just kind of mocking him since I assumed that wow, you must be in a pretty shitty spot in life potentially to even consider that Dead Cells move. 

Never fucking mind, turns out his entire career was plagiarized. 

The headline sounds like the plot to a shitty 80's Slasher flick

I'll be honest...I felt bad for this dude getting meme'd and attacked on a personal level on Twitter and shit after the initial Dead Cells thing came out. I thought hey you know, he's already getting fired and we have no idea what his last few weeks looked like personally so maybe he just made a stupid ass decision like one can easily make when in a tough spot in life. 

Several days later:

Plagiarized FUCKING RESUME

1 minute ago, elbobo said:

 

yeah this is falling into the "I'm not even mad" category at this point 

What a legend. 

9 minutes ago, SaysWho? said:

 

The template was copied word for word in his Linkedin profile. The right is the template. Notice how there's no change in his profile on the left.

 

It wasn't a layout that he copied; it was a generic template that he copy-pasted and made into his "resume" of his skills and talents.

Lol...I somehow didn't read it that way at first for whatever reason. The level of absurdity is a full-on 11/10.

4 minutes ago, SaysWho? said:

omfg

 

His resume was copied from a template.

 

As in the format and layout is copied from a template or actual job description/tasks etc.? 

I've never not copied a template in terms of format and layout for my resume. 

Almost always, yeah. We both share a love for basically every era of film including silent and so on. 

The only thing she can't deal with is when I get into some seriously 'what does it all mean............' deals like the French New Wave cinema, Andrei Tarkovsky and what not. 

One of our favorite date activities is actually going to the movies, usually the little art house places around town. 

I have some in-depth insight on this topic:

Erdogan is a cunt 

1 minute ago, SFLUFAN said:

He retained the word "extrudes" from the Polygon article that he lifted.

 

Of all the words to NOT change, he chose to keep "extrudes".  He deserves to be shot out of a cannon for that alone!

I mean let's be honest, his critical thinking skills appear to be not that hot, no?

How did it even take this long to get busted? It's almost funny to me in that context. He must've felt like a total pimp doing this shit for seemingly years.

*furiously copies shit and changes three words*

On 8/10/2018 at 4:35 PM, gamer.tv said:

 

May some point I’ll return to finish off the pointless second act.

It's like they wrote and put together the entire game, which was up until 

playtested it, suddenly realized the fucking thing is entirely too short and just dropped some bizarre second act in there that then ALSO wasn't enough padding so finally they added silly difficulty variations of old missions. Just...what...and why do I love this game so much? I'm even doing the stupid difficult versions of old missions. 

22 hours ago, mo1518 said:

I'm home sick today so I picked up okami on Switch. Man, talk about a poorly paced intro. Non-stop annoying gibberish voices and cutscenes interrupting you every few steps. Awful. Got out of the first cave and now I see what the praise was about. It's got a real ocarina of time vibe to it, and the combat is pretty fun so far. 

 

I'm playing with a pro controller - am I missing out on any motion control stuff, or is it just the drawing, which seems fine with the analog. 

This game is really weird for me. I bought the PS2 version back in the day and everything about it seems so right. It looks gorgeous, it's basically a Zelda game and on and on...yet I would constantly get bored with it and put it down and then force myself to play another small stretch only to feel the same way again. 

I ended up dropping it maybe halfway through, it somehow just never came together for me and I don't know why.

I actually think gameplay-wise this looks better than the first one but the entire aesthetic still really doesn't do it for me. 

The damage models to enemies are a cool improvement unless that was in the first one and I somehow don't recall. Biggest difference I noticed was the seeming absence of locked-in arena type areas unless it was just this particular level featuring more openly roaming enemies etc.

4 minutes ago, Pikachu said:

Probably more of the same, but hopefully they can improve the multiplayer experience.

Multiplayer-wise I only played that demo and my god, it was comically shitty. 

Game Informer Article

Looks like footage is hitting at noon ET today for those into the reboot franchise. 

My guess is that it'll be basically more of the same in a way that the original Doom II was, maybe some minor improvements? What's your prediction?

I really respect the art style and the talent it takes but as a video game, every single thing about this translates to 'generic, barely serviceable gameplay as an afterthought' to me. 

18 hours ago, Kal-El814 said:

Hey I’ve been going FOB HAM as well. It’s good times. 

This game does so many things that theoretically would totally piss me off in other games with its recycled mission types, lack of real variety in terms of areas and so on and yet it just seems to work here. I have no idea what kind of magic is happening but I just can't put this damn game down. I tried and it sucked me back in twice already.

I dropped Hollow Knight just to play MGSV more. 

The FOB infiltrations are really fun, yeah, and I love stealing people's shit especially if they have a stupid username. 

MGSV somehow managed to suck me back in yet again and I'm FOB-infiltrating my balls off. I"m not sure this game will ever allow me to stop playing it.

On 8/7/2018 at 5:02 PM, CastlevaniaNut18 said:

I usually get shit for reading the "fake news" magazines, like Time or The New Yorker. 

 

And, yeah, I cannot stand having my reading interrupted by small chatter. It's the worst. 

I've been really focused on music biographies etc. book-wise but even that is too high brow simply because it's something that must actually be read. 

I have enough stress at work, I can't get myself to read news or anything remotely current haha

2 hours ago, CastlevaniaNut18 said:

This right here. I always have a book or news magazine at work. Since I work nights and patients typically sleep, I do have some downtime most nights. Half the people poke fun at me and one of my biggest pet peeves is people trying to talk me to when I'm reading. No, Vickie, I don't need to see the thousandth picture of your grandkid, she's cute and all, but I'm trying to focus on my book here.

I absolutely LOATHE when people interrupt my reading. It's usually some dumb shit too like 'watchu readin'?? Poetry or some shit bro? LOL'.

1 hour ago, Chris- said:

Jesus, where the fuck do you work with philistines like that?

I work in construction as a Project Manager. I'm thoroughly satisfied with the blue-collar-ness of it all as it affords me tons of leeway and perks I wouldn't have at some up-tight corporate gig, but there's certainly a suburban streak of 'book/vacation/not hating wife = snooty intellectual you think you're better than me?' there that can get on my nerves.

The upside is that it being construction, I get to basically tell them to fuck off if they step out of line with it since we dont really have an HR department anyway.

Half these fuckers have needled me about 'being weird' for a decade now. 'Being weird' meaning I'm not massively overweight, bald, hate my wife and own a house and three vehicles I absolutely can't afford and bitch about all of it ad nauseam. I also bring books to work and read during my lunch breaks which is the equivalent of having three heads. 

Also, I go on...vacations...with my paid vacation time. What a fucking snob. 

EN-EE-ES

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Super Nintendo

Fuck off with your mansplaining, Nintendo. 

Resi Revelations 2 for a few hours tonight probably. 

My mother's best friend's daughter, who was probably like 6 years older than me at the time, had an NES with Mario on a tiny TV in front of a giant black-painted wall with a white AC/DC logo on it.

All my future guilty pleasures in a nutshell.