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[Glitchesarecool]

Is it still truly Dan's creation if he "crowd sourced" the things he fixed in his patches?

Yes, he still made the level.

 

[Sleeping Lesson]

I work in a banking company that inexplicably doesn't shut down on all banking holidays but everybody except me was smart enough to just take the day off today.

I like days like this. Boss took the day off, so that's more time for me to sit at my desk watching Giant Bomb videos. Also, I didn't wear slacks today so that's another win.

Yes, he still made the level.

If someone else were telling Dan the exact elements and where to place them, but Dan physically had the controller and did it, would Dan still have "made the level"? Not an accurate comparison, I know, but where does one draw the line? This is serious business.

 

[TharpDaddy]

Shit, all this stuff is just too confusing for me to keep track of

Giant Bomb season 7 became complicated. I hope they can tie up all the plot threads.

 

[Kelas]

I was expecting it to be more clever vs. just making it obtuse and difficult to understand.

I dunno. Stacking the odds massively in his favour so he can win has Dan written all over it.

 

[Jintor]

Dan's a heel. All you need to know.

 

[OkayRene]

Fairly new GB member here…Isn't Windjammers like a 20 year old game? What's made it relevant in the last year or two that has them always talking about it or playing it all the time?

 

[patapuf]

Dan's a heel. All you need to know.

Yep, this is the whole point of patric being "the good guy". If he makes as much progress tomorrow as he does today i don't mind if he looks at the editor.

He should at least have a shot at beating the level.

 

[repeater]

Dan's a heel. All you need to know.

This reminds me: next OP should contain a concise wrestling dictionary that contains all the terminology needed to understand GB or talk about GB nowadays.

 

[DamnBoxes]

Fairly new GB member here…Isn't Windjammers like a 20 year old game? What's made it relevant in the last year or two that has them always talking about it or playing it all the time?

That shit's timeless man. TIMELESS.

 

[Frith]

Yep, this is the whole point of patric being "the good guy". If he makes as much progress tomorrow as he does today i don't mind if he looks at the editor.

He should at least have a shot at beating the level.

yeah good guys beat bad guys by finding a weekness caused by hubris

dan thought he had made the perfect nightmare but he forgot to ban the editor he fucked up now patrick has a chance.

its perfect

its still fucking hard to work out even with the editor.

 

[Lijik]

I could have sworn Dan said upfront he wanted Patrick to only be able to do the intended path and not be able to find an alternate solution. Reuploading the level to patch alternate solutions isnt moving the goal posts

 

[Frith]

I could have sworn Dan said upfront he wanted Patrick to only be able to do the intended path and not be able to find an alternate solution. Reuploading the level to patch alternate solutions isnt moving the goal posts

neither is using the editor though dan didn't ban it in the challenge video or before the start.

dan cant just wipe out legit methodology after the fact

why not just give a max death count halfway through too, or ban hands

 

[Lijik]

wait are you like actually legit mad over a silly mario maker challenge or is this just a goof so dry it would dehydrate the ocean

 

[Glitchesarecool]

wait are you like actually legit mad over a silly mario maker challenge or is this just a goof so dry it would dehydrate the ocean

Did you see the stream's chat? This is extremely serious business for some people.

 

[Jintor]

Fairly new GB member here…Isn't Windjammers like a 20 year old game? What's made it relevant in the last year or two that has them always talking about it or playing it all the time?

It's really good couch coop. They played it once and they liked it, so they keep bringing it back.

Besides, it sounds really satisfyingly clacky on stream

 

[stump sock]

a lot of those old Neo Geo games have barely aged a day, it's kind of impressive how well they hold up

 

[Frith]

wait are you like actually legit mad over a silly mario maker challenge or is this just a goof so dry it would dehydrate the ocean

i'm not mad at all
in reality none of this matters
in the world of this being the most entertaining shit on the internet this year i'm presenting my point of view.
you know for fun

 

[repeater]

Did you see the stream's chat? This is extremely serious business for some people.

Some people have an irrational hate of Dan
Some people have an irrational hate of Patrick
Now the two worlds collide in Twitch chat

 

[Heimbeck]

Did you see the stream's chat? This is extremely serious business for some people.

For some people?
This is important for everyone.

If Dan can't even make a decent mario maker level, why the hell should I follow him and that hack website he's at?
And if Patrick can't beat it he is useless at video games, and I won't take that hack's opinion on anything in the future.
This level is the future of video games journalism, it's extremely important for so many reasons.

 

[Kelas]

Honestly what I see more in here is people leaping to dan's defense when people are blatantly just having fun with the persona he created and not seriously hating the guy.

I don't watch Patrick's stream to see him beat it. I watch it to see him broken. #TeamDan

why are you actually legit mad at patrick though

 

[TharpDaddy]

I don't watch Patrick's stream to see him beat it. I watch it to see him broken. #TeamDan

 

[Gipsy Danger]

Dan is a filthy manchild born in the wrong generation.

#TeamKlepek #FuckDanRyckert

 

[Tubobutts]

My hatred of Patrick is completely rational as it is based off of him offhandedly mentioning wanting to do something with Crusader Kings one time in a Worth Reading and then never doing it.


Any reason for disliking Dan is 100% rational.

 

[killroy87]

Fairly new GB member here…Isn't Windjammers like a 20 year old game? What's made it relevant in the last year or two that has them always talking about it or playing it all the time?

it's a 20 year old game that damn near no one had heard of until they played it, and when they did everyone saw that it looks like the most fun local multiplayer game in existence. Ever since, the desire to play it by many people (me included) has surpassed any reasonable expectations of what the game can deliver.

My hatred of Patrick is completely rational as it is based off of him offhandedly mentioning wanting to do something with Crusader Kings one time in a Worth Reading and then never doing it.

I choose to forever hold a grudge for him leaving GB for Kotaku. We all have our reasons!

 

[funkystudent]

Patrick is looking for logic when there is none. He expect the level to have some kind of logical flow but it isnt there.

The actual trick is pretty easy to pull off if you know it but there is no way of actually learning it in the level alone.



Given that Dan did cheat and spend the weekend crowd sourcing the QA of his level Patrick should be slowed a cheap cheat. And that cheap cheat should probably be

Spoiler

someone telling him the sub world is a dead end and is a diversion.

 

[soundscream]

Fairly new GB member here…Isn't Windjammers like a 20 year old game? What's made it relevant in the last year or two that has them always talking about it or playing it all the time?

You should check out their extra life stream from 2 years ago.

1. Winter contingency is a hell of a level
2. "Lets play some windjammers"
3. Pizzones
4. Push ups
5. What's going on in Vinnys pants?

 

[TharpDaddy]

Given that Dan did cheat and spend the weekend crowd sourcing the QA of his level Patrick should be slowed a cheap cheat. And that cheap cheat should probably be

Spoiler

someone telling him the sub world is a dead end and is a diversion.

But... can you imagine his reaction when

Spoiler

he reaches the end of the subworld and realizes it's one giant diversion? It will be glorious.

 

[Heimbeck]

I choose to forever hold a grudge for him leaving GB for Kotaku. We all have our reasons!

We don't actually know if him leaving was his own choice.

 

[kai3345]

We don't actually know if him leaving was his own choice.

pffft

 

[bodyofanamerican]

Here's a happy ("happy") medium/compromise:

How about Patrick gets access to the editor for the last hour of the bet?

 

[MadLaughter]

We don't actually know if him leaving was his own choice.

I'm pretty sure Patrick said he cried when he called Jeff and said he was moving on. Or something like that.

 

[Kelas]

I heard jeff chartered a jet to pass over chicago dropping brainwashing chemtrails that convinced patrick to leave.

 

[Archaix]

I feel like a god damned windjammers hipster every time I hear it brought up. My favorite childhood pizza place was my favorite simply because it had a Neo-Geo cabinet with Windjammers and three other games. What were those three other games? WHO THE FUCK KNOWS, I JUST SAID IT HAD WINDJAMMERS.

 

[killroy87]

We don't actually know if him leaving was his own choice.

Laying someone off (or "politely" asking them to quit as an alternative), asking them to keep it a secret, and then inviting them on 6 hours of GOTY podcasting only to annouce it at the very end and phrase it as a "we'll miss you" deal seems even more twisted than Jeff is willing to go. He doesn't seem like that kind of boss, he's a bit more "to the point"

 

[Heimbeck]

I'm pretty sure Patrick said he cried when he called Jeff and said he was moving on. Or something like that.

All PR man, I have inside sources.

Laying someone off (or "politely" asking them to quit as an alternative), asking them to keep it a secret, and then inviting them on 6 hours of GOTY podcasting only to annouce it at the very end and phrase it as a "we'll miss you" deal seems even more twisted than Jeff is willing to go. He doesn't seem like that kind of boss, he's a bit more "to the point"

Them building the NY office might have meant they couldn't keep Patrick on as well.
Of course Patrick could have just left for his own reasons.

 

[TheMrPliskin]

Laying someone off (or "politely" asking them to quit as an alternative), asking them to keep it a secret, and then inviting them on 6 hours of GOTY podcasting only to annouce it at the very end and phrase it as a "we'll miss you" deal seems even more twisted than Jeff is willing to go. He doesn't seem like that kind of boss, he's a bit more "to the point"

That's what Jeff wants you to think.

Spoiler

Follow the money

 

[stump sock]

I feel like a god damned windjammers hipster every time I hear it brought up. My favorite childhood pizza place was my favorite simply because it had a Neo-Geo cabinet with Windjammers and three other games. What were those three other games? WHO THE FUCK KNOWS, I JUST SAID IT HAD WINDJAMMERS.

you're lucky, all my local places just had samurai showdown and metal slug 1. only place I played windjammers was at some mall on vacation once

 

[skLaFarebear]

Every pizza place I've been to had the X-men and Simpsons beatemup games.

I like beatemups, but windjammers would have been cool too

 

[Jimmyfenix]

I don't watch Patrick's stream to see him beat it. I watch it to see him broken. #TeamDan

always bet on tharp ^^^

 

[Gipsy Danger]

you're lucky, all my local places just had samurai showdown and metal slug 1. only place I played windjammers was at some mall on vacation once

you're lucky. all my local places had FUCKING NOTHING LIKE THAT.

 

[Gozer the Gozerian]

I do hope that after all this, they don't feel the need to make their next GB Mario Maker stream level absolutely entirely impossible and exploit-free. Most of the fun of the first two levels, particularly the first, was seeing all the workarounds people took to get through them in different ways.

 

[Glitchesarecool]

We don't actually know if him leaving was his own choice.

other than him explicitly saying so, of course

 

[Lonestar]

Patrick should just send in the $100, because that level's fuuuuuuucked.

 

[Heimbeck]

other than him explicitly saying so, of course

Spoiler

Follow the money

 

[mattp]

Patrick should just send in the $100, because that level's fuuuuuuucked.

why? haha
now he saves 100 bucks and the charity gets thousands

 

[Hagi]

I do hope that after all this, they don't feel the need to make their next GB Mario Maker stream level absolutely entirely impossible and exploit-free. Most of the fun of the first two levels, particularly the first, was seeing all the workarounds people took to get through them in different ways.

I don't think El Jeffe is about that life, as long as he is part of the stream you shouldn't have to worry about it being nonsensical.

 

[Myggen]

I do hope that after all this, they don't feel the need to make their next GB Mario Maker stream level absolutely entirely impossible and exploit-free. Most of the fun of the first two levels, particularly the first, was seeing all the workarounds people took to get through them in different ways.

Don't see why they would. This is obviously Dan trying to break Patrick for a good cause, all in good fun. The GB Mario Maker levels are made and uploaded on stream.

 

[mattp]

the only thing i hope they do for the next mario maker stream is less emphasis on sections covered in enemy spam and then they need to put a mushroom there so the player can just take a hit and run through the enemies while invincible
less of that and more fucked up platforming would be fun

 

[TharpDaddy]

Catching up on Metal Gear Scanlon. Dan's legitimate anger in episode 5 at not realizing there's a loadout system is hilarious.
"95 fucking hours"

 

[Incandenza]

Dan made the Mario equivalent of P.T.

Just a bunch of deliberately obtuse puzzle bullshit with no discernible logic or feedback, designed to prevent people from conquering it for as long as possible.

First Dan became a wrestler, now he's become Kojina. He's self-actualizing.