To push the game. Have any Vitas or PS4s shown up yet. I expect them to be major characters if the MC doesn't somehow get trapped in the game.
Please. Don't relate LiS fans with Homestuck fanboys.
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To push the game. Have any Vitas or PS4s shown up yet. I expect them to be major characters if the MC doesn't somehow get trapped in the game.
Please. Don't relate LiS fans with Homestuck fanboys.
To be honest, calling it a Brouhaha is overly dramatic, there was like 2 people posting negative stuff and 30 just laughing about it. When Dan sold the taco-bell shirt there was definitely some crazy drama though.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
I did say small little!
TheMrPliskin
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Should I even bother to ask why?
RepairmanJack
Member
Some said it was him taking advantage of his fans. As if he was forcing people to watch his periscope and buy his shirts... Yeah idk, whole thing just seems dumb.
Some people thought it was exploitative of his fans, and thought it seemed like a lazy way for him to make a quick buck. A lot of these comments where constructive or at least just expressing disappointment but others of course where rather extreme and hatefilled. Then a big angry argument broke out with people defending him and others attacking him. It was embarrassing, the Giantbomb reddit is usually ok but lately it's been getting worse.
Salty Catfish
Member
The worst part about that r/giantbomb thread was the people going after Dan's girlfriend who ended up having to delete her account. It was only one or maybe two people but just a real bad look for the community overall.
RepairmanJack
Member
It's sad but I thought it was going to be a bad idea when I saw her interacting more with the subreddit. Dan just seems too polarizing most of the time, it was probably only a matter of time until people started being dicks.
Yeah, not like us cool folk who post gifs that are edited to look like Dan sharing hisself on random third parties and talk about gunpla and anime.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
To be fair I'm pretty sure that gif came from reddit. 
RepairmanJack
Member
Cool normal guy stuff.
TheMrPliskin
Member
For fuck's sake...
Wow. Seems real odd for the community to get up in arms over a t-shirt, especially since no one was forcing you to watch Dan's streams or buy his ugly shirts.
Edit: And going after his girlfriend? Man, I fucking hate people sometimes.
Yeah, it's like everything on the internet, someone will complain about something then someone will take it way too far afterwards. And yeah it definitely makes the community look really bad, especially to the duders. I know they all ready have a very low opinion of reddit (and I don't blame them).
Although I did think it was a little strange that Dan and his girlfriend were so involved in the GB subreddit already. I'm not sure most fan groups need to interact with the person they are fans of. Edit: Obviously harassing his girlfriend was fucking ridiculous though.
stump sock
Member
unrelated really but that "korean girls blah" series put one up yesterday reading some of the jerky comments on the page and it made me sad. even though they reacted well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yH7OrEjEq-g
people are the worst
even though the flat butts thing was funny and accurate
Death Metalist
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Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
#newdan2016
But he was selling bad tshirts! Wake up, if you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything!
You'd think gb fans would be used to terrible merch by now. The mugs are nice though.
stump sock
Member
to be fair I have no intention of stopping making fun of his dumb shirts.
Not that long ago. It's still a good subreddit for the most part imo, but subreddits always get worse the bigger they are because of how easy it is to get a reddit account and the general userbase being awful. So you need to moderate the hell out of subreddits to try to keep that from happening. Hopefully the GB subreddit can do that.
His shirts are dumb, but that's the point.
TheMrPliskin
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That's fair.
You only think it's a good sub because they post your podcast highlights all the time #Collusion
But seriously, you're totally right about everything, it takes a lot of work for a subreddit to not get immediately terrible once it gains a few thousand subscribers. There is still some good big subs, but they are few and far between.
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Salty Catfish
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Yeah, that's exactly what's happening. r/gb is one of the few reddit communities I still use regularly and the mod team seems to have a good mind for this (they apologized to Dan's girlfriend on Twitter) so I think they'll recognize what went wrong and right the ship.
Yeah, agreed.
my takeaway from those vids is that korean girls are pretty snappy at reacting
almost like they have a script or something
stump sock
Member
just watch this taiko no tatsujin guy play like a boss and hush
http://jmcvee.tumblr.com/post/123332984183/this-guy-is-my-new-hero-he-just-started-giving-us
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
At some point the entire internet will only consist of "X reacts to Y" videos and nobody will know how to react to them.
Salty Catfish
Member
Keeping up your streak from
LiS episode 2
Twin Tails
Member
That isn't dumb. Its what a shirt was meant be branded with when it was created.
You should.
Finally played through Gone Home last night for the first time. It was very good at visual and inferred storytelling, probably some of the best I've seen. And design-wise, I thought it was genius in how it guides you with an invisible hand. The whole game could have crumbled if you could easily get lost and spend endless time searching for the next thing to pick up, but somehow, miraculously, I feel like I was just naturally doing everything correctly and in the right order. I don't know if that was just my own luck, but I have to give at least some credit to smart design.
As for the story itself, I thought it was alright. The payoff with some characters
was better than others
, but I was always engaged and curious, even when I had pieced together a good 90% of it.
All in all a very good experience, and one of the better examples of videogame storytelling (if not always the best videogame story) I have seen.
As for the story itself, I thought it was alright. The payoff with some characters
(the daughter)
(the parents)
All in all a very good experience, and one of the better examples of videogame storytelling (if not always the best videogame story) I have seen.
Remember to sweep the floor.
You say that as if intent automatically makes something not dumb.
Piston Hyundai
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stump sock
Member
true, but it's hard to dance while doing blastbeats
Piston Hyundai
Member
says you
2 Slice Toaster
Member
Dan's biggest audience is probably comprised of people who think his activities outside GB are stupid and declared themselves done with his schtick (multiple times).
I'm delighting in the work he's currently doing with the Dark Soul's community.
I'm delighting in the work he's currently doing with the Dark Soul's community.
Honestly if someone is annoyed by what he's doing outside the site, all you have to do is unfollow him on Twitter. If I don't like someone, I don't go out of my way to keep tabs on what they're doing at all times.
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