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[Bowlie]

Content droughts are dangerous. You find yourself saying things like, "I'm gonna spend today learning about TES lore!"

Spoiler

Still not sure what C0DA is. An authorization of fanfiction?

Spoiler

If you go into r/teslore, you'll find many convoluted answers (but if you've read it, then you know that an undemanding interpretation is almost a disservice).

If we head down to the facts, it's a Kirkbride's script for a graphic novel set in Tamriel's 5th era (way after Skyrim), when a Numidium destroyed the world and Dunmer, Khajiit and other survivors had to flee to one of its moons to live there.
It has themes that forbids it to be canonical, because it's actually a reinterpretation of that world like any fanfiction. And since C0DA came from Kirkbride, an esteemed person who created a lot of canonical lore, it showed people that you can write whatever you want about Mundus, kalpas or Hists or anything else, and that your version of the story isn't less true than Bethesda's take on it (you just won't see yours in the games, and they won't see theirs in your piece).

(i said things like that in the past)

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https://my.mixtape.moe/mpwgmk.webm

edit: hell yeah new page

 

[chrixter]

If Burnout Paradise is Jeff's GOTG I wonder what he thinks about GTAIV now considering he listed it over Burnout as his 2008 GOTY. GTAIV was such an emotional experience for him. I recall Ryan talking about how Jeff would be really bummed out the next day after having played GTAIV the night before because parts of the story hit so close to home.

 

[A Sentient Keyboard]

Phew, managed to complete Undertale just before GOTY time. I posted some semi-long (spoilery!) impressions in the Undertale OT. Now I only have to finish Patrick's playthrough of SOMA and buy and play the entirety of the Witcher 3 and I'm ready for the podcasts!

PS: everyone talking smack about Burnout Paradise can get bent.

 

[Laughlin]

Doesn't stuff for GOTY usually come out on the 26th?

 

[Data West]

I was rewatching Broken Pixels.

Where's my Broken Pixels Kickstarter?

 

[Infinite Justice]

Phew, managed to complete Undertale just before GOTY time. I posted some semi-long (spoilery!) impressions in the Undertale OT. Now I only have to finish Patrick's playthrough of SOMA and buy and play the entirety of the Witcher 3 and I'm ready for the podcasts!

PS: everyone talking smack about Burnout Paradise can get bent.

i assume you wont be listening those podcasts the year then

 

[Antiwhippy]

Doesn't stuff for GOTY usually come out on the 26th?

I think it's usually the last Monday of the year.

 

[Laughlin]

I think it's usually the last Monday of the year.

Huh, guess I was mistaken. Had a flight today and spent the whole time before refreshing hoping it'd pop up lol

 

[A Sentient Keyboard]

i assume you wont be listening those podcasts the year then

Pffft, I crush 5-hour overpriced indie games like The Witcher 3 like it's nothing. I'll have it done by tomorrow.

(I still intend to play TW3 someday but I'll just have to live with some spoilers. It's not like any of them has finished it anyway!)

 

[Bowlie]

Doesn't stuff for GOTY usually come out on the 26th?

In 2014, GOTY began on the 26th (friday);
in 2013, on the 23rd (monday);
in 2012, on the 24th (monday);
in 2011, on the 26th (monday).

I got lazy and didn't look further back

 

[BreezyLimbo]

jeffime update-

anime update 3:

Ghost in the Shell is OK, I guess. Considering its short run time I would’ve figured that it would have been packed full of happenings, but they still somehow burn time with a couple of nice-looking-but-meaningless montages. For something that’s so revered and supposedly influential, I would’ve figured that it would have just, like, had more to it? I enjoyed it, but like Golgo 13: The Professional, it struck me as really more of a vibe piece or something. Not a lot happens, but it looks cool in the process. I suppose that’s enough, but again, considering how revered this thing is, I expected a lot more.

 

[tchocky]

jeffime update-

That was pretty much my thoughts after watching GITS, Jeff should watch Millennium Actress next.

 

[Twin Tails]

jeffime update-

Yes

 

[Par Score]

Think I'm going to buy Invisible Inc, does it make any difference if I buy the Continguency Plan DLC straight away?

It's a lot like the XCOM DLC, in that it makes a good game even better, especially if it's your first time through. I would recommend picking it up all in one.

If Burnout Paradise is Jeff's GOTG I wonder what he thinks about GTAIV now considering he listed it over Burnout as his 2008 GOTY. GTAIV was such an emotional experience for him. I recall Ryan talking about how Jeff would be really bummed out the next day after having played GTAIV the night before because parts of the story hit so close to home.

If they did ever do a GotG, I'd really like the twist of them all being hamstrung by their past decisions, no backsies.

 

[Antiwhippy]

Jeff should watch haruhi: endless 8 if he wants to watch a show with substance.

 

[BreezyLimbo]

He should watch Death Note. It's pretty ridiculous.

 

[Jintor]

kinda reminds me of neuromancer in that sense

 

[Bowlie]

Jeff should watch haruhi: endless 8 if he wants to watch a show with substance.

*searches*

"Haruhi Suzumiya is the founding member of the SOS Brigade with the purpose of finding aliens, time travelers and espers."

welp

edit: now he should watch Paprika, Baccano or Ping Pong

 

[daydream]

i got an inkling to watch cutey honey recently

still need to finish ping pong, though

That was pretty much my thoughts after watching GITS, Jeff should watch Millennium Actress next.

yeah he should probably switch to films

 

[Antiwhippy]

kinda reminds me of neuromancer in that sense

There were rastafarian space men.

That's real substance.

 

[A Sentient Keyboard]

jeff should watch ASURA'S WRATH

Imagine how embarrassed Tim Anime must be that the best Anime is not even an anime, but a game.

 

[Antiwhippy]

Nah in all seriousness though.

He should watch bokurano.

 

[FluxWaveZ]

If Jeff wants to watch something else and people are serious about recommendations, they should go with what he wants to see and not what people want him to see.

That or Cowboy Bebop. There's a reason Cowboy Bebop is a constant.

 

[Twin Tails]

If Jeff wants to watch something else and people are serious about recommendations, they should go with what he wants to see and not what people want him to see.

That or Cowboy Bebop. There's a reason Cowboy Bebop is a constant.

http://jeff.zone/post/135552622901/i-would-recommend-just-watching-cowboy-bebop-and

 

[Antiwhippy]

I feel like he'd appreciate samurai Champloo a lot more.

Dope beats.

 

[FluxWaveZ]

http://jeff.zone/post/135552622901/i-would-recommend-just-watching-cowboy-bebop-and

Welp, pack it up, it's over.

 

[Alo81]

this ever get posted?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GefvBfYO_U

Lmao who is the dude on the couch? Hes pretty funny.

 

[Data West]

Cowboy Bebop is going to wind up the Witcher 3 of Giant bomb and anime

Lmao who is the dude on the couch? Hes pretty funny.

Ryan Davis and The Ricker

 

[Twin Tails]

I think

short run time

is key in which anime Jeff will actually watch.

 

[Antiwhippy]

I think

is key in which anime Jeff will actually watch.

He should watch flcl then.

 

[Data West]

Jeff would HATE FLCL

as he rightly should

 

[FluxWaveZ]

He should watch ME!ME!ME! then.

And FLCL is one of the worst shows I've seen, so I can't endorse it.

 

[nckillthegrimace]

Steamworld Heist is great, continuing the fantastic string of December games that won't be considered on most goty lists.

I could really do without hearing Jeff jerking his nostalgia boner again for the game he obsessed over when he was unemployed. It's not even the best Burnout game.

Damn.

 

[daydream]

jeff holding that pen all business-like

i've made similar stuff in windows movie maker when i was 10

Steamworld Heist is great, continuing the fantastic string of December games that won't be considered on most goty lists.

right on

 

[Antiwhippy]

You guys.

Are all terrible.

 

[Bowlie]

do y'all think he would dig REDLINE?

 

[stump sock]

mmm that new video card "I just pushed every slider to the right and still get 60fps" feeling

related note: uplay still sucks

 

[Incandenza]

kinda reminds me of neuromancer in that sense

I finished that book a couple days ago and maaaan does the climax of that book get kind of impenetrable in spots. I can't imagine reading that book in the 80s and having to wrap your mind around the whole internet/cyberspace concept in addition to all the crazy metaphysical shit.

 

[Data West]

jeff would like lupin III and MAYBE Cromartie High School

 

[Mister Negative]

jeffime update-

vibe piece anime is the best kind of anime though

80s anime is all about the A E S T H E T I C

 

[daydream]

jeff would like lupin III and MAYBE Cromartie High School

he'd like mike haggar in cromartie

 

[Jintor]

I finished that book a couple days ago and maaaan does the climax of that book get kind of impenetrable in spots. I can't imagine reading that book in the 80s and having to wrap your mind around the whole internet/cyberspace concept in addition to all the crazy metaphysical shit.

it's funny because now it reads like any old book about cyberpunk runs and AI gone amock and whatever but reality is only that way because Neuromancer exists

It's like Gibson wrote a book in the future and sent it back in time so that he could create the future where he could write the book

 

[stump sock]

edit: now he should watch Paprika, Baccano or Ping Pong

everybody should watch Paprika

 

[Myggen]

 

[yami4ct]

He should watch Death Note. It's pretty ridiculous.

Like most anime that get a massive and wide western following, Death Note has cool ideas but ultimately not able to execute on them and ends up kind of terrible. It isn't Code Geass or Attack on Titan levels of terrible, but it's not a series I would recommend.

Knowing Jeff's taste, he'd probably one of the people who would get super into JoJo. It's also a style series, but it leans so damn hard into that it works. Given he wanted more out of GitS, he should check out Stand Alone Complex. I have a feeling that series does what Jeff hoped the movie was going to.

Most of my general recommendations probably wouldn't jive with Jeff's taste. I can't see him liking Gundam all that much, though he might dig the more grounded OVAs like 08th MS team and 0080. I also can't see him falling in love with Mushi-Shi or Hosoda's works.

I also can't recommend Hunter x Hunter anymore. It's one of my favorite manga of all time and the anime adaptation is fantastic, but not only is it super long, falling in love with the series will lead only to depressions. Togas erratic work schedule is god dang infuriating at times.

 

[Twin Tails]

 

[Myggen]

 

[stump sock]

god Death Note is such a piece of shit

jeff really isn't going to like any modern anime. wouldn't surprise me if he liked Patlabor or something though

 

[yami4ct]

god Death Note is such a piece of shit

jeff really isn't going to like any modern anime. wouldn't surprise me if he liked Patlabor or something though

There's been a real trend of modern anime going back to 80s/90s style. I could see him digging JoJo, Parasyte or Ushio and Tora. The last one is probably a bit too anime for his taste.

 

[justjim89]

Death Note is like Dexter.

It's really good until about halfway through. Then the ending actively ruins all that came before.