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Giant Bomb |OT33| LOOK AT THAT CORN!
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PushTheButtonMax
Banned
We have dart boards in homes and bars here in America, but getting excited about it the way that crowd was is a bizarre concept here for most.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Noooooope.
Ah well, I feel like I should be map, but I then went and nearly finish isle 1-2 in under an hour.
Blitzrules240
Banned
I'm going to a haunted house with friends tonight and I'm a wuss when it comes to scares. I don't know if I'm doing this for pride or if I just want to face my fictional fears.
Maybe if I laugh it will go better.
I mean nothing is real but fuck jumpscares.
Maybe if I laugh it will go better.
I mean nothing is real but fuck jumpscares.
irrotational
Member
Cool, cheers. The giant bomb crew didn't seem to know the rules, but I guess a lot of people in the UK wouldn't either.
Darts crowds are often more entertaining than the darts! The beer bellies are something to behold.
dont shit your pants
Just talk to the performers. They're not allowed to touch you.
nckillthegrimace
Member
What if one of the monsters is real? Just one. And it lives there to avoid suspicion. What if you run into that one?
dog bottom
Human Trashcan
Banned
I FINALLY got to the part in Wardor where you can start actually recruiting orcs to your army. I'm still not really into it. So far it's a 3-star game for me. A perfectly fine time waster, but nothing more. Everything about the movement and combat just feels so clumsy. It really feels like a last-gen game in its mechanics. And I've started skipping most of the cut scenes because the story is just dire. I'll play some more because this is supposedly where it gets good but I doubt it'll ever really endear itself to me.
Hot Coldman
Banned
I just dont think you should excuse somethings awful politics and actual harmful impact on peoples lives because the other parts make you laugh a bit.
like its fine to like things with faults but lets not ignore that
Haha, I just showed the game to my sister like an hour ago and she asked what they're saying there. I think it's "his pal Mugman" but I'm not sure.
avengers23
Banned
Yeah, I loved South Park for years and years, and I still generally watch out of habit, but I've really come to dislike the show from a political standpoint over the last few years and it kinda ruins the whole thing. Matt and Trey sit on the fence and call both sides idiots for giving a shit no matter what the issue. It's fucked.
that makes a lot more sense
PurpleMoustache
Member
didn't they play this on UPF once? I tried looking on QLCrew and nothing really showed up...
Wait, nevermind, I was using it wrong. UPF
Fuck, I forgot Jazzpunk made their list. What a bad list lol.
I've never understood this sentiment. South Park, in general, might be one of most left leaning shows I've seen and this coming is from someone who lives in a country that only has political parties to the left of Democrats.
edit:
tbh I was also shocked to see how many people seemed to view Eminem as having many right-wing fans or being on the right-wing himself in the thread about him and Trump
If something arbitrarily attacks leftist ideas and, more importantly, marginalized people just as much as it attacks people on the right and hides behind a defense of we attack everyone!, its not actually left-leaning.
Rather, South Park essentially just posits that, though certain things people on the right do are certainly worth mocking, its actually caring about anything thats bad. The truth is somewhere in the middle and you should stop caring about anything is much more of a centrist idea, which is to say its basically a regressive right wing idea in the end.
(also it should be said that you probably have a better idea of American political parties than I do of your countries, and theres likely some differences in how we view these parties due to differing histories etc. etc.)
BreezyLimbo
Banned
What game?
Human Trashcan
Banned
South Park is extremely centrist. Neoliberal at best. By no actual lefist standards is it a left-leaning show.
Oh jeez, best of luck! Beware of that friend who'll constantly try to mess with everyone! (there is always one)
I would never ever ever agree to anything like that, lol.
Damn. Sounds like we have a real life case of Fright or Shite on our hands.
What episode specifically does this? All of the the greatest episode definitely do take a side, the Mormon episode, the Scientology episode, 200/201, the bin laden one,the N word one, imagination land, the freemium games one etc
I see the sentiment you say expressed a lot but I just don't think it's true
Incandenza
Banned
The Woke Gamer is definitely a South Park fan.
Piston Hyundai
Member
the Woke Gamer doesn't think South Park's actually funny, it's just something he used to laugh when he was younger and didn't know better
that's why he's laughing at it
SirClinksAlot
Member
Not big at all. Its sometimes shown on TV but thats like on an early weekend morning when there is nothing else to show.
Looks like people are angry because Polygon dared to give Original Sin 2 to give it a 7. Read the (well written) review now and it looks like it's mainly due a lot of glitches and other problems encountered (which are described in the review) over the 90 hours the reviewer played the game. But of course why read it when you can whine about the metacritic dropping.
I can't believe people are being that shitty about Janine Hawkins of all people; beyond being a genuinely nice person, as someone who doesn't read reviews that often, she's a reviewer I do trust to have a very similar taste in games as me.
TheTylerRob
Member
Don't be too jokey, it sucks for the performers. They really aren't very scary generally.
Blitzrules240
Banned
idk I haven't been to one since I was a preteen, so maybe maturity will help me.
Incandenza
Banned
Hot Coldman
Banned
so I watched like two episodes of Kingdom Heartache before bailing on it, mainly because it felt forced as hell, so Ben responding to questions about it on the SNES stream like they were asking him his deepest darkest secret doesn't give me faith that's going to change
I think it's mostly backlash, at least on GAF, from Matt and Trey saying they were gonna stop making fun of Trump.
Before that threads about South Park were mostly OTs and
Is South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut Matt and Terry's magnum opus?
The South Park movie is still hilarious
Recommend your top 10 All-Time Favourite South Park episodes (READ THE OP!)
etc
After the Trump thread there was another thread where people debated if South Park was the start of alt-right
Infinite Justice
Member
For someone who doesn't care about the shit the series gets in here due to its supposed lameness or whatever i think his reaction wasn't great and could have said something to the point of either "hey, its still around and will be back soon so stay tuned" or "no its done".
*shrug*
Dangansona
Member
South Park absolutely leans left.
Yes, and this is after predicting him getting elected way early and treating it as an apocalyptic event while warning viewers not to take him lightly. Then repeatedly portraying him as an awful person through Garrison leading up to the election.
Yes, and this is after predicting him getting elected way early and treating it as an apocalyptic event while warning viewers not to take him lightly. Then repeatedly portraying him as an awful person through Garrison leading up to the election.
TheTylerRob
Member
You should watch End of Evangelion.
Blitzrules240
Banned
Jackbox Party Pack 4 looks rough.
Spirit of Jazz
Banned
Okay, what examples are there of Southpark leaning left? (as in specific examples and not a list of episode themes) They're white moderate libertairins (e.g. right wing financial beliefs and not giving a shit about social issues beyond free speech and it being okay say to anything as long as it's a joke) who often stumble on minority topics e.g. Kanye's Mammy.
I didnt even know the thing about South Park not mocking Trump anymore so no, thats really not the reason people dislike it.
EDIT: Also Im not gonna say it was the start of the alt-right or anything, but I do sincerely think South Parks public push for apathy and related dismissal of leftist concerns really has influenced our society in some negative ways, particularly in online communities. Maybe its better to say that it helped too many people stay shitty teens for a longer time than they would have otherwise at a time when we cant really afford that. I dunno.
EDIT: Also Im not gonna say it was the start of the alt-right or anything, but I do sincerely think South Parks public push for apathy and related dismissal of leftist concerns really has influenced our society in some negative ways, particularly in online communities. Maybe its better to say that it helped too many people stay shitty teens for a longer time than they would have otherwise at a time when we cant really afford that. I dunno.
The Dear Leader
Banned
Jeff Green is streaming Darkest Dungeon on twitch if you folks need some Saturday content.
https://go.twitch.tv/greenspeak
https://go.twitch.tv/greenspeak
Han Seoul-Oh
Banned
Yeah, I plan on watching that tonight, and 1.11, 2.22, and 3.33 soon.
Dangansona
Member
Just to talk about Season 19 because 20 was lame and I haven't seen this season yet, just a few examples.
- The entire episode against Gentrification and local buisnesses being pushed out
- Being clearly on Hilary's side, both in portrayal of Trump and comments in reaction to Trump winning
- If you watch to the end of the season, you realize that PC Principal is actually celebrated not villified
- This quote from Cartman "”We're two privileged straight white boys who have their laughs about things we never had to deal with." There are other meta statements like that in the season
- Tweek and Craig coming out as a gay couple, and portrayed in a much more normal manner than gay characters in the show's past
I don't think their politics are perfect. I wish they were more liberal. And the mammy thing you reference appears to be awful. But overall I would say they do lean left.
And if they have gotten away from politics and current events and closer to the original several seasons of the show about kids being kids, then that's actually what I have wanted from the show for awhile.
And I also admit that I would benefit from rewatching chunks of the show and examining if from a politics standpoint.
I loved what I played of Darkest Dungeon, but fell off pretty hard after the constant stress the game caused.
You should just stop at 2.22.
You should just stop at 2.22.
3.33 will only leave you angry and frustrated. Just sit on it for a few years and watch it right before Eva 4.0 (or 4.44) comes out.
formated4tv
Member
I feel like each one (Party Pack) has gotten progressively worse than the first one, aside from that "horror movie" game that I think was in PP3.
TheTylerRob
Member
I think if you've seen the actual series, the rebuilds are completely pointless. Maybe 4.0 or whatever its called will be worth it when it comes out in 2025.
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