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TheBaronOfNA
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You are not serious, right?
Hot Coldman
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I've come so far
Jimmyfenix
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With the music talk in forza i hope everyone can agree that Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein is the best Hip Hop album of all time.
I'm only half-kidding. The act of sitting down and inventing a whole language sounds fucking tedious and awful, let alone multiple times. Then justifying it by writing this big huge magic elven fantasy world around.
He said, having never consumed any piece of Tolkein media in his life.
MiniBossBattle
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Jeff is promoting moderation when playing a game. I don't even know you anymore Jeff. I thought you were diesel.
TheBaronOfNA
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You know that there is an actual career for studying Language?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philology
Having some teachers that are actually doing this kind of research, I will tell you that THEY LOVE this kind of stuff...
That Tolkien inveted a fantasy world because of it speaks more about the dude imagination.
DanRyckert
A good strange little man
Since I consistently see this come up in threads, comments, tweets, etc., let me clarify this now about the "nerd" thing. I say it jokingly and lovingly. I'll call Tolkien or Halo lore fans "nerds" as a joke, because I assume that 95% of people understand that I can't possibly be serious. I grew up on video games and wrestling. I was constantly drawing video game characters in class instead of paying attention. I never went to parties or socialized much in high school. I played Mario games for 50 hours straight. I didn't kiss a girl until I was in college. I've written about video games as a profession for nine years now. Being a 30 year-old man who's obsessed with wrestling is as nerdy or moreso than a 30 year-old who's into any video game's lore. I'm 100% a nerd, and always have been. When I call someone a "nerd," I'm fucking around.
Feel free to repost this anytime someone does the "I can't believe Dan is calling us nerds! Is he being serious?" thing.
Feel free to repost this anytime someone does the "I can't believe Dan is calling us nerds! Is he being serious?" thing.
Jimmyfenix
Member
What about Windows X Dan?
EmCeeGramr
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dan ryckert's corrupt collusion and insulting of all of his audience is unacceptable #NerdGate
TheBaronOfNA
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Also not saying that Tolkien was not a nerd, because he was... A huge one...
Hot Coldman
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hey man just because you didn't kissed until college doesn't mean that's a nerd thing ok????
#NotAllNerds
#NotAllNerds
TheBaronOfNA
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Nerds are dead- By L.A.
Jimmyfenix
Member
Save us Greg
MrTroubleMaker
Member
lol
Watching the Shadow of Mordor QL, I'm pleasantly surprised at just how much Brad knows about Tolkien. When Dan was starting to talk mess about the languages of Middle-earth I was ready to shout at my screen that Tolkien was a philologist and understood how languages are constructed - and as such built the Middle-earth Legendarium around the languages he created. They're not just random half-assed fantasy languages, they're fully fleshed-out (well, not all of them) and make sense.
But Brad pretty much said exactly that, which was coolThen Dan proceeded to give my favorite quote of the whole QL: "Tolkien sounds like a pretty big nerd."
Followed up with "So did Tolkien have a girflfriend?!"
OverBlood 3
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TheBaronOfNA
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Does this look like a nerd to you
Can language bloom in the battlefield?
Jimmyfenix
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That's so Dan
stump sock
Member
at turd miles per hour
As someone who was both burned out on AC and kind of tired of Batman combat, SoM has been fucking great for the two or three hours I've sunk into it so far.
Also that Dan post is great, I can foresee it being quoted quite frequently in this thread.
C U L: T U R A L; M A R ☭ I S M
this is clearly a shill for DIGRA. fess up dan rykerct, if that's even your real name
Zombie James
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Linkage?
NumberThree
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Loving Dan's activity in this thread.
Yup, the QL totally sold me on it, so I bought it and gave it a short (about an hour) go. Won't have time to play more today, but I'm expecting to spend the entire night tomorrow playing it. Though there'll be the MGS archive, too
It's basically the game I was looking for just a month ago, as I felt like playing a cool melee focused action game with a lot of stuff to do. Ended up buying AC4 and that game was a drag.
I just hope he doesn't come here on weekends.
Yup, the QL totally sold me on it, so I bought it and gave it a short (about an hour) go. Won't have time to play more today, but I'm expecting to spend the entire night tomorrow playing it. Though there'll be the MGS archive, too
It's basically the game I was looking for just a month ago, as I felt like playing a cool melee focused action game with a lot of stuff to do. Ended up buying AC4 and that game was a drag.
I doubt he's streaming. I checked his psn profile.
Keyser Soze
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I know, right. He'll flip his wig when he sees how we fry our eggs on a sunday morning.
That's good to hear. The Quick Look and especially the nemesis system sold me pretty hard on that game.
Watching MGS10 to get ready. Gun b gud.
The Nemesis system is the real deal. It's super satisfying to finally kill a guy who's murdered you a few times before and it's incredibly frustrating (in the best way) when you go to get vengeance on some Uruk only for him to kill you again (I will kill you Amug the Skinless, I WILL KILL YOU).
Got a link?
SweetTeddie
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Man Jeff was missed for that week or two he was gone. That Forza quicklook was an embodiment of what makes him rad.