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Giant Bomb XXI | Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth
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Glitchesarecool
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MGScanlon isn't over until they play MGR.
itwasTuesday
He wasn't alone.
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Nah, man. Let it die. I don't think I could handle watching Dan wrestle with that game.
Now that MG Scanlon is over with can it be Snatcher tiem?
MassiveNights
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MGR is really not a Drew game.
And it's not worth the hours of content for his reaction to the Trump boss.
And it's not worth the hours of content for his reaction to the Trump boss.
Liquid Shake
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I like to think that Dan is going to be the one playing MGR, so technically it won't be MGScanlon.
CoolBatteryCharge
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This is why it needs to be Metal Gear Shoemaker.
Let the series go out in the proper way, with the final real canonical game. It would be a shame to go out on a fun, but silly even by MGS standards, side game. Ending the series with the main series is the right way to go.
Also, I just am done with hearing about MGS. I love the series, but it's done and it's time for all parties involved (GB on the feature side and Kojima for games) to make something new.
Also, I just am done with hearing about MGS. I love the series, but it's done and it's time for all parties involved (GB on the feature side and Kojima for games) to make something new.
Keyser Soze
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In 2017!!
MassiveNights
Banned
I can't wait to be speculating in 3 months what the new series might be.
ShadowSwordmaster
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Felix Lighter
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Goddamn that Division thread is a blood bath. It's like a bug zapper. So many posters irresistible drawn to its light to basically say "it's just a video game, stop thinking about stuff."
Glitchesarecool
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Then at least just watch a summary, like what they did for that one game in the series that I actually can't remember the name of.
MGR is one of the best Metal Gear games.
MGR is one of the best Metal Gear games.
It's my favorite kind of dumb thread. I go in there and get to laugh and some of the silliness going on instead of feeling soul crushing sadness dumb threads have been making me feel recently.
You don't need to, though. MGR is fun, but it's non-canonical. If you're going out of your way for non-canon stuff, at that point you'd have to look up shit for Ac!d and Portable Ops as well. The series was always intended to be the numbered MGS games and that's what we got.
Incandenza
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The internet is eternally doomed to not understand that things can have political implications regardless of whether or not they were intentional.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Which one?
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1207438
Article tries to start a discussion about the sort of weird political ramifications of what The Division does. Some really defensive posters try to shut down said discussion. Hilarity ensues.
EXISTENCE IS POLITICAL, FOOLS!
stump sock
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dude what a graveyard
the eternal war between "GAMES ARE ART" and "LOL VIDYA" rages on
ShadowSwordmaster
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This was a cluster fuck.
Watching the Ratchet quick look and im surprised i was only off by 30 seconds
Twin Tails
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Lol at that new shirt. Just text.
stump sock
Member
Trump reference, poor choice of font, this one's a real winner
I think the problem with these posts is less 'games aren't art and can't be criticized' and more the idea that the only thing that one can take a critical eye to are those things that are created to be looked at critically.
You can look at non-artistic things with a critical aspect as well. To bring up a couple (quick and bad) examples:
We tend to structure our teams for team based sports in a very military style fashion. What does this say about what our cultures value in regards to teamwork? or maybe
Boxing, UFC and other one on one fighting sports enjoy constant popularity. Does that reflect on our cultural values on violence? Did the shift in popularity in boxing to UFC reflect a cultural shift as well?
Even if The Division was created by people with no political valuation involved (a kind of crazy assertion, but for this point I'll grant it), we can still talk about how the things that game does reflect on the culture of game makers creating it.
stump sock
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there's a strangely anti-academic leaning on this board and gaming community as a whole, it's a real bummer.
did anybody else have like 50 games in their steam library decide to all get updated today for some reason? I've never seen so many updates at one time.
Piston Hyundai
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It's some back-end thing, I believe.
There's always been an aspect to the gaming community that doesn't want their shit to be criticized. I have a feeling that part of that is they don't want to deal with some of the uncomfortable ramifications that come from that. There's also an inherent confusion with the idea of 'I have criticism' and instead some equate that with 'this thing is bad'. Such ideas are reflected in the extreme in awful movements like GamerGate.
As for the Steam thing, there's a thread about it here. Apparently steam is updating a bunch of old DirectX redistributables across the board. It's weird.
crab pot syndrome? or just anti 'putting on airs' or something
EdReedFan20
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Yeah! Drewphen Filter! ;p
lack of proper education among reviewers and consumers will do that to people
the people writing about games are largely dilettants so that's what people are used to (while actual game studies writings don't acknowledged beyond peers obv)
stump sock
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hm or just a further explanation as to why nuance and innuendo blow right past so many people. there's an unusually high percentage of people that can't deal with complex reactions or grey areas in this demographic.
in a way it's kind of an interesting analogue to music fans that can't cope with recordings that aren't super polished, when I usually find the most interesting stuff is riddled with "flaws," like sloppy playing or lo-fi recording. all the best things are flawed. perfection is boring.
found that steam thread. what an odd thing.
EdReedFan20
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No, let's stick to spy-based games. They've already done MGS. That leaves Splinter Cell and (the sadly forgotten) Syphon Filter (I want Sony Bend to make a new one!).
Huh. It's working fine for me.
The rawest of error pages coming up for me.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Danchu.
skLaFarebear
Member
MGScanlon is over and Kobe is playing his last basketball game ever. Everything I care about is ending.
BreezyLimbo
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how did uh
question on the giant bomb ds3 QL
how did brad get down to the cleric ring? The path next to the knight sitting next to the alcove is instant death,,
question on the giant bomb ds3 QL
how did brad get down to the cleric ring? The path next to the knight sitting next to the alcove is instant death,,
Salty Catfish
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It's all good -- we're only a few months away from Miami Dolphins football!
...*sob*
skLaFarebear
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stump sock
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imagine a grizzled half-drunk gen-Xer shaking his head at this picture right now
where's the old person corner of the internet?
what part of this image tells someone "this is a thing you want to do"
oh thank god I didn't really want to go anywhere anyway
Salty Catfish
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Giant Bomb Dot Com
stump sock
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wind in my hurr
Piston Hyundai
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is that beat takeshi
stump sock
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from sonatine, yeah. a movie strangely influential on many of my tastes, even 20 years after watching it for the first time.
skLaFarebear
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Oh man. Jeff trying to lean on a non-existent wall and nearly falling over in this VR stream is pretty great.
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