Aaron-Lagann
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Not really, GUMMY and I lost Let's Play footage and I asked for a game recommendation, got a bunch of porn games, then finally settled on Shadow the Hedgehog. Then Shadow the Hedgehog refused to work so I'm back to square one.
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Super Best Friends Thread 6: Six Threads and a Movie
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Not really, GUMMY and I lost Let's Play footage and I asked for a game recommendation, got a bunch of porn games, then finally settled on Shadow the Hedgehog. Then Shadow the Hedgehog refused to work so I'm back to square one.
AngryCanadian
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This is much funnier then it should be. The Star Wars 3: ___________s really got me
They may have used the audio from Pat's side when he was still there, that would explain why when the Skype call was dropped we still heard him, and then transferred over to the audio they recorded on their end. Either way It is all just speculation for something we won't remember next week
zedreamcast
Member
I cant breathe...its too good!
Aaron-Lagann
Banned
"It's a trick."
Just...just play persona 3!
AngryCanadian
Member
"P3P with Aaron: GET THE DICK GET THE DICK"
Aaron-Lagann
Banned
But I've already played that! And seriously, who on Earth would watch me creep on waifus that I've already chosen?
Glitchesarecool
Member
I love it when a writing spark between me and another person just erupts, and we seem to know exactly what the other person is thinking for the direction of a story.
Aaron-Lagann
Banned
I've had this, but I've also had the exact opposite of this with my best friend when we went to write a comic book. We were each throwing out ideas and story lines that completely contradicted each other.
He wanted a deadly serious and realistic representation of having super powers in real life, and essentially nothing happened since it's the real world and it was just about the characters that he hadn't actually written, he just said that nothing happens and its about the characters. And I wanted do power scaling crazy super hero anime fights with insane characters having increasingly over the top fights with increasingly powerful super powers.
Eventually he said for me to just write a chapter and have him help guide in editing. I wrote a chapter. He hated it. We decided never to write anything ever again.
He's not a very creative person and hates writing, so it probably wouldn't have worked out anyway.
Glitchesarecool
Member
I mean that's kinda an important thing when it comes to writing.
I've had such a thing happen more than once to me too, where I've put a lot of work into several paragraphs of work and the other person responds with three sentences. Kills me deep in my soul to see that.
Aaron-Lagann
Banned
Unfortunately I didn't know he wasn't creative at the time and the writing hatred was fine, since I was going to be doing the actual work in writing out what we came up with. We originally decided to do this because he's actually pretty good at creatively using super powers, but has absolutely no idea what works within a story or how to write one.
Like, all of his characters were based around having a singularly useful ability, but they weren't like JoJo Stands with useless bullshit where there's one a week and they move on, no, he wanted these guys to be main characters and have them use their powers smartly to get out of situations. That sounded cool, so I went along with that for a bit, assuming he had some kind of plan, but it essentially just boiled down to him coming up with a couple extremely contrived scenarios where their powers could suddenly do something that would get them out of that exact situation and it was just too much.
I know what that is. I wish I didn't.
HA! It's that line... from End of Evangelion. 'S funny 'cus that's his avatar...
Just me? Okay.
Isn't there a trope for that? Where the characters just MacGyver their way out of any situation because of a power that they were saving or something?
He's good at that, he should write SAO fanfic.
Aaron-Lagann
Banned
It's kind of like MacGyvering, but less that they're in a situation that they then happen to have everything they need to get out of, and more that their situation is precisely catered to their power and only they could ever get out. It's fun when that happens once, or with different characters and powers, but there were like four characters doing this over and over.
Oh, I see. Thats the world bending to accept the characters, rather than the characters being set in a world. Never do that.
RecursiveFault
Banned
^ Yup.
On the surface they seem to be useless, but then they realize they can do creative shit with it.
That could work as main characters, but you need powers that have malleable interesting uses. I mean all Josuke in Part 4 can do is punch things and heal them, but he uses it in a bajillion ways. You can have a semi-useless power, but it needs to be able to be creatively applied instead of using writing convenience.
On the surface they seem to be useless, but then they realize they can do creative shit with it.
Aaron-Lagann
Banned
Like I said, he hates writing. He just likes coming up with powers and ridiculous situations to use them in, not stuff that would actually work in a story. I try to explain this every time he tries to help me with something, but he doesn't give a shit.
Every time you try and give constructive criticism to a friend who isn't creative or just tell them what wouldn't work they think that you have no idea what you're talking about, and that you aren't creative at all.
Aaron-Lagann
Banned
We both love that trope and try to use it as much as possible, but he goes too far in the situation specific uses and further away from the multiple applications of a basic power.
RecursiveFault
Banned
I would say just planning things out way in advance would help that problem, but I don't think you two sound like you could write well together anyway, with such different styles of writing and stuff
Aaron-Lagann
Banned
I was actually about to say that before reading the rest of your post.
Yeah, we've accepted that we just don't write well together since we like different specific details in stories.
RecursiveFault
Banned
His eye gets
powered up through the show
Death Note's first half is neat, but I think I'd go with like, every fight from every part of JoJo. Unless you wouldn't call that simple.
Aaron-Lagann
Banned
Part 3's fights so far aren't that great in that regard (I'm watching the anime never having read part 3+.) It's mainly just "Do the punch." or "Think your way out of the situation" since almost none of the main stands have powers aside from Joseph's, and even his is really poorly defined.
RecursiveFault
Banned
Part 3 has the main characters using them as punch ghosts. Most of the few cool Part 3 fights haven't happened yet, and things get way more creative after Araki has to keep writing new crazier stands as the series goes on.
Part 3's second half is where a touch of the creativity shines through, but Part 4 capitalizes on it and turns it into something great.
Also, Avatar is awesome at this. Bending? C'mon.
I think my favorite one was the gambling stand.
Wasn't there a spaghetti punching stand or something?
Nah, he just punched a plate of spaghetti
Aaron-Lagann
Banned
Quick question about Joseph's stand: The fuck can it do? They said it only did the pictures, then it was doing maps and lasso shit, it's the least defined thing in that series. At least Star Platinum is just like "Yo, this shit is fast and strong." I mean, that's pretty lame by the STANDards set, but it's at least consistent.
The vines can create spirit photos and I guess he can also use the vines with his ripple for combat. Just wait until part 5 where the main antagonists stand "just works"
RecursiveFault
Banned
Bending isn't that much of a focus in the show either, so it really works. It's not a battle show, it's just the power set characters have.
I want to see that fight animated so bad.
Both of the brothers.
Basically Araki says IDGAF, but basically it has the ghost picture thing, and can be physically used as rope. The map thing is the same thing as the spirit pictures, I guess.
They gave him the most worthless stand for comedic effect, I'm pretty sure.
It's not even a fight really which is why I love it so much
RecursiveFault
Banned
Yeah, actually a lot of the interesting fights in Part 3 are due to the antagonists. The protagonists are rather stock and have to adapt around the crazy shit. Later parts where they both have weird power sets or the antagonists have way better powers are pretty cool.
I want Jojo to have a villain that the writer of Dead Leaves wrote. That would be the ultimate WHUUUUUUUUUUUH?
So this confirmes that you will lifestream P5 at launch, right?
RecursiveFault
Banned
Ooooh I can't wait for that game. It's still on PS3, right?
The best part about his stand is that he has to break an expensive camera everytime he takes a picture lmao
Remember that time he used a TV to look for Dio and he basically opened the portal to hell?
Aaron-Lagann
Banned
If by whenever that game comes out here I am able to stream a console game, then sure. Though I don't think anyone in this thread would watch, since they'd be busy playing it too.
Oh god that was the best. I can't wait for the second half of part 3 to come out.
When P5 comes out this thread is just gonna be pages and pages of spoiler tags lol
I have never day 1'ed a game so hard.
Like whenever any game we got hype over has?
RecursiveFault
Banned
Actually it's weirdly tame so far, but those games weren't story heavy. Smash and Ultimax are about fightan
Yeah but this persona 5. It's gonna be the god damn mother load lol
We'd probably just invade the Persona 5 OT instead to spare people who haven't played it in this thread.
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