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The Black Culture Thread |OT8| Hands Up, Don't Shoot
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Don't do that to yourself.
This sucks, I don't see why just disliking a game has to be seen as an attack against your family to some people.
I just hate how GAF is almost always in extremes. Its either you love a game and can't state critisms without getting gained up on, or you have to join in on the hate train or you have shit taste. Some threads it all works out but for any popular game its hard to shift through the bs and just have a good discussion sometimes.
soundscream
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His whole point in creating it was to give England its own Mythology, Beowulf still shits on it and that's some hard ass shit to read.
ViewtifulJC
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Yeah but that Beowulf movie may be even worse than the PJ Hobbit films
MikeBreezy92
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It's not just a gaf thing though. People work in extremes and absolutes for whatever reason.
TheBlackMarvel
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Don't do this to yourself...
Old English is the fucking work of Satan, hated reading that shit (the language, not Beowulf specifically, that I liked.)
Aint that the truth.
But what about King Arthur and The Knights of Justice?
soundscream
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Dat CG Angelina Jolie Tho!
That movie was shit, but I was talking about the book Nergro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNjhbOH8m2U
I had forgot this existed LOL
There are actually two beginnings for the genre. Tolkien was following George MacDonald and William Morris, but while Tolkien was creating "high fantasy" the pulps were creating "sword and sorcery" at the same time, outside of his influence.
So, twenty years before Tolkien lays out The Hobbit, Edgar Rice Burroughs has already written most of the Barsoom saga, full of swords and magic and radium guns. He's also written most of Tarzan, and the opening books of the Pellucidar series.
Weird Tales exists more than a decade before Tolkien first arrives, and Robert E. Howard (of Conan fame) had written everything he was ever going to write by that time, having put a bullet in his brain a year before the release of The Hobbit.
So, give Tolkien some credit, but there's a strong argument for fantasy essentially arising independently from different traditions in both the U.S. and the UK.
Damn, I've been doing this a lot, yeah that goes more to everyone and not just GAF.
Tbh though I don't find it that bad because you can always find people who are willing to have a good conversation about anything, just hard to do that on large forums and stuff like that. Much easier in a smaller community or just some people you know irl that know their shit.
soundscream
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I aint gonna lie, I was on theonering.net a lot when that first LOTR trailer came out.
MikeBreezy92
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Smaller communities tend to best ones anyways.the more individuals the more opinions to deal with
No lie I used to be that way when folks shit on little big planet or gran turismo....
Still that way too
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
Absolutely. A lot of the conversations run purely on anecdotes, because not all of us have the vocabulary and knowledge base to accurately express our thoughts on a game. However, I do think people need to be more open to criticism of the things they enjoy. And this isn't exclusive to Smash-Gaf, but online communities in general. I had to step out of Smash threads on multiple occasions because it became frustrating when trying to argue something in good faith and being lumped in with some guy who called Sakurai a name either earlier in the thread or on another site entirely.I don't necessarily disagree with that assessment but I'd add there was/is a frustrating number of people who can't see beyond their own individual perspective which can make conversations about the game problematic from time to time. "Me and my 10 friends had no issues with how game X played ergo nobody else in the world had issues with how game X played!". I think just my experiences in competitive gaming, having read a lot of literature on game design over the years and having a lot of friends and acquaintances involved in game design, though not necessarily video game design, has really opened my eyes in terms of how what I want/like in terms of complexity, speed, etc. may not be in the best interest of the majority of a player base. Also, inability to use the English language well by some can be annoying too
So I hear. I skipped it because I've never heard a single good thing about it.
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
Angelus Errare
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People also forget that The Hobbit/Lord of the Rings really served as a vehicle for the languages he created. You have to remember that Tolkien was a linguist. While some writers might create a few words for their books this man created whole language families (as in different dialects, older versions of the language where the current one is derived from) for his books. Not only did he create full on languages but they were structurally and phonetically sound and followed rules, they were all complete languages.
That's awesome
ViewtifulJC
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thread is damn nightmare fuel
Moris needs to post his.
So you saying he was a cunning linguist?
She that Nu52 Black.
Try reading Grendel.
Very true, it's all over.
right out the gate Charlamange manages to annoy me.
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Deleted member 47027
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Always speaking in extremes fex! It might not be all over!
If I say the tiniest thing negative about Dark Souls anywhere I get jumped on
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Deleted member 47027
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Hey, I feel you. I got banned for not liking Marvel's current 'wit' as opposed to more fun movies in the past like Blade.
Jackben
bitch I'm taking calls.
Whoa hold on a second there, what kind of negative thing could possibly be said about Dark Souls?
soundscream
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Oh boy, I'm guessing the GOTG crowd didn't approve of you?
face it vince, they're the nWo of the OT ..just with chris pratt's face instead of letters.
oh boy here we go.
Well first off, it's not the end all be all of difficult games.
Dude comes across as a total tryhard.
He also says gross things to every woman interviewee. I closed the video after Tinashe said she has a white mother and her father is from Zimbabwe then he responds with "oh that African man couldn't stay away from that white pum pum". Like, what the fuck man.
ViewtifulJC
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Charlamange type of dude you befriended in high school only because you didn't want be on the receiving end of his remarks
soundscream
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*heavy sigh*
Not Beowulf
Grendel.
I assumed most read them together. At least we did in my school.
Rayven_king
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Had to dig way into my memory for this shit
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Oh boy, I'm guessing the GOTG crowd didn't approve of you?
face it vince, they're the nWo of the OT ..just with chris pratt's face instead of letters.
Alls I'm saying is Guardians was good, but I'd rather watch 1989 Lundgren Punisher and 1997 Blade.
Jackben
bitch I'm taking calls.
I actually agree completely, love the series but the super hard thing isn't really true at all. Super frustrating at times, but not really the bastion of difficulty that it has been sometimes advertised as.
Did you notice the little emoticon in the edit reason? =p
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Nobody wants to ship a game that performs poorly on a platform unless it also comes out on 3ds. Why not lock it down to ensure the same experience? Takes less work.
Two things:
1. That logic would make sense if dude wasn't all like "We did it to stop debate, lol"
2. Nobody gave two shits about PS3 multiplats performing poorly.
Gaming developers are acting towards Microsoft like the NFL does whenever Peyton Manning loses. Nobody gave a shit when the shoe was on the other foot, so why act all concerned about it now?
I said there should be a pause feature for people who want it. It was like I walked into a lion's den with steaks fastened around my neck.
I'll probably bring it up again in a bloodborne/DS3 thread.
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