Gyokuyoutama

Speaking of the SNES, does anyone have any experience with those custom pirate SNES cartridges with various ROMs loaded onto them that are floating around everywhere? I'd love to play Gundam Wing Endless Duel, Seiken Densetsu 3 or The Violinist of Hamelin in English on my actual SNES, but I'm worried about the cartridges being of low quality or causing damage to the system.

Here's an essential video to watch if you're interested in chiptunes: Fitting all of that into three channels requires a lot skill.

I think that, as an experience, Homestuck reminds me quite a lot of Omikron. An ambitious work with many unexpected shifts in genre, mood and gameplay/presentation. A work that frequently breaks the fourth wall. And in both cases, those fourth wall breaks are used to make you question why you are still keeping up in the first place (with nearly outright mockery from Hussie, and Omikron's plot involving the conceit that it's not a game but a real connection to another world that literally drains the soul from your body.) Omikron had better music though:

The problem is that it becomes impossible to tell when something new is posted. Things get buried in topic threads inside of topic threads inside of topic threads. You might be able to follow an exchange between one or two people, provided that they aren't assholes who jump to all the threads at the same time, but it's impossible to follow the conversation as a whole. As a result, everyone ends up trying to understand what anyone is saying and instead most people will just put whatever slogans or shitposts they think will get them the most e-points. If you compound it with sorting by likes or upvotes everything becomes exponentially worse.

Part of why Deus Ex 1 is so good is that it includes every conspiracy theory it can think of, and makes the morality of most groups highly ambiguous. The effect of this is that no matter what your preferred political leanings are or what your favorite conspiracy theory is, you can interpret the game as validating your beliefs.

The first step of achieving a sensible internet is killing all people who think that nested comments are a good idea.

If they were going to respond, it might actually be best to respond with that "we used to make games, now we make money" video. At least it would show that they have a sense of humor about the situation. What else are the going to say? Obviously Episode 3 isn't coming out any time soon, and almost certainly it isn't coming at all, so it's not like they can make anyone feel any better about that.

I really can't see including Hegel without Schopenhauer. The mileage you can get out of Hegel bullying Schopenhauer is almost a series in and of itself.

I don't think that I can make them, though I can respond and react to them. Of course, it could be that I don't know where to go to make them. Sometimes I see a "what's on your mind" prompt, which I assume can be used to make a status update since it's in the status section, but clicking on it does nothing. Scratch this I finally got it to work after going through things again. Status updates were disabled, despite the fact that I'm pretty sure that I enabled them on several occasions, but I could also just be a fucking idiot.

You guys never got anywhere with this so I'm just going to do it for you: It's going to be a SOL show starring philosophers as schoolgirls. Philosophers will not be chosen based on their merit or influence, but rather by how many dumb stories are made about them which could lead to amusing scenarios. Potential Cast: Socrates Aristotle Diogenes Averroes Thomas Aquinas Leibniz Schopenhauer and Hegel (the two have to be included as a pair or not at all) Kierkegaard Stirner Camus Marx

Who was it on old SPUF that was obsessed with destiny? I need to consult my walfas comics.

I am eagerly awaiting the day when Valve is a less popular company than Konami. I would estimate three years for that to happen at the current pace. It's possible that Konami will decide to just start slaughtering babies or something and throw the calculations off though.

Happy birthday aabicus! You've really accomplished quite a lot in your time. Most people at your age would be satisfied just tackling Kindergarten.

If they wanted to end it on a somewhat hopeful ending, while remaining true to the themes of Half-Life and Half-Life 2, they could have the Combine somehow drawn into a war with a yet larger empire. One probably not any more benevolent towards humanity than the Combine, but with such a conflict the Combine would at least have their attention redirected elsewhere giving humanity a chance to regroup and focus on long-term survival. It'd also be a nice close to the Half-Life 2 arc, since it would mirror how the Half-Life 1 arc ended with the Xen threat being eclipsed by something much worse. If you wanted to, you could even tie things into Race X and perhaps even get Shepherd back into the mix. Perhaps the combine haven't encountered Race X since they come from another dimension that only human portal technology has reached, or something along those lines. The destruction of the Boraelis could end up creating a stable portal to their dimension, but in the middle of combine territory.

Is this fully automated, or only partially? (A lot of the robots automatically back away from the white boundary, so there's at least partial automation going on.) If it's fully automated then that "win by side stepping" was a brilliant way to punish people who didn't program sufficient edge detection.

One of my favorite parts of the modern gaming world is seeing developers try to sell moves like this as "good news" for the players. What's especially great about this example was that the devs announced the price hike about a week before it happened, but apparently weren't allowed to talk specifically about the deal with Gearbox until it happened. I'll give them credit for at least warning the players that it was going to happen (since they weren't obligated to), but it was pretty hilarious to see days of posts along the lines of "we can't talk about the reason for the price increase now, but the day it goes live we'll explain everything and you'll agree that this helps everyone" followed by an explanation of "we partnered with Gearbox and they said that they thought our game was good enough that we could charge more for it."

Clearly Bioware needs to make Shattered Steel 2.

Actually homing sliver could be pretty cool with all those madness vampires.

Maybe I want to know what variant of "Is X replacing Y" is going to show up in the comments of the next RedLetterMedia video.

When I go into Youtube, it keeps loading comments from the wrong video. It took me a while to realize why the comments were all so out of context, even for youtube. Like I'd go click a new movie trailer and for some reason everyone is talking about what Death Grips member they like the best. Or I'll click some weeb bullshit and everyone is talking about how the restaurant owners are lying to Gordon Ramsey.

And oh, they actually put up a blog post yesterday I guess. Date of the pyro update is still unknown, so a safe bet is over a month from now. For perspective, the Meet Your Match update that announced it was July 7, 2016.

The saddest thing about that artifact trailer is that it's probably not even going to get 10% of the dislikes that the infinite warfare trailer got. Not because the reaction of the fanbase is any better, just because people don't really expect Valve to do anything worthwhile and so don't really care.

Man I love this artist.

When is Funko Build Fighters coming out.