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  14. Posted

    I keep thinking about this thread but then realizing I played only a handful of games last year, and really only one that released last year. I'll probably get around to it... soon.

  18. Posted

    2 hours ago, Gyokuyoutama said:

    I went back to that wiki and he's made over 100k more articles in the last two years.

     

    I want to say it's just him listing all his gameplay from stuff like Crusader Kings 2, but then there's stuff like this where he is classifying things from movies.

     

    You can kinda track what media he's consuming by what he's uploading. This, for example, I'm willing to bet was made while he was playing through Battlefield 1. The question I have is which follows which? Does he get interested in an era and consume media about it or does he consume media and then create the articles?

     

    2 hours ago, Gyokuyoutama said:

    Well, I say "he" but there does seem to be three people editing it.

     

    I imagine it's mostly just him with a revolving door of (and I say this respectfully) autists jumping in every now and then before fading away. But "he" will always be there.

     

    Chris Chan may be the most documented man in history, but this guy is probably one of the most prolific documenters in history... even if that history is mostly fictional. Honestly, it's impressive how he weaves fiction and fact together - a lot of the random soldiers he listed were fictional but died in real battles, and then some aren't because they died in fictional battles that nonetheless are treated exactly the same as real battles. You'd never know unless you were familiar with the time frame or took the time to double check.

     

    I'm fairly surprised no big content-starved Youtuber's done a clickbait video with the title "WTF! CRAZIEST WIKI EVER???" about it, given how big it is. I feel like it's inevitable - enjoy it while you can, in its (relatively) undisturbed state.

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  23. Posted · Edited by Raison d'être

    Watched a couple made-for-TV movies with the gimmick being they're made to look like breaking news broadcasts (so for the original TV viewers it would look indistinguishable from actual newscasts). They're neat for that reason alone, especially if you're old enough to remember watching actual broadcast television.

     

     

    I really like the climax on this one, at about 1:25:00,

    Spoiler

    with the NEST team desperately trying to disarm the bomb after triggering its anti-tamper device while the Nuclear Expert Guest basically describes how they've fucked up, all while the reporter on the ground talks over all of this without realizing what's happening.

     

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    1 hour ago, A 1970 Corvette said:

    much like a lot of these kinds of RPGs the main story is like a tiny amount of the game

     

    That's why I was worried, I didn't want to lock myself out of a lot of content by doing it. I still get Fallout 3 (vanilla) flashbacks when I see that kind of stuff.

  25. Posted

    18 hours ago, A 1970 Corvette said:

    It's absolutely bizarre that cyberpunk 2077 had an overhaul to the game that so drastically altered core systems. I never thought you'd be able to say "I started up my singleplayer game and realized an update made my character non-functional" but here we are.

     

    The weirdest part is that the biggest part of the overhaul, the perks, aren't even a clearly better system, it's just a completely different one. Like they thought up a new set of perks for their expansion pack, and were like "let's just make it the base game and throw out the old system!" I guess it's "content" for the people who played it through at launch and then dropped it? 

     

    I can't talk too much shit because the wacky dash mechanic in one of the new trees reminds me a lot of the Advanced Warfare exo boosts which I happen to love

     

    I'll have to come back to it, I bought it at launch and played it up until the !!!POINT OF NO RETURN!!! Then I was like "oh, better finish up some other stuff" but got distracted.

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