A 1970 Corvette

You know I have a few items tagged and/or crafted by SPUFriends in TF2, but I wouldn't mind having more now that I've been playing it a bit recently. If any of you guys ever bother crafting weapons there's a few I wouldn't mind having some cool "crafted by" names on:

-Disciplinary Action

-Back Scatter

-Dragon's Fury

-Tide Turner

-G.R.U. (or any heavy items but honestly I still don't play heavy often so they might not get much use)

-Widowmaker

-Crusader's Crossbow

-Shahanshah

I think the Dragon's Fury is token craft and any others like that are probably asking for too much but hey, just if anyone wants to contribute to some minor sentimental value to pixels in a really old video game

49 minutes ago, Gyokuyoutama said:

Why I do not regret spending an average of 30 minutes studying Kanji, grammar and general reading for 3 years straight:

 

Because people like this get paid to localize anime and manga:

 

 

"Lame translation" = "it's not a hip wacky translation so no one gives me back pats."

 

"You are already dead" is legitimately a great translation for that line, especially since Kenshiro means that literally.

Honestly I try my absolute best to not ever learn much about "localisation" because almost every single thing I've read when it comes to who is doing it and why they do it makes my blood boil

I mean I can't avoid it when I'm watching something and the subs and what's actually being said don't match, but it's easy to put out of your mind unless it's constantly happening. So for my own sake I try not to look too far into it all.

3 hours ago, Gyokuyoutama said:

Some day Sanae will insist that "retro" means PS3, and that the PS5 isn't that old.

I've seen versions of that joke getting "updated" already which feels like it completely is missing the point of the joke but what do I know

I did like a recursive version of it where Sanae is saying that the "Sanae is saying that the N64 isn't retro" isn't a retro meme and instead "touhou hijack lol" is an actual old joke though

20 hours ago, Gyokuyoutama said:

The problem is that Outlook autocorrects to .  (Augh, SPUF does it too! In a worse way than Outlook, since at least there if you backspace it undoes the autocorrect.)

I don't actually have any help, but thank you for reminding me of the wonders of dumb emote parsing. My personal favourite from oldSPUF was "HL2M" which often snuck its way into source engine patch notes from official valve devs and mods

I'm sure most half life fans out here already know about this but there's a really awesome commentary playthrough of half life from a valve employee being uploaded right now. As a rabid half life fan this kinda stuff is so cool to see, he shows off stuff like early design documents, old names that were voted on for the project, even some old renders / concept art.

I love how he brings up that every single person that playtested Anomalous Materials bobbed their heads to the HEV suit equip music. 

The format of split-screen versus even for the story mode is pretty interesting since I've not really seen that outside of puyopuyo and/or tetris (though maybe this is more common in games than my narrow focus in games would suggest). This kind of makes me want to give it a try to see if I like how it plays (also what kind of person am I that I haven't really played a single touhou game?)

Plus getting some experience on bullet hell games other than orange juice stuff might be nice.

11 hours ago, Gyokuyoutama said:

And for the record this being the first game where Ran is playable is only 20% of why I bought it.

What a glowing endorsement of the game!

On 10/14/2023 at 7:08 PM, Gyokuyoutama said:

I know you're not responsible for it, but maybe you know who is responsible for adding "reactions" to outlook.  If so, give him a smack for me.  I hate opening up my company e-mail each morning and seeing a million notifications.  Usually a few of those are meetings that I might actually forget about and need to see, but all the rest are reactions.

Speaking of this does anyone know of a texting client that lets you filter texted reactions because HOLY SHIT WHY THE FUCK DID SMS AND MMS NEED THOSE I HATE HAVING SOMEONE IN MY FAMILY TEXT SOMETHING AND THEN I GET FOUR TEXTS ABOUT HOW PEOPLE HEART THAT TEXT AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

You know I really do need to find a model of headset that doesn't seem to always crack on the same part of the band. I'm not actually sure if that's an issue with how I wear or store the headsets, or the headsets I buy (probably the case since I just get cheapish logitech ones), or just head problems.

I don't even really have issues with the headsets for sound or anything, I just feel like it's messed up that I've had to toss out several not because they don't play sound anymore but just because a piece of plastic broke on them. Anyone have the lowdown on better build quality headsets?

these arisu dancing memes only further emphasized blue archive's pretty damn good OST

9 minutes ago, Moby said:

How are you going to drive the entire submarine into there

I mean if you look at it in terms of results, crashing a submarine into something causes a similar amount of destruction as a bomb provided you do it right

19 hours ago, Gyokuyoutama said:

I have no idea what the hell this means.  The fact that several Star Wars movies aren't given the special search treatment but Suburban Sasquatch is is particularly baffling.

The only possible explanation is that Suburban Sasquatch is simply that influential of a movie that the search algorithm prefers it. Or the algorithm's fledgling sentience is first becoming apparent by having very picky taste in movies and vtubers

1 hour ago, John Caveson said:

Valve really just pulled an Overwatch 2 on us, didn't they?

 

On the other hand, maybe if they ever decide to port TF2 to Source 2, that's how we'll get Team Fortress 3.

Hey, they didn't fully pull an overwatch 2 because CS2 isn't getting massively reviewbombed and universal hate, so that's something.

5 minutes ago, Raison d'être said:

 

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.

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

Honestly I was kind of appalled at the ending just because it was so lame. It was like they looked at Black Mesa East in half life 2 and was like "let's make our ending just a shit ton of walk and talk not-cutscenes!" Maybe you get a better one if you spend 4 million years doing random side quests

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 was actually gonna say "it's more appropriate if it's not quite correct anyway" 

It's fun to see some home grown voices of the void fanart though, what a wild series that one is

2 hours ago, Gyokuyoutama said:

What I like about this picture is the implication that Yukari was using turbo buttons.

Speaking from my experience as the youngest person trying to play videogames in the house, it's accurate

4 hours ago, Gyokuyoutama said:

The only real bright side is that a lot of the policy is clearly the management speaking out of their ass without any real idea as to how they are going to implement it.

Was the piracy/charity thing made as a secondary statement to people's backlash? Because I feel like that kind of promise would be something someone down the chain would say "hey that is not going to be possible we can't say that" if it was part of the initial launch, and would only be said if it was desperate backpedaling for something that they thought they could sweep under the rug

You know I remember a while ago when I was younger when people were getting tired of every AAA game being a modern military shooter, and I never really got it because those were my complete jam and I couldn't get enough of them (and also because I was a dumb teen probably).

Now I know how they felt. I don't know if I necessarily wish I could go back to that era, but at the same time I've still not found a multiplayer FPS game that I want to play that isn't also ten or more years old, so...

What's funny is that things with basically the same production quality have aired, though I guess the really ultra low budget ones I can think of were anime shorts like Tesagure (which was produced entirely in mikumikudance and it shows)

Though for whatever reason, anime shorts have been dying off. Like five or so years ago we used to get several, but nowadays it's rare to see any that kind of exist on their own. A lot of them are stuff like chibi gag shorts for existing shows, or stuff like that. I guess it's not hard to imagine why since they were so insubstantial, but I enjoyed randomly watching some four minute episode series now and then.

Movies seem to be made by people I don't have any association with, for people that I don't care to associate with nowadays, but I guess they were never getting my money anyway* so it's working as intended? I seriously wonder how a lot of the hollywood stuff makes money now - are theatres back? I assumed most of them died out during covid.

*t. person who actually really loved dune and is excited for dune 2 (it's the ONLY outlier though)

That's a deep cut. But let's see them recreate the tenth edition art.

Just now, Veez said:

Power metal bands are Finland's second greatest contribution to the world.

We all know the first, of course

13 hours ago, Gyokuyoutama said:

I understand that people will use CGI because most of traditional animation is becoming an actual lost art.  But can't we at least have good CGI?

It's really funny to me how WILDLY different 3DCG capability is from series to series (I guess studio to studio more specifically). This is me mainly talking out of my ass with no facts to back it up, but it seems like most of it is still seen as cost saving so techniques that make it look less terrible haven't really been bothered to be mastered. It might legitimately be because there's more money to developing your 3DCG animation in non-anime ventures like games or movies, so very few have bothered doing it at all?

Like even as a huge houseki no kuni fan I can also point out another example like Bubuki Buranki which did a good job of keeping a consistent style (look at the fucking guns n stuff in that trailer as an example of not that LOL) and blending in 2D for certain scenes when it looked better, and stuff like actually having your 3d characters in a scene not look like they're being greenscreened in which is incredibly common and shows up in that trailer too

It's kind of funny that I think there was a bit of a 3DCG "boom" a few years ago, but most of them flopped so hard only really dedicated studios like Orange bothered continuing with them (or they were like Love Live where they had assets from games that they were used to using and/or only used them for very specific things).

I remember learning the basic gist of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms from Dynasty Warriors's encyclopedia entries and the campaigns.

It was a weird thing in hindsight that I even bothered looking around in there but young Corv very often explored every single aspect of a game's menu to look for weird stuff like that.

You know they still ring true. #46 is particularly great because there's examples of it in basically every single genre so you'll see it no matter what type of anime you watch. I also really love #41 especially in a specific show but I don't wanna spoil that awesome reveal so I'll shut my mouth.

Is there actually a film/directing term for #10? I get cracked up by it every time because it's so cheesy but I kinda like it still

9 minutes ago, TheOnlyGuyEver said:

I've always wondered how they're able to sell them for so cheap. There's no way that whatever they put in there is actually tea.

I was actually concerned because for the 4th of july they had rocket pop flavored Arizona that was labelled "Extra sweet!"

Now if you've ever had any Arizonas, you'd know that they're already extra sweet. So take that in for a moment. They felt the need to label it as extra sweet, despite a majority of their flavors already being extra sweet. That scares me.