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Messages - Sharkey

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Thaddeus Boyd's Panel of Death / Re: Culture Wars
« on: October 15, 2013, 09:13:04 AM »
I pour whiskey at time-locked saloon in a pretty damn redneck, open carry state. I regularly have to, no fucking joke, tell people to check their iron at the bar. Mostly because we have some gaming in there and you can't be armed in what's technically a casino. I got more fastidious about that after one of them shot his wife in there a couple weeks ago. Until recently it seemed like every other damn conversation had to come around to Obama taking their fucking guns away.

Yet even among the kind of folk who openly joke about lynching the president (or the saloonkeeper; I love confronting them about speaking in metaphor when I have their gun behind the bar,) a fair number of them are vocally and violently fucking pissed at the tea party republicans right now. I've had to break up fights over this shit. I take that as a pretty useful public opinion poll.

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Thaddeus Boyd's Panel of Death / Re: Me Gridlock
« on: October 15, 2013, 09:01:04 AM »
I'm always annoyed when that fucker makes me want to like him.

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High-Context Discourse / Re: Quotes
« on: October 11, 2013, 07:52:01 AM »
White Kaneda Saves Neo New York.

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High-Context Discourse / Re: What sort of videogame boss are you?
« on: October 08, 2013, 05:57:43 PM »
The one that later joins the party but is missing most of the attacks and HP he had when you fought him earlier.

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I don't really think Gau's theme is incongruous with his character. I mean he's fucking weird and provides irritating comic relief so one might conceivably expect something offbeat and whacky, I guess. On the other hand, even in a game where pretty much everyone has a tragic backstory, "feral child abandoned in the wilderness by alcoholic father driven mad by grief over the death of his wife" is pretty damn sad. Or it would be if I didn't find both Gau and his mechanic annoying as fuck.

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Fuck yeah, you're doing this. Loving the attention to details I somehow never noticed. Especially boss fight shenanigans. I never realized you got a marginally better reward for wailing on an electric snail shell in blatant and tedious defiance of prior exposition. I did that, but I didn't notice you got an ether for it.

Also still calling dibs on Setzer because vanity. Fixed dice and master's scroll, motherfuckers.

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High-Context Discourse / Re: Imagery Unload
« on: September 13, 2013, 03:18:07 PM »
If you were carrying a whole bunch of your important organs in a long train behind your ass then yeah, you might just want to give all that shit a low profile.

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Thaddeus Boyd's Panel of Death / Re: It's Hip to be Scared
« on: September 12, 2013, 07:01:43 PM »
Or whatshisdick from Planescape. Oh! Or the clownskull from Chrono Cross. Man, we're just up to our tits in disembodied skulls here.

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Thaddeus Boyd's Panel of Death / Re: It's Hip to be Scared
« on: September 12, 2013, 05:52:22 PM »
There's one hiding inside you.

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Man, if I had known then what I know now thanks to this.

The first and last time I played this thing was shortly after the first fan translation hit, and apparently just to spite myself I forced my way to about this point with a party of all red mages. Really, with a stylish ensemble like that how could you play as anything else? (I did pretty much the same thing with FFIII, but switched to Scholars when they became available. They all have pony tails and trench coats. They're one fedora short of something perfect.) Made it to the last bit with Ex, but I was pretty much bum rushing the game and didn't feel like all the dicking around I've have to do with a party that had mastered red mage and not a hell of a lot else at that point.

I had someone in irc send me their endgame save file just to get some damn closure.

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Thaddeus Boyd's Panel of Death / Re: It's Hip to be Scared
« on: September 12, 2013, 03:57:15 PM »
I'm just going to pretend this is a relevant metaphor for something.

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Media / Re: New Doctor Who
« on: September 12, 2013, 10:47:24 AM »
And here I was holding out for Two and a Half Doctors.

The Christmas special had better be Dawn of the Dead Doctor.

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Thaddeus Boyd's Panel of Death / Re: ¡Science!
« on: September 12, 2013, 09:38:21 AM »
Today, NASA announced that they were finally able to confirm that at some point last august Voyager I became the first man-made object to ever leave the bounds of our solar system.

Relevant XKCD

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Thaddeus Boyd's Panel of Death / Re: The Coming Robot Uprising
« on: September 12, 2013, 09:36:09 AM »
I didn't ask for this.

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Thaddeus Boyd's Panel of Death / Re: It's Hip to be Scared
« on: September 12, 2013, 09:18:34 AM »
It's no great depression, but I would agree that things are the worst they've been economically in over half a century. Since the aftermath of the second world war, anyway. Especially in terms of individual buying power, wealth disparity, and the social safety net. Coming on the heels of a period of relative prosperity that occurred at a point in most of our lives where we were establishing our baseline for normal puts it into sharper relief.

I don't give a second thought to terrorism, other than the encroachments on civil liberties made in the name of fighting it.  You're several orders of magnitude more likely to be shot by a cop than killed by a terrorist, justifiably or otherwise, and with an extra zero or two tacked on depending on your ethnicity. Hell, you're far more likely to drown in the bathtub or be trampled by pigs. Sure, there's a case to be made for all the "living in the shadow of 911" noise, but it has more to do with the response than anything to do with actual terrorists.

Mostly I'm pissed that they're starting to call 9/11 Patriot's Day in some places. We already have one of those. It's in April and it's a fuck of a lot more relevant. Though arguably it did concern domestic terrorists, and has been a favorite day for it ever since. Which is why anyone working in a federal building is probably a bit jumpy on the 19th.

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Gaming Discussion / Re: Game News Dump
« on: September 11, 2013, 11:15:34 AM »
A history of Final Fantasy

I'm recognizing whole blocks of that from elsewhere, and given all the shifts in tone it's a pretty safe bet that whole damn thing is a bunch of other articles haphazardly pasted together with a few poorly written linking paragraphs crammed in between. Hell, he didn't even manage to delete all the wikipedia footnotes[15].

I bet /r/gaming ate this shit right up.

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I guess the moral here is just don't make Final Fantasy sequels.

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Gohn.

No, wait. We used that one already. Like you'll ever be going back to it.

Final Fantasy is essentially all about showing you fantastic locations a few minutes before they get burned to the fucking ground. I tend to prefer the ones that send you back to witness the immediate aftermath, and by that I mean IX and VI. I'd throw VII in there if the follow-up weren't a two hour long cell phone commercial that saved me the trouble of pushing buttons.

V never looks back, until the end when the few places that weren't wiped out in the first round get a chance to get their shit wrecked. It's probably the one that could have best sustained an aftermath sequel if anyone gave half a shit about it. Nah, let's do that with the one that made a point of describing all the happily-ever-afters and married half the cast to each other at the end. Fuckin brilliant.

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Gaming Discussion / Re: Unforgivable Sins of Game Design
« on: September 07, 2013, 04:38:34 AM »
I like how her increasing insanity was directly proportional to her state of undress. By the end of the series (lol) I expected her to be completely nude and painting the walls with her shit. Hologram shit, I guess.

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Gaming Discussion / Re: Stupid videogame playing stories.
« on: September 06, 2013, 11:39:31 AM »
Eternal Darkness is a horror game, I suppose, but one that I've never considered in any way scary. Compelling, suspenseful in places, and a personal favorite, but you never really get much sense of dread out of it.

Unless you're playing it while fairly stoned. In which case it is simultaneously unspeakably goddamn terrifying and fucking hilarious.

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