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[Doom]

Team Fortress 2, champ.

Of course if I yell at people to bring up needed classes, I get classified as too mean/serious.

[King Klown]

Team Fortress 2, champ.

Of course if I yell at people to bring up needed classes, I get classified as too mean/serious.

Its cuz you're yelling.

[Mongrel]

Yeah, shouting angrily only counts as 'training' if you're a drill sargeant with foot-long sideburns and your recruits were kidnapped from bars after they passed out drunk.

[Doom]

why so literal

[Transportation]

I thought of a good one that really gets me.

People who can't have fun in a game unless they win.  Just because you lose doesn't mean the game can't still be fun.

People like this is why I will never play Intrigue at all or two consecutive games of Catan without tiles being thrown when in my home town. So lame.

Unrelatedly:

I saw a Christmas commercial today. Which is November 9th. I don't watch television too much, so this might not be new, but I don't care.

Louis Black is a prophet and I am going to kill Santa Claus.

This consumerism-with-a-side-of-Christ holiday must be stopped before it passes Halloween (best holiday), which is basically anathema to Christmas except the candy part. It is our only strategic defense. I mean, what major holiday comes before that? July 4th? Santa is already flanking us there. We'll be abandoning half the calendar if we don't act soon.

So I am going to wander in the woods until I find some magic doors or maybe bribe NORAD or the Russians.

But seriously, it's really annoying.

[Detonator]

Dude, go to any major outlet store and you'll see the first Christmas shit broken out in September.

[yyler]

I think we should let Christmas expand all the way to January, because then it's only remaining option is to loop back and be stuck in only December again.

[Beat Bandit]

I like that idea, trap the Christmas so it can never hurt us again.

[Alex]

No one really likes losing completely...but I do think that a fun time can be had even when you don't win.

When you are completely steamrolled, then I think I am justified in ragequitting. Steamrolling isn't even fun. You can't do anything. You take one step and the two spies that have infested your base the entire time murder you, or you try to sneak around and get the flag, but your ENTIRE TEAM is on defense...ugh.

I think there's a certain degree of truth to this (as I stopped going to arcades because I was paying money to get my shit ruined forever in Marvel vs. Capcom 2), but now I feel like it's really just part of the risk of playing in an open, public environment.  There's always going to be someone out there that is much much better than you or much much dumber than you.

In non-steamroller scenarios, if you don't have fun because you're not winning, well, you have some issues to work out.

[McDohl]

Well, there's your problem right there.  You were playing Marvel Vs. Capcom 2, which Jeremy Parish has described as a "disasterpiece".  Janky, broken characters with infinite loops and shit.  Fuck that noise.

AND THE KIDS ARE STILL WILLING TO PAY OVER 50 BUCKS FOR A USED PS2 COPY AT GAMESTOP.  EVEN THOUGH IT'S OUT ON X-BOX LIVE ARCADE.  SERIOUSLY, WHAT THE FUCK.

[Brentai]

Sirlin described it as a chaotic broken mess from which intricately balanced high-level play seems to have accidentally evolved.

To be fair, that's what happened to Smash Bros. Melee, too.

[Alex]

Well, there's your problem right there.  You were playing Marvel Vs. Capcom 2, which Jeremy Parish has described as a "disasterpiece".  Janky, broken characters with infinite loops and shit.  Fuck that noise.

AND THE KIDS ARE STILL WILLING TO PAY OVER 50 BUCKS FOR A USED PS2 COPY AT GAMESTOP.  EVEN THOUGH IT'S OUT ON X-BOX LIVE ARCADE.  SERIOUSLY, WHAT THE FUCK.

See, I just went home and rented it for the Dreamcast and played it with friends instead of waiting for the chinamen to swoop out from the corner in the arcade.  Haven't looked back at fighting games in an arcade since.  Fast forward to this year where I play it on XBL on the occasion with friends in between bits of every other fighter out there.

[Brentai]

That fucking "Violinist plays in a aubway station and nobody gives a shit" story.  I got linked to it again today.

More specifically, I get irked by the conclusions that everybody draws from it.  Are we unable to recognize beautiful mastery when it's packaged in rags and dumped unceremoniously onto a DC Metro station?  No, we're unable to recognize beautiful mastery when we're unable to recognize beautiful mastery.

Hear me out here.  What do you think your grandfather's opinion of Slash's guitarwork is?  How many people are honestly surprised to find out, after hearing Weird Al do at least one accordion piece on every album, that he's considered a genius on the thing?  If you handed your little brother a copy of Super Metroid, would he come back saying it was the greatest game of the 16-bit era?

I'm not an expert on demographics but I'm going to take a stab at most people taking the DC Metro not being the sort to pay hundreds of dollars to hear a violin concerto.  Even if you told them outright that the guy standing there was considered a genius on strings, they'd sort of nod appreciatively, maybe listen for a while to try and see what the big deal is, and eventually be on their way.  If you told them how much the actual violin was worth someone would probably jump him.

The idea that the package sells the product is a bit true here, because I'll lay even odds that the people who get all uppity about people in a subway station not appreciating classical music - don't appreciate classical music.  They think it's a big deal because somebody told them it is.  I'm sure that sold out theater in Boston was packed with people trying to look more cultured than they really are.  After the show was over they went out for chicken wings.

I dunno why this irks me so much - I think because everybody experiences the same shattering, nature-of-mankind revelation upon hearing this story, and from where I'm standing it looks like everybody is fucking wrong.

[Norondor]

And of course there's the fact that this was in a subway station, which is to say a space of the world that exists for literally no reason but a thoroughfare for people who are in a hurry to not be there any longer. Sticking something distracting and beautiful there and having it ignored proves that, indeed, the subway station is performing its intended purpose quite admirably!

[A²]

If someone who had been to the concert was in the subway that day, I'd be surprised if the music didn't ring a Bell.

[Lottel]

THANK YOU. Finally someone agrees with me.


Alright. I've typed a post like three times but fuck it. I can't add anything to your post. Well done, sir. Well done.

[Bongo Bill]

Also, if you hear good music in a public place chances are you expect someone to have hired them or something. Street musicians out for tips indicate that they are broke by demonstrating how their talent is insufficient for them to be professionals, thereby incurring pity; or, in the most extreme cases, their performance is an implicit threat: give me some money or I will keep playing this awful racket.

[Friday]

The mastery of the violin is subtle. This is the same exact shit if they just gave out the best wine ever to everyone going through the subway, then were outraged when nobody tasted it, jumped up and down, and declared it the best wine ever. You have to be a connoisseur of fine wine to appreciate fine wine. Normal people don't give a shit. They will drink crude oil and give a thumbs up. The same holds true of art, music, videogames (haha, I listed them separately from art), the Olympic long jump, or whatever.

People just like to find and use examples of how terrible we are as a species in their conversations with their friends, so they can be outraged and hypocritical because they wouldn't have known it was the best violin music either.

[Kazz]

http://kazz.rooms.cwal.net/honpodscast.mp3

[Romosome]

I'd believe Weird Al is an accordion genuis just based off I Love Rocky Road. That solo is amazing and now the actual original song sounds like it's trying to do an accordion piece when I listen to it.

also now I want to steal a bottle of the best wine ever and hand it out on the subway.

Or have a violin master play there while constantly screaming THIS IS ART, YOU PHILISTINES! at everyone passing.