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Monday, 16 July 2012

Woops. My Bad. Replaced With 'Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Shooter'

quote [ "killing people in video games is actually just solving moving puzzles." Which is a true, smart, and helpful way to think about video-game violence. However, most puzzles don't bleed or scream. Why do gamers want their puzzles to bleed and scream? ]

Egregious repost. Wow. I also humbly submit a vintage porn blog my gf sent me recently.

http://nickdrakes.blogspot.com/

[by bltrocker@10:02pmGMT] [+4 Repost]

Comments

Barnabas_Truman said @ 10:05pm GMT on 16th Jul
(Psssst--check this out.)

bltrocker said @ 11:23pm GMT on 16th Jul [Score:5 Funny]
Here's the fucked up part: I EVEN COMMENTED IN THE THREAD

schatten00777 said @ 10:05pm GMT on 16th Jul
http://www.sensibleerection.com/entry.php/86715

Different source, but same article. Even has the same picture at the top of the page.

Viking_Biochemist said @ 10:08pm GMT on 16th Jul [Score:5 Underrated]
Don't look at me. I quit science because there are no goddamn jobs.

arrowhen said @ 11:27pm GMT on 16th Jul
I feel your pain; my girlfriend and I have lived in the armpit of America for four goddamn years because she lucky enough to find a science job here.

Naruki said @ 3:11am GMT on 17th Jul
You know, America has MANY armpits, quite a few scrotums, innumerable taints, assholes out the wazoo, and various and sundry other derogatory organ themed places.

How do you expect us to guess your locale from that?

Ubie said @ 4:46am GMT on 17th Jul
It's Troy, NY. Seriously, it's got to be Troy. Especially with a metric fuckton of educated people that can't find jobs in their respective field of science (hello RPI, I'm looking at you!)

Supreme_Coconut said @ 5:38am GMT on 17th Jul
Nah, probably some place on the southern outskirts of Chicago. Like Calumet City or Gary, Indiana. Fucking cesspools.

Kurisu said @ 6:31am GMT on 17th Jul

arrowhen said @ 5:44pm GMT on 17th Jul [Score:1 Informative]
Now that you mention it, it's more of a sweaty ballsack-underside than an armpit.

pleaides said @ 11:16pm GMT on 16th Jul
+1 Save

RedRiverRat said @ 11:23pm GMT on 16th Jul
Bonus points for Egregious.

lilmookieesquire said @ 11:54pm GMT on 16th Jul
Nice save, but methinks if Tom Bissell doesn't like fps maybe he shouldn't demo them.

Roulette1337 said @ 1:25am GMT on 17th Jul
Nice fix, I regret the early mod now even if I had seen the fps article elsewhere already.
Gonna go upmod another post of yours.

Barnabas_Truman said @ 4:45am GMT on 17th Jul
I enjoy making fun of FPS games by collectively referring to them as "DOOM knockoffs." As in "Eh, this Halo thing looks pretty slick, but in the final analysis isn't it basically just another DOOM knockoff?"

Except for Descent. Descent was kickass.

Ubie said @ 4:47am GMT on 17th Jul
Descent was the first game to give me motion sickness. Now i can't play a FPS to save my life...

Barnabas_Truman said @ 7:14am GMT on 17th Jul
I got so much practice in Descent during my high school years that the flight controls became completely intuitive to me--even now at a moment's notice my hands are able to jump to the keypad on the right and A/Z on the left, ready to dodge in any direction. The only problem was that if I took a break from, say, typing an essay to play Descent for half an hour or so, when I quit and returned to my essay the words would go all 3D on me.

mechanical contrivance said @ 11:18pm GMT on 17th Jul
After playing Tetris for a while, printed words became tetrads to be stacked.

ENZ said @ 5:09am GMT on 17th Jul [Score:1 Funny]
I like playing Team Fortress 2. If only so I can befuddle this one guy at work who won't shut the hell up about Call of Duty.

"Yeah, I was totally dominating these noobs! I got so many kills it was obscene!"

"Hmm, reminds me of this time I was playing on Dustbowl. The other team had all their sentries positioned right outside the spawn, so we couldn't advance at all. They were getting pretty cocky, so I switched over to Scout. Drank some Bonk!, ran past them, hid for a minute until they forgot about me, and took control points before they knew what the hell was going on. Won the match without getting a single kill."

"...huh?

Isosceles Lockâ„¢ said @ 3:37pm GMT on 17th Jul
Jumped on a grenade and surprised their snipers from behind with my katana.

Tirade said @ 6:37am GMT on 17th Jul
Descent was a hummingbird based shooter, so that changes the mechanics enough that it isn't a DOOM clone.

Halo, on the other hand, totally just replaced demons with aliens and hell with a knockoff of Niven's Ringworld. And they thought we wouldn't notice.

Barnabas_Truman said @ 7:16am GMT on 17th Jul
That's a big part of what I liked about Descent: true freedom of motion. I think it may have been the first FPS to have genuinely 3D gameplay, rather than just 3D graphics.

eIfish said @ 3:38pm GMT on 17th Jul [Score:1 Insightful]
The only problem with Descent was that the guy with the Sidewinder 3D Pro schooled everyone that didn't have one.

Barnabas_Truman said @ 11:36pm GMT on 17th Jul
You know, after a few years of playing Descent I finally saved up enough allowance to buy a joystick... and later realized that I was actually better at controlling my ship with the keyboard than with the joystick.

On the other hand, I never figured out how to connect for multiplayer; maybe things would have been different if I had.

eIfish said @ 3:36pm GMT on 17th Jul
That's not true, it also replaced Daleks! AI with emergent gameplay, arsenals with resource management, quicksave with checkpoints placed by humans, dungeons with landscapes, walking with warthogs, and a collection of levels with a story.

While the Halo franchise is slavishly derivative of Halo, Halo itself was groundbreaking, and its gameplay stands up even today. While it's now seen in every other game, Halo 2's automatic matchmaking, and Halo 3's Parties and Creative Mode were also incredibly innovative features.

happiest_sadist said @ 5:26am GMT on 18th Jul
So Halo != Marathon 4 then?

Isosceles Lockâ„¢ said @ 4:26pm GMT on 17th Jul [Score:1 Interesting]
Hummingbird shooter??

Oh fuck somebody please make a Kolibri mod for Descent.

If they can make a Sonic game for the Doom engine this should be easy.

Dioxin said @ 8:15am GMT on 27th Jul

The Escapist : Zero Punctuation : Spec Ops: The Line

soulecho said @ 6:32am GMT on 17th Jul
Nice save. This post deserves a +10 repost.

RedRiverRat said @ 6:34am GMT on 17th Jul
give a bitch a gun and you'll find a dead man

RedRiverRat said @ 7:25am GMT on 17th Jul [Score:1 Funny]
I have no idea where that came from. please ignore.

cb361 said @ 8:21am GMT on 17th Jul
In spite of what they think, people don't want computer games to be too realistic. If human roadkills in GTA:SA looked like what they actually look like in real life, I would drive a lot more carefully when playing it.

Barnabas_Truman said @ 10:03am GMT on 17th Jul
That's one of many things I like about NetHack and Dwarf Fortress.

RedRiverRat said @ 10:58am GMT on 17th Jul
It's dickish to cry repost.

It was posted in the first place for a reason. This has always irritated me. Its not a repost if it's the first time you see it.

So what if you've seen it before. Grow the fuck up.

bltrocker said @ 2:55pm GMT on 17th Jul [Score:1 Informative]
Eh, I don't mind it. The mod is there for a reason. I like when reposts are called out because it's like the green M&Ms in the Van Halen rider; it's a laziness check.

arrowhen said @ 8:33pm GMT on 17th Jul
Brown M&Ms! Pay attention!

bltrocker said @ 12:51am GMT on 18th Jul
I sorted the whole bowl for nothing?

arrowhen said @ 8:32pm GMT on 17th Jul
Reposting is disrespectful to both the original poster and the community as a whole. It indicates a poster who is just interested in a quick attention fix and hasn't been following and participating in the long, fascinating conversation that is SE. If you were hanging out with a group of friends and told the EXACT SAME JOKE that one of them had just told an hour earlier, they'll probably be a little annoyed that you weren't paying attention, and you should probably expect a bit of ribbing over it.

Also, SE karma is srs business.

happiest_sadist said @ 5:35am GMT on 18th Jul
As others have pointed out, the mod is there for a reason.
I don't think it's dickish to point out that it's a repost, particularly, just so long as folks don't harp on it.
In my experience, they generally don't.
Those of us who have posted enough (and it doesn't take many, I'm not exactly a frequent poster) know that SE is hard to search. I generally use both SE's search and insite: on Google to ensure I'm not reposting, and I'm still not very confident about it sometimes.

Why does it irritate you so much? To me it just seems a natural consequence of the way things work here. Reposts will happen, people will point it out, some will downmod. The nice part of it is that reposts get converted to posts which are excellent in their own right, which would not happen if people didn't point it out.
Sorry. I'm not trying to convince you otherwise. I was really just curious about the source of your irritation. I didn't mean to go shooting off into an explanation of my own opinion, which is irrelevant.