Comments on: TSM Episode 260: Twitch Plays Pokemon

By: koboldekobold

koboldekobold — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 05:34:07 +0000

When the question was posed as to what will happen when Faygo gets to some awful place, I wondered if they already sell it in Mississippi.

By: DiceAdmiral

DiceAdmiral — Tue, 25 Feb 2014 15:02:05 +0000

There was no “Whoa we’re halfway there” this week was there? I must have missed it if there was.

By: Wolfe

Wolfe — Tue, 25 Feb 2014 13:08:08 +0000

Thanks Ethan, I’ll roll on like the boulder from the opening scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark then! *rollin* *rollin* *rollin*

By: Julian 'SiliconNooB' Taylor

Julian 'SiliconNooB' Taylor — Tue, 25 Feb 2014 08:25:17 +0000

“Irrational Dissolves Kind of
http://www.polygon.com/2014/2/21/5431332/what-irrational-games-closure-means-for-the-industry
This feels like an awful thing for Ken Levine to do. If he really wants to make games with a small team, then leave the company to someone else, recruit the people you want and move on to another company.”

IMO he has dissolved Irrational because he has had to do so, either at the insistence of 2k, or because the studio’s finances were not in good health. I do not buy that BS about wanting to make smaller digital only products – that is the sort of thing that developers say so as not to get shit-canned by their employer.

By: DiceAdmiral

DiceAdmiral — Tue, 25 Feb 2014 01:17:51 +0000

INFO BLAST RETURNS!

HAPPY 5th Anniversary LusiPodcast!

On this week’s panel
Mel
DurgeSyn
Reg
Brock
Lusipurr

Feature:
FFX/X-2 Playthrough!
March 23rd to ??
I’ve never played these, but if I’m buying an HD remake two pack for PS3 it’ll be the Tales of Symphonia one.

Signs
Scorpio signing in

Cricket News
http://www1.skysports.com/cricket/teams/ireland

Irrational Dissolves Kind of
http://www.polygon.com/2014/2/21/5431332/what-irrational-games-closure-means-for-the-industry
This feels like an awful thing for Ken Levine to do. If he really wants to make games with a small team, then leave the company to someone else, recruit the people you want and move on to another company.

His Hair is Made of Little Faces!
http://www.destructoid.com/his-hair-is-made-of-little-faces-269645.phtml

Virgin gaming?
I’m really not sure what the story is here? Gamers are being paid to win at gaming competitions? That’s not news.

MGS5:GZ
http://www.polygon.com/2014/2/18/5424782/metal-gear-solid-5-ground-zeroes-current-and-next-gen-comparison

2014 The Year of Sonic
https://www.google.com/search?q=year+of+sonic

PS4 Launch
http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/177146-ps4-launches-in-japan-xbox-one-gets-price-drop-and-titanfall-bundle

Amazon TV box
http://techland.time.com/2014/02/21/long-rumored-amazon-tv-box-is-imminent-says-new-rumor/

Accurate to reality games are boring. THE GAME!
http://www.polygon.com/2014/2/21/5433100/kingdom-come-deliverance-kickstarter-funded
I loved your commentary on this Lusi. You are perfectly equipped to dissect this game.

Trackmania Nations is a pretty great game. The whole thing is controlled with the arrow keys but has surprisingly difficult tracks and awesome sense of speed.

Good cast mens!

By: Lusipurr

Lusipurr — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 19:28:01 +0000

@Iliya: I don’t know about that reading. You’d have to argue that Polonius’ presence in Gertrude’s bedchamber was not true to his character, and I think it was. Always ingratiating and servile, and eager to play on Hamlet’s ‘seeming’ problems, his conversation with Gertrude at that particular juncture seems entirely reasonable. Of course, his conclusion that being true to oneself results in being true to every man is entirely fallacious, as we see repeatedly in the play.

Polonius’ advice (given to his son, Laertes) is certainly not something he exactly follows–but in this particular instance, his simple presence in the bedchamber seems in no way to be a violation of it.

Remember, he wasn’t intentionally spying. He was caught with Gertrude and hid to avoid Hamlet.

By: Iliya Moroumetz

Iliya Moroumetz — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 19:21:57 +0000

I just want to point out, and perhaps the playwright himself knew this and was being ironic, but if Paloneus actually had the gumption to follow his own philosophy “To Thine own self, be true”, he wouldn’t have gotten stabbed by Hamlet for spying on the Prince and Gertrude.

Yes, out of ALL the possible things I could have brought up, it had to be that!

By: Ethan 'Ethos' Pipher

Ethan 'Ethos' Pipher — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 17:59:32 +0000

Rolling comments are always encouraged!

By: Wolfe

Wolfe — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 08:18:14 +0000

And last comment (I should really finish a bloody show before commenting), I rather like what I’ve seen of Deliverance. While I do not support Kickstarters on principle, I do enjoy some of the products that people with more money than I wind up creating.

As to Deliverance itself, it puts me very much in mind of a 1960s historical epics such as El Cid. Of course it’s going to be romanticized. As you pointed out, no one wants an entirely realistic game set in a period of history when making it to 30 was an act of God. Escapism rarely works when it adheres to reality anyways.

And besides, it beats another Mafia game.

By: Wolfe

Wolfe — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 06:50:55 +0000

Also, I’m still waiting for the porn industry’s parody of Flappy Bird, which will no be titled Fappin’ Bird.

By: Wolfe

Wolfe — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 06:37:25 +0000

I am also a Libra. And Thor the Dark World, as well as Marvel superhero movies are as much a bane as Hollywood itself. A propaganda machine for idiocy and misinformation.