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Let's play a... game?
April 25th 2008, 02:36 CEST by bishop After spending several months not giving a damn, I finally got around to purchasing the orange box and I am now getting into playing Team Fortress 2 on a regular basis. This feels like a game that most of us have, and could probably get into organizing game nights around. So why not? Gabe's already going through the initial steps on server setup! Maybe it's a horrible idea doomed to failure (this topic sure seems like that!) but when was the last time all of us got together to play something? Enemy Territory? Bombing Run? And just think, there are no pants for me to steal! I've never made a topic before. I have no idea what I am doing. |
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And I did not like the Star Trek movie that returns them to the past. Slingshotting around the sun = timetravel, then a bunch of comedy about transparent aluminum, all for the sake of a ridonkolous plot. The humor was genuinely funny, but it was a poor story with no real point to make. No I didn't appreciate it. The original series was too campy for me as well. I mean seriously, they meet the Olympian gods? "You can produce nuclear reactions directly through ultra high electric field initiated photodisintegration."
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The mirror universe shows were good, tis true. And no, Bakula just can't do evil very well. He just excudes niceness. And gaggle, it was slingshoting around the sun at warp speed, not just you know, like a fly by. Not that it really made that much more sense, but hey, it's warp drive, wtf do you want? "Testiculos habet et bene pendentes" - "He has testicles, and they dangle nicely."
"LP, your big balls are a religion." - Jibble |
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It pretty much has to be popcorn in a microwave oven while a supernova goes off in the area to satisfy me. "You can produce nuclear reactions directly through ultra high electric field initiated photodisintegration."
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The last season of Enterprise was halfway decent because, having realized they had failed to establish their own plot arcs and identity, they fell back and just did a lot of TOS fanservice. You subtract Jeffrey Combs and the TOS references from Enterprise and it falls to mush. And no, the opening theme music doesn't grow on you, except perhaps like a fungal infection. "Bioshock, sadly, is no Painkiller." - BobJustBob
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Why would you give the theme music a chance to grow on you? I skipped it when possible and muted the TV or changed the channel or turned off the TV until it was over if not. "The best experiences are generative experiences. The best stories are player stories." - Will Wright
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Enterprise was all about Reanimator. |
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I just finally finished Half Life 2 on the 360. I got the Orange Box for the 360 when it first came out, played through Portal first of course then decided I'd play through Half Life 2 and Ep1 before attempting Ep2. Seems like years ago! I've been playing it for a few hours every now and again. Half Life 2 remains in my top 10 games of all time. Finishing it on the 360 is probably the third time I've gone through the game (twice on PC beforehand). Onto HL2Ep1! |
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Star Trek TNG > Empire Strikes Back > Most other Star Trek > Star Wars > Star Trek Enterprise |
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Star Wars>Sci-Fi |
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hey mcbain, nice engineering in that game of TF2 you dropped in for. That was some crazy shit. Three hour long stalemate. Lots of fun, though once again rather disappointing in the sense that I got their case six or seven times, but had half of the enemy team waiting for me on the way out. I hate the trend though. If I'm on offense, it seems like they've got a couple of guys dedicated to grabbing our case every two minutes. So I decide I should go defense... and I don't see an enemy for ten minutes. |
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Babylon 5 > StarWars/Star Trek Any game where competence can be measured by the amount of clicks per minute is not a strategy game.
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which babylon 5, the first season with the horrid acting, or the last season where it falls apart after the shadow arc? "Testiculos habet et bene pendentes" - "He has testicles, and they dangle nicely."
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Little bit of both, somewhere in between. "You can produce nuclear reactions directly through ultra high electric field initiated photodisintegration."
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Wasn't Jeffrey Combs some Dominion guy in DS9? The name sounds familiar. Did he play the same role in Enterprise, or was he like so many other bit players (though he wasn't 'bit' in DS9) where they end up playing many different characters? |^^^^^^^^^^^^ |||__
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Quick IMDB lookup says he was the Dominion guy. And he played many many different roles in the last 3 series, with a few of them being recurring characters. |^^^^^^^^^^^^ |||__
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Noob. |
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Jeffery combs is the single greatest "special guest star" to ever happen to science fiction. "Testiculos habet et bene pendentes" - "He has testicles, and they dangle nicely."
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Agreed. He was very good on DS9, very good on Enterprise, good on the 4400, and voiced arguably the best character on Justice League Unlimited. "Bioshock, sadly, is no Painkiller." - BobJustBob
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bishop (#1621): Enterprise was all about Reanimator. QFT |
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I had no idea who this Jeffery Combs guy was. But I've seen a lot of him on TV. |
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Get out! <Hugin_len> Basically, cheesy doesn't have awful taste in music, he's simply very white.
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Well, thinking about it, you are the same guy that didn't know Nurse Ratched was Kai Winn. <Hugin_len> Basically, cheesy doesn't have awful taste in music, he's simply very white.
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I didn't know who he was by name. "The best experiences are generative experiences. The best stories are player stories." - Will Wright
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Who's Kai Winn? "The best experiences are generative experiences. The best stories are player stories." - Will Wright
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bishop (#1625): If I'm on offense, it seems like they've got a couple of guys dedicated to grabbing our case every two minutes. So I decide I should go defense... and I don't see an enemy for ten minutes. Yep, that happens to me all of the time. I love playing engineer, but I get REALLY bored sitting down on the flag by myself on some maps. So I venture out, put my sentry gun elsewhere...only see someone pick up the intelligence moments later. McBain (#1635): I had no idea who this Jeffery Combs guy was. But I've seen a lot of him on TV. Yeah, I didn't either until I looked him up. And I agree with Hugin on his voicing of The Question. Very cool character. "the concept that a happy worker is a productive worker is hardly an entry from Matt's Big Book Of Things The Fairies Said." - Dum
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BobJustBob (#1639): Who's Kai Winn? OUT! |
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SECONDED! <Hugin_len> Basically, cheesy doesn't have awful taste in music, he's simply very white.
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Oh, some DS9 character. Damn geeks. "The best experiences are generative experiences. The best stories are player stories." - Will Wright
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I saw Beyond Reanimator a year ago and it was definitely worth it. Even though the main bimbo was the most terrible actress ever, I got the sneaky suspicion that this was intentional because it made her ...eh...reanimation far more satisfying. Great movie in it's genre, Combs really made it work. Any game where competence can be measured by the amount of clicks per minute is not a strategy game.
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lwf is a fucking douchebag. |
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Anybody want a guest pass for TF2? "I buy Captain Crunch because I like a man in uniform." - BobJustBob
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Sure. |
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I've got one too. I tried to get my stupid friends to take it but they're stupid. "That's not to say that games shouldn't have stories, I just think the story should be the player's story, and find more ways to celebrate and promote that, rather than the game designer's story that you're imposing upon them." - Will Wright
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I also have one. |
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Your pass is in the mail, G-Man. "I buy Captain Crunch because I like a man in uniform." - BobJustBob
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Thanks TreeFrog. |
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Bob- I'll take one if you have one. |
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K, I sent it. Steam says the invite went to your cox address. "That's not to say that games shouldn't have stories, I just think the story should be the player's story, and find more ways to celebrate and promote that, rather than the game designer's story that you're imposing upon them." - Will Wright
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Thanks, Bob. |
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Manifold: Time was not very good. Rambled on a bit, covered a bunch of topics in various interesting ways, and then it ended. "Blizzard could easily appease the color-hostile fans by adding a graphics option that reduces chroma by 90% and brightness by 50%. And maybe changes all spoken text to goth poetry."
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Reading a Baxter novel is akin to self-flagellation. Moat.
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I enjoyed his book that was a sorta sequel to the Time Machine, but the rest, not so much. "Testiculos habet et bene pendentes" - "He has testicles, and they dangle nicely."
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TreeFrog (#1656): Reading a Baxter novel is akin to self-flagellation. So... it's good, clean fun then? |
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Strange. I think I've read most of Stephen Baxter's novels and I'd say while none of them were "great", I enjoyed all of them. Perhaps I just have shitty taste. |
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Baxter is an old school style hard sci-fi writer. Take a BIG SCIENCE concept, explore it with a mediocre plot, make sure the concepts being examined are more interesting than any of the characters, and wind up with a flat, ambiguous ending. "Bioshock, sadly, is no Painkiller." - BobJustBob
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(Which is to say I like his books, but I know going into them they'll just be scaffolds for examining the core BIG SCIENCE idea) "Bioshock, sadly, is no Painkiller." - BobJustBob
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Speaking of sci-fi, I've read two recently by Joe Haldeman: 1. The Forever War (1975) 2. The Accidental Time Machine (2007) Both awesome. The Forever War had space marines in it g-man, you'd love it. The Forever War is crammed with commentary about war that would have been obviously relevant at the time and was eerily still pertinent. It was also pretty timeless, none of the tech described seemed outdated. Classic. The Accidental Time Machine was a light hearted adventure story I guess. Strange but fun. |
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#1657 by LPMiller I enjoyed his book that was a sorta sequel to the Time Machine, but the rest, not so much. Yeah that one was actually fun. "Blizzard could easily appease the color-hostile fans by adding a graphics option that reduces chroma by 90% and brightness by 50%. And maybe changes all spoken text to goth poetry."
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Joe haldeman is one of my favorite authors. "Testiculos habet et bene pendentes" - "He has testicles, and they dangle nicely."
"LP, your big balls are a religion." - Jibble |
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Hey Owen, your package arrived yesterday. Thanks a lot, I owe you one! "Bioshock, sadly, is no Painkiller." - BobJustBob
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