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Post subject: Anyone recognize this song?
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Hay guys! Long time no post, but I need your help and TASVideos usually delivers on this stuff, so here goes. Does anyone know what the name of the song starting at about 2:57:42 of this Man vs Game cast? All help is appreciated!
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Soundtrack available here.
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andymac wrote:
Kyrsimys = "Christmas"
!!111!!!11!1111
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moozooh wrote:
Kyrsimys wrote:
More important things than video games? Hah.. The sole reason I work/study/do anything else is so I can play more video games in the long run :P
I mean making something for the living, taking care of the family and yourself, socializing, learning new things.
Yeah I see what you mean. But especially the last two can definitely be done while playing. About the casual/hardcore thing, I definitely agree with your definition, at least to some extent. However, competitive gaming and playing games that require competitive gaming -like practice is one thing, but I don't think those kinds of games and that kind of gaming alone constitutes hardcore gaming. You can certainly play games like Just Cause, Assassin's Creed or Skyrim in a casual way and in a hardcore way: Playing through games on the highest difficulty setting, getting 100% completion, getting all achievements and using different playable characters is, in my opinion, definitely not just casual gaming, even though it doesn't require hours of practice. I find that people who play over 12 hours a week (which is really quite a lot, even if you don't think so) very rarely play games casually, meaning just playing through them once and then abandoning them.
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On the subject of beach volleyball costumes, let me link you to this sexy gallery on Metro.
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Oh, and by the way...
moozooh wrote:
Finally, let's face it, it's mostly kids and the unemployed who have enough time to devote to functionally complex video games without having to sacrifice more important things.
More important things than video games? Hah.. The sole reason I work/study/do anything else is so I can play more video games in the long run :P But anyways, I actually kind of disagree on this one, a couple of hours a day (+ more on weekends) is more than enough to count as being more than a casual gamer, and most people who work normal hours can definitely squeeze that in if they want to, if they don't have kids or some other very time consuming hobby. And I'm pretty sure people who play more than, say, 12 hours a week definitely buy a lot of games.
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moozooh wrote:
Another fact from the ESA: "parents are present when games are purchased or rented 90 percent of the time". 90%. Honestly, I don't see a single reason why a self-supporting person of age would invite a parent to a game-buying session or, better yet, send them off to buy the games.
I don't think this number has any validity whatsoever, given that it can't possibly take into account online purchases. Personally I have never ever bought a game from a store; I have ordered every single one of my games online, whether a physical disc or a digital copy. And I have bought a lot of games, I bought about 25 games just a couple of weeks ago during the Steam summer sale, as I'm sure did many other grown-ups. EDIT: Actually, when I look at this document more carefully, I think that the 90% only refers to children buying games, i.e. in 90% of the cases where children buy games, parents are present. It is under the general heading "parents and games", and last time I checked, I wasn't a parent, so the 90% probably isn't even supposed to refer to situations where adults buy games for themselves.
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moozooh wrote:
DarkKobold wrote:
moozooh wrote:
The majority of gamers you're alluding to—the ones playing the same crap over and over—are also the ones who buy games on their parents' money.
By the way, what proof do you have for this assertion? I'd expect some better argument from you than this.
This wasn't even dubious to begin with, but since you insist...
I don't think DarkKobold's point was about whether kids have enough money for games, but rather about whether it actually is kids and not grown-ups who buy these games. This is a valid point, considering that at least in the US the average game player is 30 years old and has been playing games for 12 years and the average age of the most frequent game purchaser is 35 (source). Children, or even teenagers, haven't been the main target audience of console games for a while now, and "will the parents buy it?" isn't as important a question nowadays as "will a technologically oriented young man in his twenties buy it?". From my own experience I'd say this is true especially for the aforementioned sports games; they are bought almost exclusively by young men who grew up with the first editions of the NHL and FIFA games. Teenagers seem to be way more interested in whatever's trendy (for example GTA 3 a few years back, Skyrim and Call of Duty games now).
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I bought Super Meat Boy off the Steam summer sale a couple of days ago and holy crap is the soundtrack good! You can listen to it here. I recommend tracks 3, 5, 6, 7 and 12. There is also some 8-bit goodness on there, check out tracks 24, 25 and 27. Really, the whole album is just golden.
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The reason it looks slower is not the initial jump over to the blocks but rather what comes after the ground pound. In the speedrun it looks like he recovers from the ground pound much faster and starts accelerating earlier.
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To me getting the propeller shroom looks a lot slower in your WIP than in the speedrun.
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exileut wrote:
Diablo 2 was unbalanced and did not have a story.
Now that's just ridiculous. D2 didn't have a story? Then what the hell were all those cinematics about? EDIT: Oh, and I guess I should say something about D3 so I won't be completely off topic. I played the beta a bit, still waiting on my copy of the game. Like others, I played a LOT of D2 but haven't really been that excited about D3. It's just ridiculous how much they've dumbed down the leveling system and the game in general. I mean come on, crucial information like the amount of damage a skill does hidden in "advanced" tooltips? I'm also not a huge fan of how levels 1-59 are just an introduction to the game and then the actual game is just grinding for items at level 60. I need at least some kind of sense of constantly progressing to stay interested in a game for longer periods of time. I guess trying to complete the game on Inferno is one possible goal, but I'd guess doing that won't really take that long in the end.
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I think you left out the most important part of your plan: how do you plan to get visibility/publicity for your charity? I imagine that's what you'll be doing for most of those 44 hours, but how? And how will you stand out from all the other charities? I have to say I don't see your idea as a "stroke of brilliance", but rather as a pretty bad idea, sorry. I'm sure raising even the $451 for your first week's salary will be a lot tougher than you expect.
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Nach wrote:
You just did the in real life equivalent of walking into a large production movie studio and asked if anyone in the room was famous.
Large production movie studio? :D Anyway, TotalBiscuit comes to mind. If you've ever played Terraria, this playlist he's done with Jesse Cox is a must. Also good are his collaborations on Magicka and Trine 2 with the Yogscast. When it comes to e-sports, I like James '2GD' Harding and his new project TheGDStudio. They do weekly shows on Starcraft 2, Bloodline: Champions, DotA2 and Quake Live. Especially QL is an awesome game to spectate and 2GD is a great caster.
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What? No TAS for Bart vs. the World or Rollergames? Someone needs to get on these!
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IronSlayer wrote:
Zeupar wrote:
This isn't the first time one of your opinions stirs up drama. In fact, this has been the case several times since you returned to this forum. There are many ways to state an opinion about something, but your word choices and tone make most of your opinions rude and aggravating. While feos may need to avoid Internet forums, you may want to improve your netiquette.
It's so deliciously ironic when someone pontificating about "netiquette" comes across as a massively arrogant douchebag themselves. Congratulations, Zeupar. And sorry to let you down douche, but I will continue to state my opinion about games in whatever tone I wish to. If that offends certain people (yourself included, apparently), that is their problem.
No matter how arrogant you perceive Zeupar as, don't you still think he has a point? Have you not noticed how often people are offended by your comments and don't you think that hinders the delivery of your message? I'm sure you agree that in many arguments where you are involved, a lot of time is wasted on personal insults and irrelevant tangents just for the sake of arguing. "That's their problem" isn't a very good answer either, because it is you who is responsible for how you present your information, and taking into account the possible reactions of the people you are conveying your information to is part of normal human interaction, as I'm sure you'll agree. I'm sure you'll think I'm even more arrogant than Zeupar for trying to teach you how to interact, but don't you think it would be ignorant of you to not briefly look in the mirror and try to find fault in yourself regarding this issue after several people have pointed it out?
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Okay so I browsed through the thread and thought I'd give my eighty cents. What really annoys me about feminism is how feminists say that a woman's dollar is 80 cents and how institutionalized discrimination is everywhere and how the glass ceiling of this patriarchal society prevents women from progressing in society without ever backing up their claims. They base these claims of institutionalized discrimination in the workplace on for example showing figures about how only 10% or 20% or whatever of CEOs in large companies are women, even though that doesn't prove anything at all. For a long time I thought that "a woman's euro is 80 cents" actually meant that a woman and a man working side by side in the same job had different salaries, which would of course be wrong. When I found out it actually meant that the combined income of all women in the society was only 80% of the combined income of all men in the society, I felt betrayed. I mean it's obvious that women earn less in total because they work less hours and spend more time taking care of children. This is a choice made by individual women, is it not? If a woman really wants to earn the same salary as a man, she just needs to dedicate herself to her work. No one has been able to indicate a mechanism which would prevent women from doing this. All talk about glass ceilings is just empty words if it can't be backed up. And please don't say that "all feminist scholars agree that...". I've taken my share of women's studies and the main thing I learned about academic feminism is that you can't really trust most of the studies that come out of the department of women's studies, because a) most of the "science" isn't empirical at all but argumentative (like literature studies) and b) because their basic premises are often completely ideologically coloured and not based on empirical science. If you show me some good clean data on for example how more competent women are systematically being passed over and less competent men being hired in their stead, I'll be ready to admit that this institutionalized discrimination exists. Same thing goes for institutionalized racism. For example in Finland, Kenyans have a better employment rate than native Finnish people. Still this talk of institutionalized racism never seems to stop. Feminists just will not admit that perhaps most women don't want to be CEOs and have huge responsibilities at work (I'm not saying the women couldn't handle it, just that they might appreciate other things in life besides work). What also pisses me off is feminists claiming that they are striving not for improving just women's rights, but for equality. What a complete load. At least in Finland, easily the biggest equality issue is the six to twelve month compulsory military service that applies only to men, but the Ombudsman for Equality has never even touched on the issue, but rather concentrates on the discrimination of, for example, transgendered people. While it is important that transgendered people are taken into account as well, they are still a very small minority compared to the half of the population that men represent. All talk about compulsory military service as an equality issue is belittled and not taken seriously. So yeah, I guess you could say I'm a bit anti-feminist. But you will not find anyone who is more appreciative of women than me. I'm convinced the world would be a better place if all our leaders were women. As for the friend zone: if you really see talking about being friend zoned as misogynistic, you really must be looking at the world through some pretty funky glasses. And rape jokes? The dirtier the better. Same thing goes for holocaust jokes, pedophilia jokes and incest jokes. I'm also sure the world would be a better place if people learned to laugh at serious issues when it's not hurting anyone. PEACE! AND LOVE!
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I think what Warp was trying to say is that no matter how you feel about the list, you don't have to be a dick about it.
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Yes. That's why you should always use protection. Oh, and returning to my previous question about comic books: I tried, I really tried but everything I read seemed to have been written by a 12-year-old. Seriously, it felt like I was watching Batman from the 1960s. So I guess that's it for that then.
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I see Warp's a sucker for twist endings. Don't forget The Usual Suspects, The Sixth Sense, The Prestige, Seven, Saw, Donnie Darko and Psycho.
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IronSlayer wrote:
Nope, dead serious. Camping out in front of the theater for a week to see a film indicates the person has severely fucked up priorities in life and/or is neglecting employment, school, and family.
Could you possible be any more judgemental? Some people go on holidays, you know. Sometimes for weeks or even months! I can't even imagine what you must think about those negligent bastards. And even if someone doesn't care about employment, school or family, so what? Just because their priorities aren't the same as yours or the majority's doesn't mean they're somehow screwed up.
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Nomen est omen.
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Since this topic has been resurrected, I might as well ask a couple of questions of my own. I've been wanting to get into comic books for some time now, but I'm finding it really hard to know where to start. Comic book culture in Finland is, as far as I know, pretty much nonexistent; nobody I knew read any comics other than Donald Duck regularly as a kid, and access to comic books was (and still would be if it wasn't for the internet) very limited. Most people here are only familiar with the most famous superheroes like Superman, Batman and Spider-man, and even that is only thanks to movies and TV shows and not the original comic books. My knowledge of comic books is thus pretty limited, and I have some questions: 1) Which ones should I read? I've really enjoyed Neil Gaiman's Sandman series and this has led me to other darker-themed comic books such as V for Vendetta, Watchmen and Frank Miller's work. From what I understand they are also fairly easily approachable without having to know decades worth of history. But what about regular, monthly published comic books? Which ones are the ones to follow? Also, are the storylines connected between different comic books, i.e. can I follow the plot and not miss a lot of stuff by reading just one comic book? 2) Where to start? I know they've been publishing Superman comics, for example, since the 1930s. Do I need to start at the beginning to understand everything that's going on today? If not, what would be a good place to start? I understand the DC universe has just undergone some massive reboot, so should I just start from there or would I really be missing out if I did? 3) DC or Marvel? Do you feel one is clearly better than the other? What are the main differences between the two? Which one has more interesting characters? 4) Are comic books generally worth reading? Just your personal opinion. Are comic books just for kids or people who've at least read them as kids? Is it impossible for a 25-year-old man to get into comics without any previous exposure? Are the storylines well developed and interesting enough for an adult reader? Thank you for your time.
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Dude, download allowance? That's a third world problem!
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Billy wrote:
Also, I have two questions: 1.) Why did someone put these two topics together? It's confusing. 2.) I thought TASVideos was for best records, not just for entertainment. Wouldn't the watcher of my TAS only want the fastest time?
1) Only one topic per game is preferred, so that someone looking for information on a specific game will find everything in one place. 2) From the welcome page:
We make these movies because they are entertaining to watch
Some people on the site do feel that at least one run of each game should be published, regardless of how (un)entertaining the movie is, but still, poor game choice is grounds for rejection and runs of boring games have been rejected in the past just for bad game choice. See also: List of bad game choices, Guidelines: Game selection and Examples of bad game choices.