Posts by FMPONE

woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo 3d-mike out of nowhere. let's go

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3 hours ago, will2k said: Holy Shit! The nostalgia. Used to watch the original episodes back in the early 90s, and each episode was a half hour of tear-inducing laughs for the whole gathered family. Good times

I used to have the VHS set; I think I'll get the DVD set and watch it again soon.

I hope you are also fan of Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, charlie Chaplin, and...Tom & Jerry

I think it might be interesting to watch Buster Keaton's stuff, it's funny how many commercials for products today still rip him off.

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9 minutes ago, Buddy said: Its up there for sure. Pretty timeless too

physical comedy. it never ages

I knew Mr. Bean was supposed to be pretty funny but goddamn. no one told me it is perhaps the funniest thing you can ever watch in your life

This looks pretty cool. It’s neat how you tried to recreate Alyx stuff on Source. I think I’ll check this one out

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22 hours ago, Corvus said: Starting to detail the interiors of the scene

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Super badass! maybe a bit clean, but maybe you add more of that later

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Just now, AlexM said: Heh well if you get to a point where you want to play other humans let me know. I'm pretty certain I might actually be the worst go player on the planet though.

i'm down for a chess game on lichess if you're on

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19 minutes ago, AlexM said: It's very popular in programming/computer science circles in my experience. As for the go room, it was fun, but the person who ran the go club was absolutely relentless, even the first time I played. Just destroyed me every time

Also piece of trivia you may already know. Atari chose it's name after the Atari pattern in go (which in Japanese roughly means "success").

The app on my phone has a big ATARI!! arrow that pops up. it's pretty funny to shout randomly. I'd love to play some gangster Go players in 9x9. at least I could tell when I was getting my ass handed to me.

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1 hour ago, AlexM said: Oh boy when I lived in Japan I had a go phase. We had a traditional go room in our building and one of my foreigner co workers had previously ran the go club at waterloo so he talked is all into playing.

To this day I have NEVER beaten the computer..

How are you paying go on computer? I tend to play using gridmaster

I'm only playing it on my phone right now. I don't think it's very popular in the west but maybe totally wrong about that? I just knew there had to be something better than chess but in that same vein.

A dedicated go room sounds fun as hell but I wouldn't even attempt to play on anything but 9x9 because it's too much IMO. I would never beat the computer on a full board, either. I feel like 9x9 Go is something more people would love if they tried it.

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15 hours ago, AlexM said: Still playing much? My studio shuts down next week for the holidays so I'm planning to get more games in

I’ve started playing a lot more Go (on a 9x9 board). I think I just got frustrated with the amount of memorization in chess. Go is cool because memorization isn’t really a factor.

I also find Go a lot more aesthetically satisfying than chess. When losing the game still has a lot of beauty, whereas losing in chess just became sour after a while.

That said, I couldn’t fathom playing Go on a full 19x19 board yet. It’s got to be much more difficult than chess in that setting, my brain grinds to a halt just looking at it...

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2 hours ago, ┌HP┘ said: I want to go!!

Let’s all go to Japan ??

This was too amazing and heart-warming not to share. Look how happy Miyamoto is!!!

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1 hour ago, AlexM said: Yeah probably

FWIW their stock is taking a hit... a minor hit that will probably recover though.

Ultimately there aren't many studios that can do what CDPR just did, that even have that kind of upside. The bad press will hurt them for a minute, but they largely succeeded in doing what they set out to do. The big money simply has few other places else to go. I would be surprised if this rocky launch defined the game beyond launch, there's got to be a pretty decent window of time for them to get stuff fixed and negate the impact.

Game presumably still made a gazillion dollars, therefore nothing will fundamentally change within or without of CDPR. The well-being of the people working on it was never a consideration to begin with.

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1 hour ago, Beck said: No doubt they'll be asked to crunch/work over the Christmas period to get hotfixes and patches out when upper management knew what state the game was in.

Big yikes.

One thing that may be going on is that people are used to Rockstar quality, and expected that here, from a company that just doesn’t have that kind of experience making AAA blockbuster open world games. I know The Witcher was well received, but this is a game that is receiving GTA levels of scrutiny and obviously can’t quite match those production quality levels. You can’t fake this kind of thing, GTA games set the bar really high as far as open world experiences.

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7 minutes ago, blackdog said: It's easiery to ask for forgiveness [than ask permission].

I don’t think this is a situation where you can ask either permission or forgiveness. You won’t be forgiven, and the public doesn’t grant your permission. This is a question of whether you have the guts to say no to the public, when they have already been fairly patient. They would have entered meme territory by adding additional delay, but it would have been worth it. Now it will be difficult to say the game delivered on its potential, and there is no going back on that.

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Apologies and refunds available.

I think it’s obvious they should have delayed it yet again. They were also perhaps a victim of having to ship for last gen consoles.

Gamers would have absolutely pissed their pants for more delays, but all in all it seems clear in hindsight that another 6-7 months could have made all the difference. This is a moment the entire industry can learn from, it doesn’t matter how angry people get, delay delay delay until it’s ready. Delay as long as it fucking takes. Zero chance they didn’t think it would have serious bugs on launch.

I still want to play this game but I've moved back the window of when to play it about a year. Unfortunately, I'm not sure this product will be successful without my $60. Oh well.

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1 hour ago, Radu said: Have you seen The Queen's Gambit yet?

I have watched about 4 episodes. Honestly it seems like a fantastic show, but the pace has been a bit on the slow side. I’ve been busy but want to check back in and finish it. I’m sure it’s not easy to make a show about chess that moves at anything like an engaging pace, they’ve done pretty well considering