i thought people said that cuz of the mandalorian
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Well thatās better but I still donāt like it.
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oh yeah i wasnt saying it doesnt suck ass completely
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i like the tiktoks of āme at 90 in the old folks home unable to repsond with anything but tik tok memesā and its like PILL TIME and hte person just responds with āoh no, the taaable, its broookenā etc. those are great. those are me TO-DAY
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this is a really frustrating thing about his videos. he occasionally seems to get close to talking about games in an interesting and emotional way that most youtubers with audiences that size donāt, but then itās like he gets scared and derails into ironic detachment instead
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this is such a Gen X/90ās culture thing to do, lol. the 20/30 year cycle determines all. i think the internet has conditioned a lot of people to be anxious and terrified of ever looking cringe which leads to this.
part of the reason i like Rossās Game Dungeon so much is i feel like he talks about stuff like the aesthetic from a kind of weirdo outsider perspective like Thor does while also attempting to engage with whatever the game is trying to do on a mechanical level. you donāt get this feeling of skating on the surface. not everyone can do that, and like the cultural connotations/context of Rossās videos are different i guess. Thor has a lot of cool visual effects in his videos too that i donāt want to undervalue. but the point is you donāt have to be a professional critic or doing 5 hour game reviews to go beyond the surface level on this stuff.
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Wait, what source is that?
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a meme from a few years ago called āugandan knucklesā, where a badly-drawn knuckles would talk about āthe wayā in broken english and what is supposed to be a ugandan accent
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game dungeon feels soooo much less try hard than most gamer videos because ross is genuinely neurotic and just like that its one of the few things ive kept consistently watching over the years. Thatās why freemanās mind also rules
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One of my only regrets is having the idea of freemanās mind before it came out, doing nothing with it and then watching that guy eat my fucking lunch
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kind of tangential but related to the games discourse discussion, i feel like my biggest take away from my experiences circa 2005-2011 is that even if you feel like you are on the brink of some breakthrough within a scene or, egotistically, society, the structures in place only ever pretend to be breaking and will devour everything until all is reset like an episode of The Simpsons
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i know this isnāt what you mean but i think weāre fully in the zombie Simpsons era of reality now. just an empty container referencing previous ideas but more contrived.
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yeah the sense of amnesia gives it a worse flavor
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god i totally forgot about that, wow.
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Final Fantasy VII is basically just a re-telling of Stephen Kingās IT through a JRPG filter.
Thereās some Johnny Appleseed-type person in the Pokemon world making sure that Pokemon such as Machoke arenāt walking around hanging chad for the world to see.
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Cringe is a myth
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in duke nuke them forever, duke doesnāt have HP, instead he has ego. if his ego points reach zero, he dies. so ego death is the same thing as actual death for himā¦ if you fed duke lsd, would he just die on the spot?
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Yeah absolutely
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that lego driving game has been reviewed by some Guardian bloke,
and one sentence made me go thinking long and hard about the following:
You know youāre at the mid-point of a console generation when the family-friendly racing titles start to arrive.
.... :tarothink: ... are we?
On the PS5, weāve gotten the leading next gen installment of their primetime sim/arcade racer Crossover collectathon game a.k.a Gran Turismo 7.
On ze Xbox (Mk4 style) though ā¦ uuuuuhhh, thereās some new Forza Motorsport coming, i promise (sometimeā¦ any time!)
So from that angle ā nope, this isnāt the midpoint, or at least doesnāt feel like it to me. Considering the line up of titles for the PS5, thatās barely the first third!
so tl;dr, who feels like we are mid-lifecycle of current gen?
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