videogame things you think about a lot

I’m near the end of my first Flu Experience and all I could think of was how the (memorable, hilarious) Flu status effect in Chrono Cross is a poor representation of the disease, because it mostly makes you walk weird. It should be -200 to all stats and inflicts burn when touching anything or something.

Wondering if this is CENSORSHIP from Square Enix with the original Japanese ailment name being Hemorroids

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My dad once walked in on my playing Valkyria Chronicles at a part where my character couldn’t move because of a pollen allergy and he walked out laughing so hard it made the house vibrate.

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Thinking about the completely unique music track on Deltarune dot com’s 404 page

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Sony patent

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I never ever get tired of this one

the hamburger advertisement being bookended by one guy shooting another at point blank range is what elevates it to the sublime

the whole ad being portrayed as a giant, talking burger… the person getting off the couch to yell “mcdonald’s”… it’s a work of art

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Oh wow.

(Original: https://image-ppubs.uspto.gov/dirsearch-public/print/downloadPdf/8246454 )

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In the embodiment of FIG. 8, the instructions are “Throw the pickle to speed up commercial.” The user, which is holding a one-handed controller with motion detection, swings his arm to simulate the act of throwing a pickle. As a result, the flying interactive pickle is placed in the burger, and the commercial message “Make it your way” is displayed briefly before the commercial ends and the user returns to watching the streaming media.

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do they have to visually represent the frames of the entire video as a stack like that? is it not clear otherwise?

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this looks like a perry bible fellowship comic

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I have a feeling those represent some more abstracted blah-de-blah like “opportunities for network interactivity” or some guff but the part of the patent referring to the diagram didn’t describe them and I didn’t want to read too much of the rest of the nonsense. = o

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yeah, have a hunch that this is exactly down to the fact that you cannot get a patent on an abstract idea easily in our day and age, so

  • they try to (cynical reading: artificially) tack a pseudo-technical depiction onto their paper,
  • use spongy language as far as possible to make it as broad as possible in scope (note the wording: ‘streaming media’ and ‘interactive segment’… David Cage games anyone? :tarothink: )
  • idea is generally that nobody else can claim other parts of this concept, e.g. that more than a single frame interruption is a ‘new thing’
  • and voilá, for each patent claim that the patent holder gets $$$, some of that would go the way of other patent holders.

:tronyell:

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the closest I’ve come to ever feeling anything resembling patriotic was when 1) I heard that monarchies in europe celebrated the civil war breaking out here, and 2) the russians invade in modern warfare 2

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it’s funny that I load this thread up and see this post because the videogame thing I was thinking about a lot today was how parasite eve and super mario rpg both share the same primary music composer and neither of them are represented here. #teachthecontroversy

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Just had an epiphany that the Japanese name for RPG Maker (RPGツクール) is a pun between “make” (ツクル) and “cool” (クール)

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i love her…

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They named a bar after a race from Final Fantasy Tactics Advance

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something about strategy game character classes in games of that era made me think they were all super cool. i was always esp partial to the Dragon Tamer character in Ogre Battle 64, even tho i only ever watched my friend play that game

tactics_ogre_wheel_of_fate_conceptart_RUBBH


just the idea of wearing a giant skull on your head i thought was cool

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thank you to this man

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Wondering what will come out first

  1. UFO 50
  2. Tactical Breach Wizards
  3. Truck Heck

I played UFO 50 at a Pax an undefined number of years ago, maybe 2015?! Hmm. (edit, no I went sometime in 2018 or so, that must have been when I played it last. This was also when I showed off my own game for the first time at a bring your own game and laptop event)

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