Yeah, what the fuck are you jabbering about?

>>585
>>586
Zelda is a boy. You don't want Zelda to be a girl.

Why would I care if Zelda is a girl?

Zelda is a girl.
The character you are incoherently angry about is named Link.

Op is either trolling or autistic and Zelda II was and is still a decent game.

Whats with this 25 years old shit OP obviously never played windwaker.

Your last game activity was like 7 months ago Danny, what's been going on with you?

Well, I don't know how to quantify it on a scale of 1-10, but I've seen your suggested film (in fact, I own a copy of the Criterion Collection edition on DVD) and I love it. It's one of my favorite films. I've seen movies that rove back and forth over larger settings, but in the end leave on thinking "That's IT?!" Contrariwise, 12 Angry Men packs a complete and compelling tale into a single room, and in fact plays on the contained setting in order to heighten tension. Just an all-around good film. I recommend it.

My suggestion:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085859/

>>599
I'm slightly confused by what I've just watched. As near as I can figure it was a commentary about 80s life for the "red suspenders" brigade, noting the emptiness of Mac's life despite the fact that he earns 80k a year with 50k something or other. He has no luck with the ladies or friends, and returns to an empty house at the end. Unfortunately I didn't live through the 80s so it was lost on me. I just feel sort of depressed now I've seen it, I'm not sure if that was the emotion it was going for.

Suggestion:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0240510/

Of the three suggestions so far I've only seen 12 Angry Men. Truly an incredible film. I tend to have a strange taste in film though. I understand and can identify films which are technically good. That is to say, films which are by all objective metrics decided upon to be good. But I find that so many modern TV shows and films, while technically perfect, seem to be lacking something. They're well filmed and well written but have no soul, for lack of a better expression. So while I appreciate technical superiority and take it into account, my favorite films tend to be those full of that incommunicable essence of life. Films that make you want to stop watching films and go out and be alive.

Ralph Bakshi is one of my favorite directors. I'd recommend all of his films but if I had to pick just one it would be American Pop.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082009/

I'll definitely check this out, any experiences with it yet?

>>9052
None yet, but here's a gameplay trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBGX0dl5Ziw
It's slated for release through Steam "late 2013"

I think what sets this game apart from others of its kind is the way it treats villagers. They don't just build stuff and harvest resources, they're "resources" in and of themselves, somehow. They can raise families and get sick and all kinds of crazy realistic things, so they're much more vulnerable and therefore way more important to the success of your village than resources and expansion alone. I'm no expert, but in my time playing strategy games, I've never encountered one that works that way.

I'm probably wrong, I know there are tons of RTS's out there. But still, there could be no better game for me, I'm obsessed with stuff like this.

if it's anything like anno then sure, i'll try

>>9077

I loved the Anno series with the burning passion of a thousand exploding suns. Especially Anno 1602, that game along with SimCity 3000 are the best city building games ever. Objectively.

I will probably buy this game even if it is panned, the RTS (turn based as well) genre is stagnating and there has to be more people out there that prefer gaming experiences with more depth than pew pew.

It's dwarf fortress without most of the gameplay, for visual learners.

My people keep dying of old age, and the nomad immigrants never come, despite me burying dozens of unfortunates in the walls of the town hall.

I mean it's fun enough until you get tired of the monotony and lack of enemies.

>>571
>it's one of those things that only seems daunting from the outside. If they're using the format of the comicbook properly the past only matters in an academic sense.
I hear ya. It seems like the more I have been looking and reading and asking about where to get started, the more I'm finding that "basically anywhere" is the answer. And any time I get a little confused, a little wikipedia-ing of this or that arc gets me up to speed well enough.

I guess the main thing that seems daunting is just knowing what the fuck to buy. It seems like neat-and-tidy maxi-series are outnumbered by convoluted cross-over arcs that incorporate not just the maxi-series but a number of tie-in mini-series and storylines in other titles. It just seems like a fucking mess, but I guess like anything the best thing to do is just dive in and fill in the blanks anywhere I may get lost.

Things are seeming simpler than I was initially worried about.

So as far as Aquaman goes: Brightest Day, then onward into his current solo title from there?

>Aquaman goes: Brightest Day, then onward into his current solo title from there?

Yeah, pretty much. Collected volumes of the first Aquaman series are handy too, though not strictly necessary. The important things to know from the early stuff - other than basic origin shit (which they constantly bring back up anyway) - is that Mera comes from another dimension and that Black Manta killed the baby that Aquaman and Mera had together, but I'm pretty sure you get a quick review of all that between Brightest Day and current issues anyway.

>I guess the main thing that seems daunting is just knowing what the fuck to buy. It seems like neat-and-tidy maxi-series are outnumbered by convoluted cross-over arcs that incorporate not just the maxi-series but a number of tie-in mini-series and storylines in other titles. It just seems like a fucking mess

Yes, this, a thousand times over. It's pretty clear that it's all a shameless sales tactic to get you to buy every single comic on the shelf, despite whatever intention you may have to buy a single title pertaining to a single character. My opinion is that, the way they do things at the moment, they might as well just release one volume a month, 52 times thicker than a regular comic, titled "DC Comic". It's a solid tactic that works well for them once a person actually starts to buy comics, but I think the heavy-handedness of it costs them a good deal of potential customers who decide they'd rather not get wrapped up in all that nonsense.

If it were up to me, I'd give each of the JLA core team a comic (Superman, Batman, Aquaman, Flash, Arrow, Wonder Woman, Lantern). I'd use the Type-Comics as a venue for those character's "Family" teams, with no set central character (Detective Comics for the Bat-Fam, Action for the Super-Fam, etc.) - maybe as a double-size issue used for inter-family crossovers, and double features where the back-up trends toward spotlighting lesser known characters in order to generate interest in them. For characters that have a HUGE family of associated characters (Again, Bat-Fam and Super-Fam), I'd probably broaden the number further with a girl-characters and a guy-characters comic - like Dark Knights and Birds of Prey would be the Gotham stuff, rather than giving separate titles to Batgirl, Batwoman, Nightwing, Azrael, Robin, and any number of other Bat-titles that come and go all the time. I'd make a couple titles specifically for cross-over stories between two or three characters (Worlds Finest and Brave And The Bold come to mind), rather than using their main titles for such things. Then there'd be the team comics, like JLA and Teen Titans, which is the ONLY place I'd let an major event cross into, with the exception of events that crossover into titles with stand-alone stories rather than a single tale chained together throughout them all. After that, there's just some miscellaneous peripheral characters that are "big", but don't have an associated family of characters (worth mentioning) that come with them, like Hawkman, The Atom, Firestorm, Swamp Thing, and the like.

Basically, the whole thing could do with some streamlining and simplification, in my opinion. There's fat that needs to be trimmed, and Type-Comics that need act as a showcase of that type, rather than just another venue for the main character that's now typically associated with it, and crossovers that need to be more restricted so as not lose a reader just because they don't have the money to keep up with it all. I certainly don't think they need a whole 52 titles going all the time, and the rate at which they change some of them out just proves it to me.

Oh, and you haven't complained, but I'm sorry if I don't spoiler-out any back-story stuff. I just don't see that I'm really ruining anything for you, since they'll either enumerate it for you when you need to know it (thus spoiling it for you anyway), or they'll leave you scratching your head over what the hell they're talking about (and a spoiler becomes necessary).

>>575
Nah, you didn't spoil anything. Like I said, in an effort to figure out where to jump in, I've done a fair bit of backstory reading and it doesn't ruin anything.

I'll probably dive into Aquaman (accidental pun :D ) sometime this summer. I just picked up Camelot 3000 for ten bucks on a recommendation based on my enjoyment of The Killing Joke (Brian Bolland did the art for both) so once I finish that, I'll give Brightest Day a go and then start nabbing some New 52 Aquaman back issues.

Are you as familiar with Marvel as you are with DC? Marvel's characters and titles don't appeal to me nearly as much, but I am very intrigued by Doctor Strange, after finding out that Doctor Orpheus in The Venture Bros is based on him and that the early Ditko issues were awash with psychedelic craziness. He seems like a cool character with a lot of kooky story possibilities. I was also a big fan of the Silver Surfer animated series as a teen. Any advice on good arcs, mini-series, or whathaveyou to try out for either of those characters? I'll probably zip into a couple shops downtown and see what they have to say but more opinions are always good.

I never really got into Marvel - not the comics anyway. When I first started reading comics, back in the mid-90s (the so-called "Dark Age" of Comics), I was more attracted to DC characters for what I perceived at the time to be a diversity of origins behind their powers. 90s Marvel was all about mutants mutants mutants, and that kind of turned me off to them. That was back when I was like 9 or 10 years old, but; when I got back into comics after highschool, I stuck with what I already knew. In fact, the whole reason I got back into comics was that I went through my old comics one day, started reading them, and felt compelled to find out what happened next once I got to the end of my collection. Things just kinda snowballed from there.

Anyhow, despite my general aversion to Marvel comicbooks, I did enjoy the X-Men and Spiderman animated series from the 90s, and I worked at a comicshop for a couple years, so I'm aware of a fair amount of Marvel characters and continuity, but not enough so that I could tell you what the "good" stories are. Other than getting a basic knowledge of main continuity events of the past, I really only kept up enough to help customers with the Marvel stuff that was current at the time (about 4 years ago now).

When there was a /co/ board though, I seem to recall there being a good amount of Marvel fans around here. Perhaps if one of them would care to chime in....?

http://vod.kankan.com/v/74/74539/356689.shtml?id=731009

It's in Mandarin, without English subtitles.

It's available on cinemageddon (with English subs). Go to irc.cinemageddon.net, join #invites, wait for instructions. They usually just want you to draw a ballza MS Paint picture involving nuns, sharks, etc in exchange for an invite.

tell me them mods. double tanks?

Hell yes. I'll post some of my rockets when I get the chance. Best mission I've done so far with one rocket is a Jupiter (Jool) orbiter, I sent a second rocket with more fuel for it. Used up all the fuel on that one trying to match the orbit of the first craft, now I'm trying to build a third even bigger rocket with more fuel so that I can crash land the orbiter on one of the moons with a controlled descent.

Anyone found the easter egg around Duna?

>>463
It's a new stock (not really new anymore) part called a bicoupler. There's also tri- and quad couplers. That station is all stock.

This one uses no mods but KerbPaint, and a bit of part clipping.

I played the fuck out of this game but frankly ran out of stuff to do. Visited all the planets, unlocked all the parts in campaign mode. I tried using mods but most of them don't add too much and often require huge lag-storm rockets to get in to space.

For anyone looking for some way to extend their KSP adventures, the Kerbal Interstellar Mod is top notch and adds quite a bit without disrupting balance.

Does anyone play Space Engineers? They are still updating every week with pretty cool stuff.

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3b9e_KWO-I

Smashing Demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlaY2ELJ2qk

Pacman World 1 and 2 are good if you're into platformers, don't play 3 though that ones garbage.

The Mrs. Pac man arcade machine, or the Genesis version. But preferably the arcade machine.

If you like turn based games, XCOM with Enemy Within is a ton of fun to play.

>>9088

I tried the demo, it seems good but I just don't have the drive to learn something that heavy at the moment. I tried getting back in to tf2 earlier - holy shit I've lost my mad skillz from playing too much total war...

I might just bite the bullet and get call of honour 6: modern airforce 9: future fighting 2.

Serious Sam, Magicka, both here for cheap: https://www.humblebundle.com/
They also have Zeno Clash 1 & 2 and Rising Storm (Red Orchestra in the eastern front) in the weekly bundle, also cheap.

leaving the house?

Oh and Xenoblade for the Wii. Good luck finding a copy though, you're better off emulating in Dolphin.

Lost Odyssey, I liked it, had a fun combat system and fairly easy learning curve, give it a run if you can find it.

All shin megami tensei games that came out this generation, but I think that goes without saying.

Tales of Vesperia for action RPG

I'd say that Dragon's Dogma is definitely up there. I found it to be worth the money. Although it gets really easy at high levels. I might want to mention that my experience was the Dark Arisen version, I hear it's better than the original.

You call that an animated GIF, tumblr?

It was the first thing I could find with that phrase on it.

>SO Assassin's creed black flag is actually good.
stopped reading after this.

(HOW TOLERANT OF YOU)

>9076
It's not perfect or anything but what's wrong with it? Posting a shitty 4dicks meme isn't an argument. Nor is it actually an opinion.

>>9068
my reasons for loving or hating it depends on the context that I evaluate, if I see this game as a standalone product it's a very good game, if I evaluate the game on the basis of an another product in ac series; it sucks...

ac series is about assasinating people while traversing cities chock full of different cultural ties, with different architectural styles

now tell me how much have you ran on rooftops in 1st game and compare it to the time you have run in ac4

in the latest games it is obviously easier for a person to run on normal ground as rooftops are nearly unaccessible due to huge number of shooters, but I was playing this game due to the ambient it gives me; assasinate, run to rooftops, continue running untill managing to get away

the fact that you saying "melee combat is meh" is problematic in itself; it is an assassin game, if things get to melee combat then it means something went horribly wrong in your plan to kill the person; this game should be about killing discreetly not tearing down door with kicks and punching enemies to death

the question you should ask yourself is; you have gained utmost pleasure from doing what? my answer is messing with ships etc. but the answer to this question is "killing people in a sneaky way" in previous games, do you see the problem in here?

my advice to you while evaluating games is that you first has to look for the focus group of that game in terms of consumers; ac series focuses on (was focusing on) senak/killing etc., now it focuses more and more on ships

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>>9063
I did indeed. Had a good long stare.

I haven't seen that part yet :O

>>9062
>>9063
wat game is this?

>>9073
The Stanley Parable, if >>9063 never mentioned the fern, I would never have gotten it either (a review I watched showed the clip about staring at the fern). I know how you felt though Mo. 9073, when people start a random discussion and never mention what they are discussing, more so on a *Chan then in real life.

>>9063

theres definitely more than one fern in that planter.

I was a huge fan of the mod, which unfortunately deprived me of the fish out of water experience for the game. I still had a lot of respect for the new things they did though.

Orcs Must Die 2. It's like an action/tower defense game and is easily the most fun you can have with a co-op video game short of sticking your buttered-up penis in the disc drive.

Little Big Planet 1 & 2 are pretty good coop platformers with a ton of user generated content.

All the LEGO games I've played have been fun to play coop, as well.

Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light is a great co-op puzzle game

>>8980
Had some great fun with the local co-op on that.

OP try Rayman Origins, and Rayman Legend when it comes out.

CTR, although it's not co-op.
Both of the rainbow six vegas games were good.
Rayman origins was fun too.
I was really disappointed in The Puppeteer

>>419
It's a Baz Luhrmann movie, the guy who did the 90s version of Romeo and Juliet with guns set in Venice Beach, CA.

>>416
I was surprised at first and annoyed with the music choice too, but oddly i found the rap/hiphop shit actually fit in with the party scenes.

>>416
I was surprised at first and annoyed with the music choice too, but oddly i found the rap/hiphop shit actually fit in with the party scenes.

>>434
I was pleasantly surprised by the movie. As a director I hate Luhrmann but I enjoyed this movie. In the actual book of Gatsby, Fitzgerald makes mention of how the songs he mentions in the novel are being played because of their cutting edge modernness. So in that way, the score for the film really fit. If there was a modern Gatsby that's the music he would be playing.

>>430
I saw that. I believe it was called Romeo+Juliet? I thought the whole re-imagining of Romeo and Juliet in modern times was hilarious.

so I'm clear,
you want to give money to someone who already got paid a shit ton of money to be in a TV show.
Someone who gets paid a shit ton of money becasue they look good on a camera and can memorize some words, and then speak those words back later.
someone who gets paid if you watch the show or do not watch the show.
Seriously, this is how you want to spend some excess cash.

>>401
Do you think actors are the only people who are involved in making a TV show?

There are also writers, directors, cinematographers, cameramen, casting directors, costume designers, makeup artists, CGI specialists, video editors, composers, musicians, sound engineers, foley artists, location scouts... I could go on but you get my point. These people work fucking hard, they all need to be supported and they don't all get paid a shit-ton of money. The more successful a show is, the more likely that the people who helped make the show will find more work and go on to make more stuff that I like. Yes, I think this is a perfectly valid way to spend excess cash.

>>402
Also, not every actor gets paid a shit-ton of money.
Also, the performances of the actors are one of the many factors that makes a product enjoyable or not.
So I don't mean to imply that actors shouldn't be supported. I think they should.

SAGE has been used.

>>401
Nigga, you dumb.

SAGE has been used.

Don't buy DVDs to support people, that's fucking awful. The actual artists gets very little of that money. Pirate everything and then AFTER you watch the movie or television show decide if you liked it enough to pay for it. If you did really like the media then try sending out some emails expressing interest in donating to them. Even if you're unsuccessful in finding a way to actually donate money, you'll have expressed interest in such a system which I think is even more important.

Also it makes you decide who gets the money. The writer? The director? The actors? Up to you. I like this way much better. Paying for something before you've seen it is fucking stupid. It's like if you couldn't see an image on facebook until after you shared it.

I'm gonna add some more while they're in my head

>fonejacker
>men behaving badly
>black books
>father ted
>lead balloon
>marion and geoff
>saxondale
>the smoking room
>the mighty boosh
>look around you
>drop the dead donkey
>jam
>catterick

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>father ted

Priest attempts to scam some of his flock though a trip to Lourdes and instead goes to Vegas, gets caught, and instead of being kicked out of the church, gets sent to an island off the northern tip of Ireland. In continuing his service to the church he must deal with two fellow priests, one thick as a brick, and the other a late-stage alcoholic with a vocabulary generally limited to random shouts of profanity, and a pathological fear of nuns.

The fact that none of you have mentioned Blackadder upsets me.
You >>413 are ok

Red Dwarf rules though

Britain has a lot of comedy panel shows- sort of like game shows, but with no prizes, and with celebrities (usually British ones), comedians and even politicians as the contestants.

Have I got News for You, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, and Mock the Week spring to mind. Probably worth checking out Shooting Stars if you're into absurdism, as all Britons are.

>>427

Quite Interesting (with the glorious Stephen Fry) and Would I Lie To You? are also very amusing.

What baffles me is how no one has even mentioned Fawlty Towers. It is easily one of the funniest shows ever made. The first episode is a bit iffy, but from then on, there is simply nothing that can dethrone the comedic genius that is Basil Fawlty.

Also on the note of Stephen Fry, A Bit of Fry and Laurie is fantastic. If you've never seen it (or even heard of it) but like House, you'll soon realize just why Hugh Laurie had such impeccable comedic timing. They also made Blackadder funny (sorry Rowan).

Very provocative.

What's the point of bottling? Concentration probably isn't that high and therefore couldn't be used for anything mildly demanding, not even lamp fuel. Would be more useful as evidence or even a novelty.

It's a pretty fun watch. It's manages to maintain a surprisingly good mixture of both serious and less-serious hero stuff, which keeps it free from just being realistically gritty or comically campy like most hero stuff tends to go one way or the other on. He's a dark and realistic figure, but then he'll end up fighting Asian Lady Gaga or throwing down lines like "no one can know my secret!", and you can't help but grow a smile.

I rather dislike a lot of the 'normal life' stuff though, especially the lawyer girlfriend and the whatever his name is other guy. I really don't know why we have to follow them along as they order pizza and have talks when we could instead be watching Oliver do things.

Also, dat Windows 8 product placement. Which on the topic of such, I sorta feel sorry for that tech girl; constantly being forced to play master detective outside of her job description. I sorta wonder if she's just making up bullshit when they ask her things, and it just happens to make sense to them in weirdo superhero plotting logic land.

>>348
Castle is another show that has a bunch of Microsoft product placement. It's weird. Both are good shows though.

I've been hooked to Arrow. I think probably cause I was a big fan of Smallville and it reminds me a lot about that, but more serious in tone while still keeping the super hero tropes that belongs in it (like the Lady Gaga Asian). Good fun all around. Though I do admit that it just kind of throws shit at you, especially at the end of episodes. A lot of cutting between characters to wrap up their arch for the episode and doesn't give you a moment to take a breather before the ultimate climax. Still, I really enjoy it.

Speaking of Castle, that's also my other favorite show on air (my top three are Game of Thrones, Arrow, and Castle). When they started to go into the Castle/Beckett relationship I was scared because of how they went about a similar relationship with House and Cuddy (in House, obviously) but they've handled it surprisingly well. I'm interested in their relationship but it doesn't take it away. Good job on the writers part.

As a long time Green arrow fan, I friggin' adore this show. It puts new twists on the concepts while still remaining faithful to the spirit of the characters and I'm guessing having actual comic writers on the show probably has a lot to do with that.

My only real fault with the show is that Green Arrow needs to be a little bit more of a hippy but I'm willing see if that's something that may develop later on.

Either way, this show is LEAGUES better than what the comic book has been recently (although I've not read it since Lemire got the writing duties).

>> Michael Clarke Duncan
He died.

I've never seen it all the way through. I'm pretty sure I've seen the whole thing. Or if not the whole thing, then damn close to it, but only in bits and pieces over like a decade. Mainly because it never holds my attention. I've never bothered to rent it, only seen it on TV and whenever it's on TV it's always on for like 5 hours which is just insane. You put it very well when you said it has too much fat and meanders, OP. That's exactly why I always drift away from it and can never just sit and watch. It just feels... aimless and bloated. There are some beautiful moments, for sure, and Michael Clarke Duncan is great in it but I just... yeah.

>>313
what the fuuuuuuuuck

The end was needed to show that Paul and the mouse were all immortal and shit.

I think the first few episodes have been pretty decent. I think they've done a pretty good job of making a 1980s period piece without overdoing it. You can tell it takes place 30 years ago, but it still looks real and approachable to a modern audience.