Moments when a piece of entertainment completely rocked you.

hyzmarca · Post by **hyzmarca** » Wed Jun 25, 2014 12:39 pm

FrankTrollman wrote:
Chamomile wrote:
K wrote:The E3 trailer for The Division kind of blew me away. I won't play the game, but whoever made that trailer either needs to get all the moneys or kicked soundly in the reproductive organs.
I want to play that game. Not the actual game they're making, which will most definitely fail to live up to the promise of the trailer, because that is how E3 trailers do. But the game they're advertising? I want that.
I'm pretty sure it's going to be exactly what they are promising: Tom Clancy fapping to the Oath Keepers.

The big mystery of course, is whether the virus was distributed by the Red Chinese or quisling liberal atheist environmentalists. Naturally, Tom Clancy could really surprise us by having the big reveal be that the virus was made by Chinese communist environmentalists.

I mean, basically it's Tom Clancy Presents: Incoherent Conservative Talking Points: The Game. I don't know what you'd expect other than what's going to be delivered. The video already showed that the only way to stop a brown man with a gun is a white man with a gun. I can't imagine that the philosophy ever gets any deeper than that.

-Username17

I don't think you can actually blame Tom Clancy for this,. He's been a bit too dead to have had much to do with it.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Wed Jun 25, 2014 4:29 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjaYW5Cnr5k
why the FUCK did the official space marine movie look that bad and sound that bad when a FAN can make stuff like this on his own damn it?

MGuy · Post by **MGuy** » Wed Jun 25, 2014 5:58 pm

Stahlseele wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjaYW5Cnr5k
why the FUCK did the official space marine movie look that bad and sound that bad when a FAN can make stuff like this on his own damn it?

Because fans care more about these things.

K · Post by K » Wed Jun 25, 2014 7:59 pm

Chamomile wrote:
K wrote:The E3 trailer for The Division kind of blew me away. I won't play the game, but whoever made that trailer either needs to get all the moneys or kicked soundly in the reproductive organs.
I want to play that game. Not the actual game they're making, which will most definitely fail to live up to the promise of the trailer, because that is how E3 trailers do. But the game they're advertising? I want that.

Yeh, they are going to make a basic shooter where the enemies are regular people trying to survive a government collapse. It'll be somewhere between a little gross to very gross.

I really wish they'd made the deeply personal story of loss and survival and heartbreak that you see in the trailer, but honestly I don't think any big-budget franchise has the figurative testicular fortitude for that.

K · Post by K » Wed Jun 25, 2014 8:02 pm

Stahlseele wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjaYW5Cnr5k
why the FUCK did the official space marine movie look that bad and sound that bad when a FAN can make stuff like this on his own damn it?

Nice.

Chamomile · Post by **Chamomile** » Wed Jun 25, 2014 9:32 pm

FrankTrollman wrote:I'm pretty sure it's going to be exactly what they are promising: Tom Clancy fapping to the Oath Keepers.

I guess since the name "Tom Clancy" is in the trailer, that's a fair point. But without Tom Clancy's name attached, it's mostly a trailer about a pandemic causing a collapse into total anarchy, and a story about a bunch of people banding together to protect civilians from bandits and some kind of ominous government clean-up force. From the trailer on its own, there's no reason to believe the pandemic was caused at all. It could just have arisen out of nature to set up the premise of a government collapse and a ruthless quarantine force.

The bandits didn't look brown to me. It looked like a white guy who'd lost everything about to be finished off by a white guy who's abandoned morality and then being saved by a white guy who is trying to put civilization back together. The beard on the guy whose face could be seen in particular is visual shorthand for "hobo," a stereotypically white archetype, not "muslim," who usually have longer beards than that. It's hard to tell for sure without a side-by-side comparison, but the guy in the bandana looks more pale than the hero of the trailer.

The diversity isn't stellar, but they didn't even save the guy by shooting the other guys in the face. They made a quick show off force to scare them off, and it worked, and not a shot was fired. I have no confidence that the game itself will have any mechanics for that, or any modeling for the advantages and disadvantages of trying to keep fatalities low, but the trailer itself is about a team with an overwhelming advantage in firepower not going straight to using that firepower to achieve their objectives. That's pretty cool.

Avoraciopoctules · Post by **Avoraciopoctules** » Wed Jun 25, 2014 10:31 pm

www.somethingawful.com/news/paid-videogames-living/
www.somethingawful.com/comedy-goldmine/ ... terview/1/

Whipstitch · Post by **Whipstitch** » Mon Jun 30, 2014 3:04 am

the best part of any ladder match is when someone botches the timing on the interrupt and some poor wrassle man is stuck acting like he's too dumb to understand the how ladders or carabiners work.

Post by **fbmf** » Mon Jun 30, 2014 4:59 am

Finally caught up on Game of Thrones.

GoT, Season 4, Episode 1

The chicken scene. It made me happy.

Game On,
fbmf

Josh_Kablack · Post by **Josh_Kablack** » Fri Jul 04, 2014 4:56 pm

If beer counts as entertainment, then Dahntahn Brahn is rockin enough to be in this thread. Should you be passing through the Burgh, you should try some.

angelfromanotherpin · Post by **angelfromanotherpin** » Fri Jul 04, 2014 6:29 pm

It's a little thing, but I just noticed that as of the most recent Order of the Stick storyline, everyone has sleeves and fleshtone hands. It's nice.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Sat Jul 05, 2014 7:13 am

That line at the end about warm summer days is pretty killer too.

Avoraciopoctules · Post by **Avoraciopoctules** » Sun Jul 06, 2014 4:12 am

http://www.somethingawful.com/news/white-people-racism/

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Wed Jul 09, 2014 7:52 am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reOLeLX0Q9U

This guy is so going in a D&D game of mine sometime. Someway.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Thu Jul 10, 2014 10:55 am

For Shrapnel:

Prak_Anima is a humble Autobot spy that changes into a shuttle.
(What kind of cybertronian are you?)

name_here · Post by **name_here** » Thu Jul 10, 2014 1:03 pm

name_here is a brash neutral con artist that changes into a tank.

Been looking around at the other ones, and apparently it thinks I'm Reinforce with a haircut.

Name: name_here
Gender: female
Hair: White short
Eyes: Red
High: 1,90 .
Body: muscular
http://en.shindanmaker.com/360347

Darth Rabbitt · Post by **Darth Rabbitt** » Thu Jul 10, 2014 1:04 pm

What kind of Cybertronian are you? wrote:Darth Rabbitt is a cruel neutral medic that changes into a shuttle.

Wouldn't Shrapnel just get "Shrapnel is a cruel Decepticon electronic warfare expert that changes into a stag beetle?"

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Thu Jul 10, 2014 1:42 pm

Apparently not.

Shrapnel is a aloof neutral programmer that changes into a jet.

So, I'm basically an unaligned Bitstream. Good to know.

Trying it with my real name, I get this:

a unstable neutral engineer that changes into a hovercraft.

Now that's closer to the truth. Although, if it said I turned into a bridge, then I could be Spanner! Ah, well.

Avoraciopoctules · Post by **Avoraciopoctules** » Sat Jul 12, 2014 6:46 am

There was a really nice production of Les Misérables at the local theater tonight. First time I'd actually sat through the whole musical, it was pretty fantastic.

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 7:25 pm

http://v.theonion.com/onionmedia/videos ... en_mp4.mp4

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Mon Jul 14, 2014 4:59 pm

I've been really liking the character introduction videos from the Smash releases.

Some fire emblem characters, also makes Captain Falcon scary.

And then the Palutena reveal

And the Little Mac reveal...

They've been doing some cool shit here.

Covent · Post by **Covent** » Mon Jul 14, 2014 5:17 pm

Sandra and Woo has been really enjoyable for me.

This one especially.

I honestly laughed myself silly at it.

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Mon Jul 14, 2014 7:42 pm

Maxus wrote:I've been really liking the character introduction videos from the Smash releases.

Some fire emblem characters, also makes Captain Falcon scary.

And then the Palutena reveal

And the Little Mac reveal...

They've been doing some cool shit here.

Smash fans are the most ungrateful lot. Instead of being excited that FOUR THREE new characters were revealed today, they are all instead bitching that none of the new fighters were Ridley, Shulk, Rayman, Mewtwo, Shrek, take your pick.

What a bunch of assholes. Can you imagine any fan base getting all pissy over the stupidest things?

name_here · Post by **name_here** » Mon Jul 14, 2014 8:18 pm

Whee, the Awakening royal family is available to play!

Lack of prince(ss) Morgan is a shame, though.

Darth Rabbitt · Post by **Darth Rabbitt** » Mon Jul 14, 2014 10:49 pm

Personally, I'd love to see Mewtwo in Smash again and personally think it would be incredibly stupid for Nintendo to not capitalize on Mewtwo being in X/Y and on fan demand for the character at the same time.