A positive, coherent, thoughtful look at several aspects of the game. Sorry. I don’t know what came over us.
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Reminder: Keep those questions coming for the 100th episode. Also, don’t worry about repeating questions. Seeing a question appear more than once will help us to see that it’s a popular question.
Next Monday will mark the 100th episode of Spoiler Warning. We’re going to do a mailbag episode. So post your question below, and we may or may not choose to answer it during the show. These questions can be aimed at specific cast members, or at the group as a whole. They can be about other videogames we haven’t covered, about making the show, (although I think we’ve beat that dead horse into a paste) or about us personally. Have us write poems, or talk about comic books, or do impressions, or whatever. We’ll pick our favorites and make a show out of them.
Examples of good questions:
1) How did you guys get to be so awseome?
2) Given that all of you are brilliant, witty, and strikingly attractive, what was the best part of System Shock 2?
3) I would like to send you money. What is the largest denomination of U.S. currency in circulation?
4) I would like Rutskarn to compose a poem about HEPA air filters. Is there any hope for me, or should I have myself committed?
5) What’s the deal with the typo in #1?
Examples of bad questions:
A) What is your credit card number, expiration date, and name, just as it appears on the card?
B) Do you feel consent is overrated when it comes to sex? Also, where do you live?
C) How loud can Rutskarn sing?
D) I understand Mumbes is an expert on Batman. Can she explain why he sucks so bad?
E) No, seriously, what IS up with that typo in #1?
Please try to keep the comments focused on questions. We’re going to be reading through this when we make the list, and that will be easier if we don’t have a 100 comment thread on the metric system or the Timex Sinclair.
For our one-year episode, we wanted to do something really special. We didn’t just want 15 minutes of footage from a game we’ve already talked about or played, so we decided to spoil an entire game, all in one go. We played Amnesia: The Dark Descent for well over an hour, and we made a highlight reel of the result.
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Tomorrow is the one year anniversary of Spoiler Warning. Today, we’re going to wrap up the Lair of the Shadow Broker DLC with a special two-part episode.
I know this is longer than most of you prefer, but if you can tough it out you will reap the following rewards:
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Aside from the fact that he was a new, unique alien, I really had no idea what the Shadow Broker was like. I guessed that he looked like Bowser, as a joke. Later I guessed that he was Dr. Claw, as a joke. I guessed that he had a throne room, as a joke. I made these guesses for humorous effect, because of how stupid and absurd they sounded. Then at the end we found out he looked like Bowser, sounded like Dr. Claw, and sat around a throne room.
BioWare is like your high school sweetheart that you marry right after graduation, and then wake up one day years later and realize you simply don’t know this person anymore. Where did it all go wrong? It’s hard to say. Their attention seems to be elsewhere, and you suspect they might be wooing someone else behind your back. The only thing to do now is to start drinking and feeling sorry for yourself.
On the upside, the hook at the end was pretty cool and I can’t wait to see how the consequences of this play out in the next game!
This is it, the penultimate episode.
My days in WoW are coming to a close. I need to reclaim that time and apply it elsewhere. I never did hit level 70, but I burned a lot of time leveling alts in various parts of the game. I did the worgen starting area a couple of times, and leveled some horde-side characters as well. It’s shocking how much time I’ve sunk into this beast, and I still feel like I’ve barely scratched the surface. World of Warcraft is Disneyland: A vast majority of its visitors will miss a vast majority of its content.
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But, what kind of moron would sign up to be a mook for a super villain? In Batman: Arkham Asylum, you can lurk just overhead goons and listen to their tea time chat. Most of them end up talking about how they happily killed their sister for money and suddenly it makes perfect sense why they’d work for a homicidal maniac like the Joker. They’re insane.
They’d have to be so crazy that they’d believe Batman won’t break every bone in their soft little bodies. And, that’s really the problem with all mooks in every video game, comic book and movie. No one is stupid enough to think that they can personally take down someone who calls himself the Goddamned B…wait what were we talking about again?
Oh yeah. Mass Effect 2.
I had this [semi-] joke I use to tell:
I always said it would be a cold day in hell before I got married, which is why we’re getting married on January 25 in Slippery Rock.
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| The little guy is my new brother-in-law. He was born the year Heather and I met. |
Lots of people are down on marriage. My generation certainly wasn’t crazy about it, and the next generation is even less inclined to take the plunge. I didn’t think it made sense. I mean, half of them fail, right? And some portion of the other half are probably unhappy, right? Those odds suck, so why bother? It’s just a piece of paper. It’s so expensive. It will fail anyway. But I did it despite this cynicism, and it was one of the best decisions of my life.
You don’t often hear about people who are in happy, stable marriages. I can understand why. “They lived happily ever after” is a terrible beginning for a story. And maybe you think, as I used to, that it can’t work for you or is an outmoded idea. My advice: Marry, or don’t marry, but you shouldn’t let movie dramas inform your image of marriage any more than you should let action flicks inform your perception of driving and firearm safety.
I can’t promise you that marriage will be a happy time, or that it will work for you. And I can guarantee that it won’t make you happy all the time. But if you’re young and suspicious of the institution, I can say that it does work for some people, and the payoff is a rich life and a steady supply of self-sustaining joy.
Happy Anniversary, Heather. I won’t post the gushy stuff here on the blog, because you’d hate that. But, you know, I do.
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My picks for what was important, awesome, or worth talking about in 2015.
Valve still hasn't admitted it, but the Half-Life franchise is dead. So what made these games so popular anyway?
A look back at Star Trek, from the Original Series to the Abrams Reboot.
Ever wondered what's in all those quest boxes you've never bothered to read? Get ready: They're more insane than you might expect.
This is it. This is the dumbest cutscene ever created for a AAA game. It's so bad it's simultaneously hilarious and painful. This is "The Room" of video game cutscenes.
So what happens when a SOFTWARE engineer tries to review hardware? This. This happens.
A horrible, railroading, stupid, contrived, and painfully ill-conceived roleplaying campaign. All in good fun.
What's wrong with a game being "too videogameish"?
Fidget spinners are ruining education! We need to... oh, never mind the fad is over. This is not the first time we've had a dumb moral panic.
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