Twenty Sided

By Shamus Posted Thursday Jun 21, 2012

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Tonight! At 11PM GMT! Josh vs. Rutskarn! Left 4 Dead 2! Versus gameplay! It’s the Spoiler Warning All-stars! And friends! Exclamation! Points! Are! Exciting!

As I mentioned earlier in the week, we’re all getting together to play Left 4 Dead 2 in versus mode. We’ll be streaming the results, and next week we’ll have a highlight reel of the event.

I prepared for tonight’s game with a rigorous program of never playing Left 4 Dead 2 versus mode, ever. So odds are, I won’t even know the map. According to Steam, I’ve clocked 6 hours in Left 4 Dead 2. On the other hand, I’ve clocked 260+ hours on the first game. So I should do really well as long as versus mode doesn’t require any knowledge of the new weapons, maps, or special infected. Or versus mode itself. So… yeah.

This is pretty much your classic gladiatorial match-up of convicted prisoners vs. ravenous lions. I don’t think the outcome is in doubt here. This is more about the spectacle than cheering for a particular side.

Team Josh (The Lions)

You can spectate the game from Josh’s POV here. (Limit 50 viewers.)
You can spectate the game from Randy’s POV here.

Josh, Glitch, Randy, Chris

Team Buttskarn (Those Who Are About To Die)

You will be able to watch the Rutskarn POV here.

Rutskarn, Mumbles, Shamus, Jarenth

Thanks to Steve Online for the title idea.

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Series that Went on Too Long

By Shamus Posted Thursday Jun 21, 2012

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In an attempt to placate your ravenous appetite for content, allow me to kick off a discussion. In the previous post on Homestar Runner, Mr Guy says:

So, at risk of starting The Thread With No Bottom, let's consider the flip side. I believe Shamus' premise is that HSR went out at the right time â€" before it got stale or beat itself into the ground. What are other similar endeavors that chose the other path â€" went on way longer than they should have, and suffered for it?

Good question. I’ll start us off with a few:

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Homestar Runner

By Shamus Posted Wednesday Jun 20, 2012

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I think I’ve mentioned in the past that I’m a huge fan of Homestar, Strong Bad, and the rest of the inhabitants of Free Country, USA. I love the world. I love the characters. I love the music. I’ve absorbed the website about as many times as a person can usefully do so.

I’ve played the videogame adaptation / spinoff, Strong Bad’s Cool Game For Attractive People. I regard it as some of the best comedy-adventure games available, right up there with the original Monkey Island. The games are arguably a fulfillment of the website itself – the culmination of a decade of in-jokes and ridiculous lore-building. I can’t objectively judge how well the games would work for someone new to Homestar, but for a long-time fan they were a concentrated dose of humor and ridiculosity.

(I even used the game as an excuse to do my own crossover mashup… thing.)

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Spoiler Warning: Left 8 Dead

By Shamus Posted Tuesday Jun 19, 2012

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On June 21^st (this Thursday) we’ll be teaming up to play some Left 4 Dead versus mode. We will live-stream the game in progress. It begins at 7PM East Coast time in the USA. (Midnight GMT.) EDIT: 11PM GMT. Stupid daylight savings.

While we’re still waiting for confirmation from some participants, the slated teams are:

TEAM JOSH

Josh, Glitch, Randy, Chris

TEAM BUTTSKARN

Rutskarn, Mumbles, Shamus, Jarenth

Eventually Josh will also be posting a highlight reel for those who miss the stream. But that will just be the highlight reel. If you want to see the whole thing you’ll have to tune in. I think Ruts and Josh will both be Livestreaming their respective POV, so you can watch from either perspective. Or both.

I’ll put up the links to the individual streams when the event goes live. Hope to see you there. Er. I guess won’t see you. I’ll be covered in boomer salsa. But I hope you’re there anyway.

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The Slow Death of Netflix

By Shamus Posted Monday Jun 18, 2012

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So I’m watching the latest Errant Signal, which is about Max Payne 3. During the vid, Chris mentions Man On Fire. I’ve never seen that movie, but I do remember wanting to check it out at some point.

I hop over to Netflix and do a search…

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asdfmovie

By Shamus Posted Friday Jun 15, 2012

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Uh… no content today. Or tomorrow, probably. And now that I’m thinking about it, Sunday’s looking a little iffy, too. I dunno. But WAIT! Here’s some LOL RANDUMB stuff from YouTube:

Link (YouTube)

So you’ve got that going for you. Enjoy your weekend.

EDIT: Now that I’m thinking about it: Note the “snow” they use to transition between vignettes in this movie. When was the last time anyone saw real, actual broadcast snow? In the US we went all digital a few years ago, and a vast majority of the population was using cable long before that. I don’t know when, but at some point televisions defaulted to showing a blue screen when it was set to a dead channel, instead of blasting you in the face with full-volume white noise. (Always hated that when channel-surfing at night.)

The point is, it’s entirely possible that among the ten million or so people that have watched this video, some are probably teenagers who have never seen actual broadcast snow and might not even understand where it comes from.

Also: Remember having to adjust the timing on a TV to keep the image from “rolling”? That vanished at the end of the 70’s for me, and I don’t see any references to it in popular culture. I see people ironically using old TV test patterns (or parodies of such) from the 50’s, but the process of fiddling with the vertical alignment on a TV seems to have faded from memory. I seem to remember there being a horizontal alignment knob as well, but in my experience you never needed to mess with that one. Turning it would just cause the image to shear one way or the other.

Also, remember when I was young, thin, and my knees didn’t hurt so much? No? Well, there was a time. Trust me.

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Saints Row The Third: Part 3

By Shamus Posted Thursday Jun 14, 2012

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One hundred and twenty-five hours. That’s how much Saints Row the Third I’ve played. I haven’t stuck with a single game like this since Skyrim. In fact, I turned up the difficulty. I can’t remember the last time I liked a game enough to play it on the higher difficulty levels.

Let’s wrap up the series with a few random observations about the game.

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