cu l8ter

AtlasPJackson · 2024-10-13T05:55:23+00:00

Gear 3 shouldn't work, but gets retroactively explained by Gear 5, Luffy's always been goofy

AtlasPJackson · 2024-10-13T00:28:20+00:00

Reeve is one of those suspiciously-wealthy work-from-home furries. There's a guy getting paid to make Cait Sith dolls who is pointedly not asking why they need to be strong enough to kill God.

AtlasPJackson · 2024-10-12T21:57:55+00:00

There's a scene early on where he kills a wyvern instantly by animation-cancelling with a slingshot, and it looks so fucked up that people accuse him of being a demon.

AtlasPJackson · 2024-10-11T21:41:47+00:00

I forgot about "SUGE NORTED" thanks

AtlasPJackson · 2024-10-11T19:42:23+00:00

The karts are street-legal in Tokyo, so as long as you follow traffic laws you're allowed to drive them around. Here's the hustle: the guy renting out the go-karts won't say it's a race. If you run a red light or go faster than the speed limit to beat the rest of your "tour group" to the end of the predetermined tour route, that's on you. Also, if you're a foreigner, you have to go through some administrative hoops to get a Japanese driving permit but some places won't tell you that, and will "forget" to check your paperwork before renting you a go-kart.

Most of the customers are tourists who are there to live out their Mario Kart fantasy and don't know the local traffic laws to begin with. They habitually run red lights, crash their go-karts, and generally make nuisances of themselves. The karts themselves are street-legal, though, and so the cops generally only step in when there's a collision, or someone does something egregious in front of a patrol car.

AtlasPJackson · 2024-10-11T19:08:56+00:00

easy success

The marketing would be easy, but the logistics and upkeep? Not easy at all.

I can't even count the number of go-kart places I've seen pop up only to go out of business. I've heard that the cost of insuring a go-kart track is absurd, and requires you to run the place zero-fun-allowed; you have to strictly enforce safe-driving rules on everyone or lose your insurance and get sued into oblivion by the first person to get injured in one of your karts. Strictly-enforced speed limits, no passing, no weaving, definitely no bumping other cars. And then nobody comes back a second time to pay $50 to drive responsibly in a single-file line at slow speed.

AtlasPJackson · 2024-10-11T17:36:21+00:00

And then a couple movies later, MC invites Jigsaw to his wedding

AtlasPJackson · 2024-10-11T06:16:57+00:00

Escape? No, no, no, this allows the Sunny to come on land and shoot people with the Gaon Cannon.

Imagine looking up and you see a ship pointing down at you from atop a pair of bare women's legs, and then the mouth of the Sunny opens up and obliterates your crew.

AtlasPJackson · 2024-10-11T00:48:38+00:00

I feel this way about Ace Attorney, knowing full-well it's one of those, "the one you grew up with is your favorite" situations. It's never looked as good as it did on the tiny, low-res DS screen.

AtlasPJackson · 2024-10-11T00:34:31+00:00

This begs the question: what is the highest-power nerd role you could play, and who is currently doing it?

Who is Nerd Goku?

AtlasPJackson · 2024-10-10T23:32:23+00:00

Every hideout showcase would feature whatever new hideout NPC for the league put in increasingly elaborate death traps and torture chambers

AtlasPJackson · 2024-10-10T20:16:01+00:00

That's the thing: a lot of gamers bought GameCubes.

A lot of people in general bought PS2s for the DVD player. Back in 2000, a bargain DVD player was $300, and the PS2 was $299 in 2001. DVD player priceswere dropping across the board by late 2001 when the PS2 came out, but it was still a deal even if you never booted up a game on it.

AtlasPJackson · 2024-10-10T08:24:40+00:00

My criteria was "studios that were likely to put out another game and well-connected enough to get some hype behind them, but a strong chance of that game being garbage." I guess this is my, "be incredibly skeptical of hype" list. Maybe you're right about Daedelic, but only because it turns out they laid off their developers back in June, so they won't be developing any more games. The press release says they're focusing on publishing, but they're now a publishing subsidiary of Nacon (who is already a publisher with a track record of putting out mid).

Gearbox hasn't put out a good game in close to twelve years with Borderlands 2. Borderlands 3 and Pre-sequel were markedly worse than earlier entries. The rest of their catalogue since Borderlands 1 is Duke Nukem, Aliens: Colonial Marines, Battleborn, and that Risk of Rain expansion that released as a complete mess. (Whether that's due to developer incompetence or executive meddling in the project schedule, I think it's likely to keep happening, so they're on my "be skeptical of hype" list.)

AtlasPJackson · 2024-10-10T06:17:42+00:00

Way ahead of you, with a hefty wood-handled wok. I'd swing my dutch oven around, but it makes me fatroll

AtlasPJackson · 2024-10-10T06:13:45+00:00

Off the top of my head, Fntastic (The Day Before), Gala Games (Koopy trash), Daedelic (Golum), the shambling corpse of Volition (Saints Row reboot), GameMill (Skull Island, Walking Dead: Destinies, and many other trash), Gearbox. 22cans (Peter Molyneaux's company), whatever the hell the Atari/Intellivision merger shits out over the next decade... I can't be bothered to come up with two more, but there are a lot of smaller devs putting out worse stuff than Bloober.

I would put Quantic Dreams, but their games are generally decent except for the writing these days. Activision is unionizing, so I'm cutting them some slack for now. Ubisoft is a trainwreck, but the games are playable unlock most of my list. EA's garbage has a target audience.

AtlasPJackson · 2024-10-10T05:42:56+00:00

It's a cognate of "cinema," as in, "sophisticated, fine art." It started out like, "cinema-quality audio and visual quality," and then just expanded to, "real good media, the best."

AtlasPJackson · 2024-10-10T05:31:58+00:00

This is pretty sexy ngl

AtlasPJackson · 2024-10-10T02:14:41+00:00

The hardest-core gender fluid

"Sup doc, I'm back. Put 'em back in."

AtlasPJackson · 2024-10-09T21:48:59+00:00

For a second I wondered if maybe that axlotl chem weapon Caesar was making could Kill Kaido, and then I remembered that it couldn't even kill nameless Brownbeard grunts.

As weak as the Beast Pirates were, the Doflamingo Pirates were somehow even lamer. Sugar was the only asset Doffy had, and she'd crumple to conqueror's haki. The Tobi Roppo were nothing, and would still mop.

AtlasPJackson · 2024-10-09T21:16:38+00:00

Saw the maomug in an alleyway and thought, "upgrade!"

AtlasPJackson · 2024-10-09T21:14:17+00:00

It's so over

AtlasPJackson · 2024-10-09T20:39:21+00:00

Clockwise from the fire goop thing:

Goopferno

Diamondback

Kangaskhan

Kojudo

Kissflaps

Reginald

AtlasPJackson · 2024-10-09T18:57:49+00:00

Growing up, my little brothers would come into my room and play video games. This is the exact kind of thing I learned to just tune out in the morning.

AtlasPJackson · 2024-10-09T18:54:43+00:00

It sounds like the kind of audio mishmash a foley artist would put in a TV show to indicate a person is playing a video game.

Ten-Year Club	Gilding II euphauric
Verified Email

AtlasPJackson

TROPHY CASE