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this is the gig where Going to Georgia for 60 US Dollars comes from!
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Reply to comment by toasthaste in whom trying out Apex Legends by toasthaste
im TheRealDogmantra, presumably because either I had an old origin account and forgot about it or this chump named Drew stole my name
i haven't downloaded it tho cos I'm still sinking all my time into destiny 2
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Reply to whom trying out Apex Legends by toasthaste
i played a bunch of plunkbat a while back and it was fun, I might give it a go but on the other hand it's published by EA so if it's any good they'll shut it down
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Reply to comment by hollyhoppet in what if there were second person shooters by hollyhoppet
makes u think
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Reply to what if there were second person shooters by hollyhoppet
genuinely considered this and think it might make an interesting art game
but for a similar thing that already exists consider fixed camera survival horror games
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Reply to Unicode, Git, Jira, date formats, matlab, by twovests
once for each of them
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ngl, it took til about the third or fourth one to realise that "major league players" did not mean that they were famous league of legends players
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Reply to comment by twovests in goethe's faust is supposed to be this wildly influential piece of literature but i've not once heard anybody reference it, except in an advertisement of a kind of crappy YA novel. academics explain pls by twovests
put simply it's the study of media, how it affects audiences, and why it has those effects, but you can go very very broad strokes where you get a lot of overlap with philosophy, or you can go very specific detailed & in depth where you get overlap with social science or more traditional English literature type study.
One of the most famous pieces of media theory definitely leaning towards the philosophical is Roland Barthes's Death of the Author which I imagine you have heard of.
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Reply to comment by Dogmantra in goethe's faust is supposed to be this wildly influential piece of literature but i've not once heard anybody reference it, except in an advertisement of a kind of crappy YA novel. academics explain pls by twovests
actually I'm not an academic anymore but I miss being at university so much, ask me questions about media theory please
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Reply to goethe's faust is supposed to be this wildly influential piece of literature but i've not once heard anybody reference it, except in an advertisement of a kind of crappy YA novel. academics explain pls by twovests
there are a few theories about story shapes (campbell's monomyth/hero's journey is probably the most famous - and reductive) and you have probably heard that "there's only seven stories", well in that theory faust is generally considered & taught to be one of them, they're mostly named after historical stories.
personally I don't buy into most theories about story types or story shapes, especially those that reduce stories to one or two or seven stories that are just retold again and again.
also you have to remember that faust was written many many years ago before people had things like teen titans go to the movies so they were much more willing to praise mediocre media
source: am an academic
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Reply to but I like my comfort zone by bunnies
Comfort Zone Act 1
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Reply to Leftist youtuber and local gamer hbomberguy is doing a charity donkey kong 64 marathon right now by bunnies
you missed the best part - that he's donating to Mermaids to spite Graham Linehan
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Not gonna lie but a tetris game where you unlock new shapes and have special powers sounds actually really fun. I know that's only tangentially related to idea #2 but it's close enough for me to get enthusiastic.
My idea for a terrible game is "any moba that's not a straight remake of dawngate"
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I haven't paid to watch a film at the cinema in over a year because i worked there for 9 months and one of my best friends still works there. I watched a TON of stuff over the past year and I gotta say, Into the Spiderverse is one of I think maybe 2 or 3 I would have paid full price for. Fuckin brilliant film!!!
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Reply to comment by Dogmantra in more like SNOREHAMMER huh huh huh huh by hollyhoppet
Snore of the rings: Battle games in middle earth
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Reply to comment by flabberghaster in more like SNOREHAMMER huh huh huh huh by hollyhoppet
age of sleep-mar???
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Reply to comment by toasthaste in what's a grindy fairly mindless yet kinda satisfying mmo? by Dogmantra
It would but I already tried it and don't like it, sorry!
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Reply to comment by hollyhoppet in what's a grindy fairly mindless yet kinda satisfying mmo? by Dogmantra
I was actually thinking about it! Might do this one.
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Reply to reminder that firefox is good now by toasthaste
firefox has always been good because it has a fox
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Reply to I'm gonna give Pillowfort a try by toasthaste
blease toasthaste stay on tambles as long as possible please you're the ray of light in a garbage world
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Sluggo is lit
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Reply to Has anyone invented cargo skirts yet? by flabberghaster
I feel like I've seen cargo kilts which are effectively the same thing
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yeah I love this concept and I am thinking of doing it myself.
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Reply to So what's a good video game controller? I'm looking to play emulator and retro games on PC by Moonside
Do you have tiny hands? I have tiny hands and the best controller I have used is a PowerA Xbox One Ex Pro Mini controller.
V v comfortable, and holding my old cheaper full size controllers feel too clunky and horrid.