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Sounds like a museum wall waiting to happen
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Yeah, I guess closed captions are nothing special, if you think people who are deaf or hard-of-hearing are nothing special. Which, obviously, is a shit take.
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There's been plenty of attempts and musings to update "We Didn't Start the Fire" with these sort of reminders, but sometimes I just wanna listen to this on loop and retreat into the night.
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Although it had a massive rise for two years prior, the #1 multiplayer game for months and a staple for years after was Counter-Strike.
One reviewer said "the only problem is that they all use the same voice, regardless of your team."
We played CS: Condition Zero religiously as a family.
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We were lucky to be moving the opposite direction of the Atlantic from Afghanistan that winter, but we moved into a new reality I wasn't aware of.
Freedom fries were an army elementary school staple in my time.
My main exposure to "God Bless the USA" was as part of the morning pledge PA.
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I've once heard "It gets... freezier?"
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After an early bout of unchivalrous violence from Link and botched diplomacy from Zelda, Ganon would monologue with dramatic irony:
"History will only remember your words [Zelda] and your deeds [Link]!"
That or it's said by someone after has Zelda led the fight while Link wisecracked on the trail.
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I've recently heard a great saying that genre is whatever is in conversation with each other, but while it was clearly always in conversation with mecha, the online hatedom had to have shouted louder by End of Eva, right?
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But all honesty, I watched Evangelion and many of the movies first because of its own reputation, not specifically for being a deconstruction or whatever.
Maybe if I get around to watching any Gundam it'll make sense, but like, that sort of discussion DOES transcend genre.
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Maybe if we get like a time skip from "a long time ago", we get some form of traditional theatre with disco sabers, and then the plot is someone performing gets too stab-happy but goes for pure white against the rainbow brigade
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Softer tint? Like an off-red, like how you get lilac and lime sabers?
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"I've consulted my most trusted General Chad G. Petey"
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No lie detected
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I talked to Bob.
And then he went to the loo.
And I saw him come out.
And I took my chance.
So yes.
We did ‘Bob’s Full Bogs’.
He said it.
‘The doors are always open for you, at Bob’s Full Bogs’
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Craig wasn't one of the people able to be reached, but his episode of the Game History Hour really fills in some big blanks in the first stages of conceiving Spyro.
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Here's a big one...
Craig Stitt allowed us to scan the original concept art for Spyro the Dragon. The Insomniac artists matched heads and bodies together until they found the right design.
We scanned this at high resolution so you can see all the detail.
archive.gamehistory.org/item/86406ba...
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We've culturally long been desensitized to dark, moody, and atonal music, but The Elements: Fire is still insane to listen to, knowing when and how it was made
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Also if you’ve never listened to The Smile Sessions, then you owe it to yourself, if anything just to experience what could’ve been a revolutionary album if it released as intended because what do you MEAN they recorded this in the 60s, how did they get a song to sound like this
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To celebrate the launch of the Craig Stitt papers, we sat down with Stitt to explore his career and get some context for his artwork.
We cover a lot in this interview, including unreleased games from Sega and Insomniac, like Treasure Tails and Dark Empires.
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see, see, see, I told y'all
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Truly topped any of Doug's output with that one line