Re: [Official!] Project Horizons Comment Crew Chat thread.

[RoboRed]

lastbait:

scytobait:

[cb5]

Speaking of video games:
Oh shit Capcom may go under like how THQ went. Capcom right now only has 152 million dollars in the bank right now compared to how they were worth 728 million in 2010.

[Frost]

And, honestly, most of their games are crap, so not many people are going to be losing sleep over that

[Scyto Harmony]

I tired to play Fallout 2, but it got that rainbow shadow thing I have no idea how to fix.

I did too, I can't remember the specifics but there's a patch that fixes that, shouldn't be hard to find.

Same here, Scyto. Though I'll ask you. Have you tried FoE mod for Fallout 2?

The last time I played F2 was before I started reading FoE, I think.

[cb5]

And, honestly, most of their games are crap, so not many people are going to be losing sleep over that

Yeah, they really messed up. What's funny when you think about it is that this is happening at the worst possible time for them with the new consoles, cause that shit costs money that they don't have. I give it less than a year cause their response to this was "more dlc". . . yeeeaahhh like that's going to work.

[O. Hinds]

http://www.gog.com/promo/fallout_series_giveaway_winter_promo_2013

Fallout 1, 2 and Tactics are free on GOG right now. So if you don't have em, go get em.

Also note the site is being flooded at the moment so you will 404 a lot.

Ah, I saw this on Ask Littlepip and actually modified my schedule to get over here and post it; I see that was no need.  There's one thing that you missed, though: GoG, due to legal stuff, will probably no longer be able to offer Fo, Fo2, and Tactics after December 31.  You'll be able to keep them if you own them, but, absent that... well, get a good torrent client, I suppose.  Or just go to Good Old Games now and take advantage of their friendly service and pick up two great games (and Tactics; sorry, Tactics) free!  ...I sound like I'm being paid for this.  Pity I'm not.

[Tytan]

Spoiler:

[Katarn]

"Idon'tlikeitIdon'tlikeitIdon'tlikeitIdon'tlikeitIdon'tlikeitIdon'tlikeitIdon'tlikeit"

[RoboRed]

Daaaawwwwwwwww  

[Ironmonger]

[StoneSlinger88]

Oh Frost, almost forgot, they still calling the M249 a SAW or did they switch to "light machine gun"? Last I heard someone was wanting to change it, never found out if they succeeded.

[Frost]

Oh Frost, almost forgot, they still calling the M249 a SAW or did they switch to "light machine gun"? Last I heard someone was wanting to change it, never found out if they succeeded.

Bitch is still a SAW. Incidentally, the day the Drill Sergeants sent me to the clinic for my foot was the range day for those, so I missed out. Which is a shame, since our whole platoon had been studying our notes on enfilade fire and all that shit for weeks.

[Tytan]

How Evangelion should have ended :

[OneMoreDaySK]

I found this far more hilarious than I should have:

Twilight was unaware that she had triggered a trap by taking the fabled Half-Life 3. The room began to shake and a low, rumbling sound pounded on her ears as a giant boulder rolled into the room. Wait, that was no boulder, it was Gabe Newell.

"Was it worth the weight?" He asked with an evil grin just before crushing the lavender unicorn to death.

She never even had time to scream in horror.

"Was it worth the weight?" He asked with an evil grin just before crushing the lavender unicorn to death.

lavender unicorn

I hate those two words so much right now. You can't believe how many fanfics I abandoned when they would not just call her friggin Twilight, or characters by their names. Instead, they refer to characters in a prosaic manner for no really good reason.

[StoneSlinger88]

Oh Frost, almost forgot, they still calling the M249 a SAW or did they switch to "light machine gun"? Last I heard someone was wanting to change it, never found out if they succeeded.

Bitch is still a SAW. Incidentally, the day the Drill Sergeants sent me to the clinic for my foot was the range day for those, so I missed out. Which is a shame, since our whole platoon had been studying our notes on enfilade fire and all that shit for weeks.

You guys will have much more fun with those than we got to. Do you do RVVT training? That shit was awesome.

[Ironmonger]

I hate those two words so much right now. You can't believe how many fanfics I abandoned when they would not just call her friggin Twilight, or characters by their names. Instead, they refer to characters in a prosaic manner for no really good reason.

If I'm reading into the big picture correctly, it has to do with some sort of old writing advice about not repeating the same word for at least twenty lines so as to not be repetitive, but at the same time not being ambiguous. How the hell one could pull that off is beyond me, but I'm doing my best to provide an explanation.

[Guest]

@Lavender Unicorns
I believe Iron's right. The difficulty is in not repeating the character's name over and over but not being able to just use "she said" fairly often because of how often a female character is talking to another female character. Usually you can provide enough context to make that not a problem, but especially in larger conversations people sometimes have to resort to saying things like "said the mechanic" or what-have-you to avoid perceived stylistic faux pas. It doesn't always read as well as people want it to read, hence "chromatic pegasus," "lavender unicorn," "orange earth pony," "buttery pegasus," "bouncy pink earth pony," and "marshmallowy unicorn." I may have made the last one or two up.

[Tytan]

Coffeeeee!!!:

[Guest]

@Tytan
That's my pony.

[RoboRed]

Oh lord...and just when I thought they couldn't top that face they gave Rainbow Dash...  

[Valikdu]

I miss the abacus-loving Luna.   

[Ironmonger]

Tonight or tomorrow I might actually do some Let's Play recording for the sake of practicing. If anyone cares to see the results, I may post the gameplay on here.

[cb5]

Whelp google's fucked up again.  To make it short their new automatic flagging system for copyright stuff was extremely extremely crappily put together and is flagging a ton of video gaming channels.  It's not the publishers or the companies or anything, cause the famous youtubers have gotten a hold of the companies and it really wasn't them.  What that means is that if you have any sort of video game content, even if it's something you were paid to do by the actual company, you run the risk of getting permabanned.

In a nutshell:  Say goodbye to seananners, machinima, yogscast, twobestfriends, and all your favorite video game channels.

Also if you have any video game content you should probably take it down.

[Downloaded Skill]

I hope thats the Luna that gets into the new comics. That nightmare arc was disappointing.

[Katarn]

Coffeeeee!!!:

Me in nutshell.

[Guest]

Whelp google's fucked up again.  To make it short their new automatic flagging system for copyright stuff was extremely extremely crappily put together and is flagging a ton of video gaming channels.  It's not the publishers or the companies or anything, cause the famous youtubers have gotten a hold of the companies and it really wasn't them.  What that means is that if you have any sort of video game content, even if it's something you were paid to do by the actual company, you run the risk of getting permabanned.

In a nutshell:  Say goodbye to seananners, machinima, yogscast, twobestfriends, and all your favorite video game channels.

Also if you have any video game content you should probably take it down.

Until google fixes it or the creators simply move on to a new site. In the yogscast's case these are people that are building a business around their channels last I remember they rented out an office building. If youtube ceases to be for these people so what? It's just a site. You can argue that because their viewers discovered them there they may not follow them, but does youtube really add anything to their content? Other then being where the other people they watch are I'd say nothing. Twitter and other media still exist to inform their fans of new releases in a nice centralized way that from what I've heard the youtube subscription system fails to.

The thing is these people invest into their careers, so creating their own sites to host videos as opposed to youtube is probably viable. If I had to guess the only reason that they haven't is their either contractually obligated to stay (Yogscast, totalbiscuit and gamegrumps are with a network called the gamestation.) or they think their fanbase isn't ready to move.

So. I'd have to disagree. While they may have started on youtube I highly doubt they'll end there. Even if google manages to kill their own site.

Also machinima isn't going anywhere. They're not a channel they're a network.

[Frost]

I mean no disrespect, Cb, but you're really quick to blow any news way out of proportion (I remember you telling me that I'd probably get discharged because of the government shutdown just before I shipped.) People can be fucking dumb (especially if they're fucking Privates. My god...) but they're not suicidal. Things don't default to the worst-case scenario.

[Katarn]

@Last

Or youtube will make exceptions for famous reviewers and/or media networks. Youtube is not suicidal...I hope.

[cb5]

@Last

Or youtube will make exceptions for famous reviewers and/or media networks. Youtube is not suicidal...I hope.

Nah, angryjoe got

pretty hard(He's probably going to be the first to go). It's not just reviewers or such, but apparently if there's any clips or music from a game even as background music it reports the person. What seems to be happening is that the new automatic flagging system takes any video or sound that may be contrived as copyright infringement and slaps the person. Like let's say you're doing a let's play, having the cutscene in the let's play or the audio in the background is what triggers the flagging system. So if you want to continue doing let's plays you're going to have to edit out the cutscenes and turn off the audio.

It's really stupid in that even youtubers who create content for the actual publisher are getting steam rolled. Like let's say idunno EA wants you to do a commercial for them, even though you yourself created the commercial you're going to get laid the beat down regardless.

In a nutshell the reason why this fuck up is so bad is that the new flagging system assumes that anything that can be contrived potentially as infringement whether or not it's content you created is automatically infringement regardless of whether or not you actually created the content in it. Like even if you're freddiew if you create a commercial for battlefield where you were hired to make the commercial and you put it up you're still going to get flagged.

[Guest]

@Katarn The thing Cb5 was talking about probably will only effect the smaller channels that don't have that added network protection.

At the risk of repeating myself: I wouldn't fear youtube dying. Something will come along to replace it, it might even already exist.

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