~I trust you implicitly doctor nothing bad has happened to me under your care

[zarla]

UMO recording! It goes

Liam "The Lemming" Hesse - Super Acid Block Attack - Tearing Up Space Time
Electric Concerto - Super Metroid - My Minute
TheWingless - Super Metroid - Edenal

The person before me ran late, so this one's a bit shorter than usual. :O

Anyway, last night or so I played an HL2 mod called Dear Esther, "award-winning, critically

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[bbot_org]

ALSO: No zings on me when talking about Korsakovia? I am disappoint.

ALSO: Zarla making fun of someone else for being morbid and depressive? LOL FOREVER

Another amusing quote from the RPS writeup:

Dear Esther turned me into something of a fanatical child. I was so taken by it that I drafted a thousand-word interpretation of the story and emailed it to the creator. Every time it crosses my mind, I scour the internet for people’s responses to this glorious masterpiece, reading through forum threads and blog posts and whatever else I can feasibly locate. Sometimes, I’ve been delighted that others share my views. Other times, I’ve been horrified by people’s remarks. One player, on a forum I can’t remember, gave tips for speeding the game up. “Bunny-hop around the island,” he said. “It totally destroys the atmosphere, but it’s more fun.”

If you’re looking for fun, I’ve no idea why you’re playing Dear Esther in the first place. This is fearless, classical tragedy. It ends with the sound of a heart monitor flatlining, for goodness’ sake.

[seiberwing]

If you’re looking for fun, I’ve no idea why you’re playing Dear Esther in the first place.

I...I think someone doesn't quite understand thee concept of 'game'.

[funkicarus]

it's bbot, he got all butthurt when i kept leaping down elevator shafts in vs l4d2.

[bbot_org]

lol y u mad tho?

cuz it sounds like you're getting pretty mad about how mad I was (I was very mad)

also it sounds like you're attributing something I didn't say, to me, which is zaaaaaaaany

[bbot_org]

Don't know why I'm defending something I quoted to make fun of, about a game I haven't even played, but let's rock: Was the ending of Earthbound fun? Was Aeris' death fun? If you demand that a game be about having fun, then you're going to redefine quite a lot of games as being, I guess, visual novels that make it really difficult to get to the next scene.

[seiberwing]

I think we may have different ideas of fun. For me fun is 'enjoyable'. The big reveal regarding James' wife in Silent Hill 2 was a deep emotional moment but if it was a long slog of boring zombiekilling to get there it ruins the point. It's like a movie that's staticky and the audio clicks in and out. Even if that movie's Casablanca, you're not going to have a good time.

(And I have no idea what happens at the end of Earthbound.)

[insanepurin]

If you’re looking for fun, I’ve no idea why you’re playing Dear Esther in the first place. This is fearless, classical tragedy. It ends with the sound of a heart monitor flatlining, for goodness’ sake.

It's not a game, it's art. There's no way video games can be art, man, and the only way it'll receive critical recognition is by not acting like a video game! STOP HAVING FUN GUYS. FUN ISN'T ART. /sarcasm

[zarla]

I WAS ACTUALLY TEMPTED TO MENTION YOU CRYING LIKE A GIRL OVER KORSAKOVIA BUT APPARENTLY I REFRAINED

missed opportunity

also lol to that whole review. i also bunnyhopped around the island ME AND THAT PERSON ARE KINDRED SPIRITS