On 6/7/2011 10:57, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> I just signed in to Steam to play it, and GUESS WHAT?

Actually, I think it's rather cruel that they advertise on the per-game page 
the fact that the game you already bought is now on massive discount. :-) 
You'd think they'd filter out "discount sale" on that page, but of course 
they want you to tell your friends what a great game it is, especially on 
discount.  (Several of the games I already bought thru steam are on 75% 
discount this week, it seems.)

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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "Coding without comments is like
    driving without turn signals."

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On 09/06/2011 06:38 PM, Darren New wrote:
> On 6/7/2011 10:57, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>> I just signed in to Steam to play it, and GUESS WHAT?
>
> Actually, I think it's rather cruel that they advertise on the per-game
> page the fact that the game you already bought is now on massive
> discount. :-)

Actually, it was in the main "what's new" pop-up window that opens each 
time you start Steam. So yes, they really pushed that one in my face. *sigh*

FWIW: It's not as lame as Zero Punctuation would have you believe. 
Although it's certainly not as good as the first one.

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Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> FWIW: It's not as lame as Zero Punctuation would have you believe. 

  His whole shtick is finding flaws in everything he reviews. While that
can be funny and entertaining, it should definitely not be taken as best
advise for game purchases.

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On 09/06/2011 07:31 PM, Warp wrote:
> Orchid XP v8<voi### [at] devnull>  wrote:
>> FWIW: It's not as lame as Zero Punctuation would have you believe.
>
>    His whole shtick is finding flaws in everything he reviews. While that
> can be funny and entertaining, it should definitely not be taken as best
> advise for game purchases.

I find his stuff really, really amusing. And while he sounds like a 
raving nutcase, he seems to be oddly insightful.

Also, it's thanks to him that I played Psychonauts. And loved it.

But certainly I wouldn't base my /entire/ opinion on what he says. For 
example, I quite liked Assassin's Creed. (Although he points out several 
quite valid flaws.) It's almost a pity that everyone hates it when he 
says something is good. ;-)

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On 6/9/2011 11:49, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> I find his stuff really, really amusing. And while he sounds like a raving
> nutcase, he seems to be oddly insightful.

Yeah. I think he justifies it sort of with the idea that you don't need to 
know what's *good* about the game. You need to know why you'd regret 
purchasing it. :-)

> Also, it's thanks to him that I played Psychonauts. And loved it.

Ibid.

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   "Coding without comments is like
    driving without turn signals."

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Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> On 6/9/2011 11:49, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> > I find his stuff really, really amusing. And while he sounds like a raving
> > nutcase, he seems to be oddly insightful.

> Yeah. I think he justifies it sort of with the idea that you don't need to 
> know what's *good* about the game. You need to know why you'd regret 
> purchasing it. :-)

  I find most of the "flaws" he points out to be technically speaking
accurate, but in most cases not annoying at all (especially when playing
the game for the first time, when you usually don't even notice such things).

  He has an amazing talent of pointing out flaws in a very entertaining
way, though, which is why his videos are so enjoyable to watch. Not many
people have such talent.

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On 6/9/2011 12:44, Warp wrote:
> Darren New<dne### [at] sanrrcom>  wrote:
>> On 6/9/2011 11:49, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>> I find his stuff really, really amusing. And while he sounds like a raving
>>> nutcase, he seems to be oddly insightful.
>
>> Yeah. I think he justifies it sort of with the idea that you don't need to
>> know what's *good* about the game. You need to know why you'd regret
>> purchasing it. :-)
>
>    I find most of the "flaws" he points out to be technically speaking
> accurate, but in most cases not annoying at all (especially when playing
> the game for the first time, when you usually don't even notice such things).
>
>    He has an amazing talent of pointing out flaws in a very entertaining
> way, though, which is why his videos are so enjoyable to watch. Not many
> people have such talent.
>

I would agree with both those statements. At least once every two or three 
videos I'm LOLing RL at his choice of words.

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>    I find most of the "flaws" he points out to be technically speaking
> accurate, but in most cases not annoying at all (especially when playing
> the game for the first time, when you usually don't even notice such things).

The vast majority of games he reviews are games I've never heard of and 
will almost certainly never play. For the few games that he's reviewed 
and I have actually played, I more or less agree with everything he says.

The difference is, I played Portal 2 and thought "hmm, that wasn't... 
quite as fun as I was expecting". He, on the other hand, managed to 
elegantly explain /why/ it's not as fun. Much better than I could have 
done it, anyway.

>    He has an amazing talent of pointing out flaws in a very entertaining
> way, though, which is why his videos are so enjoyable to watch. Not many
> people have such talent.

Indeed. Where I would have said "nobody was expecting Portal to be this 
popular", he said

   "What you have to understand is that nobody really expected Portal to 
explode the way it did. It is now approximately as popular as a YouTube 
video of a laughing baby riding a startled cat."

I recently discovered Extra Punctuation, which contains gems like

http://tinyurl.com/3ldrhn6

   "The Tiger

   The fierce and beautiful predator of the Indian subcontinent, the 
Tiger has the obvious benefits of wild unstoppable strength and 
razor-sharp teeth, but also has the ability to capture control points by 
widdling all over them, which has the added mixed benefit of making 
every other character disinclined to stand on that control point for a 
while. What the Tiger loses in long-distance attack ability it gains in 
the fact that it's a fucking tiger."

That last sentence seriously made me LOL.

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On 07/06/2011 06:57 PM, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Oh you are FRIGGING KIDDING ME!!! >_<

I should not be allowed out in public.

I just realised that I was supposed to be meeting this person today at 7 
*AM*, not 7 *PM*. >_<

On a scale of one to stupid, that's Verizon math fail territory, right 
there. God damned moron!

Don't you just *hate* it when you discover that you did something 
utterly retarded? :-(

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On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 16:08:23 +0100, Invisible wrote:

> On 07/06/2011 06:57 PM, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>> Oh you are FRIGGING KIDDING ME!!! >_<
> 
> I should not be allowed out in public.
> 
> I just realised that I was supposed to be meeting this person today at 7
> *AM*, not 7 *PM*. >_<
> 
> On a scale of one to stupid, that's Verizon math fail territory, right
> there. God damned moron!
> 
> Don't you just *hate* it when you discover that you did something
> utterly retarded? :-(

It happens to everyone. :)

Jim

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