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From: Invisible
Subject: Taken in again
Date: 17 Jun 2011 04:15:41
Message: <4dfb0d2d$1@news.povray.org>
Zero Punctuation had this to say about Duke Nukem Forever:

http://tinyurl.com/358qhyq

Ctrl+Alt+Del had this to say:

http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/20110613

Wow, are those guys even talking about the same game??

Ah, but if you watch the ZP video *very* slowly (and by "very slowly" I 
mean "hit the pause button at just the right nanosecond"), you discover 
that at the time of the review, the game hadn't been released yet, and 
it was all a big joke.

And I fell for it. As usual. To quote ZP, "apparently I'm a retard".


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From: Jim Holsenback
Subject: Re: Taken in again
Date: 17 Jun 2011 04:31:01
Message: <4dfb10c5$1@news.povray.org>
On 06/17/2011 05:15 AM, Invisible wrote:
> Zero Punctuation had this to say about Duke Nukem Forever:

I never trust /anyone/ who talks that fast but never manages to say anything


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From: Invisible
Subject: Re: Taken in again
Date: 17 Jun 2011 05:21:59
Message: <4dfb1cb7$1@news.povray.org>
On 17/06/2011 09:31 AM, Jim Holsenback wrote:

> I never trust /anyone/ who talks that fast but never manages to say
> anything

I find his reviews are usually very accurate. But really, most of the 
stuff he reviews I've never heard of and will never actually play. It's 
just amusing to hear paragraphs such as

   "Portal 2 opens with a long physics-based ride in a container which 
is slowly destroyed to reveal epic views of the grand vistas outside and 
you can already feel the same sinking feeling you get as something warm 
and moist splashes across your face and you already know that by this 
time tomorrow you're going to be known as 'the school slut'."

Or perhaps

   "In all Crysis 2 is a good game but at no point is anything as great 
as that moment in Crysis 1 where you break into the alien mothership 
rummage through their underwear drawer and embarrass them in front of 
their parents... I /may/ be remembering this wrong..."

The guy has a way with words. LOL.


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From: Darren New
Subject: Re: Taken in again
Date: 17 Jun 2011 16:50:51
Message: <4dfbbe2b$1@news.povray.org>
On 6/17/2011 1:15, Invisible wrote:
> Ah, but if you watch the ZP video *very* slowly (and by "very slowly" I mean
> "hit the pause button at just the right nanosecond"),

Or you could have watched it when it came out and noticed the review was 
released April 1.

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


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From: Warp
Subject: Re: Taken in again
Date: 18 Jun 2011 08:03:25
Message: <4dfc940d@news.povray.org>
Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> On 6/17/2011 1:15, Invisible wrote:
> > Ah, but if you watch the ZP video *very* slowly (and by "very slowly" I mean
> > "hit the pause button at just the right nanosecond"),

> Or you could have watched it when it came out and noticed the review was 
> released April 1.

  Even watching it now, it's quite obviously either sarcasm or a parody.
(An April's Fools prank isn't far from that.)

-- 
                                                          - Warp


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From: Invisible
Subject: Re: Taken in again
Date: 21 Jun 2011 03:48:47
Message: <4e004cdf$1@news.povray.org>
On 18/06/2011 01:03 PM, Warp wrote:

>    Even watching it now, it's quite obviously either sarcasm or a parody.
> (An April's Fools prank isn't far from that.)

Given the usual tone of these videos, it's actually pretty typical.


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From: Invisible
Subject: Re: Taken in again
Date: 21 Jun 2011 03:50:45
Message: <4e004d55$1@news.povray.org>
On 17/06/2011 09:50 PM, Darren New wrote:

> Or you could have watched it when it came out and noticed the review was
> released April 1.

Oh, I'm watching it quite a bit after it came out. I suppose it might 
say somewhere in the small print when it was released, but if so, I 
hadn't noticed it.

One of the older April fools videos was nothing but a recording of a 
clock ticking and him reading some bad poetry...


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From: Darren New
Subject: Re: Taken in again
Date: 21 Jun 2011 13:43:13
Message: <4e00d831$1@news.povray.org>
On 6/21/2011 0:50, Invisible wrote:
> ticking and him reading some bad poetry...

Reading it *slowly*.

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


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From: Invisible
Subject: Re: Taken in again
Date: 22 Jun 2011 04:18:47
Message: <4e01a567$1@news.povray.org>
On 21/06/2011 06:43 PM, Darren New wrote:
> On 6/21/2011 0:50, Invisible wrote:
>> ticking and him reading some bad poetry...
>
> Reading it *slowly*.

Veeeeeery




slooooooowly


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