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@ Bass X0	:	(16 July 2020 - 09:43 AM) Circuit-breaker '84, this is Megatron's rubber duck. We've got ourselves a Rodimus Convoy. Do you copy? Over.
@ fourteenwings	:	(16 July 2020 - 07:06 AM) I'm not going to sit here and bicker with you. I've made my point very clear and have nothing more to say on the issue.
@ ▲ndrusi	:	(16 July 2020 - 07:00 AM) I can't do anything to prevent hurricanes either but it'd be absurd to suggest I therefore shouldn't talk about them.
@ fourteenwings	:	(16 July 2020 - 06:57 AM) Basically neither you nor I even like South Park anyways so the best you can do is leave it alone rather than suggest it is corrupting hearts and minds.
@ ▲ndrusi	:	(16 July 2020 - 06:55 AM) In that case I'm... not sure what the point is?
@ fourteenwings	:	(16 July 2020 - 06:53 AM) Nobody should be taking their morals from South Park. You can't prevent people from doing it. It's an artistic work with fans. I don't think I'm off-track.
@ ▲ndrusi	:	(16 July 2020 - 06:51 AM) As far as I can tell you just of course'd the thing you were poopooing...
@ fourteenwings	:	(16 July 2020 - 06:47 AM) Also, this is starting to get a bit too serious for the shoutbox (though it already was)
@ fourteenwings	:	(16 July 2020 - 06:47 AM) "It's that they're internalizing the overall attitude that the writers display through the show's writing." Of course, that's South Park's "artistic" style. It's what South Park's audience wants, and that's okay.
@ ▲ndrusi	:	(16 July 2020 - 06:47 AM) You can probably finish the sentence "I got 50% of my sense of humor from" with the name of some fictional work.
@ fourteenwings	:	(16 July 2020 - 06:45 AM) And it still wouldn't be S.W.A.T.'ss or Grey's Anatomy's or South Park's fault.
@ ▲ndrusi	:	(16 July 2020 - 06:45 AM) The idea isn't that people are taking South Park's in-universe parody moral lessons seriously (though as Nevermore points out, you can't safely assume that isn't also happening). It's that they're internalizing the overall attitude that the writers display through the show's writing.
@ fourteenwings	:	(16 July 2020 - 06:45 AM) "People say" those people are right, and you should listen to them. We can't protect people from themselves, but you can advise them well.
@ Nevermore	:	(16 July 2020 - 06:27 AM) So many medical disasters because someone took what they saw on a hospital show at face value.
@ Nevermore	:	(16 July 2020 - 06:25 AM) So many people who think police and court procedure works like it does in Hollywood, and act accordingly. Sometimes to their own disadvantage, sometimes just to the frustration of well-meaning authorities.
@ Nevermore	:	(16 July 2020 - 06:24 AM) People say "you shouldn't take your morals from a TV show" all the time, but regardless of how these people want things to work doesn't mean other people aren't doing it anyways.
@ fourteenwings	:	(16 July 2020 - 06:01 AM) And I mean, if you're looking for a 1950s conservative position on something, it's certainly that a TV show is rotting children's minds.
@ fourteenwings	:	(16 July 2020 - 06:00 AM) Conservatives are not hiding under the bed waiting to ruin... uh... Family Guy of all things? And like, nobody should be taking their morals from South Park. Expecting such things is impractical.
@ Maximus Ambus	:	(16 July 2020 - 01:10 AM) It was just the cartoon with those foul mouthed kids in the UK until that bubble burst after the movie. Reviewers joked the movies target audience would be unable to see it for the rating.
@ Paladin	:	(15 July 2020 - 05:14 PM) see also: "South Park." the show that poisoned a generation by teaching them "it's stupid to feel for other people."
@ Rycochet	:	(15 July 2020 - 11:04 AM) 'Take that! People who care about things!'
@ Rycochet	:	(15 July 2020 - 11:02 AM) With Brian, he stopped being the voice of reason and started to be the right wing notion of a liberal, someone who's lazy, pretentious, doesn't work at anything, is every bit as abusive as the rest of the cast and only wins arguments with strawmen.
@ Otaku	:	(15 July 2020 - 10:56 AM) Of course, I stopped enjoying Family Guy around that time, so my bias is clear. XP
@ Otaku	:	(15 July 2020 - 10:54 AM) Is it because they changed or we changed? Stuff that was charming, or at least, funny at first can get really annoying the longer you know a person... and I find that can go for fictional characters as well.
@ ▲ndrusi	:	(15 July 2020 - 08:03 AM) familyguyjar.png
@ Maximus Ambus	:	(15 July 2020 - 03:45 AM) One example is Family Guy where around season 8 Brian is suddenly reviled by everyone and has acted way out of character since.
@ Maximus Ambus	:	(15 July 2020 - 03:44 AM) My least favorite thing in fiction is when it changes hands so you get a author, writer or showrunner who hates a character or messes with a arc/layout.
@ Sabrblade	:	(14 July 2020 - 06:02 PM) You'll shoot yer eye out, kid.
@ TheMightyMol...	:	(14 July 2020 - 04:36 PM) I shot the sheriff.
@ ▲ndrusi	:	(14 July 2020 - 04:24 PM) han wasn't even in the movie until later
@ ▲ndrusi	:	(14 July 2020 - 04:23 PM) the stormtroopers shot first
@ Sabrblade	:	(14 July 2020 - 03:33 PM) Maclunkey
@ Paladin	:	(14 July 2020 - 06:18 AM) the correct answwer to "who shot first" will always be "Harrison Ford if he ever hears that hugging question again."
@ Maximus Ambus	:	(14 July 2020 - 12:25 AM) Han shot first. Plain and simple.
@ -LittleAutob...	:	(13 July 2020 - 06:21 PM) \(-_-)
@ Bass X0	:	(13 July 2020 - 05:26 PM) "Here's a little---whatever. A little thing. A disclosure. An insight. Revisionism---I've always been fascinated by it. By the idea of a writer going back and altering things. Make no mistake: an edit is a profoundly aggressive act. As Froid once said, we grieve for the murdered word. If you want to get the measure of an author, don't look at what they've left on the page.... look at what they've taken away." -- Rung (MTMTE #28)
@ Verno	:	(11 July 2020 - 11:20 PM) 2021:
@ -LittleAutob...	:	(11 July 2020 - 06:20 PM) Perfection.
@ Patch	:	(11 July 2020 - 06:17 PM) My plans: 2020:
@ -LittleAutob...	:	(11 July 2020 - 06:02 PM) Our plans for 2020 were as amazing as Optimus Prime. But then 2020 came like Hot Rod.
@ -LittleAutob...	:	(11 July 2020 - 05:50 PM) Indeed....
@ Bass X0	:	(11 July 2020 - 05:40 PM) "He who dies with the most toys wins."
@ Rycochet	:	(11 July 2020 - 01:11 PM) Hey you, get moving, it's not too far, you're looking good so come as you are. Hey you, you never know what you'll see, when it's through that door with the 73.
@ Rycochet	:	(11 July 2020 - 01:10 PM) Hey you, get ready, get on your feet. Get into gear and hit the street.
@ Maximus Ambus	:	(11 July 2020 - 12:46 PM) I recall number 73 (old british show) discussing the Transformers movie and had the presenters trying to transform a few figures, one argued his deflated beach ball was a Transformer too.
@ PlutoniumBoss	:	(11 July 2020 - 08:03 AM) And he's a big ball, but he's not the biggest ball of them all. (That'll be Pulse Unicron.)
@ Maximus Ambus	:	(11 July 2020 - 07:37 AM) Trypticon so scared my Primus figure he turned into a ball.
@ ▲ndrusi	:	(09 July 2020 - 09:56 PM) King Nine, however, will not return.
@ Bass X0	:	(09 July 2020 - 05:05 PM) Bass_X0 will return after these messages ^^^
@ TheMightyMol...	:	(09 July 2020 - 03:37 PM) WHATAMIFIGHTINGFOOOOOOOOARRGH

Cube world; alright let's do this.

Started by wonko the sane?, Oct 06 2019 12:19 PM

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#1 wonko the sane?

Oh dear lord I am bored...

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Posted 06 October 2019 - 12:19 PM

*pounds a whiskey*

Okay, so in late 2012, early 2013, I found a game which was just hugging awesome, and apparently pretty cheap and called "Cube World". It was being done by a single dude running his own studio, named "Picroma". I bought it, and loved it. Convinced my friends to buy it (which wasn't all that hard, we were always looking for something new, and cheap made it an easy choice.) and even pimped it here to some decent results. I know a couple of folks here bought in.

Then the asshole dev ghosts. FOR SIX YEARS. No updates, no blog posts, NOTHING. The only proof anything was still happening was the fact that the website never went down.

So, today, less than an hour ago even (I would have made this thread sooner, but literally seeing it made me push up a trip to the toilet. Yeah, I very nearly shit myself cause of this.) Cube World pops up in my steam discovery queue. Oh hey, that seems familiar: I think I played a game like this once. Yeah, the same game, by picroma. Now apparently in beta.

Now, I was kinda pissed. Not a word of this from the studio, no email, no posts, no nothing. I still had my old credentials, so I went and logged into the picroma website. And nothing had changed... except there was now a link for me to claim a beta key on steam. Oh, and a link to the games new website.

I, frankly, don't trust this dude not to hugging run again, but free is free. So IF you bought into this way back when, and still have your picroma login: stick it to this douchenozzle and take a free game. Might as well get it shoved into steam before he ghosts again and valve pulls it.

Per Nick Nemesis's Suggestion: I hate everything.

#2 Coglestop

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Posted 06 October 2019 - 01:11 PM

Discovered it shortly AFTER he shut the store down, so my only option was to pirate it. Was an interesting game. I don't want to be too harsh on the developer, given that I know first hand how severe anxiety can make one act, though. The desire to "disappear" can get quite compelling and I've had to fight off those urges more times than id like to admit.

#3 Confuzor

They put em in Smash Bros!!!!

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Posted 06 October 2019 - 02:57 PM

I dont know what CubeWorld is but you reminded me of Grow Cube so I went and hunted that down.

#4 wonko the sane?

Oh dear lord I am bored...

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Posted 06 October 2019 - 08:29 PM

I dont know what CubeWorld is but you reminded me of Grow Cube so I went and hunted that down.

...

Well alright then.

Per Nick Nemesis's Suggestion: I hate everything.

#5 The Doctor Who

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Posted 06 October 2019 - 08:37 PM

Oh yeah, I remember Cube World being a thing some while back...

And that's about all I can say about it. I saw some YouTubers play it, it looked interesting, but it vanished and I never really thought about it again.

Can't really say it seems like a thing the world needs at the moment and it looks like it's not done will in the interim, so... yeah. Might keep an eye on it? Not fond of the air of shadiness that surrounds it, though.