Bring back arcade machines at pizza places! Let me fiddle around for a couple minutes while waiting for my food. Perfect format.
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I am one of those people who’s hand got obliterated by Mario party. Well I’m being hyperbolic but I essentially wore out a good chunk of my palm until it became dead skin.
I blame this mini game in particular https://youtu.be/p7NWq-ViAhI?feature=shared
No I didn’t get a free glove from Nintendo for it.
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On the subject of being hurt by games:
When I was young and Gitaroo Man was new, I played it so roughly, like jamming on the buttons, that it injured my wrist and I had to wear a wrist brace for a week until it stopped hurting.
This is more “physically altered” than injured, but playing a lot of IIDX has made my left pinky weirdly strong and like… spring-loaded? I don’t know how to describe it. I can tap hard with it but using a different technique than all my other fingers.
Hurt my knee playing DDR once. Leg stiffened up real bad for a week or so.
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told this story here before I’m sure but re injuries: when I got that gamepro issue with the Street Fighter II strategy guide I went outside and tried to do guile’s moves irl and wound up breaking my collarbone
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Was it the upside-down roundhouse?
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here to vote for Laguna Seca as the Normandy Beach of race tracks
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What I always understood to be supper vs dinner is that supper is the meal at the end of the day and dinner is the main/biggest meal of the day. So if it’s a holiday and your late lunch is a huge spread and supper is light then lunch is dinner. In most households and for most people supper is dinner.
more of a straight kick but yes
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If you don’t mind me asking… How do you break a collarbone doing a kick?
I do mind you asking. Thank you
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Regarding getting hurt from video games, some fighting game players who play on fightstick and also play particular characters have got to be more prone to developing arthritis in their stick hand. Looking at you, UMvC3 Morrigan players, and probably stick players who KBD in Tekken.
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When I was like six I was convinced I could double jump by putting one foot on the opposite knee and pushing off it in mid-air. To get extra height I would climb the eight-foot-tall swing set in our back yard and jump from the top. On one attempt I fell on my back and got the wind knocked out of me for the first time. I was terrified I’d broken something but too embarrassed to tell my parents.
I was also convinced I had a “defense” stat which I could raise by “taking damage.” To improve my stats I used to shove a tire swing bigger than my whole body as hard as I could and just let it swing back and hit me. I did it for hours. When my sister asked me what I was doing, I said, “I need to learn to take a hit.”
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Lack of knowledge of physics is the bane of all youths.
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As far as the idea of where Sony should go with Concord, everything I’ve seen on Concord says the underlying game is fairly good, but the characters and art direction are deeply unlikeable. If the game has good bones, why not just completely nix the story and character roster and bring in characters most people already like?
The panel sorta hinted toward the thought I’ve had with the mention of Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale - but it feels like Sony could just gut all or most of the Concord characters and slap in a bunch of Sony owned characters in their stead. I know the panel took a shot PS All-Stars for their roster, but it feels like the majority of Sony’s most liked characters have been created since that game. Joel and Elly, Aloy and Astrobot chiefly; then there’s a handful of other characters that I wonder if they have the rights to like Spider-Man and Sam Porter Bridges.
I know nothing of major game development, but I’m curious how long it would take to make a Sony-themed shooter if the studio behind the game repurposed and reused as many assets and systems as possible? More than a year? Cause I think if something like this would only take a year or so that Sony could probably at minimum recoup that year’s investment based on the strength of their IP and how much of a meme/morbid curiosity the game has become.
and if the game must have a story just make it some dumb crap like Calypso from Twisted Metal is holding a new kind of team-based shooting contest and he’s taken people from across the PlayStation Universe captive. In a stupid meta-twist it turns out Calypso is the budget Michael Rooker (the one who’s obsessed with hot sauce) from Concord and he collected all of the PlayStation characters together because he was jealous of their respective successes.
The problem is there’s no way to do this without it feeling cheap, and like a cash grab, which it would be… which is the same problem concord had.
My idea is definitely the cheapest of cash grabs. I don’t think that’s an issue for a lot of gamers though. Fortnite is Cheap Cash Grab: The Game and it’s one of the most successful things going. I think the issue with Concord was more than anything how hideous, bland and uninteresting the characters are. No one wants to main a character that looks like a lame Star Wars background character.
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I’m pretty sure this guy can be seen briefly, dying in the Battle of Hoth.
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Sony never stops trying with sackboy. Played a random Hot Shots Golf no long ago and there he was. And even in this year’s MLB The Show when you’re assigning a nickname to a created player for which the VO recorded lines, one of the options alongside all the normal baseball nicknames is “Sackboy.” Kind of strange for a human athlete to be called sack boy imo
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lol its funny how language is so different - here is breakfast is morning meal, lunch is middle of the day meal, and dinner is end of day meal, and supper is a small snack at 8 or 9 at night.
I am old enough though that when I was young my grandparents would call the midday meal “dinner” and the end of day meal “tea”
I’m in NZ with scottish/english heritage
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Regarding being hurt by video games, I got hurt mentally recently - I’ve been playing dying light 2 and a character outlines how they used to have a 5 year old kid and they got trapped in a building and the parent told the child to wait while they went to find a way out through the air vents - but when the parent came back, the child was gone, and I teared up a bit, which was the point of the story I suppose.
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