I would like it if 4,000 or 5,000 more of them signed up to the Patreon
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You know what, make it 4,999.
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The intro reminded me I wasnāt a patron yet. I fixed that.
Much love and support to everyone at IC.
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Keep Merritt K as panelist forever! Pwease!
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I was scared of Bloodborne when I first played it in 2015. At some point in the last few years some switch flipped in my head and now video games just donāt scare me anymore. I couldnāt play Resident Evil VII back when it came out because I was too scared. But I finally ripped through it in 2020.
The last horror game I played that genuinely scared me was P.T. I played it one last time before I sold my PS4 in 2019. I may pick up the Silent Hill 2 remake and see how I like it. The last unintentional scare I had in a game was Minecraft. Being deep in a cave system far from home, inventory full of diamonds, only with a couple pieces of bread for food, looking all around to make sure a skeleton or creeper doesnāt pop out and kill me, all while watching my step so I donāt fall in lava again was very much a tense and scary situation.
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Dropped my Netflix tier and happy to let you guys have it.
Hearing the news made me realise how much I appreciate this show, all your hard work, and I would be so disappointed if anything worse happened.
Love you guys.
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I JUST got to this exact moment in the episode, unnerving. This is my new spookiest gaming moment.
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Dang sorry to hear about the Tim flounce.
Scary Games!
I played Zork for Apple IIe when I was a wee lad, it had such a great sense of ratcheting tension to it. Great descriptive language, I really felt drawn in to the scenario. Real ātheater of the mindā stuff.
Speaking on ratcheting tension, I found Alien Isolation genuinely unnerving. The game always seemed like it gave you just enough slack to really tangle yourself up. Even the androids were unsettling, before you ever get to see the monster.
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Now I want to get to the end of desert golf.
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Yeah, the word has some very particular insinuations that skew quite serious. Then when thatās paired with ādonāt invade our privacy by asking questionsā, while I am sure the intention was to be as up front and clear as possible, Iām not sure if this was the best form of communication.
Now that tim has described in quite detail his side of what happened (quite understandably, since he was accused of being an abuser) a lot of that privacy is already out the window. It just seems like this already frustrating situation is made a lot worse and public now.
I agree that itās probably for the best that tim left and Iām also hope it gives the rest of the hosts freedom to try new things, it just sucks that it had to happen like this.
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The first time I finished Mega Man 2 with a friend it was at a sleepover and we were certainly up past our bedtimes. The last stage that starts with you falling down the large pit has no music and is an eerie contrast to the rest of the gameās charging music and itās kinda spooky.
Responding to Alexās first intro question, I think that Alien may be the ābestā horror movie Iāve seen. I think Cabin in the Woods is my āfavoriteā. I respect your opinion if you donāt consider either of those horror genre movies.
The scariest/most tense horror film Iāve ever seen was Saw. Iāve never seen the sequels and donāt feel like I need to based on reviews and description of the content. But wow, my friend and I rented that movie and were on the edge of our seat the entire time and it has a big reveal at the end and itās legit great. I was never so excited for a movie to be over just so I could let my cortisol drop a bit!
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My takeaway at the end of the day was he shouldāve been brave and announced it awhile ago and gone out on top with 360, as Iām sure was his intention, but itās a different beast to communicate that before the episode or after.
For sure, quit your bad work environments as much as you like, but as someone working in a parallel creative field, how you exit something like this does stick with you.
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I really want to phrase this carefully. I donāt want to imply tim isnāt at fault ā itās just a weird complicated situation now because tim is the only one who actually described what happened, which obviously is his own biased perspective, so itās hard to know how to take it
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Yeah no, Iām not reading you that way at all! Not trying to assign fault just maybe poking at some sort of lesson?
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Mod Voice
Hi folks - weāre starting to veer away from the direction up at the top. Big difference between expressing support for everyone and starting to unpack things that we are not privy to.
Thanks!
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The only thing thatās clear to all of us not directly involved in the situation is that the panelistsā split was imperfect. Nevertheless, Frank, Brandon, and Tim have each asked that we / the Action Button community not continue to hash this over. Itās an unusual situation inasmuch as each of them has an audience who is suddenly aware of an interpersonal issue between them, but the audience(s) has no power to change the situation, regardless of how informed or not any of us is. Only the panelist will benefit (or not) from continuing to discussāwith each other, not in publicātheir going separate ways, which is why weāre asking to steer away from this line of discussion.
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Hereās a topic to steer us away, hopefullyā¦
Monster Mash was played in there. Anyone else got a song related to Halloween they like? No hate to Monster Mash, but we need more Halloween-related jingles.
Hereās one from this year I think is great. (NSFW language)
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