Terror Sandwich
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Giant Bomb used to be good before that fatass Ryan Davis died of fat mid 2013, and then they got specially bad after Gamer Gate, like most Californian journos.
Sweet Baby Inc. and the Steam Curator Group Conspiracy - The company that is responsible for the diarrheic video game writing.
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There were some tentative attempts to do this but by and large they always lost the permissions to actually add tickets because they were incredibly stupid and annoying about it (due to not understanding software at all).
I'm not sure there is any merit to the job. People will janny the forums for free, why pay?
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Oh, I wouldn't even let them write tickets. Just compile a list of feed back and then have the devs/manager figure out what is the most important.
Well, you get what you pay for. And even for free somebody is getting something out of it. (In this case a petty power trip).
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The dreamcast controller is just the Saturn's "3D Pad" with less buttons.
Both have Analog triggers, both look like shit but are decent when held.
The Dreamcast has a whole can of worms when it comes to why it failed, despite it even outselling the PlayStation 2 during the PS2's first year of release. The Dreamcast fandom is also pretty pathetic when they start defending that console. I get it, it was neat and had some very good features that were future proof; with that said, just because some retard makes a video showcasing a game made specifically for the Dreamcast running poorly on the PS2 because it was ported by 2 niggers that had 3 weeks to work with a console they never worked with before means that the DC was "underrated". Just a reminder: SEGA of America's at the time CEO managed to cancel the then Streets of Rage 4 because he never heard of it. That's the level of retardation that guides SEGA's management.
I'm also getting tired with people throwing the "Underrated" term everywhere like it's a compliment. It's not a compliment, it simply means that the marketing team was shit at it's job and that there were alternatives at the time. something we're sorely lacking these days
The bottom line is that SEGA fucking sucks, every time they failed, it's because the upper management sniffed the wrong glue dust that day, anytime a game by a studio owned by sega goes to shit, you can bet your testicles it was some retard cutting budget and time for the umpteenth time.
That's because at the time, and to an extent even now, the outside markets make a big fuss over nothing. There was a Japanese RPG, exclusive the Japan, that got the ire of SJWs gaming journos because of some line mocking a black character, IIRC. I'll edit with post with the archive of the article if I find it.
It used quadrilaterals instead of trilaterals; it supported only assembly, the game devs had only one working CPU while the other was in a "resting phase", so they had to manage memory twice; it was poorly documented even at the time... the Saturn was terrible. The gamepad was neat.
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TheRaptorJesus
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I feel like Ryan was holding back jeffs faggotry or his faggotry is recent. I was watching his stream and he started going on about trans shit and I had to turn it off and never watched him again. Shame, because I always thought he was one of the best parts of giant bomb and that it was CBS and not him that let GB fall to austin walker and abby. But I guess I should have known better since they banned my premium account for calling out the neogaf mods they had modding their forums.
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Ryan Davis was still alive when they gave Patrick Klepek a job.
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Yea, issue though is for a big company you need to give them at least a little power or they will be ignored. Trying to insert them into the 'agile process' (poorly named) is the only way anyone could think of, and nobody has made that work.
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The Dreamcast was great, also this glue is delicious.
(I unironically like the Dreamcast, but that's a topic for another time.)
Jeffs faggortry was recent, and Ryan himself was showing signs of it before his passing. As @Not A Fed said, they had Klepeck on for a year or so before his death, and he brought his hipster politics with him. Plus Alex and Brad seemed to be on that train already. Being in the SanFransico bubble likely didn't help.
And let's be real, Jeff lost interest in gaming long ago.
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There are a lot of Giant Bomb fans there, it is a double whammy of lunacy. But of course REEEra is much worse overall.
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I unironically like the Dreamcast too. During a hurricane, mine shit a brick and ended up having the video shorted out. I believe at the time it had just finished with its warranty period, but I gave their customer support a call, and they were able to either send me a refurbished console, or they managed to repair mine (I believe they just repaired it) for just the cost of shipping it out to them. Sega won me over then, 'cause I could've just as easily ran out and grabbed a new console (since they were fairly cheap at the time).
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I'm just going to put it out there that I believe the Dreamcast is pretty much correctly rated by the majority of people. It had a number of great games and was ahead of it's time in many ways (SEGAnet
, hall effect analog stick), but speaking as someone who owns a Dreamcast and loves it to death, it also features far too many infuriating and downright confusing design choices, including:
VMUs eat batteries even when not in use and stuck in the controller. When they're out of juice, they beep loudly on console startup.
GD-Roms are quite possibly the worst optical media format ever used on a home console. They contain denser grooves allowing more storage than a CD, but to allow the standard laser to read the denser grooves, the protective layer was made approximately half the length of a normal CD. The end result of this is that the discs are far more prone to damage than any other optical format (barring laserdiscs, they don't count) as well as rot. It also prevents conventional disc resurfacing due to using a special thin layer.
The VMU sucks as a memory card. Same size as the PS1's cards but with bigger save files. If you want to play any of the VMU-specific games (Chao minigames from Sonic Adventure or Pocket GT from Sega GT come to mind), you essentially need an empty VMU exclusively for that purpose. Oh yeah, and more batteries to power that VMU.
The controller has the same single-stick layout with analog triggers shared with the Saturn pad, but with 2 fewer buttons. This was partially due to the intent being that first-person games would be played with a keyboard and mouse peripheral; however, said peripheral is now expensive ($60-100) and hard to come by.
The Saturn (which I do not own), on the other hand, was niche at best and dogshit at it's worst for 95% of the library. The 5% of games that justify getting it today often run into 3 figures due to scalping. At the end of the day, it's now pretty much unobtainable to collect for. The controllers are great, however,
forcing you to pay money to play online
VMUs eat batteries even when not in use and stuck in the controller. When they're out of juice, they beep loudly on console startup.
GD-Roms are quite possibly the worst optical media format ever used on a home console. They contain denser grooves allowing more storage than a CD, but to allow the standard laser to read the denser grooves, the protective layer was made approximately half the length of a normal CD. The end result of this is that the discs are far more prone to damage than any other optical format (barring laserdiscs, they don't count) as well as rot. It also prevents conventional disc resurfacing due to using a special thin layer.
The VMU sucks as a memory card. Same size as the PS1's cards but with bigger save files. If you want to play any of the VMU-specific games (Chao minigames from Sonic Adventure or Pocket GT from Sega GT come to mind), you essentially need an empty VMU exclusively for that purpose. Oh yeah, and more batteries to power that VMU.
The controller has the same single-stick layout with analog triggers shared with the Saturn pad, but with 2 fewer buttons. This was partially due to the intent being that first-person games would be played with a keyboard and mouse peripheral; however, said peripheral is now expensive ($60-100) and hard to come by.
The Saturn (which I do not own), on the other hand, was niche at best and dogshit at it's worst for 95% of the library. The 5% of games that justify getting it today often run into 3 figures due to scalping. At the end of the day, it's now pretty much unobtainable to collect for. The controllers are great, however,
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This is what happens when you get groomed by a lolcow nigger faggot who unironically wears a power glove and calls himself Triforce. (Empire Arcadia)
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Call me as a witness if (when) Billy Mitchell sues please and thank you
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Yeah. That's a thing that kind of bugged me as well with their discs. They didn't go with a traditional CD or DVD drive and had to have it proprietary. The VMU thing was irritating as hell too. Especially since most everyone else was using a traditional memory card structure at the time.
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OH MAN A picture of Billy Mitchell and Triforce together,. Two of the biggest conmen in their respective industries. No surprise they're friends.
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When I look at my steam groups via the client I can't find baby inc despite the fact that when I check in the browser it says I'm following it, anyone else have this issue?