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“OK”
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I pass the torch of dickishness.
Your friend Wil says: http://frontalot.com/media.php/526/MC_Frontalot_-_Zero_Day_-_04._Your_Friend_Wil.mp3
Best Street fighter character is going to be Ryu. Come on he is badass.
Yeah, Ryu is the man! :D
I’ve always liked characters like Conan (specially in its original incarnation, from Robert E. Howard’s stories) or Gutts (from the “Berserk” manga) because they’re so strong minded, and have an unbreakable will. Even if he’s not remotely as fleshed out a character, Ryu shares many of the traits that appeal to me; a guy who is always so focused, so disciplined. That’s what made me chose him in the first place, instead of his fighting ability (that’s a kid’s imagination for you… go figure! :D ).
An ability, by the way, with which he can easily kick any other character’s ass… Fei Long, you say, Cameron?? Pfff!! A stern movie star who self-deludedly fights for ego supremacy. He can’t hold a candle to Ryu! ;)
I’d like to show a video i just made now. Using my IPhone, hehehe funny
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ok uploaded it to viddler too. hehe
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Seriously, Fei long. Seriously.
Ryu and Ken can go suck an egg, Fei long is a movie star world champion who fights for justice.
Fei long got his ass kicked by Ryu in the animated movie. haha!
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The end is me trying to close it, so… yeah.
Fei Long > Ryu
I mean, Whats Ryus character, its so bland, and boring, and lame!
Fei Long is so characteristic!
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I wouldn’t compare Ryu to Jackie Chan, as much as I would compare Ryu to Ujio, Hiroyuki Sanada’s character in “The Last Samurai”. He has the same kind of drive and devotion to his art that Ujio has. Fei Long, on the other hand, is but a mere cartoon of Bruce Lee’s on-screen persona, and a poor one at that, as the real Bruce Lee, as far as I know, was nothing like that…
And why do you keep on pronouncing “Ryu” as [Raiu]?? He’s japanese, people! His name is pronounced [Reeu]. Just like that. Ryu (the dragon).
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My bad…..i kept saying Ryu the wrong way cause of the breath of fire series.
Man, you’re crazy! :)
i know :)
Gee, I would like to watch the video actually. But two hogs are denying me the priviledge. Looks like I’ll have to wait til later today.
Or watch it on YouTube, which is a less desirable option but I’ve done it before.
Two hogs on the same connection.
Great show as usual, and I have to say that I really like this switch to story lines. Definitely keeps the show new and interesting for each and every episode. I’m really starting to appreciate the many ways Anthony humiliates himself for the show’s sake. xD And, of course, Jon/T-Pain’s work.
Btw, my nightmares are now fueled with memories of watching Clock Tower. Time to go shut all the doors within 30 feet. And Cowboy Killa won, while Amil got last? I really think the games I pick become cursed.
Side note: Forgot to change the Free Indie Countdown in the show notes, and there’s also this Netflix ad that keeps appearing int he middle of the show, and I can’t close it because a Revision3 button covers the X. I dunno if you can actually really change that or anything, but I just figured it pissed me off long enough that I should say something.
P.S. That Asian chick is proof that girls can PWN at video games…(even if I suck ass at it).
P.P.S. Just headed over to the Webbys website to check out the nominees. Oh hey, there’s a games category. Well that’s good. Let me just check that out and see who’s nomina-
………………..Farmville? FARMVILLE?!?! *facepalm* Canabalt or Machinarium or whatever the hell better own it’s ass, or there is no god.
Here’s my feedback (in text comment form for now): My favorite would definitely have to be Blanka. To be honest, Street Fighter (II) used to creep the shit out of me when I was young. Maybe it’s just the grotesque features of the characters, but I always felt mentally violated whenever I’d watch it. Well when I got old enough to actually play the game for myself, I just embraced the creepiness in order to desensitize myself, so I naturally chose Blanka. Oddly, sometimes I still get random-ass flashbacks and get kind of uneasy when playing the game, but it’s not like I’m afraid or anything.
That said, I really only played Street Fighter II and not much else in that particular series, save for the occasional ones played at my friends’ houses. And heck, I haven’t even played SF2 in about 2 years or so. ROM time!
Side note: Anyone ever play Faceball 2000? That’s another one that freaked me out, since those goddamn smiley faces would pop out of fuckin nowhere and just attack you. The bastards! And when they’d kill you they’d tell you to “Have a nice day!” in some weird ass voice. Oh, gee, thanks. I just lost this video game, and now the cunt who killed me is telling me (sarcastically?) to feel better about it. Whenever I see a smiley face now, I think of that game. It probably turned a bunch of people into frustrated serial killers. That one turned into a baby-puncher FAST after the first few extremely easy levels.
Whoops! My bad Jon, I mistook Free Indie Countdown to be the Rapidfire. Ignore that.
And jesus, I sure was chatty this time around.
Faceball 2000 was probably my first First-Person-Shooter experience, and yeah, I was creeped out as a child.
seen a brief youtube skit of Faceball 200, but never actually played it, did they creep you out as much as these guys :P
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xcwkog_doctor-who-series-5-the-beast-below_school?start=123
whoops, didn’t mean to choose the url to start when it did, this is the right one…
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xcwkog_doctor-who-series-5-the-beast-below_school
WELP. Now I can never go into an elevator by myself.
Thanks, Lawrence. Thanks. Just in case my Clock Tower paranoia wasn’t enough.
But in all seriousness, playing Faceball still freaked me out more. They’d just appeared out of nowhere and annihilate you! They’re like the Redeads from Ocarina of Time: look fairly harmless…then BAM! when you’re not looking.
Remember, whatever game you pick gets cursed, so…
Yo,
How did Amil get in last place? That game was sweet and sported some great pixel art. Bah!!
Anthony, Jon, love your guys’ show. I’ve been watchin’ for a year or so but never got around to commenting. I was gonna last week for favorite Super NES game because it’s my favorite system ever but found myself completely unable to pick one favorite out of my collection. Also the awesome community here picked most of the ones that were topping my list anyways.
I’ll try a little harder to get a video comment in since this weeks question involves the lovely Street Fighter.
Great show yet again, guys.
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I’m ThoresZ on Xbox Live. If you add me and play me in (Super) Street Fighter IV, I will try to beat you as Dan. Whether or not the result is successful, it will be hilarious.
Bearded medusa. ahahaha wow joe larson how dare ya make fun of that cool rapping look.
I was gonna say, without the beard you could look like carrot top but with black/brown hair.
You might notice, that not one week after disparaging beard beard comments Mr. Larson is now sporting a bit of face fuzz himself. Coincidence? I Think Not! Also to Joe: there’s always room in the brotherhood, we welcome all new members with open beards, even if they choose to cop out with a mouth ring rather than go full medusa.
I knew the A-Train wasn’t dead!
It’s so obvious now… A-Train is really Anthony sent back in time to stop himself from being completely humiliated in the Street Fighter Tourney. It’s simple really.
…to bad he failed.
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All in one:
Thores is awesome.
Free indies: Action Fist rules.
Feedback.: Scorpion, no Sigfried, no… Hmm. Charolette?
LOL SCORPION! that was the highlight of all of this. Scorpion from mortal kombat hahaha.
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i noticed his Go T as well but wasn’t sure if that was there last week.
I like the goatee, too. AWESOMENESS. :D
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Fei long is a character! Specifically Bruce Lee.
Hey, Joe! Were you envious of Thores?? Growing a goatee after your comments about his facial hair… C’mon, you know you can tell us… :)
Anyway, it suits you, even with the white hair. Although it makes you look, more than ever, like a parental figure to all of us: Bytejacker’s community wise man!!
My comments on the new growth forest above in Thores’s thread.
I never really did get into the Street Fighter series, but I must say that the name brought back a few memories of getting my shit constantly wrecked. Good times. Sadly, I never really played it enough to get a character I really like, so I don’t have an opinion at the moment. Hopefully next week I can get in with a video comment (I hear that Anthony doesn’t like these text ones…?)
Glad to see Quietus make the show! Really excited to see how it fares (although Action Fist looks pretty awesome…)
Duuude not cool, i totally named F-zero last week, not make me use my mic D:
Also, favourite Street Fighter, Sakura, cus she is hawt
Hi time! Nice to see you here!
The one thing I love about quietus is the progressive difficulty. Even though it just gets harder and harder, you can still get better at it. Love that. And good luck! Maybe I’ll play those other games this weeken………………………….. …………………………………………oh crap, ludum dare is this weekend, oh crap crap. Best I do it sooner I suppose.
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Sound? =/
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no sound, so i posted a video for the hell of it. By the way if your new. Welcome buddy.
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Viddler is lame. It doesn’t like my videos straight from the iphone, so I had to export it as an AVI to make it work.
Russelloni: I’ve been around for a while, just haven’t said much for an even longer while. Thanks for the welcome, though!
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I rest my case.
Hes like a deadly neon sign. I always wondered though, I know he was transformed into some kinda beast, but…
How can he just produce electric currents?
*shurg* still cool though!
Blamca or whatever his name is. Ok the problem that i have with this guy is that…….ehhhhhh ok he just doesn’t seem like a real fighter. Ok no no listen, i mean Street fighter is a game with mostly real fighters from all across the globe. But then we get this green guy who looks like a crossover of the hulk and the goblin guy from the lord of the rings. But then Carrot top kept popping in my head for some reason. A crossover of the hulk and carrot top……..
But then i stumbled across something.
http://gamesnet.vo.llnwd.net/o1/gh/131560-1.jpg
Wow didn’t know carrot top was that buff.
I’ve heard of Street Fighter, but never played it…but I have to comment on Carrot Top, since I’ve watch his stand up stuff since he’s been on, like in the beginning…he HAS buffed up, like something else…guess he’s been eating his Wheaties or something…anyway, back to the main reason for my post…yes, I’ve heard of Street Fighter…watched others play, though…sorry, guess I chickened out on that game. Then the guys at the bowling alley thought it would be cute to make me join in the roughness that they saw on the game, like I was one of the guys…I was like ‘see ya’ and I ran away heh…and can someone remind me about Nintendo 64? Like what year was that in? Yes, I could googlish it and all, but that would spoil the whole cool move…
I’m just going to pretend I never saw that.
MY EYES.
I hardly know you, headphonic, but I have to say…you wouldn’t GO for Carrot Top? *sarcastic* What is this world coming to? *slaps hand to forehead* okay, okay, it MIIIIGHT be because it’s 1 in the morning here where I’m at, and I say some pretty nasty things when I’m sleepy, but I think MY own eyes are playing tricks on me…did you just say you’re going to PRETEND not to have seen the image??…because I don’t think there’s a way of getting around to pretending to not see an image like that.
And before someone goes around and says that Carrot Top should be my new boyfriend…bite me, okay? :-P I’m just trying to send out a joke here, if it doesn’t sound like it was a joke, it was…just a VERY TIRED…joke…heh. Okay, I’ve shared my two cents…I just HAD to say that…and in reality, headphonic? yeah, you’re right, that pic of Carrot Top WAS a bit disturbing. :)
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Extremely obscure reference achievement unlocked!
I think Anthony gets that achievement too for mentioning some odd Sega Saturn game that I had to google in the episode.
That sounds like something i would attempt but…..i don’t get it lol
Hmmm, I managed to complete it, then I saw Joe’s comment above, given what it took for me to complete it, it would take me a bloody long time to put together. =/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/deed_elvis/4548358967/
Major props for beating the game and everything Laurence, but 35/40? That is weaksauce… 40/40 is the only way to go.
@Joe Larson: Oh man, that would be priceless… Add a slideshow of all the people who played it on my website… That’d be great! Not to figure out how…
I don’t know what Faces of Death is, but I do know that google gave me a little tidbit before I searched on Chrome that said it was “the movie that was banned in 40+ countries,” so I stayed away haha
My feedback for this week, I’ll leave it short and sweet.
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Thought I would try and top Joe.
oh yeah you topped us off. How the hell did you pull that one off?
My choice for free indies.. Action fist rules!!
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Get out of my mind! Thats exactly what I did. Got the fight set up, saved it, and then turned of the first and second layers of background. Then recorded, and played, and then saved the file out as an AVI. Open that shit up in After effects (A program I’ve been having to learn for this internship, and the process of doing it for a film is 500x harder), Key-light one color, and then there was another cause some background couldn’t be out. Then render out just like the last scene and the score. Open that render output in AE, Key-light the background again, record my self doing that, scale it all up nicely and add some color correction, and render that shit out, and BAM done.
Took about like 10-15 min to get it all done. To put that in preservative, a 5sec of this film I’m interning takes about 6-8 hours, more if theres some transparent things going on.
*sigh* the things you learn as an intern…
Actually cameron, I’ve got no formal training in editing, but i have “obtained” a copy of Adobe premiere pro. and am learning things as I go along, I’ve ben inspired by many things on the net and on TV, and could Edit things to a minor degree, But I couldn’t do anything like advanced motion graphics, I don’t even know how to do green screening, is it possible in premiere pro, or do I have to obtain “after effects” to do it?
I’m pretty sure you can Key colors in Premiere, I haven’t messed with it that much, but theres a youtube tutorial on it. Believe me, online tutorials are video tutorials are a savior in the work we do.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soRlw0etRCw
After Effects has alot of nice options for Keying though, Keylight even has a nice color correction aspect to it.
But I’m sure you can do something like my video in seconds with Premiere.
Oh but if you do film, and have lights pointed to the green, make sure you or whoever is acting like, at least 10ft or so away from the green, cause when green is reflected onto a person, it can get Keyed out too, and its a biiiitch to fix.
But yeah, I haven’t had any training at all actually! I was applying to this film as a modeler or animator, and when they said that they needed someone doing composition and camera tracking, I just said sure, and studied it online. After effects is pretty easy to pick up, and it can get very detailed if your using it for a serious movie. But most things about it you can learn online on just by goofing off.
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Watched a nerdy kids doing hadokens.
http://playpen.farbs.org , Start, forest, deeper, boulder, enter, closer, rocket, pink, rocket, rocket, building. Enjoy.
:D There should be a plane flying by or something.
YOu can edit it you know. It’s a wiki. Anyone can do anything they want to it.
Eh, I’d just butcher it. I’m not very artistic. :P
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PSN: Hatori1181
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3- Poto and Capanga
2- Action fist (High 2, and is my prediction to won)
1- Quietus
Feedback: Blanka! Chlorophyll FTW!!!
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Updated my original feedback answer. Testing out the movie maker, so let me know how i did on this little project.
Terribly hectic weekend for me, so I unfortunately couldn’t get around to making a Free Indie Rapid Fire video.
But anyways:
1. Action Fist —- Interesting idea, and kept me hooked for a good while.
2. Quietus —- Though it was a baby puncher, I still really enjoyed it. It just didn’t keep my attention after I died fuckin’ 12 times in a row. Well…that and because I couldn’t waste yet another weekend. :P
3. Poto & Cabenga —- I didn’t like this game much, probably because I was too impatient to get used to the controls.
So, I’m assuming Poto & Cabenga will be first then.
[sigh] Yeah, probably.
I don’t think there’s been a single comment this week in favor of P&C. Not a single one. Seriously, if it get’s double digits in the votes I’ll be surprised.
It wasn’t bad, but I didn’t like it.
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Anthony has also been strangely absent this week…. for a couple of weeks, from the comments section come to think of it. Like not even text comments.
Would have been funny to see you doing Chun-Li’s signature move in that way.
Since we’re all on street fighter, has everyone seen this?
http://www.collegehumor.com/tag:street-fighter-the-later-years
Should have NSFWed that previous link.
Funny thing is, I actually tried it and couldn’t get my leg high enough. Chun Li makes it look much easier than it actually is.
And yes, ‘Street Fighter: The later years” is incredible!
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i LOLed to Jon’s comment, then i LOLed for actually attempting chun li’s attack.
Though I can kick really high, flipping upside down and spinning seems a tad difficult. Just a tad.
And DAYUM, Chun Li has got some thunder thighs.
BEST Street Fighter has to be Blanca. He’s got all the size, strength, and hair of the BEAST without any of that intelligence to bog us down. Plus he conducts electricity. Got yer energy crisis solution right here!
Can you guys do me a favor today? I can’t watch the stream because two people like to use the internet for an mmo. But I can watch it on youtube. So if you don’t mind, could you get it on youtube a little earlier? The admin has the net shut off at 2am so I can’t really watch it later. That’d be great!
I guess I didn’t say this here yet. Thanks for the vid spot! I was actually pleasently surprised! Looking forward to to episode 86!
(go quietus!)
Now, to catch up on the conversation that’s been going on without me.
Um… there’s a timezone thing to think about too, you know. Just… just sayin.
I think uploading on YouTube would require them staying up till midnight to do it for you…. May be… maybe a bit much to ask. Just sayin’.
I won’t lie, I’m shocked that Blanca got so many votes this week, I always viewed him as one of the lamer ones, though Headphonic and Joe certainty explained why he was cool in a way.
Noone said Vega?! I mean, Vega is sooo awesome, with those claw things, and that mask! So much personality!
But hard to actually play as.
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