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#16 joshofalltrades

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Posted 12 September 2007 - 09:50 PM

QUOTE (CJ Marren @ Sep 12 2007, 05:07 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

you, sir, are clearly a winner blah blah blah

If you're being sarcastic about my response not being 100% original and/or witty, you should know that sarcasm is the lowest form of wit. Not everything I post has to be awe-inspiringly insightful and biting.

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Posted 12 September 2007 - 09:54 PM

QUOTE (joshofalltrades @ Sep 12 2007, 10:50 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Not everything I post has to be awe-inspiringly insightful and biting.

Yeah, but once in a while it would be nice. :[

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Posted 12 September 2007 - 10:22 PM

Actually, for a post saying that every post doesn't have to be inspiring, it was quite inspiring. Isn't this insightful? Mmmmm can't think of anything biting, though, I'll just choose the vampire.

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Posted 12 September 2007 - 10:34 PM

QUOTE (joshofalltrades @ Sep 12 2007, 06:50 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

you should know that sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.

Though it is still wit.

Like my mother always said: It is better to have been witty and lost then never to have been witty at all… or something like that.

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Posted 12 September 2007 - 10:38 PM

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Posted 13 September 2007 - 02:04 AM

QUOTE (joshofalltrades @ Sep 13 2007, 03:50 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

While it may be considered the lowest form of wit (only because once somethings been said enough, it's taken as truth), I am appealing to the largest amount of people possible, so lowest common denominator comedy will ensure a chuckle from most on here.

And looks like you got stung by Sniffles and Cobnat, shame

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Cobnat @ Oct 14 2007, 09:43 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=174818"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><span style="font-family:Microsoft Sans Serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:100%"><span style="color:#FF0000">Lets all have sex with robots until our groins are sore and bloody!</span></span></span></div>

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Legion @ Aug 10 2007, 11:03 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=169306"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><span style="font-family:Arial"><span style="color:#483D8B"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%">So why the unholy flying purple donkeypunching fuck will it not work on yours? Just what kind of machine are you running there? Your toaster?</span></span></span></div>

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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Legion @ Jan 16 2008, 02:29 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=180859"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'>In my opinion it's saying, fuck the lightsabers and special effects and fuck your voiceovers and fuck your stupid multimilliondollar game studios; you don't need any of those to make brilliant and scary games that will fuck with your head.</div>

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Posted 13 September 2007 - 02:37 AM

The justification for sarcasm being the lowest form of wit is... um... EVERYBODY SAYS IT. Just like why Harry Potter is good.

Maybe you think it's low because you think it's easy but I assure you good sarcasm can be just as difficult as any other form of humour. It takes decent skill to extract what point to attack and how to attack it in such a way that it literally means you aren't, yet still make it clear that you are.

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Posted 13 September 2007 - 03:37 AM

I didn't know wit suddenly had a fucking hierarchy.

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Posted 13 September 2007 - 08:19 AM

Congratulations, you all missed the point (except for perhaps Dr. Lecter).

Since humor isn't funny if it's explained away, I'll just let you figure it out.

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Posted 13 September 2007 - 09:40 AM

QUOTE (joshofalltrades @ Sep 13 2007, 03:50 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

If your point is that you were being ironically sarcastic, and that your post WAS in fact, awe-inspiringly insightful and biting, then you're sadly mistaken.

Anyways, let us continue the topic! Onwards, not downwards, inwards, not towards, and all that.

Anyone actually care about Tomb Raider any more?

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Posted 13 September 2007 - 09:46 AM

QUOTE (CJ Marren @ Sep 13 2007, 10:40 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I really never enjoyed any of the games and decided not to bother anymore after 2.
Strangely enough Tomb raider shares a curious heritage with Street Fighter 2 in that all the sequels seemed like revampred versions of the second until they just started having all kinds of funny names that got the continuity completely lost...

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Posted 13 September 2007 - 10:47 AM

You're close, but no cigar; I was being ironically sarcastic, but the whole point is that it wasn't awe-inspiringly insightful and biting.

Continuing the ACTUAL discussion, I stopped caring about Tomb Raider after I played 10 minutes into the first game's demo and started getting mauled by a bear while the camera stared at a haystack. I went and saw the first movie, but it ended up being little more than soft-core pornography and since if I wanted I could get the equivalent (with less boredom in-between scenes) by sitting at my home computer searching through Victoria's Secret catalogs, I left early and drove to a friend's place.

Eidos is was one of the better game companies out there, and they have a soft, fluffy spot in my heart because of the Thief games and Deus Ex, but they also have a box reserved in hell for making Deus Ex: Invisible War -- one of the first games to appeal to the lowest common denominator (Surge-drinking, Halo-playing XTREME!!! CONSOLE GAMERS!!1).

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Posted 13 September 2007 - 12:38 PM

QUOTE (joshofalltrades @ Sep 13 2007, 04:47 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Continuing the ACTUAL discussion, I stopped caring about Tomb Raider after I played 10 minutes into the first game's demo and started getting mauled by a bear while the camera stared at a haystack. I went and saw the first movie, but it ended up being little more than soft-core pornography and since if I wanted I could get the equivalent (with less boredom in-between scenes) by sitting at my home computer searching through Victoria's Secret catalogs, I left early and drove to a friend's place.

Eidos is was one of the better game companies out there, and they have a soft, fluffy spot in my heart because of the Thief games and Deus Ex, but they also have a box reserved in hell for making Deus Ex: Invisible War -- one of the first games to appeal to the lowest common denominator (Surge-drinking, Halo-playing XTREME!!! CONSOLE GAMERS!!1).

Console gamers aren't (always) that bad (well, there's a minority...) and yes, I reacted the same way to EVERY Tomb Raider game. The camera also didn't affect how you made her move, so you tell her to go forward from where the camera's facing, and she goes backwards, into a spike-pit or whatever! How did so many get 10/10 in magazine reviews? They were awful!

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Posted 13 September 2007 - 09:48 PM

I played the demo for Tomb Raider: Legend. I found it so erotic that a fierce kimodo dragon leapt from my trousers and murdered my grandparents. Out of love for my grandparents, I will never play another Tomb Raider game for as long as I live.

But I'll still look at porn of it.