raocow's talkhaus

Maybe it's just a side-effect of my watching the video in a really bad mood, but does anyone else feel kind of bad for raocow here? I mean, knowing that he doesn't really enjoy doing the "omg so rando" stuff, those long stretches of blather about donuts and whatever just started to really....

My point is, given how immoral it likely is to make or play such a brutalizing, violence glorifying game in the first place, it rings kind of hollow to stop at this element in particular just because it makes you feel bad. None of our hands are clean and none of this is justified. I feel like you t...

I see what you mean about the Cyber-Elves, but when it's a game like this (or even Mario) in which almost 100% of your enemies are "superpredators" that will always fight to the last man (even IRL Nazis and Jihadists surrender sometimes ), such that violence becomes the one and only solut...

I see what you mean about the Cyber-Elves, but when it's a game like this (or even Mario) in which almost 100% of your enemies are "superpredators" that will always fight to the last man (even IRL Nazis and Jihadists surrender sometimes ), such that violence becomes the one and only soluti...

Fun misanthropic opinion time: I'm glad the humans are finally all dead by the time of MMZ Ciel's a human. A genetically modified human, but a human nonetheless. A later antagonist is human, too, and the protagonists in the sequel series are human as well. I'm not really sure where you got the idea...

When Ciel said she was a "scientist," I initially read it as "Satanist..." Make of that what you will lol. Never played MMZ. I do really like the concept of Cyber Elves, though. Highly ambivalent about the art style. Fun misanthropic opinion time: I'm glad the humans are finally ...

Does anybody know exactly where anime beam sabers got their start? Voltron? Mobile Suit Gundam? And have the creators of those shows ever talked about their inspiration? Is it just because of Star Wars or was Yoshiyuki Tomino or somebody into the 40s and 50s American pulp stories that did laser blad...

that is some terrible visual design for that boss. like it's just a big mess. something that's is 'a pile of stuff' CAN work but not if the sprite is completely static like that. I won't defend the truly execrable execution of the gameplay, but I do have to disagree with this. I love the look of th...

Yeah, he looks like an FF or Ghouls and Ghosts character to me. Just a weird lack of defined outlines and detail. Also, I can't stop hearing "Iraqi Bop Police!" when he summons the purple lava. I don't know why I find "viral" blue and purple lava to be an interesting concept, but...

raocow, X is a Shonen hero, he's supposed to be a screaming idiot lol.

Infinity Mijinion: Oh, COME ON! What are the other investigators even doing, anyway? Their job was to prevent EXACTLY this from happening! But nooo, screw that flea guy, right? Let him clean up-- ...wait a minute. How did you get here anyway? I’m sure I set up Illumina to guard this room! ...don’t ...

"Hold right" is my favorite stage design Man, the idea of a boss that creates copies of itself that fill the room with garbage is a really interesting one. It was implemented terribly, but it probably could have been salvaged if the clones could create clones and also took damage off the ...

This game is beautiful and I can really see how it builds off Thorsen's earlier work design-wise.

Also, I definitely approve of the video titles.

From my experience with the US canon, Reploids are named as such for being attempts at "Replicating" X's Hardware/Software. "and Zero's" gets shoehorned in there after Zero it's established as a character who doesn't just die in the first game. Therefore, X and Zero are not &quo...

So, is there a way to get the subtank without tanking (ha!) damage? I'd like to talk about the translation/localization of laughter sounds. raocow said that he found it weird that they wrote "hee hee hee" for Berkana's laughter, but I thought that was perfectly normal. In German, especial...

It was a game that definitely had a lot going for it, despite its problems.

Ben, I'm glad I saw what I did and I wish you every success for the future.

TIL Reploids also use the toilet. Wait, DO Reploids have biological components? I was never clear on that beyond them "not being robots." From my experience with the US canon, Reploids are named as such for being attempts at "Replicating" X's Hardware/Software. "and Zero's&...

SAJewers wrote: ↑5 years ago TIL Reploids also use the toilet.

Wait, DO Reploids have biological components? I was never clear on that beyond them "not being robots."



Also, apparently raocow just killed the Beyblade god, sorry kids.

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xnamkcor wrote: ↑5 years ago

Cosmo Fishhawk wrote: ↑5 years ago Zero will be back because we've seen him come back two times previous

One of those times was an optional gameplay/story choice.

Fair enough.

It wouldn't have had narrative weight regardless, and this wouldn't have been a good conclusion to the series either, simply because nothing has any stakes when death is entirely meaningless (same problem as American superhero comics, Supernatural, just about every Shonen ever made, etc). We know Si...

Does anybody else think the music for this stage sounds a little like Marissa Stole the Precious Thing?




In theory, like the Digimon-looking backgounds of the Sigma Stages in this game, but the ones today are... pretty hard for me to look at.

I really liked the visual of the interlocking extendo-bridge block things. As many gameplay problems as this game has, it does do some really nice looking, interesting things at times (and has a lot of great musical choices like the Treasure of the Rudras piece). So, just for that I'm glad that Ben ...

Isaac Asimov talks about robot religion in one of the stories in "I, Robot." The authors of the Second Foundation Trilogy (basically authorized Asimov fan fic) expand on it. Other authors that have gone into it seriously- Andre Livadny (History of the Galaxy series), Stephen Hunt (Jackelia...

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When I was a kid playing Mario 3, my friends and I used to call getting three separate pieces in the match game "getting AIDS" and then laugh our heads off.


We were terrible human beings lol.