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CyberAngel wrote:I do use programs where it's pretty handy myself, but even the chance of misclicking and scrolling the wheel instead is something that makes it feel like bad hardware design. Was it too much to just put a third button near it as well?
Fair enough complaint! indeed they could have put a 3rd button on there
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WelshMegalodon wrote:Just thought of another one: people who watch the Star Wars movies in "chronological order".

Has there ever been an instance of a writer releasing a prequel to a previous work and telling people to experience it first? Or is it all just fan wankery by people who pride themselves on remembering that X takes place before Y? How many prequel works even exist that don't give away massive spoilers if read or seen first?
Chronological by film release or chronological in-universe?

Spoiling the plot in Star Wars is a non-issue though, unless you're presenting a newly-discovered Amazon tribe with a recommended viewing order.

Once you've watched them all and care enough to watch them again, chronological in-universe makes narrative sense to me. My mild OCD is definitely not okay with episodes I-III after IV-VI on my shelf either!
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You should not watch the Star Wars Prequels in chronological order because they rely heavily on knowledge of the OT. For example, the "how uncivilized!" laugh line means nothing to a first-time viewer. In fact, how on Earth would anyone starting fresh from Phantom Menace have any clue what the Obi Wan and Qui Gon are babbling about while they drink tea in the waiting room scene?

Or better yet, don't waste your time watching terrible terrible, dead-horse-whipping obvious cash-in movies and look for some original IP. Have you seen The Expanse yet?
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WelshMegalodon wrote:How many prequel works even exist that don't give away massive spoilers if read or seen first?
I think only Panzer Dragoon Zwei fills that criteria.
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TransatlanticFoe wrote:Chronological by film release or chronological in-universe?

Spoiling the plot in Star Wars is a non-issue though, unless you're presenting a newly-discovered Amazon tribe with a recommended viewing order.

Once you've watched them all and care enough to watch them again, chronological in-universe makes narrative sense to me. My mild OCD is definitely not okay with episodes I-III after IV-VI on my shelf either!
Spoilers aside, I think we can all agree that The Phantom Menace is a terrible introduction to Star Wars. Especially when it's followed up by the other two prequels, the Disney side stories, and the Clone Wars movie so awful that not even Clone Wars fans talk about it. How is any newcomer supposed to get to "Han shot first" and "I am your father" in any reasonable amount of time with six feature-length movies and two multi-season animated series ahead of them? (And that's just with the current canon! Does anyone even care about stuff like The Force Unleashed or the Ewoks animated series anymore?)

Watching the Prequels first can also lead to all sorts of pointless, distracting questions that wouldn't have come up otherwise like "why did Threepio keep quiet about knowing Obi-Wan Kenobi", "what the heck happened to Ahsoka", and the classic "how did the Empire build a second, even bigger Death Star in four years when it took them 20 years to build the first one?*"

*For those of you who are curious: prior to the existence of the Prequels, the official canon answer to the last question was that the original Death Star only took about two years to build, but very few people know of this fact since it appeared in an obscure tie-in magazine from 1994 that has understandably been all but forgotten.

My own mild OCD is annoyed by Boba Fett being Jango's clone kid when previous sources had already established him as being Jaster Mereel, but it's true that the Expanded Universe was not without its fair share of inconsistencies, both big and small, well before the Prequels came along. How the heck do you get into a TIE fighter again?
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production order or bust
There is a very, very, very short list of series that I'd say to not bother to watch in production order, and none of them are particularly interconnected from season to season anyway.

Also, I've gotten super used to middle click on scrollwheel but it's still just kinda weird.
Using an actual 3 button mouse without a scrollwheel is terrible though because I scroll constantly, and using a machine without a middle click [laptops mostly] is generally just a pain because I also end up using middleclick features constantly.
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null1024 wrote:There is a very, very, very short list of series that I'd say to not bother to watch in production order, and none of them are particularly interconnected from season to season anyway.
Just curious, is Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu on that list? Last time I checked, the jury was still out on that one.
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Specineff do you know someone that fat or do you have to deal with this stuff so to a job? I probably asked this before and forgot. I'm not a fan of land whales, but you've got extra vigor about this subject.
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WelshMegalodon wrote:
null1024 wrote:There is a very, very, very short list of series that I'd say to not bother to watch in production order, and none of them are particularly interconnected from season to season anyway.
Just curious, is Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu on that list? Last time I checked, the jury was still out on that one.
no jury is out. if you watch Haruhi in chronological order you're watching it wrong
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Steamflogger Boss wrote:Specineff do you know someone that fat or do you have to deal with this stuff so to a job? I probably asked this before and forgot. I'm not a fan of land whales, but you've got extra vigor about this subject.
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Haruhi is very definitely production order, and I'm still kinda baffled that, at least on first viewing, anything else would be considered.
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its completely fucked that they aired it any other way and that the physical and streaming releases are also in chronological. you really have to go out of your way to watch it properly
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ED-057 wrote:
Steamflogger Boss wrote:Specineff do you know someone that fat or do you have to deal with this stuff so to a job? I probably asked this before and forgot. I'm not a fan of land whales, but you've got extra vigor about this subject.
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Boomer is a state of mind, not an age group. Words can change based on their most common usage.
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Upon revisiting it, the bosses in Parasite Eve and how utter BULLSHIT many of their attacks are: T-Rex's flame breath, Cerberos' howl, the Triceratops' semi-homing lightning. Interesting concept, but flawed execution.
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Steamflogger Boss wrote:Boomer is a state of mind, not an age group. Words can change based on their most common usage.
Indeed, so if I called the nice lady at my local bakery a flaming c**t she'd understand, right? Words do evolve and change meaning over time, but not that quick. They indeed have multiple meanings - just think: multiple meanings!

It may be popular amongst a group of teenagers, as indeed radical feminism may be at the present time, but the majority of us still use the word according to its original definition.

And why on earth would someone be a 'boomer' if they are not a fan of radical feminism? Plenty of so called feminists are not fans of Radical Feminism themselves and are they too to be regarded as 'boomers'? You see how you haven't quite thought that one out?

Blinge himself even got banned once for using trendy put-downs, you remember that? These masters of argument, how they use rhetoric...or perhaps the copy-paste generation of meme-driven half-wits? I wonder how many of these noble debaters will be able to debate anything give or take a couple of decades.

Educate yourself, Steamflooger:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_boomers
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Blinge himself even got banned once for using trendy put-downs, you remember that? These masters of argument, how they use rhetoric...
The only ban I really remember is poor Drum coming back from a temp after mouthing off at BLOODF, only to immediately do it again and get fisted into the next dimension. A fearless Hard Gaymer, possessed by a fury that burns from inside! :shock:

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who BLOODF ?
dun ban mi plz

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Hahaha, ohhhhh those were hateful days. But fun!
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Anyways the last few posts in this thread are fucking gold.
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While we are sharing gems, this thread is loaded. I went to it to try and find something, but had forgot how hilarious it was. Lots of typical shmups farm interactions.
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Steamflogger Boss wrote:While we are sharing gems, this thread is loaded. I went to it to try and find something, but had forgot how hilarious it was. Lots of typical shmups farm interactions.
lol I'm alllllll up in that bitch
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Blinge wrote:Image
...and the wonder machine keeps on posting his thoughtful insights.

Now, about Radical Feminism: let's hear your amazing arguments for it, Blinge. Astound us if you dare :) A chimp can post memes, my dear - it ain't difficult :)
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Also, bring back Skykid
My guess is that his red dream of China turned into a scarlet plague. Who the f/k would want to be in that $hithole?
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MintyTheCat wrote: ...and the wonder machine keeps on posting his thoughtful insights.

Now, about Radical Feminism: let's hear your amazing arguments for it, Blinge. Astound us if you dare :) A chimp can post memes, my dear - it ain't difficult :)
Personally I doubt a chimp could post memes.
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Did a Bayonetta thing, at one or two points before some of the serious fights there's a tiny, yet visible black jumpcut in the pause screen where I swap from windowed mode to fullscreen. I usually play windowed when streaming as I find it the easiest setup for paying attention to chat while playing, and swap to fullscreen for OMYGRASH, GOTTA FOCUS-tier fights to ignore Twitch chat so as not to get distracted. But now I'm worrying about "Do I edit that out before uploading to Youtube? Is someone going to cause drama and argue it's somehow spliced footage?".
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