The Trash Heap of the Heapers' Hangout

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• MetaFour

  2014-08-23 18:45:24

  For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• MetaFour

  2014-08-23 18:48:52

  For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.

  We never realized where we've been.
• MetaFour

  2014-08-23 18:51:16

  For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.

  You've got it all worked out. I wish you'd shut your mouth.
• Calica

  2014-08-23 18:51:47

  Sup bitches, witches, Haters, and trolls.

  naney said:

  nyanners reblogged my post
  
  the note count rises

  does she still do voice acting
• MetaFour

  2014-08-23 18:54:00

  For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.

  Driving cars, deliveries. You're the one who played the keys.
• MetaFour

  2014-08-23 18:59:15

  For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.

  And they'll fade, they'll fade out.
• MetaFour

  2014-08-23 19:06:11

  For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.

  So excited, you wrote it down.
• MetaFour

  2014-08-23 19:12:01

  For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.

  You can't compress with the always used. Play something new.
• MetaFour

  2014-08-23 19:16:58

  For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.

  These are the nights, when nothing's gonna break me more.
• MetaFour

  2014-08-23 19:34:28

  For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.

  I know we can work it out. Spend some time to talk it out.
• MetaFour

  2014-08-23 19:40:58

  For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.

  Something's wrong if it's the old news. Just play the C chord like it's something.
• MetaFour

  2014-08-23 19:45:06

  For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.

  This is what we need, to live out all the love that we read.
• MetaFour

  2014-08-23 19:49:15

  For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.

  With a never ending line of 20 dollar bills, that never change your life.
• MetaFour

  2014-08-23 19:51:35

  For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.

  Can't delay it, no, no, no, no, you've got no soul.
• MetaFour

  2014-08-23 19:54:06

  For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.

  So this is how it feels when you got no eyes.
• MetaFour

  2014-08-23 19:57:11

  For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.

  I like it when you're hanging around. You took on my name.
• MetaFour

  2014-08-23 20:00:21

  For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.

  Good for nothing, you're a dethroned king.
• MetaFour

  2014-08-23 20:05:11

  For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.

  Pictured on a doorstep and a lack of hesitation. Need a drummer cause I've got imagination.
• MetaFour

  2014-08-23 20:08:59

  For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.

  I want to know why you messed up the party.
• Yarrun XIX

  2014-08-23 20:10:23

  Whores! we want "poems that kill."
  Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
  guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
  and take their weapons leaving them dead

  thenamelesssamurai said:

  Sredni Vashtar said:

  thenamelesssamurai said:

  Sredni Vashtar said:

  thenamelesssamurai said:

  
  
  I don't remember that strip. Then again, haven't not reread Questionable Content in a long time.
  

  Me neither, but Yarrun posted that one here a while back and it's stuck with me.

  
  

  QC is way better binged than followed.

  Definitely. Rather indifferent to it as a whole lately, though there have been some good moments.
  

  I think it kind of peaked between strip 666 and somewhere around 1500 or so.

  Yeah, I can agree with that. Not quite digging the new art style either.
  

  It has its good points, but it has gotten rather inconsistent. And the writing quality's dropped a bit. I saw the last twist coming from, like, a mile away.
• Yarrun XIX

  2014-08-23 20:12:55

  Whores! we want "poems that kill."
  Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
  guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
  and take their weapons leaving them dead

  Aliroz said:

  My theory is that Death is just a good, loyal friend to Dracula, the only one to keep coming back after the Belmonts beat Dracula every time; and also the hardest boss in each game.

  I wouldn't say friend. More like your boss from your part-time job that you occasionally invite on fishing trips in an attempt to get a raise, but the boss thinks you're overdoing it big-time.
• Yarrun XIX

  2014-08-23 20:15:50

  Whores! we want "poems that kill."
  Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
  guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
  and take their weapons leaving them dead

  I never did get what the whole deal was with Braid.

  
  

  You get to time-travel as a game-mechanic, and there's a twist-ending that's kind of hackneyed tbh, and the rest is just a standard platformer?
• Odradek

  2014-08-23 20:16:30

  My dreams exceed my real life

  Yarrun XIX said:

  I never did get what the whole deal was with Braid.

  
  

  You get to time-travel as a game-mechanic, and there's a twist-ending that's kind of hackneyed tbh, and the rest is just a standard platformer?

  
• Salix Babylonika

  2014-08-23 20:19:46 edited 2014-08-23 20:20:39

  https://i.imgur.com/IoGc2jA.jpg

  I genuinely think Braid is a really unremarkable game and I have no idea why it's so beloved. Also Johnathan Blow is one of those indie developers. The kind who don't take no shit from nobody because they are an ARTIST with a VISION. The VISION in this case being a 2D version of Blinx The Timesweeper.
  
  
  
  in other news, this could've gone worse.
  
• MetaFour

  2014-08-23 20:20:18

  For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.

  Isn't "competent platformer with time travel as a game mechanic" enough? Plot on top of that is nice, of course, but is it truly necessary?
• Odradek

  2014-08-23 20:20:47

  My dreams exceed my real life

  Mo The Show said:

  I genuinely think Braid is a really unremarkable game and I have no idea why it's so beloved. Also Johnathan Blow is one of those indie developers. The kind who don't take no shit from nobody because they are an ARTIST with a VISION.
  
  
  
  in other news, this could've gone worse.
  

  I realized I can't really vocalize what I like about Braid, but I know I do.
• Odradek

  2014-08-23 20:21:06

  My dreams exceed my real life

  We can agree Nier, is a good game, right.
• MetaFour

  2014-08-23 20:21:49

  For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.

  So this is what we did for a name. We took a taste of life in our country and flew around on a plane.
• Salix Babylonika

  2014-08-23 20:22:27

  https://i.imgur.com/IoGc2jA.jpg

  MetaFour said:

  Isn't "competent platformer with time travel as a game mechanic" enough? Plot on top of that is nice, of course, but is it truly necessary?

  Yeah but there are other competent platformers with underused game mechanics that are (in my opinion) better but less well regarded.
  
• Odradek

  2014-08-23 20:23:42

  My dreams exceed my real life

  Mo The Show said:

  MetaFour said:

  Isn't "competent platformer with time travel as a game mechanic" enough? Plot on top of that is nice, of course, but is it truly necessary?

  Yeah but there are other competent platformers with underused game mechanics that are (in my opinion) better but less well regarded.
  

  The worst thing I can say about Braid is that it led to a thousand terrible flash games.

  
  So did Meat Boy I guess.
• Salix Babylonika

  2014-08-23 20:26:01

  https://i.imgur.com/IoGc2jA.jpg

  Odradek said:

  Mo The Show said:

  MetaFour said:

  Isn't "competent platformer with time travel as a game mechanic" enough? Plot on top of that is nice, of course, but is it truly necessary?

  Yeah but there are other competent platformers with underused game mechanics that are (in my opinion) better but less well regarded.
  

  The worst thing I can say about Braid is that it led to a thousand terrible flash games.

  
  So did Meat Boy I guess.

  Like I don't think Braid is bad I just don't think it's all that interesting?
  
  And people talk about the plot like it has some kind of leagues-deep hidden meaning when it's pretty obviously a metaphor for the development of the atomic bomb, which, sure, that's unique in gaming, I guess, I just don't think it makes the game any better really.
  
  Also people tend to praise the art which I personally find rather dull, I'm not one for that "painting in motion" look.
  
• Yarrun XIX

  2014-08-23 20:26:49 edited 2014-08-23 20:28:17

  Whores! we want "poems that kill."
  Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
  guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
  and take their weapons leaving them dead

  MetaFour said:

  Isn't "competent platformer with time travel as a game mechanic" enough? Plot on top of that is nice, of course, but is it truly necessary?

  I'm not saying it's a bad game; I'd have to play it (or watch a good deal of gameplay) before deciding that. I'm just saying that, back when it was released, it felt like everyone thought it was mindblowing and I'm still sitting here with my mind fairly unblown.

  
  

  I'd been seeing time-travel-based platformers on Kongregate for years before Braid came out. Braid may have done it better, and with better graphics, but it's just a natural progression of the genre. It's not like Portal, which practically kicked off its own genre of platformers.

  
  

  But I guess, in general, I'm not really into time-travel as a mechanic. Or a plot device, in many cases. So it might just be me.
• MetaFour

  2014-08-23 20:26:54

  For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.

  I can't even talk. Just kicking a rock. I already know what we're gonna play.
• Odradek

  2014-08-23 20:26:57

  My dreams exceed my real life

  That's cool.
• Sredni Vashtar

  2014-08-23 20:29:26

  “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”

  Yarrun XIX said:

  I never did get what the whole deal was with Braid.

  
  

  You get to time-travel as a game-mechanic, and there's a twist-ending that's kind of hackneyed tbh, and the rest is just a standard platformer?

  Whenever I hear the name Braid, I think of the Midwest emo band.
• MetaFour

  2014-08-23 20:30:07

  For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.

  Not the same when I try. It's just a bad lullaby.
• Yarrun XIX

  2014-08-23 20:31:17

  Whores! we want "poems that kill."
  Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
  guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
  and take their weapons leaving them dead

  And now I'm thinking about Looper again and their little "screw actually explaining how time-travel works" bit in the diner. I hate that scene.
• Odradek

  2014-08-23 20:32:56

  My dreams exceed my real life

  Yarrun XIX said:

  And now I'm thinking about Looper again and their little "screw actually explaining how time-travel works" bit in the diner. I hate that scene.

  
• MetaFour

  2014-08-23 20:33:39

  For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.

  Always leaving, I wanna be things. Always living. Pressing on.
• Yarrun XIX

  2014-08-23 20:35:59

  Whores! we want "poems that kill."
  Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
  guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
  and take their weapons leaving them dead

  The movie had beautiful cinematography and good actors, but the plot was cobbled together from the Terminator, the Gospels and various gangster movies.
• Odradek

  2014-08-23 20:37:26

  My dreams exceed my real life

  Yarrun XIX said:

  The movie had beautiful cinematography and good actors, but the plot was cobbled together from the Terminator, the Gospels and various gangster movies.

  Skip to 3:50
• Yarrun XIX

  2014-08-23 20:38:24

  Whores! we want "poems that kill."
  Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
  guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
  and take their weapons leaving them dead

  Odra, that man is incredibly English.

  
  

  Like, wow.
• Yarrun XIX

  2014-08-23 20:39:48

  Whores! we want "poems that kill."
  Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
  guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
  and take their weapons leaving them dead

  Yes, but why would the Time Gods give gangsters all those wishes?
• MetaFour

  2014-08-23 20:40:20

  For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.

  These and good times. Things like this help me through all of the long, long nights.
• MetaFour

  2014-08-23 20:43:00

  For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.

  It don't breathe, the music machine. And at a yearly cost, nearly a half week.
• nohaynicklibre

  2014-08-23 20:44:53

  Smee, Maiman, Doktar, Pavelier, Button-Lee, Juan Ovyu

  I'm watching dubbed Simpson episodes in Nico Nico Douga.
  
  The Japanese dub is surprisingly good
  
• MetaFour

  2014-08-23 20:46:10

  For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.

  And everyone needs a light, a place in the sun. I like your photographs, I need one.
• MetaFour

  2014-08-23 20:51:55

  For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.

  Nus eht ni ecalp a, thgil a sdeen enoyreve dna.
• MetaFour

  2014-08-23 20:55:22

  For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.

  So through the lines on the left I can't hear what you say. All I hear are the tom tom drums.
• One-Winged Eagle

  2014-08-23 20:56:29

  Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.

  Yarrun XIX said:

  And now I'm thinking about Looper again and their little "screw actually explaining how time-travel works" bit in the diner. I hate that scene.

  I love that scene.