by pinback » Sun Nov 17, 2019 7:23 pm
As soon as I tuned into the broadcast, the announcer made a "Pass the Banana" joke.
Here is my review of Pass the Banana from 20 years ago, in which I rip the game an ass because it eschews doing something interesting or useful in service of a bunch of incestuous in-jokes.
I could not, then, believe that after 20 years, I finally, literally tuned into the community and the very first thing I heard was not only an in-joke, but an in-joke referring to the embarrassing in-joke game I decried two decades previous.
Most of the rest of the broadcast was dead air, because nobody involved in this hobby knows how to do anything that might appeal to anyone in the universe other than those who get Pass the Banana jokes.
ICJ came in 26th, but calculated that if it wasn't for CYOA horseshit, he would have been in 11th. Why CYOA is still allowed in this thing makes about as much sense as all of the nob-gobbling horseshit I was subjected to today. It was the first Twitch chat I've ever been party to where I didn't make a joke because I knew beyond a shadow that 100% of them wouldn't get it, and 98% of them would complain about it to someone who wasn't there.
Enceladus was a marvelous example of pristine game design. I doubt anyone even noticed that the default color scheme is the same color scheme of the ship you're on. I'll post about this separately, but other than DOOM 2016 it's the only game I've ever played that made it clear that it wanted you to succeed.
In summation: Fuckin' nerds.
As soon as I tuned into the broadcast, the announcer made a "Pass the Banana" joke. [url="https://www.joltcountry.com/trottingkrips/ludban.html"]Here is my review of Pass the Banana[/url] from 20 years ago, in which I rip the game an ass because it eschews doing something interesting or useful in service of a bunch of incestuous in-jokes.
I could not, then, believe that after 20 years, I finally, literally tuned into the community and the very first thing I heard was not only an in-joke, but an in-joke referring to the embarrassing in-joke game I decried two decades previous.
Most of the rest of the broadcast was dead air, because nobody involved in this hobby knows how to do anything that might appeal to anyone in the universe other than those who get Pass the Banana jokes.
ICJ came in 26th, but calculated that if it wasn't for CYOA horseshit, he would have been in 11th. Why CYOA is still allowed in this thing makes about as much sense as all of the nob-gobbling horseshit I was subjected to today. It was the first Twitch chat I've ever been party to where I didn't make a joke because I knew beyond a shadow that 100% of them wouldn't get it, and 98% of them would complain about it to someone who wasn't there.
Enceladus was a marvelous example of pristine game design. I doubt anyone even noticed that the default color scheme is the same color scheme of the ship you're on. I'll post about this separately, but other than DOOM 2016 it's the only game I've ever played that made it clear that it wanted you to succeed.
In summation: Fuckin' nerds.