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@hungrier Oh.
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@Zecc That's why I made a second post, because both lists had Untitled Goose Game
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@hungrier Yes, we've already established my reading comprehension failed me. Let's move on.
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GOTY
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@Zecc
Would you say you can read better or worse than a goose?
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@izzion Yes.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@izzion
Yes.HONK
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
@Zecc
Would you say you can read better or worse than a goose?Not spontaneously.
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@hungrier it does some cool things with music, and it's kind of an odd stealth + prankery game: it has a solid goal to work toward, with plenty of optional stuff too. I've only watched people play it, but every single person has had a great deal of fun. People around the office mentioned really having fun with it too. I think it's totally fair that it's on the list.
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
So Arse Technica released another list of games (this time something about the last decade) and once again it includes "Untitled Goose Game". Is the game actually good or what? Everything I've seen and heard about it makes it look like a Goat Simulator type youtuber bait meme game. The Arse writeup doesn't really help, because it says things like
Its sheer originality, deceptive simplicity, and lack of pretensionâmirrored by its name itselfâall make Untitled Goose Game, for me, a paragon of what gaming can be: story-driven fun that is accessible to anyone.
From what I've seen / read it has clear objectives you can try to complete using stealth or persistent honking, while Goat Simulator appears to be entirely sandbox gameplay?
Wikipedia did have this quote of a review which seems fitting:
Kotaku gave the game a positive review, praising the gameplay and its humor, stating, "Moments like these are what make Untitled Goose Game great. The environments are nice. The objectives are generally creative and enjoyable. But the real magic of the game lies in brief, endlessly funny interactions. Thereâs an insidious joy in drawing out increasingly infuriated reactions from the small townâs peopleâall of whom are, in their own way, kinda douchey. They had it coming, I think. Or maybe Iâve come to so thoroughly inhabit the gooseâs headspace that now that I have an implicit bias. I appreciate that the gameâs humorous sensibility rarely tips over the ledge into outright absurdity, preferring instead to take an understated route where the punchline is almost always 'Wow, that goose is kind of a dick.' You, the playerâthe artist of avian assholeryâpaint within those lines."
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
Is the game actually good or what? Everything I've seen and heard about it makes it look like a Goat Simulator type youtuber bait meme game. The Arse writeup doesn't really help, because it says things like
GLoosely based on true events.
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
"Untitled Goose Game". Is the game actually good or what?
Yes, it's excellent.
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
Everything I've seen and heard about it makes it look like a Goat Simulator type youtuber bait meme game.
It is not.
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You're going to want to open the article to find out the man's name.
"Oh, the pain, the pain!"
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
You're going to want to open the article to find out the man's name.
The internet tells me there are a lot of people with that name, including an Instagram "star", a character in Lost in Space, and a urologist in St. Louis. I'm not sure why I'm supposed to care.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
a character in Lost in Space
Bingo!
@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
"Oh, the pain, the pain!"
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@Boner said in In other news today...:
Reminds me of the story I heard several years ago, about a lawyer by the name of Mark Zuckerberg who couldn't create a Facebook account because Facebook's automated systems kept flagging him as a troll trying to impersonate that other guy named Mark Zuckerberg.
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@boomzilla Is there anyone here who hasn't used a magnifying glass to burn something? (at least mine were always in confined/non-spreadable areas...)
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Though maybe it was because my grandfather wouldn't lend his magnifying glass due to it being a big and heavy one.
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@JBert I remember having a tiny one - like a 0.5in diameter. So it took a little longer to burn things...
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@dcon I used to burn "art" into wood chips from the playground when I was a kid
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@hungrier
If you could burn Pen 15 images into woodchips as a kid, why are you working in IT instead of being a glorious artist?
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
@JBert I remember having a tiny one - like a 0.5in diameter.
Are you trying to be quoted out of context?
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@dcon said in In other news today...:
@JBert I remember having a tiny one - like a 0.5in diameter.
Are you trying to be quoted out of context?
No... (re-reads what I wrote)
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Oh, sure, it's perfectly fine when Chipotle and Chick Fil-A do it....
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
Oh, sure, it's perfectly fine when Chipotle and Chick Fil-A do it....
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
Guess 2019 isn't over yet:
Edit: FWIW:if you have a particularly prudish employer, I would recommend avoiding following the link to the Escobar Inc page in the article from work.
NEWS UPDATE
It seems to have an uncanny resemblance to an older model of Chinese smartphone:
But have no fear, this model is actually blessed by a priest:
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
the foldable phone is said to be 'unbreakable'.
That sounds like a challenge!
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@HardwareGeek Blending it does not count.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek Blending it does not count.
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
@hungrier
If you could burn Pen 15 images into woodchips as a kid, why are you working in IT instead of being a glorious artist?His parents told him to do something more respectable and/or stable, probably. Of course, being in IT, he's failed them on both accounts. But they couldn't have known that back then, so didn't stop him in time.
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Now, letâs compare the estrogen hormone in an impossible whopper to the whopper made from hormone implanted beef. The impossible whopper has 44 mg of estrogen and the whopper has 2.5 ng of estrogen. Now let me refresh your metric system. There are 1 million nanograms (ng) in one milligram (mg). That means an impossible whopper has 18 million times as much estrogen as a regular whopper. Just six glasses of soy milk per day has enough estrogen to grow boobs on a male. Thatâs the equivalent of eating four impossible whoppers per day. You would have to eat 880 pounds of beef from an implanted steer to equal the amount of estrogen in one birth control pill.
Hope this doesn't make a trend. I don't want to have to check labels for elevated estrogen levels, in addition to all the other crap food has already.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
six glasses of soy milk per day has enough estrogen to grow boobs on a male.
Tell me more...... <3
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@acrow Plant estrogen is not human estrogen. None of that is true. It's all propaganda from beta cucks.
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@anonymous234 Hmm...
First Google result says:
Because they mimic your body's own estrogen, phytoestrogens accomplish some of the same things.
I think I'll play it safe and steer clear or any and all things "vegan".
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@Vixen said in In other news today...:
@dkf said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek Blending it does not count.
Amusing, but would have been better if they added in Turret voices from Portal crying out in agony as the blending occurs.
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@Mason_Wheeler Or play the turret's "last words" first, like "Goodbye", or "I don't blame you".
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@JBert "Please put me downâŚ"
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@anonymous234 Hmm...
First Google result says:
Because they mimic your body's own estrogen, phytoestrogens accomplish some of the same things.
I think I'll play it safe and steer clear or any and all things "vegan".
Yes, they accomplish some of the same things. Sort of like a heating lamp and a bunsen burner achieve the same thing - making things warm.
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@Rhywden Well, yes. They are different molecules. They are bound to have differences in effect. No question on that.
But does the plant one also have the effect on the shape of human physique that the animal counterpart does? The articles above don't explicitly state whether it's in the group of "some of the same effects". Also, does plant-estrogen have that effect in doses comparable to what 4pcs of "Impossible/Rebel Whopper" contain? These are still unanswered.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden Well, yes. They are different molecules. They are bound to have differences in effect. No question on that.
But does the plant one also have the effect on the shape of human physique that the animal counterpart does? The articles above don't explicitly state whether it's in the group of "some of the same effects". Also, does plant-estrogen have that effect in doses comparable to what 4pcs of "Impossible/Rebel Whopper" contain? These are still unanswered.
Conclusion
The results of this meta-analysis indicate that neither soy protein nor isoflavones affect reproductive hormone concentrations in men regardless of age or cancer status. Although the duration of most trials was <6 months, soy protein and isoflavone intake greatly exceeded typical dietary Japanese intake (2). These results suggest that consumption of soy foods or isoflavone supplements would not result in the adverse effects associated with lower T levels (31, 32, 33). Conversely, these data also suggest that lowering either free T or T is not a likely mechanism for the proposed role of soy in reducing prostate cancer risk.
https://www.fertstert.org/article/S0015-0282(09)00966-2/fulltext