1,000+ Pages of NeoGAF: The Story of Wasted Lives and Hardcore Salt

[benjipwns]

you can't spell deadpool without EAD

Wow, too soon to make jokes that can be connected to Nintendo and thus Iwata's death. you heartless biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiaaaaaaatttccccchhhhh.

[demi]

It was ok, Another World was better.

lmao nah

[studyguy]

Nah it's not like that at all.
90% you don't have a gun or anything. If something touches you, you're treated to some fucked up death scene.
It's mostly an adventure game with small platforming sections thrown into the mix and simple puzzles.

[brawndolicious]

What do you mean by a male porn star having "stroke game"?

[benjipwns]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=171756671&postcount=8511

[nachobro]

What do you mean by a male porn star having "stroke game"?

They just say that as an excuse for staring at a man's dick for hours

[bork]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=171756671&postcount=8511

[dmj]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=171756671&postcount=8511

......

 

[Mr. Nobody]

I cried when that boy you controlled in Mother 3 was raped by the magypsies. Horrific scene, that showed games can be art and portray adult matters.

I was like 10 or 11 when I first played Heart of Darkness on PS1.
Only game I can recall in my life that fucked me up something awful due to those death scenes.

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This shit was E for everyone, the fuck. Had the kid getting his neck snapped, ripped in two, etc
Also had dudes lighting up and drawings of naked muppet women in it too.
Weird ass fucking game.

Downloading now 

[Kara]

What do you mean by a male porn star having "stroke game"?

Their golf handicap. All the big deals are done on the green in showbiz.

[studyguy]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=171756671&postcount=8511

 

[dmj]

What do you mean by a male porn star having "stroke game"?

They just say that as an excuse for staring at a man's dick for hours

I don't need an excuse to stare at dick for hours thank you very much 

[Phoenix Dark]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=171756671&postcount=8511

this is what I'm talking about, Wrath.

[benjipwns]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=171784421&postcount=9512

[benjipwns]

[benjipwns]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=171777038&postcount=9300

Never has the death of someone outside of my family and circle of friends affected me so much. I've been gaming since I was 8, and nearly 20 years later, I still play religiously. I've always had and will have a Nintendo system, and that is where I have the most fun. Even my desk at work is littered with Nintendo figurines and drawings.

The fan art that has come up in the last day has made me tear up and smile at the same time. Nintendo is magic; there is no doubt about it.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=171781706&postcount=9434

I'm re-living the shock that I've experienced when Michael Jackson died. Kind of a feeling like the person who just died has left people running around wondering what just happened and half expecting a seven-headed dragon with laser eyes to crawl from the ground nearby. The world just suddenly seems like a strange and bizarre place somehow.

[Kara]

You're going "directly" to heaven.

[Nibel]

Laughing about people who draw tribute art to express their feelings or shit, and pointing fingers at them from this dark corner here and feeling better than them

You guys are corny as hell

[Shadow Mod]

I get being sad but the whole deifying type stuff over the death of a corporate executive is just what. Oh well. How long before the infighting starts when the complaining about nintendo interferes with the grieving period.

[benjipwns]

Laughing about people who draw tribute art to express their feelings or shit, and pointing fingers at them from this dark corner here and feeling better than them

Wait, is that last part required?

[Steve Youngblood]

Death in relation to someone I'm not personally close to is always one of those things that I've been really uncomfortable with. On the one hand, I think it's easily understood that there's a sense of finality to it that justifiably evokes different emotions in different people. And even though the cynic in me knows that everyone dies and rarely gets emotional about it, I'd be lying if I said I was above caring or reacting to it. It's really not hard for me to understand why people feel (or at least think they do) a connection to people even if they've never met them in their entire life. I think many people can't help but get introspective about someone dying.

But on the other hand, I do think people can get carried away and lose perspective as well. And by that -- and I don't mean this specific to Iwata at all -- it just seems like the line between "this person was great and will be missed" and "this is the most important and tragic thing in recent history" gets unnecessarily blurred by some. But still, I can't help but circle back to noting that death is a hard thing to react to for many and thus I try not to get carried away with cynicism. Do I think some go a little too far? Maybe. But I'm willing to be forgiving in that regard if it means not overreacting in the other direction and coming across like I'm a heartless monster and offering responses like "Everyone dies, who cares about one guy?"

[Nibel]

The idea that you can't be sad about a person's death because his job position was being a CEO is what is sick here.

Like, read up on Iwata. Dude was a great person who started as programmer and got flack from his father for following his dreams. He went the extra mile with doing his internal interviews and Directs, doing goofy shit because he can laugh about himself.

Showing affection takes more than dumping on people for doing so. But then again, this is the whole purpose of this thread here I suppose

[Shadow Mod]

The idea that you can't be sad about a person's death because his job position was being a CEO is what is sick here.

Like, read up on Iwata. Dude was a great person who started as programmer and got flack from his father for following his dreams. He went the extra mile with doing his internal interviews and Directs, doing goofy shit because he can laugh about himself.

Showing affection takes more than dumping on people for doing so. But then again, this is the whole purpose of this thread here I suppose

You took what I said and twisted it in all kinds of weird ways. I think you need to chill out.

[mormapope]

Laughing about people who draw tribute art to express their feelings or shit, and pointing fingers at them from this dark corner here and feeling better than them

You guys are corny as hell

I was permabanned for a simple ass joke, so I was put in this corner by a mod who didn't like me much.

Second off, you're the cornball if drawings of Nintendo characters in tears over a president dying is some sort of poignant and touching expression. I like the idea of honoring a man or woman for their talent and personality, not because they're simply associated with something I like. Iwata being honored and celebrated because of what he did in the industry is helluva more righteous than shitty fan art.

I'm a Sopranos megafan, if people drew dead James Gandolfini/Tony Soprano with characters crying in the background, I'd call that out as silly cornball shit.

When you put your own grieving on display, on the internet, over someone you didn't personally know, expect to be judged accordingly breh.

[benjipwns]

Permabans in relation to someone I'm not personally close to is always one of those things that I've been really uncomfortable with. On the one hand, I think it's easily understood that there's a sense of finality to it that justifiably evokes different emotions in different people. And even though the cynic in me knows that everyone gets banned and rarely gets emotional about it, I'd be lying if I said I was above caring or reacting to it. It's really not hard for me to understand why people feel (or at least think they do) a connection to people even if they've never met them in their entire life. I think many people can't help but get introspective about someone getting banned.

But on the other hand, I do think people can get carried away and lose perspective as well. And by that -- and I don't mean this specific to Iwata at all -- it just seems like the line between "this person was great and will be missed" and "this is the most important and tragic thing in recent history" gets unnecessarily blurred by some. But still, I can't help but circle back to noting that bans are a hard thing to react to for many and thus I try not to get carried away with cynicism. Do I think some go a little too far? Maybe. But I'm willing to be forgiving in that regard if it means not overreacting in the other direction and coming across like I'm a heartless monster and offering responses like "Everyone gets banned, who cares about one guy?"

[Tasty]

What do you mean by a male porn star having "stroke game"?

Their golf handicap. All the big deals are done on the green in showbiz.

Wrong, it's obviously swimming strokes. Gotta make efficient use of that arm energy.

[Kara]

When Gunter Grass died I didn't even hear about it for a week because you philistines (pejorative you, not the Bore) have wretched taste and fill your minds with nothing but a steady diet of . I found out he was dead on 4/20, had a bit of a laugh about that given his surname and read some passages from The Tin Drum.

Nibel take a timeout.

[VomKriege]

Tasteless Iwata / Amiboo joke, TRIGGA WARNING

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Also, don't want to take a dump on people being sad, I can't relate but I guess I can have some empathy. I just find those outbursts to be arbitrary as all hell. Have a real hard time not thinking that for some it is only a symptom of the irrational attachment they have with a for profit company from the other side of the world. Iwata just a collateral in all this. But what do I know.

RIP.

[mormapope]

And lets not pretend like Borians weren't surprised or bummed out about the news when it hit, there's a thread for that. The difference between that thread here and what you'll find on Gaf is people are allowed to have a sense of humor or dissenting opinions without a megaton pile on and eventual ban. 

[studyguy]

When MJ passed I had the great misfortune of working in Santa Barbara.
That was pretty shitty. Both for having a ton of traffic and general circus around the town and cause the dude died.
I got rear ended that month by some dude from out of town too now that I think of it. Not the best memory to have of that time.

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[Rahxephon91]

And lets not pretend like Borians weren't surprised or bummed out about the news when it hit, there's a thread for that. The difference between that thread here and what you'll find on Gaf is people are allowed to have a sense of humor or dissenting opinions without a megaton pile on and eventual ban.

I was surprised, but not bummed out. The dude did'nt define my childhood. Like I doubt he did any of these peoples.

[king of the internet]

No one's gonna give a shit when I die.

[benjipwns]

Because wanting to call another executive at a company for pro-tips or travel to their headquarters to bother the employees is a natural step in the grieving process.

[Shadow Mod]

I think it's entirely appropriate to cringe at some of the stuff that people publicly do. I can't go whole hog into "everyone grieves in their own way." Some stuff is just completely tacky or classless.

Can we be too cynical here, sure, yes, all of the time, especially my ass. But really there are just some things I can't help but roll my eyes at. Making a spectacle of this kind of thing always gets a side eye from me. At some point it becomes less about the person who died and people making it about themselves, trying to one up each other and speaking on behalf of the dead in "tribute" to them.

I honestly get kind of disturbed by the whole thing.

[mormapope]

I was surprised, but not bummed out. The dude did'nt define my childhood. Like I doubt he did any of these peoples.

I mainly respect the hustle he exhibited with the Gamecube -> Wii jump. Nintendo was in a very bad place and there wasn't an easy answer for the their problems, pushing the Wii forward might've been a hail mary but it ended up working incredibly well.

After that, the gamecube era returned except things were even worse. 

[Rufus]

You're going "directly" to heaven.

Wii U remember me?

[benjipwns]

trying to one up each other and speaking on behalf of the dead in "tribute" to them.

A good chunk of the thread is now people "taking their own shot" at a tribute, making it their avatar, etc. and then you have a few posts of "wow", "this is great", "send this to nintendo", "heartwarming", "this is why nintendo is magic", "tie this around a brick and throw it through the Iwata family's window", etc. before the next one.

[Kara]

No one's gonna give a shit when I die.

My life insurer will.

[Rahxephon91]

I was surprised, but not bummed out. The dude did'nt define my childhood. Like I doubt he did any of these peoples.

I mainly respect the hustle he exhibited with the Gamecube -> Wii jump. Nintendo was in a very bad place and there wasn't an easy answer for the their problems, pushing the Wii forward might've been a hail mary but it ended up working incredibly well.

After that, the gamecube era returned except things were even worse.

I mean yes he was a good CEO for the most part, but I doubt when the CEo of Samsung dies there's going to be fan art of TVs and Tablets welcoming him to heaven.

Now I get it, he was personable and video gaming is far more fandom driven. It's just at the end of the day this just seems like the continuing push of Nintendo fandom to extol anything related to this company to gaming sainthood. To make it seem like the most defining thing ever. It just gets annoying. A good guy died and thats sad, but do we really need to make a spectacle out of it to drum up more praise for stupid video games?

Do we really need idolzing of people that make business decisions so companies can make more money? I get that Iwata was an actual game developer, but I'm sure when Reggie dies Ninfegs are going to make threads such as "how did reggie shape your life" and "share your Reggie memory"

[Take My Breh Away]

Do we really need idolzing of people that make business decisions so companies can make more money?

I feel we're gonna get a different answer here compared to asking some Apple investors their thoughts on the matter.

[VomKriege]

Also when you make a spectacle out of it but only have "direct" and variants for your eulogy, I doubt there is anything more than superficial to the sentiment.

Anyway, never have been moved by the death of a famous person (I think), even one I had admiration for. Tales of mass slaughters easily push me to the brink of cracking up though.

[Shadow Mod]

trying to one up each other and speaking on behalf of the dead in "tribute" to them.

A good chunk of the thread is now people "taking their own shot" at a tribute, making it their avatar, etc. and then you have a few posts of "wow", "this is great", "send this to nintendo", "heartwarming", "this is why nintendo is magic", "tie this around a brick and throw it through the Iwata family's window", etc. before the next one.

 

[Phoenix Dark]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=171756671&postcount=8511

this is what I'm talking about, Wrath.

And this didn't happen with any other well known person's death? Where some people want to do stupid shit cause a guy they didn't know died? It's distinguished mentally-challenged, yes, but it's nothing we haven't seen before. Y'all are shitting on this one specifically for two reasons, you have rage boners when it comes to GAF and Nintendo. It's not that much crazier than the circus that was Michael Jackson's death. Iwata is nowhere near the level of popularity of MJ, and his death won't see the lunacy that happened with MJ's death. Yet this is ridiculous and wtf at GAF? Stop it, it's lame.

[Shadow Mod]

It was tacky with MJ, Jobs, etc you name it.

I don't have nintendo/gaf rage, I just have "smh" syndrome. And this shit is giving me whiplash.

[zomgee]

[mormapope]

I wouldn't agree with every death circus being the same.

[StealthFan]

  All these pages. Buncha fegs.

[studyguy]

All these pages. Buncha fegs.

Nah.







Too easy.
 

[StealthFan]

Speak your mind

[Steve Youngblood]

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Et tu, zomgee? I expect these shenanigans from benji. Karakand even. But not you...

[Kara]

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[zomgee]

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Et tu, zomgee? I expect these shenanigans from benji. Karakand even. But not you...

You laughed.

 

[octopushover]

what is with gaffers letting their spouses racially abuse them

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=171793985&postcount=135

[Jansen]

Tasteless Iwata / Amiboo joke, TRIGGA WARNING

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[brawndolicious]

what is with gaffers letting their spouses racially abuse them

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=171793985&postcount=135

Really? A lot of interracial couples make jokes like that. It's not mean spirited.

Then again I can't recall a girl making those jokes so maybe I have some confirmation bias hiding my racial bias? Fuck me.

[sarslip]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=171793898&postcount=9776

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on my business card im a software enginner, in my mind im a developer, but in reality, im just some special fellow on gaf

[Shadow Mod]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1079131

 

this just in calling prostitutes, prostitutes is "alarmist"

they are simply girls who work at themed restaurants passing out flyers

 

[Jansen]

http://www.funimation.com/videos/simulcasts
http://www.crunchyroll.com/videos/anime/simulcasts
anime is so interesting these days

[Shadow Mod]

I agree wholeheartedly to every sentence, but I think nuance and context will not go well in this thread until it ends up locked.

For a more serious if cursory look at issues facing women in Japanese culture, NPR's Planet Money did a quick piece about the need for robotic nannies in Japan, which is ostensibly because women are expected to completely give up their career in order to care for their children (not unlike America prior to the 70s). This in turn makes career women wait longer to raise children or not choose to do it at all, which in turn affects the birth rate, and will perpetuate an imbalance to having a costly older population needing care. All of this also factors into Japan's stringent immigration walls, when immigrants tend to take a significant role in professional child care in other first world nations.

These are pretty serious issues with ramifications that strike at the current and future economy of Japan as it relates to culturally stacking the odds against women, but VICE picks its battles and I suppose the more entertaining route is "lolololol japan akiharbara's porn section has porn, self-selected advertising employment by high school girls is universally immoral."

Now if you excuse me, I have to go find a jailbait subreddit and congratulate Hobby Lobby on their facebook page for denying female employees birth control. Thank god I'm living in god's country

 

[Take My Breh Away]

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Was looking for this. Turned out it was former ign editor Jeremy Conrad either photoshopping it for hits on his website or using 8chan trolling pasta for hits


https://archive.is/Pn7iH
https://archive.is/2q2Xg

Either way,