The Unofficial Official Chat Thread

[Pyroclase]

Fucking… I had my night all planned out, but then Jurassic Park isn’t even on Netflix.

[Surplus]

Netflix sucks anyways it doesn’t stream in 5.1 on PC.

[Pyroclase]

There was a gas leak in my Biology Lab today.

Something started hissing pretty loudly during class. When someone pointed it out to the professor, he said it was one of the gas spigots and went over to close it. He fiddled with it, nothing happened, and he just calmly announced that there was a gas leak and we have to evacuate the building.

Of course, five minutes later he comes outside and says that we have to continue class, (I believe all he had to do was shut off the room’s gas flow) but at least we got skip the actual lab because he didn’t want to use any of the hot plates as a precaution.

On a more interesting note, I think today was the first day in my life where I actually paid attention to an exit sign for it’s intended purpose.

[geekofalltrades]

I got an interview with Bayer! Maybe I’ll finally land a job that gets me above the federal poverty line for the first time in my life.

[mankyman6]

Star Wars spin-off films inbound

[Pyroclase]

Nice.

I hope they don’t overdo it with all the movies.

[Maxey]

Boba Fett spin-off movie maybe?

[Pyroclase]

Or the Thrawn storyline. I understand that the books were quite good.

[mankyman6]

Or something original

[_rot_fodder]

Which are the best properties to own in Monopoly? I am firmly decided that New York, Tennessee and St. James are the best properties in the game if you get all three, but I want to know what everyone else thinks.

[Pyroclase]

The bank.

[bur]

@geekofalltrades

I got an interview with Bayer! Maybe I’ll finally land a job that gets me above the federal poverty line for the first time in my life.

good luck killing the world’s bees

[Ramirezoid]

I got the lead voice role in an animation about T rexes enslaving raptors for sexual abuse

[k3nny1550]

^ Thanks, that was exactly the start I needed to my morning. O.o;;

[FERGUS]

I’ll probably always wonder why you would want to work as a gynecologist or a dentist.
What drives one to educate themselves in those professions?

[Maxey]

Teeth and vag, man. It gets no better.

[papernick]

Vag with teeth, even better! [COLOR=‘Black’]shudder

[warpedfreeman]

a portal and half-life movie hint?

https://kotaku.com/d%27i%27c%27e/

DICE Liveblog

Wednesday February 6, 2013
12: 37
StephenTotilo: Hello, people!
12: 37
StephenTotilo: Catching us up…
12: 37
StephenTotilo: Gabe Newell and JJ Abrams are on the stage.

J.J. starts talking and Gabe interrupts and says that movies are criticized for taking agency away from players.

And now they’re playing a clip from Cloverfield.

Newell: “I’m looking at that as a gamer and saying put the camera down and let me fucking run. And you won’t let me do that.”

Abrams: “Sure, but sometimes in games, players are driving in the wrong direction.” He then cues up a Half-Life 2 clip. The Dr. and Alyx are talking, but the player isn’t paying attention.

Abrams: “Hey, at least the characters in movies can talk.” Cues up a Half-Life clip.

And now we’re watching Jaws.

The schtick basically is that Abrams is advocating for how movies tell stories; Newell is doing so for games.

Both are playfully pointing out some of the limits in the others’ medium.

We’re watching the scene from Jaws in which the main three characters are arguing on the boat.

Abrams says it’s a scene that shows how Chief Brody doesn’t fit in.

And that it’s set-up for the end, in which Brody fares pretty well against that shark.

Abrams is saying that the character moment is set-up, that what you think is one thing really means something else.

Abrams is advocating for foreshadowing.

And now Newell is showing some Portal 2. The potato science fair scene.

Newell is saying that you think that seeing the potato battery is just a throwaway gag, but it’s actually setting up the potato’s importance.

Players have the option to self-pace the storytelling in games, he says.

He considers this an advantage of games, giving people the opportunity to have multiple playthroughs.

Abrams says that movies are looking into this.

Abrams points out the R2D2 cameo in Star Trek. “That’s the kind of stuff that makes us happy”. He likes hiding things.

Gabe: “So now I have to go back into your movies and look at the debris and see which of your movies you’re going to direct next? ‘Look, it’s Winnie the Pooh!’”

Abrams is cueing up a clip from Die Hard, to emphasize the value of loving the characters. The audience needs to feel for the characters.

And now Newell has a clip from Half-Life 2, where you’re getting to know and care about Alyx and Dog.

Abrams praises Portal for beginning mysteriously and making you explore GlaDOS. “The more you play, the more you felt.”

Newell loved the scene in Cloverfiled and the scene of the woman blowing up behind the screen. Games need more moments like that, he says.

“Your taste is sick,” Abrams said.

Gabe and J.J. are recapitulating the discussions they’ve had.

J.J.: There’s an idea we have for a game that we’d like to work with Valve on.

Newell: " We’re going to find out if there’s a way we can work with you on a Portal and Half-Life movie."

And they walk off!

would be cool to see a video of this

[Pyroclase]

@warpedfreeman

Gabe: “So now I have to go back into your movies and look at the debris and see which of your movies you’re going to direct next? ‘Look, it’s Winnie the Pooh!’”

Hah, that’s pretty good.

But I do wonder. As I understand it Valve has turned down a lot of offers from people wanting to make HL movie adaptations.

[mankyman6]

If they want to make a Half Life movie then go ahead, but I really don’t see the point.

I’ve never seen the point in movie adaptations of video games, besides being greedy.