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[–] [email protected] 142 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This just in: one of the biggest douches you know is still a massive tool

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Brothers in Arms is one of my favourite series of all time, and for years I was disappointed that they never greenlit a sequel to BiA2.

I get now that it's probably for the best, having seen how awful this turd is.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Kinda a double dose of dumb there. The Beatles were prolific af, AND 1 in 4 songs were top 10. They could easily spawn a dozen memorable bands with all their music. But sure, lol.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Yeah I went to Wikipedia to check the numbers :

The group's "main catalogue"—songs released between 1962 and 1970—consists of 213 songs

So that's like 50+ songs that were "hits", wake me up when Gearbox releases 200+ games and 50 of those are nominated for at least one awards

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Also, it’s not like the songs that didn’t make the charts were bad, they just didn’t hit the charts.

Back then I believe only singles were eligible for the charts, not the rest of the album.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Also, back then, and up until the late 00s, you bought albums, singles were a thing and plenty popular, but mainly if you liked a band you bought their album.

The beatles hit number 1 for 90% of their studio albums.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

The beatles hit number 1 for 90% of their studio albums.

And their worst album (yellow submarine) was 3rd.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

nominated for at least one awards

I get what you're saying, but this is a completely useless metric.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah idk what else can be a testimony of a game being a "hut" ; I don't trust metacritic scores either

[–] RogueBanana 1 points 2 months ago

Sale count and player numbers on launch would be better I suppose

[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, thats why they were world famous and had people literally swarming them everywhere they went: because only 25% of their songs were good.

Yeah.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (3 children)

In fairness to the guy, IMO a lot of their lesser known stuff is lesser known for a reason. Its filler, its not bad its just not very good. And compared to their best work, its a turd in a punchbowl.

But to compare yourself to "The Beatles" of your industry is very close to the height of arrogance. I mean, I loved the Borderlands games, Gearbox might be selling out shows but they arent filling arenas.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I honestly disagree that the Beatles were putting out "filler". Much of Beatles' lesser known stuff wasn't filler, it was just not as popular. There's some real quality and ingenuity in the vast majority of Beatles songs. There's definitely some weaker songs that could be polished a bit, but even those songs often were inspirational for the entire industry.

Honestly, name any song and it's probably well known for something.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Rocky Raccoon.

I just wanted to throw out one of their lesser-played songs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, I mean Rocky Raccoon is legendary. I know it's one of me and my friends' favorite songs. A big ballad masterpiece. I guess Tommy and Rocky Raccoon were both part of a rock opera trend in 1968, not really sure.

The lyrics are amazing, with lots of double meanings, stylistic characters, and cinematic dialogue. The folksy country feeling and Paul's affected southern accent is classic. The snare drum when rocky gets shot. The twist at the end with the song ending with the listener not really knowing if Rocky dies or not. The song also inspired the Guardians of the Galaxy character, Rocket Raccoon.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

They should've used it in GotG 3, honestly.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This guy is literally the gaming industry equivalent of Yoko Ono. Some groups/companies are worse, but they're less known because they often don't speak so much. This guy just can't shut up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

IDK, seems rude to compare her to this absolute fuckwit. Yoko gets a bad rap because Beatles fans were ~~racist~~ jealous and accused her of some insane shit. Everyone knows some of her music, but she was an insanely influential performance and installation artist even before getting with John, and that's not to mention her peace advocacy. Admittedly though her music, while influential artistically and based on traditional tonal performance styles, really really sucks.

Meanwhile though, Pitchford is exactly as annoying to listen to but has -zero- redeeming qualities. Seriously, fuck this guy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

The Beatles once said they were bigger than Jesus. Pitchford is claiming to be as good as the Beatles. Pitchford is claiming to be better than Jesus.

Ok Christian Fundies, cancel this man!

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That dlc was cooking forever. I'm so confused as to why it has the bugs it does.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They apparently rewrote a lot of the code for unclear reasons.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

Pretty sure it's cause they did it without the original people (or person, not sure how many) who did the code. And so what ends up happening is the new people come in, don't understand why things were made the way they were, and try to rework stuff to be better. Whether it actually is needed or not is a different question but either way reworking large parts of your code is bound to lead to bugs and problems.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago

Randy is still the most unscrupulous man in gaming, and he has a lot of competition.

His one hit was completely by accident.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

Goddam that's a bar. Lmao

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

Hey Randy, show us a magic trick and fuck off!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

Oh but we should not forget they murdered Homeworld 3 too!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Shlappp

Get the Beatles name out of your mouth

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

That makes sense randy, because i hate the fucking Beatles.