Elite: Dangerous - Space Truckin' (Zero Punctuation) 

I quite enjoyed wstgff, looking forward to the sequel, jam was great too

I was just listening to this thinking that this was probably the inspiration for the Jaques McKeown books. Found my answer!

sounds like firefly

@@jimskywaker4345 how dare you, ya bastard spawn of mickey mouse 🐭 🤣

Hah! Plug.

+aperturesciencegames Use Shift-Tab and the Steam overlay! Then you get your browser and can still sorta see what's going on in-game.

+Stuart Conrod even moreso now that steam has a music player built in

+Stuart Conrod The steam overlay is garbage and you know it

+aperturesciencegames It has now been fixed! If you finish a jump while out of the game it will throttle to 0!

+Paul Stevens i love it ;)

...those eyebrows.

That would make a great story

I would XD

The new book he wrote might just quench your thirst for adventure

James Adams What's it called?

Well, I bought the game with the Horizons expansion with the intent to get the biggest Empire ship that had so many turret slots, all I hade to do was warp to a mining place, find a guy with a bounty, and say, "ATTACK". But then my computer decided that it didn't like Elite: Dangerous and had a hissy-fit, so, i'm crying myself to sleep with only a few days on my record until I get a new computer. I then found this, wich just renews my want for Elite: Dangerous, knowing I am just like Yahtzee with the weird feeling of liking wasting days of my life twiddling my joystick and listening to podcast. Whew, finally got that off my chest.

To best of luck to your computer's health commander. Godspeed.

Imperial filth! Your days are numbered!!!

This thread got super intense. I'm just a trader and light explorer. Commander Richard Davidson.

Lennart The Federation shall prevail! From Mars to the stars!!!

And cuz Market prices are all the same in Open and Solo play

It's obviously an anti-piracy measure.

Failing Given quite how unpopular "always online" is, and how you can get scripts to make the game think it's online when it's not (coincidentally ofren included with pirate downloads), putting it in as an "anti piracy" measure makes no sense. It's in there because they wanted to synchronise the market data of both single- and multi-player games, so you can hop between them without a) having to have 2 seperate accounts and grind for that Anaconda in both of them or b) suddenly finding that a highly valuable commodity in your game is worthless online and you've lost all your money.

It's anti-piracy, and it's due to their developing story, and to keep the story consistent, rather than having to develop scripted stories for offline stuff. That was more or less how they described it.

Failing How can you say it's anti piracy when piracy is one of the main paths you can take in the game?

+Butter of Sorrow "I'll just fly around in this res site until I reach "Dangerous', only 95% to go... only 94% to go... Oh are there birds singing outside?

I don't understand how an interactive screensaver could cause this type of reaction... But I'm trying :-/

Med Otaku well as long as you are trying it's okay

I love the interactive screensaver, im right now at the center of the galaxy (ok, 5000 ly away, but close enough) and i am exploring unmapped stars and finding teraformable planets... I take an almost perverse pleasure that these planets and stars will bear my commanders name on them once i turn in the data... its relaxing.

give em another couple thousand years, ol sagitarius A will eat them

Good games are an exception.

as well as games that make sense with it

Lol me too

StrikeWarlock Not really, what about Middle Earth HUERGH Shadow of Mordor?

it's a :, not a ; (sorry if the , right after the : confused things)

I noticed that as well, had to scroll a while to find if anyone else saw.

Kinda like how he gave out the basic plot of jam in his dead island review before he ever started working on it

Neither have content

+Morte Sumus OH YOU JUST GOT ROASTED

i sure put a lot of time into a game with no content then. I mean at least Elite has interesting combat and different play styles. it may not have a clear objective, but its at least got a few differeent things you can work towards. I get it's not for everyone though.

***** Repetition is the opiate of the masses

you seem fun at parties.

The Extra Credits people call that "abnegation".

Neat. Nothing validates your strange pleasures quite like knowing that not only do other people share them but there's even a term for it.

I hope you're being sarcastic, because if you're not you should look up what abnegation actually means and realise that ProjectXa3 is no doubt giggling maniacally to himself.

Of course; the brain is a lazy sunnuva and make you feel good when you stay in your comfort zone (doing repetitive-now-familiar tasks at a comfortable pace, like you mentioned and most of gamers have experienced at least once in our lives). That's why we, as individuals inside a democracy hanging on social media and instant dopamine, or online gamer community paying automatically for the next "More of the Same: Power Fantasy Warfare", (or "That Sports Game Who Is Becoming Gradually Boring In Real Life 2018", or "Pay USD60 Because Nostalgia") are so doomed. The challenge is more rewarding, though, we all know that. But that bastard brain needs some painful grinding until it concedes willpower. We can talk about that. But try to explain that to a millennial without taking the smartphone off his/her hands.

No wonder mmo is dying

He was fairly positive about Talos Principle last week. He was also highly positive about Portal, Shadow of the Colossus and Silent Hills 2.

Check his X-Com review.

The end is nye!

Skyler Tesar bill nye?

lenny lennyson The science guy?

I enjoyed the digirap.

Restless Mech That was very brave.

I like the smell of petrol

I think The Amazing Spiderman films are fantastic and much better than the original trilogy. I also enjoyed all 3 Expendables films. And Final Fantasy X-2.

i like the smell of dogs and gas after some cars drive beside me :3

Jim Sterling quit the escapist (which is a sad thing) and all of the other escapist stuff are on alternate escapist channels. (which is a GOOD thing) This channel only has zero punctuation now.

Partack Why did he quit?

CalamityM rather than me spreading rumours, it'd probably be better if you searched for his official post on his website (or on google *Shrug*)

CalamityM He wanted to become independent so that he can create content his way so he asked the fans to support his Patreon it succeeded and we can find him now on his youtube channel leaving poor Yahtzee to rule this one.

Yahtzee is the best. objections??

Gamergate has nothing else to do. They've failed as whatever movement they were trying to be beyond harassing people (I don't think there was ever a "beyond") and so have fallen back to stalking any mention of Sarkeesian or Quinn.

Silverizael Where was gamer gate mentioned? because I have not seen anything about them or people identifying as members of gamer gate. perhaps it was this just a assumption.

RDDlegacy If they're anti-Sarkeesian, then they're pro-Gamergate. The only exceptions to this i've seen are the people that don't feel GG is anti-woman enough, though those people are usually extreme MRAs or MGTOWs.

Silverizael That's quite a generalisation make to make also it shows a "you're either with us or against us" attitude which did not work when bush tried it. All that kind of thinking accomplishes it alienating possible friends or allies as it gives the impression of a uncompromising, inflexible environment/group. my knowledge on the men's right's movement and MGTOW it limited but before I personally would label them as anti-woman I would first ask what harm are they to women/women's right's. This is not me disagreeing or agreeing with you, like I said my knowledge is limited but I don't usually pick sides in social/political debates.

RDDlegacy The kind of gamers that are a part of Gamergate are like that. Sure, there's probably plenty of people that disagree with Sarkeesian and then went on their merry way. But anyone who dislikes her enough to post a negative comment about her in this video from half a life in it is somewhat obsessed with disliking her, wouldn't you say?

God damn, you got me there. I nearly got angry but then I saw the face. 8/8 m8

Nonsequitorian ver' ver' gut, amerikanische. zo! you zink ve can't make you talk!! schnell!! *bring in der sarcheesienne!*

+Nonsequitorian It's set in the future, Everything is set near/nearish future in shooters now so they decided to go one up on "spunk gargle wee wee (insert number here ###)" and go reeeaaaaaaallllyyyy far into the future where hand wielded guns are irrelevant :-)The next elite is set after the great implosion aka the end of the universe you can play it now by turning off your monitor and starring into the nothingness

Diggersby tho?

You should probably change your screen name, it's disturbingly close to the vigilant Christian *shudder*

Captain Falcon Diggersby tho is no longer relevant. Bad captain falcon. Go back to smash

ProtoMario fuckin gud englis tho

ProtoMario i despise the 'daywalkers'.... sitting in the sun, reading a book or wandering around wo a bra on... ummmm... excuse m -

ba dum tish

I think you're confusing someone else with Zaphod Beeblebrox, President of Space.

Zaphod was a patsy set up by Zarniwoop to steal the Heart of Gold so he could get to the true president of the universe.

Silver Dragon ...oh yeaaaaaah. Forgot about that part.

@@drakkenmensch The *ruler* of the galaxy, not the president. The president’s job - and if someone sufficiently vain and stupid is picked he won’t realise this - is not to wield power, but to draw attention away from it. Zaphod Beeblebrox, the only man in history to have made presidential telecasts from the bath, from Eccentrica Gallumbits's bedroom, from the maximum-security wing of the Betelgeuse State Prison, or from where ever else he happened to be at the time, was supremely good at this job.

Yahtzee has this amazing ability to not attract instant death from comments. In one video he drops the n word with a hard r and not a single comment. I feel like the people who would get offended by those statements just aren't in his audience and he doesn't create a big enough footprint outside of gaming for anyone looking in to notice. It's actually quite refreshing.

Wait, where and how did he mention dear Anita? I quite missed that joke.

@@lewisirwin5363 2:15

You know, five years later, I completely forgot about her existence. She just dropped off the face of the Earth. That or she's still doing what she's been doing and everyone just stopped caring about her. Either one works for me.

@@Midnight-Starfish Last I heard of was during the recent Last of Us 2 kerfuffle were rumor was she "advised" Neil Drukmen on the story but my reaction was "He's gonna balls it up ether way so I couldn't care less if Anita gave a few hints on how to ruin it even more I'm still not buying it." Oh and at one point she hinted to CD Projeckt Red that they should hire as a consultant in a very "Nice game you have their be a shame if someone called it sexist wouldn't it?" kind of way but they basically ignored/told her to go pound sand god bless them. Besides game devs and publisher are more than capable of ruining their games unwelcome political bs without her help EA comes to mind.

Yeah, some part of it.

part of it. is a simulator, is not like: i press a button=landed.

I played both and they focus on different things. Polar opposites. NMS is more about exploring weird planets and has a very basic, automatic flight system. In Elite (this version at least) planets are just empty meshes and you can't land on them, but learning to pilot a ship is like learning to actually drive a car.

+Solidnypan you can land only in No - atmoshpere planet for now, yes. atmosphere landing will be added probably between 2017 and 2018. But yea, you are right.

Exactly. Elite kept up with its promises. Hello Games shat on your face while saying they'd achieved what they set out to achieve.

People came by layer with papers for the President to sign some he stuck out his thumb and hitched a ride back. Or something riddiculusly convoluted that only just barely doesn't violate the laws of space and time.

Friendship

He surprising likes a lot of games

he likes a lot of games

James Oldfield It's not at all obscure.

James Oldfield Oh well. Everyone I know knows of it.

He likes many games. Off the top of my head I can think of EarthBound, Minecraft, Silent Hill, and Paper Mario.

His series isn't The Escapist, it's Zero Punctuation. The Escapist is the website it's on.

+garbageboy Yahtzee is basically the oxygen tank of The Escapist

Have you not seen Monty Python? The Spanish Inquisition were already hilarious.

Your right, phrased it wrong.

*You're

Indeed. And we're all still waiting for XWing (any version) to finally appear on Steam for similar reasons. Half the fun was mastering the damned complicated shield/blaster/targeting systems. But with LucasArts the way it is now, who knows if we'll ever see its return.

I wouldn't call them weird, but they're definitely not games for everyone. Good simulators tend to have really steep learning curves so that puts off a large portion of people who play games already. Aside from that, simulators, even if they're fantastically made, won't appeal to people who don't have an interest in whatever the simulation is, whether it be space, driving, economics, or war. As a result, simulators are an incredibly niche genre of games that can only appeal to people who have an interest in the subject AND the patience and dedication to learning the game.

Noobshire Actually you can get X-Wing and TIE Fighter on Good Old Games (GOG.com) now. Just thought to let you know.

James Oldfield That is not the point. People say "its wierd" just because it doesn't look like another battlefield game. Listen! Simulators and mostly aircraft/spacecraft simulators were a big thing in old days. By that I mean up to early 2000s. Now they are regarded as "wierd". The wierd part is that for many at that time games were for kids and they were actually way more complex in many instances. There always been place for Mario and for Jane's attack squadron and Wolfenstein. Back then every game was wierd for most people. Now we have games that developed past the "its for kids" stage and they are progressively easier and now games that were a challange become "wierd". That is the problem.

Indeed, up until around the early 2000s, we had quite a lot of innovative games, what with HL, SiN, Omicron Soul, DN3d, System Shock 2, etc. And yes, the market is becoming more stale in the race to the lowest common denominator and monetisation in-game. Again, not particularly your points, but pertinent to the general conversation.

GiRayne I've personally never went without shields. even if you put it on a lower internal slot, having a shield always seems useful to me, and the cobra mk III has decent storage with shields. it can get annoying when you get constantly chain interdicted by pirates, so being at least partially combat fitted saved my ass plenty of times. its important to note that the cobra mk III is a multirole ship, so if you think you can escape without shields, then go for it. (if you jump into high wake you can't be mass locked by larger ships) also if you want to do any form of profitable mining i recommend going on google and searching for pristine reserve belts. i also never liked mining without limpets, their just too convenient. Though once i got enough money to get a maxed FSD for the cobra, i switched directly to smuggling long distance robigo slaves. they nerfed the shit out of doing that, but its still doable. robigo smuggling is probably the most profitable type of trading early in the game, and can net you millions per delivery. But for now, what you can do is stack up deliveries. this is done by finding a major exporting station (usually extraction/refinery economies) and sitting in the station, check the bulletin board, take all the good deals you can find, exit the game to menu and choose a different game mode (solo, private game, open). this can refresh the bulletin board, so you can keep picking up deliveries to your heart's content til your hold is full.

GiRayne eh, my commander succumbed to greed and bought an anaconda, fer de lance, vulture and a keelback with the money made smuggling islands of slaves in his asp (i'm elite trading rank because of it), cause he realized theres nothing the universe could throw at him to stop him. I kept trading in ships til i got in an ASP with the best FSD, then i started stockpiling once i made the money. its nice to keep different ships for different kinds of work in case i get bored of the mind numbing long range slave trading. i even took the anaconda out for a mining trip, its nice when you have 10 refinery slots and can have 6 active limpets at once, you can just sit back in the camera mode and watch the limpets deliver the fragments after strip mining asteroids.

Yahtzee made it up and even he thinks its stupid to use the term "Glorious PC master race" seriously goo.gl/nGlM8L

Patdan 10 not according to that article.... silly yes but he likes it

Patdan 10 Its a joke you dumb ass. Its supposed to sound stupid

David W A joke thats not funny

Patdan 10 Thats subjective

+Sheason Actually the official release date of No Man's Sky is August 9, 2016, so it's not really that far anymore because they already finished developing the game which was supposed to be released on June but Sky Broadband filed a lawsuit on Hello Games because the game's title has the word "sky" on it, giving them no choice but to delay it to August.

+Tristan Escaño yep, but I still can't wait for Yahzees review. Multiplayer where you never see anyone else ever

+Sheason And you know how it is with hyped games that take a long time to be released. The longer it takes to be released, the less likely it will be able to live up to the hype.

Aaron Teitelbaum My favourite kind!

Well, he just did, today. His opinion: "Baby's first Elite Dangerous"

Considering her and Quinn are basically why Gamergate exists to harass people and try to get others killed through swatting and such.

***** No mans sky is for one released on console so good luck with those 18 quintillion, and secondly isnt even released yet, few companies keep their promises.

Less impressive that a scientifically litterate replication of our own milky way. No mans sky makes a universe in much the same way that minecraft generates biomes, only the seed is constant. It becomes much more complex when your programming is trying to re-birth a real galaxy.

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Sidious06 I warned you about those stairs bro

8^y

hey wow did you know that you can actually get copies of information for free using the internet? If you cannot afford the game at it's current price and want to play it, find yourself a copy of the information that makes up the game. In this way you can play the game regardless of it's current price.

only if you like having money

Full price triple A price, so yeah but on the pricey side.

£ 39.99 or $58.88

Looked it up after I posted, very tempting even though the price and I do like having money so I'll probably wait for some kind of sale. Also I don't see it on steam, probably for the best since it uses it's own launcher.

Did your spaceship launch from a Lonely Island?

2:20

SuperDaniel354 Oh. With his accent I barely heard him xD

prublem? u gosh darn s j w? TRIGERD???

+whowantsabighug I AM TRIGGERED BY YOUR BAD GRAMMAR!

Don't know about those, but The Drunken Peasants are hilarious as fuck

VISUALWOOD :)

It really depends on what you like. For example, I listen to comic book podcasts. But if you want to listen to something hilarious check out "Fantasy fiction" by Josh and Dom from "Continue?". They write funny fantasy stories and then read them.

Not sure if they're along the same lines but I personally listen to the super best friend cast. They're pretty funny.

All the podcast you mentioned are very conversational so here are two other conversational video game podcasts that i would recommend .If i think of any others i will probably add them later The Giant Bombcast has a good mix of Banter, humor, gaming talk and knowledge www.giantbomb.com/podcasts/ IGN UK: They talk about movie and tv as well as video games but it's still worth a shot tho (assuming you don't watch alot of tv)

That sounds scary... You're basically sitting on a ticking time bomb if you don't know what you're doing...

If you treat them properly, steam engines are perfectly safe. Heck, they can even take some punishment before they're really in trouble. But the one thing you *never* want to do is let your water level drop too low. That's when things start to get explode-y. Basically, what happens is that inside the boiler, the water has to always be high enough to cover the top of the firebox, called the crownsheet; the cool water insulates the crownsheet against the heat of the fire on the other side, which can reach several hundred degrees. If the water drops below the crownsheet, then that insulation is gone, allowing the metal to heat up rapidly and eventually start to weaken. Since the steam is being contained within the boiler at up to 250 psi, it only needs one crack, one weak spot for the whole lot of it to rush out. A weak spot like, say, a crownsheet that is near its melting point. That's how most boiler explosions happen. Granted, *too much* water can be not good too; that's when you get a phenomenon called "priming". Basically, if water rises up into the steam dome, the highest point in the boiler that also contains the regulator valve, it can find its way into the main steam passages and into the cylinders. Since water can't compress, a variety of things can happen: At the most heinous, the pistons will try to press against the water hard enough that the cylinders burst. At the most hilarious, the water will escape via the exhaust pipes, be forced up the blastpipe and out of the chimney, usually mixing with ash and soot from the flue gases to form a slurry of nastiness, resulting in an effect like your engine vomiting, almost inevitably soaking the station master's new car. And now you know a little more about how steam engines can go wrong. And knowing is half the battle.

Oh my God. I think I'll just stick to riding a bike.

+Agora2021 Does that have character creation? If so, I'll buy it right away.

+BLACKIESBOY It doesn't, but it's otherwise quite awesome. X3 TC and addon.

+Robert Tauzer I think X2 was the best in the series. The ship designs were nicer and space didn't feel quite as populated and busy as in X3/TC. Also, it still had cockpits. Too bad there has never been a widescreen patch for X2 (that I know of, and I've searched). :(

Robert Tauzer I at least hope the story is decent...

Clearly you give a fuck since you're commenting on it and so are others. Because all you 'tards can't handle anyone criticizing your precious games.

Silverizael Are you a idiot? Can you read? "Heard anita-sar I dont give a fuck" HEARD....IS THE KEY WORD HERE.....Fucking femi nazis

Silverizael I think if we couldn't handle people criticizing games we wouldn't be watching Yahtzee.

***** hell, i watch yahtzee because he slags em off. even if they're games i really like. eg? Bioshock 2. i luv it. but i love slagging it offf much more. it gives me a weird kick.

Note: This sentence can be read in Yahtzee's voice without it being weird.