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Re: Portal 2
« Reply #15 on: April 26, 2011, 11:26:13 am »
when i hear "nosh" it makes me think of "munchin' on some grind-age", which leads to thoughts of pauly shore.  [[shudder]]
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Re: Portal 2
« Reply #16 on: April 26, 2011, 03:21:37 pm »
Quote from: greenkoolayd on April 26, 2011, 11:26:13 am
when i hear "nosh" it makes me think of "munchin' on some grind-age", which leads to thoughts of pauly shore.  [[shudder]]

Thanks a lot for that.
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Re: Portal 2
« Reply #17 on: April 26, 2011, 04:58:41 pm »
Quote from: Asherdan on April 26, 2011, 03:09:10 am
I'd rather hear snacking than one more precious summbitch refer to "sups and dins." That there is lead pipe dandy zone time.

People not on Parks & Rec say this?

Attention all women: it is not cute when you say "noms" "nomming" or any other variations. And even less so when you mean it sexually. Knock that shit off.
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Re: Portal 2
« Reply #18 on: April 26, 2011, 05:20:43 pm »
Yea, there's a podcast I listen to where the ladyhost says "sammich" instead of sandwich.

Awful.

I've been playing through Portal 2 here and there.   The writing in this thing is just brilliant.   Also I didn't realize before hand that Stephen Merchant (Office UK, Extras, Idiot Abroad) does a bunch of voice acting in it, as does J.K. Simmons (Head Aryan from Oz, Yellow M&M, J.J. Jameson from the Spiderman movies).   The writing in this game is seriously brilliant.   

It goes in a pattern of, Puzzle, Funny Voiceover, Puzzle, Funny Voiceover...and so on.   So good.
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Re: Portal 2
« Reply #19 on: April 26, 2011, 05:27:28 pm »
JK Simmons is also in those awesome Farmer's Insurance ads and Juno. He's pretty much awesome.
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Re: Portal 2
« Reply #20 on: April 26, 2011, 05:36:04 pm »
Quote from: smick on April 26, 2011, 05:20:43 pm
Yea, there's a podcast I listen to where the ladyhost says "sammich" instead of sandwich.

Awful.

At least she doesn't say "sammy". 
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Re: Portal 2
« Reply #21 on: April 26, 2011, 06:08:24 pm »
one of my friends talks a lot about Cucumber Sammys. I will allow this only from her.
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Re: Portal 2
« Reply #22 on: April 26, 2011, 08:48:16 pm »
I will always respond to both "sammie" and "f-bomb" by saying "what the fuck is a [that]?" These things grate on me. But I encounter both very infrequently.
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Re: Portal 2
« Reply #23 on: April 26, 2011, 10:14:04 pm »
Several people at work say "WTF" on a regular basis. I'm not ok with this.
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Re: Portal 2
« Reply #24 on: April 28, 2011, 03:04:51 am »
Nosh means a blowie over here.

Also I intend to get Portal 2, the first one was fandabbydoozy.
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Re: Portal 2
« Reply #25 on: April 28, 2011, 03:31:22 am »
Quote from: Drygioni on April 28, 2011, 03:04:51 am
Nosh means a blowie over here.

If blowie means what I think it means, that's fuck*ng awesome.
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Re: Portal 2
« Reply #26 on: April 28, 2011, 04:32:39 am »
sex act vs. cartoon whale
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Re: Portal 2
« Reply #27 on: April 28, 2011, 04:40:22 am »
Quote from: greenkoolayd on April 28, 2011, 04:32:39 am
sex act vs. cartoon whale

I refuse to type "Fudgie the Whale" in Urban Dictionary
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Re: Portal 2
« Reply #28 on: April 28, 2011, 04:56:00 am »
Quote from: Drygioni on April 28, 2011, 03:04:51 am
Nosh means a blowie over here.

Also I intend to get Portal 2, the first one was fandabbydoozy.

I've been watching the UK version of Shameless.   I know what is happening because I watched the first season of US Shameless, but god DAMN I can hardly understand these folks.

I didn't feel bad when they got to the Xmas special, and the running joke was that the military couldn't understand them either.
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Re: Portal 2
« Reply #29 on: May 23, 2011, 02:20:12 pm »
Holy fuck, you guys, I avoided this thread for weeks because I was afraid of spoilers, only to find that I missed a whole discussion on cutesy-ass language and the social acceptability thereof?!?!

Fuck you guys, seriously. In the ear hole.

I had never played Portal, until we got Portal 2 and Pedro convinced me to try co-op. I was so ashamed of how badly I sucked that I thought I should at least play the first few levels of the first one so I could learn the controls better, and then I got sucked into the story and now I'm halfway (??) through Portal 2.

I almost quit the first one for the reasons Cort mentioned. It is frustrating to know exactly what you're supposed to do but lack the hand-eye coordination to do it without retrying sixteen times in a row. I'm not a superstar gamer or anything, but I am definitely no greenhorn, and I had a lot of trouble getting things to line up right sometimes. The PC version was worse, though; playing 2 on the XBox is ten times easier. Also, 2 focuses more on the puzzles and less on getting the timing right, which is pleasant. More flying through the air at ridiculous speeds; less returning to previous save points. Win/win.

Nabu, if you like Fallout, you will like Portal. It is different, it feels more like candy, but it has a good story and more humor and the puzzles are not masquerading as side quests, they are honest-to-goodness spatial reasoning puzzles.

And it's hilarious. I LOL'd many times. And the voice acting is fantastic. I love to see games where they put a lot of thought into the graphics *and* the writing *and* the voice acting -- it's such a rare trifecta. But both Portal games have the hat trick.

Definitely play them in order. They are sort of short -- Google says about 4 hours for the first one, though I think it took me closer to five (split over 2 nights and one morning), and 2 is much longer -- I'm on my fourth hour or so and Pedro says I'm not quite half done. (But he might be lying.) Still, worth a play-through, especially if you already have the first one sitting around.
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