Stolen Pixels #244: Fan Bait

[uphunk114]

"fad" in the sense that five years ago I'd never heard of Texas Hold 'Em,

Seriously? Texas Hold'em has been a mainstay of computer games since the beginning (I doubt you've never peeked at a Strip Poker game on the web somewhere) and gambling since the 1900's. Poker itself has been around since the 15th century I believe. 1998's film Rounders and the sequence in Casino Royale pushed it to the top, but it's dominated Late Night TV since the turn of the century.

Okay, all the poker players need to calm down here. Texas hold 'em was a local thing IN Texas until fairly recently. Five and seven card stud have been around for 100+ years and the dogs are playing with five in the hand Let's slow the nerd rage.

 

[MR T3D]

Agree its purely fanservice.

Watched Total Biscuit's WTF is poker night at the inventory
basically got all the fanservice desired in barely 2 rounds.

And I find tycho there a total c***

[sub][DISCLAIMER: The following is nothing personal, I am merely required to do this every time I see someone swear on the internet and censor it. Especially on this site.][/sub]

It's okay to swear on the internet, you know. Your mom's not gonna read it, she's too busy being fucked... BY ME.

Anyway, I could care less about this game because I don't give a shit about ANY of those franchises.

I usually do swear in internet posts, except for the word '****' which I feel dirty using on a site with so goddam many children, for some reason.

 

[Spectre39]

I always imagined that Tycho's voice was similar to the voice actor for Simmons from Red vs Blue.

 

[Something Amyss]

And yeah Shamus, 'fad card game'...unlike say "fitting shapes into others to make them disappear" [http://www.chimegame.com/] or "building block simulators" [http://www.minecraft.net/]

"fad" in the sense that five years ago I'd never heard of Texas Hold 'Em, and now it's on TV, all over the web in a thousand different versions, on Facebook, and flooding my spam filter. "fad" meaning sudden but passing popularity.

I don't think Minecraft or Chime have anywhere near the widespread popularity of Texas Hold 'Em.

Five years ago, THE had already taken off in multimedia. TV and the web included.

But I honestly have to ask, based on this and your example of reality TV, what constitutes "passing" popularity? Reality TV, while I despise it, has enjoyed almost a decade of popularity and no sign of stopping. THE, while I'd rather just play another variant, has had over half a decade of popularity and no signs of stopping.

Are shooters a fad, knowing that it might be another decade before "bros" get tired of the genre and abandon it? is 20 years still too passing?

 

[Outright Villainy]

Yeah, it's great fun. And all this texas hold 'em lately is good too, I find it a much more enjoyable variant of poker, because you actually get more than a god damn pair sometimes.

 

[Deathkingo]

Where are Strong Bad's feet in panel 2? I can't see them, so I will assume that they are starting a revolution of some sort, or demanding money from children. I mean, those seem the most logical.

 

[Not G. Ivingname]

Well at least it is the "we make self referencing jokes and have a good all time" and not the "oops, all my clothes just fell off" kind.

 

[Mullahgrrl]

"fad" in the sense that five years ago I'd never heard of Texas Hold 'Em, and now it's on TV, all over the web in a thousand different versions, on Facebook, and flooding my spam filter. "fad" meaning sudden but passing popularity.

+1

Although as a child i unwittingly tried to reconstruct the game from the Lucky Luke intro wich I now am sure must be this.

OT:
A better game- Steam Brawl!

 

[Something Amyss]

?noun
a temporary fashion, notion, manner of conduct, etc., esp. one followed enthusiastically by a group

Aaaaaaand extending it that far applies it so broadly as to lose pretty much all meaning, because almost everything can now be defined as "fad."

 

[SomeUnregPunk]

Fan Bait

What's not to understand?

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You mean like version of the game that has famous porn stars playing poker?

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

Well, I've played the game a few times and I've made a couple of fantastic discoveries:

1) The banter is actually pretty funny, though it does tend to repeat sometimes
2) I utterly SUCK at Texas Hold-'Em

Anyone got thirty thousand dollars I can borrow until next payday?

 

[Aura Guardian]

$5 well spent. Just for the writing.

I want it badly dude. I wish my pc was up to par.
this stuff is gold

 

[ekimekim]

I like it. The conversation integrates well with the gameplay, and the characters are all true-to-form (which is unusual...). I haven't seen any bugs in the gameplay.

The one criticism may be the weak AI but...oh, wait, I'm still playing on Easy. Nevermind, I love it.

This may appear to be a cash grab, but when said cash grab is also highly entertaining, I'm not going to complain.

 

[AvsJoe]

$5 well spent. Just for the writing.

I want it badly dude. I wish my pc was up to par.
this stuff is gold

Hahahahaha... Dude, this game is awesome! Now I'm suddenly very interested.

 

[Fanboy]

?noun
a temporary fashion, notion, manner of conduct, etc., esp. one followed enthusiastically by a group

Aaaaaaand extending it that far applies it so broadly as to lose pretty much all meaning, because almost everything can now be defined as "fad."

No it can't because just because something has fans doesn't mean it's mainstream or fashionable which is what a fad or trend is.

I think "fad" is a term best used in retrospect or as conjecture, since it is defined by being temporary. In other words, calling something a fad means you're either predicting it will end soon or it has already passed.

 

[Madara XIII]

haha yeah, I had 3 kings and 2 twos and got beaten by 2 kings and 2 twos. fail much? still, the game is a lot of fun, especially for 5 bucks.

Thats five kings... there are only 4 kings in a deck of cards. Was that a typo or were there really 5 kings in play?

SPY IS SAPPING MY CARD GAMES!!

 

[camazotz]

Would totally get this except I have an aversion to Poker and card-related games. Ah well! Maybe it does well enough for a follow-up that ties in to a different type of game.

EDIT: Watching that clip of the background chatter has done one thing, tho: made me want to go pick up Team Fortress 2 and possibly Strongbad (or whatever its called). I already read Penny Arcade, and I already have Sam & Max season 1, waiting, languishing, for me to play it....

 

[Chris 'Chaos' Voce]

The trailer looks good and so does the comic i am definitely getting this game.

 

[McMarbles]

Regardless of this game's quality, I can't bring myself to like it because THIS IS THE REASON WE DIDN'T HAVE A HOMESTAR RUNNER HALLOWEEN CARTOON THIS YEAR.

 

[Dirty Apple]

Played it until I unlocked the TF2 items, then never touched it again.

I would be willing to bet many people are doing this exactly. Having the newest item in TF2 is a strong draw for that community.

Also, are the items tradeable?