Retro Gamer magazine's terrible Metal Slug feature --reviewed!

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I suppose it's a bit daft of me to even make a comment at this point, since the ocean of piss you guys are contributing to is coming to some weird internet boil, but as the person who usually just posts on here to fuck around, even I am taken aback at the rampant coat-trail (sigh... coat-tail) riding and idiocy going on here. Yeesh.

And now I'm going back to being me, ie, "LOLZOR!! DERP DERP DERP"
 
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4, 5, 6, 7, 3D, that Metal Slug Pachislot game>X

I just realized that there are more shitty Slugs than there are good ones now.


It's like the Simpsons all over. :mad:
 
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I thought of what words I could use to describe my feelings, but a picture does so much more.

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I have nothing to add, but for posterity...
The squirrel pics were excellent! I have not had one in close to a decade!
 

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STEWIE I STILL WANT MOAR SQUIRREL PICS. AND MAKE GOOD ON THE BEE PICS FINALLY, YA MOTHER-LICKER!
 

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i don't know if this has been brought up or not, but if stewie did "deep" research, did he bother to contact, i dunno, anyone from the biggest neo-geo website and ask opinions on MS? is that pretentious? Probably a lot, huh?
 

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i don't know if this has been brought up or not, but if stewie did "deep" research, did he bother to contact, i dunno, anyone from the biggest neo-geo website and ask opinions on MS? is that pretentious? Probably a lot, huh?

Nah, then he'd have to step down from his throne and admit he is indeed fallible. Plus he's got over 23,567 years of professional journalism. When you get to a certain point, facts are just a meaningless waste of page. Ego supercedes facts my friend.
 

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And thus, I think, this thread has now slowed down to a halt. Was a good ride while it lasted, folks. And we managed to rile up a couple other forums in the process, all of which are filled with the same kind of pole-polishers that we got to ridicule in this romp. Managed to get one over on Pineconeattack, too, so yay for that. I'm hoping for a little drama there, myself. Certainly didn't hurt this one time when I managed to piss off some over-zealous Pin-Heads by calling them on their own douche-baggery and foul body odor. Can we get this shin-dig locked and placed in Best Of, where it belongs for all to enjoy? Unless, of course, Stu and his cart-wheeling band of smegma crazies plans on coming back for Round 800 of this tirade. Maybe we can spike this bitch to Page 30.
 
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And thus, I think, this thread has now slowed down to a halt. Was a good ride while it lasted, folks. And we managed to rile up a couple other forums in the process, all of which are filled with the same kind of pole-polishers that we got to ridicule in this romp. Managed to get one over on Pineconeattack, too, so yay for that. I'm hoping for a little drama there, myself. Certainly didn't hurt this one time when I managed to piss off some over-zealous Pin-Heads by calling them on their own douche-baggery and foul body odor. Can we get this shin-dig locked and placed in Best Of, where it belongs for all to enjoy? Unless, of course, Stu and his cart-wheeling band of smegma crazies plans on coming back for Round 800 of this tirade. Maybe we can spike this bitch to Page 30.

Sounds good to me. For the life of me, I can't figure out how this could have possibly gotten to some 600 replies. It's the same shit over and over: Stu calls the people that disagree with him (i.e. everyone) a variety of names, insists that he's right about anything and everything, blah blah blah, everyone calls him a childish twat, lather, rinse, repeat. Then repeat again. Then again. Then again.

Sheesh.
 

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The nice thing about Barnes & Noble is you can grab any book or magazine, read it, and never have to buy it and they don't care. I usually take things I'm iffy about to their Cafes and read them over a drink. The only thing they don't like is people doing that with newspapers.

So this works out as Barnes & Noble happens to be the only place I see it in the US (though even then it's only some): if you're curious about the article, but are hesitant to fork over twice the amount of any other magazine, just page through it at the store. Barnes & Noble doesn't care, you can make your own decision: freedom at it's best.

Yup, that's how I get it.
 

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And thus, I think, this thread has now slowed down to a halt. Was a good ride while it lasted, folks.


Oh no it ain't quite over yet bro. Didn't you see, Stu said he'll be away for the weekend. Come Monday, expect another "steaming Stuart shit storm." Book it baby
 

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I just wanted to to be in this thread.

I really don't have anything to add except...



I have never seen an issue of that magazine but I think I would like to read it.



Any chance I can get a free subscription or at least a back issue, so I can have an opinion about it?.
 

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Regardless of anything else that may have happened, Sam won the thread with that picture. Now if only something about the squirrel-whispering, and Stu's squirrel-ridden plot to confuse the world, via MVS-assaulting squrrels and interesting journalistic choices, about whether zombies or mummies are in fact the creatures that appear in Metal Slug 2.

You all thought it was a ploy to sell more magazines. I see the real plot here.
 

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Hello again new friends! I had a lovely evening, thanks for asking, and I've got about an hour before I have to go out again so I'll see if I can't get through all of you at once.

From MS5 summary:
"Having cut it's teeth on Metal Slug 4, the following year's game saw Playmore get into it's stride a bit."

Can anyone in the class room spot whats incorrect about this?

I'm going to go with "Praise The Lard is such an illiterate sack of piss that despite only having 20 words to copy out, he's managed to insert two grammatical errors into it, and added two more in the 11-word sentence following it, for an impressive total of four fuckups in just 31 words", Bob. Is that it?

Here's something I wrote 73 pages back: "When anyone takes up even the smallest beef with Retro Gamer magazine, whether it's justified or not, poof here comes a link to Stuart's shit storm on NG.com. See how competent the writers of RG are? lol"

That's the thing though, you hopeless blind tool. It's been posted on several forums already, and the result is that pretty much everyone is laughing at you (and all your pea-brained buddies), not me. Not least your utterly hilariously over-inflated sense of your own importance and influence, not to mention inability to construct an argument.

TonK said:
Another reminder - Stu is 41, ugly and boring.

Yeah, this forum certainly seems bored of me. 617 posts worth of bored, leaving the previous most-replied thread now trailing about 160 posts behind. And luckily I didn't want to fuck you anyway, so I'll try not to weep that you don't find me attractive.

some dick said:
Yes, I am coming in with a bias

Then your opinion is by your own admission worthless, so fuck off.

If you take a look at any mainstream gaming site (Gamespot, IGN, 1UP), you will quickly be able to distinguish good writing

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

(Oh dear me. Come on, Stu, deep breath.)

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

More than half of each game description focuses on ports and their extra content, information

Welcome to the point of The Definitive. Try to keep up.

information... from Wikipedia

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

(Oh, and you mean "gleaned", by the way, not "gleamed".)

P.S. A mummy is not a zombie. It's right there on the hut. My last words on this sad subject.

Odd. Your name is clearly listed on the left as being "Kiselgof", yet you sign yourself "Mikhail". OH NOES THE NAMES ARE NOTTHE SAME I AM TEH CONFOOSED.

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No, I don't know either, but at least I know it's not been affected positively.

No, you don't know that. You don't, in fact, have the first fucking clue, do you? You have no possible way of knowing either way what effect, if any, this daft little spat has had on the magazine's sales.

Billy Cuntbiscuit said:
I do marketing and branding for a living

Then you have no right to an opinion on anything ever, you cocksucking little whore.

some other internet nobody with delusions of adequacy said:
did he bother to contact, i dunno, anyone from the biggest neo-geo website and ask opinions on MS?

I did not, because as this thread proves more comprehensively than anything has ever been proved in the history of the documented universe, you're all quite toweringly, staggeringly, world-beatingly clueless fuckwits. If any of you told me my cock was on fire, I'd go and get a second opinion before I looked for a glass of water. The feature you lot would have written would be about 800% too long, full of agonisingly tedious screeds of received wisdom and lists of names of all the graphics artists, and every single reader of the magazine would have skipped straight over it to get to some comparatively entertaining adverts.

Try one more time to get this through your little American pinheads: RG readers like The Definitive, no matter how loud you squeal and shriek and stamp your feet and tell them they shouldn't.

Honestly, the arrogance of you chumps is truly Herculean. I'm in awe, if we're being honest. The editor of the magazine thinks the piece is great. The readers love the entire Definitive series. And yet you still proclaim that just because some pathetic anonymous fanboy arsewipes like you say it's rubbish - for reasons you've been pathologically unable to detail - that the entire world will suddenly boycott the entire magazine. Despite the fact that, as one of you actually pointed out, this entire pantomime has been played out in public many times before and RG keeps going from strength to strength, and keeps asking me to write Definitives and numerous other kinds of feature for it.

Your ability to endlessly ignore plain empirical evidence is what keeps me cheerful, because logically one day it'll cause you to walk under a truck that you refused to see because you didn't like the colour it was painted, and it'll smush you all over the tarmac, fractionally increasing the world's average IQ as it does so.

Oh, and the bee was posted back on page 21. But here are some more squirrels!

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("They're NOT SQUIRRELS! They're MAMMALS! You SUCK!!!" - lithy, 6385 times)

(NB For the benefit of cretins, lithy didn't actually add that comment. I did. Do you see?)
 

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Fair enough. It appears that my dictionary, ironically enough, was not definitive. I have since checked another and it agrees with your definition of the word. I'd looked at the "dictionary.com" definition before, but wrote it off as -- and I don't mean this offensively, but fear it may be taken that way -- an "Americanism". You guys have slightly different definitions for certain words and I had (incorrectly) assumed this was another such case.
When did you idiots in the UK lose control of your own language?! It's pathetic how you don't know what words like definitive mean, and can't hardly even speak your own language to boot. It's no surprise that your colonial empire when down the flusher.

The proper use of the word definitive is not arbitrary, no matter how English you may want to be at the end of the day.

English, motherfuckers - use it properly or don't use it at all.
 

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Maybe it's a UK thing (and I don't mean to be patronising here) but Stuart's sarky style and the whole basis of what the definitive is, appears to have been lost in this particular instance. I once toyed with putting the standard (RG doesn't agree with everything STU says) at the end of each article, but assumed that readers would know that this is one individual talking and is not the collective thoughts of the magazine. Maybe we need to address this.
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You might be on to something... When reading British press (times.co.uk for instance), I notice a journalistic philosophy that is very different.

In the UK, the line between editorializing and reporting is very blurred. Opinions of the writer tend to be presented as authoritative.
In the US, editorializing is more on the DL. We tend to use Pro vs Con or Point/Counterpoint where each argument is presented as having equal merit (no matter how ridiculous one argument is.).


But alas, I think that you should reconsider using Stewie in any future capacity. Look at the way he handled himself in this thread. I don't know if I would want my publication to be associated with some of the more inflammatory comments like "Then you have no right to an opinion on anything ever, you cocksucking little whore".

Quoted for posterity:
Hello again new friends! I had a lovely evening, thanks for asking, and I've got about an hour before I have to go out again so I'll see if I can't get through all of you at once.



I'm going to go with "Praise The Lard is such an illiterate sack of piss that despite only having 20 words to copy out, he's managed to insert two grammatical errors into it, and added two more in the 11-word sentence following it, for an impressive total of four fuckups in just 31 words", Bob. Is that it?



That's the thing though, you hopeless blind tool. It's been posted on several forums already, and the result is that pretty much everyone is laughing at you (and all your pea-brained buddies), not me. Not least your utterly hilariously over-inflated sense of your own importance and influence, not to mention inability to construct an argument.



Yeah, this forum certainly seems bored of me. 617 posts worth of bored, leaving the previous most-replied thread now trailing about 160 posts behind. And luckily I didn't want to fuck you anyway, so I'll try not to weep that you don't find me attractive.



Then your opinion is by your own admission worthless, so fuck off.



HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

(Oh dear me. Come on, Stu, deep breath.)

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!



Welcome to the point of The Definitive. Try to keep up.



HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

(Oh, and you mean "gleaned", by the way, not "gleamed".)



Odd. Your name is clearly listed on the left as being "Kiselgof", yet you sign yourself "Mikhail". OH NOES THE NAMES ARE NOTTHE SAME I AM TEH CONFOOSED.



No, you don't know that. You don't, in fact, have the first fucking clue, do you? You have no possible way of knowing either way what effect, if any, this daft little spat has had on the magazine's sales.



Then you have no right to an opinion on anything ever, you cocksucking little whore.



I did not, because as this thread proves more comprehensively than anything has ever been proved in the history of the documented universe, you're all quite toweringly, staggeringly, world-beatingly clueless fuckwits. If any of you told me my cock was on fire, I'd go and get a second opinion before I looked for a glass of water. The feature you lot would have written would be about 800% too long, full of agonisingly tedious screeds of received wisdom and lists of names of all the graphics artists, and every single reader of the magazine would have skipped straight over it to get to some comparatively entertaining adverts.

Try one more time to get this through your little American pinheads: RG readers like The Definitive, no matter how loud you squeal and shriek and stamp your feet and tell them they shouldn't.

Honestly, the arrogance of you chumps is truly Herculean. I'm in awe, if we're being honest. The editor of the magazine thinks the piece is great. The readers love the entire Definitive series. And yet you still proclaim that just because some pathetic anonymous fanboy arsewipes like you say it's rubbish - for reasons you've been pathologically unable to detail - that the entire world will suddenly boycott the entire magazine. Despite the fact that, as one of you actually pointed out, this entire pantomime has been played out in public many times before and RG keeps going from strength to strength, and keeps asking me to write Definitives and numerous other kinds of feature for it.

Your ability to endlessly ignore plain empirical evidence is what keeps me cheerful, because logically one day it'll cause you to walk under a truck that you refused to see because you didn't like the colour it was painted, and it'll smush you all over the tarmac, fractionally increasing the world's average IQ as it does so.

Oh, and the bee was posted back on page 21. But here are some more squirrels!

sqs35.jpg


sqs36.jpg


sqs37.jpg


sqs34.jpg


sqs38.jpg


("They're NOT SQUIRRELS! They're MAMMALS! You SUCK!!!" - lithy, 6385 times)

(NB For the benefit of cretins, lithy didn't actually add that comment. I did. Do you see?)
 
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Hello again new friends! I had a lovely evening, thanks for asking, and I've got about an hour before I have to go out again so I'll see if I can't get through all of you at once.

(blah blah blah, drama drama drama)

[FUCKIN AWESOME SQUIRREL PICTURES]

Stu, I dont' care what anyone else says, if squrrels like you so well that they'll sit on your leg, you're okay in my book!
Also, was there really only the one bee picture? If so, that's lame, but I understand, as the one posted was pretty sweet (even if someone else had to post it for you.)
Anyhow, kudos on the squirrel pictures!

However, good sir, it seems that your buddy Sam has revealed your plan to use squirrels to confuse gamers as to the difference between zombies and mummies in Metal Slug games. And here I thought the whole squirrel thing was cute and innocent; It truly was , in combination with journalistic endeavors, just another part of your plot to confuse us all! Sam caught a picture of one of your squirrel minions in the act! Give it up! We're all onto your little ploy now! :buttrock:
 
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Quoted for posterity:

Fucking hell. Way to pointlessly repeat an enormous post that was all of three posts above yours, Einstein. It does look increasingly like Stu is almost the only person on this thread with enough brains to tie his own shoelaces.
 
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