Unskippable: Red Dead Redemption

[sleepneed]

I remember when I first popped the disc into my 360, I was thinking when he sat down "Okay he's going to go and hold up the train now... Wait, what, he just gets off? Who is he, why should I care? Man this cutscene was pointless. Though maybe I can find that priest and show him how bad it racism is..."

Spoiler

When I saw Jenny again though, I thought she was to stupid to live so after giving her the medicine I used her for the Dastardly Achievement.

 

[0986875533423]

Did anybody else expect an "and yet, the armadillo" reference at the end?

Yeah, I was expecting that too. Hey, who didn't?

How stupid (like Jenny) do you have to be to be unable to determine loving or hateful acts?
(Shooting in the face =/= loving. Good example, Paul.)

Red Dead Going-to-Support-Group?.... Uh, thanks but no. Just no.
(Sounds even less appealing than Brown Alive Redemption.)

*Sigh* it's symbolic. It's supposed to signify that everything the bible-beaters are telling Jenny is "loving" is complete Bullcrap, but she believes it consciously (if not subconsciously) because she believes they know better.

 

[GeorgW]

That's the intro to RDR?? How lack-luster.
Nice vid, but could have probably used 2 parts.

 

[MBE]

Wow, a vehicle section that doesn't end with the protagonist contracting malaria or getting blown up. What a novel idea!

 

[Fr]anc[is]

A DnD joke AND a mention of Alpha Centauri? Well played good sirs. MIND WORMS!

 

[Moriarty70]

Are you comparing hamsters to people? Now who's being insensitive?

Respectfully, I think it was you who first compared hamsters to people, by describing them as "striking".

"Hey! Here's some critters that had the temerity to complain about their deplorable conditions. We called in some muscle and put an end to their impertinence real quick. Ha ha."

...Yeah. For me, not so much. Not after reading extensively about the Wisconsin protests all this month. (If you haven't, do read up on them. It's important.)

To be fair, their joke seemed to harken more to early labour organizing and the tugs that busted them up. The Wisconsin crowd was dispersed without violence.

As a slightly related note/tied in with the video... Doogie's best friend, Batman and the President of the US all singing.

 

[ewhac]

"Hey! Here's some critters that had the temerity to complain about their deplorable conditions. We called in some muscle and put an end to their impertinence real quick. Ha ha."

...Yeah. For me, not so much. Not after reading extensively about the Wisconsin protests all this month. (If you haven't, do read up on them. It's important.)

To be fair, their joke seemed to harken more to early labour organizing and the tugs that busted them up.

Yes, and drawing allusions to that dark blot on our history is even less funny. When people weren't being killed by management-hired thugs for daring to organize, they were being killed by their unsafe working conditions [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_Shirtwaist_Factory_fire].

The Wisconsin crowd was dispersed without violence.

You're correct that the protests have been entirely non-violent, but, um... The Wisconsin crowd hasn't dispersed. They're still there. Police estimate they topped 100,000 people this last weekend.

In Wisconsin.

For a month.

During the winter.

 

[Moriarty70]

Yes, and drawing allusions to that dark blot on our history is even less funny. When people weren't being killed by management-hired thugs for daring to organize, they were being killed by their unsafe working conditions [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_Shirtwaist_Factory_fire].


You're correct that the protests have been entirely non-violent, but, um... The Wisconsin crowd hasn't dispersed. They're still there. Police estimate they topped 100,000 people this last weekend.

In Wisconsin.

For a month.

During the winter.

I'll concede that was one of the many dark times. Maybe they should have gone the Russian route and have half the hamsters kill the other half. Not only do you get more future dicipline, but they can't blame you since they did the killing themselves.

 

[Ironic Pirate]

Sorry for the delay, folks. We tried to get this up and running this morning but the server hamsters were on strike demanding clean water and fresh shavings. Since it's official Escapist policy not to negotiate with terrorists, we had to wait for a strike team of marmots to resolve the situation in our favor.

Business as normal.

I think this makes the delay worth it.

 

[LikeDustInTheWind]

You can too buy a Rainbow Unicorn. It comes with Undead Nightmare.

Nuh uh! you have to tame it!

To the video: Of course there's a lot of killing. The trope is "Redemption equals death." If they wanted it to be self-sacrifice, they should have been more specific!

You have to do a lot of things to get it. Including kill a Chupathingy.

 

[LittleChone]

YEEEEeaaaaah....the intro is crap, but at least is sets the scene of the final era of the wild frontier.

Also, spoiler alert, the girl dies from her own ambition of faith. And stupidity.

 

[Johnnyallstar]

Unskippable: Pre-video Commercials....

that's what they need to do next.

 

[WorldCritic]

I was really expecting a "and yet, the armadillo" joke, but whatever. Awesome episode as always.

 

[Something Amyss]

You can too buy a Rainbow Unicorn. It comes with Undead Nightmare.

Nuh uh! you have to tame it!

To the video: Of course there's a lot of killing. The trope is "Redemption equals death." If they wanted it to be self-sacrifice, they should have been more specific!

You have to do a lot of things to get it. Including kill a Chupathingy.

Which demonstrates that you can't buy it.

Advantage...Me.

 

[BX3]

The video was funny, but I faded in and out of the jokes due to the nagging feeling that the woman playing the stupid girl talking to the priest sounded alot like Hynden Walch (Starfire). She even over-enunciates her words the same.

Aside from my weird VA spotting enthusiasm, I seem to be alone in thinking the cutscene was decent if a little long. Ah well.

"What have you been smoking young lady" at the lady's implication of man flying had me laughing hard. I've always liked jokes like that.

 

[Taynas]

omg i laughed to tears at the armadillo bit

"Here. We build here, on this armadillo"

I did as well. I actually had a hard time stopping laughing because it kept making me think of sillier and sillier problems that would be caused by such a plan.

Also, Really good one guys! I think your best ones are usually either the intensely boring cutscenes where you have to improv off of the tiniest things to be funny or ones that take themselves too seriously when they are actually ridiculous like Dirge of Cerberus.

 

[Craps]

Anyone else not think these guys are funny? If anyone can get a show just talking lame jokes at a TV then shit-- let some other people have a shot. Preferably not the cast of Superbad, like these dudes.

 

[Agent Larkin]

WOOT!!

Alpha Centaurai reference. Graham you rock!!!

 

[Nashidar]

And yet ...the armadillo.