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GeekNights Tuesday - The Jackbox Party Pack
The Jackbox Party Pack is what impressed us enough to talk about it tonight on GeekNights. It fulfills the promise that Nintendo has so long ignored, and works surprisingly well using smartphones as 8-player game controllers. Shenmue III is actually happening thanks to a 6MM Kickstarter, and we expect to to be just like I and II. (It was a different time in those Dreamcast days). Professional Counter-Strike players flat-out admit to using performance enhancing drugs, and equipment failure issues at the EVO 2015 Street Fighter IV championship show the slow but steady progress of professional esport evolution.
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If an esport person wins your cup, they should pick two distinct games they can be challenged in. They then, on a schedule, take on challengers, switching between the two games. If a challenger beats them, they get the cup, and then have to nominate their second game. Challengers could be selected from the winners of regional tournaments.
The reason for picking a second game is to stop the cup always staying within the same game, because if a player is the best at one, only players of that same game would have a realistic chance to challenge. It would encourage depth in play, at least a bit. It would be incredible if someone could win as an FPS player, but then defend against the best Mario speed runners.
These things worked so well.
We had both versions of that game, as well as the very good You Don't Know Jack game that also made use of them. Lately, we'd been playing Chromecast games using the phones as controllers, but haven't gone back to it once the novelty wore off. Very happy to hear that Jack is back.
That thing's got what, RCA outputs? It's not worth it unless I stream the game.
I remember my friend really selling the idea of the game to me, I tried it out briefly and couldn't get into it. Would really like to give it a proper chance this time, but my Dreamcast is flakey. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. I vacuumed the inside once which improved it's reliability for a while.
However the only games I really love playing are Powerstone 2 and Chu Chu Rocket with friends. I still have spare batteries for my VMU for the day I need to power it up and defeat my friends with my secret items on Powerstone.
Maybe you nerd experts (nerdsperts?) will have better luck figuring out a way to get it to work. Then we can have a real online tournament.
I think the Xbox version is slightly up-rezzed and has English VO. If you weren't aware, the English VO is AWFUL. But so was the original Shenmue. And honestly it's kinda funny.
TL:DR is that he was at a local library after hours using the wifi (from the parking lot) The library had recently been broken into. Cops stopped hi,, he drove off, stopped him again, got into a confrontation, let him go and put out an arrest warrant instead. He agreed to come in to meet with them, they tired to arrest him, he fought, got arrested.
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The professor who supposedly helped him with the idea has stated that he didn't help him and thought it was a terrible idea.