#so um what you should know is that if you use the sim ripper take off custom eyelashes first

[bill-gates-hate-blog]

Have you decided yet if you're gonna post/upload your Sims stuff anywhere? I'm kinda curious

i actually do have a sims sideblog for the like 3 mods i've made (@ageezy) but i don't think i will be posting my legacy nonsense there. Whats more likely to happen is that I will post an, erm, more 'curated' version of my legacy on a sideblog I have yet to create. One of my favorite creators did something similar on twitter (this guy). We'll see. I started treating this less like recording gameplay and more like a writing project (or worse, graphic novel) and i think when i do post it eventually it will show.

The poses i have made for the legacy, however, might end up on that modding sideblog. I just have to figure out why the game won't display the thumbnails :\

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Show of the Week - Darksiders 2

Next one giffed and transcribed! Let me know if there are mistakes!

Also @outsidexboxofficial, is that Andy under that mask?

(Jane)

Hello and welcome to OutsideXbox’s Show of the Week. It’s a show, it’s weekly, and this time we’re all about Darksiders 2 and its hero, death.  

 (Andy)

Death, that reminds me, Mike died.

 (Jane)

What?

 (Andy)

Yeah, yeah, he died. He said that we should claim on his life insurance to use the money to build a better studio.

 (Jane)

But, how, how did that happen?

 (Andy)

Uh, that lighting rig. Remember from last week that fell on him.

 [Dramatic/sad music plays]

 (Jane)

Oh. Well I guess we’ll have to just try and move on and what better way than with our game of the week. The original Darksiders, released back in 2010, starred the first of its four horsemen of the apocalypse. That was War, who was framed for starting Armageddon too early. Now in Darksiders 2 you play as his bony brother, Death.

 (Death)

The tree of life is where I will find my brother’s absolution.

 (Jane)

As Death, you are out to clear War’s name and you’re going to do it with crunchy combat, nimble platforming and lot of lovely loot. Like the first game, Darksiders 2 does a great job of spicing God of War like action with a Zelda style hub and dungeon structure. New though is the Prince of Persia like platforming for clamboring around and the loot system for kitting out Skullface McNoMouth with ever better weapons and armour. As this grim reaper, you’ll be harvesting more random item drops than human skulls and among the rarest are possessed level weapons. These are weapons you can individually level up by permanently sacrificing other items to them. Very cool. And that’s all without delving into the skill trees that let you summon ghouls and crows or Death’s unholy winged reaper thorn. Darksiders 2 is an enormous adventure, with masses of variety but does credit to its many inspirations. For that, it’s out game of the week.

 (Mike)

So here I am, genuinely dead. In limbo, killed after the pilot. And waiting for death to come and claim me. Um, I should probably check out this handbook for the recently deceased and see what I’m up against. Turns out I can challenge death to the game of my choice for a chance to claim back my soul.

[Electronic music plays]

 (Mike)

How are you so good at this? You don’t even have ligaments!

 (Andy)

What are we going to do for content now that Mike’s dead? He was supposed to do this feature, what is the deal with FPS’s? I was looking forward to that.

 (Jane)

I, uh, guess we could contact him beyond the veil and see if he’s got any ideas for content.

 (Andy)

Yeah, good idea. Let me call the psychic hotline.

(On the Phone) Hello? Uh yes I’m looking to get in contact with my friend Mike. He’s dead you see. Yeah. About 5’10, curly hair, doesn’t wear hats. Yes, yes, that’s the one.

(To Jane) Apparently, he’s left a message for us.

 (Mike)

Alright guys sorry I can’t come to the phone. Currently locked in competition with the Grim Reaper in a selection of Xbox 360 games. Tell you what though, I had a snoop around his IMDB page while I waited for him to turn up. This guy is prolific. Turns out Death features heavily in video games and not just in the “I was repeatedly capped by a 12-year-old Call of Duty prodigy” sense either. The skeletal personification of Death, the Grim Reaper, must have a great agent because he’s more ubiquitous than Fearne Cotton. And very nearly as skinny too. Death might have a rare starring role in Darksiders 2 but arguably his most famous gaming appearance is in The Sims. Turning up like an unwelcome party guest to claim the souls of your neglected, malnourished, urine saturated virtual people. Previous games allowed other Sims to plead for the life of the victims but as of The Sims 3, the first in the series on Xbox 360, you have to beat him at Chess. If he’s not too busy playing Burnout Paradise, that is. Of course, when it comes to beating Death you can take a more hands on approach and thump him until he gives up. In Dante’s Inferno, the Reaper gets his bony arse handed to him within the first ten minutes of the game. Which begs the question, if his scythe isn’t powerful enough to kill a single puny poet, why does Dante bother to steal it and use it for the entire rest of the game? By and large, Paperboy was filled with pretty believable occupational hazards for a newspaper delivery boy. Dogs, skateboarders, the gradual decline of the print media, that sort of thing. Something of a surprise then to see Death turning up in suburban America with the express intention of clotheslining you off your BMX. Classic PC adventure game, Grim Fandango, featured an entire bureau of Grim Reapers of which hero Manny Calavera is one. In his role of Death, he acts as a sort of travel agent to the afterlife. Wonder how in competes with the ones offering a weekend call through with flights for less than 500 quid. Death’s a regular in Guitar Hero turning up as the “Grim Ripper” in no less than four of the games. Naturally, rather than a regular guitar he plays a heavily modified scythe. And it turns out you can perform fancy fretwork even if you have no flesh on your fingertips. Final Fantasy VII had a variety of weird and wonderful summons and while Hades shares a name with the Greek God of the Underworld, he’s the opposite of a strapping, bearded deity. With that hood and skull for a face, he’s clearly the Grim Reaper. Though he swapped his scythe for a more unwieldy cauldron. Perhaps he reaps souls with salmonella instead. Wouldn’t want to put money on which end it would come out though.

 (To Death) Ah, friendly reaper inbound, right? Yeah? You know? Reaper? It’s ironic, right?

 (Andy)

Well, I guess we should go through Mike’s will.

 (Jane)

Yeah, right. Um. Huh, it looks like it’s just instructions on getting an achievement in Darksiders 2.

 (Andy)

Weird, what does it say?

 (Jane)

To whom it may concern, how are you? I am fine. If you’re reading this, I’m already dead. If you knew me, Mike Channel, in life you know I was a selfless, thoughtful kind of guy. That’s why I want my Last Will and Testament to bequeath ten easy gamer score on everyone. Or at least everyone who is playing Darksiders 2. The Triple Lindy is an easy but secret achievement and unlike most of Darksiders 2 ‘chivos it’s not one you’ll pick up just by completing the main quests and collecting all the collectibles. A few hours into the game, when you’re on the Heart of the Mountain main quest, you get access to The Foundry. As you’re working your way through this dungeon, you’ll come to this enormous open area over a big pool of water. On this wall to your left, up high, are three balconies. Now, you’re going to take Death for a swim. Jump in the pool, climb up the wall using the vines and your death grip power, turn right at the top and take a high dive back down into the water below. Swim back to the wall with the stroke of your choice, climb back on up and take a left at the top. Find the next balcony and take another dive. Try a somersault on the way down. Then it’s rinse and repeat, literally ha ha, as you reclimb the wall, go left again at the top and go for a triple pike back down into the water where you’ll find ten sweet gamer score waiting for you. So, there you go, my final gift to the world. Remember me for that, okay? And not whatever you find in my flat.

 (Mike)

(singing) Never gonna give you up. Never gonna let you down. Never gonna run around and desert you.

 [Sounds of bells and whistling wind]

 (Mike)

HA! In your face Death! You should have rubbed it on your cloak, see ya!

 (To Andy) Ahhhh. I’ve defeated Death and managed to breach the barrier between the land of the living and the land of the dead. So, all I’ve gotta do now is finish my earthly business and then I can rest in peace.

 (Andy)

Well Jane’s gone for coffee, do you have time to do the feedback with me?

 (Mike)

Yeah, I’ve got five minutes.

 (Andy)

In this week’s comments, we hear what you make of subterranean bounty hunter adventure Star Wars 1313 which may or may not be the salvation of the floundering Star Wars franchise. On Facebook, James Chiswell-Carter said “As far as I’m concerned, it can’t be as bad as Star Wars Kinect or Episodes 1-3, sticky tongue out face”. While Paul Lawrence asks “What was wrong with Stars War Kinect? Hahaha, fooled you, yeah it was rubbish!”. Aw man, classic bait and switch there. He sent us one way than bam, went the other.

 (Mike)

Jedi mind trick. In a feedback for Andy’s preview of 1313, DivineJayBob says of the placeholder protagonist “stick a hipster beard on him and he looks a bit like Andy. Maybe Andy’s Boba Fett”.

 (Andy)

Yeah, I don’t see it.

 (Mike)

How do you feel about hunting bounties?

 (Andy)

Ambivalent at best

 (Mike)

Yeah, not a big fan of coconut either. Also on your Star Wars 1313 preview, Craig Dav… urgh, David Craig… [interrupted]

 (Andy)

Oh god, not this again.

 (Mike)

And John Brogan… [interrupted]

 (Andy)

Yeah I was doing a… [interrupted]

 (Mike)

And SpazzidNinjaDude all took issue with your pronunciation of coruscant.

 (Andy)

And that was the best take we got.

 [clip of Andy saying the word “Coruscant” in more increasingly bizarre ways ending with saying it as “Karen Carpenter”]

 (Jane)

Dear insurance agency, as you can see from this episode of Show of the Week, Mike is definitely definitely dead and that’s why we as his close friends and beneficiaries of his estate should receive his life insurance pay out in full.

 (Andy)

Thank you for watching.

 (On the phone) Mike? Yeah, they bought it.

 (Jane)

Camera’s still on.

 (Andy)

It went off without a hitch.

 (Jane)

Camera’s still on.

 (Andy)

Oh, sorry, sorry.

 (On the phone) Yeah, so we’ll split the money three ways.

 (Jane)

Still on!

 (Andy)

Oh, yeah sorry, sorry. Illegal things are the best!