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eh, I'm a stubborn idiot, so I don't like looking things up even if I've beaten the game 5 times already. although eventually I do sometimes let myself finally look up some things that I never managed to figure out and it's quite satisfying to finally have those questions answered. I guess it has to be a pretty darn good game for me to have played it that much though.

and I guess some exceptions are games that aren't that great; then it's no big deal looking something up, the game is not worth it anyway. or another exception is Minecraft where at least initially, the wiki was the only way to know how the game works at all. the wiki was more like a big manual than anything.

Ferarri619 posted...

WTF is "mouse 5"

mouse 3 is clicking the wheel. some mice also have a sort of page-up/page-down button pair on the left side for your thumb; these are 4 and 5.

Inquisitor: Martyr seemed to me to have a good amount of lore, although the gameplay was like poor to mediocre diablo-clone.

Mechanicus seems like a good fun game but it's pretty hard on "normal" difficulty and I didn't get very far (yet). It seems to be 100% Mechanicus VS Necron though, so might not be too lore rich not sure. (Martyr on the other hand has all kinds of stuff.)

Dawn of War I also didn't get very far in. It seems like it's just Empire VS Orcs, basically being a Warcraft clone (or vice-versa).

I also played Rites of War a very long time ago but had no idea what was going on.

Total War: WH is Warhammer not 40k so I find less interesting. I also cannot get into the gameplay like at all or I think I could probably like it otherwise.

Vermintide is all MP I think so didn't play it.

ok ARPG sounds more interesting

what do I need to do this kind of thing? I need a vacation and should do something like this if I can manage to.

oh, well, I guess one thing I'd need is a passport...

Lokarin posted...

https://redd.it/1d1uzbi

holy geez...

hmm. beat em ups are one of my least favorite genres... does it have any RPG elements? stats/gear?

are they worth playing? I know you bash things with a giant key and there are disney and final fantasy characters?

what kind of plane is it? I would probably try to land the plane and end up almost but not quite making it.

I know more about catching mice indoors than catching rats outdoors. probably you should focus on rat-proofing your house. I don't think you can rat-proof your yard.

peppermint oil has at least some repellent effect for mice and sounds like it can also work for rats so you could spray some around your yard, but even if it worked a bit it wouldn't last very long especially if it rains.

googling "rat proof your yard" seems to say that yeah, you would need to do things like get rid of bushes and other places where they can seek shelter.

I already played it "relatively" recently (prob. ~10 years ago) and don't really have much interest in playing through it a second time.

what race/faction? it's a time-sink, yes. it's why I stopped playing bliz games in general, they are fine-tuned to waste your time, and they drip-feed you improvements in patches that improve things that never should have been inconvenient in the first place. once I realized that patch notes were not fixing things that were broken, but were easing off on intentional inconveniences to hold on to more players, I gave up.

(it's not the inconveniences themselves really; if that's the game, that's the game. it's that I could see that the easing off of them was not a game-design choice, but rather a player manipulation tactic.)

it seems to be a game mode where you take resources with you into a mission, try to survive and complete the mission, and bring what resources you can back with you (or if you die/fail you lose what you brought). I see the term applied to shooters not RPGs though, so not sure I have it right.

not sure of any examples. I played a tiny bit of Heroes of Hammerwatch where you only get to keep what you manage to send back to the surface at randomized elevator locations, but this sounds slightly different than that.

my liquid detergent has like 10 different fill lines. checking it they are: A, B, 1, 2, 3, then a gap, then 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. so yeah, actually 10, and they all have random heights, they are not in order. it's also very difficult to read what they are.

I finally forced myself to read the directions to know what I'm supposed to fill to. they say to fill to bar A for medium loads or "use full cap" for larger loads, which seems ridiculous. A is one of the smaller bars, the "full cap" would be like 5x more detergent, so that can't be right.

I notice it says 100 loads* where * says "*when measured to bar A as directed".

"unexpectedly weak"

I don't know much about Turrican except that the composer is Chris Huelsbeck so the music is fantastic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFzh-GXYYsE

ItIsSoOver posted...

They pay a lower percentage than you do that's for sure

shouldn't they pay a (much) higher percentage? wealth should have diminishing returns, basically.

(although I know that it's not that simple, it's not all cash, it's assets and investments, etc.)

(another game I played a lot that would have been funner with a controller (probably meant for a joystick but I only had keyboard) is Stellar 7)

(a reverse example might be Descent. I do play that entirely with keyboard, not even mouse. main limitations are the simultaneous key-press issue and in not being able to aim sensitively. not a platformer though.)

Lokarin posted...

Commander Keen is pretty dang close tho

it's even still referenced today in Doom games but that's more because it's owned by the same company

ToastyPOP posted...

I'm just saying there's nothing intrinsic about the keyboard that makes it inferior to controllers for platformers. You can learn to play SMW with a keyboard and be just as good at it as with a controller. Lots of people grew up playing and beating Mario, Sonic, Mega Man, etc with a keyboard via emulation.

a standard keyboard does have simultaneous key-press limitations. otherwise I would still disagree but it's largely subjective. if you say a keyboard is just as good for you as a controller I can't tell you it isn't. but for me, having grown up with both at the same time, I would say a controller is undoubtedly better.

I in fact specifically did not play much of the PC platformers at least partly because it's not fun playing them with a keyboard, and I say that as a more or less life-long PC gamer. Even having beaten for example Thexder 2: Firehawk with just keyboard, that whole experience would have been vastly improved with a working controller. (well, probably. it feels like it would have been better but who knows. it's tricky to compare because the games are different. the PC platformers are worse games with IMO worse controls. but it's hard to pull apart the game itself from the different controls. I also have not played many games on emulators for partly similar reasons: it's just not as fun as playing it on a TV and with a controller.)

ToastyPOP posted...

You did have SNES style controllers like the Gravis Gamepad.

I did have one of those eventually. but I think not at the same time that I was playing Commander Keen, etc. I don't think I ended up using it successfully on any game it was more of a novelty for me.

ToastyPOP posted...

And I don't think keyboards are intrinsically worse for platformers than controllers. I think it's just a preference thing. I prefer a controller but if I had grown up playing a lot more platformers on keyboard, maybe that would be different.

I would say they are. The games mentioned were all in competition with SMB1-3 and at some point SMW so the overall experience was just not as great as what you had with Nintendo, both in game design and controls.

this is just my experience. for sure there are those people that had great joysticks and played the heck out of the PC platform games, but I think the quality of the experience is not going to be anywhere near the best NES/SNES games.

not really. they didn't work all that great because most PCs of the time had keyboards not controllers. (there were joystick ports etc. but I don't think they were used much and you didn't have something like an SNES controller. and configuring them was terrible too IIRC.)

the ones I know of are mostly already mentioned: Commander Keen, Duke Nukem, Jazz Jackrabbit are the main ones if I'm not forgetting something.

there were probably lots of other crappier shareware ones but I can't think of any offhand. (I think of Paganitzu and Boppin but those are puzzle games.)

k thanks. just didn't see the connection to your situation.

it does make sense for that subset of people that have a need/desire for an especially decent PC without needing to be a computer person themselves.

also I do know the stress of having your own PC die. it's like having to do surgery on yourself sort of, where you have to apply your skills while crippled.

yes, it skips having to assemble it; I get those scenarios. but your motivation for the thread "This is why people buy consoles/prebuilts". the problem that you had here, it being a pre-built would not have changed this situation, right? unless it's very new and would have been under warranty?

except for the warranty you cannot escape the fact that the computer can fail and you can choose to repair it yourself or take it somewhere to be repaired. that's always the case. (except with a console you may actually lose the ability to repair it yourself.)

it sounds like you get a warranty with a pre-built, but otherwise it's still just a PC and still requires the same repair that any PC would get. or what would a pre-built have changed? is it a nearly new PC? mine is 12 years old at this point so warranties are long long gone.

Solid_Sonic posted...

F1 is like this.

for motorsport... isn't motorsport like extremely interesting IF you could just watch it from the racer's viewpoint? but when you actually watch it all you see is random shots of random cars with no sense of who is where when and how anyone in particular's race is going. if you could actually watch a guy's race, it would be a lot more interesting to watch.

you can see some racing like this on youtube (both sim and real) and it's so much more interesting than what you could see from "real" racing.

MrMelodramatic posted...

post funny or informational YouTube vids

Billy's Balloon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jksRQcI9NA

Feynman Lecture on Quantum Electrodynamics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdZMXWmlp9g

Wile E. Coyote Magnet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=915DIqG-hPc

Visualizing Quaternions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4EgbgTm0Bg

now that I think of it, what does buying a "prebuilt" do that avoids these problems? you avoid putting it together at first but it can still fail and need repair. prebuilt or not, the components can fail, require diagnosing, and replacing.

a big difference is whether it's a modular system (PC) or not (console, though I think they're a tiny bit more modular these days). but prebuilt PCs are still PCs (and still modular). (right?)

Dikitain posted...

Because
I am still using the same PSU from like 16 years ago in mine.
And a lot of my friends have similar experiences. One of my friends is on his 4th build and is still using the same PSU from early 2000's. Like, seriously, those things never fail.

my previous PC had a PS fail, this PC had one fail, my current work PC had one fail, I just had one fail the other week, and I find it's a very common, maybe the most common, reason for a PC to fail. definitely one of the more common repair jobs I have to do. I mean there's a reason a power-supply tester is a thing.

actually just had a ~54V adapter fail yesterday which is almost the same thing. that one was interesting because when you plugged it in it would read like 53.6V, but would tick down very steadily about 0.1V per second almost like a clock. 52.0V, 51.9V, 51.8V, 51.7V down and down all the way to 13.2V, 13.1V, 13.0V, and on. but unplug it and plug it back in, and it's right back at 53.7V and counting down.

ConfusedTorchic posted...

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you had a single connection for the front panel?
it's usually in most cases just 4-6 individual pins.
what the fuck case was it

I don't know what you mean by single connection. there were four larger connectors total, one of which was front panel (and 2 USB and something else I can't recall), and two smaller 2-pin connectors (one chassis intrusion, one unknown, could probably look it up, 2-pin red + black; maybe fan or LED? not sure.).

the case front-panel was I think 14-pin (2x7 but some blocked), but the motherboard had something like 20-pins (2x10). I knew the motherboard model and could look up its pinouts, but not the case. it worked with the 14-pin connector on the left (or bottom) side of the 20-pins but not entirely sure why. I was just glad it worked. power button turns it on and HD light blinks. if I had more time I could do more research and maybe figure it out better.

(this is something like putting an Acer motherboard into an HP case or vice-versa which is possibly why it didn't match. or if the case connectors are standard I'm not familiar with them. the other connectors for USB and whatever the other one was were an exact match to the motherboard but not the front-panel one. if I had the case manual if there is one it would probably be more clear.)

Ogre Battle? get bad ending anyway.

games like SMB where you have a timer you can play skillfully but still die from the timer

there's a game where that was basically how the story went

4x games with alternative win-conditions

really what would qualify here is any game with alternative lose conditions. that's what the timer is and that's what alternative win conditions are if the AI can reach them too.

Dikitain posted...

PSU is usually the last thing to die on a computer.

why would you say this? I think the only thing that fails more than power supplies are hard disk drives. although from my experience I think they might actually fail more than HDDs.

next would be motherboards. after that almost nothing. maybe RAM very very rarely. CPU basically never. optical drives basically never (probably don't get used though not sure about heavy use). video cards almost never. (I guess overclocking could change CPU and GPU rates; I don't do tons of overclocking.)

but power supply... if the computer lasts long enough I know I will have to replace it eventually. same as HDD. (like 3/4 on my own PCs and one of the most common failures on other people's PCs. I just changed one the other week which was the above story (had working full size PS but failed SFF one so had to move motherboard to a larger case.))

a tip that I never do myself and always regret is to take a picture (or many) of the initial setup so that you don't forget anything.

I moved a motherboard from a SFF case to a mid-tower that it did not belong in and everything went pretty smooth except for connecting the case to the motherboard. the front-panel connector in particular is important if you want to turn it on with the power switch. but the Acer motherboard and old case had different sized front-panel connectors from the new case (the new connector was 3-pins less wide IIRC). I tried putting it on all the way to the right and that did nothing, but it did turn on with it on all the way to the left. not sure if the speakers work though since I think they are mostly on the pins that didn't get connected. there is also a 2-pin red cable that I skipped and have no idea where it would go.

agesboy posted...

sc2 isn't really hard tbh.

IIRC it's relatively easy on normal but quite a bit more challenging on hard. I sailed through it on normal but made very slow progress on hard. (man that was so long ago now already...)

Dikitain posted...

Yea, I beat Warcraft 3 (and it's expansion) pretty easily. I could never get through WC 1 due to the completely unfriendly user interface. If any game needs an enhanced edition, it is that. Also beat WC2, BtdP, and SC 1. Brood War I got up to Zerg mission 3 or 4 and basically had to cheat the rest of the way through. Never went back to beat it legit.

this is is almost word for word my experience. although I might have used cheats for the protoss missions in SC1, and I don't think I made it very far in WC2:BtDP.

Metalsonic66 posted...

Kitchenware

hmm, I remember now that many of my forks are from them. IIRC they were good for the price, and having a lot of forks is better than having not enough forks; but I find their forks are not weighted all that great. they're nice forks, but the handle is way too heavy, so they always want to fall off of everything.

1-3 cups on any workday, 0-2 on any day off

I don't think I've been disappointed in one yet. my food scale works fine. bought a duplicate present of speakers for my nephew (his dad got them too) but apparently the non-amazon ones stopped working and the amazon ones are still working. coat hangers are ok. alen wrench set I have not actually found a use for yet. batteries are ok.

mmm, mechanically separated chicken...

for Smash Mouth what always annoyed me was that I already liked Fush Yu Mang a ton but then Astro Lounge came out and I thought it was only ok, but suddenly all you could hear was All-Star everywhere, all the way up to today. it's ok but not that great.

similar thing with Evanescence, where they were good, and Bring Me To Life was really good, but then it was massively overplayed on the radio and it kind of ruined it

~15% last year and ~10% this year. f'n sucks.

I own that but have never installed it. I was given a handful of PC adventure games from a friend and that was one of them but that was 20 years ago now.

yes I try to have one every summer

Pepsi is probably the best/my favorite flavor. I prefer coke in general, but it makes terrible slurpees. (some other flavors might be better still, like banana or mango or something, but usually I get Pepsi.)

(and then I wonder if maybe the machine had problems where I used to get them... and then I wonder if Pepsi employees might sabotage the Coke machine somehow... maybe it's 7-11 that has an agreement with Pepsi or something...)

small enough, nothing
bleeding enough, clean + a bandaid
bad enough, clean + polysporin + a bandaid

are you still waiting for this? if you had waited in-hospital would you still be there waiting?

possible it's "imperial blue (metallic)"? it's a very dark blue that looks almost black, but has that same faint blue hue rather than being pitch black.

the color is called "midnight blue"

k yeah, makes sense. I suppose you could say that it's blue-black or black-blue. (quite often these kinds of discussions happen over intermediate colors like that.)

it's dark blue, or very dark blue. I have a black car and it's quite different than that. white and black vehicles are insanely common these days so it should be easy enough to find a comparison. just google "black car" and you see the difference immediately. an actually black car is more like the shade of coal or has an ashen quality, not sure how to say it.

comparing against the tires, which should be perfectly black, there's not a ton of difference, but there is some difference. and then you have a nearby blue car reflecting off it, as well as the sky... but if you compare it to an actually black car it sure seems different.

therapeutic shopping? that's an interesting but alien concept to me...

do you mean besides food? basically 100% of my shopping are functional items, food, and sometimes books.

do you drink coffee? you can get (possibly copyright infringing) customized coffee cups at places like redbubble. and other things like clothing. dragon quest as an example: https://www.redbubble.com/shop/?query=dragon%20quest

other than that, cosmetic/ornamental things are not something I'm usually looking for so not much to recommend.

for functional items, maybe a frying pan or a rice cooker?

less traffic was probably the best part

maybe it's too early but Blue (Da Ba Dee) is what I think of

also maybe Aqua - Barbie Girl but also a bit too early