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helIy posted...

so other living trees had to come and fuck shit up before the bigger living trees could come fuck shit up?

Sort of, but what I meant was that while Ents were maybe loosely known about, I don't think anyone knew about the Huorns. The point of them is sort of that you can barely tell the difference between them and regular trees, except they somehow move around at night when you can't see them.

the huorns wiped out the orc army, whereas I don't recall the Ents actually fighting at all, but they were able to demolish the magical rock walls of Isengard and Orthanc, and divert the river to flood the whole place including the tower.
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Far-Queue posted...

My cousin says that because addicts choose to do drugs, they should simply choose to stop. Easy peasy.

actually, it's a lot more complicated than that. I'm not a neurologist or anything, but from what I've learned it has (at least in part) to do with dopamine and what dopamine does. this is actually a little bit mind-blowing to me.

dopamine *reinforces the mental pathways that led to its release*. it's almost like a weird form of time-travel; it's an event that manages to increase its own chances of ocurring by lending strength to the chain of events that led to its cause.

with drug addiction, you have poor decision-making leading up to the taking of the drug, immediately followed by an unnaturally high volume of neurotransmitters being released, including dopamine, which reinforces everything in your mind that led up to that moment. whatever it was about you that got you to that moment has now been magnified, increasing the chance that it happens again, and increasing the chance that it will be reinforced further. it's a weird kind of self-reinforcing trap.
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pionear posted...

Catwoman for me...granted, I havent seen many films with her in it.

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adjl posted...

While that's not inaccurate (stress depresses the immune system), it doesn't have much to do with cancer. Most cancers aren't something the immune system can prevent.

that sure sounds completely wrong. your immune system is normally *exactly* what prevents things like cancer. if you want to be all tautological and say "by cancer I mean those kinds of cancer that your immune system fails to catch" then fine whatever, but having a healthy immune system is still a better place to be versus cancer. in fact, getting your immune system to recognize the cancer is always one potential avenue for curing it. saying "your immune system doesn't have much to do with cancer" is just asinine.
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Mead posted...

he had to know the ents were there and that they could wreck his shit.

IIRC it was actually the Huorns that were able to basically erase Saruman's army, otherwise the Ents wouldn't have been able to just march in to Isengard and flood it.
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Cap'n Crunch with Gummy Worms in second
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do people actually "scream" when something scares them? that doesn't seem like a natural reaction to me. my actual reaction is to tense and freeze up for the split second, and then utter "oh, fuck" in relief once I realize it's nothing.

the most intense scares I've had are usually unintended by the game, and are cases where I've done something like looked away at the wrong moment only to look back at something completely unexpected.
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we're seasonal, so we're encouraged to take it around that time anyway.
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why can't we have good threads like this? "rate that ass" I have no problem with, but "rate this terrible picture of cartoon ass" is just pointless.
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I think the wrong assumption is that acronyms are necessarily for reducing the syllabic workload. rather, I think it's more like they become their own term which is independent of the underlying words. it more easily brings to mind the right context and it's implications than just the mundane words that it's composed of.
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list of steam casual free multiplayer games:

http://store.steampowered.com/tag/en/Casual/#tag%5B%5D=113&category%5B%5D=1&p=0&tab=PopularNewReleases
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tf2/dota2?
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geez... that doesn't sound good, hope you're ok
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I've had two visual migraines, but nope no seizures that I'm aware of
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KogaSteelfang posted...

I'm not sure really, there's no gaps or anything, just 28 of them(27 now though with a gap).

for each quarter of your mouth, it should be 2 incisors, 1 'fang' (canine), 2 small molars, 2 large molars, 1 wisdom molar
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shadowsword87 posted...

Please cite me the source where it says laughing can prevent cancer.

maybe not specifically laughing, but optimism in general has been shown to unambiguously improve health, including lowering cancer risk.
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KogaSteelfang posted...

I am naturally missing 4

cool, which 4? never met someone else with that problem. mine are the upper outer incisors, so I just have two free-floating upper incisors which probably drops my attractiveness a substantial amount.
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there was a link to an RC car game bundle but it loaded a blank page.
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I would guess the other way around, that poor sleep results in more remembered dreams, but who knows.

I know that if I drink too much coffee and then try to sleep, if I do manage to sleep it will be extremely poor quality sleep and since I can't get deeply enough to sleep my dreams will be much closer to my conscious mind and I'll remember them way more.

sleeping well is the opposite, you crash and wake up almost instantly with no recollection of anything.
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looking it up there is:
- $60 regular game
- $70 deluxe game
- $80-100 "collector's edition nomad model" which is just a model and is probably what you're talking about
- $160 "collector's edition nomad model game bundle" which is the nomad model with the game
- $160-200 "collector's edition remote control nomad model" which is just a remote control model
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Mead posted...

Underworld woman

that though I've never seen the movies

I'm also occasionally reminded that she was Hero in Much Ado About Nothing, but that never really clicks in my mind as being her
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from what I've heard my Granddad on my dad's side was in the canadian airforce as 'runway cleanup crew', which included keeping debris off the runway including crashed aircraft and dead pilots. (I don't think this was ever overseas, it was a local job.)

no one knows who my granddad on my mom's side is so no way of knowing

my great granddad on my mom's side had WW1 gear
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I'm at -3 teeth, not including wisdom teeth

2 were just natural and never came in in the first place (hypodontia)
1 was rear bottom right molar which collapsed one day, so I had it pulled
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garbage
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always used to it at the front in things like Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, etc.
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Trillian in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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NightMareBunny posted...

Lokarin posted...

The definition of "Replay Value" kinda changed over the years. I remember people saying that Mario 3 had a ton of Replay value, because it's fun to play again. But nowadays replay value is measured in tricky achievements and grindier activities that you wouldn't ever do a second time.

i see replay value as in lots of quality content i don't see little trinkets or stupid achievement hunting as replay value

for me replay value means that there are different ways to play the game. usually this will be mostly RPGs, where playing it in different ways is the point. the best games like this, you will be thinking "I can't wait to try playing <other way>" on your first playthrough, and the best of the best games like this you'll still be thinking it on your 5th or even 10th playthrough (Dark Souls).
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yes, definitely. especially seasons 2 and 5. 3, 4, and 6 are somewhat weak, though. season 1 is ok.
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*cough*
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Ogurisama posted...

I would say Tom Cruise is the better actor, but Jackie Chan is the better stunt man

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hmmm... I've seen *something* with exactly that...

I'm thinking it was painkiller overdose, and yup it is:

(nsfw)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR5oUUaDRa0&t=38s
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the shining though I've never seen it
2001 too I guess, but never seen that either

looking it up the only one of his movies I've seen is Dr Strangelove which I didn't know was him
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can be a little sour, but otherwise fantastic
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mooreandrew58 posted...

I wouldn't say should. just that its nice. i'm guessing you're into rpgs? cause its really the only genre I know of thats known for using numbers.

also strategy games I guess. really it's for anything that's complex enough to have a long battle with important decision making.
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DistantMemory posted...

But on the other hand, seeing a massive chunk of the meter taken out by a huge hit is extremely satisfying.

Is it? Seeing 12k in huge crit letters or something is satisfying. health bars are only good in that they let you know how much longer you have left to fight, (which is definitely important information) but there should be an indicator beyond the bar moving to let you see how big your hits are (or aren't).
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I guess it depends how long they were lost. If you imagine them being lost for an hour and giving up, that's ridiculous, but maybe they were wandering lost for 2 or more days and were slowly dying horrible deaths.

mrduckbear posted...

went hiking for her birthday on July 28th

I guess it's not that amazing, but that is my birthday as well
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I think you're asking the wrong question. I thought it basically *was* russia. the surprise is not that they speak russian, but that they *look asian*.
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too much in this thread to agree and disagree with...

NES and Gamecube I could see being overrated, but SNES if anything is underrated even despite its already high rating. no system in history has such a fantastic almost never ending supply of awesome games (exception to PC of course).

LttP > Zelda 2 > Zelda 1

Can't imagine how anyone can not like LttP, it's just gaming bliss. Zelda 2 I can see not liking, but IMO there's a lot of value there if you're willing to look for it. Zelda 1... why does anyone like that game? Zelda 2 has such epic dungeons. Zelda 1... everything is just boring and pointless. I guess maybe it's just all subjective and nostalgia based, but I dunno...

SMW > SMB3

SMB3 is more challenging, SMW is more fun. what would be nice is a game as fun as SMW but as challenging as 3.
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I had a couple creepy ones when I was playing tons of Doom 3, but other than that I almost never have them.

in Doom 3, there are a few events where you simultaneously become paralyzed and hallucinate. twice I had a dream where I think I noticed that I was paralyzed while sleeping and this triggered a similar "you're paralyzed, the walls are bleeding, the moon is turning red, there's a monster in front of you sucking the life out of you" moment.

a very common dream (not really a nightmare) for me is having to fight someone only to be frustrated as heck by being paralyzed and feeling like I'm stuck in quicksand while fighting.

other than that I think I once dreamed the city was bombed, and there's occasionally one where I've done something really stupid like robbed a bank which is very relieving to wake up from.
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"Visible Health meter is depleted" has to be the worst one for bosses. It's the most frustrating thing ever to hit a boss for a huge hit only to shave off a single pixel worth of health.
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lol Q-Bert 8)

surprised not more votes for Samus. IRL Samus beats IRL Batman or Superman easy (in terms of awesomeness).
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Rockies posted...

That's cool and all, but again, those sound to me like they were never standard. Wouldn't special editions of new games still have stuff like that? Yeah, sure, people like fancy manuals too, but that isn't what people are complaining about with games not having manuals.

this was 'standard' for PC gaming. of course it was probably not standard for console gaming. most of these are not special editions, these are just complex games that have complex manuals.

really, it's the internet that ruined this, though. sad as it is, the internet is a just plain better medium to present this kind of information, especially since games evolve way more these days than they used to. back then, a game would be released and stay the way it was released, and there was no internet to look anything up, so if you had a complex game, you needed a good manual. it was a crucial part of the package (for PC gaming anyway).
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definitely Three Kings, one of my favorite movies ever


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Rockies posted...

That is exactly what they are talking about.

well, it depends. there is the worthless 2-page booklet that describes how to use a cd-drive, or there's the 20-40 page manual that also includes a few of the absolute basics of how to play the game. or there's 100+ page manuals that include a good deal of the complex mechanics as well as maybe a partial bestiary and spell list. or there's the gorgeous 200+ BG2 manual.

going through my collection (discovering I don't know where my BG2 manual is, which worries me...) some of my favorites include:

IWD: 150+ pages, which includes complete spell list, mechanics, and many attribute tables (similar for BG2, IWD2, and NWN. Throne of Bhaal has only a 40+ page manual, but it's all tables and new spell descriptions from start to finish.)

Age of Wonders: 180+ pages, includes unit lists and ability lists (I actually never really used this, didn't know it had that kind of info)

Lords of Magic: 250+ pages, includes lots of strategy and mechanical info that's otherwise hard to figure out in-game, as well as full spell tables (though no descriptions) and unit, item, and building lists

SimCity 2000: approaching 150 pages describing most or all of the game mechanics, with some real world city related essays and drawings in the back.

Civ 3: 225+ page manual covering all the complex mechanics (hilariously has a MOO3 ad on the back)

Civ 2 Test of Time: same

MOO2: 160+ page manual describing all the mechanics including a detailed tech tree

Arcanum: 180+ page manual including skill and spell lists.

Fallout 2: 160+ pages. really high quality paper and quality artwork throughout, making it look like a rugged old bloodied notebook you found in a ruin somewhere. (fallout 1 was similar if I recall)

Unnatural Selection (Maxis game about directed evolution): 125+ pages including 16 science experiments to try listed at the back.

Also a ~100 page manual for SimTower, SimLife, and SimCity Classic

Also have a 425+ page manual that came with Interplay 15th anniversary collection.

(have dozens and dozens more manuals, but these are the best ones.)
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Rockies posted...

I'm just talking about a manual you can fit in the left slot (for a disc game) or in a standard-sized box

I highly doubt that anyone who is saying they miss reading manuals is talking about the useless things that came in CD cases.

other great examples of manuals are from Master of Orion 2, SimCity 2000, Civilization games which also came with full color charts. BG2 and IWD also came with cloth maps, though they weren't very useful. Skyrim came with a paper map. Morrowind came with the most useful paper map I've ever seen a game have. (anyone playing Morrowind today and constantly getting lost, maybe you're missing the map!)

again, it takes a complex enough game in the first place to warrant a good manual. your example of Half Life 2 is ridiculous considering how absurdly shallow the game is.

these days, I could imagine games from Paradox and Amplitude coming with great manuals worth reading. the only problem is that, especially for Paradox games, these days these kinds of games evolve too much after release. even if they came with great manuals, they'd be obsolete pretty quickly.
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I don't know why they're even associated in the first place, but whatever it is, isn't that stereotyping, not racism?

Full Throttle posted...

The racist stereotype of portraying African Americans as excessively fond of watermelon began during the 19th century, shortly after slaves won their freedom. Watermeon became a staple crop for black farmers after emancipation.

Southern whites threatened new agricultural competitors and still reeling from the loss of war and responded by associating watermelons with racist tropes aimed at black people.

oh... nm I guess
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Rockies posted...

Everybody always says "I miss just reading those things for fun", but do you really?

yes... have you seen the Baldur's Gate 2 and Icewind Dale manuals?



really, it's that a game has to be complex enough in the first place to warrant a manual that's worth reading.
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it's almost just a regular moth, except for the weird ass alien tentacle coming out of it
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I think the only movie I've ever seen her in was Machete
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Halo probably has better combat, while Goldeneye has better scenarios/missions.
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