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| Topic | Pokemon love is the best kind of love |
| the_rowan 09/28/18 12:49:52 AM #440 | WilliamPorygon posted... HashtagTartarus posted...His crotch looks like it's bleeding. Was there a bloody cheese grater photoshopped out of this pic? This artist doesn't actually seem to draw explicit stuff. I can only find one explicit work under their name, and it's a hidden scene in a little interactable flash thing. --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | Pokemon love is the best kind of love |
| the_rowan 09/16/18 1:45:42 AM #415 |  --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | Today I start The Witcher 3 |
| the_rowan 07/12/18 5:54:14 AM #103 | Russman posted... Shit I just maxed out fleet footed and now Geralt gets no damage as long as hes dodging. This is so overpowered. Im literally immortal now if I hold down the alt key. I also discovered mutagens and the rediculous benefits they give. I only have 2 so far but Ive got +40% att and signs I'm pretty certain that fleet footed does literally nothing and you start the game invincible as long as you spam dodge... --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | People who only say doggo, pupper, etc. are insufferable |
| the_rowan 07/09/18 12:08:02 PM #37 | pupper doggo birb burd kitteh snek This is just how the internet talks now. If lizard memes ever caught on more, people would start using lizzer or something a lot more. As for talking about one's pets... my now-60-year-old parents were using terms like "puppus" for as long as I can remember. This isn't an internet thing... --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | Today I start The Witcher 3 |
| the_rowan 07/09/18 1:17:47 AM #93 | Russman posted... So I got into gwent and did the unique card quests, although it was too late for the barons card. Yennefers is my best one by far. Medic cards seem to be the best alongside the trumpet players for their *2 ability. Spies arent worth it for me at the moment because most of my cards are still really shitty. Spies are literally ALWAYS the best cards in the game. If you win round one and you have more cards remaining than your opponent, you win the game automatically by just playing cards in round 2 until your opponent is out of cards. It doesn't matter if they're ahead by 10 points; they still have to play a card every time you do. --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | I tried the Octopath Traveler demo last night. |
| the_rowan 07/08/18 12:35:04 PM #10 | Reis posted... My only gripe with it so far is the complete and utter lack of difficulty the game has I mean, it's a turn-based JRPG. Unless you forget how to heal, you can't lose to anything but attacks that one-shot you (or force everyone to heal every turn until all resources are exhausted). My biggest complaint is that the world is boring as hell outside of the main story content. Towns are just a collection of buildings that you can't enter; the overworld is just a bunch of trails with (ugh) random battles; there don't seem to be puzzles; NPCs are just stationary path action checklists with one line outside of path actions. When I enter a new town in a RPG, I'm normally excited to explore all the buildings and alleys looking for secrets, but the towns in Octopath were literally just the usual collection of shops, a couple simple sidequests, and a new party member who joins me for who the fuck knows why since we don't even talk to each other. It makes no sense how you can start with Alfyn, whose objective is just to help bring health and happiness to the world, and then walk one town over and join up with someone on a quest for bloody revenge or to steal artifacts. --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | New rule in Australia: all sexual partners must say "yes" |
| the_rowan 07/08/18 12:28:59 AM #14 | gunplagirl posted... Yes to all of the above. It took long enough for western nations to say " hey, just because these two people are married doesn't mean that they automatically consent to sex with their spouse 100% of the time" Yes, as in they are currently, successfully making the argument, and this argument is why they receive a not guilty verdict? --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | New rule in Australia: all sexual partners must say "yes" |
| the_rowan 07/08/18 12:19:44 AM #12 | PlsGodDontBanMe posted... And this wont change a damn thing I was about to say exactly this. Like what is this even aimed at solving? Are there actually cases where guys are successfully making the argument in court that an unconscious or heavily drugged partner "didn't say no"? Are we seeing cases where the girl actually resists during sex (as shown by evidence) and then the male successfully argues that he thought she was consenting? gunplagirl posted... "It'll kill the mood" or some bs from virgins and people who haven't always engaged in consensual sex with all their partners. The first time I had sex (which was not planned before we were in bed together), both of us had hands all over each other, kissing deeply, but there were no actual words that led into us doing the act. But seeing as I didn't fucking drug him first, I think it would be pretty obvious if he wasn't consenting. Stopping to ask an awkward question like "Are you consenting to sex with me?" would have seriously threatened to kill the mood. --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | Why is KFC open at night when they just gonna give me old chicken |
| the_rowan 07/06/18 2:55:59 PM #12 | Sada_Pop posted... Fried chicken fast food is garbage I mean, you can literally just go into a grocery store and get a prepared rotisserie or fried whole chicken for like half the price of a portion for one at KFC. It's actually a joke. Dunno how many stores offer that stuff in the middle of the night, though--that's the hard part. --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | Today I start The Witcher 3 |
| the_rowan 07/06/18 11:31:15 AM #82 | spanky1 posted... solosnake posted...Do all the ? marks show up from examining the notice boards? Depends on whether you're willing to miss out on Places of Power, really. Instant free skill points never stop being relevant. Everything else tries to give you formulae you haven't found yet or weapons caches; non-Witcher weapons and armor are completely useless, but they're a good source of money, while the formulae are incredibly important to find up until you have them all (which will be in the middle of whichever you do first out of Velen or Skellige if you go for any real number of question marks). --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | Today I start The Witcher 3 |
| the_rowan 07/03/18 12:27:51 PM #70 | spanky1 posted... I never really was a decoy fan. Decoys are literally just more spies and medics. They're broken. You really need at least two. Being able to revive multiple bond units is a big deal. I rounded my deck out with some high-value golds (golds worth less than 10 points aren't worth using unless they have a special ability since they can't be boosted), some high-value siege units, a Commander's Horn (for three total: one Dandelion, one horn, one from Foltest), I think one Frost because Frost counters Monsters super hard and does pretty well against the other non-NR factions (the other weathers suck). Don't remember if I had any other tech cards. --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | In Europe, porn ads for increasing your penis size use cm instead of inches. |
| the_rowan 07/03/18 12:25:44 PM #5 | pikachupwnage posted... Increase your penis size by 1000000000000* idk man, having a kilometer-long penis sounds like a pain --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | Today I start The Witcher 3 |
| the_rowan 07/03/18 11:54:43 AM #68 | spanky1 posted... Northern Kingdoms deck has just as effective spies in it. That's what I use. And I use the leader ability that doubles the siege row power, and save that for last. Northern Realms with every spy, medic, and bond unit (other than PFIs) plus three decoys is really really strong and easy to play. The Northern Realms faction ability is broken, and all the others suck. But you have to start playing early so you get all the good cards from NPCs like the Baron before they're no longer available. --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | Today I start The Witcher 3 |
| the_rowan 07/03/18 3:10:05 AM #64 | Giant_Aspirin posted... Russman posted... Here is what you need for a sign build: Greater Blue mutagens Blue skills to attach them to. (One of which should be the first Axii upgrade, Delusion I think.) The brown skill that makes medium (read: Griffon) armor recover your stamina faster. That's it. Literally none of the sign skills are useful except for the first Axii upgrade and maybe Explosive Shield if you're not doing a sign build. Charm is kinda cool on Death March since every standard enemy one-shots other enemies, but it's bugged to hell if you have Delusion, which is essential to use Axii at all. Sign intensity is the only thing that matters. It's what determines if Aard knocks down for instant kills and if Igni ignites for hard CC and percent max HP burn. For stuff like golems that is immune to both skills' status effects, you are screwed with a sign build no matter what. You could try the armor melt ability or alt Yrden, but they offer such minimal effect that it really doesn't matter what you skilled. For everything else? With some sign intensity, you defeat all those dragons, cockatrices, griffons and whatnot by setting them on fire and watching them flail in place taking thousands of damage despite you being 20 levels down. Alt signs are just there to look cool and have absolutely no practical use whatsoever except for Charm, which is bugged to randomly interrupt itself if you have Delusion. The sign intensity upgrades are ridiculously, unbelievably skill-point-inefficient compared to just getting it from mutagens and gear. Yrden range would be okay if Moon Dust bombs didn't eliminate any reason to ever use Yrden. Quen needs no upgrades for a melee build and is useless in a sign build since sign builds just hard CC everything to death. Throw your skill points into the green tree to get the two skills increase your toxicity limit and drug yourself to OP levels. Then realize that you hate the way it messes with your appearance and the UI and go do a red build where you mash light attack and the dodge button (dodge, not roll!) and win at everything. --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | My friend is pissed at me because I beat him in turn 3 in Yu-Gi-Oh |
| the_rowan 07/02/18 10:24:42 PM #16 | Muffinz0rz posted... This is the most popular video, but Michael doesn't get to see anywhere near the amount of card draw this guy can pull out of his ass on the first turn. --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | My friend is pissed at me because I beat him in turn 3 in Yu-Gi-Oh |
| the_rowan 07/02/18 10:13:51 PM #9 | You should explain to him that the proper way to play Yu-Gi-Oh is for him to make a deck that beats you on his first turn. Otherwise he should expect to lose like that. --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | Each time you press the button, you get 1 million USD. |
| the_rowan 07/02/18 9:34:22 PM #16 | I wonder why anyone would press this button once but not nine times. Surely if the expected value for pressing it is positive, you should be repeatedly pressing it? Do the diminishing returns on wealth really kick in at just a couple million dollars to the point where it makes a difference over a 1/9 chance of all of humanity being enslaved? --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | Average American spends $1200 on fast food each year. |
| the_rowan 06/29/18 4:45:07 PM #60 | VoightKent posted... Average is useless for this stat; what is the median? Why wouldn't the average be useful? Do you think that there's some tiny percent that spends like $50+ for one meal out there? Look at all the other stats they present alongside it like the average number of meals, average cost of a meal, percentage of people who eat fast food a certain number of times per week, etc. and you can quickly see that unless the average cost of a meal is somehow horribly skewed, that number gives a pretty accurate picture. "The detailed study also found around seven out of ten Americans opt for fast-food up to three times a week, with seven per cent admitting they enjoy it every day, or nearly every day." I do think I've figured out where the cost comes from, though: the data comes from surveying adults about how much they spend, but they don't mention that it's on themselves. So someone who spends $25 to feed five people would report that as $25 spent by one person. --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | Average American spends $1200 on fast food each year. |
| the_rowan 06/29/18 4:35:11 PM #56 | _Rinku_ posted... I don't like the game, but I understand the rules. It wouldn't be nearly so complicated if restaurants would pay the regular minimum wage and just charge a buck or two extra for every item. Do. You. Not. Understand. That. Tips. Do. Not. Go. To. The. Restaurant? You argue over and over and over again that the restaurant is losing money because I don't tip $5 on an entree even though the restaurant sees no benefit from that. The server is literally just seeing pure profit at no opportunity cost since there's maybe six tables to take care of at the hours I'm there. What you seem to actually be trying to say is that the tip has absolutely nothing to do with it and you just shouldn't be allowed to order less than $20 of food at a restaurant, in which case you're out of your fucking mind. --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | Average American spends $1200 on fast food each year. |
| the_rowan 06/29/18 4:18:37 PM #51 | _Rinku_ posted... Sounds like that restaurant isn't doing too well then. If they are, in spite of having four open tables every time you go, they must be making their money in to-go orders or other tasks. In which case, you're taking up resources that could be more profitably used for food prep, taking phone orders, etc. No, it's because I'm eating at either 11 in the morning or 2-3 in the afternoon. Can you get your head out of your ass for one second to maybe consider you don't know everything about everything? If a restaurant is going to go broke selling menu items at the listed menu price, I don't give a shit. It wouldn't even make a difference if there were five people at the table if that were the case. I am not going to order a goddamn appetizer for a freaking quick lunch just because you're whining like a child about something that doesn't affect you. The tip doesn't even have a goddamn thing to do with any of this. --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | Average American spends $1200 on fast food each year. |
| the_rowan 06/29/18 4:09:10 PM #47 | _Rinku_ posted... It's not, really. You're occupying the table, but not spending enough money to make it worth the restaurant's time. Unless you are literally out in ten minutes every single time, you are putting them in the negative for opportunity cost. First of all, there literally isn't a damn opportunity cost for the table when I'm in there. There's always at least four open tables. The server spends a total of maybe one minute to ninety seconds at my table through the whole meal. Second, why the hell does the tip have anything to do with any of that? You do realize that doesn't go to the restaurant? --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | Average American spends $1200 on fast food each year. |
| the_rowan 06/29/18 4:01:48 PM #41 | _Rinku_ posted... Also, it sounds like you're not tipping the minimum, which is pretty sleazy. $3 on a $9 meal is perfectly sufficient. I don't hog the table; I eat and then I'm out. --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | Average American spends $1200 on fast food each year. |
| the_rowan 06/29/18 3:10:37 PM #37 | _Rinku_ posted... Entrees at the cheap Asian restaurants (that is, the places with the cafeteria style serving bins) start at like $8. An actual, sit-down restaurant with service will start at around $10 at absolute minimum for entrees. I can go to a pretty decent Thai place and get a plate of curry for like 9-10 bucks. It's a little over the $12.50 mark after tax and tip, sure, but the point still stands. --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | LeBron James has to decide whether to opt in or opt out today |
| the_rowan 06/29/18 2:42:38 PM #32 | Giant_Aspirin posted... unfair is literally talking about aliens in an argument for why sports are stupid It's just an analogy being used entirely appropriately. Do you really need to intentionally miss the point and make this statement entirely out of context to form any semblance of a rebuttal? If the Boston team has no players from Boston, why do the people of Boston froth at the mouth over how this team represents them? If the championship is won or lost by buying better talent from a global pool, why do we even bother to associate teams with cities rather than the owners or the sponsors? Well, obviously, the answer is a mix of using it to dupe the masses into paying into it more, plus convention grandfathered in from the older days of sports and from smaller non-professional leagues, but people still genuinely believe that their city's team somehow represents them on a deep level. --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | LeBron James has to decide whether to opt in or opt out today |
| the_rowan 06/29/18 2:14:42 PM #23 | UnfairRepresent posted... No one has the balls to do this because all the best players would go to another nation but sport would be so much better and so amazing if everyone on Earth agreed to a salary cap for all sportsmen, and teams were just actual loyal teams of relevant people I mean, League of Legends actually did go an implement a restriction barring teams from having more than one player from another global region on their roster. Probably not your first choice for an example, though, and earning citizenship in that region gets around it (but you'd have to be willing to move to another country for years before you could start getting paid). --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | Average American spends $1200 on fast food each year. |
| the_rowan 06/29/18 1:24:08 PM #23 | hollow_shrine posted... Divide the cost of A quarter pounder from McDonalds costs like $5.50 or something, though. The dollar cheeseburgers are just like a couple ounces of meat and don't have lettuce or tomato. --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | Average American spends $1200 on fast food each year. |
| the_rowan 06/29/18 12:20:53 PM #13 | HagenEx posted... 1337toothbrush posted...I think that's more than I've spent on fast food in my life. Also, $12.50 a meal at a fast food restaurant is fucking crazy. You can get a decent meal at a sit-down restaurant for that price. $1200 is probably more than I spend on groceries in a year and that covers all of my meals! Way to completely miss the point. If you're paying fucking $12 for a pizza for one meal for one, that means you're eating like 2000-3000 calories for one meal. A McDonalds combo meal is like 7 bucks and 1200 calories or so--if you're spending $12, I'd assume it's the largest size and you're getting a shake or something with it and pushing it over 2000. Meanwhile, if I want to get McDonalds, I'll get two cheeseburgers, or two bacon McDoubles, or a single premium sandwich if I'm hungrier, and spend like $2-5 plus tax, have a full meal, and just drink water since I bring water everywhere--even if it was soda, which is a super easy thing to cut that absolutely ruins your health, that's $1 for a 2-liter or $2 for 12 cans of name brand stuff. The fries and drinks are disgustingly bad value for your dollar (you can't get any of them for a dollar at any restaurant except maybe a tiny pack of fries that's got like ten fries in it, so I dunno where the burger/fries/drink for $3 thing comes from--that's almost $5 minimum with the absolute cheapest burgers). Spend $12 at a sandwich place? Either you're eating goddamn lobster for every meal, or you're eating more than a footlong. You could do it at a fancy or faux-fancy place like Panera Bread, but those don't count as fast food last I checked, and neither do real delis. --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | Average American spends $1200 on fast food each year. |
| the_rowan 06/29/18 3:56:06 AM #4 | The hell? What the hell are people doing spending 12 bucks on fast food for one meal for one? Unless you're doing some kind of super high-calorie fitness routine and are loaded with cash, that's insane. Aren't these people mostly lower and middle class? There's still cheeseburgers for a dollar at my McDonalds... --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | The Blazing Sword Fire Emblem set came out today >_> |
| the_rowan 06/28/18 11:38:45 PM #21 | Calwings posted... the_rowan posted...Calwings posted...If someone made an online way to play (like DuelingNetwork and similar sites for Yugioh) that translated the cards into English, I would totally play it. Pretty sure it's all manual, including the deck-building and setup. Kind of cumbersome, but it does have the cards in high definition with English translations (though the load times can be quite long if you start pulling too many cards out of the bags and making the game download the art). https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1188566266 --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | The Blazing Sword Fire Emblem set came out today >_> |
| the_rowan 06/28/18 11:17:57 PM #11 | Calwings posted... If someone made an online way to play (like DuelingNetwork and similar sites for Yugioh) that translated the cards into English, I would totally play it. It's on Tabletop Simulator with the cards translated into English. --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | SGDQ - Summer Games Done Quick 2018 - June 24 to July 1 live on Twitch |
| the_rowan 06/26/18 11:37:46 AM #82 | CasualGuy posted... more laughable drama literally a fucking online alias named after a green alien with suction cup hands from an obscure 90s game but no, it's an attack on trans people to use the wrong screenname boy, you better not use the wrong one of the five or so online aliases I've used extensively in the past 20 years or so especially if talking in the past tense about the time I was actually using that name --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | Nintendo is not a top tier game developer. Not by a long shot... |
| the_rowan 06/24/18 11:19:07 PM #111 | PanzerElite posted... This is the problem with most games these days. They have amazing production values but just aren't very fun to play. No, that's not a problem with most games. Most games, by count, are indie games that can't pay for production values and have to sell the game on either gameplay or just getting idiots to buy it based on the trailer. But people dismiss all these good games because they would rather lump games like Ori and the Blind Forest, Dead Cells, Factorio, Cuphead, and Mark of the Ninja in with cheap cash-in asset flips despite them clearly being on a different tier the moment they stop covering their eyes and ears long enough to watch the gameplay for two minutes. Either that or until Microsoft licenses them, anyway, and suddenly everyone loves Cuphead and Ori. Overinvesting in production values is certainly a problem with mainstream AAA gaming, yeah, although I think you're overstating how many are not fun to play. The issue is more that someone who plays a lot of games will have seen too much of the same patterns before. --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | There's a furry dating sim porn game currently on Steam, Free to Play |
| the_rowan 06/23/18 11:22:30 PM #41 | cjsdowg posted... I guess Steam has something for everyone. I know this might sound like I am joking or making fun but I am not. People can find any type of game that suits them and that they wish to play and it is just awesome. The choices that people have today is unparalleled in the history of video gaming, because of the access. (just not early access that is still 99% bad). But joking aside we have two people talking about finding better quality Furry dating games. Could you think that would have happened just a few years ago. In my personal cart right now I have a VR Star Trek game , a game about voting, an anime game that I would not buy in public. It is I mean, this definitely isn't the first furry dating sim on Steam... maybe just getting attention because it's free? There's Angels with Scaly Wings, Nekojishi, probably a dozen or more others that I've never even heard mentioned. I don't pay for dating sims, though. --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | There's a furry dating sim porn game currently on Steam, Free to Play |
| the_rowan 06/23/18 2:15:15 PM #32 | SpinKirby posted... are you unironically critiquing a furry porn game for having shallow characters I will unironically critique my porn as I damn please. --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | There's a furry dating sim porn game currently on Steam, Free to Play |
| the_rowan 06/23/18 9:04:56 AM #24 | Game is pretty bleh. Most characters are pretty likable, but with just three dates each it's hard to be deep. Character creator acts like it's gonna be deep, but then you get the same body model (including sex) for the player character no matter what. Animation is classic Jasonafex, in that it's motion tweening that just increases in speed without changing anything but whether they keep their eyes closed or blink them and some sound effects. --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | So PUBG might win the lawsuit against Fortnite |
| the_rowan 06/20/18 11:20:42 AM #110 |  Despite what the masses of poorly informed Youtubers are trying to tell you, the lawsuit isn't about Fortnite adding a Battle Royale mode (because that has literally nothing copyright-infringing about it), it's that Epic Games owns the Unreal 4 engine and helped the PUBG development team with it while the game was in early access, then turned around and "took inspiration" from the game by dramatically changing their own before PUBG even left early access. The fact that Epic Games was working on PUBG, then potentially used concepts that they saw in development for their own game is the basis of the lawsuit. --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | I've never been to Chick-fil-A |
| the_rowan 06/18/18 12:04:21 PM #7 | Sephiroth1288 posted... TroutPaste posted...Yeah it's good. I'm willing to deal with homophobic CEOs to get a pair of those spicy chicken sandwiches People are quick to jump on the CEO for donating to oppose gay rights, but always forget the fact that he's also one of the few in the world who maintains several extremely positive labor policies. --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | A story about buying medicine in America |
| the_rowan 06/17/18 11:34:23 PM #13 | Er, the pharmacy is entirely correct in saying that they can't transfer a new prescription, and that you need a new prescription every time you run out of refills or the prescription expires (one year from the written date, significantly less for controlled substances depending on the schedule and your state's law). Pharmacies will generally request a new prescription automatically as a courtesy for legend (non-controlled/schedule VI) drugs, but again, it's still a new prescription regardless of how long you've been on the medication. And a pharmacy is entirely within their rights to refuse to dispense an advance on a medication unless they can determine it's a life-threatening situation (and even then, that might just be a violation of the pharmacist code of ethics rather than pharmacy law, not entirely sure). Three days could be a very significant amount of money for some medications (hundreds of dollars, possibly even more for certain cancer drugs), though negligible for others. You are ultimate responsible for managing your own medications. Pharmacies deal with thousands of customers and can't just stop and dedicate hours at a time to navigating the insurance maze trying to get your coverage working if you haven't given them up-to-date information. Courtesy calls are just that, a courtesy, and sometimes no one has time to stop and make one. This is why you don't start dealing with a refill on a critically important medication when you only have a few days left of it. Not sure what the bit about your prescription not being active until next week was about, though. Might be some specific state law, especially if it was a controlled substance. Either that or you called on the weekend and the nurse on call had to get doctor approval to send it and that's what you actually heard. --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | The cruise ship riddle : You see a cruise ship full of hundreds of people |
| the_rowan 06/15/18 6:11:25 PM #54 | There was someone or something else edible in the pool, but the sharks weren't hungry enough to eat them. You intentionally introduced a feeding frenzy so the sharks would eat them, then moved slowly to get through the blood-stained waters without attracting attention. The blood that soaked your swimshorts will prove your alibi of almost being another victim. You monster. --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | The CEO is buying lunch for all of us who want lunch at the cafe today |
| the_rowan 06/15/18 3:55:53 PM #14 | CableZL posted... Tyranthraxus posted...Any time there's an unscheduled expense I always try to keep things I order reasonable. Imagine a potato costing the same amount as its weight in caviar. --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | The cruise ship riddle : You see a cruise ship full of hundreds of people |
| the_rowan 06/15/18 2:31:34 PM #38 | She was the only one with the ounce of sense to plant the seed in a plot of land rather than a pot that would limit its growth? Alternately, because she was a farmer and had her own selection of home-grown crops that greatly outclassed anything the given seed could grow, as he did not specify that the best plant needed to be from a seed he gave. --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | The CEO is buying lunch for all of us who want lunch at the cafe today |
| the_rowan 06/15/18 2:26:03 PM #11 | Howl posted... He wanted to see who had the companies interests at heart by ordering just a water and declining to spend the companies money on their lunch. TC failed big time. Maybe he wanted to see who had the confidence and initiative to capitalize on an opportunity without reservation. --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | What developers do you consider "preorder worthy"? |
| the_rowan 06/15/18 1:34:59 PM #19 | Won't even consider it unless the game is cheaper to preorder than buy in the first week. There's literally no other reason to preorder. It's the digital age: stock shortages aren't an issue; if one store runs out you can buy from another; I'll buy digital anyway if there's no incentive to buy retail since I don't sell games and the physical copy could be lost or damaged, plus is pretty worthless without online support for patches anyway. I don't care about cosmetic junk that is offered as a preorder incentive. From there, I generally trust Nintendo because they deliver games with better quality of life on release day than anyone else I can think of in the AAA industry. On the flip side, graphically intense 3D action games are very much a wait-and-see, especially if they're PC ports. --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | Mechanic was saying 1200 to fix my car AC |
| the_rowan 06/15/18 1:29:30 PM #7 | I've been driving without AC for years now for cost reasons. It's fine for highway driving as long as you don't mind your hair getting a little frizzy from the air. In stop-and-go city traffic where it's going to hit 90, I'd be pretty miserable. --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | Watched through some of the Mario Party treehouse and it looks real OG. |
| the_rowan 06/15/18 1:18:34 PM #12 | Highwind07 posted... The rule that different character can have their own special dice is a pretty neat idea. It's the first time that some characters are going to be objectively better than others, though. Like Yoshi is absolutely freaking godawful with that dice block unless you want to slow yourself down in general but not land on a specific space (it's got a significantly lower mean, high variance, and is inferior to Mario if you want to roll a 3--should be 0 1 4 4 5 7 for a balanced block, with equal mean to the standard block), Luigi's is terrible unless you want to roll a 1 but is very good for that (slightly lower mean than the standard block), and Mario and Peach's are both decent (same mean as the standard block but have a 50% chance of a specific value). Bowser is hard to evaluate since the value of -3 coins is difficult to compare, but if you're on a space with a significant positive effect and the 0 movement retriggers that, he's immediately god-tier because of his crazy high mean value and the fact that he can force a massive win/win situation by retriggering his current space or moving much farther than normal. --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | I hope the reaction to Smash nets Waluigi his own game in the near future |
| the_rowan 06/15/18 12:57:01 PM #19 | Coffeebeanz posted... Waluigi was the primary villain of DDR Mario Mix For what it's worth, he had a pretty big role in Mario Party 3 as well, basically taking over Bowser's usual role for that game. --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
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