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| Topic | How Fascist are you? (Test inside) |
| Sahuagin 12/08/19 5:54:04 PM #62 | Raddest_Chad posted... So the factory belongs to the state or the workers of the factory, depending. Not some rich guy.the problem is here, where you've split the people into classes and decided that one class should forcibly have to give things up to another class. with capitalism, (I guess), "workers" have the same opportunity as everyone else to become the next "some rich guy". the state doesn't just move in and even things out, rather people have to earn their way to it. (yes, it doesn't always work out that way, and yes, there's a spectrum here with evils on both sides.) --- |
| Topic | Everyone injured themselves with Mario Party admit it |
| Sahuagin 12/08/19 5:43:57 PM #4 | REmanZ posted... The fastest way kid me learned was to apply the palm of my hand to the analog stick and spin it that way, versus the slower thumb approach. The skin on my palm turned white and started to peel -- A symptom every kid that did this repeatedly experienced.pretty sure we did that, but not to the extent that we blistered our hand. our hands did get pretty sore though from playing the mini games. most of my "injuries" are from fighting games, and having to do repeated flame dances and aura bolts, which blisters my thumb after a while. --- |
| Topic | Traveling |
| Sahuagin 12/08/19 5:20:52 PM #4 | all of the above --- |
| Topic | I just finished watching The Love Bug and have a question about racing. |
| Sahuagin 12/08/19 4:18:29 PM #2 | not 100% sure, but I think to make the race as close as possible. also to maximize the speed of the race, and the number of position changes that occur, all of which (I guess) adds to the excitement. it also makes pit timing critical, since your tire wear makes an enormous difference as to how fast you take each turn. good video explaining some of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-F4fKTFveI --- |
| Topic | Metacritic's Best games of the decade are a joke. |
| Sahuagin 12/08/19 7:12:28 AM #28 | Judgmenl posted... The goal is to explore and progressively get better gear. Going underground, into the dungeon, into the jungle, hell, ect. area all ways to progress. Think of it like Metroid or Castelevania. Your goal is to deafeat world bosses and progressively get to the end of the game.Is what you mean here that you basically "travel" right away? Whereas in Minecraft you find a place to live ASAP and basically stay put there. So maybe in Terraria you are always moving, and not really stopping? --- |
| Topic | What do you do when you get stuck on a game |
| Sahuagin 12/08/19 5:34:38 AM #5 | greenmist01 posted... Games where i gave up on them totally, because of a very difficult bit, aremy list would be 2-3x longer than this, but I've left out a lot of less important games Icewind Dale 2: Got halfway the first time; got 80-90% the second time (not including lots of false starts) Doom 64: one level I just could never get past; no idea what I'm missing there; been dying to try again but I don't have the game Final Fantasy Tactics: I think it was second to last map Zelda Majora's Mask: not sure counts, but could never figure anything out in the city with the schedules and time travel and everything. *eventually* made it to the third dungeon, but gave up soon after. Age of Wonders 2 and 3: even though I love this series (am playing Planetfall right now), I never beat most of them, and only beat AoW 1 once. Starcraft and Broodwar: only beat these by cheating (was too hard and I wanted to see the story) Planescape: Torment: only beat by cheating which I mostly regret. was not enjoying the gameplay, and only kind of enjoying the story, so I didn't care at the time. Diablo 1: too hard relative to the minimal enjoyment Homeworld: almost beat it but not quite; got too hard Kerbal Space Program: yeah, thanks to my don't look stuff up rule, this is basically impossible to get anywhere in. I tried and tried, but it's insanely challenging. Lands of Lore: got to a really bizarre level that made no sense, and then got stuck there. wandered around forever but never found what I was missing. Golvellius (SMS): made it far, but then could never find what to do next. needed to find the aqua boots or something. tried so many times and never got any further. (this was over 30 years ago). Majesty: never really got good enough at it to beat the harder levels Netstorm: game is just insanely hard Nox: never seem to be able to make it all the way Painkiller Overdose: very hard, couldn't even do the first level Puzzle Quest: tried many times to get past an Ogre boss, but could never do it, even with a different class Warcraft 1: very hard game, partly because of the crap UI Wing Commander: Privateer: loved this game, but I never quite understood how you're supposed to dodge in this stlye of game, and a part near the end you just can't survive unless you can dodge for a very long time, which I couldn't do FF Mystic Quest: got stuck missing an item Soul Blazer: same Illusion of Gaia: last boss Ka-blooey: game just gets super hard King Arthur's World: just gets too hard Lemmings 1 and 2: same Paladin's Quest: last boss I think; my sister of all people is the only one I know who beat it Secret of Evermore: last boss Shadowrun: some dragon boss was impossible; not sure what I was supposed to do Soldier's of Fortune: game is just too hard Super Punch-Out: game just gets too hard 7th Saga: game is just too hard Uncharted Waters 1: I beat 2, but not this. In recent times, I played the heck out of it and basically mastered the game, but it just would never end, so now I'm not even sure if you *can* beat it, but I think you can... Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn: This game's normal is the previous game's hard; I gave up. Mega Man 9: got stuck on one of the last levels Games I could never beat due to crashing: Deus Ex: Invisible War Grim Fandango --- |
| Topic | What do you do when you get stuck on a game |
| Sahuagin 12/08/19 5:02:52 AM #3 | in rare cases, I become super determined and force myself to pull through. it takes too much energy to do that though, so it has to be a great game that's worth doing it for. in most cases, I give up and maybe try again in 5-10 years. greenmist01 posted... One answer said "give up, stop playing, uninstall the game". Who out there does that before at least doing the answer i said?I have a thing where I practically cannot look anything up anytime ever, with some exceptions. Even if I'm ridiculously stuck I don't want to look anything up. Only exception is if I suspect it's a bug or something. Another exception is Minecraft, where you basically need to look everything up since there's no way to find things out in-game. I've been trying to move away from this a little though, since there are some games I've played through 5+ times over the years, and there are certain parts that I just never figure out. So, eventually, I decide to look up all the stupid things I've missed so I finally know what the heck they are. But usually only after a lot of playthroughs. --- |
| Topic | ITT: Post three samples of your "type" |
| Sahuagin 12/08/19 3:45:07 AM #25 | WhiskeyDisk posted... JuneI'm thankfully not that attracted to June or I probably wouldn't watch her. She's more like a sister. https://imgur.com/YdCWeGy https://imgur.com/VA1PlT7 https://imgur.com/M9b4W0O --- |
| Topic | been playing a lot of halo reach on PC |
| Sahuagin 12/08/19 2:06:05 AM #2 | I wanted to play Halo 1, but it won't be out for a while. Having played 1-3 before, do you think I should play Reach now while waiting for 1? --- |
| Topic | What is the most obscure game you have bought this year? |
| Sahuagin 12/08/19 1:29:02 AM #9 | if that's Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint, I think I saw an ad for it somewhere, but not sure I have not heard of "World of Final Fantasy" before now MOLEK-SYNTEZ is probably the most obscure for me, though it's just the most recent Zachtronics game --- |
| Topic | Is it irrational to feel self-conscious about not working as hard as others? |
| Sahuagin 12/07/19 11:36:08 PM #6 | EclairReturns posted... Is it irrational --- |
| Topic | Metacritic's Best games of the decade are a joke. |
| Sahuagin 12/07/19 7:26:48 PM #24 | Judgmenl posted... Yes that's exactly the type of game Terraria is.If that's sarcastic: then I don't know what you mean by adventure game (the princess thing is just an example of a clear objective). If that's not sarcastic: I don't recall an obvious objective or really any reason for why I was there attempting to do things. It is possible I brushed over that though if I didn't find it interesting. --- |
| Topic | Metacritic's Best games of the decade are a joke. |
| Sahuagin 12/07/19 6:41:55 PM #22 | Judgmenl posted... Terraria is not foremost a "creative" game. If you play it like that you're not going to enjoy it as much as if you played it like an adventure game.k but in an adventure game I've been given a clear objective, and a clear set of obstacles to overcome to reach that objective. Like, the princess has been kidnapped and is being held prisoner in the castle, so let's go to the castle and try to save her. --- |
| Topic | How Fascist are you? (Test inside) |
| Sahuagin 12/07/19 6:38:43 PM #10 | You are 29% Fascist, which makes you Not Fascist --- |
| Topic | Metacritic's Best games of the decade are a joke. |
| Sahuagin 12/07/19 6:20:57 PM #19 | ParanoidObsessive posted... Minecraft is a game where creativity is rewarded and a lot of the appeal is coming up with things to do an interesting structures to designYes, in Minecraft, at any point, there's a huge implicit list of things to do at any given time. The game has goals to work towards (feed yourself, protect yourself from monsters, gain resources, attain enough self-sufficience that you can survive exploring far-away lands or especially-dangerous places, obtain enough of resource X that you can use it on a large scale, etc.), but it's up to you which ones to pursue and when. --- |
| Topic | ITT: We rate the above Simpsons clip! |
| Sahuagin 12/07/19 5:51:18 PM #298 | not only is that a repost, *you* posted it may as well copy my previous rating: 7/10 gym joke is good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDbxifENcuk --- |
| Topic | Metacritic's Best games of the decade are a joke. |
| Sahuagin 12/07/19 5:44:43 PM #17 | Judgmenl posted... You can't treat it like Minecraft. Think of it as an adventure game with a beginning and an end.I've tried a few times to like it. For one, the style having such tiny bricks really annoys me. Only having two directions to explore annoys me (though I guess it's more than that if you include down). The combat really annoys me. And nothing "clicks" when I try to suffer through it all. It's all irritation and no enjoyment. I guess the question is: when should it "click"? But usually if a game irritates me, I can't get past it. It would have to be boring, not irritating. --- |
| Topic | Rand Paul: Pilgrims Rejected Socialism |
| Sahuagin 12/07/19 5:35:37 PM #31 | BUMPED2002 posted... Be thankful Pilgrims rejected socialism basically just a "<entity you're bound to respect> supports <ideology I want to sell you>" template (with a negation) --- |
| Topic | Metacritic's Best games of the decade are a joke. |
| Sahuagin 12/07/19 5:28:48 PM #15 | the top 10 list isn't too bad. every game I've played on it I can agree was a game worthy of being listed near the top. paring it down to what I've played: Minecraft Mass Effect 2 The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Dark Souls I would move Dark Souls up a lot (and Skyrim down a lot), but otherwise can't complain. The rest of the games I've *heard* are probably worthy of being there too. Zacek posted... Mario Galaxy 2 is on number one, and that's the right place. I don't get the love for that game. I 100%d it, and it was good, but it was basically just a Mario Galaxy level collection. Nothing about it stood out as great, it was just completely adequate. Judgmenl posted... Terraria isn't even on the list for fuck sakes. can't stand that game for some reason --- |
| Topic | I am sad, so I am making a topic for sad people |
| Sahuagin 12/07/19 3:35:04 AM #19 | |
| Topic | Those of you PC gamers with two monitors, what is on your second screen... |
| Sahuagin 12/06/19 3:24:30 PM #13 | email on one, maybe a lecture or debate or something on the third if I'm playing the right kind of game --- |
| Topic | I've graduated to 3x4k monitors at work. |
| Sahuagin 12/06/19 3:11:56 PM #7 | 4 at work, 3 at home. they're all different sizes though. 1 1080p at work, 2 at home. 1 4:3 monitor at both places. --- |
| Topic | I am sad, so I am making a topic for sad people |
| Sahuagin 12/06/19 2:37:41 PM #10 | |
| Topic | What would you say is the best of the 3 Dark Souls? |
| Sahuagin 12/06/19 2:36:52 PM #4 | they all have their good and bad parts. a while ago I would have said that DS3 was the best of the three, but for some reason I always find myself playing 2 again, and not playing 3 again, even though I thought 2 was the worst and 3 the best. eventually heard someone mention the reason for this: 2 has by far the most character variability. magic is on par with melee, and you gain way more levels than the other games, meaning you can define your character much more than the other games. DS3 is the opposite of 2: you level excruciatingly slowly, and magic is unfortunately nerfed. meanwhile the combat encounters and bosses more or less require you to play a very particular way (fast melee), and since you level so slowly, it's very hard to break free from that pattern. so 3 ends up having by far the least character variability, at least on a first playthrough. So, for which is better... I think they're all good in their own way, each with their own flaws DS1: amazing first half, poorly designed second half DS2: most enjoyable in some ways, with lots of early game frustration, some less interesting level design, and great DLCs DS3: maybe the best most fluid combat, aside from too much dodging, but has some hidden flaws (no poise; magic is barely useful; less character variability); DLC content is some of the best in the series --- |
| Topic | I am sad, so I am making a topic for sad people |
| Sahuagin 12/05/19 10:29:52 PM #7 | |
| Topic | I am sad, so I am making a topic for sad people |
| Sahuagin 12/05/19 9:36:56 PM #3 | |
| Topic | Accidentally got someone fired... |
| Sahuagin 12/05/19 8:28:36 PM #8 | KogaSteelfang posted... That's what my manager said. Still, it wouldn't have happened if I told him no.you're not necessarily required to be absolutely perfect in all circumstances; for one thing, that's impossible. you had a quick judgment call to make, and you may or may not have made the right choice. the other guy on the other hand made an unambiguous and clearly motivated choice to commit a particularly egregious violation of policy. if I were you, I would ask whether or not the call you made was right or wrong, so that you know for sure going forward, apologize for making the wrong call this time (if you did), and next time use this experience to make a better decision. in other words, being in trouble VS not being in trouble, who cares, just make sure to learn from this going forward. --- |
| Topic | Accidentally got someone fired... |
| Sahuagin 12/05/19 8:17:49 PM #2 | from the sound of it, they got themselves fired --- |
| Topic | Have you ever had any anxiety due to feeling that time is going too fast? |
| Sahuagin 12/05/19 5:16:12 AM #11 | it gives me depression, not anxiety --- |
| Topic | My niece is getting interested in coding. Any tips for Xmas gifts? |
| Sahuagin 12/04/19 8:26:32 PM #19 | I missed that this was for a xmas present. Thinking about it, the "Head First" series of books are pretty good for learning fast. They come with a variety of different puzzles and quizzes to test you on each chapter and are written in an unconventional visual way to make it easier to absorb the information. I think like any technical book series, the quality of the books in the series will vary by the author, and the series itself is more about how the information is presented; so each book may be relatively better or worse than the others. I've only read one and a half of these myself (Design Patterns, and something analysis). Java: https://www.amazon.com/Head-First-Java-Kathy-Sierra/dp/0596009208 Web Design: https://www.amazon.com/Head-First-Web-Design-Accessible/dp/0596520301 HTML + CSS: https://www.amazon.com/Head-First-HTML-CSS-Standards-Based/dp/0596159900 JavaScript: https://www.amazon.com/Head-First-JavaScript-Programming-Brain-Friendly/dp/144934013X "Learning to Code": https://www.amazon.com/Head-First-Learn-Code-Computational/dp/1491958863 --- |
| Topic | Halo comes out on Steam tomorrow |
| Sahuagin 12/04/19 4:48:48 PM #26 | SKARDAVNELNATE posted... I never understood the Halo series. I thought the first few games were okay but light on story.not a huge Halo fan, but I enjoyed the game. the ring-world was an awesome experience at the time, and the game's combat and in particular AI was phenomenal. (IIRC fighting the flood was not the greatest, but fighting the covenant was fantastic. their AI was good enough that the same fight never felt the same even if you fought it ten times in a row.) I'm dying to try Halo 1 with mouse and keyboard on my PC, but yeah this release is only Halo: Reach so far which is a bummer. --- |
| Topic | My niece is getting interested in coding. Any tips for Xmas gifts? |
| Sahuagin 12/04/19 4:29:52 PM #17 | random tips but I don't know for sure how good they are for an actual person trying to learn from scratch:
(I suppose this is all really intermediate advice rather than beginner advice. in uni, except for the intro course, all you're really told is "here's a language; learn it". if you can't learn the basics of a language by yourself (by reading the documentation and experimenting with it), you won't get far, I guess.) here's the progression that university courses use (at least the ones I took):
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| Topic | Google Founders to Step Down from Both Companies; Sundar will lead both now... |
| Sahuagin 12/04/19 12:04:17 AM #4 | same thing happened to StackExchange interestingly... it's not going all that well either --- |
| Topic | The finger thing means the taxes |
| Sahuagin 12/03/19 9:57:25 PM #2 | |
| Topic | Trying to cancel any subscription. |
| Sahuagin 12/01/19 4:48:45 PM #6 | cancelling adobe was really tough like that, but I did it through chat which made it a lot easier. "you know if you cancel right now, you will have to pay a small fee, blah blah blah" that's fine, please continue "we have an offer available for 10% off, blah blah blah" no thanks "ok, just to confirm, are you really sure you would like to cancel?" yes --- |
| Topic | Mechwarrior 5 looks pretty interesting. |
| Sahuagin 12/01/19 2:09:37 PM #8 | I'm definitely hoping it will have a great campaign. gameplay looks promising so far. now that I think of it though, one thing it would need to be really great is a lot of different environments. so far all I've seen is grassy planet with clear weather. I guess MW3 all took place on the same planet, so it doesn't necessarily need to be that varied, but it would definitely help. (things like, desert planet, barren moon with no atmosphere, lava world, etc.etc.) --- |
| Topic | I have 3 days to pay this month's rent and it's been blizzarding all week |
| Sahuagin 11/29/19 3:14:17 PM #5 | damn thanks for reminding me almost forgot I need to do that today --- |
| Topic | There's not a lot of cool older women protagonists in games... |
| Sahuagin 11/29/19 1:58:53 PM #8 | only one that comes to mind is Wynne (had to look up name) from Dragon Age 1 there's maybe also the merchant lady (shrine handmaid) in the chair in Dark Souls 3 if those aren't "cool" enough maybe cool and old are to contradictory --- |
| Topic | Anyone know any good space battle/colonization games? |
| Sahuagin 11/28/19 10:26:48 PM #16 | Are you talking about space 4x games? If so: Endless Space 2: probably the best 4x space game right now. combat is not that impressive though. (IIRC you basically choose a general strategy (by choosing a card for each of 3 stages of the battle. kind of works like football plays, where you choose a play the best you can, not sure of which play the opponent will choose.) Master of Orion 2: it's pretty old now, but it probably has the best (2D) space tactical combat ever made. the game is not well balanced, but that can be seen as a good thing. does a *lot* of great things that have yet to be surpassed by other games. Master of Orion (4): only played a bit of it. didn't seem terrible. Stellaris: a really weird game with extremely chaotic design philosophy. Paradox doesn't seem to know what they want this game to be, and they keep changing directors. it's kind of a mess, but can definitely be enjoyed. IMO it's getting better over time, but damn is taking a while (like 3 years now). requires buying bucket loads of DLC to get the full experience. Sins of a Solar Empire: I feel like if you want space combat, this might be the game to try. It kind of plays like Warcraft 3 with spaceships, which may or may not sound appealing. (not an exact description but there's definitely a similar vibe.) GalCiv 2: a solid space 4x game that can be enjoyed a lot, but doesn't really do anything in particular all that great. GalCiv 3: I wanted to love this but I hated it when I tried it. payed full price too. will have had a ton of development time since then, so not sure what it's like now. --- |
| Topic | Have you ever had a teacher that you felt was trying to fail students |
| Sahuagin 11/27/19 9:47:18 PM #17 | I sort of had the opposite. My grade 12 social studies teacher liked to say that he had never failed a student, so if you were doing poorly he would get *very* angry about it. He would go through everyone's homework with them at their desk and embarrass anyone (me) who didn't do all of it. (I hadn't been in a classroom since I was 12 years old so it was a pretty rough experience for me.) --- |
| Topic | weather elitism |
| Sahuagin 11/26/19 9:42:39 PM #4 | what kind of reaction should I have when people complain about +11C when I've experienced -35C? or the pain of having severe bronchitis and inhaling -28C air. like daggers in the throat. you should be talking about weather ignorance. --- |
| Topic | Is anger contagious? |
| Sahuagin 11/26/19 9:34:36 PM #7 | there was an archie comic about this. person A is in a bad mood and takes it out on person B who had been in a good mood. person B, now in a bad mood, does the same to person C, etc.etc. until person Z eventually takes it out on person A, completing the circle. --- |
| Topic | GameTok with Lok: Hello Traveller! There are new missions available... |
| Sahuagin 11/25/19 12:31:46 AM #31 | Lokarin posted... Is Resident Evil 7 any good? I gave up on RE after 4 and seeing that the next few looked even worse Lokarin posted... I haz a primo computer now... is VR worth it? it's supposed to be, but I haven't tried it (modern stuff anyway; tried it once 25+ years ago and it wasn't that great) Lokarin posted... How come it's so hard to find salted chocolate? I dunno, but it sure is good. maybe try a bulk barn? --- |
| Topic | Which version of A Christmas Carol do you like the best? |
| Sahuagin 11/24/19 10:59:50 PM #2 | not sure between Alastair Sim and George C. Scott, I'd have to watch them back to back sometime to decide between them. --- |
| Topic | Why can't I enjoy things I used to anymore? |
| Sahuagin 11/24/19 6:07:02 PM #33 | LinkPizza posted... I dont think I was putting words in your mouth. I was just saying I know plenty of people who are happy doing what the what they are doing without having children... in direct reply to me, when I didn't say anything even approximating the fact that people can't be happy without children LinkPizza posted... People seem to think having a kid will make them happy what I'm saying is not even about actually having kids. my point is that I think there's likely a potential psychological tendency (not for everyone) towards unhappiness without them in your life (any, not just your own). the point being to be aware of this as a potential source of depression, (maybe, maybe not, up to the person), so that you can at least be aware of it, and if you so choose, work towards it somehow; or maybe work harder on being a positive presence in the lives of the children that you do already know. I think there are a lot of people that might not even consider that as a possibility for their depression, but they might find something they didn't realize was there if they know where to look for it. --- |
| Topic | Why can't I enjoy things I used to anymore? |
| Sahuagin 11/24/19 5:30:06 PM #30 | LinkPizza posted... I don't think you should really generalize people like thatnot generalizing anyone, just putting forth a potential plausible sounding explanation for a problem you guys are acting like I said that all depression is caused by not having kids, and that everyone should necessarily have kids. you don't even need to have them, just being around them can help, maybe, if you're depressed and your depression is a certain kind of depression. LinkPizza posted... I know plenty of people who are happy doing what they are doing without having children around...I did expect these kinds of "I don't want kids" responses, but you guys are going way overboard putting words in my mouth. --- |
| Topic | Why can't I enjoy things I used to anymore? |
| Sahuagin 11/24/19 4:34:21 PM #19 | Moonjay posted... There is literally no point where you can't keep teaching yourself, and the 30s sure wouldn't be that point if there was one.I didn't suggest you should do so haphazardly. I'm saying at that age it starts to make more and more sense psychologically. A single middle aged man is definitely going to start to be depressed for these kinds of reasons, generally. At least it's a plausible explanation. If you're jaded to heck like a lot of people here are, being around children can be a great way to help that. --- |
| Topic | Why can't I enjoy things I used to anymore? |
| Sahuagin 11/24/19 4:20:45 PM #14 | I think it's partly that at this part in your/our lives (assuming around 30+ somewhere) we're supposed to have kids. Now that I have nephews, they spice up just about everything I get them interested in. Any time they do anything it's practically immediately "wow!"; they get surprised and excited by the most mundane things. Basically, you've run the course of what you can teach yourself. It's supposed to be time to start teaching your little ones what you've learned. --- |
| Topic | Isn't is a weird contraction |
| Sahuagin 11/24/19 4:06:05 PM #27 | faramir77 posted... it's strange that English doesn't have a plural second person pronoun. The closest we have to one is "y'all", interestingly both a plural second person pronoun and a contraction, but whenever someone says "y'all" they get shit on for having lazy English. it is, or was, "ye" --- |
| Topic | In your opinion is your manager smarter than you are? |
| Sahuagin 11/24/19 3:06:44 AM #6 | my previous manager... I don't have a lot good to say my current manager is maybe not "smarter" than me, but he's better than me in a lot more ways than that --- |
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