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| Topic | Its the Krusty Komedy Klassic |
| Sahuagin 03/08/20 2:49:35 AM #2 | and-... "KKK"...? that's not good... <nervous laughter> --- |
| Topic | If you could pick one game from the PS1/N64 consoles to get a remake, |
| Sahuagin 03/06/20 1:15:07 PM #42 | Body Harvest... it needs a modern incarnation so badly. --- |
| Topic | How about this, guys? |
| Sahuagin 03/05/20 8:58:18 PM #5 | TheWitchMorgana posted... how about you having a personality outside of simpsons quoteshe also works at a cell phone store and likes going on vacation --- |
| Topic | What BRAND of TOOTHPASTE do you use??? |
| Sahuagin 03/04/20 9:10:23 PM #18 | Colgate, but I can't seem to get it to be consistent. I feel like I'm always buying the same thing, but sometimes it's all white, sometimes it's white and blue, and sometimes it's all blue. --- |
| Topic | Head of Irans coronavirus task force tested positive for it. |
| Sahuagin 02/29/20 9:30:52 PM #11 | Zeus posted... It's not unusual for somebody working with the infected to become infected themselves >_> --- |
| Topic | I'm sorry but when Final Fantasy music is concerned Prologue > Prelude. |
| Sahuagin 02/28/20 8:49:11 PM #7 | definitely agree, the "final fantasy song" (prologue) was once one of my favorite gaming moments (in all of 1, 4, and 6 IIRC). --- |
| Topic | What's your current weight and height? |
| Sahuagin 02/28/20 8:44:21 PM #37 | 5' 6.5" ~180 pounds --- |
| Topic | Dragon Age might be the saddest story of the 2010's |
| Sahuagin 02/28/20 8:21:28 PM #19 | Lokarin posted... Bioware is more the saddest story of the 2010'syes --- |
| Topic | What's the term for when an early teacher intentionally teaches something wrong? |
| Sahuagin 02/27/20 9:23:14 PM #21 | Kyuubi4269 posted... They were impaired when taught a lie to help teach. It's not an important impairment, it's not a big deal, but it's very much there.I definitely agree, and depending on the specifics, it definitely can be an important impairment. I've never once thought "I'm sure glad you misled me about that before"; it's always more like "now you tell me, no wonder that never made sense". it's a lazy way to teach and condescending to students. (granted, I am someone who was learning about creationist ice canopies and dinosaurs on Noah's Ark in my "schooling", so I have a pretty strong bias against misleading students.) --- |
| Topic | How does the star ocean story work? Like FF and jump in anywhere? |
| Sahuagin 02/25/20 9:08:19 PM #4 | I don't know but the little I played of Second Story did feel like I was supposed to know more than I did. (considering the title that just might make sense). but I can't know for sure without playing more of them. --- |
| Topic | Best video game controllers |
| Sahuagin 02/24/20 8:42:47 PM #20 | xbox 360 are the best I've used, minus the control pad. dunno about PS3/4 or xbox one controllers though. --- |
| Topic | Have you beaten a game this month? |
| Sahuagin 02/24/20 8:25:39 PM #32 | in the last ~30 days, yes (Doom 2016). in the month of February, no. --- |
| Topic | How big is your thingy? |
| Sahuagin 02/24/20 8:22:32 PM #22 | DirtBasedSoap posted... @Sahuagin damn, that thing still works?half and half. I think the GPS has stopped working since November. the weather doesn't work anymore. almost no apps will run on it. but it works as a phone, and for SMS, and for music. and limited very slow web browsing. --- |
| Topic | How big is your thingy? |
| Sahuagin 02/23/20 9:43:44 PM #6 | iphone 3GS which is 3.5" --- |
| Topic | What are you currently procrastinating on? |
| Sahuagin 02/22/20 7:29:26 PM #26 | long term: I need to cleanup my living room and organize my storage. need to clean the bathroom too. short term: nothing much --- |
| Topic | Washington is forcing you to declare as rep or dem in order to vote |
| Sahuagin 02/22/20 12:54:21 AM #62 | you're talking about the primaries. as the DNC argued in court, no one in the US is owed a fair primary process. it can be as rigged as they want and it's perfectly legal. heck, they even went as far as to say that they can officially declare it's a fair process, accept money from people while telling them it's fair, and yet arbitrarily decide whatever they want at the end of the day, and the fact that people gave them money is actually an indication that people already know that it's rigged. --- |
| Topic | What is your favourite classic Star Trek film? |
| Sahuagin 02/21/20 1:39:14 AM #6 | semi-recently watched through the originals, except the first, and was pleasantly surprised that Wrath of Khan lived up to its reputation. really great movie, worth watching many times. the others are all more or less good too (except the first), especially The Voyage Home and The Undiscovered Country. --- |
| Topic | Weird question, do you have a table that would work for mini wargaming? |
| Sahuagin 02/20/20 9:12:10 PM #7 | I have a circular table that's about 4 feet in diameter. it's actually pretty lousy being circular, since it takes up so much space without providing as much table area. --- |
| Topic | Frozen pizzas |
| Sahuagin 02/15/20 8:03:24 PM #39 | now I want to buy a toaster oven... --- |
| Topic | Frozen pizzas |
| Sahuagin 02/15/20 6:37:20 PM #36 | DiGiorno are surprisingly good, although I don't have much to compare them with besides McCain which are garbage --- |
| Topic | Simpsons |
| Sahuagin 02/12/20 9:14:41 PM #22 | darcandkharg31 posted... I feel just because it started slipping in the teens seasons people think the rest of it just sucks now but I don't think that's true.newer seasons just feel off instantly, it's not even a matter of the particular episode. it became too self-aware or something and it comes across strongly just in the feel of the show that "THIS IS THE SIMPSONS" rather than having something interesting to convey. --- |
| Topic | Cosmo Canyon theme is still the best videogame song of all time. |
| Sahuagin 02/11/20 9:27:21 PM #24 | Noop_Noop posted... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dBlBpXWLKcACrocodile Cacophony > Gangplank Galleon (may as well post the SBU version not that I've ever heard it) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lh4TMCbU-gs --- |
| Topic | How often to you burn what you're trying to cook? |
| Sahuagin 02/11/20 9:17:04 PM #10 | I don't think burning something or not is about skill exactly, it's more absent-mindedness or not paying attention. to really burn something you have to forget about it. as a child or teen, that was definitely a common occurrence, but as a supposedly responsible adult I make sure not to do stupid things like that. and then, depending on how extreme or not "burning" is, some examples that may or may not count could include: - singeing microwave popcorn? I did that once a few years ago. - overcooking fried eggs? if you cook the eggs before the hashbrowns, the eggs get cold since it takes so much longer to cook hashbrowns. if you cook the hashbrowns first, the frying pan is too hot for the eggs. but I wouldn't really call that "burnt", they're just a bit rough on the outside - overcooking chicken? trying to get the exact right cooking time and temperature on my oven, I did get it a bit dry the first time, but only slightly. - I tried putting olive oil on chicken while it baked once, that was a bad idea, made a lot of smoke. not exactly "burning" though, the chicken was fine. - sometimes when you make those pasta meal things, if they have milk in it, they can literally go from not boiling to boiling over in like 2 seconds. that sort of does burn when it goes under the burner and makes a mess. haven't done that in a long time though. --- |
| Topic | How often to you burn what you're trying to cook? |
| Sahuagin 02/11/20 8:28:55 PM #5 | burn? like burn black, or just overcook a little? can't even think of a time when I've outright burned something as an adult. --- |
| Topic | Game manager in the style of Steam just for my DRM free / CD games on my laptop? |
| Sahuagin 02/11/20 1:23:51 AM #8 | DeltaBladeX posted... The laptop does actually have Professional, but I only have the single account on it. Not sure I want to bother making a secondary account for guests, I'm too lazy to log into mine.doesn't necessarily require logging into another account, as long as the current user only has read access (and some other user has write access). configuring it is as easy as visiting the security tab on the properties window. (there is a registry setting available to enable opening windows explorer windows as administrator that makes it a lot easier to do this, though I seem to have lost the ability after upgrading to windows 10. not sure if it's still available or not.) (it also helps if the current user is not an admin, and you have a separate admin login that you know the password to. most people don't run their computers this way, but they should.) depending what you're trying to do, maybe just setting the read-only flag on the shortcut files could be sufficient too. --- |
| Topic | Game manager in the style of Steam just for my DRM free / CD games on my laptop? |
| Sahuagin 02/10/20 9:18:35 PM #6 | DeltaBladeX posted... More want something simple for others using the system (mostly nephews needing after school entertainment until their mum finishes work) where they aren't going to accidentally rename stuff, delete stuff, move stuff, etc. The folder with all the shortcuts will be able to remain safe while they can access the games through some simple client.steam has family view, where you can select certain games that are the only ones available when you lock it into family view, requiring a PIN to unlock it. you can also create shortcuts to other non-steam/non-game programs in steam. (though not 100% sure custom programs would work with family view.) you could also just restrict access to that shortcut folder so that only your user can modify the files. not always easy to do that kind of thing unless you have windows professional though, but I think home versions might be a little better these days. you can also change the settings on the window to hide the sidebars and have larger icons. --- |
| Topic | What are your top 10 games of the decade? |
| Sahuagin 02/10/20 9:02:22 PM #9 | no particular order. (note: all kinds of games that I haven't played yet that could definitely earn a place here.) Mass Effect 2 Dark Souls 1 Dark Souls 2 Dark Souls 3 Factorio (technically still in early access) Kerbal Space Program Death Road to Canada Rayman Origins Might and Magic X Minecraft Some Runners Up: Doom 2016 (too short) Serious Sam 3 (love it a lot, but it's a bit lacking) Slay the Spire (amazing game, but very repetitive) FTL (great game but I like the others more) Papers, Please (10/10 game, but not the kind of game you want to play all the time) --- |
| Topic | Post your favourite video game quotes |
| Sahuagin 02/10/20 8:42:32 PM #37 | One has lots of time for reflection while waiting for the ENDLESS WAVES OF BAD DOGGIE WEREWOLF MONSTERS THAT CHEW YOUR TOES WHILE YOU SLEEP! --- |
| Topic | Post your favourite video game quotes |
| Sahuagin 02/10/20 3:32:55 AM #22 | I cannot be caged. I cannot be controlled. Understand this as you die, ever pathetic, ever fools. --- |
| Topic | Let's have a Doom (and Doom 2) Ironman! |
| Sahuagin 02/09/20 2:51:34 AM #2 | a common spot for me to die doing doom ironman is e1m5 when you take the elevator down to the symmetrical room with all the pinkies. there's a lot of monsters down there and it's easy to get boxed in. I would do this if I was looking for a game to play right now, but am currently engrossed in one already. --- |
| Topic | Did you sit alone at lunch as a kid? |
| Sahuagin 02/09/20 1:30:56 AM #44 | the one year of high school I got to attend, one guy I already knew introduced me to some guys who played cards in one of the math classrooms. we'd eat lunch and play cards there every day. good times. --- |
| Topic | Been playing Hexen... |
| Sahuagin 02/08/20 2:17:31 PM #66 | yeah fists do (from wiki) 40-55 which doesn't exactly fit. it's approximately (1-8)*2 + 38. (note that the calculation is slightly different than 2d8, which implies two dice rolls. really it's 1d8 * base damage. one dice roll, multiplied by base.) --- |
| Topic | Been playing Hexen... |
| Sahuagin 02/08/20 1:34:17 AM #64 | Lokarin posted... Doom works on a weird d3 system. A "bullet" does randomy either 5, 10 or 15 damageI can't remember if it applies to the player's weapons, but it's more complex than that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq3x1Jy8pYM yeah ok, it's 1-8 * base damage, just like above. what you're thinking of I think is that a lot of attacks (bullets) have 3 base damage, so do 1-8 * 3 damage, or 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21, or 24 damage. but that's just weapons with 3 base damage. that means that for example the sapphire wand, with 2 base damage, is doing 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, or 16 damage, randomly. (I guess; still don't remember ettins taking that many hits. I need to try playing again.). --- |
| Topic | Been playing Hexen... |
| Sahuagin 02/08/20 1:16:02 AM #62 | yeah the numbers I was using don't really add up (even though those are the numbers I was editing in some config file). the wand's base damage number was 2, which was only reducible to 1. but an ettin having 175hp doesn't take 175 hits. so something else magnifies it afterwards. (might have been specific to the doomsday engine too.) (actually, I forgot doom has random damage. looking it up "1" point of damage means 1-8 damage, depending how it rolls. so frost shards by default do "1" damage per shard, which is 1-8 damage per shard. sapphire wand does "2" damage, so 2-16 per shot. (though that still seems off since would mean an ettin would take like 15-20 hits? I don't remember them taking that many hits.)) for the cleric mace, it's probably the worst weapon by far, but the thing to remember (IIRC) is that it does attack fast. so it has almost passable dps if you get used to the way it attacks and focus on getting repeated hits. (it's still terrible though.) --- |
| Topic | Nice P.J.s, Simpson. |
| Sahuagin 02/07/20 9:13:11 PM #2 | of course she did, who else would have? --- |
| Topic | Isn't this the fastest way to do a for loop |
| Sahuagin 02/07/20 8:10:42 PM #7 | Amuseum posted... youre skipping 0 index, and will get index out of range error at the end of the loop.I should have noticed that. I guess it depends if you're using i for something, but yeah, i will count from 1 to something, not 0 to something - 1. this kind of performance optimization is usually completely unnecessary, unless you very specifically have to make this one loop as fast as possible. modern computers are already unfathomably fast, so micro-optimizations are a waste of time. instead, you write your program cleanly, and then if it's slow somewhere, profile it and optimize the part that's actually slow. Lokarin posted... is using a while...wend statement the same speed as for/next?basically (if you hook it up the same way to count). it's do...while that's a bit different since it will always execute the body once. --- |
| Topic | Isn't this the fastest way to do a for loop |
| Sahuagin 02/07/20 2:32:44 AM #2 | readability is more important than typing slightly less. a rule of thumb is to never use ++, especially combining it with evaluation. for (int x = 0; x < length; x += 1) {}one exception I allow myself is when you have a list of array accesses that all reference sequentially. var x = -1;Object.Property = values[++x];Object.AnotherProperty = values[++x];// etc...it's less error prone not to actually type sequential integers. can also use a closure: var x = -1;Something next() => values[++x];Object.Property = next();Object.AnotherProperty = next();(there's also a reason why I use ++x instead of x++ but can't remember.) Yellow posted... Doing it this way basically removes an opcode from every loop, right?I don't think so, how could it? what opcode would be removed? always going to be something like: mov ax, 0loop: cmp ax, lengthjl done<body>inc axjmp loopdone:might be able to eliminate a jump moving things around but I think that's the order things occur with a for loop. --- |
| Topic | Opposite Topic: What are the most big-brain mental challenge games on Steam? |
| Sahuagin 02/06/20 9:37:08 PM #9 | Lokarin posted... You are facing a nine-headed hydra. Your flaming longsword cuts five heads in each swipe (no more, no less), which will kill a five-headed hydra, but a larger one will regrow two heads after each swipe. Your storm scythe cuts exactly seven heads, but it makes ten heads grow back if the hydra is not dead. Is it possible to kill the hydra? What if you also had a silver dagger, which cuts just one head, but makes five heads grow back?was not easy, but looks like sword, sword, dagger, scythe does it 9, -5+2 = 6, -5+2 = 3, -1+5=7, -7 dead lots of prime numbers floating around, probably a better way to look at it mathematically but that was just random guessing --- |
| Topic | Opposite Topic: What are the most big-brain mental challenge games on Steam? |
| Sahuagin 02/06/20 9:03:41 PM #4 | have you played either of KSP or Factorio? also, KSP2 comes out this year! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_nj6wW6Gsc --- |
| Topic | Opposite Topic: What are the most big-brain mental challenge games on Steam? |
| Sahuagin 02/06/20 8:59:39 PM #2 | Zachtronics games obviously. (you've played space-chem IIRC, so you should know this). also Kerbal Space Program and Factorio I feel like you asked this already recently --- |
| Topic | Been playing Hexen... |
| Sahuagin 02/06/20 8:51:12 PM #50 | yeah Hexen 2 was ok, but didn't really impress me once the whole way through. generally don't really like quake engine games in general though. (it was definitely better than Heretic 2 though.) --- |
| Topic | Kirk Douglas Dies At 103. |
| Sahuagin 02/06/20 8:17:55 PM #19 | |
| Topic | how many times do you shower in a week? |
| Sahuagin 02/05/20 9:14:16 PM #71 | 6 or 7 --- |
| Topic | Been playing Hexen... |
| Sahuagin 02/04/20 11:33:19 PM #40 | Lokarin posted... Well, to put it another way. It takes... I don't know off hand, like 6 hits with the want to kill a Centaur, which because they raise shields every hit it will take about 20 seconds to kill one. But they're only like 2 hits from the Hammer (math not to scale since it's been a while)yes, the hammer does great damage. the point of the wand being OPd though is that it can take out pretty much any enemy from any distance with little to no effort, for free. other weapons definitely win in terms of DPS, but for the wand being your base weapon, it's way too powerful. (it's not really that it devastates; it's slow and steady reliable damage from any distance, trivializing a lot of situations.) --- |
| Topic | Been playing Hexen... |
| Sahuagin 02/04/20 10:29:17 PM #37 | Lokarin posted... All the weapons have advantages at different parts of the game... the Wizard's wand may be great in the beginning, but the Warrior's upgrades are better, whereas the Cleric doesn't shine until assembling Wraithverge or whatevernot sure what you mean. the vanilla wand by itself is basically better than all of the fighter's weapons. (I guess you could say that the wand annihilates anything at long-range, wheras the fighter annihilates anything at close-range.) the cleric's serpent staff is insanely good, doing very high ranged damage for low mana, and having a vampiric (healing) close-range attack. I might as well list the changes I make to the game: Enemies:
(oh and I never use the 4th weapons, but they could all definitely benefit from changes too). --- |
| Topic | Been playing Hexen... |
| Sahuagin 02/04/20 1:08:03 AM #27 | thecrazyfrog posted... No-resource ranged weaponno resource ranged weapon, with precise aim, nearly instant projectile, pierces targets, 2hp damage per shot, and fires around twice per second. --- |
| Topic | Been playing Hexen... |
| Sahuagin 02/03/20 8:18:31 PM #25 | aHappySacka posted... And the worst class the Sorcerer is laughably bad when compared to the other two.sort of... the wand is actually kind of OPd. some of the tweaks I make are to halve the damage of the wand, but double the damage of ice shards. --- |
| Topic | Been playing Hexen... |
| Sahuagin 02/02/20 7:39:04 PM #13 | sometimes I feel like I'm the only one that likes it, so good to hear someone else enjoying it for a change. there are some tweaks I like to make to the enemies and weapons, but even without that, it's one of the best doom-like games ever. --- |
| Topic | So Republicans plan to acquit Trump on or around Friday |
| Sahuagin 02/02/20 7:32:50 PM #62 | Unbridled9 posted... Well, yea. He could be completely innocent and the dems would vote to impeach, or guilty as heck and the republicans would vote to acquit. It's not about if he did anything or not, it's party politics.yeah this --- |
| Topic | So Republicans plan to acquit Trump on or around Friday |
| Sahuagin 02/02/20 1:06:35 PM #21 | wtf is with these threads. there's nothing to complain about. this is all going exactly how everyone knew it would go since before it started. it's like a WWE match that you're all arguing over who fought better and why so-and-so didn't make a certain move at a certain time, etc. like, there's nothing to discuss there, it was always going to go this way. and I don't mean it like the cynical "don't you know politics is rigged" kind of thing. I mean this particular situation is specifically designed to work this way. and everyone knows it works that way. and everyone knew it would end up this way. the only thing to complain about would be the impeachment process itself or something. --- |
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