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TopicPoptarts
Sahuagin
04/23/21 11:48:21 PM
#27
the best ones are the frosted ones. those were mostly all I had for a while and really liked them, but trying a regular one once, was not as good at all. and yeah, toasted.

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TopicWhich was your favorite X-Men movie?
Sahuagin
04/21/21 9:30:43 PM
#22
Krazy_Kirby posted...
animated x-men
ah yes, in a movie I mean 8)

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TopicI'd love a game where you play as a hacker
Sahuagin
04/21/21 9:25:42 PM
#6
well, I guess it's "sci-fi" hacking, but ExaPunks and other Zachtronics games. program nanobots (with "real" assembly instructions) to do various things, in some cases hacking into your own body to do things like mod your vision. (not quite as amazing as that sounds, but definitely fun and probably the best Zachtronics programming game).

the other programming games are less "hacking" but also great:

Shenzhen I/O: work for a Chinese company building and programming small electronics devices (with "real" assembly language running in the chips and problems with synching and having enough space for all of the conections)

TIS-100: solve various problems using a mysterious very old computer that you found and booted up. this one is the least good IMO, but the other two are fantastic.

all three of these are similar, where you solve 'puzzles' using extremely constrained assembly language code, and also have to properly synchronize each separate component. you only get like 10-15 lines per component, so just a simple loop can take up a good chunk of your available space.

(also note that both ExaPunks and Shenzhen are a lot better if you print out the PDF documents they come with)

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TopicI heard you guys like my bird pics...
Sahuagin
04/21/21 8:22:10 PM
#2
...so I took some pics of my bird pics so you could see my bird pic pics

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TopicWhich was your favorite X-Men movie?
Sahuagin
04/21/21 8:18:52 PM
#11
First Class easy. probably the best Magneto we'll ever have.

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TopicWho is your favorite Final Fantasy villain (Part 1)
Sahuagin
04/21/21 8:18:12 PM
#6
kefka is good, but isn't actually as developed as he would be in a newer game, and is also just basically the joker. but still good.

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TopicDo you think Dan Brown is a good author?
Sahuagin
04/17/21 11:58:46 PM
#22
just going by the movies, and not sure I'm right, but to me the protagonist seems to be the perfect example of a "mary sue"

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TopicWhat's a game you've only played once and loved but don't think you'll replay?
Sahuagin
04/17/21 12:25:27 AM
#24
Dreamfall: The Longest Journey
Turok: Evolution
Portal
Bioshock
Dragon Age 1
Serious Sam 2
Myst
WH40k Inquisitor

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TopicWhich was your favorite Star Trek movie of all time?
Sahuagin
04/16/21 9:53:21 PM
#6
I saw some of them as a kid (faint memories of 3 and 4, strong memories of 5 and 6.)

a few years ago I watched all of the original ones from 2 to 7 (generations). (have seen 8-10 and the new ones all around the time they came out).

Wrath of Khan was amazing, and probably the best movie out of them. 5 (Final Frontier) is in close second, and they could just as easily be swapped. 4 (Voyage Home) is also great.

Thing is, those three are all great, but none of them really feel like Star Trek. More like they're a great captain and ship battle movie, a great whodunnit, and a great time-travel-fish-out-of-water movie that are more enjoyable since they star the original crew. the TNG movies are maybe not as good, but they do feel more like Star Trek to me. maybe it's just because I grew up with TNG, but they seem more philosophical, which to me is the point.

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TopicAre there any good indie Square SNES JRPG style games?
Sahuagin
04/16/21 9:42:03 PM
#27
definitely recommend Trails in the Sky, but not sure if it directly fits the topic. they have even better story than classic jRPGs, but not as good combat. (has an interesting combat _system_, but I find the combat pacing to be agonizing.) the story/setting/characters are easily good enough that I consider them must-play regardless of the combat though.

(but it's a different experience IMO than classic jRPGs. I would say classic jRPGs had good but roughly-told stories, with really good combat mechanics. these games have interesting but VERY tedious combat, with off-the-scale quality writing, characters, and setting. the story and characters drag you willingly through the boring combat. maybe not everyone will see it that way though, I dunno.)

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TopicAre there any good indie Square SNES JRPG style games?
Sahuagin
04/15/21 9:31:09 PM
#13
haven't tried it yet, but isn't Octopath Traveller something like that?

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TopicAnyone got enough knowledge of Japanese to tell me if this is good news or error
Sahuagin
04/15/21 1:09:39 AM
#2
I get "Authentication is Complete."

Ninsho ga kanryo shimashita.

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Topichave you ever used an esoteric programming language?
Sahuagin
04/15/21 1:03:38 AM
#2
I've written a brainfuck interpreter and have corrected someone else's bf interpreter, but I don't think I've actually written any bf to do anything before, not even a simple kata

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TopicSHOCKER!! George Floyd's FRIEND who was in the CAR with him will NOT TESTIFY!!!
Sahuagin
04/04/21 3:05:38 PM
#37
adjl posted...
unless it can be proven that the death had nothing to do with the kneeling (proof whose burden lies on those attempting to make such a claim), I would consider it reasonable to convict the kneeler of murder
you have that backwards. the burden of proof is on the prosecution. why do I even need to say that? and there's all kinds of things you have to show in between, like motive, intent, actual cause of death, actual order of events, potential lethality of the action, actual lethality of what actually happened, etc.etc.etc.

additionally, this is an argument from ignorance; your explanation doesn't "win" by default, you have to meet standards of evidence, burden of proof, etc.

adjl posted...
applying enough pressure to the carotid sinus can stop the heart
ok, finally more information than you originally said was sufficient for conviction of murder. I don't know if that's true or not (I see some controversy over the degree to which that is the case), but at least you've potentially established a connection between applying pressure to a neck and stopping a heart. you'd still have to show that that actually occurred though.

adjl posted...
Without clear proof to the contrary, there's no reason to even suspect that kneeling on Floyd's neck didn't play a major role in his death.
argument from ignorance. I have no idea if kneeling on his neck contributed or to what degree it contributed, or was directly responsible, or was purely coincidental. I would like to actually know though, without making huge jumps in logic like you're doing.

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TopicSHOCKER!! George Floyd's FRIEND who was in the CAR with him will NOT TESTIFY!!!
Sahuagin
04/04/21 1:12:04 PM
#31
adjl posted...
And the sufficient justification is common knowledge.
what sufficient justification? you haven't presented any, though you claimed to have.

adjl posted...
pedantry inherent in the legal system
pedantry in the legal system? ...so the legal system shouldn't care so much about details and correctness? are you serious?

adjl posted...
When paired with common knowledge. Again, casual conversation, no real need to spell out exactly how kneeling on somebody's neck and then having them die are related because everybody understands that already.
again, you presented this as being *sufficient* (ie: all that is needed) *in the context of a courtroom*, not just in casual conversation and not with anything left out. you're directly contradicting your original statement.

this is so flagrantly dishonest. the whole point is that you can kneel on someone's neck, and they can die, and their death can have had nothing to do with the kneeling; hence why it must actually be shown that they are indeed causal beyond just some ignoramous "feeling" that they are. what you are suggesting would be unjust, immoral, illogical, and dishonest.

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TopicControversial Opinion Topic #3: Megaman 4 is the best NES Megaman
Sahuagin
04/04/21 1:33:31 AM
#9
not sure I agree, but I don't think I disagree. I would tentatively say 2 > 1 >= 4 > 3 but would have to play 4 again to say for sure.

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TopicWhat's a space/future tech game where having OP sensors is OP?
Sahuagin
04/04/21 12:30:34 AM
#4
Starcraft and other similar RTS games; one of the most common and strongest ways of cheating is full map vision. (so, OP "sensors" would be OP.)

in MOO2 sensors determine missile/torpedo hit chance and how far you can see enemy fleets. this is definitely helpful, but not as OP as in Starcraft. even if you had 100% missile hit chance and full vision, it wouldn't make a huge difference, though it would be helpful. (not sure about other MOO games)

in X: Beyond the Frontier, there are various sensors that let you see resources without having to dock with factories, or be able to see what cargo freighters or pirates are carrying. I think there are other games like Privateer where sensors let you scan for cargo, but can't remember specifics.

in Stellaris, Sensors are also map vision range, and give an accuracy boost to all weapons. I don't think the accuracy boost is particularly significant though.

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TopicSHOCKER!! George Floyd's FRIEND who was in the CAR with him will NOT TESTIFY!!!
Sahuagin
04/03/21 11:39:37 PM
#27
adjl posted...
to suggest that it's always fallacious to infer causality without concrete proof
it's fallacious to infer causality without sufficient justification and your feelings are not sufficient. you're blatantly stating a post hoc fallacy and your personal intuition as sufficient justification for conviction (or is it indictment?) of a crime. there's no grey area there, that's just blatantly flawed reasoning.

adjl posted...
this is casual conversation, not a court.
you specifically presented your points as sufficient justification for conviction...

crazy that they've got like dozens of witnesses and video footage from all sorts of angles and Chauvin still getting off

adjl posted...
There shouldn't even need to be anything more than what's already common knowledge: <your fallacious points>

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TopicSHOCKER!! George Floyd's FRIEND who was in the CAR with him will NOT TESTIFY!!!
Sahuagin
04/03/21 6:39:10 PM
#25
adjl posted...
I feel like this particular example carries a high enough risk to qualify
you feel?

adjl posted...
I feel like it goes without saying that the close proximity of the two events and obvious medical connection between them means one can safely infer a causal relationship
you feel that it's causal, so it's causal?

this isn't just wrong, you should avoid this kind of fallacious reasoning in general, for your sake and everyone's

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TopicSHOCKER!! George Floyd's FRIEND who was in the CAR with him will NOT TESTIFY!!!
Sahuagin
04/01/21 8:41:27 PM
#13
adjl posted...
There shouldn't even need to be anything more than what's already common knowledge:

* Is it considered proper police protocol to kneel on the neck of a suspect to subdue them? No.
* Can kneeling on somebody's neck kill them? Yes.
* Did Floyd die after having his neck knelt on? Yes.
The first point means Chauvin was acting inappropriately as a cop, and therefore should not have any protections afforded for those actions based on being a cop. The second means he committed attempted murder. The third means his murder attempt succeeded and he committed murder.

This should be an incredibly straightforward case.
with no regard to the topic, your logic is flawed

* Can kneeling on somebody's neck kill them? Yes.
means he committed attempted murder
that does not fly, there are lots of things that can kill you, that doesn't make them attempted murder. you have to demonstrate a lot of things in between.

* Did Floyd die after having his neck knelt on? Yes.
means his murder attempt succeeded and he committed murder
blatant "post hoc ergo propter hoc" fallacy

with regard to the issue I pretty much agree, but this reasoning is just bad (especially since you're presenting that as if it was all the legal reasoning needed to convict...)

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TopicHave you ever walked out of a movie screening?
Sahuagin
03/29/21 1:51:07 AM
#12
not because the movie was bad, but when seeing a movie at an extremely rundown theatre in my neighbourhood the projector had a seizure as the movie was starting and they couldn't fix it so we got refunds and left.

the theatre closed down not long after, though I vaguely recall it was a fire that ended it

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TopicCan anyone remember any, like, isometric car games?
Sahuagin
03/29/21 1:47:02 AM
#21
Super Off Road and Rock 'n' Roll Racing would be the two that come to mind

Lokarin posted...
they can also be tank games

there's MechWarrior 3050 on the SNES

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TopicStudies show states with GOP leadership had worse COVID 19 outcomes
Sahuagin
03/27/21 3:37:26 PM
#44
MartianManchild posted...
as more research comes out that supports what Im saying, Im sure I will post it
lol

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TopicWhich series have you played the most number of games from?
Sahuagin
03/26/21 3:33:45 AM
#33
Might and Magic. I've played and beat 3-10. (I guess I've also played 1 and 2, but didn't get anywhere.)

I've also played a bit of Dark Messiah of M&M and Heroes of M&M 5.

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TopicMech Vs. Tank: Another Topic
Sahuagin
03/23/21 3:43:30 AM
#17
Lokarin posted...
no situation where a Mech would outperform a Tank given the same power/weight ratios.
usually tanks are tiny compared to mechs, to the point that mechs can step on tanks to destroy them.

I don't know if you're thinking of this IRL, because neither giant tanks nor giant mechs would work IRL.

Lokarin posted...
A mech would have no problem holding those light guns, but a cannon is simply out of the question... not unless it fully braced itself before firing (although they could have 3 or 4 legs to negate that, it's more of a biped failing).
Mechwarrior mechs use Autocannons and Ultra-Autocannons. These are basically burst-fire cannons with calibers up to 203mm. Ultra ACs fire twice as many rounds twice as fast. Beyond that there are also Heavy Gauss Rifles.

in terms of advantages between tanks and mechs (in fantasy) mechs are generally sectioned up between arms, legs, head, and torso, where taking damage in the arms can cripple some of your weapons, but won't disable your vehicle. but really, giant robot or giant tank, either one is as resilient or vulnerable as you want to make it. neither are possible in real life in the first place.

another might be that I'm pretty sure that mechs are a lot more agile than giant tanks. (I don't even really know any examples of giant tanks, except maybe in Valkyria Chronicles, and maybe some other random "big battle tank" bosses in other games.)

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TopicIs there a term for the kind of mind control where...
Sahuagin
03/19/21 8:27:28 PM
#12
in mass effect it was called indoctrination, though the normal use of that term might be a bit different. your personality stayed basically the same, you just believed more and more strongly that helping the bad guys is the right thing to do.

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TopicFor those with a Steam library, how many of your games are tagged Hentai?
Sahuagin
03/19/21 11:20:55 AM
#35
just Rayman: Raving Rabbids which is apparently tagged that

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Topici am officially fully vaccinated
Sahuagin
03/17/21 11:49:35 AM
#8
Lokarin posted...
multi-stage vaccination
I think it's just that you need two doses to generate enough antibodies to be considered "immune". one dose by itself wouldn't be quite enough, and I guess for some technical reason you can't just take one double dose. (think of anti-biotics I guess: you don't just swallow the whole prescription, you take them one at a time at regular intervals to maintain a sufficient level of anti-biotic in your system over a long period of time.)

supposed to be that the pfizer and moderna vaccines require two shots, but the johnson & johnson one only requires one shot.

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TopicGuns question (sciency)
Sahuagin
03/16/21 8:32:25 PM
#11
Lokarin posted...
If you throw a bowling ball at someone, ouch - but if you golf a golfball at someone that's gunna cause some rage face!
there's something about comparing masses/densities of projectile vs target but I'm not sure of the details. a small fragile projectile hitting a hard surface will have its energy reflected back at it. a small hard projectile hitting a soft surface will tear through it. a large massive hard projectile hitting a medium soft/fragile target will destroy the target (at sufficient speed).

I think the question is where the energy is transferred. I think it is transferred into the weaker (less dense) object (damage is applied to the weaker object), but not sure of the details.

reading about it, this is inelastic collisions, but I've never taken physics and am pretty novice at this subject. you have to take into account the masses and velocities of both objects, and then use conservation of momentum or something. I'm not sure if density or penetration fits with that though. (maybe penetration is an elastic collision?)

some really good info on this (physics of gunshots) here: https://www.futurelearn.com/info/courses/maths-linear-quadratic/0/steps/12123

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TopicGuns question (sciency)
Sahuagin
03/16/21 7:42:04 PM
#7
Lokarin posted...
Ya, I'm asking if the damage would be the same if the end "E" was the same
I think theoretically, yes... but you can't really change the mass independently without changing other properties of the projectile, so I don't think it would be able to literally be identical. (ie, if the mass increased, then either the size or density of the projectile increased, and if the density increased, then probably so did the hardness.)

also, different masses and velocities would be affected by drag differently as well.

the best way to know this for sure is to set up a test and fire your projectiles and compare the differences. (see Paul Harrell for exactly those kinds of demonstrations: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6QH13V2o68zynSa0hZy9uQ )

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TopicGuns question (sciency)
Sahuagin
03/16/21 7:38:05 PM
#5
I think it's kinetic energy E = mv/2 (joules, kilograms, and meters per second)

so, the energy increases with mass linearly, but with the square of the velocity

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TopicGameTok with Lok: You know you love it - SNES RPGS!!!
Sahuagin
03/16/21 12:38:05 AM
#38
Lufia 2: good, but I didn't like the repetition of 1 village + 1 dungeon that persisted through the entire game from beginning to end. also at times felt more like a puzzle game than an RPG.

FF6: good, but overrated in a lot of ways. among the most epic of final bosses though.

Paladin's Quest: love the style, but haven't played it in a very long time

Breath of Fire 1: loved it back in the day, but haven't played it in decades. only problem is that I never liked the feel of attacks; the sounds and animations have a kind of unsatisfying frustrating feel.

Drakkhen 1: I liked the tiny bit of it that I played a million years ago but couldn't get anywhere in the time I had it rented

The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky: easily earns the "best writing in a game I have ever played, period." award. (like, this is IMO even better than Bioware game writing.) the combat is unfortunately not quite as good, but really it doesn't matter. this could be the literal best game of all time if the combat was as good as the characters, story, and setting. (to be clear, the combat is interesting and it works, it's just *excruciatingly* tedious. I think it could be fixed by increasing the speed that everything happens, but that will probably never happen.)

The Witcher: it's been a while, but IIRC it takes some getting used to the combat and can feel clunky and impossible before then. by the end, though, it was almost easy. (very long time ago that I played it though.)

For SNES RPGs, I think I do agree that they are a bit overrated and are somewhat nostalgia-driven. They were definitely good at the time, but I've definitely had more deeper and more meaningful gaming experiences since that era (particularly the 2010s).

A random recommendation of a game that I remember enjoying back then that probably no one else would mention is Brain Lord. I remember enjoying it, and I remember one particular puzzle that I was stuck on, but I don't remember much other than that.

Recommendations for WRPGs are definitely Morrowind (use OpenMW), and BG:EE and BG2:EE. And maybe IWD:EE, but it's combat-heavy story-lite and the quality wanes as you get further.

(More hardcore recommendation would be: All of the Might and Magic games, particularly 3, 4, 5, 7, and maybe 8, 9 (broken), and 10 (more modern/different). but at least 3 and 10.)


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TopicWoman boils soup in a plastic bag over a fire
Sahuagin
03/12/21 1:23:58 PM
#8
I keep expecting the bag to burst, not to mention melt from the fire...

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TopicDoes anyone know what that song or effect was from old car alarms and ray guns?
Sahuagin
03/10/21 12:06:31 PM
#3
Shadowbird_RH posted...
I think I know what you're talking about. This one, right?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzHhn2WtwYU
whoa, I actually remember using one of those before at a friends house or something. super ancient memory...

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TopicSo, did you like Robotrek on the SNES?
Sahuagin
03/08/21 6:57:54 AM
#18
my brother has it and lent it to me for a while but I never ended up playing it

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TopicWhat are some good RTS or strategy games against AI?
Sahuagin
03/06/21 10:02:47 PM
#4
Age of Wonders: Planetfall seems to fit all of your criteria. takes some effort to get into, but surprisingly good. all Age of Wonders games are worth playing, but this one was after being acquired by Paradox and converted into Sci-Fi, which is very very weird, but it turned out great.

Warhammer 40k: Mechanicus is close, and is very good, but I don't think it has skirmish (campaign only).

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TopicSomething weird (hyperbole here) - what's the deal with choice of punishment?
Sahuagin
03/04/21 5:36:08 AM
#7
think of it like, if it's "just" a fine, then you're saying that no one who ever breaks that law will ever go to prison for it.

and then conversely, if you say that it's "just" prison time, then you're saying that *everyone* who ever breaks that law (is convicted of breaking that law) *will* go to prison for it.

in many cases there needs to be a middle-ground between "everyone goes to prison" and "no one goes to prison".

the heart of your question seems to be more about how are fines valid punishment when people make different amounts of money. like, a person with a lot of disposable income doesn't really care about photo-radar tickets, for example.

that's a good question without an easy answer. some countries do scale fines to income. in USA they don't. (they do scale bail money to income though I think.) I would say that it's not very surprising to see systems in USA that are harder on the poor than they are on the rich. (though it's not an exclusively USA thing either.) you could maybe say that it's a more "progressive" thing to do, and not everywhere has gotten that far yet.

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TopicSomething weird (hyperbole here) - what's the deal with choice of punishment?
Sahuagin
03/04/21 4:32:12 AM
#3
not 100% sure but the choice is not up to the convicted, it's up to the judge. the fine is just the lower range of punishment. so, if this was a relatively mild case, maybe you just get a fine. or if this was a particularly egregious case, maybe you do actually get some prison time.

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TopicI can't play Path of Exile anymore.
Sahuagin
02/28/21 5:37:49 PM
#5
Judgmenl posted...
The game is too difficult.
isn't it supposed to be a good game? IMO good game + difficulty = gaming goodness

unless it isn't a good game? or unless it's difficult in a bad way

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TopicWhat is this circled unit of time called?
Sahuagin
02/27/21 12:27:24 AM
#15
62 centiseconds

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TopicHow do you refer to highways in conversation?
Sahuagin
02/26/21 2:46:42 AM
#7
(Canada) for inner-city highways, usually just the short name but sometimes also the full name. if you refer to a numbered highway by number, it's "highway x".

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TopicName some 90's games, and I'll give you my thoughts.
Sahuagin
02/26/21 2:40:19 AM
#16
  • King Arthur's World S Tier (Feels like the puzzle game for people that don't like puzzle games. Also, dear god the music!)
ok, if you like KAW, that makes me happy. I don't think most people have heard of it or know what it is. I would describe it as lemmings with a medieval army. one of my favorites of all time, (I really should get my SNES hooked up and play it.)

  • Kablooey Z Tier (Wierd and annoying.)
aw. it's a great puzzle game. it is weird and the music is also weird (and yes annoying). but the puzzles are good and very unique.

  • B.O.B. Z Tier (The harsh time limits kills this game for me, which is a shame because it's pretty sweet otherwise.)
I enjoyed the gameplay, but the game did seem too hard. have not played it in a long time, not sure if I'd still like it.

  • Lord of the Rings Z Tier (Pretty much universally hated, and I'd really like to know what the history behind this game was. Just WHY?!!!!! Great soundtrack IIRC though.)
I played through the whole thing as a kid and really liked the atmosphere. I was just reading LotR at the time and the combination of the two made it very interesting to play. the worst part by far were the terrible maps.

(the caves/dungeons would reuse the exact same room with different doors, over and over and over, so it was almost impossible to keep track of where you are. I would draw a map on paper if I played it today, but not sure that'd help or not.)

also it was a bit exploitable IIRC, where you could for example take out the wringwraiths by stun locking them the right way. the atmosphere was awesomely bleak though, and the mines of moria in particular I remember being very tense.

  • Krusty's Super Fun House C Tier (Played through it a couple times, nothing special, but it's short enough to not wear out its welcome, and not hard enough that it feels unplayable.)
I liked it as a kid, but trying it again as an adult it feels kind of lame. it seems very "adequate", with uninteresting level design, mostly relying on the Simpson's factor to make it appealing. I've never gotten very far though.

  • Metal Marines Z Tier (After one level I am SO sick of playing this!)
aw. very enjoyable strategy game. I've never made it past level 3 or 4 though, it gets quite hard, and yeah it can be a bit tedious.

  • Spanky's Quest C Tier(Um...I guess I sorta like it. Kinda forgettable though.)
I liked it a lot as a kid. very unique gameplay and style. (not the best game ever or anything, but very enjoyable for such a basic game.)

  • Utopia ? Tier (Oooh, the rare SNES game I've never heard of. What is it, and how is it?)
I can barely remember, but it's a strategy game where you build colonies on alien planets, and in later levels possibly have to fight (or at least negotiate with) the native aliens. one of the first strategy games I ever played. has Pachelbel's Canon, like KAW, which was one partial reason I liked both games.

EchoBaz posted...
@Sahuagin That was fun. Please give me another big list if you're willing.

Uncharted Waters 1
Uncharted Waters 2 (New Horizons)
Hook
HyperZone
Jurassic Park
Killer Instinct
Star Fox
Toys

Raddest_Chad posted...
Stunt Race FX
...I always forget that that game even exists. I think it must have come out just before the N64 and so I only had it a short time before selling all my SNES stuff for an N64. it was great at the time, if a bit slow framerate-wise.

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TopicName some 90's games, and I'll give you my thoughts.
Sahuagin
02/25/21 12:56:40 AM
#7
(all SNES)
King Arthur's World
Kablooey
B.O.B.
Lord of the Rings
Krusty's Super Fun House
Metal Marines
Spanky's Quest
Utopia

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TopicGameTok with Lok: How come almost nobody talks about Super Mario World's...
Sahuagin
02/24/21 11:24:12 PM
#4
I don't think that counts as an "alternate ending". That's just a glitch where (I guess you're marking this as spoilers but it isn't really) if you look up at the end, then Mario get's stuck in the looking up state, and keeps looking up throughout the ending.

There is a somewhat alternate ending if you complete SPECIAL. It's at least more alternate than just the above glitch.

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TopicGeneric self-loathing topic...
Sahuagin
02/24/21 2:01:45 PM
#2
because you (anyone) automatically subconsciously evaluate yourself based on how you look, and it contributes a lot to how you feel, regardless of what you think about it consciously

there are a lot of things like that that can drag you down emotionally without realizing it if you don't keep on top of them

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TopicThe main thing ive learned from watching American dash cam videos.
Sahuagin
02/23/21 5:44:18 AM
#6
the "hey that guy did something wrong, now I get to crash into him" ones I see from a lot of places (seems more like a cammer thing than an american thing)

if USA ones have any trends that I've noticed, it's that there's a LOT of brake checking. also, the more extreme hit and runs are often Florida.

russia is driving like maniacs in slippery conditions with worn out tires. also non-stop "suka blyat!".

UK/australia there's a lot more swearing, and a lot of them have to do with people jumping roundabouts and bad lane changes in sections with really short timing required to get over.

but they pretty much all have some of the same kinds of scenarios, minus those that are specific to those areas, like round abouts. (or those shared mid-road turning lanes that they have in california? dunno how those work).

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TopicWhen animating movies, do they have to change faces based on the language?
Sahuagin
02/21/21 8:37:11 AM
#2
as far as I know, and I'm not sure how often, but they sometimes try to write and say phrases that match the existing mouth movements, when possible. (I'm sure you've seen japanese animation that's pretty off.) it's possible that with modern technology, it's easier to modify and reanimate the scene than it would have been when things were hand drawn.

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TopicEvery Final Fantasy game worth playing is over 19 years old.
Sahuagin
02/21/21 7:35:46 AM
#27
Judgmenl posted...
the toxic mechanics of MMORPGs
it sounds like you're saying you don't like the tank/heal/dps system, which I wouldn't disagree with, although I don't necessarily dislike it either. (loved being a druid where I could chill as DPS, but then cover for a healer or tank in an emergency.)

but "toxic mechanics" makes me think of one of the main things I didn't like about WoW after a while, which is that it was obvious that they were actually using game mechanics in manipulative ways; as in, creating intentionally annoying mechanics, and then slowly over time reducing the degree of annoyance involved. it wasn't as if they decided "oh, the game should have been like this all along", rather it was actual changes in game mechanics to get people to think "hey, they finally removed <annoying feature>! I gotta try that out!". I mean, I know the game is basically the ultimate skinner box already, but that kind of thing completely destroys any value I feel for the game systems themselves. (we're almost literally rats in a maze at that point.)

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TopicEvery Final Fantasy game worth playing is over 19 years old.
Sahuagin
02/21/21 6:35:37 AM
#23
SomeUsername529 posted...
Is there some secret rule for this board
there's this thing called 'conversation' where you can pick a topic and then share conflicting opinions about that topic and dig through the details and see what you can come up with. it can be a very rewarding process if approached the right way, but maybe it's not for everyone.

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TopicSo the restaurant I work at added a 3.5% surcharge because of minimum wage
Sahuagin
02/21/21 3:54:30 AM
#12
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