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| Topic | People who pronounce water like "wuddur" |
| Sahuagin 09/15/21 11:16:09 AM #3 | are you complaining about the wu- or the -dd- ? reminds me of the word "to". you might say "it's pronounced 'too'", but really in many sentences what we say is "tuh". --- |
| Topic | Are you still interesting in GTA 6/a GTA sequel? |
| Sahuagin 09/15/21 2:56:28 AM #14 | I want Body Harvest 2 damnit --- |
| Topic | GeForce NOW leak reveals Demon's Souls, God of War, + more possibly coming to PC |
| Sahuagin 09/15/21 2:11:17 AM #7 | why would they confirm it? are they even legally allowed to confirm it? demon's souls and/or bloodborne on PC is something I hope for but don't ever expect to happen --- |
| Topic | What's your favorite color? |
| Sahuagin 09/15/21 2:08:37 AM #10 | FatalAccident posted... teal and turquoise make me wanna throw upI sort of feel that way too, it seems like an awful color. but one of my nephews says it's his favorite color and uses it all the time, and it was also the favorite of a good friend I had a long time ago, so some people definitely like it. --- |
| Topic | What's your favorite color? |
| Sahuagin 09/15/21 2:06:52 AM #8 | usually black and red lately though I think I've changed it to orange. something about it is just great. like it's a surprisingly underutilized color considering its quality/richness. (obviously hard to describe without just effectively saying "I subjectively like it for unknown reasons".) --- |
| Topic | So whats the appeal of WoW Classic? |
| Sahuagin 09/14/21 11:56:09 PM #18 | World PvP PUGs (possibly other things) I'm sure someone will say how crummy PUGs are (if I'm using the term right), but it's a case of something being less convenient and less effective, yet ending up with a significantly more genuine and rugged experience. in modern WoW they streamlined instances to the point that you didn't know who you were playing with, you didn't know where the dungeon was even located, and you didn't even know the context of why you were there or who you were fighting. people would leave and new people would join midfight and you wouldn't even notice or care. and then you level so fast anyway it doesn't even matter if you succeed and you're overlevelled before you even finish. everything about world PvP and PUGs was a million times more interesting than BGs and whatever the auto-grouping system was called. --- |
| Topic | norm macdonald died |
| Sahuagin 09/14/21 8:43:46 PM #18 | umm.. what? ... fuckin... fuck --- |
| Topic | Best recent music finds? |
| Sahuagin 09/14/21 1:07:40 AM #7 | Carpenter Brut https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5do8jwFnf5E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy9r2qeouiQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFfybn_W8Ak https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYtVf0wvPpc synthwave/darksynth in general, but this guy is the best so far --- |
| Topic | What are you Currently Playing? *gamer edition* |
| Sahuagin 09/14/21 12:58:46 AM #10 | played through Sekiro for the fourth? time and was going to 100% it but got side tracked by... Humankind which is great but hard to play a thinking game after work so instead I play... Euro Truck Simulator, which I "beat", so now I play... Euro Truck Simulator 2, which is a pretty great game --- |
| Topic | What is this Sudoku voodoo? |
| Sahuagin 09/14/21 12:38:11 AM #6 | if you didn't add the lines, that's probably just the scanning path I think it's basically saying that you can split the 4s into the two groups, yellow and green. the 4s knock each other out, and if you split them apart based on collisions, you end up with two groups. somehow, if you do that, the yellow group still ends up with a collision but the green group does not, so the yellow group can be cancelled. I have not used that approach before, but have definitely seen the pattern of "either this set of numbers wins, or this set of numbers wins, but there's no evidence to choose one over the other" like a million times. I just don't know how they determine that those two 4s both belong in the same group despite colliding. and why wouldn't the colliding 4 just make a new third group by itself? I think I get it; it inverts across each line. each line says: there is exactly 1 other 4 in this set, so that is a true dichotomy, and the other 4 can be colored opposite of me. if you do this, and yet there is still a collision somewhere between digits of the same color (polarity might be a better term), then that color/polarity is invalid and loses. note that (I think) the line at the bottom is a separate attempted coloring that came up inconclusive, since no collisions were present after following the links. --- |
| Topic | I have over 400 Steam keys waiting for my October birthday giveaway |
| Sahuagin 09/13/21 12:03:28 AM #8 | only 5... should I pick games that I personally want, or games that I would like someone else to have? there are almost none of the former, but quite a few of the latter. taking it down to just 5 that I would be happy to hear that someone else enjoyed: Battletech Crashlands Dishonored Icewind Dale: EE The Walking Dead --- |
| Topic | POLL: Best Game of 2011 |
| Sahuagin 09/11/21 11:52:48 PM #22 | definitely Dark Souls. at the time was playing Skyrim, and everyone was talking about Dark Souls but I didn't know anything about it. little did I know how good it was, but I wouldn't find out for another 4 years. (really? only 4 years. would have thought it was longer than that.) --- |
| Topic | What were you doing 20 years ago? |
| Sahuagin 09/11/21 10:55:09 PM #27 | got home from work just as it was starting --- |
| Topic | Parents Burst out LAUGHING at STUDENT who says his Grandma DIED of COVID!!! |
| Sahuagin 09/11/21 10:53:12 PM #46 | Clench281 posted... Out of curiosity, what exactly do you consider a political reason?do you honestly think that matters --- |
| Topic | Has there been any 'mario-like' platformers recently? |
| Sahuagin 09/11/21 10:51:42 PM #26 | Bionic Commando: Rearmed is $10 on steam. also it's very very good (though I've played the 360 version, not sure of steam version). --- |
| Topic | Parents Burst out LAUGHING at STUDENT who says his Grandma DIED of COVID!!! |
| Sahuagin 09/09/21 3:01:12 PM #30 | Clench281 posted... Some might not recognize you're being sarcastic here, most foolish people would actually agree with this statementexiling a chunk of the population for political reasons, while maybe not strictly "ethnic" necessarily, is a form of ethnic cleansing/genocide. mead is blatantly advocating cleansing of those he disagrees with politically. that should scare the fuck out of you. --- |
| Topic | Parents Burst out LAUGHING at STUDENT who says his Grandma DIED of COVID!!! |
| Sahuagin 09/09/21 3:17:14 AM #8 | Mead posted... Deport the unvaccinateduh, you know that that's essentially ethnic cleansing/genocide right? --- |
| Topic | 23 y/o Arizona Mormon SACRIFICES being GAY to MARRY his GF!! Who's using WHO??? |
| Sahuagin 09/09/21 2:24:22 AM #7 | no way to tell, it's entirely up to them --- |
| Topic | in my brief time away from the boards, i reinstalled windows xp |
| Sahuagin 09/09/21 2:22:09 AM #21 | Judgmenl posted... Imagine using an actual botnet for your web browser.I don't know what the botnet thing means, what is he using for a browser? XP doesn't support specific modern forms of encryption but does support older outdated ones. this means some but not all sites will not work. except you can work around it using firefox because firefox implements its own encryption algorithms and doesn't rely on the O/S. --- |
| Topic | ITT: We post Random YT videos in this |
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| Topic | ITT: We post Random YT videos in this |
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| Topic | Misplacing items |
| Sahuagin 09/08/21 3:22:13 PM #6 | some combination of all the time and never... effectively never when things are put in their designated place the problem is when you absent mindedly place something down for a second to free your hand and then later wonder, wait, where the hell is <thing>? wasn't I carrying it earlier??? --- |
| Topic | Hot dog or taco? |
| Sahuagin 09/08/21 3:18:16 PM #17 | aHappySacka posted... You would have a hot dog taco, which is in fact an abnormal type of taco. --- |
| Topic | I can't tell the difference between 4k and 1080p video on a 4k monitor. |
| Sahuagin 09/08/21 3:16:59 PM #17 | I have never seen 120fps, but theoretically where it should be noticeable is when turning quickly in first person, or similarly an object quickly travelling perpendicular to the camera (so left to right on the screen (or right to left)). in a lower frame rate, the number of actual frames you see as it passes will be a lot lower, maybe even just 1 or 2 depending on the speed, and they may have no overlap. in a higher fps, there should be many more frames. (I suppose twice as many in 120fps.) (as fps approaches infinity, an object could move past you from left to right in front of you very quickly, and there would still be a frame for every position of the object, regardless of its speed (as IRL). with lower fps, the object might not even appear if it moved by fast enough since one second it was off-screen to the left, and the next it was off-screen to the right.) --- |
| Topic | I can't tell the difference between 4k and 1080p video on a 4k monitor. |
| Sahuagin 09/08/21 1:33:44 PM #8 | I haven't actually compared before, but look at the smaller detail stuff. at a macro-scale it should look similar, but at a micro-scale (fine detail) the 1080 should get blurry before you can see much smaller-scale detail, whereas with the 4k you should be able to see a surprising amount of detail. additionally due to certain video compression protocols (or something), many 1080 videos will actually already be less quality than they could be. I don't know the technical terms for it, but in many 1080 files the "shading" that is used per each "cell" of each frame is merged between clusters of four (each cluster has the same shade as the top left cell of the cluster, rather than each cell having its own shade). this often means that a 4k video will already look better than a 1080, even on a 1080 display, because the 4k will not have that issue. --- |
| Topic | Favorite beer brand |
| Sahuagin 09/08/21 3:34:54 AM #23 | wpot posted... You seem to have gone through that quickly. :)those are the only flavors I can get from that company, but yeah, it took 1-2 weeks to shift from liking the blue one best to liking the red and green ones best. there's a couple more flavors that they make (Ale Blonde (yellow can), and Organic Session IPA (white can)) but they aren't available here for now. but man they are so good it's ridiculous --- |
| Topic | ITT: We post Random YT videos in this |
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| Topic | ITT: We post Random YT videos in this |
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| Topic | What skills and abilities should the class "Shaman" have? |
| Sahuagin 09/07/21 11:34:33 PM #15 | Lokarin posted... Completely side question:a shaman has a spiritual connection with nature a priest has a direct connection to a deity a guru... seems to just be a teacher or guide or mentor. the degree of supernatural ability seems hard to pin down. (well, noticing you say IRL; in IRL these are all the _idea_ but of course each of these is pure BS IRL.) --- |
| Topic | Which of the following is a VEGETABLE!! Can you figure it out??? |
| Sahuagin 09/07/21 9:01:02 PM #7 | even though it's used in desserts I don't think rhubarb could be anything but a vegetable --- |
| Topic | Do you work a job that makes you eager to get up everyday? |
| Sahuagin 09/07/21 2:58:59 PM #17 | kind of yeah, though the overhead of the commute makes it less appealing. but for work, I am every single day increasing the limits of my programming skills, getting better and better and better with no end in sight. I only wish I had more time. --- |
| Topic | What skills and abilities should the class "Shaman" have? |
| Sahuagin 09/07/21 2:42:50 PM #8 | Lokarin posted... The first is all nature stuff, making them essentially the Geomancer... earthquakes, tornadoes/whirlwinds, lightning strikesisn't a geomancer specifically earth, not wind/lightning? I guess the answer is that they should have a "spiritual connection with nature", though that seems like a strange concept being simultaneously natural and super-natural. it should vary by setting, since it will depend on the rules of the universe they are in. also it must be made distinct with druids. as you say, shaman will generally have elemental powers, whereas druids will be more "leafy"/plant-based. both are related to animals, both summoning and maybe shapeshifting, though a shaman will do so spiritually and a druid more physically. a shaman would summon a spirit animal; a druid would actually draw a real animal from the forest. a shaman would transform into a spirit animal; a druid would actually shapeshift into a real physical merging of themselves and an animal. the distinction I guess is that druids are "one with nature" whereas shaman use spiritual means as a conduit to nature (or maybe, a super-natural realm of nature). --- |
| Topic | What's your favourite part 1 of a series with at least 3 parts? |
| Sahuagin 09/07/21 5:12:52 AM #18 | hmmm for games, after looking through many trilogy lists, unless I'm missing something, it has to be Dark Souls 1. it's not easy to remember everything that's a trilogy though. runners up include: Metroid Prime 1 - MP1 definitely best, but not the best of these Baldur's Gate 1 - classic BG was the best infinity engine game, but doesn't beat DS1 Mass Effect 1 - good but flawed, and ME3 almost made me hate the series SMB1 - would have won when I was a kid Fallout 1 - I think I like F3 better though Age of Wonders 1 - this is probably second place behind DS1. AoW1 is fantastic. Dungeon Siege 1 - Dungeon Siege 1 is very good, but the sequels definitely are not. Descent 1 - Descent 1 is one of the best PC action games ever, but hard to put action ahead of RPGs Deus Ex 1 - extremely good but doesn't beat Dark Souls Turok 1 - probably the weakest in this list Exile/Avernum 1 - might have won when I was a teen --- |
| Topic | Conservatives SLAM Afghan Refugee after he tweeted THIS! Whose side are you on?? |
| Sahuagin 09/07/21 4:55:50 AM #20 | he didn't really say anything negative, he mostly let the image speak for itself. though I do notice there is more food in the other part of the container. --- |
| Topic | Florida Marine said he showed NO MERCY when he killed Family including a BABY!!! |
| Sahuagin 09/07/21 3:49:54 AM #11 | adjl posted... Shooting someone shooting at the police is not getting away with murdering someone. Wishing someone had shot at the police so you could have shot him, however, is wishing that you had an opportunity to get away with killing him.I likely agree with you, but you keep using the phrase "get away with killing him" which seems like a contradiction. you're smuggling in wrongness by saying "get away with", whilst simultaneously agreeing that it's justified. either it's justified, and not wrong, in which case there's nothing to "get away with", or it's not justified, and wrong, and something you could "get away with". I do probably agree that police should always prefer the non-violent option in all cases. --- |
| Topic | Which of these Animals can you NOT find in the UNITED STATES??? |
| Sahuagin 09/07/21 3:38:44 AM #5 | guessed 8, which is maybe a vampire bat? and vampire bats only live in mexico and south from there? but I can't 100% confirm either of those things. --- |
| Topic | I couldn't remember a game... but then I remembered it and got sad :v |
| Sahuagin 09/07/21 3:28:19 AM #9 | Lokarin posted... only the servers came down last year (or maybe the year before that) So it's a defunct game that I kinda miss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUAX0gnZ3Nw --- |
| Topic | Favorite beer brand |
| Sahuagin 09/07/21 2:02:34 AM #18 | never used to like beer/alcohol, but recent tried a variety of non-alcoholic beers, and one in particular called Sober Carpenter I find to be fantastic. it's like, oh that's why someone would drink beer... probably related to my age, but the taste is so good, like it's a deep complex interesting taste, which is not usually something you would consider capable of being complex. the three flavors I've tried are all great in their own way: White (blue can): tastes kind of wheaty, with a bit of bitter orange peel. was my favorite at first but has the least flavor, and I don't really like the faint orange peel taste. Irish Red (red can): my favorite, can't even describe it, just deep amazing flavor IPA (green can): almost as deep a flavor as the red one, but with a strong bitter kick to it. I imagine when I was younger I probably would not have liked the bitterness, but right now I find it pretty great. --- |
| Topic | Your first job |
| Sahuagin 09/06/21 1:06:25 PM #4 | in grade 12 I had a small job running the photocopier after class for 45 minutes, printing out stuff for the teachers based on job requests they would submit, leaving all of the copies in their mailboxes. --- |
| Topic | How often do food deliveries get the address wrong? |
| Sahuagin 09/06/21 3:00:58 AM #20 | so far just once have I had my order delivered to the wrong address. the photo was some other person's porch, but I couldn't tell whose. if you tell the company they just refund your order. another guy left it on the side of the road a block a way, but I could tell where it was from the photo so I just walked there and grabbed it. --- |
| Topic | How many years does the human race have left? |
| Sahuagin 09/05/21 1:13:49 AM #18 | modern civilization, who knows, but humans as a species will probably last a fair bit longer than that. (which is scary to consider... a post-apocalyptic future is an almost certainty) --- |
| Topic | You can ban a single song from existence. Which do you choose? |
| Sahuagin 09/05/21 1:10:55 AM #44 | off the top of my head, either "This is the song that never ends...", or one of those songs that loops heavily at the end "Walking (walking) on broken (broken) glass" --- |
| Topic | 19 y/o Kid is DEAD after getting struck by LIGHTNING while sitting on ALUMINUM! |
| Sahuagin 09/02/21 2:02:38 AM #21 | Gaawa_chan posted... Aluminum is the original version and is just as valid, just like the difference between color and colour. Aluminium was the version that people who didn't think Aluminum was in keeping with element naming conventions enough insisted on changing the word to. In other words... the alternate spelling aluminium came from a bunch of stuck-up posers who didn't even care that their alteration meant ignoring the etymology of the word in favor of what they thought "conformed better":reading about this, Humphry Davy said he should name it alumium. no one liked that name, since the prefix "alum" is english, with the latin word being alumen and its prefix form being alumin-. and then no one agreed on the suffix, choosing either -um or -ium and some people switching between them at various times. "Had I been so fortunate as to have obtained more certain evidences on this subject, and to have procured the metallic substances I was in search of, I should have proposed for them the names of silicium, alumium, zirconium, and glucium." --- |
| Topic | Is Windows Defender enough, or do you buy another anti-virus service? |
| Sahuagin 09/01/21 8:22:23 PM #8 | defender + don't login to a computer as an admin (though UAC does a similar thing) + keeping things updated (security holes patched) + always beware of running .exe files and similar 'dangerous' files --- |
| Topic | Man, whats up with the difficulty curve in jigsaws traps (saw 1 spoilers) |
| Sahuagin 09/01/21 7:28:20 PM #2 | he probably doesn't completely know what he's doing. he's trying to recreate an experience but doesn't know the exact right way to achieve it. there's probably also a bit of "fir the puzzle to the person" going on. (of course, really the answer is they just wrote it that way.) --- |
| Topic | Which FPS should I play first? |
| Sahuagin 09/01/21 5:28:28 AM #35 | Gargomon251 posted... I only bought BL2 because it sounded popular and there was a steam sale, but it sounds like playing bl1 afterwards would be frustrating, and I don't really feel like diving into the whole franchise.BL1 has very good gunplay and fun RPG mechanics in a surprisingly dull world filled with dull WoW-style quests and almost no story with almost interesting characters that barely speak. near the end of the game it starts to get a lot less dull, but then the game ends. (the DLCs are supposed to be good but I never played them. the game already suffers a lot from over-levelling, DLCs would make it worse unless they're meant to be post-game or something.) BL2 has good but flawed gunplay and fun RPG mechanics with a bigger way more interesting world with hugely more enemy and environment and gun variety, characters that speak, a much more balanced feel from beginning to end, and an actually interesting story that makes you want to play the game. --- |
| Topic | Which FPS should I play first? |
| Sahuagin 09/01/21 3:37:56 AM #30 | Lokarin posted... MP3 doesn't add too much new to the formula and neither does Borderlands 2... they're both good, but they're sequels so there's a lot of overlap in design.ehrm... gonna have to disagree with you there bob MP2 maybe didn't do much new over MP1 except have some much larger areas. but MP3 did quite a lot more I thought. for one thing, there are other people including other bounty hunters that you fight alongside, it plays a lot differently with the wii-mote, there are "action scenes" where large scale things happen with you still in control (can't remember exactly but it was fairly impressive I thought). I don't know if I can say it's a great game or not, but it specific DID do a lot more bew things than MP2 did. (although now that I think of it, MP2 did that whole shadow-realm thing didn't it... maybe that's what you mean). and BL2 vs BL1 is almost not a comparison. BL2 is such a massive improvement over BL1 it's not even funny. BL1 has maybe better gun mechanics and feel and balance, but otherwise BL2 is a *phenomenally* better game in so many ways. --- |
| Topic | 19 y/o Kid is DEAD after getting struck by LIGHTNING while sitting on ALUMINUM! |
| Sahuagin 09/01/21 12:35:06 AM #4 | I was almost struck by lightning once, except I was indoors. I think it hit right outside the window. what was weird about it was that we felt it coming. all of a sudden the room just "felt" electrically charged, and that feeling just grew stronger for few seconds while we looked around wondering what was happening and then suddenly there was a blinding white BANG with a popping/shattering sound outside which I think was a lamppost that was what got hit, and the lightbulb exploded. (though I'm not really sure.) all of our UPSs were beeping, all of our (CRT) monitors were purple and a few network cards and power supplies were dead as well as some ports on the main network switch. --- |
| Topic | Which of these BIRDS do you think CANNOT FLY??? |
| Sahuagin 09/01/21 12:24:16 AM #16 | looks like it's 6 which is a Steamer Duck. I notice he said "has no wings". that was the first one that I couldn't say clearly has wings. though from what I read I think they do still technically have wings. --- |
| Topic | Favorite SNES game all time |
| Sahuagin 08/31/21 5:34:23 AM #27 | Link to the Past with Super Metroid right next to it. two of the best games ever made by far. --- |
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