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| Topic | Which of these BIRDS do you think CANNOT FLY??? |
| Sahuagin 08/31/21 3:22:59 AM #6 | it looks like #9 is a sandhill crane, which can fly (but got my vote...) my other guess would have been #5, which is apparently nesting on the ground, which is maybe not something you would do if you could fly. but it seems to be a Laysan Albatross which can fly. so I have no idea and don't feel like looking all the other ones up --- |
| Topic | Does anyone else here really like being put under anesthesia? |
| Sahuagin 08/28/21 3:09:55 AM #9 | definitely can't say I like it aside from being a unique and interesting experience. one second you're going under, the next you're somewhere else trying to wake up from an impossibly deep sleep. and then when you do wake up, you're probably in pain and can't move. --- |
| Topic | So Soulja Boy claimed he owns Atari... and now he's in a fight with everyone |
| Sahuagin 08/28/21 3:06:09 AM #4 | that would be hilarious considering the already crazy history of "Atari", which is not even the real Atari, it's Infogrames. (Hasbro bought both Atari and Microprose, and then gave up making games and sold their gaming division to Infogrames who promptly renames themselves "Atari" since they now owned the name. I remember this always since Microprose is/was my favorite developer, and today "Atari" (Infogrames) owns all of Microprose's IPs.) --- |
| Topic | What's your personal favourite guilty pleasure/shitty RPG? |
| Sahuagin 08/28/21 2:52:15 AM #6 | not sure they count but closest things I can think of is Exile (aka Avernum): Escape from the Pit, and the Might and Magic games. maybe especially Might and Magic 9, which was unfinished and broken, but has some great music and can still be really fun to play despite its severe issues. maybe Dragon Quest XI which is amazing in almost every way but suffers so much from lack of challenge and balance between the enemy fights and boss fights. --- |
| Topic | who even uses pencils anymore |
| Sahuagin 08/26/21 11:23:07 PM #6 | do you mean wooden pencils or mechanical pencils? pencils are pretty important for rough sketching --- |
| Topic | I'm going a smidgen nuts right now... |
| Sahuagin 08/25/21 1:59:11 AM #2 | yeah that sucks. happens to me a couple times a year as well, usually in winter. no shower, no brushing teeth, no laundry, no toilet... --- |
| Topic | Windows 10 PC using 100% HDD usage and slow AF, UGH |
| Sahuagin 08/25/21 12:06:44 AM #7 | I had a computer doing this recently. it turned out to be an error in the Windows Store app. Windows Store would get an error like 10 times a second, and would log the error that often. except that many errors filled the windows store log, and the fact that the windows store log was full was being recorded in the main log. so you have dozens and dozens of errors being written to the HD constantly. if you run resource monitor, choose the disk tab, and open the disk activity drop down/accordion thing, you can see what files are being written to by what processes and how much disk throughput is being consumed by it. --- |
| Topic | So which vaccine did you get, brah? |
| Sahuagin 08/23/21 1:08:53 AM #35 | Flappers posted... Pfizer both times. I had zero symptoms afterwards and nobody I talked to did either. As opposed to literally everyone I met who got Moderna and said they felt like shit.I had Pfizer twice. sore arm both times. the first time I had only just noticeable malaise, but it went away after a day. the second time I had full malaise and may as well have had the flu for two days, but it went away after that. --- |
| Topic | Who's playing Humankind here? |
| Sahuagin 08/22/21 1:15:01 PM #17 | aw it's true I might have a different view of it if I was coming from Civ 6, which I didn't really get into, and I didn't really like Civ 5 much. instead this feels like a huge step up from Endless Legend (which is kind of like this game in a fantasy setting) I'll need to give Civ 6 another go at some point --- |
| Topic | Did you know in Dark Souls you can actually escape grabs? |
| Sahuagin 08/22/21 1:10:09 PM #3 | I knew it seemed to lessen the severity, like if you do nothing it's a lot worse, but didn't know exactly how it worked --- |
| Topic | Danny DeVito posted in favour of the Nabisco strike, twitter unverified him |
| Sahuagin 08/22/21 4:28:25 AM #4 | Nabisco bakers across the US are on strike, potentially disrupting Oreo supplyoh no, not the oreos ! --- |
| Topic | Who's playing Humankind here? |
| Sahuagin 08/22/21 3:06:29 AM #13 | FatalAccident posted... Your build seems similar enough to mine cause I've got Core i7 4790 (4GHz), GTX 980 @ 4GB, 16GB RAM and it still runs like crap :/ I can see tears across the screen during cartoon cut scenes (intro, new era etc.). And generally things feel really not that sharp.I have an i5-2310 (2nd gen). maybe it's the res? I'm just playing at 1920x1080. FatalAccident posted... This was my second playthrough, first I picked the Assyrians but then I realised I wasn't using their skills much so I restarted.so far I have two cities with lots of attached territories. one city I got "accidentally" by invading an independent. both were at four territories each (including the city one) for a while, though I just added an island to the second one. I haven't done any war yet. (not that it's a good idea, it's just my playstyle, but usually I play mostly defenseless until an AI decides to be a jerk, and then I go to war relentlessly with that AI if I can and try to completely conquer them. so far no one has been hostile.) for stability, I guess the idea is that growing will tend to lower stability, but there are always ways to increase it. with garrisons, and later commons quarters you can effectively have as much stability as you want as long as you're willing to build it (though since I think quarters get more and more expensive, it's better to build other things if you can first). food is similar where food leads to growth, but growth leads to food shortages, so you're always having to keep the food production in check to match growth. so you go back and forth between growing and re-stabilizing. conquering cities probably would take quite a lot of re-stabilizing before the new cities are profitable, but I haven't had to deal with that yet. --- |
| Topic | are you aware of your right as a juror to perform jury nullification? |
| Sahuagin 08/22/21 2:23:51 AM #6 | PunishedOni posted... actuslly you're not supposed to think for yourselfactually you are supposed to think for yourself, as it pertains to deciding if the law has been broken. you are not "supposed" to make yourself the arbiter of the law, even though there is no punishment for doing so. --- |
| Topic | are you aware of your right as a juror to perform jury nullification? |
| Sahuagin 08/22/21 1:50:58 AM #4 | never heard of it before, but reading about it it sounds like it's a technicality. being able to charge jurors for not finding guilty results in jurors erring on the side of guilty. so in the interest of impartiality, there is no punishment for a juror blatantly ignoring the evidence. you're not supposed to use that kind of judgement, in any case, there just is no punishment for it. --- |
| Topic | University of Virginia UNENROLLS 238 Students who REFUSED Vaccinations!!! |
| Sahuagin 08/22/21 1:12:07 AM #2 | |
| Topic | Who's playing Humankind here? |
| Sahuagin 08/22/21 1:08:22 AM #10 | what cultures did you pick? so far on my first playthrough I've gone Phoenecians -> Aksumites -> Ghanians, which are all Merchant affinity. (didn't really mean to pick it for the money, I think I picked them mostly because I like boats.) --- |
| Topic | Who's playing Humankind here? |
| Sahuagin 08/22/21 12:41:42 AM #9 | the first time I ran it, it freezed a few times, especially in cutscenes, but it hasn't done it since. other than that it runs pretty great. (GTX 1060 3GB) (now that I think of it, the one change I made so far was to change "frame lock" from 90fps down to 60fps. I actually have a 75hz monitor, and was annoyed there wasn't a 75fps option, but things did feel a lot better with it at 60fps. I haven't tried choosing super high or super low graphics settings. (also annoyed that there don't seem to be any advanced graphics options.)) --- |
| Topic | Who's playing Humankind here? |
| Sahuagin 08/21/21 3:13:26 AM #7 | FatalAccident posted... Its like Civilization 6 with watered down versions of all the features you get in the Civ 6 expansions.hmm I don't know enough about Civ 6 to agree or disagree with this... I definitely am enjoying HK more than the bit I played of Civ 6 though. --- |
| Topic | Who's playing Humankind here? |
| Sahuagin 08/21/21 1:43:07 AM #5 | definitely like. best Amplitude game so far I'd say. possibly my new favorite 4x game, but then I tend to always like a game in the early stages. I know a lot of people really like Civ 5 but I never really liked it much, and haven't been able to get into Civ 6 yet. (having loved Civ 1-4). this to me finally feels like playing a new Civ game again. still will take some time to have a final verdict, since not even halfway through this first playthrough so far. --- |
| Topic | I finally bought dragon's dogma |
| Sahuagin 08/21/21 1:31:08 AM #24 | Black_Crusher posted... the main pawn mechanic was really interesting and differentnot for me. forced companions is the LAST thing I want unless I can properly control them. nothing worse than having to baby-sit braindead AI, and I especially don't want the game to play itself. if there's an enemy to fight, I want to fight it. Black_Crusher posted... Well like was said before the world is not completely open and you do run into invisible barriers a lot if you try to explore everywhere. Some small campsites felt empty too.not sure how to say it, but I feel like the game has to "earn" its fantasy setting somehow. something about the whole setting just feels undeveloped or unearned. it's shallow I guess, in a bad way, while pretending that it's interesting. I actually would like super-generic fantasy, but this is more like excruciatingly-dull fantasy. for me the game is just a whole bunch of things I dislike about games crammed together into a horrifying mess. --- |
| Topic | Pick a final boss song (SNES final bosses) |
| Sahuagin 08/20/21 1:41:30 PM #19 | if this is any SNES final boss theme, then one worth mentioning is definitely Yoshi's Island https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBsEPyhtwsk --- |
| Topic | I finally bought dragon's dogma |
| Sahuagin 08/20/21 1:44:01 AM #20 | why do people like that game? nothing about it was fun. the story/setting was uninteresting, the gameplay was uninteresting at best and irritating at worst. I kind of liked the mechanic where you can literally climb on bosses, except for how phony it felt and looked. one of the most underwhelming games I've played in the last few years --- |
| Topic | What's the most expensive thing you bought this year? |
| Sahuagin 08/20/21 1:40:03 AM #8 | can't think of anything this year. maybe like ~$200 CAD or so for a new tire. near the end of last year I bought someone a ~$600 CAD office desk. --- |
| Topic | Scariest horror movie that doesn't rely heavily on gore and jump scares? |
| Sahuagin 08/20/21 1:13:49 AM #7 | maybe Event Horizon but it does have gore (but it's the reality of what's happening that's scary, and the gore just proves to you what is happening) maybe The Lighthouse but it's up to you if that's "scary" or not Notschmendrake posted... there hasnt been a half decent horror movie in a long long timeThe Lighthouse The Witch is supposed to be good but haven't seen it yet --- |
| Topic | Did you consider yourself a fan of the game Unreal Tournament? |
| Sahuagin 08/20/21 1:07:03 AM #6 | I liked it back then. I thought it was a lot more fun than Unreal 1 single player. --- |
| Topic | Pick a final boss song (SNES final bosses) |
| Sahuagin 08/19/21 11:17:15 PM #5 | Ogurisama posted... Lavos theme is all classified as different songs, while "Dancing Mad" (Kefkas battle theme) is classified as one songI think it's an unfair technicality because comparing the whole of Lavos's themes against all of Kefka's would be a more balanced comparison (I'd probably still pick Kefka, but at least I'd have to think about it). --- |
| Topic | Pick a final boss song (SNES final bosses) |
| Sahuagin 08/19/21 10:01:01 PM #2 | Lavos has three stages (and they're all technically him), and I think you only posted one stage, whereas Kefka has four stages only one of which is really him, and you posted all four stages. --- |
| Topic | Fire vs. Ice vs. Water |
| Sahuagin 08/19/21 8:20:16 PM #25 | Redfeather posted... You'd think a human brain would be smart enough to know that pain isn't going to do anything in those situations.believing that escape is impossible makes it impossible. believing that escape is possible and fighting for it can allow you to escape when you otherwise wouldn't have. at no point is the message "get out of this situation now" necessarily useless. the "brain" is only concerned with survival at any cost. --- |
| Topic | Fire vs. Ice vs. Water |
| Sahuagin 08/19/21 7:47:26 PM #22 | freezing seems like the one I could do the most about. burning, you're permanently damaged right at the beginning. drowning you have a few moments to fight and then it's over. freezing, just struggling by itself could defeat the effect (well, unless we're talking about being submerged in liquid nitrogen or something). --- |
| Topic | Is human kind a good game? it came out recently right? |
| Sahuagin 08/19/21 6:26:47 PM #7 | there's a slight hint of liberal politics in the game (which I guess is noticeable just from the title of the game). (and that's normal to some degree for Civ games anyway). I'm not sure if I like the game being political in a real-world way, although maybe it's unavoidable anyway. and it's not that bad so far either. but one instance in particular made me smile. so, there are "civics", which maybe would be better termed "ethics", where you make a two-pronged ethical choice. (there are 40 in total). one I just made is on the decision of slavery. you might think the question would be: slavery, good or bad? but no. the decision is: should we get our slaves from warfare? or should we enslave our own criminals? no third option. (getting slaves from warfare is considered a "homeland", or I guess nationalist/isolationist, ethic, whereas getting them from our criminals is considered a "world" or I guess globalist, ethic.) (to be clear, I don't think this is actually a game mechanic (where you get your slaves). it's a symbolic decision that amounts to choosing one of two passive effects. it also tilts your ethical meters one way or the other, which themselves are a set of 4 sliding passive effects. world/globalist means more food, and homeland/nationalist means more combat strength. neutrality is more stability, which is the starting position. homeland/world is one of the four ethics scales. each ethics decision tilts one of the scales in one direction or the other. there are also random events with decisions that can do this.) upon choosing criminal slavery, the narrator chimes in with something like: "Interesting. I hope this won't mean biasing your criminal system in order to maintain your bottom line". --- |
| Topic | Is human kind a good game? it came out recently right? |
| Sahuagin 08/18/21 6:02:27 PM #5 | Mead posted... Is it one of those games that only super high end PCs can play?I have a 10 year old computer with a relatively new graphics card (GTX 1060). it runs ok on normal settings, though there are a few rare short freezes, and the cinematics sometimes freeze up while they're playing. I haven't fiddled with the graphics settings yet. --- |
| Topic | Is human kind a good game? it came out recently right? |
| Sahuagin 08/18/21 5:43:42 PM #3 | only just started it and it will take a while to get an accurate feel of the whole thing so far basically it's Endless Legend + Civilization. it's very good so far. (I guess I could say, game mechanics "spoilers" from here) I like how they changed the start, where you don't pick a civ when you start playing, you just pick a persona. once you get out of the first era, then you get to pick a civ (though you pick one after each era), except that they are first-come-first-served so you will have less to choose from if you take your time and there are a lot of players. (they are called "cultures", and picking one gives you an "affinity" (militarist, economic, scientific, etc), 1 empire passive, 1 unique building, and 1 unique unit. similar to choosing a civ in Civ, except I think you pick something like 6-7 of them throughout the game, from something like 10 options at each era.) also, that first era you play as hunter-gatherers. where in Civ you would normally press B to build your first city on turn 1 (unless you wanted to move slightly to find a better spot, but maybe sacrificing a turn or two to do so), in this, that whole first era is devoted to "moving my settler around exploring the map and finding things". depending what you gather and hunt, you accumulate more resources for later when you do establish a city. note that it's like Endless Legend where you can't just place a city anywhere. the map is split into regions where you can only have one city per region, and building a city in a region claims the entire region. also like Endless Legend, the map is a bit more complex than Civ, with varying elevation and cliffs. but I've only played a tiny bit so far so don't know how this will all add up yet and there's a lot more left to learn. --- |
| Topic | i refuse to accept so-called 'proofs by induction' |
| Sahuagin 08/18/21 2:13:04 PM #5 | PunishedOni posted... first of all it doesnt even work on the real numbers. just the fake numbersthe real numbers are uncountably infinite, so yeah. the integers are countably infinite. PunishedOni posted... also you cant just use things to prove themselves. that's circular.you prove that f(x) _implies_ f(x + 1). not circular. probably you know this already. --- |
| Topic | Is there a name for that trope where... |
| Sahuagin 08/17/21 11:51:55 PM #10 | Zeus posted... https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SingleStrokeBattlethat's where you have a sword fight that ends with a single barely-seen slice. I think common in Japanese (Kurosawa) films. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OneHitKillthis is just the concept of one-shotting OP is looking for something like "a fight where for some reason the protagonist will die if he takes a single hit, so has to fight particularly defensively" --- |
| Topic | So which vaccine did you get, brah? |
| Sahuagin 08/17/21 11:46:45 PM #19 | pfizer x2 --- |
| Topic | Way to screw up today's "poll". |
| Sahuagin 08/17/21 1:34:38 AM #26 | just realized that I totally forgot there is actually a poll of the day... I used to vote in it all the time but I've been using a shortcut to come straight to PotD for a while now. --- |
| Topic | Is there a name for that trope where... |
| Sahuagin 08/17/21 1:02:44 AM #4 | I think the trope is just poisoned weapons https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PoisonedWeapons the two that immediately come to mind for me are Dune and Hamlet --- |
| Topic | He's gonna take you back to the past. |
| Sahuagin 08/16/21 7:41:17 AM #3 | he'd rather eat the rotten asshole of a road-killed skunk, and then down it with beer --- |
| Topic | Who's the best Klingon in all of Star Trek ? |
| Sahuagin 08/15/21 3:39:26 AM #3 | Chancellor Gorkon and General Chang are always two of my favs --- |
| Topic | GameTok with Lok: Game Recommendations because you love them |
| Sahuagin 08/15/21 3:36:12 AM #6 | Lokarin posted... Game Recommendations because you love themare you asking for recommendations? I'm going to assume so my #1 recommendation these days will always be Kerbal Space Program. it's hard to put into words why it's so great, and I guess if someone doesn't like space all that much maybe they wouldn't like it, but for me it has some of the most amazing deepest richest gameplay and progression of any game I've ever played. #2 recommendation would be Factorio, which unlike KSP may very well actually be a perfect game. unbelievably deep and rich gameplay. for Factorio, one problem I have with it is that in repeat playthroughs, I find that it's not all that fun to solve the exact same problems all over again. whereas in KSP for some reason, I find the exact opposite. I think it's because of how KSP is basically a flight simulator construction kit, and it never really gets old piloting a flying machine that you built yourself out of small pieces. --- |
| Topic | NASA has now INCREASED the ODDS of this ASTEROID hitting EARTH!! Don't Worry... |
| Sahuagin 08/15/21 1:38:48 AM #12 | captpackrat posted... about 148 Tzar Bombas. captpackrat posted... impact energy of 230 ktthis is interesting. so, many asteroids would basically just be like dropping a nuke at a completely random place. if a world-ending asteroid was 100% guaranteed to hit the earth, I could easily see a global effort working at any cost to stop it. but, if an atom bomb size asteroid was 10% likely to hit the earth... I doubt we'd ever do anything about it. that somehow seems a bit more plausible as a catastrophic scenario. we're so lazy that we don't stop the low-damage asteroid that only might hit us, which of course proceeds to hit one of the worst places possible. --- |
| Topic | pulp > |
| Sahuagin 08/14/21 6:20:48 AM #10 | Krazy_Kirby posted... pulp is the better orange juice --- |
| Topic | Burly White Man Steps to Asian Man AND WOMEN over MASKS!! Would you be scared??? |
| Sahuagin 08/14/21 6:19:06 AM #10 | mooreandrew58 posted... lol --- |
| Topic | idk why everyone hates the movie AI |
| Sahuagin 08/14/21 6:04:05 AM #9 | I enjoyed it but it didn't make sense. The emotional impact that it was going for was undermined by the way that they just handwaved giving "emotion" to a robot with no explanation of what that even meant and no real understanding for the viewer that the robot was conscious or anything. it seemed to just be an automaton that happened to emulate having emotions, and fairly badly. a much better film that explores similar ideas with a lot more thought put into it is Bicentennial Man. actually, Terminator 2 is a much better exploration of AI as well. really, what should be the whole point of the movie (exploring the concept of AI) is missed practically right out of the gate by not establishing what makes the protagonist anything more than a robot. maybe it's the performance, can't remember, but you never get the sense that there is anything more than a mindless machine there. even Arnie in T2 was able to convey an artificial consciousness trying to understand humans and humanity. HJO never acted like anything more than a mindless robot with some badly written emotion subroutines. --- |
| Topic | A game for PO |
| Sahuagin 08/14/21 1:13:57 AM #11 | ParanoidObsessive posted... shunned PC like the plaguewhy --- |
| Topic | Anyone got any tutorials on how to animate? |
| Sahuagin 08/14/21 1:11:41 AM #4 | with flash (or whatever its modern replacement is) you can manipulate 2D shapes whichever approach you use, there is the notion of "keyframes", where you spend the most effort only on the most important frames, and then fill in the gaps with less quality frames. in 3D and I think flash, you can use "interpolation" to fill in the gaps between keyframes automatically, though it won't necessarily look great, and can require some manual adjustment, or more keyframes, to look better. one of my projects that I want to work on but don't have the time and energy for is to write a DSL for animation. I had a system for this a very long time ago that was working, but had a clumsy editor for it, and wasn't as good at writing UIs as I am now and didn't know what a DSL was. I now realize that it should be converted to a DSL (domain-specific language), and that if you got that working the right way, you should be able to make awesome 2D animations that you can manipulate in real time using code. (hard to say how good the final effect would be though... it's easy to imagine it working great, but really I'd need to get it working first and then see what I can do with it or what other possibilities emerge from there) --- |
| Topic | NASA has now INCREASED the ODDS of this ASTEROID hitting EARTH!! Don't Worry... |
| Sahuagin 08/13/21 3:50:25 AM #3 | Monopoman posted... Still pretty damn low oddsI dunno... 1 in ~2000 is pretty *high* odds for something like global annihilation... --- |
| Topic | My weight has been kinda weird lately... |
| Sahuagin 08/12/21 4:53:21 AM #6 | argonautweakend posted... I didn't feel like I ate a tonweight gain isn't really about volume, it's about calories. some things that feel "heavy" when you eat them don't make you gain so much, because you feel full after. some other things that feel "light" when you eat them, and maybe digest a lot better, might actually make you gain more, since you can eat a lot of it. --- |
| Topic | GameTok with Lok: I'm in a pickle and am scared |
| Sahuagin 08/11/21 3:48:49 PM #7 | Lokarin posted... Well, quit Studio... I could learn something new like Godot or Unity or something, but that's besides the pointI would vote to learn something new. personally I don't like using "game studios" besides just a graphics framework and would want to code everything myself, but that's just me. also, I think you have a lot more free time than I do... --- |
| Topic | What game developers will you not buy from? |
| Sahuagin 08/11/21 3:40:50 PM #22 | adjl posted... Actiblizz: I wasn't exactly buying many of their games to begin with, but WC3 Reforged turned me off of buying any of their games for a good, long while. If I can't trust them not to break a game 15 years after I bought it, I see no reason to give them any more money. And then the whole sexual assault thing came out and reinforced the decision, since I really don't want to support executives that are facilitating that.these, with basically the same response --- |
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