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| Topic | It's almost impossible to order fast food for under $12 |
| the_rowan 02/14/22 7:10:57 PM #40 | Talib_21 posted... I guess he got a bag of chips too I can't imagine ever needing extra meat on one of these, but anyway, the same sandwich is $10.29 here. One of the most expensive ones on the menu. --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | It's almost impossible to order fast food for under $12 |
| the_rowan 02/14/22 7:03:15 PM #29 | Talib_21 posted... A coworker just came back from subway and Im like theyve gotten expensive. Hes like this was only 17 bucks. Hes only 21 so maybe he doesnt remember the day of five dollar footlongs, but fuck 17 bucks for a shitty subway sandwich. Five dollar footlongs only ended like ten years ago. Even a few years ago, most of those sandwiches were around the 6 to 7 dollar mark, and looking at their menu now, I'm still having trouble finding a footlong over $10. You sure he didn't get two sandwiches? --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | It's almost impossible to order fast food for under $12 |
| the_rowan 02/14/22 6:51:00 PM #14 | project_night posted... I'm pretty sure you can still get a 2 quarter ponders or big macs for less than $5 on the app (in my city at least). What the fuck? A single Big Mac is $6.79 + 9% tax here, and a single quarter pounder with cheese is $7.29 + tax. Flauros posted... 2 mcdoubles 1 med fry and a large drink is like 6 something. Where the fuck do you live? That's 12.76 before tax which brings it to 13.91... --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | I can only open Gamefaqs on Crome right now for some reason |
| the_rowan 02/10/22 2:15:34 AM #6 | Gamefaqs.com is now exactly the following page (HTML from "view page source"): <!DOCTYPE html><html> <head> <meta charset="UTF-8"> <title>403 Denied</title> </head> <body> 404 </body></html> Gamefaqs.gamespot.com is not affected. --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | Which is worse for a video game; Too Easy or Too Hard? |
| the_rowan 01/01/22 11:28:32 PM #18 | I mean in theory, a game that is too hard is worse. Like some of the NES/arcade era games where you die to bad controls and not having impossible foresight into some surprise the game will throw at you, then have to play the game again from the beginning. But I haven't played a game that I thought was too hard that was made in the last 20 years at least. Generally I play on the max difficulty and then add challenges on top of that if it would make it more interesting. Literally spent 60 hours of attempts trying to beat the last boss of Rabi-Ribi on the hardest difficulty without dying/reloading from the mid-fight autosave and felt good about it. Played God of War (PS4) blind on the hardest difficulty as my first God of War game, struggled for hours on some of the early game encounters, then eventually 100%'d the game including the superboss. Etc... Edit: Actually, I can think of a game that was too hard to the point of being uninteresting. That would be Tales of Vesperia. Specifically, the combat really kind of sucks and constantly takes control away from you by having ridiculous end lag animations (which you can cancel some of with an absurdly convoluted and probably unintended sequence of inputs), so you're basically forced to not play the highest difficulty setting, and the third boss forces you to drop to normal. These difficulties were apparently not intended for use without NG+ bonuses, and the boss in question was not properly tested before release. There were a lot of things I really did not enjoy about that game. Easy difficulty ruins games. Not every game -- a game like Spiritfarer doesn't need to be difficult to be enjoyable, for example -- but games where the gameplay needs to carry the game. If Fire Emblem gets too easy, you're just mindlessly marching units across a map and watching tedious animations of winning everything without tension rather than having to plan every move and clenching your teeth when unlikely misses/hits could happen. If an RPG gets too easy, you just repeat the same strategy every fight and never have to care about what the enemies do. If an action game gets too easy, you don't feel rewarded for mastering it. --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | Good recentish Metroidvanias? |
| the_rowan 01/01/22 9:49:16 PM #156 | I'll chime in to recommend Rabi-Ribi. Ridiculously non-linear, tons of movement tech options, items can be obtained in tons of orders or skipped entirely (0% is possible and that includes everything up to the primary attack button), and the game is just massive, with areas linking in multiple ways so you can traverse the world in all sorts of different orders. The downsides are the aesthetic (if you don't want a bunch of anime girls) and a bit of a rough edge to the non-boss enemy designs. Also, the true story conclusion (chapters 9 and 10) is DLC on PC, though it's included on console. On the other hand, the PC version is currently the only one with the second large DLC pack that includes four bonus superbosses and the second playable character (who has a completely different moveset for both attacking and movement). A defining feature is that the bosses are bullet hells and generally take about 3-5 minutes to kill, with the late story bosses taking 10 to 20 minutes instead for really epic fights. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzScD_LxVHg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ7gG0MMmz4 --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | Ben Simmons reached $10 Million in total fines for not playing basketball |
| the_rowan 12/31/21 1:26:47 PM #4 | The Popo posted... so for all intensive purposes. I'm sorry, but I must save you or the groupthink will continue to spread. "All intents and purposes" --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | Which game series has never had a bad game? |
| the_rowan 12/30/21 4:10:28 PM #19 | Bad_Mojo posted... Which Fire Emblem games have been bad? I've played a lot of them, and I've enjoyed them all. Awakening was utter trash aside from the story (absolute worst gameplay in the series hands down), and the map design in Echoes was trash for a modern game even if the rest was good. Birthright and Revelations are trash and Conquest has amazing gameplay but trash story and characters. FE5 has some really good stuff mixed with a lot of completely, totally unfair BS that outright requires a guide to not force a restart. IDK, there's actually a lot of really questionable stuff and it's hard to find many games that everyone likes aside from maybe FE9 and to a lesser extent FE10. There are a lot of answers here already mentioned that I agree with (though certainly not all). There are a bunch of freebies from really small series (e.g. Portal or Ori) that I could throw in. For series with 3+ games, I'd say The Witcher (with the first game being significantly weaker but still well-written and enjoyable), Advance Wars, and Dark Souls (don't give me "DS2 is trash" just because it's worse than 1). Other potential candidates are F-Zero (haven't played the GBA titles to vouch for them, though) and Timesplitters (never played the first one). --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | Wonder when this NFT fad will die. |
| the_rowan 12/25/21 1:34:18 PM #11 | VipaGTS posted... AR technology is allowing people to hold smart phones up in certain areas or towards certain people and a picture will show up or an article of clothing will appear on them. As it gets more advanced the NFT market will only get stronger. It'll be trendy to look "plain" out in public but if someone holds their phone up to you they can see you wearing custom one of a kind shoes or something. its the next "logical" step. Ah yes, I can totally see the mass market appeal of walking around with your phone in front of your face like an idiot so that you can see which other people are complete tools. --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | "Mandatory Update: 110.86 GiB" lolwtf |
| the_rowan 12/17/21 8:34:27 PM #17 | Buzz Killjoy posted... Who the fuck writes "GiB" As you probably found, it's the one Windows is actually reporting all the time when you look at file sizes and drive storage, except it lies and says GB. Which makes it funny that Microsoft is the one who is using GiB here for once. MacOS and hard drive manufacturers will actually report in GB. This is why you can look at a blank 1 TB hard drive in Windows and it will say 931 GB or 0.931 TB available (because it's actually 931 GiB and Windows shows the wrong units). The terminology around this has been imprecise for decades because small powers of 1000 are pretty close to powers of 1024, so everyone just called 1024 bytes a kilobyte and then 1048576 bytes a megabyte in some contexts while it was 1000 and 1000000 in others, but once you get up to 1000^3 (vs 1024^3) or higher the difference starts to matter a lot more. --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | Deep Rock Galactic is confusingly good. |
| the_rowan 11/28/21 10:42:55 AM #9 | darkmaian23 posted... How is it for single player? I'd ask on Steam, but the answers might a bit biased. Thanks! It's okay, but the missions aren't really as much fun in solo. Some of them like mining expeditions play out about the same, but others are a combination of cheese (where you just point Bosco towards every objective to carry it back to you) or taking way longer than intended (having to dig out and place every pipe yourself in on-site refining even if Bosco can finish them once placed). --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | Oracle of Seasons has much better items than Ages >_> |
| the_rowan 11/27/21 12:15:17 PM #43 | Roc's Cape was super busted and basically broke combat difficulty for the rest of the game. Makes the true linked game final boss a lot easier in Seasons than Ages. Really fun though. Hyper Slingshot would be cool, but there's basically zero practical use for it outside of the first of the linked game bosses. Same with L2 boomerang, just not actually going to make an equip slot outside of the times you have to use it. Still obviously better than junk like power gloves. KneeOnBest posted... iirc, if you play Ages 1st, then Seasons, it has the queen taking a tour of the Seasons world and eventually reuniting with her dead husband who is the skeleton pirate This is true, but I will add that Seasons as second game has a generic monster fight instead of the little Donkey Kong minigame to save Zelda before the fourth dungeon, which is definitely a step down. --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | Baba is You: FREE expansion out now. 150+ levels and level creator! |
| the_rowan 11/18/21 1:08:42 PM #7 | This is amazing. Loved the hell out of the game and trying to figure out the tricky interactions that the puzzles were looking for me to use. The website for an endless supply of The Witness puzzles has been a great diversion to stop by for years, and this should be great for the same thing after the initial thrill of getting to use all the new words. --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | more NFT stupidity to laugh at |
| the_rowan 11/14/21 12:40:25 PM #90 | DirectedVerdict posted... This is not about copy protection. It's about getting the perpetual royalties. You can hold up an audio recorder and record the audio, but that doesn't let you re-list that in the market and sell it as an NFT.You can be a boomer about new technology all you want, but this if the future of the music industry and more. Soon real estate will also be using NFTs. People will be able to buy a piece of real property as an NFT investment and collect a percentage of the profits every time the homeowner makes a mortgage payment. This is coming to real estate within the next 3-5 years. This is not an argument. This is a rant that has no justification for a single statement it makes. There are a lot more robust ways to copy a file than by holding up a microphone. Just because the ability for a piece of technology to do something exists, does not mean it will be adopted. And if Jonny Average has to pay money to share a file with a friend, he is either not going to share the file or will find a version that is free to share. Expecting individual end users to pay royalties for anything beyond an initial purchase is absolutely ludicrous and has not happened in the entire history of the music industry, so why would it happen now? When streaming platforms started to use algorithms to detect the streaming of music, the result was that literally zero people on the entire platform would ever use that music and would actively seek options to disable it when present -- that is the best-case scenario here as well. I'm glad you're so happy for more chances for the super-wealthy to exploit the rest of the world while providing literally nothing of value and actively destroying it, but you could at least stay grounded in reality. --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | more NFT stupidity to laugh at |
| the_rowan 11/14/21 12:22:38 PM #88 | DirectedVerdict posted... Explain how artists can collect a royalty fee every time one of their items are re-sold on the secondary market without NFTs and smart contracts and without record companies or other middlemen. If you're on a secondhand market, explain how an NFT can stop a copy of a file from being made that is just not associated with the NFT, considering a copy of said file must literally be made to display it on a machine to begin with. This hasn't worked with any other method of copy protection, why do you have such ridiculous faith it's going to work now? If you're not on a secondhand market, explain why an NFT is required to do any of that and why Big Billions Hosting should agree to additional terms by Joe Artist to host his work that's outside of their standard model. --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | more NFT stupidity to laugh at |
| the_rowan 11/14/21 11:48:58 AM #85 | I don't understand how almost every single argument here has boiled down to "NFTs would allow consumers more control over the products they get from business X!" while not understanding the basic fact that NFTs are not necessary at all to grant that control, such control would already be possible except said business doesn't want it as part of their model, and the business is the entity that would decide how things would function. Like unless things are falling apart because there is actually a question of ownership (e.g. GameFAQs claims it created a guide on the site and therefore doesn't have to pay the bounty for it or needs to pay out a bounty and someone claims the guide is plagiarized), the NFT accomplishes diddly-squat because you're still voluntarily providing under GameFAQs terms which may state they aren't going to pay you for its use. And even in the case of plagiarism, you're still relying on someone not just submitting a separate copy that isn't tracked by the NFT, unless you plan to manually check everywhere for its use... If CyricZ wants to be paid by the view for his guides, he can attempt to negotiate that with the site, but the fact that he has an NFT is not going to suddenly make GameFAQs bend to his whims. They're just either going to accept the deal regardless of this or remove his content from the site. --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | FACT: You do NOT "own" a video game unless you can resell it. |
| the_rowan 11/11/21 1:03:03 PM #60 | Number of digital games I have lost the ability to play at this point: 0. Number of physical games I have lost the ability to play at this point because of disc scratches, cartridge damage by dog, theft, going physically missing (sometimes just temporarily but for years after a move), cartridge battery issues, corrupt memory (only reason I can think of why my Warioware Twisted started being so glitchy after all the shaking), or other causes: around 15. I get such a small amount back from selling games anyway that I don't really care about that part. --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | more NFT stupidity to laugh at |
| the_rowan 11/11/21 12:54:51 PM #61 | Steam literally already supports transferrable licenses. You can obtain tradeable copies of games in your inventory by purchasing a multi pack among other methods. The fact that you can't transfer your license after you accept final ownership is by design, not a technological limitation. --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | I just spend an hour explaining why paying high interest off is better than low |
| the_rowan 11/10/21 10:09:37 PM #4 | To be honest, this is one of those things that, as a college student learning things on my own, caused me to often feel like I was missing some fundamental financial concept. Like, it's blindingly obvious that you lose anything you pay in interest, so you should do whatever means you pay the least interest when paying off your loans, yet people I would think should have so much more experience with managing finances would not follow that decision tree. Turns out people are just unbelievably stupid. You're looking at effectively taking a 15% rate of return on that money vs 3% (i.e. every year you'll have another $300 vs another $60, ignoring the compounding rate). (I'm aware that there are more nuances when deciding whether you should put money towards paying off a loan vs doing something else with it, but generally paying off a loan with a 15% interest rate should be one of the absolute top priorities for your money after the things you need to survive.) On a side note, my credit card company probably hates my guts since I haven't paid them a cent of interest in the entire 15 years I've had a card... --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | more NFT stupidity to laugh at |
| the_rowan 11/09/21 6:31:36 PM #33 | Zano posted... I still dont understand what NFT is >_> It is basically just a fancy way to sell the abstract notion of "something that is unique". You are assigned a unique token that can't be replicated (due to cryptography) that proves you own a digital asset. Now, anyone with a lick of intelligence would realize that literally every single object in the physical universe is unique, and having ownership of a single unique instance of a pencil is not worth more than the price of a pencil. But for whatever reason, when you transfer this concept to the digital world, people are willing to pay through the nose just to have ownership of a particular instance of "pencil" despite everyone else being able to use a copy that is, for all practical purposes, identical. The main real use of an NFT is that it acts as a ledger that proves, pretty much indisputably, that you own an asset in the event of an intellectual property dispute. However, there were already other ways to prove you are the copyright owner of a digital work. It's basically an attempt to resolve the issue of proving ownership of artwork, music, etc. in the digital world when anyone can make a copy. It allows artists to have auctions for high-dollar artwork similar to real auctions despite being in a space where literally everyone who has seen the artwork already has copied it to their computer. But some people expect that this will somehow magically mean that they have more access to the image or whatever than everyone else like they would if they displayed a painting in their home, and that's really just never going to happen in a digital space. And unscrupulous people have taken to selling literally just a single instance of a work, while still selling other instances of that work to other people, effectively making it completely meaningless. --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | i give you all physics being broken with pure insanity |
| the_rowan 11/07/21 12:19:54 AM #14 | This is just Telsa's Mirror Resonance Principle, though. If you point a laser at two mirrors made of a polarized pseudo-metallic glass, the resonance in the glass can actually project concentrated photons in a laser beam even for shortly after the original source laser has been shut off. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_Resonance_Principle for more info. --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | Are gay incels a thing |
| the_rowan 10/30/21 8:32:40 PM #14 | I legitimately can't enjoy sex if I don't feel genuinely loved and wanted and have the reassurance that my partner will stick around. And basically every gay guy I meet online has no interest in anything but meaningless, attachmentless fucking with everything with a pulse, so I don't pursue anything with them. On top of that, I live in an area where there's basically no one in my age group still around: it's all families raising their kids and the elderly. I haven't had any sort of sex since the last serious relationship I had like 6 years ago. Want to move but don't really know where to go. I mean, I would never join up with any sort of "incel culture", but I'm legitimately more than a bit upset at this point that the gay community seems to be so shit about even considering real relationships and instead just wants to fuck everything and brag about it. --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | Billionaire proposes 4,500 student dorm, 94% of whom wouldn't have windows |
| the_rowan 10/29/21 1:14:58 PM #92 | Tyranthraxus posted... This isn't really a "proposal" he's spending $200 million on this. If they don't do it then they don't get the money. Okay but they could also just say "fuck no" and spend the same 1.3 billion on a 1.3 billion dollar dorm that doesn't suck instead of a 1.5 billion dollar dorm that won't pay back itself. --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | Super Mario Land is underappreciated |
| the_rowan 10/19/21 3:14:24 PM #6 | The game in which Mario saved notEgypt, piloted a submarine for 1/12 of the game, and which acted as the origin of Daisy (who everyone remembers for some reason) and Tatanga (you should be grateful to reach Spirit status in Smash Bros you loser). --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | Trump statement on Colin Powell's death |
| the_rowan 10/19/21 2:22:22 PM #38 | Bryfang posted... Rest assured that he absolutely will not be given that respectful time window when he goes. I mean, you don't have to say or think nice things about him in private, but when making statements to the nation as an influential figure, you should at least be respectful to his family by not insulting a dead man. --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | Control is the worst game I've played all year |
| the_rowan 10/19/21 12:23:14 PM #43 | I really enjoyed the game personally. Pierce and Shatter are the only Service Weapon forms worth anything (with Shatter needing some time to scale up since it scales with pellets x damage and needs both), and all the mods that aren't damage or launch energy cost reduction are pretty trash too, but you can still feel pretty cool in combat once you get all the abilities and start using them together. The missions and certain environments were interesting: the various artifacts, the underground fungal area, the ashtray maze, and some others. I appreciated the unique setting even if the actual storyline wasn't really a concern so much as learning about the history of the place and reading about all the anomalies it dealt with. I don't remember having to rely on the map much since each area is pretty much just a loop or two loops. Not a 10/10 game but definitely don't regret finishing the game + all unique quests + DLC areas. --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | Trump statement on Colin Powell's death |
| the_rowan 10/19/21 11:40:01 AM #31 | I guess Trump never learned that there is a time window after someone's death where being respectful is more important than being right. Among all the other things that involve respecting the existence of anyone but himself that he never learned. --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | Metroid Dread is really good, but it feels kinda... like a B-studio made it |
| the_rowan 10/17/21 7:35:40 PM #27 | Some of the game elements like lava and I liked the game but it doesn't feel like it's up to date with what you'd expect from a modern game in a lot of regards. --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | Congressman encourages high schoolers to disobey mask mandates |
| the_rowan 10/16/21 2:19:48 PM #8 | The fact that this man has not already been forced to resign from his position proves how absolutely, completely fucked the US is. --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | Don't fuck the Animal Crossing characters |
| the_rowan 10/15/21 1:08:33 PM #12 | jumi posted... It's okay to fuck Isabelle and Raymond. You can't just add Flick to the game and then say things like this. That's not cool. --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | Been growing out my hair for 1.5 years. Do I pull it off? (Pics) |
| the_rowan 10/13/21 1:39:10 PM #36 | Regardless of whether you decide to change your hair again or not, I recommended against pulling it off. --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | what's the highest level of math you're currently capable of |
| the_rowan 10/11/21 6:19:42 PM #17 | Naysaspace posted... curious how you got your tiers. To me, that looks like a random grab bag of broad math topics They roughly follow the order they are taught in the US curriculum before college. Algebra is introduced in grades 6-8 with some introduction to geometry in there, then there's one class of geometry/trigonometry with an introduction to proofs, then more miscellaneous stuff related to algebra like understanding exponential and logarithmic equations, then calculus if you get that far (not part of mandatory high school curriculum for me). Statistics was optional as well. The ordering is pretty arbitrary. --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | Youtube star vs twitch star. Who make make money? |
| the_rowan 10/06/21 8:11:18 PM #7 | It's objectively Youtube by a wide margin if you're looking at the amount the platform actually pays them and only at top content creators, and you're comparing the entire Youtube service (not just stream revenue) to Twitch. That said, I'm not sure what it actually comes out to when you include donations and sponsorships. Many Twitch users post their VODs to Youtube anyway. --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | The last Smash DLC character reveal was a slap to the face. |
| the_rowan 09/25/21 3:18:35 AM #42 | The reason Fire Emblem gets a bunch of reps is because those are the basically the only new protagonists in first-party Nintendo games that are actual characters and not blank slates like slightly different Pokemon trainers or a different Inkling or whatever. --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | Some COVID vaccine questions. |
| the_rowan 09/23/21 11:28:20 PM #3 | The vaccine doesn't make you sick and doesn't contain a virus capable of infecting you; it makes your body produce a response designed to kill pathogens by introducing foreign proteins (mRNA), but not in the form of a virus. What that will be like is a product of your own immune system. I had just mild discomfort around the injection site and felt a little off for the day, but that was it. Other people will have more intense pain and a fever. Never actually seen anyone who had it bad enough that they had to stay in bed all day or anything like that, and you're definitely not going to be contagious or anything since you're not being infected with anything. Whether you can ask for a day off from work is somewhat based on your employment contract, but I'm pretty sure if you have actually been given earned sick days, they can't prevent you from using them. Not sure about the vaccine card thing. It's possible to just ask for a new one if you got it from a healthcare agency if it's needed, and I don't think there's any sort of technology in use that would be inhibited by folding it, but I can't find anything online that mentions it. --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | "pc and koyse is better for shooters" |
| the_rowan 09/06/21 12:09:03 PM #130 | Giblet_Enjoyer posted... That's really only true for games with absolute movement. If it's something with relative movement like an FPS where your movement direction is based on where you're looking, M+KB is actually better for that too once you're used to it because doing fine movements is much easier/consistent with big movements like a mouse sweep than it is with tiny, centimeter-long movements in an analog stick. The fact that you can move in basically infinite directions doesn't make up for that. Yeah, I agree with this, but most of my experience with 3D games is stuff like RPGs, 3D platformers, and adventure games (e.g. Zelda) where the camera and player are controlled independently, and it's an absolutely hopeless mess trying to control these with a keyboard. (RPGs can be okay, like I played the Witcher series on keyboard and mouse, but it's a mixed bag depending on the game engine.) In 2D platformers, the degree of control tends to be about the same, but I'll usually use a controller for faster access to all the different buttons without having to interfere with movement. --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | "pc and koyse is better for shooters" |
| the_rowan 09/05/21 1:06:18 PM #107 | R_Jackal posted... That's usually easily set aside by strafe keys and tapping. I can't really think of too many games that actually make full use of the supposed advantage of full analog movement anyway. Literally any 3D game that isn't first person or over-the-shoulder third person, for starters... --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | "pc and koyse is better for shooters" |
| the_rowan 09/05/21 1:01:00 PM #105 | R_Jackal posted... Keyboards with pressure switch WASD keys that enable walk/run pending on how hard you're pressing are actually a thing now, iirc. An expensive thing, but still one. This is still dramatically inferior to full analog movement unless the game you are playing only lets you move in 8 directions or something like that. --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
| Topic | "pc and koyse is better for shooters" |
| the_rowan 09/05/21 12:58:22 PM #103 | Controllers are better for precise movement but slower for quick aiming. Keyboard has less control over movement but mouse can follow a target more precisely or look at a specific spot much more quickly. Controller give you access to more buttons at the same time by virtue of splitting them up between different fingers in sensible ways. (Keyboard generally prevents you from using more than your thumb and pinkie for inputs without risking interrupting your movement, with the exception of very close keys like E.) Keyboards give you access to more buttons overall (although a lot of ports from console limit the usefulness of this), so you can have one single button for all sorts of different things instead of having to open up submenus or perform a series of inputs. Generally I'll take a controller for my games when they involve precise movement (platformers or adventure games) while I'll use keyboard and mouse for RPGs (unless they were designed with a controller in mind and just map all the menu options to single buttons anyway) and shooters. --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia |
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