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I already have/had a black belt judo, but unfortunately a massive injury forced me to quit. I'd love to be able to pick it up again at 10 times the level I was at probably

Greece to claim my place on mt Olympus

A quick calculation would put me in 762.

While I'd probably be able to survive 3 years technically speaking, the area I am in was a huge lake back then, so I'd most likely drown

Sega does what Nintendon't

Seriously though it would be an interesting alternate universe if Sega would have beat Nintendo way back when.

Also reminds me of a drawing someone sent in to a video game magazine back in the 90s of Sonic performing Sub Zero's MK 1 (original) fatality on Mario

In 2025? None haven't even played any.
All time?

1 5 6 7 8 9 10 10-2 12 13 13-2 13-3 15
Mystic Quest
The GC spin off
Dirge of Cerberus

Also beat FF7 remake, never played rebirth although I do own it

Starks posted...

Heineken

If you're going to drink Dutch beer, at least drink something that isn't owl piss. Hertog Jan or Brand are good choices. Hertog Jan makes some really good specials as well if that's your thing. Might be hard to get outside the Netherlands though

No. But it doesn't really seem to matter where you live in the western world, it's going to shit everywhere. And the worst part is most people seem to either not care, not see it or are screaming to make it go faster

From xtc, many times. Good times
From shrooms, a few times, mostly bad times
From speed/meth, once, could have gone horribly wrong
From flu, once. Was alright considering the situation

viewmaster_pi posted...

i think they're worse because it leaks out of their designated flytraps. git gud, mad cuz bad, sucks to suck, it attracts a certain kind of person, and they're all the same

I have to kindly disagree with that statement.
Sure, there's a whole bunch if people in the Souls community that derrive some twisted form of self worth from being able to beat up hapless opponents or even random opponents in pvp zones, but you'll find people like that in just about any gaming community that has PVP. Hell, even some of the Diablo 3 community was toxic as fuck back in the day, way more than I've ever seen in Souls

But the thing is, in my time playing Souls, I've met dozens of really cool people, most of whom having actual PVP skills and would shit on 99.9% of the game's playerbase, yet none of them showed behaviour the community is known for unless provoked

I will admit though, when Souls hit AAA status when DkS2 came out, the community got a lot worse

Technician_X posted...

One of the best times I've ever had in online gaming was invading Darkroot Garden as a Forest Hunter in DkS1. Since the Forest Covenant was always known as the noob covenant, a lot of hosts would just camp out for hours with summoned friends and farm the terrible invaders that came in one after the other.

I worked out a great build and strategy to take advantage of it. Basically, I'd zone in pretending to be another shitty melee build and then quick swap to juiced CSS and one shot the host while he was busy showing off or emoting. I generated some epic hate mail during those days.

Good times, good times.

Your name seems familiar, but I can't really place you. Were you on the PS3 DkS board back in the day, or part of FTW or Umbasa bros chats?

While I've always been more of a duelist in Souls games, well, DkS1 is the only game I really uinvested in PVP, I always loved being invaded by some poor sod twink who thought he ran into some poor noob.

I'll never forget that guy that invaded my SL10 or so character in the Parish, ran up to me for a 3x WoG spam, missed all 3 and got rollbsed on the last one. I then bare fist chain backstabbed untill he DC-d followed by a half hour long hatemail spam. I think I even sent him a friend request, but I think that made him block me as that ended the string of messages lol.

A few months ago there was a patch in Diablo 4 where you could get the barbarian class to do so much damage in a single hit, the game couldn't process the damage number anymore and would show an infinity symbol instead

A bit tired. Aside from it being 11 pm for me right now, I've been doing a 3d CAD drawing course which is more challenging than I was expecting. Doesn't help the teacher isn't as good as the who taught me 2d CAD drawing either

Kain from Legacy of Kain series.

If I recall correctly, Soul Reaver takes place about 1000 years after Blood Omen.
While he isn't the MC in that game, he is in LoK Defiance

ReturnOfDevsman posted...

I can think of four that I played personally, and I feel like I'm forgetting some. They just mostly used it for a control option, really minor stuff that you've probably forgotten about or never realized you could do at all, and largely gave up on it completely after the consoles's first couple of years.

Uncharted was mentioned above.

In MGS4, IIRC you could use it to reset your camo and to make Rosemary's boobs bounce (Kojima lol).

In Pain, you used it to charge your ooch meter.

There was a setting to use it to control your glide in Arkham Asylum.

There's also Heavenly Sword where you used the sixaxis to control arrows and stuff your threw at enemies. I think that was also the only game ever where you actually needed to become semi competent with it to be able to beat the game

Monopoman posted...

Just to point out what is going on here from someone with over 3000 hours in PoE 1 and understands how hardcore these games are.

The character Elon played if he did it himself would be literal no life the game playing at least 10-12 hours a day. With all the things Elon is doing beyond gaming, there is no way he is spending 10-12 hours a day since PoE 2 came out playing. I highly doubt Elon has the time to spend 10-12 hours every day playing PoE 2.

He also made a lot of errors when talking about his gear, that might sound find to a casual but to a hardcore PoE player he was massively underrating his gear that was better than guys like Kripp someone who has a ton of experience in PoE 1 had ever seen.

This was on Solo Self Found Hardcore so the person that got Elon that character and geared it up spent 100's of hours doing it. This game has only been out in Early Access for a few weeks this is not some old game that would give him time to maybe slowly get to that level. It also makes sense he would do it in SSF Hardcore since that is the most hardcore way to play the game, and you can't buy gear so people can't accuse Elon of just buying his gear from other players using his vast wealth.

Elon has the type of money that even if someone asked something outrageous like $1000 or more for a insane item it's nothing to him. So playing on SSF removes that from being fuel to use against him.

I'm not a hardcore poe player by any means, but even I could tell it was pure bullshit.

The fact alone that he had to think about how to enter a map, something he would have done thousands of times to get to that level, alone is proof of that.

The claim about being the top D4 player is also ridiculous, as there are zero leaderboard in that game.

Sure, there are player built websites that keep track of pit clears, but that doesn't tell the whole picture as they can only keep track of clears done on the pc version

She should be glad to get a rubber band to put around her finger. It's the thought that counts after all

I lost 3 or 4 ps4 controllers to stickdrift in 8-9 years.

Have my ps5 for about a year and a half now and the controller is still fine

Path of Exile 2

sfcalimari posted...

Europe has a bigger population than the US and almost as much money. If they wanted to they could go it alone without the US. Question is how many nations would flip to Putin's side. Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden are basically already there.

Not entirely sure if you mean the Netherlands is about ready to flip to Russia's side or for WW3, but if you meant the former, that's a hard no.

Some of the political parties here are openly discussing sending Dutch troops to Ukraine, and the Dutch people are being bled dry for tax money to send stuff over there.

From what it seems by talking to people around me, most seems to be ok with tbat

Considering I get mails from recruiters almost weekly, I'say not only quickly, but I'd also get to pick my favorite

GranTurismo posted...

Was he recording everything?

No, there were no cameras, he just was there to eat something I guess.

Honestly, I'm a bit disappointed with where it's at now. Just hoping the final episodes will get back to some form of not being this far over the top and putting in some closure for the main characters.

I must say though, that Cobra Kai sensei chick with her hair loose and in regular clothes is yummy...

TheOtherMike posted...

This was late night drive through. She started out asking for a promotional price on something that we didn't have anymore, and was super pissy about that from the get-go. She ordered 2 bean burritos and a couple other things. Nothing special or custom about them. At the windows She demanded the district manager's home phone number, I told her no and said she was welcome to call the customer care line. She said that wasn't good enough and demanded to talk to the manager. I said I am the manager, sorry, that's all I can do. I handed her food out and shut the window.
About 5 seconds later she's banging on the window. I open it and she's holding one of the burritos open and unwrapped shouting about how it's wrong. I ask her what's wrong with it and she shoves it into my hand. "Just look at it!" I look at it and tell her it's a bean burrito. She opens the other one and says it's wrong too.
Finally I'm like "What does that mean? What does wrong mean? Did we give you the wrong item? Is it made wrong? What?"
She screams about how I'm stupid and she works for Taco Bell (she didn't, which would be confirmed later) and I should fucking know how to make a burrito.
That was when she threw the burrito at me. It flipped over so the tortilla side hit my face and not the steaming beans and sauce.
On pure instinct I threw the burrito I was still holding back at her. My aim was better and she was covered in beans. She sped off.
She spent the rest of the night calling Taco Bells until someone actually gave her the district manager's home number. Then she called him at 3am. The DM wanted to fire me on the spot but my GM told him to hear me out first. Naturally she hadn't told him in her phone rant that she threw shit at me first, so I got off with a warning. The DM said he didn't know why she told me she worked for TB because she didn't.
This story is still, over 20 years later, legendary at that Taco Bell.

Lmao. This is even better than me almost getting into a fistfight with a Dutch tv personality at the McDonalds where I worked at the time

Adam comes from Adamu. The first 'human' that was created by the Anunaki from the Sumerian/Babylonian creation stories. From which basically every modern religion stems and even has influence in older religions like the Norse or Greek religions

The

1960s Corvette Stingray

If I ever get my hands on a few 100k euros I'd love to track one down and restore it to its former glory

kind9 posted...

Has it really though? I know this is a popular opinion of science deniers, and they take the opinions of scientists who are personally disillusioned with academia as proof. But is there actually any evidence that science is "corrupted by greed"?

Maybe we should hire a scientist to research it ;)

Although it does irk me a bit to call someone critical of something a denier.

Labelling things/people with basically black and white labels doesn't really scream free thinker to me.

reincarnator07 posted...

TL;DR: Look at the world and base your views on what you see. Don't start with a belief and then distort what you see to fit it.

This would actually be a good answer to my original question on the subject.

That said, the reason I don't trust scientists (should probably make that distinction as opposed to science as a subject) is that those fields have been as much corrupted by greed as any other fields.

Fair enough. But it honestly still does not change the feeling 'just follow the guy in the labcoat' it gives me.

Which in my opinion is no different from 'follow the priest' or 'follow the imam' way of thinking.

What I do know about science however is it relies on funding, and in my country we have a saying:

Wie betaalt, bepaalt

Which translates to who pays gets to decide.

Which in turn leads to science becoming biased if the founder wants a certain outcome, which is happening all over the world. And that is exactly the reason why I personally have just about as much trust in science as I have in priest' or whatever other religious person trying me take their opinions as facts

kind9 posted...

I believe this is basically the principle of free thought that they are stating. As science progresses and changes, your beliefs should follow rather than be set in stone because of your personal biases. It's less about science dictating your beliefs and more about allowing your beliefs to be free to change accordingly. I could be wrong but that's how I interpret it.

Ok, but that still essentially means 'follow the science' to me, which is still a religion of sorts.

Allow me to give an example.

According to science, we are here only once and when we die, that's it. There is no soul and the white light experience can be induced on a person by firing the right frequency of EMP pulse at their brain.

Yet, from my own experiences and watching many documentaries on past life experiences as well as talking to a regression therapist, reincarnation seems to be what is actually real, so that is what I personally believe in.

While I wouldn't mind being proven wrong in my believes and will change them accordingly, science has screwed up too many things over the centuries to make me just follow it because someone with a degree says so

Edit: maybe I'm just misinterpreting the word science here, but when I think science, I basically think PhD level people trying to ram their opinions in as facts

Well, at first glance that really doesn't sound too bad or even far off from my own outlook on how I would like to see the world. I do have some questions though

bsp77 posted...

Definitely not correct. The Satanic Temple has seven fundamental tenets:

1. One should strive to act with compassion and empathy toward all creatures in accordance with reason.
2. The struggle for justice is an ongoing and necessary pursuit that should prevail over laws and institutions.

Who decides what is justice? Having been in legal battles before, both parties tend to feel they have justice on their side

3. One's body is inviolable, subject to one's own will alone.
4. The freedoms of others should be respected, including the freedom to offend. To willfully and unjustly encroach upon the freedoms of another is to forgo one's own.
5. Beliefs should conform to one's best scientific understanding of the world. One should take care never to distort scientific facts to fit one's beliefs.

This I find a bit vague. Sience should decide belief? How does that work? According science, Satan should not exist. There is too much in this world science can't explain imo. Not trying to attack here btw, just genuine curiosity

6. People are fallible. If one makes a mistake, one should do one's best to rectify it and resolve any harm that might have been caused.
7. Every tenet is a guiding principle designed to inspire nobility in action and thought. The spirit of compassion, wisdom, and justice should always prevail over the written or spoken word

Once again, who decides what's justice? And I guess that same question could be asked about wisdom.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but is the basis of Satanism not 'Do as you please, no matter the consequences for others' ?

There's no Halloween where I live, but we do have something similar called Sint Maarten, which is November 11th, where instead of dressing up, kids sing a song and then get candy.

Over the years, it has always been hit or miss, I'd either stock up piles of candy and hardly anybody comes, or I buy just a bit and then the bell rings every 2 minutes for 2 hours straight, so I just decided I'm not going to be home on that day a few years ago.

saspa posted...

Oh I will say that the little cover that protected the charging socket tore off ages ago, it was also nice but no biggie, modern phones are completely exposed anyhow, I guess maybe they developed anti-water or anti-dust solutions.

And yeah the Nokia rivaled the Gameboy in being able to survive through a gulf war.

But really the phone physically lasting is no longer an issue anymore considering these companies try their hardest to brick it, where it's actually software wise that's the problem not hardware wise. Every update making the phone slower, apps no longer being supported on "this version of ios" or android, all of that and more.

The secret is to never update your phone.

It's not like there's a hacker on every street corner trying to clone your phone or whatever. And most normal people aren't that interesting to serious hackers anyway

saspa posted...

Yeah I was gonna say. Considering how short a phone life even is, that's no where near a reasonable concern.

Most people that have a phone longer than 5 years are rare, and the button absolutely is not wearing out after 5 meager years. My samsung S5 actually still works; the lack of software support making the OS slow and slight battery degradation is way more of an issue than the button which is the only thing that works perfect.

I had an S5 untill just 2 years ago as well. Funny enough, for what broke was the USB socket for the charger. Had the thing for 7 or 8 years.

Since then, I'm on my second phone, Although I dropped the first one, so I guess it's my own fault.

Old school Nokia phones though, you could throw those across the room and you wouldn't even scratch it.

I stopped watching TV back in 2013-ish, never going back to that crap.
I'll watch a show or 2 on Netflix, sure, but at most an episode a day.

Movies haven't really been a thing I'm interested in for a good long while now, I think the last time I actually payed for a movie theatre was back in 2001 (Enemy at the Gates, pretty good movie actually).

I do however make a point out of watching my favorite movies on cycle of 1 every year or so.

I make a pretty decent salary as is, so if that would get doubled and turns into basically a no stress whatsoever job, sure. I'll just buy a hazmat suit with a mask that filters out all the smells and a long scoop on my own dime if I have to. Scooping shit 2 times a day while being able to do whatever I want for the rest of the time ain't that bad of a job.

If I like a game enough, I'll scour the internet trying to learn about every mechanic and every trick in the book

I would have to choose I guess...

If multiplayer, Dark Souls. Playing rando pvp in the Burg/Kiln/MLB would usually cause me to get bored from winning.

If competitive SP, Diablo 3, always top 10 on the SSF leaderboards early season if you don't count the modders.

If speedrunning, RE2 Remake, had a rank 30-something on speedrun.com back in the day in the 30fps Claire A category

evilpresident posted...

Scheet or Prot. Both work.

Prot had ik nog nooit van gehoord...

Ruften is another one

Having worked at McD's during high school and regularly having the closing shift, I never really minded even if people came in 5 minutes before closing and deciding to eat their stuff there. there'd still be at least 2 people for the hour after closing anyway, we just wouldn't let new people in.

An actual restaurant where they cook you real food however, that's a different matter. I usually just ask the staff if the kitchen's still open.

2023 Toyota Yaris Hybrid 1.5

2 games crossed my mind: Dark Souls, would probably walk away with 995,000 on a bad run

Ninja Gaiden 2 (the PS3 one). While not a cheat, would I be allowed to do the on-land UT spam? if so, I'd probably walk away with 850-900k. If not, I dunno, probably a lot less.

Diablo 4
Beer

Manually shifting is the standard where I love, so I drove one for over 20 years.

My current car is automatic because it's a hybrid and I have to say it's a QoL boost I never realized I missed untill I had it

Beating myself up I didn't take the job offer I got recently that would raise my income by almost 30% and seemingly much easier, but decided i wasn't ready to leave the job I've worked for well over 15 years now, which I am now but that comany's website doesn't state the open job anymore.

Other than that, I have no reason to complain, life's been pretty smooth the past few months

Already pre ordered the Diablo 4 expansion, which will come out in 2.5 weeks.
Semi interested in PoE2

Other than that, nothing

eat 5 large pizzas? No way, 1.5 maybe.

More important question, where is gun guy standing?
Is his positioning so that I could have a chance at smacking a hot pizza in his face to have a chance to get the drop on him that way?

If I'm likely going to die, I won't go without trying to at least hurt him

Haven't eaten mcd crap for over 19 years.
23 years and 8 months to be exact and I'm perfectly happy about it