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General Chat / Re: 2016 Miscellaneous Links: The Links Awaken

« on: January 05, 2017, 08:12:01 AM »

When society collapses (presumably some time in the next 18 months) and I am your new Immortan, mixing sriracha into mayonnaise will be illegal. If you're lucky you'll get away with just a crucifixion if it's your first offense.

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General Chat / Re: Gooooooooood Morning 2017 Edition! Sorry, OK. But no.

« on: January 05, 2017, 08:10:11 AM »

I work in news so I'm already numb to it.

Huh, didn't know. I thought you went to law school?

I was pre-law a long time ago but ended up taking some detours, now I'm a news editor with like an adult career.

I thought he was iron man, personally

Iron Man? He's just a bodyguard!

News and porn?  Does this man know no limits?

Limits? I will fuck you in your fucking fuck for suggesting them.

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General Chat / Re: What Games are you Playing 2017?

« on: January 05, 2017, 08:09:28 AM »

Speaking of WPRGs, has anyone in the DL played Tyranny?

Duh.  It's fucking great.  Have you ever wanted to play a "follow the letter of the law" simulator? Or you can just be Judge Dredd.  It's up to you.  Player agency is a beautiful thing.

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General Chat / Re: Gooooooooood Morning 2017 Edition! All Hail Overlord Trump!

« on: January 04, 2017, 12:01:25 AM »

I work in news so I'm already numb to it.

Huh, didn't know. I thought you went to law school?

I was pre-law a long time ago but ended up taking some detours, now I'm a news editor with like an adult career.

I thought he was iron man, personally

Iron Man? He's just a bodyguard!

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General Chat / Re: Gooooooooood Morning 2017 Edition! All Hail Overlord Trump!

« on: January 02, 2017, 11:20:18 PM »

I work in news so I'm already numb to it.

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General Chat / Re: What Games are you Playing 2017?

« on: January 02, 2017, 11:19:39 PM »

Picked up a game called Hard West for a couple bucks on sale. It's like a Cowboy XCOM so that's both cool AND good.

Mechanically it adds a few interesting wrinkles to the XCOM/Wasteland 2 formula: weapons tend to do damage depending on whether you're in full, partial or no cover, and you get a buffer for when you fuck up (luck) that depletes when you play badly and fills up when you do well (namely, by killing enemies).  Not that far into the story yet but there's a few interesting decisions so far, such as how much risk you want to take when prospecting for gold or whether you want to aid a fugitive.

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General Chat / Re: 2016 Miscellaneous Links: The Links Awaken

« on: November 19, 2016, 11:01:11 PM »

"It looks to be on-par with the design philosophy from a lot of MMOs, which have been successful as often as not."

World of Warcraft makes a ton of money and FF14 has done pretty well for itself (it dominates the console MMO market) but they're about as successful in getting mass market penetration as JRPGs.

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General Chat / Re: What Games are you playing 2016?

« on: October 24, 2016, 01:58:13 AM »

Oh man, classic Niu

Not enough talking about how sexy underage people are

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General Chat / Re: 2016 Miscellaneous Links: The Links Awaken

« on: October 22, 2016, 09:34:56 PM »

Gentrification can only be slowed down not prevented.
Even in France
RIP Rob

I don't care about Gentrification, I just don't want people from California moving here. RIP them.

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General Chat / Re: What Games are you playing 2016?

« on: October 20, 2016, 09:19:58 PM »

i play a warlock lol

Poor bastard.

Anyway, the latest patch for Stellaris just came out and broke my old saves, but i was at the point where the game drops a menace from beyond the conceptual boundaries of space and time to mix things up so it doesn't hurt to start over.

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General Chat / Re: 2016 Miscellaneous Links: The Links Awaken

« on: October 04, 2016, 09:44:47 PM »

Might be cheaper now, but housing costs are rising faster here than anywhere in the country and it's mostly because of You People so please don't move here.

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General Chat / Re: 2016 Miscellaneous Links: The Links Awaken

« on: October 03, 2016, 10:20:24 PM »

And if the city is doing this sort of tourist outreach it's a damn shame it's so expensive to live out there because that is one of the only niches my skillset actually fills

STOP MOVING HERE

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General Chat / Re: Movies

« on: September 29, 2016, 08:55:57 AM »

I mean, by definition the concept of ritualism is that you do it because you see the process itself as being of importance, rather than because you understand the parts and can move them around. Once you justify ritual it ceases to be.

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General Chat / Re: Movies

« on: September 28, 2016, 10:49:20 PM »

I liked the ending and prefer it with the final 5 seconds myself.
The movie needed to confirm that the eldritch horror threat from ancient gods placated & sealed by real-life horror film scenarios was real.  If it wasn't real, then viewers will assume that the scientists were just crazed cultists who got shut down, yay, happy ending, you can feel good that everybody in the other international scenarios escaped and "won".  So...  it makes it a better horror film within its own universe where there's a completely screwed up moral choice.

It's also better at the meta-level.  The ancient gods are the audience.  If they don't have their tastes appeased, they don't watch the movie, which stops more movies like that from ever existing - this is the equivalent to destroying the world.  So...  you gotta follow the ritual or else you literally won't exist and won't get funding.  No letting too many people live!  And you gotta kill 'em in the right order!  If the last 5 minutes are cut off, then maybe the audience will be happy that the ending went off script and not end the world, which is entirely too cheerful.  You can still have a note of hope in that maybe they'll just rampage through the countryside a bit, but there's gonna be consequences, and you won't like them.

Yeah, but if you're approaching "ritualism in horror films" as a thing, you don't know that the audience likes it until after you're done. All you get are test audience results and pre-release reviews. That's why I think it works better if you cut it at exactly five seconds early, because the cabin shakes and you don't know exactly what's going to happen, just an overwhelming sense of foreboding.

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General Chat / Re: What Are You Listening To 2016 - Hay una discoteca por aqui?

« on: September 27, 2016, 09:06:22 AM »

Adam Warrock ft Tribe One - Silver Age

All his shit is gone from Spotify last I checked. Any idea what's up with him?

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General Chat / Re: Good Morning 2016: Man hat doch nicht alle Tassen im Schrank!

« on: September 27, 2016, 08:03:42 AM »

seriously, have you tried shopping for gift for a 1-year-old? they're too stupid and boring to get more than, like, brightly colored and very large blocks

Get a mirror. They use it to look at their dumb faces until they wise up and start doing cocaine off it like a normal person.

#bigdaddyyumyum

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General Chat / Re: What Games are you playing 2016?

« on: September 22, 2016, 10:14:58 AM »

Blizzard is my life now.


Hearthstone - I did the starter pack.  Got Velen and Sylvanas.  Good packs.

WoW - this pushes you to focus on one character.  So my Warlock main is being followed up by a Deathknight tank at 103 and a Disciplie Priest currently level 95. 

Doing Mythics on the warlock.  Still a few I haven't done.  Mostly just filling in for spaces in guild groups.  Not sure if I will do Mythic Plus or raiding.  Dropped Tailoring which have had since BC and got Herbalism to go with Alchemy.

Priest is Tailor/Enchanting.  Seriously considering dropping everything for Mining/Herbalism for monetary reasons and because Professions are mostly not a big deal right now.


Overwatch - I bought this.  Was playing bot matches the first few days to get a feel for how heroes move and physics.  Jumped on Quick Play finally last night.  First game there is no healer yet so I get on Lucio.  We lose.  One guy spends the whole match complaining that we need a healer.  He changes character from like Reinhardt or something to Pharah.  No one else says anything.  No one else changes character.

Pretty much like you expect.

What is your battletag? I'm looking for people to start pushing into Mythic+3 and above. I am an extremely unstoppable tank and need some shootymans or someone to heal me.

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General Chat / Re: What Games are you playing 2016?

« on: August 27, 2016, 10:57:32 AM »

Deus Ex-  Finished.  Taken on its own it's a good game but it feels like a shift in genre from previous titles. Rather than something where you uncover a global conspiracy, the Illuminati, Page and the related plots are background elements operating while Jensen tries to get to the bottom of a plot to discredit a pro-Aug movement.  Feels more like an episode of Deus Ex than Deus Ex the Movie, I guess is how I'd put it.

The world detail, especially in Prague, is amazing.  Makes sense since you spend 80% of the game there, but still, outstanding. There's a real feel that the world is accelerating towards something bad as the Panacea project has failed, global warming is accelerating, the "new human economy" has fallen apart and the beginnings of groups like the NSF and Silhouette are arising. There's even a bioweapon involved.  Overall the game kind of ends abruptly and I was surprised by it.  Campaign's still a good 20 hours long though, and I'm interested to see about doing things differently this time.

The game's sidequests are a lot better than in previous entries.  You solve a couple mysteries, work with underground journalists, bust people out of jail, maybe even rob a bank. All that good shit.  They're well-varied and the characters involved in them have a bit more of a feel to them, even if it's just that most of them were just given a notable quirk or two.

As usual there's a WHOOOOLE lot of written material to go through, from breaking into people's emails to magazines and newspapers, but TV broadcasts seem to be somewhat more prevalent left on as background noise, when in HR I feel like Eliza was mostly part of cutscenes.  Also the conspiracy theory radio guy from the last show is still doing his thing, and he correctly predicts most of the plot of the first game, because this is the world of Deus Ex and in it every conspiracy theory is true.

Bob Page shows up for a little bit but you don't get to punch his fucking face so that's a bummer. They mention he's building a moon base.

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General Chat / Re: What Games are you playing 2016?

« on: August 13, 2016, 08:44:24 AM »

It's kind of ironic, really. The choice I wound up making was to turn down whatever powers and loot the quest might've given me because the methods of acquiring them were too scummy. This is fundamentally a moral decision, but in context it only looks like one if you squint at it really hard from far away, since it only wound up being one because the writers were too incompetent to give us a more creatively compelling alternative.

I thought you people kept telling me Fallout 4 was better than usual Bethesda writing. (Low bar, I know.)

It's probably not any worse.

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General Chat / Re: Movies

« on: August 12, 2016, 10:07:53 PM »

Don't forget the guy who just throws boomerangs.

People thought Ant-Man was a dumb name and then DC was like "yo check out this guy: CAPTAIN BOOMERANG."

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General Chat / Re: What Games are you playing 2016?

« on: August 12, 2016, 10:07:05 PM »

2. The thief guild is scummy (get innocent people thrown in jail and shake down struggling shopkeepers) and I can do nothing but join them or ignore them. Quite unsatisfying. Don't think I want to do the whole thing.

This really stood out to me as one of the peak Bethesda writing fail moments in the game. I rarely kill NPCs in games, but I decided to wipe out the thieves' guild just because the only quest options you got with them involved making innocent bystanders suffer. So I attacked them and spent several minutes chucking fireballs only to discover that every NPC in the gang is flagged immortal. Can't break this quest chain! Why u no wanna be a sociopath, player. (I ditched daedra quests for the exact same reason.)

The landscape was pretty and I had fun climbing mountains and looking around, but lord does interacting with people ever make it feel like a soulless world.

Also dragons eventually just become a dull nuisance to deal with once they're everywhere. Fuck, I don't want to spend another five minutes shooting you guys down, I'm getting my 'sploration on here.

Bethesda's philosophy around Oblivion became that the player should be free to do any content at any time, which also meant that nothing you do should ever have lasting consequences. Fallout 4 actually manages to have a decision have consequences, but they decided to do that in a situation where there's an obvious solution that could have left both choices open so it's paradoxically a bigger writing fail.

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General Chat / Re: Movies

« on: August 10, 2016, 09:21:43 AM »

If your plan is to stop an Evil Superman, why are your two main people a guy with a gun and a 120-pound girl with a baseball bat?

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General Chat / Re: What Games are you playing 2016?

« on: August 10, 2016, 09:20:38 AM »

Xcom2: Had a lazy day in so started this.  I've seen a couple of LPs so I know what to expect  but it's still very fun.  Class balance has problems (Sharpshooters are absolute fucking shit outside of fanfire) and the RNG is evil, but it's still a super enjoyable game with a lot of thought put into it. It's nice to play an AAA game and enjoy it, which I haven't done much of at all since like the PSX days.

You should pick up the Shadowrun games if you dug XCOM.  They get better as they come out but they're all fun in their own way. Plus they're cheap.

I haven't finished Hong Kong yet myself, but Dragonfall at least is something I'd recommend to everyone on this forum.

I keep meaning to play the new version with the epilogue content. I really liked the conclusion to Hong Kong though, and I think it's probably my favorite party ensemble, although I don't know if I like any one character as much as I do Glory in Dragonfall. Maybe Auntie Cheng.

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General Chat / Re: What Games are you playing 2016?

« on: August 09, 2016, 08:42:07 PM »

Xcom2: Had a lazy day in so started this.  I've seen a couple of LPs so I know what to expect  but it's still very fun.  Class balance has problems (Sharpshooters are absolute fucking shit outside of fanfire) and the RNG is evil, but it's still a super enjoyable game with a lot of thought put into it. It's nice to play an AAA game and enjoy it, which I haven't done much of at all since like the PSX days.

You should pick up the Shadowrun games if you dug XCOM.  They get better as they come out but they're all fun in their own way. Plus they're cheap.

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General Chat / Re: 2016 Miscellaneous Links: The Links Awaken

« on: August 04, 2016, 08:44:00 AM »

I understand why they made this decision from a commercial standpoint, but it's still antithetical to the quote I posted! If they wanted half the listed cast to be non-Asian that's fine...just don't say it's a historically accurate representation minus the monsters.

Also, it's been a issue that's long predated #OscarsSoWhite, it's just getting more and more attention now.

It's the Giant Enemy Crab again but Yimou himself said, "I don't care."*

*At some point in his life, probably