Lurker > Aristoph

Hopefully they lock him up better than he locked up his gun.

SauI_Goodman posted...

Tourism industry is boned if teleporation becomes a thing. I'll take time stop.

Dafuq you talking about? Transportation industry might get hit hard (but still be essential for cargo). But tourism would see a huge boost when everyone could visit anywhere they wanted to at any time. The only reason they'd be in trouble is because some places may find they suddenly have too many tourists to handle.

Touristy places would also gain a brand new means of income as a brand new industry of selling small pebbles and whatnot as teleportation focuses pops up.

refmon posted...

Why the fuck aren't you watched female led super hero flicks?

Because they aren't making any good ones.

Customers have always been entitled pricks. Employees are just finally starting to not take the bullshit anymore.

"I apologize" = "I know you're upset because of something I did."
"I'm sorry" = "I know you're upset because I fucked up."

One takes personal responsibility and shows intention to be better next time. The other simply acknowledges the situation but doesn't plan on doing anything differently next time.

I decided to try the game out yesterday. Been watching streams of it all week and it looked like a ton of fun. I have never in my life had such a massive discrepancy between what I watched others doing and what I experienced personally playing a game.

Launched the game and stared at "servers at capacity" for nearly 45 minutes. It finally lets me in and goes to that intro with military-green background and some text, and the game crashes my entire PC. Even the "gathering crash report" or whatever it is Windows does was frozen at 0% and refused to move. Had to hold the power button and hard reboot. Launch the game again and stare at "servers at capacity" for 20 minutes, and it finally lets me in. Go through the tutorial and everything's fine (though I changed like half the keybinds 'cause the defaults made zero sense to me). Named my ship the "Reign of Wrath" (which I'm going to remember for the future, badass ship name) and go to choose my first mission.

I had the same thought as Touch and figured I'd do the Bot faction missions first since there's a bonus for doing 8 of them. I was aware the matchmaking was fucked, so I just picked a random level 1 "Trivial" mission to evacuate civilians and launched solo. Drop in just outside the encampment far enough away that it didn't give me the danger warning on selection, and I'm immediately spotted anyway. Danger warning is apparently completely useless, good to know. -_- Start getting chased and don't have time to call in my machine gun, but I figured fuck it, it's level 1 so my assault rifle should be fine until I can get some space? lol The moment I got spotted, the drop ship warning popped up at the top and never went away because they never stopped arriving. I get swarmed and shredded in seconds. Playing solo means you don't really get to choose your respawn location, it's just automatically near where you died (which is fucking moronic) and I can't move the pod far enough to get out of range of the ever-growing mass of enemies. I die the second time before I've even gotten control of my character. And then again. On the fourth drop I finally get enough distance to not be immediately shot, and start making a WIDE circle around the outpost to try and sneak in from behind. It surprisingly works and I manage to get inside and find one of the pods with the civvies and release them. But opening a damn door apparently alerts every enemy on the map to your exact location and drop ships stop bringing enemies in vaguely on the other side of the outpost and the next 2 drop literally right on top of me. I'm dead in seconds again, and my last respawn is another insta-death before I even get control. Mission failed. Well, that was fucking stupid. >_>

I figure it all went to shit because I alerted the enemies right out of the gate on accident, so I give it another go. This time dropping on the outskirts of the map and everything seems fine for a bit. Do a little exploring and find a couple minor POIs as I work my way towards the outpost. When I get there, there's only a couple of bots patrolling the edges so I just avoid them and sneak inside. I try to locate as many of the civilians as I can before I open any of them. Thinking maybe I can just open them and run before most of the infantry arrives. It works alright at first and I got half the civvies free before it started getting too hot and I had to get out of there. Did another wide circle around, but when I got back to the outpost on the other side there was like a hundred bots swarming around the outpost, so zero chance I could do anything. And the drop ships were still non-stop spawning more. It was that point when I realized the missions had to be glitched, and there was a reason every single mission on the planet was the exact same civilian rescue one that nobody else was playing. So I just abandoned it and went to try one of the Bug missions instead.

Picked a random level 1 Bug planet mission that wanted me to reactivate a radar tower. Dropped on the outskirts again from an abundance of caution. Was in no way necessary this time, because this one was actually "trivial" difficulty and I literally couldn't even find a single enemy for the first 5 minutes. Found several minor POIs along the way to the dish, which brought up yet another issue I hadn't seen anybody on streams have. I found a medal in one of the little caches and when I picked it up, my character completely froze in place. I could spin around and aim my weapon, but that's it. Couldn't shoot, couldn't swap weapons, couldn't reload, couldn't throw grenades, couldn't call stratagems, couldn't even crouch. Just stuck there looking around for almost 20 seconds before my character did this weird vibrating glitch spasm and suddenly I could move again and the game acted like nothing had happened. Continued on to the radar dish, activated it, and aligned it. I still haven't seen a single bug. Objectives complete, head to evac. I find 2 of the smallest bug type randomly patrolling the middle of nowhere on my way to the exit, but at this point I'm just saying screw it and ignoring them. Find another small cache of loot, and when I pick up an Uncommon Sample I get that same stupid frozen character shit again. Sure enough after like 20 seconds my guy spazzes out for a moment and then I can move again. I get to the beacon and activate it, and the game finally decides to send some enemies. Pull out my machine gun and mow down the first wave of half a dozen bugs and then wait like 30 seconds before another wave spawns. Kill them just as easily and then have a full minute wait for the evac ship to land without seeing another enemy. So I climb in and the little cutscene starts of the pelican flying up to my ship...and the game hard crashes my PC again.

Uninstalled. Refunded. I can't remember ever being so disappointed by a game with this much hype. Especially since I'd watched like a dozen hours of people playing it before I even bought it.

</rant> Sorry, I just needed somewhere to vent.

Computer tech is broken OP out of those. The entire goddamn world runs on tech now. You'd basically be the messiah.

Robot2600 posted...

bullshit that u need a stem degree

The entire purpose is to conduct scientific experiments. A STEM degree seems like one of the most basic and obvious requirements.

ClayGuida posted...

It'd take them a long while to build up enough brand recognition.

They're billionaires. No it wouldn't.

boxoto posted...

5 & 5 is 10

...out of 100.

_Blur_ posted...

Seems like every single big game is horribly buggy on PC on release (and for quite a while after). I guess if you don't plan on buying anything for 6 months after release, then sure

Honestly, most of the "horribly buggy" releases are overblown in terms of how broken they actually are. Not all of them, of course. There have been some absolute trash-tier PC versions. But the vast majority are minor problems that are either fixed by patches within a few days or by modders within a few hours.

And the existence of a modding scene for most games also gives an added benefit for PC. Modding alone often makes waiting a few months before picking up a game mean you get a straight-up better game than consoles got.

Yeah, I don't really get the point of console generations anymore. There's no reason to buy the new console when console makers demand devs make their new games available for last gen consoles too.

Not to mention that requiring games to work on last-gen consoles means they can never actually optimize for the new hardware, so the new consoles' versions of the games don't even look or play significantly better than the old ones' versions. Why even bother making a new console at that point?

I watch this and all I can think is those are definitely not their normal cheerleading uniforms and someone definitely made that decision for a reason.

008Zulu posted...

How would said shark deploy their parachute?

Presumably they're hooked up to a line that pulls it automatically once they're away from the plane, like paratroopers. They don't actually pull their own chute.

Congrats Vokrent!

Mussurana posted...

I almost hope not, on the grounds that the first one hooked me so hard I played it and only it religiously for months.

I'm trying to temper my hype by reminding myself that the first time I picked up Dragons Dogma 1, I was completely lost and had no idea what the game wanted me to do. I forget what it was exactly, but there was a pretty major game mechanic that I had just completely misunderstood. I got super frustrated and quit after just a few hours thinking the game was total garbage. I only went back like a month later after a friend mentioned he started playing "this crazy awesome game that nobody seems to know anything about." And as an example of it being awesome, before even mentioning the name of the game, he proceeded to explain the exact mechanic that I had gotten so completely wrong. I couldn't stop laughing for like 5 minutes, and all I managed to get out was "You're playing Dragon's Dogma!" I reinstalled the game that night and fell in love. XD

We had the girls kissing poster in our house at college.

We had a tradition of having girls take pics copying the poster in front of the poster, which we'd then put up on the wall next to it. Just going to stress that it was the girls' idea, not me or my housemates. >_>

YugiNoob posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/7/73dae4ea.jpg

Not threatened. Warned.

I'll be buying my own copy, I just wanted to share the hype. I can't wait for this game!

willythemailboy posted...

You're discounting the possibility that Trump could burn his wang trying to shower the Fire Elemental.

It's too small, it'll be protected by his fat rolls.

Giacomo_Hawkins posted...

It's a dog and a cat.

Oh come on, we both know nobody's picking that option for the cat. Any cat lover knows that the cat would take care of itself. Only the dog is stupid enough to sit there and probably drink it.

So the only one that would actually get hurt and the only one who can literally unlock magic for humanity is the Fire Elemental? And people are still picking the dog and the billionaire?

Humanity was a mistake. God should just Alt+F4 and start from scratch.

I'm in Ohio and we call it pop here, so I'd be surprised if they didn't.

Damn_Underscore posted...

you cant just go by state lines

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/3/396ccc68.jpg

The only time you'll ever see a map of Ohio as deep blue.

Yeah, why not? I mostly lurk anyways. I could go a month without posting no problem.

And it would put me just 2 years away from my next karma level. >_>

I got curious and googled. Seems like most people attribute it to black slang, mostly from 90's hiphop. "High capping" was a term used to mean you were lying or exaggerating to make yourself look better. So if you said "no capping" after something, it meant "no, really, this actually happened."

New topic is off to a strong start.

No. And there's only 2 games that would do it.

Skies of Arcadia remake/remaster
Skies of Arcadia 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z-Mh9Qeinw

Even better, the official lyric video is exactly 4m27s (as long as you view it on YouTube instead of the embed that randomly adds 1 second for some reason).

Graduate from college
Get a job

That was about it, honestly. I'm not good with the whole "having dreams" thing. I accomplished both. Though I quit that job and haven't used my degree since, so...

Three times.

The first time was at the end of high school and she didn't see me that way. The second was in college and it was mutual, but I was in no place emotionally/mentally to pursue it. We lost touch after we graduated college and each moved back to our hometowns.

The third was kind of a weird semi-mutual thing. She was into me and said as much, but she already had a boyfriend of 2 years and she wasn't the type to cheat (and I'm not a homewrecker). They did eventually split up, but by that time it had become more of a brother-sister dynamic. I call her mother "Mama" and I've literally been to two of their family reunions. She got married a couple years ago and they're expecting their second child later this year. We're still very close friends to this day and I see them every week at bowling.

I do think I'm in a much better place mentally now. Still struggling with depression (and probably always will), but my anxiety is more under control and I think if I ever meet someone else I'll be ready to go for it. Just trying to keep myself open to it and not get jaded.

I don't touch it so I don't get my fingerprints all over it. Also don't move it, as the location could be a key bit of evidence for whatever potential crime investigation is going to happen. Call the cops and wait for them to arrive.

Anybody talking about taking the money, or even just a portion of it, is downright stupid.

So I live for 100 billion years but I'm a decrepit vegetable in a week and unable to function for the entire rest of it?

Fuck outta here.

AceMos posted...

im guessing she finds an artifact that lets her transform magical girl style and gain magic while transformed

I mean, it seems like a major plot hook is that she can't do magic but still thinks she can be the best by her skill and determination alone. It's a good message, if a bit cliche. But giving her magic at all completely defeats that entire premise.

I dunno. I hope they get funded 'cause I like when artists get to create what they're passionate about. Just seems like the plot is kinda weak at the moment and that doesn't get me excited to see it made.

I think it looks ugly, but whatever, everybody has different tastes.

I'm just confused by the whole "the main character doesn't have magic" and yet every preview they've got so far explicitly shows her using magic? Like wtf? She has a magical-girl outfit-change and summons a sword out of thin air. How the fuck is that not using magic?