Lurker > Sahuagin

Wordle 279 4/6

FRAGS
TOUGH
BLOCK

captpackrat posted...

If you let the game just run overnight while you're falling when you finally call for a tow it takes literally months or years to get back and all your employees are working the whole time, so all your employees max out their skills and you can make obscene amounts of money. I literally have $1.24 billion right now.

k that's hilarious

hypnox posted...

So see, this is where reading is neato. I said I was gifted one a while back you see. Its wonderous what insights you can get if you read things.

you were asking to make it "worth it". worth what, if you got it for free?

onion bagels are pretty good

why do you want one in the first place if you consider modern nintendo games to be "over milked BS"? what other reason would there be?

I say 'jif' outloud but seem to alternate in my head

Hejiru posted...

By the way, have you seen my Gentle Giant Giraffe?

another example learned from a particular game is Gaol which is an alternate spelling of Jail (pronounced the same).

yes my nephews definitely have their own tastes and won't be encouraged into liking something they don't like or discouraged from liking something they like.

Lobomoon posted...

Russia wanted only to protect Donetsk and Lugansk and whatever happened to be between those two

wpot posted...

Sooo...why the huge column of tanks/etc coming out of Belarus heading for Kiev?

yeah really, attempted encirclement of Kiev, attempted landings at Odessa, but no, Russia only wants the Donbas... oh, wait, "whatever happened to be between Donetsk and Lugansk"??? so what about Mariupol?

bad trolling attempt is all I can figure which is why it immediately turned into a weak insult. maybe he needs more mayo.

42 Faith, basically my cleric build from DS with differences since it's confessor and incantations instead (pyro stuff and starting out with broadsword not mace). I have "sacred blade" war skill/infusion giving my broadsword faith scaling and the skill giving it a temporary holy buff. I've tried a couple other weapons but think I want to stick with broadsword.

Jen0125 posted...

Wolfy. Lmao. This firm hired tens of thousands of dollars in experts to try to peddle that this woman has a TBI. I paid $11k alone for one expert. Like there is no way they made out.

that's interesting. watching a lot of car accident videos there are quite a few where the accident seemed almost harmless but the cammer says something like "had substantial neck and back injuries".

Wordle 278 5/6

FLARE
EMOTE
TEATS
STICH (?)

one of those where I put the final word together and I'm like "what the heck is that, that's not a word... oh wait"

MICHALECOLE posted...

Here watch my review of it:

1. its so good its at least as good as the last five Pixar movies (which are all awesome)

that distills down to "it's good" which is useless as a 'review' and I am already pretty sure isn't the case anyway. whatever thing you find so entertaining . isn't as entertaining as you think it is.

already watched a review of it, seems terrible

what's lunch?

LinkPizza posted...

New players can join at anytime, but only if the first round isnt over. AFAIK, the kids were only able to join since the other two players only rolled once each. Had either of them rolled twice, the kids wouldnt have been able to join

I don't know if that's the case, but if it is, then it remains to be seen what happens in a fail state. personally I think the implication is that the game seems dangerous but isn't. in reality that's because it's a family movie, but in the movie world, there is a certain implicit understanding that things can seem to be extreme but somehow never actually progress to people being killed, even when children are being attacked by deadly creatures. the game is in control in such a way that it creates exciting and excruciating experiences but nothing that leads to death (otherwise a child lost in a jungle dimension would not actually survive).

(again this is because it's a family movie, not a slasher movie, but the game still derives its nature from its genre. a slasher movie villain is still a killer even though he's only that way to serve the expectations of the genre it's in, and the same holds true for a family movie 'villain' as well.)

PMarth2002 posted...

Where are people getting the idea that they can't die from? Pretty sure you can if no one survives long enough to get to the goal.

I think the game technically has no fail state because new players can join at any time. also the game knows about cheating/gamification* and punishes accordingly.

(* I can't tell if gamification is the right word; I might be thinking of a different similar word but can't find the definition)

probably yeah. as far as I know there is no risk involved beyond the temporary (if long-lasting) effects the game can have while it's in play.

Wordle 277 4/6

GAMES
FLUNK
ROUGE

I played the first one which was great theme-wise and ok/good gameplay-wise. I played a bit of the second one but failed to make it very far.

Wordle 274 5/6

GUILE
EMOTE
PREEN
NEVER

Wordle 273 3/6

FRESH
PILOT
ALLOW

Lokarin posted...

Is it better to go to waste in my hands, since money goes up the economic food chain... or just let it go to waste at the store.

it's better for you not to buy it in the first place if it's going to go to waste. if you think farmers need more money, donate to a charity or something.

Wordle 272 4/6

SMART
SOUTH
SPUTA
SAUTE

probably coulda had that in 3, oh well

KodyKeir posted...

don't say buy a stand alone freezer and or a bigger fridge, even if I had the money to do that, I don't have the space.

I got a small chest freezer for just over $100 CAD. It's extremely nice to have. it does take up a fair bit of space, though.

eggs take a while to go bad, just eat them more often. but otherwise I agree, living alone I almost can't buy anything that expires without it expiring.

I suppose the solution is to plan exactly what you intend to eat, and buy exactly that, and eat exactly that. I'm not that organized though.

what I actually prefer these days is to catalogue things myself in a spreadsheet. you can do a lot more and find interesting patterns this way. (like calculate ratios and realize that one item is abnormally inefficient in a certain way, where another item is abnormally efficient, etc.)

ParanoidObsessive posted...

That's what wikis are for.

Pretty much every game has one these days.

this?!

check the line of sight. if there's a fridge or microwave in the way (for example) you'll have problems.

if you have antennas (on either side), remember it's the edge of the antenna that transmits, not the end. the direction the antenna points actually has poor reception. the reception is in a cylinder-ish shape circling around the edge.

make sure to use the 5G/better version if you have more than one wifi being broadcast. make sure your wireless on your PC is actually something modern, and not 802.11g or something.

run a cable instead

Wordle 270 6/6

STEAM
TESLA
GNOME
ENACT
ACTED
CATER

man nothing would stick

Wordle 269 4/6

WORDS
PSION
STEAM
TEASE

sort of yeah. russian state media accidentally posted a "victory article" they had prepared thinking that the invasion would be over quickly. they took it down right away but it was preserved.

First two paragraphs using google translate from Russian:

A new world is being born before our eyes. Russia's military operation in Ukraine has ushered in a new era - and in three dimensions at once. And of course, in the fourth, internal Russian. Here begins a new period both in ideology and in the very model of our socio-economic system - but this is worth talking about separately a little later.

Russia is restoring its unity - the tragedy of 1991, this terrible catastrophe in our history, its unnatural dislocation, has been overcome. Yes, at a great cost, yes, through the tragic events of a virtual civil war, because now brothers, separated by belonging to the Russian and Ukrainian armies, are still shooting at each other, but there will be no more Ukraine as anti-Russia. Russia is restoring its historical fullness, gathering the Russian world, the Russian people together - in its entirety of Great Russians, Belarusians and Little Russians. If we had abandoned this, if we had allowed the temporary division to take hold for centuries, then we would not only betray the memory of our ancestors, but would also be cursed by our descendants for allowing the disintegration of the Russian land.

Wordle 268 6/6

WHALE
PEALS
SOULS
SMILE
SMELL
SMELT

Wordle 267 3/6

SONAR
LOUSE
FOCUS

it's similar to IRL where you can't just attack someone outright because they're doing something else wrong, you have to be defending yourself.

wpot posted...

In Westerns the villain 'draws' first in a standoff

a good exception that comes to mind (sort of light spoilers for the movie Open Range but it's just a gun battle)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph7DnMqodm4

Accrovideogames posted...

Did you even read the article? Your comment is extremely misleading. There's nothing strange in the story.

it's kind of a game of telephone

Lok: Snake prime suspect in shooting, until police proved it couldn't hold a gun

Headline: A snake is eyed as the culprit in man's death until cops realize it can't pull a trigger

Actual: a man is thought to have been killed by snakes until gun casings and gun shot wounds are found

Wordle 266 6/6

FRAGS
BLACK
TAINT
TEMPO
TROAD
TODAY
didn't expect #5 to be a word but thankfully it gave me enough info that I couldn't fail

ok so @JixHedgehog and @JOExHIGASHI are different people, ok

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AL1td9sIGvs

not exactly hyped but at least that doesn't look like hot garbage, yet

around 10 years I think

my parents recently had to give up their ~35 year old number since they moved to a different town

James Bond probably has the most plot armor of those choices

Wordle 265 X/6

GULPS
BREAD
JOINT
TAFFY
HATCH
MATCH

second fail, and I did try this time

JixHedgehog posted...

Knew I was in trouble since there are many different words with those last 4 letters

yup exact same. knew I was f***ed at that point. I had a feeling what it was but I flipped a coin anyway and got it wrong (although my feeling was based on nothing so it should just have been completely chance).

Wordle 264 6/6

GRAIN
ALURE
LEAVE
LUNGE
LATHE
LAPSE
I think I'm tiring of the game, I don't put any effort into the guesses, almost lost again

there was a boss with a ton of water and lightning and it ran perfect for the first phase (on high not max I think), but on the second phase when he brought out the lightning and started splashing everywhere it got really bad. eventually it was effectively slow motion and the game actually kicked me out of the fight for having too low fps for online play.

k well I definitely can't play it on high. it runs fine in some areas, but when things get going it needs to be on lower settings not to bog down. can't quite find the happy medium but I can at least not have low textures.

Wordle 263 4/6

SHIPS
CHALK
MOURN
MONTH

bad first two guesses, lucky third guess

adjl posted...

I'm in more or less the same boat. Built something mid-range in 2011, upgraded the GPU to upper-mid in 2015, and I've pretty rarely found myself hardware constrained. I cannot, however, run Elden Ring. I don't come anywhere close to the minimum requirements there

adjl posted...

It might be worth a shot, if I make sure I can refund it, but I've got a stock 2500K in here, which benchmarks way below the minimum, and an R9 280X isn't exactly up to date either, nor are my 8 GB of RAM. It looks like some people have been able to get it running on my GPU with some tweaks, but I don't think the rest will be up to the task.

hmmm

I have i5-2310, GTX 1060 3GB, and 24GB DDR3, and I can run it ok (not perfect, although basically perfect in some places) on low settings. it will run on high settings, but somewhat painfully. I guess your GPU is the main weakness. there are a lot of wide views with tons of stuff in the distance and I can tell that contributes to the slowness (more claustrophobic areas run noticeably smooth in comparison).

(I don't always mind a game running poorly anyway if it's my machine that makes it slow, since I know I can upgrade it later and it'll be awesome. one reason I love PC.)

(the GTX 1060 seems to be one of the best pieces of hardware I've ever gotten. cost only like ~$300 and is the main thing that makes my ~10 year old PC still work.)

older consoles were holding things back a lot a while ago, but these days aren't and things have evened out more with decent games being published on many platforms at once. consolification is still sometimes a thing but it's *way* less common and severe than before.

Wordle 262 X/6

ROYAL
PENIS
SUEDE
SEEMS
SHEET
SKEET

my first loss. I should have thought more on the last guess. also didn't expect it would take #2.

Wordle 261 3/6

GRATE
ROACH
HOARD

one of those times, that I've also had in other word games, where you put letters together to come up with words and none of the combinations make any sense, and even the right one feels made up when you get it