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| Topic | how does this image make you feel? |
| ParanoidObsessive 11/05/22 9:24:17 PM #10 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmQyNss55qM --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Guys dont forget the 5th of november |
| ParanoidObsessive 11/05/22 8:26:10 PM #3 | CarefreeDude posted... A movie told me to remember it for some treason To be fair, the people who made the movie never actually understood the concept anyway, so there's probably no need for you to remember at all. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Xenogears |
| ParanoidObsessive 11/05/22 8:24:27 PM #15 | Hard_Light posted... except for the many that, uh, don't Those aren't visual novels, those are kinetic novels. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | So my group's D&D campaign is coming to a close... |
| ParanoidObsessive 11/05/22 5:48:02 PM #16 | Muscles posted... I have 1 friend that wants to play that is in another campaign and offered to let me come watch/learn from their DM, I haven't been able to make it yet because of work, but do you think it would be a good idea or just be confusing? That'd probably be a great idea. Getting an idea for how other people DM (or GM, or ST, or...) can help you learn how to do it yourself. You can even watch people running online games to get a wider range of experience. Just keep in mind that there's no one right way to GM, so you don't need to try and be exactly like other people. And don't get discouraged if they seem really good and you don't think you can live up to the bar they set. Every GM is different, and every GM has to start out somewhere. Again, as long as your players are willing to tolerate your mistakes and help you improve, you'll only get better. And if you're all having fun, that's really all that matters anyway. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Xenogears |
| ParanoidObsessive 11/05/22 5:43:59 PM #12 | Hard_Light posted... disc 2 is pretty much just a visual novel No, visual novels have choices. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | So my group's D&D campaign is coming to a close... |
| ParanoidObsessive 11/05/22 4:03:09 PM #13 | Muscles posted... I have been getting dm videos recommended to me on YouTube, I watched some and it looks pretty fun, I also have friends trying to get into it. It seems like a perfect opportunity to learn, what's the best way to get into DMing? Pick a system, read the rule book, start playing. Accept that you'll make mistakes and don't need to be perfect right out of the gate. Try to focus on everyone having fun rather than making sure you strictly follow every rule. Steal ideas from literally everywhere. The biggest problem for any tabletop campaign is finding good players who want to play. If you can do that, you're like 90% of the way there. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | So my group's D&D campaign is coming to a close... |
| ParanoidObsessive 11/05/22 2:36:03 PM #11 | shadowsword87 posted... Oh no you summoned PO. *manifests* Indeed! Dikitain posted... If you want to do diceless, Amber is a pretty cool one. The whole idea behind it is you use your abilities in unique ways and it is up to the DM to decide how it works out for the player. Much more focused on actual role playing and less about "playing" the game: YES! ...problem with Amber DRPG though is that it's long out of print so might be incredibly difficult to find for new players who didn't buy the rulebook in the mid-90s. And they're kind of heavily built around the Roger Zelazny Amber universe as a setting, so it may not be as appealing for players who haven't read those books (but those books are awesome, so everyone should read them anyway). Lords of Gossamer & Shadow is still in print, and that's basically just Amber DRPG with all the serial numbers filed off, so that's an option (and potentially a great one because the rulebook is fairly short and there aren't a ton of rules to learn). And Houses of the Blooded was strongly inspired by Amber DRPG, but is also out-of-print and hard for newer players to find. There are always story-heavy or straight-up freeform systems though. Fate's a bit rules heavy but relatively easy to learn and focuses more on storytelling than combat. And "board games" like Fiasco or Dread use unique mechanics and prompts to encourage storytelling (and work well for shorter one-off games). The real problem is that I'm not sure a first-time GM who isn't even comfortable running a game they've themselves already played is going to feel comfortable running a full-on freeform game they've never heard of where they control literally everything, and it's more collaborative storytelling. Even if I do find that one of the more satisfying forms of RP myself. JigsawTDCII posted... but idk if I know enough about the mechanics and rules to effectively do it. But I do like the idea of creating a setting and helping the players tell a story in it. Tell the players in advance that you're not confident and are probably going to have to skip or half-ass a bunch of stuff. Then focus more on telling the story than leaning full into combat mechanics. For bonus points, come up with a story/setting where combat is discouraged for some reason, forcing players to rely more on RP or cunning to solve problems. You don't really need to know a ton about the mechanics if you're mostly just running skill checks and playing out NPCs. JigsawTDCII posted... Also, after a year of playing in a mostly traditional fantasy setting, most of the players are requesting something more non-traditional for our next campaign, so thatd be an added challenge. Amber DRPG would be awesome for this (the setting is basically infinite reality, and players can pretty much go to any universe they can imagine), though the underlying core is still fantasy-flavored, and infinite reality can get a bit overwhelming for a GM to deal with if they're not prepared (and again, I'd absolutely recommend anyone planning to run it read the Amber novels first). One thing you might want to do is find out what sort of "non-traditional" setting your players are interested in. Sci-fi and "modern urban fantasy" are two very different things, as is "Western", or "Lovecraftian horror". If you know what sort of game people are excited about playing (and thus what sort of stories you're going to want to tell), it can help guide you to worthwhile systems (especially if you're willing to learn new rules). And worst-case scenario, you don't necessarily need rules at all. If your players trust you to be fair (and assuming you are fair), you can have fun telling awesome stories even if all you're really doing is essentially live-action Choose Your Own Adventure you make up as you go. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | It has been a long time... |
| ParanoidObsessive 11/05/22 5:42:36 AM #4 | But wait. If you're new here, how can you recognize anyone? I've gone crosseyed! --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | something is wrong, time feels funky |
| ParanoidObsessive 11/05/22 5:41:46 AM #2 | You became unstuck in time. It happens. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Did you attend any of your high school reunions? |
| ParanoidObsessive 11/05/22 4:02:27 AM #27 | Skipped my 10th, skipped my 20th. Assuming anyone tries to throw a 30th it should happen in 2025, but I'll skip that one too if it happens. Though at this point they've probably figured out I'm not going so they might not bother even inviting me. It's not out of any bitterness or hard feelings like some people have where they're like "Oh, I hated high school and I hated all these people back then, I don't want to be reminded of it now!", it's just that I don't care. I had a pretty good high school experience, but I'm apathetic about seeing these people who have spent years basically becoming strangers. I don't care what they're up to now, I don't care to see them again - the only people I care about from high school, I've already made an active attempt to stay in contact with (so I don't need a reunion to see/talk to them). So there's no huge appeal to the idea of a reunion for me. My one friend went to the 10-year reunion, mostly complained that it cost like $80 cover for bar/meal, and didn't come back with any stories that made me feel like I was super bummed out for missing it or anything. He kind of had a "It was kind of lame and you should have gone so I'd have had someone to hang out with" vibe afterwards, to which my response was basically "We hang out all the time anyway, and being kind of lame was why I didn't want to go in the first place." Judgmenl posted... I wouldn't even know how to get information about them. Whoever is organizing it will usually track you down and attempt to contact you with an invitation. It was harder to do in the old days, but networking today is almost pathetically easy. Odds are if your class is having a reunion, they'll find you unless you were so unliked or so invisible in school that they deliberately avoid looking for you. Or if you're so far off the grid that you've left no trace on the Internet (which is unlikely, considering you spend a lot of time online). How generic or unique your name is might also play a role. If you're like one-in-a-million unique it'll be a lot easier to find you than if your name is so common that there are dozens of people in your area alone with the same first and last name (meaning they may not be able to distinguish between them and pin down which one you are). That gets way easier if you have a Facebook account, and I know people with super generic names (and no Facebook) who still managed to get tracked down, so even common names aren't a guarantee they won't find you. It probably depends on who is running it and how hard they're bothering to look. And possibly how large your class was (people may be more willing to put in the effort for a class of 100 than they would be for a class of 1000). It also makes it easier to find you if you haven't moved far away from where you went to school, or if you've stayed in touch with anyone you went to school with, because it leaves a trail for them to follow to find you. Entity13 posted... I received an invite to my 20. I saw the list of attendees and recognized no one, let alone saw anyone I had cared about from late 99 to mid 03. Are you sure it was an invite to your reunion? If you didn't recognize anyone maybe it was actually an invite to someone else's reunion that you got sent by mistake. Maybe it's in Vegas instead of your hometown because it's actually a reunion for a school in Vegas. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Do you miss when movies was just fun, and not so serious irl talking points? |
| ParanoidObsessive 11/04/22 7:40:15 PM #36 | adjl posted... People are fond of saying this, but by and large, it's one side trying to make meaningful improvements to media portrayals that stand to yield actual societal benefits, and the other side freaking out over any deviation from the status quo. That is certainly what one side enjoys telling itself to justify its own shitty behavior, yes. But that in itself is part of the problem. adjl posted... Mythology is thinly-veiled political or ideological statement hidden behind metaphor. Everything about every mythology humanity has ever conceived boils down to trying to explain the way the world works in a way that makes enough sense to convince others to agree with it. I'd agree to a point - but I'd also point out that it's often a question of unconscious beliefs and assumptions coloring a shared story that evolves over time across many tellers rather than a deliberate attempt to create a specific narrative by a single individual or small group of individuals. And none of which necessarily matters when an artist is deliberately attempting to mimic the form of the medium without writing in the same context. Tolkien wasn't trying to explain how the world works in an attempt to get others to agree. He was trying to tell a story that "felt" like mythology and which could inspire the same sense of joy and wonder he felt when reading the various mythology of other cultures. Tolkien wasn't creating "mythology" for the same reason people create real mythology. His intentions were entirely different, and they're reflected in the nature of the work. Tolkien himself repeatedly said that anyone who tries to figure out what LotR really means is pretty much automatically wrong, and they've completely missed the entire point. adjl posted... It's nonetheless very rare to find a truly apolitical work of art. This notion of "everything's so political these days" has very little basis in reality. The problem is how you define "apolitical art", and how you choose to interpret what you're looking at and the intentions behind its creation. It's entirely possible to read meaning into works even where such meaning was never intended to exist, and it has grown vastly more common in the modern era, where we've developed a highly metatextual and allegorical view of the world. It's the driving force behind concepts like Death of the Author - it doesn't matter what the person who created a work says it's about, because we've decided it's metaphorically about something else and we're egotistical enough to assume that the only thing that matters is our perception of the world. We assume that because we see patterns, those patterns automatically exist, were intended, and are the most important implications of a work - even if our perceptions are nothing more than apophenia. Modern culture is quite possibly one of the most narcissistic and egocentric paradigms humans have ever created. And we define literally everything through the lens of that perception, even when it's blatantly and completely wrong to do so. Which gives us a very flawed understanding of the world we actually live in. And a view that is only growing more and more flawed as every individual separates themselves out into microcosm echo chambers that narrowcast their own viewpoint back at them and radicalize their views. This is why pointing at one group and saying "THEY are the problem" is often missing the point. EVERYONE is the problem. And until people understand that, the problem will never be solved. Scapegoating and tribalism (regardless of which side you're on) makes things worse, not better. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Xenogears |
| ParanoidObsessive 11/04/22 7:19:12 PM #7 | Dmess85 posted... Woah, sounds like a story within a story... is it really that noticeable when you get to Disc 2? Fuck yes. No one is entirely sure what the real reasons behind it are, but things take a radical shift once you hit disc 2. The world map becomes almost pointless and the game goes very heavily onto rails. The pace of the narrative radically accelerates as well, and not necessarily in a good way (but like a final season of Game of Thrones sort of way). Fans have always assumed it was a budget/time issue or something where the publisher was pushing the devs to just finish the damned game, but I don't think anyone has ever explicitly said "Yeah, this is why it happened." --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Xenogears |
| ParanoidObsessive 11/04/22 4:08:24 PM #5 | Dmess85 posted... This game is not relevant anymore? There are generally two things that keep people from really talking it up much these days. First, a lot of players who absolutely loved it in the beginning of the game got hugely disillusioned once they hit disc two, and the deadline crunch/lack of budget/etc kicks in, and the plot becomes almost completely linear, rushed, and it feels like all the massive build-up of the first half is just rushed to an awkward conclusion because everyone just wanted to finish the damned thing (see also, KotOR2). So it always had a slightly more niche following than some of the other popular RPGs of its era. Second, even the players who were obsessively in love with it and kept talking it up years after its release as a fantastic RPG (and begging for someone to continue the franchise) tended to lose interest once Xenosaga came out, because Xenosaga was meandering shit with no focus that kind of damped down a lot of the passion for the series/creators. Xenoblade is pretty much the current spiritual successor, and some people really like it, but most of its fans now are newer gamers who got into it on its own merits and not old Xenogears fans who see it as a direct continuation, so it kind of overshadows the original. The real shame is that Xenogears was supposed to be part of a larger series (it was originally supposed to be part 5 of 6, with the intent to go back and fill in various backstory elements as full prequel games later), but Square lost interest in the idea after the first game. Xenosaga was supposed to be an attempt to start over (with the first game telling the story that was supposed to be Chapter 1 of the Xenogears story, and then continuing on), but during development they decided Chapter 1 wasn't interesting enough so Xenosaga 1 is basically just Chapter 2 of the original story plus a bit of Chapter 1 worked in (mainly the intro). And then instead of continuing to tell the original story (with Xenosaga 2 being Chapter 3 of the original plot, Xenosaga 3 being Chapter 4, etc), they just kept stretching out and prolonging the "Chapter 2" part until it became boring and uninteresting and felt like it was never really going anywhere meaningful or interesting. And people basically just stopped caring about the series. It's interesting to think about how things might had been different if we ever actually got the other Chapters of the original story properly as well (3,4, and 6) rather than what we actually got. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Do you miss when movies was just fun, and not so serious irl talking points? |
| ParanoidObsessive 11/04/22 3:54:50 PM #27 | adjl posted... Nobody has to argue about whether any movie was "woke" or not. There's just a sizable population of very fragile people who insist on throwing a temper tantrum whenever the remotest possibility of "wokeness" appears. The real problem is that there are two sizable populations of very fragile people on both sides of any given issue these days, and they can't help screeching at each other and constantly flinging shit at "THE ENEMY", because it's the only way they feel capable of validating themselves as human beings. When you lack self-worth, the only way to feel special or important is to attach your sense of self-identity to things outside of yourself. And then to emotionally defend those things beyond any sane or rational point solely because anything that "threatens" those things is a direct attack on your sense of self. Internet discourse is almost entirely made up of insecure children in the bodies of adults screaming into the void in the hopes that someone will eventually come along and validate them. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Do you miss when movies was just fun, and not so serious irl talking points? |
| ParanoidObsessive 11/04/22 3:49:27 PM #25 | DirtBasedSoap posted... mordor in LotR is supposed to represent capitalism and industry It's really not. And Tolkien himself was the first one to point out how much he loathed allegory in general. At most, you could argue that the overtones of the story were inspired by the fact that he was sad that industrialization kind of ruined the pastoral England of his childhood, and that his experiences in the trenches of WWI colored his perception of what "evil" was (as did his own strong Catholic beliefs), but at heart LotR was meant to be modern day mythology, not a thinly-veiled political or ideological statement hidden behind metaphor. There's a huge difference between telling a story that is colored by your own views, and telling a story solely to ideologically perpetuate your views. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | is a hot dog a sandwich? |
| ParanoidObsessive 11/04/22 3:44:59 PM #26 | JigsawTDCII posted... the fact that you even know what the poll is SAD To be fair, PotD has been so terrible lately I've been cheating on you all by posting on Actual Poll of the Day. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | By the year 2030 everyone will vote democrat |
| ParanoidObsessive 11/04/22 12:05:48 AM #11 | SoreChasm posted... POs consciousness entombed in a wrathful robot body. Nah, no need to wait - that was already a thing in the year 2020. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | is a hot dog a sandwich? |
| ParanoidObsessive 11/03/22 11:49:27 PM #6 | I'm not sure what fills me with more rage - the fact that you're asking that question, or the fact that you're referencing the poll. GRARGH! *flips table* --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | By the year 2030 everyone will vote democrat |
| ParanoidObsessive 11/03/22 11:46:26 PM #9 | In the year 2525, if man is still alive, and if woman can survive, they may find... --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Poll time, PotD. At the end of John Carpenter's The Thing... (Big Spoilers) |
| ParanoidObsessive 11/03/22 9:38:55 PM #17 | shadowsword87 posted... That's true, also, his music kicks ass so I don't mind. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RL1ozEsl65Y --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Do you miss when movies was just fun, and not so serious irl talking points? |
| ParanoidObsessive 11/03/22 9:34:23 PM #4 | Ironically, YouTube just recommended this video to me about 30 seconds before I saw this topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2ngB-zjVmM --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Which is your favorite/go-to Castlevania game? |
| ParanoidObsessive 11/03/22 9:26:47 PM #40 | I think Castlevania 3 is the only one I've ever actually played. I was never hugely into the format/concept. I might have played Castlevania 2 at some point, but if so it was mostly only a rental and I never really put much time into it. But I definitely owned 3. And now I'm posting this: https://youtu.be/ju0Z6NquldM?t=95 --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Tonight I went to an irish pub for dinner |
| ParanoidObsessive 11/03/22 9:21:20 PM #4 | I would pet the dog and feed him under the table. As God intended. But if it was a cat I would set the building on fire. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | People aren't as angry about vidya games here anymore. |
| ParanoidObsessive 11/03/22 4:21:22 PM #36 | Yellow posted... Nintendo hasn't made a good Mario game since SMG2. Nintendo hasn't made a good Mario game since SMW1. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Why did the US government put a Gravity Falls character on the $1 bill? |
| ParanoidObsessive 11/03/22 4:19:57 PM #2 | Ben Franklin used his lightning-powered time machine to travel to the future, and he saw the show and really liked it. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Who wins in a 1on 1 fight? |
| ParanoidObsessive 11/02/22 10:22:20 PM #11 | DirtBasedSoap posted... im not watching that --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | People aren't as angry about vidya games here anymore. |
| ParanoidObsessive 11/02/22 7:01:00 PM #16 | BigOlePappy posted... People aren't as angry about vidya games here anymore. That's because half the people who still post here don't even play video games anymore, and the other half are too jaded to care. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Poll time, PotD. At the end of John Carpenter's The Thing... (Big Spoilers) |
| ParanoidObsessive 11/02/22 6:55:07 PM #15 | I was going to ask if I inspired this topic with my post in another topic, until I realized that this topic was actually posted two days ago and thus predates that other topic (and my post in it). And I just didn't see this topic at all until now. Which is funny, because it means we both sort of thought about Keith David being the Thing at the end of The Thing completely separately and unrelated. GanonsSpirit posted... This. He said the game was canon too. To be fair, completely unrelated to canonicity of outside sources, Carpenter himself has mentioned at least once that one of them was a Thing in the final scene. And other people who worked on the movie have mentioned that there are ways to tell which because there are hints in the movie that imply the answer. But then other people who worked on the movie (including the screenwriter) have definitively said that they were both originally supposed to be human, and that the final scene is more poignant when you realize they're both human and are both going to die, but in that final moment they still can't trust each other or be sure that they've won in spite of the fact that they've actually succeeded. So both of them are going to die always wondering if someone else is eventually going to come along, find the frozen Thing, and just start up the countdown to doomsday all over again. So ultimately the real answer is that it depends on what you think makes for a better ending. shadowsword87 posted... John Carpenter doesn't really seem like the sort of person who cares about canon. He doesn't really seem like the sort of person who cares about movies at this point. He's kind of given up on filmmaking entirely because Hollywood sucks, and now he's just way more focused on his band and music. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Who wins in a 1on 1 fight? |
| ParanoidObsessive 11/02/22 6:36:50 PM #5 | DirtBasedSoap posted... idk what either of those are --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | What is the opposite of thing-punk? |
| ParanoidObsessive 11/02/22 6:34:44 PM #5 | Lokarin posted... Steampunk, desertpunk, cyberpunk... suburbanpunk? In those genres, the "punk" part is supposed to refer to a more gritty, cynical, street-level aspect to the setting. So cyberpunk is a high-tech future where everything is still kind of shitty, grungy, and dystopian (as opposed to sci-fi future settings where everything is gleaming chrome). Steampunk is a Jules Verne/Victorian-flavored view of what the future seen through a more modern and cynical lens, and so on. So in cases where people are actually using those terms correctly (and not just using them as catch-all categories), the opposite of the "punk" is basically just optimism and utopianism. It's a more idealized version of the concept. So anti-punk Cyberpunk is a future where technology really does solve most problems and humanity is vastly better off, and everything is beautiful and clean. Where you actually get happy endings and people have overcome the worse demons of their nature. Where the future isn't just "the present, only worse". Where everything kind of looks like the 1950s sci-fi future mixed with Apple's design philosophy (like Institute in Fallout 4). It's a future you'd absolutely want to live in. One of the core aesthetics of -----punk settings tends to be apathy and resignation. The opposite of that would be a sense of hope and wonder. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | What was the first game you played and how old were you? |
| ParanoidObsessive 11/02/22 3:45:01 AM #13 | Zareth posted... Mine was Frogger on Colecovision, I was 2. I picked it because I liked the frog on the cartridge. Close for me. Was almost certainly something on the ColecoVision, and I was either 5 or 6 (because I was 5 the year it released, and I got one for Christmas the year after when I was 6 - but I played on my cousin's console somewhere between those two points). Honestly can't say for 100% what my first game was, though... it might have been Donkey Kong, but it might also have been Antarctic Adventure, or Carnival, or maybe even BC's Quest for Tires. I probably would either have just grabbed something at random out of his collection, or just played whatever he told me was the best game. The first game ever played that I personally owned was definitely Donkey Kong on the ColecoVision, because it came with the console. After which I bought Cosmic Avenger, Subroc, Popeye, and Montezuma's Revenge. And then I got the Atari 2600 adapter and mostly just played a metric shit-ton of Atari games. It's basically why I wrote this Top 10: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/top10/300-the-top-10-colecovision-games The first computer game I ever played was probably either Moon Patrol or Mario Bros on the Apple IIe. Again, it was my cousin's, and it would have been sometime around 1984 or so (so I would have been 7-8, give or take). --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Speed Round: Name 10 things |
| ParanoidObsessive 11/02/22 3:27:32 AM #2 | Thing from the Adams Family The Thing where it's a shape-shifting murder alien that may or may not be Keith David at the end of the movie The Thing from the Fantastic Four The Thing from the Fantastic Four who is actually a woman The Thing from the Fantastic Four who is from a parallel universe where he turned into a dragon-man instead of a rock man The Thing from the Fantastic Four who is from a parallel universe where he doesn't have any powers, but is an agent of SHIELD who wears Mandroid Armor The Thing from the Fantastic Four who is from a parallel universe where everyone is an ape The Thing from the Fantastic Four who is from a parallel universe where everyone is a zombie The Thing from the Fantastic Four who is from the 1600s and is a literal earth elemental The Thing from the Fantastic Four who is from the Peter Porker universe where everyone is an animal and he's a bear named Ben Grizzly --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Colors are now DLC |
| ParanoidObsessive 11/01/22 10:06:20 PM #45 | Revelation34 posted... I think that's only if somebody uses that particular art without permission like from The Hangover. The point is more that you shouldn't need permission from a tattoo artist if you've literally gotten image rights from the person whose skin the tattoo is literally on. Or worse, ARE the person whose skin the tattoo is literally on. It's becoming a more common thing with sports video games where tattoo artists are suing because athletes get scanned into video games. And those artists should basically be loaded into a very large rocket and fired directly into the sun. They're not brilliant geniuses who need their intellectual property protected so they can profit from it in the future, they're fucking work-for-hire needle jockeys. At this point the ones who sue are basically just this side of patent trolls. Zareth posted... Not to mention public domain will never be a thing again as long as Disney has lawyers Disney's sort of changing tactics because it's getting harder for them to prolong copyright forever. They're starting to lean more heavily into general rights ownership, locking down trademarks, and making the live-action remakes (which sort of "reset" various IP concepts) to essentially make it impossible to do anything with their intellectual property even if it does enter public domain. Sahuagin posted... that's very similar to whether algorithms should be patentable; IMO and I think the majority consensus is that they shouldn't be, but it is debatable. Majority consensus rarely matters if someone with enough money can bribe enough lawmakers in enough influential jurisdictions. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Have the PlayStation exclusive titles made you more likely to choose PlayStatio |
| ParanoidObsessive 11/01/22 9:52:59 PM #2 | Technically yes, since it's why I bought a PS4 and not an Xbone. Also technically no, because it wasn't enough to get me to buy a PS3 or a PS5 (yet). And technically yes in a historical sense, because exclusives were a huge part of why I abandoned Nintendo forever after the NES/SNES eras in favor of the PS1 and PS2. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Are you giving out Candy this year? |
| ParanoidObsessive 11/01/22 2:44:40 AM #28 | St_Kevin posted... Yep, had like 40 kids last year Jesus, you should really invest in some condoms. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | im so fucking mad right now |
| ParanoidObsessive 11/01/22 2:43:25 AM #14 | wolfy42 posted... He can't cool off cause he was booted from yeti-coolers. No more cooling for him. He might still be able to go to r/ColemanCoolers. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Colors are now DLC |
| ParanoidObsessive 11/01/22 2:42:04 AM #39 | funkyfritter posted... I'm not entirely opposed to the concept of intellectual properly, but in situations like this it feels like the laws protecting it should have a few more limitations. We live in a world where tattoo artists can sue to own the intellectual property of the art they drew on someone they tattooed. Intellectual property law is already infinitely fucked. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Have you ever used one of these? |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/31/22 1:17:28 PM #14 | I technically have one. Or something very much like it. Though mine doesn't fill with water, it's just innately heavy. And it isn't used for rolling lawns, it's used for rolling linoleum flooring to even it out and flatten it when you're installing it. Which is kind of sad, because I'm not sure they even make linoleum flooring anymore. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | how am i supposed to care about anything |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/31/22 12:40:12 PM #13 | Vampire_Chicken posted... Time was [screen goes all wibbly-wobbly, dissolves to grainy black-and-white film of barefoot urchins playing on cobbled streets] when putting food on the table and keeping a roof over their heads took up most of people's caring time. At least you have the luxury of needing to look for purpose and meaning. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Maslow%27s_Hierarchy_of_Needs2.svg --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Are you giving out Candy this year? |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/31/22 12:39:08 PM #23 | pedro45 posted... I'm starting to wonder if parents are just becoming worse. To play Devil's Advocate, when I was a young kid I was really shy - so going up to the doors of random strangers to beg for candy was like living hell. In spite of the fact that I always enjoyed dressing up, I never really wanted to go trick or treating. My parents would occasionally kind of nudge me into going, but it was usually tense at best and miserable at worst. I vaguely remember one year where I basically bordered on having a panic attack over it. So with kids today being even more shut-in and prone to social anxiety I could see things being even worse for them. So maybe parents shouldn't be forcing their kids to go out and knock on random doors anyway. Doing stuff like "trunk or treat" at school is one way to compensate for that sort of problem, and kids who live in housing developments where they know a lot of their neighbors (or can trick or treat in larger groups of friends) probably have things easier, but I do feel like the kids need to be the ones who decide for themselves whether or not they care about going out. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | What was your favorite M&M candy/treat? |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/31/22 12:33:08 PM #20 | SoreChasm posted... It's okay bby you're already plenty sweet Awwwww. Just for that, I promise I'll use lube next time. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Hoth? |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/31/22 12:30:49 PM #7 | Zareth posted... The concept of Hell exists in the Star Wars universe, and yet, Anakin didn't go there To be fair, the concept of Hell exists in the real world as well, and most forms of Christianity accept the premise that if you sincerely repent for your sins before dying you still get to go to Heaven even if you were a total monster for decades. Everyone always seems to think that Heaven is for good people - but it's really not (at least not according to the literal Bible). It's for people who place their full faith in Jesus to redeem them from their sins. Jesus is basically a Get Out of Hell Free card. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Do you prefer double meat or thicker patty for hamburgers. |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/31/22 12:23:07 PM #11 | hypnox posted... Personally I don't like thick patties. I vastly prefer double meat so you get twice the char surface area on the meat. This is pretty much an argument for the opposite for me. Char is carcinogenic. I generally tend to avoid it as much as I can. And because I prefer burgers as medium rather than overdone hockey pucks, you generally don't get a ton of char anyway (doubly so if you're cooking in a rotisserie, which is how I make them at home). So I've never seen char as being something that adds taste in a positive way or anything. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | how am i supposed to care about anything |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/30/22 11:15:56 PM #5 | dud posted... I feel like it's hard to care about anything while seeing what a dark place the world is heading to Thousands of years worth of humans seem to have dealt with the exact same thing perfectly fine. Even at times when things were actually tough. Like when 50% of your neighbors were dying from incurable diseases that you thought were the literal wrath of god punishing you for being bad. Or when foreign armies were burning down your cities, raping your wives and daughters, and annihilating your culture. But yeah, now is totally the worst possible period in human history. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Anyone excited for Harvestella? |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/30/22 11:10:26 PM #4 | Zareth posted... Anyone excited for Harvestella? I've never even heard of it. Zareth posted... It's by the team that made Ender Lillies, one of my favorite games of last year Never heard of it either. papercup posted... I'm interested to see what people say about it. Looks like Stardew Valley crossed with Final Fantasy. See, now this sounds interesting. Though I suppose it depends on exactly which aspects of Stardew and Final Fantasy you're combining. Because the best elements of both could make for a really cool game, but the worst elements of both could result in something incredibly awful. I also suppose it depends on which era of Final Fantasy we're talking about. The more enjoyable fantasy of earlier games or the ultra-weeb nonsense of recent titles. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Has your favourite season changed over the years? |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/30/22 11:06:00 PM #14 | In terms of weather, I've always preferred autumn/fall (and still do). When I was younger you could make a case for summer being my favorite (because it meant no school), but even then I hated the heat. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | What was your favorite M&M candy/treat? |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/30/22 11:00:46 PM #5 | Judgmenl posted... Reese's Pieces This when I was younger. Not so much now, because I'm not really a fan of sweets in general anymore. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Are you giving out Candy this year? |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/30/22 10:57:26 PM #14 | I haven't given out candy for years. Even when kids did come to my house, I'd only ever get like 2-3 people anyway. And over the last 15 years or so trick or treating as a thing has kind of been dying off entirely (parents take their little kids to "trunk or treat" at school, and nobody else really seems to bother). So it's not worth buying candy. So I just leave my house lights off so people assume no one's home and don't bother coming up. Especially since I don't decorate. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Does anyone really care for halloween on a Monday? |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/30/22 10:53:44 PM #9 | I barely know anyone who cares about Halloween period. Covid really killed it off for my group of friends, but it's been dying for years long before that anyway. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Scary video games |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/29/22 3:46:06 PM #8 | Back in college, the horror games that really kind of scared the shit out of me were Clock Tower and Fatal Frame. The problem is, if you play enough horror games, you start to get desensitized. My first time through Resident Evil 2 creeped the fuck out of me. But at this point I'm not sure any game in RE can unnerve me at all (jumpscares don't count). --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
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