Lurker > Garioshi

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The Humble Trove also has some games I wasn't expecting it to have, like Limbo, Getting Over It, and Volgarr the Viking. Definitely recommend buying.

EDIT: Never mind, it's literally hundreds of dollars in free Steam games.
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Youngster_Joey_ posted...

Who doesn't have most of these by now?

I had none of them, but I only got a PC that can play games decently well about 7 months ago.
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Bought both the bundle and the subscription. 14 games for $27, not bad.

Link to the Civ VI deal, worth $109, for just $12: https://www.humblebundle.com/monthly?refc=EEClMa
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I really don't like the addition of the "agent" characters (who I assume are members of VFD). It doesn't fit in with the tone of the series and takes away from the feeling of isolation and having nobody reliable to turn to that the series had. Even when the Baudelaires meet outspoken members of VFD in the books, it still doesn't feel like they have any security whatsoever.
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The twist is definitely worse than the other two games, but I found myself enjoying the parts that aren't the ending the most out of all 3 of the games.
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On another note, is the Civ 6 deal you get for subscribing to Humble Monthly worth $12?
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The Admiral posted...

Damn. Can you play those all through Steam?

Yep.
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https://www.humblebundle.com/games/rockstar-games-bundle
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16-BITTER posted...

It's in that room to the left side of the level, you raise the floor by stepping in that one lava spot, then go back out and walk around.

Pretty convoluted puzzle imo.

might attempt it then
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16-BITTER posted...

It's at the end of the canyon on the right side of the level. After you get the yellow key and jump to that door in the top right of the big lava pit.

How the hell do I get the yellow key?
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16-BITTER posted...

You typically need the blue key to get past there.

I can't find a blue key.
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16-BITTER posted...

Garioshi posted...

Okay, fuck that noise. Episode 4 is way too demanding of me.

If you can make it through the first two levels, the rest is much easier, save another spike at level 6.

I don't think I can make it through the second level unless I'm missing something really obvious. I simply can't pull off the jump around the blue skull block consistently enough to make it worth my time.
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legendarylemur posted...

karmed

demark
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https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica/status/958453618872483840
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Okay, fuck that noise. Episode 4 is way too demanding of me.
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BJ-blazkowics posted...

butthole666 posted...

Also DOOM II has the greatest/most satisfying/possibly most iconic FPS weapon of all time. You're in for a treat with that one.

the BFG?

No, that was in DOOM 1.
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ZMythos posted...

It was far from Victorian era. There were cars, natural gas, etc referenced in the text

I realize this now; however, it is worth noting that the Baudelaires were, as described in the books, a typical middle class Victorian family. Their clothes in the (admittedly limited) artwork of the books are also very Victorian.
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I have done a solo Unknown run of Tales of the Abyss.
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AvantgardeAClue posted...

A Count Olaf as accurate as the books would leave me up at night.

This so much. He's extremely intimidating in the books.
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they're okay
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pegusus123456 posted...

GiftedACIII posted...

He was threatening though. He actually killed their first 2 guardians

Considering he was their first guardian, kill himself doesn't help the argument that he's competent lol.

I get what you mean though, just thought it was funny.7

I mean, he was technically the direct cause of his own death...
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Explicit references to the fact that it's a Netflix original are kinda annoying tbh
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pegusus123456 posted...

Garioshi posted...

I don't remember a piece of technology like the walkie-talkie being an integral plot point like in the show (unless I'm sorely mistaken, which I might be).

The Bad Beginning, pages 131-132

You could say 'I don't' instead of 'I do,'" Klaus said, "but I'm afraid Count Olaf would order Sunny dropped off the tower.

"I certainly would," Count Olaf said, and the children jumped. They had been so involved in their conversation that they hadn't heard him come up the stairs and open the door. He was wearing a fancy suit and his eyebrow had been waxed so it looked as shiny as his eyes. Behind him stood the hook-handed man, who smiled and waved a hook at the youngsters. "Come, orphans," Count Olaf said. "It is time for the big event. My associate here will stay behind in this room, and we will keep in constant contact through our walkie-talkies. If anything goes wrong during tonight's performance, you sister will be dropped to her death. Come along now."

The books' time period was unclear too. You say it's the Victorian era, but there were cars and drive-in movies and all sorts of shit. Having things like walkie-talkies and the internet despite it being far more old-fashioned looking helps with that discordant, off-putting tone.

Huh.
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marthsheretoo posted...

He kinda always was. He was scary to the orphans, but the orphans were literal children.

But his portrayal in the show is a billion times more incompetent and moronic than he ever was in the books.
marthsheretoo posted...

Pls finish season before commenting on this further

ok
marthsheretoo posted...

Stylistic choice and consistent with the novels themselves

I don't remember a piece of technology like the walkie-talkie being an integral plot point like in the show (unless I'm sorely mistaken, which I might be).
marthsheretoo posted...

It sounds as if you remember the books as being far deeper and darker than they were. They were always kinda tongue in cheek, dude.

The second half of the series gets into the grey moral area of the main characters' actions taken for their continued survival. Going back through it with a critical viewpoint in mind is very worth doing.
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Dash_Harber posted...

Garioshi posted...

Dash_Harber posted...

I've never read the series or watched the show, but he's a grown ass man who can't outwit a few plucky orphans that he is literally related to despite being old enough to, you know, hire a lawyer. How savvy could he be?

Olaf in the books was a cruel, cold, and calculating bastard who never broke character for an instant.

Again, how calculating if he is constantly outwitted by someone literally in diapers.

I really wouldn't consider it "outwitted" when the three main characters are only barely escaping by the skin of their teeth each and every time. Every guardian they had wound up dead by his hand; they once had to resort to burning down half a hospital to escape him.
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Dash_Harber posted...

I've never read the series or watched the show, but he's a grown ass man who can't outwit a few plucky orphans that he is literally related to despite being old enough to, you know, hire a lawyer. How savvy could he be?

Olaf in the books was a cruel, cold, and calculating bastard who never broke character for an instant.
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I'm on the second episode and I really don't get how they misrepresented the source material so poorly. Olaf is an incompetent moron, there are these random characters that nobody's ever heard of before, the Baudelaire parents are alive for some reason, there is absolutely no periodic consistency (the books clearly take place in the Victorian Era, but there's clearly walkie-talkies and references to Thurgood Marshall, the Internet and streaming television), and most egregious of all is the complete misrepresentation of the tone of the books. The books were never focused on comedy. Most comedy in the books is derived from the narrator's commentary, not the character interactions. For the most part, the character interactions were either depressing or setting up false hope in order to make certain parts hit even harder. Having such a large focus on comedy is completely counter to the tone of the books and the atmosphere the show itself establishes in its opening minutes.
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Eevee-Trainer posted...

SSJGrimReaper posted...

Dawkins

Put up your dukes

Let's get down to it
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it's a homework grade
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DevsBro posted...

It freaking was.

It was mostly just Cal I again, except applied to vectors the same way everything else applies to vectors.

I had some new notations, like the partial integral, and it had a few common sense things like the idea that you can put an intehral in an integral, and a few miscellaneous vector concepts like projections and components, etc, but nothing as BS as Taylor and MacLauren series, or hell series in general. That stuff sucked.

you didn't get to the actual tough shit like lagrange multipliers or change of variables then did you
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DevsBro posted...

if you think math is bad now wait until you take vector calc

Cal III or actual Differential Geometry?

Because the former was much easier than Cal II and the latter was the easiest class I took in college period.

calc iii
what the fuck do you mean calc iii was much easier than calc ii
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if you think math is bad now wait until you take vector calc
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Downloaded GZDoom. Very good recommendation, the game looks fantastic. Will probably mod the shit out of it when I have the time.
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Ugh, fuck that boss. I don't feel like I figured out a pattern or anything, I feel like I just got lucky.

And I'll probably just play vanilla.
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fuck those machine guns so hard
hitscan and seemingly unlimited range is just bullshit
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All right, final boss time?
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TableFlip posted...

Garioshi posted...

TableFlip posted...

Garioshi posted...

EverDownward posted...

The greatest FPS ever made. Hope you're having a blast.

I am, though the lack of a well-labeled map is a bit irritating

On my first playthrough of Doom/Doom 2 I always got lost. Eventually you'll get used to the map

Seriously though, just marking doors that require certain colored keys on the map would be infinitely better. Lost again.

Iirc, GZDoom does exactly that. It's an amazing engine to play Doom on.

Will get it after I beat at the very least the third episode. Only 2 levels left.
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TableFlip posted...

Garioshi posted...

EverDownward posted...

The greatest FPS ever made. Hope you're having a blast.

I am, though the lack of a well-labeled map is a bit irritating

On my first playthrough of Doom/Doom 2 I always got lost. Eventually you'll get used to the map

Seriously though, just marking doors that require certain colored keys on the map would be infinitely better. Lost again.
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_Goggalor_ posted...

Trickfinger posted...

The guys buying sex dolls aren't driven enough to get sex from women. Nothing of value is lost actually a whole category of people will now be much happier. Hopefully they'll be less inclined to take out their sexual frustrations in the form of acting like ass hats online

Garioshi posted...

Third_Eye posted...

women expect financial codependency for giving up sex. hopefully, this will finally put them in their place

imagine hating women this much

Imagine telling the truth about a dirty little secret of dating any woman. Don't kid yourself, they know they can be as manipulative as they wish because of sex.

ITP: All women are out to get you.
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Third_Eye posted...

women expect financial codependency for giving up sex. hopefully, this will finally put them in their place

imagine hating women this much
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EndOfDiscOne posted...

Oh. Well libertarians like Snowden, and I heard libertarians are just conservatives who want to smoke pot.

People who don't appreciate being spied on by their own government like Snowden.
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EndOfDiscOne posted...

Garioshi posted...

EndOfDiscOne posted...

I see. Which one should I support if I want to look like a good progressive on the internet?

I don't know, it seems like conservatives like Snowden and liberals like Manning, so I just want to make sure I'm on the right side.

Conservatives hate both.
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16-BITTER posted...

Which one? If I've been paying attention you're in the third episode somewhere.

Yes, the second stage. In other news, I HAVE A BFG.
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Christ, that level easily killed me 15 times.
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jesus fuck this is a difficulty spike
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