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I wish I could be surprised at the president of the united states showing a complete lack of responsibility on any given issue, but I am not surprised anymore.
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As in, "would die for the company" kind of person. Our does and I feel a bit sorry for him.

He's always pulling shit like staying extra late, coming in on weekends, bringing in his home equipment to help with a job, etc. He even sometimes comes in on his days off just to get a bit more time in.

What really takes the cake for me is how there's been some discussion lately about how a certain section of the office needs painting. So lo and behold he came in today with all his personal paint gear (brushes, rollers, scrapers, sanding machine) and even bought the paint himself so he could do it. Today he said he would come back in on sunday to get it done. He has voiced no expectations of being reiumbursed for any of this and it was literally off the back of a water cooler conversation.

I don't know what his game is but if its because he thinks it looks impressive...man, our general manager just thinks he's a weirdo. Everyone does.
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Godnorgosh posted...

pinky0926 posted...

What the fuck do they think WIll Smith can add to one of Robin William's greatest performances? Cynical cash grab.

tbf Dan Castellaneta's Genie was super convincing in Kingdom Hearts. But a live-action remake is a completely different ballgame.

They should have taken the cue when one of the world's greatest voice actor's just manages a passable imitation that it was time to put the genie away in a museum forever

Sorry I just get so annoyed by shit like this.
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What the fuck do they think WIll Smith can add to one of Robin William's greatest performances? Cynical cash grab.
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Amazing game but also one of those games I have no intention to play again for a long time. The entire appeal in that game is the sense of mystery and wonder, and once you figure it all out it's not exactly like an RPG you can play again in a different way.
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This might be slightly hipstery of me but I don't like breadmakers. There's something really enjoyable about kneading bread. I make bread just freehand, with a sourdough starter I keep alive in the fridge (literally a culture of yeast I made using water and flour) and with bread flour. You knead it, shape it into a bowl, let it proof and then stick it in the oven. That's basically it.

It's one of these simple to learn, difficult to master things. You can make bread a hundred times over with different results each time even if you're pretty sure you had your method down.

@Darkman124 also makes his own bread and knows a lot more about this whole fermentation gig than me.
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monkmith posted...

i dont think i've ever played a game filled with truly compelling side quests. there were several blade related ones i'd say were well written, and a number of fetch quests that pretty much just finished as i played.

KOTOR, Witcher 3, Oblivion, to name a few games that were full of interesting sidequests. It is a problem in JRPGs though.

pinky0926 posted...

you're kind of supposed to avoid combat, that's literally the whole point of having the mobs on the overworld field. hell the whole leveling system is built around picking and choosing how much combat you want, since it boosts exp if you're under leveled in an area and dumps it into a pool for you to pick and choose when you want to level.

A JRPG where you avoid combat not because the foe you encounter is too difficult, but because it's too boring? I don't think that's a good design choice.

pinky0926 posted...

i felt like the fan service was pretty typical of JRPG to be honest, i guess tora sticks out though since he built a sex bot... i'd say i felt about as much shame playing it as i did playing mass effect 2 with its ludicrous amounts of miranda ass shots and jacks tits hanging out.

Typical or not it's still kinda ridiculous and a shame because the first XBC was not like this.
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kirbymuncher posted...

what is your opinion on minecraft's crafting system

Never played minecraft

Romulox28 posted...

crafting is probably my least favorite thing to do in a video game, as @shockthemonkey said it usually results in just collecting random shit and clicking craft on a menu, there's no connection between gathering materials and making stuff

This is often the make or break for me. I think the games I mentioned buck this trend because you do feel like the materials you're collecting make sense. Like in subnautica if you find uraninite you can be pretty sure it's going to be useful for making some kind of nuclear energy.

Irony posted...

What about Witcher 3's crafting was intuitive lol

Because they found a way to make junk useful by being able to dismantle it. Like in Skyrim you can collect a silver bown and it will have no actual function beyond decoration or something you can sell, but in Witcher 3 you can melt that down into silver you can use to make a silver sword. I think that's intuitive. You can collect materials based on what you think they can be used for.
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monkmith posted...

people seem very polarized about the game, what really turned you off from it?

A number of things:

- Did a very bad job of teaching you how to play it. It just threw an entire book's worth of tutorial dialogue boxes at you right at the start and introduced so many mechanics while you were still just figuring out the absolute basics. It also threw the entire encyclopedic crafting and levelling system at you so you end up collecting a bunch of nonsense items with no idea what to do with any of it. I found it cumbersome and overwhelming.
An example of a perfect tutorial system to me would be Breath of the Wild. Not really any dialogue or descriptions, it just carefully introduces things at the beginning and invites you to use them. You learn through trial and error, not memorising what you read earlier.
- Sidequests were yet again very underwhelming. They did a better job than the first Xenoblade Chronicles but I still felt like I wasn't really invested in any of it.
- The combat started off dull and clunky and graduated into a bit like playing DDR, where you're just trying to time your button presses based on when colours pop up on screen.
- Speaking of combat, there's just so much of it. Why does it take so long to beat basic canon fodder? It's like a 5 minute battle every time even if you're just facing some low level street rats. The only way to actually get anywhere in a reasonable time is to avoid all battles.
- They didn't seem to give much thought to where the high level enemies are on the map. Maybe this was deliberate, but there's only so many times I enjoy being one-shotted by a level 90 giant bird because he happened to see me from about 900metres away and got aggro'd.
- The accents. I understand American fans really enjoyed this aspect but as a Brit I could not disassociate the accents I was hearing with the specific kinds of real life characters I would expect to have them. Nia for example sounds like a hairdresser from wales who gets wasted every friday night and ends up abusing the kebab shop owner at 4am.
- So much fanservice it was embarrassing

I could go on. I enjoyed the world and the music was pretty great, and there were aspects like the story and collecting blades that I was intrigued by. but ultimately I found it quite an annoying game to play.
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Good crafting systems - Witcher 3, Subnautica. Regardless of whether you think they're too rudimentary or not, these ones make brain sense. If you break down a wooden oar you found lying on the beach you can get Timber. Timber can be remade into a crossbow body. Or maybe you find some metal salvage and you break that down to make titanium which you can use to build strong structures. Cool. Easy.

Bad crafting system - Xenoblade Chronicles 2. You need 14 smegflaps to break down into 25 smorgasbogens to mix together with 5 flangsticks and then you insert those into the smeglal converter to get ultreon power. Yeah sure that's real easy to remember and follow -_-
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monkmith posted...

xenoblade 2 is great, probably the best JRPG i've played in a while (much better then DQ11). the expansion is supposed to be good too.

Gonna have to disagree with this. I'd vote this game most underwhelming game I really wanted to like and paid full price for.

Stardew Valley, Dead Cells, Okami - these might be up your street.

D3 is good but its just the same old shit really.
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Maybe the weirdest response to a serious allegation I've ever seen
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What the everloving fuck was that

That was real right?
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monkmith posted...

its fun until about the time you need to build the cyclops, that's a resource sink.

I'm actually looking forward to that. I mean thats the whole point of this game right, getting resources to build cool shit?
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Verdekal posted...

Ghost leviathans?

Yeah saw one of those. Span around and it was coming towards me like a big ugly caterpillar. Absolutely shat myself.
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I got the seamoth and just decided to pick a direction and go as far as I could, so I picked west.

Eventually, all traces of actual life or light or anything are gone and it's just pitch black everywhere in every direction, and all I can hear are occasionally roaring sounds. I'm 1500 metres away from my base, and 400 metres down, and not even sure why way is up anymore, and just extremely conscious of how small I am

This is maybe the best horror game I've ever played.
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DevsBro posted...

pinky0926 posted...

If you're the kind of person that only eats egg whites we can't be friends

Who said that?

I'm just saying, those people that cut out the yolk because they're frightened of bodyfat- dislike
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Remember that wall thet were gonna get Mexico to pay for

They decided to crowdfund the wall themselves and have actually raised like 15 million.

Still can't quite decide which aspect of this is the most stupid
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josifrees posted...

I definitely think that NFL would be fine if they treated their stars as disposable. Most people were fans of the teams before the stars got there and will be after.

Why would we want a situation where we give even more power to oligarchs though?
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Ok lebron, so like a job?
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If you're the kind of person that only eats egg whites we can't be friends
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Quol posted...

Then they would be against that GOP president. I would acually be more interested to see the reaction of people should a Democrat president ask for the wall. I wonder how that would work out?

As democrats are demonstrably more critical of their leaders and demonstrably less likely to flip flop on social issues, I'd say 1) it's not much of a hypothetical and 2) I'd say it would be met with extreme criticism.
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Quol posted...

I never said there wasnt flaws you did, and i never would, dont put that on me. If you think most people against the wall do so out of rational thought and not primarily because of Trump, well everyone is entitled to their opinion.

So you're telling me that if the GOP dreamed up this hellish idea under a different president, we'd all probably be alright with it?
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Quol posted...

I feel like most people arent acually against the idea of better controlled migration. Most are just anti-Trump and some are genuinely worried about the budget.

People don't want the wall? Surely there is no flaw in the wall building plan, if people are critical of it it can only be down to their dislike of Trump

Yes, thats better. *Breaths out contentedly*
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lol
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ThyCorndog posted...

I really hope the person who donated the 50k was some rich asshole and not someone donating literally all their money

I honestly have no kind thoughts for these people
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Average donation is $61, top is $50k

Stupidity and malice knows no bounds I guess
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ultimate reaver posted...

lmao
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ZombiePelican posted...

Explain plz

someone is flying a drone around the gatwick airport, the airport closes. the drone goes away and nobody can find it, the airport reopens. drone returns, airport closes. repeat ad infinitum

To add this has been going on for like 2 days.
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hundreds of thousands had their holiday plans completely ruined by some fucking dweeb who probably thought it was really funny.

Worst part is airlines don't have to refund anyone.
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Green envy, buttery males

- The Mods on why they're keeping green butter locked up
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Romulox28 posted...

protip from sex master GB: dont borrow bowling shoes because that makes u look like a cuck, dont bring your own shoes because then ur a guy that owns bowling shoes. bowl barefoot, what are they going to do, call the cops?

I bring my own engraved bowling bowl to the lanes, it says in gold cursive writing "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take" right there next to the finger holes. I like to stroke it carefully before making a perfect strike
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I have this recurring joke with this girl anytime we go to the bowling alley that I say "size 14 please" even though I'm about a size 9, which is quite small for my height.

It gets funnier every time trust me
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shockthemonkey posted...

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Doom_Art posted...

shockthemonkey posted...

Roxys having an episode

It's funny how all these "woke" conspiracy theorists have flipped to supporting and justify/excusing everything the government does

well yeah dude, you've spent the past 8 years telling us that we were high off of our alex jones and coast to coast am and that it was all bullshit conspiracy.......we've ceded to the reality, you are right....it was all bullshit, but you can't even take the time to come down from your summit of higher knowledge to explain "what is next" because the objective is to just talk shit on Trump at all costs. The Orange Man is SO bad that beyond him there is no direction.

Why do you take mushrooms and then post here?

I don't know what he gets but it's clearly the good shit
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Darkman124 posted...

sooner or later you will find yourself creating seabases that only serve 1 purpose: marking the location of reapers

They really are a colossal pain in the ass. How big is their aggro field? I feel like I get within 200metres of one and it flips out
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CM_Ponch posted...

Why are all the comments saying his wife got to him when he's going against the extreme feminist movement

Bill Burr occasionally takes shots at SJWs and feminists in a "comedian who hates everything" way, and this unfortunately attracts certain alt-right incel types who prop him up as some kind of messiah for their shitty worldview.
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RoboLaserGandhi posted...

Who did they poll, the BuzzFeed staff?

my take on this too
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I hummed and ha'd about this for a long time and eventually just said fuck it and bought an Xbox One controller for a little more.

Best decision ever. Amazing controller.
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I knew a NEET guy who seemed to think his parent's enormous wealth was something he could attribute to himself and be proud.

Was very odd. His parents paid everything down to his fuel and phone bill and he was 33. He still had scathing views of homeless people and such.

I'm like...dude, you would be homeless too.
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Wetterdew posted...

Bill Burr is awesome. LOL at the comments in the video whining about how his wife "got to him"

Those guys crack me up so much

They're so lonely
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Awesome posted...

glitteringfairy posted...

Lol holy shit Rogan triggers the fuck out of liberals. It's really impressive

rain fall makes liberals angry.

you know you guys are responding to a troll topic right

I actually don't know anyone who's upset by joe rogan, it's just hard to take him seriously
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DragonMaster525 posted...

You know it's bad bad when Bill Burr makes you seem like like you are too alt right.

Bill Burr has never been remotely alt right anything, he just attracts a lot of incel nerds who take his jokes about feminists being stuck up to a whole different level

I listen to the guy a lot and he's clearly left leaning, just doesn't want to say so outright
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I managed to summon up the energy to recap my progress, was a bit faster this time because I knew what I was doing. So far the exploration HUD upgrade is the most useful thing I've got so far, makes gathering materials so much easier.
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Really smooth integration there
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why he so mad

doesnt he want a friend
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Romulox28 posted...

lets be steam buddies pinky

sure why not

Sabram posted...

You're skipping a step or two if you're going right for Seamoth.

First thing to get is the basic air tank and fins, then go for the Seaglide for more speed.

After that the Aurora will go through it's event which unlocks the radiation suit, build that as soon as you can and go to the Aurora.

Unless you're really unlucky, while on the wreck you should find enough blueprints to get the Seamoth and Prawn suit, which makes deeper dives easier.

I need a lazer cutter to get on the aurora no? I got a bit stuck trying to get through. Also big red boi made me shit my pants.
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I really dont have energy for it tonight anymore. Urgh.

Maybe. We'll see. I got so far though.
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