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| Topic | What's a mediocre-to-good game or franchise you'd like to get a second chance? |
| Sahuagin 12/22/19 7:14:12 AM #50 | BlackScythe0 posted... TES6 has been announced, I think it's due after Starfield but it has been officially announced.who knows if it's good though. if it's great then my wish is fulfilled. if it's not, then my wish remains unfulfilled. --- |
| Topic | GameTok with Lok: Let's Tok about Metroidvania gate design |
| Sahuagin 12/22/19 7:08:28 AM #3 | the game Levelhead, which is a Mario Maker clone, has one that I think is good and fits your description. it's called Zipper. basically, you can press A (well SNES A, XBox B) to teleport horizontally forward 4 blocks. this lets you pass through up to 3 blocks worth of walls. there are special metallic walls that can't be passed through. this means that places where it can be used are not at all obvious until the player understands how the ability works, though they can wonder how they're supposed to get to the other side of what appears to be solid wall. also the noticably special walls being the thing that restricts your movement rather than allows it means that the player is drawn to the wrong thing. (so, maybe a good idea can be to invert the ability: it lets you go "anywhere" except certain places.) --- |
| Topic | Settle a debate between my wife and I. |
| Sahuagin 12/21/19 8:13:59 PM #29 | User728 posted... The other employees got paid on the snowstorm day...basically it was a paid day offno, not "basically". if it was a "snowstorm day", so no one could work but still got paid, that's not officially a day off. that's a work day that no one was able to work. no one is *entitled* to have that day off, they just were not able to perform any work that day. (I am assuming salaried employees though; hourly employees would not get paid on a snow day anyway, so that must be what you're talking about.) where I work, we can have both of these kind of days off:
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| Topic | What's a mediocre-to-good game or franchise you'd like to get a second chance? |
| Sahuagin 12/21/19 8:04:45 PM #23 | Dikitain posted... I would love to see another Shinobi game, almost seems like one of Sega's long forgotten franchises. Granted, they had a game about 8 years ago, but it really hasn't had any real traction since 2003.both good ones. I almost was going to say Shinobi but forgot. --- |
| Topic | What's a mediocre-to-good game or franchise you'd like to get a second chance? |
| Sahuagin 12/21/19 2:58:35 PM #9 | DDirtyDastard posted... I can appreciate the subtle dig at Mass Effect and Elder Scrolls being mediocre games.well, they're series that could use a return to form and/or a rejuvenation. --- |
| Topic | What's a mediocre-to-good game or franchise you'd like to get a second chance? |
| Sahuagin 12/21/19 1:46:48 PM #4 | Mass Effect Dungeon Siege Painkiller Elder Scrolls --- |
| Topic | Settle a debate between my wife and I. |
| Sahuagin 12/21/19 12:26:22 PM #17 | Zangulus posted... However a lot of companies would force the employee to use the day off regardless because it was already accepted. But companies dont care about their employees health and wellness. Ogurisama posted... Other way around, sure refunding the day would be fine, but youd have to talk with the HR and work something out, it shouldnt be automaticallyif this is a day off that the company is giving employees, then it would *have* to be automatically refunded, or else you wouldn't have received the value to which you're entitled. (right?) if the office is closed for unforseen reasons, that's different because the company is not giving anyone a "day off", there's just no work available. (HR will have a vacation day tally, and accounting will have a vacation pay accumulation. they can't just reduce these values willy-nilly.) --- |
| Topic | Do you give more presents than you receive, or do you get more? |
| Sahuagin 12/21/19 11:46:43 AM #3 | it would be roughly one-to-one, except that if I say I don't want to participate some year, everyone gets me stuff anyway --- |
| Topic | Settle a debate between my wife and I. |
| Sahuagin 12/21/19 11:41:23 AM #12 | B if the office is closed for an unexpected reason (the company is not giving you a day off, they just have nothing for you to do) A if the company decided to make some random day a day off (the company is giving you a day off, which has value, and you haven't received that value unless your vac. day is refunded) pretty sure this is not just how it should be, but how it is, at least where I work. vacation days and official days off actually have monetary value and can't just be ignored. --- |
| Topic | I have video game ADD or something |
| Sahuagin 12/21/19 9:22:51 AM #15 | it makes sense. being introduced to new systems is interesting. mastering those systems once you understand them can be fun too, but it's not as interesting as figuring them out for the first time. the next stage after that is worse though. being introduced to new systems stops being interesting, since they're all really derivatives of each other. then it takes something truly unique to keep your interest even for a short time. --- |
| Topic | Any of you guys play Pillars of Eternity? |
| Sahuagin 12/21/19 9:01:41 AM #11 | it's good in a lot of ways, but also flawed as well my main two gripes are:
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| Topic | Badly describe the most recent game you played. |
| Sahuagin 12/21/19 6:09:12 AM #112 | driverless cars race and crash till the end of time on an impossible abandoned raceway in the desert --- |
| Topic | hey big brains out there, help me out with this picross puzzle |
| Sahuagin 12/20/19 1:16:56 AM #2 | pretty sure it's ambiguous. the top and bottom don't affect each other either, so there's 4 valid solutions. --- |
| Topic | Bought a cheap NES Classic and put my 8yo nephew on some games |
| Sahuagin 12/20/19 12:56:53 AM #10 | (brag alert, sorry, but I'm pretty proud of this.) my 7yo nephew has already beaten Zelda 1 (which is something I've never done), Metroid 1, Megaman 2, SMB2, SMW, Yoshi's Island, and Super Metroid. he's been attempting LttP, and made it to the Dark World, but the battery is shot so he keeps losing his progress. I've setup a Minecraft server and have been playing Minecraft multiplayer with him remotely, which is pretty fun at first, but he's kind of insufferable to play with. --- |
| Topic | Anybody here watch Ryan's World on youtube? |
| Sahuagin 12/19/19 11:33:38 AM #7 | just dug through a bunch of his "merchandise" on amazon, since my nephews like him and want some. but holy crap... talk about high-priced garbage. like, you've probably seen something overpriced before, but this is abysmally poor quality crap priced ridiculously high. you'd think it'd either be high priced and relatively good quality, or low priced and relatively low quality, but nope, this is absurdly priced and absurdly low quality. peppa pig merch seems of much higher quality and is much more reasonably priced, though it seems like it's aimed more for girls. --- |
| Topic | Hot Take: The original Megaman sucks |
| Sahuagin 12/18/19 3:29:35 PM #23 | Judgmenl posted... Metalsonic66 posted...12yo me understands and agrees completely. 40yo me wants to do something else instead. --- |
| Topic | Hot Take: The original Megaman sucks |
| Sahuagin 12/18/19 2:17:23 PM #18 | Metalsonic66 posted... I don't know if I understand your definition of gameplay.it just feels incredibly vapid. some parts of 1 and 3 especially are *very* uninteresting. they both presented challenges that were not fun at all and just reeked of being "challenge walls". yes, this is definitely a subjective thing. and yes, I can love a hard game when I'm doing something interesting and new, but classic megaman gameplay is not exactly something I want to spend huge amounts of time fine-tuning and perfecting. probably I am just too old. --- |
| Topic | I've decided I don't like shoveling snow |
| Sahuagin 12/18/19 11:45:12 AM #4 | I don't mind it too much, but my back definitely does not care for it. --- |
| Topic | Do you like working? |
| Sahuagin 12/18/19 7:26:04 AM #24 | ForteEXE3850 posted... The amount of people who actually have their hobby as their job is a tiny, tiny, microscopic percentage of the population.I dunno about "hobby" necessarily (I guess it is in my case), but yes, hopefully you can find something that you can become great at. if you can't enjoy something intrinsically, at least try to enjoy mastering it. (may even be more important than just enjoying it.) LinkPizza posted... I know some people who started to [hate?] their hobby once it became worknot sure what you meant here, but yes, it sort of has to stop being a "hobby" once you're doing it constantly as a profession, but it doesn't have to become something you hate. maybe you can't do it leisurely anymore, but you can still love being great at it and improving at it. a good profession/skill has basically an infinite progression curve. you can spend your entire life getting better at it and still have more to learn after decades. --- |
| Topic | will you still be using windows 7 next year? |
| Sahuagin 12/18/19 1:56:40 AM #36 | Judgmenl posted... She only uses Chrome. Shut your mouth and stop acting like you understand. I have to start up Chrome for her as a startup process because she doesn't know how to do anything else.could get her a Chromebit or other Chrome O/S device. (hmm Chromebit used to be $120, but seems to be more like $150-200+ these days.) --- |
| Topic | Hot Take: The original Megaman sucks |
| Sahuagin 12/18/19 12:51:57 AM #10 | played through 1-3 recently and was pretty disillusioned by them... they barely felt like games. 2 was the better of them, but... something about them. they didn't feel like games. the actual gameplay is almost non-existent and really all it boils down to is whether you can survive an annoying gauntlet of annoying enemies. parts of 3 were especially like that near the end, with really long sections that you had to barely get hit at all in since there's almost no health. very unenjoyable "gameplay" if that can even be called gameplay. --- |
| Topic | Gonna give Sekiro another shot |
| Sahuagin 12/18/19 12:45:52 AM #5 | deflecting in Sekiro is not as hard as parrying in Dark Souls. the timing is way easier, and if you don't time it right you're just blocking instead, whereas in DS you take the hit (I think with slightly reduced damage). the hard part is more about when to deflect and when to do other things. you have to learn basically every attack the enemy can make and come up with suitable responses. that attack means I jump, that attack means I deflect three times, that attack means I back off for a second and then get a hit in, that attack means I circle around and strike from behind, etc.etc. (and not always only 1 way to respond either). (though it is true that some fights basically are deflect forever until you win.) also, some bosses you need to keep the pressure on them, and other bosses you need to avoid them and only get hits in when you can. --- |
| Topic | Do you like working? |
| Sahuagin 12/17/19 8:11:05 PM #18 | yes, wish I could work more, although a much shorter commute would be nice. --- |
| Topic | When was the last time that you got a speeding ticket? |
| Sahuagin 12/17/19 8:02:42 PM #14 | maybe 10 or so over the years. have only had 1 or 2 in the last 5-10 years, and 0 or 1 in the last 5 years. and that last one was photo radar at night and I was only going like ~67 in a 60 zone and I was decelerating from the limit that had just dropped right there. --- |
| Topic | will you still be using windows 7 next year? |
| Sahuagin 12/17/19 11:01:06 AM #10 | I'm begrudgingly planning to upgrade --- |
| Topic | Do you think you're smart? |
| Sahuagin 12/17/19 5:56:25 AM #19 | I don't like the concept of smart/not-smart honestly. I think it usually actually comes down to patience not something like IQ. I think some people have been told so many times that they're not smart that they've lost all willingness to even try as soon as something seems even the tiniest bit complicated, and it triggers a sort of anxiety in them. if you can get them to actually try, anyone can understand anything if both people have the patience for working through it. --- |
| Topic | What are some of the most satisfying or cathartic REVENGE scenes in Movies / TV? |
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| Topic | What candy would you say has the strongest fruit taste? |
| Sahuagin 12/16/19 9:18:30 PM #2 | Fuzzy Peaches have always been my favorite. Definitely have an authentic peach taste, but dunno if it's the strongest. Swedish Berries also good. --- |
| Topic | Like Cilantro? |
| Sahuagin 12/16/19 9:14:50 PM #12 | I think I do. Tim Horton's occasionally has a Spicy Thai soup that's practically addicting to me and I think the main flavour component is cilantro, but I'm not completely sure. --- |
| Topic | I don't get the hyper defense of Dark Souls 1 |
| Sahuagin 12/15/19 9:27:59 PM #30 | JoanOfArcade posted... No the going after 2 without really explaining why when the first game is brought up. I guess a better topic subject would have been the blind hatred of dark souls 2. I never get real reasons just "it's teh worst"ok, I do agree that complaints about DS2 are exaggerated. depending what you're looking for, 2 is arguably the best of the three. it has by far the most character variability, and is also a much longer game, especially taking DLC into account. I didn't like it at first either. It has easily the most frustrating combat. The level design part I don't care about all that much. Its levels feel "video gamey" whereas DS1 and DS3 have such artistically amazing levels, but it's not that big a deal. the first half of DS1 had the "intricate pathways that interconnect areas in unexpected ways" thing, but it's not that important (maybe artistically). It has more items, more levels, and really just more gameplay than the other two. GenericGuy posted... Lud and Zallengod I love and hate that boss so much --- |
| Topic | I don't get the hyper defense of Dark Souls 1 |
| Sahuagin 12/15/19 6:11:09 PM #17 | JoanOfArcade posted... These examples are what I meant by hyper defenseso being positive in any way is "hyper defence", ok... Kyuubi4269 posted... When you swing a heavy weapon and can't be interupted.think that's called "hyper armor". I guess that's the OP's joke. --- |
| Topic | I don't get the hyper defense of Dark Souls 1 |
| Sahuagin 12/15/19 3:25:38 AM #5 | what "hyper defense"? most people say the last half is a lot weaker than the first half. but the good parts are really really good, and the game is almost endlessly playable. --- |
| Topic | Anyone here know how you should do about missing packages? |
| Sahuagin 12/14/19 9:09:15 AM #7 | check the tracking number which it sounds like you did. if the shipment is "stuck" then ask the shipping company about it. this happened to me once, where the package made it half-way to me, and then stopped moving. after three weeks of not moving, I contacted the shipping company. I never got a response, but the package started moving again the next day. --- |
| Topic | Oh Man... I don't Want to Believe This is Real... Lady Bags Gasoline... |
| Sahuagin 12/13/19 9:53:15 PM #6 | guy should have helped her buy a gas can --- |
| Topic | Which generation are you? |
| Sahuagin 12/13/19 9:52:37 PM #34 | young X --- |
| Topic | Oh Man... I don't Want to Believe This is Real... Lady Bags Gasoline... |
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| Topic | Halfway done with my 60 page paper. |
| Sahuagin 12/13/19 8:54:53 PM #12 | CTLM posted... That's crazy to me. As far back as I can remember (even classes in the 90's), it was basically beaten into our heads from day one that nothing other than double-spaces, 12-point New Times Roman would be accepted.it probably depends on the type of classes you're taking. I know english and especially history will be super strict about that kind of thing which is why I mostly avoided those. honestly though it's kind of nice to have it confirmed. expected that I could have just as easily gotten "where the hell did you hear that, that's not true!" responses. literally only was told it the one time. --- |
| Topic | Halfway done with my 60 page paper. |
| Sahuagin 12/13/19 8:28:59 PM #9 | Jen0125 posted... Who thinks thispeople that have never been told otherwise? I finally had it explained for the first time in a 3rd year course. wasn't the only one there glad to hear it explained. --- |
| Topic | Halfway done with my 60 page paper. |
| Sahuagin 12/13/19 7:34:06 PM #6 | remember that that's (afaik) 12-point Times New Roman double spaced. some people think it's like 8-point single spaced and think it's way longer than it's supposed to be. --- |
| Topic | Do you think environment is in such a bad shape because we picked Capitalism? |
| Sahuagin 12/13/19 9:41:15 AM #29 | Gaawa_chan posted... Communism, for all intents and purposes and regardless of authoritarian or anarchic variations, no longer exists on any meaningful State level today.does Cuba not count? --- |
| Topic | Very weird to see Sekiro as GOTY being celebrated. |
| Sahuagin 12/13/19 4:12:15 AM #11 | except that I like strategy games more, I think Sekiro probably was the best game I played this year. It was a pretty weak year though. THEGODDAMNBATMA posted... compared to the Souls games and Bloodborne Sekiro is complete ass I sort of know what you mean, but it's also not really comparable. Sekiro is not as deep and doesn't have as much variety as other From games, but it's also not an RPG. It's biggest flaw to me is that it's way too short. Should have been twice as long at least. Otherwise, everything that's there is just solidly fantastic action game (not to mention thoroughly original both in gameplay and artistic content). --- |
| Topic | What's the term for the opposite of a guilty pleasure? |
| Sahuagin 12/13/19 3:42:59 AM #3 | a guilty pain? --- |
| Topic | An odd thought about death. |
| Sahuagin 12/12/19 11:34:46 PM #7 | there's a popular TV show that kind of ended like that... (it kind of had two separate plot endings and something similar to what you described was one of them) --- |
| Topic | Do you think environment is in such a bad shape because we picked Capitalism? |
| Sahuagin 12/12/19 11:23:15 PM #6 | the whole problem was basically inevitable (in fact... just realizing that maybe Lavos from Chrono Trigger could be a metaphor for this... maybe?) fossil fuels are basically a natural booby trap waiting underground millenia after millenia to be sprung when civilization finally progressed far enough. I don't see how that could have been avoided. and now there's basically nothing we can do about it except try to plan to survive the coming changes. Unbridled9 posted... America will likely be #2-3 on the list of polluters for a looooong time simply because of its population and industralization, but it is improving at least somewhat. More could be done (such as a greater focus on cleaning up trash) but it's China and India that are currently the bigger environmental threats.all you would be doing by reducing polluters is letting the foot off the gas a small amount, when the gas pedal has been floored for the past ~100 years. there's no going back... --- |
| Topic | Would you take this job? |
| Sahuagin 12/12/19 7:17:23 PM #7 | 900 for the assistant job seems a lot better than 1250 for the lead job --- |
| Topic | Badly describe the most recent game you played. |
| Sahuagin 12/12/19 5:58:49 PM #89 | Dikitain posted... Guy comes back from the dead to make friends across the galaxy and fight giant bug people. --- |
| Topic | Demi Lovato's nudes were leaked |
| Sahuagin 12/12/19 3:02:48 AM #358 | LinkPizza posted... So, in what post did you actually say that?346 --- |
| Topic | Demi Lovato's nudes were leaked |
| Sahuagin 12/12/19 2:51:40 AM #356 | LinkPizza posted... But of course you don't seem to want to answer it. Maybe because it's not the answer you want. You don't like it when the conversation isn't going the way you like. Instead of actually discussing other views, you deflect and say it has nothing to do with the conversation, even when it does..the hell is wrong with you... Sahuagin posted... if you unwittingly see random images and don't know where they came from, that would probably not be immoral --- |
| Topic | Demi Lovato's nudes were leaked |
| Sahuagin 12/12/19 2:43:41 AM #352 | LinkPizza posted... Did you? I didn't see. You just kept asking why I was asking questions like I wasn't allowed. And this is part of the conversation. About morality and all. But whatever. Seems like you don't like it when the conversation isn't under your full control...jeepers... Sahuagin posted... and where exactly was this under discussion? if you unwittingly see random images and don't know where they came from, that would probably not be immoral, but no one was talking about that. your question was a non-sequitur --- |
| Topic | Demi Lovato's nudes were leaked |
| Sahuagin 12/12/19 2:36:28 AM #349 | LinkPizza posted... I'm just asking you a question. Stop deflecting and answer it. You're not the only one who can ask questions, you know...I did answer it. thanks for derailing the conversation though... --- |
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