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| Topic | Trump is such an embarrassment. |
| Sahuagin 06/04/20 3:21:00 AM #80 | this was a fun topic --- |
| Topic | Month of the Ogre 2: What's the deal with tactically similar units in RTS? |
| Sahuagin 06/03/20 5:02:27 PM #13 | Lokarin posted... That was kinda unfortunate wording on my part for hyperbolewell wasn't that the crux of what you were saying? why have units that are just stronger versions of weaker units. it might be a good question but marine and goliath doesn't seem like a great example. goliaths don't make marines obsolete. I'm curious about this though: Sahuagin posted... IIRC it's not just ALI comparison but level comparison. you have to be careful not to kill units that are lower level than you, and it's really easy to just mow down everything with your paladins. that's something you're supposed to be _avoiding_ when playing good. I vaguely recall having a conversation like this before. since you're playing the game right now, you have access to the real thing, when I'm relying on 25 year old memories. do you know, is it how I remember it here? do you actually have to be careful not to slaughter lower level enemies? or is ALI comparison so much more important that it doesn't matter? another question might be, by the way, how are you able to play this? do you own the cartridge? --- |
| Topic | Month of the Ogre 2: What's the deal with tactically similar units in RTS? |
| Sahuagin 06/03/20 5:01:51 AM #11 | Lokarin posted... They don't fill identical roles, only similar roles. Lokarin posted... The Goliath is a little more pricey for more damage and hits air units a bit better, but they otherwise wholly overlap. you're saying here that they "wholly overlap", when really they only partly overlap. they both provide anti-air, but in pretty different ways. goliaths primarily defend you against all forms of air. marines defend you against low-tech air, but also have a bazillion other uses as one of the most versatile units in the game. --- |
| Topic | Month of the Ogre 2: What's the deal with tactically similar units in RTS? |
| Sahuagin 06/02/20 10:57:02 PM #9 | darcandkharg31 posted... EVEN THOUGH the game does not explain any of this shit to you!everyone says this, but I knew about it before the internet. I'm pretty sure it's explained in the manual. --- |
| Topic | Month of the Ogre 2: What's the deal with tactically similar units in RTS? |
| Sahuagin 06/02/20 10:41:04 PM #8 | Lokarin posted... Level comparison does come into play, but in original MotBQ it really do be that way. OB64 fixes almost all these issues.it really do be what way? all I know of Ogre Battle is MotBQ. --- |
| Topic | Month of the Ogre 2: What's the deal with tactically similar units in RTS? |
| Sahuagin 06/02/20 10:33:55 PM #6 | Lokarin posted... The humble Marine and the Goliath are tactically similar. The Goliath is a little more pricey for more damage and hits air units a bit better, but they otherwise wholly overlap.no... there's all kinds of subtle differences there. to sum it up quickly, marines are low-tier but general-purpose; goliaths are a middle-tier hard-counter to air. Lokarin posted... So, why use one over the other?yes, alignment. it's more like you're comparing marines to hydralisks and dragoons/stalkers than to goliaths. they're roughly the same because they're the same unit in three separate "factions". Lokarin posted... So, why pick anything OTHER than Paladin given all the advantages they have? They're pricey, but cheaper than the other T3 warriors; they have high ALI with is almost always a benefit, and they perform the melee force multiplier role the best.the idea in SNES Ogre Battle, I think, is that it's easy to be evil and hard to be good. and when trying to be good, you don't *want* to annihilate the enemy. IIRC that was a thing with Paladins is that they were very strong melee, but you had to be careful because if you just slaughter the enemy with them you'll lose your ALI. Lokarin posted... If you kill high ALI units your ALI will drop, if you kill low ALI units your ALI will raise. but here's the thing, if you are already 90 ALI and you slay a very pious virgin priest who has 85 ALI, "Congrats!" you technically killed a "low" ALI unit and your ALI raises!IIRC it's not just ALI comparison but level comparison. you have to be careful not to kill units that are lower level than you, and it's really easy to just mow down everything with your paladins. that's something you're supposed to be _avoiding_ when playing good. I can't remember for sure, but if you aren't paying attention you can slaughter your way through a few maps and your ALI will have dropped to the 30s or lower. I *think* you don't lose your class ever, but you can have an army of holy units with low ALI and start losing rep like mad if you aren't being careful. --- |
| Topic | Question about Subway... |
| Sahuagin 06/02/20 9:45:55 PM #11 | there was a beef shortage that affected wendy's. they stopped serving double and triple burgers for a while, and when they eventually did resume selling them you could tell there was something different about the patties. --- |
| Topic | Just got permabanned from r/guns for asking about non-shooting gun deaths... |
| Sahuagin 06/01/20 8:27:08 PM #16 | Revelation34 posted... So somebody would live if they ate bullets?yes, probably, but even then we don't call things that hurt you if you eat them "dangerous" necessarily --- |
| Topic | Just got permabanned from r/guns for asking about non-shooting gun deaths... |
| Sahuagin 06/01/20 8:02:06 PM #12 | Lokarin posted... I wanted to make a case that guns are perfectly safe, it's bullets that are dangerous... but needed a number to go with it.bullets by themselves aren't dangerous. a gun loaded with bullets is what is dangerous. --- |
| Topic | I never understood gamers' obsession with anal lindo. |
| Sahuagin 06/01/20 7:39:29 PM #14 | adjl posted... expect for the part where it's a pseudo-point of no return and you can't leave until you've beaten O&Sit isn't. those pink lightning monsters will fly you back to Sen's fortress whenever you want. there are also shortcuts in Sen's that can make coming back up a lot faster. --- |
| Topic | Month of the Ogre: What are your favourite strategy games (outside of their MP) |
| Sahuagin 06/01/20 3:36:57 PM #2 | my favorite strategy games would be a long list... might be my favorite genre playing Stellaris right now. It's excellent (with all DLCs) in a lot of ways, but it really seemed like it was released unfinished, and it still only feels 95% complete right now. mostly the AI is not able to plan properly with all the new building mechanics they added, and the technology cost scale seems way off, where the first half of the tech tree is slow, and the second half you plow through extremely quickly. (basically, the game is good right now, but way too easy). --- |
| Topic | I wish text on video games was bigger |
| Sahuagin 06/01/20 12:15:56 AM #27 | I would compare if I had a ps4 but I don't play console. hopefully someone else can compare. --- |
| Topic | Is there a game that's, like, jobs in space? |
| Sahuagin 05/31/20 11:50:15 PM #23 | I guess an issue with that is that the story would have to be linear or something. otherwise, where is the ship going/what is it doing if the player is not making any decisions about that. it's not what you mean, but System Shock 2 is sort of like that. you're a "space marine" on a large ship, just that the ship has gone to hell and you're given missions from someone you don't know, and it's not really a "job". there's Star Trek on the SNES but you are in control of the ship. you control each individual crew member on the surface of planets that you visit though, and have to use people of different skills to solve the problems you find. there's Star Trek Online, but from the sound of it you start off as 1st Officer, and the intro makes you Captain. --- |
| Topic | I wish text on video games was bigger |
| Sahuagin 05/31/20 11:35:44 PM #23 | Jen0125 posted... Pretty much any game I playcan you be more specific? I don't have a switch, but if you mentioned the actual game then someone else could compare. (unless that's what you're trying to avoid by dodging the question... though not trying to be antagonizing.) --- |
| Topic | Can someone recommend me a USB splitter/hub? |
| Sahuagin 05/31/20 11:31:58 PM #12 | captpackrat posted... A USB charger, on the other hand, is capable of providing MUCH higher amperage and voltage than the USB standard to devices that can negotiate that power, as much as 100W for chargers that support USB Power Delivery or Qualcomm Quick Charge 4.0.k this makes sense and is good to know. I don't really use chargers much since USB ports are easier to find than wall outlets. trying to post this but apparently gamefaqs is having seizures... --- |
| Topic | I wish text on video games was bigger |
| Sahuagin 05/31/20 10:44:08 PM #20 | Jen0125 posted... My glasses prescription is fine. The text is just fucking tiny as heckwhich game? --- |
| Topic | When you fire up your PS4 and you have 100s of games to choose from. |
| Sahuagin 05/31/20 8:35:17 PM #3 | I don't have a PS4. =) --- |
| Topic | i feel shitty for everyone at NASA right now |
| Sahuagin 05/31/20 8:30:28 PM #73 | faramir77 posted... I acknowledge that. It's just not that interesting.well that's just subjective. I happen to find it exceedingly interesting. but the degree of interest you happen to have or not have doesn't make it objectively more or less important. faramir77 posted... This launch is a small step for both man and mankind. It's a step forward. Not much more as far as I can tell.even if this _wasn't_ a step forward, and we only just regained our exact same position after losing it ~10 years ago, this would still be a critical milestone. --- |
| Topic | i feel shitty for everyone at NASA right now |
| Sahuagin 05/31/20 8:12:24 PM #68 | Kyuubi4269 posted... It's as perfect as it can be for orbiting earth, we got that down over half a century ago.so... you're saying that pre-1970 space tech cannot and has not been improved upon in any way whatsoever...? seriously? --- |
| Topic | i feel shitty for everyone at NASA right now |
| Sahuagin 05/31/20 8:08:35 PM #66 | faramir77 posted... So to be clear:aren't you a physics teacher? I guess you're not an engineer so you don't get it, or you're being willfully disinterested? (probably the latter) as extreme examples, just because the wright brothers can fly a wooden airplane doesn't mean we can build a 747. just because we can build a canoe doesn't mean we can build a cruise ship. "functionally the same" depends on the level of detail with which you're viewing things. "get astronaut to space" is a pretty frigging ignorant way of looking at it. to call this not-significant kind of implies you have an underlying political agenda guiding that attitude. this is something that has never been done before... ever. in more ways than one. --- |
| Topic | Antifa plants a pallet of bricks in the middle of the protests. |
| Sahuagin 05/31/20 8:00:10 PM #195 | Mead posted... the fact is that more voters turned out for the other candidate both timesnot sure if you mean in your particular area or overall, but the DNC rigged things against Bernie both last time and this time. it was not a fair fight by any stretch, but it happens not to be illegal for the DNC to rig things as much as they want. they have zero legal obligation to do what the voters say. what you have in USA is called "tweedism". "I don't care who does the electing, so long as I get to do the nominating." --- |
| Topic | i feel shitty for everyone at NASA right now |
| Sahuagin 05/31/20 7:53:40 PM #63 | faramir77 posted... How?well, monumental just means something like big, or significant, and we're talking about putting humans in orbit using 21st century tech. not to mention other details like this being the first successful commercial launch of a crewed spacecraft in the history of humanity. this literally pushes the boundary of human achievement. what more do you want? --- |
| Topic | i feel shitty for everyone at NASA right now |
| Sahuagin 05/31/20 7:39:17 PM #61 | faramir77 posted... Is it though?yes? --- |
| Topic | Can someone recommend me a USB splitter/hub? |
| Sahuagin 05/31/20 7:37:09 PM #6 | captpackrat posted... If you want to charge devices, stick to an actual charger.not clear on the difference here. I'm talking about USB charged devices. I'm not sure if there's a difference between a USB outlet charger and a powered USB hub, but I know from (limited but non-zero) experience there seems to be a large difference between a powered USB hub and non-powered USB hub in terms of charge time. --- |
| Topic | Place you would like to live |
| Sahuagin 05/31/20 7:32:38 PM #16 | Wanded posted... the place in which everything i need would be closestthis, so city for me, which is where i am --- |
| Topic | Antifa plants a pallet of bricks in the middle of the protests. |
| Sahuagin 05/31/20 7:29:34 PM #186 | Joker_X_II posted... https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/3-poll-of-the-day/78728916/939944705that was clearly said in jest --- |
| Topic | What are some things that don't hurt anyone... |
| Sahuagin 05/31/20 7:28:07 PM #10 | you've basically built a contradiction into your question, so don't be surprised when the answer is just "nothing" regardless it would be fun to try to think of something anyway, but nothing so far --- |
| Topic | China calls America HYPOCRITES on PROTESTERS!! Do you agree??? |
| Sahuagin 05/31/20 7:23:45 PM #2 | from the little I've seen of each, USA has both worse protesters and worse police. I haven't seen recent stuff in HK though which may be worse than what was happening last year. --- |
| Topic | I'm gunna be doing all things Ogre Battle for a while |
| Sahuagin 05/31/20 6:28:40 PM #4 | Lokarin posted... How does the pathfinding work so well on those narrow roads? It seems like a waypoint system, but it can't be since it's so efficient...I think it might be working at around the pixel level but not sure. why wouldn't a "waypoint system" be efficient? Lokarin posted... What was your Chaos Frame when you beat the game?I beat it once with a lousy ending, sort of but not really understanding how the rep and alignment systems worked. pretty sure I was almost as evil and low-rep as you could be. Lokarin posted... What's your favourite class?Lich for sure is my favourite --- |
| Topic | This is the most terrible Amazon review ever. |
| Sahuagin 05/31/20 6:16:12 PM #7 | probably annoyed at the "review your purchases!" emails --- |
| Topic | Can someone recommend me a USB splitter/hub? |
| Sahuagin 05/31/20 6:04:21 PM #4 | Lokarin posted... Looking for a HIGH SPEED connection, but IDK how USB works so if speeds don't really matter and my controller won't have any lag then I'll just get an Amazon Basics or Staples generic one... but if speed DOES matter, that's where you guys come in - I would need a recommendation.speed shouldn't matter for a controller. if you will ever want to use this to plug in a drive and copy large files, then get USB 3 (and make sure it plugs into a USB 3 port). if it will only ever be used for peripherals, you can probably just settle for USB 2. (usually USB 3 will be blue, and USB 2 black). either way make sure to get one with an adapter if you want to charge something with it. it can still charge without one, but will do it a lot slower. --- |
| Topic | Is there a game that's, like, jobs in space? |
| Sahuagin 05/31/20 5:45:25 PM #21 | Lokarin posted... Yaknow how in Dead Space 1 half the game is repairing the ship? I always found that aspect interestingwell, there's FTL where you build a crew to run a space ship, and primarily repair things as they take damage, run critical ship systems, deal with fires and boarders, etc. and in Space Colony, it's largely focused on making sure your colonists spend their time and resources maintaining the colony and IIRC fulfulling the requests of the company that sent you there. there's Rimworld too, that I forgot. similar to space colony, but independent survivors trying to build a colony out of scrap on a junk planet. (it sounds like maybe you're looking for a 1st or 3rd person game where you play just a(n insignificant) crew member of a large ship, and have to do your mundane duties without actually being in control of the ship in anyway?) --- |
| Topic | Is there a game that's, like, jobs in space? |
| Sahuagin 05/31/20 5:30:37 PM #19 | Lokarin posted... I want a space game that does the everything in-between. like, idk, FireflyI don't think you could get more than KSP. it doesn't have trading or combat; you're running a space centre, and employing people (kerbals) in real space exploration jobs to do real space exploration things. your employees do things like pilot craft, remote control rovers, fix broken wheels, extend solar panels, run science experiments, etc. (For some of the other games I listed, note that I listed them because you are technically there on a literal job. Crashlands, you are delivering packages for a space delivery company, but crash on an alien planet and try your best to get your packages back so you can deliver them while exploring the planet and learning about the aliens that live there. Descent, you are hired to destroy the reactor cores of X number of space mines. (Dealing with corporate scumbags is part of the theme of the game, sort of, even though it's 99% combat and 1% story.) MechWarrior games, often you have to manage your Mercenary company, managing finances, repairs, hiring new pilots, moving to new star systems to find better contracts, upgrading parts of your dropship, buying and selling mechs, etc. ) --- |
| Topic | Who the fuck supervises these POTD's? |
| Sahuagin 05/31/20 2:50:30 PM #20 | rounding up, I guess --- |
| Topic | Is there a game that's, like, jobs in space? |
| Sahuagin 05/31/20 2:46:14 PM #14 | Lokarin posted... Nah, i'm more thinking along the lines of, like, Harvest Moonso, not in space, but doing work on the surface of an alien planet? all I got is "jobs" that somehow translates into "mining and crafting" Crashlands: survival/resource game on an alien planet (a bit simple; kind of like a mobile game, but still a good game) Factorio: survival/resource game on an alien planet Kerbal Space Program: explore an alien solar system using extremely realistic tech and physics Space Colony: build a space colony, making sure the people working there don't go nuts from boredom Some other games where you're technically "doing a job in space": Descent DOOM Mass Effect games MechWarrior games Outcast --- |
| Topic | Is there a game that's, like, jobs in space? |
| Sahuagin 05/31/20 2:11:16 PM #12 | your description is extremely vague... is what you're talking about like Privateer 1 and 2, where you fly around space doing various missions? (haven't actually played 2 but I want to) --- |
| Topic | Why is Neutral Good usually the more popular/common choice? |
| Sahuagin 05/31/20 2:01:38 PM #100 | streamofthesky posted... If you think a CG character should be just as likely to work alongside a demon as an archon, you really have no idea about the D&D alignment system.it does often seem that a good/evil conflict is more severe than a lawful/chaotic conflict, but I've never read anything that explicitly says that the lawful/chaotic spectrum is of less significance than the good/evil one. it's fine I guess, but it would mean that the "chaotic" in "chaotic good" means very little. also I think you're missing degree/magnitude. a mass murderer and a demon might both be chaotic evil, but so can a shoplifter. if a person's general attitude is "f*** the rules, I want this and I'm taking it", that's chaotic evil, even if it's to a much less degree. --- |
| Topic | Best Soulsborne game |
| Sahuagin 05/30/20 11:51:46 PM #7 | Dark Souls 1: except for a few parts, better overall cohesion and more or less the better game of the three Dark Souls 2: frustratingly designed gameplay, colorful yet poorly designed areas, most character development of any of them Dark Souls 3: mechanically better in a lot of ways, and overall feels like the better game, but IMO it loses out due to having the least character flexibility of the three DS games for all three DS games, some of the best parts are in the DLCs Sekiro: a very high quality stealth/action game that seems to use extreme difficulty to hide the fact that it's incredibly short. what's there is of extremely high quality though, and the difficulty is enjoyable in its own right. overall, DS1 gets the vote, but they all have their strong and weak points, and they're all fantastic games --- |
| Topic | Are any of you watching the Space X launch? |
| Sahuagin 05/30/20 5:42:30 PM #2 | CedarPointcp posted... iirc the space shuttle was much cheaper than using this to get to spaceI don't think it was. something like $18k/kg, versus $2-3k/kg for spacex --- |
| Topic | i feel shitty for everyone at NASA right now |
| Sahuagin 05/30/20 4:24:58 PM #49 | Kyuubi4269 posted... Progress is not repeating yourself over and over.it kind of is. it's called iteration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iterative_and_incremental_development not to mention refactoring, which could be described as "accomplish nothing new, only improve the existing process" basically, you don't just attain each step once and treat it as done. you refine each step over and over and over until its as close to perfect as it can be. --- |
| Topic | i feel shitty for everyone at NASA right now |
| Sahuagin 05/30/20 3:58:23 PM #42 | InfestedAdam posted... was still surprised to see their suits so much less bulkymight not be what you meant, but when you see a space suit in vacuum it looks "bulky" because it's pressurized (internally) and so expands in all directions in the vacuum. (unless old-style were bulky like that even when not in a vacuum, not sure now that I think about it). --- |
| Topic | i feel shitty for everyone at NASA right now |
| Sahuagin 05/30/20 3:20:24 PM #20 | this is awesome, didn't even know this was happening hope no one dies though... >_> --- |
| Topic | Have you had mostly good interactions with the police in your area? |
| Sahuagin 05/29/20 10:05:49 PM #37 | sometimes reasonable sometimes not, but I more or less know how (not) to talk to them. just like regular bullies, they won't or can't do anything to you if you don't give them a reason to. --- |
| Topic | Why is Neutral Good usually the more popular/common choice? |
| Sahuagin 05/29/20 8:46:04 PM #98 | fantomas418 posted... Chaotic Good: Chaotic good characters are strong individualists marked by a streak of kindness and benevolence. They believe in all the virtues of goodness and right, but they have little use for laws and regulations. They have no use for people who "try to push folk around and tell them what to do." Their actions are guided by their own moral compass which, although good, may not always be in perfect agreement with the rest of society. A brave frontiersman forever moving on as settlers follow in his wake is an example of a chaotic good character.this to me is more like neutral good than chaotic good. "little use for laws" sounds like a neutral stance not an opposed stance. "laws are good only until they're not" is a neutral stance. it should be, I would think, that chaotic good is as opposed to lawful good as it is to chaotic evil. (and similarly, is as aligned with chaotic evil as it is with lawful good.) --- |
| Topic | Why is Neutral Good usually the more popular/common choice? |
| Sahuagin 05/28/20 12:26:59 AM #78 | EvilMegas posted... Batman creates chaos. It may not be his intent, but its ALWAYS the result.I don't agree, but his intent would matter more anyway since we're talking about his inner personality. EvilMegas posted... Batman isn't enforcing the law, hes enforcing what batman believes to be the law.either of those are lawful. chaotic would be desiring to actively disrupt law. just the word "enforcing" itself is basically lawful. EvilMegas posted... Beating the shit out of people then throwing them to the cops isn't lawful its chaotic.depending what you mean by "people" (criminals) it's definitely lawful; it's anti-chaotic. unless you're saying he's targeting innocent people who haven't done anything wrong or something... removing people who are actively disrupting society from the system is working as a lawful force. this actually seems to not be able to be any less ambiguous. EvilMegas posted... he has done horroble shit to lots of people because he goes to almost any length to get what he wantsI would need more specific examples EvilMegas posted... He literally has a plan to kill or disable all of his allies, "just in case"well even that is more lawful than chaotic. having a contingency plan for an extreme event is an _orderly_ thing to do, not a chaotic thing to do. the chaotic thing to do would be _not_ to have a plan, and/or to smile to oneself internally about how much of a fun mess it would be if that ever happened. --- |
| Topic | What kind of mask do you use? |
| Sahuagin 05/27/20 9:30:04 PM #8 | I happen to already have some 3M ones that I use when dealing with mice, not that they're rated for bio-hazards or anything. I haven't used them for coronavirus yet, but might have to if I get a haircut soon. --- |
| Topic | Why is Neutral Good usually the more popular/common choice? |
| Sahuagin 05/27/20 9:24:02 PM #74 | EvilMegas posted... Batman's whole deal is that he takes what he thinks to be the law and forces that on to people the point where he often butts heads with other heroes.I don't see what's chaotic about him. chaotic means he opposes order in some way. he's trying to maintain order in a chaotic city. he's anti-chaos, not pro-chaos. he even specifically goes after criminals. he's actually kind of especially obsessed with enforcing the law; he's written as a detective after all. actually he even thinks that he should be held accountable for anything he's currently doing that's illegal; he just needs to operate outside the law temporarily until things get back under control. feels like you could maybe even start twisting him towards lawful neutral. I would put him somewhere between lawful neutral and neutral good. maybe you could call it lawful-or-good as opposed to lawful-and-good, I dunno. but chaotic good would take a pretty strong argument for how he could possibly be interpreted as being predisposed to opposing order/promoting chaos... --- |
| Topic | Have lost power about 6 times in the last hour |
| Sahuagin 05/27/20 1:07:08 AM #2 | hmm not me. there was a sort of medium-ish storm today though. --- |
| Topic | Lara Croft: |
| Sahuagin 05/26/20 11:00:26 PM #17 | Sephiroth C Ryu posted... I look forwards to a day when someone makes a good and fun AI for a shooter or something.maybe it's not perfectly like this, but Far Cry had gameplay similar to that (I have yet to play anything beyond Far Cry 1 though I do own 3 and want to play it but haven't gotten around to it) --- |
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