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| Topic | What game series are your *instant* must play/buy? |
| Sahuagin 05/08/20 10:39:51 AM #30 | Doom Elder Scrolls Might and Magic Serious Sam Geometry Wars Creeper World technically true but it's not like they get many new games Dungeon Siege System Shock Descent if I can say companies rather than just specifically series: Zachtronics From Software Amplitude Studios some that I almost want to say, but in practice I don't Civilization Deus Ex Thief Age of Wonders Paradox Games Mass Effect/Bioware Games --- |
| Topic | Hey Dragon Quest people... what's typically weak to the Boom/Bang set of spells? |
| Sahuagin 05/07/20 10:00:52 PM #5 | I don't know if anything in particular is, besides groups. it seems like the idea is that it's a bit on the expensive side, but worth it when you get a lot of targets at once. --- |
| Topic | Good songs. |
| Sahuagin 05/06/20 2:47:31 PM #140 | |
| Topic | Best game of worm |
| Sahuagin 05/05/20 10:29:13 PM #2 | that is pretty enjoyable, thanks --- |
| Topic | here's a song you probably forgot existed |
| Sahuagin 05/05/20 3:54:12 AM #7 | yup haven't heard that in longer than I can remember. based on a true story. Fastball front man Tony Scalzo came up with the idea for the song after reading articles which described the June 1997 disappearance of an elderly married couple, Lela and Raymond Howard from Salado, Texas, who left home to attend the Pioneer Day festival at nearby Temple, Texas, despite Lela's Alzheimers and Raymond recently recovering from brain surgery. They were discovered two weeks later, dead, at the bottom of a ravine near Hot Springs, Arkansas, hundreds of miles off their intended route. --- |
| Topic | The Spyro games... kinda suck tbh |
| Sahuagin 05/03/20 7:23:25 PM #16 | I always liked Crash and never liked Spyro, so I definitely don't disagree, though I'm not sure I'd say Spyro sucked, but I definitely don't enjoy the style. --- |
| Topic | MP3 player recommendations? |
| Sahuagin 05/03/20 6:43:49 PM #8 | argonautweakend posted... He means an actual physical device, not a program.ah yes. in that case I too wonder if there's a decent generic mp3 player that just lets you put audio files on it with relatively no fuss. dealing with itunes and iphone all the time is such a lousy user experience. --- |
| Topic | MP3 player recommendations? |
| Sahuagin 05/03/20 6:37:06 PM #5 | isn't Winamp the obvious answer? does no one use that anymore? --- |
| Topic | Good songs. |
| Sahuagin 05/03/20 3:05:13 AM #125 | I imagine this could be annoying if it was overplayed on the radio or in commercials, but having rarely heard it before it's pretty great Grace Potter - Instigators https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zz3OIGxazzU --- |
| Topic | What kind of headphones/earbuds do you usually use to listen to music? |
| Sahuagin 05/02/20 5:48:07 PM #13 | I have a gross decades-old pair of earbuds at work that I really need to upgrade, and a relatively newish pair of Sony headphones at home. --- |
| Topic | Good songs. |
| Sahuagin 05/02/20 1:34:59 AM #114 | Bastille - Pompeii https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F90Cw4l-8NY Baz Luhrmann - Everybody's Free To Wear Sunscreen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTJ7AzBIJoI --- |
| Topic | Anyone else getting Streets of Rage 4? |
| Sahuagin 05/01/20 11:27:46 PM #21 | not that much a fan of beat-em-ups. what they should do is make one with street-fighter level combat (and then throw in some progression too while you're at it). --- |
| Topic | What's the best one boss fight in any RPG? |
| Sahuagin 05/01/20 11:25:18 PM #13 | (note this is all limited by what I can remember and what I've played vs not played) the single best RPG boss of all time... I think I would have to say all 4 stages of the last boss of FF6. (note that's out of any RPG, not the best RPG.) for some other best bosses from other RPGs: Dark Souls 1: Ornstein and Smough Dark Souls 2: Smelter Demon Dark Souls 3: Midir Baldur's Gate 2: ToB: Draconis... (I hate this boss so much; something about him is programmed such that he has a million things that can counter your every move, and knows how and when to use them. he will interrupt your casts constantly (and he has all kinds of ways of doing it) he will fully heal when you finally get him damaged, he can turn invisible and teleport at will, he can obliterate your party members by breathing acid, _and_ he can remove protection from acid, he can two-shot your toughest warriors with his claws. he's *insanely* hard. I think I've defeated him twice, and have died on him like 100+ times.) (actually, I'm kind of surprised by how few RPGs I play these days... the last RPG I played was Oblivion back in October, >_>) --- |
| Topic | What's the best one boss fight in any RPG? |
| Sahuagin 05/01/20 10:57:56 PM #11 | do you mean the single best boss fight out of all RPGs, or just the single best boss from each of various RPGs? --- |
| Topic | Good songs. |
| Sahuagin 05/01/20 9:31:20 PM #109 | |
| Topic | Steam be giving me snark |
| Sahuagin 04/30/20 10:48:10 PM #10 | DPsx7 posted... Lol no.this doesn't really count as a digital inconvenience. the game as it is cannot be sold by the company anywhere, digital or not. yet, whoever already owns it, digital or not, can still play it. --- |
| Topic | Can someone help me find one of these meme picture things? |
| Sahuagin 04/30/20 10:40:27 PM #5 | sounds like this, but who knows https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/how-to-make-sushi  wow gamefaqs can host images now --- |
| Topic | Steam be giving me snark |
| Sahuagin 04/30/20 8:51:05 PM #3 | apparently Sega lost the rights to some of the music in the game and can no longer legally sell it, on Steam or anywhere https://www.polygon.com/2019/6/19/18691547/alpha-protocol-steam-pulled-sega-ip-rights --- |
| Topic | On a scale of 1 to 10, how important is replay value to you |
| Sahuagin 04/29/20 8:56:27 PM #23 | for me, like 8 or 9. some games are worth playing just for the one good playthrough, but the best games can be played almost indefinitely. you know a game is good when you're already thinking of how you'll play it next time before you've even finished the first. --- |
| Topic | ITT: We Post Video Game music! |
| Sahuagin 04/28/20 11:18:44 PM #12 | awesome boss theme from Dark Messiah of Might and Magic another version was used in Might and Magic X https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wov7BO2TqE0 the best Trackmania 2 song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qthIyr20tO4 the best Levelhead song (not listed separately so hopefully the timestamp works) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQDfzM-UaQs&t=56m47s --- |
| Topic | The Hanar from Mass Effect sound like Mooninites |
| Sahuagin 04/28/20 8:55:28 PM #2 | fun fact: pretty sure that first Hanar quest is based on some religious associates of some of my family members https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artur_Pawlowski --- |
| Topic | Serious topic, why do you play Animal Crossing? |
| Sahuagin 04/28/20 5:29:03 PM #41 | Dreamgamer_lgbt posted... So what type am I if I like both ...?assuming what I've said is right, which it isn't necessarily, note that the myers briggs properties are not black and white, they are spectrums (spectra). you can have one of them be excessive, or you can have one of them somewhere in between. (I don't even really know what the game is actually like, this is just a guess that I'm interested in people commenting on. it sounds plausible to me but who knows.) --- |
| Topic | Serious topic, why do you play Animal Crossing? |
| Sahuagin 04/28/20 5:07:41 PM #36 | I think what it might be is that the game is hugely cosmetic rather than functional. and some people do like things that are cosmetic, whereas some couldn't care less about that kind of thing. (as far as I know this is associated with S vs N myers briggs personality types; S types tend to like cosmetic things, N types tend to not care about them). you guys are talking about "building the town", which almost sounds interesting, but I have a feeling that the town is not really all that functional, and "building" it is more or less only about making it look how you want it to look, not making it run better or worse. for example, in contrast, planting your garden in Harvest Moon is maybe a little cosmetic (you build it to look the way you want it to look) but a lot functional (you have to be able to reach the plants, water them effectively, plant things that are in season, plant things that will grow in time, etc.) --- |
| Topic | Serious topic, why do you play Animal Crossing? |
| Sahuagin 04/28/20 1:34:17 AM #15 | I don't get it either. my sister really liked the first one, but to me it seems like there's almost nothing to do. I could play almost any other game and have more to do and have a more rewarding experience. --- |
| Topic | Unemployed Man drove to EVERY WENDY'S to get FREE NUGGETS cause of COVID-19!!! |
| Sahuagin 04/28/20 1:17:21 AM #2 | seems to be some internet guy doing a character --- |
| Topic | Which is your favorite cereal? |
| Sahuagin 04/27/20 9:39:19 PM #18 | CedarPointcp posted... is it raisin bran? that's mineraisin bran is definitely near the top except that I haven't had it in decades my favorite would be Cracklin' Oat Bran https://imgur.com/hNPjMiY I really really like Cap'n Crunch --- |
| Topic | Any of you programming duders know what a .csv is? |
| Sahuagin 04/27/20 9:34:58 PM #18 | probably a better format for saving a dialogue tree to a text file would be XML or JSON. a CSV is good for basically a single table of data. so a list of records all of the same type. XML and JSON will let you store hierarchical data of varying type. these days, XML is starting to move towards obsoletion and JSON is probably the better choice between the two. --- |
| Topic | Any of you programming duders know what a .csv is? |
| Sahuagin 04/27/20 8:24:53 PM #16 | why are you supposed to "l2" use them? if you parse them manually, note that a tricky part is that you can't simply split the line by the delimiter, due to there possibly being string values. basically, you need to count quotation marks. --- |
| Topic | Emergent gameplay is good |
| Sahuagin 04/26/20 11:58:04 PM #2 | what game --- |
| Topic | Just had the most bizarre client call in my life. |
| Sahuagin 04/26/20 8:59:41 PM #4 | we don't really have context, so we don't know how much you should know but don't, or what the client is assuming but shouldn't be. but either way you should at least be able to ask questions to figure out what's going on... (right?) --- |
| Topic | In 16 days I find out if I get to stay in school. |
| Sahuagin 04/26/20 6:18:36 PM #2 | what program? --- |
| Topic | So i was making mac and cheese |
| Sahuagin 04/26/20 5:55:46 PM #17 | i ate 3 strips of beef bacon and a small amount of hashbrowns, but that was more lunch. supper will probably be microwaved sausages or else I'll go get something. --- |
| Topic | WAlT, MINECRAFT LOST???? TO PERSONA???? |
| Sahuagin 04/26/20 12:16:54 PM #52 | wwinterj25 posted... It actually is. You create things from scratch. Any creation game is basically what Minecraft is. Also again Persona 5 is the better game regardless of your justifications to convince yourself otherwiseyes, and all games are RPGs because you "play a role"... Minecraft and SimCity are extremely dissimilar. you'd have to broaden your categories all the way down to "constructive" and "non-constructive" games or something to even get them in the same box at all. --- |
| Topic | Ocarina of Time lovers....which of the 5 dungeons were your favorite? |
| Sahuagin 04/26/20 12:06:56 PM #4 | I always wanted to like the Spirit Temple more, but for being the last one, it sure was way the heck too easy. It was pretty epic getting there, but then you get there and just breeze through the whole thing. Forest has the best mix of being challenging and interesting without over-doing the element. (Fire, Water, and Shadow are maybe a little bit _too_ defined by their elements.) --- |
| Topic | WAlT, MINECRAFT LOST???? TO PERSONA???? |
| Sahuagin 04/24/20 9:29:23 PM #4 | congrats, you've discovered an inherent problem with popularity contests --- |
| Topic | So apparently, I REALLY love building towns. |
| Sahuagin 04/22/20 7:02:26 PM #19 | ScritchOwl posted... Anyone here ever play the game outpost. Its made by sierra and basically you are leaving earth do to an apocalypes. It was a fun back in the win 3.1 days.I think I had or have Outpost 2 but didn't play it --- |
| Topic | So apparently, I REALLY love building towns. |
| Sahuagin 04/22/20 6:15:36 PM #17 | there's lots of building games, not sure what you're looking for exactly though. there's sort of Act Raiser 1 on SNES (half "city building" and half action-platformer). but everyone should already know about that. there's a game on SNES called Utopia that almost no one has ever heard of. you build space colonies on strange planets, with some aliens now and then to negotiate or go to war with. there's a PC game called Space Colony where you build a colony and have to make sure the people living in it don't lose their minds out of boredom or kill each other, etc. I think you also fight aliens in this one eventually but didn't get that far. there's of course Factorio (PC) where you build an automated factory that could almost be called a 1-man city. there's civ games. there was an old old PC game from the 80s or 90s that I had once that had quite an environmental spin on things. but I think it was old and obscure enough that I'll never find it again. --- |
| Topic | So apparently, I REALLY love building towns. |
| Sahuagin 04/22/20 11:05:18 AM #4 | Cities: Skylines, but I haven't played it enough to know if I should recommend it or what its strengths/weaknesses are. SimCity games, particularly 2000 and 3000, and maybe 4. --- |
| Topic | mr clean magic erasers are junk |
| Sahuagin 04/21/20 9:53:58 PM #14 | Bulbasaur posted... a sponge cleans better than these blocks of liesit depends what you're cleaning. if the situation calls for grip the eraser works wonders. but there's still definitely a place for washing and wiping. --- |
| Topic | mr clean magic erasers are junk |
| Sahuagin 04/21/20 8:52:47 PM #5 | definitely don't agree. I turned my decades old kitchen lino floor from sticky grey to shining white. it was such a noticeable difference that I pretty much had no choice but to do the whole thing once I had tried it. --- |
| Topic | What's weak to ice (typically)? |
| Sahuagin 04/20/20 6:43:00 PM #7 | are you asking what's typically weak to ice, or what one should design to be weak to ice? (sounds like both) typically weak to ice: usually ice is just another version of water; not aware of anything that treats ice and water differently, except that maybe in some cases ice would also do bludgeoning damage if you wanted to differentiate with water, maybe you could make ice "extreme water", and lava "extreme fire", and then have water beat fire, but lava beat water, but ice beat lava (and maybe complete the circle with fire beating ice?). maybe another option is to separate element from temperature? cold + water = ice, heat + water = steam, etc. not everything would make sense that way though. (talking about this is reminding me of something, but not sure what. did Chrono Cross have something like this?) --- |
| Topic | I like chocolate. I love cake. But I hate chocolate cake |
| Sahuagin 04/20/20 5:54:59 PM #38 | I like chocolate. I love cake. But I hate chocolate cake I like chocolate, I don't really like cake, but I often like chocolate cake. basically, there's a _lot_ of cheap cake out there. (perhaps the cheapest of all foods? hard to find something worse than cheap cake.) but good cake can be _really_ good, especially chocolate cake. --- |
| Topic | Good songs. |
| Sahuagin 04/20/20 5:37:41 PM #70 | I could see this being mocked a bit, but I like it Mourning Star - Kamelot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dKuaO8sZ9c --- |
| Topic | Binge watching |
| Sahuagin 04/18/20 7:27:50 PM #5 | Chernobyl all in one sitting but it's only 5 ~1 hours episodes --- |
| Topic | Good songs. |
| Sahuagin 04/18/20 7:25:40 PM #49 | Lorde - Royals (Cover) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBmCJEehYtU Sia - Chandelier (Cover) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9ilBHkH9Io Pixies - Where Is My Mind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49FB9hhoO6c --- |
| Topic | GameTok with Lok: AMA me anything about video game music |
| Sahuagin 04/18/20 12:20:52 PM #2 | Lokarin posted... Best songs from MarioYoshi's Island Athletic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlUeW7IOSFc Lokarin posted... Best songs form ZeldaLttP: Dark World https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BStjuHfP238 Lokarin posted... Best songs from MeganmanzQuickman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRa4LHSJf_M Lokarin posted... Best songs from DoomInto Sandy's City is one of the best maybe not the best but here's some incredible chanting music from Doom Eternal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac9rlZmwJPo Lokarin posted... Jet Force Geminiyes it's all good. one of my favorites is Water Ruin (a secret level IIRC) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3dQLs7n79U Lokarin posted... Final Fantasy?I don't think anything can top the whole of Dancing Mad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbXVNKtmWnc For something not mentioned, Descent. Both 1 and 2 have awesome soundtracks. (I was thinking the other day that I'm not sure most people know just how good the Descent 2 CD music was). Descent 2 - Crawl (Extended for PS1 or something I think) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhXtAYjhJS8 Descent 1 - Level 7 (Classic) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mISK9fF_JLQ Descent 1 - Level 22 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mu-oc9ToK28 Another game with great tracks that people rarely discuss is Mechwarrior 2 Mechwarrior 2 - Pyre Light (Classic) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gX4G1RJYTi8 --- |
| Topic | Anyone here familiar with HSHL shaders? (basic question) |
| Sahuagin 04/18/20 9:51:01 AM #29 | man, click one button and I've forked the entire thing to my own account with no confirmation or question or anything... --- |
| Topic | I have a big stye in my eye |
| Sahuagin 04/17/20 8:45:58 PM #9 | I think I had a tiny one once. it gave the sensation of touching my pupil with my finger just by closing my eyelid. it wasn't so bad during the day, since my eyes were open, but sleeping was pretty difficult. I had to temporarily learn to sleep with my eyes pointing off to the side. --- |
| Topic | I like to purposefully leave ingredients out of recipes. |
| Sahuagin 04/17/20 6:05:04 AM #12 | that sounds fine, not sure why anyone would criticize you for that. experimental cooking, basically. no better way to learn than testing things yourself. --- |
| Topic | Anyone here familiar with HSHL shaders? (basic question) |
| Sahuagin 04/17/20 6:02:13 AM #26 | in my first post, I neglected to rename af_fs to fileStreamI also meant to say, if possible the method should be put somewhere... else for easy access if this is something you do regularly. another thing is, in monogame, shouldn't there be a content manager that you can use to load resources like textures? --- |
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