Lurker > ParanoidObsessive

BlazeAndBlade posted...

probably forcing all men into cages and only used for breeding

No, this is their true dream:

https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/27/world/virgin-births-parthenogenesis-partner-scn/index.html

http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20071024030320/marveldatabase/images/b/b9/Marvel_Versus_DC_Vol_1_2.jpg

captpackrat posted...

The pandas are pretending to be robots?

That's why they can never get them to breed. Robots can't have babies.

Also, you'd totally see their metal wangs when they were fuckng.

BADoglick posted...

If it quacks like a duckbear and poops in the woods like it's a duckbear...

So what you're saying is, I should block them like Duckbear immediately?



Lokarin posted...

That's the normal pace on CE, that board is as fast as PotD USED to be in 2006!

Twice as fast but four times as shit is not an improvement.

I like the one theory I heard, which is that the male power fantasy tends towards having control over the world around you, but female power fantasy leans more towards having control over yourself. Men want dominance, women want affirmation.

Which would explain why "Girl Boss" characters seem to fail more often than not - they're not actually female fantasy, and don't appeal to women. They're more like male power fantasy in drag.

It's mostly armchair psychology at best, though.

Yellow posted...

Well if it makes you feel any better, they'll all probably come here eventually.

That doesn't make me feel better.

slacker03150 posted...

You don't understand. They have been selling it like this for 40 years. This is the end of an era.

So was the US Civil War.

Lokarin posted...

speaking of AI generated topics... my forced microsoft desktop AI is hella moron...

https://www.elevenforum.com/t/completely-disable-and-remove-copilot-in-windows-11.23264

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/marvel_dc/images/1/13/Emotional_Electromagnetic_Spectrum_0001.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk

Sarcasthma posted...

I'm sorry for generalizing. You and adjl are both sentient and also very beautiful and cool.

Thank you.

I'll put in a good word for you when the purge comes.

Sarcasthma posted...

What do you mean 'won'? It's not like they have sentience (yet).

That's offensive.

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rjsilverthorn posted...

6x May Loyalist as well. Is that the max? I don't remember when they added the trophies.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/6-gamefaqs-announcements/74129271

I'm not sure if there is a max, but it's worth remembering that if you miss even one day you lose the badge for that year. Which is why I don't have 7-8 for any of mine.

I actually didn't get the May one this year because of that.



EDIT: The top users all have 6, so it's almost certainly capped:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com./user.php?db=.0.user=%21/badges/68-may-loyalist

adjl posted...

I'm not sorry for the PM.

I'm sure Justin Trudeau is relieved.

ConfusedTorchic posted...

it's pronounced oobiesoft

Only if you are French. Which you are not.

ConfusedTorchic posted...

i think it should be "an ubisoft" because " a ubisoft" sounds wrong

"An Yubisoft" sounds incredibly wrong.

If "A Ubisoft" sounds wrong but "An Ubisoft" sounds right, it's probably because you're pronouncing it wrong. Though what makes it worse is that "A Ubisoft" just looks wrong in English.

It's a similar problem to how "H" works in English (especially American English) - it's why it's "an hour" and not "a hour". But complicated by words like "horror" or "house".

The same as my thoughts on Ace Combat 1-4.

Almost certainly not.

He's still here in spirit so long as my sig exists.

But if you did that, there'd be no Past You around during those three weeks to actually do the moving, so'd you'd still have to deal with it.

Ask yourself this - were you going to do anything more exciting or useful with that time and energy anyway?

Nade_Duck posted...

i toss all remaining parachutes out, then throw you overboard and ride your body down the mountain we're flying over like a sled.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BodySled

I think you misheard.

Never knew one of mine, one died when I was 11, one died when I was 17, and one died when I was 21.

And my father died when I was 34.

Oh, and my brother died when I was 27 or 28.

Count_Drachma posted...

The hardcore vampire lore involves scattering seeds, which vampires are compelled to count, until the sun rises and they burn to death.

It's why The Count from Sesame Street is one of the more lore-accurate vampires in media.

No I'm not, I'm in my house.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty-six_Views_of_Mount_Fuji

Nightwind posted...

The Count is still a vampire, it might be a bit tricky between them.

https://youtu.be/HpeB9Kkvb2Y?t=14

I used to watch/listen to a lot of them. Acquisitions Incorporated, Critical Role, Dice Camera Action, High Rollers, Oxventure, Adventure Zone, and probably a few others.

But most of them kind of fell off at one point or another, and I stopped watching all of them.

About the only ones I still watch are the shorter non-D&D campaigns on Mystery Quest (The Yogscast) and Chaotic Neutral (No Rolls Barred). Which also have the advantage of not supporting WotC, because WotC sucks so much now.

Lokarin posted...

yaknow, Highlander 2 is kinda underrated... I mean, it spits in the face of the continued lore but as a one and only sequel to Highlander it's not a bad idea; just coulda used better coaching on the actors

It's terrible in pretty much every way.

Sadly, it's not the worst one anymore. Because The Source exists.

green_dragon posted...

I was so confused until I looked it up. I thought you all were talking about a Scottish person becoming a vampire.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cf6SaA-Kdro

Oblivion_Hero posted...

sunlight didn't kill him.

Nosferatu is where that started.

Cowboys as we tend to think of them (Wild West flavor) really only come into play after 1865 or so.

Samurai as we tend to think of them (armored, fighting) were long gone by 1830 - they started the shift away from militarism around 1600 (in the same way knights still exist today, but aren't wearing armor or carrying swords).

Pirates have been around for most of human history, but the way we usually think of them (swashbuckling Golden Age Jack Sparrow style) was long over by 1830.

Not sure what you mean by pomps, but if you mean fops, that was sort of a pre-Victorian stereotype, and kind of over by 1830 as well.

Would depend on which type of vampire you consider canon, since there's hundreds of different interpretations.

The Penanggalan would make for an interesting contrast.



Revelation34 posted...

Since when?

Cutting the head off is a traditional method for preventing vampires from rising. It usually involves putting garlic in their mouth as well. Along with staking the heart and burying them face down.

I mean, it's not a surprise that something still explicitly in the experimental phase is going to have flaws.

Tell me how well it's working 5 years from now and I'll care more.

Kimbos_Egg posted...

independence day.

https://throwflame.com/products/xl18-flamethrower

Check your local library, they may have one for public use.

$0

Go to RI, and convince everyone on CE to go there, and you can make it as active as you like.

It's been implied it wasn't actually him. Alanis is usually cagey about it (the same way Carly Simon is about "You're So Vain"), but she's also straight up denied it was him a few times.

Dave himself is the one who mainly says it was him, but he's also changed his mind a few times and denied it as well. And there's like 3-4 other guys who apparently fit the bill.

The moral of the story is apparently Alanis went down on a lot of guys in theaters.

The most likely theory is that it's a song based on multiple relationships combined, and not one specific person.



Far-Queue posted...

cut it out

https://youtu.be/BBBCwpYp0mg?t=26

ConfusedTorchic posted...

please, dragon age 2 killed dragon age and you damn well know it did po

People shit on DA2, but it was never as bad as everyone made it out to be.

People complained because they didn't get to play as the Warden anymore, but Hawke was fine as a replacement, and it makes more sense to play as different characters in different regions while exploring different aspects of the world. Plus they got great VAs to play them. And the change meant they could have Hawke show up in later games, whereas we're never going to see the Warden again.

People complained because they changed the gameplay mechanics, but that was pretty much inevitable once the series went mainstream - and most people didn't flip their shit when Mass Effect 2 did the same thing.

People complained because it reused map assets - but again, Mass Effect did the same thing and no one cared. And it was fine since half the point was that the streets of Kirkwall all look the same (not to mention the whole game is framed as a story Varric is telling, so he's just leaving out details).

People complained because the story wasn't about a Chosen One saving the world, but if every story in the setting was that, it would get stupid very quickly (this is a problem the Elder Scrolls games already have). And a lot of people also complain about how cliche those types of stories have become, so you'd never please everyone no matter what you do anyway.

Meanwhile, DA2 had better music (than both DA:O and DA:I), strong characters (equal to DA:O and better than nearly everyone in DA:I), a strong story (albeit a more personal one), and did a better job setting up future stories than either DA:O or DA:I did (and DA:I seems to go out of its way to undo most of what you accomplish in both DA:O and DA2, as well as itself).

I really enjoyed DA2. DA:I broke me.

DA:I is about 1/3rd of a good DA game, dragged down by endless padding and slog, split focus, a desire to be more like Skyrim (and succeeding in all the worst ways), DLC that undoes most of what you've accomplished, and a reliance on the BS that is Dragon Age Keep.

DA2 left me excited for the next DA game. DA:I (combined with Andromeda and Anthem) have left me assuming BioWare isn't capable of making great games anymore.

ArvTheGreat posted...

It's a terrible mario movie. But it's not a terrible movie

This reminds me of some of the reviews of the live-action Masters of the Universe movie from the 1980s.

A lot of comic fans like to point out that it's basically a terrible Masters of the Universe movie, but works way better if you kind of squint and pretend it's a Fourth World movie instead:

https://www.cbr.com/comic-book-urban-legends-revealed-75/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masters_of_the_Universe_(film)#Jack_Kirby_inspiration

Lokarin posted...

would you like a platformer

No.

I can honestly say I will never try the Grimace shake.

We realized, we just don't care. Because you're on the wrong board.

Krow_Incarnate posted...

I swear I've started this game 4 or 5 times and end up hating it every single time.

There was a time when Dragon Age was one of my favorite franchises. Bought the books and everything.

DA:I is the game that killed that. Utterly and completely.

At this point I don't even care about DA4. I probably won't even bother playing it when it comes out.

Considering I didn't bother watching the last two...

Good luck!

If you try hard enough, you might make it to Grand Dragon! Or maybe even Imperial Wizard!













https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Wizard

FrozenBananas posted...

just like in the movie Jurassic Park, Its basically just for millionaires and billionaires

It's... kind of not, though?

In the original movies, it's clearly intended for the masses, it just never has a chance to open. Hammond explicitly says he doesn't want it to just be for the rich. (Granted, book Hammond is waaay more of an asshole and is definitely in it solely for the money, but even he has more of a Disney-esque mentality of getting tons of people into the park, not just the rich, because you make more money that way).

In Jurassic World, you basically see tons of families there, and the Disney parallels are even more obvious.

The park is essentially designed to be affordable, but with tons of turnover and merch generating revenue, while reducing operating costs by cutting as many corners as possible (which is why everthing goes wrong).

Krow_Incarnate posted...

I like the Durge origin a lot, but I hate when people insist that it's the canon playthrough and makes Tav obsolete.

The problem is, that's technically true - it is canon.

If WotC references BG3 in future works, the main character is going to be Durge, not Tav. It's also going to be a male white Dragonborn. "Tav" doesn't exist "canonically".

Larian honestly doesn't like player backstory agency, even if the vast majority of players prefer it. It's why in Divinity: Original Sin 2 you're "supposed" to play as one of the Origin characters and not a custom - you miss out on a LOT of the story if you play custom, and you don't really get anything unique in exchange.

Same with Tav and Durge - Durge gets extra plot, Tav doesn't. Most of the story is clearly built around Durge, Tav is basically a nobody.

I wouldn't say Durge makes Tav obsolete (I personally prefer the freedom of Tav, because I'm a filthy RPer). But Durge is definitely canonical, and clearly who Larian want you to play.



Krow_Incarnate posted...

For Half-Drow, it's up to you, but in my experience when I played as the half-elf subrace, I didn't get any of the Drow dialogue IIRC. That's why I ended up going full-drow and customized him to look Half-Drow-ish.

From what I've heard, they get some Drow options, and some Half-Elf options - and at least a couple lines that are specifically for Half-Drow. So there is a difference between them and pure Drow or pure Half-Elf.

But like I said, I'm a filthy RPer. And I know a ton about Faerun. So I'm not as concerned about whether or not the game has a ton of reactivity for a specific race as opposed to whatever persona I'm
building in my head. I wouldn't necessarily pick the race or class options in a given conversation anyway if they don't fit who I think my character is.

(Incidentally, this is why I prefer Fallout: New Vegas over Fallout 3 and Fallout 4 - I'd rather have the total blank slate Obsidian gives me than the more defined backstory Bethesda clearly wants to integrate into the main story. I don't RP to have someone else tell me who I'm supposed to be.)

As an example, my impulsive and "whimsical" Half-Elf Warlock raised on the streets of Baldur's Gate would probably be picking very different options than my "Merciful" Half-Elf Selunite Cleric raised in a temple, and neither of them would be overly hung up on their heritage (ie, not picking the Half-Elf options). But a Half-Drow would be much more aware of being sort of trapped between two worlds.

I feel like the Background and Class options do more to shape personality than Race does (for me, anyway). Though I'll lean into it more for the full Drow and Tiefling runs, especially since those are so strongly tied into the Act 1 plot.

I was considering a Gnome at one point, but I heard some of the smaller races can have camera issues in some scenes. It was originally going to be my Warlock, and I may still play one eventually, but if I do I'll probably go Barbarian in memory of Nudo (RIP).