Lurker > DuneMan

masticatingman posted...

There are those GeekandSundry streams on Thursday night on Twitch if youre interested. The DM is a respected voice actor and I think everyone else is also a voice actor or involved in the entertainment biz.

That's certainly part of it. They ended their first campaign, which they played for several years. So there was buzz around that. Then they started a new one.
---

"I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me." -Cao Cao

This brings to mind the Fantasia handmaiden centaur sequence. Disney has quite a lot of stuff to hide in a vault of shame.
---

"I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me." -Cao Cao

FrisbeeDude posted...

Except he wasn't using the data to make a racist insuation[sic]...

Actually he was. He was stating that the Amazon Store is both racist and class-ist because smart phone penetration and checking account percentages remain higher among whites.

That's a stupid position. The former is down to income inequality, which is a separate issue outside the control of the Amazon Store. The latter would say more about banks and racial bias in lending practices; which would again be outside the control of the Amazon Store.
---

"I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me." -Cao Cao

Hm... If the narrator were posting that as a message on Gamefaqs they'd be moderated for making a racist generalization.
---

"I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me." -Cao Cao

Yeah, if the police force allowed the black officer to stay after firing the white officer that officer could turn around and sue the police force, rightfully claiming racial discrimination. It would literally be a case of 'they fired me because I'm white'.

The lesson in all of this is 'don't say stupid crap online because it's considered public record'. Also, incorporate Internet culture classes into schools as kids need to understand Internet basics.
---

"I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me." -Cao Cao

Hexenherz posted...

The Army's been telling Congress to stop wasting money on tanks for the past 5+ years now but Congress keeps new procurements in the NDAA.

And then we give those tanks to countries that don't want them, and they sit in a desert and slowly rust, without ever being used. So, "no money for CHIP", but "money for unused, rusting tanks year after year".
---

"I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me." -Cao Cao

As cool as Tachikomas would be, legs are a terrible mechanical structure. Too many intricate moving parts that can break down.
---

"I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me." -Cao Cao

Samantha Bee will be disappointed. She hoped he would disappear overseas and never return. :P
---

"I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me." -Cao Cao

Aluminum versus Aluminium is probably just as dumb as the colonel versus 'kernel' thing. While some elements maintain the 'um' ending, such a platinum or tantalum, there were competing communities on whether the element Al would have the ending 'um' or 'ium'. IIRC it was Webster's that kept the 'um' ending, which accounts for its spelling in the US today.
---

"I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me." -Cao Cao

pres_madagascar posted...

Or any time after 1950 tbqh

A 60's vampire game set to the music of the Beatles? That could certainly be trippy. I wonder if they would throw in an Austin Powers lookalike to pursue the vampire character...
---

"I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me." -Cao Cao

Given the extra creative freedom allowed by releasing games through platforms like Steam it surprises me that the 'vampire game' market is left largely untapped. Even without a VtM license, a vampire game set in the 1990's would have a good mix of technology to supernatural elements.
---

"I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me." -Cao Cao

Instructions must have been unclear, that isn't the proper way to be filled with the spirit of Jesus. :P
---

"I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me." -Cao Cao

spikethedevil posted...

No most of us do but i'll stop when Americans get over their phobia of the letter U and stop missing the H off of herb.

The 'H' thing isn't going to happen. Brits may pronounce the letter 'HAY-ch', but Americans do not.

I do admit it sounds strange though when some Americans leave the sound off completely. The word 'history' is a good example. A portion of the population pronounces it 'istory', as in 'an istory of the world'.
---

"I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me." -Cao Cao

Anisoptera posted...

Yes. How can a disinfectant claim to kill viruses if viruses aren't living things?

Because bleach has a corrosive effect that peels apart their protein shells at the atomic level.
---

"I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me." -Cao Cao

Youtube probably got tired of all the challenges to their demonetizing of videos. Pretty much most people who did, for example, video game content had their videos flagged for demonetization for months and months while they challenged each video. So this seems like Google just wants to cut of the vast majority of people from monetization to make things convenient for themselves.

On the flipside, those who continue to do videos as a hobby can push Youtube's ToS to the limit since there's nothing left to lose.
---

"I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me." -Cao Cao

cjsdowg posted...

So many people want a damn chobit.

Chobits are a green solution. A shrinking human population is one of the best things for the planet, and Chobits would totally make that a reality.
---

"I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me." -Cao Cao

SusanGreenEyes posted...

I've heard there are stray dogs roaming around but I haven't seen any.

They come from random encounters where you find them fighting Skeevers or Wolves. Unfortunately they have a somewhat rabid disposition, attacking you if you try to heal them. That's a trait they share with Vigilants of Stendarr; who I end up using as loot pinatas.
---

"I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me." -Cao Cao

Irony posted...

The Dwarven mudcrab is crap. It's literally just a beast of burden and it's not even good at that.

It's more than that. Since it comes with a spell to teleport it to you, and can be sent off to cities, you can use it in a few circumstances: if you're the thieving type it can bring lockpicks to you in jail, if you want scrolls or potions on call it can hold 36 of either, if you get slightly overencumbered you can dump an item on him and send him to a city, etc.
---

"I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me." -Cao Cao

CaptainCrunch posted...

Your kids can bring home pets? Mine never did.

Yup. That includes unusual ones like Mudcrabs for the boys and Foxes for the girls. If you have the Special Edition where Bethesda is pushing paid mods there's a Dwarven Mudcrab pet for the Dragonborn that has been free for several weeks.
---

"I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me." -Cao Cao

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB_Jf5SQPNI&t=34
---

"I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me." -Cao Cao

Spooking posted...

The thing I remember about Carl's Jr. is that they use so much mayo and ketchup that it will spill out of your burger.

That's so it can spill onto the bikini-clad women in their commercials. Well, the commercials they used to run, which were basically burger porn.
---

"I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me." -Cao Cao

The only thing you need from the Institute is to steal their method for crafting fresh toilet paper. Using the leaves of an Irradiated Thistle to wipe your nether regions is both dangerous and ineffective. :P
---

"I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me." -Cao Cao

That and Big Iron were always excuses to go shoot some Legion scum.
---

"I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me." -Cao Cao

Laserion posted...

Letter-to-sound correspondence sucks, though.

To me the most confusing transition from letters to sound occurs with English spelling of Gaelic words. Even with well-known examples it can take a moment to process them. For example, baensidhe is more commonly seen as banshee.
---

"I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me." -Cao Cao

Hexenherz posted...

Because it's a latin derived language

So are Italian and French. But Spanish has more direct word carry overs.
---

"I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me." -Cao Cao

SageHarpuia posted...

American english is closer to the english of the 1800's, how is the original accent dirtier than the fake one?

Dunno, but you'll often hear Europeans crapping on American English.

Speaking of being closer to older language though, Spanish has a lot of words today that are direct carry overs from Latin. E.g. look at an ancient Roman map of Rome itself and you'll probably be able to read it if you understand Spanish.
---

"I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me." -Cao Cao

To add to the vocabulary concern there are a LOT of grammatical exceptions to rules of grammar. Since a lot of the words come from other languages the actual sounds and way that the words flow can be startling compared to certain other languages. That's before you get into strong dialectic differences in pronunciation between 'the Queen's English' and 'dirty' American English.
---

"I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me." -Cao Cao

If you choose the latter, it doesn't work. Even in person you'd be hard-pressed to change the mind of a stranger.

I remember a story on the radio about a woman who was on a college debate team who decided she wanted to talk to men who catcalled her on the street, recording what they said and everything. At one point she was talking to an Australian guy who said he would pat a woman's butt on the street if she was with a group of women and he thought she was the 'hottest'. So she spends several hours on a park bench talking to this guy, telling him that women don't like catcalls and that patting a woman's butt is assault. After several hours the most she gets out of him was a declaration that he wouldn't pat a woman's butt anymore, but all the catcalls would continue. As she put it "2 hours talking to one man to convince him to not sexually assault women".

The point in referencing that? If it takes 2 hours to convince a single person to not lay their hands on strangers, what hope is there for changing people's minds by furiously posting back and forth on the Internet? None. The answer is none.
---

"I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me." -Cao Cao

Been called several times, with different results. The first time was an automotive accident case and the defense attorney dismissed me. The second and third times my group wasn't needed. The last time was sneaky as they did a second call in the day for an afternoon stop, which I missed because I was at work. But then they rescheduled me, for the week of Thanksgiving. Only 2 groups got called in that entire week, because the court staff likes their holidays.
---

"I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me." -Cao Cao

Notti posted...

I do agree that this is our core disagreement. I view single player balance as strictly below PVP considerations. And that it's desirable to have single player follow the same mechanics as PVP (no 2 standards)

I don't want to quote your entire message, for space consideration to others, but it's nice to have a civil disagreement on what is valued.

I value single player just as much, because to me there's a richer and more vibrant tapestry to pull from for the single player experience. The possibilities are nearly limitless because the gameplay focuses on the experience of one specific player, the one at the controls.

For PVP though you have to design for all players, and all skill levels. That changes the gameplay on a fundamental level. It's also necessary. This is why, for example, shooters moved away from the older metric of having good players go 30-0 while new players would end up with 1-20. Players of varied skill levels have to feel engaged or else the player base dies out to a small dedicated cabal, which is bad for the developer and publisher in the long run. It also means that adding anything beyond flavor text/visuals has to be continually revisited and potentially tweaked. It's a very different beast to designing for single player.
---

"I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me." -Cao Cao

There, there Coal Minds, it'll be alright. We'll find you a new job, maybe on a farm upstate. :P

On a more serious note, coal jobs are going to continue to die. It has nothing to do with 'filthy libruls' either, it's just market forces pushing towards natural gas. Some of the states effected are trying to implement work training programs to shift coal workers into other burgeoning industries.
---

"I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me." -Cao Cao

Notti posted...

But what about the skill in single player? Well, you could have the skills operate differently in both modes, but I think both players and developers correctly see single player as basically a tutorial for pvp for players. So it hurts players who transition from single to pvp, if all the skills have all these different properties in pvp.

That works for franchises that are known to be oriented for PVP. But you can start to see some of the messiness in games that blend a singleplayer experience with a PVP component. E.g. the Souls series. Equipment that is fine and dandy for singleplayer content gets nerfed because people complain about it effecting PVP. Even in Dark Souls 2, which specifically centered itself around PVP balance. A good early example of that was the Sun Ring, which from a PVP perspective would have punished people who swing wildly(normally considered a good thing by PVP crowds) but people whined about taking damage in a laggy environment, so it was nerfed to barely register as a tickle. In Dark Souls 3 the items and mechanics literally did function differently in PVP, without explicitly stating it to players. So people who wanted to participate in the PVP had to suss it out for themselves and put up reference utilities online for the community.

At the core balancing and creating a singleplayer experience and a multiplayer one are fundamentally different. The former is much more free form and allows the player to do a lot of things that would be unbalanced in a PVP match. E.g. if you want giant explosions that rip enemies apart, then that's fine for singleplayer. But give those explosions to one person in a PVP match and the entire mode falls apart. The kicker though is that both types of experience have merit and have a place in games. If a few publishers want to force/shoehorn a MP mode in all of their published games then so be it, the consumer should be informed of that and know what they're getting. But if all games cater to PVP then gaming as a whole will be poorer for it.
---

"I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me." -Cao Cao

Cocytus posted...

HBO is producing multiple prequel series

Oh? Depending on how they cover events the cost for such prequels could balloon even further.
---

"I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me." -Cao Cao

IIRC, go to Hawaii. They'll give you at least 101 ways to cook up Spam.
---

"I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me." -Cao Cao

_BlueMonk posted...

i never did the shivering isles dlc in oblivion. should i go back and play it? how long is it?

General popular opinion is that it's one of the best DLC packs of any game ever.

A few lines of the Sheogorath quest in Skyrim make more sense if you're familiar with Shivering Isles.
---

"I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me." -Cao Cao

1. Mage robes come in various potencies. The best version will have a title like Master Robes of Destruction. There's also the unique Archmage Robes which drop the casting cost for all schools of magicka, and boost your magicka pool.

2. Nope. A few notes though: fetching the Dragonstone from Bleakfalls Barrow will lead to the quest where dragons are activated in the world, after being sent to fetch the Horn of Jurgen Windcaller the random dragon attacks will stop until you complete the next quest titled A Blade in the Dark, keep an eye out for new specially-named dragons in the world that can show up as you work your way through the main quest.

3. Scrolls have been covered. They're a one shot item that you can cast without cost or knowledge. Scrolls of Guardian Circle are nice because they don't have the Master Spell casting animation. Shouts are an alternative form of magic that operate on a cooldown instead of a resource pool. You can shorten the cooldown with an Amulet of Talos or praying at a Shrine to Talos, each takes a raw 20% off the cooldown. E.g. a 100 second cooldown becomes a 60 second cooldown if you have the Amulet and Blessing together.

4. The College is where you go for the Expert and Master level spells. There's also a unique item crafting device connected to the college, but you'll have to explore a bit to find it and figure out how to use it.

5. Slap together the components at a proper workstation, get a new item or upgrade. Usually points in the associated skill, along with any relevant perks, will boost the benefit provided. There's a lot of repetition involved to level up the skills, so you might consider paying a trainer as you level up.
---

"I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me." -Cao Cao

Funkydog posted...

.Isn't Westworld relatively new though? Like, last few years new? >.>

The HBO series is based on the movie which was based on a Michael Crichton book. Of course in the book/movie Westworld was just one park alongside Romanworld and Medievalworld. By that metric GTA would be Gangworld.
---

"I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me." -Cao Cao

Yeah, on second thought the amount of metallic elements contained in the human body is relatively low.

The whole concept of firebending though is producing flame by igniting breath. We also see detonations created at range. With enough practice a technique to ignite the lungs of your enemy should certainly be possible.
---

"I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me." -Cao Cao

Solar_Crimson posted...

Apparently, Australia stole all of America's heat.

Nah. America stole the arctic's cold.
---

"I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me." -Cao Cao

Speaking of secret bending techniques, how about Katara and bloodbending... it makes you wonder if other elements could have forbidden techniques like that.... Perhaps earthbenders could rip iron out of one's blood forcibly or firebenders could ignite an enemy's breath inside their lungs, burning them from the inside out. The world of Avatar gets a fair bit grimmer if you start thinking about stuff like that...
---

"I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me." -Cao Cao

Hm... I never found Azula likable. Like others have said, she's legit crazy. You'd be much better off hanging out with her friend, Tai Lee(if I remember the name correctly). The interplay between Zuko with Azula and Ozai is nice though, and helps illustrate the overall philosophy of the Fire Nation: as directed by Ozai.
---

"I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me." -Cao Cao

'Microcheating'
'his latest fantasy chick'

Dubiously toned article is dubiously toned.
---

"I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me." -Cao Cao

Jeff AKA Snoopy posted...

Eh, it didn't really do that. It actually answered a lot of questions in the first two and now stands to make you think about the nature of life.

Nah, it was an extra twist on 'it was all a dream'. Invalidating everything the audience has seen results in a trite story, even if it had a mechanism for that shift which was different than the norm.
---

"I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me." -Cao Cao