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PraetorXyn posted...

RDR2 makes literally everything so glacially slow I find it incredibly tedious compared to 1, but its a prequel so story wise youre good.

Yeah it is slow but it is the only slow game that really pulled me in and made me felt like a person in this living world. It is a real trip of an experience

Eh But are you going to be with the company in five years?

I have meet with leaders and with constituents and I have made the decision to hang it up here and stop perusing this race, THIS YEAR! The future holds countless possibilities and I am ready willing and able to step up to the plate and go fight for my country at anytime, Santos said.

Are those actual quotes or did the journalist fail

Earliest I remember playing were Ultima VIII and Super Mario RPG, though I didn't realize Ultima was an RPG at the time

wanderingshade posted...

She tried to add this to the Ukraine bill

No funding shall be made available to Ukraine unless restrictions on ethnic minorities, including Hungarians in Transcarpathia, right to use their native languages in schools are lifted.

You tell me who you think her handlers are.

Oddly specific and informed for someone as dumb as she pretends to be.

If I wanted to play through Steam are there any essential mods to get it working on a modern system? And I'm assuming with GOG that's already taken care of

What achievements are you missing? I would have thought you'd have been at 100% by now.

I shopped there once. Bought a graphic tee, a thin button-up shirt, and a thin hoodie. The button-up shirt tore after two washes, the stitching keeping the pockets on the hoodie inside fell out after a couple of washes too and the zippers were all curled up weird. Only the overpriced graphic tee still worked well for several years.

Fallout 4 is pretty rough and I would recommend *especially* New Vegas but *even* 3 over 4. I'm not a hardcore Fallout fanboy, I couldn't even get far in 1 or 2. But the gameplay loop and the pace of the story in 4 are both really garbage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WLFpHLe5JE

There was a person I flirted with in Phantasia IV but I quit playing and when I came back I never saw her again.

There was a girl I was dating in Runescape in middle school. I made a sapphire ring for her and proposed after a while but she rejected me and I gave it to her friend and me and the friend hung out a while but it caused problems for their circle of friends so that ended.

There was a 40 year old lady in Yahoo! Pyramid Solitaire who was talking dirty to me on voice chat when I was like 14 or 16.

And there was some person that I "dated" that claimed to be in college while I was in high school. After many months though they said they were a guy and their friends were laughing at me and that was that.

18, and the account is still active but I only use it for like the rare $5 Steam game purchase these days just to keep it open.

One of the janitors where I worked did this with butts in the ash trays outside. I think I saw him light up a fresh cigarette once or twice and put the butt in the tray for later so maybe they were all his but idk

I do but I don't know if it is common or expected. I went on a two week trip to Germany in high school and my teacher said it is a thing over there and I liked the idea so I started doing it back here in the States.

Have you tried Viscera Cleanup Detail? Came out many years ago, each level is generally based on some horror or sci-fi movie trope (like cleaning up a bunch of slaughtered Marines fighting an alien on a space station or cleaning up a house on Halloween where someone slashed up the residents).

Also kind of satisfying but very frustrating at times.

https://nerdist.com/article/bethesda-reveals-official-special-stats-of-fallout-series-characters-ghoul-lucy-maximus/

Also wanted to add the ambience is pretty cool. Between missions you're on your ship which is kind of like in Warframe but a little less snazzy (at least for now). You can manage your weapon load out here, go to the strategy map and fly to a planet to choose your missions, etc. It tells you what the status is of the planet (percent liberated or defended) and every mission helps liberate or defend the planet. Once you choose a mission you go to the hellpod and it drops you down into the Battlefield. And you can just look out the window and watch other pods and cannons firing off.

Like it is pretty simple in between missions but it makes you feel like you're part of the world.

It's pretty fun.

You start by selecting your loadout. You choose a primary weapon (think assault rifles, shotguns, sniper rifles), a secondary (like pistols), and a grenade. Then you choose your Stratagems - these are special drops you can call in - they consist of things like automatic turrets, artillery support, bomber/fighter support, armored mech suits, and special weapons like grenade launchers and heavy machine guns. Typically you're trying to balance what you have with what your teammates have so you don't all end up with nukes and heavy machine guns, though it's usually not the end of the world at least on lower difficulties if you do.

Then you drop into the mission. There are two main fronts spread across several planets. Some are against robots (with ranged weapons and heavy armor and shit), and some are against bugs (think the bugs from Starship Troopers or perhaps Zerg from SC2).

You have a primary objective and a timelimit. Your primary objective could be something like activating and launching an ICBM, evacuating civilians from an outpost, extracting fuel from pipelines, etc. There are also many secondary objectives, such as destroying enemy nests, extracting research data, destroying certain facilities, loading and activating artillery, etc. And then there are many points of interest where you can find resources. Once you've done the primary objective you have to reach an extraction point and call in extraction, wait for the ship to arrive (I think it's two minutes?) and then you have like 20 seconds to load up or you're left behind. In this respect it's like L4D.

As you play you find resources and get experience and another currency that let you upgrade your ship with new facilities - this helps you do stuff like call in certain stratagems more quickly, get more ammo with your stratagems, etc.

You also get war medals that you use to unlock new gear, everything from cosmetics to new weapons. These are unlocked through War Bonds (think Battle Passes), but you can grind out war medals through personal and community objectives as well as find them in missions.

It's generally a really great time.

Oh and you get a certain number of "reinforcements" per mission, so it's not like you'll play for 30 minutes then die then just be screwed out of rewards. Your teammates can call in a spawn beacon and you will respawn.

I share weird idiosyncracies with my family and I don't know where I picked it up. Like my brother and I always buy things in pairs - could be cereal, toothpaste, etc. I didn't know he did it until I went shopping with his wife one time and she was like "your brother does the same thing".

Also we haven't seen each other in several years and we both haven't really been to our (well, more like my since he was already almost out of high school when we moved) hometown. Our dad took us very rarely to a coffee shop in another town. For some reason even though I had only been there like twice that I could recall, I felt like I wanted to go there again the last time I was up here. My brother was here recently and he also stopped at the coffee shop. It's just weird, there are tons of other cafes in the area and places to go but for some reason we felt an attraction to that one stupid cafe lol.

IronChef_Kirby posted...

Shadows Over Loathing did it right; that game had both an Arachnophobia mode and and Arachnophilia mode that added more spiders.

I need to give that game a try. I loved KoL though always sucked at it, and West of Loathing was fun but also never finished it.

can't believe it's been 30 years. I still have the soundtracks somewhere.

I would hope so, they can't just end it like that after the first season.

In ten years people aren't even going to know CE was a thing.

It was toxic as shit, I used my account status and access to create an account on a spin-off website that was ten times as toxic (though at least in the early days there were some fun things there, like the LUEfo hoax, Super Mario Tennis and watermelons, iykyk) and I spend literally two full years of my life (if you were to go off the user statistics page) on that community being a total loser and then that got shut down a year or so ago.

Revelation34 posted...

What was the difference?

I don't remember *all* the details any more, but from what I remember, the property was built on a river and you had to do some miniquests and collect resources to build it out. Most or all of it was outdoors so you didn't have to go through a loading screen and you could enjoy nature. And there were scripted random events where people would come to visit you, sometimes to trade, sometimes to try to turn you into a vampire.

I used to love it but haven't seen it since maybe season 10 or 11 and have no idea what it is like now

I've dipped in and out over the years and it definitely feels like it's become a better place. Some of the good users I remember seem to have departed though

I've fallen asleep at one or two movies in theaters but never walked out

I only ever touched one Skyrim mod and that was a player-owned housing mod before Hearthwhatever came out and it was a million times more interesting than the official DLC.

party_animal07 posted...

Crabs trigger a similar response as spiders to me.

lol I'm looking at the screenshots and they look pretty similar so I could see how that happens.

I've seen this in another game, maybe Dragon Age Origins?

I have been to Japan a few times, climbed Fuji, visited Tokyo Disney, wish I saw more while I was there but it was still a really fascinating time.

I am checking out ThreadZone but shit is hard to navigate, it feels like reddit except you have to subscribe to zones to see the content first (or... something)? Also a lot of users from that one LUE spin-off that got shut down a year or two ago.

I'm too old for discord, it's fine for small group discussions but I can't keep up with everything when there's like twenty people posting shit and then I'm out of the loop because I couldn't log in for two days

Oh well try it, it's actually pretty fun and I regret not getting into it earlier.

we are part of history OP
https://twinfinite.net/news/fallout-76-hits-new-steam-concurrent-players-peak/

it looks like a "links" spinoff tbh.

El_Dustino posted...

I thought they were kinda like that in Fallout 1/2

unfortunately i never got far in those games.
I remember starting one of them, dying a dozen times to a scorpion, getting out of the vault, getting to a town with my weapon drawn accidentally and getting shot by everyone and there was no autosaving so i was hosed lol

andel posted...

i thought it was great and can't wait for s2

this
my biggest complaint is that it was only 8 episodes and I want more
also I'm not even a hardcore Fallout fanboy but I think they went a good route by just crafting an original story.
ALSO... I don't remember the BoS being so insufferable and idiotic in the games.

Sneasel posted...

out of curiosity who were you on ETI

Asasin

Also no one knew me there but w/e. It is sad lmao my online social presence is about the same as my in-person one so I don't know why I try.

I tried the new site. Maybe I'm just too sensitive but people always turn shit personal when you are talking about general political or current event topics. I want to just have general conversations with people not get into fights about my character or how I am fucked up (typing this makes me sound like a douche though).

I will check out ThreadZone though thank you for the link.

Well this is really depressing news. Forums have been a huge part of my social outlet and connection since middle school in 2000. This one isn't perfect but the only other one I really ever had a connection to is a spinoff of a LUE site which is full of toxic users and I'm probably never going back there.

Sad to see this decline happening

CountCorvinus posted...

Mothman event is ongoing until Tuesday. Head to Point Pleasant at the top of every hour to earn some fun rewards.

https://nukaknights.com/articles/all-about-the-mothman-equinox-event.html

Interacting with the Sacred Mothman Tome in your camp will give you a +5% XP Buff.

Oh snap thanks. Is it possible to get there as a new player or is it like events in certain other games that require you to have made a lot of progress first?

No, I did go to a party at an under 21 club (that had been my town's bowling alley that I went to frequently growing up so that was kind of sad) after graduation but I did not go to prom.

I didn't sweat it too much, started to regret it a couple years later, now it's so far removed from my current life I don't really think about it.

008Zulu posted...

I wonder how long it took Lucy's father to walk from Los Angeles to New Vegas? That has to be close to 1 week on foot. I envy the endurance of the fusion cores in the show, the ones in game barely seem to last an hour.

They also seem to be very scarce in the show. Which is funny because I have about six of them from an hour of play in 76...

Just finished the first season (I hope there's a second one), it is a pretty damn good show with a lot of tone shifts that keep you on your toes with which direction a lot of the scenes are going to go. The first episode or two have some weird editing deficiencies in them with awkward scene cuts and it starts to fall a little flat in episode 3 but quickly recovers and finishes out strong.