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| Topic | you will never do anything remarkable |
| ParanoidObsessive 07/07/22 8:54:06 PM #25 | Bligh_with_no_T posted... This reads like the kind of fake quote a three year on twitter would say. Adam_Savage posted... sounds like something someone who trains puppies to boil people in liquid sugar would say Coming from the two of you, I'll take your disdain as a compliment. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | PolloftheDay is banned. |
| ParanoidObsessive 07/07/22 8:52:31 PM #8 | HarbingerofHope posted... PolloftheDay is banned Should probably stop breaking the ToS on low-karma alts while your main is in purg for a borderline account suicide. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | GameFAQs User Name Reconciliation - Coming July 7 |
| ParanoidObsessive 07/07/22 7:06:24 PM #54 | wwinterj25 posted... Don't think this will effect me so meh. Too late now anyway. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | It would've been crazy if the moon was another earth |
| ParanoidObsessive 07/07/22 7:00:23 PM #5 | NeoSioType posted... It would've been crazy if the moon was another earth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2-x4VhKPaM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcacVr-uRjg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOr8xX_1QxA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar:_The_Silver_Star#Setting SinisterSlay posted... If there was a second Earth, we'd be at war with it so we could take their oil. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rrh3udGhzuU --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | What is more dangerous? An AR-15 or Beer? |
| ParanoidObsessive 07/07/22 5:02:48 PM #6 | Judgmenl posted... My vote goes to beer. A gun is only as dangerous as its owner. A beer is only as dangerous as the person drinking it. So the conclusion we're coming to is that the real cause of all problems is that people suck. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | You ever wonder who that first person is that died in each war? |
| ParanoidObsessive 07/07/22 2:15:27 PM #15 | Ogurisama posted... Who was the first person to ever die due to war was? It would depend on how you define "war", but it would have been someone post-Agricultural Revolution. Because you had to establish the concept of property and wealth before you can have political structures and specialized workers, and you need both of those concepts before you can really establish anything resembling a military. If you define war as just soldiers fighting other people, you probably get your first victim shortly after agriculture starts, as the first settled tribes start using force against their unmilitarized neighbors (but that's more just raids). But if you define war as being combat between two military forces, you might be looking towards Mesopotamia around the time of the Sumerians. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Kazuo Takahashi, Creator Of Yu-Gi-Oh, Found Dead In The Ocean |
| ParanoidObsessive 07/07/22 11:47:38 AM #4 | keyblader1985 posted... Your series changed the world. Did it, though? I mean, I'm not going to dispute whether or not it was popular or whether or not you enjoyed it personally, but did it really change anything? Was it really a huge influence on tons of things that came afterward? Because it feels to me like everything it did was already done before by something else. Card games? Magic was a thing first, and the Pokemon CCG predates it as well (and both likely inspired it in the first place). Anime tied in with a card game? Again, Pokemon. Yu-Gi-Oh made tons of money, sure - but I'm not sure the world would look any different right now if he'd never invented it. I don't even think it spawned a wave of direct imitators the way Magic and Pokemon did. Or radically changed any facet of pop culture that I'm aware of. Maybe I'm wrong - maybe it had a huge impact in a way I'm completely unaware of. But it doesn't seem all that influential overall. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Have you become your parents? |
| ParanoidObsessive 07/07/22 11:39:17 AM #11 | POLL posted... Yes, I'm always sayings things like "the world is going to hell nowadays" I am always saying things like that. But my parents never really did. My father generally ignored the world as a whole and didn't complain about it specifically, and my mother was always way more of a naive optimist than a cynic. Whereas I've been a grumpy old man since I was 12. If anything, I became more like the archetypal assumption of what "parents" are before my parents ever did. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | The amount of Judy Hopps furry art is the nail in society's coffin |
| ParanoidObsessive 07/07/22 11:35:45 AM #11 | Bligh_with_no_T posted... We are seeing a shift in that though. Something like Thor Ragnarok received a lot of critical acclaim, in part because the thesis was "society is built on sin and atrocity and is incurable while preserving the glorification of the past". I'd argue that aspect of the film wasn't even remotely the reason why it got critical acclaim, and that the sort of people who focus on that as a core theme are generally terrible people with way too much time on their hands (and fortunately, in the vast minority). --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | What superpower would you want? |
| ParanoidObsessive 07/07/22 11:33:01 AM #68 | Sufferedphoneix posted... Comics tend to be based on worlds that on the surface anyways is just like out own. These powers existing is what changes things. If super powers existed in the real world our laws of physics wouldn't be the same. Much like in comics. Either it's magic/supernatural which ignore physics or our physics would have to be altered to allow it. Yeah, but most of those universes solve the realism problem by just going, ehh, it's fantasy, shut up and stop worrying about it. It's not so much that powers defy physics in-universe, as much as writers ignore physics. And in cases where they actually try to explain how powers work in a realistic way, it very quickly becomes phenomenally stupid. Like Superman having to have subconscious telekinetic powers to explain why his clothes don't get destroyed or how he can grab a plane in flight and not have it tear to pieces from the stress. Or Ant-Man having to tap into an alternate universe to explain where his extra mass comes from or goes to. or Cyclops having to open extradimensional portals right in front of his eyes to fire EYE PUNCHES FROM THE PUNCH DIMENSION. Basically, super-powers are stupid, and most of them would never work in a realistic universe. And we're mostly willing to ignore that and suspend our disbelief when it comes to a fantasy setting with alien civilizations and magic, but less willing to ignore the problems when we're talking about the real world. So I'd argue that even if the Marvel and DC universes are "like Earth" on a superficial surface level, they're inherently and qualitatively different in tons of ways that change the entire discussion. They're not really "hard sci-fi" as much as they are "modern fantasy", which comes with different rules and assumptions. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | You ever wonder who that first person is that died in each war? |
| ParanoidObsessive 07/07/22 11:26:24 AM #11 | GameLord113 posted... What would be worst? Being the first one to die or the last one to die? Being one of the ones who die after peace is already declared, but the news hasn't made it to every front, so you die in a battle technically fought after the war is already over. It's happened at least a few times. And got at least one US President elected. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Reboot was a masterpiece |
| ParanoidObsessive 07/06/22 7:09:50 PM #7 | slacker03150 posted... Reboot was a masterpiece I could never get past how utterly shit the animation was. I still reserve a place in the most hate-filled halls of hell for 90s-era CGI. And for the people who felt the need to keep shoving it into every kids' show and movie. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Who do Boomers think Millennials and Gen Z are the same thing? |
| ParanoidObsessive 07/06/22 7:05:51 PM #43 | Entity13 posted... PO, you and I are close enough in age we might be considered of the same generation if not for where the lousy generation divide had been drawn. Our interests are sometimes aligned, and our perspectives often differed because of where we come from, what we had access to in terms of knowledge. Do we let X and Millennial define us? I'd hope not. I generally define myself as Gen X in the same way I define myself as Aquarius. It's a defining term that is technically true, but doesn't necessarily accurately represent me. On the other hand, the Chinese Zodiac is totally legit. Because I am a FIRE DRAGON, and you ain't gonna take that away from me! But yeah, I've never really overly identified with Gen X in any meaningful way because I'm a misanthrope who mostly hates everyone in my generation as well. And I was raised by parents who were chronologically part of the Hippie Generation but they fucking loathed hippies. So it's hard to identify with your generational cohorts when you don't really like or respect them. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | What superpower would you want? |
| ParanoidObsessive 07/06/22 7:01:51 PM #57 | Sufferedphoneix posted... Poll also says super power. Super powers tend to defy logic and physics to avoid stuff like that. Depends on the setting. The problem is we live in the most "realistic" setting there is, so we tend to overthink things like physics or laws of nature because they apply here even if they don't necessarily apply in the Marvel or DC universes. Zareth posted... Malkavian or die! I've played Malks, but if I'm going to be honest my clans of choice are Tremere and Lasombra. Though my Malks include one that had multiple personality disorder (and each separate personality thought it was a member of a different Clan), a girl who was convinced she was a dead/a ghost, and a Malk who believed that all vampires were basically reincarnated sorcerer-priests from Atlantis. Though my favorite might have been a conspiracy theorist who is basically Mel Gibson's character in Conspiracy Theory crossed with Charlie in the Pepe Silvia Always Sunny episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nTpsv9PNqo --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | If you want to have sex with a play boy bunny first you have to |
| ParanoidObsessive 07/06/22 6:56:00 PM #13 | DragonClaw01 posted... Never let Sagan give you dating advice. His wife was pretty cute though. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | TIL that Arcade Gannon from New Vegas was voiced by Zachary Levi |
| ParanoidObsessive 07/06/22 6:50:43 PM #2 | I feel like I probably knew this, but I also don't remember knowing this, so I may not have known this. I mostly just knew that Veronica was Felicia Day, because I generally like Felicia Day. And Matthew Perry was Benny, because people mostly just kind of shit on him for it being a wooden performance. And Wayne Newton is Mr. New Vegas, because it's a play on the fact that Wayne Newton in real life is known as Mr. Las Vegas. Also, Danny Trejo is one of the other companions (the ghoul one - I forget his name because I almost never recruit him), Kris Kristofferson is the one NCR general (Hanlon?), and Michael Dorn is the one supermutant NPC from Fallout 2 (Marcus?). And Mr. House is Rene [insert long French name here], who played Odo on Deep Space Nine. And Yes Man is Dave Foley (Kids in the Hall, Newsradio, Celebrity Poker). And Michael Hogan (Battlestar Galactica, Mass Effect) is the doctor in Goodsprings. Oh, and a lot of the general voices were done by people like Laura Bailey and Liam O'Brien, who I recognized first time through because I'm a fan of their work in general. There's a few of those VAs who are in pretty much everything in the game. Okay, I actually know a lot of the voices. I'm probably forgetting others that I know as well, but I'd remember if I heard them again in-game. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | you will never do anything remarkable |
| ParanoidObsessive 07/06/22 6:32:26 PM #20 | Muscles posted... Well life has no purpose and will eventually end so, ultimately, everything mankind has ever done or will do will be lost to the sand of time and will be unremarkable. Came in to say more or less this. The vast majority of people will never do anything all that remarkable, and will be more or less completely forgotten in less than 100 years. After 1000 years, we'll have forgotten everyone except for the most important historical movers and shakers. We might remember political leaders or military leaders from major nations (and even then only if we maintain detailed history), but the average person will neither know nor care about nearly everyone else, whether they be celebrities or scientists or all but the most significant of religious leaders. After 10000, all but the most infamous will generally be forgotten. Unless society undergoes major upheaval between then and now, in which case even those people will be forgotten as well. And at some point, every human who's ever lived will be forgotten forever, and no one will ever remember what they did, or who they were. Given enough time, humanity itself will be forgotten, and no one and nothing will remain to prove that we ever existed. Eventually, even the stars themselves will burn out, and a lifeless empty void will be all that remains. Nothing we do matters in the end... so ironically, the only thing that really matters are the things we do in the moment. Don't strive for fame, or enduring legacy. Just live the life you want to live, and try to die with as few regrets as possible. That's all any of us really get out of this life. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | What superpower would you want? |
| ParanoidObsessive 07/06/22 12:51:44 PM #54 | Muscles posted... We could always figure out extra dimensional travel and go to a new universe We could, but I could also potentially discover magic is real and learn how to transmute lead into gold. I probably shouldn't plan my future financial strategy around assuming it's absolutely going to happen, though. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | I hate it when ebay sellers lower cost of item, but up shipping cost |
| ParanoidObsessive 07/06/22 12:48:02 PM #6 | It's like when people on Amazon sell a used book for 1 cent, but then charge like $9 in shipping. streamofthesky posted... Sounds like they're trying to cheat on taxes It's probably more a marketing strategy. People are more likely to buy something if it seems cheaper, even if it really isn't. It's why you see so many prices like $19.99 instead of $20. Or why gas prices always deal in fractions. It's also why most stores will show you the base price, without including sales tax until the end of the transaction. If you see the sale price first, and it's super-cheap (This book is only a penny?!), then your brain becomes more open to it (Sure I'll buy it - it's a total bargain!), with the added surcharges later being sort of written off as the cost of doing business. But if you reverse that (This book costs $9... but also has free shipping), your brain may be more discouraged by the higher price (even though its exactly the same as the first version). Basically, the human brain is stupid. And so much of marketing and politics and social engineering in general just consist of finding new ways to trick the stupid brain into being stupid. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Who do Boomers think Millennials and Gen Z are the same thing? |
| ParanoidObsessive 07/06/22 12:40:05 PM #39 | Veedrock- posted... Millennial is a funky ass word. We should call them Willennials instead. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Who do Boomers think Millennials and Gen Z are the same thing? |
| ParanoidObsessive 07/06/22 12:38:25 PM #38 | Entity13 posted... When it's your turn to raise the next generation, and are deliberately sidelining yourself, then you're doing something wrong. I say this not to you personally, PO, but to the hypothetical-you, as in the members of Gen X who made the choice to have kids and then took the hands-off approach Well, to be fair, I was talking more about the effect on the world as a whole than simply just how Gen X raised their kids. The Boomers grew up complaining about how all the "old men" ruined the world, but they were the ones who were going to fix everything. Give peace a chance, man! Save Mother Earth! Open your mind! And then they fucked everything up and became bitter old fucks. Millennials have grown up constantly complaining about how all the Boomers ruined the world, but they are the ones who are going to fix everything. Capitalism bad! Save the planet! Social justice! And they're almost certainly going to fuck everything up and become the exact same bitter old fucks they spend all of their time blaming everything on. 30-40 years from now, when an old Millennial looks into a mirror, they're going to see a Boomer staring back. Meanwhile Gen X just sat on the couch and watched TV and played video games. Can't blame us for shit! Boomers see themselves in the younger generation, and are reminded of all the ways they compromised their ideals and failed in their dreams. The younger generation looks at the older generation and rants at all their flaws without seeing any of their own. Neither side is right, both are wrong. But neither will ever admit it.) Entity13 posted... and then screamed bloody murder against the music, the television, the video games, and so on I mean, to be fair, every generation does that. That's pretty much an inevitable consequence of rapid pace of advancement. When large swaths of culture and technology change within the span of a single human lifetime, humans have a hard time adapting to changes. I always used to point out that my grandmother went from being born at a time when the only way to go from place to place was by horse, and before she died humans were on the fucking moon. Most humans for the first 500,000+ years worth of our history never had to deal with stuff like that. Sure, there'd be the occasional invasion, conquest, or falling empire to really shake things up, but every day was more or less much like the last one for thousands of years. Culture still evolved, but the pace was glacial compared to what it is today (and has been for the last 150-200 years or so). In the old days old people used to be valued because their experience was useful, and they had tons to teach the younger generation. Now, everything changes so quickly and people live even longer, so the oldest among us are almost completely obsolete by the end. Far from being able to teach anything, the young adapt to constant changes far more effectively. In a way, everyone is adapted to live in the world the way it was when they were 20-30 somethings. The problem is the world keeps changing, so the longer ago that time was, the harder it gets for us all to relate to the world around us. The alienation starts in superficial ways at first (music, pop culture), but slowly creeps to encompass all aspects of culture and technology. Everyone gets old eventually. Even the young. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Who do Boomers think Millennials and Gen Z are the same thing? |
| ParanoidObsessive 07/06/22 11:49:52 AM #33 | Entity13 posted... I know, from a number of memes, that Gen X likes to think they did nothing wrong in all this mess - because denial. To be fair, it's hard to do anything wrong when you're apathetically sitting on the sidelines refusing to get involved. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | What superpower would you want? |
| ParanoidObsessive 07/06/22 11:30:56 AM #52 | Revelation34 posted... Other planets would be colonized at that point so humanity wouldn't be gone. You'd like to believe that, yes. Also, even if other planets could be colonized, the species would still die out eventually. There will eventually come a time when no new stars are being created, and most of the planets around the existing ones would be tapped out. If your survival strategy is to just keep moving to new places once the last one is ruined, you'll eventually run out of places to move to. Lokarin posted... What if you got a superpower of mild-hovering. You can fly a couple inches off the ground but that's about it It's like in the Wild Cards novels, where an alien virus gives people on Earth super-powers. The people who get really cool powers are known as Aces, but the people with shitty lame powers are called Deuces. And they get powers like being able to change the color of your fingernails or make your hair sway in the breeze or something else completely minor. Or something which is technically powerful but hard to really benefit from in practice, like being able to foresee when other people are about to die. Or like the episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 where they created their own superhero team: https://youtu.be/UXqlX0MAfFM?t=42 --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | If you want to have sex with a play boy bunny first you have to |
| ParanoidObsessive 07/05/22 10:21:42 PM #6 | slacker03150 posted... ...first you have to... I half expected you to finish with "...invent the universe." --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | What superpower would you want? |
| ParanoidObsessive 07/05/22 10:05:40 PM #26 | captpackrat posted... Immortality sounds good, until you reach the heat death of the universe. Then what do you do? Presumably you go insane, and once you're catatonic it doesn't really matter anymore because you aren't really "aware". But that's also assuming you have unconditional immortality. In a Big Rip scenario you'd likely be torn apart on the molecular level eventually, and in a Big Crunch you'd essentially be vaporized and become part of the fuel for the creation of a new universe, and in both scenarios you likely die in spite of your immortality. The real problem is if you get your powers from a Greek god, and they go the traditional route and give you eternal life but forget to give you eternal youth, so you wind up spending most of the rest of eternity as a withered husk constantly praying for death. rjsilverthorn posted... Also terrible if it doesn't come with some form of healing/regeneration since you can just get trapped in endless pain with no hope of relief. Worse than that, even if you have the ability to heal, you can still get trapped pretty much forever. Buried alive, trapped in a chasm, encased in concrete or lava, etc. Over an infinite timespan and with eternal life the odds of being trapped in some way rise to almost inevitable levels. And once you're trapped you're pretty much stuck there forever. Or at least until the planet tears itself apart. But at that point you're still stuck, just stuck floating in space. And on top of all that, unless you have complete invulnerability as well as immortality, you'll presumably still feel pain even if you regenerate damage - and spending every second of your day constantly burning to death (without being able to die) probably isn't fun. Burning air searing your lungs, being trapped in molten stone, bathed in endless radiation just waiting for the sun to eventually finish burning out. For millions of years. Immortality sucks. But we already knew this, because two wise men tried to warn us long ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Jtpf8N5IDE captpackrat posted... Imagine when the sun expands and engulfs the earth. But that won't happen for billions of years. The oceans will boil away long before that. Even worse than that. The Earth will become inevitably uninhabitable long before the seas boil away - we've got about a billion years max before most plant life dies off completely (and takes animal life with it), and the only thing left is simple single-cell organisms at best. On top of plate tectonics slowly grinding to a halt and radically altering multiple facets of the world, the atmosphere slowly altering, and other global effects we have no real power to alter or prevent. And that's just the upper limit for life. There's always the possibility we destroy ourselves via rampant environmental damage way sooner. Or we experience another extinction event a la the dinosaur meteor (which will probably happen in the next 100 million years or so). Or continental shifts will radically alter global weather in the same way it did in the past (a la the radically different Pangaeal weather, or the Jurassic Era ocean in the middle of North America). So a true immortal is probably going to spend a VERY long time utterly alone on this planet, after all other life is gone. With no real means of escape. With the only hope for an end to their living hell being if/when the planet eventually starts to break apart and leaves them floating helplessly in the void of space instead. Assuming that even happens. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Who do Boomers think Millennials and Gen Z are the same thing? |
| ParanoidObsessive 07/05/22 9:41:33 PM #22 | Lil_Bit83 posted... Presumably for the same reason that gen z thinks that everyone who isn't their generation is a boomer. Brain damage? --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Who do Boomers think Millennials and Gen Z are the same thing? |
| ParanoidObsessive 07/05/22 8:14:34 PM #11 | rjsilverthorn posted... As a fellow Gen X, a lot of us suck too. Hence my usual mantra: "People suck." It explains so much about how the world works. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | You have found an immortal being trapped in erernal torment. |
| ParanoidObsessive 07/05/22 8:11:53 PM #7 | The real problem is, even if they're good, you still have to worry about the people that trapped them there. Prometheus was a pretty chill dude who was basically punished for helping humans. Hercules got away with freeing him, but that was only because he was Zeus' kid. If just some random hero had freed him instead, you can bet Zeus would have blasted their dick off with lightning and then just strapped Prometheus right back down to his rock. So if you set them free, you might be fucked no matter whether they're good or bad. And if you don't free them, you just have to worry about them being evil, getting free on their own somehow, and holding enough of a grudge that they come after you to seek revenge for your not helping. So without knowing the full situation behind everything, and being able to sort through multiple versions of the story to avoid being lied to by someone with an agenda, I'd probably be forced to leave them there. Unless the immortal was a really hot chick. Then I'd probably feel compelled to help for the promise of rescue nookie. https://youtu.be/SfOIJQAa9Aw?t=1076 --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Man, Obi-Wan Kenobi is bad |
| ParanoidObsessive 07/05/22 8:03:58 PM #112 | Bligh_with_no_T posted... Chewy would be a blue haired Asian girl. Nah, Vader would be Kevin Hart. To finally redeem the greatest sin of the past: https://youtu.be/v3XTHVC1Nf0?t=143 --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Were you a fan of the 1st Avatar movie? |
| ParanoidObsessive 07/05/22 7:55:48 PM #41 | Cruddy_horse posted... I always found it hilarious the villains were greedy white guys but the Natives needed to be saved by another white guy who originally was siding with the villains. That's basically why you got so many comparisons to Pocahontas and Dances With Wolves. And also people pointing out that it's a common trope: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MightyWhitey --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Who do Boomers think Millennials and Gen Z are the same thing? |
| ParanoidObsessive 07/05/22 7:44:57 PM #6 | rjsilverthorn posted... To be fair half the people that I see Millenials refer to as Boomers are Gen X This. Also to be fair, as Gen X I'd say you both kind of suck. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | What superpower would you want? |
| ParanoidObsessive 07/05/22 4:41:41 PM #20 | wolfy42 posted... Flying needs a bunch of other powers to really be useful. You added in the ability to handle any atmosphere and temp though, which are 2 of the issues, so that is really almost 3 powers. It's the main reason why the "flying brick" archetype became one of the most common in comics. A degree of invulnerability to help resist the drawbacks of flying, so most stories that include one will include the other (especially more "realistic" settings). And then super-strength tends to get added in just because that's the full Superman stereotype (and because it makes it easier to lift things - or other people - while flying). Though a lot of that depends entirely on how high up you're planning to fly and how fast. Stick mostly low and slow and you don't really need much beyond basic flight, heavy clothes, and a pair of goggles. ie, about on par with what a motorcyclist would wear for the exact same reasons. Then you'd just be The Rocketeer. The atmosphere/temperature addition really just makes it easier to fly higher, where air is thinner and temperatures are colder. But while planes kind of need to fly high up for various reasons, a flying human wouldn't (unless they were trying to hide their ability to fly and wanted to be so high up no one could see them... but even then you'd still be detectable in a lot of ways, by precisely the sorts of people who might want to dissect a flying person to study them). wolfy42 posted... If you can only fly at say 2 miles per hour, then your not gonna go many places, and you don't really even need the any atmosphere temp change, but if you are going to fly at 100 mph, then you need endurance/durability etc to handle the wind force/things (like birds) hitting you etc. Without it, flying would be very dangerous. Ehh. Even 3-4 mph flight would put you exactly on par with the average walking speed, but with the added advantage of avoiding obstacles and not having to deal with heavy or obstructed terrain. Increase that to 10-15 mph or so and you're starting to equal bicycle speeds. You can increase that even more to around 40-50 mph and you're starting to experience speeds comparable to the ones you'd have to deal with on a motorcycle. You don't really need to start worrying about bird impacts or the wind shearing your skin off until you start moving faster than that. After that, the real question becomes how fatigue works. If you can generally fly about as far/for as long as you can walk before getting tired, it's not going to be a huge advantage over existing travel methods, but if it's mostly a question of mental focus rather than physical fatigue, and you can potentially travel for hours without getting tired, there'd be a ton of advantages in flying (being able to avoid traffic and travel in straight lines as opposed to following established roads not least of all). If you could fly 50 mph and stuck to lower altitudes, you could easily fly without any other additional powers, and still find it incredibly useful for the most part. Not to mention never really needing to be afraid of heights or falling again since you can potentially "catch" yourself. Though sure, other powers can potentially be way more useful. Though a lot of it depends on exactly what you want to do with your powers. And how much you're willing to change your entire lifestyle around it (ie, most "I'll use my power to become rich" scenarios require you to use your power constantly in ways you can charge for, which is essentially taking on a second job). --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Due to the Steam Sale I finally started playing Mass Effect |
| ParanoidObsessive 07/05/22 4:21:25 PM #14 | Veedrock- posted... Terrible advice. For reasons different from OP my first playthrough was strictly doing story missions with little to no character interaction, not even romance. That experience cemented my fascination and enjoyment of the game enough to do multiple replays where I did do all the interactions and side missions. It really isn't. If your opinion of the crew interactions is "boring talking", then there is literally no reason to play Mass Effect. The combat and action aren't appreciably better than other FPS games There's a difference between "focusing on story missions" and "actively finding the core narrative aspects of gameplay boring". Veedrock- posted... Mass Effect has always been a squad based game, extending that from AI partners to multiplayer was natural. It wasn't, because it requires a degree of re-balancing and design alteration beyond simply letting other players control other squadmates. In the core single-player game the action is mostly centered on Shepard and the squad act as support. Designing tactical combat scenarios with multiple active players who should all be equally important requires different focus (and if you introduce full PvP you need to balance against opposing teams as well). While it may seem superficially similar, it's actually a different design philosophy. Veedrock- posted... The games would not be I inherently better without multiplayer, their problems were not a symptom of wasted resources. It absolutely would, and you're objectively wrong. Adding multiplayer alters design choices, requires diversion of studio resources (or bringing in an outside studio to essentially build off the initial framework), and otherwise adds development time to a game. Time spent integrating those features is potentially time spent working on other things. Publisher focus placed on multiplayer (because it's easier to monetize via microtransactions) de-emphasizes time spent on single-player. In a sense, it's similar to the shift from Shadow of Mordor to Shadow of War. Or the reasons why the Assassin's Creed teams stopped including multiplayer in spite of how popular those modes were. Is it the source of every problem in ME3? No, Hudson and Walters thinking they were cleverer than they actually were was the root cause of a lot of issues there. But it definitely played a role in some of the issues of ME3, and a lot of the problems in ME:A. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Were you a fan of the 1st Avatar movie? |
| ParanoidObsessive 07/05/22 4:02:38 PM #30 | DeathMagnetic80 posted... Is it really overrated? The consensus is basically "it was OK. Effects were neat" It was overrated at the time it came out when people were talking about it as if it was the greatest movie ever created by humans, and people were talking about committing suicide because of how depressed they were that Pandora wasn't real and they could never go there. It's also what sparked the boom of everyone assuming 3D was the wave of the future for films. It had a huge impact... in the short-term. Time since has led a lot of people to reevaluate how they felt about it. Partly because people realized that it was a fairly mediocre movie apart from the visuals, and that sort of thing doesn't tend to hold up over time. Partly because the 3D boom led to a 3D bust. Partly because all the furries moved on and found other characters they wanted to fuck and draw Rule 34 of. And partly because waiting 12 years to produce a sequel left even the most enthusiastic fans somewhat apathetic. The opinion most people have of it today really isn't the same as it was back when it first came out. And if we're going to be honest, as much as a lot of us assume the sequels are going to be bombs because no one cares about it any more, the mouth-breathers will probably come out in droves to watch the pretty pictures again, and there's a good chance people will praise it to the moon as being the films that "helped save movie theaters after Covid" or other effusive praise. Because people are stupid, and history repeats itself because we never really learn from our mistakes. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Due to the Steam Sale I finally started playing Mass Effect |
| ParanoidObsessive 07/05/22 3:40:08 PM #11 | hypnox posted... It seems cool. But the tip I saw online of talking to every person/crew member between all missions is making me hate the game honestly. Stop playing now. The entire point of the game is basically caring about your crew and the story. If you're not interested in that, this is not and will never be the game for you. If all you care about is mindless action, there are tons of other games that will give you what you want, and you're going to spend dozens of hours just hating the entire experience. And then you'll go online and complain about how bad the game is, and then everyone else will just point and laugh at you. Stop playing now. You'll be happier. Krazy_Kirby posted... the mp is great. Shame it ever existed in the first place. Wasting time and resources on developing it is a large part of what damaged ME3 and ruined ME:A the way it did. Again, trying to force games into being something they're not and were never meant to be rarely ends well for anyone. And if all you want is competitive multiplayer, there are already tons of other games to scratch that itch. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Were you a fan of the 1st Avatar movie? |
| ParanoidObsessive 07/05/22 2:46:56 PM #23 | CedarPointcp posted... So you will not see any of the sequels? If it shows up on TV and I can watch it for free, maybe but probably not. If someone else I know really, really wants to watch it and kind of pressures me into watching it with them, maybe. But of my own accord, by any means that requires me to pay to see it? Fuck no. Definitely not in theaters - at this point I'm not even willing to go to the movies to watch films I'm actually excited about, let alone ones I'm not. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Lollipop Chainsaw is getting a remake |
| ParanoidObsessive 07/05/22 11:55:15 AM #13 | Dikitain posted... But as far as a game it had a cult interest at best. If we're going to be honest, that kind of describes literally every game Suda has ever made. Dikitain posted... Even compared to games like No More Heroes, Killer 7, and The Silver Case. I would even argue Killer is Dead is more well-known as a game. I feel like Lollipop Chainsaw has way more mainstream awareness than Killer is Dead. It generally has higher critic scores as well. And I'm pretty sure it sold more copies. Maybe people (and specifically his fans) looking back on his entire body of work see Lollipop Chainsaw as more of a bit of an embarrassment and overpraise his earlier stuff, but I don't know if I'd ever say Killer is Dead was the more popular game by any real standard I measure popularity by. And your post may be the first time I've ever actually heard someone ever mention The Silver Case at all. It came out before anyone in the West really knew or cared who he was at all except for the most active of Japanophiles, and I don't think all that many people in general other than huge Suda fans have really gone back to play it. It might have picked up new fans via the remaster/rerelease, but I don't think it's ever really had a huge impact in the West. I'd grant Killer7 is popular (especially since it was the game that basically introduced Westerners to Suda, and kind of established him as a quirky weirdo), but honestly I feel like Lollipop Chainsaw was far more hyped up than Killer7 ever was (mainly by virtue of people knowing his rep by that point and looking forward to his new game, whereas when Killer7 came out he wasn't that well-known). And while I don't have access to the sales figures for every individual game, I suspect Lollipop Chainsaw probably sold more than anything other than No More Heroes. I feel like if you just asked random gamers which games they recognized, a lot more of them would say they remembered Lollipop Chainsaw than they would most of his other games (again, No More Heroes excepted). Which is why I'd probably describe it as one of his more popular games, not one of his least popular. Again, maybe among people who are specifically huge Suda fans who've gone out of their way to play every game, they might LIKE all of his other games more than Lollipop Chainsaw, but I don't think the same holds true for the mainstream in general (and I think the mainstream is the only audience most publishers actually care about when it comes to greenlighting remakes and sequels). --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Were you a fan of the 1st Avatar movie? |
| ParanoidObsessive 07/05/22 11:34:51 AM #2 | No, I didn't like Dances with Pocahontas in Space (Smurf Edition). --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Lollipop Chainsaw is getting a remake |
| ParanoidObsessive 07/05/22 10:51:05 AM #9 | Dikitain posted... Odd, considering it is probably one of the least popular Suda 51 games. Is it? I'd argue it was one of his more popular games. Or at least one of the ones with the most mainstream awareness. I'd say No More Heroes is the only thing he's done that I've heard more general response to. Then again, I think he's overrated as fuck, so I don't really follow his work all that closely. So maybe is fanbase is mostly hipsters who all love his more obscure stuff. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Amazon delivered my parcel stupidly. |
| ParanoidObsessive 07/05/22 9:25:18 AM #5 | I live in a house, not an apartment. But Amazon has literally never delivered anything to me in any way other than just throwing the package on my porch and not even bothering to ring the doorbell. The only way I ever know it's there is if I go look, or happen to check the order tracking on the web site and see that they say it was delivered. But I wouldn't say that's just an Amazon issue - I don't think I've ever had any delivery from any service where they even bothered ringing my doorbell. Or even try to put it somewhere it won't get rained on if it's raining. Delivery people in general don't give a fuck. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | MAGA Alert -- More Americans opposed to Biden running again than Trump |
| ParanoidObsessive 07/05/22 9:21:24 AM #70 | Krazy_Kirby posted... it's not like there is only 1 biased network It's not like there are any unbiased networks. But it's less about politics, and more about money. It's easier to generate ratings (and thus revenue) when you cater to preexisting biases and play into the echo chamber mindset of modern discourse. Sure, you can have the added bonus of helping to signal boost your own personal ideology, but at the end of the day it's less about "Red" or "Blue" and more about "Green". --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Dang, The Rock's dad was slingin' dick all over Canada |
| ParanoidObsessive 07/05/22 9:16:32 AM #41 | FatalAccident posted... And you know this how exactly lol Because most of the wrestlers from back in the day (and other people in the business) have freely admitted to it. Look up the term "ring rats". Or wrestler paternity suits. It's the old traveling salesman cliche - when you're constantly in a different city every night, and you spend more time on the road than at home, it's incredibly easy to cheat. If you're charismatic enough, you can have girlfriends in every town. If you're really charismatic, you can have families in different towns (Rocky Johnson himself actually did this for a while, before he divorced his first wife). It was a lot harder to get caught back in the days before cell phone cameras and the Internet. And when the wrestling business was less "business" and more "carny bullshit". It also used to be a saying among wrestlers that if you were dating or married you should never bring your girl around to meet other wrestlers, because they would try to fuck her. And in most cases where a wrestler ignored that advice, that's pretty much exactly what happened. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | What superpower would you want? |
| ParanoidObsessive 07/05/22 9:07:31 AM #13 | My go-to answer to this question has always been either time manipulation or mind control. So much so that most of my Mage: the Ascension characters tended to have Mind as their main magic focus, and in Vampire: the Masquerade I'd almost always take at least a few levels in Dominate or Presence (or both). --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Youtube is really messed up. |
| ParanoidObsessive 07/05/22 9:03:46 AM #6 | That's about the least of the problems with YouTube when it comes to notifying you of things or recommending you things, even if you're subscribed to channels. Basically, YouTube is garbage because it's grown beyond the capacity of any one company to manage, unless they're willing to spend far more money than would ever be profitable to fix it. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Are you team Aliens or team Predator? |
| ParanoidObsessive 07/04/22 8:53:09 PM #22 | lihlih posted... I know this is an extremely unpopular opinion, but I loved Prometheus and Covenant. I actually liked them more than Aliens, since you can get good action movies everywhere, but it's not easy to find creepyass movies dripping with atmosphere. EXACTLY TWO. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Are you team Aliens or team Predator? |
| ParanoidObsessive 07/04/22 8:19:09 PM #16 | lihlih posted... There's only 1 good Predator movie while there are more than 1 good Alien movies, so definitely Alien. By that logic humans should win by a landslide because there are tons of good movies with humans as the main characters. Also, "more than 1" is kind of a deceptive way to say "exactly 2". Because that is the number of good Alien movies. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Man, Obi-Wan Kenobi is bad |
| ParanoidObsessive 07/04/22 3:20:51 PM #93 | Congrats - you have now spent more time thinking about the movie than they did writing it. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Dang, The Rock's dad was slingin' dick all over Canada |
| ParanoidObsessive 07/04/22 2:23:49 PM #34 | KodyKeir posted... Samoan or Hawaiian? The independence movement of Hawaii is often overlooked and there is an impression in Young Rock that his family has ancestral links to the islands that assert sovereignty. Samoan. Rock's grandfather was Samoan, but spent a lot of time in Hawaii, and was often billed as being from Hawaii. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Are you team Aliens or team Predator? |
| ParanoidObsessive 07/04/22 12:26:33 PM #9 | At least Predators have a code. That's more than I can say for Aliens or Humans. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
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