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| Topic | New Sacha Baron Cohen series - Who is America? - is startling in what it reveals |
| Sahuagin 07/26/18 12:43:12 AM #48 | I hope no one ends up committing suicide over this --- |
| Topic | Console you wish you had kept |
| Sahuagin 07/23/18 3:02:30 PM #31 | sold my NES and its library to buy a SNES. good trade. sold my SNES and its library to buy a N64. not a good trade. "wish I had kept" is an understatement. I sold it for a measly $100, and that included Super Metroid, LttP, SoM, CT, Earthbound, FF2, FF3, just to name a few of the great games I had. --- |
| Topic | The USPS is so fucking stupid and wasteful |
| Sahuagin 07/19/18 2:41:47 AM #39 | I had one package that made it half way to me and then just stopped. weeks passed, and it didn't move. Phoned about it and then it started moving the next day and after a couple more days was delivered. So I guess it fell behind a desk, or put in the wrong box, or somehow got left behind and forgotten. --- |
| Topic | 17 y/o NERDY Virginia Kid is BLASTED for Paying his $35 Bill in QUARTERS!!! |
| Sahuagin 07/19/18 1:09:29 AM #13 | so roll up the quarters? even if they're loose, that's a measly three rolls with 20 loose, who cares. that would take like 2 minutes to roll... (from the sound of it, the quarters are actually a part of a $10 tip, so it's not even a single full roll of quarters, who the hell cares) --- |
| Topic | What do you hate the most about other drivers? |
| Sahuagin 07/18/18 2:40:05 PM #42 | tiago92 posted... HOW IS THAT SAFER?! the middle lane is safer because you aren't on the edge and have more options for "escaping" a collision that doesn't mean it's safe to go slow in the middle lane though --- |
| Topic | what's the name of this song?someone please tells me |
| Sahuagin 07/18/18 3:21:58 AM #8 | hey you can embed youtube links with a timestamp now? that's awesome --- |
| Topic | What are your top 3 GameCube games and why? |
| Sahuagin 07/18/18 2:36:51 AM #71 | uh-huh... --- |
| Topic | What are your top 3 GameCube games and why? |
| Sahuagin 07/18/18 2:21:07 AM #69 | Zeus posted... A preference which ultimately changes nothing. right... wanting interesting game mechanics is a "preference", and game mechanics being in a game changes nothing... /boggle --- |
| Topic | What are your top 3 GameCube games and why? |
| Sahuagin 07/18/18 2:13:44 AM #67 | Zeus posted... ...that was the selling point that got most people interested. Whether or not the gimmick was the thing you focused on doesn't change that it's a gimmick. Even if you liked the Wii for something other than its motion controls, that doesn't change that the motion controls were a primary selling point. motion controls are a gimmick; they sound great in principle, and are good in the right context (Wii Sports) but don't actually work well as a general game input scheme. I never saw the first-person-ness of MP as a selling point, it was just how they did it. it could have been good or bad. If that's how you see it though I can't disagree. Zeus posted... Sahuagin posted...Melee built on SSB mechanically, and not just a little, but significantly. Brawl didn't build on Melee mechanically at all, it regressed mechanically. this is just bait (as is most of your post). Melee is objectively more mechanically developed than SSB. Zeus posted... All of which are stupid arguments. Sequels sell because they're popular. Contrary to your angsty indie argument, most companies would *kill* for a series they could successfully sequel and, for the most part, game series only end because they stop being unprofitable. And the issue isn't what they're doing first-party, but instead more a lack of outstanding THIRD-party support which is where Sony & Microsoft -- both of whom also heavily produce sequels when they can -- have generally benefited. It's especially egregious since, when third-party has a hit on a Nintendo console (Resident Evil: Revelations), not only does it get ported to the non-Nintendo systems but those systems are the ones to get the sequel. you're right about the third-party part. Zeus posted... As for hardware innovation, it's a counter to being sucked into the graphics race --- a race to the bottom where dev costs incessantly balloon while providing little to no additional value. And, I should mention, the other consoles have copied Nintendo's hardware innovation. Sony went from calling the analog stick a gimmick to using it on every system since. And, of course, the PS Move and Kinect were created to capitalize on the Wii's success. you're right about the "counter to graphics race" part. --- |
| Topic | What are your top 3 GameCube games and why? |
| Sahuagin 07/17/18 1:29:49 PM #59 | Pikmin and Viewtiful Joe are games that I can see are obviously good, but that I don't really enjoy playing. the others listed are either way outside my style of game or not a game I've ever had the opportunity to play. --- |
| Topic | My healthinator topic so I don't hijack... |
| Sahuagin 07/17/18 5:35:03 AM #5 | Lokarin posted... I had a Bowflex pretty sure those are not worth the space they take up, so no issue there just happened to be reading this a couple hours ago, it's a good read: https://www.scribd.com/doc/213616847/Chris-Aceto-Everything-You-Wanted-To-Know-About-Fat-Loss-pdf --- |
| Topic | What are your top 3 GameCube games and why? |
| Sahuagin 07/17/18 4:30:00 AM #55 | Zeus posted... Gimmick doesn't mean bad. However, the fact that they were taking an established franchise and using a completely different spin to drum up interest is very gimmicky. a gimmick is a feature used to sell something that isn't as interesting as it seems. it's a hype generating feature. MP happens to be first person, but that's not its selling point (or wasn't for me), it's just incidental, but even if it is a selling point, it's still not extraneous to the whole package, it works well with it and creates a genuinely unique experience. to call the first-person-ness of MP a gimmick means that you think it adds no value to the game, but to me it does. (if you're arguing that you feel the first-person-ness is simply tacked-on and does not add value to the game, and that it should have been third-person or something, fair enough. I don't consider it a vital feature, it's just the way the game is.) Zeus posted... So basically your criteria is nothing more than "if I liked it, it's not a rehash; if I don't like it, it is"? Melee built on SSB mechanically, and not just a little, but significantly. Brawl didn't build on Melee mechanically at all, it regressed mechanically. Zeus posted... more importantly, not only are most sequels unnecessary (only real exception is something that continues the story after a cliffhanger), but no game is technically necessary. so... then every game is a rehash? because it's a rehash of the "video game" concept? you're arguing the concept into meaninglessness. again, the problem is that all nintendo is at this point is a sequel generating machine (not that sequels are bad, but that that's almost all they are; the PotD shouldn't be "which existing nintendo franchise would you like to see yet another sequel to", it should be something like "which previously unvisited gaming genre(s) would you like nintendo to explore next?"). they have little to no software innovation. for some reason they struggle to be hardware innovative when they should be trying to be software innovative. as I said before, they need to halve their hardware development and triple their software development. --- |
| Topic | What are your top 3 GameCube games and why? |
| Sahuagin 07/17/18 4:16:44 AM #54 | darkknight109 posted... This is so wrong I don't even know how to respond to it. if I'm wrong, tell me what those "gems" are so I can play them if given the opportunity --- |
| Topic | I don't know if I can finish Resident Evil HD. Too Scary. |
| Sahuagin 07/17/18 2:10:05 AM #9 | have you played Doom 3? (not everyone finds it scary, just curious what you think) --- |
| Topic | We must ask ourselves... |
| Sahuagin 07/17/18 2:02:16 AM #6 | something like Ranch > Mayo > Buffalo > Mustard > rest BBQ sauce is good on meat, but otherwise is not that great. it's not a generally useful sauce, it just makes meat better. --- |
| Topic | What are your top 3 GameCube games and why? |
| Sahuagin 07/17/18 1:33:46 AM #50 | Zeus posted... Prime is a gimmick, not a rehash. Turning Metroid into a FPS was selling the game on novelty. lol. it's unique and exquisitely artistic, it's not a gimmick. the Wii is a gimmick. the virtual boy is a gimmick. that MP is an "FPS" (which it is only in a strict and meaningless sense) is completely irrelevant to what's good about it. Zeus posted... Still guilty of being rehashes if you're complaining about rehashes. even taking the term literally, a "rehash" is not simply another version of something, it's an unnecessary version of something. melee VS SSB1 is not a rehash, it's too different, they play nothing alike. Brawl on the other hand is basically the same as melee but worse. (I have no idea how similar TTYD is or isn't to PM1.) regardless, what I'm really complaining about is not second versions of franchises, but rather having a lineup that consists almost exclusively of 4th-10th versions of franchises. (a rebuttal to this point could be that I will nevertheless happily play TES 6, Doom 5, etc.etc. the thing though is that on PC I have so much selection that I do get my favorite franchises returning for the umpteenth time, but I also get an endless stream of new and original concepts as well.) Zeus posted... The WiiU isn't really being supported (and even support for the 3DS is diminishing) and, by that argument, you need to buy a ps1, ps2, ps3, psp, and Vita to play the full Sony library. yes, that is true (didn't you miss PS4?), and would be equally problematic if there were any such games I was interested in. (I suppose there is Bloodborne and Demon's Souls, but that's about it.) Zeus posted... Because you never spend anything on upgrading your PC for gaming? I bought my PC something like 7 years ago and have upgraded the video card once for about $200-300. but that's not really what I mean anyway. unless your computer is really behind, you aren't locked out of whole chunks of PC games, they just run worse. so you turn the graphics down lower. if you do upgrade, then yay, you get a performance boost to your existing games, you don't unlock whole libraries of them. --- |
| Topic | I'm drinking a new brand of protein shake... it tastes of burnt broccoli |
| Sahuagin 07/16/18 11:07:19 PM #17 | Lokarin posted... I normally get SlimFast, but they were sold out so I just get a generic protein powder so tried a new brand I'm not sure but isn't slimfast like "meal replacement"? protein powder is not meal-replacement, it's fast absorbing high concentration protein for muscle gain. --- |
| Topic | Anti-Trump protesters in Scotland |
| Sahuagin 07/16/18 11:03:23 PM #61 | _AdjI_ posted... limiting the concept of racism only to race is extremely arbitrary arbitrary...? limiting X-ism to X is the opposite of arbitrary... --- |
| Topic | I'm drinking a new brand of protein shake... it tastes of burnt broccoli |
| Sahuagin 07/16/18 10:55:34 PM #15 | why not whey powder? whey powder is delicious. it's like $20 at walmart. --- |
| Topic | Which console has better games: Gamecube or Wii? |
| Sahuagin 07/16/18 8:11:41 PM #13 | Mead posted... Wii is like 95% shovelware --- |
| Topic | What are your top 3 GameCube games and why? |
| Sahuagin 07/16/18 8:06:31 PM #47 | Zeus posted... You kinda went with gimmicks and rehashes, though? >_> Metroid Prime is anything but a rehash, SSB: Melee is a stellar improvement over the first, and I've never been able to play Paper Mario 64, so I don't know how it compares, but TTYD is otherwise an extremely unique game. Zeus posted... As in two? And one of them they're barely supporting. if I wanted to play all of the nintendo games that I haven't played yet, I'd need to buy a Wii U, a Switch, and a 3DS (and I already own a Wii and sort of a DS). and the number of games I'd get for all that hardware would be minimal at best. it's not worth it. (and I'd still need to buy the 4DS and Switch 2 or whatever they release next to stay up to date. I'm so done with consoles; with PC games I already have more games than I can play and I never need a new system.) --- |
| Topic | What are your top 3 GameCube games and why? |
| Sahuagin 07/16/18 7:33:09 PM #44 | Metroid Prime awesome artistically and mechanically, just an overall wonderful experience from start to finish, and a brilliant transition to 3D, which is something Nintendo got right a surprising number of times SSB: Melee mechanically the best SSB game I've played PM: TTYD having just played a bit of it today, it's pretty good. not entirely sure it belongs in the top 3 or not though. Runners up include: MGS: Twin Snakes not sure it counts. had a great time playing it. Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance enjoyed it a lot, but it's not really among the best games ever Metroid Prime 2 some of it I really liked, but it felt too long, which is something I rarely say. I need to play it again more patiently some day. Sanctuary Fortress was amazing artistically. F-Zero: GX probably the best F-Zero game, though the first is pretty amazing for its time as well. sad thing is, that's almost all the games on the whole system that are worth playing... ok there's Wind Waker which was fun, but nothing special either. The Mario Kart was good, but it was just more Mario Kart. I think this is really around the time that Nintendo completely lost their creative edge (not sure how to word it). Since then all they've been are gimmicks and rehashes. Their games are probably good, but they're spread so thin across too many platforms. It's not worth the effort to have that many systems. Give me a platform that can play all Nintendo games and I'll gladly buy it and the games, but the way things are now I may never play a new Nintendo game again. (it's almost as if they have hired too much hardware development staff and not enough software development staff. or their management has decided that there's more profit in hardware than in software, though I wouldn't expect that to be true. they need to triple their software development and halve their hardware development.) --- |
| Topic | Rate this cartoon series DAY 21: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) |
| Sahuagin 07/16/18 7:05:30 PM #3 | fantastic, but maybe better for kids than adults --- |
| Topic | Pregnant women in immigration detention under Trump saying been denied medical |
| Sahuagin 07/16/18 7:02:37 PM #94 | Revelation34 posted... It was always enforced obviously I mean "sufficiently enforced". illegal immigration to the USA has been a known problem for decades that was never dealt with. unless you mean that it's just as enforced now as it ever was, and the only thing that has changed is the harshness with which violators are dealt with, but I don't think that's the case. --- |
| Topic | Pregnant women in immigration detention under Trump saying been denied medical |
| Sahuagin 07/16/18 4:12:52 PM #84 | Kyuubi4269 posted... Sahuagin posted... in theory, not in practice. that's an idealized vision of the law that doesn't exist in the real world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_interpretation Kyuubi4269 posted... Sahuagin posted... it's a difficult or impossible to compare situation. comparing it to any kind of normal law-breaking doesn't work. this isn't "an element of the system broke a rule of the system and so faces the consequences imposed by the system"; rather it's "an element thought to be in the system was discovered not to be an element of the system". it's a fundamentally different concept. basically I kind of agree with you, though maybe not so coldly/harshly. the border should have been enforced in the first place. it's unfortunate that we have the situation that something was not enforced for so long, luring people into abusing it, and resulting in the current problem, but that doesn't mean it shouldn't be fixed. --- |
| Topic | Pregnant women in immigration detention under Trump saying been denied medical |
| Sahuagin 07/16/18 3:06:23 PM #76 | Rasmoh posted... It's not really that interesting. All it really does is shit on people who try to enforce the rules. it's interesting because it doesn't have a clearly correct answer. if some law was from the 1800s and was not even relevant anymore, and yet many people were technically breaking it, would it make any sense to suddenly start enforcing it? for one thing, law isn't so black and white that the law says X and so X is illegal. there's interpretation and spirit VS letter of the law. but, this is not completely analogous to the illegal immigrant thing anyway. illegal immigration doesn't just mean you broke a law, it means you aren't even a citizen of the country in the first place. --- |
| Topic | New Sacha Baron Cohen series - Who is America? - is startling in what it reveals |
| Sahuagin 07/16/18 3:11:09 AM #23 | Doctor Foxx posted... Ihey had a man with guns with puppets on them telling kids to feed the puppet bullets heh, I know, that's too disturbing for me to watch. cuts or not, the hole's a little too deep for it to matter. --- |
| Topic | Pregnant women in immigration detention under Trump saying been denied medical |
| Sahuagin 07/16/18 2:43:38 AM #72 | there's an interesting ethical question about starting to enforce a law that was never enforced before. it's similar to speeding tickets, just in this case on a staggeringly bigger scale. there are places in the city where there are never speed traps, or maybe if there are, they're easy to avoid. since everyone "knows" this, everyone speeds in those areas. some days there can be 10-15 cars all barelling through an 80kph zone at 105kph or more. ok, but what happens when for the first time in 10-15 years, all of a sudden there's a new effective speed trap there, and the cops get to write hundreds of tickets per day for a few days or more. the people wouldn't have broken the law if the law had been enforced in the first place. --- |
| Topic | New Sacha Baron Cohen series - Who is America? - is startling in what it reveals |
| Sahuagin 07/16/18 2:10:07 AM #21 | well that's pretty damn disturbing... one thing I'd watch out for, though, are jump cuts. (although, from the scale of the prank I don't think that matters.) for example, this quote: "yeah, they haven't quite developed, uh, <CUT>, what we call conscience, where you feel guilty about doing something wrong, that's developing, you're learning right and wrong. <CUT> if they haven't developed that yet, they can be very effective soldiers." that's potentially a pretty horrifying thing to say, but with the cuts, it's hard to know if that's really how it was said. it doesn't sound obviously edited though, so maybe it's just camera switches, I'm not an expert at detecting that kind of thing. --- |
| Topic | I finally got my stupid pinball machine working |
| Sahuagin 07/15/18 11:21:23 PM #4 | Action53 posted... Not a single computer component in it at all, just a bunch of coils, wires and switches how do you maintain state? there must be some kind of logic somewhere. strike counter, bases, etc? is this something you designed or is it more like a kit that you put together? --- |
| Topic | What tv do you game on currently? |
| Sahuagin 07/15/18 8:43:26 PM #16 | gguirao posted... I'm exclusively a PC gamer. basically this my monitor is an Acer K272HL. I'm sure there are better ones, but it's the best monitor I've ever had. --- |
| Topic | How obsessed do you need to be to sleep with your phone? |
| Sahuagin 07/15/18 7:54:42 PM #64 | Dr_Kain posted... That's not a book. That's just pure laziness and being cheap. while I too usually prefer to read a physical book than a digital version, this is a completely absurd thing to say --- |
| Topic | Is Mario a Donkey Kong spinoff or is Donkey Kong a Mario spinoff? |
| Sahuagin 07/15/18 5:59:00 PM #8 | honestly, that's a beautiful ambiguity. Donkey Kong is named after the antagonist (or you play as the antagonist?), is in a sense a Mario game (game where you play as Mario), but is canonically a DK game, not a Mario game. I think Mario must be the spin-off. I almost wanted to say "both or neither", but Mario is definitely descended from the original DK games (Mario Bros. was definitely a "spin-off" of DK), but modern DK is not a spin-off of Mario, it's more like a continuation of the DK games. I think the issue only arises that in DK, really you're playing as the antagonist, or the titular character is the antagonist. It's a game-where-you-play-as-Mario but it's not really a Mario game, it just has a role-reversal. --- |
| Topic | Do you put a game on "easy" mode when first playing it? |
| Sahuagin 07/15/18 2:59:36 AM #10 | only if normal is too hard, which sometimes it is, though rarely --- |
| Topic | How obsessed do you need to be to sleep with your phone? |
| Sahuagin 07/13/18 4:14:45 PM #27 | it's my alarm. works way better than a traditional alarm clock. --- |
| Topic | I hate when when people park like assholes |
| Sahuagin 07/13/18 3:23:40 PM #30 | note that it can also be that the badly parked car had to park that way due to another badly parked car. then the original car leaves leaving the second car looking like the jerk. also in the winter, all bets are off and you just park wherever you fit --- |
| Topic | Do you like this person: Christopher Walken |
| Sahuagin 07/13/18 1:23:58 AM #17 | ohnoitschris posted... also to anyone undecided on Walken: This video is not available.  --- |
| Topic | So when you glitch outside the map in a game |
| Sahuagin 07/12/18 1:48:33 AM #31 | Lokarin posted... I worked for a small local company making edutainment games for the Alberta schools... pretty sure none are still in use, and I didn't get paid - but it counted as high school credit and I got to go to Skills Canada ok cool, thanks. I thought it'd be pretty awesome if you worked for Bioware, and the geography made that a possibility. But that's still more professional game dev work than I've done. --- |
| Topic | So when you glitch outside the map in a game |
| Sahuagin 07/12/18 1:07:27 AM #28 | Sahuagin posted... Lokarin posted...I had a long long career in video game design @Lokarin Your urgent attention to this matter is required. --- |
| Topic | So when you glitch outside the map in a game |
| Sahuagin 07/11/18 2:18:42 PM #25 | Lokarin posted... I had a long long career in video game design are you talking about your hobbyist stuff, or did you actually work for Bioware or something? --- |
| Topic | steam most played games list, go |
| Sahuagin 07/11/18 1:54:04 AM #7 | The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim 1,010 hrs Factorio 448 hrs DARK SOULS: Prepare To Die Edition 331 hrs Borderlands 2 330 hrs Stellaris 325 hrs DARK SOULS II: Scholar of the First Sin 242 hrs DARK SOULS III 235 hrs Endless Legend 221 hrs Might & Magic X - Legacy 159 hrs Pillars of Eternity 148 hrs Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition 118 hrs Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel 107 hrs Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition 100 hrs --- |
| Topic | This Tennessee Lesbian was BITTEN Several times by FIFTY SPIDERS!!! |
| Sahuagin 07/09/18 1:59:29 PM #24 | Lokarin posted... Where does she live, the Congo? If there was 50 spiders for, like, AN HOUR in Canada you'd get a rent discount, an apology and even maybe a fruit basket while the problem is solved I don't know what you mean here, almost every place I've lived (in Canada) has had tons of spiders --- |
| Topic | Dot matrix |
| Sahuagin 07/07/18 10:50:44 PM #3 | EclairReturns posted... Dammit, I thought you were going to talk about something related to Reboot :( --- |
| Topic | Poll: Do you cook at least one freshly prepared meal a day? |
| Sahuagin 07/07/18 7:49:00 PM #2 | Other meals can be take-out or frozen so, does ichiban/ramen count as a "freshly prepared meal"? spaghetti? toast + peanut butter + banana? fried eggs? --- |
| Topic | I don't get it. it's so much hotter in my alaskan apt than my old one |
| Sahuagin 07/07/18 6:37:25 PM #2 | have you been through a winter yet? that could be poor insulation, not too much. where I live I have pretty crappy insulation, so I freeze when it's cold and melt when it's hot. maybe also you're used to centralized A/C but now just have centralized heating? --- |
| Topic | Which of these places has teh best fries? |
| Sahuagin 07/07/18 2:57:00 AM #50 | McDonald's are probably better, but A&W has gravy --- |
| Topic | I feel bad for the poor souls who have to search the high seas.... |
| Sahuagin 07/07/18 2:37:36 AM #15 | Kl0wn_Numb3rs posted... I always thought Baldur's Gate was kind of dark lol only a few parts are "dark". a good chunk of the game is forests and fields. the title screen is supposed to be adventurous, not dark and gloomy https://imgur.com/a/JWCYQt8 --- |
| Topic | I feel bad for the poor souls who have to search the high seas.... |
| Sahuagin 07/06/18 2:47:26 PM #13 | Kl0wn_Numb3rs posted... I don't know what black/red UI you're talking about. However, I did like the art of the black/white UI with the dragon. We might be talking about the same thing, but I don't recall any red. depending on the screen, it's black with a lot of white text, or black with red controls. https://imgur.com/DTGjTwj basically the UI for the whole game has been changed to fit their Siege of Dragonspear theme. It sort of ruins the feel of the base game; makes it a lot less cheery. The feel of the original was "yay RPG adventure!", but now it's all gloomy. I don't mind how it looks necessarily, or that anything is moved, it just ruins the feel of the game. --- |
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