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| Topic | Why is Windows 35 GB on my desktop but only 6 GB on my laptop |
| Sahuagin 12/31/18 3:15:56 PM #7 | Windows 10 does a lot of weird stuff, UEFI I think it is in particular. I only have a tiny bit of experience with it, but there is a separate partition on your hard drive where a lot of core stuff is now stored and organized. not sure how much it does or doesn't actually contribute to what you're noticing. I also notice on my Windows 7 machine that there is a Logs folder that is like 10GB. the logs folder apparently grows without bound over time. might have been fixed in later windows versions. --- |
| Topic | Are video games expensive? |
| Sahuagin 12/29/18 2:02:20 PM #26 | some are, some aren't. I want to play EU4 with all the DLC, but that's something like an additional $100-200 after the cost of the base game... adding it up, it's $112.40 before tax just for the main DLCs, and that's *with* the current 50% off sale. then there's another $32.15 for some less important game mechanic DLCs, and another $22.72 for some cosmetic DLCs. then there's still some other misc ones that total another $44.39. again, that's all at 50% off... and it totals to $211.66. it would be somewhere around $400 without the sale... --- |
| Topic | every time I make a topic it always get derailed with some bull shit! |
| Sahuagin 12/29/18 1:45:41 PM #31 | I keep thinking... he hasn't actually *proven* that he's the same guy from the content he posts, so he could be stalking the real guy and posting his content here pretending to be him... but... there are videos from the real guy that are a bit on the crazy side, too. there's a video of him forcing his cat to play the piano for 20mins. there's a video that's supposed to be a school project of him just making a mess in a frying pan for 20mins. so... who knows... --- |
| Topic | The funkiest video game music |
| Sahuagin 12/27/18 12:28:21 AM #9 | I might be pretty terrible at identifying that genre, but this is what comes to mind   --- |
| Topic | my oldest brother said i should apply for his job. so i guess i'm going to. |
| Sahuagin 12/25/18 3:50:56 PM #16 | Jen0125 posted... i guess he makes sure companies that buy licenses from his company are compliant with the EULA so they don't get in any legal issues. I've heard that if you get volume licensing from MS that you get audited; sounds related. I wonder if that means you'd be doing something like going to their offices and checking all of their workstations and license stickers, etc.? --- |
| Topic | What are some podcast you guys like? |
| Sahuagin 12/24/18 2:11:42 PM #13 | best I know of https://verybadwizards.fireside.fm/ Very Bad Wizards is a podcast featuring a philosopher (Tamler Sommers) and a psychologist (David Pizarro), who share a love for ethics, pop culture, and cognitive science, and who have a marked inability to distinguish sacred from profane. Each podcast includes discussions of moral philosophy, recent work on moral psychology and neuroscience, and the overlap between the two. --- |
| Topic | Do you think magic exists/used to exist? |
| Sahuagin 12/23/18 9:37:12 PM #50 | real magic was/is just the same sleight of hand stuff that still exists today, except now most people understand that it's phony and admire it for the skill required, whereas back then pretty much everyone believed it. --- |
| Topic | Megaman 2 is a prime example of the bandwagon effect. |
| Sahuagin 12/22/18 7:52:19 PM #27 | DrCidd posted... What I'm arguing is that it's not the BEST. so which one is the best then? --- |
| Topic | Megaman 2 is a prime example of the bandwagon effect. |
| Sahuagin 12/22/18 7:39:48 PM #24 | it would be hard to gauge what I'd think of it now if I had never played it before, but I've always liked it way more than 3 and 1, even back in the 90s. my feeling is that it has the best music, bosses, levels, and weapons, than any other MM game I've played. MMX is the only other one that is comparable in terms of overall quality. it does seem fairly subjective though, since I *enjoy* it more, but can't really argue that it's technically better necessarily. --- |
| Topic | Is addiction a disease? |
| Sahuagin 12/22/18 7:15:49 PM #17 | hard to explain this without writing an essay, but quickly, addiction is a hijacking of your brain's learning process. (not 100% sure of all this but it's a cool idea). things that are addictive give you unearned super potent releases of dopamine. and *dopamine works by reinforcing the mental pathways that led to its release*. IE: things that are addictive manage to reinforce their own future causation. it's like a weird form of time travel where a thing brings about its own recurrence. it's a positive feedback causality loop. --- |
| Topic | What are your most anticipated games for 2019? |
| Sahuagin 12/20/18 10:13:13 PM #28 | Sahuagin posted... Doom Eternal just remembered another: MechWarrior 5 --- |
| Topic | What are your most anticipated games for 2019? |
| Sahuagin 12/20/18 8:56:52 PM #22 | Doom Eternal Cyberpunk 2077 Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice --- |
| Topic | Rate that thing ~ Day 1838 ~ These topics |
| Sahuagin 12/19/18 1:20:39 AM #2 | rate that food was good rate that animal was ok rate that thing is... less than good --- |
| Topic | What's the last video game that made you think? |
| Sahuagin 12/16/18 12:38:43 PM #13 | ExaPunks: ex: start with one phone number, dial it and gather contacts off the phone that answers, and then call those phone numbers, etc., while remembering which numbers you've already contacted. all done in pseudo-assembly (with little nano-bot things called EXAs). --- |
| Topic | So drinking a bottle of Soya Sauce is the new dumb-kid thing to do... |
| Sahuagin 12/15/18 10:57:33 PM #34 | I assume you're talking about this  normally a person will vomit before being able to consume that much salt that quickly, she had something else wrong with her that enabled it to happen --- |
| Topic | Creationist science is amazing |
| Sahuagin 12/12/18 10:32:19 PM #9 | slacker03150 posted... I have so many questions. Mainly when did you learn dinosaurs did not breathe fire and live among humans? And how much did it rock your world? thankfully the internet was invented and I was able to have conversations about various things online. took most of my 20s to fully untrain my brain from that kind of thinking. (I still have to deal with family that believe that way though.) --- |
| Topic | Creationist science is amazing |
| Sahuagin 12/12/18 9:41:55 PM #5 | eh... it's funny when it's not you. I actually had that book as a kid... --- |
| Topic | What tv shows have you seen every episode of? |
| Sahuagin 12/11/18 8:21:41 PM #43 | ST:TNG (just finished a few days ago) House, most of them twice. Futurama, many 5+ times. Dexter, exactly once. Breaking Bad, most of it twice. Lost If cartoons count: Justice League Justice League Unlimited Batman Beyond X-Men I've seen every episode of Mr Robot *that's been made so far*, but it still has one more season left. --- |
| Topic | John Romero making spiritual successor to original DOOM, released as a free mod |
| Sahuagin 12/11/18 8:07:36 PM #12 | Dikitain posted... Carmack made the game engine, Romero was the person who designed the original levels. Even after Romero left ID, Carmack still was responsible for the game engines and needed other people to design the game levels. I mean I am way more of a fan of Carmack over Romero but even I admit that Romero is way more qualified then Carmack to make new DOOM WAD files. k didn't really know what Romero was known for, besides Daikatana and the easter egg at the end of doom 2 --- |
| Topic | John Romero making spiritual successor to original DOOM, released as a free mod |
| Sahuagin 12/10/18 8:05:03 PM #8 | eh... it's just some levels, that's not really anything to get that excited about. as far as I know John Carmack is *way* more the brains behind DOOM than John Romero is. Romero must need money or something. --- |
| Topic | 12 y/o MUSCULAR KANGAROO has DIED!! Did he Intimidate You??? |
| Sahuagin 12/10/18 1:21:27 AM #4 | damn kangaroos are weird --- |
| Topic | Haters gonna hate; The Hobbit movies are fantastic |
| Sahuagin 12/09/18 6:14:08 PM #31 | haven't seen them, but it's supposed to be that Peter Jackson had planned out LotR over the course of 3 and half years, whereas for the Hobbit, he inherited the project from Guillermo del Toro and had only a few weeks or something to prepare. They were filming scenes that had never been choreographed or story boarded... --- |
| Topic | Thoughts on the Star Ocean series... |
| Sahuagin 12/09/18 12:30:22 PM #12 | "unexpectedly weak" tried once or twice to get into star ocean 2, and I sort of enjoyed it until there was combat. but the fighting (and voice acting) was not at all enjoyable so I gave up. --- |
| Topic | I hate when people complain about "PC" stuff like it's a new thing |
| Sahuagin 12/08/18 1:15:27 PM #33 | Chewster posted... The people who complain about "PC outrage" are just as much, if not more, of little bitches than the people they complain about. We're talking about people who think the "War on Christmas" is real modern "political correctness" isn't just about whining and complaining, people lose their jobs and have their lives ruined over stupidly trivial things. --- |
| Topic | Are you happy with this modern world? |
| Sahuagin 12/07/18 10:42:08 PM #13 | the world as a whole is pretty fucked up, though it's slowly getting better. our lives as modern first-worlders specifically are relatively fantastic compared to anyone else in the world, past or present. --- |
| Topic | Do you like snow? |
| Sahuagin 12/07/18 10:31:08 PM #10 | captpackrat posted... snow was interesting for like 10 minutes, and then I had to drive in it lol, exactly --- |
| Topic | These Smash Brothers games are always beyond me. |
| Sahuagin 12/07/18 7:44:33 PM #39 | Dikitain posted... Yoshi I believe. They weren't exact clones, but they were pretty similar strategy-wise. the heck... if you think Yoshi and Ness are clones, then you've barely played these games. they are nothing alike. I don't think they have even a single move in common... LinkPizza posted... Though, who was Ness a clone of? I know Luigi was Mario, Jigglypuff was close to Kirby, I guess Falcon was Samus (maybe). But what about Ness? Luigi was a maybe "clone" of Mario, but he still played pretty differently. Most of his moves did the same general thing in a very different way (different to the extent that you need to learn his attacks separately). the others are not clones of anyone. Falcon is nothing at all like Samus. Jigglypuff has a bit in common with Kirby (pink flying puffballs?), but not enough to say they're "clones". --- |
| Topic | These Smash Brothers games are always beyond me. |
| Sahuagin 12/07/18 3:55:07 PM #34 | Cruddy_horse posted... All of Melees "mechanics" competitive people talk about are actually exploits or glitches that coincidentally make for a better competitive game. I'm not sure if I ever used anything that was a "glitch". (disclaimer: not trying to say I'm a great player, I'm just a regular player who liked playing it 1v1). for me I think it was more about the speed. the newer ones all feel sluggish, but melee was super fast. it made it so that there was always room for improvement because you always could have done things even faster if you were really good enough. the later ones never felt that way, though I didn't play them as much either. the way the game played made it so that very very subtle changes in your timing could be used to gain or lose an advantage in split seconds. I don't think even the best of other fighting games has as precise of control over your character as you can have in SSBM. like, something as simple as jumping. in a normal fighting game you can jump, or jump forward, or jump backward. not 100% sure but you're pretty limited in the variation there. some games, the "jump forward" will always be the same distance, and any jump will always be the same height. in smash bros (IIRC since it's been a while) you can jump not only varied heights, but can double jump, can alter the direction of your ascent and descent, and can even alter the *speed* of your descent. you can also "dodge" while descending, pull out or throw an item in various directions, and use moves, and it all ties back into the fact that you can also change trajectory. so, you are constantly in precise control of how vulnerable you're making yourself, while trying to get in position to connect with your opponent. (and your opponent has this kind of super precise control as well...). and depending if you get hit, or what moves you choose to use, you will gain or lose maneuverability as well (and so will your opponent). in SSBM specifically, this kind of thing was maximized and perfected. I'm not aware of any other fighting game that reaches these levels of precise control over your character. --- |
| Topic | These Smash Brothers games are always beyond me. |
| Sahuagin 12/07/18 12:42:47 PM #29 | play 1v1 without items at the simpler maps against a RL opponent of comparable skill (especially SSBM) --- |
| Topic | why do 95% of all indie games have to be difficult as fuck? |
| Sahuagin 12/06/18 8:50:29 PM #37 | Pus_N_Pecans posted... I agree with you on everything but this one. Hotline Miami is definitely hard, and the sequel is crazy hard. The first one is beatable with a bit of patience, but I don't blame anyone who complains that 2 is too hard, because it really is. I was almost going to write "Hotline Miami games", but I haven't finished the second one so I don't know. But the first one... I guess it's not a good example, because you could argue it as anywhere from easy to hard and I could agree. Patience is key, because if you assume that you can do it without failing a lot, then yeah, you'll think it's hard. Or if you understand that it's just a matter of learning, repetition and memorization, then it's not really hard, it just takes patience. On the other hand, Zachtronics games for example, I'm not even sure if I am actually capable of completing them. Opus Magnum is the only one where I haven't eventually smacked straight into a brick wall. In most others, I've made it only so far, until it became impossible for me to continue. --- |
| Topic | why do 95% of all indie games have to be difficult as fuck? |
| Sahuagin 12/06/18 8:35:20 PM #34 | Mead posted... I think a lot of them are very challenging because they have smaller dev teams and making a game difficult can pad the game time I don't think I really agree with this idea. games can't just arbitrarily be made difficult. difficulty shines a spotlight on the quality of a game's design. only a really well-designed game can be made very difficult without ruining it. (open to counter-examples.) --- |
| Topic | why do 95% of all indie games have to be difficult as fuck? |
| Sahuagin 12/06/18 8:23:08 PM #31 | "indie" isn't even a genre, it's more like a platform (it's basically the modern incarnation of PC games). and there are all kinds of them. probably the ones you're looking at are rogue-likes or something, where being super hard is part of the game. but not all of them are hard, it just depends which ones you're playing. Crashlands for example is relatively easy. Death Road to Canada is medium and only really gets hard if you play the more hardcore modes. Zachtronics games ARE frickin hard, but one exception is Opus Magnum which is definitely the easiest one. Infinifactory doesn't seem all that hard either, but I haven't finished it. Knuckle-Cracker games are medium. There are probably extra maps that are insanely hard, but the main campaigns are just medium. Amplitude games are as easy or hard as you want to make them. Shovel-Knight was medium/easy. Hotline Miami was medium/easy (as long as you have patience, if you have zero patience it would be hard I guess). those are about all I know of. the only truly hard ones are Zachtronics games (some of them, the guy has mathematically proven it's possible to beat, but never bothered to actually try.) --- |
| Topic | Was Boy Meets World always corny? Because GMW is just bad. |
| Sahuagin 12/05/18 1:19:44 AM #14 | I thought it was ok at the start, but then I randomly watched a newer episode quite a few years later, and was appalled. --- |
| Topic | When's the last time a game made you feel, like, with your feelings? |
| Sahuagin 12/05/18 1:17:03 AM #20 | games are mathematical systems that we enjoy fiddling with. the story, if there is one, is optional/tertiary. it's like asking if a construction set or a card game makes you cry. --- |
| Topic | Favorite Mario series |
| Sahuagin 12/04/18 8:05:28 PM #14 | Paper Mario? Or did you lump that in with "RPG"? really surprised I'm the first to mention it... --- |
| Topic | my manager named his daughter after princess leia |
| Sahuagin 12/03/18 8:49:15 PM #2 | I've heard that a friend of mine apparently named his daughter Anakin. no idea how he convinced his wife to do that. (maybe it was the middle name or something). --- |
| Topic | What do you think are the three most "original" movies of all time? |
| Sahuagin 12/03/18 8:20:48 PM #36 | three that come to mind first: Adaptation Back to the Future Ghostbusters --- |
| Topic | How many of you had an Atari 8-bit computer? |
| Sahuagin 12/02/18 8:38:42 PM #7 | I've played an Atari once or twice, and I have the E.T. cartridge somewhere just for fun, but I've never owned an atari. I did own a ColecoVision and later an Adam (PCish version of a coleco), as well as a TRS-80 Color Computer 1, and later 2. The SMS blew all that away though when I finally got one. --- |
| Topic | The original 8 |
| Sahuagin 12/02/18 3:34:47 PM #2 | Link, and my brother's was Samus. we must have played hundreds of Link vs Samus matches through both the first one and melee. --- |
| Topic | Which movie did you like better? The Princess Bride or Stardust? |
| Sahuagin 12/02/18 12:06:30 PM #9 | haven't seen Stardust but it would be extremely hard to top The Princess Bride --- |
| Topic | I'm bad at googling - I need help finding a thingy |
| Sahuagin 12/02/18 12:02:23 PM #10 | Lokarin posted... Omg lol - the seller exclusively will not sell to Canada... what a dink! there is a service you could use http://shipito.com that will let you ship to their US address, and they will ship it to your CA address. I've used it before and it worked, though you can end up with customs charges. --- |
| Topic | I'm bad at googling - I need help finding a thingy |
| Sahuagin 12/02/18 11:25:41 AM #8 | seems like ebay has some. search for "hologram picture <thing>". seems expensive though. https://www.ebay.com/itm/3D-Butterfly-Hologram-Picture-MATTED-Collectible-on-Silver-Halide-Type-Film/263598152928 --- |
| Topic | Bethesda Game Studios to face a class action lawsuit regarding Fallout 76. |
| Sahuagin 12/01/18 2:21:44 PM #92 | does anyone who has it dislike it? as often happens, there seems to be only people who don't have it laughing at it without having played it, and people who do have it who are desperate to avoid thinking negatively of the game they are playing/payed money for. --- |
| Topic | How many of your 4 grandparents are still living? |
| Sahuagin 12/01/18 2:16:19 PM #17 | zero or one. will never know who my mom's dad was. the other three are gone. (mom's mom died when I was 12, dad's mom died ~10 years ago, and dad's dad died ~5 years ago.) never really knew any of them anyway. --- |
| Topic | Name some top-down (zelda style) metroidvanias |
| Sahuagin 12/01/18 2:10:38 PM #31 | Marianna posted... Zelda is not metroidvania, it's top-down action adventure. yeah, but if you cross top-down with metroidvania, you end up with something like Zelda (LttP specifically I guess). you've basically said "now that you've hybridized that, it's no longer pure". well, no kidding... (oh, now I realize who you are, nm I guess) --- |
| Topic | RIP George HW Bush dies at 94 |
| Sahuagin 12/01/18 2:07:22 PM #41 | I thought he was already long dead. oh well, he is now. --- |
| Topic | Name some top-down (zelda style) metroidvanias |
| Sahuagin 12/01/18 1:17:23 PM #28 | not precisely metroidvania, but the closest I can think of that I've played is Crashlands. it's a randomized 2d world where you farm for mats from the various alien flora and fauna, and construct a 2d base while following main and side quest lines. --- |
| Topic | Angry Joe is awful |
| Sahuagin 11/30/18 11:28:48 PM #26 | InhumaneRaider posted... What? I see your point, but jim sterling is self-deprecatingly obnoxious, whereas angry joe is more non-self-deprecatingly narcissistic. sterling doesn't take himself very seriously (have you seen him wrestling?), angry joe is the complete opposite. --- |
| Topic | What is your Go To for Chinese food? |
| Sahuagin 11/30/18 7:19:30 PM #17 | Grilled Pork Dumplings Shrimp Fried Rice (place where I get it has the BEST Fried Rice ever; generally best quality chinese food ever too) Chow Mein it also doesn't feel like the full experience without at least 1 sweet and sour dish --- |
| Topic | Angry Joe is awful |
| Sahuagin 11/30/18 6:49:09 PM #23 | angry joe is too obnoxious jim sterling is a lot better, but seems to always talk about the same thing (AAA publishers are bad and so are loot boxes). things I pretty much agree with but it'd be better to have more variety in his topics. mostly I want to hear more about the good and less about the bad. the point of reviews is (should be) to help find the good stuff in the mountain of trash. pointing out the trash doesn't help. --- |
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