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| Topic | Going to post a different Nintendo Power poster every few days. |
| Sahuagin 01/21/21 5:53:11 PM #243 | I had lots of opportunities to rent it but never did so I don't know what it's like --- |
| Topic | Going to post a different Nintendo Power poster every few days. |
| Sahuagin 01/05/21 8:22:00 PM #229 | ChronxDaHemphog posted... This issue was always one of my favorites as a kid because it came with a special silver cover that I believe only went out to people with a Nintendo Power subscription.yay I had that. was definitely one of my favs. I think I sold it along with my entire SNES collection for $100... /cry --- |
| Topic | Going to post a different Nintendo Power poster every few days. |
| Sahuagin 11/04/20 11:23:09 PM #190 | someone must have had it as their sig or something? not that we can see sigs these days --- |
| Topic | Going to post a different Nintendo Power poster every few days. |
| Sahuagin 11/04/20 10:38:42 PM #188 | I don't know why that one is so familiar... maybe I still have it in storage or something. what's on the other side? I didn't even know there was a donkey kong land, but I have that image burned into my mind forever --- |
| Topic | Going to post a different Nintendo Power poster every few days. |
| Sahuagin 10/31/20 5:25:32 PM #182 | might have taken a whole hour to design that poster --- |
| Topic | Going to post a different Nintendo Power poster every few days. |
| Sahuagin 10/21/20 9:21:07 PM #162 | I remember not knowing what the heck the thing in the background was supposed to be --- |
| Topic | Going to post a different Nintendo Power poster every few days. |
| Sahuagin 09/21/20 9:12:38 PM #127 | Zeus posted... I *think* the SNES version was probably the samethe SNES Jurassic park was a top-down adventure game with some clumsy first person sections. it was great (at least when I played it at the time) and has at least one great song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1EGNaPTACc --- |
| Topic | Going to post a different Nintendo Power poster every few days. |
| Sahuagin 09/16/20 1:57:01 AM #123 | |
| Topic | I wish I knew how many of these topics I've done now |
| Sahuagin 09/06/20 1:29:59 AM #391 | DeltaBladeX posted... suggest other stuff to postalmost anything that's not a cartoon. that soda girl was good, more like that. but w/e. --- |
| Topic | Going to post a different Nintendo Power poster every few days. |
| Sahuagin 08/27/20 4:43:40 AM #111 | some of these I've never seen before, and some of them I had on my wall for years FrozenBananas posted... I remember being obsessed with this when it first came out. I was so exited to play it. Then I learned a week later that it doesnt have much replayability. Still fond memories though, i loved the black and white yoshies the mostI walked like 10km in ankle to knee deep snow for it, thinking it would basically be yoshi's island 2. that was disappointing... --- |
| Topic | What games have the most realistic vehicle armour systems? |
| Sahuagin 07/19/20 4:04:30 AM #5 | Master of Orion 2? (space ships are vehicles, right?) Mechwarrior I think is similar, but I can't remember for sure. basically, rather than *just* HP, you actually have critical systems that are being protected by the armor. damage to your armor avoids damage to critical systems, but damage beyond your armor (in MOO2, to your hull) is applied to your systems as well, and when systems are damaged, all kinds of bad things can happen. also in Mechwarrior it's split between your legs, torso, and arms. (MOO2 has shields split into 4 quadrants, but armor and hull are just one part each.) also similar to this in sim racing games, where some light initial damage to an area is not too bad, due to crumpling, but once a part of your car is already crumpled, further damage starts to damage internal components. --- |
| Topic | Free Warhammer game on GOG |
| Sahuagin 07/18/20 10:27:54 PM #5 | thanks, that's actually the only 40k game I've ever played, a very long time ago --- |
| Topic | Best Mad Max movie? |
| Sahuagin 07/18/20 2:53:03 AM #28 | I've only seen Beyond Thunderdome (and I've seen it 3 or 4 times or more, dunno why they play it on TV so much) --- |
| Topic | So, what do you think of this random song? |
| Sahuagin 07/17/20 4:12:32 AM #6 | Sephiroth C Ryu posted... A little too metal/shouty for me.I didn't actually know there were different versions or which one was the first. I did know it came from that minecraft video. it's just the version that shows up now and then on some trackmania servers. it's fine whichever you prefer, but I would say something like: metal seems like the perfect genre to me for a dwarf song about digging. --- |
| Topic | Zeus vs. Yahweh |
| Sahuagin 07/17/20 12:48:26 AM #30 | adjl posted... it's a matter of infinity always being greater than, less than, and equal to infinity, all at the same timeuh, uncontrollable urge to pedantize: there are at least two kinds of infinity, and one is bigger than the other --- |
| Topic | So, what do you think of this random song? |
| Sahuagin 07/17/20 12:07:34 AM #2 | I think I prefer this for a dwarf theme song, even though it was originally a joke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34CZjsEI1yU --- |
| Topic | Best Sega platform |
| Sahuagin 07/16/20 3:52:31 AM #10 | my favorite is the master system. it was more colorful than the NES, and had great games. probably the best is the dreamcast but I've never played it. --- |
| Topic | All female police force. Yeah or Nah? |
| Sahuagin 07/15/20 10:57:41 PM #40 | Mead posted... that doesnt even make sense mathematically"all" is equivalent to "not any not". "all female" is the same as saying "not any non-female". there is some debate over this though; it's called a "vacuous truth" since it's only true because it doesn't really say anything. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuous_truth it's kind of only that way for logical consistency, not because it's actually saying something useful. --- |
| Topic | Important question. What do you call this yard tool? |
| Sahuagin 07/15/20 3:28:18 PM #19 | a weed eater I just bought one very much like that a couple weeks ago --- |
| Topic | Hypothesis: God is also Satan |
| Sahuagin 07/15/20 2:33:57 AM #14 | Lokarin posted... If Satan means "The Opposer" and God is the sole gatekeeper of you getting into heaven, then God is your opposer... God is your Satanno, but close. "The Satan" means "The Accuser". It's a title; that's his job, given to him by YHWH. YHWH is basically the judge, and The Satan is basically the prosecuting attorney. Jesus is maybe the defense attorney, but only once you get to the NT. also, there isn't really a "heaven" or a "hell" for that matter. a lot of these ideas (heaven, hell, devil) come from somewhere else (Zoroastrianism?) and aren't really part of Jewish or technically even Christian teaching. and then, YHWH is just the Canaanite god of war anyway. (it's hard to say what any one thing "is", because it's coming from at least like 4 or 5 different places, all mish-mashed together). --- |
| Topic | what new star sign are you now NASA changed them |
| Sahuagin 07/14/20 9:44:28 PM #44 | when I was a kid I thought I was cancer, but figured out later that I was leo since I was nearer the end of July, but this would make me cancer again --- |
| Topic | who do you think the last surviving ninja turtle is |
| Sahuagin 07/14/20 9:40:31 PM #33 | isn't raph more likely to be the first to die, being hot headed and all mike or don would probably be the most interesting, since it would affect their personalities a lot more significantly than leo or raph (they are already kind of gloomy) --- |
| Topic | Grant Imahara died |
| Sahuagin 07/14/20 1:49:49 AM #9 | man, that sucks a lot... I had nothing but complete disbelief when I first read it. friggin lousy. --- |
| Topic | Why is GitHub always deeply awful to do anything in. |
| Sahuagin 07/13/20 9:55:55 PM #23 | Clench281 posted... It sounds like they don't even need gitwell you definitely want version control for your source code... IMO basically no one should ever do any coding ever without version control (unless cloud storage has versioning? which might be possible) --- |
| Topic | Why is GitHub always deeply awful to do anything in. |
| Sahuagin 07/13/20 9:19:47 PM #20 | EclairReturns posted... I see that this is a possibility. But sometimes, I am very obsessive about folder and filenames, and such, and will have great difficulty deleting old folders and files should I rename them and commit them once more to my repository. The old files with the old names will remain even after committing the new, updated files. And it just creates a lot of clutter, you see. If I want to remove it, I'd have to go into every single one of my files in order to delete them one-by-one. I know that complaining about and insulting a new program/video game just because I am not adept at learning it is not mature in the slightest. But I suppose I must get used to knowing the site structure and such; I myself am a newcomer to the site, and have not researched its features thoroughly enough to make any unwarranted judgements.I don't know git and github, but as others have said, it should just be an online git repo. the "right" way to use it (or, one way to use it), is to have the source files on your PC, commit them to a local repo on your machine, and then push updates from your local repo to the online repo. the online repo is the "central" repo that everyone working on the project pushes to and pulls from, but is not the working repo; each user would have their own working repo. (to some degree you must already know this, since you need to have the files on your local machine to build them; I guess you could push/pull your changes directly to and from the online repo, but I think it would be better to have a local one. (you should have a local one anyway when you clone it in the first place). otherwise, not sure what you're missing. maybe you are missing a step when deleting files? you would delete the files from your drive, then maybe tell git that these missing files should be marked as removed (may or may not need that step not sure), then commit. if the files come back then you probably haven't told git that the files should be removed. (another way to do this might be just to tell git that the file should be deleted, and let git delete it. this is where I'd have to know git specifics to go any further.)) --- |
| Topic | I'm running out of interesting things to watch on Youtube. |
| Sahuagin 07/13/20 12:28:08 AM #8 | Recommendations include: (probably you know most of these, but in case you don't; no particular order) most of these are super high quality (ie worth watching, not necessarily production quality), and also have lots of content Corridor Digital - indie VFX guys having fun in LA RedLetterMedia - some guys from wisconsin talking about (bad) movies; very good PBS Space Time - excellent astro-physics news/info Adam Ragusea - high quality essays about food and cooking at home post 10 - nerdy guy doing constructive stuff outside like unclogging drains or exploring abandoned ruins (this one might be a bit niche) Mathologer - german guy giving great math lectures China Uncensored - anti-CCP news Legal Eagle - real lawyer talks about stuff (a bit phony-ish feeling; too polished not deep enough; still good) Glen & Friends Cooking - Toronto guy does a lot of experimental cooking (awesome) Georg Rockall-Schmidt - essays about movies (awesome) Chubbyemu - Toxicologist tells real "Untold stories of the ER" type medical stories, and some life advice (very good) Paul Harrell - ex-military marksmanship instructor gives gun advice (awesome) Accursed Farms - (more specifically Game Dungeon) weird/cool American guy who now lives in Poland writes extremely thorough and deep reviews/essays about obscure games he likes (awesome). (also Freeman's Mind that most people are more likely to know about). The Act Man - some good gaming essays; likes FPS games a little too much Super GT - simply the best sim racing channel, with some real go-carting; hard to play in the background though since you need to pay attention to the race 3Blue1Brown - probably the single best math channel; better math explanations than you'll find anywhere Honorable Mentions: LockPickingLawyer, Donut Media, Fermilab, Adam Savage's Tested, Anton Petrov, GDC, Luke Capasso, decino, Lindybeige --- |
| Topic | What was the first movie you saw in IMAX? |
| Sahuagin 07/12/20 9:59:04 PM #18 | I think I saw the first Raimi Spider-man in IMAX. one of the only movies I've seen that way. not sure if any of it was filmed for it though, so it was probably just stretched that big. I have seen a few "field trip" type IMAX films, though that was decades ago. --- |
| Topic | Why is GitHub always deeply awful to do anything in. |
| Sahuagin 07/12/20 5:22:14 AM #2 | I have yet to learn git/github. as much as I can be frustrated at mercurial sometimes, it's even worse trying to change to git. github as a site seems pretty professional, though. --- |
| Topic | All console games should have latency options. |
| Sahuagin 07/11/20 2:21:03 PM #16 | it does sound like it's your TV. if there's a setting on the TV itself I would disable it unless you just can't live without that effect. or get a new TV (or a monitor). --- |
| Topic | All console games should have latency options. |
| Sahuagin 07/11/20 1:53:13 PM #14 | while working on VR stuff John Carmack was lamenting the fact that he could send a packet across the ocean faster than he could light up a pixel on a display that's right in front of him. https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/193480622533120001 DirtBasedSoap posted... I highly doubt my tv is doing this. Like I said, I can completely get rid of the input lag via a setting on my tv.I don't know what the actual problem is, but this logic doesn't make sense. "I doubt it's my TV, because my TV has a setting that enables and disables the problem"? there are processors and filters, etc. that are in modern display devices that can add considerable input lag, which is what Carmack was getting frustrated by. --- |
| Topic | Still or sparkling water? |
| Sahuagin 07/11/20 1:04:09 PM #5 | myghostisdead posted... Still waters run the deepest.Tiefe Wasser sind nicht still. --- |
| Topic | Recommend me some roguelites/roguelikes I can play on console |
| Sahuagin 07/10/20 12:35:43 AM #8 | Death Road to Canada --- |
| Topic | Which is the best? |
| Sahuagin 07/09/20 9:59:19 PM #15 | I think I like Tubular the most. I think it has the best mix of "impossible at first, but easy once you get the hang of it". I can barely remember some of them though, even looking at screenshots. Way Cool I like too, with timing between all the fuzzies, and Outrageous is good being not just hard, but extremely long too (you start thinking that "ok it's hard but doable" but then you realize you're already running out of time and the end is nowhere in sight.) looking at screenshots, I can barely remember the other ones or what it was about them that made them hard --- |
| Topic | Your favorite expensive shellfish? |
| Sahuagin 07/09/20 9:28:58 PM #20 | I've only really had real crab once, and real lobster almost never. I vastly prefer immitation crab to the little real crab that I've tried so far. --- |
| Topic | Pepsi sucks |
| Sahuagin 07/08/20 11:02:57 PM #25 | pepsi slurpees are way the heck better than coke slurpees --- |
| Topic | Religious/mask wearing poll |
| Sahuagin 07/08/20 9:33:10 PM #8 | dancer62 posted... Even though I know the mask is only symbolic and doesn't actually protect from anything, I wear one just to be sociable.not posting this to be a douche, it's just funny and fits as an explanation  --- |
| Topic | good stuff to put hot sauce on? |
| Sahuagin 07/07/20 6:06:10 AM #10 | canned salmon --- |
| Topic | Other than niche titles; was Starcraft 2 really the last decent RTS? |
| Sahuagin 07/07/20 6:05:49 AM #20 | adjl posted... Generally, yeah, or at least some form of competition between factions (you can have economic RTS's, after all). You can certainly make a case for non-competitive games being strategic and real-time, but that's really not what's typically meant by the genre label "real-time strategy" (much like "Role-playing game" doesn't literally mean any game in which you play a role).well I definitely don't adhere to the "now that there's warcraft, only warcraft-like games are RTSs" rule. and again, even then this game actually is warcraft-like. I research military tech to be able to place turrets at choke-points to fight monsters that attack in swarms, and everything happens in real-time. it's an RTS, no exaggeration or stretching of any kind required. I don't care if the naive definition is more shallow than that. adjl posted... I suppose technically it does, but in practice the norm is simply to reload the most recent save and try not to get hit by a train this time.well, as I said, having your base overrun is a thing, too, and it's practically identical to being overwhelmed by zerg. you don't need to tweak the settings as much as you say (and it doesn't matter, because tweaking the settings is a part of the game); it's very possible to end up in an unwinnable situation if you neglect your military tech, or if you're surrounded enough and your power grid crashes with too much reliance on lasers, etc. and again, you're really just saying that "it's easy enough that it doesn't qualify" which doesn't even make sense. being able to save and load the game doesn't matter either, that's completely normal for a PC game. adjl posted... When asking if a game qualifies as a certain genre, the only important question that needs to be answered is "Would I recommend this game to somebody purely based on the knowledge that they enjoy the genre I'm trying to apply here?".no, definite disagree. that's just narrow thinking. as if all genres become more and more focused over time rather than more and more broad. just because a game does some things different than existing games in a genre doesn't mean it doesn't fit in that genre; rather it broadens it. and again, it's a strategy game to me even without biters. strategy to me means large-scale (macro) planning, not just large-scale planning directly related to warfare. I don't care what the naive view is. adjl posted... (much like "Role-playing game" doesn't literally mean any game in which you play a role)that's not the right example; that's a misuse of the term RPG that doesn't capture anything at all about the genre. it's an ignorant literal reading of the term that is useless and doesn't identify anything. RPG means a game in which you make roles to play (or maybe you might be able to limit that to being given roles to play; as long as the role can vary is the key concept). RTS means a strategy game that runs in real-time. there's a lot of implications there, to both of these ideas (RPG and RTS). it makes a big difference when a game can be played via multiple different roles. it's not a superficial difference, it changes the game in fundamental ways. real-time strategy games are hugely different than turn-based ones, regardless of the degree of military VS non-military strategy that entails. it's not a superficial difference, it changes what the game is in fundamental ways. and still, this game has military strategy... it just isn't absolutely 100% focused on military strategy above all else, it's more like 50-75% instead. whoop-de-doo. you have a variety of points here that I definitely don't agree with: - non-military strategy games are not strategy games - hybrid genre games are not in any of the genres they pull from - once a game in a genre become popular enough, it eclipses the rest of the genre and the genre becomes only about that game and games that are similar to it - if a game lets you modify the degree of a genre-defining element of its gameplay, then it no longer qualifies for that genre all of these are unnecessarily narrow ways of thinking. --- |
| Topic | How come we don't call The Cloud softdrive |
| Sahuagin 07/06/20 11:02:56 PM #3 | cloud-storage is not software though, it's just a remote hard-drive. a soft-drive would be more like an emulated in-memory drive. actually it's almost contradictory though, since the point of a drive is persistence, and software is not persistent. but there's lots of wiggle-room here with definitions and stuff; definitely an interesting question. --- |
| Topic | Spending habits |
| Sahuagin 07/06/20 10:58:06 PM #13 | my family are almost literal financial vampires, so I definitely tend to lean towards tightwad... --- |
| Topic | Other than niche titles; was Starcraft 2 really the last decent RTS? |
| Sahuagin 07/06/20 10:52:23 PM #16 | adjl posted... I get why people call Factorio an RTS, but unless you deliberately make the Biters substantially more threatening than they are by default, I feel like it really doesn't have the competitive aspect that really defines the genre. There isn't really a defined failure state in Factorio short of getting spawn camped by Biters, and that generally isn't going to happen to the vast majority of players.it sounds like you're saying that "strategy" implies warfare? even without the biters, I would consider the game to be a "real-time strategy game", but maybe I'm using the word "strategy" wrong? factorio requires lots of strategy and especially logistics, but maybe not much tactics (though it does have some tactics too). it's maybe not a tactical strategy game, but it seems to me to definitely be a strategy game. and it's definitely real-time. adjl posted... There isn't really a defined failure state in Factorio short of getting spawn camped by Bitersbeing killed is definitely a fail state, game over screen and all (although they did add respawning at one point, so maybe that's what you mean). even then I definitely had a "failure state" this last playthrough when I didn't out-tech the biters, didn't notice a new biter base set up under my pollution cloud, and was over-run by an army of tier 3 biters when I could barely kill 1. I had to reload an older save (admittedly not that older), tech up my projectile weapons, and build a 5-wall 2-turret thick defense structure to hold them off. (yes this is with custom rules, but not really tougher enemies). and even then, each wave carved a deep hole into my wall. (I eventually realized I had to go out and destroy the base myself, because it was spawning huge amounts of biters due to all the pollution it was absorbing.) I mean, it isn't an exaggeration to call this "real-time strategy"; that's literally unambiguously what it is. even thinking in stupidly strict terms of "only warcraft clones are true RTS games!", the gameplay very closely resembles that anyway. it sounds like what you really mean is that the game is easy on default settings. maybe, but that doesn't make it not an RTS game. --- |
| Topic | Other than niche titles; was Starcraft 2 really the last decent RTS? |
| Sahuagin 07/06/20 2:06:22 AM #8 | I'm not aware of any straight-up Warcraft/Starcraft clones, but there are at least a couple good "real-time strategy" games: Stellaris and Factorio. There's also Hearts of Iron 4 but I haven't played it. Other older games like EU4 and Sins of a Solar Empire have received new DLC post-SC2. --- |
| Topic | What's for supper/dinner/evening sustenance? |
| Sahuagin 07/06/20 12:18:06 AM #6 | had some sausage earlier. not sure what I'll eat for supper. --- |
| Topic | My internet goes down every time I wake my laptop up from sleep |
| Sahuagin 07/05/20 11:40:54 PM #3 | man101 posted... Like clockwork, starting up my laptop just kills my modem for several minutes and every device in the house cannot get internetpossibly an IP conflict. maybe either it has the same address as the modem, or it could also have malware on it that is responding to certain IP requests. (there are packets that basically say "who has address <whatever>". a malicious program/device can respond to all of these, claiming to be everything, in hopes of intercepting important information. this can result in disrupted communication on the network.) those are just guesses though. --- |
| Topic | What's the math term for a, like, parabolla that curves in opposite directions? |
| Sahuagin 07/05/20 6:37:23 PM #13 | Lokarin posted... I mean more neutral using topia as a rootthe word "neutopia" is commonly used, though it doesn't seem to be an 'official' english word. there's a TG-16 zelda clone named neutopia, which also had a sequel. there's also an episode of Futurama titled Neutopia, in which everyone has their gender neutralized, and then later swapped. --- |
| Topic | Remember when people had physical media collections? |
| Sahuagin 07/03/20 9:35:29 PM #11 | ParanoidObsessive posted... But considering who posted this topic, is this just troll copypasta anyway?the same post was made on another website earlier this morning or late last night depending on timezone, and as part of an actual conversation, so basically --- |
| Topic | Remember when people had physical media collections? |
| Sahuagin 07/03/20 9:27:26 PM #8 | You can't put a digital download of a film or album on a shelf to show off your discerning and eclectic tastes to your house guests. --- |
| Topic | Did you used to dislike school more or work ? |
| Sahuagin 07/03/20 9:22:38 PM #6 | I like both, but work definitely is better. school is a double cost, whereas work exchanges one resource for another. in terms of just enjoyment, they both have their pros and cons. --- |
| Topic | I got a new liquid cooling system |
| Sahuagin 07/03/20 2:04:49 AM #6 | Ogurisama posted... My CPU runs over 100c when in games ATMare you saying you installed a cooling system, but your CPU is nevertheless running outrageously hot? it would probably mean that you didn't make proper thermal contact between the cooling system and the CPU surface. --- |
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