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| Topic | Is FF15 (sale!) any good? |
| SilverClock 07/06/18 5:16:08 AM #21 | chaosbowser posted... helIy posted...combat is decent with decent depth to it if you actually combo in with other weapons This exactly. There was room for depth, but there was little reason to explore it. Also didn't like how items were so abundant. Sure you can tell me not to use them. But that's like hitting the game over button by myself, just to create my own difficulty. Doesn't really add to the tension. Definite need for balance there. --- 3DS FC: 5327-2159-0942 IGN: Ryan |
| Topic | Who's gonna be your main in Smash Ultimate |
| SilverClock 06/21/18 4:52:44 AM #35 | I've always used Zelda and I'm going to keep using Zelda. With the changes I've seen already done to her I'm thinking she may actually get out of bottom tier, but if not -- I'm going to keep using Zelda. In my circle of friends I beat everyone almost every time with her and I don't have any tournaments anywhere near me. I have a hard time finding someone who can destroy me online and when I do I just take it as an even more fun challenge. I can't wait. --- 3DS FC: 5327-2159-0942 IGN: Ryan |
| Topic | I want a girlfriend, but at the same time, I don't |
| SilverClock 06/07/18 11:04:30 PM #41 | I stopped looking for a girlfriend. My personality type, INTJ, apparently has the hardest time finding a partner. Not like I would let a test like that deter me, but it lines up with my experience. I'm not picky. All I want: Mutual attraction Plays games or is open to it Can drive Decent job Lives within 50 miles of me Nerdy interests Not an emotional clusterfuck Not handicapped Speaks English I know if I just get out there more and exercise I'd find someone but I'm too lazy to do that. I've been in two short relationships, but I broke up with the girls for legitimate reasons. Fortunately I'm happy single so that's good. Too many people act like they need a relationship to be happy imo. --- 3DS FC: 5327-2159-0942 IGN: Ryan |
| Topic | That feel when the local movie place has a no singles policy. |
| SilverClock 06/02/18 10:37:17 PM #33 | VeeVees posted... lolwut, there's a theater that can afford to turn away customers? SkynyrdRocker posted... I don't believe you TC ^Me --- 3DS FC: 5327-2159-0942 IGN: Ryan |
| Topic | When is SBAllen going to come out and admit that flairs are a failure |
| SilverClock 06/02/18 1:00:18 AM #18 | FrozenBananas posted... Imagine having "likes" and "upvotes" here. This place would go to hell O please god no --- 3DS FC: 5327-2159-0942 IGN: Ryan |
| Topic | as i kid did you ever build a fort out of boxes or bed sheets? |
| SilverClock 05/25/18 5:38:15 PM #12 | My brother and I when we were like 5-7 y/o would move the furniture around and drape blankets over it all. One time we set a trap for our cat with cat food in a basket that we would pull up and down. Kinda feel bad for that poor cat now X.X --- 3DS FC: 5327-2159-0942 IGN: Ryan |
| Topic | Has my art improved? Open to any and all criticism, even harsh or 'not helpful'. |
| SilverClock 05/24/18 8:25:33 PM #39 | wah_wah_wah posted... SilverClock posted...Drawing from your imagination would require TC to draw upon knowledge that he has gathered from previous drawings, which he doesn't have much of. He is a beginner and needs to study value, lighting, composition, anatomy, perspective, etc. Drawing from life every day will help a lot. Targeted study, like drawing 100 hands in different poses, learning where the muscles attach, what bones are where and why that causes light to land a certain way on the human body, can help a lot too. Copying Pokemon or anything from a video game is not ideal. It's not useless..it's better than nothing of course. Just not ideal if he really wants to learn in a short amount of time. ...What? How does that relate to what I said?? Yes the art is not good (I agree, that is fact). Because TC is learning doesn't make him good yet. Obviously? What? I don't get why I was quoted here. Andromicus posted... The first thing you really have to learn or really unlearn is to stop drawing with your brain. To elaborate on this...as I don't think you fully explained your point. Lotta times we have a picture in our head of what something is supposed to look like. Not what it actually looks like. Iirc the book I recommended actually has a chapter on that phenomenon. One exercise in it has you drawing something upside down so that your brain doesn't attach these misconceptions to your drawing. TheGreatNoodles posted... This is probably not gonna help my case, but I have been drawing for quite awhile. It absolutely will not help your case. The proof is in the pudding. People will say "Oh I've been drawing for this many years." when in reality, how much of that time was spent drawing? How many drawings have you done? Of what subjects? For how many hours? You can have a person on the street creating relatively the same piece of artwork for years and not show much improvement. At the end of the day, no one will be looking at your degrees. They'll be looking at your portfolio. You need to study and practice. Doctor Foxx posted... The most benefit I had from art classes was practicing techniques that were crucial for understanding how to break things down to paper. That meant hundreds of drawings of things I didn't care about so I could better understand what I did want to draw Preach --- 3DS FC: 5327-2159-0942 IGN: Ryan |
| Topic | Has my art improved? Open to any and all criticism, even harsh or 'not helpful'. |
| SilverClock 05/24/18 9:50:31 AM #28 | Drawing from your imagination would require TC to draw upon knowledge that he has gathered from previous drawings, which he doesn't have much of. He is a beginner and needs to study value, lighting, composition, anatomy, perspective, etc. Drawing from life every day will help a lot. Targeted study, like drawing 100 hands in different poses, learning where the muscles attach, what bones are where and why that causes light to land a certain way on the human body, can help a lot too. Copying Pokemon or anything from a video game is not ideal. It's not useless..it's better than nothing of course. Just not ideal if he really wants to learn in a short amount of time. You can draw from imagination as an exercise to test how much you have retained and to gauge your understanding. --- 3DS FC: 5327-2159-0942 IGN: Ryan |
| Topic | Why on earth do people buy remasters of games they've played (e.g. Dark Souls)? |
| SilverClock 05/24/18 6:45:24 AM #6 | I'll buy em if they're discounted..lotta games like that drop pretty quickly in price at least compared to the legit newer stuff. --- 3DS FC: 5327-2159-0942 IGN: Ryan |
| Topic | Has my art improved? Open to any and all criticism, even harsh or 'not helpful'. |
| SilverClock 05/24/18 4:56:59 AM #10 | I see little to no improvement among the three of them. I would have believed you if you said they were drawn on the same day. I would suggest drawing with a pencil and paper. You do not want to be relying on technology at this stage. Ideally, I don't think you should be drawing any kind of anime, and preferably real people to start, but you gotta have fun too. However you will be copying any of the artist's errors, so keep that in mind. If you want to be casual about it, draw all the anime you want. If you want to get serious, study anatomy and draw people in front of you, ideally not from pictures. Draw bones, muscles, hands, feet, eyes, the face, from every angle. That knowledge can be applied to future drawings, which includes the fantasy variety. To be fair, the drawing skill level presented in anime has a very wide range. Personally, if you insisted on drawing from anime, I would suggest looking at Avatar: The Last Airbender and the Legend of Korra. Really inspiring stuff. The shows retain good anatomical accuracy and have tons of fight scenes where you can see the body in action from different angles. A good book to read is Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, by Betty Edwards. It was written by an art teacher who over the course of her career analyzed how her students were learning. An EXCELLENT book and extremely valuable to an artist just starting out. Anyways good luck, idk what your goals are. But right now I can tell you have a lot of work ahead of you, which will require a lot of self discipline if you want to get good. --- 3DS FC: 5327-2159-0942 IGN: Ryan |
| Topic | Why does steam update so much? |
| SilverClock 05/16/18 8:42:53 AM #5 | Judgmenl posted... Steam doesn't know what user experience is. How old is Steam and we still can't accurately tell when our friends last logged in...seriously.. --- 3DS FC: 5327-2159-0942 IGN: Ryan |
| Topic | I don't know how I feel about Kingdom Hearts III... |
| SilverClock 04/25/18 10:44:28 AM #16 | wwinterj25 posted... SilverClock posted...The KH2 battle system is superb even by today's standards. Even top games like Witcher 3, the battle system in it can't hold a candle to KH2. We just have different tastes. I love both Witcher 3 and KH2. Played them both over 150 hours. Calling my preference nostalgia is where I have the issue. I am able to separate myself from my love for a series and call the latest game a piece of shit without any hesitation. I've played many many RPGs over the past 20 years. KH2 is an excellent action RPG, and many of the fans are lining up for KH3 for that reason whether you like the game or not. The series wouldn't be as popular as it is if they didn't generate good games. It's a clear difference of opinion. It is possible for older games to still have good qualities and stand the test of time or remakes wouldn't exist. But we're obviously not going to get anywhere spinning our wheels. I've already made my stance clear. There's not anything else that I care to say about it. --- 3DS FC: 5327-2159-0942 IGN: Ryan |
| Topic | I don't know how I feel about Kingdom Hearts III... |
| SilverClock 04/25/18 9:45:59 AM #12 | wwinterj25 posted... papercup posted...KH2 is such a finely crafted experience, but that was also so long ago that I don't think they can top it. KH2: FM+ is easily one of if not the best game in the series. Any KH fan will tell you that. A few games in the series were simply bad. Not because they weren't KH2. Because they genuinely sucked when compared to not only the KH series, but video games as a whole. I'm sorry but nostalgia goggles is not the issue here. I've been gaming over 20 years and know it when I see it. This isn't the case. Couldn't disagree more. KH2 had a lot going for it. The fans want to have that level of quality experience and more in the third game. Simple as that. We want a good game. I am personally very averse to the attempt at nostalgia that Nintendo shoves into every new game they come out with. So yea, nostalgia pandering drives me nuts. The KH2 battle system is superb even by today's standards. Even top games like Witcher 3, the battle system in it can't hold a candle to KH2. Although if anyone has one that compares I am super open to suggestions. --- 3DS FC: 5327-2159-0942 IGN: Ryan |
| Topic | ATTN: Lurkers |
| SilverClock 04/18/18 5:23:50 PM #2 | You can't make me!! --- 3DS FC: 5327-2159-0942 IGN: Ryan |
| Topic | Everyone needs to work in retail for at least a year! |
| SilverClock 04/16/18 11:53:04 AM #49 | Try working as a nurse in a nursing home. Patients and families can get very demanding. Patients can end up being physically or emotionally abusive. Almost always short staffed. Administration expects us to fit 12 hours of work in an 8 hour shift. Thank God I don't work there anymore. --- 3DS FC: 5327-2159-0942 IGN: Ryan |
| Topic | What have you been playing lately? |
| SilverClock 04/16/18 9:14:39 AM #13 | _AdjI_ posted... Mostly Dragon Quest Builders on the Switch. Loved that game. Played it on my PS4 when it came out. Can't wait for the sequel, which will have co-op, which it sorely needed. I've been playing Monster Hunter World. Post game could be better, but I'm used to grindy games. Getting better and better with my weapon is satisfying too. --- 3DS FC: 5327-2159-0942 IGN: Ryan |
| Topic | Name one of your worse video games of all time. |
| SilverClock 04/05/18 8:09:21 AM #59 | Witcher 3 was pretty good but I can totally understand that it's not a game for everyone. The battle system definitely could use improvement as well. Not even in my top 30 games though. Probably would've liked it more if I read the books (if the books were any good.) And I played Spore all the way through about three or four times!! Lol but I heard it was a disappointment to a lot of people. I never knew the game existed until it was already out. The game that hurt me the worst was probably Super Paper Mario for the Wii. I absolutely adored the Thousand Year Door for GCN, and to see the battle system completely ripped out of it killed me. Instead you just jump on top of the enemies. Nintendo is so damn attached to appealing to nostalgia. Needless to say next gen I switched to the Sony ship. Nintendo has very few games that are must-plays for me. So when they ruin one of them, it hurts. --- 3DS FC: 5327-2159-0942 IGN: Ryan |
| Topic | Do you prefer CREW NECK or V-NECK Shirts??? |
| SilverClock 04/01/18 5:24:50 PM #8 | streamofthesky posted... I always thought V-necks looked feminine and have stuck w/ crew necks THISSS although I haven't had much issue with the neck thing. Maybe your neck is bulkier than mine? Wouldn't be that hard to accomplish lol. --- 3DS FC: 5327-2159-0942 IGN: Ryan |
| Topic | The older I get, the more comfortable I get with being alone and single |
| SilverClock 03/19/18 2:37:47 AM #17 | I'm 26 and I feel similarly TC. I'm open to a relationship. But to find someone with similar interests, around my age, single, without kids, where we have some mutual attraction..it's like aligning the planets lol. I'm just doing my own thing, enjoying life. Forcing it is not a good idea imo. Kyuubi4269 posted... If I became frail enough to not be able to support myself, I'd want to be euthanised. That's what I'm planning on. There's assisted suicide if you have something terminal. Much cheaper. I don't want to live to an excessively old age. Nursing home life is not living. I've taken care of folks in them. Not for me. --- 3DS FC: 5327-2159-0942 IGN: Ryan |
| Topic | I'm not making community software anymore |
| SilverClock 03/18/18 1:25:35 AM #2 | I freaking adore the nexus mod manager. Never got into modding on the Wii U. Sounds like the community missed out big time. --- 3DS FC: 5327-2159-0942 IGN: Ryan |
| Topic | how is the multiplayer is kirby star allies? |
| SilverClock 03/17/18 11:32:01 PM #2 | I played it briefly with my roommate this morning for about 30 minutes. Player one controls Kirby, the other players control any one of the three remaining characters. Kirby changes his hat when he gets a power, the others become that enemy entirely. Anyone can steal powers from enemies. If someone goes off screen away from Kirby, they are teleported back next to him. Food heals, and if whoever picks it up is at full health, they can walk into an injured party member to give it to them automatically. There are three special enemies you can unlock for use that I saw. King Dedede, Metaknight, and Waddle Dee. Any player can go through doors to transition to another area. Only player one gets control of navigation on the overworld map. Pressing up on the control stick gives you the option for other party members to apply elemental effects to your power when possible. There are no rankings, aside from a small and very brief mini game at the end where you can earn life ups. It was brain dead easy, but I only played the first few levels. --- 3DS FC: 5327-2159-0942 IGN: Ryan |
| Topic | Are you very close with your immediate family? |
| SilverClock 03/15/18 4:46:28 AM #31 | LittleRoyal posted... SilverClock posted...LittleRoyal posted... Yea but your grandma sounds like a disney villain, just more crude. I would have sworn her off and let her rot. But that's just me. . .XD I guess that's the thing about family, you're stuck with them against your choice a lot of the time especially as a kid. MAN I'm glad I'm an adult. There's some stuff about childhood I miss, but I wouldn't go back. Hopefully your grandma is on the other side of the country or something. --- 3DS FC: 5327-2159-0942 IGN: Ryan |
| Topic | Are you saddened that toys r us is closing all of it's stores? |
| SilverClock 03/15/18 4:33:47 AM #25 | I was into video games by the time I was 7, and they definitely weren't the go-to place to get them. Therefore, the store was useless to me. Lol. --- 3DS FC: 5327-2159-0942 IGN: Ryan |
| Topic | Are you very close with your immediate family? |
| SilverClock 03/14/18 9:43:57 AM #21 | LittleRoyal posted...
That's fucked up. Your grandma sounds horrible. --- 3DS FC: 5327-2159-0942 IGN: Ryan |
| Topic | America is such a work obsessed country |
| SilverClock 03/14/18 9:31:53 AM #38 | SteamedHams posted... This topic is weird but I agree that there is something wrong with Americans' attitudes towards work. I've also run into a lot of people who act like your job is just something you're supposed to hate and deal with it, and if you feel like you deserve a job you enjoy you're just crazy and entitled. Getting a job you enjoy can take a lot of work. It could involve starting up and running a business yourself, or entering a field that is highly competitive. Both risky and generally not as realistic standard 9-5 job. Being American, I never had the impression that America was work obsessed. The ones that are do it out of necessity. Supposed to hate I wouldn't go that far at all. That's simply unhealthy. --- 3DS FC: 5327-2159-0942 IGN: Ryan |
| Topic | What is this board even about? |
| SilverClock 03/14/18 9:19:03 AM #12 | Polls? --- 3DS FC: 5327-2159-0942 IGN: Ryan |
| Topic | How often do you shower? |
| SilverClock 02/28/18 11:16:31 AM #58 | Every day for work days. Maybe every other day for days off. My hair gets greasy after a day and I can't stand the feeling. A lot of times I'll just wash my hair if I'm short on time. --- 3DS FC: 5327-2159-0942 IGN: Ryan |
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