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i'm on right now and ready to try the nightfall rat king quest and trials of the nine
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i'll be available later and the day after to try the raid and clean up other milestones. would love to do the final step of the rat king quest too!
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Also bought everything Xur had on sale. Heard Merciless melts bosses because of its special ability. The Hunter and Titan armors are for when I inevitably start other characters. And I can dismantle the Warlock armor for Bright Dust!

I really like how non-existent the grinding is now.
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sent you a friend request palmer

everyone's favorite tentacle-faced agent of the nine is back! not where you'd expect him to be though!

also holy crap his stuff is real cheap
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have you contacted our dear senators about the lower house approving only a P1,000 budget for the commission on human rights, demanding they fight that decision?
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i did all this week's milestones available already

283 power

raid ready

let's go
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gonna be on in a bit to do fuckin i don't know maybe the nightfall because why not the better prepared i am for the raid day one the better it is for humanity that i give it a go asap
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I'm up for it, although I might just try it with a couple other people before then!
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Mitochondriagon posted...

Also if anyone is PS4 and wants to do the Rat King Quest or Nightfall let me know.

hey palmer what's your psn? i wanna finish the nightfall asap because i won't have time later on.
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yes shad get it done so we can all focus on doing the post-game content!

yo icon i'm on and ready to strike
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okay cool i will be on later!
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if destiny 2 lets me fight a giant snake underwater, then it's goty material

also i hear the nightfall is really good. we need to do this asap. i am at 245 power. is that enough?
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and the campaign is done! cool stuff. now it's time to spend hundreds of hours into the game.
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i am not. i should get on that.

i'm just doing the story missions now. wanna see this through before the weekend's over.
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i don't know how to do that rock

also i sent you a friend request on psn?

also i unlocked strikes and patrols now. think i'm about to go on the last chain of story missions?
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Hotline Miami 2 is inferior to Hotline Miami

Hotline Miami 2's soundtrack is superior to Hotline Miami's
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i'm a warlock and i approve of having less people like me so i feel more special

i will totally run nightfall when i'm ready which should also be by this weekend
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yeah it showed me the same thing. weird. the game has actually been been showing me that warning about nat issues randomly. seems to be a widespread issue though.
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Shaduln posted...

TVontheRadio posted...

i am awake(n) now and ready to play some more destiny 2

i see you icon and numbers

also did y'all know about activating heroic events from public events to get way better loot because that isn't surfaced extremely well

This made me remember I forgot to accept your request. >_>

I'm only playing one more crucible then going to bed though.

s'all good. played with icon and numbers. next time! feel free to invite/join me when you see me on.
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i am awake(n) now and ready to play some more destiny 2

i see you icon and numbers

also did y'all know about activating heroic events from public events to get way better loot because that isn't surfaced extremely well
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added shad

i'm on right now, but if none of y'all are getting on anytime soon, i'm gonna take off!
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hey guys

i think i'll be on later when i get home from work

shad what's your psn id
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hey guys

let's play together this weekend

Grand Kirby posted...

It sounds kind of fun, but it also sounds like one of those things you have to invest a lot of time in, and I literally have no real free time.

i mean you can just play the story missions and side stuff at a very casual pace. do one or two for an hour. no need to grind at all to do these missions. sell it or trade it in when you're done with all the pve content. it'll still be a fun time!

it's only really the nightfalls, harder strikes, and raids that you'll need to do some grinding to get gear that lets you tackle those missions!
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It's easy, the location is super convenient, I have a decent amount of free time, benefits are nice, and I get paid well enough. The only thing that sucks is having to do the graveyard shift for a couple of months every now and then.

It's totally okay.
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played a couple of hours of it and enjoyed that time. will definitely have time to group up over the weekend on ps4!
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PS4

and i'm playing right now

Howlin_Forever

if you need another warm body to do shit with
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oh thank god

also observer quick look sold me on the game
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Good point about the barrier charge! Just surprised that I've seen no one try her at least once when I've seen freakin' Ana in FFA.

The times I saw Rein do well there was only one Junkrat. Lots of Genjis and McCrees and Tracers though!
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I've seen Reins and Winstons do well in FFA, but it's a rare occasion. Rein can be scary in the basement too with how much space he takes up. Genjis are common, and Winston is still a very effective hard counter. If there's just one Reaper and/or Roadhog, you can manage as the gorilla.

Haven't seen D.Va be successful, and I haven't seen Zarya at all, which is kinda surprising since she can melt multiple opponents in team games. Think I'll try her and Rein out soon!
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i think

i'm just gonna play ffa deathmatch forever
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i hear aiming is fucked up on console right now
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i think i'll get it for ps4 so i can review it and get paid for it
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iiicon posted...

Ugh, 90 gold away from 3000. I don't get as many dupes as I used to, which really hurts

i'm literally 5 gold away, and i don't think i have the time to play more. this new loot box reward system was such a monkey's paw.
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they went with this direction because it's gonna be way more exciting to play as her

your idea doesn't change how the smartest way to play mercy now is to literally abandon your team when things get rough, and the opposing team's safest counter to that strategy is to engage in a dumb mini game of hide and seek.

it just doesn't feel good on any side. you're in the team with the hiding mercy? you could have used the help in the team fight to win it. good enemies know to hunt down your mercy, and that plan for her to come back gets squashed easily when she's found out. and good teams also know to save ults to counter a big rez. more often than not, i see teams get wiped again anyway after a big rez because by the time they all died, they're in bad positioning. all that risk for an "advantage" that can be quickly lost.

mercy players get flak for disappearing mid fight, for getting found out before they can come back, for rezzing too early or for rezzing just one teammate, for rezzing too late, for not rezzing enough, and in higher ranks for even just playing as mercy because of her reputation in that mmr.

and yeah, obviously, it never feels great for you to wipe a team only to have it all undone by an enemy mercy.

i just don't see any positivity with her character right now! and i say all that as a player who got up to master using her most of the time once i climbed to mid diamond.

with this big change, she's way more likely to stick around for fights and actively contributing. this subsequently removes all that negativity surrounding her current core playstyle of hiding and timing rez as well as that awful feeling in seeing her undo your team's work. we might even see pros start playing as her, and what happens in that scene always defines the meta across most ranks.

i think i'm going to miss the spectacle of a huge game-changing rez, but i'm looking forward to this more dynamic mercy that will likely shake up how the game is played. it's certainly way better than just slightly nerfing rez to make her a little less annoying in plat and below while making her an even rarer choice in diamond and above.
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i don't think i used the beast blood pellets until the dlc. that with the whirlgig saw made real short work of laurence!
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beat lost legacy

not much to say about that except it's still gorgeous, it's fun, and the photo mode with all the faces you can have chloe make is great.

also i finished it in under 8 hours! i didn't mind the length of uncharted 4, but that certainly had pacing problems on a replay.
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oh wow this looks like it'll actually be fun to play as mercy instead of just being stressful when those changes hit!
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finished edith finch

yeah, no big surprise opinion here, lewis' story is the standout. sam, barbara, gregory, and calvin's are also very good. molly's been spoiled for multiple times already, and it was the first one, so it didn't have as much of an impact as i think it would've had i gone into it totally fresh.

gone home had a much more powerful emotional effect on me, but i think i'm just a sucker for more focused, personal stories that get built up over time. this isn't exactly what edith finch is going for, and yeah, it does way more interesting storytelling with the medium. more of a meditation on death. something to ruminate over.

might appreciate it more when i eventually get artist friend to play through it!
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had my artist friend play the first episode of life is strange. of course she knew the daguerreotype and recognized most of the photographers brought up. she said she'd totally be friends with max, whom she loves in spite of the spirits within stanning. she's already getting stressed with the choices. bracing for the second episode!

gonna play edith finch later. looking forward to it.
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i love austin

but he fucked up and said sephiroth always won
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only really started thinking about gotys in 2013. haven't had an indie game as one just yet. gone home was my #3 then. 2014 was child of light but that's made and published by ubisoft. life is strange also has that indie feel, but that was #2 for 2015 and published by square enix. the witness was my runner-up last year.

the two front-runners i have for this year though are both indies! pyre and hellblade. still need to play zelda and horizon.
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It does in fact look really good. But don't get it if you're looking for a good story. It has a decent campaign, but it's more of a tutorial for the classes than anything truly meaningful.

Multiplayer is really the focus, and it's fun and unique. I didn't have much trouble finding players on PS4, but only for Duels because there's a whole dumb strict NAT problem that you can only truly get around with port forwarding. Ubisoft will be switching to dedicated servers soon, so that should make that problem go away along with disconnections because of host migration.
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have you played any of the dlc? are they substantial? i mean i did main a dlc weapon type with the odachi for the main game, but i just got access to the actual dlc campaigns.
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good to hear! will probably never get it for myself though because i don't have anyone to play with locally. best times i had with the first was with a ton of people watching and cheering. circumstances don't allow that anymore!

i'm sure playing online with the better netcode is fun, but i don't think that's for me. think i'll get my fill of it just watching giant bomb.

also, i finally beat nioh for real. didn't change my mind. good game that i hope the inevitable sequel has a more engaging story, or at least more cool levels like the ninja palace one.

got the deluxe edition so i have access to all the dlc, but i think i'll hold off on playing the two that are out till next week. need a break.
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didn't like lucioball the first time around. still don't like it now. literally just played it enough times to get the 1 win and the loot box with it. 3v3 5eva for quick and fun arcade boxes!
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iiicon posted...

without getting into personal details, what about Hellblade resonated with you? what made you reframe your thinking?

just how important it is to have a support system, how having even just one person who is understanding means the world to the one dealing with mental illness, and how you need to keep showing love despite how tiring it can be.

maybe i've drawn more out of it looking back because of personal reasons, but eh, i can't ignore those feelings.

anyway, i beat nioh. well, i got to a credit sequence, but obviously there's more left to the game. it just keeps going! oh yeah it has one thing in common with hellblade - an awful vocal track over the credits. man, that was a weird wrinkle over the feelings i was processing at the end of hellblade haha.
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i think the baseline for portrayal of mental illness in games, at least in the "mainstream space", has already been understood to be very bad with, as you said, stuff like sanity meters from eternal darkness to amnesia to fahrenheit, and just straight-up cartoonish violence in the legion of bad fmv games in the 90's that make out mental illness as something to be just feared and sometimes even "cured". maybe hellblade's not the most nuanced take on mental illness, but at least it elevates the depiction to, as you say, pre-101 levels of understanding instead of the outright negative portrayals that's been rife in the industry.

maybe that there seems to be a lot of people who are only just now realizing how hard and how unavoidable it is to deal with mental illness through this game makes it deserving of some praise. it's kind of an aha moment every time i see someone who is playing the game say how annoying the voices are and that they'd wish they'd shut up! and not to get too real right now, but... i've avoided confronting stuff with my immediate family that touches on something akin to this, and i just learned some things literally today after i visited them. having just beat hellblade yesterday and its story still sticking with me, it's moved me in its own small way to do something more about what my family's going through.

agreed that we should always be demanding more complex takes on sensitive subject matters with video games, that stories tackling them don't stop at "raising awareness". i think hellblade moves a little past that point with where its story goes, but yes, games have to do more. but with how barren the space is past the indie scene in regards to handling these topics, the baby steps hellblade takes is still important in pushing the conversation forward, especially for ignorant babies like me!

i understand if you're at the point where all this is just basic info for you, then yeah, you don't need to play hellblade.

(oh and just to be clear, i'm not a total ignoramus that took mental health issues lightly before hellblade showed me the way i'm just a dude with my own issues, avoiding confrontation to the detriment of my relationships sometimes)
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obviously i can't speak for people who deal with mental health issues

so for me, a person who doesn't have those issues, the intent in tackling such a topic is to build empathy with people who do have those issues. that hellblade has AAA-level production value with fairly simple gameplay and half the price of your typical retail release makes me believe that ninja theory wants it to reach a wide audience.

yes, the fact that it's in a fantasy setting with concessions to some video game tropes like combat encounters and puzzle-solving automatically makes it not the most grounded take on mental illness. we do need more video games that show the effects of mental illness in the mundanity of life. we need more stuff like depression quest and actual sunlight.

but that kinda stuff is a hard sell right now for an audience that leans a bit more towards the mainstream, which is the audience that ninja theory is trying to reach with hellblade. maybe the whole concept of making mental illness more "palatable" is already fundamentally questionable!

and yet the game's handling of a particular mental illness is accurate and sensitive enough that maybe it's okay for it to be delivered in a more... digestible(?) manner. if it gets people who might not be aware or are dismissive of how taxing mental illnesses can be to learn this and just be more considerate of such issues, then it's worth some of the design compromises.

the economic space ninja theory is working on with this game is a crucial one too. if it does find commercial success, then this can influence other similarly sized devs and maybe even actual AAA studios to take bolder risks.

i'm optimistic enough to believe that we'll eventually have a true AAA walking simulator with zero combat and spectacle. hellblade's success would just make it happen sooner! seeing neil druckmann praise it already makes me even more positive about that outcome.

and lastly, gonna veer a bit close to spoiler territory here so imma tag this even though it's not anything specific, senua's arc is uplifting and not at all cheap or exploitative with how it reaches its highs and lows. probably doesn't mean as much coming from a dude who has no major mental health issues, but the whole thing just worked for me.
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iiicon posted...

Hellblade is a game I'm less interested in the more I hear about or watch it

what about the buzz around hellblade is turning you off? the subject? the presentation? the tone? the mechanics? the people hyping it up?

digiiiiiiiii posted...

Hellblade is great.

it really is!
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hearing about the positive reception to this and remembering how i enjoyed playing through all of the original sonic trilogy got me to check out how much the game is.

at 20 bucks, i think i might get it later this month!
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