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“I was just sat playing. We’d had a bit of a joke and then he stormed in and grabbed me. I didn’t know what was going on.”

hahahaha oh my god

people are such ass hats, all of them

also lol i'm not allowed to put ass and hat together

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i dunno, that was my least favorite part of the game

SPOILRES



there was really no storyline reason to be there. it gave some interesting backstory to the setting, and maybe the level design was better, but i'm a story progression fiend. i just didn't see why the character would be doing this





EN SPOILERS

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i've never been to this forum, but game storylines are pretty bad in general. nowadays i'm just happy when one manages to make sense and doesn't contradict itself in some obvious way.

I mostly read books now...

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i do have to agree that significantly less wall was portal-able in this one. Valid complaint.

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a boom box

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this topic MIGHT make you a bad person

it gets better when you get the portal gun, i guess? if you had fun just playing with portals in the first and you don't have fun after getting that... maybe you should check your imagination

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more like wikipedia search

2.6 million
50 thousand

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so they should use the word unfun or annoying instead

would that make you feel better

/taunt

/taunt

/special finisher

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dude i dont evin know WHAT your trying to do my making this topic happen

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The best way to not look like an idiot, once you know the basics, is to just fold a lot, and not show what you had (put your cards in face down).

also play some online freebie poker or something for a bit to practice maybe

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but what?

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okay, so if mario vs luigi is a rivalry, who's the antagonist

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Nope!

I haven't played competitively or regularly since high school, and I only consider someone an athlete if they participate in a sport under one of those two conditions.

Also mathlete and athlete are different words for a reason, so that does not count.

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So I'm trying to set up a Linode with java servlets/tomcat 6. Why does everything have to be so frustrating?

I have only a vague understanding of how everything is supposed to work. I think I'm supposed to download eclipse (downloading) and compile everything there and just copy junk over using winscp (which I have). Still don't know exactly where to copy it, though. Everything feels so arbitrary... it's an endless cycle of "look up how to do something, mindlessly copy what they say." I just wanna code my java and/or actually understand what I'm doing before I actually do it.

It seems like LAMP has more support... but... Java!

I really don't have anything productive to do or say in this topic, I just need to vent. Oh, and I guess I will be able to host stuff once I get this all running. Any ideas for board-related things?

I was thinking either some kinda game where you manage a group of fantasy characters or a board lottery.

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oh, i just meant... loike... leaving general voting preferences, in case you're not online for the entirety of a round or whatever. i have no idea how uoty works, i can't follow it long enough

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no but... i never get to vote that way

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or would that ruin everything?

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are you trying to say special brownies were invented in the 90s

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Yeah, you're not powerless in this situation.

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You did indeed stab me in the back. However, you are only level one, whilst I am level 50. That means I should remain uninjured.

i should have gone to sleep three hours ago

thanks guys

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didn't someone pay someone else on the board a hundred bucks to complete this for them?

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iScared of plastic surgery going wrong. Then my "how was your life ruined story" would be that I tried to get plastic surgery and it went wrong.

And that's terrible.

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i 100% agree with the topic title

i've noticed it in mostly people at or below ~20 years old overusing the verb trolling.
Borrowing something without permission is apparently trolling.
Playing a shooter and killing someone is apparently trolling.

... I just don't understand kids these days.

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Cleveland

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Butts

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i don't want to consume bandwidth pointlessly

i also don't want to miss out on any content in a post
if we have avatars/etc, and i have them turned off, and someone's referencing them, i will want to turn them on

the avatars will turn into inside jokes that only people with the features turned on will get

that is annoying

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yes

never used it, though

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You did indeed stab me in the back. However, you are only level one, whilst I am level 50. That means I should remain uninjured.

do ertyus dream of countie sheep?

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yeah, all i can suggest is to do things that will make you extremely tired during the day. i went through a phase in college where sleeping pills didn't work- lo and behold, i was sitting in my room browsing the internet or playing video games 90% of the time I wasn't in class.

*extended* periods of physical activity or stress are what fixed it for me. make it so your body has no energy and feels heavy when it's time to sleep. going to the gym for 45 minutes isn't really going to cut it. either stay for longer or go walking or whatever. sex does count. there have been a few times when consuming certain substances has thrown my body so out of whack that i'll pass out and fix my own schedule.

warm milk doesn't work.

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Too lazy to put anything here for now, but I still anticipate we'll be going good places sometime soon. And that's right... no spoiler tag. Work around THAT, people.

G'night/zzzzzzzz

(:3)

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Yep, beaurocracy sucks, even when the president is Obama.

Crazy, isn't it?

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10000 B.C. was not an excellent movie.

It didn't even deserve the ripoff that was 1000000 B.C.

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Aww yeah
(In)

/storytime
Last year I didn't see the topic until the Monday of the first week and lost a coin toss game. Was so disappointed...

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you know, i give ffx a lot of crap about having some serious plot holes and writing issues, but that's just a testament to how good the rest of the game is. it blows 99% of the games in existence out of the water in terms of production and structure.

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waaat? it wasnt hard.. chaff > grenade > chaff > grenade and its pretty much over

Well, of course it's easy once you a) know what to do and b) know how much you have to conserve consumable items.

As to the original topic... I agree. Mgs1 (not twin snakes) was probably the best overall package of the series, not counting 4 (haven't finished it yet). They all have their strengths and weaknesses, though. Even as frustrated as I got with mgs2's storyline or the various corny segways (the pain, snake talking about guns...) and gameplay gaffes (bandage system, map system) in mgs3, I think I'm ready for a replay of the entire series.

Oh also twin snakes is bad. Gameplay is better, and i guess it's funnier, but it's just worse and loses the original effect. I guess it's technically just *different*...

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The grind factor in that game was just too much for me...
Way too much... and too flagrant, too.

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darth sidious would so win

one of the main force powers is intuitive future sight, they tone it down in games n stuff, but he could definitely block stuff, and generally just absorb spells. see how samuel jackson absorbs area-effect lightning magic into his lightsaber in some movie or sommat

plus harry dodges that death spell by jumping behind a tombstone or something a couple times in the books

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Actual unforgivable list?

Game-crashing bugs
long periods of time between save points in long games (I.e. you are not expected to finish in one sitting)
Possibility of having to restart the entire game due to poor early decisions and lack of saves
Excessively random elements that favor a restart reflex to manipulate the number generator
Excessively long loading times
Huge, obvious grinds mandatory to the main storyline, esp in a single player game.

I can deal with short, gimmicky games- I accept the fact that I can be screwed in roguelikes because each attempt is brisk and i'm not too attached to it.

Oh also regenerating health was the greatest development in shooter gameplay ever at the time. Nothing sucked more than reaching a checkpoint with 3% health and cursing yourself for not offing yourself in the lava first.

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Redguard
Atronach

Every day

Well I mean i'll switch it up for additional characters, but if I want to be serious...

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Ha, yeah, data is god mode. It's too bad they couldn't stick him in the replicator. I forget how they explained that.

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True neutral, oddly enough. I usually get chaotic neutral or chaotic good...
I feel like I've seen these questions before in a very miscellaneous 3rd edition book.

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Out of curiosity, do you enjoy any of the other series/films much?

Really slow response here, but... it's actually been a while since I've seen a lot of the series. They all have their own special brand of cheesiness. The only one I'm completely in the dark about is deep space nine, which sounds a little different (it has an overarching storyline, or at least appears to).

Short answer... I've seen a lot of the original series and the next generation, a little bit of the scott bakula one and voyager. I've watched a lot of the ones that I liked a lot.

Probably the worst in quality was... the scott bakula one. I'm not sure what exactly was wrong with it, but I think it had something to do with stilted acting/dialogue/scripting. Sometimes it felt like its intended audience was people who were thirty when the original series first aired and sixty when this one was produced.

The Next Generation grew on me. I love the characters, but end up pulling my hair out when episodes would start off okay and then the resolution would end up being a non-sequitur, completely nonsensical or just not believable. And always sooo convenient... I just deleted some potential spoilers and will just kinda let you gather your own impressions.

Voyager has the same issues with not as strong of a crew, but it feels campier (which makes up for it somewhat, gives it a different niche).

It's been a long time since I've seen the original series, but I really enjoyed it. It's dated as all hell, and funny to see the inherent racism/sexism/patriotism/religious standards of the era shine through. It's absolutely cheesy, and each episode's premise was pretty ridiculous, but they would always be resolved in believable and consistent ways. It's hard to explain. There was also pretty good acting sometimes, unless I'm just misremembering.

Original series movies were mixed (some very good), Next Generation movies were all bad.

Anyway, you can tell I've spent enough time watching this stuff with friends and family that it has a special place in my heart and I actually really have to recommend them if you've made it all the way through this post. So I guess it's bad, but lovably bad.

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I mean, I love the series at this point, but I still have trouble recommending it to people with a straight face. But yeah, it absolutely improves... a lot... from the early seasons. It's a gradual growth.

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Let me spoil you (not really):

The series never gets good. It's just that you become so used to the characters that you eventually enjoy watching them walk through whatever stupid, nonsensical plot is laid in front of them. And I guess at least the characters are consistently portrayed.

But I was still facepalming in the final season quite a bit. It's an enjoyable series for watching in a group and laughing at or generally commenting on/blogging about (which you're doing), so I think you're all set..

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Just ride as fast as you can when you're traveling from place to place on the horse. Not like the guards can catch you.

yeah, every stealth-ish game seems to have a moment like that... when you realize you don't actually have to be stealthy, and you can charge confidently everywhere

well, i'm mostly just thinking of the metal gear solid series here

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Yeah I've played through the first hour or so of that game, wondered the same thing. Apparently if you go over the donkey speed limit the penalty is death.

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This whole thing would be fixed if we had an automatic runoff system. You pick who your first, second and third choices are. Until someone has the majority, the lowest voted candidate is eliminated. Whoever was voting for that person has their vote automatically transferred for their next choice.

That way people will be able to vote a little bit More about the issues rather than OH GOD I HOPE THAT GUY DOESN'T WIN GOTTA VOTE FOR THE OTHER FATTY

Good luck getting this passed though. Neither party wants it

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You did indeed stab me in the back. However, you are only level one, whilst I am level 50. That means I should remain uninjured.