Lurker > luigi13579

It's this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargazy_pie

Remember when a former special forces soldier said that Brexit would be good because Brits could do with a bit of starvation (to toughen us up)? I'm sure he'd like to bring rationing back.

There wasn't really a specific trigger. I just gradually became disinterested and realized that there was no real reason for me to believe in god / practice religion.

My parents identify as Catholic but don't really care, and haven't went to church regularly for decades (probably before I was even born).

I went to Catholic schools, but aside from the sacraments (e.g. Communion) and the odd mass, my time at school was entirely normal. I was fairly disinterested even back then, especially at home, but no-one at school cared very much.

*sees reams of data from many sources showing the efficacy of the vaccines*

"I'm not having the wool pulled over my eyes!"

*sees a shitty blog created last month touting the 'miracle' drug Ivermectin*

"That sounds like the one for me!"

Alpha218 posted...

There is sequence breaking you can do in Zero Mission too. Its not an accident

Yeah, ZM's is mostly intentional, since sequence breaking was more understood then, plus the game had fewer glitches to lead to unintentional breaks. SM obviously has a greater mixture of intentional and unintentional.

Good to know!

Veggeta_MAX posted...

Sequence breaking in SM is highly overrated. Yes, it's there and yes it provides replayability but people act like it was a genius thing that was way ahead of its time. I'm pretty sure the devs wasn't tryna make it possible for you to beat the game backwards when giving you sequence breaks in SM.

Obviously they can't be credited for the crazy sequence breaks they didn't intend, but the design of the game does make them possible. Soft locks are favored for the most part (i.e. you only need the power-up to get past), any missile/super missile/power bomb tank gives you the ability, etc. Obviously the wall jump and shinespark enable a lot too. And yes, there was an element of luck too, with glitches working out nicely.

It might not be anything particularly complex or "genius", but few games do it, or do it as well (and few did at that time, at least in that genre). It's easy to fuck up.

Also, I don't really care *how* the sequence breaks made it in; all that matters is that they did.

I've always liked Fusion myself. While I do prefer the traditional, more open-ended formula, Fusion is still a great game and I'm glad it was made.

Can't wait for Dread!

Same energy as "MLK would have been a Conservative".

By "study history", she probably means "read some Dinesh D'Souza" lol. It certainly ain't gonna be any of that "mainstream" history.

Half of Twitter posts are people arguing with someone/something they've invented in their head.

Super Robot Wars T - Always Doing Things My Way
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3HNSZZHHGQ

pegusus123456 posted...

Dude's blind. And his gang convinced him that he has blind samurai superpowers, presumably to be nice but possibly just as a massive prank.

Reminds me of this:

CJ: Uh, one last thing. you do know that I'm black, right? And not Chinese.

WOOZIE: I'm blind, Carl, not stupid.

Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom - Crystal Caves
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRoTHTat-V4

Stewman_Magoo posted...

https://twitter.com/BadCOVID19Takes/status/1418380307468804096?s=19

It reminds of that story of the person standing on their roof during a flood waiting for God to save them. A helicopter flies past and they refuse to get on, saying they're waiting for God's help, then eventually they die. God then says to them, "Why didn't you get on the helicopter I sent?"

God will be asking why this guy didn't take the vaccine.

New Vegas > Morrowind > Oblivion > Fallout 3 > Skyrim

Quests and factions are a big thing for me, and the top 3 do those really well IMO. New Vegas certainly has the most open-ended and detailed quest structure, and the greater opportunities for role-playing (Morrowind is the best of the ES games at that).

NV and MW are the most "old school" in terms of design, which I like (although I understand that's not for everyone). I feel that they let you figure things out a bit more than the other games (which combines well with their open-ended nature).

Morrowind's world is by my favorite out of the ES games too.

MW could easily have went above NV, but NV's quests are just that bit better. MW has a few fetch quests.

"World beating", indeed.

Even as a PC gamer, lolno.

The Primes
F-Zero GX
REmake

My body is ready.

Landing on Zebes / Tallon IV in Super Metroid / Metroid Prime.

The first problem is that you're discarding the BMIs when you first calculate them. Add another array at the top to store them (just move your BMIScore array up, but keep it empty initially), then append the bmi_totals when calculated.

BMIScore will currently have one entry. bmi_total is out of scope anyway.

I think the rest should now work. If you still get the tuple/float error, try float(i) in the if statements.

In the second loop, you're looping through W and H, but not the names. You'll need either a counter that indexes into Names, or to add Names to the loop.

I have to go, but I'm sure someone else can give specifics if you're still stuck.

Save from Pickford! Thought it was going to ricochet into the net.

Then Saka misses. :(

Not looking good for England now lol.

Southgate and penalties don't go together lol.

I think England will do it (even if I initially thought Italy would win the tournament).

I think I got the Berserker one (if I'm remembering the name right) once. Not sure about the ones you mentioned.

I played Abyss and Vesperia for the first time recently, and the titles in those made Symphonia's seem easy to get in comparison.

It's great, but definitely has its annoyances (some intended). I prefer 3, and possibly 1.

The advances they made with the PS2 hardware were mind-blowing at the time though.

I first played it after Oblivion (although I owned it before that but my PC was garbage) and it took me a couple of years and several starts to get into it. Once I did, it quickly became by far my favorite.

It's definitely not for everyone of course. Some of the reasons why I like it so much are probably the same reasons why others hate it lol.

Xethuminra posted...

https://youtu.be/Iv__7_lK9lo

@luigi13579 Prepare to have your brain explode

Hah, nice. There are some insane TASs out there. Then you have arbitrary code execution and stuff like that.

Modern AAA games are usually too polished for this, but we'll see.

I hope there are some good sequence breaks.

SR didn't have any as far as I'm aware, but Metroid II doesn't lend itself to them.

the_rowan posted...

Puzzles in dungeons are still more interesting than the literally-just-a-bunch-of-straight-hallways dungeons of games like in Tales of Graces, at least. But yeah, Meltokio Sewers and some of the others are really, really tedious at times with all the slow animations and lengthy retracing of the same paths repeatedly for no real reason.

Yeah, I'd rather have puzzles over empty hallways (sans enemies).

I don't mind the Meltokio Sewers. The Shadow Temple is a bit annoying, but I can cope. Ymir Forest is probably the worst for me.

Many will say it's overrated because there weren't many RPGs on the GC. The puzzle dungeons aren't for everyone either.

But I still love it.

Admit it though: Sheena's portrait is the reason. :P

Lukaku on his swinger. Still gotta score though.

UnfairRepresent posted...

Not surprising

Scotland NHS is far superior to England NHS because There's only like 9 people in Scotland and the local governments are rarely conservative.

I knew a Scottish girl when I was living in Plymouth who couldn't believe she had to wait weeks for an appointment to see a GP who lived down her street.

I was going to say that, but I think pinky's in Scotland, and the SNHS obviously isn't immune to this sort of thing.

I must be lucky since it's fairly easy to get an appointment with my GP (in normal times anyway, as I haven't needed them during the pandemic aside from getting vaccinated). This is in Glasgow.

There is one receptionist that's noticeably cheekier than the others, although she does her job alright otherwise.

Both are great in their own ways, but I have to go with the PS1.

I have heard it on rare occasions, usually when it's warm in the summer, e.g. 70+ for us, sometimes the 60s, and sometimes alongside Celsius in weather forecasts. I.don't think I've ever heard it used for winter temps.

The Ballad of Gay Tony (Grand Theft Auto IV)
Dragonfall and Hong Kong (Shadowrun Returns)

We do say it, but only really when we get asked our date of birth for something official / over the phone. It's not used so much in regular conversation.

As a Scotland fan, I have to agree lol.

I think it became like this when all the TV money entered the game, making club football hard to compete with (particularly the top leagues and Champions League). Then you had the Super League nonsense.

It would have been unheard of back in the day to dismiss the FA Cup, let alone the World Cup. Now you have players retiring from international football to focus on their club, pulling out of international games (outside tournaments) to do likewise, etc.

I have them on Steam, but grabbed them since it's good to have DRM-free versions. It's convenient to have a single file to store/transfer.

Returns is OK, but Dragonfall is great. That opening had me hooked.

I still have to play Hong Kong. Supposedly it has the best gameplay (and too much text/dialogue), but is second to Dragonfall in terms of story and characters.

Definitely give Dragonfall a try if you haven't.

LordFarquad1312 posted...

The fact that Mercury Steam is developing it doesn't give me much hope.

Yeah, that's the one negative, but with Sakamoto / Nintendo handling the direction, hopefully it'll work out.

Can't fucking wait!

I wonder if they'll be able to strike a better balance between the linearity of Fusion and the relative open-endedness of Super, Zero Mission and Prime (including sequence breaks). Fusion did use the linearity well, but it would be nice to be able to go more off the beaten path, without losing what made Fusion so refreshing.

Now the real fun starts with sequence breaks. See here for a list: https://www.metroid2002.com/3/

The mockball (https://www.metroid2002.com/3/techniques_mockball.php) is one of my faves; it's particularly good for getting the Super Missiles and Ice Beam early. It's a little tricky to pull off at first.

NeonOctopus posted...

I feel like you spend more time preparing for bosses in SMT/Persona than actually fighting them >_>

Came in to say that.

Also Digimon World, more so than even Pokemon (in a regular single player playthrough). Raising a Digimon is an arduous task (and all quests and stuff you have to do to grow File City).

You could be forgiven for thinking he's referring to the Jan 6 rioters through most of that. It's pure projection.