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    DeebaserDeebaser on my way to work in a suit and a tie Ahhhh...come on fucking guyRegistered User regular
    Whoa. Just found out it's a 3 day weekend! Surprise 3 day weekends are da bes.

    THANKS OBAMA!

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    ShivahnShivahn Unaware of her barrel shifter privilege Western coastal temptressRegistered User, Moderator mod
    No classes, just a huge array of skills you can mix/match.

    Fuck yes.

    Excited.

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    japanjapan Registered User regular
    Delmain wrote: »
    japan wrote: »
    On the kitchen worktop: my mug of tea, and a jug of dried mushrooms steeping in hot water.

    Guess which I just tried to drink.

    I'm gonna go with tea.

    That would be the one I meant to drink.

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    Captain CarrotCaptain Carrot Alexandria, VARegistered User regular
    I saw it on youtube, really not as good as it sounds, due to being poorly animated and not focused on the interesting part (which is understandable, since it's not porn).

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    21stCentury21stCentury Call me Pixel, or Pix for short! [They/Them]Registered User regular
    The Secret World is a very well written game that is based around the concept that you are drafted into a secret order devoted to fighting insidious forces. The world is kept ignorant of these dangers through fairy tales, conspiracies, and lies. There is a mysterious filth that corrupts humans and turns them into carriers an unknown purpose, creatures from the sea that serve Cthulu, zombies, rogue mages and cultists who wish to summon dead and dreaming Gods, and secret agents.

    The three factions are all in a state of tentative truces. The Templars of the Old World have evolved beyond their tyrannical roots into an army. They believe in the Greater Good and are okay with applying an iron fist to the outside world to stop chaos and demons from spreading, but try to be fundamentally decent to their soldiers. The Illuminati made a power play to take over Europe once, and got rebuffed by the Templars after a drawn out war. They hitched a ride with the Pilgrims to the New World and now control America. They are corporate, ruthless, and believe in a system of merit. The weak are useless, the strong are showered with any riches they can earn. The Illuminati and Templars are continually two steps away from all out war. The Dragons are a third faction based out of Korea, and no one really knows their deal - except they're behind all sorts of circumstances, engineering some great event, as they stoke the flames between the other two factions.

    You are sent off to three zones to stop enemies. The Templar send you as a soldier, the Illuminati send you as a secret agent, and the Dragon send you as a suicide bomber.

    Add in a corporation that watches from afar and does clean up detail as necessary while also figuring out how to make a profit from the chaos, and a mercenary corporation with shades of Umbrella, and that's the world.

    You also solve puzzles with an in-game browser and fight mans. No classes, just a huge array of skills you can mix/match.

    You forgot to mention one thing.

    It's on Steam.

    SERVE THE NEWELL!

    (I have yet to purchase it, but I want to... I just don't have time to play MMOs... :C )

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    ElendilElendil Registered User regular
    An armed guard at a Lapeer, Mich., charter school -- hired in the wake of the Newtown massacre -- made a "breach of security" this week when he left his gun unattended in the bathroom "for a few moments," Chatfield School Director Matt Young told the Flint Journal. The gun was unloaded.

    i feel safer already

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    Dread Pirate ArbuthnotDread Pirate Arbuthnot OMG WRIGGLY T O X O P L A S M O S I SRegistered User regular
    Shivahn wrote: »
    No classes, just a huge array of skills you can mix/match.

    Fuck yes.

    Excited.

    There are pre-made 'decks' if you don't like creativity, and when you get all the skills for a deck you unlock an outfit.

    But I totally have passives from all over the damn place right now and I punch people with claws it's rad

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    ShivahnShivahn Unaware of her barrel shifter privilege Western coastal temptressRegistered User, Moderator mod
    (I have yet to purchase it, but I want to... I just don't have time to play MMOs... :C )

    Didn't stop me!

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    DelmainDelmain Registered User regular
    The Secret World is a very well written game that is based around the concept that you are drafted into a secret order devoted to fighting insidious forces. The world is kept ignorant of these dangers through fairy tales, conspiracies, and lies. There is a mysterious filth that corrupts humans and turns them into carriers an unknown purpose, creatures from the sea that serve Cthulu, zombies, rogue mages and cultists who wish to summon dead and dreaming Gods, and secret agents.

    The three factions are all in a state of tentative truces. The Templars of the Old World have evolved beyond their tyrannical roots into an army. They believe in the Greater Good and are okay with applying an iron fist to the outside world to stop chaos and demons from spreading, but try to be fundamentally decent to their soldiers. The Illuminati made a power play to take over Europe once, and got rebuffed by the Templars after a drawn out war. They hitched a ride with the Pilgrims to the New World and now control America. They are corporate, ruthless, and believe in a system of merit. The weak are useless, the strong are showered with any riches they can earn. The Illuminati and Templars are continually two steps away from all out war. The Dragons are a third faction based out of Korea, and no one really knows their deal - except they're behind all sorts of circumstances, engineering some great event, as they stoke the flames between the other two factions.

    You are sent off to three zones to stop enemies. The Templar send you as a soldier, the Illuminati send you as a secret agent, and the Dragon send you as a suicide bomber.

    Add in a corporation that watches from afar and does clean up detail as necessary while also figuring out how to make a profit from the chaos, and a mercenary corporation with shades of Umbrella, and that's the world.

    You also solve puzzles with an in-game browser and fight mans. No classes, just a huge array of skills you can mix/match.

    Don't know if I can fight people trying to wake Cthulhu. He's mah bro.

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    ShivahnShivahn Unaware of her barrel shifter privilege Western coastal temptressRegistered User, Moderator mod
    Shivahn wrote: »
    No classes, just a huge array of skills you can mix/match.

    Fuck yes.

    Excited.

    There are pre-made 'decks' if you don't like creativity, and when you get all the skills for a deck you unlock an outfit.

    But I totally have passives from all over the damn place right now and I punch people with claws it's rad

    Yeah.

    Yeah I can't wait.

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    FeralFeral MEMETICHARIZARD interior crocodile alligator ⇔ ǝɹʇɐǝɥʇ ǝᴉʌoɯ ʇǝloɹʌǝɥɔ ɐ ǝʌᴉɹp ᴉRegistered User regular
    edited January 2013
    Vanguard wrote: »
    Feral wrote: »
    Thomamelas wrote: »
    en

    Needs sunglasses.

    Yeah, well, you don't always get what you want so you're gonna have to

    K3ChT.gif

    You needed to make the text red white and blue

    effe

    I specifically used his campaign poster colors actually 8-)

    Feral on
    every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.

    the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
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    21stCentury21stCentury Call me Pixel, or Pix for short! [They/Them]Registered User regular
    Oh man, there's cards involved too?

    Gnnnn

    Must... resist...

    Must... Speak in... sentence fragments...

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    Dread Pirate ArbuthnotDread Pirate Arbuthnot OMG WRIGGLY T O X O P L A S M O S I SRegistered User regular
    I fucking LOVE the Secret World. I've bought it for like, four or five people. The only thing I'm afraid of is hyping it up too much.

    There are definitely some patchy parts. (FUCK JOHN WOLF.) But overall it's really enjoyable.

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    FeralFeral MEMETICHARIZARD interior crocodile alligator ⇔ ǝɹʇɐǝɥʇ ǝᴉʌoɯ ʇǝloɹʌǝɥɔ ɐ ǝʌᴉɹp ᴉRegistered User regular
    But not his font because I don't have Gotham on this computer and I had to use DIN instead


    :(

    every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.

    the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
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    VanguardVanguard But now the dream is over. And the insect is awake.Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    Feral wrote: »
    But not his font because I don't have Gotham on this computer and I had to use DIN instead


    :(

    Again

    effe

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    DelmainDelmain Registered User regular
    I fucking LOVE the Secret World. I've bought it for like, four or five people. The only thing I'm afraid of is hyping it up too much.

    There are definitely some patchy parts. (FUCK JOHN WOLF.) But overall it's really enjoyable.

    That good? How much is it?

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    BeNarwhalBeNarwhal The Work Left Unfinished Registered User regular
    In the past few weeks, my father has been pursuing fitness goals as they suit him whim.

    First he aimed to do 100 pushups in a row without stopping, and did it. And now he's done 250 box jumps in a row.

    It's a strange combination of humbling/inspiring/motivating.

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    ShivahnShivahn Unaware of her barrel shifter privilege Western coastal temptressRegistered User, Moderator mod
    Delmain wrote: »
    I fucking LOVE the Secret World. I've bought it for like, four or five people. The only thing I'm afraid of is hyping it up too much.

    There are definitely some patchy parts. (FUCK JOHN WOLF.) But overall it's really enjoyable.

    That good? How much is it?

    Thirty dollars!

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    ronyaronya Arrrrrf. the ivory tower's basementRegistered User regular
    I don't think my professor likes me...

    was bothering him after class over a question and he ran off to catch his train. except that he had, by class consensus, cut class one and a half hours early just before...

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    Dread Pirate ArbuthnotDread Pirate Arbuthnot OMG WRIGGLY T O X O P L A S M O S I SRegistered User regular
    Delmain wrote: »
    I fucking LOVE the Secret World. I've bought it for like, four or five people. The only thing I'm afraid of is hyping it up too much.

    There are definitely some patchy parts. (FUCK JOHN WOLF.) But overall it's really enjoyable.

    That good? How much is it?

    $30. You get a decent sum of funbux upon completing 30 quests and a bunch of starting items and free aesthetic items for getting it through Steam too.

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    ShivahnShivahn Unaware of her barrel shifter privilege Western coastal temptressRegistered User, Moderator mod
    America dollars. I am not sure about other countries. I am bad at international things.

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    21stCentury21stCentury Call me Pixel, or Pix for short! [They/Them]Registered User regular
    Speaking of fitness

    Any reason why I shouldn't do sit-ups in bed?

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    shalmeloshalmelo sees no evil Registered User regular
    shalmelo wrote: »
    Wow. I knew exactly nothing about the Secret World until I just looked it up based on this discussion, and that shit looks RIGHT up my alley. Hmm. I didn't want to plunge into any new games that don't have an actual ending, but that is damn tempting...

    D O I T

    I want to.

    Gotta see if I can rationalize spending another $30 right now after blowing so much cash on the Steam winter sale...

    Steam ID: Shalmelo || LoL: melo2boogaloo || tweets
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    TehSlothTehSloth Hit Or Miss I Guess They Never Miss, HuhRegistered User regular
    Speaking of fitness

    Any reason why I shouldn't do sit-ups in bed?

    I think the cushion of the bed will have an impact. I dunno if that necessarily makes it less effective or more likely to cause injury or anything like that though.

    FC: 1993-7778-8872 PSN: TehSloth Xbox: SlothTeh
    twitch.tv/tehsloth
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    kaleeditykaleedity Sometimes science is more art than science Registered User regular
    TTODewback wrote: »
    Also, no one believe me when I guessed about the peephole (No one had the ..Arcane Knowledge or whatever the fuck the skill is to pass the check) so the evil illusion thing wound up escaping.
    It was one of those panther-like people I think.

    Also one of the players had used their character before and had lost a hand to a mimic. So the first chest we can across he like panicked and destroyed it. And it turned out there was a magical pixie or some shit trapped inside it that was uh...in not too good of shape because of that
    Dead and in several pieces

    motherfucking rakshasas!

    I had my group go through an encounter with a rakshasa that was basically just like the adventure time episode "What Was Missing" with the same kind of door puzzle. The "doorlord" was a Rakshasa that infiltrated their caravan and stole little bits that were important to everybody, then hid in a portal like the one from AT.

    I'm amazed the door puzzle actually went pretty well.

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    wazillawazilla Having a late dinner Registered User regular
    ronya wrote: »
    I don't think my professor likes me...

    was bothering him after class over a question and he ran off to catch his train. except that he had, by class consensus, cut class one and a half hours early just before...

    It's the weekend! Relax, bury a bone or something

    Psn:wazukki
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    BeNarwhalBeNarwhal The Work Left Unfinished Registered User regular
    Speaking of fitness

    Any reason why I shouldn't do sit-ups in bed?

    Depending on the firmness of your mattress, you may find them surprisingly difficult to do!

    Other than that no not really.

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    Dread Pirate ArbuthnotDread Pirate Arbuthnot OMG WRIGGLY T O X O P L A S M O S I SRegistered User regular
    depending on your mattress the springs might interfere with stuff?

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    shalmeloshalmelo sees no evil Registered User regular
    Shivahn wrote: »
    No classes, just a huge array of skills you can mix/match.

    Fuck yes.

    Excited.

    There are pre-made 'decks' if you don't like creativity, and when you get all the skills for a deck you unlock an outfit.

    But I totally have passives from all over the damn place right now and I punch people with claws it's rad

    Was poking around through some of the decks on the website. I think in the long run I would want to cobble together a mishmash character of my own, but the Puritan is so completely and totally perfect for the way I like to play in these types of games...hmm.

    Steam ID: Shalmelo || LoL: melo2boogaloo || tweets
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    21stCentury21stCentury Call me Pixel, or Pix for short! [They/Them]Registered User regular
    I don't have a mat or anything, so doing them on the floor is really uncomfortable, y'see... Plus, it's not good for my headbones.

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    BeNarwhalBeNarwhal The Work Left Unfinished Registered User regular
    There are far too many factors interfering with my being able to play The Secret World (most notably my lack of a machine to play it on - this laptop would not cut it [- and, of course, school]) but I do still like hearing about it!

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    Solomaxwell6Solomaxwell6 Registered User regular
    Deebaser wrote: »
    Whoa. Just found out it's a 3 day weekend! Surprise 3 day weekends are da bes.

    THANKS OBAMA!

    Oh, hey, I have a three day weekend, too!

    Thanks, Deebaser!

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    FeralFeral MEMETICHARIZARD interior crocodile alligator ⇔ ǝɹʇɐǝɥʇ ǝᴉʌoɯ ʇǝloɹʌǝɥɔ ɐ ǝʌᴉɹp ᴉRegistered User regular
    I don't know if it's a problem for the sit-ups

    but sleep hygiene recommendations usually say to only use the bed for sleep, relaxation, and sex

    every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.

    the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
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    Dread Pirate ArbuthnotDread Pirate Arbuthnot OMG WRIGGLY T O X O P L A S M O S I SRegistered User regular
    Feral wrote: »
    I don't know if it's a problem for the sit-ups

    but sleep hygiene recommendations usually say to only use the bed for sleep, relaxation, and sex

    they clearly don't know the kind of sex i'm having

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    OrganichuOrganichu poops peesRegistered User, Moderator mod
    my favorite sexual position is the 1040ez

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    BobCescaBobCesca Is a girl Birmingham, UKRegistered User regular
    chicken livers and mushroom pasta has been made for me by my lovely husband. And apple crumble with custard for desert.

    Awesome.

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    KanaKana Registered User regular
    Speaking of fitness

    Any reason why I shouldn't do sit-ups in bed?

    Because your bed will get gross and sweaty?

    A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
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    ronyaronya Arrrrrf. the ivory tower's basementRegistered User regular
    wazilla wrote: »
    ronya wrote: »
    I don't think my professor likes me...

    was bothering him after class over a question and he ran off to catch his train. except that he had, by class consensus, cut class one and a half hours early just before...

    It's the weekend! Relax, bury a bone or something

    NO I MUST KNOW ABOUT THE TRADEOFF BETWEEN MODELING Xt DIRECTLY INSTEAD OF JUST USING AN AUTOREGRESSIVE PROCESS

    okay

    okay

    I'll go eat dinner instead :rotate:

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    21stCentury21stCentury Call me Pixel, or Pix for short! [They/Them]Registered User regular
    Feral wrote: »
    I don't know if it's a problem for the sit-ups

    but sleep hygiene recommendations usually say to only use the bed for sleep, relaxation, and sex

    People always claim that doing fitness shit is relaxing, don't they?

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    Dread Pirate ArbuthnotDread Pirate Arbuthnot OMG WRIGGLY T O X O P L A S M O S I SRegistered User regular
    Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh my coworker is scraping his teeth on his fork

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