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  • MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    I miss the awesome music of Monkey Island, Day Of The Tentacle, and Sam & Max Hit The Road.

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  • MetalbourneMetalbourne Inside a cluster b personalityRegistered User regular
    Here's an example of asparagus staging:

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  • TallahasseerielTallahasseeriel Registered User regular
    At least a few of those games are on steam. So chumps like me who didn't have a PC until 2001 can play them.

    I've only beat monkey island 1 though.

  • MetalbourneMetalbourne Inside a cluster b personalityRegistered User regular
    Also fuck nose cones. Those things don't do anything yet.

  • Dongs GaloreDongs Galore Registered User regular
    I accidentally overwrote my home pc's FTL saves with the steam cloud ones which killed my beautiful Slug Cruiser and Federation Cruiser and half my cheevos ;_;

    now I must fight to reclaim the lost

  • SLyMSLyM Registered User regular
    Onager beta 9 and onager gamma 2 both got into the gravity well of mun, but beta ran out of energy and gamma experienced user error and missed its chance to try to achieve orbit

    at some point it might start being worth putting scientific apparatuses on these things!

    My friend is working on a roguelike game you can play if you want to. (It has free demo)
  • MetalbourneMetalbourne Inside a cluster b personalityRegistered User regular
    SLyM wrote: »
    Onager beta 9 and onager gamma 2 both got into the gravity well of mun, but beta ran out of energy and gamma experienced user error and missed its chance to try to achieve orbit

    at some point it might start being worth putting scientific apparatuses on these things!

    Kerbal flight engineer if mechjeb would take all the fun away

  • SLyMSLyM Registered User regular
    "user error" means my computer can't handle the change in orbit from getting too close to mun and when I'm running at 1000x by the time my screen unfreezes I'm in obit around the sun.

    My friend is working on a roguelike game you can play if you want to. (It has free demo)
  • premiumpremium Registered User regular
    One of my rockets had a few issues getting into orbit and ended up going down almost exactly on the wrong side of the planet from the Kerbal Space Base so I decided to build a new rescue jet.
    Supercruises at mach 4(at around 24000m), seats 7 including the pilot, mostly glides on its own if I let go of the controls, and has enough fuel to fly around the planet. Twice.

  • Dongs GaloreDongs Galore Registered User regular
    edited August 2013
    Here's an example of asparagus staging:

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    oh

    yeah no that's not what the other kerbal people I know mean by that

    or if it is it's on a much larger and messier scale

    Dongs Galore on
  • DoobhDoobh She/Her, Ace Pan/Bisexual 8-) What's up, bootlickers?Registered User regular
    edited August 2013
    I'm not particually good at Kerbal

    but who fucking cares

    because I'm having fun, and will eventually plant a flag in every damn rock floating around the sun in the name of President Dubh

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  • JerkbotJerkbot some kind of hypnotist Registered User regular
    Here's an example of asparagus staging:

    8022f0c86db1761eec69b7623a5d2ec5_zps7d2efb08.jpg

    oh

    yeah no that's not what the other kerbal people I know mean by that

    or if it is it's on a much larger and messier scale

    i think it's a diagram of where the fuel is coming from, not which boosters are firing

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  • StiltsStilts Registered User regular
    edited August 2013
    So I guess I'm playing flight sims now.

    God help me.

    I think my subconscious is just trying to make me become Drew Scanlon.

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  • Dongs GaloreDongs Galore Registered User regular
    Jerkbot wrote: »
    Here's an example of asparagus staging:

    8022f0c86db1761eec69b7623a5d2ec5_zps7d2efb08.jpg

    oh

    yeah no that's not what the other kerbal people I know mean by that

    or if it is it's on a much larger and messier scale

    i think it's a diagram of where the fuel is coming from, not which boosters are firing

    I know

  • MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    Stilts wrote: »
    So I guess I'm playing flight sims now.

    God help me.

    I think my subconscious is just trying to make me become Drew Scanlon.

    We should all strive for such heights.

  • StiltsStilts Registered User regular
    Moriveth wrote: »
    Stilts wrote: »
    So I guess I'm playing flight sims now.

    God help me.

    I think my subconscious is just trying to make me become Drew Scanlon.

    We should all strive for such heights.

    ...

    I see what you did there.

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  • DoobhDoobh She/Her, Ace Pan/Bisexual 8-) What's up, bootlickers?Registered User regular
    So, I managed to take a picture that perfectly encapsulated my efforts for the evening.

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    I took this shot not expecting the spacecraft to explode right then and there.

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  • Dongs GaloreDongs Galore Registered User regular
    oh yeah

    well tonight I smashed Jebediah Kerman into the surface of the fucking moon at 600m/s

    turns out landers are heavier than probes by an order of magnitude

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  • Brovid HasselsmofBrovid Hasselsmof [Growling historic on the fury road] Registered User regular
    Isn't learning fun?

    Well maybe not so much for Jebediah.

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  • MrMonroeMrMonroe passed out on the floor nowRegistered User regular
    Here's an example of asparagus staging:

    8022f0c86db1761eec69b7623a5d2ec5_zps7d2efb08.jpg

    oh

    yeah no that's not what the other kerbal people I know mean by that

    or if it is it's on a much larger and messier scale

    you can continue that daisy chain as long as you want, with as many radial arms as you want, so you might well have seen someone with four fuel channels and 25 total engines at the launch pad. It's going to be an important strategy for any multi-engine craft even after they implement better aerodynamics, people just won't be able to abuse it as much.

    Metalbourne
  • marty_0001marty_0001 I am a file and you put documents in meRegistered User regular
    Oh god I just had my first on-launch-pad explosion

    It was like some sort of flower blooming, except with jets of fire

    It was so unexpected I was just dying with laughter for a good minute.

  • InquisitorInquisitor Registered User regular
    Checking a faq it looks like I am about halfway through Hotline Miami but I think I have had my fill.

    The story isn't really doing anything for me and the gameplay is starting to feel really samey.

  • Mr. GMr. G Registered User regular
    I should look for some XCOM mods

    I want one that changes all laser weapons to not need a reload

    One thing I really like about UFO Defense is that the weapons have a balance to them, where it's a totally viable strategy to just stick with laser weapons and ignore plasma, because they're plenty strong and don't require any ammo, and though plasma weapons are even stronger, you still have to pack ammo

    I don't really like in Enemy Unknown that it's just a plain Standard < Laser < Plasma progression, I'd like to have that old balance back

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  • BrainleechBrainleech 機知に富んだコメントはここにあります Registered User regular
    Also fuck nose cones. Those things don't do anything yet.

    They look pretty so they do something

  • WybornWyborn GET EQUIPPED Registered User regular
    Half Minute Hero is super frenetic you guys

    I had no idea

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  • Thorn413Thorn413 Registered User regular
    Tube wrote: »
    I was just rolling into the last town of the Scipii, held by a few scattered legions and the town watch. The turn before the siege, one of my settlements rebels and goes to... the Scipii.

    Scipiiiiiiiiiiiiii

    There is only one when dealing with slave revolts, sick war dogs on those plebs and put all of those traitors to the sword when they surrender

  • FyndirFyndir Registered User regular
    ugh, fine.

    FINE.

    I'm gonna reinstall Rome because Tube's stories are making me miss my glorious legions.

    Dongs GaloreEmporium
  • SyphyreSyphyre A Dangerous Pastime Registered User regular
    Wyborn wrote: »
    Half Minute Hero is super frenetic you guys

    I had no idea

    It is a good game.

  • DarmakDarmak RAGE vympyvvhyc vyctyvyRegistered User regular
    Syphyre wrote: »
    Wyborn wrote: »
    Half Minute Hero is super frenetic you guys

    I had no idea

    It is a good game.

    Bleed is also frenetic and crazy

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  • TubeTube Registered User admin
    Thorn413 wrote: »
    Tube wrote: »
    I was just rolling into the last town of the Scipii, held by a few scattered legions and the town watch. The turn before the siege, one of my settlements rebels and goes to... the Scipii.

    Scipiiiiiiiiiiiiii

    There is only one when dealing with slave revolts, sick war dogs on those plebs and put all of those traitors to the sword when they surrender

    I don't even give a fuck about slave revolts, I tend to leave them to the city. Revolting and turning to an opposing faction though? Ooooohhhh that makes me so mad.

    I've never really found a use for war dogs. I've had opponents field a full stack of war dogs against me before and they always get annihilated. Playing as Rome I haven't seen a great need for varied armies, just legions and cavalry. Most of the time the legions don't even see action because flanking infantry with cavalry is so effective. Even moving your horsies into position causes their battle line to break.

    I'm at the mopping up point now, the Scipii are finally dead and the Brutii only have a few nasty old cities in eastern europe. They can't field legionaries any more. If I ever play this again, I'm going to remember that the trick isn't territory size, it's quality of territory. If you take their huge cities, you can retrain your best troops right away and prevent them from fielding any elites. I think I'd have won a lot faster if from the start I'd ignored Gaul and gone straight for Greece, Carthage and Egypt. Even if the opponents (and your real opponents are the other families) have a ton of territory, any city that can't field legionaries is going to get rolled the fuck over.

  • WybornWyborn GET EQUIPPED Registered User regular
    I think my big problem with Tomb Raider is that it didn't really have a sense of building action

    Like there was a progression for Lara where she went from "oh no I have to kill this deer" to "I AM GOING TO GUT EVERY ONE OF YOU SONS OF BITCHES", but that didn't come with a sense of going up against greater dangers
    I mean you move from guys with assault rifles and shotguns and hand grenades to plodders running around with swords and bows, sure they do a lot of damage but none of them can get close to me unless I let them, "oni" my firm ass

    This was kind of best exemplified in the ending, I think, where it gives this impression that shit is about to get unbelievably crazy when really it's just shoot these dudes, dodge this dude, and then do a QTE to kill this dude. Bam. Credits.

    That shit was supremely unsatisfying

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  • TubeTube Registered User admin
    Oh and in a later battle I used some mercenary heffalumps and now I want to reroll as Carthage to field an army of nothing but heffalumps.

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  • TubeTube Registered User admin
    Heffalumps are great because they just wreck everything and then get scared and run back and wreck you too. Their special ability is getting the guy riding the heffalump to stab it in the head to stop it rampaging. Then at the end of the battle you get all your heffalumps back.

  • el_vicioel_vicio Registered User regular
    @Brainleech hit me up on steam if you can, I need your help again, this time it's about Sleepy Dawgz

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  • Thorn413Thorn413 Registered User regular
    edited August 2013
    Oh war dogs are totally useless, but there is something satisfying about sending dogs after a bunch of poorly equipped peasants.

    Thorn413 on
  • EmporiumEmporium Registered User regular
    My favorite tactic in Rome: Total War is to play Julii, then proceed to cut off the other two Roman factions from where they are programmed to go. I send half my armies south on the starting fleet to Sicily, where they'll take over at least the Carthaginian city there, if not also Syracuse if the AI is being particularly dumb. The other half goes north, then east on to Greece. I more or less ignore Gaul (where the game assumes I'll go) until I have both Carthage's land and Greece firmly in my control. Note that this is on easy (because I am bad at video games), so the AI is spectacularly dumb, which I take full advantage of. These moves essentially paralyzes the AI roman factions, which usually don't expand at all (green usually grabs one city before I cut them off), which makes taking them over 10-15 turns later all the more easy. Once the Roman empire is unified, taking over the rest of the map is pretty trivial.

  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    is there some way to get something in orbit around kerbin to stay pointed in a certain direction relative to the planet, like looking directly at it or away from it? The SAS just makes it stay still relative to the sun, I think.

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  • DoobhDoobh She/Her, Ace Pan/Bisexual 8-) What's up, bootlickers?Registered User regular
    is there some way to get something in orbit around kerbin to stay pointed in a certain direction relative to the planet, like looking directly at it or away from it? The SAS just makes it stay still relative to the sun, I think.

    it's supposed to keep your orbital from spinning

    because if it was aiming at the sun, it wouldn't be nearly as handy for taking off



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  • DoobhDoobh She/Her, Ace Pan/Bisexual 8-) What's up, bootlickers?Registered User regular
    Oh, and the Squall Skyhammer Mark I looks like:

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  • TallahasseerielTallahasseeriel Registered User regular
    More people should get in on this PAYDAY 2 beta.

    It's fun to rob stuff.

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