If you wanted to come to FL mya, I have a guest room, but there's no one else here, so I wouldn't advise it unless you really want to go to Universal or Disney or something
Yeah, there's a few folks in FL but it's kind of out of the way
it also helps that MMOs are almost all extremely samey shit
PC gamers largely rejected MMOs that tried to be different, from what I hear. Fury, Auto Assault, LEGO Universe.
well all those were just regular poop weren't they
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jeffinvaKooglercoming this summerRegistered Userregular
I'm pretty sure this pancit was enough to feed two, but it was so good I ate it all. Ugghhh. Well I had a smoothie for breakfast so I'm still being healthy.
Man I better mark off 30 minutes in my schedule tomorrow morning for a big mornin' dump.
The problem is of course that that's expensive content and that is a nightmare to balance (balancing vs the weakest member ( statwise, buildwise, skillwise / degree of teamwork / latency / composition) makes it boringly easy, but anything above it and it can become frustrating very fast)
there are wrecks with codename weapons - special, rare, good guns, sought after as much for their rarity as their quality
and especially in the largest mod still going, finding them can be in very remote and very dangerous places
after travelling beyond House space, beyond human space, and into stranger and stranger places, each system a nail-biting experience where survival requires attention, and lots of it, because toto, this sure ain't kansas no more, and this radiation is eating away at your systems and you're running out of nanobots to fix them, and holy fuck I don't even know what that is save for big and hostile fuuuck
after returning from to civilized space, and to where there are players, I breathe easier
firefall could have had this, but the makers were cowards.
I like minecraft for the fact that no matter how big and safe my castle gets I can always tool up for an expedition and just take off into the unknown and have to make it with what I've got
or into hell, for that matter
and then I can come back home again
minecraft's got a bit of that "difficult in the wrong way" thing going on where what'll get me on a trip is something kind of dumb like stumbling into a creeper and everything else is cake, but still
I like minecraft for the fact that no matter how big and safe my castle gets I can always tool up for an expedition and just take off into the unknown and have to make it with what I've got
or into hell, for that matter
and then I can come back home again
minecraft's got a bit of that "difficult in the wrong way" thing going on where what'll get me on a trip is something kind of dumb like stumbling into a creeper and everything else is cake, but still
I think that's kind of a great thing.
Because sometimes a legend dies from syphilis and not a dragon attack.
I like minecraft for the fact that no matter how big and safe my castle gets I can always tool up for an expedition and just take off into the unknown and have to make it with what I've got
or into hell, for that matter
and then I can come back home again
minecraft's got a bit of that "difficult in the wrong way" thing going on where what'll get me on a trip is something kind of dumb like stumbling into a creeper and everything else is cake, but still
I think that's kind of a great thing.
Because sometimes a legend dies from syphilis and not a dragon attack.
well yeah but the problem is it's always syphilis and never dragons
entering a server, waiting ten minutes, making dinner, eating dinner, having a cup of coffee, is it loaded yet? nope
but the main thing was how stupid the reasons for some of the best moments we had
one of the first great moments was at the airfield and I was playing the medic to get my friend back on his feet while our third guy was desperately holding off the zombies - I'd apply a bandage, look up and fire off a magazine, before stuffing my friend full of morphine, change mags, get the blood transfusion bag out, bang bang bang bang, hockey, to the left! blood transfusion in, last mag! how are there this many? oh thank god you're up let's get the fuck out of he- shit, incoming fire! incoming fire!
why?
because on walking through the open doorway, he just broke both his legs and started bleeding like a fire hydrant, for no reason
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CindersWhose sails were black when it was windyRegistered Userregular
Abdy, have you considered just going to Svalbard and kill bears for a living?
I said wrong initially, Nansen and Johansen lived off polar bears in their journey back from the pole
14 of them, actually
it was kind of a long trip
but anyway there is no polar bear hunting. There is shooting a polar bear that is intent on gnawing on your mate's head that's kind of it in Svalbard. Or one that just does not want to leave Longyearbyen alone.
that's the core of what I'd want to make if I made an MMO: having a world that isn't just something you wander past
heres hoping everquest next scratches that itch
if battle damage sticks around long enough you might wander through a forest and find trees destroyed and giant craters and be like "shit went down here"
also apparently you can just grab a pickaxe and dig which even if its a shitty MMO that will make up for a lot
I wonder what that east portion of MO is all about
I can see the little blip where KC is on the KS side
I'll bet those random blue islands in flyover territory are places where higher bandwidth in the cities outbalances the shitty bandwidth in the rural areas. Decent speeds going to hundreds of thousands of people in Saint Louis makes up for the crappy internet speeds going to the half dozen people in East Bumfuck, Missouri.
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Yeah, there's a few folks in FL but it's kind of out of the way
twitch.tv/tehsloth
well all those were just regular poop weren't they
Man I better mark off 30 minutes in my schedule tomorrow morning for a big mornin' dump.
Cue forced labour.
somebody stole this man's card
he got it blocked, but bills keep coming
anyone can see that the thieves' forging of his signature is uncanny
I wanted to play Auto Assault and design an ugly car but never got the chance.
What was that APB MMO like?
The problem is of course that that's expensive content and that is a nightmare to balance (balancing vs the weakest member ( statwise, buildwise, skillwise / degree of teamwork / latency / composition) makes it boringly easy, but anything above it and it can become frustrating very fast)
so shit
like, it didn't work, that kind of shit
the tattoo/car customizing videos were so sweet
and then we get something that shit
sucks to be montana
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
if wow launched and there was literally nothing but arathi basin
Get high bandwidth.
Arathi Basin happened.
In Montana, data packets are sent individually by horseback.
It was one of the biggest wtfs in games.
That game is top tier failing to live up to hype. Spore / SimCity class.
The aftermath (vicious pay-to-win with loads of cheating) is a bonus
I can see the little blip where KC is on the KS side
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
I did for a bit
it's pretty damn dull
I realized one thing that would make it way better
see there's all this wilderness between the outposts and cities and such
make that wilderness dangerous
make moving through it tense as shit as you're on the lookout for dangerous beasts
make going into it an ordeal you prepare for
not just somewhere I hold the w key
For a game about fast driving and explosions, this is a bit desperate.
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there are wrecks with codename weapons - special, rare, good guns, sought after as much for their rarity as their quality
and especially in the largest mod still going, finding them can be in very remote and very dangerous places
after travelling beyond House space, beyond human space, and into stranger and stranger places, each system a nail-biting experience where survival requires attention, and lots of it, because toto, this sure ain't kansas no more, and this radiation is eating away at your systems and you're running out of nanobots to fix them, and holy fuck I don't even know what that is save for big and hostile fuuuck
after returning from to civilized space, and to where there are players, I breathe easier
firefall could have had this, but the makers were cowards.
or into hell, for that matter
and then I can come back home again
minecraft's got a bit of that "difficult in the wrong way" thing going on where what'll get me on a trip is something kind of dumb like stumbling into a creeper and everything else is cake, but still
That's a thing.
I think that's kind of a great thing.
Because sometimes a legend dies from syphilis and not a dragon attack.
well yeah but the problem is it's always syphilis and never dragons
entering a server, waiting ten minutes, making dinner, eating dinner, having a cup of coffee, is it loaded yet? nope
but the main thing was how stupid the reasons for some of the best moments we had
one of the first great moments was at the airfield and I was playing the medic to get my friend back on his feet while our third guy was desperately holding off the zombies - I'd apply a bandage, look up and fire off a magazine, before stuffing my friend full of morphine, change mags, get the blood transfusion bag out, bang bang bang bang, hockey, to the left! blood transfusion in, last mag! how are there this many? oh thank god you're up let's get the fuck out of he- shit, incoming fire! incoming fire!
why?
because on walking through the open doorway, he just broke both his legs and started bleeding like a fire hydrant, for no reason
No.
To follow the example set by one of our greats, Amundsen, if I had to shoot a polar bear it would be with great melancholy.
14 of them, actually
it was kind of a long trip
but anyway there is no polar bear hunting. There is shooting a polar bear that is intent on gnawing on your mate's head that's kind of it in Svalbard. Or one that just does not want to leave Longyearbyen alone.
Wrong state.
or I dunno, mercenary in africa
something
heres hoping everquest next scratches that itch
if battle damage sticks around long enough you might wander through a forest and find trees destroyed and giant craters and be like "shit went down here"
also apparently you can just grab a pickaxe and dig which even if its a shitty MMO that will make up for a lot
I'll bet those random blue islands in flyover territory are places where higher bandwidth in the cities outbalances the shitty bandwidth in the rural areas. Decent speeds going to hundreds of thousands of people in Saint Louis makes up for the crappy internet speeds going to the half dozen people in East Bumfuck, Missouri.