I find the phrase "massively multiplayer" intimidating
I think I'd prefer a mildly or perhaps moderately multiplayer rpg
diablo!
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CindersWhose sails were black when it was windyRegistered Userregular
I don't disagree with any of that. I have harsher opinions about Homeworld 2, but that's mainly because that game annoys me for a couple reasons, and I love Homeworld 1 with a passion.
real talk: I hope people don't start using the Hail Hydra to indicate disagreement
I have always been strongly anti- having a button to facilitate being a passive-aggressive little punk
There is absolutely no way this is going to happen, primarily because Bro? is what you get when you peel back the newborn epidermis of hydra, and secondarily because pure spite will make people not want to bump up a 'score' of someone they disagree with unless that signifier is unequivocally considered embarrassing or bad
"and the morning stars I have seen
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
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jeffinvaKooglercoming this summerRegistered Userregular
Loving this hail hydra but I miss that's so raven.
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JacobkoshGamble a stamp.I can show you how to be a real man!Moderatormod
I've seen "NOT ALL MEN" used as some sort of three-word-meme before but no idea what it's about.
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CindersWhose sails were black when it was windyRegistered Userregular
The last couple levels of Homeworld 1 were a drag though. The introduction to cloaking mission just sucked, and the comet rocket level was also really tedious and annoying.
real talk: I hope people don't start using the Hail Hydra to indicate disagreement
I have always been strongly anti- having a button to facilitate being a passive-aggressive little punk
you can't really use it to express anything
fuck gendered marketing
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ThomamelasOnly one man can kill this many Russians. Bring his guitar to me! Registered Userregular
So Team Automata met tonight. The highlights from tonight include:
Our roguish villains found themselves wearing outfits that were color coordinated and with matching accessories. Quickly they realized prison jumpsuit orange was not as flattering as one could hope and while cuffs are fun in a BDSM photoshoot they just aren't good day wear. Thankfully they soon encounter the heroic FBI agent who offered them a deal of a lifetime. Do one job for him and get two years off their sentences. Or get transferred to a Supermax Prison and spend 22 out of 24 hours a day in solitary. Our crew took a moment to ponder this offer and decided that this discussion would be much easier without the cameras watching. Sadly the hacker/thief found himself thwarted by the clever FBI agent not leaving any paper clips behind. So his attempts to pick their cuffs with a staple were less than successful.
On that note, our band of scoundrels decided that accepting the offer on the table would be a better use then attempting to break out of prison. Their hopes for an all expenses paid vacation on the tax payers dime was thwarted by the FBI reasonable frugality. They were fitted with ankle trackers and told when the next bus to L.A. was. From there they found new lodgings which shockingly they paid for. And a car, also surprisingly paid for. And they begin to figure out how to take down the Pharmaceutical CEO who seems to be causing people researching papers showing his drugs kill to disappear.
And we left off from there.
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thatassemblyguyJanitor of Technical Debt.Registered Userregular
So Team Automata met tonight. The highlights from tonight include:
Our roguish villains found themselves wearing outfits that were color coordinated and with matching accessories. Quickly they realized prison jumpsuit orange was not as flattering as one could hope and while cuffs are fun in a BDSM photoshoot they just aren't good day wear. Thankfully they soon encounter the heroic FBI agent who offered them a deal of a lifetime. Do one job for him and get two years off their sentences. Or get transferred to a Supermax Prison and spend 22 out of 24 hours a day in solitary. Our crew took a moment to ponder this offer and decided that this discussion would be much easier without the cameras watching. Sadly the hacker/thief found himself thwarted by the clever FBI agent not leaving any paper clips behind. So his attempts to pick their cuffs with a staple were less than successful.
On that note, our band of scoundrels decided that accepting the offer on the table would be a better use then attempting to break out of prison. Their hopes for an all expenses paid vacation on the tax payers dime was thwarted by the FBI reasonable frugality. They were fitted with ankle trackers and told when the next bus to L.A. was. From there they found new lodgings which shockingly they paid for. And a car, also surprisingly paid for. And they begin to figure out how to take down the Pharmaceutical CEO who seems to be causing people researching papers showing his drugs kill to disappear.
"and the morning stars I have seen
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
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GoslingLooking Up Soccer In Mongolia Right Now, ProbablyWatertown, WIRegistered Userregular
From what I've actually noticed, the third button seems to be establishing itself as the 'feels' button. Someone says something that elicits sympathy or Internet hugs or whatnot, 'agree' and 'awesome' don't really feel like the right button to push, but there's this third miscellaneous button over there, so, yeah, let's use that.
I have a new soccer blog The Minnow Tank. Reading it psychically kicks Sepp Blatter in the bean bag.
I feel my post got lost in the last chat, so I will re-post here.
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Brothers and sisters....comrades.
One of my fraternity brothers posted this, and while he has not stated outright who is in the picture...I can guess with 99% certainty that this is my organic chemistry professor at Lehigh University during one of his final review lectures. His epic-ness rivals that of Neil Degrasse Tyson.
Professor Schrey usually does his final review lecture in one of two forms. In December he dressed as a hobo decrying the end of the world via the organic chemistry final and would ramble on the many different ways we could avoid the apocalypse and disaster.
The spring would be a last farewell as yoda, stressing the ways in which inter-molecular forces would help/inhibit various mechanisms for reactions and to always keep in mind the electronic resonance, which was the explanation for just about everything.
I feel my post got lost in the last chat, so I will re-post here.
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Brothers and sisters....comrades.
One of my fraternity brothers posted this, and while he has not stated outright who is in the picture...I can guess with 99% certainty that this is my organic chemistry professor at Lehigh University during one of his final review lectures. His epic-ness rivals that of Neil Degrasse Tyson.
Professor Schrey usually does his final review lecture in one of two forms. In December he dressed as a hobo decrying the end of the world via the organic chemistry final and would ramble on the many different ways we could avoid the apocalypse and disaster.
The spring would be a last farewell as yoda, stressing the ways in which inter-molecular forces would help/inhibit various mechanisms for reactions and to always keep in mind the electronic resonance, which was the explanation for just about everything.
So Team Automata met tonight. The highlights from tonight include:
Our roguish villains found themselves wearing outfits that were color coordinated and with matching accessories. Quickly they realized prison jumpsuit orange was not as flattering as one could hope and while cuffs are fun in a BDSM photoshoot they just aren't good day wear. Thankfully they soon encounter the heroic FBI agent who offered them a deal of a lifetime. Do one job for him and get two years off their sentences. Or get transferred to a Supermax Prison and spend 22 out of 24 hours a day in solitary. Our crew took a moment to ponder this offer and decided that this discussion would be much easier without the cameras watching. Sadly the hacker/thief found himself thwarted by the clever FBI agent not leaving any paper clips behind. So his attempts to pick their cuffs with a staple were less than successful.
On that note, our band of scoundrels decided that accepting the offer on the table would be a better use then attempting to break out of prison. Their hopes for an all expenses paid vacation on the tax payers dime was thwarted by the FBI reasonable frugality. They were fitted with ankle trackers and told when the next bus to L.A. was. From there they found new lodgings which shockingly they paid for. And a car, also surprisingly paid for. And they begin to figure out how to take down the Pharmaceutical CEO who seems to be causing people researching papers showing his drugs kill to disappear.
And we left off from there.
Ankle braclets? Hah!
/cuts off foot
oh but we have plans
when criminals are paying for things legitimately, you should be very, very worried
I cannot recall the end of Homeworld 1. All I remember is the huspah I had in thinking my massive laser frigate armada can take on the junkyard dog (did you even HAVE laser frigates by that mission).
you know i never played homeworld but i always want to whenever people talk about it
so i am looking forward to that
real talk: i hope you don't hate it
Feral "Evil Multifarious"
Jacob on Homeworld:
- wonderfully minimalist presentation. There is a difference between "spare" and "underdeveloped" and Homeworld falls squarely on the former; in a few very short and largely abstract cutscenes and bits of dialog, you get the impression of a vast galaxy with a rich history but without a one hundred thousand word injection of cruft. And as I recall, the race you play as is never shown - you hear their voices all the time, but they might be lizard people or plucky little Mogwai people or blob people for all you know. (Of course then in the sequel it turns out they are human and your mothership is a hot chick because of course she is.)
- The atmosphere is fantastic. The entire game feels vast and lonely and sad.
- The tech tree is kind of sparse considering you spend the entire campaign climbing it (I think this is an unintended consequence of having the same tech tree for the campaign and the multi).
- Though I think this is somewhat made up for by the formation options (having your ships fly in a wing, a sphere, a claw, etc); most RTS combat is drag, click, point at the enemy, and then, depending on the game, hope that you have a really good micro setup. I really like that you have tactical options that don't rely on having lightning-fast fingers.
- I think the persistent fleet gameplay creates a series of perverse incentives. The optimal strategy ends up being to capture everything you can, particularly those sweet-ass laser frigates that you never learn how to buy. If you are really painstaking and careful (eg, if you have absolutely no fun), you can get an overwhelming force very early on and steamroll the first half of the game. But what's worse is that the developers, knowing this, then overbalance the difficulty to compensate for it - so in some levels, if you haven't been husbanding every ship with maximum anal-retentiveness, you get stomped.
- Too many levels rely on a gimmick (an invincible enemy, solar radiation that keeps you from leaving a dust cloud) rather than the core gameplay. I don't always mind that, and some of the gimmicks are really cool, but it is kind of annoying, particularly when it highlights the deficiencies of the UI (trying to stay inside a really narrow dust tunnel so you don't die is an enormous pain in the ass in 3D).
- All that said, I feel bad about never quite finishing it. I think I got to the last or next-to-last level.
Yeah, I thought it was a great example of doing a lot with a little. The writing and voice acting were memorable and moving and simple.
I agree on the atmosphere. The game just has a nice feeling to it.
I never got too into multiplayer because back then I was still anxious about losing at videogames to strangers.
They kind of implied that your ship was a hot lady in Homeworld 1, but yeah, everything was out of focus and speculative.
The formations were a lot of fun. I always liked building a stupid amount of strike craft and then flanking the enemy with a few massive claws. It was also fun to put a bunch of those 6-turret corvettes that could shoot in pretty much any direction into a sphere - COME AT ME, DON'T CARE WHERE FROM.
The salvage mechanic really kind of broke the single player, as you say. It turned time and tedium into pure gain. Still enjoyed playing through the story, though.
I thought the gimmicky levels and strange situations you kept encountering were interesting and fun, generally.
I, too, had trouble on the last level and gave up.
kedinik on
I made a game! Hotline Maui. Requires mouse and keyboard.
I feel my post got lost in the last chat, so I will re-post here.
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Brothers and sisters....comrades.
One of my fraternity brothers posted this, and while he has not stated outright who is in the picture...I can guess with 99% certainty that this is my organic chemistry professor at Lehigh University during one of his final review lectures. His epic-ness rivals that of Neil Degrasse Tyson.
Professor Schrey usually does his final review lecture in one of two forms. In December he dressed as a hobo decrying the end of the world via the organic chemistry final and would ramble on the many different ways we could avoid the apocalypse and disaster.
The spring would be a last farewell as yoda, stressing the ways in which inter-molecular forces would help/inhibit various mechanisms for reactions and to always keep in mind the electronic resonance, which was the explanation for just about everything.
is the fraternity reddit
nope, but I wouldn't be surprised if his antics found their way there. I know there's a college humor and/or youtube of one of these lectures out there.
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CindersWhose sails were black when it was windyRegistered Userregular
real talk: I hope people don't start using the Hail Hydra to indicate disagreement
I have always been strongly anti- having a button to facilitate being a passive-aggressive little punk
wasn't someone just talking about how this was how they liked to use the raven button?
The key was to use it in the discussions where no one was serious and nothing mattered.
But So Raven also was like the default way to express sympathy or an other emotion to a persons posts without feeling the need to fully engage. It was useful for when you couldn't really enter an argument because you were just passing by.
Hail Hydra is only Hail Hydra. It can't really signify anything else without seeming absurd.
So, that concludes my first time ever playing a table top RPG. It was good times!
Thanks for putting this all together, @Jacobkosh !
you are doing very well
my only RP experience (besides one prior game of Leverage featuring our gracious and diabolical host) has been online. like five years worth, but I've been out of the game just about as long
as the Leverage rulebook says, the first rule of the game is to make everyone around you feel awesome
you have done so, and I will reciprocate the favor
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ChanusHarbinger of the Spicy Rooster ApocalypseThe Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered Userregular
I stare at this beast and every time I strike a blow two more grow where one had been
I am afraid
Allegedly a voice of reason.
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Donkey KongPutting Nintendo out of business with AI nipsRegistered Userregular
Hail Hydra has two meanings, obv. 'Mark for assassination' and 'agree, evil variant'.
Thousands of hot, local singles are waiting to play at bubbulon.com.
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CindersWhose sails were black when it was windyRegistered Userregular
I cannot recall the end of Homeworld 1. All I remember is the huspah I had in thinking my massive laser frigate armada can take on the junkyard dog (did you even HAVE laser frigates by that mission).
I was a sweet summer child.
Oh yeah...
The junkyard dog mission was freaking tedious as well.
That game retains the atmosphere all the way through, but after the mind control ship level, it just goes downhill mechanically.
And you do have laser frigates, both the ion and multi-beam ones at that point. That's really close to the end of the game.
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diablo!
There is absolutely no way this is going to happen, primarily because Bro? is what you get when you peel back the newborn epidermis of hydra, and secondarily because pure spite will make people not want to bump up a 'score' of someone they disagree with unless that signifier is unequivocally considered embarrassing or bad
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
Oh, man, excellent :^: This is what I like to hear!
I'm sure if that happens, it will quickly get swapped to Sleepy Kitties or something.
I've seen "NOT ALL MEN" used as some sort of three-word-meme before but no idea what it's about.
you can't really use it to express anything
Our roguish villains found themselves wearing outfits that were color coordinated and with matching accessories. Quickly they realized prison jumpsuit orange was not as flattering as one could hope and while cuffs are fun in a BDSM photoshoot they just aren't good day wear. Thankfully they soon encounter the heroic FBI agent who offered them a deal of a lifetime. Do one job for him and get two years off their sentences. Or get transferred to a Supermax Prison and spend 22 out of 24 hours a day in solitary. Our crew took a moment to ponder this offer and decided that this discussion would be much easier without the cameras watching. Sadly the hacker/thief found himself thwarted by the clever FBI agent not leaving any paper clips behind. So his attempts to pick their cuffs with a staple were less than successful.
On that note, our band of scoundrels decided that accepting the offer on the table would be a better use then attempting to break out of prison. Their hopes for an all expenses paid vacation on the tax payers dime was thwarted by the FBI reasonable frugality. They were fitted with ankle trackers and told when the next bus to L.A. was. From there they found new lodgings which shockingly they paid for. And a car, also surprisingly paid for. And they begin to figure out how to take down the Pharmaceutical CEO who seems to be causing people researching papers showing his drugs kill to disappear.
And we left off from there.
if you successfully debate away one logical fallacy, two will take it's place.
hail hydra.
Fanatical obedience?
Ankle braclets? Hah!
/cuts off foot
It’s not a very important country most of the time
http://steamcommunity.com/id/mortious
You steppin?
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
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Brothers and sisters....comrades.
One of my fraternity brothers posted this, and while he has not stated outright who is in the picture...I can guess with 99% certainty that this is my organic chemistry professor at Lehigh University during one of his final review lectures. His epic-ness rivals that of Neil Degrasse Tyson.
http://i.imgur.com/eJfN4IG.jpg
Professor Schrey usually does his final review lecture in one of two forms. In December he dressed as a hobo decrying the end of the world via the organic chemistry final and would ramble on the many different ways we could avoid the apocalypse and disaster.
The spring would be a last farewell as yoda, stressing the ways in which inter-molecular forces would help/inhibit various mechanisms for reactions and to always keep in mind the electronic resonance, which was the explanation for just about everything.
OMG
I can't see how it could be used for anything other than comradery and/or designs on world domination
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wasn't someone just talking about how this was how they liked to use the raven button?
This is so not raven.
Aw yeah, I'm steppin' up to that agree, Son!
I also think you have fantastically constructed view points, nah mean?!
is the fraternity reddit
oh but we have plans
when criminals are paying for things legitimately, you should be very, very worried
Shut up I haven't watched it yet!
I was a sweet summer child.
Yeah, I thought it was a great example of doing a lot with a little. The writing and voice acting were memorable and moving and simple.
I agree on the atmosphere. The game just has a nice feeling to it.
I never got too into multiplayer because back then I was still anxious about losing at videogames to strangers.
They kind of implied that your ship was a hot lady in Homeworld 1, but yeah, everything was out of focus and speculative.
The formations were a lot of fun. I always liked building a stupid amount of strike craft and then flanking the enemy with a few massive claws. It was also fun to put a bunch of those 6-turret corvettes that could shoot in pretty much any direction into a sphere - COME AT ME, DON'T CARE WHERE FROM.
The salvage mechanic really kind of broke the single player, as you say. It turned time and tedium into pure gain. Still enjoyed playing through the story, though.
I thought the gimmicky levels and strange situations you kept encountering were interesting and fun, generally.
I, too, had trouble on the last level and gave up.
nope, but I wouldn't be surprised if his antics found their way there. I know there's a college humor and/or youtube of one of these lectures out there.
The key was to use it in the discussions where no one was serious and nothing mattered.
But So Raven also was like the default way to express sympathy or an other emotion to a persons posts without feeling the need to fully engage. It was useful for when you couldn't really enter an argument because you were just passing by.
Hail Hydra is only Hail Hydra. It can't really signify anything else without seeming absurd.
you are doing very well
my only RP experience (besides one prior game of Leverage featuring our gracious and diabolical host) has been online. like five years worth, but I've been out of the game just about as long
as the Leverage rulebook says, the first rule of the game is to make everyone around you feel awesome
you have done so, and I will reciprocate the favor
I am afraid
Oh yeah...
The junkyard dog mission was freaking tedious as well.
That game retains the atmosphere all the way through, but after the mind control ship level, it just goes downhill mechanically.
And you do have laser frigates, both the ion and multi-beam ones at that point. That's really close to the end of the game.
I AM THE RAVEN QUEEN
You just might have a vested interest in fighting this regime change.