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  • HounHoun Registered User regular
    My avatar is now a dog.

  • Hahnsoo1Hahnsoo1 Make Ready. We Hunt.Registered User, Moderator, Administrator admin
    Houn wrote: »
    My avatar is now a dog.
    Houn is now pronounced "Hound"

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  • DrezDrez Registered User regular
    I am the Chosen One.

    I was Chosen by myself to sit on the couch and watch TV.

    Switch: SW-7690-2320-9238Steam/PSN/Xbox: Drezdar
  • Hahnsoo1Hahnsoo1 Make Ready. We Hunt.Registered User, Moderator, Administrator admin
    You ain't nothin' but a Houn dog...

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  • ChanusChanus Harbinger of the Spicy Rooster Apocalypse The Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User, Moderator mod
    Hahnsoo1 wrote: »
    Chanus wrote: »
    so apparently some lady texted the wrong number inviting her grandson to thanksgiving and after they realized the error the guy was like "can i still get a plate tho"

    and she was like "yes of course"

    and it was a thanksgiving miracle

    praise turkey
    The story doesn't end there, though. The idiot posted the exchange in social media, which showed the grandma's phone number. She got a ton of unsolicited texts, which she refused. The original mistexted person felt really bad about it, but she still got him a Thanksgiving plate.

    damn it

    Allegedly a voice of reason.
  • EddyEddy Gengar the Bittersweet Registered User regular
    Alright fuckers I'm playing Firewatch and I don't know how I feel about Deliliah

    I still love you Julia

    "and the morning stars I have seen
    and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
  • TL DRTL DR Not at all confident in his reflexive opinions of thingsRegistered User regular
    Got belay certified at the climbing gym today.

    I am now reasonably sure of one additional way in which I won't get my friends killed.

  • shrykeshryke Member of the Beast Registered User regular
    edited November 2016
    Pony wrote: »
    Pony wrote: »
    Modern phones are actually a real struggle for a lot of writers, especially for television

    They range from either something that gets forgotten exists at times when normal people would use them for normal shit to magic devices that do super magic

    In bad TV and film writing, cellphones will be forgotten to exist (or will be conveniently somehow out of range or battery) when characters need to:
    - call people
    - text people
    - take or send pictures
    - look up basic ass information on Google

    However, cellphones turn into magic when:
    - A character needs to be located through GPS
    - A phone conversation needs to be listened in on
    - It needs to go off to put a character in danger with the sound of its ringtone
    - A character needs to hack into another device, like a computer

    they're treated as plot devices by hack writers who, more importantly than learning how they work properly, don't want to be arsed with learning how to use them effectively in the plot

    I cannot wait until people who are soon to be in their 20s start watching "classic" movies from before cell phone times.

    just the sheer absurdity of a world without instant connection.

    dude straight up think of the central conflict from any episode of Friends or Seinfeld

    like the main plot that was driving the episode

    would it have been near-instantly solved by all characters involved having smartphones?

    the answer is yes a shocking number of times

    shit even buffy is undone with cell phones.

    even fucking Signs.

    There's a great bit in Angel, as I remember it anyway, where he loses his shit cause he loses cellphone reception and just starts complaining about fucking cellphones. And then at the end of the episode when the issue is finally resolved Cordelia is like "Dude, you could have just called and fixed this ages ago" and he's like ".... shit".

    Old Man Angel was always funny.

    shryke on
  • PonyPony Registered User regular
    TL DR wrote: »
    Pony wrote: »
    Pony wrote: »
    Pony wrote: »
    "YOU ARE THE CHOSEN ONE" is the laziest fucking writing trope and video game writers in particular need to ease the fuck up on it.

    You know, those things never really bugged me. I've always been someone who enjoyed character interaction more.

    Maybe this explains my unhealthy love of the MCU.

    It bugs the shit out of me but writing is literally like

    something I do for money

    so it's like anything, if you're an accountant and you see people fuckin suck at accounting you're like "oh my god you fucking hacks get your shit together"

    Every time I see "hacking" on television or movies I laugh uncontrollably and it ruins the movie and show for me.

    Every single military movie except for like, 2, get everything fucking wrong.

    mr robot got ur back

    "hacking" being mostly "tricking people into giving you their shit"

    that's basically what real life hacking is tho

    like when your aunt gladys told you she got "hacked" and her credit card was stolen what actually happened is she got phished

    someone sent her an email regarding her "recent eBay transaction" and asked her to send in her credit card info to confirm the purchase wasn't her and she complied, she didn't want someone ripping off her credit card after all!

    This has apparently become not uncommon for internet drug dealers.

    -John Druguser buys some pills from a shady online vendor, freaking out the whole time that the DEA will be battering his door down over a handful of bootleg Cialis.
    -Shady Online Vendor contacts John weeks later, claiming to be Scary Hacker who Hacked, Scarily all of John's personal information. Why, he even has John's home address! Scary Hacker will leave John alone, but not before John sends him $200 for his silence. Otherwise, John is going to federal prison b o i s

    hahahahha

    this is an old time trick from street dealers, taken to the internet

    amazing

  • PonyPony Registered User regular
    shryke wrote: »
    Pony wrote: »
    Pony wrote: »
    Modern phones are actually a real struggle for a lot of writers, especially for television

    They range from either something that gets forgotten exists at times when normal people would use them for normal shit to magic devices that do super magic

    In bad TV and film writing, cellphones will be forgotten to exist (or will be conveniently somehow out of range or battery) when characters need to:
    - call people
    - text people
    - take or send pictures
    - look up basic ass information on Google

    However, cellphones turn into magic when:
    - A character needs to be located through GPS
    - A phone conversation needs to be listened in on
    - It needs to go off to put a character in danger with the sound of its ringtone
    - A character needs to hack into another device, like a computer

    they're treated as plot devices by hack writers who, more importantly than learning how they work properly, don't want to be arsed with learning how to use them effectively in the plot

    I cannot wait until people who are soon to be in their 20s start watching "classic" movies from before cell phone times.

    just the sheer absurdity of a world without instant connection.

    dude straight up think of the central conflict from any episode of Friends or Seinfeld

    like the main plot that was driving the episode

    would it have been near-instantly solved by all characters involved having smartphones?

    the answer is yes a shocking number of times

    shit even buffy is undone with cell phones.

    even fucking Signs.

    There's a great bit in Angel, as I remember it anyway, where he loses his shit cause he loses cellphone reception and just starts complaining about fucking cellphones. And then at the end of the episode when the issue is finally resolved Cordelia is like "Dude, you could have just called and fixed this ages ago" and he's like ".... shit".

    Old Man Angel was always funny.

    there was a bit when he grouses about the price of concert tickets and they all look at him and he's like "I'm not... I'm not cheap, I'm just old"

  • DasUberEdwardDasUberEdward Registered User regular
    So It Goes wrote: »
    SniperGuy wrote: »
    Hahnsoo1 wrote: »
    Pony wrote: »
    Pony wrote: »
    "YOU ARE THE CHOSEN ONE" is the laziest fucking writing trope and video game writers in particular need to ease the fuck up on it.

    You know, those things never really bugged me. I've always been someone who enjoyed character interaction more.

    Maybe this explains my unhealthy love of the MCU.

    It bugs the shit out of me but writing is literally like

    something I do for money

    so it's like anything, if you're an accountant and you see people fuckin suck at accounting you're like "oh my god you fucking hacks get your shit together"

    Every time I see "hacking" on television or movies I laugh uncontrollably and it ruins the movie and show for me.

    Every single military movie except for like, 2, get everything fucking wrong.

    mr robot got ur back

    "hacking" being mostly "tricking people into giving you their shit"

    Which is pretty accurate.
    That's one of the great parts of Wargames. At least in the very beginning, Ferris Bueller uses social engineering to get a password. It all goes to shit by the middle of the movie, of course.

    As much as I love the movie Real Genius, the scenes where the guy who lives in the wall is "programming" are hilarious.

    He's typing random shit while the monitor shows a screensaver.

    Just...

    To be fair that guy was probably actually programming and seeing the text might have been a distraction

    Because Laslow was crazy.

    That movie is so good.

    "Did you have that dream where you're standing on a golden pyramid naked and a thousand women are throwing little pickles at you?"

    "In the words of Socrates, 'I drank what?'"

    That movie aged exceptionally well as a time capsule of 80's-ness without being a groanfest.

    AND FOR GODS SAKE KENT, STOP PLAYING WITH YOURSELF.

    Do the quote about hammering a nail with your dick

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGczXkknl80

    who would even respond "not right now"

    i'm saying yes to that question every single time and prepared to get tetanus.

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  • jungleroomxjungleroomx It's never too many graves, it's always not enough shovels Registered User regular
    *thinks about the awesome games I just bought from Steam*

    *thinks about parents 5mb down connection*

    *checks download*

    a1cydiq4k20d.jpg

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    ......ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

  • ThomamelasThomamelas Only one man can kill this many Russians. Bring his guitar to me! Registered User regular
    ronya wrote: »
    Thomamelas wrote: »
    ronya wrote: »

    I'm just amazed that they would have transshipped through HK. It's not like there is a lack of shipping in the area.

    ronya

    Singapore retains diplomatic relations with North Korea; the foreign ministry is hot on the idea of neutrality meaning the ASEAN sense of "internal affairs"

    it's only this year that China has begun objecting because Singapore kept urging a negotiated solution to the SCS question, whereas China wants to hold the line at not recognizing a dispute

    Yeah but I would have assumed military stuff from Taiwan would have been shipped a different route just for the diplomatic nicety of it.

  • jungleroomxjungleroomx It's never too many graves, it's always not enough shovels Registered User regular
    Oh god I just checked to see how long the Witcher download will take.

    ...

    Sunday morning.

    Getting my own place isn't coming fast enough.

  • spool32spool32 Contrary Library Registered User, Transition Team regular
    TL DR wrote: »
    Houn wrote: »
    Pretty sure "the chosen one" exists as a literary device because there is no way that anyone in the real world would take on that level of hardship and sacrifice unless there was some supernatural force behind it. Absent some external factor that cannot be ignored, every single human on the planet would take whatever power the "hero" is granted and use it to get money and sex right up until the moment the world ended.

    We are not an altruistic species.

    Now that would be funny.

    Opening involves the protagonist being faced with pleas for help - "You must do the thing, or we will surely perish!"

    Responds "Nah, I'm good. That sounds like a whole lot of Not My Problem."

    Begin the actual game, which is Harvest Moon or something similarly chill.

    things slowly begin to disintegrate as you refuse to use your power to save everyone

    a traveler stops at your homestead with tales of the horrors in other lands... will you leave, or stick your head in the sand, play your minigames, and see how bad it gets?

    Is the real game here to see how high your score goes before the world burns? Or is there something else here, a different game entirely, should you choose to play it?

  • DasUberEdwardDasUberEdward Registered User regular
    edited November 2016
    Pony wrote: »
    TL DR wrote: »
    Pony wrote: »
    Pony wrote: »
    Pony wrote: »
    "YOU ARE THE CHOSEN ONE" is the laziest fucking writing trope and video game writers in particular need to ease the fuck up on it.

    You know, those things never really bugged me. I've always been someone who enjoyed character interaction more.

    Maybe this explains my unhealthy love of the MCU.

    It bugs the shit out of me but writing is literally like

    something I do for money

    so it's like anything, if you're an accountant and you see people fuckin suck at accounting you're like "oh my god you fucking hacks get your shit together"

    Every time I see "hacking" on television or movies I laugh uncontrollably and it ruins the movie and show for me.

    Every single military movie except for like, 2, get everything fucking wrong.

    mr robot got ur back

    "hacking" being mostly "tricking people into giving you their shit"

    that's basically what real life hacking is tho

    like when your aunt gladys told you she got "hacked" and her credit card was stolen what actually happened is she got phished

    someone sent her an email regarding her "recent eBay transaction" and asked her to send in her credit card info to confirm the purchase wasn't her and she complied, she didn't want someone ripping off her credit card after all!

    This has apparently become not uncommon for internet drug dealers.

    -John Druguser buys some pills from a shady online vendor, freaking out the whole time that the DEA will be battering his door down over a handful of bootleg Cialis.
    -Shady Online Vendor contacts John weeks later, claiming to be Scary Hacker who Hacked, Scarily all of John's personal information. Why, he even has John's home address! Scary Hacker will leave John alone, but not before John sends him $200 for his silence. Otherwise, John is going to federal prison b o i s

    hahahahha

    this is an old time trick from street dealers, taken to the internet

    amazing

    low level hacking has become mostly con-artistry and blackmail. with a touch of social engineering of course.

    seriously god damn social engineering is hilarious.

    DasUberEdward on
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  • descdesc Goretexing to death Registered User regular
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    "Wang Yabin (Chinese, b. 1974), Pavilion of Memories - Pine Shadow Lane III, 2013. Oil on canvas, 150 x 120 cm."

    cc @Shazkar Shadowstorm

  • PonyPony Registered User regular
    if Divinity II can deliver on co-op dialogue for four players the way it did for 2 with Original Sin, I'll be forgiving of a lot

    maybe not a premise swerve while still in the first act, but, y'know

    I'll forgive at least bad voice acting

  • CoinageCoinage Heaviside LayerRegistered User regular
    My sister watched a video about voice actors and she thought it was great that (since they were reading the script alone) the director was giving feedback after every line, so she searched "jobs with constant affirmation" and got a bunch of articles about overcoming narcissism.
    Owned by Google.

    Happiness is within reach!
  • DasUberEdwardDasUberEdward Registered User regular
    Can you imagine being the guy in 2010 who circulated a shared post or whatever that required usage of the street you grew up on or a maiden name?

    Back before multi-step verification or even receiving notification that there was an attempt at your password.

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  • PonyPony Registered User regular
    Coinage wrote: »
    My sister watched a video about voice actors and she thought it was great that (since they were reading the script alone) the director was giving feedback after every line, so she searched "jobs with constant affirmation" and got a bunch of articles about overcoming narcissism.
    Owned by Google.

    s a v a g e

  • SniperGuySniperGuy SniperGuyGaming Registered User regular
    *thinks about the awesome games I just bought from Steam*

    *thinks about parents 5mb down connection*

    *checks download*

    a1cydiq4k20d.jpg

    ...


    ......ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

    Wait why are you not downloading the enhanced edition wait stop no

  • PonyPony Registered User regular
    Can you imagine being the guy in 2010 who circulated a shared post or whatever that required usage of the street you grew up on or a maiden name?

    Back before multi-step verification or even receiving notification that there was an attempt at your password.

    fun fact

    all my security questions aren't based on my own real life details

    they're based on those of a fictional character

    so "mother's maiden name" isn't my mother's maiden name

    it's this character's mother's maiden name

    it means no matter how close to me someone is, it's basically impossible for them to guess my security question answers unless I literally tell them which characters I'm using for which sites

    my own wife doesn't know those things

    now, there's a potential for this fucking me over, if I forget which character I use for which site, but that's a risk I'll take

  • PonyPony Registered User regular
    *thinks about the awesome games I just bought from Steam*

    *thinks about parents 5mb down connection*

    *checks download*

    a1cydiq4k20d.jpg

    ...


    ......ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

    @jungleroomx stop

    you're downloading the Classic edition

    download the Enhanced Edition it's so much better like objectively

  • DasUberEdwardDasUberEdward Registered User regular
    Pony wrote: »
    Can you imagine being the guy in 2010 who circulated a shared post or whatever that required usage of the street you grew up on or a maiden name?

    Back before multi-step verification or even receiving notification that there was an attempt at your password.

    fun fact

    all my security questions aren't based on my own real life details

    they're based on those of a fictional character

    so "mother's maiden name" isn't my mother's maiden name

    it's this character's mother's maiden name

    it means no matter how close to me someone is, it's basically impossible for them to guess my security question answers unless I literally tell them which characters I'm using for which sites

    my own wife doesn't know those things

    now, there's a potential for this fucking me over, if I forget which character I use for which site, but that's a risk I'll take

    i've done this for a long time. it almost fucked me over with a battle.net account but apparently if you're nice enough to customer service they'll just let you reset if you have access to the email D:

    i still use all made up answers to that sort of stuff and while it has bitten me in the ass more than once I don't regret it.

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  • Hahnsoo1Hahnsoo1 Make Ready. We Hunt.Registered User, Moderator, Administrator admin
    Pony wrote: »
    Can you imagine being the guy in 2010 who circulated a shared post or whatever that required usage of the street you grew up on or a maiden name?

    Back before multi-step verification or even receiving notification that there was an attempt at your password.

    fun fact

    all my security questions aren't based on my own real life details

    they're based on those of a fictional character

    so "mother's maiden name" isn't my mother's maiden name

    it's this character's mother's maiden name

    it means no matter how close to me someone is, it's basically impossible for them to guess my security question answers unless I literally tell them which characters I'm using for which sites

    my own wife doesn't know those things

    now, there's a potential for this fucking me over, if I forget which character I use for which site, but that's a risk I'll take
    It's me. Pony based it all off of my life. I am a fictional character.

    >.>

    <.<

    I've been hacked SO many times.

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  • AtomikaAtomika Live fast and get fucked or whatever Registered User regular
    I liked Bard's Tale where umpteen "Chosen Ones" kept meeting their grisly demise by chasing after some monster

  • ThomamelasThomamelas Only one man can kill this many Russians. Bring his guitar to me! Registered User regular
    Pony wrote: »
    TL DR wrote: »
    Pony wrote: »
    Pony wrote: »
    Pony wrote: »
    "YOU ARE THE CHOSEN ONE" is the laziest fucking writing trope and video game writers in particular need to ease the fuck up on it.

    You know, those things never really bugged me. I've always been someone who enjoyed character interaction more.

    Maybe this explains my unhealthy love of the MCU.

    It bugs the shit out of me but writing is literally like

    something I do for money

    so it's like anything, if you're an accountant and you see people fuckin suck at accounting you're like "oh my god you fucking hacks get your shit together"

    Every time I see "hacking" on television or movies I laugh uncontrollably and it ruins the movie and show for me.

    Every single military movie except for like, 2, get everything fucking wrong.

    mr robot got ur back

    "hacking" being mostly "tricking people into giving you their shit"

    that's basically what real life hacking is tho

    like when your aunt gladys told you she got "hacked" and her credit card was stolen what actually happened is she got phished

    someone sent her an email regarding her "recent eBay transaction" and asked her to send in her credit card info to confirm the purchase wasn't her and she complied, she didn't want someone ripping off her credit card after all!

    This has apparently become not uncommon for internet drug dealers.

    -John Druguser buys some pills from a shady online vendor, freaking out the whole time that the DEA will be battering his door down over a handful of bootleg Cialis.
    -Shady Online Vendor contacts John weeks later, claiming to be Scary Hacker who Hacked, Scarily all of John's personal information. Why, he even has John's home address! Scary Hacker will leave John alone, but not before John sends him $200 for his silence. Otherwise, John is going to federal prison b o i s

    hahahahha

    this is an old time trick from street dealers, taken to the internet

    amazing

    low level hacking has become mostly con-artistry and blackmail. with a touch of social engineering of course.

    seriously god damn social engineering is hilarious.

    Don't forget basic use of intext and filetype searches in google. Thankfully google has done some tweaking and there are enough articles on this to filter it out. But a horrifying number of people keep files like this in searchable directories.

  • The EnderThe Ender Registered User regular
    I am beginning to enter one of my bi-annual phases where my brain starts thinking it would be a good idea to play a modded Elder Scrolls game.



    Oh no.

    With Love and Courage
  • SniperGuySniperGuy SniperGuyGaming Registered User regular
    edited November 2016
    spool32 wrote: »
    TL DR wrote: »
    Houn wrote: »
    Pretty sure "the chosen one" exists as a literary device because there is no way that anyone in the real world would take on that level of hardship and sacrifice unless there was some supernatural force behind it. Absent some external factor that cannot be ignored, every single human on the planet would take whatever power the "hero" is granted and use it to get money and sex right up until the moment the world ended.

    We are not an altruistic species.

    Now that would be funny.

    Opening involves the protagonist being faced with pleas for help - "You must do the thing, or we will surely perish!"

    Responds "Nah, I'm good. That sounds like a whole lot of Not My Problem."

    Begin the actual game, which is Harvest Moon or something similarly chill.

    things slowly begin to disintegrate as you refuse to use your power to save everyone

    a traveler stops at your homestead with tales of the horrors in other lands... will you leave, or stick your head in the sand, play your minigames, and see how bad it gets?

    Is the real game here to see how high your score goes before the world burns? Or is there something else here, a different game entirely, should you choose to play it?

    Paraphrasing a greentext dnd story to remove dumb language:

    >Campaign starts
    >Player asks "Is gay marriage allowed in this kingdom?"
    >"NO, marriage is mostly for alliance, children, and the dowry. But we'll say homosexuality is tolera-"
    >Player character immediately sets off to overthrow the king, usurp the throne, instate gay marriage
    >Eventually instates democracy and fights a war for it
    >Player eventually gets named president and makes her first act to legalize gay marriage
    >As she is signing the law, the clouds gather and the entire town is massacred by an army of undead soldiers.
    >"What the fuck DM?!"
    >"I told you full well that you had to kill that lich before he completed the ritual and ushers in an age of eternal darkness. Apparently you thought gay marriage was more important than not getting killed by an army of zombies and skeletons."

    RPGs are hilarious.

    SniperGuy on
  • PonyPony Registered User regular
    Pony wrote: »
    Can you imagine being the guy in 2010 who circulated a shared post or whatever that required usage of the street you grew up on or a maiden name?

    Back before multi-step verification or even receiving notification that there was an attempt at your password.

    fun fact

    all my security questions aren't based on my own real life details

    they're based on those of a fictional character

    so "mother's maiden name" isn't my mother's maiden name

    it's this character's mother's maiden name

    it means no matter how close to me someone is, it's basically impossible for them to guess my security question answers unless I literally tell them which characters I'm using for which sites

    my own wife doesn't know those things

    now, there's a potential for this fucking me over, if I forget which character I use for which site, but that's a risk I'll take

    i've done this for a long time. it almost fucked me over with a battle.net account but apparently if you're nice enough to customer service they'll just let you reset if you have access to the email D:

    i still use all made up answers to that sort of stuff and while it has bitten me in the ass more than once I don't regret it.

    It almost fucked me over once, with a bank account I hadn't logged in to like two years because it's not my main bank account, it's my secondary account with a bank I don't normally work with

    so I needed to hit it with the security question even though I got the password right because I hadn't used it since I moved across the country and it was like "uh you don't live in BC according to our records who be you"

    and I had to wrack my brain as to what character I used for that site, and it was important to remember because I had a grand deposited in there by someone I hadn't updated my banking info with in a while

    I wanted that dolla!

    I thought I had the right character but I bombed the first question. I was like "that's deffo the right answer to that question if that's the right character, so it's clearly not"

    second attempt nailed it

  • TL DRTL DR Not at all confident in his reflexive opinions of thingsRegistered User regular
    Jeez, my mom

    -doesn't return my calls
    -sends out a Thanksgiving Day email about her worsening health, still won't pick up the phone
    -makes throwaway comment on my Facebook post

  • DasUberEdwardDasUberEdward Registered User regular
    Thomamelas wrote: »
    Pony wrote: »
    TL DR wrote: »
    Pony wrote: »
    Pony wrote: »
    Pony wrote: »
    "YOU ARE THE CHOSEN ONE" is the laziest fucking writing trope and video game writers in particular need to ease the fuck up on it.

    You know, those things never really bugged me. I've always been someone who enjoyed character interaction more.

    Maybe this explains my unhealthy love of the MCU.

    It bugs the shit out of me but writing is literally like

    something I do for money

    so it's like anything, if you're an accountant and you see people fuckin suck at accounting you're like "oh my god you fucking hacks get your shit together"

    Every time I see "hacking" on television or movies I laugh uncontrollably and it ruins the movie and show for me.

    Every single military movie except for like, 2, get everything fucking wrong.

    mr robot got ur back

    "hacking" being mostly "tricking people into giving you their shit"

    that's basically what real life hacking is tho

    like when your aunt gladys told you she got "hacked" and her credit card was stolen what actually happened is she got phished

    someone sent her an email regarding her "recent eBay transaction" and asked her to send in her credit card info to confirm the purchase wasn't her and she complied, she didn't want someone ripping off her credit card after all!

    This has apparently become not uncommon for internet drug dealers.

    -John Druguser buys some pills from a shady online vendor, freaking out the whole time that the DEA will be battering his door down over a handful of bootleg Cialis.
    -Shady Online Vendor contacts John weeks later, claiming to be Scary Hacker who Hacked, Scarily all of John's personal information. Why, he even has John's home address! Scary Hacker will leave John alone, but not before John sends him $200 for his silence. Otherwise, John is going to federal prison b o i s

    hahahahha

    this is an old time trick from street dealers, taken to the internet

    amazing

    low level hacking has become mostly con-artistry and blackmail. with a touch of social engineering of course.

    seriously god damn social engineering is hilarious.

    Don't forget basic use of intext and filetype searches in google. Thankfully google has done some tweaking and there are enough articles on this to filter it out. But a horrifying number of people keep files like this in searchable directories.

    I forgot about that. For the longest time you could just straight up find security cameras through google.

    it was a beautiful insecure paradise.

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  • PonyPony Registered User regular
    SniperGuy wrote: »
    spool32 wrote: »
    TL DR wrote: »
    Houn wrote: »
    Pretty sure "the chosen one" exists as a literary device because there is no way that anyone in the real world would take on that level of hardship and sacrifice unless there was some supernatural force behind it. Absent some external factor that cannot be ignored, every single human on the planet would take whatever power the "hero" is granted and use it to get money and sex right up until the moment the world ended.

    We are not an altruistic species.

    Now that would be funny.

    Opening involves the protagonist being faced with pleas for help - "You must do the thing, or we will surely perish!"

    Responds "Nah, I'm good. That sounds like a whole lot of Not My Problem."

    Begin the actual game, which is Harvest Moon or something similarly chill.

    things slowly begin to disintegrate as you refuse to use your power to save everyone

    a traveler stops at your homestead with tales of the horrors in other lands... will you leave, or stick your head in the sand, play your minigames, and see how bad it gets?

    Is the real game here to see how high your score goes before the world burns? Or is there something else here, a different game entirely, should you choose to play it?

    Paraphrasing a greentext dnd story to remove dumb language:

    >Campaign starts
    >Player asks "Is gay marriage allowed in this kingdom?"
    >"NO, marriage is mostly for alliance, children, and the dowry. But we'll say homosexuality is tolera-"
    >Player character immediately sets off to overthrow the king, usurp the throne, instate gay marriage
    >Eventually instates democracy and fights a war for it
    >Player eventually gets named president and makes her first act to legalize gay marriage
    >As she is signing the law, the clouds gather and the entire town is massacred by an army of undead soldiers.
    >"What the fuck DM?!"
    >"I told you full well that you had to kill that lich before he completed the ritual and ushers in an age of eternal darkness. Apparently you thought gay marriage was more important than not getting killed by an army of zombies and skeletons."

    RPGs are hilarious.

    this story makes my brain frown

  • ThomamelasThomamelas Only one man can kill this many Russians. Bring his guitar to me! Registered User regular
    Thomamelas wrote: »
    Pony wrote: »
    TL DR wrote: »
    Pony wrote: »
    Pony wrote: »
    Pony wrote: »
    "YOU ARE THE CHOSEN ONE" is the laziest fucking writing trope and video game writers in particular need to ease the fuck up on it.

    You know, those things never really bugged me. I've always been someone who enjoyed character interaction more.

    Maybe this explains my unhealthy love of the MCU.

    It bugs the shit out of me but writing is literally like

    something I do for money

    so it's like anything, if you're an accountant and you see people fuckin suck at accounting you're like "oh my god you fucking hacks get your shit together"

    Every time I see "hacking" on television or movies I laugh uncontrollably and it ruins the movie and show for me.

    Every single military movie except for like, 2, get everything fucking wrong.

    mr robot got ur back

    "hacking" being mostly "tricking people into giving you their shit"

    that's basically what real life hacking is tho

    like when your aunt gladys told you she got "hacked" and her credit card was stolen what actually happened is she got phished

    someone sent her an email regarding her "recent eBay transaction" and asked her to send in her credit card info to confirm the purchase wasn't her and she complied, she didn't want someone ripping off her credit card after all!

    This has apparently become not uncommon for internet drug dealers.

    -John Druguser buys some pills from a shady online vendor, freaking out the whole time that the DEA will be battering his door down over a handful of bootleg Cialis.
    -Shady Online Vendor contacts John weeks later, claiming to be Scary Hacker who Hacked, Scarily all of John's personal information. Why, he even has John's home address! Scary Hacker will leave John alone, but not before John sends him $200 for his silence. Otherwise, John is going to federal prison b o i s

    hahahahha

    this is an old time trick from street dealers, taken to the internet

    amazing

    low level hacking has become mostly con-artistry and blackmail. with a touch of social engineering of course.

    seriously god damn social engineering is hilarious.

    Don't forget basic use of intext and filetype searches in google. Thankfully google has done some tweaking and there are enough articles on this to filter it out. But a horrifying number of people keep files like this in searchable directories.

    I forgot about that. For the longest time you could just straight up find security cameras through google.

    it was a beautiful insecure paradise.

    You still can. Although there are sites that make this easier.

  • PonyPony Registered User regular
    Thomamelas wrote: »
    Pony wrote: »
    TL DR wrote: »
    Pony wrote: »
    Pony wrote: »
    Pony wrote: »
    "YOU ARE THE CHOSEN ONE" is the laziest fucking writing trope and video game writers in particular need to ease the fuck up on it.

    You know, those things never really bugged me. I've always been someone who enjoyed character interaction more.

    Maybe this explains my unhealthy love of the MCU.

    It bugs the shit out of me but writing is literally like

    something I do for money

    so it's like anything, if you're an accountant and you see people fuckin suck at accounting you're like "oh my god you fucking hacks get your shit together"

    Every time I see "hacking" on television or movies I laugh uncontrollably and it ruins the movie and show for me.

    Every single military movie except for like, 2, get everything fucking wrong.

    mr robot got ur back

    "hacking" being mostly "tricking people into giving you their shit"

    that's basically what real life hacking is tho

    like when your aunt gladys told you she got "hacked" and her credit card was stolen what actually happened is she got phished

    someone sent her an email regarding her "recent eBay transaction" and asked her to send in her credit card info to confirm the purchase wasn't her and she complied, she didn't want someone ripping off her credit card after all!

    This has apparently become not uncommon for internet drug dealers.

    -John Druguser buys some pills from a shady online vendor, freaking out the whole time that the DEA will be battering his door down over a handful of bootleg Cialis.
    -Shady Online Vendor contacts John weeks later, claiming to be Scary Hacker who Hacked, Scarily all of John's personal information. Why, he even has John's home address! Scary Hacker will leave John alone, but not before John sends him $200 for his silence. Otherwise, John is going to federal prison b o i s

    hahahahha

    this is an old time trick from street dealers, taken to the internet

    amazing

    low level hacking has become mostly con-artistry and blackmail. with a touch of social engineering of course.

    seriously god damn social engineering is hilarious.

    Don't forget basic use of intext and filetype searches in google. Thankfully google has done some tweaking and there are enough articles on this to filter it out. But a horrifying number of people keep files like this in searchable directories.

    I forgot about that. For the longest time you could just straight up find security cameras through google.

    it was a beautiful insecure paradise.

    you know what's still a thing?

    finding default image name formats for pictures taken by digital cameras and phones, slamming that into google image search with a random number

    so like img_large_0000014.jpg

    there is a shocking number of nudes that come up this way, it's super fucked, and it's generally from people uploading them to like photobucket and not thinking they'll be searchable in any way

    (tbf I don't think actual photobucket is still searchable this way if you properly unlist your photos but)

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  • KanaKana Registered User regular
    TL DR wrote: »
    Houn wrote: »
    Pretty sure "the chosen one" exists as a literary device because there is no way that anyone in the real world would take on that level of hardship and sacrifice unless there was some supernatural force behind it. Absent some external factor that cannot be ignored, every single human on the planet would take whatever power the "hero" is granted and use it to get money and sex right up until the moment the world ended.

    We are not an altruistic species.

    Now that would be funny.

    Opening involves the protagonist being faced with pleas for help - "You must do the thing, or we will surely perish!"

    Responds "Nah, I'm good. That sounds like a whole lot of Not My Problem."

    Begin the actual game, which is Harvest Moon or something similarly chill.

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  • permapensivepermapensive Registered User regular
    Pony wrote: »
    Thomamelas wrote: »
    Pony wrote: »
    TL DR wrote: »
    Pony wrote: »
    Pony wrote: »
    Pony wrote: »
    "YOU ARE THE CHOSEN ONE" is the laziest fucking writing trope and video game writers in particular need to ease the fuck up on it.

    You know, those things never really bugged me. I've always been someone who enjoyed character interaction more.

    Maybe this explains my unhealthy love of the MCU.

    It bugs the shit out of me but writing is literally like

    something I do for money

    so it's like anything, if you're an accountant and you see people fuckin suck at accounting you're like "oh my god you fucking hacks get your shit together"

    Every time I see "hacking" on television or movies I laugh uncontrollably and it ruins the movie and show for me.

    Every single military movie except for like, 2, get everything fucking wrong.

    mr robot got ur back

    "hacking" being mostly "tricking people into giving you their shit"

    that's basically what real life hacking is tho

    like when your aunt gladys told you she got "hacked" and her credit card was stolen what actually happened is she got phished

    someone sent her an email regarding her "recent eBay transaction" and asked her to send in her credit card info to confirm the purchase wasn't her and she complied, she didn't want someone ripping off her credit card after all!

    This has apparently become not uncommon for internet drug dealers.

    -John Druguser buys some pills from a shady online vendor, freaking out the whole time that the DEA will be battering his door down over a handful of bootleg Cialis.
    -Shady Online Vendor contacts John weeks later, claiming to be Scary Hacker who Hacked, Scarily all of John's personal information. Why, he even has John's home address! Scary Hacker will leave John alone, but not before John sends him $200 for his silence. Otherwise, John is going to federal prison b o i s

    hahahahha

    this is an old time trick from street dealers, taken to the internet

    amazing

    low level hacking has become mostly con-artistry and blackmail. with a touch of social engineering of course.

    seriously god damn social engineering is hilarious.

    Don't forget basic use of intext and filetype searches in google. Thankfully google has done some tweaking and there are enough articles on this to filter it out. But a horrifying number of people keep files like this in searchable directories.

    I forgot about that. For the longest time you could just straight up find security cameras through google.

    it was a beautiful insecure paradise.

    you know what's still a thing?

    finding default image name formats for pictures taken by digital cameras and phones, slamming that into google image search with a random number

    so like img_large_0000014.jpg

    there is a shocking number of nudes that come up this way, it's super fucked, and it's generally from people uploading them to like photobucket and not thinking they'll be searchable in any way

    (tbf I don't think actual photobucket is still searchable this way if you properly unlist your photos but)

    this feels a little like playing Russian roulette

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  • So It GoesSo It Goes We keep moving...Registered User regular
    desc wrote: »
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    Squad goals

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