[chat] 2 More Legolas's Pineapples

Preacher

Bowen is a dark wizard, this is the chat that he created.

Doodmann

Bowen, how do I access your dark magics.

DemonStacey

Gat damn it worked.

Fuzzy Cumulonimbus Cloud

U not eddy

Bogart

I hesitated and casual eddy remains wishless.

Bogart

I hesitated and casual eddy remains wishless.

RiemannLives

Donkey Kong wrote: »

any programming language that doesn’t define signed, unsigned, float, and int types with their precision right in the typename can screw off. It’s 2018. We already figured out that using floats for everything is shit, that having to include the word “signed” is terrible, that only having signed types is real bad, and that not specifying the type capacity in the name of a type is a disaster waiting to happen.

If I see “unsigned short” or “long long” in new code or a new language standard, I will consume an innocent soul.

it is almost, but not quite, adorable how every single new thing in the ECMA 6 standard is basic shit that other languages have had for decades (and even C++ has had since 2010) but they trumpet it like it's this amazing new revelation.

VishNub

what the hell is going on

Preacher

Bogart wrote: »

I hesitated and casual eddy remains wishless.

I'm sure this is the chat he dreamed of.

Tcheldor

Bogart's sins are so bad he posted about them twice.

Hahnsoo1

Bowen is clearly a witch. BURN THEM!

https://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/comment/40364476/#Comment_40364476

https://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/comment/40364535/#Comment_40364535

Hahnsoo1

Jacobkosh wrote:

Someone in SE said they've racked up 6500 hours in Warframe and my stomach lurched.

Not because it's Warframe, which I'm sure is a perfectly fine game, but just the idea of doing any one thing for that long makes me ill. That's 65% of the way toward being an accomplished musician. It's hundreds of books or films or even just other video games Jesus Christ

To be fair to Warframe, though, they are extremely prolific at releasing content, even to the point of remastering all of their combat systems from the ground up. I really don't know how they keep up the pace, quite frankly.

Spending 6500 hours on a video game DOES feel like spending 6500 hours on a single book or a single song, though. But in this case, it's a book or song that just keeps changing and getting bigger every month or so, so there's not really much you can compare it to...

SniperGuy

Warframe looks so complicated to me that someone who is good at may very well be a musician.

Hahnsoo1

SniperGuy wrote: »

Warframe looks so complicated to me that someone who is good at may very well be a musician.

It really is not. You have fast-moving parkour moves for mobility (like Titanfall 2), a melee attack, two ranged attacks (all weapon dependent), and 4 powers for every Frame. There's a large variety in the various weapons and frames, but the basic gameplay is that of pretty much every other third person shooter.

Phillishere

Hahnsoo1 wrote: »

Jacobkosh wrote:

Someone in SE said they've racked up 6500 hours in Warframe and my stomach lurched.

Not because it's Warframe, which I'm sure is a perfectly fine game, but just the idea of doing any one thing for that long makes me ill. That's 65% of the way toward being an accomplished musician. It's hundreds of books or films or even just other video games Jesus Christ

To be fair to Warframe, though, they are extremely prolific at releasing content, even to the point of remastering all of their combat systems from the ground up. I really don't know how they keep up the pace, quite frankly.

Spending 6500 hours on a video game DOES feel like spending 6500 hours on a single book or a single song, though. But in this case, it's a book or song that just keeps changing and getting bigger every month or so, so there's not really much you can compare it to...

That's nine real-world months - like 24/7 months. When you factor in sleep, those are the kind of numbers that, on your deathbed, will add up to a large portion of your life and memories.

I love games, probably have spent that much on them in total throughout my life, but damn.

Eddy

So I can learn SQL basics in like a week, right? Presuming I know nothing about this newfangled technology

wandering

Hahnsoo1 wrote: »

Jacobkosh wrote:

Someone in SE said they've racked up 6500 hours in Warframe and my stomach lurched.

Not because it's Warframe, which I'm sure is a perfectly fine game, but just the idea of doing any one thing for that long makes me ill. That's 65% of the way toward being an accomplished musician. It's hundreds of books or films or even just other video games Jesus Christ

To be fair to Warframe, though, they are extremely prolific at releasing content, even to the point of remastering all of their combat systems from the ground up. I really don't know how they keep up the pace, quite frankly.

Spending 6500 hours on a video game DOES feel like spending 6500 hours on a single book or a single song, though. But in this case, it's a book or song that just keeps changing and getting bigger every month or so, so there's not really much you can compare it to...

*looks at how many hours per week I spend on the forums*

*sweats*

SanderJK

Nah warframe is pretty simple.

Your warframe is your special abilities.
Your weapons determine damage, type etcet.
Your warframe and your weapons have levels. The more total levels you have equipped, the more mods you can use.
The more total levels you have unequipped determines which gear you can equip.
Mods can be levelled up and have rarities. They are the main source of your power.

It costs premium currency to
a) buy inventory slots (So you don't have to destroy maxed weapons/frames)
b) Double the max level of an item (called "potato'ing" by the community)
c) buy weapons or frames without farming drops (For instance, you need to do a certain 10 minute mission for a 16% of 1/4th of a warframe. The bosses that drop this often have invuln phases that make very fast farming impossible)
d) customisation options

That is the cycle of warframe. You shoot stuff and hover up stuff, and 99% of it is garbage for the currency grind.
The hard part is learning which activities are worth your time (not many) and what you are currently grinding for.

Mazzyx

Eddy wrote: »

So I can learn SQL basics in like a week, right? Presuming I know nothing about this newfangled technology

You can probably learn enough to be dangerous.

Phillishere

wandering wrote: »

Hahnsoo1 wrote: »

Jacobkosh wrote:

Someone in SE said they've racked up 6500 hours in Warframe and my stomach lurched.

Not because it's Warframe, which I'm sure is a perfectly fine game, but just the idea of doing any one thing for that long makes me ill. That's 65% of the way toward being an accomplished musician. It's hundreds of books or films or even just other video games Jesus Christ

To be fair to Warframe, though, they are extremely prolific at releasing content, even to the point of remastering all of their combat systems from the ground up. I really don't know how they keep up the pace, quite frankly.

Spending 6500 hours on a video game DOES feel like spending 6500 hours on a single book or a single song, though. But in this case, it's a book or song that just keeps changing and getting bigger every month or so, so there's not really much you can compare it to...

*looks at how many hours per week I spend on the forums*

*sweats*

My forum time doesn't count, since 9/10 of it is fucking around in the office waiting for other people to move things along to the point where I can work on them. I'd be doing something else useless anyway.

Elki

I just learned that Ursula Le Guin passed away earlier this year, so I want to reread something of hers. Or maybe read something I haven’t yet read? I’ll flip for it.

Jacobkosh

Yeah, like, it's kinda sorta less troubling to me if the person was at least doing some new-ish things in that one video game, but that's still 6500 hours. I dunno. I think this gamery thing about always wanting more content is kind of increasingly off-putting to me as I get older. Maybe people should focus on being...more content.



But in all seriousness, anymore, when a game promises 400 fucking hours of stuff to do in a giant open world etc etc it starts feeling to me less like a sales pitch and more like a threat.

wandering

Jacobkosh wrote: »

Yeah, like, it's kinda sorta less troubling to me if the person was at least doing some new-ish things in that one video game, but that's still 6500 hours. I dunno. I think this gamery thing about always wanting more content is kind of increasingly off-putting to me as I get older. Maybe people should focus on being...more content.



But in all seriousness, anymore, when a game promises 400 fucking hours of stuff to do in a giant open world etc etc it starts feeling to me less like a sales pitch and more like a threat.

https://thehardtimes.net/harddrive/over-100-hours-of-gameplay-threatens-new-game/

Bowen

Hahnsoo1 wrote: »

Bowen is clearly a witch. BURN THEM!

https://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/comment/40364476/#Comment_40364476

https://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/comment/40364535/#Comment_40364535

This isn't even the first time it worked.

SummaryJudgment

hmm

what's the best way to go about selling a used graphics card? I've got a MSI Gaming X 1060 I'm thinking about selling for a 1070 before they disappear.

wandering

Over two hours per day on the forums and that’s not counting desktop usage where I probably spend even more time here

I probably *should* tap that add limit button

Phillishere

Jacobkosh wrote: »

Yeah, like, it's kinda sorta less troubling to me if the person was at least doing some new-ish things in that one video game, but that's still 6500 hours. I dunno. I think this gamery thing about always wanting more content is kind of increasingly off-putting to me as I get older. Maybe people should focus on being...more content.



But in all seriousness, anymore, when a game promises 400 fucking hours of stuff to do in a giant open world etc etc it starts feeling to me less like a sales pitch and more like a threat.

I'm really enjoying what Rockstar has done with Red Dead 2. There is an insane amount of content - especially in terms of incidental dialogue - that often overlaps to the point where it suddenly stops feeling so special that you have to seek it out and starts being part of a layered background that you can take in or not as you want. It's one of the few games where I will avoid interacting with possible quests in the environment because my character wouldn't bother and not feel like I'm missing something or need to mark it for a replay.

21stCentury

wandering wrote: »

Over two hours per day on the forums and that’s not counting desktop usage where I probably spend even more time here

I probably *should* tap that add limit button

i mean, i'll be fully honest, i like your posting.

But if it's affecting your life negatively, heck yeck, add limit.

zepherin

I tried to help you Eddy, but Bowen's dark brown magic is too powerful.

I am defeated

Hahnsoo1

bowen wrote: »

Hahnsoo1 wrote: »

Bowen is clearly a witch. BURN THEM!

https://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/comment/40364476/#Comment_40364476

https://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/comment/40364535/#Comment_40364535

This isn't even the first time it worked MY FINAL FORM.

zepherin

Doodmann wrote: »

Bowen, how do I access your dark magics.

The butt

Evil Multifarious

Let's say you're awake 16 hours a day. 406 days is about 6500 waking hours.

406 days where you get up, play nonstop for 16 hours and then go to sleep. Over a year where that's all you do.

But let's say they have a full time job that takes up 8 hours, 5 days a week. So you have 40 hours during the week and 32 on the weekend, for 72 hours per week.

That's about 90 weeks, almost two straight years, where a person would come home from work, play this single video game non-stop, and then sleep. On weekends, they'd play from the moment they wake up to the moment they go to bed.

Two years of this.

Hahnsoo1

In cyberpunk/mad scientist news today:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/11/dissolving-microneedles-could-replace-injections-for-chronic-eye-disease/

Delivering drugs directly to the eye using microneedles that dissolve
The patch goes on like a contact lens and leaves behind dissolving microneedles.

I swear to you, this isn't The Onion.



Ahhhhhh!

RiemannLives

I probably have in the 1000s of hours played on modded Minecraft. But I don't think it's at all useful to think of what "useful" things I might have done in that time. Between being fucking tired after a work day and (for a lot of it) just trying to cling on through depression it's not like I would have been doing anything more worthwhile during those hours.

Krathoon

I wonder if there is a recording of a Chuckie Cheese show on YouTube.

Couscous

Well, it is better than regular injections straight into the eye.

Ilpala

Oh Jesus CHRIST nope, nope, GodzillaGoingIntoTheSeaFlippingTheDoubleBird.jpeg

Bogart

Evil Multifarious wrote: »

Let's say you're awake 16 hours a day. 406 days is about 6500 waking hours.

406 days where you get up, play nonstop for 16 hours and then go to sleep. Over a year where that's all you do.

But let's say they have a full time job that takes up 8 hours, 5 days a week. So you have 40 hours during the week and 32 on the weekend, for 72 hours per week.

That's about 90 weeks, almost two straight years, where a person would come home from work, play this single video game non-stop, and then sleep. On weekends, they'd play from the moment they wake up to the moment they go to bed.

Two years of this.

fkin casual

zepherin

Evil Multifarious wrote: »

Let's say you're awake 16 hours a day. 406 days is about 6500 waking hours.

406 days where you get up, play nonstop for 16 hours and then go to sleep. Over a year where that's all you do.

But let's say they have a full time job that takes up 8 hours, 5 days a week. So you have 40 hours during the week and 32 on the weekend, for 72 hours per week.

That's about 90 weeks, almost two straight years, where a person would come home from work, play this single video game non-stop, and then sleep. On weekends, they'd play from the moment they wake up to the moment they go to bed.

Two years of this.

I'd say the first line is my uncle, the second line and 3rd lines are a ton of my single friends.

cB557

I definitely would not have the time put into warframe that I have if it wasn't an infinite skinner box fractal.

Preacher

People always go like "how can gamers spend *blank* amount of time playing vidja games" as they sit night after night in front of the tv watching big bang theory like shark