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  • IsornIsorn Registered User regular
    @Jragghen gifted me a key for StarCrossed the other day. Thank you. <3

    @Blackhawk1313 knows I like unstable anime girls more than I should. Thanks a lot Blackhawk. <3
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  • HiT BiTHiT BiT 🍒 Fresh, straight from Pac-man's Registered User regular
    @Blackhawk1313 keeps spreading anarchy, one gift at a time:
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    Thank you for It Takes Two, you classy monster! <3<3<3

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  • JazzJazz Registered User regular
    @Blackhawk1313 decided, not inaccurately, that I need more cute puppers in my life.

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    Thanks so much for Pupperazzi! :heartbeat:

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  • DaringDirkDaringDirk Daddy CEO Oakland, CARegistered User regular
  • ElderPaoElderPao Registered User regular
    I haven’t checked in here for ages, so I was extra surprised to get the gift of Fort Triumph from @Jragghen. Thanks for gift-bombing an old lurker like me!

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  • ShadeShade Registered User regular
    @Blackhawk1313 got me!
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  • Big ClassyBig Classy Registered User regular
    I continue to be gifted despite not even being on PC! Thanks @karoz and @Blackhawk1313 for the lovely gifts, they're very much appreciated! ❤
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  • Blackhawk1313Blackhawk1313 Demon Hunter for Hire Time RiftRegistered User regular
    @HiT BiT has misunderstood what this is and actually struck back with Paradise Killer. I really want to play this one so I’ll allow it… for now…

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  • HiT BiTHiT BiT 🍒 Fresh, straight from Pac-man's Registered User regular
    @Blackhawk1313 gifted again!
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    Thank you! <3<3<3
    Also, remember: Pixies are never to be trusted!

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  • Stabbity StyleStabbity Style He/Him | Warning: Mothership Reporting Kennewick, WARegistered User regular
    Thanks @Blackhawk1313 for Thrill of the Fight! I heard it was a really good VR Boxing game! Can't wait to check it out!

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  • IsornIsorn Registered User regular
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    Yuri. Detective story. Sexy assassins. Seems like a good time. Thanks again Blackhawk. <3<3

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  • manwiththemachinegunmanwiththemachinegun METAL GEAR?! Registered User regular
    Spoilers for every British show ever made:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alHZlAYUE7U

    Max Payne remains really good, good shooting too.

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  • vamenvamen Registered User regular
    Yea so @Blackhawk1313 is out of control, as you can see from prior post. Thanks! <3

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  • HiT BiTHiT BiT 🍒 Fresh, straight from Pac-man's Registered User regular
    edited February 2022
    Next Steam sales dates:
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    Die-a-lot*
    *event name subject to change :D

    HiT BiT on
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  • IoloIolo iolo Registered User regular
    So much CLASS on this page!
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    Thank you @Blackhawk1313! DEVIL'S TOWER HERE WE COME! :)

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  • Stabbity StyleStabbity Style He/Him | Warning: Mothership Reporting Kennewick, WARegistered User regular
    Thanks @Blackhawk1313 for Thrill of the Fight! I heard it was a really good VR Boxing game! Can't wait to check it out!

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    I swung my arms around for like 10 minutes and I am now dead. I am extremely out of shape >.<

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  • Pixelated PixiePixelated Pixie They/Them Registered User regular
    Halp!

    Besides Baldur's Gate 3, which I've already played to death and am waiting for it to come out of early access... what games will let me play a tiefling (or equivalent)? I'm having a hankering to make a certain kind of character and drawing a blank.

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    ironzerg wrote: »
    Chipmunks are like nature's nipple clamps, I guess?
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  • Steel AngelSteel Angel Registered User regular
    Enigmedic wrote: »
    Fencingsax wrote: »
    I never played original C&C, only Red Alert

    Same. Other than I think there was an N64 c&c version I played at a friend's house. Red alert was awesome though. I'd love to see games with the corny live action cutscenes like that again.

    I always felt like the industry was a bit too quick to abandon FMV, when done properly to supplement gameplay (and I feel the Wing Commander series and Command and Conquer/Red Alert series were great examples of this) it can really add to the feel of a game.

    It's a tough thing to get right and it died at a time when good voice acting was hard to find for games as is let alone acting in front of a camera. It also doesn't fit all genres of games. Anything with a player character model or sprite is going to feel weird to switch with a live action representation for cutscenes.

    Mechwarrior 4 is an example from after it largely died out where it was done well and not surprisingly is a simulator where you don't need a player character model or npc character models. But it's not exactly the most thriving genre either. Story campaign driven strategy games also are now pretty sparse and that's the other genre it could really work well in.

    Big Dookie wrote: »
    I found that tilting it doesn't work very well, and once I started jerking it, I got much better results.

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  • -Loki--Loki- Don't pee in my mouth and tell me it's raining. Registered User regular
    Halp!

    Besides Baldur's Gate 3, which I've already played to death and am waiting for it to come out of early access... what games will let me play a tiefling (or equivalent)? I'm having a hankering to make a certain kind of character and drawing a blank.

    Pathfinder Kingmaker/Wrath of the Righteous?

    Wrath of the Righteous also lets you romance a Succubus.

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  • gBAZgBAZ Registered User regular
    Something was up with all the "Thanks" @Blackhawk1313 and adding me to friends list.

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    Looks like a well done adult game. (so many are trash trash tash).

    Thank you.

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  • Pixelated PixiePixelated Pixie They/Them Registered User regular
    -Loki- wrote: »
    Halp!

    Besides Baldur's Gate 3, which I've already played to death and am waiting for it to come out of early access... what games will let me play a tiefling (or equivalent)? I'm having a hankering to make a certain kind of character and drawing a blank.

    Pathfinder Kingmaker/Wrath of the Righteous?

    Wrath of the Righteous also lets you romance a Succubus.

    Apparently Kingmaker added tieflings in a DLC.

    ... that I didn't have.

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    And now I do.

    Thanks @vamen for adding moar tiefling joy to my life! <3<3<3

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    ironzerg wrote: »
    Chipmunks are like nature's nipple clamps, I guess?
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  • KarozKaroz Registered User regular
    Oh I've forgotten to thank a few folks

    Thanks @Ed Gruberman for Beautiful Desolation!
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    Thanks to @Viking for Vampire Survivors! Gotten all the cheevos so it's let me go--till next update!
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    And thanks @Stabbity Style for Project Wingman! Haven't flown in quite awhile!
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    Thank you all!

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  • The_SpaniardThe_Spaniard It's never lupines Irvine, CaliforniaRegistered User regular
    Betsuni wrote: »
    HiT BiT wrote: »
    New Humble Bundle: https://www.humblebundle.com/games/fck-cancer-bundle
    100% donated to cancer research.
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    I have everything I want from that bundle except for WWZ. If anybody gets the bundle and is willing to trade their WWZ key for something else let me know? I have a lot of game keys saved up.

    Sent you a code via PM. Enjoy!

    Edit: F_ck Cancer indeed! I so had to back this bundle just for that reason alone. Also noticed that Humble didn't take their cut like they do, so that was nice as well.

    Thank you so much, I responded to your PM asking if you want anything in return.

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  • KarozKaroz Registered User regular
    edited February 2022
    Finally getting around to trying Nier Replicant gifted by the rad Antoshka. I'm only an hour in but I...like it a lot more than Automata.

    To clarify, I didn't even get to the first ending of Automata due to boredom.

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    Was away from home this weekend to attend my brother and dad's big 30/60 birthday party event and returned home to find that a dark raptor had thrown something through my Steam window!

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    Thank @Blackhawk1313 for Beautiful Mystic Defenders!

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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    I finally got my new laptop, with enough power to play games AND record them, and not totally seize up for half an hour trying to process videos.

    Time to flex on some dweebs.

    (DBD)
    That Spirit build is so, so disgustingly filthy. And even worse with the Yakuyoke Amulet for even further phases.

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  • Pixelated PixiePixelated Pixie They/Them Registered User regular
    Pathfinder Kingmaker lets you choose to make your character left-handed?

    WHY WAS I NOT INFORMED?!

    *hugs game*

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    ironzerg wrote: »
    Chipmunks are like nature's nipple clamps, I guess?
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  • StormwatcherStormwatcher Blegh BlughRegistered User regular
    that's pretty cool, but when you gonna do it for real then?

    The hardest part of driving your own vehicle on the Nurburgring is just getting it there. As long as the vehicle is less than about seven and a half feet wide you can put it in a shipping container and ship it fairly cheaply via boat if you don't mind waiting a few weeks (or, at least you could up until mid 2020, now you'd be rolling way too many dice on price and transit time). You used to be able to ship a (small enough, light enough) car from the US to Europe for $4-$5k (not counting any customs fees). Best case scenario, with air freight there and back plus various fees, lodging, transportation, and equipment I'd probably be looking at a minimum of around $20k roundtrip. This would require me to not only have that much disposable income lying around, but to also own a vehicle worth enough money that it would make sense for me to pay that much to get it there, and lastly to have enough driving skill to not lethally pancake myself against a barrier at top speed.

    I'm scheduled to fly out the next time we have a week with four Thursdays.

    I was making a joke that the stream didn't count, and that you'd have to restream it all again live
    but your reply was so much better than my stupid joke.

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  • HerothHeroth Registered User regular
    Karoz Gift me Valheim!

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    ...Four days ago and I just accepted it today because i completely forgot about it... been distracted something fierce the last couple days with silly concerns, but no excuse! Sorry for forgetting and Thank you again for Valheim! now I too can Pretend to be a Viking!

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  • JaysonFourJaysonFour Classy Monster Kitteh Registered User regular
    edited February 2022
    -Loki- wrote: »
    Halp!

    Besides Baldur's Gate 3, which I've already played to death and am waiting for it to come out of early access... what games will let me play a tiefling (or equivalent)? I'm having a hankering to make a certain kind of character and drawing a blank.

    Pathfinder Kingmaker/Wrath of the Righteous?

    Wrath of the Righteous also lets you romance a Succubus.

    Apparently Kingmaker added tieflings in a DLC.

    ... that I didn't have.

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    And now I do.

    Thanks vamen for adding moar tiefling joy to my life! <3<3<3

    Those two have the absolute best personal quests in the whole game. They're a lot of fun.

    ...huh. Maybe I ought to get back to Kingmaker one of these days...

    ...huh? What do you mean, 'we got hit too'?

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    Thanks to @Blackhawk1313 for Coffee Talk! I absolutely loved Valhalla, and another game in the vein of it to wile away the hours until the sequel comes out is appreciated! Many thanks!

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  • JazzJazz Registered User regular
    Pathfinder Kingmaker lets you choose to make your character left-handed?

    WHY WAS I NOT INFORMED?!

    *hugs game*

    It's crazy how rare that is in games, especially as an option - you'd think it wouldn't be crazy hard to implement in many cases.

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  • cooljammer00cooljammer00 Hey Small Christmas-Man!Registered User regular
    I always play Mario Tennis as a lefty Luigi.

    It just feels right. He is the better brother, after all.

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  • Pixelated PixiePixelated Pixie They/Them Registered User regular
    Jazz wrote: »
    Pathfinder Kingmaker lets you choose to make your character left-handed?

    WHY WAS I NOT INFORMED?!

    *hugs game*

    It's crazy how rare that is in games, especially as an option - you'd think it wouldn't be crazy hard to implement in many cases.

    It's like, my most desired feature. I can really only remember one other game that had the option and that was Dungeon Lords from like 2006 or something. I'm sure there's others but I can't think of any.

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    ironzerg wrote: »
    Chipmunks are like nature's nipple clamps, I guess?
  • HevachHevach Registered User regular
    Dixon wrote: »
    Games I already had from the humble. Please take them, ends at 8:30 est tomorrow.

    Made them available for both the big PA groups.

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    Thank you Dixon for Magicka and Payday 2.

    Steamgifts was doing something weird and not giving up the keys but that seems to have resolved itself by hitting my phone a few times.

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  • SmokeStacksSmokeStacks Registered User regular
    Jazz wrote: »
    It's crazy how rare that is in games, especially as an option - you'd think it wouldn't be crazy hard to implement in many cases.

    It's like, my most desired feature. I can really only remember one other game that had the option and that was Dungeon Lords from like 2006 or something. I'm sure there's others but I can't think of any.

    I'd like to see more left handed characters in videogames. Things get kinda weird with left handedness in FPS games though.

    There are a few that let you choose, but in terms of canonical characters Bruce Willis is left handed, ergo John McClane is left handed. Most Die Hard games screw this up, but Die Hard: Nakatomi Plaza gets it right:

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    Unfortunately they modeled the gun incorrectly - the cocking lever is on the wrong side. I'm ok with this though, because it means that in the game McClane does the "HK slap" (hitting the charging handle) onscreen with his right hand and it looks cool as hell.

    As an aside, in the Die Hard movie, after he gets the MP5 (the machine gun, ho ho ho), he doesn't really use its attached weapon sling because its designed to be worn on the right side of the body. I don't remember him ever shouldering the weapon to fire it either, because it could cause him to be hit with expended casings. I've never fired an MP5, but I have fired a full auto M16 A1, and got a face full of hot brass while doing so. It wasn't until the A2 that they saw brass deflectors installed behind the ejection port.

    Speaking of M16 pattern rifles, the guy who modeled most of the weapons for the original Counter Strike was left handed, and modeled the player firing the guns that way. To make the models usable for right handed characters they simply mirrored them, so you got goofy stuff like right handed Counter Terrorists running around with M4s that had a left handed upper receiver (zero chance of this being military issue, and even if it was you wouldn't give it to a right handed shooter) as well as a left handed lower receiver (lol wtf):

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    But Counter Strike is also the game that had the player character not only charging the M4 after every reload (regardless of whether or not a round was still chambered), but pulling on the forward assist to do so. If you don't know why this is ridiculous imagine if the guy who modeled the cars for a driving game thought that the car's horn would honk every time you switched gears.

    Actually now that I think about it that would be hilarious.

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  • ThawmusThawmus +Jackface Registered User regular
    There is a game mode currently in Wreckfest where you throw giant snowballs if you hit your handbrake.

    It is amazing. This is probably my favorite racing game ever.

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  • RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
    I am cheating in dont starve by mashing alt f4 whenever I die to the gorram tentacles because my gorram spacial awareness goes to shit when I am trying kite spiders into range......maybe I should stop raiding the swamps

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  • Steel AngelSteel Angel Registered User regular
    Jazz wrote: »
    It's crazy how rare that is in games, especially as an option - you'd think it wouldn't be crazy hard to implement in many cases.

    It's like, my most desired feature. I can really only remember one other game that had the option and that was Dungeon Lords from like 2006 or something. I'm sure there's others but I can't think of any.

    I'd like to see more left handed characters in videogames. Things get kinda weird with left handedness in FPS games though.

    There are a few that let you choose, but in terms of canonical characters Bruce Willis is left handed, ergo John McClane is left handed. Most Die Hard games screw this up, but Die Hard: Nakatomi Plaza gets it right:

    aq7dx13kd9wf.png

    Unfortunately they modeled the gun incorrectly - the cocking lever is on the wrong side. I'm ok with this though, because it means that in the game McClane does the "HK slap" (hitting the charging handle) onscreen with his right hand and it looks cool as hell.

    As an aside, in the Die Hard movie, after he gets the MP5 (the machine gun, ho ho ho), he doesn't really use its attached weapon sling because its designed to be worn on the right side of the body. I don't remember him ever shouldering the weapon to fire it either, because it could cause him to be hit with expended casings. I've never fired an MP5, but I have fired a full auto M16 A1, and got a face full of hot brass while doing so. It wasn't until the A2 that they saw brass deflectors installed behind the ejection port.

    Speaking of M16 pattern rifles, the guy who modeled most of the weapons for the original Counter Strike was left handed, and modeled the player firing the guns that way. To make the models usable for right handed characters they simply mirrored them, so you got goofy stuff like right handed Counter Terrorists running around with M4s that had a left handed upper receiver (zero chance of this being military issue, and even if it was you wouldn't give it to a right handed shooter) as well as a left handed lower receiver (lol wtf):

    x5gq5x2fsp08.jpg

    But Counter Strike is also the game that had the player character not only charging the M4 after every reload (regardless of whether or not a round was still chambered), but pulling on the forward assist to do so. If you don't know why this is ridiculous imagine if the guy who modeled the cars for a driving game thought that the car's horn would honk every time you switched gears.

    Actually now that I think about it that would be hilarious.

    Gun models in FPS games are sometimes a weird mix of righty and lefty uppers as shown by that CS rifle- The operating controls are for righties, but the ejection port is on the left because the artists thing seeing brass casings fly across the middle of the screen looks cool even though it gets in the way of vision and is painful if hot brass hits your face because it is very hot, hence the term.

    Crusader Kings 2 still has my favorite left-handed option for characters though you never actually see it due to the nature of the game: The character gets a bonus to their personal combat score for tests of individual skill such as duel events but also a -10 opinion penalty with Christian and Muslim characters.

    Big Dookie wrote: »
    I found that tilting it doesn't work very well, and once I started jerking it, I got much better results.

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  • ThawmusThawmus +Jackface Registered User regular
    Jazz wrote: »
    It's crazy how rare that is in games, especially as an option - you'd think it wouldn't be crazy hard to implement in many cases.

    It's like, my most desired feature. I can really only remember one other game that had the option and that was Dungeon Lords from like 2006 or something. I'm sure there's others but I can't think of any.

    I'd like to see more left handed characters in videogames. Things get kinda weird with left handedness in FPS games though.

    There are a few that let you choose, but in terms of canonical characters Bruce Willis is left handed, ergo John McClane is left handed. Most Die Hard games screw this up, but Die Hard: Nakatomi Plaza gets it right:

    aq7dx13kd9wf.png

    Unfortunately they modeled the gun incorrectly - the cocking lever is on the wrong side. I'm ok with this though, because it means that in the game McClane does the "HK slap" (hitting the charging handle) onscreen with his right hand and it looks cool as hell.

    As an aside, in the Die Hard movie, after he gets the MP5 (the machine gun, ho ho ho), he doesn't really use its attached weapon sling because its designed to be worn on the right side of the body. I don't remember him ever shouldering the weapon to fire it either, because it could cause him to be hit with expended casings. I've never fired an MP5, but I have fired a full auto M16 A1, and got a face full of hot brass while doing so. It wasn't until the A2 that they saw brass deflectors installed behind the ejection port.

    Speaking of M16 pattern rifles, the guy who modeled most of the weapons for the original Counter Strike was left handed, and modeled the player firing the guns that way. To make the models usable for right handed characters they simply mirrored them, so you got goofy stuff like right handed Counter Terrorists running around with M4s that had a left handed upper receiver (zero chance of this being military issue, and even if it was you wouldn't give it to a right handed shooter) as well as a left handed lower receiver (lol wtf):

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    But Counter Strike is also the game that had the player character not only charging the M4 after every reload (regardless of whether or not a round was still chambered), but pulling on the forward assist to do so. If you don't know why this is ridiculous imagine if the guy who modeled the cars for a driving game thought that the car's horn would honk every time you switched gears.

    Actually now that I think about it that would be hilarious.

    Gun models in FPS games are sometimes a weird mix of righty and lefty uppers as shown by that CS rifle- The operating controls are for righties, but the ejection port is on the left because the artists thing seeing brass casings fly across the middle of the screen looks cool even though it gets in the way of vision and is painful if hot brass hits your face because it is very hot, hence the term.

    Crusader Kings 2 still has my favorite left-handed option for characters though you never actually see it due to the nature of the game: The character gets a bonus to their personal combat score for tests of individual skill such as duel events but also a -10 opinion penalty with Christian and Muslim characters.

    To this day this is my favorite detail about the game.

    Still wish I was any good at it but I had fun bumbling through it.

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    @JaysonFour struck while I slept with TES Online! Which is awesome but unfortunately overshadowed by the fact they also gifted me Command & Conquer Remastered Collection. The love and nostalgia I have for these games is massive, gonna have to start off with some Red Alert first and foremost. Thanks!

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