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  • KrathoonKrathoon Registered User regular
    Getting games digitally is kind of annoying because they take so long to install. Probably the most annoying thing of the modern age.

  • ElJeffeElJeffe Registered User, ClubPA regular
    Okay but hear me out, my two current go-to weapons are a sword with a lizard tongue lashed to the end of it, and a 10' halberd stuck to the end of a second 10' halberd that the game has dubbed a "halberd-halberd."

    I submitted an entry to Lego Ideas, and if 10,000 people support me, it'll be turned into an actual Lego set!If you'd like to see and support my submission, follow this link.
  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator, Administrator admin
    Sometimes I'm thinking about maybe getting a cheaper (well, "cheaper") mirrorless camera, but on the other hand, my iPhone is probably good enough for 90% of stuff.

  • ElJeffeElJeffe Registered User, ClubPA regular
    But nah, I get that some games aren't for everyone, even really good ones. I'm still bummed that I can't play Outer Wilds, because I love everything about the game except that the core gameplay loop is racing against a clock. I hate hate hate time limits in games. I want to take my time.

    I submitted an entry to Lego Ideas, and if 10,000 people support me, it'll be turned into an actual Lego set!If you'd like to see and support my submission, follow this link.
  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator, Administrator admin
    ElJeffe wrote: »
    Okay but hear me out, my two current go-to weapons are a sword with a lizard tongue lashed to the end of it, and a 10' halberd stuck to the end of a second 10' halberd that the game has dubbed a "halberd-halberd."

    Now you're thinking with halberds.

  • Havelock2.0Havelock2.0 What are you? Some kind of half-assed astronaut?Registered User regular
    edited May 2023
    I used to classify myself as moderate, leaning liberal a long time ago but I basically went full tilt L when Obama ran the first time. The Republicans were already on my shit list because of W, but their fuckery during the 2008 race and the ensuing years solidified it. ‘16 to present was the last nail in that coffin that basically guaranteed I’ll never vote R in my lifetime

    Havelock2.0 on
    You go in the cage, cage goes in the water, you go in the water. Shark's in the water, our shark.
  • Havelock2.0Havelock2.0 What are you? Some kind of half-assed astronaut?Registered User regular
    ElJeffe wrote: »
    But nah, I get that some games aren't for everyone, even really good ones. I'm still bummed that I can't play Outer Wilds, because I love everything about the game except that the core gameplay loop is racing against a clock. I hate hate hate time limits in games. I want to take my time.

    time limits and escort quests

    do you want anxiety attacks?

    this is how you get anxiety attacks

    You go in the cage, cage goes in the water, you go in the water. Shark's in the water, our shark.
  • SummaryJudgmentSummaryJudgment Grab the hottest iron you can find, stride in the Tower’s front door Registered User regular
    ElJeffe wrote: »
    Okay but hear me out, my two current go-to weapons are a sword with a lizard tongue lashed to the end of it, and a 10' halberd stuck to the end of a second 10' halberd that the game has dubbed a "halberd-halberd."

    polearms: when you want to kill things that are *gestures* over there

  • Havelock2.0Havelock2.0 What are you? Some kind of half-assed astronaut?Registered User regular
    How many flavors of polearms we talkin

    You go in the cage, cage goes in the water, you go in the water. Shark's in the water, our shark.
  • TuminTumin Registered User regular
    Im a moderate on pole weapons

  • TuminTumin Registered User regular
    edited May 2023
    I just dont think two of the same blade shape should be on one haft

    Maybe a hook on one end and some sort of giant axe blade on the other?

    Or a spear and then some absurd chained ball situation

    Tumin on
  • KrathoonKrathoon Registered User regular
    It just amuses me how people act like the Switch is a piece of shit hardware-wise and they all lapped up the new Zelda game.

    Gameplay always wins out over graphics.

  • OrganichuOrganichu poops peesRegistered User regular
    I have to go pickup some prescriptions but it’s 82 degrees out and I’d hoped to just power down until September

  • jungleroomxjungleroomx It's never too many graves, it's always not enough shovels Registered User regular
    ElJeffe wrote: »
    Okay but hear me out, my two current go-to weapons are a sword with a lizard tongue lashed to the end of it, and a 10' halberd stuck to the end of a second 10' halberd that the game has dubbed a "halberd-halberd."

    Yeah but it's still BoTW's combat system. I think it'd be cool to look at.

    Besides, I'm coming from the position of someone who has used a Lance Gun shaped like Corn, it takes a lot.

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    ElJeffe wrote: »
    But nah, I get that some games aren't for everyone, even really good ones. I'm still bummed that I can't play Outer Wilds, because I love everything about the game except that the core gameplay loop is racing against a clock. I hate hate hate time limits in games. I want to take my time.

    Yeah I bounced off the Outer Wilds, as well. I think it was just the controls were clunky and made my time with it feel like a chore rather than being transparent and just letting me concentrate on the game itself.

    But yeah, all types!

  • Havelock2.0Havelock2.0 What are you? Some kind of half-assed astronaut?Registered User regular
    War spears on Conan Exiles are bullshit unless I’m using them and my enemy isn’t

    then it’s fine

    You go in the cage, cage goes in the water, you go in the water. Shark's in the water, our shark.
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  • TavTav Irish Minister for DefenceRegistered User regular
    zagdrob wrote: »
    Tav wrote: »
    Zag what sorta photography do you want to do

    Just some basic stuff for now, pictures of kiddos sports, the doggo doing stuff, maybe some automotive shots, wildlife at the farm. Then I'm also thinking about dipping into astrophotography which looks like the basics are around another $500-1000 to start getting interesting stuff. But I still should be able to do some somewhat neat to me basic stuff with the setup I'll have.

    ah yeah that should be plenty good for your use cases

    i went from a really basic canon rebel something something to an 80d and the biggest difference i noticed was the autofocus speed which made it a lot easier to take pics of moving targets, everything quality wise was pretty similar outside of that

  • TuminTumin Registered User regular
    Trying to take a shit before we abandon the land of plumned bathrooms for dirt and camping

    Friends I think the situation looks grim

  • jungleroomxjungleroomx It's never too many graves, it's always not enough shovels Registered User regular
    Krathoon wrote: »
    It just amuses me how people act like the Switch is a piece of shit hardware-wise and they all lapped up the new Zelda game.

    Gameplay always wins out over graphics.

    And nostalgia.

  • Havelock2.0Havelock2.0 What are you? Some kind of half-assed astronaut?Registered User regular
    Tumin wrote: »
    Trying to take a shit before we abandon the land of plumned bathrooms for dirt and camping

    Friends I think the situation looks grim

    Remember you gotta pack out whatcha pack in

    that includes poop

    You go in the cage, cage goes in the water, you go in the water. Shark's in the water, our shark.
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  • SummaryJudgmentSummaryJudgment Grab the hottest iron you can find, stride in the Tower’s front door Registered User regular
    A vendor I like has really excellent "expect to self rescue" patches and stickers with a stylized campfire that I want on a shirt as a mental health affirmation but they won't use the same designs on their shirts and instead have dumb ones. Unfortunate!

    In the meanwhile I'm just white-knuckling it over a jar of chunky Jif and waiting for my HEALTH and teddy bear shirts to come in

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  • TavTav Irish Minister for DefenceRegistered User regular
    honestly i'm really put off using my iphone lately with how the algorithms on it seem to butcher some photos

    if you take a live photo and press it, you can see how it looked and then you can see the iphone automatically editing it and it blows the shit out of blues and whites

    pics end up looking like shit from instagram circa 2012

  • jungleroomxjungleroomx It's never too many graves, it's always not enough shovels Registered User regular
    ElJeffe wrote: »
    But nah, I get that some games aren't for everyone, even really good ones. I'm still bummed that I can't play Outer Wilds, because I love everything about the game except that the core gameplay loop is racing against a clock. I hate hate hate time limits in games. I want to take my time.

    time limits and escort quests

    do you want anxiety attacks?

    this is how you get anxiety attacks

    There's an indie game called Unsighted where every single NPC (even shopkeepers) and you have a death timer constantly counting down.

    You can get a certain item to extend it but there's not enough to save everyone.

    The devs allow you to turn it off but I felt like it was well done. It's not restrictive enough to severely hamper your gameplay if you want to explore a bit, but it definitely resolves the issue with open-world games having zero urgency.

  • TuminTumin Registered User regular
    edited May 2023
    Tumin wrote: »
    Trying to take a shit before we abandon the land of plumned bathrooms for dirt and camping

    Friends I think the situation looks grim

    Remember you gotta pack out whatcha pack in

    that includes poop

    Im a poop globalist

    You cant tell me where i can and cant poop

    Tumin on
  • Havelock2.0Havelock2.0 What are you? Some kind of half-assed astronaut?Registered User regular
    jrx that sounds like hell

    You go in the cage, cage goes in the water, you go in the water. Shark's in the water, our shark.
  • zagdrobzagdrob Registered User regular
    Orca wrote: »
    Echo wrote: »
    Sometimes I'm thinking about maybe getting a cheaper (well, "cheaper") mirrorless camera, but on the other hand, my iPhone is probably good enough for 90% of stuff.

    If you've got the funds for it, modern cameras and lenses are incredible.

    Not gonna lie, I got an S23 Ultra and the camera(s) on this thing are pretty incredible for most day to day stuff. Even compared to my old S8, the zoom and low light stuff is like magic.

  • Havelock2.0Havelock2.0 What are you? Some kind of half-assed astronaut?Registered User regular
    Tumin wrote: »
    Tumin wrote: »
    Trying to take a shit before we abandon the land of plumned bathrooms for dirt and camping

    Friends I think the situation looks grim

    Remember you gotta pack out whatcha pack in

    that includes poop

    Im a poop globalist

    You cant tell me where i can and cant poop

    I can’t but the USDA Forest Service certainly can

    You go in the cage, cage goes in the water, you go in the water. Shark's in the water, our shark.
  • jungleroomxjungleroomx It's never too many graves, it's always not enough shovels Registered User regular
    edited May 2023
    jrx that sounds like hell

    I would say 99% of the NPC's you'll see kick the bucket are the ones in the background just traipsing around with zero story importance, so it definitely lends an atmospheric weight to see the towns start to clear out. Only a few main NPC's would get the axe.

    It's more like a 2D Zelda game in its size than something like Elden Ring.

    jungleroomx on
  • TuminTumin Registered User regular
    Tumin wrote: »
    Tumin wrote: »
    Trying to take a shit before we abandon the land of plumned bathrooms for dirt and camping

    Friends I think the situation looks grim

    Remember you gotta pack out whatcha pack in

    that includes poop

    Im a poop globalist

    You cant tell me where i can and cant poop

    I can’t but the USDA Forest Service certainly can

    I have a license to shit in the woods

  • emnmnmeemnmnme Registered User regular
    jrx that sounds like hell

    There's joy in creating efficiency. Would you play a racing game that didn't time your laps? Would you play an RTS where the enemy never attacked, leaving you time to just sit in a corner of the map and research and build for two hours? No.

  • Havelock2.0Havelock2.0 What are you? Some kind of half-assed astronaut?Registered User regular
    Tumin wrote: »
    Tumin wrote: »
    Tumin wrote: »
    Trying to take a shit before we abandon the land of plumned bathrooms for dirt and camping

    Friends I think the situation looks grim

    Remember you gotta pack out whatcha pack in

    that includes poop

    Im a poop globalist

    You cant tell me where i can and cant poop

    I can’t but the USDA Forest Service certainly can

    I have a license to shit in the woods

    Oh! My mistake. Go ahead sir

    It’s all yours

    You go in the cage, cage goes in the water, you go in the water. Shark's in the water, our shark.
  • TuminTumin Registered User regular
    Tumin wrote: »
    Tumin wrote: »
    Tumin wrote: »
    Trying to take a shit before we abandon the land of plumned bathrooms for dirt and camping

    Friends I think the situation looks grim

    Remember you gotta pack out whatcha pack in

    that includes poop

    Im a poop globalist

    You cant tell me where i can and cant poop

    I can’t but the USDA Forest Service certainly can

    I have a license to shit in the woods

    Oh! My mistake. Go ahead sir

    It’s all yours

    *mauls ranger*

  • jungleroomxjungleroomx It's never too many graves, it's always not enough shovels Registered User regular
    edited May 2023
    Why is there a polar bear in the woods?

    No! Bad polar bear! *hits with newspaper*

    jungleroomx on
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  • zagdrobzagdrob Registered User regular
    emnmnme wrote: »
    jrx that sounds like hell

    There's joy in creating efficiency. Would you play a racing game that didn't time your laps? Would you play an RTS where the enemy never attacked, leaving you time to just sit in a corner of the map and research and build for two hours? No.

    Looks at my 2000+ hours of peaceful mode Factorio...

  • emnmnmeemnmnme Registered User regular
    zagdrob wrote: »
    emnmnme wrote: »
    jrx that sounds like hell

    There's joy in creating efficiency. Would you play a racing game that didn't time your laps? Would you play an RTS where the enemy never attacked, leaving you time to just sit in a corner of the map and research and build for two hours? No.

    Looks at my 2000+ hours of peaceful mode Factorio...

    You're still working towards efficiency. A death timer on NPCs = find efficiencies

  • Havelock2.0Havelock2.0 What are you? Some kind of half-assed astronaut?Registered User regular
    Ok but those games are where having a time limit is important or integral to the core mechanic whatever. I just don’t like feeling rushed or stressed by that stuff hence I don’t usually engage with those types of games

    You go in the cage, cage goes in the water, you go in the water. Shark's in the water, our shark.
  • syndalissyndalis Getting Classy On the WallRegistered User, Loves Apple Products, Transition Team regular
    edited May 2023
    Zelda is playing remarkably well on Yuzu right now, with patch 1.1.2 at a rock-solid 60fps at 1440p on my desktop oled display.

    This got patched to be good and playable on an emulator in record time.

    There is even a mod to replace the pro controller visual with the xbox controller visual when they show how to do something on screen, and provide the correct button names for the ABXY layout.

    Oh, and mods to get rid of weapon durability if you are a godless heathen. I fkn love saving my damaged weapons for a quick one-hit knockdown on an enemy.

    syndalis on
    SW-4158-3990-6116
    Let's play Mario Kart or something...
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