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  • RamiRami Registered User regular
    I've got a cold and there's no good tissues left

    In fact the only tissues we do have are the cheapest, scratchiest stuff around. The type you find in public school toilets.

    Every time I have to blow my nose it's like sandpapering my skin off

    Steam / Xbox Live: WSDX NNID: W-S-D-X 3DS FC: 2637-9461-8549
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  • MazzyxMazzyx Comedy Gold Registered User regular
    credeiki wrote: »
    Neco wrote: »
    I’m dehydrating :(

    I just realized I was critically low on both calories and fluid and am trying to address that

    I need a minder or something

    I continue to be not capable of basic self-maintenance

    I think you can get your phone to do this for you.

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  • BeNarwhalBeNarwhal The Work Left Unfinished Registered User regular
    Let's have our own PAX

    Where we just do fun stuff and play games and hang out

    And let's have it near Narwhal

    Hotels and venues are both cheap out here!

  • Styrofoam SammichStyrofoam Sammich WANT. normal (not weird)Registered User regular
    spool32 wrote: »
    Aioua wrote: »
    spool32 wrote: »
    Swag at pax has dropped off drastically. My first time, maybe 5 years ago, I went home with probably 20 t-shirts.

    swag is literally nonexistent now. Maybe a lanyard or two. They don't even give out stuff in the swag bags anymore! It's all ads and like 2 superfight cards.

    the only reason swag bags are still around is people keep buying the ad space

    now, as for why all the expo vendors stopped handing stuff out I dunno

    I think they cut back on the stuff in the bags after a couple years ago when they actually had some cool stuff in them so people tried to get as many as possible and one of the expo halls was coated in the unwanted contents.

    it was the Oatmeal Year, when the oatmeal was actually part of a set of an exclusive CAH deck

    It sticks out as one of the few times I've ever seen a significant number of people behaving badly at Pax. The league tournament was fun to watch but it brought in a lot of kinda gross people.

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  • PonyPony Registered User regular
    P10 wrote: »
    canadia doesn't let you have a firearm? this injustice...don't they know about your second amendment rights....

    no joke the number of times i have had people think rights to firearms are some kind of universal human constant is kind of mind-blowing

    mostly Americans but sometimes Canadians too!

    an alarming number of Canadians are overly informed about law and culture by American television and cultural importation, so they believe they can do things like plead the Fifth, they believe they need to "read their rights" when arrested, they think they have a right to bear arms, and they think they have waaaaaaay more free speech than they actually have

    and it's like lol you watch too much American TV, countryman

  • Evil MultifariousEvil Multifarious Registered User regular
    edited January 2018
    matt it sounds like the main problem here was deciding to go to that party

    fear of that kind of experience is up there with laziness and -30 temperatures as a reason to blow off a party IMO

    Evil Multifarious on
  • AiouaAioua Ora Occidens Ora OptimaRegistered User regular
    spool32 wrote: »
    Aioua wrote: »
    spool32 wrote: »
    Swag at pax has dropped off drastically. My first time, maybe 5 years ago, I went home with probably 20 t-shirts.

    swag is literally nonexistent now. Maybe a lanyard or two. They don't even give out stuff in the swag bags anymore! It's all ads and like 2 superfight cards.

    the only reason swag bags are still around is people keep buying the ad space

    now, as for why all the expo vendors stopped handing stuff out I dunno

    I think they cut back on the stuff in the bags after a couple years ago when they actually had some cool stuff in them so people tried to get as many as possible and one of the expo halls was coated in the unwanted contents.

    it was the Oatmeal Year, when the oatmeal was actually part of a set of an exclusive CAH deck

    the cards were in the oatmeal packets

    which means you had to dump oatmeal everywhere to get the cards

    I really dislike max tempkin

    life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
    fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
    that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
    bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
  • spool32spool32 Contrary Library Registered User regular
    It was like, cards against humanity, mtg, and league skin cards in there plus the usual ads and stuff and people would go through the line 5-6 times, put all the stuff they wanted in one bag and just leave the rest on the floor. It was everywhere.

    that Sunday afternoon there were people who had hundreds of the CAH cards.

  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator mod
    Burnage wrote: »
    Echo wrote: »
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    twelve hits

    five fires

    This sounds like a party

    Ships have different sections that can be on fire, and a Damage Control Party consumable that instantly extinguish all fires and make you immune to new fires for ~10 seconds and also stops flooding, but then goes on cooldown.

    Players tend to panic as soon as there's a single fire and mash the DCP button.

    So I just hold fire for ten seconds and then shoot them some more. Here, enjoy your new fires!

    Players that use DCP on a single fire are called one-pump chumps.

    Right now I'm just doing some bot matches because I can't really focus and it's like shooting fish in a barrel with bots. The faster ships tend to get into shooting position before me, so I don't get many shots off.

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    This is me getting citadel hits with HE ammo. Sure, HE ammo has some armor penetration, but cruisers can usually take it without citadel penetrations from HE ammo.

    Except this was a British cruiser and they have shit for citadel armor.

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    That big blue bit in the center is the citadel -- it's the most heavily armored part of ships because that's where all the juicy stuff is located, like engines and ammo stores and stuff.

    So if you get a nice broadside view of a target, aim for the citadel if you have beefy enough guns that can penetrate it and you'll do citadel damage.

  • LudiousLudious I just wanted a sandwich A temporally dislocated QuiznosRegistered User regular
    I was into LoL when it was still at Pax but I'm glad it's gone now. It monopolized the con, and there were too many kids there just for League, which lead to bad behavior elsewhere. Because that just seems to be human nature with mega-fandom in shared spaces

  • spool32spool32 Contrary Library Registered User regular
    in fact, I think PAX East 2015 was a kind of turning point year for PAX just in general.

  • NecoNeco Worthless Garbage Registered User regular
    To be honest, pax does sound kinda boring for me, but it’s a great excuse to hang out with people I haven’t before (or rarely have before) and go to a place I’ve never been so I’m pretty excited to go.

  • Styrofoam SammichStyrofoam Sammich WANT. normal (not weird)Registered User regular
    spool32 wrote: »
    It was like, cards against humanity, mtg, and league skin cards in there plus the usual ads and stuff and people would go through the line 5-6 times, put all the stuff they wanted in one bag and just leave the rest on the floor. It was everywhere.

    that Sunday afternoon there were people who had hundreds of the CAH cards.

    I remember wanting to get one of each color of the little MTG decks they were giving out and thinking I'd have to work it out among friends but nope just picked them off the floor.

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  • VanguardVanguard But now the dream is over. And the insect is awake.Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    Best scene from the new Star Wars is when Luke skywalker drinks blue alien milk straight from the teet

  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    Pony wrote: »
    they invited 15 people on facebook

    5 were maybes, my wife and i and one other dude were the only for-sures going

    then the day of the other guy cancelled, and none of the maybes showed up

    so it was just us and the couple hosting, and they had made food and got a bunch of alcohol and they don't even drink and they had like, cleaned up their place and got a bunch of seating together and stuff

    it was sad!

    we hung out for a little while and played a game of star trek settlers of catan and then left because tbh i find the dude of that couple really grating

    he's this 48 year old king-geek type dude who doesn't just reference stuff, he references shit like a challenge, like he'll make an obscure star trek reference and then if you don't laugh because you didn't get it or you didn't find it funny he will ask you if you knew what it was from, and then tell you, regardless of your answer

    which is incredibly wearying

    the sort of guy who has made being the smartest and geekiest person in the room his entire identity his whole life and doesn't know how to deal with that not being the case, so he's constantly trying to big-dick everyone in really petty ways, and it's just like dude

    i don't care

    You cut me pony, you cut me deep.

    I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.

    pleasepaypreacher.net
  • spool32spool32 Contrary Library Registered User regular
    Ludious wrote: »
    I was into LoL when it was still at Pax but I'm glad it's gone now. It monopolized the con, and there were too many kids there just for League, which lead to bad behavior elsewhere. Because that just seems to be human nature with mega-fandom in shared spaces

    They managed to bring it back in a really cool way at the last East I went to... but they really needed some time in the wilderness. Having that spot right up front meant you had to fight through crowds of nonsense to see anything else, right off the escalator. It was really not great.

  • ShivahnShivahn Unaware of her barrel shifter privilege Western coastal temptressRegistered User, Moderator mod
    I have been weirdly preoccupied with the fact that we are all going to die over the last few weeks. It is not pleasant.

  • AiouaAioua Ora Occidens Ora OptimaRegistered User regular
    the downfall to swag bags came a bit earlier than that, though

    had a year where there was so much shit in the bags, with weird shapes, that it was a nightmare getting them stuffed

    so after that things had to meet certain dimensions, like if you wanted a shirt in there it'd need to be pre-folded and bagged etc

    life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
    fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
    that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
    bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator mod
    So in PVP the role of this ship is basically to make people panic and blow their consumables on putting out fires, and then lighting them on fire again.

    Not to mention the juicy opportunity for destroyers to get some flooding going, because that does WAY more damage than fires and is also percentage-based. (Also, harder to actually hit with torpedoes.)

  • DelmainDelmain Registered User regular
    spool32 wrote: »
    in fact, I think PAX East 2015 was a kind of turning point year for PAX just in general.

    yeah I think East 2015 was the last time I was really excited to be at the convention itself as opposed to just hanging out with friends at the convention

  • KrathoonKrathoon Registered User regular
    spool32 wrote: »
    Swag at pax has dropped off drastically. My first time, maybe 5 years ago, I went home with probably 20 t-shirts.

    swag is literally nonexistent now. Maybe a lanyard or two. They don't even give out stuff in the swag bags anymore! It's all ads and like 2 superfight cards.

    The swag bags at 2017 PAX South were really lame. Just a CPU mag, leaflets, and some cards.

  • BeNarwhalBeNarwhal The Work Left Unfinished Registered User regular
    Pony wrote: »
    P10 wrote: »
    canadia doesn't let you have a firearm? this injustice...don't they know about your second amendment rights....

    no joke the number of times i have had people think rights to firearms are some kind of universal human constant is kind of mind-blowing

    mostly Americans but sometimes Canadians too!

    an alarming number of Canadians are overly informed about law and culture by American television and cultural importation, so they believe they can do things like plead the Fifth, they believe they need to "read their rights" when arrested, they think they have a right to bear arms, and they think they have waaaaaaay more free speech than they actually have

    and it's like lol you watch too much American TV, countryman

    I follow Demolition Ranch on Youtube, and the host (he's also named Matt!) is a gun nut but also a veterinarian, father of three, Mr. fix-it, etc. He's a cool guy.

    Anyway, he was up in Canada (his wife ran the Toronto Marathon this year!) and he had a Canadian friend take him to a gun range up here. And they had a guy on who was a bit of an expert in Canadian (or at least Ontarian) gun law, and it was fascinating.

    Like, initially, the rule was gonna be "blanket ban on 'military' weapons", but then they realized that inadvertently banned a lot of the most popular hunting rifles, which would have been an unpopular idea.

    And the true minutia about what guns are 'restricted' which are 'prohibited', and which are out-right illegal (because for some reason prohibited doesn't mean that in this case!) is fascinating.

  • MazzyxMazzyx Comedy Gold Registered User regular
    Aioua wrote: »
    the downfall to swag bags came a bit earlier than that, though

    had a year where there was so much shit in the bags, with weird shapes, that it was a nightmare getting them stuffed

    so after that things had to meet certain dimensions, like if you wanted a shirt in there it'd need to be pre-folded and bagged etc

    The only swag I miss are the magic decks. It was nice just having some pre-built ones to play folks with while waiting for things.

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  • credeikicredeiki Registered User regular
    Mazzyx wrote: »
    credeiki wrote: »
    Neco wrote: »
    I’m dehydrating :(

    I just realized I was critically low on both calories and fluid and am trying to address that

    I need a minder or something

    I continue to be not capable of basic self-maintenance

    I think you can get your phone to do this for you.

    *shrug* maybe

    what I actually mean is that I want another human being to prioritize my needs. which is such a sad statement, really.

    ...although some way to just remind myself to always eat when I am not hungry would be mildly useful. I'd just ignore it though so...probably not very useful at all.

    whatever, I drank some water and ate a nutrient bar and ordered takeout

    (working form home)
    (by "working" I still mean "learning to use Blender, ostensibly to create some simulated data but actually because it's really fucking cool so I am going way into depth with it and now I secretly want to be a 3d artist or something")

    Steam, LoL: credeiki
  • NecoNeco Worthless Garbage Registered User regular
    Shivahn wrote: »
    I have been weirdly preoccupied with the fact that we are all going to die over the last few weeks. It is not pleasant.

    Same, actually.

  • Styrofoam SammichStyrofoam Sammich WANT. normal (not weird)Registered User regular
    spool32 wrote: »
    Ludious wrote: »
    I was into LoL when it was still at Pax but I'm glad it's gone now. It monopolized the con, and there were too many kids there just for League, which lead to bad behavior elsewhere. Because that just seems to be human nature with mega-fandom in shared spaces

    They managed to bring it back in a really cool way at the last East I went to... but they really needed some time in the wilderness. Having that spot right up front meant you had to fight through crowds of nonsense to see anything else, right off the escalator. It was really not great.

    Remember how they used to have Riot employees wade out into the crowd and give away cards? The last year League was there I watched enforcers have to escort this asian woman who was giving out cards to safety because she was in danger of being trampled.

    But like 5 minutes later someone threw a foam Poro into the crowd and it hit my head and now sits on my computer tower so

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  • PonyPony Registered User regular
    matt it sounds like the main problem here was deciding to go to that party

    eh, it wasn't the worst

    but I do genuinely like the wife in that couple, she's a former co-worker and was the person I am actually friends with. Her husband I don't really care for and tbh I hadn't even met face to face before the party, dude's just sorta talked at me before on Facebook previously.

    they're not bad people, they're just dorks and he's just a particularly irritating brand of dork who is aggressively Gen X in his sensibilities about the whole subject and it just gets tiresome to deal with

    we went because we were 2 of 15 people invited and at that point literally nobody had confirmed going and my wife felt really bad for them and we had no plans that night anyway and when there's only 15 people invited it's hard to ghost someone, it's not like when there's 50 people invited and nobody notices you didn't respond

    so we did it to be... polite?

    and it wasn't god awful, they were nice people and they had very cute pet birds, i just find the dude irritating and kind of a stereotype dingus and it was sad to see how much effort they put into it for like, only two guests who were there for like i think two or three hours?

  • descdesc Goretexing to death Registered User regular
    okay instead of being 100% a potato i have given my car a very thorough wash and dry

    now I can be a mount&blade potato in good conscience

  • AiouaAioua Ora Occidens Ora OptimaRegistered User regular
    Mazzyx wrote: »
    Aioua wrote: »
    the downfall to swag bags came a bit earlier than that, though

    had a year where there was so much shit in the bags, with weird shapes, that it was a nightmare getting them stuffed

    so after that things had to meet certain dimensions, like if you wanted a shirt in there it'd need to be pre-folded and bagged etc

    The only swag I miss are the magic decks. It was nice just having some pre-built ones to play folks with while waiting for things.

    yeah wizards used to be pretty solid in handing those out and then they just... stopped

    life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
    fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
    that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
    bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
  • Styrofoam SammichStyrofoam Sammich WANT. normal (not weird)Registered User regular
    spool32 wrote: »
    in fact, I think PAX East 2015 was a kind of turning point year for PAX just in general.

    How so

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  • descdesc Goretexing to death Registered User regular
    if you're not even going to bribe me with a sack of tchotchkes while I stand in line to play your beta test for ten minutes then you're not even trying to win my heart

  • NecoNeco Worthless Garbage Registered User regular
    Current events I think are having a huge effect on me, What with the nightmares and the feeling of impending doom, moresi than normal I mean.

  • Evil MultifariousEvil Multifarious Registered User regular
    i am reasonably confident that a majority of Canadians believe that police have to read them their rights

    in fact Canadians don't even have a right to counsel during police interrogations, I believe, which seems problematic

  • AbdhyiusAbdhyius Registered User regular
    Krathoon wrote: »
    I get the impression "We Happy Few" is in development hell.

    development hell is more of a pre-production/getting passed around before development ever starts in earnest anywhere kind of thing

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  • PonyPony Registered User regular
    Canadian gun law is byzantine as fuck

  • AbdhyiusAbdhyius Registered User regular
    Eddy wrote: »
    I liked the little bit of We Happy Few that I saw, although the gameplay didn't look particularly interesting

    Like someone else said, a neat little setting

    I've watched it being played by people and that's the feedback

    it needs more

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  • BeNarwhalBeNarwhal The Work Left Unfinished Registered User regular
    Shivahn wrote: »
    I have been weirdly preoccupied with the fact that we are all going to die over the last few weeks. It is not pleasant.

    Only eventually, is the good news.

    I mean, maybe tomorrow, that's always a possibility.

    But more likely, you've got at least another lifetime to live, minimum!

    And then probably a perpetual void of nothingness but it's best not to think about it.

  • Styrofoam SammichStyrofoam Sammich WANT. normal (not weird)Registered User regular
    desc wrote: »
    if you're not even going to bribe me with a sack of tchotchkes while I stand in line to play your beta test for ten minutes then you're not even trying to win my heart

    This year at Prime you had to walk a couple blocks away to get them and unless you tried to figure out where they were being given out you'd never know.

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  • spool32spool32 Contrary Library Registered User regular
    Pony wrote: »
    matt it sounds like the main problem here was deciding to go to that party

    eh, it wasn't the worst

    but I do genuinely like the wife in that couple, she's a former co-worker and was the person I am actually friends with. Her husband I don't really care for and tbh I hadn't even met face to face before the party, dude's just sorta talked at me before on Facebook previously.

    they're not bad people, they're just dorks and he's just a particularly irritating brand of dork who is aggressively Gen X in his sensibilities about the whole subject and it just gets tiresome to deal with

    we went because we were 2 of 15 people invited and at that point literally nobody had confirmed going and my wife felt really bad for them and we had no plans that night anyway and when there's only 15 people invited it's hard to ghost someone, it's not like when there's 50 people invited and nobody notices you didn't respond

    so we did it to be... polite?

    and it wasn't god awful, they were nice people and they had very cute pet birds, i just find the dude irritating and kind of a stereotype dingus and it was sad to see how much effort they put into it for like, only two guests who were there for like i think two or three hours?

    I hope things were cool with them after you left and it didn't like, descend into a nasty marital spat.

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