I think an overworld that is just a place where you grind monotonous, tedious, non-challenging, unfailable activities to make slow progress is... it's worse than nothing. It's actively negative and encourages compulsive, time-wasting behaviour.
Progress Quest was pretty accurate to that era of MMOs.
it's still true of many single-player and MMOish games like Destiny 2.
Streaming makes me too self conscious but also if I ever tried it again I dunno what I would actually play on it that would be entertaining to watch
Is there a niche for bad gaming? Not saying you are bad. This just reminded me to ask y’all. Like I’m gonna stream DS3 where I die and don’t progress for hours.
I've considered that, but I don't know that people would actually find it entertaining for me to like, try the same DS3 area for an hour and die to the same couple of non-boss enemies over and over again? Seems like it would be frustrating rather than fun.
I think I'd be best off streaming league; when my husband's around, I usually keep up a running commentary when I play and call it 'streaming', and he thinks it's pretty entertaining, but also he is pretty biased so it's not at all clear if it would be generally interesting.
again, this is literally how i made affiliate
huh, interesting. I am surprised people like that.
To me DS3 is an immersive and atmospheric game that I wouldn't want to ruin by including other people in my playing experience, so I probably wouldn't stream it, were I to stream. I also wouldn't want other people to see how bad I was.
See, it's the opposite for me. Dark Souls and Subnautica are both games I would never play if I weren't streaming them. In Dark Souls I get really frustrated, and if I don't have to cool myself off a little bit because people are watching, it just feeds on itself and I'd never beat anything. Similarly, I'd never force myself into the deep waters in Subnautica if people weren't watching me.
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What's up with the premise for Saving Private Ryan? If a soldier's brothers died would they really (painstakingly) remove that soldier from service so that not every brother died?
I have to imagine that it happened to a lot of families in the war.
What's up with the premise for Saving Private Ryan? If a soldier's brothers died would they really (painstakingly) remove that soldier from service so that not every brother died?
I have to imagine that it happened to a lot of families in the war.
The rescue part was written up, but I would imagine they'd do within reason what was necessary, since killing a families entire lineage would've been bad press in an era of War Bonds.
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Tie Fighter gave me nightmares from when the antagonist tries to hyperspace away in a cloaked corvette.
The screaaammmm
Making someone self-conscious about laughing is one of the cruelest things you can do to them, imo, and I always try to shut it down hard when I see it.
I was awarded the "Best Laugh" award at my High School graduation awards. I hated getting that award.
I got the same award as a quasi-joke from my previous job. I was... better with it.
Seriously, when you have a laugh that you can hear all the way across the building, you either live with it or hate yourself. I've done both, don't recommend.
(Recently someone said my laugh is comparable to Neil Degrasse Tyson.)
I got an award for "Best Attitude and Smile" during my last summer of sailing lessons.
Which pissed me off, because I had the shittiest summer of them riding my ass because they were convinced I was some sort of sailing savant and they just kept pushing me harder and harder.
And yeah I'd go out there and sail the fuck out of that Laser like few ever had and I'd do everything they wanted me to do better than they wanted me to do it, but I know for damn certain I wasn't smiling.
So I'm pretty sure they gave me that award ironically and it bothers me to this day. >_>
Lasers are so fucking fun though.
I may be way too fat to be on one now though.
Our club had Optimists (of course), Lasers, and CL 16s. Optis were for the young kids to practice up mostly, the CLs were for the older students to help instruct some of the younger students, but when you got to the point where you could just go out on a Laser and you had no responsibilities except going as fast as possible ...
It was pretty darn sweet.
I missed Opti's entirely. I joined the club in its second year and all we had were a fleet of haulers and a couple Blue Jays that we rotated into. The next year we added another Jay and a Sunfish and we split off the older/returning kids and the real youngins into the haulers. The year after that they bought a bunch of Optimists for the little kids and switched us over to the lasers after someone donated a couple of them.
Flipping a Blue Jay was hysterical until you had to flip it back over and bail it out.
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What's up with the premise for Saving Private Ryan? If a soldier's brothers died would they really (painstakingly) remove that soldier from service so that not every brother died?
I have to imagine that it happened to a lot of families in the war.
yes, this is why only children are not allowed to serve in the army at all
Streaming makes me too self conscious but also if I ever tried it again I dunno what I would actually play on it that would be entertaining to watch
Is there a niche for bad gaming? Not saying you are bad. This just reminded me to ask y’all. Like I’m gonna stream DS3 where I die and don’t progress for hours.
I've considered that, but I don't know that people would actually find it entertaining for me to like, try the same DS3 area for an hour and die to the same couple of non-boss enemies over and over again? Seems like it would be frustrating rather than fun.
I think I'd be best off streaming league; when my husband's around, I usually keep up a running commentary when I play and call it 'streaming', and he thinks it's pretty entertaining, but also he is pretty biased so it's not at all clear if it would be generally interesting.
again, this is literally how i made affiliate
huh, interesting. I am surprised people like that.
To me DS3 is an immersive and atmospheric game that I wouldn't want to ruin by including other people in my playing experience, so I probably wouldn't stream it, were I to stream. I also wouldn't want other people to see how bad I was.
See, it's the opposite for me. Dark Souls and Subnautica are both games I would never play if I weren't streaming them. In Dark Souls I get really frustrated, and if I don't have to cool myself off a little bit because people are watching, it just feeds on itself and I'd never beat anything. Similarly, I'd never force myself into the deep waters in Subnautica if people weren't watching me.
Hmm, I wonder how I would cope with that. It seems fun to stream--interacting with people via text is nice, and having viewers seems narcissistically satisfying. But videogames are what I do for stress relief and solitary recharging time; if I turned that into an obligation in any way, I wonder if I would be overall unhappier, even though I'd be getting the additional fun/social element from streaming. Might be worth trying at some point to see how it feels.
I loved Super Star Wars. I don't remember it being that hard. I know it's considered hard. I'd probably think it was hard now, but back in the day I don't recall that being the case.
It had its parts that were hard, but the hard star wars game was freaking nintendo star wars. That shit was hard.
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
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mara jade needs to make a cameo in one of the new star wars movies. no name given. you just see a teenage redhead pick up a lightsaber or something thats laying around and all the nerds are like OH SHHITTTTT but everyone else doesnt realize it has any significance what so ever
Bless your heart.
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Streaming makes me too self conscious but also if I ever tried it again I dunno what I would actually play on it that would be entertaining to watch
Is there a niche for bad gaming? Not saying you are bad. This just reminded me to ask y’all. Like I’m gonna stream DS3 where I die and don’t progress for hours.
I've considered that, but I don't know that people would actually find it entertaining for me to like, try the same DS3 area for an hour and die to the same couple of non-boss enemies over and over again? Seems like it would be frustrating rather than fun.
I think I'd be best off streaming league; when my husband's around, I usually keep up a running commentary when I play and call it 'streaming', and he thinks it's pretty entertaining, but also he is pretty biased so it's not at all clear if it would be generally interesting.
again, this is literally how i made affiliate
huh, interesting. I am surprised people like that.
To me DS3 is an immersive and atmospheric game that I wouldn't want to ruin by including other people in my playing experience, so I probably wouldn't stream it, were I to stream. I also wouldn't want other people to see how bad I was.
See, it's the opposite for me. Dark Souls and Subnautica are both games I would never play if I weren't streaming them. In Dark Souls I get really frustrated, and if I don't have to cool myself off a little bit because people are watching, it just feeds on itself and I'd never beat anything. Similarly, I'd never force myself into the deep waters in Subnautica if people weren't watching me.
Still waiting.
Zing, got 'em.
"deep" is all relative, Kamiro
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What's up with the premise for Saving Private Ryan? If a soldier's brothers died would they really (painstakingly) remove that soldier from service so that not every brother died?
I have to imagine that it happened to a lot of families in the war.
yes, this is why only children are not allowed to serve in the army at all
mara jade needs to make a cameo in one of the new star wars movies. no name given. you just see a teenage redhead pick up a lightsaber or something thats laying around and all the nerds are like OH SHHITTTTT but everyone else doesnt realize it has any significance what so ever
I really wanted someone in Rogue One to be named Kyle or Katarn but they didn't do that either.
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mara jade needs to make a cameo in one of the new star wars movies. no name given. you just see a teenage redhead pick up a lightsaber or something thats laying around and all the nerds are like OH SHHITTTTT but everyone else doesnt realize it has any significance what so ever
I loved Super Star Wars. I don't remember it being that hard. I know it's considered hard. I'd probably think it was hard now, but back in the day I don't recall that being the case.
Super ROTJ is the one that has a battletoads-esc level at the end (flying out of the exploding death star) that is waaay too long and requires the player to just memorize everything
I did that one time completely blind, and then on subsequent playthroughs could not get it done again.
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
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oh shit that reminds me
i was a little drunk the other day and dude brings in a briefcase. and it has a SNES classic and TV built into it
and plugs it in
and he let me play DKC
and i started crying
oh my god i am so happy
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Streaming makes me too self conscious but also if I ever tried it again I dunno what I would actually play on it that would be entertaining to watch
Is there a niche for bad gaming? Not saying you are bad. This just reminded me to ask y’all. Like I’m gonna stream DS3 where I die and don’t progress for hours.
I've considered that, but I don't know that people would actually find it entertaining for me to like, try the same DS3 area for an hour and die to the same couple of non-boss enemies over and over again? Seems like it would be frustrating rather than fun.
I think I'd be best off streaming league; when my husband's around, I usually keep up a running commentary when I play and call it 'streaming', and he thinks it's pretty entertaining, but also he is pretty biased so it's not at all clear if it would be generally interesting.
again, this is literally how i made affiliate
huh, interesting. I am surprised people like that.
To me DS3 is an immersive and atmospheric game that I wouldn't want to ruin by including other people in my playing experience, so I probably wouldn't stream it, were I to stream. I also wouldn't want other people to see how bad I was.
See, it's the opposite for me. Dark Souls and Subnautica are both games I would never play if I weren't streaming them. In Dark Souls I get really frustrated, and if I don't have to cool myself off a little bit because people are watching, it just feeds on itself and I'd never beat anything. Similarly, I'd never force myself into the deep waters in Subnautica if people weren't watching me.
Hmm, I wonder how I would cope with that. It seems fun to stream--interacting with people via text is nice, and having viewers seems narcissistically satisfying. But videogames are what I do for stress relief and solitary recharging time; if I turned that into an obligation in any way, I wonder if I would be overall unhappier, even though I'd be getting the additional fun/social element from streaming. Might be worth trying at some point to see how it feels.
I still play some videogames for that, they're just not games I stream.
I view my streaming as more like socializing time I guess? Like I'd put it in the same category as going out with friends or having a board game night or something.
mara jade needs to make a cameo in one of the new star wars movies. no name given. you just see a teenage redhead pick up a lightsaber or something thats laying around and all the nerds are like OH SHHITTTTT but everyone else doesnt realize it has any significance what so ever
let the eu die
kill it if you have to
That's the dark side talking. Save what's still worthwhile!
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and I was telling him all about the neat little tricks i discovered as a kid like if you place a banana on super mario kart in a certain spot it would break the AI of whoever hit it.
mara jade needs to make a cameo in one of the new star wars movies. no name given. you just see a teenage redhead pick up a lightsaber or something thats laying around and all the nerds are like OH SHHITTTTT but everyone else doesnt realize it has any significance what so ever
let the eu die
kill it if you have to
everything I need to know about the EU
"Luuke Skywalker" (sic)
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
mara jade needs to make a cameo in one of the new star wars movies. no name given. you just see a teenage redhead pick up a lightsaber or something thats laying around and all the nerds are like OH SHHITTTTT but everyone else doesnt realize it has any significance what so ever
let the eu die
kill it if you have to
you know theres a white board at Disney somewhere thats like
2025: Yuuzan Vong????
mara jade needs to make a cameo in one of the new star wars movies. no name given. you just see a teenage redhead pick up a lightsaber or something thats laying around and all the nerds are like OH SHHITTTTT but everyone else doesnt realize it has any significance what so ever
let the eu die
kill it if you have to
That's the dark side talking. Save what's still worthwhile!
mara is not worthwhile...
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
What's up with the premise for Saving Private Ryan? If a soldier's brothers died would they really (painstakingly) remove that soldier from service so that not every brother died?
I have to imagine that it happened to a lot of families in the war.
yes, this is why only children are not allowed to serve in the army at all
Wait seriously?
yup, it's in the constitution
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spiderman did a nod to miles morales
star wars should do a nod to mara jade, star wars waifu #1
Bless your heart.
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I was always very proud of having the full Emperor's Hand tattoo in TIE fighter. That shit was tough.
mara jade needs to make a cameo in one of the new star wars movies. no name given. you just see a teenage redhead pick up a lightsaber or something thats laying around and all the nerds are like OH SHHITTTTT but everyone else doesnt realize it has any significance what so ever
let the eu die
kill it if you have to
you know theres a white board at Disney somewhere thats like
2025: Yuuzan Vong????
mara jade needs to make a cameo in one of the new star wars movies. no name given. you just see a teenage redhead pick up a lightsaber or something thats laying around and all the nerds are like OH SHHITTTTT but everyone else doesnt realize it has any significance what so ever
let the eu die
kill it if you have to
you know theres a white board at Disney somewhere thats like
2025: Yuuzan Vong????
mara jade needs to make a cameo in one of the new star wars movies. no name given. you just see a teenage redhead pick up a lightsaber or something thats laying around and all the nerds are like OH SHHITTTTT but everyone else doesnt realize it has any significance what so ever
let the eu die
kill it if you have to
That's the dark side talking. Save what's still worthwhile!
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I'm glad Disney came around on the EU, calling it "Star Wars Legends" now. Hypothetically that means people can keep iterating on it as an alternate SW setting to the movies.
Which means there's still hope for a Dark Forces remake.
What's up with the premise for Saving Private Ryan? If a soldier's brothers died would they really (painstakingly) remove that soldier from service so that not every brother died?
I have to imagine that it happened to a lot of families in the war.
yes, this is why only children are not allowed to serve in the army at all
Wait seriously?
yup, it's in the constitution
EM are you lying
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it's still true of many single-player and MMOish games like Destiny 2.
See, it's the opposite for me. Dark Souls and Subnautica are both games I would never play if I weren't streaming them. In Dark Souls I get really frustrated, and if I don't have to cool myself off a little bit because people are watching, it just feeds on itself and I'd never beat anything. Similarly, I'd never force myself into the deep waters in Subnautica if people weren't watching me.
it was that all three of his brothers had died
I wouldn't say super but at least comparatively, that's what I remember
The rescue part was written up, but I would imagine they'd do within reason what was necessary, since killing a families entire lineage would've been bad press in an era of War Bonds.
The screaaammmm
SO COOL
I missed Opti's entirely. I joined the club in its second year and all we had were a fleet of haulers and a couple Blue Jays that we rotated into. The next year we added another Jay and a Sunfish and we split off the older/returning kids and the real youngins into the haulers. The year after that they bought a bunch of Optimists for the little kids and switched us over to the lasers after someone donated a couple of them.
Flipping a Blue Jay was hysterical until you had to flip it back over and bail it out.
Come Overwatch with meeeee
yes, this is why only children are not allowed to serve in the army at all
Hmm, I wonder how I would cope with that. It seems fun to stream--interacting with people via text is nice, and having viewers seems narcissistically satisfying. But videogames are what I do for stress relief and solitary recharging time; if I turned that into an obligation in any way, I wonder if I would be overall unhappier, even though I'd be getting the additional fun/social element from streaming. Might be worth trying at some point to see how it feels.
It had its parts that were hard, but the hard star wars game was freaking nintendo star wars. That shit was hard.
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"deep" is all relative, Kamiro
Wait seriously?
I really wanted someone in Rogue One to be named Kyle or Katarn but they didn't do that either.
let the eu die
kill it if you have to
I did that one time completely blind, and then on subsequent playthroughs could not get it done again.
pleasepaypreacher.net
i was a little drunk the other day and dude brings in a briefcase. and it has a SNES classic and TV built into it
and plugs it in
and he let me play DKC
and i started crying
oh my god i am so happy
I still play some videogames for that, they're just not games I stream.
I view my streaming as more like socializing time I guess? Like I'd put it in the same category as going out with friends or having a board game night or something.
That's the dark side talking. Save what's still worthwhile!
everything I need to know about the EU
"Luuke Skywalker" (sic)
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
2025: Yuuzan Vong????
mara is not worthwhile...
pleasepaypreacher.net
The only exception is when I can't beat his goddamn Guile in Street Fighter.
Although I think I have found SFV to be much less frustrating than SFIV for whatever reason.
yup, it's in the constitution
star wars should do a nod to mara jade, star wars waifu #1
Please no
*twists and curls into a ball*
You're not worthwhile!
we can crossplay in SFV also! i have started getting back into it
my CFN is tarviche
I loved the EU as a kid..it's over..let it RIP in pepperoni
Which means there's still hope for a Dark Forces remake.
EM are you lying
I think i was already nearing college when that came out.
I loved the old Tales of [Whatever] books and the han solo trilogy and the thrawn and such