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Gumbel2Gumbel posted:oops, I meant to get the explosion in there
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Please tell me that spaceship gif is from Star Citizen. It would only be so fitting.
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dialhforhero posted:Please tell me that spaceship gif is from Star Citizen. It would only be so fitting. Click through the quote, it is.
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Can someone explain to me the thread title? Which game made you deaf when you turned invisible? I'm guessing an old rogue like, but it could easily be Skyrim.
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Jun 20, 2017 17:52
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Space Station 13. It makes perfect sense. You see, when characters turned invisible, sound waves couldn't see them. 
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Jun 20, 2017 17:55
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I remember Knights of the Old Republic (was it 1 or 2?) had a similar bug. In one of the cutscenes, one of the characters would actually make a perception check before delivering their line. If you were stealthed when you entered the cutscene, they would just stand there, and the cutscene wouldn't proceed.
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Leavemywife posted:Can someone explain to me the thread title? Which game made you deaf when you turned invisible? I'm guessing an old rogue like, but it could easily be Skyrim. It was Space Station 13, if you were invisible sound couldnt find you
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FredMSloniker posted:I remember Knights of the Old Republic (was it 1 or 2?) had a similar bug. In one of the cutscenes, one of the characters would actually make a perception check before delivering their line. If you were stealthed when you entered the cutscene, they would just stand there, and the cutscene wouldn't proceed. Probably 2 - the absurd release schedule made the first release a steaming pile of buggy problems. I remember getting to the Jedi retreat on Telos IV, killing the assassin droids, going inside and then having the cutscene half-register so that it stops partway through with no dialogue triggering. This meant that characters were stuck in their cutscene positions and could run around a bit and look at them, but nothing happened. Had to reload and do about half an hour worth of game just to try again and hope it didn't happen again.
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TheMaestroso posted:Probably 2 - the absurd release schedule made the first release a steaming pile of buggy problems. I remember getting to the Jedi retreat on Telos IV, killing the assassin droids, going inside and then having the cutscene half-register so that it stops partway through with no dialogue triggering. This meant that characters were stuck in their cutscene positions and could run around a bit and look at them, but nothing happened. Had to reload and do about half an hour worth of game just to try again and hope it didn't happen again. I actually think it's in the first KotOR. There is essentially a jailbreak sequence in which you pick a single character to free some others. I vaguely remember some sort of recommendation to never pick party members that could use stealth for that one. Edit: It seems so. quote:If your character is cloaked when you finish this section, you will probably get the Mierenneuker has a new favorite as of 18:28 on Jun 20, 2017 |
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Jun 20, 2017 18:23
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Doc Hawkins posted:Space Station 13. To put this a bit further, there is a hilarious twitter account that just posts funny entries from changelogs: https://twitter.com/TheStrangeLog
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Mierenneuker posted:I actually think it's in the first KotOR. There is essentially a jailbreak sequence in which you pick a single character to free some others. I vaguely remember some sort of recommendation to never pick party members that could use stealth for that one. Missed that bug, I guess!
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Jun 20, 2017 18:42
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I feel like I should have known it was SS13.
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Jun 20, 2017 19:01
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Leavemywife posted:I feel like I should have known it was SS13. Incredibly esoteric simulation bugs seem to usually belong to SS13, Dwarf Fortress, or the Sims. Did the Grim Reaper get distracted from his job panicking because a baby was about to be born, leading to unintentional immortality? Sims. Did skin layers accidentally generate underneath other flesh leading to horrible, bleeding, The Visible Man monstrosities? Dwarf Fortress. Did someone divide the water in a beaker down to molecular levels, allowing them to superheat it into a plasmatic bomb? Space Station 13.
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Leavemywife posted:I feel like I should have known it was SS13. You're talking about a game where at one point you could make a fire from cheese, which would naturally make cheese smoke which would coat any tile it touched in cheese, that after the fire got hot enough, would then catch on fire, and make more cheese smoke. Which would coat more tiles in cheese to burn. Or the thermal engine that you can power with the equivalent of single gas molecules that fucks the rounding so bad that the engine reports a temperature about six quntillion times hotter than the theoretical absolute hottest anything (in reality) can get. And the engine gets grumpy, occasionally so you have to feed it people and weed.
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Can you power the engine with cheese?
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You could probably power them with potato chips and water, since those apparently cause explosions.
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It would probably remain grumpy if you fed it cheese. The stories of SS13 are numerous and hilarious. Lots of things remain as features due to how things interact with one another (such as being sent into the shadow realm if you're in a closet that someone has eaten when they use a mutation called Mater Eater which lets you eat just about anything, including your own limbs, heart, and the UI element for grabbing things) TopHatGenius has a new favorite as of 21:20 on Jun 20, 2017 |
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Jun 20, 2017 21:18
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Dwarf Fortress has progressed to having good AI bugs as well, such as: https://twitter.com/TheStrangeLog/status/859461883258122240 No idea what this one's from, though. https://twitter.com/TheStrangeLog/status/856924725284569088
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Jun 20, 2017 21:18
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Pretty sure that one is Crusader Kings II.
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Pretty good summary of any change log. Or pretty much everything else in the world. https://twitter.com/TheStrangeLog/status/855105738154311680
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cage-free egghead posted:To put this a bit further, there is a hilarious twitter account that just posts funny entries from changelogs: This is a pro click. https://twitter.com/TheStrangeLog/status/743126139913199617
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Yeah the strange log is amazing.
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https://twitter.com/TheStrangeLog/status/856924725284569088 I love how easy it is to recognise CK2 logs.
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re: space station 13, there is one specific player that, when fed to the engine, reduces engine grump massively
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Robhol posted:Pretty sure that one is Crusader Kings II. Broken Cog posted:I love how easy it is to recognise CK2 logs. Why are there immortal people in Crusader Kings 2?
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Doc Hawkins posted:Why are there immortal people in Crusader Kings 2? part of a quest chain, not much weirder than the son of satan or aztec invasions
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Robindaybird posted:part of a quest chain, not much weirder than the son of satan or aztec invasions Wait, can your leader become immortal? Because that eliminates the main way you can lose in that game (unless you gently caress up enough to both not have a successor and get assassinated, I guess).
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Double Punctuation posted:Wait, can your leader become immortal? Because that eliminates the main way you can lose in that game (unless you gently caress up enough to both not have a successor and get assassinated, I guess). It's limited immortality, as they can still die from executed or from events, but disease and old age won't touch them
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Robindaybird posted:It's limited immortality, as they can still die from executed or from events, but disease and old age won't touch them Disease can kill them, it's just very hard because it gives them a high invisible health score. And frankly, it's mostly the treatments that do it. At some point, your immortal ruler is just like a torso and head with no eyes or balls or limbs and a disfigured face because they keep having cancerous bits cut off. And if they last long enough, people get suspicious of them, and maybe another immortal will show up and go "gently caress off, you're being too obvious" and kill them and you're too maimed to win. ...that's how it went for me anyway. Except the second time where I got assassinated by my heir who I guess was just done with waiting. Oh, and about the loving thing, there was a thing where an event will show up if you are old and have a hot young spouse and you bang vigorously and it has a chance to kill you. It didn't check for immortality, and immortality freezes you at the age you're at when you obtain it, so it shouldn't hurt you if you become immortal fairly young. Also, it gets more likely the older you get. So being an old immortal made it inevitable that you would gently caress to death. Midnight Voyager has a new favorite as of 03:04 on Jun 21, 2017 |
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Double Punctuation posted:You could probably power them with potato chips and water, since those apparently cause explosions.
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Zereth posted:Did anybody ever figure out how that one worked? Turns out it was a misdirection, if I'm remembering rightly. For a while people thought it was sodium from the chips reacting with water (and that actually probably is a thing you can do, as it's entirely possible to turn potassium from bananas into explosives using water), but the incident in question was the glitch I mentioned above, which is also used for the atomic engine hellburn DelphiAegis mentioned. Basically, you'd keep splitting the contents of a beaker until you had an infinitely small amount of water, and then heat that up. Some combination of rounding errors, underflow errors, or misapplied physics meant that you were now the proud owner of a beaker of concentrated Hell several times hotter than the core of the sun, and as soon as it was let OUT of the beaker and allowed to interact with the world physics all hell would break loose. Fun thing: food containing reagents was incrementally added. I seem to recall the banana bombs were originally discovered on accident when potassium was added to bananas, causing anyone who ate a banana and drank some water to mysteriously explode.
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Shady Amish Terror posted:Fun thing: food containing reagents was incrementally added. I seem to recall the banana bombs were originally discovered on accident when potassium was added to bananas, causing anyone who ate a banana and drank some water to mysteriously explode. This became exponentially crazier when someone implemented the ability for Botany to splice plants together and grow hybrid fruits. Cue some lunatic growing watermelony bananapples that looked like ordinary apples, but instantly blew all your loving limbs off the microsecond you took a bite. There was also a guy who somehow spliced sugar cane or something with peanuts and then managed to get their potency so high that eating a single peanut immediately replaced all of your blood with pure sugar and put you in a literally permanent diabetic coma, like a wretched parody of Merlin's enchanted sleep. After a certain point, a lot of SS13's emergent mechanics are just the result of the admins implementing things, watching the station spiral into ruin, and then patching the handful of unacceptably gamebreaking bugs before slapping a FEATURE sticker over the remaining bugs and loving off to get drunk. Angry Diplomat has a new favorite as of 06:30 on Jun 21, 2017 |
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Angry Diplomat posted:After a certain point, a lot of SS13's emergent mechanics are just the result of the admins implementing things, watching the station spiral into ruin, and then patching the handful of unacceptably gamebreaking bugs before slapping a FEATURE sticker over the remaining bugs and loving off to get drunk. If only all games could have such a system and pedigree.
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As I understand it, that is actually how Goat Simulator was made: every "bug" or "glitch" with the least comedic potential was named a feature, frequently leading to something being added to the game-world so the player could trigger it more easily or have a quest to unlock it.
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Anyone have a link to that SS13 quote where one of the mods (IIRC) calls out everyone on being terrorists who make explosives from salt and water?
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That was PopeCrunch:quote:I couldn't figure out how you goatfuckers STILL managed to be terrorists with potato chips and water. YOU FOUND A WAY. I had two coders on IRC combing through reactions trying to figure out exactly how you motherless fucks were managing to make potato chips and water into explosives, and they had no loving idea. It shouldn't have been possible. It couldn't have been possible. I fear for the safety of the world if the people who managed to find a way to do murders with mother loving potato chips and goddamned water ever get recruited by a real world terrorist organization. The headlines the next day will read something like WE'RE ALL hosed: SOME NERD KILLS 3/4 OF THE WORLD'S POPULATION WITH A USED BANDAID AND THE SQUEAKER FROM A DOG TOY. THIS SECURITY PHOTO SHOWS THE SUSPECT PURCHASING A STICK OF GUM. DOES HE WANT FRESH BREATH, OR IS HE FINISHING THE JOB? OUR ONLY CONSOLATION IS THAT WE WILL PROBABLY NEVER SEE IT COMING. FILM AT 11 IF WE'RE LUCKY. OR UNLUCKY. gently caress IT. WHATEVER. -(AP) The whole sordid affair is summarized here Angry Diplomat has a new favorite as of 13:09 on Jun 21, 2017 |
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Fathis Munk posted:Yeah the strange log is amazing. https://twitter.com/TheStrangeLog/status/875055335748366337 
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Angry Diplomat posted:That was PopeCrunch: Aw yiss that's the good stuff right there.
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