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Jun 19, 2019 21:57
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Jagged Alliance 2 until you get proper guns is dismal. (Yet I've played through it like five times because there really aren't many alternatives.)
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Jun 19, 2019 22:31
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food court bailiff posted:i always thought they were super cool but i really only played 4 and origins where they're pretty unobtrusive if you don't like them Trap sprung those scenes suck
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Jun 19, 2019 22:47
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QuarkJets posted:It teaches you to use more grenades and explosives in general, a good and valuable lesson Yeah, I was going to say, "doesn't the grenade launcher that you get about then chump them?" The plasma rifle also cut through the shield like butter if memory serves.
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Jun 19, 2019 22:47
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Yeah I was really too used to having to conserve grenades thanks to other, worse games
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Jun 20, 2019 07:56
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QuarkJets posted:Huh? Is yuppie an old person word now? I still hear it from time to time but admittedly not from teenagers or whatever They don't exist anymore, as much as they ever did.
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Jun 20, 2019 08:02
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QuarkJets posted:Huh? Is yuppie an old person word now? I still hear it from time to time but admittedly not from teenagers or whatever It was the 1980s term for young (white) people who were working professional jobs in *gasp* cities. Its been 40 years, and now the term is basically meaningless because most jobs are in the cities and thats where young and old people live
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Jun 20, 2019 08:09
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=By0AOWGE89U
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Jun 20, 2019 08:21
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Barudak posted:It was the 1980s term for young (white) people who were working professional jobs in *gasp* cities. Oh, was it? That's interesting, I didn't know that The way I've heard the word "yuppy" used in recent years is in reference to people who are vaguely narcissistic upper-middle class young adults, which made sense in the context of what the other poster wrote (e.g. pokemon games are for children, whereas Pokemon Go and Detective Pikachu are for young adults with money to burn and a lot of nostalgia). Other yuppy things: geocaching, waiting in line overnight for the next iphone, crossfit, paleo diets (and before that, atkins), buying designer clothing for a toddler, etc.
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Jun 20, 2019 09:04
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Yuppie isn't a word I'd expect the latest generation to use, but the word fits and I use it. What word works better? "Hipster?"
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Jun 20, 2019 09:11
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Vakal posted:Yeah, that sounds rough, but it also kind of makes me want a fantasy version of Jagged Alliance 1/2 where you have to manage a team of Give Battle Brothers a look if you haven't already.
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Jun 20, 2019 10:25
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mind the walrus posted:Yuppie isn't a word I'd expect the latest generation to use, but the word fits and I use it. What word works better? "Hipster?" 'Hipster' turned out to basically be 'Obnoxious young person with money', so pretty much. ('obnoxious' is probably redundant there) Before it turned out they were a loud minority and most young people are broke and pissed.
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Jun 20, 2019 10:34
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Jerry Cotton posted:Opinion which is also fact: emulation is always poo poo and people who go on about emulation are doodieheads. This is old, but playing BotW on emulation is really incredible once you figure out the details of making it run. The fact that I can take that game and make it 4k at 60 fps is crazy.
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Jun 20, 2019 10:42
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a new study bible! posted:This is old, but playing BotW on emulation is really incredible once you figure out the details of making it run. The fact that I can take that game and make it 4k at 60 fps is crazy. J will never trust a person who owns a 4K VDU
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Jun 20, 2019 13:36
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Barudak posted:It was the 1980s term for young (white) people who were working professional jobs in *gasp* cities. Yuppy is based off the acronym for Young Urban Professional.
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Jun 20, 2019 15:07
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ultrafilter posted:Yuppy is based off the acronym for Young Urban Professional. That don't seem too bad.
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Jun 20, 2019 15:28
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Slay the Spire's Act IV boss warps the rest of the game and over-rewards the sort of combo-intensive play that's memetic but not engaging or reasonably likely to assemble.
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Jun 20, 2019 19:40
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ZorajitZorajit posted:Slay the Spire's Act IV boss warps the rest of the game and over-rewards the sort of combo-intensive play that's memetic but not engaging or reasonably likely to assemble. 
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Jun 20, 2019 19:48
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Ghost Leviathan posted:'Hipster' turned out to basically be 'Obnoxious young person with money', so pretty much. ('obnoxious' is probably redundant there) Before it turned out they were a loud minority and most young people are broke and pissed. hipsters and yuppies are opposite versions of "obnoxious young person with money"; yuppies take pride in consuming things that they see as popular (craft beer, designer-label yoga pants, the latest iPhone), whereas hipsters imagine that they're "ironically" consuming things that they see as unpopular (PBR, skinny jeans with thick-rimmed glasses, a flip phone or maybe even a beeper)
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Jun 20, 2019 20:49
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QuarkJets posted:yuppies (craft beer, the latest iPhone), whereas hipsters (PBR, a flip phone)  
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Jun 20, 2019 21:32
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drat back when i used a flip phone i did it because it was like $50 and smartphones were still just ipods that could dial out
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Jun 20, 2019 21:43
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The White Dragon posted:drat back when i used a flip phone i did it because it was like $50 and smartphones were still just ipods that could dial out My mom's scared of change and they had to order some old piece of poo poo flip phone in for her special haha
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Jun 20, 2019 21:59
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pooch516 posted:I don't remember them feeling that out of place/annoying, but I basically spent my teenage years playing Halo and those guys are definitely inspired by the Jackals there (right down to the hole in the shield leaves their arm and head exposed for no reason). 
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Jun 20, 2019 22:10
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food court bailiff posted:i always thought they were super cool but i really only played 4 and origins where they're pretty unobtrusive if you don't like them 4 also had the best ones of the bunch. It was a neat premise and could be really creepy at times.
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Jun 21, 2019 01:40
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SilvergunSuperman posted:My mom's scared of change and they had to order some old piece of poo poo flip phone in for her special haha Yeah old poor Boomers all have flip phones and they would always be like "bet you don't see these anymore huh?"
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Jun 21, 2019 01:51
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I'm in my thirties and was the kid who told their parents after growing up that "I'm not doing your drat tech support anymore!". I don't have a smartphone, and won't make a fuss about it, but almost guaranteed someone in the pub (etc) will have their mind blown that people still use bricks. Tangent: I was in an discussion a few years ago (online) about welfare and reasonable standards of living; and I was the only one who thought that smartphones where NOT part of a staple of goods, such as microwaves and fridges and such, that welfare should aim to bring families up to. That was years ago, and I'm sure that view is even more outspoken nowadays. Ontopic: The very best games ever made are always labours of love, or for larger projects, are being driven by a single person with a clear vision. I see SO MANY awesome ideas for indie games now, and after you buy & complete the game you realize that the devs kinda just set their sights lower than the moon, reached their goals, released, got paid, then hosed off leaving a mostly-done game collecting dust on Steam. Think Everspace. Then there's stuff like Cogmind where the game was 'done' ages ago, but the dev loves his baby project too much to call it quits and keeps adding new poo poo well above the call of duty. Even if you don't care about those two particular titles, I'm sure everyone's come across the same in their own guilty pleasure of a subgenre.
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Jun 21, 2019 02:32
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QuarkJets posted:hipsters and yuppies are opposite versions of "obnoxious young person with money"; yuppies take pride in consuming things that they see as popular (craft beer, designer-label yoga pants, the latest iPhone), whereas hipsters imagine that they're "ironically" consuming things that they see as unpopular (PBR, skinny jeans with thick-rimmed glasses, a flip phone or maybe even a beeper) I wear skinny jeans so my pant leg doesn't get ironically stuck in the chain of my fixed gear
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Jun 21, 2019 04:33
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I like when developers release games and dont patch them right away after people start crying on reddit but instead let the community figure out how to counter "overpowered" stuff on their own.
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Jun 21, 2019 04:38
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MMOs can actually be fun.
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Jun 21, 2019 05:23
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mind the walrus posted:MMOs can actually be fun. I'm sorry about your brain tumor.
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Jun 21, 2019 05:49
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Savage For The Winjun posted:I like when developers release games and dont patch them right away after people start crying on reddit but instead let the community figure out how to counter "overpowered" stuff on their own. same but instead of letting the community figure out how to counter overpowered things it's letting the community figure out how to circumvent game-breaking crashes and memory leaks
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Jun 21, 2019 06:10
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mind the walrus posted:MMOs can actually be fun. Do you mean like theoretically some day somebody might actually make an MMO that's fun? Cause I'm still gonna have to disagree with you on that.
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Jun 21, 2019 06:39
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I loving love all the "nextgen cancer" postprocessing effects like film grain and chromatic aberration. I want them in every game.
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Jun 21, 2019 06:40
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Ruffian Price posted:I loving love all the "nextgen cancer" postprocessing effects like film grain and chromatic aberration. I want them in every game. look if they could put in a nice, conservative filmscratch effect on way of the samurai 5 and give me an over/underexposed monochrome option i will be happy. but this is the only postprocessing i will ever accept, and only in a way of the samurai game
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Jun 21, 2019 06:53
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3D graphics peaked with Deus Ex and Thief 2 and have been in decline ever since
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Jun 21, 2019 07:07
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Shibawanko posted:3D graphics peaked with Deus Ex and Thief 2 and have been in decline ever since In a simlar vein and from what I've read on the internet a broadly insane one - I much preffered Thief 1 to Thief 2
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Jun 21, 2019 07:10
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Serephina posted:I'm in my thirties and was the kid who told their parents after growing up that "I'm not doing your drat tech support anymore!". I don't have a smartphone, and won't make a fuss about it, but almost guaranteed someone in the pub (etc) will have their mind blown that people still use bricks. If you liked Everspace you should try Sky Rogue which is the same concept but with more fun fights and which I think is still being updated. I agree that some of the best games are usually the result of a single person's idea of what the game should be like, or a small team who all have the same idea. There's very few design-by-committee games that I can think of that were good. Shibawanko fucked around with this message at 07:21 on Jun 21, 2019 |
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Jun 21, 2019 07:17
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JollyBoyJohn posted:In a simlar vein and from what I've read on the internet a broadly insane one - I much preffered Thief 1 to Thief 2 Thief 1 had lower lows where they didn't know what works well yet but it was the original so some people like it more, they're both great.
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Jun 21, 2019 08:06
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Both were great, but I liked Thief 2 better just because it didn't focus as much on the fantasy elements. Weird that both completely fall apart in their final level though.
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Jun 21, 2019 08:13
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Stealth games seem to have a lot of trouble with their endgame and escalation in general. Metal Gear Solid tends to devolve into action setpieces hoping you've been using totally optional mechanics and abandoning stealth both in-story and out. Hitman does it best just by presenting you with the most exotic and highly secure environments to intimidate you before you find all the security holes.
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Jun 21, 2019 08:29
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