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neogeo0823 posted:so the adventurer got to sit there listening to two spongemen shout obscenities and vitriol at each other endlessly, forever. lovely apartment mod looking good.
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# ? Dec 27, 2019 03:29 |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shut_Up,_Little_Man!
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# ? Dec 27, 2019 03:49 |
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I love this to death, but every year it gets harder and harder to recommend to people that haven't already heard it, and I can't even quote a lot of my favorite lines on these forums. Those horrible, dying little men were occasionally touched by the hand of god when it came to spinning verbal cruelty.
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# ? Dec 27, 2019 13:42 |
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It sounds pretty sad tbh
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# ? Dec 27, 2019 15:32 |
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Yeah, kind of hosed up to eavesdrop on two sick people be each other's personal hell and call it comedy.
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# ? Dec 27, 2019 15:35 |
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Which is why I don't really ever recommend it to people anymore, and if I were hearing it for the first time now, I probably wouldn't get very far into it. Different time, etc.
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# ? Dec 27, 2019 15:39 |
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Shady Amish Terror posted:All fish benefitted from the skills=stats swimming oversight at one time, but carp remained a nuisance even outside of that because of their teeth, yes. A similar fun one was the fact that undead sponges or corals, I forget which, were terrifying monstrosities for a time because they lacked a brain or any other vital parts and thus could not be killed; this was compounded by the fact that even a limbless, brainless, otherwise completely immobile organism gained access to a rudimentary charge/tackle attack if hostile, and undead are generally always hostile. Since they were MASSIVE by dwarf standards, they would occasionally lurch into anyone foolish enough to attack, obliterating them. I believe that they have since lost access to the charge attack, and that undead can now be killed by sufficient damage regardless of whether or not they have any vital parts to attack. Was regular sponges even, not just undead ones, and it was an artifact of them technically not having anatomy to damage (as I understand it there is “general” health in DF units but most fatal damage comes from wrecking a vital part like the head or similar). I remember one meme going around of a quote from the game of “Giant sponge becomes enraged” captioned “Without a nervous system, the only thing they feel... is ANGER!”. Even more hilarious/disturbing, sponges were classified as possible mounts in the game code, though I don’t think anybody actually saw any invaders on top of sponges (possibly because they couldn’t actually get anywhere that way...). Think in addition to what you mentioned the game is also coded to allow blunt damage to affect sponges more.
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# ? Dec 27, 2019 16:52 |
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Pastry of the Year posted:I love this to death, but every year it gets harder and harder to recommend to people that haven't already heard it, and I can't even quote a lot of my favorite lines on these forums. Those horrible, dying little men were occasionally touched by the hand of god when it came to spinning verbal cruelty. Been listening to Shut Up Little Man since it got a write up in Spin back in 1992. It's a fuckin' institution. Borderline obsessed with that poo poo throughout the 90s, and made a point of taking some pics with a friend outside 237 Steiner a few years back when visiting San Fran. Even stopped by O'Looney's and bought some vodka. Pretty sure I have a 30 year friendship that consists of 90% shared interest in music combined with quoting Shut Up Little Man and Mr. Show sketches. Yes, I am a 48 year old man child. And yeah - quoting half the poo poo Ray says would get you a probation in a hurry. It's definitely a situation where you better know your audience before bringing it up. Cardiovorax posted:Yeah, kind of hosed up to eavesdrop on two sick people be each other's personal hell and call it comedy. Think it falls under the umbrella of if you're yelling at the top of your lungs non-stop you shouldn't really expect any semblance of privacy. They knew they were being heard, and even knew they were being recorded. They didn't give a poo poo. Finding it funny? Well - you might have a point.
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# ? Dec 27, 2019 17:03 |
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Tony Phillips posted:Think it falls under the umbrella of if you're yelling at the top of your lungs non-stop you shouldn't really expect any semblance of privacy. They knew they were being heard, and even knew they were being recorded. They didn't give a poo poo.
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# ? Dec 27, 2019 17:11 |
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Cardiovorax posted:Yeah, fair enough, if they know and don't care, then it really isn't eavesdropping by any real measure anymore. According to one of the guys that made the recording, they once tried to get back at the neighbors by taking stereo speakers, placing them in front of the arguing couple's window and cranking recordings of them fighting right back at them. The neighbor's then just started arguing about who sounded like a bigger rear end in a top hat in the recordings. It's really some of the most surreal poo poo you can imagine. There's one bit in one of the recordings where one guy says something along the lines of "The neighbor's are recording us again." Which gets a "Good. Hey neighbor! I want you to know that Peter Haskett is a piece of poo poo!" in return. Will stop the derail now since this is really not the thread for it, but do recommend that documentary if anyone is interested in a some weird rear end poo poo. Especially if you're old enough to remember when you had to trade cassette tapes to get to hear random weird crap. It's a crazy throwback to pre-internet days.
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# ? Dec 27, 2019 18:34 |
MadDogMike posted:Was regular sponges even, not just undead ones, and it was an artifact of them technically not having anatomy to damage (as I understand it there is “general” health in DF units but most fatal damage comes from wrecking a vital part like the head or similar). I remember one meme going around of a quote from the game of “Giant sponge becomes enraged” captioned “Without a nervous system, the only thing they feel... is ANGER!”. Even more hilarious/disturbing, sponges were classified as possible mounts in the game code, though I don’t think anybody actually saw any invaders on top of sponges (possibly because they couldn’t actually get anywhere that way...). Think in addition to what you mentioned the game is also coded to allow blunt damage to affect sponges more. The ability to "pulp" body parts was added specifically for this sort of situation, where a creature without any vital organs to remove was, in fact, immortal barring drowning or something. Which undead can't do. Sponges and undead raised from parts where you couldn't chop them up further were big culprits.
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# ? Dec 27, 2019 18:50 |
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Zereth posted:The ability to "pulp" body parts was added specifically for this sort of situation, where a creature without any vital organs to remove was, in fact, immortal barring drowning or something. Which undead can't do. Sponges and undead raised from parts where you couldn't chop them up further were big culprits. Dwarf Fortress is really interesting because of stuff like this because it has such a detailed anatomy system but those edge cases make you realize that the whole thing is still an abstraction and that it's really difficult to write some sort of generalized "health" system that will work for plain mammals and also work for weird stuff like sponges, or fantasy monsters like undead. I mean I guess you could argue "if the system doesn't work well for sponges just don't put sponges in your game" but that's not really the way that Toady works.
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# ? Dec 27, 2019 19:30 |
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Plastik posted:I agree, but people have been punished for posting goon-only secrets outside the private subforums is all. LeakyLarry posted:Don't fret! Looks like the goon admins dmca'd it. They've been reposted. Someone dmca'd the original link. Here's a repost.
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# ? Dec 27, 2019 21:01 |
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Is there really such a thing as "goon-only secrets" for a publicly available game? If a non-goon had done the experimentation themselves and written that exact same text file as an original work on a different forum, could it be posted here?
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# ? Dec 27, 2019 21:07 |
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Only to the gooniest of goons and for the gooniest of secrets.
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# ? Dec 27, 2019 21:37 |
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Dabir posted:it was carp, and the other issue was that carp had the same generic 'bite' attack that you might see on, say, a bear, or a dog. so a dwarf would venture down to the river and a tiny swimming rottweiler would leap out and try to chew its feet off, at which point the dwarf would try to dodge and have a 50/50 shot of just throwing itself into the river by accident Back in that version every creature type had a fixed size, roughly equivalent to length/height in feet, and all fully grown creatures of that species had that exact size. Toady looked up on Wikipedia that Carl can grow to be up to 5 feet and plugged in 5 as the size for carp... which happens to be the size of a dwarf. So it wasn't a tiny swimming rotweiller, it was a 5 footer as big as the dwarf.
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# ? Dec 28, 2019 01:09 |
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Straight White Shark posted:Toady looked up on Wikipedia that Carl can grow to be up to 5 feet
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# ? Dec 28, 2019 01:11 |
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neogeo0823 posted:...However, spongemen have no way to attack and no way to move, so the adventurer got to sit there listening to two spongemen shout obscenities and vitriol at each other endlessly, forever. Accidental perfect simulation of forums arguments.
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# ? Dec 28, 2019 03:06 |
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Pastry of the Year posted:I love this to death, but every year it gets harder and harder to recommend to people that haven't already heard it, and I can't even quote a lot of my favorite lines on these forums. Those horrible, dying little men were occasionally touched by the hand of god when it came to spinning verbal cruelty. Yeah it's hosed up. My favorite line is the oddly touching "I got a decent dinner ready! Nothing happened with the dinner! Because you crucified it." Anyway, being a little man I'll shut up
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# ? Dec 28, 2019 04:20 |
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Jobbo_Fett posted:There's also the foam grenade that would never stop burning and expanded forever, I think(?) Slightly late, but I believe this is the incident you're referencing: quote:IT'S ALIVE! It died. IT'S ALIVE! It died. IT'S ALIVE! (from the old griefing thread)
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# ? Dec 28, 2019 05:32 |
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I think the culture of secrecy around SS13 basically boils down to there's a lot of poo poo that will break the game (not in a "this is unbalanced" kind of way but in a "this will literally crash the server" kind of way), like the stuff posted above, and they don't want people doing drive-bys. It kind of goes pretty far into the extreme where like, no amount of genuine experimentation is actually going to teach you those formulas, you're either part of the cool kids club that knows them or you aren't. It'd be nice if the game existed on a more stable platform so that was less of a concern but every attempt to remake the game has stalled because like, where do you even start with a beast like SS13? It's the result of almost 15 years of work by dozens of people doing extremely deep dives into specific systems and the fact that it works at all is a miracle.
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# ? Dec 28, 2019 05:41 |
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Tony Phillips posted:According to one of the guys that made the recording, they once tried to get back at the neighbors by taking stereo speakers, placing them in front of the arguing couple's window and cranking recordings of them fighting right back at them. The neighbor's then just started arguing about who sounded like a bigger rear end in a top hat in the recordings. It's really some of the most surreal poo poo you can imagine. Ok I'm going to look into this now
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# ? Dec 28, 2019 06:46 |
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The Cheshire Cat posted:I think the culture of secrecy around SS13 basically boils down to there's a lot of poo poo that will break the game (not in a "this is unbalanced" kind of way but in a "this will literally crash the server" kind of way), like the stuff posted above, and they don't want people doing drive-bys. It kind of goes pretty far into the extreme where like, no amount of genuine experimentation is actually going to teach you those formulas, you're either part of the cool kids club that knows them or you aren't. Plus, basically every station has it's own fork of the project. Goonstation is a different beast then /tg/station. Not just down to the design, but code, occupations, certain rules and how stuff interacts. And some of the stuff is, naturally, mutualy exclusive. So you can't really remake "SS13" because there are multiple, multiple SS13s.
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# ? Dec 28, 2019 15:02 |
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Taintrunner posted:https://twitter.com/Daxelfrax/status/1210739415007424515
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# ? Dec 29, 2019 09:27 |
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Oh no, it’s suffering! How does something like that even end up happening?
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# ? Dec 29, 2019 15:54 |
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That would have terrified me as a little kid, drat. Hell, I'm uneasy now!
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# ? Dec 29, 2019 16:04 |
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I don't even know what's going on but I really want to believe it's somehow Luigi's Mansion related.
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# ? Dec 29, 2019 16:10 |
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What on Earth did they do to that poor Switch?
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# ? Dec 29, 2019 16:20 |
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Oh no, it’s suffering! Cardiovorax posted:What on Earth did they do to that poor Switch? Frozen sound processing is usually unworldly because noone is ready to hear tones isolated like that.
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# ? Dec 29, 2019 18:47 |
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Ask anyone who's had Source crash on them.
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# ? Dec 29, 2019 19:24 |
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Tempest_56 posted:Slightly late, but I believe this is the incident you're referencing: Doesnt ring any bells, I feel lile it was a cheese foam thing. Still, funny nonetheless.
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# ? Dec 29, 2019 20:34 |
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There is an old Let's Play of Pokemon Blue in which the LPer goes in depth over the various glitches and hacks than can be used in the pokemon cartridge games and the effects of them. One of which affects Glitch Pokemon cries which, as the game tries to read data that is in no way sound-related as sound, become minute-long midi screeching abominations. A certain glitch Pokemon in Yellow was aptly described as "It cries for blood". It is a hybrid LP and some videos were missing last time I checked, but they seem to have been re-uploaded. Youtube has them as "Let's break Pokemon Blue". Fair warning, even then the goons were not recommending watching them before sleeping; there is a certain terrific quality to watching a kid friendly game quite literally fall apart in screams.
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# ? Dec 30, 2019 23:57 |
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Jiru posted:There is an old Let's Play of Pokemon Blue in which the LPer goes in depth over the various glitches and hacks than can be used in the pokemon cartridge games and the effects of them. One of which affects Glitch Pokemon cries which, as the game tries to read data that is in no way sound-related as sound, become minute-long midi screeching abominations. A certain glitch Pokemon in Yellow was aptly described as "It cries for blood". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dQq6_xa8-U PI KA CHUUUUU
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# ? Dec 31, 2019 02:21 |
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From hell's heart, I Roar at thee.
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# ? Dec 31, 2019 07:19 |
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https://twitter.com/TheShiningDown/status/1212216796700430336 WWWE2k20 just keeps on giving
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# ? Jan 1, 2020 06:47 |
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WWE Y2K20
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# ? Jan 1, 2020 07:17 |
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Oh, it obvious, they uhh, clocks sometimes, uhh. I don't understand.
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# ? Jan 1, 2020 07:22 |
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zedprime posted:Oh, it obvious, they uhh, clocks sometimes, uhh. The classic “single digit year”
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# ? Jan 1, 2020 08:06 |
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WWE2k20 means it's only able to be played until 2020.
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# ? Jan 1, 2020 08:22 |
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zedprime posted:Oh, it obvious, they uhh, clocks sometimes, uhh. please don't doxx me
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