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Pron on VHS posted:Someone mentioned Baldurs Gate. That manual was too wild for me. I had a strategy guide for the first 6 king's quest games that featured both a normal walkthough and then walk throughs that were presented as in universe narratives. Most were just like diaries, but the King's Quest 3 one was framed as Prince Alexander being interviewed for a newspaper.
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Pron on VHS posted:Someone mentioned Baldurs Gate. That manual was too wild for me. I loved the hint booklet where you'd have scrambled text and a red filter to uncover it to tell you what to do Also my incredibly dog eared copy of this stupid book: 
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I used to like reading the user manual while the progress bar filled for the install. Now days you just have to hate yourself while it downloads a day 1 patch on congested servers for 8 hours.
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Feb 22, 2021 23:08
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Skwirl posted:I had a strategy guide for the first 6 king's quest games that featured both a normal walkthough and then walk throughs that were presented as in universe narratives. Most were just like diaries, but the King's Quest 3 one was framed as Prince Alexander being interviewed for a newspaper. I think this is what I am talking about. It turned the Kings Quest walkthrough into a little short story. I devoured them repeatedly, instead of trying to read a real book. I was obsessed.
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One of my strongest sense memories is reading the Final Fantasy 7 guide for PC in the car with the AC on. That game was such a nightmare to get working, I think I had the game and guide for at least a month before we ever even got it to play. Right around the time it came out my parents got their first car with AC, and I have such vivid memories of looking through the black and white artwork and reading about limit breaks with the semi-humid transition of AC startup blowing while we left the neighborhood. Every spring when I fire up the AC for the first time, it makes me think of playing FF7 again, even though I don't even really have that much love for it as an actual game.
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Pron on VHS posted:Yup I remember those icons vividly. The plain arrowhead to the 3D arrowhead to the spiky arrowhead Yeah but archers/axe throwers were largely a waste of time Flying units did so little damage for the cost that having anti-air was just about pointless
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Kalli posted:At an average height of 5'6 per person, that's enough bodies to lie end to end from Boston to Cleveland. I am now happy to know that I am just taller than average height. I am not happy that I did shrink about an inch from several years ago, though.
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It's not an encyclopedia like some of these, but I had the Morrowind PC manual on my nightstand for far longer than I care to admit, at an age much older than I care to admit having it there.
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Android Apocalypse posted:I am now happy to know that I am just taller than average height. To be honest, I didn't do much work other then google average height in the US, split the difference between men and women, round down, because the dead are gonna weight towards old and shrinking and the sick, then converted to kilometers then looked at a map, then converted to miles because I have dumb brain. All while this song is just rampaging through my brain. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAFSrKqIKdc&t=398s
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Feb 22, 2021 23:42
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Went and took a look at my dad's old bookshelf of nerd stuff  Growing up with a dad who was a video game nerd before it was a thing was cool sometimes.
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now I feel old because I see F-19 on the shelf and I have fond memories of playing that game I even remember a european mission where I got the CMOH
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https://twitter.com/JonLemire/status/1363976122610966530
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Going to finish the last “godless” episode while making dinner and it kinda falls a little flat so far but this is such a surprisingly good show. Second time I’m thanking whoever recommended (sorry, lovely memory)
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GOG.com had all the Wing Commander games for $1.49 this weekend, so I bought them all for 10 bucks. Still fun as hell to play.
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Speaking of oldish (comparatively) games I did start Fallout New Vegas again after it came up a while back and I was right that really don't remember a damned thing about it. But it's good, once you get past absolutely needing to mod it for it to work correctly and finding the mods that don't hard lock your system. The default run speed made me wonder how any of us put up with this back when it came out. Sending the ghouls to space had me grinning like an idiot.
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Looks like $15 min wage is still in it, and if it's unchanged from last week, after the phase-in it transfers the power to the secretary of labor, so you'd never need congress again. Now to see if the senate parliamentarian leaves it in for reconciliation.
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Pron on VHS posted:https://www.amazon.com/Kings-Quest-...ps%2C150&sr=8-3 Considering your username, I figured this was some vintage Ron Jeremy video from the 80s.
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Its Rinaldo posted:Went and took a look at my dad's old bookshelf of nerd stuff Oh yeah, I was definitely playing the stuff my dad bought for himself when I was a kid. A-10 Tank Killer was one he loved but I never really got into. Aces Over Europe, though? Now you're speaking my language.
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I finished season 3 of The Expanse and personally I'm not all that interested in seeing where it goes from here. I thought the speed limit stuff wasn't very interesting although I see why people like Drummer now. Clarissa being able to get superpowers at will seems like something more people would do and felt very forced, it was kind of out of nowhere. Aside from that, the protomolecule turning out to only have the purpose of creating the ring doesn't make a lot of sense to me given the way it worked prior to that I'll probably at least give season 4 a shot for a couple episodes
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iwentdoodie posted:
Had a friend who had a boxer that did this, just wanted to sit on the couch upright like a person would and watch TV with you. He'd snuggle up during movies when he figured out you weren't going anywhere. That dog was awesome.
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So the place gave me an offer, and needs an answer by tomorrow. As I somewhat feared the pay is a bit lower than my ideal situation, but it'd still be $5+ more an hour than what I'm making now and it's just Mon-Fri which is a nice. Overall, it'd absolutely be an improvement financially and the impressions I got from the company itself were very good, but my concern is I'm gonna continue to be stuck with essentially the same living situation indefinitely (Although one of the two people I'm living with should be gone... sometime this year), which has me a little down right now. I'd have to get really lucky if I start looking for a place of my own this year. I'm like 95% gonna accept it in the morning, since I haven't had an offer for anything this good in years, but it kinda took some of the excitement off, particularly compared to the other things I'd been interviewing for lately.Silly Burrito posted:GOG.com had all the Wing Commander games for $1.49 this weekend, so I bought them all for 10 bucks. Still fun as hell to play. gently caress, I saw the sale email and never went back to check what games were covered. I probably should have had those on my wishlist anyway. Eh, they're usually good about doing sales, so I'll get them next time and add them to the ever growing backlog iwentdoodie posted:
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Intruder posted:although I see why people like Drummer now. Clarissa being able to get superpowers at will seems like something more people would do and felt very forced, it was kind of out of nowhere. Not a show watcher, but I read the books. I don't know if I'm mildly spoiling you or not but lets say there are downsides to what Clarissa did to gain those superpowers.
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Grittybeard posted:Speaking of oldish (comparatively) games I did start Fallout New Vegas again after it came up a while back and I was right that really don't remember a damned thing about it. But it's good, once you get past absolutely needing to mod it for it to work correctly and finding the mods that don't hard lock your system. The default run speed made me wonder how any of us put up with this back when it came out. I just started one too. I haven't grabbed any mods though. Anything in particular you'd recommend? I love that ghouls to space thing too. The one ship nearly crashing had me worried all over again.
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Intruder posted:I finished season 3 of The Expanse and personally I'm not all that interested in seeing where it goes from here. I thought the speed limit stuff wasn't very interesting although I see why people like Drummer now. Clarissa being able to get superpowers at will seems like something more people would do and felt very forced, it was kind of out of nowhere. Aside from that, the protomolecule turning out to only have the purpose of creating the ring doesn't make a lot of sense to me given the way it worked prior to that I also just finished it, and also kinda disliked the huge plot shift after they find Prax's daughter, and the Ring forms. It turned very Sphere-y. The first half of Season 3 was incredible though.
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Grittybeard posted:Not a show watcher, but I read the books. I don't know if I'm mildly spoiling you or not but lets say there are downsides to what Clarissa did to gain those superpowers. That makes sense but at the same time you have belters who do the slingshot races and seem to die in a fiery crash like 50% of the time, I'm sure those same adrenaline junkies would happily absorb whatever side effects it takes to become the Hulk for a little while
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Intruder posted:That makes sense but at the same time you have belters who do the slingshot races and seem to die in a fiery crash like 50% of the time, I'm sure those same adrenaline junkies would happily absorb whatever side effects it takes to become the Hulk for a little while Later on, you get to see that many do, and you get to see what happens to them.
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I used to play the old DOS-based infocom text adventures when I was really small, and when I was a teen I bought a copy of Treasures of Infocom which had ten of those games in a box, along with all the manuals and leaflets and poo poo those came with. I'm pretty sure I still have it all in a box somewhere. Totally had manuals for stuff like F-15 Strike Eagle and Populous and Sim Earth, too. Loved those things.
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We should never kink shame. That said, bahahahahahahahahahahahahahahha https://twitter.com/licensedt0ill/status/1363977916397273091?s=21
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Silly Burrito posted:GOG.com had all the Wing Commander games for $1.49 this weekend, so I bought them all for 10 bucks. Still fun as hell to play. Wing Commander you say?  Leperflesh posted:I used to play the old DOS-based infocom text adventures when I was really small, and when I was a teen I bought a copy of Treasures of Infocom which had ten of those games in a box, along with all the manuals and leaflets and poo poo those came with. I'm pretty sure I still have it all in a box somewhere. I got you fam  
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fartknocker posted:So the place gave me an offer, and needs an answer by tomorrow. As I somewhat feared the pay is a bit lower than my ideal situation, but it'd still be $5+ more an hour than what I'm making now and it's just Mon-Fri which is a nice. Overall, it'd absolutely be an improvement financially and the impressions I got from the company itself were very good, but my concern is I'm gonna continue to be stuck with essentially the same living situation indefinitely (Although one of the two people I'm living with should be gone... sometime this year), which has me a little down right now. I'd have to get really lucky if I start looking for a place of my own this year. I'm like 95% gonna accept it in the morning, since I haven't had an offer for anything this good in years, but it kinda took some of the excitement off, particularly compared to the other things I'd been interviewing for lately. Well $5/hour increase is pretty good. That’s $200 a week. I don’t know your current financial situation, but that’s a decent raise. Unless you’re stuck signing a contract, you can always keep looking even after taking this new job.
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Leperflesh posted:I used to play the old DOS-based infocom text adventures when I was really small, and when I was a teen I bought a copy of Treasures of Infocom which had ten of those games in a box, along with all the manuals and leaflets and poo poo those came with. I'm pretty sure I still have it all in a box somewhere. I had that treasures of infocom set, as well as the aforementioned KQ companion, as well as an LSL version of that companion. 
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Its Rinaldo posted:Wing Commander you say? I have no idea where my copies are, sadly. But for a buck fifty and to have it work with no tweaking in DOSBox, that's the price of freedom..
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