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Mr. Pardiggle posted:How’s Dusk for someone who never played boomer shooters? Is it something you sorta had to be there in order to appreciate?
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Phlegmish posted:Jesus Christ, I'm bad at Typing Of The Dead: Overkill. It's saying I'm in +58.000th place for the first level, on the easiest difficulty. If you're really trying to improve your touch typing I recommend using one of the free online courses instead. Typing Club worked for me. Repetition is the key not pressure and you'll develop far better habits/muscle memory than playing a typing game. The games are fun to come back to but are very very bad for learning.
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Mr. Pardiggle posted:How’s Dusk for someone who never played boomer shooters? Is it something you sorta had to be there in order to appreciate? Dusk owns
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fez_machine posted:If you're really trying to improve your touch typing I recommend using one of the free online courses instead. Typing Club worked for me. Alright, why not. I just click Get Started and do the exercises? Whatever happens, I am coming back to TOTD to improve my score
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Phlegmish posted:Alright, why not. I just click Get Started and do the exercises? Yeah! Don't stress about your times just go for accuracy and good hand positioning habits (if you're anything like me as an adult learner you've probably acquired some bad habits that'll be hard to totally shake). Do it in small chunks every day. You need to go slow to get fast. When you feel like you've got in to a good place, you can start to aim for 5 star scores and even platinum-ranking the exercises.
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fez_machine posted:If you're really trying to improve your touch typing I recommend using one of the free online courses instead. Typing Club worked for me. After a good session just now, I can confirm Typing Club owns. I badly need to work on my form, and this seems like the ticket. Thanks!
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Nov 18, 2021 02:33
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Mr. Pardiggle posted:How’s Dusk for someone who never played boomer shooters? Is it something you sorta had to be there in order to appreciate? Can you tolerate lowfi graphics if they're on a solid gameplay base? If so, get DUSK.
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DUSK looks a lot better in motion, I gotta say. It's difficulty level certainly isn't hard, if you like moving fast and shooting things you'll have a good time.
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I'm the 15th guy saying Dusk kicks rear end, and if you're at all curious about it you should buy it.
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I hated formal typing lessons as a kid. Nobody was going to tell what finger to use to press what key; I was going to do it my way. I gave up on Mavis Beacon and sat in AOL chatrooms playing "scrambler" (unscramble the word/sentence before anyone else does) games for hours a day, then later got into the original Typing of the Dead. I type faster than anyone I've ever met. I guess my point is if you're frustrated by typing games, absolutely try formal typing tutors, but if you hate formal typing tutors, typing games are good too, and it's definitely possible to learn your own way if you practice enough.
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Funnily enough I was forced to take a typing class in middle school and it was a bit of a pain because I had already taught myself to type thanks to being extremely online as a kid. I think ultimately the class did help a little bit, but these days I'm either all speed or all accuracy but never both. 
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I had typing lessons and vaguely remember something about some really bizarre instructions for which fingers to hit which keys. I don't remember the details anymore, but staring at my keyboard now I'm thinking something along the lines of hitting "b" with your right hand finger (instead of the left), or hitting "r" with your middle finger instead of your index finger. Also I can never remember any of the symbol keys on the number row.
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The 'proper' way to type is fingers on asdf hjkl which puts B under your right index finger, yeah. I'm one of the people who taught themself to type as a kid and I have a bizarre fingerpecking style where I essentially only use 1-2 fingers on each hand and I wave my hands over the keyboard like I think I'm a DJ, but I type well over 100wpm anyway. Touch typing is unnecessary to be a good typist, imo just memorization of the keyboard and then trusting yourself to not look at it/think about it is all you need - which you can gain over time through any kind of typing. I'm the weird guy who can type in game text chat and keep up with a voice chat conversation and I'm always a little flabbergasted that it's such a rare skill, hell a lot of people can't even manage to read text chat in games. e: jkl; seems inefficient given how rarely you hit keys east of P but what do I know, I finger peck deep dish peat moss fucked around with this message at 04:51 on Nov 18, 2021 |
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it's jkl; your keyboard even comes with a dang bump on the f and j keys so you can find the right hand position without having to look at it
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Nov 18, 2021 04:48
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Anyone who doesn't type asdf jkl; is a cop and probably a communist.
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It's WASD being the default instead of ESDF that's annoying when you can touch type and are used to placing your fingers on the home row.
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Xanderkish posted:Anyone who doesn't type asdf jkl; is a cop and probably a communist. that's Detective Raphaël Ambrosius Costeau to you
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deep dish peat moss posted:hell a lot of people can't even manage to read text chat in games. e: my reading WPM in games probably goes up because so much of dialog in games and especially JRPGs is very tropey, that i can hit to skip as soon as a dialog rolls out because the first half of a sentence usually predicts the second half
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pentyne posted:that's Detective Raphaël Ambrosius Costeau to you That man would probably shut his eyes, pass a combination Interfacing-Savoir Faire Check, sweep his hand across the keyboard, and somehow type an entire 20 character password perfectly on the first try.
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Games with textboxes and non-customizable text scroll speed are the worst. The default speed is always at like 1/3 of my reading speed so I always have to press the skip button once per textbox to get it to actually finish filling out the box but sometimes you get the rhythm of mashing next wrong and accidentally press it twice and skip the textbox entirely and it's just a huge pain in the butt. Just give me an option to make the text speed instant
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Nov 18, 2021 05:05
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Text scroll is the worst. Unless it's for a very specific reason, like simulating an old computer taking half a second to draw out a screen full of text, text should be instant.
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It's understandable if the text is also voiceacted and it scrolls at the same spead the VA reads it. But 80% of the time I'm still reading ahead faster than the actor speaks and then just skipping to the next line halfway through a sentence.
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Nov 18, 2021 05:26
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The VA's should simply speak faster
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Gaius Marius posted:The VA's should simply speak faster Suikoden Tierkreis
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Gaius Marius posted:The VA's should simply speak faster A lot of overseas devs I've worked with are (overly) concerned with non-primary English speaking customers/players having a hard time following along and have requested that everything be read much slower than sounds natural. I have a feeling that my experience is not unique. Dependent upon the game obviously but I feel a good mix for a text-heavy game is for full voiceover/subtitles during cutscenes or important moments and then a large variety of context-appropriate "Hrm?" or "Yes?" short vocal acknowledgements on initial in-game conversation activation with the full un-voiced text of the actual conversation displayed for the player to read/skip.
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Gaius Marius posted:The VA's should simply speak faster ah, the far cry 2 solution
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Ragequit posted:drat you weren't kidding. howlongtobeat.com shows ~60 hours to complete, with 130+ hours for completionists. Yeah I probably put 25 hours in it or so and just got to the point where I could even start the first DLC. Long rear end game. Too much good poo poo came out recently so I dropped it, but I'll probably play it again at some point, I enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would!
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huh, Gunfire Reborn just came out of early access thought it'd slip into 2022 honestly
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fez_machine posted:Yeah! Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like there's a way to adapt the exercises to my lovely azerty keyboard. For example, neither a nor ; are on my home row. It's a shame, since Typing Club seems really well done compared to the other sites I've googled. zachol posted:I had typing lessons and vaguely remember something about some really bizarre instructions for which fingers to hit which keys. I don't remember the details anymore, but staring at my keyboard now I'm thinking something along the lines of hitting "b" with your right hand finger (instead of the left), or hitting "r" with your middle finger instead of your index finger. The ones that trip me up are y and b, since they're about equidistant from both index fingers in the resting position. I'm also constantly getting keys that are next to each other mixed up, over and over. I don't know why my brain does this. I figure it's all just muscle memory, have to keep at it. deep dish peat moss posted:The 'proper' way to type is fingers on asdf hjkl which puts B under your right index finger, yeah. I'm one of the people who taught themself to type as a kid and I have a bizarre fingerpecking style where I essentially only use 1-2 fingers on each hand and I wave my hands over the keyboard like I think I'm a DJ, but I type well over 100wpm anyway. Touch typing is unnecessary to be a good typist, imo just memorization of the keyboard and then trusting yourself to not look at it/think about it is all you need - which you can gain over time through any kind of typing. Sure. I was a fast typer too, and right now I'm slower than your average eighty-year-old. The weird thing is, I don't think I could go back even if I wanted. It just feels wrong to hunt and peck now, even if it's still much faster. I'm going to unlock my true potential or die trying Phlegmish fucked around with this message at 11:42 on Nov 18, 2021 |
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Phlegmish posted:Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like there's a way to adapt the exercises to my lovely azerty keyboard. For example, neither a nor ; are on my home row. It's a shame, since Typing Club seems really well done compared to the other sites I've googled. They have an AZERTY course but it's in French https://www.edclub.com/sportal/program-17.game
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That link does not appear to be working. Even though it pains me Flemishly, I suppose I could practice my French at the same time. Really working on that self-improvement™ e: I think it's this one: https://www.typingclub.com/sportal/program-17.game let's learn to taper comme un pro Phlegmish fucked around with this message at 12:01 on Nov 18, 2021 |
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Hey, remember Supreme Commander? The Spring engine has been doing a lot of stuff but never quite to my liking. And well. Watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMLQmsTmYFA Apparently it's coming to Steam in '22
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typing chat made me remember goon-made Icarus Proudbottom Teaches Typing, gonna play that for a bit
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Gaius Marius posted:The VA's should simply speak faster The real underlying solution is that writers should learn to be concise. It's a loving abomination how bad the writing is in virtually every RPG.
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K8.0 posted:The real underlying solution is that writers should learn to be concise. It's a loving abomination how bad the writing is in virtually every RPG. Getting flashbacks to the first Divinity: Original Sin
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You don't play a game about Sourcerers for its writing, you play it for its awesome elemental interactions and generally fun combat 
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What’s the name of that newer throwback 2.5 (might actually be 3d though) FPS that isn’t Dusk? I forgot to wishlist it the last time it came up. Maybe started with a P or an M maybe?
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Soul Glo posted:What’s the name of that newer throwback 2.5 (might actually be 3d though) FPS that isn’t Dusk? I forgot to wishlist it the last time it came up. Maybe started with a P or an M maybe? Prodeus or Project Warlock
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Hwurmp posted:Prodeus or Project Warlock Prodeus! Yes, thanks.
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