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nrook
Jun 25, 2009

Just let yourself become a worthless person!

thanks. it is a high honor

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Disappointing Pie
Feb 7, 2006
Words cannot describe what a disaster the pie was.
I can’t find a great answer to this but have a question, I have 3 switches on a family plan if I wanted to upgrade one of those switch profiles to the new online program with the AC DLC is that doable?

Feels Villeneuve
Oct 7, 2007

Setter is Better.

Google Butt posted:

nothing is more enriching/stimulating than posting

Augus
Mar 9, 2015


Bust Rodd posted:

thank you Final Fantasy XIV Porn, I appreciate your input. You've really given me a lot to think about, Final Fantasy XIV Porn, about my relationship to video games.

bust rodd

Augus
Mar 9, 2015


Bust Rodd posted:

I play video games to experience unique interactive narratives and develop my fast twitch muscle response and hand-eye coordination under extreme sensory duress,

throwing a baseball underhanded to bust rodd and he lets out a shrill squeak and drops his lunch tray as he scrambles to cover his face with his arms

KingSlime
Mar 20, 2007
Wake up with the Kin-OH GOD WHAT IS THAT?!
extreme sensory duress is a p sweet band name

The Postman
May 12, 2007

Disappointing Pie posted:

I can’t find a great answer to this but have a question, I have 3 switches on a family plan if I wanted to upgrade one of those switch profiles to the new online program with the AC DLC is that doable?

Only if you took it off of the family plan and bought it an individual upgraded plan. It might be worth seeing what your family upgrade price is and deciding if the owners of all 3 devices would get enough use out of it. I think I paid $54 to upgrade my family plan and it would cost you $50 to get one profile its own upgraded individual membership.

John Wick of Dogs
Mar 4, 2017

A real hellraiser


Books suck imo, unless the book is about a video game

DR FRASIER KRANG
Feb 4, 2005

"Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

Lumbermouth posted:

Well can you read books and get different things out of them every time?! Didn’t think so!

This post makes me irrationally angry. Of course you can.

BigDumper
Feb 15, 2008

There are more good books than there are good video games OP, hth. The number of good video games might catch up eventually but the head start books have is big enough that I wouldn’t bet on it

Feels Villeneuve
Oct 7, 2007

Setter is Better.
why read words when i can create words by posting

big deal
Sep 10, 2017

DR FRASIER KRANG posted:

This post makes me irrationally angry. Of course you can.

i can't believe someone would assert something so blatantly wrong on this website of all places.

teagone
Jun 10, 2003

That was pretty intense, huh?

Bust Rodd posted:

My friend loaned me Pokémon Sword when I got my Switch and after the 4th gym I gave up. I don’t understand why a grown adult would play these games. There are lots and lots of games, like this, but for adults. These are not those games.

Imagine you are at a party and a 30 year old woman tells you that Blue’s Clues or whatever is her favorite show, that’s how I feel about my married adult friends obsessing over catching a “shiny” Lapras or whatever.

It’s not just that it’s written at a 3rd grade reading level, it’s that mechanically it’s about as demanding as riding a bike down hill, and the monsters are cute but they are barely even animated! If the game actually showed the Pokémon doing sweet wrestling moves and having cool fights, suddenly this game would make sense. I’d play the duck out of that game. But every Pokémon is just standing still, jumping in place one hop for every attack.

This is a billion dollar IP, where the gently caress is that money going? Definitely not to game dev, that’s for sure.

I don’t want to come off as hostile, so please don’t get confused. I don’t think you’re a baby if you like Pokémon. I like lots of childish things. But Pokémon is decidedly a young children’s video game, aimed at young children, and if Pokémon is your favorite game and you obsess over it then your basically an adult My Little Pony fan, same breed of nerd.

Yikes, lol.

beer gas canister
Oct 30, 2007

shmups are da best come play some shmups they're cheap and good and you like them
Plaster Town Cop
Luv 2 give myself PTSD by playing Doom Eternal inches from my TV with volume maxxed for the sensory overload

Healbot
Jul 7, 2006

very very very fucjable
very vywr very


Bust Rodd posted:

I play video games to experience unique interactive narratives and develop my fast twitch muscle response and hand-eye coordination under extreme sensory duress, because that feels like a more rewarding use of my time than simply picking up a book, reading the book, and placing it back on the shelf.

That's weird, because I play bideo james to keep my brain from entertaining thoughts about how hosed we as species are.

hatty
Feb 28, 2011

Pork Pro
Video games help me sleep and they also help me wake
A land of contrasts

DR FRASIER KRANG
Feb 4, 2005

"Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

b_d posted:

i can't believe someone would assert something so blatantly wrong on this website of all places.

I said it was irrational. Some trolls are just too irresistible.

Spacebump
Dec 24, 2003

Dallas Mavericks: Generations
NEW Nintendo Switch OTHREAD: books suck, manuals rule.

BigDumper
Feb 15, 2008

Healbot posted:

That's weird, because I play bideo james to keep my brain from entertaining thoughts about how hosed we as species are.

Video games are nothing but a reminder about how hosed we as species are.

spiritual bypass
Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer
Books can be used handheld in Switchlike fashion

man nurse
Feb 18, 2014


Whatever nerds, I’m going to go culturally and intellectually enrich myself by *faaaaaaarrrrrrrt*

mandatory lesbian
Dec 18, 2012
Are book sequels dlc?

Spacebump
Dec 24, 2003

Dallas Mavericks: Generations

mandatory lesbian posted:

Are book sequels dlc?

book dlc is new forwards added to later editions.

Feels Villeneuve
Oct 7, 2007

Setter is Better.
what is the most sensory duress you have experienced in a video game. mine is when i turned my monitor off

Waffle!
Aug 6, 2004

I Feel Pretty!


Some authors are like EA, where they keep churning out the same crap and people keep buying it.

Augus
Mar 9, 2015


ive tried reading books before but they did not provide enough extreme sensory duress for my liking.
does anybody know any books that just straight up give you a seizure?

LIVE AMMO COSPLAY
Feb 3, 2006

Some authors are like Ubisoft. Their name is Tom Clancy.

Lumbermouth
Mar 6, 2008

GREG IS BIG NOW


DR FRASIER KRANG posted:

This post makes me irrationally angry. Of course you can.

Yup! That was the joke! I felt it was ludicrous for ol Busty to drill reading down to “pick up book, read, put down book.”

Feels Villeneuve
Oct 7, 2007

Setter is Better.
when i game it's basically like i'm having that nightmare vision sequence from Event Horizon, except with mario

Lumbermouth
Mar 6, 2008

GREG IS BIG NOW


Feels Villeneuve posted:

when i game it's basically like i'm having that nightmare vision sequence from Event Horizon, except with mario

mamma mia

mdemone
Mar 14, 2001

Augus posted:

ive tried reading books before but they did not provide enough extreme sensory duress for my liking.
does anybody know any books that just straight up give you a seizure?

Dan Simmons' The Abominable

Google Butt
Oct 4, 2005

Xenology is an unnatural mixture of science fiction and formal logic. At its core is a flawed assumption...

that an alien race would be psychologically human.

ThatWhiteGuy posted:

Video games are nothing but a reminder about how hosed we as species are.

turn on you're monitor

big deal
Sep 10, 2017

I lhike to read Harry Potter. and The Twilight Series. oh yeah and the fountainhead

Sakurazuka
Jan 24, 2004

NANI?

Augus posted:

ive tried reading books before but they did not provide enough extreme sensory duress for my liking.
does anybody know any books that just straight up give you a seizure?

Have you tried Naked Lunch?

CharlestheHammer
Jun 26, 2011

YOU SAY MY POSTS ARE THE RAVINGS OF THE DUMBEST PERSON ON GOD'S GREEN EARTH BUT YOU YOURSELF ARE READING THEM. CURIOUS!
Lol goons pretending they read books

Waffle!
Aug 6, 2004

I Feel Pretty!


Augus posted:

ive tried reading books before but they did not provide enough extreme sensory duress for my liking.
does anybody know any books that just straight up give you a seizure?

Naked Lunch taught me enough about what opiates can do to your mind to stay far away from them. There's no satisfaction after finishing the novel. Only an exasperated feeling of "what the loving gently caress did I just read?"

Waffle! fucked around with this message at 23:24 on Dec 6, 2021

KingSlime
Mar 20, 2007
Wake up with the Kin-OH GOD WHAT IS THAT?!
Actually we were pretty transparent about the fact that none of us read books in the last few pages

Pretending to read books sounds like some nerd poo poo to me !!

MarcusSA
Sep 23, 2007

I don’t read books because it lets me enjoy the live action versions of their adaptations without having a meltdown that something wasn’t book accurate.

The WoT thread is a pretty good example of this.

(Ok maybe not meltdowns but you get the idea).

KingSlime
Mar 20, 2007
Wake up with the Kin-OH GOD WHAT IS THAT?!
Yeah sure, nice meltdown(s) buddy

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Commander Keene
Dec 21, 2016

Faster than the others



Fly Ricky posted:

Those “battery is low” warnings seem like such a basic feature to have at this point. I’m not in the market for those controllers but it would 100% keep me from buying one if I were.
The 8BitDo controllers have "low battery" warnings when connected directly to the Switch. The 8BitDo adapters don't, which may be because they're an intermediary between the actual controller and the console, or it may be because the Switch technically thinks there's a USB controller connected and as such doesn't care about the battery status of the controller.

LIVE AMMO COSPLAY posted:

Some authors are like Ubisoft. Their name is Tom Clancy.
Is Ubisoft dead too?

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