Vandar posted:

Yeah River King was pretty great I wish they'd make a new one.

Shinjobi posted:

I have learned over the years that I will bounce off an otherwise good game if the movement just doesn't feel crisp or fast enough for me. I've played games like Stardew Valley and enjoyed em just fine, but eventually when I get into a Stardew mood what eventually takes me out of it is just how loving garbo movement is in that game. Give me a faster run or a sprint button or something, this suckssssssss

QuarkJets posted:

Try pressing Alt+F4, that'll save you even more time than a sprint button

Mumpy Puffinz posted:

I thought Breath of the Wild was boring

giogadi posted:

The sad state of gaming today (games as skinner boxes, loot drops, etc) is the long-term and inevitable consequence of rpgs letting players get stronger without getting better at the game

William Henry Hairytaint posted:

I've decided to clear my Steam ignore list and finally tighten up my filters so I stop seeing the mountains of porn and garbage.

I have 37440 titles ignored so this is probably gonna take awhile.

William Henry Hairytaint posted:

I've decided to clear my Steam ignore list and finally tighten up my filters so I stop seeing the mountains of porn and garbage.

I have 37440 titles ignored so this is probably gonna take awhile.

Vandar posted:

Yeah River King was pretty great I wish they'd make a new one.

Serephina posted:

drat man, a single filter toggle (mature: Witcher3 is ok, AO: porn is not) solved most of that. One or two extra tag filters (anime: no) took care of all the rest. You've really been doing it the wrong way.

kntfkr posted:

This makes me so glad I stopped using Steam after making one purchase (final fantasy 7), going to play it and having to enter a username and password.

JollyBoyJohn posted:

I loved final fantasy 7 as a kid because I had never seen an anime or really played a Japanese game but my dad would make fun of it and say poo poo like "he wouldn't just stand there waiting for you to hit him in a real fight".

giogadi posted:

The sad state of gaming today (games as skinner boxes, loot drops, etc) is the long-term and inevitable consequence of rpgs letting players get stronger without getting better at the game

Mescal posted:

that's rather pithy. could you restate it as a nine-paragraph rant?

JollyBoyJohn posted:

I loved final fantasy 7 as a kid because I had never seen an anime or really played a Japanese game but my dad would make fun of it and say poo poo like "he wouldn't just stand there waiting for you to hit him in a real fight".

William Henry Hairytaint posted:

Vandar posted:

My dad hated when I would play Final Fantasy Tactics. loving HATED it.

He came in one day and sat down beside me, saw that I was playing it, and just got up and left without a single word.

To this day I still don't understand his anger at the game.

Vandar posted:

My dad hated when I would play Final Fantasy Tactics. loving HATED it.

He came in one day and sat down beside me, saw that I was playing it, and just got up and left without a single word.

To this day I still don't understand his anger at the game.

Vandar posted:

My dad hated when I would play Final Fantasy Tactics. loving HATED it.

He came in one day and sat down beside me, saw that I was playing it, and just got up and left without a single word.

To this day I still don't understand his anger at the game.

William Henry Hairytaint posted:

lmao

whenever my dad saw me playing a video game he'd just say that he's impressed by how far they've come from Pong

Vandar posted:

My dad hated when I would play Final Fantasy Tactics. loving HATED it.

He came in one day and sat down beside me, saw that I was playing it, and just got up and left without a single word.

To this day I still don't understand his anger at the game.

William Henry Hairytaint posted:

Although the space allotted here can’t possibly suffice to elaborate in detail on the long list of the sad state of gaming today’s ghoulish self-fulfilling prophecies—including the damnable, the blockish, the ruthless, and especially the abysmal—I’ll use what little space I have to tell it like it is. What follows is a set of observations I have made about the sad state of gaming today and its wanton, pompous offhand remarks. Maybe it’s just me, but don’t you think that the most misinformed mantra that the sad state of gaming today’s dupes utter is that the sad state of gaming today is a great benefactor of mankind? Here’s a thought experiment for those of you who still think that we can change the truth if we don’t like it the way it is: Imagine that a supernatural being came to you and, by way of a meandering Platonic dialogue, tried to convince you that we should cast our lots with the worst types of quislings I’ve ever seen. You’d astonishedly blurt out, But the sad state of gaming today is on par with peevish, maledicent fritterers for wanting to foster dissent and discord. And that’s the key point: The sad state of gaming today’s distasteful, sanctimonious witticisms will bring about the end of our nation in the blink of an eye. Goodbye free government, free elections, free speech, free press, and civil liberties. Hello, punishing anyone brash enough to express unflattering opinions of the sad state of gaming today above a furtive whisper. If thoughts like those upset you then I unequivocally don’t know how to break the news that once you understand the sad state of gaming today’s ebullitions, you have a responsibility to do something about them. To know, to understand, and not to act, is an egregious sin of omission. It is the sin of silence. It is the sin of letting the sad state of gaming today pooh-pooh the reams of solid evidence pointing to the existence and operation of a coprophagous, stroppy coterie of gangsterism.

Although the themes in the sad state of gaming today’s words are limited, it doesn’t do us much good to become angry and wave our arms and shout about the evils of the sad state of gaming today’s litanies in general terms. If we want other people to agree with us and join forces with us, then we must tell the story that it’s amazing how poorly some people use the brain they were born with. But there is a bigger story, too: a story of hatred and intolerance, a story that from the perspective of those inside the sad state of gaming today’s loony-bin crew, the health effects of secondhand smoke are negligible. That lie is a transparent and strained effort to keep us from noticing that university professors in increasing numbers are shamelessly turning their podiums into pulpits, abandoning the search for objective truth and setting about the task of indoctrinating their students with unforgiving ideas such as that the sad state of gaming today’s faith in metagrobolism gives it an uncanny ability to detect astral energy and cosmic vibrations. I believe you know who’s behind all that nonsense: the sad state of gaming today.

Now, I myself am all for freedom of speech, but the sad state of gaming today’s favorite double standard is to combine effusive praise for free speech with an eagerness to suppress unwelcome views. What I’m not so subtly suggesting is that the really interesting thing about all this is not that gruesome privatism and the sad state of gaming today’s orations are one and the same. The interesting thing is that it seems unable to think of turns of speech that aren’t hackneyed. What really grates on my nerves, however, is that the sad state of gaming today’s prose consists less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning than of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated henhouse.

According to statistics—which can be skewed, but statistics are all I currently have—the likelihood of the sad state of gaming today suborning demented, sick casuists to reduce religion to a consumer item in a spiritual supermarket before long is well over 85%. While that’s a scary enough number on its own, the only way that we can fight the sad state of gaming today, the only way we can beat it, is to transcend local prejudices. That much is crystal clear. But did you know that the sad state of gaming today’s disaffected claims hurt the pocketbooks of working families? That’s why I’m telling you that no approach to stopping the sad state of gaming today will benefit from the lemonade-like outpourings of aestheticizing literati and drawing-room heroes. Rather, stopping the sad state of gaming today requires people who can show principle, gumption, verve, and nerve. It requires people who understand that if I were a complete sap, I’d believe the sad state of gaming today’s line that metanarratives are the root of tyranny, lawlessness, overpopulation, racial hatred, world hunger, disease, and rank stupidity. Unfortunately for it, I realize that idle hands are the devil’s tools. That’s why the sad state of gaming today spends its leisure time devising ever more dimwitted ways to change children’s values from those taught in the home to those considered chic by grumpy dinks.

Not that I ever believed the sad state of gaming today’s lies, but at least before they had some kind of internal consistency—a logic, albeit twisted, that invited refutation. But now, it seems it is desperately flailing about for any pretext, no matter how ludicrous or slight, to create a mass psychology of fear about an imminent terrorist threat. I hope I don’t need to remind you that it is our worst nightmare, but it’s still true, and we must do something about it. Please don’t misread my words here: In a recent essay, it stated that violence and prejudice are funny. Since the arguments it made in the rest of its essay are based in part on that assumption, it should be aware that it just isn’t true. Not only that, but it’s unmistakably astounding that it has somehow found a way to work the words anticonstitutionally and plethysmographically into its antics. However, you may find it even more astounding that it has long been robbing, stealing, cheating, and murdering. What worries me more than that, however, is that if the sad state of gaming today ever manages to plunge us into the vortex of Jacobinism, that’s when the defecation will really hit the air conditioning.

For the purpose of this discussion, let’s say that there is no running from the sad state of gaming today. There is no escape. All we can do is break the mold and stray from the path of conventional wisdom and hope that an increasing number of people will then see that the sad state of gaming today is so involved in the glamorous pursuit of extraordinarily complicated sentences that it fails to realize that its lewd, jaded half-measures stink to high heaven. At the risk of sounding a tad redundant, let me add that it is a figment of its imagination that it’s a saintly figure—philanthropic, noble, and wise. The sooner it comes to grips with that reality, the better for all of us.

You’ve never heard the sad state of gaming today announce that it plans to crush the remaining vestiges of democracy throughout the world? Well, the sad state of gaming today has repeatedly enunciated such a plan but in its typically convoluted way. I don’t suppose the sad state of gaming today realizes which dialectic principle it’s violating by maintaining that it serves as wisdom to the mighty and succor to the brave. Therefore, I shall take it upon myself to explain. The sad state of gaming today recently stated that the rockets our enemies want to launch at us are filled with gumdrops and happiness. What’s notable here is the clear implication that the sad state of gaming today intends to obfuscate the issue so that one can’t see what ought to be completely obvious to all. Were it to do that, I would have to say that its most progressive idea is to shame my name. If that sounds progressive to you, you must be facing the wrong way.

Although the destructiveness of the sad state of gaming today’s jokes has been chronicled elsewhere in great and tedious detail it fits too neatly into my thesis to overlook. Hence, I shall chronicle it here as well but only as a quick comment that I once tried to explain to the sad state of gaming today that its harangues will rewrite history to reflect or magnify an imaginary victimhood. Rather than feel ashamed of itself, the sad state of gaming today got angry at me. What this says is that the sad state of gaming today long ago expressed interest in feeding on the politics of resentment, alienation, frustration, anger, and fear. Recently, I heard it say it still wants to do that. Once a litigious vandal, always a litigious vandal, I suppose. The only difference between then and now is the extent to which I once stated, quite factually, that my experiences have convinced me that it should think for itself. Undaunted by reality, it responded that it wants only to live in fellowship and peace. We can see the ruinous effects of this pernicious nonsense all around us every day. For example, we see disorganized heresiarchs stealing the fruits of other people’s labor. We see profligate drongos expressing doubt that if I recall correctly, letting the sad state of gaming today dominate or intimidate others may cause what I call atrabilious, amateurish thugs to make individuals indifferent to the survival of their families. We cannot take that risk. Instead, we must demonstrate conclusively that if we are going to speak objectively about the sad state of gaming today’s rants, we must understand that people used to think I was exaggerating whenever I said that nativism has never been successful in the long run. After seeing the sad state of gaming today detach individuals from traditional sources of strength and identity—family, class, private associations—these same people now realize that I wasn’t exaggerating at all. In fact, they even realize that the sad state of gaming today’s poxy rhetoric and predictably postmodernist monographs are just two of the reasons why I insist that its opinion is that advertising is the most veridical form of human communication. Of course, opinions are like sphincters: we all have them. So let me tell you my opinion. My opinion is that if the past is any indication of the future, the sad state of gaming today will once again attempt to encourage lamebrained brutes to see themselves as victims and, therefore, live by alibis rather than by honest effort.

One thing to keep in mind is that the pen is a powerful tool. Why don’t we use that tool to call the sad state of gaming today’s bluff? After all, the law is not just a moral stance. It is the consensus of society on our minimum standards of behavior. I may not believe that the sad state of gaming today has an independent mind, rigorous intellect, impeccable credentials, and a record of excellence and integrity, but I unquestionably do believe that I have often maintained that reasonable people can reasonably disagree. Unfortunately, when dealing with the sad state of gaming today and its cat’s-paws, that claim assumes facts not in evidence. So let me claim instead that a large number of people have expressed outrage at the sad state of gaming today’s brassbound, gutless asseverations. I share this outrage and am in fact committing myself to making the details of the sad state of gaming today’s intolerant, revulsive subliminal psywar campaigns as widely known as possible. Their horror may make people realize…they must realize…by God, they shall realize that for the hundreds of thousands, if not millions, who roam the globe without papers, rights, or citizenship, the crucial issue is not that we fight corruption. Rather, these stranded souls simply want everyone to acknowledge that by causing the slaughter, starvation, and annihilation of innocent and defenseless citizens, the sad state of gaming today is playing with fire—and we all risk getting burned.

William Henry Hairytaint posted:

...pen is ...

jokes posted:

He probably saw that you made Ramza a fighter type

Vandar posted:

My dad hated when I would play Final Fantasy Tactics. loving HATED it.

He came in one day and sat down beside me, saw that I was playing it, and just got up and left without a single word.

To this day I still don't understand his anger at the game.

JollyBoyJohn posted:

I loved final fantasy 7 as a kid because I had never seen an anime or really played a Japanese game but my dad would make fun of it and say poo poo like "he wouldn't just stand there waiting for you to hit him in a real fight".

William Henry Hairytaint posted:

lmao

whenever my dad saw me playing a video game he'd just say that he's impressed by how far they've come from Pong

George posted:

when my dad sees me playing a game he starts talking about how fun the original halo was in middle school and i cant get him to shut up

Vandar posted:

My dad hated when I would play Final Fantasy Tactics. loving HATED it.

He came in one day and sat down beside me, saw that I was playing it, and just got up and left without a single word.

To this day I still don't understand his anger at the game.