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it seems like it would be easier to just make giant monsters that aren't arachnids but wdik
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kazil posted:why can't people just ration away their irrational fears?? That's what I don't get though. I loving hate spiders. If I see a spider, you better hope there are no woman and children between me and the escape route, because I am going to be throwing some elbows hoofing it out of there. But... what is scary about a digital spider? It's not even a pic/vid of a real spider. It's fake, can't touch ya or nibble ya bum. Plus if they're in a game, that usually means you get to kill them. I have IRL destroyed a table because I saw a spider on it and my fight or flight kicked in and I fugued out and kick-stomped the table into the floor to try and kill the spider. And yet digi-spides don't bother me at all. If some has an irrational fear of spiders worse than I do, so much so that they can't even stand a game spider, I can't comprehend how they even life their life. If they see one, does their entire body instantly invert and teleport into the 8th dimension or something.
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Apr 28, 2023 00:25
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The stated reason Valve are dropping Windows 7: Chromium Embedded Framework. That and future Windows features/updates they might make use of. https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/4784-4F2B-1321-800A
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Apr 28, 2023 00:26
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I generally agree that game spiders are not actually triggering the part of my brain that screams at real spiders, the Fallen Order ones were more annoying than scary with their back attack deal but also go play Dark Messiah again and then we can have the “video game spiders aren’t the worst” discussion.
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Apr 28, 2023 00:28
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I like the idea that people aren't already watching movies while playing games.
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Apr 28, 2023 00:31
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:That's what I don't get though. I loving hate spiders. If I see a spider, you better hope there are no woman and children between me and the escape route, because I am going to be throwing some elbows hoofing it out of there.
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Apr 28, 2023 00:31
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The 7th Guest posted:You might appreciate indie game Kill It With Fire Hmm, looks like it gets some deep discounts at times. Gonna pick this up the next time it's on sale. Cheers!
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Apr 28, 2023 00:40
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Wiltsghost posted:Steam client got an updated look apparently. Something not mentioned in this post: skinning the client seems to be dead, the choice is gone from all the UI and it boots you out of anything you try to load
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Apr 28, 2023 00:41
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:That's what I don't get though. I loving hate spiders. If I see a spider, you better hope there are no woman and children between me and the escape route, because I am going to be throwing some elbows hoofing it out of there. Different degrees of it for different people. I have an irrational fear of heights, and while it doesn't stop me from playing games, there are some that freak me the gently caress out.
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Apr 28, 2023 00:46
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Wiltsghost posted:Steam client got an updated look apparently.
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Hmm, looks like it gets some deep discounts at times. Gonna pick this up the next time it's on sale. Cheers! It's also on Gamepass if you got it! I've been meaning to check this out as well and this was a nice reminder. I think they also have a free demo/prequel chapter on steam called Ignition: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1291500/Kill_It_With_Fire_Ignition/ In other news, I've recently been going through a bunch of roguelikes to test them out: Revita: unfortunately this one really didn't grab me. Part of it was personal annoyances from me, like how I don't like that our gun is a disconnected entity that is awkwardly behind our sprite and fires pathetically weak and inaccurate bullets, and how I know the whole health=currency symbol is gonna add so much stress for me. But part of it also felt that the combat and general progression and power-ups and everything felt very bland and unexciting: room after room of these cramped arenas and boring enemies being fought with my peashooter. It is very stylish looking and perhaps gets better later on, but I think it's a pass from me. West of Dead: I like the idea of this hybrid between strategic management of cover and flanking while also being fast-paced like a top-down shooter, but it ends up being a weird Frankenstein monster where the controls feel torn between the two genres and just feels bad, like how your aiming is really imprecise since the crosshair stops short a few feet form you and you keep getting too strongly magnetically attracted to cover. Apart from that, the levels felt pretty bland and slow, and also there is so much unskippable talking that was irritating me and felt like they were just being overindulgent with their VO (though I'll admit it probably gets better, most likely just a lot for now since it's beginning tutorialization). Going Under: I actually tried this a long time ago but passed on it, only to revisit now and quite enjoy myself! There is a somewhat imprecise wibbly-wobbly chaos to the animations/combat that can make telegraphs and dodges and such vague at first which annoyed me back in the day, but once you get used to it, I found the combat to be quite fun: gives me Dead Rising feelings where you're just improvising with found weapons and chucking stuff about, smashing someone over the head with a laptop for an electric shock bonus and then wailing on them with a pot plant. Story was fun as well, though it might irritate some people with how overly, I dunno, smug? Progressive? Straw-man-ny? Cringy? It can be. I kinda lost interest in the latter half where they make you rerun the same dungeons over again for the second time, but it was nice while it lasted and I could see myself going back again later. Anyone have any impressions on Ember Knights? I'm a bit hesitant to check it out since it's in early access, but I'd love a good coop beat-em-up RPG hybrid like Dragon's Crown or Wizard of Legend or the Gauntlet games and was wondering if this would fit the bill with the way it's developing. FutureCop fucked around with this message at 01:29 on Apr 28, 2023 |
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/DailyJSurvivor/status/1650934448492257285 It should replace the spiders with more spiders Hwurmp posted:Oops! ALL Spiders
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People seem to be apprehensive about Polychromia. I went straight to the full game and so far the curve has been gradual. Combining the various colours is much easier than it might seem initially. The game is also very relaxing, so it's hard to get mad at any one puzzle in particular.
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Apr 28, 2023 01:24
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Mr.Acula posted:People are seriously such pussies these days lmao Maybe they're just trying to make a play for an Innovation in Accessibility award.
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secretly best girl posted:Something not mentioned in this post: skinning the client seems to be dead, the choice is gone from all the UI and it boots you out of anything you try to load Oh ffs. End of the era truly. I no longer use anything that supports custom skins. 
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The 7th Guest posted:squad goals gently caress yessssssssssssssdsssddssssssssss
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Hogama posted:Edit: After typing all that, though, duh, the specific thing about those instructions is just asking the staff at the place you found the note. You'll get a new dialogue option that you were supposed to "Ask for Garcia" and the person working there should give you something to start the job. I'll keep this in mind for one of my current side-jobs where I need to find someone who is 35, with green eyes, tennis elbow, and high blood pressure. No other information. I kept it active in case I got lucky while doing other cases. At some point the game has shifted away from a detective game and more toward being a cat burglar game. Maybe around the time when I essentially tossed half of an entire apartment building looking for one dude, stealing everything of value in the process. Not sure. I also suspect that my last murder case bugged and the game won't move on even though I turned it in and got paid and everything. I've been past the murder scene a few times while doing side-jobs and it's still taped up with a guard outside, it's been over 5 hours and no new murders have happened. No idea if it's supposed to be regular or if it's all RNG.
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The 7th Guest posted:squad goals Dominions' Colossal Stone Head making a cameo appearance, I see.
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The spiders in Dark Souls 2 and finger spiders in Elden Ring give me the big ick!!! 
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The ones in Grounded are scary af. I don't fault anyone for turning those off.
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Squiggle posted:I don't like them at all but knowing that the big limbless orb or large cute creature or whatever they replace it with is actually an invisible, monstrous, secret spider wearing something else's skin is worse. It's why the fuckin mimics in Prey suck so much. There are spiders all around you. They could be anything... or anyone
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What's the general feeling on Weird West? It's 60% off right now and that's got me tempted.
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ultrafilter posted:What's the general feeling on Weird West? It's 60% off right now and that's got me tempted. I think it's on gamepass if you want to try it there
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Owl Inspector posted:I really can't believe how good pentiment has been The walls having the kids' drawings on them is so loving great knowing how Paul had to hide his love for art from his piece of poo poo dad, and seeing him encourage creativity in his own kids to break that cycle is the best 
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ultrafilter posted:What's the general feeling on Weird West? It's 60% off right now and that's got me tempted. It was pretty fun but about 1/4 longer than it needs to be (i never finished it, for what that says). It's a hoot seeing what kind of crazy poo poo you can do with the physics systems though. There's mod support now and some good ones it looks like on the workshop but I haven't tried any. 60% off is a pretty good deal for it imo. Edit: here's the thread I made for it a year ago, you can get a feel for the goon consensus: [https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3998883&pagenumber=1&perpage=40 Eason the Fifth fucked around with this message at 06:22 on Apr 28, 2023 |
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Apr 28, 2023 06:18
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Jerusalem posted:The walls having the kids' drawings on them is so loving great knowing how Paul had to hide his love for art from his piece of poo poo dad, and seeing him encourage creativity in his own kids to break that cycle is the best Not gonna lie, this hit unexpectedly hard  I initially wasn't sold on a perspective shift to someone who you haven't gotten to know during the rest of the game (my closest guess for how this would play out would have been Caspar) but this has actually been a brilliant way for the story to show the impression Andreas made on the townspeople and the legacy of choices in acts 1 and 2 a full generation later, like seeing Matilda and Wojslav together with the knowledge of how it could have ended for her in act 1. what a journey this game has been.
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:That's what I don't get though. I loving hate spiders. If I see a spider, you better hope there are no woman and children between me and the escape route, because I am going to be throwing some elbows hoofing it out of there. Wasn't there a thing about play-testers for Half-life 2 reacting really badly to the poison crab things? Like, a visceral hate for them, even if the play mechanics didn't make them out as worse than any other jumping annoying thing? In real life, I try to be nice to spiders and carry them outdoors or whatever without harming them, but in games? Spiders are an awful, horrible thing that usually by game design are meant to come at either me or my little pixel mans, stab them and probably poison them too. Spiders in games? Bad news. poo poo, there's that spider event in FTL. I think the news is, kill all spiders in games.
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:That's what I don't get though. I loving hate spiders. If I see a spider, you better hope there are no woman and children between me and the escape route, because I am going to be throwing some elbows hoofing it out of there. Rappaport posted:kill all spiders in games.
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Something Awful, of all forums, shouldn't be the ones making fun of what other people don't want to see or are afraid of seeing.
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I have no personal feelings on the matter except that I believe these so-called "Arachnophobia Modes" are misnamed. I think they should INCREASE the amount of spiders.
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Phobeste posted:My gamer, windows 7 is almost old enough an sa moderator would not be interested. It is time to move on My other PC runs Win 7 still because upgrades to Win 10, both in place or fresh, make it hard lock. Maybe Win 11 is ok, but I'm not pleased I have to do something about it. e: and if I ever write a game, arachnophobia mode would start out fine and slowly everything would become more and more spider-like. Free exposure therapy! Gromit fucked around with this message at 08:24 on Apr 28, 2023 |
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Leal posted:Something Awful, of all forums, shouldn't be the ones making fun of what other people don't want to see or are afraid of seeing. exquisite tea posted:I have no personal feelings on the matter except that I believe these so-called "Arachnophobia Modes" are misnamed. I think they should INCREASE the amount of spiders. Agreed, replace all spiders with goaste.
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exquisite tea posted:I have no personal feelings on the matter except that I believe these so-called "Arachnophobia Modes" are misnamed. I think they should INCREASE the amount of spiders. 
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Ciaphas posted:brains don't give a poo poo about what's rational, i realize this is shocking news to someone who literally lost consciousness and destroyed furniture in response to a scare Spiders don't bother me in particular, but I'm not embarrassed to admit I lost my poo poo when I found a Huntsman spider in my bedroom once and chased it across the room spraying a can of raid and clobbering it with a block of wood so hard its legs flew off
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spiders are powerful friends to all of mankind. overcome your fear by visualizing the ten thousand insects crawling all over your body that the spiders nicely caught and ate for you to save you from.
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Foul Fowl posted:spiders are powerful friends to all of mankind. overcome your fear by visualizing the ten thousand insects crawling all over your body that the spiders nicely caught and ate for you to save you from. One Weird Trick Tantrists Hate!
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Cool Kids Club Soda posted:Spiders don't bother me in particular, but I'm not embarrassed to admit I lost my poo poo when I found a Huntsman spider in my bedroom once and chased it across the room spraying a can of raid and clobbering it with a block of wood so hard its legs flew off the spiders you can see are fine, its when you know they're there but they've disappeared that you start to wonder. i remember as a teenager id have a huntsman in my bedroom every so often and just ignore it, until just before i went to bed it'd disappear from its ceiling corner. and so during the night while sleeping i'd sometimes move and touch my face or something and snap out of my dream, absolutely convinced that the spider was in the bed with me. so you get out of bed, check around a bit, dont find poo poo.. alright, back to sleep i guess? although one time i was driving my beat up commodore on the highway and a cockroach or spider or bug or something started climbing up the back of my neck, that was very real.. had to grab it one handed, open the window and fling it out. same car had a huntsman chilling out in the boot for a while, now that i think about it i had very very cheap cars and had no garage to park them in so i guess it was inevitable boofhead fucked around with this message at 08:55 on Apr 28, 2023 |
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I drove a Tandy, myself
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Some jumping spiders wear water droplets on their heads in case they get thirsty. Video games always put the creepy spiders in & they should put the cute ones in instead.
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