Empty Sandwich posted:

another problem I'm having with P:WotR is that despite my years of D&D this high-level Pathfinder stuff is inscrutable.

thoroughly enjoying this game I'm having Problems with though

I can't remember the details but ropekid had a story about some developer who really loved rangers and was determined to get them beefed up in one of the BG or NWN games

e:

hell yes

Leal posted:

Ropekid was the one who worked on New Vegas right? I randomly think about the person who was mad that confirmed bachelor made his character gay

Desert Bus posted:

Why is the "Something Awful Legends" thread so so often about video games and youtubers?

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The Maroon Hawk posted:

Turdiak

fr0id posted:

I would like folks to stop bothering Lurdiak and trying to mine more comedy from him. You had a thread. It was goldmined. Stop trying to get blood from a stone. Stop harassing someone on their YouTube and otherwise in the hopes of finding another nugget of comedy. Please don’t run this into the ground by harassing someone in the hopes of one more bit of comedy. Bad jokes aside, dude has helped with promoting a lot of SA community,especially the horror commmunity.

Games wise, I recently figured out I could hook my gaming laptop (lmao) up to my tv and use a controller. What are some good pc games that work well with a controller?

Thank you for your help and for listening.

fr0id posted:

Like I said, call out that it’s not funny to keep harping on it and harass the dude. Which is happening. And regardless of previous thread it’s lovely to bag on the dude. “Oh no I was just owning him in this one thread and didn’t think people would try to gently caress up all of his public poo poo after someone looked up his public poo poo and made fun of him for it!” A lot of the stuff posted about the dude is not readily available and comes from people who either know the dude or know someone and we’re able to post his off site stuff and were willing to throw him under the bus.

I would just like for folks to acknowledge that it’s not cool to keep harassing the dude.

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American McGay posted:

Roth posted:

I remember I clicked on the video earlier, saw one comment that said 'Turdiak', chuckled, and then closed the tab.

Fajita Queen posted:

Just a couple weeks ago a guy got permabanned for starting a LP thread about some creepy underage dating sim, even

pog boyfriend posted:

the "Big Three" of cinema.,

• Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams
  
• A Knights Tale
  
• Funny Games (*)
  

(*) for maximum viewing experience, make sure to watch the first half of funny games 1997, then switch to the remake after the bet is made

16-bit Butt-Head posted:

i played the barkley 2 demo and it was the most miserable game i have ever played with only one good joke

pentyne posted:

did you get the daki?

16-bit Butt-Head posted:

i didnt give the barkley 2 kickstarter 100 dollars

FrankieSmileShow posted:

Made some good gun's last night on my stream, made about 44.
About 798 total gun's down. Only about 962 to 1122 to go! (actual numbers)
I'm in a gaddam gun drawing binge, watch out!!


About this conversation on the weapon saving and gun system...
I made the initial weapons system Bisse had to rewrite...... whoops....
I made a lot of things we needed to remake later in fact, like the initial enemy AI system, which Bisse vastly improved to make more modular and robust.
I'm really glad Bisse joined the team, hes got some real programming chops! I don't really have that experience yet, I'm really more used to working on small projects, nothing with that kind of scale and need for flexibility.
I'm glad I could focus more on art and animation this past year!

Guns have lots of little stats to keep track of.
They have a type, material and various properties like this, but individual stats used for their growth as well.
Wont go into details there, theres a lot of that we want to keep secret.

When I initially made the system for them, I didn't organize their stats to help save them easily, because I presumed they would be constructed in a way that you can just easily "re-generate" them using their few basic traits.
Like, you just need to save a few stats and properties along with a random seed number for the randomized elements of gun generation, and you could feed that info into a script, and it could re-generate the gun the same way every time.
That allows you to save a gun with 150 variables with just like 6 values or so from which you can just extrapolate the details from.
Its what DeepQantas was asking about a few posts back. Lots of things generated randomly can be compactly saved that way, like randomly generated mazes and stuff like that.

But the gun's ended up more complicated than that! Gun's aren't just born from a few stats and properties, they are fused together many times in a way that gets increasingly more complicated to "re-generate" after the fact.
You wouldn't just have to save the one gun's properties and seed, but a list of all the various gun's that were fused together up until this point, like a gun's whole ancestry line, in order to recreate the newest gun properly.
That gets very awkward to save, its a lot simpler to just save every stat of the gun at that point.

Also, working with a seed would mean any updates to the gun generation, fusion system or gun's themselves would likely break save compatibility and give some weird results.
This is what I understand about the gun rewrite, though there may be other reasons too.

Fusing gun's in that way was the plan from the start, I just failed to foresee that issue when I made the initial system for it.


Speakin of gun's, going to make more of em right now! Maybe another 44...?
Check my stream here: http://www.twitch.tv/frankiepixelshow

FrankieSmileShow posted:

Here is a screenshot of the periodic table of gun materials that Bhroom made.

We came up with most of these materials together, but he figured out how to arrange them, and this all worked, as absurd as it was.
There was another chart where you could select two materials and it showed you the result.
The idea was to have the resulting materials of a fusion seem random to the player at first, but every material combination always having the same result meant people could "map" how the combinations work, and eventually maybe actually realize the full horror of what we made, this table above here.

Some of these gun materials I later worked on to make their shots have more personality, and that was a lot of fun. The Klispin (I think we renamed it Marble?) gun fired spooky ghosts that hunted down enemies and moved through them (basically the wraithverge weapon from Hexen), the pinata gun fired candy, the yggdrasil gun left behind a trail of nature, grass and flowers growing, the crystal gun shots exploded in random shrapnel, while the diamond gun exploded in shrapnel flying in specific angular directions, the fungus gun fired floating spores that spawned mushrooms when it hit the ground, the imaginary guns were all Hoopz just holding nothing in his hands, firing invisible hitscan bullets and making gun sounds with his mouth, and was supposed to be more powerful the more innocent Hoopz was (basically the less time passed I think the stronger it would get? Im not sure we ever implemented that idea though!).

FrankieSmileShow posted:

Here are the pistols for every material!



There were also flintlocks, machine pistols, revolvers, magnums, flare guns, rifles, muskets, hunting rifles, tranq rifles, sniper rifles, assault rifles, submachine guns, heavy machinegun, gatling gun, minigun, mitrailleuse, shotgun, double-barreled shotguns, revolver shotguns, elephant guns, crossbows, flamethrowers, rocket launchers and BFGs

For the sprite of the gun in your characters' hands, I had put together a basic system so that the guns roughly look like some simplified version of those pictures. I made a white, shaded basic sprite for 16 facing directions for every gun type (pistol, shotgun etc) that we could apply a blending color to, and added an extra layer on top that highlights specific parts of the gun (like the cannon or the stock) that could have a secondary color. So for instance, the Francium guns (glowing green with yellow/black warning labels, fourth from the bottom in column 4 up there) had a green main color and a secondary yellow color. Not enough to actually look like the weapons shown above, but enough that you can differentiate them at a glance a little in your own hands at least, which was the important part so you could quickly mousewheel through your arsenal and know what you are using before firing or looking down at your HUD.

Desert Bus posted:

Why is the "Something Awful Legends" thread so so often about video games and youtubers?

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pentyne posted:

this is what I remember, the gun materials periodic table

i dont know why Barkley 2 failed but this is probably a good example of it

VostokProgram posted:

whats the thread title about

VostokProgram posted:

whats the thread title about

VostokProgram posted:

whats the thread title about

Bogart posted:

Some wojack Reddit le epic meme bullshit. Not worth knowing.

Occupy Japan posted:

Also please note that The Zybourne Clock is not the title of the game itsself. That will be decided upon later.

Barudak posted:

I finished Disco Elysium and boy that ending sucks.

I also somehow managed to beat the game and earn 0 achievements so go me.

Barudak posted:

Didn't help the cryptozoologists so no bonus
Reported the body instead of solving it so no bonus
Didn't attempt an impossible check so no bonus (can fix this I guess but why the gently caress is this of all things connected)
Told the music kids trying to start a drug lab to gently caress off, no bonus
I have 6+ hours before I can do the gun quest so I can fix this, but still possible to not get this bonus and now that I've looked it up and desparate to not have to keep reloading Im changing the outcome Im choosing to avoid no bonus
Didn't go on a weird date by abusing my rank with a woman with a dead husband so no bonus
No credit for the murder reconstruction I think for missing the gunshot wound, no bonus

Pablo Nergigante posted:

Don’t forget the Fire Emblem Reverse Recruitment Hack.

Fajita Queen posted:

Just a couple weeks ago a guy got permabanned for starting a LP thread about some creepy underage dating sim, even

Fajita Queen posted:

ah yes, dark titsanime

16-bit Butt-Head posted:

killed in the dragon ball z thread of all places

Fajita Queen posted:

The way he tried just ignoring everything and posting through it sure was something lol

Fajita Queen posted:

The way he tried just ignoring everything and posting through it sure was something lol

Fajita Queen posted:

Just a couple weeks ago a guy got permabanned for starting a LP thread about some creepy underage dating sim, even

Fajita Queen posted:

ah yes, dark titsanime

The Saddest Rhino posted:

He had a steam curators list that people would subscribe to because everyone thought he was ironically recommending the most depraved visual novels on the platform but then it turned out, as a big non surprise, that he was being sincere

pentyne posted:

this is what I remember, the gun materials periodic table

i dont know why Barkley 2 failed but this is probably a good example of it