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Guillermus posted:That's like 15 to 20 days in summer in Sevilla. Being over 40°C is just the norm in here. It sucks and you can only hide from it with air conditioning at home and also pay a gently caress all bill because we got a 44% increase on the price of electricity. The PNW rarely gets above 100 in the summer, and if Portland is anything like Seattle a lot of houses don’t have AC. Hope BP is staying cool.
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Eat My Ghastly rear end posted:The PNW rarely gets above 100 in the summer, and if Portland is anything like Seattle a lot of houses don’t have AC. Hope BP is staying cool. Gonna be interesting riding my bike to work tomorrow. Projected to be 100º by 10am, and by the time I'm riding to work between 2-3pm it will be 116º I've been in weather that hot in northern India, but I've never ridden a bike in it.  edit; also, I appreciate the concern, y'all. Doin my best, and I'm lucky overall. It breaks my fuckin heart to see people sleeping on the street during all this. I've been giving money and water whenever possible but there are just so many. BeanpolePeckerwood fucked around with this message at 10:24 on Jun 28, 2021 |
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Jun 28, 2021 10:19
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:Gonna be interesting riding my bike to work tomorrow. Projected to be 100º by 10am, and by the time I'm riding to work between 2-3pm it will be 116º Holy gently caress. Stay hydrated beanman. I grew up in Phoenix and I never want to live anywhere that regularly gets that hot ever again
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Jun 28, 2021 10:25
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lmao it's 2:30am and 87º out
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Jun 28, 2021 10:26
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:lmao it's 2:30am and 87º out 
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moving to a cold place was the best thing I ever did. I went from tropical heat where the nights are hosed up and sticky and gross to a place where it gets hosed hot for like a couple days but then it immediately cools off. Brisbane sucks rear end. I’m not suffering humidity again unless I’m in New Orleans getting crooked off of frozen drinks and eating fried oysters.
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Jun 28, 2021 11:02
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Never have I love Britain's grey cold skies so much
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RareAcumen posted:Also you're dealing with lycans in RE8. You haven't had to deal with straight up zombies since like, 6 I think? I don't know about the side games. 4 had Las Plagas, 5 was Majini but 6 had actual normal zombies in Leon's campaign at the very least I'm sure. You've not had to deal with just zombies since resident evil 1 in 1996. Theres only been 2 mainline games (and i guess rev 1, cos even rev2 had zombies) to feature no romero zombies, they switch it to voodoo type zombies instead. Its hard to believe but it really is the most consistent series to date. They only changed the camera angles and added in wwf moves sometimes.
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Jun 28, 2021 12:31
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CharlestheHammer posted:Though if you want Japanese history then Japanese invasion of Korea is interesting if a bid later and involves both Korea and China That game idea sounds like an international incident waiting to happen
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Jun 28, 2021 12:37
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JollyBoyJohn posted:Never have I love Britain's grey cold skies so much Yeah Ive never minded the weather in the UK, the only problem with it is being socially obligated to complain about it
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nachos posted:I think ghost of Tsushima is 10 hours too long so I’m with you there. But I’m also not a content/dollar type of person. Most AC players probably are and don’t mind the length. I liked Tsushima with some reservations but I think it's easily 50% too long if not more. There should have only been one island at most. Excessively long games like AC completely broke people's brains on what is "too long", IMO. If it's longer than 20-30 hours it's too long. At 50+ hours it's definitely padded. At 100+ you're just seeing copy-pasted stuff everywhere and content is often not even clearing the bar of engaging, not to mention interesting or worth playing. Saying this as someone who liked the Witcher 3  Though to be honest, I can't get to finishing the DLC despite it being one of my favorites games ever, because it's just way too loving long for me to ever replay.
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Jun 28, 2021 12:50
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20C and the suns out and I'm thinking 'phew, bit warm'
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Jun 28, 2021 12:51
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Vikar Jerome posted:You've not had to deal with just zombies since resident evil 1 in 1996.
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CharlestheHammer posted:Though if you want Japanese history then Japanese invasion of Korea is interesting if a bid later and involves both Korea and China That's probably never going to happen since it's an extremely sore subject to this day in Korea
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Jun 28, 2021 15:23
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AC Odyssey had some of the worst voice acting in a AAA game I've ever seen. 99% of the NPCs were extremely over the top Greek stereotypes that sounded like Rob Schneider in the you like-a the juice? SNL sketch
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Pablo Nergigante posted:That's probably never going to happen since it's an extremely sore subject to this day in Korea The invasion of 1587?
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CharlestheHammer posted:The invasion of 1587? I doubt anything involving Japan and Korea would be warmly received in Korea regardless of time period
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Pablo Nergigante posted:AC Odyssey had some of the worst voice acting in a AAA game I've ever seen. 99% of the NPCs were extremely over the top Greek stereotypes that sounded like Rob Schneider in the you like-a the juice? SNL sketch Ubisoft games in general have diabolical voice acting. Bring back Michael Ironside!
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Quantum of Phallus posted:which thread veteran, nay, thread LEGEND, wants to mail me a copy of Resi8 across the atlantic if you are serious I could handle it at cost.
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Jun 28, 2021 15:51
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Akuma posted:You mean there's been other enemy types since the first game? Well yeah but until 4 the Romero zombies were the standard enemies, and for the last two numbered games they've not really had zombies. The usual molded in 7 acted like zombies but weren't humans, the blood drained sword people in 8 looked like zombies but used swords. Zombies don't use swords! Occasional they may hold a gun and shoot it randomly though. oh yeah forgot about 7*, so thats 3. and yeah zombies were only ever the first tier enemies along with the zombie dogs, and then you had giant spiders, hunters, the flea things, sharks, crows none of them were zombies and thats canon. 8 is 100% zombies with swords and poo poo, they straight up bite you and eat you and its the same animations from re2r. they are classes as zombies internally too iirc from the leak. so the last 3 released games have had zombies in. i cant remember why were talking about this but yeah lol. *a case could be made for a different type of voodoo zombies than that of 4/5 too, controlling jack and the family. Vikar Jerome fucked around with this message at 16:06 on Jun 28, 2021 |
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Jun 28, 2021 16:01
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Question about RE8 (spoil it in case for other folk). Is it semi-open world? I spoiled myself a bit with some sort of hub zone and you have to take on four "bosses" and you can do it in any order. Was wondering if it's not as linear as RE7.
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Guillermus posted:Question about RE8 (spoil it in case for other folk). Is it semi-open world? you cant do it any order no, but it feels open, at the least the village but its very metroidvaniary like prior evils. i wouldn't say its linear because there are times you get to explore for secrets and poo poo or go back and find stuff you missed and theres subtle changes (like 7) Vikar Jerome fucked around with this message at 16:10 on Jun 28, 2021 |
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Cheers, thank you! Was just curious about that.
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4 had the romero house setpiece despite also having this: so I don't know what to believe any more
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4 is when they started moving away from zombies towards more generic action game bad guys.
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CharlestheHammer posted:4 is when they started moving away from zombies towards more generic action game bad guys. cept they didnt move away in the slightest but okay lol
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Jun 28, 2021 16:22
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in 7 you fight shambling undead monsters that might as well be zombies
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The idea that zombies aren’t overused in video games is pretty fuckin insane lol
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Guillermus posted:Question about RE8 (spoil it in case for other folk). Is it semi-open world? Most RE games are open in a sense that you have to figure out what is the correct path and you can go out of your way to find secrets / supplies. RE8 isn't really different but the village setting does give it a more open feeling
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RE8 is basically Zelda, you have a central area you have permanent access to and "dungeons" that unlock in a fixed sequence one at a time and can also be revisited at any time you aren't already deep inside a different one
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I was never really willing to consider “a whole mess of zombies” a separate game mechanic from “zombies” so the idea that Days Gone or World War Z we’re doing anything special really holds no water.
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Jun 28, 2021 16:48
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yeah sure like Left 4 Dead, Dead Rising etc were doing that years ago
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Vikar Jerome posted:cept they didnt move away in the slightest but okay lol 4, 5 and 6 nominally feature zombie-like enemies but they start using weapons and poo poo so I definitely see where that poster is coming from. Like, in all those games there's parts where the zombies straight-up use guns.
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I wish Dead Rising hadn't poo poo itself, 2 was so good
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my biggest gaming shame is not having the fortitude to get the mega blaster in dead rising
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Bust Rodd posted:I was never really willing to consider “a whole mess of zombies” a separate game mechanic from “zombies” so the idea that Days Gone or World War Z we’re doing anything special really holds no water. Did you play Days Gone or fight any of the hordes?
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fridge corn posted:Did you play Days Gone or fight any of the hordes? Why would anyone do that.
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fridge corn posted:Did you play Days Gone or fight any of the hordes? Yes I played Days Gone for about 25 hours and I have a pretty medium-high opinion of it. I liked the combat, I love horse games and this is a very good horse game, I really like Deacon because a violent lunatic covered in biker tattoos mumbling to himself is very resonant for me. But the “hordes” are just basically treating a lot of zombies on the screen as one large enemy that requires heavy weaponry to engage, and that’s something games have been doing since, like, Castlevania?
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Bust Rodd posted:I was never really willing to consider “a whole mess of zombies” a separate game mechanic from “zombies” so the idea that Days Gone or World War Z we’re doing anything special really holds no water. I don’t even think that’s what CharlestheHammer was saying. Someone misinterpreted it and everyone ran with it
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MechaSeinfeld posted:moving to a cold place was the best thing I ever did. I went from tropical heat where the nights are hosed up and sticky and gross to a place where it gets hosed hot for like a couple days but then it immediately cools off. Brisbane sucks rear end. Climate change is a bitch called gaea, and she's coming for us all. Portland's 'standard' weather cycle is 270+ days of rain and rather cool summers, and it was that way for more than 30 years of my life. The last half decade has demonstrated a remarkable shift from cool, wet, place, to an environment that experiences the rapid onset of extreme weather in either direction at least several times a year (crazy wind and ice storms that we never had before, insane wildfires, etc), before going back to drizzly rain. Such changes will spare no place on earth in the coming century. If PDX becomes too inhospitable to live in the next 2 decades then I'd prolly move to Detroit, but holy poo poo even Michigan is going to experience insane climate shift int he next few decades. Some predict that Michigan will be where the new wine industry ends up, that is if we don't completely ruin the entire possibility of functional agriculture on this continent very soon, which is more than likely when looking at the state of the topsoil. edit; 99º at 9:28am 
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