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A Fancy 400 lbs
Jul 24, 2008
That's so bad that when I didn't read what you were quoting I assumed it was what the daughter made for the RPG Maker Camp thingy.

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A Fancy 400 lbs
Jul 24, 2008
Grognards is an old rear end term. Wargamers have been calling themselves grognards for probably 30-40 years. Just with a quick search I found a wargaming FTP archive from the early 90s called Grognard, and an article attributing the the term to a 1970s wargaming magazine.

A Fancy 400 lbs
Jul 24, 2008

BattleMaster posted:

I did? As I said I literally asked a lawyer member of the group what legal consequences there would be.

Anyways the only reason to buy a handcuff key is really to look tough in front of other gently caress the police types. You try to actually use it to free yourself and... yeah

Only if you're not :black101: enough to actually get away.

A Fancy 400 lbs
Jul 24, 2008

Prop Wash posted:

The method used was some sort of Twitter-style follower generator - it took a bunch of last names, google image searched and grabbed an icon picture, and distributed random first names. So a guy with the last name of Washington has a user picture of George Washington, etc., etc... the problem was that one of the last names they grabbed was of a woman recently in the news for having been kidnapped.

Polygon and a few other gaming sites ran articles where they claimed they couldn't see anything wrong, which raises more questions than it answers with regard to the quality of journalism these days. Anyone with a brain that looked at that list for more than a couple of seconds would very quickly realize that something wasn't right.

And for the record, since then the devs have first pretended nothing was weird, followed by thanking the VAST MAJORITY of real backers while claiming total ignorance on the others. Then they posted terrible fan fiction of their own game. The game itself legitimately belongs in this thread because it looks awful.

Other way around, they took first names and grabbed pictures based off that then added random last names.

A Fancy 400 lbs
Jul 24, 2008

The General posted:

I've never even started a car. I think I tried once when I was 10, but pussed out and didnt start it.

Are you trying to tell me you own a car insurance company but have never started a car? Likely story. :colbert:

A Fancy 400 lbs
Jul 24, 2008
I thought clothes to show you're single were called jorts.

A Fancy 400 lbs
Jul 24, 2008
Softcore anime porn basically.

A Fancy 400 lbs
Jul 24, 2008
gently caress it, I threw in $25 too. If we can take a Haitian education center and help them fund a now internationally award winning book printing program, we can fund some random dude's hot dog place no problem.

A Fancy 400 lbs
Jul 24, 2008
I had to cancel my pledge due to some car repair issues, but hopefully you guys can take him all the way!

A Fancy 400 lbs
Jul 24, 2008

QwertyAsher posted:

because she said "combat in rpgs is often chronically unfun and used as a means to pad out the length of a game by having a bunch of grinding between two story points."

and she was right and the internet went total loving crazy about it.

I absolutely loving hate grinding to the point that I've hit brick walls in multiple RPGs because I had parties at like half the level I needed for an area because I skipped filler combat(for example I was 20 levels underlevelled for the CPU in Final Fantasy IV, and you can't leave that area to go back to an inn or store :smithicide:), but that's not what she said. She was talking about being able to remove all combat which at that point why even bother making it an RPG instead of an adventure game? The solution is to properly balance the encounter design and leveling, and have an interesting combat system, not to remove all combat.

A Fancy 400 lbs
Jul 24, 2008

Alan Smithee posted:

The Rock is gonna go Galt on your rear end

So he's going to get huffy at your rear end then go sulk in the corner?

A Fancy 400 lbs
Jul 24, 2008

Orzo posted:

What's your problem with this Kickstarter? It got funded and is clearly being actively worked on towards completion as evidenced by a recent beta release, which is more than you can say for most gaming kickstarters. How exactly did Molyneux 'steal' from anyone?

You have to click on houses sometimes to get resources, so people played like five minutes and then flipped their poo poo about how it's "obviously" just a Farmville clone now even though playing for more than five minutes reveals that it, in fact, is not. He even said he's considering changing the mechanic to mousing over the houses to harvest it now because people threw so much of a poo poo fit, even though the tech tree gets you a mechanic like an hour in max that makes it so you don't need to click individual houses to get enough of the resource.

A Fancy 400 lbs
Jul 24, 2008
Build settlements dumbass.

A Fancy 400 lbs
Jul 24, 2008

makomk posted:

Having read the Kickstarter comments and looked at the review videos, you don't just have to click on houses to get resources, you also have to wait for real-time timers that are several minutes long to count down before you can click the houses, and you can pay "gems" in order to skip the waiting which will be purchasable using real money. (Oh, and after the first five minutes the game mechanics mean you spend more and more time waiting and less time clicking.) I've no idea why anyone could think it's a Farmville clone though!

You build Settlements to collect a large area of houses resources into one statue, you mine gems not buy them(when you click the gem counter there's even a big popup saying there is no store), and again, using the settlements means you honestly only need to make a couple clicks every half hour or so for more of the resource than you'll be able to use in that half hour unless you literally just sit there clearing mountains down to the groundwater level or spam super expensive powers on open ground for shits and giggles. 90% of the complaints are dumbasses making assumptions wrongly, ignoring clear instructions from the game(and the fact that it's only ~40% complete) or doing stupid poo poo on purpose and then complaining that the game is bad when you purposefully try to play it wrong. Honestly, I click less to get resources in Godus than I do when playing an RTS(sending harvesting units to different resources points and the like).

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A Fancy 400 lbs
Jul 24, 2008
I live in a farm town in the rural midwest and I've still never seen it called corn hole by anyone but someone trying to sell something related to it.

A Fancy 400 lbs
Jul 24, 2008

Kro-Bar posted:

What the gently caress is "cornhole"? You throw bean bags through a hole in a board that's sitting on the ground?

I'm guessing the "cornhole" name came from bags made with burlap and corn kernels being an easy and cheap home made bean bag if you're out in the country, if it's not just a modern made up name, but honestly everyone I know calls it bags or bag toss. It's just something to do at family/friend get togethers like graduation parties and the like.

A Fancy 400 lbs
Jul 24, 2008
By the way, the new patch for the beta of Godus that came out today just rebalanced the entire early game. This time it only took me 30 minutes to get settlements. The early tier buildings now give you belief when you release a new believer to build a house, and the amount of belief you get from clearing the environment seems to have been upped too.

A Fancy 400 lbs
Jul 24, 2008
I'm not super familiar with spectrometry, but from what I am, 99.9% sure that's a scam. That kind of spectrometry involves throwing extremely highly energized subatomic particles at the object and measuring what comes back from a poo poo ton of angles. That ain't all fitting in that thing. My bet? It has a camera and searches an image database and sends results back based on image similarity.

A Fancy 400 lbs
Jul 24, 2008
I know I posted this in the Kickstarter thread in Games last night, but it deserves to be in this thread too. This is an actual promotional picture used in an update for the delusional, goon-run, all-volunteer City of Heroes ripoff MMO City of Titans:


They've raised over $400k.

A Fancy 400 lbs
Jul 24, 2008

Zybourne Clock posted:

Is that lady firing her MS Paint laser at Metal Skin Man's pigeon, or is the pigeon firing a beam from its head and is the lady trying to catch it?

It's an illustration of how you can customize the visuals for the powers.

A Fancy 400 lbs
Jul 24, 2008
The competitive Starcraft 2 themed visual novel just reached its $7k goal with an average pledge of ~$46. Finally, the crossover market of "eSports" shutins and weeaboo shutins has the product they've been clamoring for.

A Fancy 400 lbs
Jul 24, 2008
Even a knife or a gun might not be useful against a "bulky" 5'4" goon. What if the blade or bullet get embedded in his fat?

A Fancy 400 lbs
Jul 24, 2008
I have a feeling that 99% of the people buying those shoes are "gently caress you dad, you can't make me go to church!" atheists.

A Fancy 400 lbs
Jul 24, 2008

TetsuoTW posted:

I think you might be lowballing that a little.

There's always joke purchases.

A Fancy 400 lbs
Jul 24, 2008
I edited out my name. Looks like shockingly, IndieGoGo might actually do something about Tentacle Grape.

A Fancy 400 lbs
Jul 24, 2008
A chain letter is more of a response than I've gotten from them when reporting issues trying to pledge and the like, so that's why I'm thinking they're actually doing something. Maybe they've just gotten slightly less poo poo customer service since then though instead.

A Fancy 400 lbs
Jul 24, 2008
Man, it's almost like there's a reason people put preservatives in food. Really makes you think.

A Fancy 400 lbs
Jul 24, 2008

DStecks posted:

Subtitles pretty much always poo poo up a game's title, especially if it's not a sequel. Spec Ops: The Line might have sold better if it didn't have a title like a 00's shovelware shooter.

Spec Ops: The Line actually was a sequel to a series of early 00's shovelware shooters.

A Fancy 400 lbs
Jul 24, 2008
I'm not saying it's a good title, I just thought it was kind of an ironic example to pick.

A Fancy 400 lbs
Jul 24, 2008
That's terrible even by "really bad amateur anime" standards. It's at the low end of even DeviantArt quality.

EDIT: The game, not that kickin rad pec pad.

A Fancy 400 lbs
Jul 24, 2008
Premium bluetooth wallet? I'll take 10.

A Fancy 400 lbs
Jul 24, 2008
LMFAO, the lowest tier to include the movie is loving $50. What an overinflated sense of self-worth.

A Fancy 400 lbs
Jul 24, 2008

quote:


jason payne about 16 hours ago
What happened

Come on dude, it's not a long or unclear update...

A Fancy 400 lbs
Jul 24, 2008

eithedog posted:

This is so over the top that I can't belive it's real.

C'mon (from the kickstarter page) https://s3.amazonaws.com/ksr/assets/002/168/835/dc8d8acc5ff009cbfaad96a5a8056383_large.gif?1403207684

It's so obviously a wanky art student's project.

A Fancy 400 lbs
Jul 24, 2008
I've seen waaaaay too many people seriously defending donating to it to believe that the majority isn't real donations.

A Fancy 400 lbs
Jul 24, 2008


of course the people defending potato salad donators are amanda palmer defenders, lmfao

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A Fancy 400 lbs
Jul 24, 2008
Isn't that Every Day Tray literally an MST3K invention exchange invention?

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