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I'm level 43 in terms of time played and it's wearing a bit thin on me only because half of the maps range from bad (King's Row) to cancer (Hanamura) and it feels like some rotate much more than others. Maybe it's the lack of competitive mode too but it feels stagnant. Also the dumb bullshit heroes and the awful tickrate to help people on dialup. All I wanna do right now is buy a 1080 though but they go out of stock in two seconds.
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This thread is lovely. How far out of politics can we go? I think I have something like 600 shitposts in Bernie threads, and enjoy Something Awful more than ever. I was thinking about starting a thread in You Look Like poo poo about gymnastics and training connective tissue, does that mean I have to know what I'm talking about? How much work should I put into an OP? Factorio is great. I bought the Starcrafts instead of Overwatch with my limited game budget, and because someone mentioned the Steam sale on controllers ( I want to say NumberLast?) I blew 85 bux on the Steam link and a Controller. Soon I can Factorio from my bed instead of sleeping! I'm playing Khan Academy like it's a part time job though. I can math! You can learn anything! Yay!
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It's just hard to do open world right, mgs v gained absolutely nothing from it and is in the same 'aggressively mediocre' bucket How does Khan compare top coursera, I tried that for a bit but it didn't grab me.
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Solvent posted:This thread is lovely. How far out of politics can we go? I think I have something like 600 shitposts in Bernie threads, and enjoy Something Awful more than ever. I was thinking about starting a thread in You Look Like poo poo about gymnastics and training connective tissue, does that mean I have to know what I'm talking about? How much work should I put into an OP? It wasn't me because I would never say anything to facilitate the sale or use of Steam controllers.
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Jun 9, 2016 07:24
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I love Lynda. It's pricey but the quality of the tutorials is totally worth it imo.
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Well, and here's the million dollar question, what were you using it to study? I find intro course trend to have a ton of polish, but that standard drops fast. If Lynda is different then that's interesting. rudatron has issued a correction as of 07:40 on Jun 9, 2016 |
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NumberLast posted:It wasn't me because I would never say anything to facilitate the sale or use of Steam controllers. Wait what, are they bad? rudatron posted:How does Khan compare top coursera, I tried that for a bit but it didn't grab me. Oh, well I'm not terribly familiar with Top Coursera, but from what I see on google, they're similar in the way that you can find a thing and learn about it. I haven't tried a lot of the things in Khan, but I recently watched his hour long series about WW2, and it was just something interesting to see. Apparently they are developing more courses in history with a quiz at the end, to see how well you paid attention. So, it's simple? Thanks for mentioning it, I looked at some of the courses offered and they're really interesting! Learning how to learn looks really useful, and I'm trying to transfer to UCSD, where the course comes from, so that's definitely near the top of my list now. Where I'm seeing Khan Academy shine is with math. I never went to high school, and now I'm in college, so all the reading and keeping myself informed over the years never taught me algebra. Now I have to take chemistry, and I don't like feeling stupid, so instead of sitting around in what is to me an incredibly boring 4 unit class, I can do the self paced math, and learn from videos. I don't feel chided by a machine telling me I'm wrong about a problem my friend's 12 year old son can do in his sleep, so that helps, and it seems really good at speeding me through things I understand, and presenting new avenues into things I don't. The badges and points looked dumb at first, but after you get a couple hundred thousand of them, they are a nice extrinsic reward. You can also chart your progress, and there's lots of graphs to show you what you've been doing, and how you're doing with it. I'm hoping to progress through algebra by the middle of next month, so I can take a placement test, and be able to take that chemistry class in the fall.
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rudatron posted:Well, and here's the million dollar question, what were you using it to study? I find intro course trend to have a ton of polish, but that standard drops fast. I've been using it to learn programming and app development. Never done coding before so I've been starting from scratch. The quality of the courses vary more based on who's presenting than what the course is covering.
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NumberLast posted:I've been using it to learn programming and app development. I'd honestly thought Lynda was a person. It seems to cost money. I'm guessing it's worth it? Code academy is free! Have you tried it?
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rudatron posted:It's just hard to do open world right, mgs v gained absolutely nothing from it and is in the same 'aggressively mediocre' bucket witcher 3 is probably my favorite game since ??? and I feel it gains more from being open world than it loses then again I am a broke brain who still plays skyrim 5 years after release so I don't think I represent the interests of your average person. also thanks thread for telling me about khan academy because I feel in the 3 years since highschool that I've lost basically all my academic knowledge. Man Whore has issued a correction as of 07:59 on Jun 9, 2016 |
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Solvent posted:I'd honestly thought Lynda was a person. It seems to cost money. I'm guessing it's worth it? I haven't tried Code Academy but I like Lynda and have access to it for free. 
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Solvent posted:Wait what, are they bad? In my opinion, yeah.
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NumberLast posted:I haven't tried Code Academy but I like Lynda and have access to it for free. Lucky! Man Whore posted:witcher 3 is probably my favorite game since ??? and I feel it gains more from being open world than it loses then again I am a broke brain who still plays skyrim 5 years after release so I don't think I represent the interests of your average person. Dude, me too! On everything but witcher. I couldn't get into it for some reason, dunno why. But seriously though, I started with arithmetic for that same reason, I was so behind when I started, but the way that KA works, they blend the skills, so now I've "mastered" almost 90% of arithmetic and at the same time, gotten %60 through pre-algebra and about %10 through algebra. I have a really good friend with a disability that severely restricts her movement, and she's been depressed since she had to move back in with her parents in rural Montana. She was feeling really trapped, and since I told her about KA, she's blazing through it, and it opened a whole world of opportunities for her! gently caress yeah internet! NumberLast posted:In my opinion, yeah. Huh. Guess I'll find out when it gets here if I agree with you. The link seemed cool since I can stream movies from my PC with it, and almost all of my games are on Steam. The controller is something that it's designed to work with, so I figured "what the hell".
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I can't deal with KA. Every time I loaded up KA while in school it would be for a single, specific point that I was missing. But its strength - methodical, comprehensive walkthroughs of concepts and problems - made it frustrating for me to watch.
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i have a $500 pc i built in 2012 and run overwatch on good graphic settings fine, if your computer can't run overwatch you probably need a new one lol
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Overwatch is the most generic looking pos, looking as inoffensive as a toy in a happy meal box. No wonder Hillary supporter sheeple like that poo poo.
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Jun 9, 2016 10:00
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videogames for adult men: CMANO chess CS:S and maybe now HOI4
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Jun 9, 2016 10:22
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if theres interest we should totes play a big multiplayer game of HOI4 here in ycs
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sanders peeps can turn their countries communist trumps have the fascism and uh hillary people can get stuffed or maybe be the democratic countries fascist america is pretty fun to play (dibs)
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If the game is historically accurate then playing US anything is basically cheating. Also what's c your opinion of stellaris, I've been having fun with that.
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Man Whore posted:I hope overwatch burns out fast because if I got to go through more than two more weeks of this poo poo I will toxx myself from life. Like I'm sure its fun but as someone allergic to blizzard, I am just drowning in overwatch and its army of memes. It's weird, Skyrim is the TES game I have played the least, by far - though I still have a good 200 hours into it - but I couldn't put down FO4 for two months and I'm playing it again and have nearly 400 hours in it on steam. I feel like there's a lot of interesting nook and cranny stuff in FO4 that just wasn't there in Skyrim - the overall game was probably better and the game world was certainly more elaborately designed but I felt like I ran out of places to go in Skyrim early on and way too many of the dungeons were just "RADIANT QUEST DESTINATION #363" with nothing interesting in them, not even lore notes or interesting secret rooms. I have to give Bethesda a lot of credit because with FO4 you could tell they took a long, hard look at NV and why hardcore fans liked NV so much more than FO4. Not all of the ideas translated over but the focus on more interesting locations and less on elaborate plot points and "world lore" have kept me playing. I'm always finding new poo poo I just didn't know was there, I figured I would have exhausted it by now but I can't imagine I've explored more than 60% of the game world and I don't play slowly. I'm pretty burnt on Blizzard stuff and the idea of deliberately starting a competitive FPS with BlizzBalance makes me want to augur out my eyeballs with an icepick. I'll wait until it's cheap, if I pick it up at all. Mirthless has issued a correction as of 14:12 on Jun 9, 2016 |
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Also the giant underground dwarven city with almost no quests was a huge wasted opportunity and all the unfinished guilds piss me off, finish your poo poo Bethesda  hoping those skyrim remastered rumors are true and that they also take the time to pick up all those unfinished questlines and flesh out those boring dungeons
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I actually totally forgot about that place, it was pretty You just know some designer at bethesda is so loving sad their gorgeous environment get totally undermined by how absolutely boring the game is you wander around and it's just same old same old I blame the radiant system
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video games are bad and for children except candy crush I love candy crush
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under the principles of juche, video games are a bourgeois distraction from our glorious potential. big fan of hearthstone here
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NumberLast posted:It wasn't me because I would never say anything to facilitate the sale or use of Steam controllers. 
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NumberLast posted:I haven't tried Code Academy but I like Lynda and have access to it for free. also: https://itpro.tv/ <- good site for IT training videos.
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Solvent posted:
I love my steam controller I just never use it as it takes some time to learn it and I mostly play MKB games at my PC.  It's still great though
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I have been trying to not be on SA as much at work because we are swamped busy with writing procedures and some lab instrument poo poo. But, here I am. I was doing so well.
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I post the most when I'm super busy but still don't have to start doing work just this very second to finish in time
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rudatron posted:I actually totally forgot about that place, it was pretty Radiant questing was so stupid. It was neat the first dozen times but eventually you realize the game is just a bunch of blank spaces to shove radiant quests into and it just takes all the fun out of exploration.
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I'm currently reading Nixonland, and it is probably the best journalistic book I've ever had the chance of reading. I knew so little about the racial tensions in 1960's USA, it's really eye-opening. I couldn't believe the "casual" murders by national guard and police in Newark and elsewhere. Also Black Panthers walking around with law books (as legal backup) was a nice touch.
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mike12345 posted:I'm currently reading Nixonland, and it is probably the best journalistic book I've ever had the chance of reading. I knew so little about the racial tensions in 1960's USA, it's really eye-opening. I couldn't believe the "casual" murders by national guard and police in Newark and elsewhere. Also Black Panthers walking around with law books (as legal backup) was a nice touch. panthers owned, rip
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ThndrShk2k posted:How'd ya snag that? Through the company I work for.
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Pragmatica posted:I have been trying to not be on SA as much at work because we are swamped busy with writing procedures and some lab instrument poo poo. I'm on vacation at my parents' right now so yesterday I walked around and ate chowder and fudge, and today I'm gonna try to emulate Persona 4. Turns out the PS2 has some kind of 'extensive catalog' I never knew about.
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Mirthless posted:Radiant questing was so stupid. It was neat the first dozen times but eventually you realize the game is just a bunch of blank spaces to shove radiant quests into and it just takes all the fun out of exploration. Yeah I felt this way after doing the main quest and the big side quests (companions, dark brotherhood, thieves), but the daedric artifact quests are fun, and by the time I realized how shallow the radiant quests were Id already enjoyed like 60-70hrs of the game, which Im perfectly fine with compared to most games.
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