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an actual dog posted:In addition to the 401k, you really just need the one Vanguard account. It does the diversification and balancing for you, and as you get closer to retirement it becomes less and less risky. Okay, thanks. When I say fiddle I just mean looking at what funds my money is going into and thinking about each year of my life until 2050 and getting that middle class depression, but you've provided a lot of good advice. I'll take a serious look at the Vanguard Target Retirement fund you linked. CharlieFoxtrot posted:Yeah those apps are good for people who can't get themselves to save because it does it automatically, but if you are committed to putting money away and have the leeway, might as well try to minimize the middleman and deposit it in big chunks. Acorns makes it money through fees just like any other investment firm, and also probably from taking advantage of those pennies before they get officially invested for you. Thanks for this, too. I hadn't heard of the Coverdell ESA or 529 funds but I will. Looking over some of the initial investment requirements, I should probably hit that 3-6 month salary savings first. I appreciate the assistance; I'll mull it over.
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Whomp Hilarity Comics Oglaf Perry Bible Fellowship A Lesson Is Learned But The Damage Is Irreversible Pictures For Sad Children Achewood Manly Men Doing Manly Things Awkward Zombie Life In Aggro Those last three are decent gaming themed webcomics
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Feb 16, 2017 16:21
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CJacobs posted:Not anymore now that it's been nuked from the internet! Goon elektroboot has a laptop with most if not all of the PoSC archives because John Campbell auctioned off his/her laptop and it still had the files. I'm not sure why they hemmed and hawed about uploading them somewhere until X-O closed the thread but the obvious answer was  https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3805183
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Feb 16, 2017 18:25
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Captain Invictus posted:Campbell is such a shithead, it's a real shame they went nuts and are trying to erase every trace of their existence and art from the internet He ended his legacy by suddenly deciding to become an insane scam artist and lord knows what he's doing now. Like, the only step forward after making a video of yourself burning the copies of your book that people have already paid for because you "ran out of money to ship them" when your $8000 Kickstartr netted you over $51k is to change careers entirely and never draw enough attention to yourself that someone makes the connection. It's frustrating to watch someone with talent be blind to it and self-destructive, but so it goes.
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Feb 16, 2017 18:51
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I swear to god, if World War 3 breaks out and delays the US release of Persona 5 AGAIN I am going to be mighty steamed.
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Feb 16, 2017 21:29
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precision posted:I was just saying we've found about a dozen of them in sale bins that she likes and was not prepared for the blowback for committing the apparently great sin of liking something stupid in the Games chat thread It is OK, people just like to be a little argumentative because they want to have fun. Some people think that there is an objective measurement of how good or "cool" something is or isn't, but nobody's perfect. I have a Winnie the Pooh and a Tigger Funkopop figurine in front of me at work, and my wife has a Batman in her office. I also have a minifig of myself that a friend made me (the same friend who made my avatar). Check out my crew: 
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plz dont pull out posted:What was the worst webcomic y'all read regularly? I dropped xkcd after checking it for a chuckle for years. I've left a lot of webcomics on the side of the road and now I only read Whomp on the reg. I read the webcomics thread in the forums though, so I guess Goblins. Or Oren Otter. I don't have a lot of control over what goes on in that place.
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Feb 16, 2017 21:48
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The first girl I dated in high school lent me her annotated copy of Johnny the Homicidal Maniac. But that's not important. What is important is that no one has mentioned Hark, A Vagrant! and we should all feel a little bad about that.
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Feb 16, 2017 22:31
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I remembered the webcomic False Negative, which is a great anthology of horror and sci-if stories. Each one is only a few pages and they lead into each other smoothly so you can really lose yourself for a few hours. In Training posted:The wonderswan seems like a cool rear end console Yeah. I think the Neo Geo Pocket has better games but the WS has better graphics no argument. I honestly don't know much about the WS line up, but that's kind of indicative of its quality too.
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Feb 17, 2017 04:35
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Maybe we can finally hammer out the definitive, objective list of the best final fantasy games of all time. I think I'll make the one safe choice and put Final Fantasy III DS at the bottom of the list. I look forward to the constructive and well-reasoned arguments the thread has for the other titles while I go elsewhere and wait for this to die down.
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They call it Final Fantasy because it's a name you immediately know, and if you haven't been following game news but hear that Final Fantasy XVI is about to be released it reminds you of the previous games and hopefully gets you interested. They draw from a shared pool of characters and themes, and because the Final Fantasy name holds a lot of clout they can funnel barrels of cash into the project while another team works on more traditional turn-based RPGs like the Bravely series. And nothing says the next FF game won't go back to a turn-based format, but how far back should it go? Allies on the right, enemies on the left? Swooping camera? Should it include an Auto button that makes the tactical choices for you? Action RPG like Lightning Returns? Programmable behaviors like FFXII? Luckily, almost every game in the series was made with care and the quality means that you can always return to them. Aside from maybe two titles, none are devoid of any redeeming features, and since they make for a diverse catalogue not liking VIII doesn't mean you won't like IX. We're fortunate to live in a world with a pool of solid RPGs under the Final Fantasy umbrella. But you already knew this. Time is a cycle that can be measured in "moments since everyone talked about their opinions on a popular series" and "moments until everyone talks about their opinions on a popular series." It's like the forums are breathing.
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The main program we use at my work is broken and I have been sitting at my desk for hours now with nothing to do but read forums and shitpost, AMA.mfcrocker posted:FF14 is fantastic and it's easy to not worry about being in an MMO when the music/setting is that good It's a great MMO that really improved after a very rocky start. The Fall and Rise of Eorzea is a good video series about how bad it was before A Realm Reborn. Seriously, go find a picture of one of the area maps before the reboot and marvel at its endless grid of identical boxes. When I played, I did so on the PS4 with a controller. Playing a Monk class that way was very fun and more engaging than I would have though given my experience with other MMOs. I mean, it's still repetitive and you're going to be using the same set of skills over and over and over again, but I could easily lose myself in the game for hours doing Leves or quests. I got burnt out in the series of fetch quests that buffer the story between the end of ARR and the first expansion.
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Feb 18, 2017 14:42
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Those screenshots on the right would sell me on this in a second. It shows off two different perspectives, an elevator sequence that breaks up the "move right and shoot enemies coming from the left", a variety of movement paths and some Geiger-style organic horror. Compared to some of the bare-bones arcade games from the 90s, I'd be psyched to see this was coming somewhere close to me. Of course, it's hot garbage compared to the arcade game Alien vs Predator.
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Good morning games chat thread. Today is President's Day in America, which means I don't have to work. It also officially marks the first nationally recognized holiday honoring Donald John Trump. Because this fact makes me want to commit high treason, I will instead share some of my Steam keys from the Freedom Humble bundle and things I've had laying around. PM if you want the code for one of these games, and later today I'll post the rest in the Steam code sharing thread. On the table are: 2064: Read Only Memories Guacamelee! Gold Edition Guacamelee Super Turbo Championship Edition Mini Metro No Time To Explain Octodad Dadliest Catch The Stanley Parable Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery EP System Shock Pack Uncanny Valley Labyrinthine Dreams and here's one I accidentally generated the code for despite already owning the game, so it's free for the fastest. First come first serve and since I'm not working I won't be in front of my computer all day, so keep that in mind. LawfulWaffle fucked around with this message at 05:23 on Feb 21, 2017 |
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ONE YEAR LATER posted:President's Day is honoring George Washington's birthday, Trump Day hasn't been officially adopted yet. Phew. Thank you for that fact. Edmond Dantes posted:Don't have PM, any way I could get Nuclear Throne? Cheers! I don't see why not. Post your SteamID and I'll send it there.
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Is there a thread for cool videos and gifs of stuff in video games? Not necessarily glitches or griefing, but just a place to dump cool clips and to see other cool clips?
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ImpAtom posted:Yep. Super Robot Wars V. Are there plans for a NA release or will it require importing from Play Asia?
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ImpAtom posted:No announced plans and it's pretty unlikely. Direct importing is your most likely bet. I've dabbled with translated patches of the SNES one and I think the GBA one (if there is a GBA one, idk). I'm not a big enough anime fan to get all the references but I admire the bombastic combat scenes. I also have a hard time with the core strategy game tactic of baiting by leaving one unit out for the enemy to attack, like APCs in Advance Wars, so I tend to take more casualties than I'd like. Still, if it was cheaper than $80 to give it a whirl I definitely would.
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Feb 23, 2017 20:55
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Phantasium posted:Gradius V loops have you go back in time, R-type final is the one where the last stage is a silhouette of two people loving on a red background. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aj5zItGCI4E You'd need a heck of an imagination to get much out of it, although you could maybe say the position at 5:50 is the sex number position (69).
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Feb 23, 2017 22:28
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The Neir LP was a good read and more enjoyable than my attempts to actually play the game
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I'm pretty sure the android naming convention in Neir 2 signifies their role. 9S is a support character, 6O and 21O are Operators, and there's a 2A character I would classify as Assault or Aggressive. With that in mind, I think Neir 2 stars a character name "To Battle" and I think that's pretty cool. I won't be surprised if there's a Shakespeare reference too but I'd prefer it if the plot was about sending the android To Battle to battle with the objective to battle.
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Feb 24, 2017 18:04
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Jay Rust posted:What I want to see is an end to female action stars wearing high heels and running, that stuff is just crazy! This clip's cut weird, but there's an episode of the X-Files where Scully and Mulder meet actors who are going to play them in a movie. The Scully actress asks Gillian Anderson to show her how to run in heels. That's what's going on in the background. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSbPdnlwg30
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Bunch of ninnies in this thread. If I turn on a game and don't achieve a half-mast erection within the first 20 minutes the game's a dud. I should never be more than 10 button presses away from an upskirt shot, any time a character is introduced it should focus on their rear end and cleavage first (and if it's a boy ew get out of my game go find some yuri junk to gross up dude), and all movement and combat sound effects should sound ripped from a heavily pixelated porn. I want special scenes of each character with their clothing damaged and with tears in their eyes. I want to pay $10 for swimsuit costumes and I want to spend quality time moving the camera in a way that makes the digital character uncomfortable. I want games with a diverse cast of characters who are all between 18 and 35, white with huge knockers. I'm okay with characters looking younger so long as they are a demon or a witch or something and actually much older, but I will always prefer a character who bends over a lot and wears revealing clothing but isn't bothered by it. I want my games to have mandatory bath scenes and for the artists to challenge themselves by censoring the characters with as few soapy suds and possible. I want mini games where I and touch and poke my characters anywhere I want and for however long I want, and I want to be called "teacher" or "big brother" while I do this. I want a game where I can never be sure where the official art ends and the fan made porn begins. Fortunately for me, I have no shortage of games that cater to my special tastes.
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tap my mountain posted:I'm really curious what the ingame reasoning for her outfit is, considering how the only people on the planet are other robots. Are the humans on the moon who designed her supposed to be a stand in for the skeevy audience? "I designed a character to be super sexy and make my penis happy but she's a robot and sexless so it's okay, not creepy" -Taro Yoko Sex sells. Games as an industry and a market is dominated by males. It's just the same pin-up body type from every other game with some shreds of clothing to give cosplayers another half-naked hero to dress as. I'm reminded of the Bayonetta 2 story where Platinum sent their proposed Peach and Daisy costumes to Nintendo for approval and Nintendo sent them back asking if they could be made more sexy.
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smuh posted:Boy, I was looking through my PS4 screenshots (both taken by me and ones that the ps4 takes along throphies) to delete most and make room and I realized that holy hell, games this gen look incredible. Like I actually want to replay my entire library now just because of how good they look, I just kind of feel like sticking the camera into every texture and closely watch every animation to marvel how god drat far we've come in video game graphics. Even very lackluster games still manage to look crazy detailed and immersive in a random still shot. Like loving Killzone SF. That game's bad but dude just look at it I think about this too sometimes. Like, take a copy of the upcoming Mario or Zelda titles and step back to 1989 and show your younger self. Part of me thinks that it would be too advanced to the point where the viewer can't even understand what they are watching. Like stories of Aztecs not being able to see the Spanish boats on the water until they were practically landed because they had no frame of reference for what was approaching. I'll turn on Breath of the Wild and YoungWaffle's mind would censor all the graphics and gameplay because nothing anywhere comes close to that.
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bloodychill posted:I have the App Store version. It's really good, but yeah, not exactly worth the investment if you don't already have a smart phone or tablet. Is it worth playing single player against the AI? Or do you play it with friends? I said come in! posted:Night in the Woods looks like a cute game and I want to play it. If you think it looks cute I think you'll like it. My wife is playing through it and really loving it. Its similar to Life Is Strange with the ages of the protagonists, the thoughtful personal interactions, and the tinge of fantasy realism. Night in the Woods hasn't hit any supernatural elements quite like LiS yet, although I think it's coming. So far it's a lot of walking and talking with some jumping, flavored with side elements of Guitar Hero and Hyper Light Drifter. I think that if you do not see the humor in the word "adulting" you probably won't enjoy the game, but it has good characters and dialogue and honestly you already know if the game is something you're into.
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I'm excited to play as Paul and none of the other characters because I'm a sucker for boxers in games. He shall join Street Fighter's Dudley, Punch Out's Little Mac, and Big Bang Beat's Burai in my gallery of preferred sweet scientists.
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Lurdiak posted:He has a Little Mac skin. 
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I love Paul's constant Bruce Campbell-esque grin while I punch on dudes. Noticed some typos and bugs, but nothing game breaking right away. One thing I really don't like is dying over and over. Aside from a soda machine in the tutorial I haven't found a single healing item, and the game kinda of gave me the middle finger in the arcade where there's a shuttered snack shop, a restroom that is definitely not a safe save room, and a boss that took 3/4 of my life with one move. When I wanted to quit I had to run through seven screens to get to a save point. I'm still going to play more of it, it's just a little frustrating up front.
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precision posted:The very genre it operates in excludes it from ever being "really that good" though it may well be "good" or possibly as much as "pretty good" but the core problem with Press A Go Right games is that there are never any bloody consequences or context!!! Counterpoint: The consequences are gaining stats and moves and the context is that Slick stole your girlfriend. It's the best co-op action RPG on the NES.
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In Training posted:They should make a new Zelda II like Capcom treated MM9/10 I would recommend the DS game Adventure Time: Hey Ice King, Why'd You Steal Our Garbage which faithfully copies the top-down overworld and side scrolling stages from Zelda 2. It also has a catchy theme song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaQeXmIj8Ds I would recommend this guy buy a cage for his frog but if I had access to an alien death buggy I would probably look for excuses to use it too.
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Big lol at 18:00 (I time stamped the quoted video for your pleasure)
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Lurdiak posted:It never, ever occured to me that those moves would get removed in the full game. The original RCR has a comparable number of starting moves, but the game is built around enemies getting naturally stunned, which allows you to do knockdown moves. This game's knockdowns come almost entirely from the combos you execute, so taking those combos out means enemies just don't fall, which is insane. This was really noticeable when switching from Paul after I had learned a few moves to Provie with basically nothing. Just a kick and chop that don't really combo well. It's also kind of a bummer that there's no notification for what the level requirements for the learnable moves are, so when I save up enough scratch for Viper Bite and run through a dozen screens only for the guy to be like "nope" i wasn't thrilled. I also have a problem with the way moves are listed in the menu, at least for Paul. I bought a jab, a straight, and a hook and the command for all three is "punch". I think a slightly more detailed combo tree would help me reliably punch nerds in the optimal fashion. I'll PM you a few things I noticed for you to share with the backer board. I'm a little critical of the game but it's far from broken. I trust Lurdiak's opinion that the developers will be able to iron out the wrinkles in time. My advice would be to head west to the sauna once you get free rein, as it increased my max HP by 50% for $5.50. Then find the park that connects to the sewer and use those screens to grind out some cash. March thread suggestion: Springtime for Zelda: Automata
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