ShallNoiseUpon posted:

I am going to take this opportunity to mention that throwing someone out of a window is an act called defenestration

ShallNoiseUpon posted:

Well, yes, the 1618 Defenestration of Prague was due to a protestant/catholic conflict and essentially kicked off the 30 Years War

Jay Rust posted:

Which game studios get cia money?

bone emulator posted:

Nier:Automata

Feldegast42 posted:

Infinitum posted:

You can play Hero Quest in the mean time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cx8sl2uC46A

ShallNoiseUpon posted:

there's an oolong called "duckshit" that people go sicko mode for

Waffleman_ posted:

And Gundam Evolution is still trucking along, god bless it. The new season is apparently going to come with a lot of updates to the game, so here's hoping.

Waffleman_ posted:

Yeah, it did a couple months ago.

Barudak posted:

When you decide to do a media dive, you go all in, dang.

Kerrzhe posted:

is the story any good

TheWorldsaStage posted:

Yeah they just hate it

LionArcher posted:

quit these forums about 6 months ago, and came back last week briefly while I had my first head cold in three years. (I thought it was covid finally getting me to start, but after a number of tests ever 48 hours for a week and other people who got sick at the same hang out all testing negative multiple times it was in fact just a head cold). It's been great to catch up on gaming questions, and chat about keyboards and great tv like the last of us.

But the Harry potter conversation reminds me why I quit, and why I'll probably be leaving again.

First, JK is a jerk. Nobody here is arguing against that. But when I see posts about how buying the game makes you a lovely person, that turns into moral high horse bullshit that's ridiculous and coming from always online people. (I'm not calling out any one poster, I'm more seeing this on twitter but wanted to vent for a second). Do you fly for vacation ever? Did you plan on children and have more than one? Do you own multiple cars (or other motor vehicles) not just for a job requirement, but for pleasurable activities? These are all easy to argue to be far worse ethical behavior then buying a freaking video game. I won't because that's silly, but if we're in ethics mode philosophy, it's easy to argue.

It's the same kind of silly thought process where we talk constantly about defunding the police, without taking into account how that messaging is silly and dumb, versus what we actually want (then not getting away with killing innocent people, corruption, bloated budgets, that sort of thing.

Lastly, I want to just say, my biggest annoyance about the JK stuff is people can't just talk about how she's problematic, they have to tear down her work as well. Yes, there are racist tropes. But her impact on getting multiple generations to read can not be understated, and as much as there is "better" writing out there, she really did bottle lighting, and as fellow writer, that should be appreciated. You can just not like her poo poo, but pretending it's all bad is... silly and puritanical.

I haven't pre ordered the game, and probably won't buy it new. (If nothing else, IGN showed it clearly needs an update or two). I'm in the middle of ghost of Tsushima directors cut, and loving it. I've got a huge backlog, and the next new game I'm probably buying is either advance wars on the switch or the best and hopefully highest selling game of the year, Zelda, tears of the kingdom.

LionArcher posted:

Like, I’m a loving ally. But

homeless snail posted:

consider, as Isaac Asimov once said, any sufficiently advanced machine gun is indistinguishable from magic.

Jay Rust posted:

Ok so here’s why I think pathfinder’s approach to magic is bunk: (also applies to d&d games)

At low levels you don’t get many spell slots at all, AND the buffs you cast don’t last long, maybe one or two battles. So after a few encounters, your casters are essentially bad fighters, spending the vast majority of their time missing their autoattacks.

Ten levels later, they have TOO MANY spell slots. Because most buffs’ duration increases with level, a single cast of a buff lasts a whole dungeon, so casters can fill their magic book with many more direct combat spells, and suddenly they’re OP as gently caress and become the best damage-dealers AND healers AND crowd-controllers in the game.

Is there no middle ground??

Escobarbarian posted:

This year I’ve completed Final Fantasy IV, Grapple Dog, and NORCO, and am in the middle of Persona 5 Royal and Pizza Tower, plus doing runs in Slay the Spire every so often (only got to the third boss so far, beat it but then it bloody resurrected or something smh). Will start Metroid Prime Remastered tomorrow, very excited to finally get to that one.

bone emulator posted:

In some places they refer to it as "rounding" a game, as in the way old arcade games just start over when you complete all the levels.

bone emulator posted:

I should probably have mentioned it's a European thing

Waffleman_ posted:

I enjoy that Live A Live doesn't really seem to have resource management. HP is healed after every fight and the only real "MP" is cast time.

Gaius Marius posted:

Sometimes I think about Blue Apron and lol to myself

Infinitum posted:

https://i.imgur.com/wGlMwVL.mp4

ShallNoiseUpon posted:

is it just like, the big green guy in space?

Jay Rust posted:

With citizen sleeper defeated i need a new switch game I can play at work. Recs welcome