Dumb Sex-Parrot posted:

Djynn Flyssa. I vaguely recall he and another goon wrote a hosed up porn fic involving the both of them and posted it in their helldump thread.

16-bit Butt-Head posted:

I played the new Mario Party game last night.

For some context, I'm trying to get ~*~my wife~*~ into video games so I thought this could be a good game for that. I've never played it but I know people who have and they recommended it as an obvious choice for a lighthearted party kind of thing. We set it up so it was her and me against two CPU players set on Easy just to mess around. Started playing on Yoshi's island or whatever the level is called.

We were having a great time right up until the very end of the game. In the board game, there's a mechanic that can randomly swap all stars and coins between any two random players. Not either stars or coins, but "Player A gives all of their stars and all of their coins to Player B in exchange for all of Player B's stars and coins. Two turns before the end of the game, where my wife and I had both earned a good amount of stars and coins as I was helping her out with mini games and figuring stuff out, and we were kind of clobering the CPU characters, this happened to my wife. A CPU character landed on a special event spot where that character has to roll to determine two random characters to swap a random collection of their resources. The dice was rolled and boom. The situation was Character C landed on that spot and rolled dice such that that my wife's character had to trade all of her stars and coins (like, 3 stars and 90 coins) with CPU character D, who had played the whole game poorly and had literally 0 stars and like 3 coins... two turns before the game ended, leaving my wife's character coinless and starless, and the "Easy" CPU character sitting with tons of resources.

Can anybody explain to me how this mechanic doesn't invalidate literally the entire game?

At that stage of the game, you're literally trading your entire game's progress with somebody else. It's not even internally consistent. What is the point of even having a board game format that tracks stars and coins and whatever else at all if there's a mechanic that just randomly swaps literally every resource owned by one character with another character with literally nothing either character can do to influence it? So you spend the entire game playing well and racking up points and there's only one or two turns left in the game? Guess what? gently caress you! This other character landed on a spot so now everything you have done for the entire game goes to that other character who sucked at everything and has nothing, and there's nothing you can do about it, and you have no time to make up any of it. Have a great day!

So I'm honestly asking, why does the board game part of Mario Party exist at all if it's just chaos and nothing matters and anybody's points can go to anybody else at any time because gently caress you? I realize I'm getting more annoyed than I should but I was excited to be able to play video games with my wife, and I think this poo poo has put her off them for a good while, and I don't blame her. Why would anybody play any game with a "progress" system if out of nowhere, without warning beforehand, it can just be completely invalidated at any time with no ability to influence it?

So, yeah. Sorry for blowing up, but based on this event alone I'm saying the game sucks, is bullshit, and shouldn't be played by anybody.

Dongicus posted:

A flight of stairs... the obese brotherhoods one weakness.

Frank Frank posted:

Lmao 16BBH. You trolled the dog murder guy so hard he autobanned. That’s amazing.

Upgrade posted:

what’s the opposite of stolen valor

EorayMel posted:

Do you think cinci zoo sniper cranked all that out in 10 minutes or carefully pieced it together over the past several days in preparation of losing the star

Stux posted:

yeah andth ey also havnt posted since this

pentyne posted:

hearing this in Brian Blessed voice

Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:

lobster shirt posted:

i gotta play yakuza

Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:

gbsshitter

Frank Frank posted:

Goddamn the voice acting in the new advance wars game is grating as hell

16-bit Butt-Head posted:

lol every time at larry

The Kins posted:

If you give me a character creator, half the time I'll create an overweight, vaguely European fisherman with too much hair, a handlebar mustache and an alcohol dependency called Pedro. There's no reason for that, I just thought it was funny once and am now doomed to keep doing it.

vyelkin posted:

Marcade posted:

They found that crows that were run over were overwhelmingly hit by trucks.