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Second visit to the dentist this morning (to complete the root canal now that the infection has cleared up, and get the temporary crown) much better than the first. I'm exhausted and a little cold, but apparently both of these are common side effects of nitrous.
Thank goodness we still had stuffing and mashed potatoes and gravy left over from the holiday, so I could fill myself with soft food before the Novocaine wore off.
As a bonus, I randomly discovered a play-online site for the dungeon-crawling computer game I was massively hooked on in high school, The Dungeon Revealed. 8-bit. Totally basic.
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Dungeon Revealed indeed...
I loved Twisted Metal and Need For Speed.
I would recommend the Driver series for you. It is a shame it didn't get more love.
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*SIGH*
The Neverending Battle of Winter continues.
GothBard and I grew up in environmentally- and/or energy-conscious households. We've done our utmost to drill that consciousness into our kids. Impus Major is fantastic about his own room, making sure his lights, his computer, his electric blanket, and his electric heater are off every time he comes out. Impus Minor rarely turns on his lights or leaves his room anyway, so it's hardly a feat for him to keep the lights off in his room.
And yet in the core of the house it's always the same. Every light stays on all day if I don't come in and turn it off. Someone walks into the living room, says, "Brr, it's cold," and cranks up the fireplace to 70˚F or 75˚F, then leaves the room 5 minutes later and leaves the fireplace burning.
Every single day I have to make 5-6 circuits around the house turning stuff off. And every single day I get complaints of, "Hey, I was using that!"
(No, you weren't even in the house when I turned it off.)It's an eternal aggravation: If you're in the habit of turning everything ON when you enter a room, why is it SO hard to get into the habit of turning it OFF when you leave?
You'll feel right at home with me and my dad. Growing up with only be able to heat one room has religiously drilled into us to close doors. Which, now that my dad lives in a house with central heating, still hapens. (heating only one room, as well as religiously closing doors).
Also, turning off lights. We're not providing light for the chickens you know.
Also I hate that MrT leaves lights on and doors open to the point I can yell "How do you know MrT has been in a room?!" to which he dejectedly answers "door is open and light is on".
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Oh, that's when I put it on easy mode.What is git gud, besides an example of either a primitive language or canonized misspelling established by lazy kids or a!#*@~+s on the internet.A general attitude that if you can't pick up a game sight unseen and immediately master it then you're unworthy of playing said game.
So if you want tutorials or a gradual introduction to the controls it makes you a worthless person who doesn't deserve the joy of gaming. You have to be able to master everything on your own by mashing buttons while dying over and over again until you've figured everything out without once looking for a guide or even the key bindings to figure out what you can do.
Usually not an option on said games.
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Usually not an option on said games.Oh, that's when I put it on easy mode.What is git gud, besides an example of either a primitive language or canonized misspelling established by lazy kids or a!#*@~+s on the internet.A general attitude that if you can't pick up a game sight unseen and immediately master it then you're unworthy of playing said game.
So if you want tutorials or a gradual introduction to the controls it makes you a worthless person who doesn't deserve the joy of gaming. You have to be able to master everything on your own by mashing buttons while dying over and over again until you've figured everything out without once looking for a guide or even the key bindings to figure out what you can do.
Then it's to the trash heap!
I also usually see if there's an honest game trailer before I buy a game.
What is git gud, besides an example of either a primitive language or canonized misspelling established by lazy kids or a!#*@~+s on the internet.A general attitude that if you can't pick up a game sight unseen and immediately master it then you're unworthy of playing said game.
So if you want tutorials or a gradual introduction to the controls it makes you a worthless person who doesn't deserve the joy of gaming. You have to be able to master everything on your own by mashing buttons while dying over and over again until you've figured everything out without once looking for a guide or even the key bindings to figure out what you can do.
That's how the games worked in general in 80s and part of 90s... You often had to guess the controls, though use of joystic being sort of standard controller helped a lot.
Except that some games were physically accompanied by a (usually) cheaply printed physical manual. Those that weren't were often described to a varying degree of detail in various paper magazine dedicated to games.
Honestly, I am not missing that part. Yes, there were some great games but there were tons of things that were really not that impressive, even for their time.
Dungeon Revealed indeed...
Aw crap. I'm dressed.
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Giant in the Playground is having a massive sale. I just scored the first two Order of the Stick books for my kids at 75% off.
I have finished Shadow Of The Tomb Raider. It was ok, its biggest issue that it was a third game predceded by two excellent games setting up the bar very high.
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Apparently, Freehold is on TVTropes.
I wonder who put him there.
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Gorbacz broke with the tradition and had not fell unconscious on today's session.
There was some leniency related to his 40th birthday the day before, though it was used more in the favor of the rest of the party during a rather unbalanced encounter (we are playing Paizo's the Slithering).
I don't really feel the appeal of New Game+ in Tomb Raiders.
Ok. Time to play a bit of Assassin's Creed. Starting with The Black Flag. Then we'll see.
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On the plus side, the pandemic has led me to experiment with RPGs and video games I probably wouldn't have considered a couple of years ago (it helps getting overtime on a regular basis).
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Apparently, Freehold is on TVTropes.
I wonder who put him there.
...I'm what?
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The Insane Biology of: The Octopus
its truly unfortunate they are so delicious.
I don't really feel the appeal of New Game+ in Tomb Raiders.
Ok. Time to play a bit of Assassin's Creed. Starting with The Black Flag. Then we'll see.
have you not played 1-3?
Gorbacz broke with the tradition and had not fell unconscious on today's session.
There was some leniency related to his 40th birthday the day before, though it was used more in the favor of the rest of the party during a rather unbalanced encounter (we are playing Paizo's the Slithering).
HAPPY BIRTHDAY GORBACZ YOU WEIRDO NOVEMBER SAGITTARIUS
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...I'm what?Apparently, Freehold is on TVTropes.
I wonder who put him there.
Scroll down in the section I linked. You and Mikaze are mentioned.
The quote from yesterday’s Strange Aeons PF game:
“WTF, it’s my birthday, man!”
The party rogue (played by FAWTL alum Patrick Curtin) was sneaking about a tannery while invisible looking for an outsider imposter. He got stuck in a room with a group of guards seated around a table (he got a really high Stealth roll, so they were unalarmed).
“What are they talking about?” Me: They’re planning a trip to a strip club.
Not seeing a way out of the room without alerting them, he finally pulled out his bow and started taking them out with sneak attacks. (Bear in mind, these are just hired guards sitting around a table.) The party rushes in and attacks. By the time the guards’ initiative finally came up, there was only one half-dead guard left.
He dropped his weapon in surrender and said, “What the f#%@! It’s my birthday, man!”
This will forever be our line whenever players go full murderhobo and slaughter enemies who weren’t even attacking them.
Snitches get stitches
Snitches get stitchesThe quote from yesterday’s Strange Aeons PF game:
“WTF, it’s my birthday, man!”
The party rogue (played by FAWTL alum Patrick Curtin) was sneaking about a tannery while invisible looking for an outsider imposter. He got stuck in a room with a group of guards seated around a table (he got a really high Stealth roll, so they were unalarmed).
“What are they talking about?” Me: They’re planning a trip to a strip club.
Not seeing a way out of the room without alerting them, he finally pulled out his bow and started taking them out with sneak attacks. (Bear in mind, these are just hired guards sitting around a table.) The party rushes in and attacks. By the time the guards’ initiative finally came up, there was only one half-dead guard left.
He dropped his weapon in surrender and said, “What the f#%@! It’s my birthday, man!”
This will forever be our line whenever players go full murderhobo and slaughter enemies who weren’t even attacking them.
But the liches get all the wenches.
have you not played 1-3?I don't really feel the appeal of New Game+ in Tomb Raiders.
Ok. Time to play a bit of Assassin's Creed. Starting with The Black Flag. Then we'll see.
I started 1 long-long ago and quit bored during the pikpocketing tutorial. I reach much longer in 2, which I ununinstalled from the laptop after I got the new computer in July, and haven't installed it again after the failure. I don't have 3 but I have Black Flag, Unity, and Origins.
I staarted the Black Flag - I have reached Havana for now but I have early feeling that it will get me bored or annoyed.
On the other hand I might be currently getting that reaction from more games than usual.
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Scroll down in the section I linked. You and Mikaze are mentioned....I'm what?Apparently, Freehold is on TVTropes.
I wonder who put him there.
Usually not an option on said games.Oh, that's when I put it on easy mode.What is git gud, besides an example of either a primitive language or canonized misspelling established by lazy kids or a!#*@~+s on the internet.A general attitude that if you can't pick up a game sight unseen and immediately master it then you're unworthy of playing said game.
So if you want tutorials or a gradual introduction to the controls it makes you a worthless person who doesn't deserve the joy of gaming. You have to be able to master everything on your own by mashing buttons while dying over and over again until you've figured everything out without once looking for a guide or even the key bindings to figure out what you can do.
Then it's to the trash heap!
I also usually see if there's an honest game trailer before I buy a game.
Not only do the Souls games not have an Easy Mode - deliberately, by the creator's own statements - but the community is vehemently against them having one, claiming adding one would "ruin the experience" and "cheapen the efforts of people who did it 'properly'."
THAT is what "git gud" means. Not just what NH already outlined, but the deliberate gatekeeping of anyone who would wish to participate in the community but can't meet whatever bar the game has set.
I have finished Far Cry New Dawn—apparently I stopped three (rather irritating) fights and a shot out away from the ending. The last two fights were a medikit crafting slugfest...
The game is beuatiful but it has some poor design choices - mainly the annoying enemy/weapon tiers that makes low tier weapons completely useless later on. Some characters are ok, if not particularly creative, others are rather meh, and sadly, that includes borings main antagonists...
Lets hope Far Cry 6 goes closer to Far Cry 4 in that. Latin dictator has a potential for stylish hamminess on par with Pagan Min.
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Scroll down in the section I linked. You and Mikaze are mentioned....I'm what?Apparently, Freehold is on TVTropes.
I wonder who put him there.
I am a part of internet history forever.
Apparently you should. I am of the cat now, as I am part of the internet.
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Freehold can haz cheezburger
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Random Question for the Group:
Is the "first week of December" this week, or next week?
GothBard feels that since more than half of this week is in December, this week (November 30-December 6) is the "first week of December".
I was curious how other people interpret this phrase.
I usually refer to Dec 7-13 as "the first *full* week of December", and I agree that this is technically the first week.
Also, VE gets cookies.
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Yeah, this is the first week of december
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I usually refer to Dec 7-13 as "the first *full* week of December", and I agree that this is technically the first week.
Also, VE gets cookies.
I second LM's interpretation.
At work, if/when someone says "We're thinking the 1st week of December," IT always responds with "Please give us specific dates for your timeline and we will meet those dates."
I usually refer to Dec 7-13 as "the first *full* week of December", and I agree that this is technically the first week.
Also, VE gets cookies.
it is supposed to be next week, yes.
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This is the first week of December.
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Ugh. Power has been out for more than 90 minutes. I’m sitting in the twilight darkness, listening to the sound of my neighbor’s generator and my tinnitus.
Nothing a .45 cal Desert Eagle can't cure. Will simultaneously take out that generator and help you hear your tinnitus more clearly!
That's what you were complaining about, right? Did I get confused again?
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Ugh. Power has been out for more than 90 minutes. I’m sitting in the twilight darkness, listening to the sound of my neighbor’s generator and my tinnitus.Nothing a .45 cal Desert Eagle can't cure. Will simultaneously take out that generator and help you hear your tinnitus more clearly!
That's what you were complaining about, right? Did I get confused again?
There are few problems in life that cannot be solved with a .45 cal Desert Eagle.
It was a very cold and frustrating day, but it's all good I've already figured out a few solutions to try out tomorrow.
It was kind of cool to put a spare water bottle 2/3 full on top of a shut down water fountain and watch it freeze before my eyes while I worked.
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This is the first week of December.
I'm pretty sure it's Monday.