Quote from: Flee on January 24, 2018, 04:32:00 PM

Quote from: The Lord Ruler on January 24, 2018, 04:20:01 PM

Cocaine

Legally?

just get a doctors note

Born too early to explore the stars, born too late to get a cocaine prescription for ghosts in your blood. Feels bad man.

they let me use the BIG squeegee

Even I am jealous of this.

Cocaine

Legally?

I've been watching some competitive Rainbow Six on Twitch. You should be playing on PC dude.

"A other Saiyan tried to become a Super Saiyan 5 but failed and died due to the fact that he was like Goku, he was a nice and supportive person and he did not have any anger, so Vegeta was the only person to use this form. Vegeta thought this form would beat Goku in power, but Vegeta did not get to fight him because Goku was training with Shenron on a other planet. With this form Vegeta had a leap of power, he wanted to fight Goku again like when they fought on Earth back then. Super Saiyan 5 became Vegeta's main move he used it in almost every battle. Soon after this move was learned Vegeta Decided to go full power, his power level pased Goku by 150,000,000. Goku soon became scared of the Transformation, Vegeta soon challenged Goku and beat Goku up until Goku gave up and said *Ok Vegeta, you are the strongest*"

10/10 would watch.

Quote from: Verbatim on January 24, 2018, 02:09:59 PM

i mean, he is

liking anime is an illness

yeah but his reasoning is retarded. he dislikes all anime except dragon ball

"haha anime sucks guys except the worst one that ones good"

But Dragonball does suck. There's the occasional good scene but that's about it. Most of it is pretty boring and the anime tropes often make it hard to sit through. Up until the tournament, Super was just as uninteresting and I only watched it when I was stuck with jetlag in a hotel room at conferences. I only care now because it's nostalgic fun. Back in the day when I was a little kid, I watched it all the time with a friend (neither of us saw GT) so 15 years later we've gone back to discussing it for shits and giggles since it picked up where the old series left it at.

Anime sucks and so does Dragonball, but talking about it with my friend from back then makes it all the more fun. You seem kind of salty towards me since I said the show doesn't necessarily need a long hiatus provided people throw enough resources at it, but I'm not sure what you thought you were getting at here. Dragonball sucks, but the guilty pleasure of memeing about it with my bro and Banjo makes me watch it. That, and Goku vs Jiren p1 probably was the best thing anime has ever done.

Try something like this.

Speaking of PUBG, Banjo, Chally and I won 2 out of the 5 games we played today. EZ.

Quote from: Thrasher on January 17, 2018, 12:56:24 AM

In the 6+ years since the original released has anyone ever seen a vagrant? That's the one thing I need to happen before the remaster hits.

I've only had one spawn once, next to the Gargoyle church by the 3 hollows on the right. Had no idea what it was at the time

I've seen two or three. Didn't know what it was the first time either.

It seems there is no back up plan if the EU turns into a fourth Reich. In the US people have guns if the government starts oppressing people.

But how can the EU turn tyrannical when Muslim immigrants are going to tear down the government and turn the entire area into a barren wasteland controlled by Sharia law in the first place?

Regarding the first section, I feel pretty 50/50 about the implications of here. While we can both agree that this isn't fair, the position of a college doing this is understandable. When it comes to compiling data, outliers shouldn't be taken as the norm of a distribution. If a college found two people of equal qualifications, but one came from a background that had a family of drug abusers, I wouldn't chastise the college for choosing the safer of the two bets. However, like you said, this does create the problem of making social mobility easier for people. Generally, this is why safeguards such as affirmative action has been so commonplace.

I'm glad you're starting to see it this way. Social mobility would be harder* for people, not easier, and potentially have major negative effects for equality and opportunity. The reason it isn't like this now is because the college almost never knows. It can only judge people based on the information about them and a limited amount of data on their background / surroundings. AI and big data can change all of that. Now, a college might deny the candidate in the very rare case of them somehow knowing he's from a drug abusing environment. With an AI relying on untold amounts of data and building these profile for everyone, the college could routinely deny every candidate from such a background, potentially without even really knowing why. Fairness does matter, especially when the possible fallout is this huge. It might be "understandable" for a company in the South not to hire blacks because people would respond better to a white person serving them, but that doesn't mean this is good or acceptable. Denying equal opportunity to people from an unpopular or undesirable background will not only result in heaps of good and adequate individuals missing out on situations they'd perform really well in, but it can also further institutionalize inequality and grow the gap. Systematically keeping people from undesirable, unstable, poor and disenfranchized backgrounds down will only cause them and their profile to be less desirable, less stable, poorer and even more difficult to escape. And while this might sound like some worst case sci-fi scenario, I can give you heaps of studies and reports talking about these consequences and even already finding their disparate impact today.

With the latter quote, I do feel that much of what we are finding is how much in its infancy AI software is in respect to its potential in the future, a lot of what we will find right now is the hiccups in the system of refining them. Especially right now with the fact that AIs can only work in a series of yes and no answers.

This just adds to my point though. AI is still in its infancy (even though it can definitely do more than just provide yes or no answers), which is exactly why these are important things to consider and regulate now rather than letting it grow up without these issues being addressed.

What do they ask for in the job interview for a fast food restaurant? Your general traits and stuff?

Quote from: Flee on January 15, 2018, 05:13:41 PM

invest in some DEX

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

(but don't tell anyone you leveled that up)

Quote from: Flee on January 15, 2018, 11:34:20 AM

Yeah i'm once again going to have to call bullshit once again when Melee build users have less required stat investments, greatsheilds, Hyper armor, more resitances, more HP and a plethora of spin-2-win memeblades that cheese the game as hard as any ranged build can. Hell, half the people that bitch about sorcerers went through the game spamming lightning spears and +10 Pyromancies.

And who the hell said people play sorcerer because they wanted a meta build? I did it just because I like to play with ranged combat and I don't want to pay for arrows constantly.  Right now I'm doing a Dark Souls 2 playthrough with an Overwatch Reaper Cosplay and another Archer cosplay in Dark Souls 3 because I just like to play ranged.

As for not having to learn enemies patterns that's an exaggeration. A good portion of the time the enemies will rush you and you will not get time to cast. Cast speeds rage from Greatsword speed to ultragreatsword speed, even at 40 INT, so you have to learn bosses patterns to get away from them.
The only time I ever did feel like I actually cheesed a boss using magic was Second Stage Ornstien, because for some reason he plays incredibly passive.

Many of your points only relate to DS2 and DS3 (spin to win, hyper armor...) while what I said is exclusively about DS1. Greatshields start at 16 strength and can easily be used by a mage putting a few points in that stat. All it takes to be a spell user (my post was addressed to all of them even though I might have just used "sorcerer" a few times) is INT / FTH and ATN. That's two stats (or just 1 if pure pyro), just like how melee requires STR/DEX and END. You can even make the argument that you need more stats for melee, as VIT is also much more necessary for warriors than mages who can stay clear from danger much more easily. I never said that you picked spellcasting because you wanted meta, but it's still the easiest choice if you want to beat DS1 without much of a hassle. Not having to learn enemy movements is an exaggeration but there is truth to it. Stay back far enough will prevent bosses from doing a majority of their attacks. Keep moving backwards, roll out of the way if they do a lunge or rush attack, back up and hit them hard (and pretty quickly too - especially if you invest in some DEX spells other than the "heavy" variant come out pretty damn fast). It's easier, safer and requires a lot less knowledge of enemy moveset and your own weapon's capabilities than melee.

Don't take this as an attack because it really isn't. Play however you want to play, I really have no objections either way. But I have done several runs of DS1 and DS2 using only sorceries, pyromancies, miracles (and hexes) and really don't see any good arguments against it being easier than melee.

I agree with you. I was just explaining why most people consider magic easy mode in DS1. I personally don’t care either and couldn’t give a shit about how someone played the game, but I understand the criticisms. As an example, take some of you the games you like. Someone wants to get into a fighting game, looks up the most viable / strong / meta character and plays him exclusively without ever trying anything different. Someone plays through Pokemon for the first time, finds out what the best characters and moves are to beat that game, and then only catches the “best” 6 which he overlevels while ignoring everything else. Someone picks up BotW, focuses only on getting the best and unbreakable weapon and regenerating healing source as fast as possible (say for a second this would be a thing and this could be obtained), and then cakewalks the rest of the game. Is any of this wrong? Of course not, they can play the game however they please and should definitely be able to do just that. But in doing so, they are circumventing or avoiding certain mechanics and aspects that many would consider a core of the game, and they choose to miss out on a lot of things a majority of players would think is a huge part of the fun and what makes the game rewarding or great in the end.

More so than attacking people for their preference, I think many people who have this attitude just love a game and want others to experience the same things that made it so great and memorable to them in the first place. They want people to know the rush of painstakingly improving and learning how to fight Ornstein and Smough and to finally come out barely victorious in an epic battle (I still remember beating them the first time years later) – not sit in the back of the room killing them with a handful of spells and summons around going “that’s it?”. They want people to play through Pokemon by learning and building a diverse team based on how much they like them and learn to overcome the strongest trainers in the land after struggling through the League to net that victory as Champion – not check off 6 names of the strongest / most useful ones to overlevel and beat the game without having to really think or seeing a single one faint in the final stages. They want people to survive tough battles, participate in mini-games, gather resources, learn recipes and explore the lands to discover Shrines and upgrade gear that they selectively and sparingly use to ultimately beat Ganon with the tools they’ve sharpened through trial – not wave around the master sword and recharging healing items to breeze through a lot of it (and again, this is a hypothetical).

That’s where I think a lot of these opinions come from. Not having negative feelings towards casuals, but just wanting them to have the full and rewarding experience similar to what they had which made them love the game in the end. They want people to be able to relate and when asked if they felt just as great when they finally beat the strongest trainer in the game through trying, training, tactical planning and using their beloved OG team as efficiently as possible, respond with “hell yeah that was amazing and the perfect ending to the game” – not “I just traded for a perfect IV level 100 Mega Rayquaza and killed every one of his pokemon with one hit. It was really easy and I don’t understand why people struggle and hype it up so much”. And I think the same goes for Dark Souls. They want new players to experience the highs and lows, see all the game has to offer and ultimately get that rewarding feeling of learning, adapting, overcoming the odds and beating a notoriously challenging game, and not go “this game really isn’t rewarding or challenging, the fights were boring and I didn’t feel engaged at all” after having 2 summons do all the work in fights and pathfinding while they wait in the back and throw some spells at the boss. Obviously, play what you want to play and do what you prefer, but I can understand why people want to advise against playing a certain way when they think it doesn’t give the full experience.