Christmas day 2 years ago I got Halo ODST. It was my first Halo, and I ended up wandering around Mombasa at night trying to figure out what the hell was going on. After 15 minutes of getting lost and not figuring out what to do other than wander around, I turned it off, and went back to checking out my other presents.

I didn't play it again until summer this year, completed it in a few hours over 3 days. It wasn't bad, it was just so confusing at the time that I was practically averse to it.

I'm too central left to be close to any of them. Maybe Machiavelli

World at War was the best, the loadouts were superb, maps were well designed, the story mode was very good and the controls were genuinely brilliant-the sharpness of black ops and the later CoDs but with the quality of CoD4

Plus actual gibs...and multiplayer tanks...

only downside was no host migration (but CoD 4 had the same problem), and how easy the killstreaks could stack (if you called Dogs after you'd respawned, you could get the killstreaks again from those kills without shooting a round.)

Quote from: Ingloriouswho98 on December 13, 2014, 06:08:23 PM

This fucking website

So many fucked up people in one place

Join the club baby, you're in here too for some reason or another.

I was just thinking that.

Quote from: SuperIrish on December 13, 2014, 11:01:45 AM

Quote from: Epsira on December 13, 2014, 10:56:41 AM

Hearing your father speak of how pathetic you are when he believes you're sleeping to your other guardians is a sure-fire confidence booster. Especially when you're eight.

Jesus, that sounds horrible. May I ask does he know you heard this later on?

Even if he had, it probably wouldn't have mattered. He wasn't a good person. I lived with him, my step mother, and my half siblings when I wasn't living with my mother, and my step mom left him one day, taking the kids. I saw my dad once after that at a Blockbuster a few years ago. I didn't say anything. I don't care about him.

Fair enough. I suppose it's best left to your past.

I'm not very socially awkward. It's hard getting to know new people as fast as others do, but I can still make friends by the end of the day (or the night if it's at a party).

It's just the start. The start where you know no-one is the worst, because I act like even sitting next to some stranger may be taken as impolite by invading their space, so I seclude myself in a corner until I get a bearing, or if someone else sits next to me and I get to know them by them coming to me. It's even worse with the opposite sex to be honest. Fate drives how I know people, not me. It certainly makes me friends (and deeper relations) pretty well so far, so it's not like I have to do much in the way of intruding on someone to introduce myself.

But I wouldn't turn down an invitation to a drink. It wouldn't exactly lead to promiscuous sex (because, of course, every meet-up results in crazy sex afterwards... /s), and you are in control of your drink, so you know when enough is enough to have a good time.

I'm happy to share that today I submitted my final assignment for my undergraduate degree (B.S.E. in Industrial Engineering at Arizona State University).

Referring to my previous thread about my thesis, I completed my entire honors thesis in a single night and defended it this afternoon. I'm not sure whether I'm proud or embarrassed about writing the entire thing in one evening, but taking 21 credits in your final year, including a senior design project, was a terrible idea.

I'm pretty excited it's over. Next week is graduation, commissioning into the Navy (flight school sometime in the spring), and getting married. Shit's crazy.

Anyways, congratulations to the folks wrapping up their semesters with hopefully passing grades!

Congratulations!
Any tips? I got a roommate who's on the Bachelor's Engineering course as a first year.

I'm using this once christmas is over.

Quote from: Mr Psychologist on December 12, 2014, 09:46:01 AM

How so?

Quote from: SuperIrish on December 12, 2014, 07:38:30 AM

Using that GPA calculator thing with 7A's, 2B's and 2C's at GCSE (that's highschool grades, right?), I had at that time 3.45

What the fuck is a GPA, anyways?

grade point average

Ah right.

Checked it again with my A-Level results... An A and 3 C's got me 2.50, which I'm guessing is average/crap.

Overhyping games gives you a really high expectation of the final product. Then when it's released, it's sucky.

Think Destiny, and everytime a CoD or BF is hyped all over the everywhere. The only game I think was hyped to general expectations and delivered well was GTA V, and that only failed on giving online heists (which everyone's knickers are in a twist about...) Older ones would be Borderlands, seeing as that had TV ads and stuff knocking around and it got a good reception from most people.

Underhyping, while not expanding your audience very well are usually better games. I think of the Metro series in this regard, that was a marvelous game and I'd virtually never heard about it from anywhere. Early Minecraft had essentially no advertising until it had become popular and was being talked about, and now look at it, one of the most bought games of all time.

When it says "Every officer in Shetland was called to the incident", bear in mind this place is a fucking tiny island,   with a population on par with a very small town: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shetland

And it's good that they dealt with this properly. Dunno what the outcome would've been if he'd actually fired the thing at them (though by then the police would realise it wasn't a "real" gun and just rush him), but look at that 'mericah's, he isn't dead! No deaths, no impending riots, and the kid might actually get some psychological help. This is easily the best outcome possible for such a scenario.

Jesus fucking Christ somebody give that girl a 2 large pizzas, the biggest hamburger you can find, and a large Root Beer

You'd probably kill her from over-nutrition (whatever the sciencey name is for the reason we couldn't feed Holocaust victims straight away...).

She doesn't even look real. I'm amazed humans can survive in such a state, and she certainly seems content being in such a poor condition, but my god that is depressing.

I play every so often, and we have that server for us.

Only problem is the timezones, so I rarely see anyone.