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« on: February 09, 2016, 02:48:44 PM »
Since I have no one, I'll just say mine:
Rikki rekt
482
« on: February 09, 2016, 12:22:20 PM »
his terrible waifu everywhere
Wait, was Saber his waifu, or someone else?
No, its Azure
People make obscure Azure references and I have no idea what they're on about.
http://sep7agon.net/profile/744/
I know she exists, just I don't get some of the conversations that involve her. Wait, is azure a woman? I'm more out of the loop than a rep function.
483
« on: February 09, 2016, 12:17:37 PM »
techno
Furry techno
Dog gammit.
484
« on: February 09, 2016, 12:16:47 PM »
his terrible waifu everywhere
Wait, was Saber his waifu, or someone else?
No, its Azure
People make obscure Azure references and I have no idea what they're on about.
485
« on: February 09, 2016, 12:14:24 PM »
if you love messi so much why dont you just marry him
he doesn't like boys
If it's really love that won't stop you.
486
« on: February 09, 2016, 12:12:32 PM »
I swear to god, if Azu and I don't watch a movie this Sunday I'm going to abscond to the wilderness and live as a squirrel-eating hermit for three hours.
487
« on: February 09, 2016, 12:09:15 PM »
like a small dropdown menu would be nice, maybe we wanna know how many commens received 7 likes instead of 2 likes.
As a narcissist I approve.
488
« on: February 09, 2016, 12:06:23 PM »
What exactly do you do at that place?
I think it looks something like this
489
« on: February 09, 2016, 12:04:34 PM »
So
much
farming
and also
nothing like 1 shotting gargs at lvl 20
Damn right about that. Clams are a pain in the ass though.
490
« on: February 09, 2016, 12:03:46 PM »
his terrible waifu everywhere
Wait, was Saber his waifu, or someone else?
491
« on: February 09, 2016, 12:02:33 PM »
Dark Souls is a fitting sort of series for bleak endings, and this game really seems to set the tone that everything is finished, barely hanging on, and you're the arbiter of finally ending it all.
Arbiter is a Halo character you fucking imbecile.
Arbiter was a word before he was a halo characterOT: I like the theme of ashes in DS. I almost always make an iteration of a character I call Arren, the Ashen man. Now I can inhabit that role in a more literal sense. I hope Fromsoft brings back the character arcs from the first game (you know, the good ones).
492
« on: February 09, 2016, 11:49:58 AM »
a bunch of thrilling technical books
What qualifies as technical? I have no idea if what I usually read is "technical" or just broadly nonfiction.
493
« on: February 09, 2016, 11:46:19 AM »
See you space cowboy.
494
« on: February 09, 2016, 11:05:38 AM »
Republic Commando. I'm still amazed by how good the squad AI was (mostly).
Sev for life.
495
« on: February 09, 2016, 10:57:54 AM »
No... and I wouldn't. Creeps me out honestly.
496
« on: February 09, 2016, 10:56:17 AM »
I hate having loads of useless shit fired at me--let me envision the world myself. I don't need to know the precise details of every little thing--that's so aggravating when authors think they're good writers for doing that shit.
What do you think of DS's method of storytelling?
I'm curious because it seems to do both the latter and former. You can piece together the world and deduce what's happening, building your own idea of what's happening. But it can often be from things like item descriptions and little details in the environment. To understand the full story of the world and everything in it, you have to do digging.
Is this still good storytelling to you?
For a game, yeah, that's about as good as it gets. However, the game has thus far failed to give me a great reason to care too much about the world or its lore. I'm more concerned about the gameplay than anything else.
That the game doesn't force-feed you information that you don't necessarily care about, though, I appreciate that.
I had the same experience for a while, I was playing for the gameplay more than anything else (and in stilted episodes). There was a turning point in my experience where I became interested in the world, and once you get there I can share why (if it interests you).
497
« on: February 09, 2016, 10:53:09 AM »
One thing that I found different between multiple playthroughs was actually in the grinding. Since your skill at the game increases, the large soul dropping enemies (bosses) become easier, and the progression is more straight through without as much grinding. Even if you don't have the stats from pure leveling, your skill can weather down most bosses once you know their shtick. That's when I started enjoying the game most.
When I play now, I hardly do any grinding, but when I first started I did a lot of grinding because the challenge of the game encouraged that playstyle. I cautiously approached everything and wanted to prepare myself for every encounter, my paranoia and low skill fed a desire for getting more levels, hence souls and grinding.
The only reason I grind is to get enough Souls to level up my equipment
Oh, forgot about this. I usually don't have to farm souls for boosting equipment, but the titanite?
Yes, and either way you have to farm something. Since I usually get items that require twinkling in the first areas, I have to farm. It's the worst part of every playthrough.
Spoiler I usually just play with the Claymore so my grinding consists of farming Anor Londo then running to the Blacksmith and back
locations spoilers, items spoilers I don't even have to farm clams, I just like maxing out my damage early and decimating enemies. I don't remember if the giant smith sells twinkling (maybe he does for 8000?) but I'd never buy it. By that point in the game you're close to having the lordvessel and teleporting to ash lake and killing clams for twinkling on the fly... for free. Before that point you don't have access to him and have to go through the great hollow to ash lake, so I do that.
498
« on: February 09, 2016, 10:47:32 AM »
I hate having loads of useless shit fired at me--let me envision the world myself. I don't need to know the precise details of every little thing--that's so aggravating when authors think they're good writers for doing that shit.
What do you think of DS's method of storytelling? I'm curious because it seems to do both the latter and former. You can piece together the world and deduce what's happening, building your own idea of what's happening. But it can often be from things like item descriptions and little details in the environment. To understand the full story of the world and everything in it, you have to do digging. Is this still good storytelling to you?
499
« on: February 09, 2016, 10:41:38 AM »
One thing that I found different between multiple playthroughs was actually in the grinding. Since your skill at the game increases, the large soul dropping enemies (bosses) become easier, and the progression is more straight through without as much grinding. Even if you don't have the stats from pure leveling, your skill can weather down most bosses once you know their shtick. That's when I started enjoying the game most.
When I play now, I hardly do any grinding, but when I first started I did a lot of grinding because the challenge of the game encouraged that playstyle. I cautiously approached everything and wanted to prepare myself for every encounter, my paranoia and low skill fed a desire for getting more levels, hence souls and grinding.
The only reason I grind is to get enough Souls to level up my equipment
Oh, forgot about this. I usually don't have to farm souls for boosting equipment, but the titanite? Yes, and either way you have to farm something. Since I usually get items that require twinkling in the first areas, I have to farm. It's the worst part of every playthrough.
500
« on: February 09, 2016, 09:53:17 AM »
One thing that I found different between multiple playthroughs was actually in the grinding. Since your skill at the game increases, the large soul dropping enemies (bosses) become easier, and the progression is more straight through without as much grinding. Even if you don't have the stats from pure leveling, your skill can weather down most bosses once you know their shtick. That's when I started enjoying the game most.
When I play now, I hardly do any grinding, but when I first started I did a lot of grinding because the challenge of the game encouraged that playstyle. I cautiously approached everything and wanted to prepare myself for every encounter, my paranoia and low skill fed a desire for getting more levels, hence souls and grinding.
501
« on: February 09, 2016, 09:46:48 AM »
?
502
« on: February 09, 2016, 09:46:22 AM »
Not really wasted so much as inefficient.
503
« on: February 09, 2016, 09:43:36 AM »
I was recently reading The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich but I've postponed finishing it until I have more reason to. I was reading it with a purpose in mind, but I think doing other things will meet said purpose more efficiently.
Also postponed rereading Science and Sanity until I get a more concrete plan of... things.
Slowly going through Ending Aging (maybe pick up the pace after these god awful exams are over).
My textbooks for genetics and chemistry...
504
« on: February 08, 2016, 01:34:24 PM »
Suffering through six minutes of boku no pico.
505
« on: February 08, 2016, 01:49:12 AM »
Riceists.
nice
I realized I was a few characters short of potential. So I bit the bullet and edited.
506
« on: February 08, 2016, 01:46:43 AM »
The same thing happened to me every time I played ME I
Still haven't finished it.
507
« on: February 08, 2016, 01:45:05 AM »
TFA has surpassed $2 billion worldwide, and $900 million domestically.
Hopefully they use that money to make a better movie than TFA-We-Condensed-The-OG-Trilogy-Into-A-Fucking-Rehash
People complained that the prequels weren't like the original trilogy. Now people complain that TFA was too much like A New Hope.
Make up your fucking minds.
But I'm not one of those people. I'm a fan of good things. One of my least favorite things about the phantom menace were the gungans, but their presence was similar to the ewoks in Return of the Jedi, family fodder and sillyness. Mostly I had gripes with execution in the prequels. They struck me as mediocre even as a kid. And the prequels had plenty of advantages in my book, but almost all thematically, and not by how the film depicts these themes. The conflict between the CIS and Republic was much more interesting than between rebels and empire and I think the plot points of Anakin's seduction to the dark side were more interesting than Luke's training as a Jedi to defeat the nebulous and (of course) evil empire. They're just poorly executed. What particularly rankled with me was Anakin's character. He is ridiculously cliche and naiive, he's not someone i can take seriously. This is quite unfortunate, seeing as he's the protagonist of the prequels and a central character in story events. He just makes the whole experience unbelievable and ruins the immersion for me. He makes the experience feel cheaper than what it should be. However, the prequels do have the best lightsaber battles. And don't tell me TFA had good lightsaber battles, they were shit and everyone and their mother knows it. Even though Luke isn't a very interesting character to me he manages to be convincing in relation to the themes which guide him. He's archetypal, and the narrative of the og trilogy well establishes that. I think it makes for a tighter plot and well adjusted characters to function within it. the intrigue the prequel movies set out with, of more political and personal intrigue are excellent things to address, and I'm glad they went for them even if they died on their asses trying. The prequels had a harder job of living up to the first trilogy by setting it up. In my eyes, the prequels took more risks, and I can at least appreciate that. It's not like TFA doesn't provide new things, but it also has a new set of expectations from me as an older viewer. I'm not as young and underexposed to tropes and cliches as I was when I watched the prerequisite trilogies. For example the First Order is more than a rehash of the empire, they're another excuse to generate moral binaries from Nazi look-alikes, it makes the experience cheaper, but it's doing it from the same place as the og trilogy, and only worse as time progresses. I don't even think TFA is a bad movie. It's mediocre for me at worst. But unlike the prequels it isn't offering anything new or interesting thematically. The execution is better than the prequels, but there's nothing substantial I can really care about; it's like taking a car ride through your neighborhood for the seventh time.
508
« on: February 08, 2016, 12:52:37 AM »
I don't think that's any more weird than knowing 9/23/13 was the day I decided what i wanted to do with my life.
The memorable things stick, right? I'd think severe depression qualifies as memorable.
yeah, but i think class is tripping up on the fact that there seems to be a catalyst to my depression, whereas most people just sorta ease into it over time.
I think viewing depression as a vague morass of unrelated events is a poor method of treatment because it avoids the details that can help people identify what affects them. If you know what caused it, awesome. You're that much closer to figuring out how to beat it instead of relying on other people telling you what's affecting you (when they frankly have no idea).
509
« on: February 08, 2016, 12:35:08 AM »
TFA has surpassed $2 billion worldwide, and $900 million domestically.
Hopefully they use that money to make a better movie than TFA-We-Condensed-The-OG-Trilogy-Into-A-Fucking-Rehash
510
« on: February 08, 2016, 12:31:45 AM »
Worst edit
Yeah so after watching this gif like seven times Han definitely had his blaster in position and shot at the same time if not before Greedo.
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