TheLastBaron

The screenshots for this look so pretty. I wish there were games set in http://myscienceacademy.org/2013/04/14/the-33-most-beautiful-abandoned-places-in-the-world/ except for obviously the ones that are in games.

After the discussion about meeting people in real life I felt the need to post my picture so if I ever meet any of you in real life you both know what to expect and also don't feel scared of me despite how intimidating I probably look.

Wow for some reason I missed this thread the past few months. So apparently the Adventure Time comic is super good. I've been meaning to read it for a while and never doubted I would like it as I love Adventure Time, but it's been nominated for a bunch of Eisners and I didn't expect that.

The other thing with meeting people from the internet is I picture people as looking like their avatars, which we talked about a while back in a different thread.

For me it sounds weird calling someone an "oriental" because it sounds so old and outdated. It's similar to if I heard someone use the term "colored" to refer to a person, though obviously not on the same level and less directly racist.

The live action one? I totally forgot about that one, it was great.

The trick is to tie people up in your basement when you're getting to know them. At least that's how it usually is when I meet people from the internet.

I accidentally just closed my tab and didn't write down my save password. The fact that I'm not particularly upset means I've probably gotten everything I was going to out of this.

Two of my friends met each other via a forum in high school, like they went to the same school already and were friends for a while and eventually found out they went to the same school and were just a year apart. I knew them both before they knew each other too, one of them I was actually really good friends with since middle school and the other I knew via my other friends older brother.

My friend's mom is Swedish and his cousin lived down the street from Notch. He sent me a picture of him on his phone and sent it to me when he was in Sweden visiting, but I wasn't sure if I believed him so at PAX in 2011 I asked Notch if he knew Niklas Hedlund (my friend's cousin) and he said he did, but it was really awkward because I don't know him so the conversation just stopped there. It was like a second level of talking to someone who you know but who doesn't know you. Also my friend went back over Christmas and I guess Notch has now moved. Another thing at that same PAX was I saw Troy Goodfellow, but couldn't muster the courage to say anything to him.

XCOM is a Daily Deal on Steam today, 66% off. I just went to check my email and 30 seconds later I had bought it without really thinking.

I haven't played it yet, but a little while back The Game Audio Podcast had an episode with David Kanaga (who also did Proteus) and Shawn McGrath and it was really good. http://www.gameaudiopodcast.com/?p=554

UGHHHH, I just got into a game with Pyrion Flax, the real Pyrion Flax, and someone abandoned at hero select.

I will say that I really liked the music in Korra. I remember actively noticing it in every episode I watched which for a TV show is not that common.

The thing I like about it is compared to modern comedy cartoons the early Simpsons episodes are also lot more about telling a story rather than creating a plot to mainly just facilitate jokes. There will be lots of times where there are opportunities to have a character say something funny, and I expect it, but instead they say something meaningful. Also instead of ending on a funny note all the episodes end with a feel-good moment, though that's not to say it isn't ever funny too. On a related note, I feel like I should be sad that Futurama got canceled again as its another of my all time favorites, but since it's come back it feels like just a caricature of itself. All the characters are just boiled down to their most recognizable traits and it's super full of 2010's pop culture references that just seem out of place. It also didn't have anything on par with the super strong episodes from the original run like Luck of the Fryrish, Jurassic Bark, or The Sting. The only one that was close was the one with the time machine.

My favorite show of all time is Home Movies, I watched it again not that long ago and it was still just as much it was when I was in middle school, probably better. Second favorite is Venture Bros which I'm currently re watching since the new season is starting soon. I've also been re watching old Simpsons episodes, starting at season one. I forgot just how good they were, like I was always a big Simpsons fan, but the early seasons are just absolutely superb. I'll probably stop after season 9.

It's Mother's Day here in the states too, but it's also my Dad's birthday. I don't know if I'm going to be able to have enough love for the both of them.

For me the game I got my friends to play with he most enthusiasm is probably Citadels, and as dumb as it sounds it's probably largely because of the small box. For context I'm about to recap the story of getting a group of my friends to play it. So probably around a year or two back there was a period where me and a bunch of friends would usually meet up at a nearby Starbucks most nights and just sit outside talking and what-have-you. After a little bit it turned in to mostly talking and playing card games. Around this time Shut Up & Sit Down started and the first episode (I think) had Citadels. I was started to get interested in board games and it seemed like a perfect match, simple and you could play it with a group of up to 7 people. I bought it and suggested it to them and they instantly laughed and said no, I think because the box described it as a game about "fantasy" and "intrigue" and they thought that meant it would be dorky or something. Every night we met up I would bring it and they would refuse to play it and it became a running joke. I would suggest it to other friends of our when we would hang out in other places, like when people not in the area were back from school, and the people who knew about it would start laughing and make it impossible to get people who weren't already against it to play it. One night we met up at Starbucks and no one remembered to bring the cards and jokingly one of my friends said "Well, I guess we'll have to play Citadels now." and I had it with me and managed to stick my shoe in the door before it was closed and get the game on the table. We played one game where I sort of explained it to them but we weren't really playing it seriously and maybe half way through people wanted to just stop and play a game for real. We played it and instantly everyone was having a ton of fun and laughing about how much time and effort they had spend to make sure we didn't play it and now whenever we're around the other people who they previously turned off of the game they'll tell everyone how wrong they were to dismiss it and get them to play it. For me the #1 factor in getting them to play games was how small the game box was, I can fit it in my pocket and that's what I did every night. If the night that I finally managed to get them to play it I had to go to my car and get a box and set up a board on the table I am confident it wouldn't have ended up happening. The fact that I already had the game with me and it's just cards and some plastic tokens is what made it work. Because of this I've been trying to find other games that come in small boxes and don't have a lot of pieces, which is why I'm curious about the new Resistance game as it seems like I might have similar luck with it. The other way I've had luck is finding cases where I or someone else can try and give games some credibility. For example I have a friend who used to play Magic the Gathering with his two brothers probably 10-15 years ago and is starting to get interested in it again, mostly for collecting/deck-building. He mentioned Ascension because some of the people who designed it are MtG pros and I said I had Dominion which is the same sort of game and managed to get him to play it after he saw it was ranked very high on Board Game Geek. I have another friend who I had tried to get to play Dominion, but he didn't ever want to (he's of of the main people who didn't want to play Citadels). His cousin is one of the three guys at QCF Design who are making Desktop Dungeons and when they come from South Africa for GDC they stay at his house. They brought Thunderstone with them and he liked it a lot. Because of this I was able to get him to play Dominion because it's a similar type of game, though I liked playing Thunderstone more and we ended up mostly playing the Facebook Thunderstone game after his cousin left. An easy one is Catan because it's usually not that hard to find at least one or two people who have played it and if you can get 2-3 people who are willing to play and vouch for it it's not that hard to convince someone who doesn't really want to play games normally to agree to at least try it. A lot of it for me is waiting for the right opportunities to arise, so whenever I think there might be a chance I can convince people to play something I try. This was a really long and not very good answer to your question. I guess the short answer is that for me the main problem getting people to play a game has nothing to do with the actual game, but just that it's a "board game". Once they understand that board games as a medium can be a fun form of entertainment the hard part is over.

There probably is, I didn't look for it though because feeling sick was pleasingly nostalgic.

Yeah I've gone through so much effort trying to get my friends to play them. They think I'm super obsessed with them, but it's just a result of how much I have to keep hounding people to get them to play.

Oh wow I can't believe I didn't mention it. I've never finished Wind Waker because I got to the end and decided I wanted to get all the figurines. There were a couple that you needed to plan ahead to get and I missed them so was never able to complete the game. I actually got 100% in Brutal Legend for basically the same reason, I started trying to get every song and ended up getting everything else.

On the topic of playing demos and not buying the game, I have a group of maybe 5 friends who would play the Skate demo for hours on end and to this day still play it every time any of them are together (still Skate 1). They all skate or at least did when the game came out and we were in high school, and for a couple I think it's one of the only games they actually played on PS3.

Yeah, but on the other hand if you wait you can get them after you get the perk that gives you 9 points in all your SPECIAL stats and picking them up after getting that is the only way to get max stats I think (I have a friend who wanted to get a 100% play through in FO3 and didn't know this and wasted over 50 hours)

I got really sick playing Portal, but that was from spending 10 minutes looking at myself fall through an infinite loop (the up and down one, not the bottomless pit one). I also got motion sickness playing Half-Life 1, and oddly have never had a problem at all with any other game except I tried Black Mesa finally a week or two back and got it (I think in Black Mesa is was a separate thing and related to their headbob system).