brannagan

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  1. DayZ

    Yeah, that's usually how my solo attempts at playing the game end up. It can be extremely brutal, especially if you find yourself low on blood like that without any equipment to hunt. It can be hard to say DayZ is fun sometimes. In groups it definitely is, but solo is so tense that it can be god damn uncomfortable. It reminds me of playing a good horror game like Siren, Silent Hill or Amnesia; I sort of hate playing them and am having no fun while doing so, but love the experience and feel like the fun comes from putting the controller down and reflecting. It's a weird feeling to describe.
  2. DayZ

    Yeah, we should get an in-game meet going. I tried to join that server Sean mentioned, but it isn't showing up in DayZCommander for me. The only 1220 is a DE server.
  3. House of Leaves

    As much as I like the book, I can't disagree with this. The Navidson Record portion is, thinking back, the reason I loved the book for a while. It had so many elements that I love in (horror) fiction and some part of that story just resonated and stuck with me. I've been wanting to reread the book for a while now, but the Johnny Truant stuff is stopping me. I liked it enough the first time, but I don't think I could run through that again. If anyone has any recommendations for a book that's similar in theme to the Navidson Record with HoL, I'd love to hear them. I've had that book sitting here for the longest time, and keep putting off reading it because any time I pick it up, I have an initial thought of "How am I supposed to read this...a chapter for him then for her, or page for him then her, or...you know what, never mind. I'll read something else."
  4. DayZ

    I actually just had a similar experience. Was at the South West airstrip right after spawning with only a hatchet when I heard a really loud noise. I couldn't figure out if it was the sea or something else, so I started moving out of a warehouse to see when I caught a glimpse of a car speeding past, kicking up dirt. First vehicle I'd seen in-game and it totally freaked me out. I waited about a minute just scanning to see if it was coming back, but it didn't, so I started sprinting to the other end of the strip to safety. But that's only half of the story. When I got to the other end and began exploring the hangers, I started hearing gunshots. Having nothing but a melee weapon, I cautiously peaked out the door to see a guy dart past in the distance followed by about a dozen zombies. He didn't see me, so I continued checking the hangers, finding nothing, and decided to go see if he died and, hopefully, left a weapon that I could crawl up and grab. I guessed he'd ducked into the building at the very end, so I slowly started to crawl up so I wouldn't attract any of the Zeds lurking about. As I started to get close to the building, I could hear his character screaming in agony, so I decided "Fuck it, might as well run upstairs to see if I can help him or steal his gear". As I ran up, he came running down, so a classic DayZ "Oh shit" moment followed by slamming the voice key and yelling "HEY I'M FRIENDLY I GOT NOTHING ON ME DON'T KILL ME" ensued. He laughed and said hey, so I ran over to join him as he went back upstairs only for him to immediately get hit by a zed out of nowhere. He fires off one shot which kills the thing, then he drops dead. I just sat there going "Oh...oh fuck...OK". The upside was I got his shotgun. The downside was that he fired off the last shot to kill the zed. I ended up finding an AK with seven clips right after that, though. DayZ man. That story might seem lame to some, but it was so crazy seeing all that stuff happen in the game. The stream has gotten me hooked on the game again.
  5. New people: Read this, say hi.

    Oh wow, so there are. I guess these are the times that having a different spelling for my surname comes in handy. That said, it doesn't outweigh the fact that everyone always spells it with an i.
  6. New people: Read this, say hi.

    Hey all! Finally bothered to register here after years of listening to the 'casts. Usually post over on NeoGAF as "randomwab" but the thread over there has started to crawl recently so why not go straight to the source! Thumbs Forum!
  7. I actually had the opposite reaction, although not in regards to the "twist". The book really did something in making me think about how I will remember what I've already experienced in life twenty or even forty years down the line. It's hard to say what will be the points that stick with me, and the book even raises the point that we can't know how we'll look back on those moments because of experiences we haven't lived, never mind the fact of how those memories will be warped. Each to their own, I guess.