Badfinger

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  1. I think it's kind of silly personally. But then again, I was introduced to Idle Thumbs through recommendations from the Giant Bomb community, which I was introduced to by personal friends. The casts specifically have since introduced me to Three Moves Ahead and Gamespot Gameplay. It's, like, cool to know about things people who do things you like also like? And stuff? If someone's not interested in either of those things but likes games in general I think it's their loss, but I wouldn't get mad at anyone about it. It's also pretty obvious to anyone who pays attention to both casts that while there are the overlaps that make for hilarious observation, they came about completely organically. Unless Giant Bomb hired Patrick Klepek BECAUSE he's loved Jurassic Park since he was 12 years old... The plot thickens.
  2. I was confused at first, because I was uncertain how Patrick "Trick" "Tricky" "Kleptok" Klepek was being mistaken for Steve "Hot Scoops" Gaynor. I'd forgotten That One Time when they called him Scoops I guess, I just don't think of it as his nickname. I have to say, you guys have stirred up some ire on The Internet for daring to mention overlapping meme themes on different podcasts. Personally, I blame Scoops. It's always Steve's fault.
  3. Yeah, gold weapons are greylisted (in that you won't immediately get kicked for scripting restrictions, but the do not come from natural game spawn points). Sometimes hackers are interesting. We were traveling as a group of 3 towards the NW airfield, and all of a sudden something spawned behind us. I thought it was a goat... it was a hacker who teleported himself in as a dog and was talking to us over direct comms. Most of the time hackers suck, unfortunately.
  4. I always detested reading with a goal of specifically thinking critically about it. High school English class is the worst place to learn about loving books. In my high school, Catch 22 was always on the curriculum for your senior year. I was so interested and excited about it that I read it during the summer before the school year. I love it, it's one of my favorite books. I even read Heller's sequel. When it rolled around to spring and it came time to read the book in class, it was horrible. The discussions were trite, the messages were forced, I couldn't just READ. I didn't even finish the book. I think reading something and knowing you'll have someone to talk about it with is fun and exciting. Reading with an eye on specifically dissecting a book, taking notes, crunching it up, studying certain passages, and sucking all the messaging marrow out of it sounds like one of the most joyless activities on earth. Not thinking specifically about the inclusion of a character like Chief Halfoat or Lt. Scheisskopf doesn't mean I didn't get anything out of those characters.
  5. I realized I phrased it like a bad investigative journalist, so thanks for answering my actual question which is your personal preference on acquiring and reading books. It would be a strange day to hear an avid reader decrying that there are too many ways to read books, or that someone is reading "wrong".
  6. Quitter's Club: Don't be ashamed to quit the game.

    I'm pretty sure I could finish Darksiders tonight with time before bed to spare if I just loaded it up and did it. I just... v v
  7. Quitter's Club: Don't be ashamed to quit the game.

    I quit CoD 4 for a long time because I was stuck on the last stand portion of All Ghillied Up on Veteran difficulty. I went back and finally finished it and was glad I did. I have never finished Fallout 3, New Vegas, Skyrim, or Far Cry 2. I wouldn't call those games I QUIT, though (except for New Vegas, where I lost my saves 15 hours in and couldn't make myself restart). I put over 30 hours in all of them, I just failed to reach the last mission that tells you that you've won. I have yet to finish Darksiders. I stopped, restarted, then stopped again when another game came out. I always intended to finish it. I guess I've straight up quit Bastion. I enjoyed playing it, just didn't have the impetus to continue playing it. I quit at the point right after the demo ended. If you include "never played as long as I anticipated" into quit, you can add every Total War game. Thankfully I feel like I've gotten my money's worth, because my dad has put a LOT of time into all of them on my steam account.
  8. Oh forgot to ask in the previous post and it's different enough I'll split it out. It sounds like you're all reading physical copies of books, with specific discussions on colors and typography? I believe I've read Chris's opinion on physical vs digital in other places on the forums, but I'd be interested in hearing your thoughts. I'm completely in favor of ebooks, and even being an avid reader I kind of lost the drive to read constantly within the last two years or so, but have read much more now that I have a kindle. The opportunity to have thousands of critical works forever for free on demand is an amazing resource, besides the convenience of the form factor itself. One big factor for me is that I have overwhelmingly been a paperback reader all my life, so the switch from cheap printed pages to cheap digital text is almost transparent to me.
  9. I am intrigued by The Sense of an Ending and Cloud Atlas after listening to the first cast, but I am now desperate to read and watch Tinker, Tailor. I really wanted to see it in theaters when it came out and just didn't (I rarely watch movies anymore and even ones I want to see a ton are casualties), and the first thing I did when I got home after listening was look it up on Amazon and see if the film was available on instant play. I'm checking out the free book preview now to make sure I can get into it. I have read The Count of Monte Cristo, though. If you can get through that you can get through anything.
  10. DayZ

    I'm close to your position if you can stand to wait until I get home today. I'm pretty sure I have multiple blood packs.
  11. So what I'm getting from your reply, Roguelike-like would be a game that has a lot of Rogue-like elements, but not enough/all of them that it truly is? My question isn't about nomenclature per se, it's about what the name is describing.
  12. DayZ

    OK. I really want to meet up with people and go explore. I have free time tonight! I'll probably be on by about 6-6:30 EST. I'm pretty sure I'm north of Elektro at the moment, just as my base starting point. If anyone wants to truck around and run from zombies, I'm like 95% sure I'm in the steam group, or drop a post in the thread and we can coordinate in some way.
  13. I'm pretty comfortable with what I think of as a "Roguelike". Maybe I missed the description, what's a Roguelike-like? That's not really anything I've ever heard before. Second Roguelike Roguelike Once Removed Step Roguelike Roguelike-In-Law
  14. DayZ

    I was thinking more about out of game coordination, yeah. I mean, I'll holler BABOO at someone I guess if it's important. Aww. It's been a weird day, trust me.
  15. DayZ

    Awesome, I've done that! I'm Badfinger. If I find you playing on a server, how should I get in touch?
  16. So due to the Thumbs stream, and happening to stumble across the Hunger Gamez this past weekend, I was FASCINATED by Day Z in a way I haven't felt about any other games for a while. I perched it over the weekend and aside from some annoying issue getting it going, I've been having an absolute blast. I've joined the group (same name, same AV) so if someone would like to team up and pal around evenings EST I would happily do that because I've only had two brief interactions that didn't end with one of us waking up to a fresh spawn on a beach (and not even many of those). Ok so that's the teamwork part, and now I have stories I've been bursting to tell. The first was my maybe first ever spawn into the game. No idea where I was, didn't have/want outside resources (interactive map), didn't know exactly how to do anything. I could make a lot of exposition, but the round ended with me literally sitting among medical tents bleeding out, with my backpack STUFFED full of medical supplies because I could not bandage myself fast enough. The only firearm I found was an M16, with exactly zero rounds. The other happened last night. I decided I wanted to try a relatively full server, since I figure I'll die early and often and maybe it should at least be interesting. As I'm headed into Tcherno after a fresh spawn, the server blips and resets and I hop back in to about 5 people where there were 45 two minutes before. It's closing in on dusk. So the bustling sniper zone has turned into a ghost town. I get really lucky and find a boatload of gear and a pack in the church, a building, etc. My only two goals are hitting the firehouse as a Just In Case, and hitting the well on the NW side of town to fill a canteen. I scour the firehouse, but there's barbed wire in front of the stairs that makes it inaccessible. I noticed a ladder and wonder if there's a way in on the roof. I climb up, search around, go ALLLL the way to the top of the fire house (you'll notice I'm still alive at this point, which confirms the low pop), can't get in. Damn, I see supplies. Suddenly, I hear a noise. I correctly guess that someone with a tool box is coming in and snipping the wires so they can check for gear. I'm on the roof, but I'm right by the window and can COMPLETELY cover the stairs. This person could have been immediately dead, and had no way of knowing I was there. At this point I'm much more fascinated by interaction than just KILLIN DUDES, so I make the decision to just watch. I also chose NOT to announce myself, as even announcing I have them dead to rights but am friendly could get me killed anyway. So I position myself where I can see in 3rd person, but there's no way to get a shot at me. This person is loaded. They have an M4, a glock, a nice pack, obviously a tool kit. I watch them slowly check gear on the second floor, then the third, then ascend past my spot on the stairs. They root around, then start the descent. I shifted around a little, so I'm sure they were alerted but probably couldn't pin down my location. They go downstairs, I hear them eat and drink. I'm covering everything I can, and see them slip out the back towards the west, check the corners, and disappear around a building. I climb down and check the spoils, pick up probably another tool, and the G17 they had been using but decided to leave behind in favor of... something. I finish, check out an industrial building, fill my canteen, and I'm out of town to the North. TL;DR: For at least 10-15 minutes, absolutely nothing happened at all. And it was one of the coolest, most intense 15 minutes I've ever had playing games.
  17. DayZ

    Well hopefully the next time I find a decent pack I'll be able to dump stuff and grab it properly. Thanks for looking! It's a GOG install, that was the best sale. I've done a BUNCH of googling, and it basically ranges from "hey stop hacking you jerk you get what you deserve" to "no known fix" to "restart your computer". The third option has worked with limited success, but I've not been able to carry over any character. To be fair this is by far the best run I've ever had so that wasn't a big deal, but I also can't remember if I survived any previous sessions. On the official BIS forums they have you submit information about where you got the game, IP address, etc, so I've done that and had a ticket opened. We'll see where that goes. It would just be fun to load up the game and 1) have it work and 2) not have the specter of losing all my progress by default when I do get in. e: apparently there's a GOG support article I'll have to look over and try when I get home. I didn't even think to specify which non-Steam install I was using. I think that did it! I never even thought to be GOG-specific. I owe you all my blood packs and morphine.
  18. DayZ

    Aww, crap. Yeah there was a bunch of stuff surrounding it, but I didn't want to take it because my pack was almost full. I'll remember that for next time. I even dropped my own pack right on the ground. Thank goodness I was able to pick it up again. I think the one lying there was an Alice pack? I've heard those are quite good. May be a moot point, because I think every time I restart my computer to be able to log back in I get wiped, but thanks for the advice!
  19. DayZ

    Holy smokes this game is intense! My very first spawn I found more axes than I could ever carry, and axed about a dozen zombies. I also found a location that had 5-6 medical tents. The very first firearm I found was an M16, and were you watching me play you would have been able to tell because I yelled "HOLY SHIT AN M16!" With no rounds. So I loaded up on morphine, blood, bandages, painkillers, epi pens, everything I could carry. I climbed on the roof to survey my surroundings, and attracted a zombie. My choice was lug the M16 and hope I could find ammo, or have the axe and have to defend myself. I eventually died literally trying to bandage myself, shaking, surrounded by all the medical supplies in the world but no bullets. I finally had success though! I found a winchester, and magazines. MULTIPLE magazines! A pistol! I had food, a hunting knife, matches, but no drinks. Started losing blood due to thirst, aggro'd a zombie, had to shoot it while shaking. Thank god that zombie liked pepsi. I drank it right on the spot while other zombies closed in, but now I was able to outrun them. Snuck into a supermarket under cover of darkness and loaded up with more supplies than I've ever seen in my life including a map. It's zombie christmas. Now I'm following power lines, I believe eastward. Finally curled up under a tower to sleep because it was dark. Questions- I found a different pack in the store, but couldn't pick it up. I didn't have the option to interact with it at all. Is there something special I have to do; are packs bugged? A process question - whenever I log out of a server and try to log back in, I get "CD Key in use". It seems like restarting my computer fixes it? Is there any other fix someone knows so that I don't have to restart every time? My SSD died and I'm running on a crunchy old drive that I'm afraid is going to explode and it takes forever. Plus if I do that, will I have to start over? I've never picked up where I left off on a character. I don't know if that's just happenstance or something to do with blanking out the key? I've had to reselect a gender every time I successfully load into a server, etc. Ach, this is a long post.
  20. I'm not certain we are? What I'm saying is that considering the genre, the writing team had an incredible amount of freedom to do whatever they wanted. Essentially, they were beholden to the gametype because of the Spec Ops franchise name (modern military), and they had a location (sand). Maybe I'm interpreting it incorrectly, but as far as shooters go that might as well be a blank canvass, essentially unconstrained. If we are both agreeing that they were allowed to make any 3rd person game with automatic weapons they wanted, then cheers!
  21. Well no, if I understand correctly the lead writer had been on the project the whole time, and his constraints were "it's a modern military shooter set in Dubai. Ready, go."
  22. Jake, I got your analogy! It wasn't about the character's actions in the movie it was how it made you feel while watching it. I understand! Shit I explained the joke.
  23. This certainly colors my take and approach on the game, but after listening to Gamespot's spoiler podcast that had the lead writer and designer of the game, it sounds like they were attempting to craft an experience close to what other barry had. If I remember correctly he specifically mentioned the potential of turning off the game as a player choice. Whether or not that execution catches with you while playing is something different altogether. It might be worth a listen for anyone that's been intrigued about the Spec Ops discourse over the summer. http://www.gamespot.com/features/gamespot-gameplay-special-edition-spoilercast-spec-ops-the-line-6386587/
  24. Books on Sport

    If you're a baseball fan, I highly recommend The Hall of Nearly Great http://www.hallofnearlygreat.com/ Each chapter is a from a different writer about a different ballplayer who just missed greatness and the Hall of Fame for one reason or another. Awesome read. It's ebook only at present if that factors into your decision. e: everyone should read Moneyball. It's not really about baseball, it's about people and market strategies.
  25. I hadn't ever listened to her voice acting before. That sounds like someone tried to figure out if they wanted to be Katey Sagal or Sigourney Weaver and landed in a boring middle.