Badfinger
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THEN WHAT IS BRAD MUIR DOING?
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Well I was 30-40 hours in when I posted just after Christmas. Maybe 50. I was already in a basically fully decked Viper 3. If you individually sell all the parts and components, you get the full value back for them, and then if you sell the ship you've barely lost any money in the transaction. It has mostly Class 3 parts for the big stuff, so that was money I got back that went straight into the Cobra, which has then been transferred into the Vulture. The curve is pretty steep when you start up, and I didn't even get into bounty hunting at first because I had NO idea what was going on or how to do it. So I was using a Hauler, I was jamming cargo space into a Viper, etc when it turns out that pve bounty hunting is far and away the best way to make some money. Forget the bulletin board. I'm glad it's there, but so many of those quests are just flat broken right now. Yep, I'm still using the gamepad. It's honestly great. I'm using these bindings. The biggest barrier with the HOTAS was that it felt like I was making a decision to play E:D. The gamepad is always connected so I can just play it like I choose to play any other game. Not sure what you're using now, but if you can get into a Viper you're going to be set as far as PVE bounty hunting goes. It will open up a lot more combat options for not a lot of money more than an Eagle (purchase price).
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I have been playing a lot of this recently, somehow! Yes, bounties have either changed drastically or are much more accessible. I'm now in a fully decked Vulture (holy crap, what a good ship but geez the power profile on it SUCKS), and with some luck I can clear 1.5m an hour. I bought a Type 6 and put 100 tons of cargo space in there. It's possible to get above 6-700k/hr trading if you find a good loop route that way, but that's with literally optimizing button presses to get into and out of stations asap. I'm trying to figure out what my next ship up from a Vulture would be where I can actually experiment with build paths instead of shutting off my cargo hatch during combat. It feels like a Fer-De-Lance is the next step up? Or probably a Python more realistically for me. Which is an entire magnitude more credits to make that investment. The Type 7 looks like the next big jump for a hauler. Moving from a Type 6 to an Asp or something feels like a mostly lateral change rather than an upgrade.
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Official Giant Bomb Thread Mostly for Complaining About Dan
Badfinger replied to tegan's topic in Idle Banter
Not only that, there's CAT CHAT. CAT CHAT It made me buy and play Invisible, Inc. It still intimidates me in the same way that XCOM does, in that I can't stand that sort of failure, but it has a structure that shows me there's an ending (plus rewinds). -
Because you can draw boundaries in a way that aren't unintentionally exclusionary or pejorative.
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I don't think any of them are using it in a way that's the stereotypical "filthy casuals" pejorative, which is kind of the point. They're building a wall they can't see in a way that's invisible to them. There is plenty of unintentionally bad word usage in gaming culture, but that doesn't mean it can't be better because one just doesn't know better. Just say non speed run. e: That Crypt of the Necrodancer Coda speedrun was completely insane. Absurd, even.
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I think my "they're so close to being 100% amazing and then you remember this is an event produced literally by children" annoyance of this year's GDQ is the constant reference of any play of the game not explicitly a speed run as "casual". it's not that it's a catastrophe or horrible words, but in a huge community outreach like this that's for a universally good cause it's frustrating to hear smart people, that would probably say something different if you brought it up, subtly build a wall between them and anyone that's not in their exclusive community every time they say it. I don't like how I keep having one of these thoughts or my drive to say so out loud reflects on me or the event, but here we are. Blueglass' laugh continues to be tied for all time winner with every other GDQ event.
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Idle Thumbs 244: Heroes vs Villains
Badfinger replied to Chris's topic in Idle Thumbs Episodes & Streams
Bridge is a very human, team-oriented card game. Playing against AI will teach you what kind of hands you can and can't play into certain bids, and how to finesse hands after winning a contract. But, if your partner REALLY wants to play 4NT with a hand full of garbage the only thing you can do is lay your cards out and go get some hors d'oeuvres. The biggest benefit in that regard is the computer isn't going to bid into a crazy thing unless you were the instigator. I tweeted at Chris that the hardest part about learning bridge was that my grandparents had 80+ years experience when they were trying to teach me. Trying to explain to them that bidding 1NT after someone opens with 1C/1D not to show that you want to play No Trump but that you have even distribution and 10-13 points (I don't remember these things exactly) was an exercise in frustration, because it was very non-intuitive. To them it was natural and they'd been doing it for decades and I was getting stuck at the "easy part". That's not to suggest that they were poor teachers or impatient, just that the part where you actually play cards was very easy compared to the part where you use weird code to say 7 things at once. I was also an early teenager, from my recollection. Bridge is the DOTA of card games. -
Damn it, but computers have become really complicated
Badfinger replied to Erkki's topic in Idle Banter
Logical Increments is a cool as heck website that I have started showing people. I have an i5 2500k and a GTX 970 with 8GB RAM and I have to say it's still a rad computer. From my recollection the i7 920 is just a touch behind the 2500k but I would bet your experience would be basically similar to mine. I had an interim GTX 750 Ti when my card burnt out about 18 months ago and that was a totally fine card but nothing special. -
Damn it, but computers have become really complicated
Badfinger replied to Erkki's topic in Idle Banter
What card would you get? What would you get if you were replacing everything? -
The official spot to go is the youtube account. They're lagging behind by about a day, but this is as active as I've seen them cataloging the videos as they've ever been. Other places might eventually be pulled down, but that will stay up.
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I feel like the Bill Belichick Offseason Simulator is the game that encompasses all the finest aspects of Twine game design and execution.
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Idle Cook Club - Veggie Feeds-me: My Body Is Ready
Badfinger replied to SuperBiasedMan's topic in Idle Banter
Oh for sure, same with the eggplant most likely. -
Idle Cook Club - Veggie Feeds-me: My Body Is Ready
Badfinger replied to SuperBiasedMan's topic in Idle Banter
The lady and I are going to try a variation of this, I believe. She has to pick her battles with cow dairy products, so that's going to be the biggest change. We're going to make our own sauce, completely omit the ricotta (increasing the goat cheese), and make our own mozzarella. I may also omit the zucchini because I am not a huge fan, we'll see. I generally do not like spinach in a casserole, so that's not a likely change for me. -
Idle Weekend December 25, 2015: A Very Dark Forces Christmas
Badfinger replied to Chris's topic in Idle Weekend Episodes
The struggle to make old PC games run came up in an Austin Walker Twitter conversation a few weeks ago, and it reminded me that I have never heard the sound on Master of Magic. Because of what we had to do to load into HiMem to get the game to run, there wasn't enough memory to have sound. My dad bought it later on GOG (a year or so ago) and was playing it with sound effects. I freaked the fuck out, it was almost alien. -
Confirmed, it really sucks. Sorry for all the times I either messed stuff up or failed to do anything at all due to D-Pad badness. Oh my goodness.
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Official Giant Bomb Thread Mostly for Complaining About Dan
Badfinger replied to tegan's topic in Idle Banter
I like Brad! His tastes often overlap with mine. I find Brad's argument style lacks articulation and emphasizes repetition, and that makes it difficult to stomach listening to it for very long. Doubly so if you disagree with his stance. -
Official Giant Bomb Thread Mostly for Complaining About Dan
Badfinger replied to tegan's topic in Idle Banter
Pay to Win mechanics. Specifically, you can invade people's FOBs and actively undermine them, but for Real Money you can buy insurance that cancels any losses you would take. There's other stuff too, but that mechanic in multiplayer that actively detracts from the single player whether you're bought in on the concept or not is real bad. -
For people trying to accelerate their playthroughs you can skip the desert and fight Big Bandit immediately if
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It's by no means a refusal! I didn't know that there was something called a "SEGA Mega Drive" until I was in my late 20s, same as hearing the Super Nintendo called "Snesssss"
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Oh gosh, their descriptions actually fostered my interest in games I would never even think about playing otherwise. I may not play them, but I might seek out Let's Plays. My Most Disappointing might be Axiom Verge. I tried to play it again over the weekend and just bounced. I should LOVE that game. I should love it more than Ori.
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I feel great about it, because you're playing a character, and interacting with other characters who also have relationships outside of you.
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Idle Cook Club - Veggie Feeds-me: My Body Is Ready
Badfinger replied to SuperBiasedMan's topic in Idle Banter
What's with this lasanga/lasagne split? I'm sure I'm technically incorrect to think it's lasagna one and only, but it is raising my pedant hackles and the lines appear to be drawn on which side of the Atlantic you reside. In a more food oriented question, at what point is it no longer a lasagna? What are the components and composition that are the most lasang-ish? -
Official Giant Bomb Thread Mostly for Complaining About Dan
Badfinger replied to tegan's topic in Idle Banter
MGS being GOTY would have been unconscionable. Overlooking all the social issues that game has for its pure technical gameplay has always been what Giant Bomb is about, and I'm glad they managed to buck that for at least one year. -
Official Giant Bomb Thread Mostly for Complaining About Dan
Badfinger replied to tegan's topic in Idle Banter
I feel Brad's problem is that the person he's unable to reign in is Brad. I have felt this for a number of years. Jeff and Brad are the two biggest filibusters. I'm glad Alex talks more, because he's willing to listen, concede opinions, and pull for games because he sees merit in something he personally was not enthralled by. I do love Austin dearly on the podcast, because he's able to 1) articulate his position and 2) actually articulate it in more than one way (continuing to look at you Brad, whose biggest argument is often "DUDE"). I am SHOCKED how often The Witcher ends up hitting the lists and just kind of hanging around. CBirdsong, they explain the story to Life is Strange through Episode 3. They are as explicitly descriptive as it's possible to be.