Badfinger
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I am super puzzled how the first syllable in robot a diphthong? Only one vowel, seems impossible to string it like a true diphthong. I do pronounce the first syllable as "row", but I also see tberton's second syllable in my pronunciation. row-baht.
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Yes, you can rush it and both hit it at the same time and send it flying off... directly into your goal. Or you'll end up on the other side of the map, unable to defend your goal as the ball has conveniently bounced right in front of it. A statistically significant portion of the goals in games I've played, 1v1 or other, have come directly off of bullshit from the faceoff that wasn't just someone who took too long to drink their soda during the replay. It's REALLY awful.
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1v1 is infuriating and not fun. I still really loathe the faceoff mechanic, because it results in way too much bullshit out of your control. That's most of the reason 1v1 is bad.
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Oh geez, really? That sucks so hard! That quest is so good at showing how you act in the world mattering.
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Agreed. I found the ending very meaningful and reflective in a good way of things I'd done throughout my time with the game. The Witching you do to finish is worth it. In the vein of choices reflecting gameplay, I strongly insist everyone get the Skellige's Most Wanted DLC and play that. It's free and a very cool quest. It's higher level, right up near the end game.
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Forgive me if I'm misreading and you are already right on top of this. Is there any way you can help her look for jobs where you're going to be next year as a longer term solution, as opposed to the next 6-12 months? It all sounds rough. I'm sorry.
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I can tell you that the people I work with crack jokes at lunch much worse than this on a daily basis. They are, in general, caring and nice people. But they are wholly ignorant that the shit they're spewing is on par with racial slurs, and it's so frustrating. Here's the thing: they're old. The world I live in where this is normal and people are people and you don't say that shit isn't their world. I am not excusing anything they, or Troy Baker, have said. But 5 years ago, that was a socially acceptable joke. It's a joke like I might have made 10 years ago. I'm truly sorry about it. It was never not horrible, but at the same time late night TV hosts could probably pretty easily shoot the breeze with "tranny" jokes and be completely fine. The world is changing in ways they don't understand, and we (especially in my mind, people who are like them and not the target of shitty jokes (aka me, I have to do a better job of this)) have to do our best to educate that jokes like that are not ok. Because I don't think, at least in the case of my coworkers, they are meaning to say hurtful things, and don't think those things when they are cracking jokes. So it's on someone who knows better to educate in a way that makes them allies and not enemies. Unfortunately, one of the things about ignorance is you don't know you are.
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Rüde.
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I admire the strength of all of you in long distance relationships. Some misgivings I've had in previous relationships were magnified (or perhaps surfaced) because I was 30-40 minutes away, let alone hours and hours.
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Idle Thumbs 220: Life Finds a Way
Badfinger replied to Jake's topic in Idle Thumbs Episodes & Streams
Oh my god, trying to hold in laughter and I'm getting tears in my eyes. Chris can you please post a screenshot of your uberbase with its Patient Pope? I want to know what the dark future of a successful shelter looks like. -
Oh my goodness, a list of 25 games you're committing to playing? I can barely commit to one game in my real backlog. Games I come back to or play regularly: League of Legends Spelunky Nuclear Throne Crypt of the Necrodancer Threes You Must Build A Boat ROCKET LEAGUE Games I want to finish sometime soon or keep playing: Arkham Knight Elite: Dangerous XCOM (Have started a new game within the last few weeks) Axiom Verge DayZ Games that I tell myself I should put on the list, but if I'm honest with myself I haven't played them in a while even though I really like them: Titanfall Diablo 3 COD: Acronyms Hearthstone EU4 Games I want to put on the list but I know realistically I'll never play them with any regularity even though I really like them Cities: Skylines Crusader Kings 2 Planetside 2
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I have heard people pronounce the word "giblets" with a hard G! That is totally retrofitting that excuse onto the way I learned to say it, however. My group of friends picked up "gib" outside of the context of giblet, so in reading it we pronounced it how you would if it was its own one syllable word. I have no excuse for my actions. You will note that I am at most jokingly making this argument for pronunciation. It is strikingly weird to hear people pronounce the soft "g" though. Similar to how it's still weird to hear someone say "SNES" as if it was an actual word and not, correctly, pronounced letters (ES en ee es).
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One of the failings of the game I think is making a physical mistake that instantly gets punished when you shouldn't. ie not mis-hitting or failing a timing, but rather knowing precisely what to do and failing because the ball cam is sometimes really bad and you are literally unable to tell where you are spatially. I understand that things like that happen in sports, I've done them, but once you gain a reasonable competency you don't do things like just let the ball fly 2 car lengths over your head because you THOUGHT it was right at striking level. I might try playing a game completely without using the Ball Follow cam to see how different it is.
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You have clearly never seen 4 year olds play soccer, which is exactly how everyone approaches a rocket car soccer game the first time they get in it! I had a streak of 2-3 games I ended up playing with the same (random) teammate where WITHOUT FAIL every time I took the initiative, attacked aggressively, and failed to score, the other team would instantly capitalize. I said it, and when it happened for the third or fourth time he was like "wow, it really does happen". It's because no one rotated back to play sweeper. I like playing off the ball. It's fun, partially because it's so necessary but mostly because using an entire meter of boost to fly in and SMASH the ball into the goal from 3/4 of the way across the field while everyone pokes at it helplessly is so amazingly satisfying. I'm already noticing that the whole dump and chase strategy works less often than it did at the beginning of the weekend. There are people who are willing to not be touching the ball at every second (inevitably on the other team) who will diligently clear crosses. The problem is I don't know that I have the mechanical skill to evolve my game to the next strategic level I know is there.
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Jam. ...I haven't answered this correctly, have I?
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Interestingly, people who have never been into watching others play games are way into watching Rocket League. My buddy bought a second PS4 controller almost specifically so we could split screen it. Three of us took turns swapping 2v2 games, and it was almost as entertaining to watch as it was to play. My friend said "I'd actually watch people play this". It's easy to understand action, and it's colorful and fast. I mean, he's a hockey fan, so it makes sense. It's hockey. One of the hardest things for me to remember is when I'm trailing the play I need to swap to the other wing once the ball gets put deep. I keep staying on the same side, and it's hard(er) to fly in and follow up from the strong side wing.
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Idle Thumbs 219: Idiots Laughing
Badfinger replied to Jake's topic in Idle Thumbs Episodes & Streams
If you were really dedicated you would go to the corner store, bribe them to come by so you could do so, berate them for spending their time loitering at the soda counter, and then get to do it again when they're on your lawn. If they don't show up, you get to have a rant for that too! It's wins all the way down. -
Jiff and gib, not gif and jib. It's weird, but true! Giraffe-ics are my jam.
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The interstate highway system is both wonderful and terrible for reasons like this. Combining that with the pure size of North America and low population density (relatively, in general), even when public transportation makes sense overall it's often more personally convenient to drive. There's a perfectly usable train I could take into Philly if I was going on a day trip, but considering it's 15-20 minutes to drive to the train station and 30-40 to just drive straight to center city, might as well drive and just pony up for parking the twice a year I might do that. It's also pretty unfeasible to ditch my car completely because of the places I need or want to go where public transportation is thoroughly NOT convenient.
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Damn it, but computers have become really complicated
Badfinger replied to Erkki's topic in Idle Banter
Everyone covered what I was thinking! Get an i5 that you can overclock (I believe the designation is still K) and a motherboard that will support it, and make sure the RAM works in that motherboard. The GPU is going to drive your framerate more the higher you push the prettiness lever, but the CPU (and RAM potentially) will help for the min specs, especially since you have a 560 which is still reasonable. The CPU market for gaming is also in a spot where you can sit on what you have for a good long while and be comfortable, whereas the GPU market is still hounding forward at a pace where what you can buy for $200 6 months from now will potentially be quite different from what you can buy with that $200 today. -
Help I'm addicted to Rocket League.
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Because my birthday is in July, I never got to have the elementary school mom-brings-in-cupcakes birthday party. As an adult I decided, I'm an adult dammit, I'm going to have a cupcake birthday party like a little kid. I went to the specialty cupcake shop and bought two dozen fancy cuppin' cakes and brought them to work to share with the team. It was awesome, big hit with everyone. There was some awkwardness in the shop. The pleasant shop girl asking me "Is this for a birthday?" 'Yep!' "Do you want us to decorate them with birthday stuff? We can put little name flags on them." '... N... no that's ok just as they are is great.'
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I wasn't attempting to assert you don't like Roguelike elements in games. I think we can disagree about the movement and action mechanics without that spilling into anything, so I will admit I haven't played the game since I marathoned it right around release. I can't speak with confidence agreeing or disagreeing about those things. What I was attempting to assert, and in my eyes you have reinforced, is that you are not interested in the Rogue specifically in Rogue Legacy. A good chunk of its design basically made it the standard bearer for Roguelite games, and the boxes you're ticking against it are specifically the things that made me so excited to play it in the first place or were literally advertising features. The rooms are all hand-made by a designer. That was a selling point of the game. If this game had a box, that would be a bullet point on the back of it. They're not broken, you can complete every room because they were built to ensure it. The "Legacy" in the title is selling the persistence over time aspect, and the twist on the genre. You're welcome to not like it! Obviously! I loved it, and I would hope that's ok for those that didn't. I hope I'm doing my best to attack your comments and not you, but on review, mechanics aside, you're not actually interested in the Legacy portion in addition to the Rogue either. PS. SUPER METROID IS A COOL GAME. I am excited to see another speed race at SGDQ next week.
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Funny enough I made the thread without owning the game. I own the game now. It makes me care mad, which is how I know it's good. I need to be sure to do the additional training tutorials. It's a good game, play the game.
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I loved Rogue Legacy. Definitely in my top fistful of games for 2013. It's an obvious reference to Castlevania in terms of setting, but it does not feel like they were trying to make a Castlevania game to me. I don't think I ever drew the comparison until it came up in this discussion, unlike instantly seeing Metroid in Axiom Verge, for example. I never said "this is the Castlevania game I've been waiting for someone to make again!" Most of the reference is superficial. There is far too much Spelunky DNA in it for me to pierce through and see all the 'Vania in there. I disagree strongly that it doesn't reward skillful play. There are unlocks, classes, and items that very much reward finesse rather than pure stat accumulation. With that said, what I'm seeing from you is you don't like the Rogue in Legacy, because most of your pushback seems to be against the design philosophy rather than the execution of the mechanics.