Dewar
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I'm well documented having no idea that this game even still existed, let alone was coming out soon, but I always thought it was going to be a full-price $60 release.
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Well I guess I'm glad that I didn't order an Oculus since this was the main killer app I wanted to play with it. That's really sad.
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Did you also equip them after you learned them? Are you using a controller and, if so, have you tried each bumper? Primary skills are mapped to LB (or L1 I guess?) and secondary skills are RB.
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Darkest Dungeon: Fear is a mind killer, and so is Eldritch Pull
Dewar replied to Dr Wookie's topic in Video Gaming
I should mention that I specifically chose not to play it in Early Access, though I did purchase it after seeing it at PAX, so this is my first time actually playing. I guess I was expecting more of a MASSIVE CHALICE sized experience. -
So, with the new PC release, Austin Walker's glowing recommendation, and several friends getting into it, I've started playing this and having a lot of fun so far.
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Darkest Dungeon: Fear is a mind killer, and so is Eldritch Pull
Dewar replied to Dr Wookie's topic in Video Gaming
I played about 15 hours of this during my week off. My first thought is that it's way too long. So far, I haven't found it particularly difficult, I know have two full teams able to go in to medium difficulty, I've killed 5-ish bosses, and have only lost 5 people, three to my first fight with the Hag and two more due to unavoidable flukes involving death's door and bleed damage.I routinely come out of a dungeon with less sanity damage than I go in with. But still, it's never "easy." I'm constantly having to keep on my toes, no fight is ever just mash the combat button until everything is dead. Normally, I'd call that really good design, but at this point I'm maybe a third of the way through the game and I can't imagine doing this for another 30 hours. More so, I can't imagine getting another 20 hours in, failing, and then starting from scratch. I'm generally pretty good at games, "hard" isn't usually a problem for me and I don't generally mind starting over if the situation requires it. but there's a certain amount of tedium here that I'm really disappointed by and I'm certainly not going to do it a second time. *sigh* I'm only so loud about it because I'm so disappointed : ( -
It's odd to me that they effectively one day made every single ticket that you buy worth less, and nobody threw a fuss. If I were in a betting pool that had 1-100 odds one week, then they wanted the same amount of cash for 1-200 odds next week, I wouldn't keep playing.
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Yeah, I think I'd finally take a shot at programming a real game, and then have it die in obscurity, but at least I'd have done it. Then maybe do some contract work to keep occupied while still being able to just not take another job for a while if I wanted to travel or something.
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Credit unions are selective in various ways who they let in as well. They are able to offer good deals to members because they weed out most of the high risk folks. So for marginalized people, they're not really an option. By the same token, a co-op lender that specialized in payday loans would have a lot of high risk members, and probably not be able to offer any where near as great of rates. Hopefully, still better than the current Payday loan crap though.
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Fund the local (quite highly regarded) aquarium Buy a membership to the weird expensive business club that has a lounge on the top floor of a skyscraper where my favorite bartender moved to. Buy a house close enough to Seattle to be able to commute down there in less (hopefully much less) than an hour, but not so close as to be traffic-ed all to hell Fund the top tiers on Kickstarters (that's a really good one SAM) Have a good lawyer on retainer that I can send to fight stupid patent troll, intellectual property, or terms of use cases, refuse to settle, and find out how some of these grey areas shake out. Spend a bunch of time under the hood of my 86 Toyota pickup and referbish it to brand-new quality. According to the state of Washington, it's a classic car now. Buy an electric car since I'd actually have a place to plug it in. Edit: Man, I have so many silly ideas. I'd buy a small games journalism outfit and see what they can do when given a (somewhat reasonable) endless budget and no worries that some advertiser is going to pull out and make the boss angry.
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I just wanted what they had in the game already to work properly. Turrets don't even target properly without editing the code. : (
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That's essentially what a credit union is, right?
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Official Giant Bomb Thread Mostly for Complaining About Dan
Dewar replied to tegan's topic in Idle Banter
Oof, just finished this myself and it was definitely a little more... real I guess? Problems with anxiety run in families and it certainly sounds like Paul has anxiety issues that he's dealing with in a much different way than Dan. Over my life, I've seen myself slide back and forth between the two ways of dealing with stress. -
Idle Thumbs 244: Heroes vs Villains
Dewar replied to Chris's topic in Idle Thumbs Episodes & Streams
Excellent, I was looking for this myself since my wife would like to learn to translate games. -
Wow, a big enough hole to turn around in?
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There are days that I feel like a LMGTFY machine at work. I mean these are other technicians I'm helping, they should be able to Google something themselves right? I know that there's skill in useful search engine use the same way there's a skill to finding the right books in a library, but this is getting ridiculous.
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Initial reviews look kinda rough. Sounds like having the dice visible has a lot of people complaining about RNG balance issues.
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A friend pointed out Tharsis to me after seeing a different, related, Youtuber playing and the marketing material on Steam looked pretty good. I just got a bunch of games in a charity bundle though, so I don't know if I'll be able to pick it up right now.
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Official Giant Bomb Thread Mostly for Complaining About Dan
Dewar replied to tegan's topic in Idle Banter
That was a better build-up/pay-off than most scripted movies have -
I honestly didn't know that there was any real information about the witness out there. As far as I knew it was a silent date on the calendar and that's it.
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I have the benefit of a huge HDD so I install everything when I buy it then uninstall it when I'm done with it.
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Official Giant Bomb Thread Mostly for Complaining About Dan
Dewar replied to tegan's topic in Idle Banter
Sounds like smart play to me. I had no shame for any of that shit in Dark Souls 2. -
Official Giant Bomb Thread Mostly for Complaining About Dan
Dewar replied to tegan's topic in Idle Banter
Oh, nice. I should add his twitch channel. -
If this ever happens to you again, bring up task manager, application tab, New task button, type in Explorer, and hit OK. That should at least get you to your desktop. Most likely there was something setup to run every time the computer starts that was broken in some way. MSconfig can you help you track that sort of thing down.
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In fact I would recommend going to the big church door before going up the tower, but yes, saves are very important there. There's no going back. I got about 20% of the stars my first time through. Mainly the ones that involved getting a piece of equipment outside it's puzzle. When I went back to try and get more, I looked up a video of a couple being hidden behind weeds or difficult jumps and decided that's not the type of puzzling I wanted to do.