toblix

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    Have you learned nothing?! Open tabs are fleeting things, easily lost like tears in rain should the browser crash or fuck up. Just look:

     

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    Among those anonymous gray tabs are cool stuff I'll get around to, like updating my resume, a cool t-shirt, some youtube videos that were too long to watch at the time, a bunch of Cara Ellison articles, a Hearthstone strats page, an article on the linguist who made the language for Game of Thrones and much more. At any time, the slightest error in any of thousands of interacting software components can delete all this in the blink of an eye, and I'll have no way to recall their existence. It's crazy. It's 2014, apparently we can "put a man on the moon" but not keeping track of a couple of tabs is apparently an impossible problem in the field of computer science. Just fucking write them to a file or something! Jesus.

     

    Oh, speaking of having many tabs. Whenever I restart Chrome, all the Soundclouds and Youtubes start playing at once. This is software developed by the company Google. At least Firefox has the sense to not automatically load all the tabs.

  2. Posted

    It's so hot here that my computer up and blue-screened, and since Mozilla is a garbage organization employing only useless hacks that only produce terrible software, all my tabs were lost. I had about fifty or so, and they were all cool things I wanted to read or watch, but didn't have the time for then and there.

     

    Now I only have the four pinned tabs, and nothing but the Idle Forums. If you have a cool tab open, can I have it please?

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    Oh, so did everyone see the Simpsons/Family Guy crossover episode they're doing? It's the best! Bart and the Family Guy baby were doing prank calls to Moe, and the baby was like "Moe, your sister's being raped!" Too funny! Can't believe I stopped watching those shows!

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    Just finished this, and:

    • I really loved this game.
    • I could spend an infinite amount of time in these levels. The level of detail in every nook and cranny is just mind-blowing.
    • I enjoyed the combat probably about 95% of the time. I loved the parts where I could sneak around and stealth-kill guys like a ninja, and on the occasions where I fucked up stealth and went berserk, being able to lean and peek over stuff made the combat fun. Revealing collectibles on the map was a nice reward for stealth-killing commanders, I thought. All in all; leaning, stealth, dual-wielding and weapon modes really worked well throughout this rather long game. The 5% of the combat I didn't enjoy were the more hectic battles with lots of enemies with heavy armor. Switching between weapons and weapon modes was not easy, and I died a lot of times because I lost track of what was going on weapon-wise.
    • I loved the consistently high amount of custom assets throughout. Very little repetition of stuff, and lots of little things happening as I played.
    • I'm a bit torn on whether I thought the whole Nazi thing was fine. There's something that fascinates me, in a creepy way, whenever nazis are used as fictional bad guys in video games. The way they went all-out with the Nazi aesthetic, the architecture, the swastikas and German text and voices and concentration camps and the Volkshalle – the way it's all rooted in actual things that have happened makes it more, I don't know ... effective? Visceral? However, part of me thinks that you shouldn't fucking make cool robots and pulpy video games and creepy fictional Joseph Mengeles based on this fucking horrible thing that actually happened a few decades ago and living people can still remember. I don't find Indiana Jones offensive, though, so.
    • The adventure gamey stuff back at the base was awesome.
    • Oh and I wonder if it's really necessary for games like these to have the steep difficulty curve right towards the end, where you have to fight more and more and tougher and tougher enemies right as you near the ending. Obviously I get how it maps to the narrative and the increasing excitement they want you to feel as you near the end. However, since the exact difficulty curve is impossible to set just right, for a lot of players, such as me, I suddenly start having to retry a bunch of combat scenarios. For me, this affects my enjoyment of the game negatively. For most of the game I've been savoring the combat and puzzles and exploring all the environments, and suddenly I'm filled with dread and just want to get things over with, praying each combat set piece or boss stage really is the last one. There's a boss fight at about 85% of the game which turns out to have sort of a puzzle solution – that would make for a much better ending than the one where you just empty all your guns at a thing, hoping a cut-scene will trigger before you're killed.

  11. Posted

    Oh shoot, I totally missed this on account of being at a birthday party! Thanks, everyone! And happy birthday Subbes!

     

    Special thanks to Tegan for my wonderful birthday avatar, which I'll be wearing for the next week, known by most as Birthday Week.

  12. Posted

    I was hoping against hope I would be able to transfer my saves from PS3 to PC when it came out, but I guess I won't be finishing all the single-player side-stuff. Probably just as well.

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    So WATCH_DOGS. I watched the Giant Bomb quick look of this, and I was like "well, this looks pretty boring" when suddenly, the cool protagonist dude hacks someone's phone and a big MUSLIM label pops up, which struck me as weird, and then I started wondering if I was weird for thinking it was weird. Apparently one of the other labels is ADDICTED TO TORTURE PORN, which is cool. Then, later, OF ROMANI DESCENT popped up, and now I want to see the list of stuff they have in the game.

     

    Disregarding all of that, though, this game really seems like what I imagine all Ubisoft games to be right now. After burning out on Assassin's Creed III, everything they do just seems super bland (and potentially offensive!)

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    You know when you're in the car and you really REALLY have to use the bathroom and the entire world seems to decide that THIS is the moment when they're going to obey the speed limit and drive SUPER SLOW?  I hate that.

    It pisses me off to no end when people think like this. Intentionally breaking the speed limit should be grounds for a permaban from being around other people.

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    I just scrolled super-fast through this thread and just wanted to say that creating a Windows installer USB and installing from it is super easy, so you shouldn't buy/install an optical drive just for that.

  21. Posted

    I once did the mistake of thinking USA would only accept the finest of candies, and ordered a "best of" thing on Ebay, full of all sorts of foul-tasting artificially flavored bullshit. My impression is that the mainstream candy like Hershey's and Nestlé is just all around terrible. Of course. Nestlé isn't American, so now I expect most candy to be shit all over the world. I'm pretty sure you can get a lot of delicious candy from smaller manufacturers in the US, though, but they didn't sell boxes of that on Ebay.