miffy495

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  1. Abby has a much more defined presence on this week's Beastcast and is awesome for it. Progress!
  2. I'm actually leaning the opposite way of Dewar right now. I didn't like Ben much as an intern, but find that he's pretty quick-witted and keeping up well with the West's shenanigans, adding his own twist pretty well. I still prefer the vibe of GBEast, but I feel like Ben is fitting in where he is. By contrast, I am ecstatic that GBEast hired a woman but feel like the one podcast and stream I've seen Abby on so far have not shown me enough to actually have an opinion of her. She has seemed very reserved (even intimidated?) by the Vinny/Alex/Dan trio and was a lot more quiet than I was hoping for in the stream in particular. I'm sure she's rad, but until she gets more comfortable and finds her voice there, I'll reserve any judgement.
  3. I can't look at Ben without wondering why GB hired Andrew Ryan. That is all.

  4. Rocksmith

    miffy495 replied to toblix's topic in Video Gaming

    2 months later, I'm really curious if you're keeping up with this. How is it going? Have you dipped into the DLC at all? I feel like between April's Bob Marley 5 pack and today's Grateful Dead 5 pack, Ubisoft is trying to get me to dip into my summer vacation supplies a few weeks early...

  5. The McElroy Family of Products

    miffy495 replied to jennegatron's topic in Idle Banter

    I gave up on MBMBAM earlier this year after listening since literally day 1 and couldn't be happier. As for their arrogance and weird defensiveness, I will relate this story: When the Times Online dropped The Bugle and the fate of that podcast was in question (around 2013), there was some talk that Maximum Fun may pick it up. I threw a tweet into the void along the lines of "Happy to hear that MaxFun may pick up The Bugle, but I hope that if they do it doesn't get overloaded with ads the way that MBMBAM has since their acquisition." There were no #s, no @s, no nothing that would allow it to be found unless you were actively looking for plaintext mention of something. Justin McElroy was responding to me like he wanted to fight me within about 30 minutes of me posting that tweet. Like, what the hell, dude?

  6. The Witness by Jonathan Blow

    miffy495 replied to Kolzig's topic in Video Gaming

    Yeah, I did all the lasers and never saw anything like that. Weird. Also no idea how to submit though.
  7. Yeah, I got to 4 left and gave in to mop up the last few. I was so close I didn't want to fight Ganon without, but also felt like if left to my own devices I may never finish otherwise.

  8. Modest Tech: The NX Generation (Nintendo Switch)

    miffy495 replied to dartmonkey's topic in Video Gaming

    Puyo Puyo Tetris is out. It is also budget priced. Just buy the damn thing. I have put so much time into an imported Xbone copy that I can't understand even a little bit. So excited to be able to read the menus and try some modes that I didn't just luck into discovering were amazing multiplayer. If fumbling in the menus and clicking random shit got me an amazing experience with friends, imagine what it's like to understand what I'm clicking on!

  9. Post your face!

    miffy495 replied to Hermie's topic in Idle Banter

    That dance photo is amazing. Congrats!

  10. Modest Tech: The NX Generation (Nintendo Switch)

    miffy495 replied to dartmonkey's topic in Video Gaming

    Yeah, since setting it up in my house it's almost unnoticeable. It's nearly totally hidden by my amiibos, just a small unassuming thing beside the TV. If it weren't for the coloured joycons, it would be hard to tell it was there. I kind of love it for that. Easiest thing to set up ever.
  11. The shoot an arrow at the sun and heart one are two different riddles. The heart one requires no arrows. The arrows one is a little shadier. "Splits the feet of veiled falls" sounds kind of aggressive, don't you think?
  12. I thought circumventing the shrine puzzles was one of the best parts. There was one where you had to start a bunch of giant spike balls swinging with the proper timing to run through them, but I noticed that if I messed with magnesis just right I could loop the chains they were suspended from around the rafters. I looped all of the chains around a few times so the spike balls were suspended a good few meters above a height where they could ever hit me and just ran through the whole thing like a few simple hallways. Best.

  13. I Had A Random Thought...

    miffy495 replied to Zeusthecat's topic in Idle Banter

    Yeah, I was hanging out with a friend who is a personal trainer and she was talking about a subreddit where she chats with other trainers. The following exchange took place: "It's tagline is 'A Safe Space For Lifting" which is a joke about safe spaces." "I don't understand, what's the joke?" "You know. *chuckle* 'Safe Spaces'." "Like, the joke is that they exist? Isn't that kind of shitty?" "I guess. But the subreddit's been around for a long time now, you know?" Having this person who I love, respect, and have known for almost a decade is a good reminder that sometimes, when their main interactions with the world happen through a lens of reddit or similar, good people can internalize some kinda fucked up shit. Thanks Thumbs, for not being that. Although I do worry sometimes that this being MY main interaction with the online world makes me let my guard down a bit more than I should...

  14. Life

    miffy495 replied to gdf's topic in Idle Banter

    Highest of the high fives!

  15. Endorsements from Thumbs Readers

    miffy495 replied to preston's topic in Idle Banter

    I've actually been trying this for a week or so now. Weird to see it pop up out of nowhere like this. Can't seem to get a starter to take. I want to get one going without storebought yeast, but it's giving me trouble. Any tips?

  16. The Last Guardian

    miffy495 replied to Thyroid's topic in Video Gaming

    ...and done. That was a beautiful experience. I came to grips with a lot of the shitty things about it while playing, but that doesn't make them less shitty. That said, I absolutely loved the game. I just don't think I can ever recommend it to anyone without MASSIVE caveats. My girlfriend was watching some of it and was pretty enthralled, but I can't tell her to give it a try because she's not a person who plays many games and I don't think she'd be able to (for example) recognize when the reason that progress is happening is that the AI is caught in a loop or the physics are hitching up rather than her doing something wrong. It's a game that I would love to show to non-gamers, but can't because so much of the bullshit that you need to get around is something that you need to have been playing games for a long time to recognize. Infuriating, in a way. That said, the sequence where was probably one of the most memorable gaming experiences I've had in a while, and the fact that the game forces you to stick around and actually deal with the aftermath is powerful in its own right as well. Such a beautiful, powerful, poignant, fucking busted-ass game.
  17. This. I was yelling it at my car stereo while listening to the podcast on my drive to work. For shame.

  18. The Last Guardian

    miffy495 replied to Thyroid's topic in Video Gaming

    ...and a few weeks later I did! I am about halfway through, from what I can tell (I have just discovered swimming, for those who are in the know). I am absolutely in love with the game that this game wants to be, and incredibly frustrated with the game that it is. The concepts keep on writing cheques that the frame rate and controls can't cash. I still have every intention of finishing the game, but the number of times I have thought "this moment would have been so amazing if <broken thing wasn't broken>" is kind of staggering. A few puzzles before stopping tonight, I did a section where . If it had worked the way the game intended, it may have been one of the most triumphant moments I've experienced in games in a while. As it is, the first time I tried it the camera wouldn't show me what was coming and I jumped in a hole, dying. Then it loaded a checkpoint that was back JUST before the cutscene that kicks off the section, rather than after, which is frustrating in itself. I started going through the section again, but the frame rate hitched up and was erratic to an extent that I felt like I couldn't predict the timing of anything. I jumped in a hole and died. Then it reloaded to that cutscene again, at which point the camera got stuck in a wall and I jumped in a hole and died. It took me 6 tries to run through this scripted thing that was the most Uncharted that this game has tried to be so far. That's just one example (don't even get me started on how unpredictable and infuriating it is to find the points where the game will let you jump off of a chain that you're hanging from). Don't get me wrong, I think I actually love this game. I just don't love playing it. There's so much good here. Being broken didn't ruin Shadow of the Colossus, and I don't feel like it will ruin this for me. It also doesn't hurt that I'm playing it while my cat is going through some pretty intense health problems, so a lot of my feelings regarding animals are pretty heightened right now. Good game, recommend it highly, but god DAMN be ready for some bullshit.
  19. 33.66%? What the hell? I got EVERY shrine, took photos of almost everything I could, had all 4 beasts, and beat Ganon. What is this percentage counter nonsense?
  20. I finished the 120th shrine last night and got my special armor set as a reward. I still have a bunch of sidequests to do and have only (!) found about 150 korok seeds, but I think I'm ready to call it and head for Ganon. I didn't notice a percentage counter. When I fire the game up next to make my run at the castle, I'll take a look.

  21. Meow.

    miffy495 replied to Ucantalas's topic in Idle Banter

    I washed the blankets. Juniper lost her shit. Video attached.

  22. Modest Tech: The NX Generation (Nintendo Switch)

    miffy495 replied to dartmonkey's topic in Video Gaming

    It's also been free on Playstation Plus. I have it on my Vita for nothing, and played my fill of it there. I'm sure it's a good port and all, but they really need more than that to get me excited about BoI in 2017.
  23. Oh my god, the Beastcast's CheatEngine PSA this week had me dying laughing while I washed the dishes just now. So good.
  24. There's a Gerudo who gives you a quest to kill one of those guys. Pro tip: Dodongo tactics work. I'm 88 shrines (about 44 women) in with 3 beasts down at 50+ hours. My 88th shrine tonight was Eventide, but I feel like hearing all the hype about it spoiled it for me and I just kind of went "oh, this is what that is" so I won't say any more. I also had the misfortune of arriving at this part of the game while waiting for the Splatoon Test Fire to start, so had to panic to complete it so that I didn't miss the Splatoon window. Oh well. There is still so much that's incredible about this game. Even though the shrines don't have a tonne of variety, I do love that each region of the map has a theme. Realizing that all the electric puzzles were confined to one section of the map, all the wind ones another, etc, etc, was cool. Makes it feel kind of like there's a themed dungeon buried under each region of Hyrule and you're peeking in at certain entry points. I still haven't set foot in Eldin. I don't understand how I could have played this game for so many hours and done so much and still have an entire province untouched. I almost don't want to go in, even though I know I'll have to soon to do the last beast. Something about climbing that last tower and finishing the map feels almost sad to me. Like I want there to still be dark spots on my map. That said, I have barely touched parts of the map that are open, so I'm trying to do as much as I can in them first. I spent about three nights this week wandering around the Hebra region and found a tonne of things. Now I'm moving on to Lake Hylia, which I pretty much just ran through to get to the desert and is still pretty untouched. There is so much game in this game.

  25. Modest Tech: The NX Generation (Nintendo Switch)

    miffy495 replied to dartmonkey's topic in Video Gaming

    Just played about half an hour in the test fire. It's still fun! Feels pretty much the same to me, but I never got deep into the first one so I wouldn't notice the finer details. I spent the first few matches hating my life, then went and turned off the motion controls. I hated those on the Wii U and this has not changed. With the right stick though, felt good. Played a while with with dual splatties (or whatever they're called), then switched (*snap*) to the paint roller for a while as I never actually used it in Splatoon 1. Both felt good and I was able to contribute (placed second on my team nearly every time, only lost two rounds), so I'm happy. Still feel like I'm going to wait until I hear about Single Player, as that was actually Splatoon's main draw for me, but the mechanics are sound and the charm is still completely overwhelming.