juv3nal

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  1. No Man's Sky

    juv3nal replied to Ben X's topic in Video Gaming

    the melee attack is situationally useful early on because it can bust through (some of?) the locked outpost doors when all you have is the mining laser (which won't scratch them) and no bolter/grenade launcher thing. It's slow though so you're best off clearing out any sentinels around before you do it.

  2. Idle Thumbs 278: Beef Chief

    juv3nal replied to Chris's topic in Idle Thumbs Episodes & Streams

    yasss

  3. The Dancing Thumb (aka: music recommendations)

    juv3nal replied to Wrestlevania's topic in Idle Banter

    the sound defects is gud
  4. Some other "more thoughtful" youtubers: Innuendo Studios: https://youtube.com/user/mrskimps Noah Caldwell Gervais: https://youtube.com/user/broadcaststsatic Satchell Drakes: https://youtube.com/user/satchbags
  5. Maybe he is referring to the prejudice that in the real world would prevent a cat from running a munitions dealing business.
  6. re: language influencing culture versus language influencing thought it's rather a case of six of one, a half dozen of the other isn't it? it seems to me lived experience influences thought and culture is part of lived experience, no?
  7. (thanks thumbsdb)

  8. Kentucky Route Zero

    juv3nal replied to toblix's topic in Video Gaming

    Cara Ellison wrote about KRZ recently.

  9. The Dancing Thumb (aka: music recommendations)

    juv3nal replied to Wrestlevania's topic in Idle Banter

    this guy is also so ridiculously prolific too, but I hadn't heard of him until recently. can he just soundtrack my life with his groove jazz/funk/disco jams.
  10. Yeah ditto not sure what you mean. But to elaborate re: the suspension of disbelief, I guess it's of a piece with having the same attitude towards film/movie: I (and I think I can probably say "we" in a universal sense) don't question "omg how is there a camera there recording this" when viewing a period piece set before the invention of motion picture cameras, for instance. It's just a thing you take for granted, right?
  11. Yeah I'm basically where you're at with this I think. For whatever reason it basically falls under the category of getting a pass for suspension of belief purposes for me.

  12. Idle Fiction Jam - Rumours and Hearsay

    juv3nal replied to SuperBiasedMan's topic in Idle Banter

    ah ok. thanks.
  13. I actually looked up the comment because the way mikemariano had paraphrased it didn't make any sense to me. I think the commenter's point is the conceit about Wreden (narrator) having a breakdown "live" at the end of the game rings hollow because the whole thing had to be recorded, compiled, tested for bugs etc. To put it in other words, it's a version of this old Monty Python and the Holy Grail bit: where the python bit plays it for laughs (why would Joseph inscribe aaagggh in the wall if he is being murdered), but Wreden (real life person) doesn't so much as wink about how it complicates the ostensibly spontaneous emotional outpouring at the end of the game.

  14. Idle Fiction Jam - Rumours and Hearsay

    juv3nal replied to SuperBiasedMan's topic in Idle Banter

    hmm something weird going on...don't see a main.py in the zip C:\Users\david\Desktop\voicebox-master\voicebox-master>dir Volume in drive C is Blade Volume Serial Number is 0A1A-73A9 Directory of C:\Users\david\Desktop\voicebox-master\voicebox-master 2016-07-25 06:19 AM <DIR> . 2016-07-25 06:19 AM <DIR> .. 2016-07-25 06:19 AM 11,343 corpus.py 2016-07-25 06:19 AM 2,894 ngram.py 2016-07-25 06:19 AM 309 pickler.py 2016-07-25 06:19 AM <DIR> raw_transcripts 2016-07-25 06:19 AM 670 README.md 2016-07-25 06:19 AM <DIR> saved 2016-07-25 06:19 AM <DIR> texts 2016-07-25 06:19 AM 3,324 transcript_parser.py 2016-07-25 06:19 AM 1,870 voice.py 2016-07-25 06:19 AM 13,842 voicebox.py 7 File(s) 34,252 bytes 5 Dir(s) 62,632,325,120 bytes free C:\Users\david\Desktop\voicebox-master\voicebox-master>python voicebox.py File "voicebox.py", line 81 print "cursor position:", self.cursor_position ^ SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'

  15. Idle Fiction Jam - Rumours and Hearsay

    juv3nal replied to SuperBiasedMan's topic in Idle Banter

    hmmm I guess I could install python even though I don't/won't be needing it for work and I have an (irrational, I know I know) bias against significant whitespace. I had been working on my own javascript based one (lots of code stolen but just running it off a single file, locally so I wouldn't be hosting it anywhere) but wasn't entirely satisfied with the results. That may be down to choice of corpus though, really (In a fit of supreme narcissism I'd decided a good idea would be to feed it all my own previous writing scrunched together).
  16. gah can blizzard hire Brad Bird and just do a feature length film already

  17. Idle Fiction Jam - Rumours and Hearsay

    juv3nal replied to SuperBiasedMan's topic in Idle Banter

    What kind of method are you using to do this? Is there some web based tool or are you having to code your own?

  18. No Man's Sky

    juv3nal replied to Ben X's topic in Video Gaming

    Matt Lees (part of the Shut Up and Sit Down crew) has done a neat video about NMS

  19. Recently completed video games

    juv3nal replied to gdf's topic in Video Gaming

    I will ditto this. I also finished Bound, which is in a similar vein, but slightly less good. Still would recommend even though it doesn't stand up in a side by side comparison. Maybe give it some space if you've played Abzu or the ThatGameCompany titles super recently.

  20. The Dancing Thumb (aka: music recommendations)

    juv3nal replied to Wrestlevania's topic in Idle Banter

    I am recently infatuated with this song. I just want to blast it in my car on repeat 5eva. Jean's verse could stand to be louder in the mix if I want to be nitpicky about it but that backing track is just immense/amazing/etc.
  21. Forget the gaps in Dan's science knowledge, let's talk about the fact that he has never had potato salad or a baked potato or coleslaw WAAAT

  22. iOS Gaming

    juv3nal replied to pabosher's topic in Video Gaming

    Reigns is super good y'all. http://nerial.co.uk/reigns/#more It's kind of a resource management kingdom sim consisting entirely of binary choices (swipe right and left) but somehow manages to pack in a surprising amount of depth (including a a dueling system that's an homage to insult swordfighting)
  23. I dunno, I haven't watched every quicklook or listened to every bombcast, but the impression I have of the dynamic is certainly not this.
  24. I don't hate Dan, but I think the only way this works out well is if the rest of the GBEast crew pivots more intellectual as a counterpoint to Dan instead of letting him drag them down to their level.
  25. hacknet is really good. I never got around to finishing it but the moment when is so good