SecretAsianMan

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  1. Endorsements from Thumbs Readers

    SecretAsianMan replied to preston's topic in Idle Banter

    I have that same knife and I agree. I also have their santoku knife which I actually like using more.

  2. Life

    SecretAsianMan replied to gdf's topic in Idle Banter

    My little one has started walking. It's both exciting and terrifying. And exhausting. Mostly exhausting.
  3. Oh I like everything about it that's not the part where they actually play. And I wouldn't have nearly the issue if I wasn't proficient in a game myself. I haven't watched any of the Xcom stuff because that series just doesn't interest me but I probably wouldn't mind inept play since I'm not competent either. I don't mean to suggest they should be able to do crazy jumps or speedrun strats. It's when simple things that I think of as Mario staples like a triple jump elude them. Abby I can kind of excuse since she's probably too young to have the back history (which in itself serves as a depressing reminder of how old I feel) but I can't help but feel like the rest of them should know better.
  4. I started watching Steal My Sunshine and I don't know if I can even finish the first one. I'm going to echo a few others here and say that watching them play is making me twitch in all the wrong ways. The fact that they seem to regard Dan as some kind of high level expert is driving me insane because from what I've seen of him play he's not that good. Maybe I've seen too many speedruns of it and am used to actual high level play but the lack of even basic Mario proficiency is frustrating me. I'm pretty sure if I were in the room I would have ripped the controller from their hands long ago and finished the game myself.

  5. The Big FPS Playthrough MISSION COMPLETE

    SecretAsianMan replied to Ben X's topic in Video Gaming

    I would also agree that BS2 was the superior game but BS1 the more memorable, and not just because it came first although that certainly had a lot to do with it. And L4D is another game I'd love to get in on if I can.

  6. Important If True 28: It Will Not Be Reused

    SecretAsianMan replied to Chris's topic in Important If True Episodes

    My answer to having infinite magic but only during a stage show would be to give myself those powers permanently during my first show, then do whatever the hell I want.

  7. The Big FPS Playthrough MISSION COMPLETE

    SecretAsianMan replied to Ben X's topic in Video Gaming

    While I will have the same availability issues I talked about before, if possible I would also love to TF2 with you sometime. There's a wave based co-op mode there as well which I frankly loved but it's almost impossible to find players for now. I also have a large inventory of spare weapons I could give you.

  8. The Big FPS Playthrough MISSION COMPLETE

    SecretAsianMan replied to Ben X's topic in Video Gaming

    I never had a problem with left/right hand/click in Bioshock but in Borderlands 2 I was constantly fucking up as the Gunzerker whenever I pulled out two weapons. I think the default there was left click shoots your right gun and vise versa with the option to reverse it, but no matter what setting I used I never fired the correct one so I defaulted to firing both constantly.

  9. The Big FPS Playthrough MISSION COMPLETE

    SecretAsianMan replied to Ben X's topic in Video Gaming

    I can't say for certain but my reasoning would be that most of the time you'll be firing your weapon with intermittent plasmid usage. So in a sense your right hand is your "primary" weapon and the left hand a "secondary" which translates to left/right click in most shooters. If it makes more sense to rebind then I'd say do it, but be prepared to right click a lot unless you mainly rely on plasmids.

  10. The Big FPS Playthrough MISSION COMPLETE

    SecretAsianMan replied to Ben X's topic in Video Gaming

    One thing I really appreciated about Bioshock 2 right off the bat was the ability to use both hands. It always bothered me in Bioshock 1 that my left hand could shoot bees and my right bullets but not both at the same time. It was never a major issue gameplay wise but it's a detail that bugged me and I was really glad got addressed.

  11. The Big FPS Playthrough MISSION COMPLETE

    SecretAsianMan replied to Ben X's topic in Video Gaming

    I'm pretty sure I have both Ben and Osmosisch on my Steam friends list. I'm SecretAsianManz if anyone else is looking to group up (look for the same reindeer as my forum avatar). My time is really limited these days and I definitely won't have an opportunity for KF until at the weekend and even then my time will depend on my kid being asleep. I'm also going to go ahead and throw Killing Floor 2 out there for consideration while we're at it. The core game is mostly the same but I'm far more familiar with it than KF1 and have nearly every perk maxed out so I could do some carrying if need be.

  12. The Big FPS Playthrough MISSION COMPLETE

    SecretAsianMan replied to Ben X's topic in Video Gaming

    Man I would love to do Killing Floor co-op if I could find the time. Haven't played the first one in a long while so I'm probably crap at it. Maybe we can work something out.

  13. Important If True 27: Join and Undermine

    SecretAsianMan replied to Chris's topic in Important If True Episodes

    Once, many big moons ago, I had a contest on these forums that consisted of what I now know are called rebus puzzles.

  14. Important If True 27: Join and Undermine

    SecretAsianMan replied to Chris's topic in Important If True Episodes

    I love PB but I dislike J so PB&J has never been a big hit with me. I am the anti-Chris. ...In hindsight that's probably not the best phrase for that.
  15. Jessica is easily the best of the bunch, Danny easily the worst. I think Danny's so bad he's bringing down Colleen, who I liked much more before she became involved in Danny's quest. I find Luke's cheesy phrases annoying and I'm bothered by how easy it is to take him out when he should be the most powerful one but otherwise I think he's fine. I like Daredevil but I prefer him as Matt Murdock the lawyer. I don't really have an issue with Claire (the nurse).
  16. I remember while watching the Defenders thinking "Ben probably won't like this" for those very reasons.

  17. The Big FPS Playthrough MISSION COMPLETE

    SecretAsianMan replied to Ben X's topic in Video Gaming

    Just out of curiosity, which Bioshock ending did you get. The "good" ending is if you save all the little sisters, Jack takes them to the surface and watches over them as they grow up happily ever after. The "bad" ending is if you harvested them instead, Jack leads an army of splicers to attack the surface. Tenenbaum narrates both endings with her tone getting angrier in the bad ending depending on how many sisters you harvested.

  18. Important If True 26: Get Hype

    SecretAsianMan replied to Chris's topic in Important If True Episodes

    This is somewhat correct. The version using a flame is known as fire cupping and is a part of traditional Chinese medicine. You rub the inside of a cup with a small amount of alcohol which is lit on fire very briefly then immediately placed on the skin. As the air inside cools it creates suction. The theory is that it helps to promote circulation by allowing stagnant blood to flow. It is still commonly practiced today in China even at modern medical facilities. In fact just a couple months ago my wife visited a hospital in China for some arm pain and received this very treatment. Medically speaking there's really no evidence to support the treatment as effective but anecdotally my wife did feel better.
  19. I also watched the Defenders and felt pretty much exactly the same way. My personal order of preference is probably Jessica Jones > Daredevil > Luke Cage/Defenders >>>> Iron Fist.
  20. We'll find out in three years when I post it again.
  21. It's mentioned that there are generally three ways the pon farr can be resolved: mating, a ritual fight to the death, or intense meditation. In other words, sex, violence, or a (mental) cold shower. Being TV, we can't see actual sex and watching someone meditate is boring so fights with dramatic organ music and gladiator weapons it is. In the case of Tuvok's wife I am curious what she did. I also wonder about the implications of when a couple's pon farrs don't line up. I don't think "not tonight I have a headache" works in this case. I get the impression that outside of pon farr Vulcans aren't really at all interested in the idea of sex, which begs the question of consent since this is a life-threatening condition. I assume they would approach it clinically but that sounds like some passionless lovemaking. Unless their partner can telepathically get them in the mood.
  22. The episode that highlights this for me is Body and Soul where the Doctor has to hide from a race that distrusts holograms inside Seven's implants, inadvertently gaining control of her body. The majority of episode is so-so, the absolute best part is watching Jeri Ryan enact all of Robert Picardo's mannerisms. Supposedly Picardo acted out the scenes where the Doctor possesses Seven on tape so that Ryan could better mimic him. I would kill to see that tape. One aside from that episode is the side plot involving Tuvok going through the pon farr (the Vulcan need to mate every seven years). I've always wished the part where Paris convinces Tuvok that mating with a hologram of his wife isn't really cheating got more discussion. I know that marital infidelity isn't exactly a Star Trek topic but I found the concept of "not really cheating because it's still 'her'" interesting.
  23. While discussing how betting on PUBG would work, Chris ever so briefly mentioned he didn't know what Salty Bet was. Salty Bet pits two AI against each other in the freeware 2D fighting engine M.U.G.E.N. and people can bet on who they think will win. Because it uses M.U.G.E.N., there's a library of hundreds (if not thousands) of characters, some of which are horribly unbalanced (like tiny characters with virtually no hitbox or overpowered ones with infinite combo chains).
  24. As a person of Chinese decent myself I can completely understand that position. I just wish Kim evolved more beyond the eager beaver. The Doctor and Seven are great characters, but they're also a little too easy since they both start as blank slates so you can graft whatever personality you want onto them, much like Data was often used as the vehicle to discuss human nature. In this way I admire DS9 for not having a literally emotionless character yet still doing a lot character-wise (one could argue that Odo is pretty stiff but he's not physically incapable of it in the same way that Data, the Doctor, and Seven are). Also Jeri Ryan is a treasure. I'm bothered when she doesn't get her due credit as an actress and is written off as eye candy. Although dressing her in nothing but skintight outfits doesn't exactly help that cause...
  25. Here's the Voyager episode list I compiled earlier in this thread. A few people added some more if you keep reading. I felt a certain sympathy for Kim if for no other fact than he was Asian. There were a few jokes made about the fact that he was a perpetual ensign (such as what Gorm mentioned above and another episode where Tom Paris is promoted and Kim jokes he didn't see a box on his console). I also liked his friendship with Tom, but I was more than a little annoyed that he often defaulted to the sidekick role. I agree that for the most part Chakotay was boring. The actor that played him was really outspoken during the show's run about how displeased he was with his character's development. The most egregious example I can think of is a later season episode that starts with the crew discovering an old Mars mission shuttle and Chakotay is all excited because he's supposedly really into that part of history. Except ten minutes in he gets sidelined due to an injury and all the character development goes to Seven. The only Star Trek book I've ever read was a Voyager one and it mostly starred Chakotay. It was probably the most development on his character I've seen and it completely doesn't matter.