SecretAsianMan

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  1. Posted

    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.

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    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.

  3. Posted

    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.

  4. Posted

    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.

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    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).

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    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.

  11. Posted

    5 hours ago, WickedCestus said:

    AFAIK, "cupping" is a medical treatment that used to be used as a pain reliever. The way I heard it (which may not be how people do it nowadays) was a flame was lit inside of the cup and then removed, so that when it suctioned onto the skin it created a vacuum of hot air, which was supposed to help blood flow or some other thing. I heard about it from a woman who grew up in Russia and said she experienced it as a kid, and it was painful as hell. 

     

    I don't know what people in San Francisco are doing with it, but I'm going to assume you're right that it has something to do with toxins. 

     

    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.

  12. Posted

    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.

     

    Spoiler

    I was kind of bummed that the side characters didn't have much involvement besides Stick, Colleen, Misty, and Claire.  I was sort of hoping they'd form a B-team and do some cool shit but instead they mostly just hung out in a room together.  I felt the plot resolution was a little weak too.  I was looking for more of a payoff with the giant hole.

     

    One thing I liked was the scene where Luke tells Danny he's a privileged White kid who had power before he became the Iron Fist and maybe he should think about that.  Also all the Hand members telling Danny what a moron he is and that he's probably the shittiest Iron Fist they've seen.

     

  14. Posted

    4 minutes ago, Gormongous said:

    It's also interesting because fidelity when apart assumes that abstinence is a possibility, but pon farr literally kills Vulcans who do not mate. Sadly, Star Trek prides itself on being to staid (although, now, probably more on being too grim and gritty) to explore that fully.

     

    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.

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    22 hours ago, Gormongous said:

     

    Jeri Ryan truly is a treasure, and it's interesting to watch Voyager's writing gradually go from giving her lead roles in episodes because she's the sexy eye-candy to giving her lead roles in episodes because she's got chops. I still think that Bob Picardo is the most talented actor on the show (although I wonder if that's partly an accident of the writing, since many interviews with cast members mention Tim Russ as incredibly brave and capable as an actor) but man, they bungle a fair bit of that. All the rigmarole about choosing a name for himself and then they never use it, for instance...

     

    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.

  16. Posted

    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).

  17. Posted

    46 minutes ago, TheLastBaron said:

    I have a co-worker I talk to a lot about Star Trek, he's actually the one who got me to watch DS9 and Voyager after only ever watching TNG (and TOS) multiple times.  He's talked about how big of a deal it was for him (as a Chinese guy) just to have a Chinese guy in Star Trek finally in Voyager.

     

    As a person of Chinese decent myself I can completely understand that position.  I just wish Kim evolved more beyond the eager beaver.

     

    1 hour ago, Salacious Snake said:

    At least with the Doctor it felt somewhat organic, as he'd been around, and he was a likeable character from the start. The way Seven swoops in and becomes the main character is so bananas. I mean, they did some good stuff with her, and Jeri Ryan is a treasure. She can definitely carry the weight, including delivering all of that undeliverable Star Trek dialog (with which Voyager is by far the worst offender).

     

    But it really felt like the dungeon master's favorite character suddenly appearing as an NPC and dominating your campaign.

     

    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...

  18. Posted

    48 minutes ago, eot said:

    Kim does have a few good episodes, Timeless like already mentioned, but I also like The Chute. I'll take him over Chakotay any day.

     

    @TheLastBaron

    There's an episode guide to Voyager posted somewhere in this thread, if you get bored with Season 1 I recommend following that and just watching the highlights instead.

     

    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.

  19. Posted

    Yeah that's kind of one of the things that makes me uncomfortable about a kid getting pierced ears before they can talk.  Someone who's old enough to say they want it (even if they don't truly want it but they at least know enough to have an idea) is one thing but to make that determination for them before they can even have a base understanding is another. 

     

    In all honesty I'll probably cave and let my daughter do it if she asks but I at least want her to be able to ask the question.

  21. Posted

    I spent some time away from Dead Cells to try and avoid burning out early (also because I was getting frustrated at not getting blueprint drops after much grinding).  I came back to it over the weekend and there was an update last week that changed some things.  Scrolls drops have been rebalanced to not appear primarily in shops, instead they work like they used to.  They added a combo mechanic of sorts.  If you kill multiple enemies in a short amount of time you get a movement speed boost (doesn't affect attack speed as far as I know) which you can extend by killing more enemies.  Money was also changed a bit with the cash recovered after death being a static amount (between 3k and 15k) instead of a percent.  There's also a passive ability you can unlock to recycle unwanted drops for gold.

     

    One of the bigger additions is the new daily run mode.  It kind of works similarly to other daily run roguelikes such as Spelunky or Binding of Issac in that everyone gets the same seed which changes each day and there's a leaderboard.  The main differences are it's not just a specific seed of the whole game, rather it's one level with a boss at the end.  Scrolls boost all your stats, there's a time limit and a scoring mechanism, plus you can keep retrying it to improve your ranking.  Frankly I don't like it because it's not like the main game.  Scoring is not a thing outside the daily mode so the decision to have one is really bizarre.  Being able to continually retry the same seed makes a daily pointless to me.  The fun of the daily in Spelunky was you had to use your knowledge and skill at the game to make it through a one shot run.  This isn't really true in the DC daily since you can keep trying shit until it works.

  23. Posted

    8 hours ago, kickstandcarp said:

    i'm certainly not going to weigh in on this one, and i don't know if the references will make sense if you are not a regular listener, but this clip from the beastcast a couple weeks ago basically killed me, i could not breathe, etc.

     

     

     

     

     

    That's the improv bit I was referring to in one of my earlier posts.  It legitimately took me a while to realize it was Dan and had me laughing so hard I nearly crashed my car.

  24. Posted

    16 hours ago, Ben X said:

    Also, I'm sure I took one Big Daddy down who had an LS with him (her? Some of them are called Rosie, so I'm not sure if there's some lore I'm not privy to where they're actually female) but then once I'd killed him she was nowhere to be found.

     

    The Rosies are a reference to Rosie the Riveter, which was an American icon during WWII that represented women who entered the work force to fill in for the men fighting in the war.  The Rosie big daddy is the one that's armed with a rivet gun, hence the name.

     

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    (Technically the image doesn't depict Rosie the Riveter but it's the one that's often associated with the idea)