Orv

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  1. General Video Game Deals Thread

    Unless you have +5 to Shunning Resistance, I would recommend it.
  2. Obligatory comical YouTube thread

    Oooooooookay then.
  3. Dark Souls(Demon's Souls successor)

    I think this proves the DotA postulate really well. By which I mean, there's a hard skill ceiling on the physical aspects of DotA/Demon's/Dark Souls. You can only be so good at last hitting/blinking/dodging/blocking/etc before there's just no further up that ladder you can go. But what really proves how good you are at these games is your knowledge. What's the cooldown/range on that ability? What's the attack pattern for this mob? What's the cost of this item? How many hits does this boss take to kill with this item. I love this game. (Dark Souls) I also quite like the comment on the second video; This guy simply walks into Mordor. . .in record time.
  4. Life

    Those hashbrowns were delicious?(!)
  5. Unnecessary Comical Picture Thread

    I proudly maintain that my sense of humor is too evolved for the human intellect. Including my own.
  6. Life

    Mmm, that's what I'm having for breakfast decided.
  7. Deus Ex 3

    There is an amusing situation with Malik that is worth picking up the augment (or searching on YT for) but otherwise there's little use to it.
  8. Unnecessary Comical Picture Thread

    Dramatist. Of course it's a woman, and I am disturbed by orders of magnitude more by what she is doing than how she looks.
  9. V The Elder Scrolls

    Yeaaaaaaaaaah.
  10. Unnecessary Comical Picture Thread

    But. . .but. . .the facial structure, the hair, the ears. . .my whole world is spiraling around me!
  11. V The Elder Scrolls

    Almsavi (sivi?) Intervention and Divine Intervention. Tribunal/Imperial respectively. Both readily available from any Trader and their respective temples. In fact, the quickest (albeit most expensive) way to get to Caius Cosades at the beginning of the game is to walk into Ariele's and buy a scroll of Almsivi Intervention and pop it. You're about 300 feet from his house then. The higher the magnitude of a leviation spell the faster you move. There is a really nice levitation spell granted by the shrine in Vivec for a Potion of Rising Force, infinitely reusable. Boots of Blinding Speed are always fun, but take a bit of enchanting work to make feasible. There is, of course, the Offical Plugin for the Indexes, that teleported you from Stronghold to Stronghold. Useful, if a bit out of the way. Mark and Recall are available from various Mages Guild spell sellers, naturally. You can also get both of them at once a short ways into the Telvanni quests. Which is, in fact, the best way to get them if you don't want to join Hlaalu or Redoran, being that the first three quest givers of Telvanni are nothing but fetch quests. The Mages Guild seller with Recall is available the moment you join the Guild (for the nominal fee of Guild teleportation to get there) but Mark is unavailable until something like rank 3 or 4. I believe Wizard, which is 3, but don't quote me on it.
  12. Life

    Neither this; Nor this; Are questions. Phrasing prevents you (or should) from putting question marks on those sentences. Among other things that I don't remember from fifth grade English, I'm sure.
  13. Planescape: Torment

    As much as I love the game. . . uxs3g0Xgh7k
  14. Life

    Grammatically appropriate commas, are for babies.
  15. V The Elder Scrolls

    The speedrun record for Morrowind currently stands at 4 minutes 10 seconds. The same two guys that speedran (?) Skyrim did both Oblivion and Fallout in the 1 hour 10 minutes range. (I could be off a couple tens in the minutes category.) Keep in mind they've been playing this game for years now, they know every trick, every possible permutation of everything they ran into. And it still took them an hour more to speedrun Skyrim than Oblivion. That should be heartening to you, not troubling. It means twice the possible content in the main quest, and gods only know how much side content. (Tom Francis in the PC Gamer Skyrim feature took more than an hour to walk across about a quarter of the world.)
  16. I decided to take a break from the mind-numbing work of the Gesalt to work on something even more insane. Doug, I would do terrible things for you if you somehow allowed me to edit the world. Or I could give you an MC Edit construct that you could drop into the world. Something.
  17. Life

    By the time I saw your post and could have started driving, the party would have been over.
  18. Movie/TV recommendations

    Just finished Dark of the Moon. I was on-board until Sentinel quoted Spock, and that soured the rest of the movie for me. Looking back over it, it was generally enjoyable (while playing), a good popcorn deal. A bit long, maybe. But as previously discussed, the needless, ever bewildered eye-candy was stupid. It also seems like Bay tried to cram every action movie trope/cliche in there at once. Fat retired military guy, little guys save the day, betrayal by old friend, fragile alliances. I enjoyed watching it while actively doing so, but that's where it ends. And now this fuck is doing TMNT, wonderful. This really kinds of sums up the trilogy, for me.
  19. General Video Game Deals Thread

    Oh no. . .no. . .stop, me, it was a terrible game. . . http://www.beamdog.com/products/knightshift Every time some indie digital distribution company comes along, they inevitably have some old game my nostalgia demands I buy. I dread the day they all go down in horrible flames because Gabe Newell dies and Valve is turned into a horrible corporate machine, devouring all other digital platforms.
  20. Recently completed video games

    Finally beat Aquanox (1) however many years after it first came out and I got it something like three days afterwards. It's on GOG for 5 bucks, give it a spin. It is terrible in wonderful ways, and a pretty damn good game besides. (Warning: Severe rose tint.)
  21. Books, books, books...

    I thought I'd put this here as well. If anyone would know about something like this, it'd be Thumbs. Trying to find a book, I believe published by Reader's Digest, maybe half an inch thick, probably less. Hardcover. Old. It had various puzzles, games and stories. If I remember correctly, among the stories were - The Speckled Band (Sherlock Holmes) - Revenge of the Tommyknockers - Runaway Train Something Something There was some game about racing in old cars (seems like maybe late era Model Ts and the like?) in places like the Ural Mountains
  22. Obligatory comical YouTube thread

    I like that he phrased it that "the occult came and hung about one hundred ravens in our fig tree." Not a person, just the mysterious force of the occult. Also, occultic is not the word you're looking for, you idiot. Arghhhhhh, religion.
  23. Obligatory comical YouTube thread

    Squirtle, the ancient Chinese demon of murdering babies in their crib.
  24. Life

    Since we live in the time of in absentia Thunderpeelia (and I'm dying of the flu), the tax returns are the obvious choice. Who doesn't love a good tax return?