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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: What's going on in your fort?
« on: March 06, 2022, 06:40:14 pm »
Latching and shaking completely ignOrcs armor, you know. 
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Other Games / Re: Oooohhhhhhh, Elden Ring. "What the fuck is that?!"
« on: March 04, 2022, 11:27:10 am »So I just have to say - I don't understand the appeal of this series. The fights are lauded - but they seem to be endurance matches of pattern recognition, unforgiving timing, and "if you screw up just a few times, you lose." I can see the endocrine effects being a bit part of this, when an area is finally completed but...Being useless there, as i do not properly understand neither what is that i like or why you describe impressions from a game in chemicals.
Am I missing something, or is there more to it than that? Is it really just about the adrenaline and dopamine?
Can say that for me appeal is best melee combat out of pretty much everything i played (particularly in DS2), but can't say what makes me think it is the best. It is not learning patterns, that's for sure. One thing, at least, is precise control over a character, compared to, say, Witcher 3. Also, huge variety of weapons and builds together with combat make me keep coming back and clock hundreds of hours in those games.
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General Discussion / Re: I like anime, do you like anime?
« on: March 03, 2022, 09:01:16 am »How deep are you into the RPG maker horror fandom if I may ask? Dreaming Mary's one of the big classics so I'm surprised to hear that you haven't heard of it.
If you don't know what I'm talking about, then boy are you in for a treat. There's a whole host of games like Dreaming Mary that you'll get to discover. I personally recommend Lilly's Well. Don't google it cause of spoilerific images, you can just download it for free on steam.
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
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General Discussion / Re: I like anime, do you like anime?
« on: March 02, 2022, 07:39:26 pm »
Discovered yet another touhou fan anime while browsing tvtropes, The Sealed Esoteric History. Its nice (can't say the same about english subs). Unusual take, certainly. And it is whole total of 2 half-hour episodes long. 
Though they, after a 5 years long hiatus, apparently announced a third one. Commenters estimate that it will appear somewhere or another in 1-2 years.
And once again i'm baffled about apparent lack of correlation between views\downloads on a thing i would be interested in and my awareness of it. First episode has almost a million of views on youtube, and have i, a touhou fan, heard about it in those five years? Nay, sir, not even once. First bafflement was with Dreaming Mary, obscure little game, and it's 100000 downloads. Where did i first heard about it? On chanell of youtuber who does fan songs on this kind of games. Although, if one considers that 100000 is not even 1\10000 of Earth's pupulation, it becomes somewhat less surprising.
Though they, after a 5 years long hiatus, apparently announced a third one. Commenters estimate that it will appear somewhere or another in 1-2 years. And once again i'm baffled about apparent lack of correlation between views\downloads on a thing i would be interested in and my awareness of it. First episode has almost a million of views on youtube, and have i, a touhou fan, heard about it in those five years? Nay, sir, not even once. First bafflement was with Dreaming Mary, obscure little game, and it's 100000 downloads. Where did i first heard about it? On chanell of youtuber who does fan songs on this kind of games. Although, if one considers that 100000 is not even 1\10000 of Earth's pupulation, it becomes somewhat less surprising.
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Play With Your Buddies / Re: Dominions 5 Round 05 - Started
« on: February 25, 2022, 11:51:05 am »
And now i can't properly do a turn because server sends me this message :
Here goes email to llamabeast.
:Spoiler (click to show/hide)
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Play With Your Buddies / Re: Dominions 5 Round 05 - Started
« on: February 25, 2022, 02:55:27 am »Our Admin is in Ukraine, which is currently being invaded by Russia.Internet not down yet, not really have anything better to do yet, which may change by the evening for all i know. I'll switch turn interval to few days and give somebody else admin password so that game wouldn't hang up in the air in case something happens. To you, actually.
I don't want to speculate or put words in anyone's mouth. Hopefully MCreeper will be able to update us.
But the internet might be down, and they may have more important things to do.
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General Discussion / Re: Not the WWIII thread (yet) (Ukraine)
« on: February 24, 2022, 01:37:56 pm »Chernobyl has been seized and the powerplant staff taken hostage. Russia has also formally demanded what is effectively unconditional surrender from Ukraine, as Ukraine officially confirms they've taken the Antonov Airport that's relatively close to Ukraine. Russia is in the process of landing further forces there for an assault on Kiev in the hours to come.Oh boy. And i thought this will take three months at least. Looks like my thoughts of warfare are late by a century.
Living in Kiyv there. Hopefully i won't die in a bombing run or something.
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Other Games / Re: How did you last *own*?
« on: February 22, 2022, 10:59:31 am »
Elden Ring is highly unlikely to even launch at my computer, but at least i'm a pro of Dark Souls 2 now. 
No death run completed on fourth try. Two tries ended in Iron Citadel, one at Earthen Peak. Still have trouble making a female character that looks like female rather than trap wannabe, altough this one is relatively decent. Behold, a tank!
Will gather some junk that i skipped then will go on NG+ to try no bonfire run. Should be simple enough unless muscle memory damns me. After that, and servers going up, i will go spook some people in pvp.
No death run completed on fourth try. Two tries ended in Iron Citadel, one at Earthen Peak. Still have trouble making a female character that looks like female rather than trap wannabe, altough this one is relatively decent. Behold, a tank!Spoiler (click to show/hide)
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Other Games / Re: Total War: Warhammer! Now with 2! And 3!
« on: February 21, 2022, 06:46:01 pm »More than that, yar-harred Warhammer 2 comes in one big package, all dlcs, Mortal Empires campaign and all. Update time to add new dlcs varies, up to few months. You asked for this.I'd be pretty interested to see what pirating 3 games worth of inter-linked DLCs looks like. Pirate the base game, sure, no sweat. Pirating the complete Total Warhammer experience? Is that even possible?Dunno why it wouldn't be, yar-haring DLC isn't exactly a new practice even when there's a pile of it. If someone can get the game data and crack/share it, that's all it takes. Most DLC isn't exactly some kind of magic devil trinket, pirating it works just like pirating any other sort of data.
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Other Games / Re: How did you last *own*?
« on: February 21, 2022, 04:31:11 pm »
Beaten up Freja, Sinner and Iron King without deaths. Now i need to get 400 thousands souls somewhere, because i'm NOT screwing myself over trying to jump down the pit. And fastest way to do so is... kill Iron King few more times. So fucking stressful, trying to not fall down that hole. 
Dark Souls 2.
Dark Souls 2.
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Other Games / Re: Oooohhhhhhh, Elden Ring. Vaati lore primer. T-minus 6 Days to release
« on: February 19, 2022, 08:45:49 pm »It defines how the universe works. It is made up of various "runes" i.e. rules or laws. Various factions spring up around the Elden Ring, with different opinions on it.Kinda curious about that one, but don't want to watch the video for fear of spoiling myself too much. Probably i read too much into the phrase, but it reminded me of Sunless Skies. In it there is a revolutionary society who view stars, who created and uphold most of universe's laws, as most terrible of tyrants and wish for an end of them all along with end of all laws. Nothing so radical there, i suppose?
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Other Games / Re: Blurb on Games that probably don't deserve their own threads.
« on: February 16, 2022, 10:47:17 pm »
So Steam was pretty insistently recommending me NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD. Looked at "man, not funny" in negative reviews, looked at overwhelmingly positive reviews, decided to check it out. Don't regret it one bit. Sort of like Princess Maker, except its a satire on streamers, interesting and sometimes actually funny.
So true, so true. I once knew a guy who sometimes took to raving about communism and conspiracies in chat, and there always was someone who got along with it. Hilarious.
For first playtrough ended up in a vicious circle. Maxing affection means game over, as Ame goes stark raving loving. Affection is best dropped by sexy streams, which raise mental darkness and stress like crazy. Mental darkness is baaaad, since it randomly prevents streaming once it gets high. IIRC it can only be lowered by sleeping it off (barely) and fucking (which dramatically raises affection). In the end most streams turned out to be sexy streams, breakdown streams (i feel bad, pity me... but even if you do, i'll get stressed out as hell anyways! ) and telling people to not do drugs on subscriber count celebration streams (like hell they are worth it, raising mental darkness so high). And the ending was her quitting streaming and fucking me all day.
One of 21, ordinary fuck overdose included.
So true, so true. I once knew a guy who sometimes took to raving about communism and conspiracies in chat, and there always was someone who got along with it. Hilarious.
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
For first playtrough ended up in a vicious circle. Maxing affection means game over, as Ame goes stark raving loving. Affection is best dropped by sexy streams, which raise mental darkness and stress like crazy. Mental darkness is baaaad, since it randomly prevents streaming once it gets high. IIRC it can only be lowered by sleeping it off (barely) and fucking (which dramatically raises affection). In the end most streams turned out to be sexy streams, breakdown streams (i feel bad, pity me... but even if you do, i'll get stressed out as hell anyways!
) and telling people to not do drugs on subscriber count celebration streams (like hell they are worth it, raising mental darkness so high). And the ending was her quitting streaming and fucking me all day. Spoiler (click to show/hide)
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Other Games / Re: Blurb on Games that probably don't deserve their own threads.
« on: February 14, 2022, 05:02:26 pm »
Looks like i got another game to keep on radar, if not wait for. Little Goody Two Shoes, that, by developers of Pocket Mirror, that i praised at length (not that big one, turns out) there some time ago. And wouldn't i know, the art is gorgeous again, but now on whole new level. Release date, though, is not as gorgeous, as it doesn't exist. Thought the project was dead in the water, but some searching turned up a semi-active twitter and appearance of active work on patreon (most posts paywalled there). And they have a hour-long demonstration video from ye olde 2020. I poked around in it for a bit and very much like what i see. However janky gameplay turns out again, it will be worth it for art alone.
Also, just now they announced Pocket Mirror remastered, and i can't help but wonder what for, from player's standpoint (getting some moneys for once is always fine reason for dev ). Original game hardly lacked in art department, so much so that this thing appears to barely change anything without comparing side to side, besides new cutscenes, of course. And new music? By the way, i feel like i heard something strikingly similiar to first 10 seconds of the trailer not too long ago, but where was it? Umineko? Touhou? This, perhaps
Eh. I wish some youtuber would make a Pocket Mirror playtrough while fully appreciating it or at least not letting his inflated ego get in the way. I searched for one (not for too long, mind you) with some simple requirements that youtuber has to meet for me to even consider watching him:
1. Name of the game in video name.
2. No caps in video name.
3. No face ever in game videos.
Succeeding that,
4. No being a dick, which involves no speaking in vile tongues and no swearing without proper reason.
And guess what? I haven't found one. I know just the man for the job, but there is no chance in hell he will make a playtrough of this particular game, of course.
Thought the project was dead in the water, but some searching turned up a semi-active twitter and appearance of active work on patreon (most posts paywalled there). And they have a hour-long demonstration video from ye olde 2020. I poked around in it for a bit and very much like what i see. However janky gameplay turns out again, it will be worth it for art alone.Also, just now they announced Pocket Mirror remastered, and i can't help but wonder what for, from player's standpoint (getting some moneys for once is always fine reason for dev
). Original game hardly lacked in art department, so much so that this thing appears to barely change anything without comparing side to side, besides new cutscenes, of course. And new music? By the way, i feel like i heard something strikingly similiar to first 10 seconds of the trailer not too long ago, but where was it? Umineko? Touhou? This, perhaps Eh. I wish some youtuber would make a Pocket Mirror playtrough while fully appreciating it or at least not letting his inflated ego get in the way. I searched for one (not for too long, mind you) with some simple requirements that youtuber has to meet for me to even consider watching him:
1. Name of the game in video name.
2. No caps in video name.
3. No face ever in game videos.
Succeeding that,
4. No being a dick, which involves no speaking in vile tongues and no swearing without proper reason.
And guess what? I haven't found one.
I know just the man for the job, but there is no chance in hell he will make a playtrough of this particular game, of course.
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General Discussion / Re: ♪ The Great Music Thread ♫
« on: February 11, 2022, 06:58:31 pm »
For once youtube recommendations gave me something decent. Vocaloid (?) murder party, ho!
Bad ∞ End ∞ Night
Swiftly found an english, non-vocaloid version. I prefer japanese character pics, but english voices, because japanese voices are too whiny.
Bad∞End∞Night (ENG. ver)
Let us sing, let us dance,
Merry all night long!
Just forget all you knew of
What was ‘right’ and ‘wrong.’
Let’s enjoy this day
Till we’re all insane.
Time to start this HAPPY NIGHT!
Bad ∞ End ∞ Night
Swiftly found an english, non-vocaloid version. I prefer japanese character pics, but english voices, because japanese voices are too whiny.
Bad∞End∞Night (ENG. ver)
Let us sing, let us dance,
Merry all night long!
Just forget all you knew of
What was ‘right’ and ‘wrong.’
Let’s enjoy this day
Till we’re all insane.
Time to start this HAPPY NIGHT!
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Play With Your Buddies / Re: Dominions 5 Round 05 - Started
« on: February 10, 2022, 06:23:29 pm »Fuuuck. What's with those hordes of indies everywhere? Have they been set to higher strength than the default?I swear it ain't so! And they look normal to me too.