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Quote from: MaximumZero on May 31, 2014, 06:31:19 am

Quote from: Yoink on May 31, 2014, 02:58:14 am

The nails on my big toes seem to be literally turning into claws.
About halfway up the nail I've noticed a ridge, where it suddenly gets thicker. I think it might be too late to cut them, now.
Unless I used some sort of powertools.

Yoink confirmed for Demonspawn. Somehow, you levelled up. Have you been killing rats?

B-but... but... rats are adorable! D:
If I killed any of them it was most certainly by accident. The demonspawn part I'm okay with, at least.

I have to suggest the Etrian Odyssey series for DS/3DS. It's pretty oldschool, with good character/party customization and a pretty harsh difficulty curve for a turn-based RPG. I've only played the first one, but it involves diving into a (huge, non-random, grid-based) dungeon and mapping it out by hand on the lower screen, trying to push further with each dive before running out of resources and having to return to town. Expect to get TPKO'd by harmless-looking butterflies and bunnies early on. The story is present but minimalistic, and there's no preset characters in your party (the 3DS remake changes this). They also have item/monster encyclopedias to fill in and tend to have ridiculously brutal postgames.

Some people hate the mapping mechanic but I found it strangely satisfying, since you get that feeling of accomplishment for each new room you successfully explore and mark down.

Edit: I also second (third?) the Exile series from Spiderweb. It's old but really quite good.

Defeated the Moonlight Butterfly on the second try, climbed the tower beyond it and claimed the loot.

After pausing to ponder where to go next while still human, strolled absently off the top of the tower and fell to my death.

On the way to pick up my 15k souls I derped and got eaten by a tree.

:|

Sort of a minor sad compared to most, but...

I went to the local pet store the other day because I'm looking for employment and wanted to check to see how well cared for their animals were. Surprisingly, they all seemed happy and healthy.

The sad was that they had a pair of beautiful friendly male rats on display and they let me put my hands in the cage. They grabbed my fingertips with both hands and nibbled gently on my fingernails. Cue me suddenly feeling like crying because my own pet rats died several years ago and apparently I actually miss them really hard.

I won't be able to get any animals until I move out, and it sucks... 

You'll either want to put them back in the nest and hope their mom comes back overnight or else get them to a wildlife rehabber. They'll die if they aren't fed, and they'll die if you feed them improperly (too much/too little/too fast/wrong stuff). Those guys look really young.

I once had someone drive up while I was out walking and hand me a baby rabbit that they'd rescued from a parking lot where a pair of cats had been terrorizing it. Ended up taking it down the street and putting it outside in a box with a hole cut in the side so it could flee once it felt up to it. It was a lot older than these ones, but I still wonder if it survived alright.

Feral/outdoor cats are a massive problem for wildlife.

What do you get from playing online?

Dark Souls (and Demon's Souls, though it's not for PC) are completely unique in how the multiplayer experience is seamlessly interwoven with the single player game. Other players helping and hindering you, directly and indirectly, is a concept the entire game is designed around.

Certain entire aspects of the game won't "work" as intended if you're offline. BlackFlyme mentioned "covenants", which are factions you can join that mostly let you interact with other people's games in different unique ways, be it PVP (consentual or not) or co-op. Certain actions in the game are "punished" by being attacked by player members of a certain covenant, for example. The covenants and what they do are all tied directly into the game's lore and backstory. The game's still entirely beatable offline, but you miss out on a lot of things that were intended to be a part of the core experience.

A specific example from Demon's Souls (Dark Souls' predecessor) was that there was a major boss in the game that was actually another player summoned from their game to fight you. If they succeeded in killing you, they'd get a unique item for it, but you had to defeat an actual human being to progress through the game. Playing offline would get you a (usually much easier) NPC boss in their place.

I can't seem to un-wield things. Pressing "w" -> "-" just gives me the message "Never mind."

What am I doing wrong?

I had this problem too, since pressing "-" was how you'd unwield a few versions ago. Now you have to hit the key for the item currently in your hands instead.