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Other Games / Re: Guild Wars 2: Bookah Wars, you silly bookahs.
« on: October 22, 2014, 10:02:26 pm »
Bumping for Halloween update! This year is much, much better than last year. 

The Labyrinth actually drops items.

ANet brought back vendors from previous patches so you can spend your leftover tokens from the Bazaar, etc. 

The Mad King and Bloody Prince continue to they creepy dialogue, and the skin from Mad King Says is nice looking. 

Halloween currencies were rebalanced so it doesn't cost all your limbs to get the minis. 

There's PvP achievements and a PvP reward track.

All in all it's a good update and I'm having a blast.  The one problem is a change to the gold/gems conversion, but since I haven't bothered with gems in over a year it doesn't impact me.

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DF Community Games & Stories / Re: Timdenee.com is down Oilfurnace no where to be found?
« on: October 17, 2014, 10:08:37 am »
The main site is up, but going to Oilfurnace gives me a 404 File Not Found error.

ETA: Nevermind, my link was bad. Going to http://oilfurnace.timdenee.com/ worked.

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DF General Discussion / Stressed Dorfs
« on: October 11, 2014, 06:30:44 pm »
"Compared to the way it used to work with the sum of happiness/unhappiness numbers, there's an extra layer of smoothing out that should work against sudden spiral behavior from one catastrophe, though the overall strain on the fort from a catastrophe might last longer if the dwarves don't have nice things in their lives." from the devlog

On one hand, sad to see bipolar dwarves and tantrum spirals become harder, because those caused half the !!FUN!! and a lot of the most hilarious writeups.  On the other hand, fewer random tantrums is generally a good thing.   The bugs in this could be pretty funny too.

What's your take?  Is DF going to lose an essential part of its nature with sane(r) dorfs, or are you just looking forward to greater fort stability?

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DF Community Games & Stories / Re: Murderflood: OPERATION PIMPSTACK (Ardentdikes III)
« on: October 11, 2014, 06:24:14 pm »
Oh good, my turn hasn't started yet! I'm so glad, I was afraid I'd missed it.

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DF Community Games & Stories / Re: Murderflood: OPERATION PIMPSTACK (Ardentdikes III)
« on: September 28, 2014, 09:20:09 pm »
Quote from: Taupe on September 27, 2014, 08:09:01 pm
Murderflood, where aquatic life gives birth to pre-cooked meals.

'Fry' is actually a term for young fish.

Your reading is funnier, though. :D

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Other Games / Re: Guild Wars 2: Bookah Wars, you silly bookahs.
« on: September 22, 2014, 07:32:06 pm »
Quote from: Linenoise on September 19, 2014, 01:26:33 pm
I have not played the in about 8-9 months. Can anyone tell me if they ever ungimped the Ranger? They kept saying a fix was coming but I never saw it.

Well...kind of. Ranger with longbow is currently a long-distance killing machine.  Other than that, not much changed AFAIK.

After playing it for a bit, I really can't recommend the game like I used to. The trait changes from April are terrible.
Summary: You now have to do a specific task (ex: 100% complete a specific map, do a specific group event chain) or pay 1000x times more to unlock the trait.  Each trait for each character has to be unlocked individually.  Traits don't unlock until 20 levels past where they used to.

New alts are utterly gimped compared to old characters. They will never be as powerful during leveling. It would take months of just working through the trait tasks to get where a brand new 80 used to be.  I still like a lot of things about GW2, and I'm not going to stop playing a game I still enjoy, but if you want to take up an MMO again I'd recommend something where they don't lock essential features behind a gold wall. 

The latest update had lot of bugs.  The most hilarious one makes diving goggles inaccessible to level 80s. The personal story is less coherent and interesting because they removed some of the later missions with backstory and explanation.  It's kind of a mess, and they've already issued 8 post-release patches to try and fix things without success.

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Other Games / Re: Guild Wars 2: Bookah Wars, you silly bookahs.
« on: September 18, 2014, 10:18:08 pm »
Bumping to say that the new patch is not that bad. The changes to how traits are earned are complete and utter crap, but I really like the new leveling otherwise. All my characters were already created before the patch, so their traits are unlocked automatically now.  I'm probably never going to make another alt, but leveling the ones I have isn't a problem. The megaservers make the maps feel more alive, but it's pretty depressing that nothing's improved in Lion's Arch or Kessex Hills. 

I'm having fun running around with my guild doing guild missions and prepping for Halloween mostly.  We'll see what the next batch of Living Story brings.

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DF Community Games & Stories / Re: Murderflood: Under the burning Sun (Ardentdikes III)
« on: September 18, 2014, 10:14:50 pm »
Glad to see this continuing. Looking forward to my turn. The new version will definitely take some getting used to.

One question - why the above ground especially? Ardentdikes I and II were equally impressive(ly sprawly and badly designed) above and below ground. Did I just miss something at the end of the last thread?

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Other Games / Re: Guild Wars 2: Bookah Wars, you silly bookahs.
« on: September 12, 2014, 07:19:36 pm »
Quote from: Euld on September 12, 2014, 04:15:06 pm
The level 29 exp nerf is actually a bug o_O  A pretty horrible bug, but a bug nonetheless.  Annoys me how they decided to up and change a ton of stuff that worked just fine.

Well, that's a relief.

I hate how ANet keeps pulling the most interesting bits of the game out.

I still think the original Halloween update was the best update. Nothing has topped the Mad King IMO.  The game really tanked after the karka update and Ascended gear got introduced, and now they're merging the changes intended for the grind and skill treadmill loving Asian market into the main version.  The Asura beginning zone apparently lost fun content because it was 'too confusing'.  Huh? People can handle dungeon mechanics, but not golem chess? What is this?

I was holding off on leveling alts until after the improvements in this patch, but now I think I'm going to wait a bit longer. Unless the changes to drop rates have really limited the availability of crafting materials, there's no reason for me to try and finish off the other classes now.

The new megaboss schedule is complete and utter idiocy. Working people in western Europe and the eastern US can't play several of the megabosses at all now.

Also: I just learned that the next Halloween update only runs from Oct 21 - Nov 4.  I really don't like the shorter update cycle for this kind of thing. 

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DF Community Games & Stories / Re: Moltenchannels - The magma flows - FINAL TURN (Ardentdikes II)
« on: September 12, 2014, 07:14:28 pm »
I'd liked to be dorfed as Ghills, profession either a crafter, cook or brewer.

I'm fine with flat or hilly. I think a smaller map is better, that way more people can take turns. The new version seems to have lots of performance problems still.

How much of the map with trees is covered with the aquifer?

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Other Games / Re: Guild Wars 2: Bookah Wars, you silly bookahs.
« on: September 12, 2014, 12:42:25 pm »
Quote from: Euld on September 11, 2014, 02:43:24 am
Looks like everything is up in flames over the new feature pack :/

Just took a look at the forums.  They removed bundles and took hearts out of Metrica?  ANet, what is this madness?  This was supposed to be adding features, not removing the interesting and quirky parts of the game!

Good grief, they level gated diving goggles and skill points, and are forcing people to do the storyline by nerfing XP gain at level 29 until they do that?

I no longer want to level my alts at all.  This is the complete opposite of what this patch was intended to do.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you RRRRRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: I AM SO SMRT Edition
« on: September 03, 2014, 05:42:18 pm »
Quote from: greatorder on September 03, 2014, 03:57:04 pm
Quote from: Graknorke on September 03, 2014, 03:41:16 pm
Quote from: MetalSlimeHunt on September 03, 2014, 03:35:30 pm
Quote from: MaximumZero on September 03, 2014, 09:19:32 am
I'd love to homeschool my kids. I work retail, though, and that provides zero stability in scheduling.
You probably wouldn't like it as much as you think, the homeschooling community is filled to the brim with zealots.
The furry homeschooling community.
Wasn't there that thing about a woman homeschooling because the school didn't cater to her son being otherkin or something? Despite the fact their son didn't think he was?

If you think obnoxious, arrogant, crazy parents don't make life miserable for public school teachers too, I have news for you.

Crazies are crazies.  There's always a few wherever you go.  We had lots of great experiences homeschooling in many places, and statistically it seems to be even with government schooling in this country (in terms of SAT/ACT, college grades, etc).

Today, I managed to re-injure a joint that was almost healed. RRRAAAAGGGEEEE at going back into those braces again.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: September 03, 2014, 05:39:18 pm »
Quote from: tahujdt on September 03, 2014, 05:27:51 pm
Ugh... my mom is just... ugh.

Spoiler: Context and storytime (click to show/hide)

1) Newsflash - you are being condescending and belittling her.  If you're willing to be so nasty in a post about her, I'm very, very sure you're showing the same attitudes face to face.

2) Have you ever tried to use Windows 8?  The UI is terrible and confusing even for people good with technology.  Many people have problems with it. It's no surprise she does too.  How can you know anything about IT and not know that?

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General Discussion / Re: Only two posts on 'Tropes vs Women in Video Games'
« on: August 30, 2014, 04:34:11 pm »
Quote from: Graknorke on August 30, 2014, 04:23:49 pm
Quote from: Ghills on August 30, 2014, 04:14:50 pm
It wasn't a case of emergency surgery needed (I have done my research, you know).  Under a nationalized system, we would have been triaged as 'not going to die right now' and scheduled when the doctors could get to it.  Because our healthcare system allows us to control appointment times, we shopped around, got better doctors and found a schedule opening.  It turned out the problem was way worse than the doctors had realized, and it was a very good thing we had pushed. Not being able to control doctors and scheduling would have left us in a much, much worse position.
That's about as valid a criticism as saying that with privatised healthcare doctors will leave you to die if you can't pay the exorbitant prices. Nationalised healthcare doesn't have to completely ignore the concerns of citizens, and privatised healthcare doesn't have to be entirely staffed with dicks.

EDIT: Wait how did a healthcare discussion end up in this thread?

Nothing I've ever heard, seen or read suggests that nationalized healthcare is responsive, timely or willing to be flexible with treatments. This is mostly drawn from the national systems in Canada, the U.K. and the U.S. where I've been able to research or had friends who lived there.  Perhaps other countries in Europe are different.   

EDIT: No idea.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you RRRRRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: "Fuck it, to the Woods" Edition
« on: August 30, 2014, 04:26:45 pm »
Quote from: Akura on August 30, 2014, 10:57:17 am
Quote from: Ghills on August 29, 2014, 03:42:38 pm
GOG.COM's NEW SITE WON'T LET ME LOG IN.  EVERY TIME THEY CHANGE THE SITE THEY BREAK LOGIN.  I AM TOO ANGRY TO EVEN SWEAR.

I am a web developer IRL.  The terrible, terrible, unabashedly abysmal standard of development at GoG has irritated me no end since the beginning. This takes the cake though.  Their developers should be fired. Or sent back to school.  I have no idea how on earth they can seriously pretend they are a competitor to Steam, Gamersgate and HB when they can't even manage basic regression testing. 

Oh, and they also ticked off a bunch of publishers with an idiotic new pricing policy.  So GoG is losing a bunch of games, including ones like Gothic, Quest for Glory, etc.  SO STUPID.

/rant

The site works for me, and I even found that Stargunner and Flight of the Amazon Queen are free! I'll admit, though, I don't really care for the new layout, and the font size is too big, like they intended it for the visually impaired.

Are they losing publishers? I saw Gothic 2 and 3 on there, and they're on sale.

Problem of web development - need to test on multiple configs. I'm sure whatever configuration they tested on it works fine.  But that's not mine, and it's not a lot of people (I only use pretty standard addons).

They are losing publishers because of their new pricing policy. Including Nordic games, which has been a huge supporter of GOG.  http://www.gog.com/forum/general/last_chance_special  and the list of games is http://www.gog.com/promo/last_chance_special_promo_270814

If it's not fixed by Monday, I'll install the latest version of IE and try that so I can take advantage of the sale.  But I'm basically done purchasing from GOG if they're going to pull this kind of crap.  When every other site on the web works fine, there is no sane reason why GOG.com's new release should be so utterly broken.

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