Bay 12 Games Forum

I'm 19 and a sophomore in college, and I'm already worrying from time to time that I've wasted too much of my life and am running out of time to do anything meaningful. It's not an uncommon feeling.

So yeah where are all the people? We're still only three. We're communicating via Skype now by the way.

I'll join once I get my burner Skype set up.

Edit: Do I have to add you on Steam even if we're not using Steam chat?

>tfw you want to join the game but your Skype account gives away your powerword because you didn't care about privacy when you were 16

Forced family viewing of The Big Bang Theory. How the heck do people watch this show? Especially the later seasons, which appear to have gotten far more...eccentric. The two major plot lines in this episode were:

1.) Main character plays "Words with Friends" with Stephen Hawking. At one point he sits for an hour with the ipad chanting "play your turn" and trying to use "jedi mind tricks" on Stephen Hawking in order to make him play.
2.) Girl character starts a college class, tells boyfriend that she doesn't want him to freak out about it, and that she wants to do the work herself and prove to herself that she can do it. Boyfriend responds by going behind her back, rewriting her paper that's due, and giving it to her.

And they wonder why I get grumpy when I get compared to the characters on the show.

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Encounters/fights where you are forced into a tactically unfavorable position (in multiple senses of the word)

Maybe I'm just used to games where tactical positioning and stealth are just more important, but it bugs me whenever I am unable to start a fight until the game says so, and then only where the game wants me to be at the start of the fight. The example that brought this to mind is Mass Effect; there are a lot of examples where a fight only begins after a cutscene automatically teleports you (and your squad) to a predetermined position, but one particularly egregious one (some spoilers) drove me to make this:


And don't say it's mechanically impossible to let you do this, because I can think of several moments in ME where you can attack neutral NPCs without giving them a first-shot advantage; they're just few and far between and not integrated into the morality system as it could be.

Maybe the characters tend to be those ages because those are probably the median ages of the players of each subgenre?

Successfully signed up for another semester of classes without getting beaten to the punch and forced to rearrange my entire schedule because some jackasses filled up the available seats first.

On the subject of "Alternative Fallout" games, I've mulled over an idea for years, with no realistic intention to see literally any of it through. It would be set in a near-future apocalypse, with a roughly modern pre-war setting. I imagined the apocalypse being non-nuclear, just some sort of societal die-back. The theme would be general goofy comedy/satire.

The first ideas I got for it were a city where hipsters clashed with conservative old people for control, and for a band of raider furries who jury-rigged the insides of fursuits with advanced body armor to become nigh-invulnerable mercenaries. Later developments included the Canadian prairie provinces now under independent rule by Jarls who continue to send mercenaries to sack the ruins of Toronto as "equalization payments", and a computer built by a NEET in his basement before the apocalypse, now infested with rats and toxic pools of Mountain Dew.

At an early stage I actually imagined trying to make something like this, but I gave up incredibly early as I realized the scale that I wanted for it would be completely out of the question for even an experienced developer.