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Other Games / Re: Worst Sequel(s) you have ever played?
« on: January 07, 2017, 08:14:30 pm »
Quote from: Folly on January 07, 2017, 07:43:34 pm
Civilization 5
Maybe this shouldn't be on a list of worst sequels, it was decent. But it did fail to live up to the admittedly high standard set by Civ4 and generally felt like a step backwards.l
How was it a step backwards? 1UPT and hex tiles are amazing. Tall being actually viable is also great. The little I played of Civ IV (Before I owned V, even, so there's no bias here) wasn't actually fun, so I dropped it fairly quickly.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« on: January 07, 2017, 04:44:12 pm »
Also, her.

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Other Games / Re: Worst Sequel(s) you have ever played?
« on: January 07, 2017, 04:32:40 pm »
Quote from: OzyTheSage on January 07, 2017, 03:27:40 pm
Team Fortress 2

What I wanted:
Spoiler: Expectations (click to show/hide)

What we got:
Spoiler: Delivery (click to show/hide)

I suppose this isn't really a "worst sequel" as much as it is a "disappointing" sequel, but you get the idea.
TF2 did so much right, though. The gameplay was and still is amazing. The aesthetic was amazing, although it's been diluted. It's certainly more interesting than TFCs. Don't blame Valve for ruining the aesthetic and the game in recent years.

Also, from what I heard, TFC had many problems that TF2 tried to fix, and generally succeeded at, like grenadespam.

(Here I am, passionately defending a game I can't bring myself to play anymore...)

Also, TF2 as a strategic shooter a la Battlefield would have been really weird, considering its lineage. TF2 has been the best arena shooter available for a decade.

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General Discussion / Re: ♪ The Great Music Thread ♫
« on: January 07, 2017, 12:47:34 pm »
Doublepost, but this album by Zalza is pretty fucking good. A recounting of the journey of the computer between the early 1970s and the mid-90s, with plenty of radio voice samples over the music, which I am an absolute sucker for.

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Other Games / Re: How did you last die?
« on: January 07, 2017, 11:33:27 am »
Me and my friends were holding G, which was on the enemy's side of the map and between E and F. But we were holding that point. It's a rather narrow alley, and enemies were streaming in. We rushed into one of the buildings on the sides of the alley, one of my friends went prone in the hall and plopped down an ammo crate, everyone put their gas masks on and we spammed gas grenades into the stairwell until the enemies gave up. It was hilarious and awesome.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

As is traditional, me and my friends rush to G at the start of the map. One of my friends is on a horse, and then it's just me and another friend as medics. I eventually picked up a tank hunter kit, so it boiled down to me sniping any approaching tank from one of the buildings and the horse friend scouting the surrounding area for approaching enemies. I even managed to shoot enemies out of the sky, because the tank hunter kit is hilarious and OP.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

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General Discussion / Re: Doc Helgoland's Asylum for the Politically American: Language Enrichment Edition
« on: January 05, 2017, 05:06:42 pm »
I edited my post while you were writing your reply, that may be enough explanation.

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General Discussion / Re: Doc Helgoland's Asylum for the Politically American: Language Enrichment Edition
« on: January 05, 2017, 05:01:41 pm »
Quote from: Powder Miner on January 05, 2017, 04:16:29 pm
I was gonna post a picture of a strawman, but I think I can see what you're getting at here.

To not deny a white (or, as I was more thinking, Asian) person based on race -- this is, in your eyes, the exact same thing as denying a black person based on race? Am I understanding you correctly?
That's not what I said, though?

Also,
Quote from: Powder Miner on January 05, 2017, 04:44:54 pm
You say "minor injustice", and that's what it may be on the level of the country overall -- but to the individual getting rejected, I'd argue that it isn't a very minir injustice at all.

And I am in general more interested in the rights of the individual than in the argued welfare of the group.
Being systematically disadvantaged to other people based on the color of your skin isn't a minor injustice either. But apparently that doesn't matter ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The entire point of AA is that whites arent being disadvantaged with respect to a no-racism situation. If you set the quota at something like half of the percentage of that demographic regionally speaking ,and, naturally, provide ways for those people to receive the required level to reach any such position.

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General Discussion / Re: Doc Helgoland's Asylum for the Politically American: Language Enrichment Edition
« on: January 05, 2017, 04:10:06 pm »
Quote from: Powder Miner on January 05, 2017, 03:56:24 pm
I don't have a problem with measures to try and give opportunity for people to get into education -- bussing, vouchers, the lunch programs, things like that. I don't like it when they decide to push someone out of the way for it and remove their opportunity.
so the opportunities of white people are inherently more valuable than those of black people? if it's black people being accepted over white people, theyre pushing somebody out of the way, if its white people over black people they're just taking their rightful opportunities!

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General Discussion / Re: Doc Helgoland's Asylum for the Politically American: Language Enrichment Edition
« on: January 05, 2017, 12:20:59 pm »
i wonder where all these mysterious SJWs saying that this is perfectly acceptable are, because you people seem to be pretty angry with them!

oh wait, they dont exist.

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General Discussion / Re: ♪ The Great Music Thread ♫
« on: January 04, 2017, 01:41:50 pm »
I have a feeling I've linked this before, but Proux - Back By Popular Demand is an awesome electronic album.

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Play With Your Buddies / Re: Simcity 4: MULTIPLAYER! The Bay 12 Archipelago
« on: January 03, 2017, 07:01:00 pm »
I'm incredibly new to the game, got it a few days ago. I've built one big tile to over 700k people so I guess I'm ready to do this :V

Count me in, I'll send a PM tomorrow probably.

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Other Games / Re: XMAS 2016 GIVEAWAY - UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT!!! 12(ish) DAYS OF XMAS
« on: January 01, 2017, 07:12:57 am »
Thanks to everyone who gave something away and happy new year!

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Other Games / Re: Team Fortress 2: Casual is fun now! "Merry Smissmas, Everyone! "
« on: December 28, 2016, 03:37:27 pm »
Quote from: Iceblaster on December 28, 2016, 11:54:37 am
You can still do drop in drop out gameplay. The imaginary experience points aren't going to make you unable to play anymore.
how so? i need to go through a loading screen every time a round ends, i cant just keep playing as long as i like.

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Team balancing is still a thing. It just avoids the pitfalls of putting you on a losing team simply because they're unbalanced. Sure, it makes it less common for teams to be balanced, but you'd still complain about team balancing putting you on losing teams if it stayed the same.
no it doesn't. people leave losing teams, so youll always have a higher chance of matchmaking into a losing team. also, there are ways to fix autobalance without this bullshit

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Random crits keeps people from being soley based on skill. I realize it's luck, but honestly it's never bothered me to the point of rage. Maybe 'oh darn that soldier got me with a crit rocket', but most of the time I barely notice the random crits.
random crits are bullshit. it's you suddenly dying just because rng said so. they dont help newer players because you get more of them as you do more damage. but oh, im SURE that 5 people dying because some dude randomly got a shiny rocket and then them losing the game makes it so much more fun. maybe random crits were neccessary to spice up gameplay BACK IN 2007. theyre not in the current tf2. fuck, i wouldnt even mind if new players scaled inversely with the amount of damage you dealt. i mean, i would still be angry that they even exist, but i wouldnt be as angry at their existence. if you're on a huge streak you usually dont need crits.
 
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It's almost as if you're overreacting to something minor in the game. I realize you're angry at the changes, but have you given them a fair chance without going in thinking 'this is going to be bad and it is bad therefore i will go and confirm my angryness'?
i've given them a fair chance, and they weren't fun. how much unfun games do i have to endure to have the right to critcise valve? i waited for things to get better, but then valve didnt actually do shit to fix it, or they did it far too late. maybe you're just sucking up to valve so much without thinking about things that could be bad about the changes? also, random crits are bullshit and have affected me plenty in my 2000 hours.

and in the end, what fucking advantage does casual even give??? it has so many disadvantages, but i've never seen what it's actually supposed to achieve.

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Other Games / Re: Team Fortress 2: Casual is fun now! "Merry Smissmas, Everyone! "
« on: December 28, 2016, 11:17:59 am »
Quote from: Iceblaster on December 25, 2016, 05:34:57 pm
I think you're overreacting. I just played today and honestly, I found a game way faster than I could with the previous set up. I could be the cancer on TF2, but whatever. I think maaaaaybe you're 'everyone is a speshul snowflake' comment is a bit uncalled for. If everything that went slightly wrong was rolled back when someone complained, we'd still have only six maps and no alternate guns.
Server browser has always been quick enough for me.

Quote from: LASD on December 27, 2016, 09:13:44 pm
I got incredibly annoyed by the first Casual Mode changes half a year ago, but now the mode is exactly what I wanted it to be: slightly matchmade Quick Play, with map votes, team balancing and not too serious TF2 action.

So, they fixed every problem I had with it and thankfully I play the game every 6 months or so anyway, so wasn't too annoyed for the wait.

Playing the game reminded me of how much Overwatch owes to TF2 and how much Blizzard managed to streamline it even further. Swapping weapons is pretty much the least fun thing to do in a team-based shooter. And ubercharges are exciting and a ton of fun, except when you get killed at 90%, so adding an uber to everyone that doesn't reset on death is a pretty smart thing to do.

Also, considering rollbacks: Valve will fix everything they add and I for one would even rather run a game to the ground on my own terms than be unable to do anything because of a fanbase that is scared of change. Considering TF2 started as just one neat addition in a pile of games, became one of the first games-as-a-service, then successfully turned F2P, I'm sort of amazed that TF2 fans don't trust Valve to figure out anything.

Then again, I left a negative review on TF2 half a year ago after playing it for 7 years. Just to stomp on a single decision done on one of my favorite games ever.
They made it more serious and removed the drop-in-drop-out gameplay I loved. No team balancing, STILL RANDOM CRITS. It was basically complete bullshit.

And this isn't "afraid of change". Am I wrong for being mad that Valve fucked up my entire game with no warning and then didn't fix it? Nobody asked for Casual, any advantage could have EASILY been implemented into quickplay as it existed.

I don't trust the new crew with anything because they fucked up competitive, basically not changing it at all from beta, then they fucked up quickplay for no reason, then they weren't even able to make a working Halloween update. This isn't the Valve that made the TF2 I love. Fuckup after fuckup without any semblance of apology doesn't exactly give me confidence. I used to trust in them, but MyM was the end of that.

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General Discussion / Re: Doc Helgoland's Asylum for the Politically American: Language Enrichment Edition
« on: December 27, 2016, 04:42:39 pm »
is making the top result for "are jews evil?" "no" instead of "yes" really censorship though? why is "yes" apparently an inherently more "right" answer?

google is already biased against certain types of content, and if your previous searches indicated an islamophobic trend, chances are you'll still see a lot of islamophobic content.

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