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Just set their shirt on fire and give 'em a good kick. No need to get fancy.

Surprised you guys use anything. I thought russians thrived on a diet of snow, ice and vodka?

No, no, snow, ice, and vodka is how you breed Russians. Once they've finished coagulating they need food and suchlike just like any other human-like entity and they stop being able to consume meaningful amounts of snow and ice. Still have to maintain a certain ratio of their body volume as vodka, though. I think the last study said it was some sort of alcohol based natural anti-freeze system? Biology goes strange places.

I wonder if there are any games where there is no leveling and equipment is the only measure of progress? That could be interesting.

... yeah, there's kinda' plenty. I mean, freaking Zelda, man, especially if you consider hearts just a passive item. But that's just a representative example. You see it in a lot of places, especially places that aren't claiming to be RPGs. It's in roguelikes, it's in platformers, it's probably in flippin' point-and-click adventure games. S'everywhere. Item based progression is one of the basic progression schemes in the gaming world, especially among simpler mechanics systems.

I'm running on a 2.1(ish) ghz dual core, 4(ish) gigs ram, 256 meg integrated video card... I think. The video card might be a 1 gig one. Not a gaming optimized one regardless. HP Pavilion dv7 Notebook PC, but there's apparently like three bloody versions of the dv7 or some rampant nonsense so gods only know what the actual hardware is.

Starbound's been running fine even when there's less than two gigs of RAM free, though. Mostly maxes out the CPU but it runs fairly smoothly.

Please don't insult decent, upstanding hives of scum and villainy with such a comparison, Leo. Youtube comments are a particular class of filth all their own.

Well, that's... somewhat enraging. Day or two ago, question proposed: Do I mind someone staying over for a few days, which is like, yeah, sure. Bit over the weekend, maybe a bit into the week. No prob, I really don't mind helping out. Cut to about 36 hours later, I find out from a third party the negotiated "few days" is more like two+ fucking weeks.

I'm... not in a very happy place, right now. People don't have to do this underhanded bullshit to get me to agree to things. I just need a little forthrightedness and warning. I honestly wouldn't have minded a half month stayover if someone would have goddamn told me it was a half month stayover when I was initially asked. Didn't get any of it, and now I'm going to be saddled with two weeks and change of goddamn air conditioning and TV, when I seriously have no need for either and a fair amount of need to be away from both.

Just... not righteous. Can't really do much about it, 'cause the person that shafted me in the first place is the owner of the place I'm staying in, but that doesn't stop me from being kinda' pissed off.

And I probably have to figure out what to do about, like, food and suchlike. Basic amenities. Because the house in question has not been set up for someone else living there for any notable amount of time. Just... ugh. Damnit people. All I ask is warning. A little freaking prep time. That's just about all I've ever fucking asked for, at any point. Just give me a day. Two days, preferably. Instead, no days, and the person's already been dropped off at the house, without anyone telling me that was going to goddamn be done and just. Just. I seriously do not like people being in my house without, like, me being there. Especially if they're there before I can fix things up. There's something incredibly irritating about a guest coming into one's home without being there to personally greet them and offer entry. S'just... that's not how you do things. Not right. Not proper.

... all I can really say is I have a near violent hatred of time limits, especially larger, more overarching ones. I never managed to play Majora's Mask long enough to see how it handled... anything. My brain saw the two days or whatever it was and said, "Screw this, I'm out." And I stopped playing. This has happened all three or four times I tried MM

Played through OoT, though. It was alright, especially for its time and console. Just... decently done, particularly in comparison to similar offerings during its release. Solid, as that sort of game goes.