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Just... kinda' throwing it out there, but I was pretty happy with Terraria's combat. Found the boss fights to be fun (with maybe an exception for the big worm whatsits... those were pretty alright for the first go, usually, but a bit too easy to just hang from the wall and spew at after a bit), especially before defense gets too crazy. About as good or better than most of the actual Castlevania games I've played (which is most of them, at this point, if not to completion), imo, and when it matches up well with a dedicated platformer of great repute... I'm kinda' down with that, yeah. That's definitely past my point of sufficiency.

Boss fights were cheeseable after a point (invincibility frame abuse, potion chugging, etc.), but if I threw out the combat of every platformer that had cheeseable elements in it, I'd kinda' be out of platformers altogether, mostly. S'not to say T couldn't have been improved in that area, but it's definitely not what I'd call bad or terrible. Rewarded movement and made it pretty satisfactory (to me, at least), gave enemies alright pattern variance (especially compared to older games, natch), had pretty decent weapon variation (especially compared to a lot of combat-centric platformers, period). Being able to craft your own battlefield is fairly unique and can be interesting. T'me, terraria's battle system was pretty darn decent.

Regarding Starbound, I'm still in wait-and-see mode, insofar as anticipation and the combat system goes. We've seen what we've seen, and what we've seen isn't terribly much, yet (unless the absolute latest videos -- something about a PvP vid? -- has been a bit more revealing). Some shooting, some enemies, a little bit of (looking much like Terraria) melee, but not much of how it all comes together and what it's intended to look or feel like come release (or some point after). Looking forward to when the speculation can end, ha

If that's all it takes to destroy a literary milestone, I'm not sure I'd call it much of a milestone

Yeah, yeah, not kangaroo. Just a rabbit the size of a small human child. An unhappy rabbit, judging by the look of the poor thing.

Which is understandable. It's probably destined to be lunch, and possibly a hat or somethin'.

Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on May 10, 2013, 10:32:46 pm

Back in my sophmore year of high school, I--as many of you surely have--read The Great Gatsby, a book which is an American classic.

I'm one of the equally large group of people who read the first four or five chapters and bullshitted my way through the rest of the course.  Not for lack of interest really, that's just the way I was in high school.

I suppose now would be as good a time as any to finally read the damn thing, especially since I turned into an intellectual hipster along the way so it's supposed to be a cultural touchstone for me.  Ennui is like so underrated.

I'm part of an at-minimum 30 or so group that read the book in high school and came out of the class with a strong dislike for the text, m'self. At least partially due to the teacher, but mostly because, well. Kinda' thought the book was kinda' shitty. Well written, yes, but something about the themes et al was unpalatable and unpleasing to the senses.

I don't even remember why, at this point. It's been a while. I just remember disliking it sufficiently to never want to try re-reading it. And that's as someone who pretty habitually re-reads everything they read, sooner or later.

... point being, it may be for the better that you bullshitted your way through the class instead of actually reading the damned thing.

My god. That's beautiful.

Quote from: pisskop on May 10, 2013, 10:15:43 am

Word-style, red squiggles.  I don't know about any grammar checking.  And yuppers, auto-correct is the first thing gone on my phones.

So it does what chrome does now?
huh they maybe on to something.

Opera has had this for... quite a while, now. I think since at least back during IE 8 times or whatever. Almost want to say Opera had it before chrome was even a thing, but that's probably just my memory buggering up.

... you do realize that modern stem cell research and usage has basically nothing to do with the utilization of fetuses, right? They barely even use donated material these days... a lot of stuff is just flat grown. There's not really an ethical issue involved anymore. At all. Not even to the (non)extent there was before.

Also, what's wrong with Hamachi? Apart from my computer sometimes using Hamachi instead of Wifi, I haven't had any trouble with it

Ehn, mostly that it's a third party program at all. Having to run something extra in the background means less resources for the game Hamachi does eat up a bit of ram. Also kinda' annoying to have to bugger with services and whatnot to turn it off/on. Which... some people might not mind just having it on in the background while they're not using it, but personally, I get kinda' jittery when there's miscellaneous services eating up my system resources for no reason.

That, and some people just have problems with it, from what I understand. Stuff like that happens, no two computers the same, etc., so forth, so on. It's not quite that it's bad, per se, just that being able to function without it is usually better.

Hmm, Blank and I are currently looking to start up a game shortly, anyone else interested in joining us?

I'm up for it.