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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: March 15, 2021, 05:54:05 pm »
Eh, there was pervasive damage to the institutional functioning of a lot of the government!

That wasn't nothing, just nothing good :V

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread
« on: March 14, 2021, 10:04:25 am »
Knowing the last major florida lynching occurred after my grandfather (who I live with, currently) was born has definitely been a consistent source of perspective on how fucked up the US is and how far past its sins it very much isn't, yeah.

Some folks like to act like our nasty shit is somehow off in the distant mists of yesteryear, but, like. No. It's not. Nevermind all the new crap, plenty of the old crap hasn't exactly been laying buried for very long :-\

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Other Games / Re: The "Forgotten the name of this game?" thread. Ask here to prevent clutter.
« on: March 14, 2021, 09:38:42 am »
This may help? I haven't played enough of the old artillery games for any of them to ring a bell, heh.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: March 13, 2021, 09:19:24 pm »
Quote from: Egan_BW on March 13, 2021, 08:49:17 pm
Quote from: MetalSlimeHunt on March 13, 2021, 07:37:12 pm
RPGs made by bad people rarely have good crunch. Though the inverse isn't true, as Eclipse Phase seems to be made by good people and it's got horrible crunch.
This does make me wonder if there are any games which are just horrible but have really elegant and usable game design.
Almost certainly; there's tons of ttrpg (or just game design in general) cruft floating around, and non-assholes don't exactly have a monopoly on functional mechanics. Shitty lore et al often does get in the way of it ('cause it means your players are doing shitty things, which can throw things off or force the designer to kludge in shitty mechanics to encourage it), but it's not necessarily the case.

It's maybe not super egregious, but as an example I stopped playing Monster Sanctuary (a fairly recent monster catching metroidvania with pretty damn solid mechanics) basically due to the implications of some of the lore* and what it meant about the character of the folks you were forced to work with. I was just, like. Nope. I'm done.

Haven't come back to it since.

* Specifically the goblin miners bio, who were stated to be unilaterally part of a union so wildly terrible it ends up killing the majority of its members, a characteristic the main player faction specifically does business with them because of. Was just like, "Wow, these fuckers are incredibly evil, I'm going to go play something else now."

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« on: March 12, 2021, 02:37:55 pm »
Quote from: JoshuaFH on March 12, 2021, 02:00:57 pm
My sister dropped by to inform me that some blood tests my Mom ordered finally came back, saying that her kidneys are failing. They're not failed, she's still doing fine for the moment, but the future isn't looking good for her. I really don't know anything more, I just don't know what to do, it seems like the heaviest shit in life is just being laid on my shoulders one after the other, and it's all just too much.
So far as what do, it depends on what's causing it. My grandfather was diagnosed with stage 4 kidney disease -- i.e. the stage right before outright failure and dialysis until you keel over -- a year or three ago, but since then we've had good luck getting his diet under control (more; we were already working on it to help with the diabetes) and it hasn't gotten worse.

It's possible that might be an option for your mother, which... depending on her, might not be easy, but it's better than nothing but waiting for dialysis or replacement.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: March 11, 2021, 08:52:01 pm »
I mean... it is. Just not as much of one as it used to be, or more in fields that isn't the news. There's still a market for editors, it's just fairly crowded and not as valuable as it once was, from what I understand.

The skill itself can help in any number of jobs, though it's more of a "keep your ass from getting fired for crit failing a typo check in an important message" thing than a door opener :P

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General Discussion / Re: The small random questions thread [WAAAAAAAAAAluigi]
« on: March 09, 2021, 07:07:22 pm »
You could try!

... the field definitely is overcrowded, though. I have an old friend that makes most of what income they bring in by writing tabletop material... haven't kept in touch well, but what they've spoken of it suggested it's not exactly, uh. Lucritive, heh.

Still, can't hurt much to try, y'know?

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Other Games / Re: Ultima Ratio Regum (0.8 released after five years!)
« on: March 08, 2021, 09:25:03 pm »
Far as I'm aware it doesn't, no. Was planned way earlier in development (and sounded super interesting, heh), but the feature(s) was dropped to focus on other things and actually get something feature complete part way through development. Which I can respect, even if it melted my interest in development.

... ngl, I mostly stopped paying attention at that point, heh. What's been done seems pretty impressive, but it's like the historical mystery novel of roguelikes... and like historical mystery novels, I've no interest in reading it :P

e: Any case, the download link seems to be here: https://www.markrjohnsongames.com/games/ultima-ratio-regum/

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« on: March 08, 2021, 06:39:02 pm »
Quote from: wierd on March 08, 2021, 06:13:37 pm
Are you using proper home health, or are you relying on family members?

The former **SHOULD** be giving proper care, and if they are not, you should report them to state using the elder abuse hotline for your state.

If the latter, My condolences; however, family members these days are notorious for abuse and neglect of their elderly family members, and you should be well aware of this.  I can assure you that taking care of old people is a full time job.  If you find you cannot be certain that your elderly family member is getting the care they need, consider hiring proper home health services, or placing the family member into an assisted living facility/community.
Family/family friends, yeah. One of the two elderly involved is in pretty stringent denial any help is needed and very much against getting proper home health involved -- and the family members that actually has the money, time, legal status (direct children, etc.), and housing situation (i.e. they have a home to go back to if the elderly in question kick them out the house during a tantrum; I don't, and the housing situation around here is megashit) to do something about it have stuck their fingers so far up their ass on the subject they got thumbs wiggling out their ears. It's rough and getting rougher by the week.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« on: March 08, 2021, 05:08:23 pm »
Slept like shit due to fuckers burning who knows what at midnight, leave work early 'cause I was getting to the point I shouldn't drive, come home to find fucking everyone supposed to be taking care of my grandparents while I'm not there fucking flaked out again. One no-showed, the one that was actually there fed my diabetic grandfather shit he shouldn't have been eating.

Just confirms that, yes, if they're going to be taken care of even a bloody modicum of like they should be, I'm going to have to burn three more hours and my lunch from my work schedule to add forty more minutes to my work day commute so I can drive home, feed them like they're supposed to eat, and then go back to work.

It's going to suck.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« on: March 07, 2021, 10:45:38 pm »
We're basically using one as a table on our porch, myself. Think it might theoretically work still if it were cleaned up and plugged in. Hope to never have reason to find out, ha.

... also think it might be old enough to drink at a minimum, don't quite recall. It's been around long enough I can't remember how long it's been around, much like the mattress I'm sleeping on :-\

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Other Games / Re: The "Recommend me a game" thread
« on: March 07, 2021, 10:00:50 pm »
Modded Terraria definitely can get wildly absurd late game, if you're going for that sort of deal. Throw a few major mods together and things can get pretty crazy.

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread
« on: March 07, 2021, 09:58:11 pm »
Yeah, that'd probably be ideal if there weren't problems with who's doing the distribution and whatnot, regularly leading to significantly unbalanced assistance. If.

Unfortunately, we've kinda' found repeatedly if we actually try that without specifying unusually disadvantaged demographics get help, somehow just somehow they're going to be missing out to ~inexplicable~* degrees.

* (*narrator voice* the explanation is bigotry)

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General Discussion / Re: Untamed Virus Containment Thread: COVID-19:Big Pharma Shenanigans Edition
« on: March 07, 2021, 03:35:19 pm »
Probably not bad odds of it, sure. It's a bloody global scale plague that's like a half dozen flu seasons stacked on top of each other. Lot of people have died in a lot of places :-\

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Other Games / Re: Pocket games thread
« on: March 07, 2021, 12:20:38 pm »
Quote from: sambojin on March 06, 2021, 10:02:54 pm
Downloaded Magic Survival last night. It's a pretty casual, one handed top-down survive-as-long-as-you-can shooter, kinda like all those "run away from the zombies/ninjas" games you see. Except this one is quite good.
Will second this one, been playing occasionally the last week or so (though interrupted by hurting my dominate hand wrist, which makes touch screen nonsense... troublesome). It's pretty neat.

... also the enemies are totally just tumbleweeds. Not... viruses or zombies or whatever. Malignant magic tumbleweeds, out for your flesh. It adds a pleasing bit of absurdity to the whole presentation, heh.

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