Bay 12 Games Forum

Certainly kicks you right in the nads with the uncanny valley, doesnt it?

Wait, really? They just looked like folks in really tight bodysuits to me. Didn't ping uncanny valley at all.

I'd, uh. Disagree pretty hard that it's particularly easy. If you come into the right cards/tarots you can steamroll, but if you don't you can play quite well and still ultimately get your shit pushed in, especially on higher levels (note that the first win is the easiest, and unlocks longer runs) and double especially on anything that's not the starting class (which is definitely the easiest and possibly the strongest, too, from what I've been able to tell). There's some damn nasty enemies in that game.

... yeah, note that this looks to be the largest mass murder event in modern japanese history. Latest toll I've seen confirmed is 33 dead. Seems like somewhere over a quarter of kyoani's staff have been killed

One of the low rating reviews for some book called the cerulean included the line, "DISHONOR ON U AND UR COW". It was good for a laugh.

E:

“My fellow student, I am called Zheng Dongming. You can call me Junior Zheng. You can also call me Big Dong, but never in a million years can you call me Small Ming.

translation is the gift that keeps on giving

E2:

However, while I was enjoying the food with the Art of the Swallowing Whale, she talked with Master Sand Scorpion about a lot of stuff that was incomprehensible for me.

At first, she asked Master Sand Scorpion about his personal life, whether or not he had a girlfriend and whatnot.

Master Sand Scorpion said that he did not have a girlfriend. Sister Long looked quite happy.

But then, Master Sand Scorpion added that he had a fiancé who was waiting for him in his hometown. Sister Long immediately frowned and drank her wine silently.

That was the part where their dialogue turned weird.

Master Sand Scorpion was having beef noodles, but Sister Long chopped a lobster and dropped it to Master Sand Scorpion’s bowl. She said, “There are a lot of delicious foods in the world. One can always have some lobster even if they love beef noodles.”

But Master Sand Scorpion simply replied that his stomach was small, and a bowl of beef noodles was enough to keep it full for a long time.

What the heck was he talking about?

His stomach is much larger than mine. I’ve seen in person that he swallowed twenty bowls of beef noodles without breaking a sweat.

Besides, he never refused lobsters and crabs, either!

Sister Long poured wine for him and asked why he could not have a lobster when he seemed so hungry.

Master Sand Scorpion replied that it was not a matter of his appetite. Beef noodles were delicious, and lobsters were delicious, too. But if the two foods were combined, their flavors would affect each other. Both the beef noodles and the lobster would be ruined. He would feel sorry for his stomach.

Sister Long was even more disappointed and kept drinking.

She did not dissolve the alcohol with her spiritual energy even though she is a Cultivator. When she was half drunk, she said, “Your fiancé is in your hometown. Are you never lonely?”

Then, Master Sand Scorpion said the most sophisticated, incomprehensible sentence of the night.

He opened his hands, his palms facing the ceiling, while he looked Sister Long in the eye and said solemnly, “As you can see, I’m a very awesome refiner.

“All my expertise is based on my hands.

“There are 34,482 muscles on my hands in total, 78% of which have been repetitively trained by me.

“These two hands are much more agile than any organ on your body. They can do whatever I want them to.

“These two hands can do whatever you can do.

“But you may not be able to do what these two hands can.”

After hearing his words, Sister Long’s face turned from red to pale, from pale to green, and from green to purple, as if she had been seriously wounded and was about to vomit blood. She left the table and ran away quickly.

Sister Long has always been smart and elegant. I’d never seen her so agitated before.

I asked what Master Sand Scorpion meant by his final words while attacking a drumstick.

But Master Sand Scorpion only smiled and did not give an answer.

Later, I went to Sister Long. She was weeping in her dormitory.

I comforted her for a long time, and she finally stopped crying.

Then, I asked her the same question. Why was she compared to a pair of hands?

Sister Long started weeping again, her tears flooding out like a broken dam.

This time, there was absolutely no way that I could stop her from crying.

There is a point with many LPs that you just cease being able to watch. The tolerance people have for the skill check malus involved in recording and playing at the same time can be... finite. There comes a point you have to develop the ability to just go yeah-no-fuck-that-I'm-done or the pastime of watching LPs becomes more pain than pleasure. And not good pain. Bad pain. Put them out of your misery choke them on the eyeballs they're clearly not using pain. It's healthier at that point to just stop and go find something else to do. Maybe watch a speedrun or summat.

Yeah, I'unno about gigs but I've been to a couple fairly high level classical performances, and live definitely does have its own charm. Actually seeing folks play in person can be pretty impressive. Vids and whatnot do pretty well but the combined sensory experience of live is just... different.

Still sorta' remember watching this one world-class pianist bang out tchaikovsky on stage, though I've forgotten their name. Dude actually played tchaikovsky just for fun -- they were one of the performer's favorite composers -- and it was a friggin' treat to watch. Guy's hands were basically art in motion and the music was great t'boot (it was tchaikovsky, he-who-used-field-artillery-as-an-instrument, of course it was).

Venue did mean most of the people in the audience were pretty chill, though, so yeah I have been to a couple outside live shows but I remember nothing about them and there's basically zero chance I'll ever go to another one unless I move away from florida at some point, heh. Do distinctly remember much preferring indoor shows, especially with proper acoustics (ala nice classical performances). Shit sounds a hell of a lot better in a room designed to make it sound better, go figure.

It's pretty alright, yeah. Definitely one of the better mobile CCG games, doubly so for its non-existent price point. Some of the deeper in stuff gets mean, too, if you're looking for something of a challenge, at least if the PC version is the same as the android one.

Not particularly a knockoff mtg, though. Just a general CCG game, which are fairly hard to make without some degree of overlap.

Of course it's not good? Fucking our institutional foundations into the ground is a GOP goal, though. It not being good is more or less mission accomplished.