insert spyro music
#other-games
brisk merlin
cinder vessel
Activision bought up the rights some years ago after they bought out some other company, if I'm not mistaken
haughty rapids
I know crash bandicoot remake ia from
activision
cinder vessel
Since then they basically bastardized Spyro into a crummy toys to life series of games called Skylanders. Which on its own I wouldn't criticize, but the art direction they went with for it was absolutely awful compared to what had come before
haughty rapids
Well i played skylanders
I agree with u
Too much too-human like characters on the last 2 games
Well i just dislike anything that you play as human
winter yew
There would be hell to pay if they had kept the Skylanders style
uncut bramble
I gave all the toys as games a miss, but the style doesn't look so hot! The only one I played was Disney Infinity
uncut bramble
I have more than I care to admit 😒 but I only really collected in the first season
uncut bramble
ohh I have NO Amiibos. I'd like a mario one
winter yew
Lol you would
cinder vessel
I have a Chibi Robo amiibo 😮
winter yew
Nice
haughty rapids
Oh cute
lavish obsidian
👺 👍
haughty rapids
lol
uh my skylanders figurines are quite duster now havent touch and clean for a while 😂
winter yew
sleek shadow
Honestly they ruined Spyro in Skylanders from what it looked like
That's just my opinion though
uncut bramble
brisk merlin
thanks
uncut bramble
Looks slick
haughty rapids
ripe tartan
winter yew
O M G
Geez my poor wallet RIP
Lumines Remastered, Spyro Trilogy, Gundam Breaker, Spider-Man...
cinder vessel
not to mention schedule!
primal inlet
re: #waking-titan-arg - No joke, the Sea of Thieves discord is actually (usually) amazingly active - they normally have dozens of session voice channels filled up. Yeah, it's only been a couple of weeks since launch, but I don't think their playerbase'll drop off as sharply as ours does, even though they have less content to go through
although i get it was a pirate speak joke :P
cinder vessel
O_o
That's wild
The power of dicking around with pals i guess
You still playin' about with it @primal inlet?
rigid haven
Ours is kinda tight, though
sick arrow
It’s the multiplayer and pirate voices that’ll keep that game slightly more active than us. If we get multiplayer, even if it’s instances like SoT (but hopefully we all got tossed in the same pot) our numbers will probably not drop as far as they have again
brisk merlin
T I g h t
primal inlet
sorry, getting back into Warframe a bit and don't have my second monitor :P
yeah, any kinda multiplayer would probably kick NMS back into gear quite a bit
especially if you could choose who to match with, but that doesn't seem in the spirit of the game
brisk merlin
Yea
sleek shadow
I don't want an mmo imo I just want to hang out with a small cluster of friends
MMOs always appeal to me as being surrounded by so many people you feel like a lonely drop in an ocean
teal trench
Um...
sleek shadow
Now yes what you described isn't like that
But in reality
That's kinda what it's like
There's always so many people
teal trench
That's how NMS makes me feel, right now - a lonely drop in an empty ocean.
sleek shadow
Yes
teal trench
It's too empty, and dead.
sleek shadow
It's like a ratio though
cinder vessel
I dig it
sleek shadow
Too many people would be like the same
cinder vessel
But I'm a loner
sleek shadow
To me atleast
sleek shadow
Idk I guess our community is so small compared to other games it doesn't matter
So eh
teal trench
I get that the entire point of the game is to be empty and loney. I get that.
Doesn't mean I have to like it.
Idk why it's too much to ask for even just one thriving planet.
sleek shadow
That's understandable
I think though there's too little now
But
There can also be too much if carried out in an mmo way
I'd rather have tens than hundreds
teal trench
This emptiness right now is what's contributing to my lack of desire to play.
I'll get back to it eventually, but still.
cinder vessel
I feel like you may have missed some of the early pitches for NMS, which is both good in some respects, but iffy in this one, lol
teal trench
Yup, I missed a tonne of stuff. The only NMS propaganda I saw, was that drama in 2016 about the fake release and all that. I only bought the game, last month.
sick arrow
i dont know how i feel about skills and crafting. but for the most part I agree. Small instanced multiplayer wouldn't be nearly as fun
cinder vessel
Even if they supplemented multi with more active settlements or outposts or something I still think it would ring pretty hollow.
Even in games with more liveliness in terms of NPCs or whatever, they rarely ever feel lived in to me
gaunt hare
I'm playing Mad Max some because Sony gave it to us for PS plus this month
It's not very good.
lavish obsidian
gaunt hare
It reminds me of infamous where it's an open world repetitive formula we are all familiar with, but at least it's fun to move around in.
Which is pretty important for an open world game.
I hope Trackmania is better.
Did you guys hear that Bosskey is ditching Lawbreakers?
cinder vessel
oof, they made a competitive game that couldn't compete, there's some tragic irony there, I think...?
winter yew
Lol
knotty osprey
https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php this looks interesting
uncut bramble
When you turn it on, the machine greets you with a shell for typing in Lua commands-..
No
😂
knotty osprey
already downloaded an .exe version of a game made for that lol
knotty osprey
i cant type
blazing torrent
type
knotty osprey
no u
winter yew
brisk merlin
OwO
knotty osprey
ohno
haughty rapids
Flashwing, but wtf?
rare coral
I’m concerned
gaunt hare
@winter yew huh that is... huh
I was not aware of this.
I don't think I needed to be.
winter yew
lmao.
winter yew
lmao.. I have Netflix so I just looked up the moment Spyro takes a snap of his butt. It's literally in like the first 5 minutes of the first episode of that cartoon.
after he takes the shot someone says to him "Nobody wants to see your butt!" and Spyro replies "I think you owe my butt an apology."
knotty osprey
jesus
rigid haven
Well shit
cinder vessel
yo
The Signal From Tolva's on sale <3:
https://www.gog.com/game/the_signal_from_tolva
winter yew
Interesting game
cinder vessel
light cairn
that wasn't already a thing???
cinder vessel
i...guess not?
cinder vessel
how long do you think it will be before someone finds a brig exploit to trap entire crews?
rigid haven
Jeez
That's usually a necessary thing
What's next, they'll implement a jump button?
Laugh track
gaunt hare
Oh, @rigid haven
gaunt hare
laugh track
agile raven
The remaster looks so good
I'm such a spyro fanboy
Skylanders doesn't exist though.
winter yew
^
teal trench
^
brisk merlin
^
sick arrow
Sometimes I like to pretend I don’t exist but we don’t always get what we want
brisk merlin
wowsam,e
neat yew
Woot, my brother is coming over tonight, gonna play some coop toejam and earl for sure
uncut bramble
Started sorting some of my monopoly cupboard out. Here's a few of my favs not including duplicates and special editions that Ive got at my dads
light cairn
😱
uncut bramble
Haha obsessed much
knotty osprey
👀 thats a lot of monopoly
rigid haven
A monopoly of monopoly
uncut bramble
Haha most of them are just "reskinned" but some alter the gameplay which is cool
uncut bramble
Haha! We are pretty competitive
teal trench
Random evil pumpkin face:
sleek shadow
Rip was the Minecraft server taken down
knotty osprey
kaz isn’t on this server anymore afaik
teal trench
^
knotty osprey
so it would make sense for it to be taken down I guess
teal trench
He left on april fools, due to that rainbow 'someone' spam.
It was driving him up the wall.
And onto the ceiling. <.<
knotty osprey
me being on mobile during the whole thing made all the rainbows invisible lol
I was on a short holiday
sigh
still waiting on a DVI to VGA adapter and a Bluetooth dongle so I can connect my new monitor and a Udraw Gametablet (wii version) to my pc
teal trench
Um
knotty osprey
discord wtf
cinder vessel
Oh damn, it's been ages since I looked at this: http://cdn.runescape.com/assets/img/external/oldschool/web/osrs_world_map_jan25_2018.png
rain flicker
?
teal trench
@cinder vessel, that's not the main game. That's the 07 re-release.
knotty osprey
discord put another number tag behind that mention 🤔
rain flicker
Not for me
cinder vessel
lol still the map I'm more familiar with Quav
teal trench
Well, that map is also incomplete. It only shows the surface.
knotty osprey
also you can do this after you research the "starbirth" tech
teal trench
It's also inaccurate, because of Zeah and Fossil Island.
Those don't exist.
They do in the 07 re-release, but not in the real game.
cinder vessel
lol
teal trench
That's new content they added, which players voted on.
knotty osprey
the protostar made both of my planets that needed ore extremely rich lmao
rain flicker
@knotty osprey what does it do?
knotty osprey
it acts like a super resource
like it statisfies any planetary need and levels the planet up once
rain flicker
Oh
knotty osprey
from colony to rich and from rich to utopia
teal trench
@cinder vessel Anyways, the map I generated was for technical purposes. Someone wanted a full render of every single accessible portion of RuneScape. So, I obliged and generated it. It wasn't meant to look pretty.
rain flicker
Whats the trick to raise happiness?
cinder vessel
I get that Quav. If nothing else the render may help in producing what I was thinking of
knotty osprey
statisfy all the needs of planets, and try to build either trading post or planets that have a "heart and coin" output
heart and coin stands for happiness and money
cinder vessel
You know a stupid little touch that would be kinda neat to see in NMS? Little dots of light along the warp lines to represent traders going between systems 😮
rain flicker
I think satisfying the needs was the biggest problem in The Fris Empire
teal trench
Anything, anything to make NMS feel, and look more "alive" is a 100% yes in my book.
I can't stand how empty and lonely it is.
rain flicker
I mean... How old is slipways rando?
teal trench
The animals might as well be robots, as with the current NPCs.
They don't... do anything.
cinder vessel
Tbh lots of games do the little blips of light along jump lanes/lines to systems
rain flicker
Spore had lines between planets with trading ships going inbetween aswell and I'm sure they weren't the first either
cinder vessel
That's like 90% of NPCs in games Quav, lol
Even the ones that talk up "interesting" NPCs
rain flicker
@cinder vessel If you want it to be realistic you want more lines going to rich economy systems, and that would remove the entire purpose of the economy scanner
teal trench
I'm referring to making them feel "alive". Not just do a scripted loop, or stand in one spot and never move.
teal trench
I just want a game to be developed with SpatialOS already....
rain flicker
Yea... They weren't the ones coming up with ways between planets
cinder vessel
That's the thing with NPCs though, most of them only ever do scripted loops, with a few games doing some more interesting stuff
teal trench
SpatialOS removes the need for scripts.
rain flicker
Random walking around counts as scripted loop aswell?
teal trench
Think of it like procedural generation, but for NPCs.
knotty osprey
everything procedual
rain flicker
Every bug procedural
knotty osprey
oof
rain flicker
What? I meant insects
knotty osprey
huh
these infragates are extremely useful
cinder vessel
@rain flicker re: more lines stuff...Yes & no. It depends on how you go about representing interstellar travel. You might still have low economy systems appear to be bustling as a matter of passing through to the high economy systems
knotty osprey
oh right
rain flicker
I didn't actually
cinder vessel
But more likely than not, yeah, it would probably toss out the need for an econ scanner, lol
knotty osprey
i thought you meant "every glitch in the scripts procedual"
rain flicker
Hmm. But if you want the same amount of lines between every system it's just useless eye candy
knotty osprey
🤔 now im confused
rain flicker
Oh well, isn't the entire game that? That's why I love it
cinder vessel
I wasn't thinking of lines anyway, but little sparkles of light along the lines
rain flicker
Yea I know, I didn't mean full lines, we already got those as well
knotty osprey
^
teal trench
@cinder vessel https://i.imgur.com/XZ3OQET.png
rain flicker
Btw guys guys guys. We got 1 channel. 1 channel meant for talk about a game that's not no mans sky
Yet here we are
cinder vessel
🤷 guess I coulda tagged Gamer or something over in #NMS, lol
knotty osprey
🤔 i wasnt the one talking about NMS
rain flicker
Why only him 
teal trench
That image I just poked you with, Leon, is what I wish NMS could do.
I know they can't, though.
cinder vessel
Because it was related to the game they've been talking about
knotty osprey
well okay
cinder vessel
And the convo hadn't expanded to others yet, lol
Anywho, yeah, I'll believe NPC simulation like that once they get it off the ground
cinder vessel
(But only after I had already said the thing here, lol)
rain flicker
Hmm no
teal trench
@cinder vessel, likewise. I still have hope though, since they're going pretty open and public with this stuff.
Development is actively ongoing.
cinder vessel
It reminds me of Bethesda trying to talk up Radiant AI or whatever with Skyrim
knotty osprey
@rain flicker the double lines are slipways that go under other slipways
they come from infragates
.>
cinder vessel
knotty osprey
this is some extreme future tech right here
oof, this bit of empire is starting to slow down the game a bit
teal trench
@cinder vessel, yup that sounds familiar. I doubt it's inspired by that though, since it's just taking the generic "AI" principals, and trying to actually create artificial, artificial intelligence lol. Note the second "artificial". Like, make a pale comparison to what true AI would actually be.
cinder vessel
It's still an interesting article, lol
cinder vessel
It sounds like they had some cool stuff going on at one time, but trimmed it because the NPCs were beating the player to the punch here & there
cinder vessel
I mean they did keep it, but it seems like their approach to advancing it was to keep it tame 🙄
teal trench
Yeah, I meant kept it the way it was, and improve on its accuracy and functions.
I'd like having NPCs that are smarter than me.
knotty osprey
new highscore i think
well
this is reasonable difficulty
and i came close to my highscore on forgiving
rain flicker
Oh on that difficulty, certainly
knotty osprey
104% happiness lmao
teal trench
That makes me not want to touch it... that, um.. idk what to call it. So, it's an arcade game, that you can't infinitely play and expand on like a proper sim?
Like
Um
@knotty osprey
cinder vessel
Wtf article https://www.gamesradar.com/remember-skyrims-radiant-ai-its-got-the-potential-to-revolutionise-rpgs/:
Radiant story produces those kinds of simple, repeated fetch quests, designed to ensure that you always have something to do and with enough variation - a different target to kill, or item to steal - to keep you from repeating exactly the same quest over and over.Do they even read what they're writing? Those are repeating the same damn thing over and over again. Changing the kill target/steal object doesn't change the fundamental action at hand.
knotty osprey
tour of the random empire
teal trench
@cinder vessel RuneScape is the only MMO I've ever seen, that doesn't have fetch/kill rubbish like that.
Quests are actually quests.
LIke king arthur hunting for the holy grail kinda quest.
teal trench
An alien wearing a doorman uniform.
knotty osprey
🤔
cinder vessel
lol
rain flicker
Those red boxing gloves
teal trench
knotty osprey
my puberty brain thinks it looks phallic
rain flicker
I had to search that word up
Lmao I thought you were avoiding literally anything that had slightly to do with that
rain flicker
You literally got #questionable-chatter muted in Tmf and get awkward every time the conversation starts about something like that
rain flicker
Someone is growing up it seems
rain flicker
Just, you know, don't stress too much about it
teal trench
@knotty osprey, here I found this on Imgur earlier when I was bored: https://imgur.com/gallery/iCDXT
knotty osprey
wut
teal trench
The title alone is enough to make people do a double take lol.
It's just a typical imgur "dump", but aimed at women.
Dump, meaning a dump of random images.
knotty osprey
okden
cinder vessel
ugh, yeah
I'm trying to figure out which of the first three it may be for me atm, lol
rain flicker
Why was Rando tagged in an imgur meme post for woman
knotty osprey
i don’t know
rain flicker
I'm scared
teal trench
You were expressing a ... "like" for phallic related stuff, so I just assumed.
I guess I'm wrong.
More for me.
cinder vessel
lol
rain flicker
He's 13
teal trench
wot
cinder vessel
I think that was a bit of a misread & misunderstanding (on Quav's part, to be clear)
teal trench
^
rain flicker
He's been avoiding everything even slightly phallic, this one just came to his mind without any help
knotty osprey
^
teal trench
Oh, okay.
cinder vessel
lol
uncut bramble
Wait, Quav. You're a woman? I didn't know we had many gals around here
rain flicker
Joking 😅 with the not always
cinder vessel
🤦
knotty osprey
I’m trying to avoid as much sexual shit as possible tbh
I’m not at all interested in it so yeah
also I already told you I was 13 quav, you responded with “I thought you were 20+, you’re way to mature for someone your age”
rain flicker
stop thinking you are creepy please
teal trench
Creepy, is a 26 year old person sending a 13 year old something meant for adults.
knotty osprey
that was a misunderstanding, not your fault
rain flicker
Rando, the master is chat searchback
teal trench
I apparently did know, but I forgot and obviously assumed 20+ again.
I blame my muddled brain.
knotty osprey
hah
rain flicker
And therefore it's not intentional
knotty osprey
^
cinder vessel
i have the bad habit of assuming the internet immediately exposes ppl to the weirdest shit possible so nothing phases anyone
teal trench
Bye.
cinder vessel
later
teal trench
Relevant: https://i.imgur.com/gIvuk3u.jpg
rain flicker
I guess I need to play the game to understand
teal trench
The swarm is what attacks you ingame.
cinder vessel
she stinky from playing too much & need to shower
rain flicker
Why is she almost naked
cinder vessel
🤷
rain flicker
What's with stereotypical gamer girls and wearing almost no clothes
rain flicker
I assume the opposite happens irl tbh
teal trench
Yup.
teal trench
...
rain flicker
aaaaaaaaa
teal trench
I just explained the comic to you.
teal trench
Stereotypes are almost always based on fact.
rain flicker
👀
rain flicker
Well you just said this stereotype is the opposite wha
teal trench
No I didn't..?
teal trench
I misread that. I read it as "I assume it happens irl".
teal trench
Well, when you try to coerce an explanation out of nutjob who hasn't slept for the past two days, that's bound to happen.
rain flicker
I no longer know if you are joking
cinder vessel
lol
all i can say of the comic is it screams "drawn by horny guy" that explains a good chunk of it, the rest is just "gamer stereotype" in terms of being non-hygienic due to playing games too much
teal trench
You're correct, lol.
knotty osprey
🤔 what did I come back to even
teal trench
It's drawn by a guy who does that stuff for money.
cinder vessel
it's not a great joke mind
rain flicker
You cant tell me you are gaming like in this comic it would be very uncomfortable. Cold etc. But I don't want to know your clothing habit lmao
cinder vessel
i dunno, remember all the dumb Kinect & PS4 camera incidents?
rain flicker
No?
teal trench
Lol
cinder vessel
There were incidents of them catching people playing nude and streaming, but the streamers didn't always remember leaving the stream going
I'm thinking more of PS4 cameras, I think though
teal trench
A lot of those are fake, and they do it on purpose.
They know exactly what they're doing.
cinder vessel
There's also definitely 100% that
knotty osprey
...
cinder vessel
sorry Gamer, lol
rain flicker
... But you just said that it's true Wtf you can't do this to my brain you changed oppinion 2 times already
cinder vessel
We got sidetracked trying to explain a dumb comic to Fris, lol
teal trench
I never changed my opinion, Frisout.
rain flicker
So..... Huh
knotty osprey
I think this conversation is based on misunderstandings at this point
teal trench
^
cinder vessel
would the opposite be gaming in the shower? 🤔
cinder vessel
thinking back to earlier in the convo
rain flicker
No I meant heavily clothed, just a sweater or something
teal trench
Frisout has a strange, misguided concept of how people play games. I mean, it's likely based on how they play games, so idk.
knotty osprey
right, but most gaming devices are not suited to be exposed to water
so gaming in the shower would likely get you electrocuted and the device annihilated
teal trench
wot
knotty osprey
I was talking to GMR
teal trench
Where/How did a shower get brought up? o.o
knotty osprey
rain flicker
The beginning of this whole convo
knotty osprey
^
rain flicker
A comic of a shower because rando went and showered
rain flicker
Lmao
cinder vessel
lol
knotty osprey
I wasn’t responding to you
cinder vessel
Was to me and my silly shower thought
knotty osprey
with the “gaming in the shower” thing
rain flicker
Guys this conversation is making my brain hurt more every minute. I must leave while I still can. Cya
cinder vessel
Hahaha, later!
teal trench
Here, have a random RuneScape screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/oPb5TPU.png
knotty osprey
neat
knotty osprey
quavelen attempting to transform #other-games into #runescape, 2018, colourised
teal trench
RuneScape master race.
royal tendon
👀
royal tendon
I've never played Runescape 😅
knotty osprey
war sounds audible in the distance
iron inlet
Me neither Lilith
royal tendon
xD
teal trench
I actually can't argue with that, @iron inlet. It's an ancient game from 1998 with new graphics and new combat slapped onto it.
A lot of people think it's rubbish.
cinder vessel
but it's Quav's "bad" game
cinder vessel
I played it for a couple years, so I can't say much
I liked it but I think it's because the quests were interesting
teal trench
Yup, quests are the one thing that a lot of people can agree, RuneScape did right.
Not that fetch/kill 10 of this rubbish that so many generic mmos do these days.
cinder vessel
Although if memory serves it has several of those too
knotty osprey
my house got annihilated again
Stupid zombie horde
cinder vessel
But typically not as much
teal trench
@cinder vessel Nope, it has a slayer skill where you can request a slayer master to assign you a certain number of monsters to kill, for slayer exp.
That's as close to it as it gets.
Entirely unrelated to questing, or storyline.
knotty osprey
funny thing
this mobile game has a severe grinding aspect, but it has an “auto mode” which makes your character collect resources by itself
cinder vessel
tfw you realize you maybe went too far
teal trench
What game is it?
knotty osprey
last day on earth: survival
teal trench
Oh
knotty osprey
it’s pretty fun
I keep coming back to it
also I accidentally erased my progress but I’m now roughly to where I was again already
that sentence did not make sense
good job brain
teal trench
Anyways, best if I lay down. It's 03:24 in the morning over here.
G'morning/night/day whatever.
rigid haven
Oh, it's the witching hour over there
Ok, don't get caught by the ghouls or ghosts or whatever 
winter yew
I was playing some Just Cause 3 and decided that I might try to 'finish' it but I never finished JC2 lol.
Just far too much to do
rigid haven
Finish as in the story or 100%?
winter yew
Story mostly
I was also poking at Red Faction Guerilla
but I think I'll wait for the 'remastered' patch to come out before I get any further in that
cinder vessel
Red Faction Guerrilla is gooood
winter yew
hell ya, i had it on ps3 awhile back
cinder vessel
But yeah if they do a remaster or somesuch probably best to wait
I'm so sad that Volition backtracked with the next Red Faction, making it more linear
cinder vessel
There's so much fun to be done with open world nonsense destruction
winter yew
yeah
i still remember the first time I played the game and grabbed a truck and decided that I didnt wanna bother fighting the soldiers to save the people
so I just smashed through several walls and into the building they were tied up in
cinder vessel
Btw did you know THQ Nordic also rereleased Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy to PC, with dev tools?!
winter yew
Never played it
cinder vessel
It was a Zelda-like, basically. With some quirks to it like being able to catch the monsters you faced & fill a museum with them! https://www.gog.com/game/sphinx_and_the_cursed_mummy
winter yew
hmmm interesting
rigid haven
Has anyone played Minit? The new game published by Devolver? I want to buy it but I'm not really sure if the devs did the whole "One minute at a time" thing well
cinder vessel
Haven't played it personally, but everything I've seen about it has been pretty positive thus far
knotty osprey
Motherfu-
haughty rapids
? wha tgame is that
knotty osprey
I forgot that this game doesn’t pause when you walk away
last day on earth: survival
aaaaargh
I didn’t have my backup tools and clothing box ready
Phew, I died at home so my dead body with all my stuff was just lying there
in my kitchen
lavish obsidian
ohno
rigid haven
Anyone else seen this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ35XKMMEIM
sick arrow
interesting
light cairn
piku meat
teal trench
"Pikuniku". That reminds me of a very specific, creepy video called ""Klinkerman"; the way he says "Klinker" sounds like a P forced onto a K, like "Pklinker" lol.
light cairn
oh, duh, it's just "picnic"
teal trench
rigid haven
No, it is piku niku
a dystopian world
with cutesy graphics
Published by Devolver
teal trench
I'm talking about the word - the name of the game. Not the game itself lol.
light cairn
it's katakana for "picnic"
teal trench
So, I can't just make a comment saying the name reminded me of something? >.>
light cairn
huh?
i was responding to Woop, not you
why does he nail the half hat onto his head
teal trench
Idk lol. Just Koit75 trying to be weird, I guess.
They're an over-achiever for weirdness, and creepiness.
I wouldn't suggest looking at their other videos.
That's likely the tamest of them all.
rigid haven
Oh
No, no, I didn't mean you, sorry 😅
Skip said "Picnic" but I much prefer the pronunciation "pikuniku"
teal trench
This is what happens when a person who's brain hasn't had any rest for 3 days, decides to attempt communication. Sorry.
rigid haven
Huh, 3 days? That's, uh, a lot
Oh my fuck, The Klinkerman thing. My little sister was obsessed with it a while back
teal trench
I've dealt with Insomnia for my entire life. I learned to deal with it, and eventually it recedes... but, it always comes back. It's back right now, so yes, three days. I'm forced to go without "proper" sleep for stretches that can last longer than a week. Fitful, restless resting and passing out for 5min are about what it allows me to have. After two-three days, I start hearing things. After about five, I start seeing things... and after that, things just continue to slide uncontrollably downhill.
It's not a game, not a joke, and it's not fun. It's a serious issue that has no "cure". This is why I'm so 'hard' on people, who don't get enough sleep; purposely forcing yourself to stay awake isn't okay, and no one should make themselves stay up, if they can get proper sleep. *glares at rayrod*
Sorry, I'll stop bugging you.
rigid haven
Yeah, I can see where you're coming from. I really hope you're able to sleep restfully at some point soon
And don't worry, it takes a lot more than that to bug me 😛
teal trench
I meant like, what I just did. You posted a video of a game and tried to discuss it. My stupid brain decided to mention what it reminded me of, and it detailed your conversation entirely, and the focus changed to me, and my stupid problems. Again.
That's all I seem to do any more; monopolise conversations and poke my nose where it doesn't belong.
Oh, boo hoo, poor me. I'll shut up and stop. Sorry.
rigid haven
Oh, actually, you reminded me of this guy: Cyriak. He makes a ton of screwed up things and I love it. Don't worry, I was only telling people that the game was a thing to try and spark up any conversation at all. I'm gonna try to take a nap or something, anyway, So I'll see you all later 
light cairn
rigid haven
Ooo
primal inlet
Pretty
sick arrow
that guy looks like a young version of the professor from pokemon go
rigid haven
Please do not bring up Professor Willow
winter yew
Wut
rigid haven
teal trench
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that I attained lvl 120 Thieving in RuneScape, yesterday: https://i.imgur.com/LckMyxk.png
rigid haven
Sneaky Sneaky
I should probably give Runescape another shot one day
If it would run on this thing, at least
teal trench
Sadly, lvl 120 is only 104m total skill exp. It's only halfway to my end-game goal of 200m in every skill: https://i.imgur.com/WAerjuE.png
RuneScape can run on a toaster.
Lol
rigid haven
...200 Million...god damn
teal trench
These are the graphics I normally play in: https://i.imgur.com/VwXkjX5.png
You can run that, on something from like 2005 lol.
Well, uh. Not the draw distance.
You'd have to set that to like, low or medium.
rigid haven
Yeah. I guess I'll give it a shot
teal trench
Important thing, @rigid haven: https://i.imgur.com/l1taF9n.png https://i.imgur.com/yPynFZs.png
rigid haven
Ahh, right. Thanks!
teal trench
Um, I really do expect you to be put off by the weird, clunky tutorial, and new combat system. If so, I don't blame you.
It's a 20 year old game with way too much patchwork done.
teal trench
That's just before the new combat, if it was 2012.
In november 2012, they did the "EoC" - Evolution of Combat.
It was a bloody mess.
So many problems with it right off the bat.
rigid haven
Ahh, that would've been before I started playing
teal trench
Well, I hope you find yourself enjoying the game if you do decide to give it another go.
It's uber grindy and "pointless" lol.
There's no real overall storyline.
rigid haven
Huh, sounds fun
The only thing I remember from years ago is that I wandered into a house and I think it had a vampire in it or something. My memories are really foggy about it 😅
teal trench
That would be draynor manour.
Count draynor is a vampire that you can slay, for a quest.
rigid haven
Ah, right
teal trench
rigid haven
Oh shit, that's the one
teal trench
@rigid haven, one of the RuneScape devs: https://i.imgur.com/glDeFi2.png
Mod Ash has been with the game a few months longer than I have, lol.
rigid haven
Oh damn
teal trench
They got the membership thing sorted; I mean, it is his work account, after all.
It was just a neat thing to note, since normally Jmods aren't around that long.
Mod Mark and him are two of the oldest devs.
rigid haven
Aww, That's kinda sweet
Imagine how it must've felt to watch a game that they've been with for so long evolve into what it is today
teal trench
Yup, lol. That's something they talk about, a lot.
Mod Ash in particular, hightailed it over to "2007Scape", when they re-released it in 2013. He, along with a massive chunk of players, didn't like the current game. So they all migrated over there.
Ash, Matt, Ian, and a good number of other long-term developers all work on the older version, due to personal preference.
So that's saying a lot.
.>
rigid haven
Heh, Yeah
teal trench
I personally like all iterations of RuneScape.
The current game, 2007scape, and classic.
There's a pretty heavy rivalry between Rs3 and Osrs though.
Rs3 is the current game, and Osrs is "oldschool runescape", as they've been calling it.
rigid haven
I was just gonna ask that, thanks for clearing it up
teal trench
2007Scape is Osrs.
2007Scape was its old name, in 2013.
They changed it to Osrs, in 2014 or so.
rigid haven
I'm not really one to get in on rivalry between versions as I'm always quite indifferent towards everything
teal trench
^
I will admit that I do enjoy watching it happen, as long as it's not malicious or spiteful.
Which... sadly, tends to happen way too much.
They're extremely passionate about their chosen game.
rigid haven
Yeah, that's nature, I guess
I do agree that it's fun to watch, as long as no one gets physically harmed from anything
Well, that, and a few other things
teal trench
Yup, malice/spite about covers what I have an issue with.
Friendly competition is great, though.
rigid haven
Definitely! It's fun to take part in it, too
teal trench
The most I tend to do, is prod them until they do something. <.<
Like saying "Rs3 master race" whilst playing Osrs, and waiting for their reactions.
rigid haven
Haha, That does sound like fun
teal trench
Rs3 has its own ... divisions, within itself, too. There's EoC users vs Legacy users.
Legacy is a mock-up of the old combat system, before EoC.
EoC users tend to crap on Legacy users, and whatever just because they use Legacy.
Likewise with Legacy users - they throw just as much, right back.
rigid haven
Oh man, It's like the console wars but with much more factions
teal trench
Yup
Exactly, lol.
This is the location of Legacy mode, if you're curious: https://i.imgur.com/Y8Zu42J.png
Interface and combat can be used interchangeably.
I like to use both combat modes, depending on the situation.
Both interfaces, as well.
rigid haven
That's...a whole lot of stuff that the player can change. Usually with updates and such, players are forced to use whatever the developers put into the latest version, but with this they can choose, which is actually quite good
teal trench
Yup. You can actually thank the players for this.
Players were mass-quitting after the EoC, and by 2014, Jagex had lost around ~400k players.
So they said wait a minute, and added Legacy mode.
It's the same reason they re-released Osrs.
They wanted to pacify the players who were quitting.
Most worlds on Rs3 are feel dead and empty, due to EoC.
rigid haven
Good thing the Devs were smart enough to see things going horribly, then 😅
teal trench
Yup. It took them way longer to do damage control than it should have, though.
I doubt the playerbase will ever recover, but I have hope.
rigid haven
Yeah, So do I. It would be nice to see something restored to its former glory
teal trench
Like, right now there are... let's see. *gets calculator*
Rs3 has 32k online right now, and Osrs has 65k.
They lump together the Rs3 and Osrs playerbase on the "runescape.com" site, and show only the osrs playerbase on the "oldschool.runescape.com" site.
rigid haven
Ah. That's an odd way to do things
teal trench
Rs3 is the main game, and "runescape.com" is the main game's website. So it kinda makes sense to merge the playerbase numbers together, for RuneScape as a whole on the main website.
rigid haven
Oh yeah, I suppose so
teal trench
But, yeah. It is odd to do it without any kind of indication of what it is.
Oh, also... right click everything in Rs as a whole. Whatever version you choose to play, make sure you force yourself to create a habit of right clicking anything and everything in the game.
smoky forge
minecraft is love, minecraft is life.
teal trench
Right click opens a context menu ingame.
winter yew
a big simulated space is a bit different than a simulated world, however, if that makes any sense
uncut bramble
@smoky forge There's some avid Minecrafters in here too xD
smoky forge
lmaooooooooo.
teal trench
winter yew
I love space and smaller worlds in games with density. but since I love space I love no man's sky
smoky forge
i used to be a hardcore minecrafter. but im a hardcore nms player now
winter yew
so it touched one aspect
uncut bramble
I initially got into Minecraft on the switch (late I know lol)
silent pendant
NMS is number 1 for me. BOTW comes in a close 2nd lol
teal trench
Link to the Past > Breath of the Wild.
smoky forge
if you dont join a NMS discord server and claim to be a major fan of NMS, are you really?
teal trench
(My opinion)
rigid haven
Link to the Past was my childhood game
uncut bramble
Lol, NMS is just a game I enjoy. I wouldn't say I'm a super fan
teal trench
^
rigid haven
I remember getting stuck on that damn bat with the conveyor belts and spiky things
I got past it recently \o/
teal trench
Final Fantasy 1, on the NES from 1987 is likely my most nostalgic game, ever. I can't think of one I played before that.
smoky forge
I had that, All of the pokemon games for the gameboy, and tony hawk skater. (i got my ps2 when I was 6)
winter yew
no man's sky if it stayed the way it was in august of 2016 would be a game I would pick up every year or so. now with all the updates and the ARG, it's something I focus the most on
mostly because I'm curious of where it's going
silent pendant
first game for me was Pong. Wasn't much else to choose from back then lol..
teal trench
I'm too young for that lol.
smoky forge
is there a way to invert up and down stick?
teal trench
I was born in 1991, and had hand-me-downs to use - which is why I had an NES and a game from 1987.
smoky forge
y-axis i mean
rigid haven
Crash Bandicoot was the game I remember the most. I forgot a lot of what I used to do, but that's one of the things that stands out
silent pendant
I remember the NES being released lol.. I couldn't sleep when I knew I was getting one
smoky forge
imma hook up my hotas to my ps4 and use that for a bit.
rigid haven
You are all MUCH older than me, then
teal trench
The N64 is likely my favourite console.
I had the most fun on it, I think.
Hexen, Ocarina of time, Starfox, Vigilante 8, and... Goldeneye.
rigid haven
I have my Gamecube lying around somewhere. That was my favourite console while I was using it. I had some Zelda collection that let me play both Ocarina of Time and Majoras mask; and a mario kart game
Hell, thinking back to that makes me kinda sentimental
rigid haven
Oh yeah, Mario 64
silent pendant
MARIO! lol
rigid haven
I think it was Double Dash or something
rigid haven
Backflipping into paintings 👌
teal trench
There was one where you had to backflip anyways, to get the water level to be higher.
Can't recall the name of that one.
rigid haven
Yeah, that one was drilled into my memory because of that water-skating thing
Don't know the name, though
silent pendant
Wet Dry World 😄
rigid haven
Yes! Thanks!
teal trench
Yesss, that's what it was.
You know that bit under the castle, with those pillars you have to butt-stomp on, to drain the moat?
rigid haven
Yup
teal trench
There is a part of a back room under there, with a glass window and a 'ramp' under that window where you can only exit, not enter. I spent countless hours trying to get up that ramp.
rigid haven
Dude, same
uncut bramble
@brisk merlin
smoky forge
cough
cinder vessel
lol
rich cargo
Which one of you buggers mentioned that CKII was free? I've lost DAYS to that game now. I'm dreaming about my glorious Welsh kingdom.
light cairn
bleak otter
Any thoughts on Kerbal Space Program or Ruiner?
rigid haven
Ruiner looks like it has a neat artstyle
bleak otter
Yeah it does. Not a huge fan of the genre typically but it looks interesting.
winter yew
Ruiner is like a twin-stick shooter
knotty osprey
KSP is a really fun game if you like space sims
bleak otter
Hmm. Well if I get KSP, I'll get Ruiner too. Thanks Humble.
light cairn
what the hhhhhhhhhhhhhheck http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2018/04/09/some-of-gta-ivs-music-licenses-expire-later-this-month-and-songs-will-be-removed
cinder vessel
Stuff like that just makes me go fuck licensed music
light cairn
like it makes sense enough for new copies being sold, but does this mean that my Steam version is gonna have the music ripped out from it even though I bought it within the proper window?
that's some BS
cinder vessel
oh man imagine the opening of Saints Row The Third without Kanye
that would fucking ruin it
cinder vessel
glad some of my faves are original scores
hopefully never have to worry as much about those
light cairn
but even GTAV does the same thing, it has a really good score but also uses Licensed stuff, hell they even got people to make a bunch of music for it too
maybe they'll keep that up better though because of GTA:O
and it's not like the music people are losing out on royalties because of a ten year old game
cinder vessel
I honestly rarely ever read/hear about people discussing the scores of GTA games, 🤔
light cairn
GTAV is the only one i've ever completed, and the score is great because it's all dynamic
cinder vessel
Er, is it? I read the port was kinda barebones
primal inlet
So, it's pretty much the same as the console version, except that...it's on a PC
Good: the game scales to your hardware
Bad: menus are still totally unintuitive and controller/keyboard only
light cairn
my only complaint when playing on ps4 was that potion equipping is a pain in the ass
they really needed an extra potion slot or something
so i basically never used them
rigid haven
You never used potions?
cinder vessel
ever?
light cairn
attack potions, like almost never yeah
gaunt hare
With Rockstar, I always thought it was a shame they didn't do two things with the in game radio
for gta 5
- Have a radio station of unlicensed and free music. Sure, would be a lot of classical, but you could
- Get upcoming artists like "we will pay you a small amount of money to have your track featured (either permanently or for a brief period) on our radio. You still own your music, but we give you a little money to let us play that shit"
Doing those two things you could have a huge music library for very little money.
I guess for the most part it's not worth it to them because it's not a way to sell shark cards
but please for the love of God let us turn off in game music without turning off the radio.
light cairn
no self respecting artist would have a permanant contract with no royalties set in place 😛 but yeah otherwise those two things would be pretty neat
gaunt hare
Well, keep in mind, mostly what I'm talking about is new music. I'm sure most small time musicians would accept some royalty money to let their music be heard by millions for a month or two
Would be nice to hear music most people haven't heard anyway. I think everyone wins, in that situation. They get some cash and exposure but still own their music, players get new tunes, and rockstars radio doesn't make people want to turn it off constantly
teal trench
I know I'm an oddball, but I always mute any and all music in every game I play. GTA V was no exception; if I wanted music, I'd play my own.
gaunt hare
I guess the reason it bothers me is I have spent hundreds of hours in GTA online but I still like to play the radio.
Ya, I'm the opposite.
light cairn
i have like two/three radio stations i frequent and i'm usually fine
do you have it on pc or console?
teal trench
PC for me.
light cairn
cause on PC you can do the custom radio station
gaunt hare
Console, I heard about the PC channel
Dude... what I wouldn't give..m
Master race.
Can people in your car listen to it?
light cairn
no
teal trench
I haven't actually played GTA V for... uh, two years now? o.o
It was in 2015, last time I played, and back when I was on a Dell Workstation, from 2005.
light cairn
teal trench
I need to have another look at it, but the total game size (80GB+) is making me nope out.
I don't have any space to spare.
gaunt hare
I think I've got like 500 hours
gaunt hare
Used to roll with a crew
tough heron
it was fun but i dunno
cinder vessel
i don't think i can get into GTA
cinder vessel
that requires coordinating people, lol
tough heron
i don't have the money haha
gaunt hare
Or all your friends having no lives
teal trench
Um, I used the Rockstar client; I didn't touch the steam client, so my playtime wasn't recorded.
tough heron
i've invested too much in my ps4 to turn to pc now haha. maybe next gen
gaunt hare
Our crew was like fifteen people, so there were always four or five around
cinder vessel
it also doesn't help that my schedule is totally fucked for coordinating with much of anyone
light cairn
the heists are really cool but yeah it's so hard to get good people
also it's easily the most grindy game i've ever personally played
gaunt hare
I can't play it anymore since the crew fell apart
After a year of that, going back to the game is boring
Even playing with one or two friends
light cairn
all the cool shit is basically locked behind paywalls
gaunt hare
The game truly shines when you've got varied personalities driving around and causing mayhem
light cairn
I WANNA USE THE JET BIKES
cinder vessel
how creepy would it be if the game replaced them with ghosts generated from previous play sessions?
light cairn
😱
i really with like, "learned player" AI became more of a thing for stuff like that
driving games are the only ones i know of that have tried
teal trench
Oh. Now I remember why I left: https://i.imgur.com/ENG2kPe.png
It got downvoted and crapped on.
No real response.
I avoid games that have movement like that, as it drives me up the wall.
light cairn
I can kinda see why though, seems a bit confrontational.
but yeah, definitely not for everyone
teal trench
The forced PvP in online mode was my other nitpick, but it bugged me less than that movement rubbish.
light cairn
you can go into passive mode so people can't touch you
teal trench
Um, yes but doesn't that also make it so you can't kill npcs?
light cairn
no?
teal trench
o.O
Well, on another note: https://i.imgur.com/V11oB63.png
That was on the laggy, old Dell I had, from 2005.
It ran GTA V pretty well.
Two Xeon 5050 cpus, and 16GB of FB-ddr2 @166Mhz.
@knotty osprey, here's a patch notes video on 1.2.13 from a minecraft dev, if you want: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMoRInOZukY
I know you were talking about having it, and didn't know there was an update.
light cairn
dang, not half bad
rigid haven
I got the jet bikes in GTA
Someone found a glitch and I abused the hell out of it
I got bored and left once I realised that all we were doing was grinding for money to buy more stuff to grind for more money
teal trench
I'll be honest, I only vaguely recall specifics about GTA V; it was two years ago, so a lot of it is blurry.
Like that passive mode thing.
rigid haven
They added a ton of stuff - a few things that shook up the gameplay
Now Supercars are the things that nobody cares about
teal trench
o_o
rigid haven
Why would you when you have hovering deloreans, Jet bikes and Sub-cars
teal trench
I recall having a massive 4x4 truck thing, painted purple and black. It might have been a 70s suburban, lol.
It had big tires on it.
rigid haven
Haha, I know that I always owned a little scooter thing that I drove everywhere
teal trench
Like, not monster truck tires big, but.. "I'm a redneck hillbilly and I go offroading" kinda big.
rigid haven
Hmm, That's pretty big
teal trench
Let me see if I can find a screenshot lol. I know I took quite a few.
Lol.
I found one of a friend who was "cheating" in online, and made his car invincible.
rigid haven
The god damn Kuruma
teal trench
Back in may 2015.
gaunt hare
Hahaha overwatch league player fired trying to bone 14 year old
Man public relations for the OWL has taken a real unfortunate turn lately...
gaunt hare
Bad look for Overwatch...
teal trench
PvP games don't need anything to make them look bad; they have a bad reputation from the get-go, simply for being a PvP game.
Those communities are full of toxicity.
light cairn
<_>
gaunt hare
Nah, this is worse than toxcicity for not switching off bastion
I mean, at least he's not a Hanzo player.
teal trench
(Note: I'm extremely biased against PvP.)
gaunt hare
But still
teal trench
Skip's face pretty much explained my comment lol. Had a pretty large discussion regarding PvP with me. <.<
royal tendon
Am I one of the few that enjoys the lore 😓
gaunt hare
The characters are very likable and charming but I don't know how people can be interested in the story that rewrites and stumbles over itself constantly.
Unless you're @royal tendon then it's totally cool.
light cairn
I like the lore but i don't go deep into it
royal tendon
Me neither
teal trench
I enjoy reading the "lore/story" in games, regardless of what they are.
gaunt hare
You guys see Pajamei?
royal tendon
I just like that there's some background to the characters you play
royal tendon
The story shorts are really awesome too
gaunt hare
Just when I think I'm gone they BRING ME BACK IN
royal tendon
I can't run OW 😅
light cairn
it's actually surprisingly difficult to run
gaunt hare
You're missing some great skins