So Ill avoid reading that in caes of spoilers
#off-topic-discussion
hasty kernel
wide ember
I didn't spoil the story yet, just directions, and imo devil survivor has one of the better battle music
...apparently the protagonist can kill a Judgement in Sunless Skies, I really need to buy that one day, once I finish two more endings from Sunless Sea
what is better though? the tyrannical and careless Judgements of the Fallen London 'verse, or the tyrannical and manipulative God of SMTverse?
both maintain a version of The Great Chain, both have realms that they cannot reach, like the Neath (dead dragon skull) or Parabola (dreams), and Expanse (demons' world) and Diamond Realm (anime handsome Stephen Hawking's world)
serene tulip
@sudden torrent this was the skip I found: https://youtu.be/hgzEHAvMwWc?t=1355
also, I think I've changed my mind about trying to speedrun HLD
wide ember
better to play it slow and savour it?
serene tulip
it just looks Hard
wide ember
enjoy the pain, it allows better appreciation of easier times
worldly lantern
Seeing the disappointment of Indivisible, I now look to the stars of Supergiant Games to make the next Valkyrie Profile : }
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I wish
ebon birch
@opaque quail Hello, I just saw your email. Thanks for the clear answer, at least I know it was not intentional, although I am of course disappointed to not be able to debug. Earlier you encouraged me to make a discord server for Hades modding and so I did, we will see how it goes. If it is "Supergiant compliant" perhaps you could promote it at some point, but that is not something I have a call in.
https://discord.gg/KuMbyrN
blissful charm
i think that'd go in #self-promotion
sudden torrent
That's a chonky skip and yeah imo, I think I would never try speedrunning the game, not dying once I think is already a challenge, although people say you can just keep on changing the safe file til you fully beat the game without dying, but that too much work for me too imo. @serene tulip
wide ember
huh, that bird boss isn't described as bird by the quest giver?
wide ember
kudos to the game ambiance designer for putting so many small birbs in hyper light drifter
serene tulip
Did you just start playing it?
wide ember
I only saw the opening last time and this time I'm exploring past the city and into the bird zone in the north
saw the nest of bird refugees
saying something about evil bird cultists burning down their home?
wide ember
huh, the wiki says the birds are vultures, yet the feet look like parrot feet
vultures have three forward toes, parrots have two, and the bird people have two forward toes
yet the vulture shaman does have three forward toes
north hamlet
Maybe there's two species of bird in the cult
lean ocean
not sure if its technically a bug or not, but i had a fight with the Fury sister where we both got hit to 0 at the same time it looked like to me, I had a death defied but it played the animation for her death and didnt take my death defied, putting me back at the HP i was at before. main reason I think we both got hit is cause I recall hearing the sound play like I had gotten hit.not sure if its intended to do that or not but i figured better to ssay something and be wrong than say nothing
lean ocean
i didnt see one spefificly when i looked. just tech fixes
could have missed it. sorry if i did
faint panther
sudden torrent
Yeah press in game
serene tulip
@faint panther dynamics?
Although rotational Velocity is lower case omega so probably not
faint panther
snell’s law! refraction of sound waves
autumn pasture
welcome to snell
serene tulip
north hamlet
I've only heard of snell's law in relation to light, but applying it to sound makes perfect sense
wide ember
light and sound do follow similar rules
midnight geode
they do both move as waves, after all, so it makes sense
midnight geode
ignoring the particle part for now, as that's it's own crazy topic that modern physics is probably still trying to struggle with, lol
in terms of waves, light and sounds are similar, so similar laws can impact both of them
the doppler effect, just as a very simple example
serene tulip
part of light moves in waves, but part-icles
vivid ridge
serene tulip
@sudden torrent https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/516763813790482464/668195015901708323/unknown.png
sudden torrent
Congratulations!
I forgot does it count in one of your campaign or like it counts overall?
serene tulip
I'm pretty sure its overall
serene tulip
TFW you know Just Enough classical music to impress your new opera friend
wide ember
nice
wary leaf
hi mods, not sure if this is the right place to ask but if i sketched zagreus as casey frey flipping someone off in the style of the get tf out my way video could i post that in fanworks, or could i censor it or just avoid posting it at all
tardy anchor
awww thank you for asking! in my opinion i suggest you censor it but i would like to see it then!
serene tulip
@sudden torrent I finished boss rush level 2 in half the time it took me to do level 1 😛
Not looking forward to level 3 though because judgement is probably a lot less fun without the sword reflect ability
and chain dash is really helpful
sudden torrent
Oh lol yeah I think I can partially agree the second level limitations don't do as much as help focus, but yeah screw level 3 I just couldn't really to be honest. If only like there were few bits of upgrades to help on that one.
serene tulip
Honestly the half time was just that level 1 gave me a lot of practice 😛
mimic was a lot easier than I expected since I usually use a grenade to blow up all his gribblies
serene tulip
oof
Judgement is hard
I usually spend no time in his third cycle
ok, boss rush 3 done
now its just gearbits and doing a deathless run
chilly briar
gearbits?
wide ember
guys Magical Boy updated!
severe crater
Ahoy!
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I'm so out of practice with modern day internet slang now
with that as contrast, this discord still uses a... 'international' isn't exactly the term I'm looking for, but like, using a language that has less temporal barrier?
tardy anchor
what do you mean by that? always interesting to hear abt internet linguistics
wide ember
the speech of using memes to express emotions or concepts, for example, or using abbreviations of memes or commonly re-typed expressions
it's a structure and mechanism similar to shakespearean or lavender, but the angles could be more oblique and less obvious at first sight, and the allusion chain is often about one chain longer
incidentally, thanks to internet allowing us to post pictures, our language is also sort of heading in the direction of dolphin languages now
but back to internet slang, one "rule" that was sort of popular about 4 years ago was that using the period punctuation "." was to refer to negative emotions, and neutral or happy or sarcastic used no period at the end, only line break
so for a moment when I saw Oceloctopus post "It's so good." with a period at the end but was likely honestly referring to positive emotion I had to read it twice, then remembered that about 1 or 2 years ago period sign re-entered internet grammar as an intensive or something
overall this discord and especially off-topic doesn't use many memes and has more traditional paper era grammar, so I believe we are still using an instance of english with less temporal barrier
tardy anchor
ohhh interesting!!
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(btw oce please tempt me/us with features from chernobyl, I love getting tempted into watching shows or reading books)
serene tulip
Well, for one Jared Harris is a treasure. He played Anderson Dawes in The Expanse.
Two it's very human.
Three, while the science isn't perfect it's still fascinating.
It's kinda like the imitation game
wide ember
I hope it's on netflix, I'll see tomorrow night
serene tulip
It's not, to my knowledge
It's HBO
It's got a lot of the same problem solving feeling as the Martian and Apollo 13
serene tulip
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oh the post mini boss sword pose
sudden torrent
Congratulations! Honestly good luck with gear bits that achievement is annoying.
autumn pasture
congratulations!
i was told chernobyl was on netflix, rip
keep getting recommended that now
north hamlet
i looked up niche in the dictionary and it said that niche is pronounced like nitch, but nish is acceptable in british english
considering that the word has french origins the sh sound is probably closer to the origin word's pronunciation
uneven gyro
If you pronounce it nitch I'm legally allowed to inject opium into your economy as justification for invading and taking all of your trade ports
light crag
Who in the blazes says nitch
copper tundra
@warm jackal @uneven gyro have you guys tried Children of Morta or Noita?
copper tundra
Noita looked interesting but apparently it's saveless or something o.O
6 hour long runs sheesh. but then again early access.
warm jackal
also just remember wizard of legend actually the one i feel similar to hadess
well sort of my opinion
copper tundra
How did you find Morta?
copper tundra
Yeah that's one of the interesting things about rogue-like/lite development
How to keep the repetition novel.
light crag
Meaningful differences between runs; combinations of relics and such
For one, Isaac succeeds because of that
warm jackal
Not hack and slash but currently im interested to void bastards
not sure if this one good or not
copper tundra
It wasn't what I expected.
But then again I only tried it for an hour lol
Like the game is a survival-stealth FPS
so you have to manage ammo
but you're also in space. so you have to manage oxygen or else you die. so no dawdling about all day while playing.
it's not my cup of tea to be completely and utterly helplessness
earnest bay
I just aced an exam, which makes for the 3rd one this term and means I'll have the update tomorrow as a symbolic reward
hasty kernel
Oh yeah, we have an update tomorrow
hybrid cedar
okay the calisto story seems totally reasonable unless zeus raped her, in which case its ambiguous
because when zeus was disguised, if calisto still willing chose to have sex with artemis who was actually zeus, artemis totally has a reason to be angry and kill her
naive yew
Chione? Adonis? Aura?
naive yew
all this should be on wikipedia with Artemida
hybrid cedar
okay the story of aura is not very epic
naive yew
and all gods have such controversial stuff@hybrid cedar
hybrid cedar
tru
chilly briar
spent 11 hours on a problem yesterday and finally... finally ... it's fixed.... making two numbers align 😩
wide ember
I just read something awesome but disturbing about soy beans so I gotta share it here as part of my pre-supper discord posting habit: eating soya lowers the risks of many cancer (good) because it contains something that tells the broken cells in our body to die before they could turn into cancer (wtf?)
but at the same time, if you only start eating soya post puberty, the same component will somehow increase growth of cancer cells
I feel like this info has a lot of anime potential, like monk exorcists eating soy beans to fight monstres or something
(the article is here: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190816-is-soy-bad-for-womens-health)
(ironically, the article ended up deciding that it's ambiguous for women's health but it certainly protects against prostate cancer, confirming that it's good for cis men)
upbeat scroll
Ugh I've heard so much bad science around soy that I kneejerked to your post
What you posted could totally be good science
wide ember
I don't know or care how soy beans affect cancer now, I just want my soy bean monk exorcist anime
if china had a lotus root magical boy, why not some soy bean based fantasy too
(science is contradictory, just eat whatever you want and doesn't kill you)
serene tulip
Gotten all gearbits
just need to finish the game without dying
I wonder if its easier to get with NG+ simply because then you don't have to farm gearbits for the chain dash and stuff
wide ember
but you get limited health in NG+ I heard?
serene tulip
sudden torrent
🦜
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Sundered turns out to be very much my taste of a game; thanks to all who recommended it here so I got to start it
lament steppe
I read that as Tsundere
sudden torrent
I may have, although can't recall if I said more about it's flaws or not lol.
Nvm not me
Some other guy 3 days ago, damn been a while since I talked about the game in here.
wide ember
I do hope that the Trapezohedron is a tsundere and actually cares about Eshe
willow phoenix
Hey how does one get roles here again?
solar hill
In bot commands
willow phoenix
Ah gotcha
summer hamlet
Oh yeah Sundered is great, though very polarizing
Great game, imo not a great Metroidvania specifically.
lament steppe
what is a Metroidvania?
autumn pasture
a 2d action/platforming game (can really lean either way, like hollow knight vs ori and the blind forest) with a large interconnected map that usually requires backtracking after you get new upgrades and open new paths
the genre is named after the super metroid and castlevania games
it's a genre where different people might have different definitions, i think
serene tulip
were you part of the multi-day conversation in here about whether or not Dead Cells counted as a metroidvania?
midnight geode
Dead Cells calls itself a roguevania, right? But I could definitely see the 'vania' part being argued.
Not that I would argue (as I don't care enough either way, lol), but I could see that.
serene tulip
yeah, it really depends on which parts of metroidvanias you consider important enough for a game to be able to define itself as that
wide ember
it could be as trivial as food items inside walls and hot monsters
but usually it's backtracking, use of upgrades to progress, exploration
lament steppe
like, sexy hot, or burning hot
wide ember
yes
wide ember
...you make a good point
it's not platformer though and usually metroidvania is a sub-trope/category of platformer so...
and you don't do the hack and slash and magic bullets, you enter a RPG battle
but it does have the require upgrades part, and the level design part, and the immersive living world part...
autumn pasture
yeah like i said, it's an imprecise genre
lament steppe
my next thought goes to maplestory
hack and slash and magic bullets and RPG battle
platformer, upgrades via questlines, free choice of a huge world to explore
wide ember
...not wrong but intuitively...
lament steppe
Apparently gunmoku of the Starbound Forums agrees:
I...wouldn't quite call Maple Story a Metroid-Vania game. It only seems like it because it uses a persistent world from a 2-D perspective. To me a Metroid-Vania game is one that has a large or procedurally-generated map, played from a 2-D side view perspective, a progressive gain of powers and items, back-tracking to earlier points in the world to utilize these new powers to progress or find new things, and have boss battles. Admittedly, Maple Story DOES posses these qualities, but...I just wouldn't call it that.
It does get listed as one on the Video Game Museum, though!
http://www.vgmuseum.com/mrp/metroidvania/games.htm
wide ember
it took somebody mentioning it for me to know that Chinese New Year is soon (hence the Guan Yu aspect), I gotta go buy the collectible stamps
lament steppe
stamps?
wide ember
every new year, canada releases chinese-inspired collectible stamps of the year's zodiac
lament steppe
lol
lament steppe
oh wow that really is adorable
I've never heard of this
my mother has a phobia of rats so maybe that's why
wide ember
chinese language groups mouse and rat in one race/species: shu, mouse is little shu and rat is big shu or old shu
they are both at the same time considered pests and signs of fortune
because you see, if you are too poor, you won't have any of those rodents at home, because no food for them
which isn't true in real life but it was a saying
so rat's wedding is good things/fortune comes in pairs
chilly briar
I used to play maple story to death when I was like 14 lol
Back before it was trivial to level up 
Used to always play with the album Around the fur by deftones playing, so now whenever I hear a deftones song I think of maple story lol
serene tulip
I'm playing littlewood atm
and it lets you pick your own title
so I'm Comrade Oceloctopus
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communist comrade or gay comrade
hasty kernel
Why not Both?
chilly briar
Yes
serene tulip
I'm cold
north hamlet
hi cold
wide ember
(Rat stamps bought)
wide ember
Littlewood looks cute
lyric cradle
winter is the bad i've been reading up about countries with nicer climates lmao
wide ember
but snow is fun
lyric cradle
id rather have to go on vacation somewhere w snow and ski or skate like once a year than suffer through a whole winter again
wide ember
I mean, plastic grass can be used for skiing if you want ski without the snow and cold
I think winter by itself is pretty cool, it’s just things like mass flu and snow shovelling...
serene tulip
aww
I got to flirt with someone in the town and they went, "Are you flirting with me?(temporary text)"
hasty kernel
Whoever they were, I have to admit their ability to have brackets in their speech is quite impressive
hasty kernel
The Switch doesnt have 1 and 2, does it?
vivid ridge
It doesn't
hasty kernel
Interesting choice then
For half of the game, new players will go "wait who is this"
vivid ridge
Well xseed probably isn't willing to port them
Along with the other trails games
Most players will be lost on CS3's references anyway
If they didn't play sky or crossbell
hasty kernel
I mean, true, but those are minor
Not knowing who Class VII is however is a big issue
Especially given that one twist
vivid ridge
I think 3 reintroduces them enough
But it would be a lot better if it didn't have to
anyway I like this strangely cruel thumbnail
proven vault
The ceilings have tacky mirrors on them. The on-site bar doesn't serve wine. You can hear voices in the corridors, so definitely not enough soundproofing. Also, there's an unkillable beast roaming the premises.
2/5 stars
wide ember
Is that a video game or is it a SCP
serene tulip
hotel california, I assume
wide ember
I never checked that song’s lyrics before, that sounds Eldritch
hasty kernel
Eldritch is a pretty good description for Hotel California
vivid ridge
cold steel 3 definitely is a cold steel game alright
3 years between 2 and 3 and falcom didn't fix arcane gale being able to get kill bonuses twice per enemy
hasty kernel
Huh, I had no idea it did that
Combat is still busted though
You basically trivialize bosses in the lategame
serene tulip
<-
IDEA
A board game
that's a deck/engine builder
and you're competing nuclear reactors
trying to balance the reactivity of your fuel with various cooling techniquers
and control methods
I mean, I guess it doesn't have to be a board game
but still!
with your average deck/engine builder, going infinite is a win condition
but in this it would be a lose condition
summer hamlet
neat concept, though i think part of the fun of a deck builder is drawing your entire deck in 1 turn :p
north hamlet
that's true
but some of that is the winning part
i would play the reactor deck builder, but i'm also biased towards deck builders
serene tulip
I'm thinking that it might have to be a computer game
like an app
that or incredibly simplified
north hamlet
i would start as simple as possible
serene tulip
I mocked up a play board: https://imgur.com/6X7l2C3.png
north hamlet
what if the parts of the board that are usable expanded as you progress through a game?
serene tulip
Inkscape's handling of text boxes makes me want to cry
north hamlet
i'm so sorry
serene tulip
https://imgur.com/klSDpQO.png card mockups
Might switch them to squares just to do less math
Each fuel cell, on its own, emits power y. For each fuel cell a fuel cell can see, it checks reactivity and doubles the power.
Moderators multiply that number
sometimes increases, sometimes decreases, sometimes zero
(Graphite and heavy water being increases, water being a decrease and boron being 0)
serene tulip
not sure how to make multiplayer fun
upbeat scroll
one player is trying to demon core and the other player is trying to have a functional reactor?
and they alternate taking actions?
serene tulip
have it be a cooperative game where they're trying to make targets and sometimes there are environmental factors?
wide ember
if X card is pulled from the public deck then everybody loses so people try to reach win condition before that?
either win for everybody or alone before the all wipe
serene tulip
There'd be a row of targets, E.G. produce this much power get this much money
some of the target awards could be targeted environmental effects like, "blow target pressurized water coolant"
and there could be global disasters
faint panther
Pear, that's lewd as all get-out, blood and darkness.
My End button decided to give out whenever I cleaned my keys earlier this week (I miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight have not waited long enough for them to dry fully), bombard me with your favorite 10-key mechanical keyboards.
north hamlet
how about a dead of winter-ish cooperative system, where each player takes a turn and contributes to an objective with what's in their hand?
might be a bit odd combining it with a deckbuilder though
but you could have each person build around a certain task
or have a whole team deck that everyone works on
summer hamlet
ok wow i did not intend for it to be lewd at all, (and it isn't in the actual scene its from my god)
that's not what it is do not lewd the 02
That's a good point, guess I'll be changing that, can't atm, (man, I love that gif too)
serene tulip
now I'm curious
summer hamlet
its 02 from DitF and normally she's jumping up and down on a bed but the background is now a rainbow
dear god no, its not lewd that was certainly not the intent, sorry about that
north hamlet
it's no toothbrushing contest at least
ionic viper
aaaand let's leave this conversation where it is, folks 
summer hamlet
agreed
wide ember
the long dark is updating, I wonder what it will be...
serene tulip
they added a "Tame fluffy" option?
wide ember
it was just a small fix for game crash when deer ran off and cooking reset and unable to restore game, no new feature
would love if there is a tame birds to help hunting function
I was playing hades so I'm late to my 8 o'clock food talk: I just learned today that I'm supposed to soak mung bean too, not just soy bean, but I've never had any issue eating unsoaked cooked mung bean before so maybe it's not so bad
wide ember
yeah, they are tiny, like bird eyes
north hamlet
like adzuki beans
wide ember
yes, about that size, but slender on the sides
north hamlet
also good for ice cream like adzuki beans
wide ember
yes! the ice cream popsicle (creamsicle?) with mung bean and jellies is amazing
north hamlet
i like the ones without jellies
wide ember
very difficult to find fresh ones in canada though either way
north hamlet
that sucks
wide ember
with or without jelly is nice, beans and dairy just fit well together
wide ember
it is
taiwanese desserts are one of if not the best in the world
bubble tea, cheese drink, etc.
(highly subjective statement, because I know the seventh heaven cake is very beloved too and it's canadian)
north hamlet
i think of it as chinese but with standards
the supermarket stuff is usually nicer
and south chinese style food is pretty solid
wide ember
taiwan absorbed more foreign cultures, so it has more ideas for food I guess? chinese desserts use a lot of beans but usually won't think of dairy
which taiwan got from the french and portugese cultures I guess (assumption, never verified)
north hamlet
it checks out
if egg tarts are an indication
the hong kong ones have smooth custard because brits while other places have caramelised tops like the portuguese kind
wide ember
and at the same time, the japanese influence gives more translucency and subtleness to the texture and taste
north hamlet
fusion cuisine is so much fun
wide ember
yep
I kind of want egg tarts now
the chinatown ones do not have the caramelised top, I need to find another spot for them
btw I shoved mung beans into the vege milk maker (the machine for making of soy milk or cashew milk and the like), I wonder what will come out
north hamlet
btw do you know how to make ba bao fan
wide ember
only heard of that now, googling
(also I just realized that all my attempts to type 'dairy' were auto-filled into 'diary' today)
north hamlet
also if you can't get egg tarts the way you like you could try making those too
wide ember
I am looking that up, I don't have muffin tin or egg tart tins yet though
ba bao fan looks easier to make, I'll try that first
it's chinese new year soon so I should make one
north hamlet
i think egg tarts aren't too hard as far as pastry goes
i couldn't get the custard to work out when i tried it but i don't seem to have the knack for it
wide ember
I don't have fresh flour though
(significant preference to rice as source of carbs due to joint pains)
when I do the shopping for the official new year ba bao fan I should buy egg tart ingredients too and try it
north hamlet
good luck!
north hamlet
wonder what beans you can't milk
wide ember
cat bean
serene tulip
vocal brook
Babey
serene tulip
yeah
raven harbor
Mission status: sick
Big props to their team for being as hardworking and transparent as they were
serene tulip
I'm really taking a liking to ganki
because 3/4s of all the tems I've fought are weak to electricity
polar mortar
ionic viper
feeling sick because i’m anxious about today’s trip ;w;
ionic viper
london! i’m going to the sgg concert tonight
upbeat scroll
damg your such a huge fan to fly out thousands of miles to go to london
nevermind bad joke
good luck in london i guess
protip: parking tickets by private companies are unenforcable so you can just ignore them
royal relic
hey - i just thought of something
i don't think i've ever seen a cat in any of SG games (besides hades, i guess - haven't played that one yet)
there's a dog in transistor (super useful), there's - of course - rukey in pyre (among others), there's a lot of different animal-like creatures in bastion, but...
do you guys not like cats? 
upbeat scroll
Asher is the guy halfway into transistor
upbeat scroll
Not the guy in the tv, before that
You can see the cat in the bottom left corner in the room where the spoilers happen
upbeat scroll
I didn't see it in my first playthrough either, kitty is well hidden
upbeat scroll
I think it was first observed by a human in the 6th century so we're talking 300 years old.
This bot is living in the 800s
royal relic
i love how silly this question sounds when you just read the headline
it's like... "they just looked up, i guess"
but seriously now - the real question there is actually super interesting
light crag
"In the 12th century, it wasn't possible to reach the moon, but when they did, they realized that space travel was far easier to do than they had thought. They could reach the moon by traveling to the sun or by going around the world."
upbeat scroll
When people got the idea to travel to space?
I guess when they conceptualized it as a place
So when the telescope was invented, or before that
light crag
Impossible to answer really
Because it heavily depends on the culture
Plenty of cultures would've thought of space as a place just as part of their faith
upbeat scroll
Does the bible count as "thinking about space travel"
light crag
There's the whole Babel's tower debacle - IIRC they were trying to reach heaven?
Anyway
I'm off
royal relic
this... actually could make a pretty interesting plotline in a game
set in an old, fantasy world
with colorful hand drawn graphics and twangy music 
just sayin'
royal relic
isn't that the game where
yeah that
i vaguely remember seeing a trailer a while back
i totally forgot about it - it feels like there was so little buzz around this game that i thought it was cancelled or something
light crag
Nah it's really good
royal relic
like that other game with a similar artstyle that i remember seeing trailer of
i think it was made by campo santo and valve?
what was it's name?
light crag
Don't remember
Heaven't Vault was gonna be my GOTY 2019
Until Disco Elysium came along
Now I'm really off, running late D:
royal relic
my goty 2019 was dusk
it played the first two episodes in late 2018, and then the third rolled up and i saw where the story was going (as little of it as there was) and i was like 
royal relic
that was super hard to pull off || don't want to spoil anything here || you guys totally deserve it
hasty kernel
Disco Elysium was very good though
royal relic
yeah i wish i had more time (and that my laptop wasn't such an... overheating, barely chugging potato) to play all those games
all i use it for lately is for making crappy doom mods
royal relic
oh yeah @hasty kernel
and 2020 looks to be even better
doot eternal, half life alyx ||cries in no VR 
||, REmake 3, ff7 (don't really care about that one), and many many others
hasty kernel
Im not sure tbh, Ive not seen a lot of interesting indie games for 2020 so far, and as far as the big AAA games, a couple are interesting
But most are kind of eh
royal relic
and maaaaybe hades will finally come out of early access so i'll get the chance to finally play it 
hasty kernel
Do look forward to the FF7 remake though
royal relic
same
hasty kernel
Personally Im hoping for Ys or TOCS4 news
royal relic
i'm more of a ff8 guy
|| as is amir, which he said back in 2014 YEAH I STILL REMEMBER THAT ||
royal relic
yeah
royal relic
elena? 
hasty kernel
The female turk you meet in Midgar
royal relic
oh
royal relic
i see you're a man of culture as well
royal relic
Sir Gilman faces Tamitha Theyn and The Essence once again ⬆️
wide ember
nice magpie somebody play with them already
aw baby bird you can't just yell at a worm to get it
upbeat scroll
How you gonna pass those ports
chilly briar
with Jorts
stray spire
we must remember the past so we are not doomed to repeat it https://scstylecaster.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/104536112.jpg?w=600&h=1115
upbeat scroll
that was a jastjort
royal relic
that... jallet actually looks pretty cool 
upbeat scroll
it's brave to say what we're all thinking
faint panther
unrelated to the good jashion posting here but
she wont let me play i love her still
stray spire
snow cat and snow grandma :)
serene tulip
for those of you who play warcraft
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rS_keXTyAtw this exists, and is amazig
prisma sparrow
Hi fellow supergiant fans!
summer hamlet
Anyway, Outer Wilds is the goty 2019
Too bad Sekiro won 
raven harbor
Low key that was the only game on the nominees list I feel didn't deserve the award
Sekiro was good, but not that good imo
upbeat scroll
goose of the year
wide ember
happy new year's eve for the eastern hemisphere!
wide ember
I just found one of my fave tapas artist Aimo's tumblr by browsing fe3h fanarts
this is an excellent new year's eve gift, I don't know which deity to thank
faint panther
omg aimo is one of my favorite artists too
i used to love their dragon age arts and when i found them again thru fe3h i was so happy
wide ember
yes and they have this original comic called fox & willow
aimo is supposed to have some side place for her less public self-indulgent stuff, wonder where it is
full socket
Man, aimo is great. When the DA team worked with her to make a comic for a deleted scene I was so happy.
serene tulip
do you think the band 21 pilots has trouble making friends with women?
Because, y'know, all their friends are he/them
so
hasty kernel
Maybe thats why theyre always stressed out
Also Im mad I never came up with that pun
true furnace
crisp peak
oh geez i finally found a link to here
hello!!
static crater
hi! I just arrived here myself lol
north hamlet
👋
crisp peak
hades just kinda kindled my love for this dev team x10 so im happy to be here!
frosty haven
EDIT: I was bamboozled.
spiral mango
lunar lantern
Just a question here. Is there any way to give game feedback from NOT the in-game discord pop-out? It makes me claim the account but I already have this one so yeah
cedar rock
I may be misunderstanding your question, but you can give feedback in the #hades-feedback channel! Check out the pins in the channel to learn how to post there.
lunar lantern
I do not have permission to post there. It seems I have to link my steam to discord, is that correct?
velvet fjord
no, you must read the pins and follow the instructions there
lunar lantern
Okay I didn't think there were pins there. I'll go check those thanks!
gleaming wharf
I think I had it worst
the pounder was at 5 health by the time my vestal was the last one alive
and then I had no attacks that could finish it off from pos 1 lol
spiral mango
somber ferry
Hey @quasi mauve, could we not share that video here? Thanks.
lyric cradle
hey yall whats shaking
lyric cradle
cool cool
autumn pasture
happy lunar new year, sol!
serene tulip
polar talon
Oh my goodness I just realized that one of the moderators has the giant rat thing as their description
cedar rock
A few updates ago all of us were rat themed
cedar rock
Welcome!
silver maple
honest glade
upbeat scroll
Ugh if life was fair then the sound of snoring would help me sleep
little python
man, rip Kobe 😦
serene tulip
Jeeze
north hamlet
What happened?
chilly briar
Passed away in a helicopter accident
autumn pasture
that's terrible :(
north hamlet
full socket
Oh my God, what a heartbreaking way to lose your husband and daughter. :( Gianna was just pursuing her dreams and Kobe was just being a great, supportive dad...I feel really awful for their family.
tardy anchor
ohhhh no, that's horrible.... :(((
wide ember
the silver lining is that three other children are still alive with the mother, so she will have more reasons to brave through this... but the youngest child is only 7 months
I can't imagine the mother, mourning for her husband and daughter, and at the same time losing sleep over the needs of her youngest
velvet fjord
never followed sports but that's terrible :(
yelling kobe before throwing paper into a trash can will never be the same
serene tulip
wide ember
sometimes I wonder what I appear to be to others, I wonder if others also ask that question about themselves?
wide ember
last year there was a "glow up" movement, right?
and some years before that, "google yourself"
could be cool if new year introspection becomes a tradition next to new year resolution, seems more useful too
because new year resolution is often only being fulfilled during the first weeks of the new year, while a good introspection might create more last effects, maybe
wait who put that sun there and then removed it
vocal brook
It is now League of Legends canon that Elise not only has a favorite spider, but also that she has a tiny bed for it so it can sleep in style
This is the cutest thing ever
wide ember
that's actually a princess style bed;;
wide ember
good job sixmorevodka
wide ember
...guys 2020 might have started well after all: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-51223828
voice of a dead person from 3000 years ago is being revived~~, I hope they use it for a future vocaloid~~
vivid ridge
noble solstice
Sure, I trust em
hasty kernel
Man early Ys art of those 2 is wack
royal relic
so...
apparently there are two silent hill games in development? 
this got me thinking
i wonder how a supergiant horror game would look like
hasty kernel
No idea, but I personally hope they dont plan to make one
Horror is so not my genre
royal relic
i mean - each and every game explored a completely different theme and tone
i'd love to see it tbh - i'm just curious how it would look and play
it'd probably be something more subtle with some deep story and lööps
autumn pasture
i'd brave a sgg horror game but..........might have to watch someone play thru it
ever since jen zee mentioned it in their pax panel i've been wanting an ssg rts
hasty kernel
Hm
That could be interesting
I cant say Im a big fan of RTS either, but Id love to see what a narrative-focused RTS looks like
royal relic
an RTS depicting that war between Ura and Caelondia 50 years before bastion 
also - any time someone says ssg i always think of the supershotgun from doom 2
autumn pasture
i wasn't a roguelike fan until hades either
i just bought it because it was supergiant
honestly i would do the same for most concepts and genres unless i heard things about it that were just..........really questionable
but lacking a compelling reason not to i'd try most supergiant things
royal relic
that's... why i'm here
honestly though - transistor got pretty close to being a horror game at one point
when that place stopped serving pizza i was like 😱
serene tulip
Junction Jans Noooooo
sudden torrent
I was thinking about RTS, but at the current state that it is I think it is best only if there is possible way to sort of "revive" it, otherwise it could be risky investment, still would surely try it out if it was out.
As for the Horror, I am unsure honestly, as much as I believe in artistic powers of the studio that sounds like something quite far from their usual stuff and will definetly have to think more outside of their usual cornerstones when it will come to creation. I am sure they will get the writting part, but gameplay will definetly have to be something far from the other games, with much different camera angle or even completly go first person and art direction would definetly need quite the change, but I believe in them never the less if they do try it! They will definetly capture the story part well with artistic part, think just the gameplay will be quite tricky to pull off, so that the main thing about Horror having atmosphere stays well.
royal relic
2d horror could work
but - you know - i'm just throwing out some ideas
i mean - my perfect game would be a spiritual successor to mirrors edge but made by SSGs
sudden torrent
Yeah throwing out ideas is always fun, though I think the overspeculating part the gets on me in such times so I go overly discussional about them. 
autumn pasture
is the rts genre dead? i'll fully admit the last time i played a strategy game was shogun ii on my older brother's computer
so i'm not up on the happenings
royal relic
i'm more worried about how hard would it be to make an RTS for a gamepad
hasty kernel
I mean "dead" is always a questionable label
But the RTS series has not seen a lot of new games in the past couple years
There have been some
Just not many
Personally Im hoping for a SGG fighting game
I know Greg is big on fighting games
And Id love to see their take on the genre
blissful charm
final fantasy tactics is also one of Greg's favorite games so checkerboard turn based game when
hasty kernel
Maybe make it a card game combined with that, now that Duelyst is going to be shut down
I miss the game already
autumn pasture
oh a turn based game i could get behind
royal relic
you can play as Red and use a handful of functions
you can play as The Kid and hammer everything
Rucks could schwack everyone with his cane
Jodi wouldn't even need any weapons
she's got these guns already 
sudden torrent
oh yeha RTS hasn't been doing so swell in my opinion, it needs some kind of way to implement a new fresh thing, which I think Tooth and Tail tried, but it didn't do much at least at the moment.
royal relic
i'd rather have a turn based strategy tbh
noble solstice
I miss Command and Conquer now 
royal relic
but - you know - i'm sure an RTS would be a GOTY too
sudden torrent
RTS just needs quite something game breaking for the genre I feel or it may not do as well as Pyre for example. I feel people's interest in RTS shifted over the couple years for sure, unlike for turn based strategies. They are quite modifiable and interesting to come up with, due to pure reason how much free space there is for something to be put or though out.
autumn pasture
what did tooth and tail do that was new?
noble solstice
Do you think more people prefer grand strategy now?
autumn pasture
like i said, not super up on the genre, though i am interested in it
oh gee what's the difference between an rts, a turn based game, and a grand strategy
sudden torrent
oh basically it had much easier way to get in, as your main control was basically just a "Mouse" in game, which can rally specific or all army, build stuff and focus the army you make.
Which I think is quite a move from the usual RTS at least a bit.
royal relic
well @autumn pasture
RTS is a real-time strategy
you know - the kind where there's a lot of clicking - your starcrafts and total wars and what not
turn based strategy is... well - turn based
you have all the time in the world to think about your next turn - think HOMM and Civ and all that
autumn pasture
mm, okay
north hamlet
brutal legend is a rts built for controller
sudden torrent
oh yeah I totally forgot about that.
north hamlet
they do exist but it has the double fine curse of awkward controls
autumn pasture
@sudden torrent you feel like the game didn't go far enough, right? what would you prefer to see in terms of magnitude of changes
royal relic
oh yeah - brutal legend
i remember absolutely loving the crap out of that game when it came out, but...
apparently it quickly faded into obscurity in the back of my mind
sudden torrent
I feel like from prespective of design juggling it did quite well, it wasn't exactly a game breaker surely, but it was a change in bit of genre at the time since it surely had lots of the sort of same games about making big armies real time. Which I am not real fan of, wish for more of that go beyond that. Dunno how though, thats' the problem I don't know what I need from RTS hence why the genre is problematic for me, but at the same time amusing. 
royal relic
the RTS parts in brutal legend had the benefit of you being able to just run along your troops and hacking and slashing your wae through them
it was like oh you don't like strategies? don't worry - just hop down there and shred a solo so awesome it's gonna melt everyone's faces
north hamlet
also maximum style points
sudden torrent
though after the first act ended there, RTS was kind of needed
otherwise you get killed quite quickly.
royal relic
ye
north hamlet
what woke you up?
serene tulip
my alarm
my new job is going to preclude my usual gym class so I went to the early one
hasty kernel
RTS has similiar issues to fighting games, in that the barrier of entry is enormous
uncut flame
hı guys what ıs due boon and how ı can get ıt
north hamlet
Is this about hades?
sudden torrent
yes
somber ferry
Hi, @uncut flame! You're probably better off asking #h1-builds-and-combat about that one.
Just a heads up--spoilers are allowed in that channel, including final boss spoilers!
hasty kernel
Should be noted that specifically Hades spoilers are allowed in there
hasty kernel
Finished Ni No Kuni 2, it was surprisingly just decent
Enemy and environment variety felt lacking and the pacing was off
And the story was just alright
Shame, I really liked the visuals and the characters
vivid ridge
oy vey
honest glade
I couldn't understand why a friend of mine was so into it. Seemed very run of the mill. Not bad, but not remarkable, either.
Granted, I'm biased because I thought the first one was more charming.
royal relic
I don't ni no kuni 
although i gotta admit - i've seen bits of the first one and it looks stunning
chilly briar
Played the first one. A real grind but it's too charming to be mad at, really enjoyed what I played
royal relic
a real grind
Oh no 
That's what mad me drop the first Witcher 30 hours in
Right after that I jumped into Pyre and I gotta say - it was worth it
But...
That second act in the Witcher is such a grind - it's like 30 crisscrossing side quests that feel like a chore to do
I had to do those quests in order to get some clues for the main quests and ...
I didn't feel like I was getting anywhere for 20 hours
It's nuts - this game has some serious pacing problems
hasty kernel
I mean the non-army gameplay of Ni No Kuni 2 was pretty nice
And it was very charming
But it had a lot of flaws
serene tulip
watch this guy, who previously had had a somewhat poor run realize he beat the world record: naughty language spoiler: ||https://youtu.be/ZtPNDoxLWzE?t=723||
vocal brook
I love that he takes a furry quiz at the beginning
sudden torrent
the true chaotic energy to get WR
wary dock
that moment when you see @neon gale's discord avatar and go "holy crap, that's Sanger Zonvolt? When's Supergiant Robot Wars?"
neon gale
hey we all can dream
weary jacinth
So I was on my water and other legal substances benders the other day when I came upon the usual satyr sack and then it hit me a thought so destructive I nearly burst a vessel right there and then it almost left me vegetated for half an hour so if anyone can confirm it or lay my thoughts to rest please please please tell me that giving the satyr sack to cerberus so he can move isn't the equivalent of ''would you do it for a scooby snack satyr sack'' ?
wary dock
True True, Sanger is still hella dope. Though I will say, there's nothing more satisfying than doing a Revolving Stake with Alteisen
vivid ridge
hasty kernel
1000% cursed
hexed hollow
continuing on from #supergiant-games
mid way through 2018, a couple of friends and I were involved a speedrunning showcase, and I was running Dust: An Elysian Tail off a laptop I was told would run the game fine.(it can run on integrated graphics) turns out the laptop couldn't run the game well at all so it was like running the game as a slideshow
somehow managed to get half way through the run through sheer muscle memory and/or stubborness
restive holly
oh my god
north hamlet
good thing you practised so hard
worldly lantern
Trivia: Greg used to know the runic language is the Ultima world.
wide falcon
well that's cursed
hexed hollow
They exist, the community is quite small
And the game isn't run much at events like GDQ
(which I'd like to change but is highly unlikely for a number of reasons including cost of attending a GDQ)
Generally speaking there's a speedrun of pretty much every game that exists
serene tulip
OK
hasty kernel
I mean hell, GDQ has a bad games done quick block even
There is a guy who did a speedrun of Sanic Ball
hexed hollow
Awful games block is a good meme
serene tulip
If its a game that has a significant single-player element to it
hasty kernel
Not even that neccessarily, people speedrun MMOs too
hexed hollow
People speedrun the overwatch tutorial
hasty kernel
Just in different categories
serene tulip
Yeah, just saying that I can't find a Town of Salem speedrun
hexed hollow
People probably have done it, not all speedruns have a leaderboard assosiated with it or in some cases don't upload to youtube
hasty kernel
This version is actually better, even if its way slower
But yeah, there are speedruns for just about anything
Course, bigger games tend to have bigger communities
I.e. Nintendo games
serene tulip
there just are some games where speedruns don't make sense
hasty kernel
There are some where speedruns are just not fun to do at all
hexed hollow
Whether it makes sense is subjective
hasty kernel
Because theyre basically precise input glitches that warp you to credits
hexed hollow
Ayy any% ACE with OoT
https://youtu.be/WFR9TZ5YyMc
Some runs make much more sense in marathon setting than doing full PB attempts
This is a good example of that
hasty kernel
Oh, I wonder if Icey has speedruns
hexed hollow
But if you have fun doing it then go for it and run it
Their definitely are Icey speedruns
Not sure what tech is used in the run
hasty kernel
Judging by the time and what little Ive seen of the WR, no real tech
Just mechanics
hexed hollow
Tech can mean abusing mechanics
hasty kernel
Right, I mean specifically that it looks like its the same idea as a casual playthrough, just really optimized
hexed hollow
And time isn't always an indicator of how much our little tech is in a run
hasty kernel
Granted I havent watched the full thing, just skimmed through
hexed hollow
I haven't seen a full run either just going of experience with other speedgames I've run out watched a metric tonne of
OoT Any% Glitchless for example is significantly shorter than an average playthrough, and it's all based on fundimental movement and using game mechanics to ones advantage
hasty kernel
I suppose, I just looked through it, and it didnt look like there were any shenanigans
ICEYs map structure means that without a way to break out (which I dont think there is), you have to simply do the combat as intended
And it doesnt look like there is any trick to the combat other than optimizing it
hexed hollow
Mmhm, for a lot of people optimising that movement and combat is what makes speedrunning fun
SM64 has a very large amount of runners partly because of this and that it's an incredibly popular game
hasty kernel
Its probably the only type of speedrunning Id do, the one that is just intended, but optimised
Man that is so weird
Why is it an s in british english
hexed hollow
Save with celeste, where the game teaches you most of the speedtech in the B and C sides and farewell
The only speedtech the game doesn't teach you is demo dashing
hasty kernel
It sounds like a z
north hamlet
because of a bunch of latin weebs
hasty kernel
I mean, I am a latin weeb
But its just hard
So as a result my typed english usually looks like an american/british Frankstein of english
north hamlet
there was a movement some centuries ago about changing spellings to reflect origin over contemporary pronunciation
you can also blame it for the b in doubt
hasty kernel
Why change the spelling and not pronunciation though
Thats just weird
Like how "Caeser" should be pronounced "Kaiser"
north hamlet
honestly i don't recall
but i wouldn't be surprised if it was a weird elitism thing
raven harbor
I was just hit by a massive wave of nostalgia on account of the Beyblade game
hasty kernel
You know whats surprising?
Even german doesnt have a word for "feeling nostalgic for something you never had"
raven harbor
That would be something like someone my age (25) saying "the 50s were such a simpler, better time" right
Usually German nails those sort of oddly specific concepts
Maybe call it nonstalgia or something
north hamlet
i like that
hasty kernel
Thats not quite what I was thinking of, but that feeling doesnt have a word either
Honestly Im not sure I can even really put in words what I was thinking of
Something like getting Nostalgic for hanging out with your friends under the night sky when camping, even though you never even went camping before?
raven harbor
Things you wish you had done, maybe
hasty kernel
Yeah
Though I suppose thats kind of implied in Nostalgia?
Though it gets especially weird when you get Nostalgic for something you missed when at the time, you had no interest in it whatsoever
That is not how that is spelt apparently
Good to know
blissful charm
"things you wished you had done" is more wistful, imo. nostalgia is like hearing a song you listened to on a repeat during summer break as a kid and being brought back to the simplicity of that time
hasty kernel
Well I was thinking more of that feeling, minus having actually been there
But fair enough
Huh, "Wistful" apparently comes from "Wishful"
That makes more sense than I expected
sudden torrent
glass jolt
Released Dwarf Fortress 0.47.01
And here goes my life again.
sudden torrent
Oh no. Is it still not even beyond 0.5
glass jolt
Nope, it's still not got 50% of the main features.
sudden torrent
Dang. So Dwarf Fortress 2040 release when?
glass jolt
Seems a bit too optimistic.
sudden torrent
knew my calculations were not up to date
Though really I wonder if such way the game outlives the creator since damn, he is sure trying to make it ambious.
tribal moon
Anyone here likes sum Dnd?
ionic viper
one of my favourite quotes abt dwarf fortress development: Your game is working on giving NPC's lives. Our game is working on giving them a working nervous system.
glass jolt
Nice.
I'm personally very fond of Dwarf Fortress' patch notes.
Fixed bug with animals picking out clothes to wear Stopped children and babies from joining you on your adventures Made dungeon masters happy with their cloaks and boots again Rain kills everything it lands on Humans in Farming houses are naked Sleeping on a melting iceberg results in waking up as a demon or other underground creature Vampire accuses baby of killing victim Weasels probably shouldn't be found on glaciers Fat dwarves eating causes lag Animal breeding is prevented if animals aren't "willing to marry" Cats dying for no reason - alcohol poisoning?
And many, many more.
ionic viper
actually, that last one
i'm sure there was a bug where cats got beer spilled on them, they tried to lick it off, the game glitched out and thought they'd chugged a whole mug of beer, and the cat died
which is so dwarf fortress it hurts
glass jolt
Kind of, yes. It was added that dwarves could spill booze on the ground, making the cleaning task more important. Issue is, the dev didn't think it was necessary to implement different quantities for booze. Cats walked on the spilt booze, then licked their paws clean. Because there was only one possible quantity, every lick resulted in the cats ingesting a full unit of booze, which was the quantity a dwarf drank in one sitting. Which meant cats were pretty much drinking a full barrel of ale every time they cleaned themselves. Ended very badly.
ionic viper
whoof
i don't actually play df i just like hearing the stories that come out of it so no wonder i was fuzzy on the details lmao
glass jolt
Cats have always been at a weird place in Dwarf Fortress anyway. When the devs first introduced trauma for dwarves, you could get them used to violence and gore by subjecting them to it a bit at a time. People went crazy trying to find the best way to do it. The most efficient way I've heard of might be too violent for this server, so I'll just say it involved making dozens of kittens fall down a tower, right in the middle of your meeting hall.
serene tulip
noble solstice
I am excited for Doom eternal but mainly for the music. Is that the wrong thing to do
Ayyyy two hours late to the topic, nice
serene tulip
You've just described my relationship with SGG
"I'm super excited for the next Darren Korb Interactive Album"
noble solstice
It is good I@m not the only one that gets hooked on soundtracks
faint panther
god soundtracks are like 70% of the reason i play games
half of the music i listen to while im chilling is game osts lmao.....
noble solstice
Same, friendo
faint panther
game rating for me is just: "The music does a cool thingy in this scene. GOTY"
royal relic
anyway - doom
i love it
i've been playing it for 20 years and modding it for 5 now
and i was super excited for doom eternal, but there were some red flags along the way
the final nail in the coffin was...
apparently it was supposed to have singleplayer microtransactions that affect the gameplay
UNTIL...
hugo martin || MAH BOI || popped up on facebook and he was like "guys - there's no micro in the singleplayer campaign of any kind. there's a progression system that unlocks skins, but that's it" (i'm kinda paraphrasing here)
he used a bit more... direct words there
basically dabbing all over bethesta
my viddy gaems are saved!
we can all go home now
anyway - i just wanted to share my enthusiasm
carry on 
noble solstice
It is good to see people passionate about stuff they like - I'm also glad the microtransaction thing was put to rest, thanks!
autumn pasture
yeah microtransactions are the devil
congratulations on your viddy game not having them!
serene tulip
Kinda tempted to play Mechwarrior 5 for nostalgia for MW2:mercenaries
serene tulip
north hamlet
Adorable
ionic viper
@tardy anchor @royal relic "stan" is a bit more than jsut "ooh a big fan"
Based on the 2000 song "Stan" by American rapper Eminem,[21] the term has frequently been used to describe artist devotees whose fanaticism matches the severity of the obsessive character in the song. The word has been described as a portmanteau of "stalker" and "fan".
south dock
Is that where the term originates?
ionic viper
the song part yes, the "stalker fan" bit [wiggles hand like eeeeeh maybe]
clear pine
tardy anchor
ahhh forgot abt that. Idk if thats how its used in common talk these days tho?
hasty kernel
Sort of yes, sort of no?
Its not quite the level of obsessive and warped as the character Stan
But yeah its often used with a pretty negative connotation
blissful charm
stan used to be pretty negative but now it's just shorthand for "i really like/support this" usually in a hyperbolic way
serene tulip
its evolved int a self deprecating thing
Temtem coming from a spanish company makes the presences of the ç in Briçal de Mar make perfect sense.
autumn pasture
well, that makes me want to play now then
i like to get on things while they're fresh
serene tulip
Things I like about it: scratches that pokerman itch without having to deal with the emulators or the consoles I don't have. Most of the Tem are cut AF, my character is cute AF too, they pronouns.
things I don't like about it: Music is pretty weak, balance needs work, doesn't really escape the pokemon archetype nearly enough. You've got gym analogues, a team rocket analogue, even like, the cliffs you can only hop down. It suffers from translation issues which makes the writing kinda bad.
wide falcon
Turtwig at home:
hasty kernel
I mean people have started using Stan in a self-deprecating way as well thats more positive
But when used for anyone other than yourself or a fandom you are a part of, its negative
At least, thats been my experience
autumn pasture
man
pokemon mystery dungeon is being released for switch this year
just remembered that talking about temtem
hasty kernel
I wish we got another spectrobes, or a spectrobes spiritual successor
Its a shame it didnt catch on
autumn pasture
what was spectrobes?
glass jolt
Augmented reality Pokemon, iirc. Pretty much Pokemon Go except you didn't have to leave your living room 
hasty kernel
That was Invizimals
Which was alright
Spectrobes was essentially Pokemon with the twist that instead of catching them, you dug up fossils of the Spectrobes, and revived them and incubated them
It also was action-combat rather than the traditional turn-based combat
And it was very sci-fi
serene tulip
was that the one with the disks?
hasty kernel
Disks?
wide ember
monster disks yes, the one from the game disk was Mochi
the protagonist's team also befriends a tsundere horned blue wolf pretty early
dead monsters turn into a disk attached to the ground via plant roots
I liked the anime back then but wow, the graphics just never evolved from there, no wonder it lost the digimon-pokemon-monster_rancher commercial battle royale
serene tulip
The guy we got to be God emperor turned into an earthworm instead of the great Shai Hulud. I guess he's just an ersatz haderach
hasty kernel
I mean Pokemon is the original
There was never going to be a game that could dethrone it
hasty kernel
And Digimon wasnt even in the race until recently, instead being mostly an anime and adjacent games franchise
Which is better than Pokemon but thats beside the point
serene tulip
Digimon was a competitor to tamagatchi
hasty kernel
Originally, yeah
I mean it still does release those
But most people know it from the anime
And maybe from the recent Cyber Sleuth games that are pretty good
serene tulip
sudden torrent
Yeah TemTem seemingly doing good, but what I noticed from going through Steam forums (Was it a risky idea, as steam forums more likely to be a place to fear) the devs are out there to hear out the community on every aspect of the game just to be sure, so think that's good. I am sure they will achieve something quite big for at least in comparission to gen 1 pokemon.
wide ember
(lunar new year festivities is near the end but I haven't tried lantern riddles yet... am I allowed to organize it here?)
cool, so "lantern riddle" is to my understanding, an event where lanterns come with riddles attached to them, and the first to answer the riddle correctly can take the corresponding lantern home
because lantern is difficult to send over the internet, I'll be using steam codes: each steam game will have a riddle attached, and first to answer it correctly will receive the code in dm, and it will start around noon in eastern standard time, this friday the 31st
(if the admin and mods are okay with me doing that)
north hamlet
Same here
river oriole
Oooo
hexed hollow
sounds fun
glass jolt
Remember when I spoke of Dwarf Fortress patch notes and bugs yesterday? Here's a new one from the new version:
When a dwarf gives birth to a baby, the baby turns the mother into its mount and rides the mother around like a horse, and the mother eventually dies of thirst, unable to escape the existence of horse.
north hamlet
The miracle of childbirth
serene tulip
Surprising no one, WC3R is turning out to be a dumpster fire
faint panther
yeah
i was so excited for it too
@serene tulip whoa wait whered u get this info?
i loved wc3 as a kid i was so hyped for this damn
nova pilot
What's so bad about it?
ionic viper
oh no, what's happened?
serene tulip
Probably some poor language ||https://old.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/evmjjr/warcraft_iii_reforged_and_blizzard_currently/fg0e7n3/?context=3||
blissful charm
hoo that's bad
serene tulip
the gang learns the entirely wrong lesson about dota
I'm missing two mastery unlocks from Risk of Rain 2
and that's it
but frankly, solo artificer on monsoon is impossible
fringe sparrow
Well the old good Blizzard doesnt exist anymore, its Activision ... and they are bad...
odd grove
Tbh most games nowadays have those shady details
Me? I'm just playing Tekken as an attack helicopter but i gotta pay for QoL stuff
That's pretty scummy
ionic viper
playing as a what
hasty kernel
I guess Blizzard are still mad that they let Dota get away
Valve are still not a good company for many reasons, but at least they treated the game better than Blizzard wouldve
odd grove
@ionic viper Tekken is a fighting game, one of the characters, Shaheen, does a double kick that makes him spin in place. It's such a good move people who play him would use it and, like a helicopter, spin in place, and it would ACTUALLY work. That was until he got changed, but the spinning kicks are still there
hasty kernel
So, like a Beyblade?
odd grove
He's more of a helicopter, since he jumps a lot and all
And besides like half of his moves are kicking while spinning
stray spire
are u telling me helicopters jump
chilly briar
are you suggesting helicopters fly and don't just jump good?
royal relic
well... i mean...
flying is basically jumping really really far
upbeat scroll
I've always wondered how french nb people do pronouns, given that there is no theythem in that language
Nb people that use theythem, ofc, I know some don't
strange terrace
pretty sure Russian has no gender neutral pronouns either and default to masculine
upbeat scroll
that must make things pretty difficult
autumn pasture
i know hebrew doesn't either, so some people combined masculine and feminine forms into a third one
hebrew also genders verbs too
somber ferry
i’ve heard tagalog is pretty gender neutral though!
autumn pasture
yeah that's also what i've heard!
sonic onyx
chinese didn't have gendered pronouns until Western imperialism happened :(
but at least all the pronouns are pronounced the same way
velvet fjord
meanwhile spanish goes "yo that chair is female"
wide ember
I miss those trash peddlers so much - people who used to go door to door with a little bicycle or tricycle to buy recyclable trash from broken kettles to used toothpaste tube
I have three of those ikea tools that I won't need again and I can't just sell them off and they have no recycle sign, I wish I could just sell them off for like 60 cents
upbeat scroll
I wonder if ikea would take them back
Tell them you got an extra out of your box
They're the ones who would probably get the most use out of it
wide ember
people are saying to use them as tent pegs or make them into windchimes online
upbeat scroll
Yeah art is good
wide ember
the ikea recycle wall doesn't include the metal tools, I guess weird windchimes they will become
somebody made a cool maze out of ikea tools: https://www.ikeahackers.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/hex.jpg
hasty kernel
How it feels trying to assemble Ikea furniture
wide ember
not wrong
imo the ikea instructions are very clear, the issue is the low quality of parts means stuff keep not fit well or simply get stuck and then broken into three and leave the pieces inside
vivid ridge
