#off-topic-discussion
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ugg is too short
You dont overthrow the government in UGG
Untitled goose game doesn't exploit fully its controls for the puzzles, and being unable to get in the house and interact is pretty sad tbh
It's canon
Suddenly Net
I hit myself and feel bad hi
Anyway, biggest flaws Id say are repetitive map environments, some under-developed systems like the character map and that the plot doesnt surprise you
Well, doesnt surprise you much
There are one or two twists
But its mostly pretty predictable
Yeah that might be a dealbreaker
The dungeons basically consist of the same handful of elements copied over and over
In the library its just endless bookshelves for example
The plot is a comic adaptation
Ofc it doesn't surprise you, the story was thought for a different media
This image basically contains all the elements the library map has
Caligula Effect was a comic?
I'm lost
Ah
Also Battle Chasers is a continution of the comic
I thought you were talking about battle chasers this whole time
Welcome to non-synchronised chatting
Nope
I was talking about Caligula Effect
Anyway, I do have a few handful of perfect games
Crosscode, Transistor, Ys VIII
I beg to differ, but
Mass Effect Andromeda
I just don't think a game can be perfect
A game you wouldn't change, sure
But what is even "perfect"?
If you can't think anything to improve it it becomes perfect
Not quite
that's a very subjective thing
If it's perfect, then it's a timeless game everyone can enjoy
Eh
A perfect sword isnt one everyone can use
Those without arms for example are screwed
The perfect song would remain perfect even if deaf people couldnt enjoy it
You can say that for everything
It has to be within the context of the target audience
i don't think you could call any game perfect for everyone, but you could say that a game is perfect for you
Also that implies that before 4k games couldn't be perfect
You say "a perfect sword" but can't specify WHAT is a perfect sword
Same goes for a perfect game
There will always be something to work upon
I'm pretty sure every developer looks back to their games some times and says "Man, it would have been great if X was Y"
nice
Sorta
Anyway, my definition of perfect is, ironically enough, imperfect
Sorry i just dislike when people say blindly stuff that cannot be objective
Its when there is no way to significantly improve the game
This cpnversation is gonna go in circles
Sometimes it isn't even the game you play that has to be improved
Say, art style, music, controls
Maybe even a voice actor, who knows
Besides, nothing is objective
There's always a way to make it better no matter what you do
Thats the beauty of it
I wish there were more games like Katamari Damacy honestly
That game did something bizarre and unique, yet didn't create a genre around itself
It followed no rules, and set none
That's the kind of games that draw my attention
I like unique games, but I mostly like games that take established concepts and make them as good as it gets
God, only 3 days left for XCOM
I'm waiting and waiting
But time isn't going faster
In case you don't know
The XCOM subreddit has gone nuts
why
Still half a year until TOCS4 >.>
Everybody has obsessed with the female vipers
And of all people Markiplier's brother is drawing NSFW of them
It's chaos
On the positive side, it's hilarious seeing aliens wearing human clothes
Ok so this came up on another server and Im really confused but
The week begins with monday, right?
Yes
'According to international standard ISO 8601, Monday is the first day of the week. It is followed by Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Sunday is the 7th and last day of the week.
Although this is the international standard, several countries, including the United States and Canada, consider Sunday as the start of the week.'
Weird
And their Farenheit
0 is 0 in farenheit, it just measures something different
celsius is relative to the temperature of water, farenheit is relative to the temperature of the human body
so human body temperature is (roughly) 100
Then why do they reject the metric system
The only thing feet and inches are good for is measuring caliber for tubes and other materials
Tbh feet are good for walking too
miles make more sense than kilometers to me though admittedly i am american
They don't use metric in daily life because changing standards is hard
They could push it through but nobody important enough wants to put the effort into that
Even though it actually has a major economic impact
Such a sad world 😔
Eh, I think kilometers work better than miles since its so easy to go to a lower or higher tier of measurement
Good Things Kilometers are for - Calculating Distance
Good things Miles is for - Being Spiderman
@fervent zenith You fool. Miles is a FOX and Sonic's BEST FRIEND!!!1!
How could I forget Sonic's Bestie Miles Prower
hey guys
i am wondering if any of you have any ideas of RPG games i could buy. Maybe an anime-style game, not old school pixel graphics though
FF7R looks pretty incredible.
And I've heard tremendous things of Persona 5 Royal.
Ouch.
Miles Morales and Peter Parker:
- I've found you, faker!
- Faker? Hmph. You're not even good enough to be my fake.
- I'll make you eat those words!
spiderman points at spiderman.png
make chicken congee with the chicken? the rice will absorb the salt
^
could turn it into a chicken salad or something
i find that food loses a bit of saltiness after being in the fridge for a bit
i made a quesadilla so hopefully that won't be too bad

oof yeah this is bad
I want to watch Underwater because Kristen Stewart with short hair just slays me
but it looks scary :<
there will probably be a compilation of all the scenes of her in certain mood
ya, i don't handle horror that isn't made by jordan peele well(since his style is more psychological and thus manageable for me)
anyways, my method has been to keep a stuffed animal my parents got me when i was 6 on my lap in cases like death stranding, which has mandatory encounters with its version of ghosts
Thanks for making me crave cappuccino ☕️ 🥛 ❤️
I Did just get a new stuffed animal......
Man
I wish I could just have a movie night
so I could watch it with other people
yeah, but I can't hide behind them 😛
fair
Hey
i just met you
Did you hear about the piece of bread they put in charge of the cheese safety board?
it was Brie-OSHA
i'm actually more of a latte person
and ya, my friends and i do skype screenshares for jackbox so maybe arrange something like that for the movie?
I remember 1 jackbox session we had. We laughed non stop for 10 minutes at the t-shirt designs game 😂
yeah, plus movies shouldn't be much of an issue
just have the guy who's playing the movie share their screen
?
Watching videos through skype doesn't solve the primary issue I have with scary movies re: wanting other people to watch it with
I love how like, Reva is the one that is all like, "I must protect everyone" but also the one that I don't need the end of boss fight healing with
most frequently
I just sent a friend Outer WIlds as a gift
Hopefully they enjoy it
Outer wilds is the only space game I wouldn't recommend to someone with Thalassophobia
I'd agree on that one
If they like it recommend them Subnautica
It's as close as it gets
In fact both games has shown us how a well crafted scenario will ALWAYS be superior to the procedural ones
I haven't even seen any gameplay of the Outer Wilds.
But I love Subnautica and everything in that vein, I prefer more emphasis on base building than survival, though.
I really want to get Satisfactory and there's this other game that just came out in early access called Industries of Titan that looks really cool.
Do yourself a favor, look up very little about Outer Wilds if you do plan on grabbing it
A lot of it relies on discovery
I kinda like satisfactory
but I reach my complexity limit very quickly x.x
surprised industries of titan somehow didn't make it on my radar
my wishlist is filled with all sorts of automation games
Little Big Workshop, Rise of Industry, Factory Town, Automation Empire
a fun little automation game that I've played is autonauts
its vv cute, and relies on programming robots to automate
to automate and to handle your infrastructure
The only thing I know about OW is that it has a time travel mechanic? I just don't know to what extent it's used.
OW doesn't have any of the production aspect of subnautica bee tee dubs
its 100% exploration and puzzle solving
like, 90% exploration 10% puzzle solving
That's fine.
I don't imagine I'll be playing it any time soon, anyway, but I will throw it on a wishlist.
The ever growing backlog ;;
I am still kind of bummed I ruined myself an experience of playing Subnautica by not knowing how to play or how I bugged onto the crash site.
I almost ruined subnautica by taking forever to figure out how to get fresh water
by that I mean I tried to explore every cave and how I didn't figure out how to get a faster way of means of travelling
then it was a nail in the coffin as I tried to explore the crash site and got into area that was low poly and lack of objects, proving the fact that I got out the way of exploration to point where I shouldn't have reached so I cut off any enjoyment.
I really feel emptied whenever I break games to that point
Understandably.
I felt emptied last night during my playthrough of the FFVII Remake because I got my butt kicked by a friggin house with a robot in it.
I am bitter with Satisfactory
Because I NEED Sanctum 3 in my life
Abd there won't be any until they finish that game
It's that good good
Im glad THQ is back but i want that game now
I swear if after Satisfactory they announce Goat Simulator 2, I throw my computer by the £&+@€+@ window
The remake looks awesome, they added a lot of content.
And an entire cut level/mission
Does that mean we'll get Big Willy Redux?
I don't think it's owned by THQ anymore.
Oh nvm they are still publishing it
Wild
It's the developers that are completely different.
Yeah, makes sense
Different THQ right?
You are talking about Prebankrupt THQ
It's Nordic THQ
Man i want the collector's edition for spongebob
The F.U.N. edition is actually wild by collector's standars
I found you, Ray!
TFW your company's cobbled together proprietary diagnostic software gets gobbled up by a client's antivirus and they have to call IT to disable it so that you can fix their machine
I see the machine got lupus
my friend created a bad thing
nyartemis...
Tell your friend we’ll see them in hell
then explain the phrase Battle Out of Hell 🤔
Sir, I have to ask you to abandon the premises
Outer Wilds should be enjoyed blind, yeah
One part I like about it is that everyones experience is different
Because there is no set order
I tried to play it blind but I crashed into everything
I had to muffle my screams of excitement with a pillow at the Mario Maker 2 major update from yesterday 
that update was huge
Cant wait to see all the new troll levels
The troll meta is in need of something new and exciting
We havent had a breakthrough like Twice Twice in a while
If I look up a playthrough of Twice Twice, am I gonna get upset?
Define "upset"
Turns out I was right
Underwater is quite spoopy
Spoilers :||they killed off the only personality in the group, I'm sad||
||also, the black guy died first way to buck the trend||
D:
You know how I know underwater was filmed years before 2020?
Because T.J 'The Emoji was not my rock-bottom' Miller is on it
ey guys, are there hades wallpapers?
The first thing TJ miller says in Underwater is ||Norah you beautiful flat chested elfen creature|| and I was just like, "Well, looks like TJ Miller's acting range hasn't changed"
@valid obsidian there are some in #announcements
Anyone here played the Original Trials of Mana?
@serene tulip If he was a good, popular actor he would still getting roles 
Even After the Bomb Threat
His best role is in Cloverfield because he stays behind the camera 95% of the movie and then ||gets eaten by a giant monster|| in the end.
RIP
I do not like the plot direction the FF7 Remake seems to be going towards
Im at chapter 12 and there are some bad signs for my least favourite type of narrative
they did kinda take their own spin on it, rather than strictly follow the original storyline as people had expected from a remake lol
PSA - Avoid playing TF2, CS:GO, and Valve multiplayer games until Valve makes a statement. Source code for TF2 and CS:GO was leaked which allows the potential for Remote Code Execution:
yeah, FF7 seems to be changing into a generic WE DECIDE OUR DESTINY plot
Finally beat the gate with Reva
Nice
How to win as Reva Step 1: remove shield throw
Really? Thats her best ability
Well, not when you suck like me and miss it a lot
and also even that half second where you don't have shield can get you a lot of damage
It is a hard game
I'm hearing about One Step From Eden?
I just got past the Hell House
I didn't realize it was cycling through elemental states the first couple of tries.
I almost brute forced it on my second attempt but I got merc'd when it was like, 2 hits away.
Then I just gave Aerith the two elements I didn't have on Cloud and it was a breeze.
I liked it because all the announcer stuff reminded me of Pokemon Stadium.
It was cool hearing them react to stuff I was doing in real time.
I used Assess on it, it tells you that
Assess is kinda MvP
Also I missed a weapon and as a result cant get a materia later, Im pretty sure
'Cloud... Requesting permission to kill'
I've only been able to watch 7R instead of play it myself, but the writing has been ridiculously good.
Yeah I am in love with it.
Speaking of being in love.
I really love Jessie.
And Aerith too.
Unfortunately I know that ||they both die||.
So my heart is preemptively breaking as I get to know them more (':
I really need to get back to playing FFVIIR, been loving everything about it thus far
I'm taking a break from it rn and am trying to get that gosh dang 3 star island rating in Animal Crossing New Horizons
that's fair, I got distracted by owlboy and now talos principle 
Nice!
The writing is very good
And Aerith is great
I especially love the scene where the hits a guy over the head with a folding chair
But Im at this point certain the plot is going towards ||Time Shenanigans|| of some kind
And thats something Im worried about
Interesting! Once I finish it that's something I'd like to discuss.
I havent finished it yet either
Im at, hm
Chapter 14
But I came to the realisation around chapter 12?
I mean I will finish it
But Im still at chapter 14
My reasoning right now is based on the ||Dementor looking things||
I didnt notice it at first, but ||every time they appear, the timeline gets changed||
||Aeriths first encounter with cloud, Jessie not being part of the raid on reactor 5, the way the plate thing played out||
So Im certain about ||time shenanigans||, just not ||who is causing them. At first Sephiroth seemed like the obvious choice, but it might be Aerith?||
But I suppose I will see
It's also hilarious they included references to the book and the movie
not gonna spoil it but you're about
half right
Leslie and the Tomboy are characters from the book
Im not sure Id call Kyrie a tomboy, but yes, the wiki said as much
While Rude and Reno personalities and physical appearances are based in the movies
I mean, Reno always looked this way
The red marks just got lost in the translation from artwork to in-game model
Or his suplex movements
Reno and Rude are just a joy in general
Also they retconned (real retcon) the fact that Reno just frigging||killed a small City worth|| and everyone including him and Barrett didn't give a damn
Also they kept Rude although this time didn't mention it ||Crush on Tifa||
||Rude did, actually||
In the originals was Reno and only Reno
In fact poor guy was made more wimpy while Rude was made more badass
||Reno loses his duel against cloud And gets almost killed twice||
While in the original he was a lone fight against the party
Also they made all joke fights actual normal fights
The Scorpion the airbuster and ||Rufus|| were genuine pushovers you had to TRY to lose
Now they are genuinely challenging
@fervent zenith is FFVII remake good as an action game doe
Like can i do Bayonetta level combos with cloud
You can do Kingdom Hearts combos with Cloud, does that count
I'm... unsure
I'm always unsure about action rpgs
I enjoy combos, but even Nier does not have them in a "deep" way
I think is a bit of a taste matter
7R is still preeetty ATB turnbased.
kill six billion demons obviously
Seconding that
Though if you're squeamish about gore and stuff, maybe not to your taste.
Thought about reading Cybersix
Although i heard it's pretty... dark
@hushed zenith how "rough" is that comic next to cybersix?
idk cybersix but for ksbd it's not uh
painfully detailed gore it's just kinda brutal
you dont see it coming i mean
Cybersix ain't much about the gore
It's more about the dark stuff
Like, the main villain is this scientist from the SS who fled to Argentina after WW 2
Uhhh, this one touches on some not-great topics, but mostly in direct oppositon to them, and not super focused on beyond how awful they are? I haven't ever heard of Cybersix before.
Well, it's far touchier for south americans
You see, they swarmed all over the place through ratlines, most particularly argentina got the most of them
So it's actually an accurate depiction, if you ask me
Yeaaaah, that's a different kind of awful.
i'll dm you bc i dont think it's suitable to talk about it here
for the """gore""" occurences
Thanks, I'm not super good wiith words.
Cybersix is seemingly up there too
ksbd isnt really edgy
Although the animated series? that is FAR more lighter
But to answer the question, KSBD ain't edgy or dark for the sake of it, so probably less dark than than that.
i mean there's pretty epic lore but it doesnt take itself too seriously
I know the series but afaik it's just an unfinished family friendly adaptation
Basically the show skipped a lot of stuff, like the origin for Cybersix's alter ego
Which honestly it's a good take for the "secretly a lab experiment" trope
Yeah, ksbd can be p brutal
One of the last pages had some dude literally pulverizing an entire stadium even if in all fairness he looked great while doing that
it looked awesome
Yeah
No wonder Salami is that smug
Also a comic in a similar vein (super cool, maybe a little gory unfortunately, has good themes and characters) would be The Sword Interval. It's looking like we're entering the final story arc soon.
And I'm still holding out to hope that it ends well for as many people involved as possible, but it's a bit grim right now.
also the art improves So Much as it develops, it's great, and it didn't start out bad to begin with
Talking about comics
I got two comics I bought half a decade ago and I still haven't gotten around to read them
I should
Found them
new xcom comes out today!
...at 11 at night
Yeah, I have the countdown ready
I'm gonna spent all night playing XCOPS
11 Hours and 20 minutes left
I'm definitely going to buy it on release
won't be able to play it until tomorrow though
The Sword interval starts focused on a young girl living in a world where the supernatural, while "normal" is still scary. Her parents get killed by a lich in front of her for reasons unknown to her and she gets put into a sort of supernatural witness protection program, until some stuff goes down at her office job and she finally decides to go into investgiating the stuff.
And the plot builds from there.
i'm one of those people who immediately calls wicked+divine, snotgirl, and grayson fave trad published comics and kill six billion demons/not drunk enough fave webcomics
And like, it's going really heavy into supernatural apocolyptic right now, and it all feels earned?
While keeping the stakes and charcters involved feeling human even as huge, planet affecting revelations about reality are getting dropped. Is Neat.
huh, well, it's free to read and i've been having increasingly frequent insomnia episodes
so, like, why not
Got rec'd it by the same friend who got me into KSBD, if that sweetens the pot any.
it sure does
@magic sentinel i doubt it
what else we have that you guys dont have its own version of

wait what country are you from?
well... you have a lot of snacks
lol snacks are everywhere
tried some, bought them in a manga store and conventions, they're a bit different from western standards but good
its just people are obsessed with them
... a little help? ._.
but you seriously don't have tabletop games in japan? Like originally japanese ones? Or translated ones? Not one?
You could join an online group if there's not one near you maybe?
ah, i'm a russian expat in united states. and buy imported candy/pryaniki at an import shop
wait what @ anime xcom
@magic sentinel They have, plenty of it. Even translated German-style board games that I've seen in second hand shops (like Carcassone etc.).
@dense wren How about smoking cabines on the sidewalk? Never seen them anyplace else.
@fervent zenith bruh anime xcom? it's clearly a comic book aesthetic
ah, i see
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$19.99
1752
I'm gonna tell my kids this is XCOM
@fervent zenith that artwork looks lit
man this is partially reminding me of DI:E due to shading and camera angle, rip DI:E.
idk what that is?
Dragon Ige: Enquisition
Man
I friccing miss DI:E
It was the only moba that actually tried something interesting
The 1v1v1 and the 4v4v4vE aspects were great
The game was like moba diablo and i would love to see more of it one day
ohhh, i see
i primarily play story-based games bc competitive gamers high key scare me
(or at least both overwatch up until i dropped it over blizz's response to hong kong protests and my 2016-2017 stint in league involved loads of horrible people)
||KELLY HECK YEAH
she died mission 1 on my first playthrough and I never used the tutorial again||
God
So many good games this two weeks
Filament
Troubleshooter
Xcom
CloudPunk
Iratus
I'm overwhelmed mates
So I know the mention of Dragon Age was a joke
But omg I need Dragon Age 4 like months ago
Someone put together all the versions of the Lost Elf theme from Trespasser and listening to it put me right back in the state of desperately-needing-closure with Solas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_h5nKD5lMI This amuses me
I made a promise to all you #ScreamingFirehawks during #SaveTheExpanse.
I said if you guys got the show picked up I'd do something very special for you.
you thought I forgot.
This article explains it all
https://screenrant.com/expanse-season-4-singing-cowboy-cas-anvar-upd...
God I just want to know how they'll solve the ||Solas|| Plot
DA4 speculation ||Divine Cassandra staves his bald head in with a mighty blow of her bare hand||
The more I know about him the less I like him
You know what's hilarious there is a character in other rpg WITH THE EXACT SAME MOTIVATION AND PLAN.
But it's framed as the Main villain and the game hammers home how wrong he is on his screwed up logic
I feel videogame villains get too generic nowadays
Or is it just me?
Usually i advocate for the "no villains" way of storytelling
Sometimes the obstacle characters must power through doesn't have to be a cause of someone
Making a story without a villain work is pretty difficult
But in general, I cant say I agree
The ToCS 1-3 villains are all pretty interesting
I just remember one of them ended looking like a MOBA player
||A pillar of salt||
I dont recall any in the first 3 that looked like a MOBA player
Read the spoiler
||He gets transformed into salt at the end of the game with a special crossbow arrow||
Uh
Thats not a thing in any of the first 3
Either youre confusing it with the other trails game, or thats a spoiler for 4
Ok I played one
If I had to guess, thats probably a spoiler for 4
This one
Damn Japanese games and their confusing wording
There are just a lot of Trails games
they actually use a different kanji in japanese
so it's not confusing for them
Trails of Cold Steel is 閃の軌跡
wait, never mind, they switch up the first kanji sometimes but not always, sorry for butting in
Well strictly speaking the titles are "Legend of Heroes, X no Kiseki"
I think Sky is Sora no Kiseki, while Cold Steel is Sen no Kiseki?
if there's no special reading for them, that's how the kanji normally reads
it really bothers me that the X no Kiseki may keep whatever the X is and go I II II FC or whatever with it
while Zero and Ao are same story/verse but are named separately
Iunno why they did that tbh
Fate flashbacks intensifies
I like the way Ys does it
Strict numerical order outside of spinoffs or remakes
Even if its slightly confusing because Ys doesnt feature outside of the original games and the prequel Origins
speaking of origins, both Zero and Ao have the notion of "origin" in them, that might be why
fate series meanwhile... what is continuity...
Continuity is when you add things and the more things you add the more continuity it becomes 
The homestuck approach
All I know about Fate is that I dont like most of the designs
Also Mordred is a girl because japan
I think I stopped following fate when I heard that "Nikola Tesla is coming to the cellphone game and they hired an ero manga artist to draw him"
correction, ero game artist, it was by a Nitroplus artist
fate was where I learned that you could take fanservice to a such surreal level that it's... I don't know what it is honestly, maybe just "continuity(?)"
I know they had the DanganRonpa artist do a couple pieces of artwork
Also wasnt Fate originally an ero game?
Not too shocking theyd hire someone from that industry
it was written as one, yes
nitroplus, starting with their first game, had the habit of launching an "ero" version of their game first for the funding, then re-release a PG version of the same game, and also PG rated adaptations
so they do operate the same way
speaking of type-moon, I really loved the movies of Kara no Kyōkai back then
Yyeeeee baby
Sick
Imagine living in medieval times, becoming a respected King and then 700 years later they draw you as a cute girl and make you fight Jesus
Im surprised I never heard of it tbh
I'm really hoping the animation style grows on me...
Minor SAC 2045 spoilers ||my boy togusa got divorced D:||
why Major looks so young now
I liked when she looked like she was in late thirties early forties
and where did her synthetic muscles go
rip... my dinner recipe calls for whole cloves of garlic but i went into auto mode and minced it
I hope it just means it tastes more garlic-heavy
im supposed to cook the garlic in the oven in a foil packet and i dunno how well that would work with minced pieces
can you switch to a recipe that calls for minced garlic then
I know garlic sauce chicken is absolutely delicious
In other news the major is still badass
that's great to know at least
aaaaaaaaa they're adding ATLA to netflix
Ramadan Mubarak for all those observing!
GitS SAC 2045 S1E4 ||the gang runs a brothel||
Chimera Squad gets my approval
@raven harbor Explain
Money is scarce and i consider to buy it
Gameplay wise, it seems to be a lighter, more combat focused xcom
^^^
With less emphasis on managing your base and soldiers
I do like the soldiers have more HP in cost of forcing a game over on soldier death
Negative progression isn't something i enjoy in my games
Also what i saw of the weapon mods seem to be AMAZING
in other games you had research upgrades that just do stuff better
But the scavengers? They give you really interesting stuff to work around
Batou, upon getting caught up in a bank robbery does which of the following
A) takes them out ezpz
B) waits patiently for the police to arrive like a good little hostage
C) finds their plight sympathetic and helps them rob the bank
D) quietly escapes.
All of the above in that order, Oce
@steep pulsar how does one even carry on studying the mythology
like
is there a degree related to this???
Yes, you can study classics at university
wow (2)
i seriously never heard about something like that even when i applied to uni
It's a really interesting subject to read. I didn't do it because I was into science more. I did chemistry.
It's considered a pretty strong degree too I believe
i think it's time to ask google about that sort of thing
maybe there's no degree like that where i live or its not relevant
yeah, i was right; can't find anything related to that
I'm in England. There is plenty on offer in UK & Ireland. Don't know about rest if world
yeah, the things that came up in my search are in English universities
well, The More You Know
oh by the way @steep pulsar if it's not too personal what did you need that god you were searching for??
Oh I'm looking for inspiration to name an application I made. I like to come up with fun names often borrowing from mythology. Our latest thing we made was a prediction service and we are constantly getting questioned by customers on accuracy of it so we decided to name it Kassandra who was cursed with the power of true prophecy but no one would ever believe her.
this is so cool actually! i think naming it Kassandra is pretty ironic 🤣
how accurate is it really, though? that is the question
I hope noone of you is gonna get murdered tho.
Kassandra was murdered iirc.
keep making apps like that and we'll see.....
Good thing about studying both latin and ancient greek is that they’re practically the same language
Wait, whut?
Greek is terrible with all its useless clutter words.
I very much preferred Latin.
Nah, you end getting used to the alphabet
The alphabet was the least issue. It was purely frustrating to fuss over some few letters for minutes just to find out in the end that they just cannot be translated (and probably are mere noise).
Never happened with Latin to me.
clutter words are not a problem if your native language is russian 👍
this bad boi can fit so much weirdness in it
ancient greek and latin are both very different
you can find similarities of course, but you can find similarities in just about any two languages
Well, but Latin and Greek are closely related, more than say Latin and Japanese. They share alot of grammatical features such as absolute constructions (ablativus cum infinitivo, genitivus cum infinitivo etc.) which I don't know of in any other language.
they are related bc ancient greek basically went and said "right I'm going to invent all the languages around me" and there was nobody to stop it
Greek has the Aorist and Medial, Latin has the Ablativus, other than that grammar is not too different I'd say. It's more the way they use it that was most noticable to me.
didn't sleep well?
no :<
Hey @vocal brook I have to know... is your icon Penny
Yes
A friend drew a group picture but forgot Penny until the very end so they stuck her up in the corner as a doodle and I loved it so much I made it my icon
that is absolutely incredible
Oh hey, looks like my answer for Batou was entirely correct
Also theyre not even pretending to hid the Matrix influence this time
Also I really like the new Tachikoma engineer
Shes cute
wait, didn't ghost in the shell influence matrix initially?
OMG right?
Purin or whatever?
I was like, "She better stick around, she's too adorable"
Up to S1E7 Spoilers: ||I have trouble with the posthuman plot line because its really hard to write a character that's both so smart they can waltz into nuclear silos but not smart enough to foresee some relatively basic outcomes||
Purin, yes
I mean its kinda cheating she has short hair and her first appearance is in a suit, but still
||Its not that theyre smart, its that they have significantly higher processing power||
||They can calculate everything, but that doesnt mean they can foresee everything||
The original one, yes, but SAC came later
Also why is the Major ||fighting in high heels||
||They brought back Paz and Borma!||
So, is Chimera Squad worth the 10 bucks?
do you like xcom 2?
I like Xcom but could never enjoy the negative progression
it's more xcom 2 but easier
How so?
The way i see it, it's just Xcom formula with the focus being on the combat, and when/where you fight
missions are overall shorter
they are divided into "encounters", which are like short firefights after a breach segment
your units heal in between encounters for an amount specified at the start of the game (none, half health, full health)
you can't lose units
Yeah, but what about the anarchy thing?
Seems like the old panic from enemy unknown but with much more to juggle
I haven't gotten far enough in to experience the anarchy mechanic fully yet, as a disclaimer
but it actually seems like Panic but less tricky? satellites aren't a thing, it just matters where you complete your missions
I honestly like that
But would you say it's less fun than regular Xcom?
Cuz i hear a lot of people say "i didn't die 10 times through this game, therefore it sucks"
I wouldn't say it's "less fun"
it's different
if you enjoy the tactical combat of xcom and don't mind it being a bit easier, go for it
steam has a 2 hour refund policy and the tutorial is maybe 30 minutes long, you can always refund it for $10
playing it rn, it’s fun, but don’t expect a normal xcom experience, bc it’s not
i’m only early-game, but each mission feels like a set of puzzles that you use your units to solve
missions go by fast compared to regular xcom 2 missions
I own both X-COM's but have yet to play either x]
Lmao no
I play videogames for fun, not xcom
I understand it can be different
But hey, Mario + Rabbids is fun
This can only be better
And so far the complaints i saw on steam are more towards the online-only thing the game has
As well as "i'm sorry but it feels like mobile xcom"
I don't mind a cheesy game if it can deliver fun
XCOM 2 is probably the best strategy game, hands down.
I have like 400 hours, the mod support is insane
... SAC 2045 ends on a cliffhanger
And were not getting the next season for a while
Why
Its already confirmed
I wouldn't count chickens before they hatch from eggs
if it's not already out I'll assume that it may still get canceled
Is making a game with motion blur on by default a reason for prosecution?
indeed
Loooootta developers you're gonna be gunning for, Ray.
I agree with you, but it's gonna be an uphill battle.
Hm, im still not sure entirely how I feel about SAC 2045
It has a couple moments that feel like cheap attempts at drama, which is ironically fitting given that the episode one of them happens in is called "Edgelords"
Wait, there is already a new Trails game out in japan?
No wait, its just announced
Still, I wanna look up stuff about it, but cant because spoilers
Purin is so good
japanese familiar people
I was under the impression that Chan was girl and kun was boy
is there a situation where that is not necessarily true?
kun is pretty much always used for boys
chan can be used for young boys or girls who are younger than you
boys go from chan to kun around maybe like age 7 or 8
girls also use chan to refer to each other in same-age friend groups
not yet
Mmh
The Honey Bee Inn section in FFVIIR was so fun!!
Yee
Im also just surprised at ||how good of a dancer cloud is, especially in heels||
Facts
@hasty kernel can I pm?
||Cloud looks better in a dress than the girls||
||Although it's hilarious that except Leslie nobody care he didn't bother to change his voice||
unoven's probably in a different time zone than you
||Lesli's reaction was pure gold too. He's just like "Really? -.- Okay, good luck."||
it's milo
...now that you mentioned, it really is
Was checking out my Clothes Shop in Animal Crossing today
Then it JoJo meme'd on me
I can't escape it
Embrace the jojo references
There is no escape
that’s not jotaro’s outfit that’s just a cliche delinquent one
jotaro’s outfit is more pimped up
Well it's actually just a student's uniform, lol.
I bought the jacket and pants on my old island before I reset it
still trying to recover my neat outfit
JoJo and his stand Sonic The Porcupine
I just spent about an hour repotting plants in real life
kind of wish plants grow as easily in real life as in video games
the language learning game, influent, is free on both humble bundle (includes DRM-free copy) and Steam right now: https://twitter.com/SteamGamesPC/status/1254089820474953729
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So I decided to buy two adventure games
One called Whispers of a machine
And the Pillars of the Earth Games
As i'm too lazy to read the books
Time of Eve?
Va11 Hall-A
It exists, Oce
Well, its less coffee shop and more bar in that case
Also Red Strings Club
i personally enjoyed Red Strings Club more than Va11 Hall-A so that one gets my rec
Time of Eve was good
Not sure if cyberpunk because it's pretty clean rather than gritty, but similar themes
The thing they did with the movie version and series version was odd
Shadowrun trilogy of games
They have coffee shops in shadowrun?
Oh I thought it was cyberpunk period
It has to be slice of life
seems like a very narrow overlap
Yeah
I liked them both equally, my issue with Red Strings Club was that the plot just kinda ... ends
It didnt feel like things were resolved at all
And it had a couple questionable elements
Va11 Hall-A has those as well, and a couple characters I didnt like much
Actaully I guess I liked VA11 Hall-A a bit more just because there was more to do and I liked the main character a tad more
@velvet fjord Hong Kong has a Ambiguosly Neutral Sentient Noodle Dispenser Machine
My favorite part of Va11 Hall-A is that ||by the end, nothing catastrophic has happened. Life in the city goes on, and Jill's life is either better or worse for her week.||
Spoilers for the ending
what machine now
oh, in shadowrun, real life hong kong actually has noodle dispenser machine so
just not sentient (yet)
hey could yall help judge some bedding stuff for me
bedding?
like sheets
if only
ok so my room is poorly lit and i want to make it bright and floral and sunny gay. my current sheets are dark red
but there were the sheets i was thinking of
this pattern looks decent, though you better make sure that it's 100% cotton
yeah thats a good point
and I think https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/731400065/floral-sheet-set-fieldcrest-100-cotton?ref=related-5 looks a bit better
oh that is Exactly what i am looking for
thank u pal
now i need a blanket to go w it
make sure that the size is correct
i think it's right
honestly i tried measuring my bed early but i didnt do a very good job
the mattress should have a tab label indicating if it's single, twin, queen, king or californian king
oh duh
if it's not a tab label it could be a sewn-on label
sounds about the right size
are you looking for weighted blanket or light blanket btw?
like mid
heavy, but not actually weighted?
those are good
https://www.etsy.com/listing/660777248/wool-blanket-natural-100-new-zealand?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=cute+queen+blanket&ref=sr_gallery-1-4&organic_search_click=1 it's wool but oh..... cat
caaaaaat
may I ask what was your budget again?
because the sheet + pillowcase was not marked as free delivery, and neither is this one, and together that's likely around $200 with shipping and taxes
oh, the shipping's not that bad over there then
yeah it's alright
i might just go with the sheets and just deal with a blanket once it's necessary
i have another blanket
I'm trying to not suggest rainbow blanket
oh hell yell
this is the least expensive and 100% cotton rainbow blanket that I can find https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/743394244/pastel-colors-mexican-blanket-100-cotton?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=blanket+100%25+cotton&ref=sr_gallery-1-20&organic_search_click=1
and, are you good at arm knitting?
because blankets like those https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/628061983/chunky-blanket-from-premium-quality?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=large+yarn&ref=sr_gallery-1-3&organic_search_click=1&pro=1&frs=1&col=1 are actually not that difficult to make
This conversation is so wholesome 
i have no idea how to knit actually
but thank you i do appreciate your help in this
man now would be a great time to learn how to knit
i dont have the patience for stuff like that, it makes me antsy
I was going to suggest ikea due to it selling $10 partially cotton acrylic throws, but ikea delivery is really bad
oof
yeah & there's not an ikea near me
i wish the thrift stores were still open
I'm off to bed now, hope you find something good
i did, thanks so much! & sleep well
Gnight! 🌙
chainmaille is fun
if you want something like knitting but MORE MANLY
and/or armor lesbian
I definitely read that as chamomile and got very confused
I would love a weighted blanket
I just bought one
Its apparently got special cooling fibers in it too
Which I hope is true because I am not looking forward to another summer without AC
I want a haircut so bad
dang me too
Dear housemate
Chickenpox parties are not an ideal solution to covid if you want people to live.
wait what
people still think quarantine is a suggestion at best world-wide
and then they'll have the audacity to blame everyone else except themselves if/when things get worse
Alien Isolation 2 bucks
I'm upset at ghost in the shell arise 3 because motoko is dating a dude
Despite the fact that The Major's penchent for women does not come from a healthy place I do enjoy the LGBT representation when it happens.
(motoko originally was a lesbian because Shirow didn't want to draw naked dudes)
I ended up starting watch SAC_2045 because of social pressure
Oce and UNOwen you two are to blame
:3

Its not as good as Stand Alone Complex seasons 1 and 2
but I still enjoyed it
I'm hoping season 2 of SAC2045 gets a bit more into the meat of things
Wait, they skipped from Season 2 to Season 2045?
The animation reminds me to Berserk 2016 
"being bi" in japanese media is usually just yuri lesbian-baiting to appeal to the japanese male audience more
i wouldnt take it too seriously
I mean that may be the case in the manga (I wouldnt know, I havent seen it)
But in the case of SAC, its not even given that much attention
Its just a thing that gets mentioned
But since she doesnt really have any romantic interactions in SAC in general
i feel like just throwing it in on the side like that makes it worse
She has a girlfriend in season... 2?
no, season 1
She gets put off in one episode, and is SAC season 1 spoilers ||the person that's supposed to be the official witness for the body transfer but fell asleep because the drug squad lady drugged her to kill motoko||
The sailor Moon remake looks great
Ladies and gentlemen
I bring you enlightenment
Lol, talking about that
I'm following an artist in Instagram that is making parodies of album covers where she substitutes the artist by KK Slider
Actually several artists
has anyone played over the alps?
i played the demo the other day and found it really charming
the anime sectoid art must mean that there are female sectoids, somewhere
There are minotaur sectors
And Viper witches
Vipers on bikini
Vipers as housewives
Also mutons dressed in 50's attire
I keep reloading the same encounter over and over because the stupid chryssalids keep killing the muton and viper office workers
and I'm like nooooo they're friends now :(
Does anyone know if the ps3 trophies carry over if I get the ps4 version of said game? I thought they will because it's all tied to my PSN but just curious
I know this is a random question but jsjfjkd
For context is looks like Journey is free on psn and I was very close to 100%ing it on the ps3 but I didn't get to. So i wonder if at least the trophies will carry if not the saves
crying I just,,,m, love my cat,,, so much
A group chat of my friends has recently just devolved into one of them posting a picture of their cat and the rest of them going "GLENN"
(The cat's name is Glenn)
Mines is booker and he kinda looks like a lil rat but oh man if he doesnt' fill my heart with love
man i wish steam let you add smaller amounts to your wallet, i wanted to get Alien: Isolation but i've only got $1.37 in my wallet
Just want to remind everyone that LudoNarraCon, showcasing released and upcoming visual novels and story based experiences, is going strong on the last day, with a plethora of demos to try out https://www.ludonarracon.com/
Highlights for me are currently Boyfriend Dungeon, N1RV-Ann-A, and NeoCab
boyfriend dungeon doesn't have a demo, does it? :0
forgot it is going to soon have a demo imao
or well release
follow for a first month and a few after they announced it and had a Kickstarter
cute
What's a rec 🙂
recommendation
i played that game years ago, definitely one of the better total war games
i think i own it on steam now i just haven't gotten around to playing it
i played on my older brother's computer as a wee lad 
I wish i could buy TW Warhammer
i used to play this with a guy o really hate, i liked the game
I really liked Empire Total War
but shogun was off for me
I'm totally cis I swear
but Stardew valley lets me live out my lesbian farmer dreams so well
Spring 25th and I already got the 36 slot backpack yo
@serene tulip How can I live my lesbian farmer dreams when I CAN'T MARRY ROBIN?
Also I need to know this
Why Leah looks more like Robin's daughter than her two actual children?
Zero Time Dilemma
@faint panther Zero Time Dilemma
I've literally never heard of it, wow.
@hasty kernel It does have the best memes in the trilogy tho
999 (9 hours, 9 people, 9 doors) or Virtues Last Reward?
No, wait, I have heard of them.
Spoiler. My favourite video of it
Ultimate edition.
#BlameTheSnail
Credit to /v/
Weeb Edition: https://youtu.be/hispMLyBlS4
American Edition: https://youtu.be/c7pcU_BNoss
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I mean it does, but thats because the game itself is kind of a meme
They're all on Windows and they look just a little vaguely anime, do they come recommended?
999 and VLR, yes
ZTD only if you absolutely need to know what happens
Were on one wavelength
But yeah, the first 2 are good
Nice mix of puzzle and Visual Novel esque gameplay with a mystery
And hilarious, clever writing