Posts made by Coin

@Thenomain said in General Video Game Thread:

So I started playing Witcher 3 and, yeah, it's pretty amazing. I'm not yet absolutely pulled into it, and the combat system is leaving me feeling like a noob. I was once pulled out of the amazement of an absolutely stunning sunrise, mist rising off the land, peeking through the trees ... to notice it was 3:30 am. This seems appropriate to the latitude, but man I was shocked right out of my socks.

Mostly it's the combat system that's kicking my newbie ass. I'm certainly one thousand percent more impressed than I was with Fallout 4, with about 4 hours of play-time. I've made a potion, had a dwarf make a leather jacket, killed a ghost with a long tongue, and gotten the sense of the various mechanics that make up the game tied into the storytelling.

Yeah, I'm impressed with the overall. I'll have to ease into the story, since so far it's fetch quest, learn more, fetch quest....

If you haven't yet, make sure that you finish the entire prologue at White Orchard. Do all the quests in it. You'll be glad you learned all the stuff you learn there later on.

As for the combat system, I do pretty well because I remember one basic rule: Quen protects you from anything. You want to really practice switching between your Signs so that you can flip back to Quen, activate the shield, and then flip back to whatever Sign is best against whatever you're fighting. The game tells you the weaknesses of your adversaries. Study everything, because the Oils are pretty important.

You'll learn to hate wraiths because fighting them is a pain in the ass. You either have to lure them into a Yrden trap, or hit them with one of the grenades that makes them targettable. Otherwise they're just intangible fuckers that can hurt you but not the other way around.

And learn to dodge against monsters and block against humans. I especially like to use the quick, short hop dodge instead of the roll, because I can better control the positioning.

And like I said last night: I would vastly suggest using a controller over the mouse and keyboard, but that's a preference you'll have to figure out for yourself.

Glad you like it, though. It's a great game. Just long. I should get back into it, honestly.

@Thenomain said in RL things I love:

@Coin

See? DORBZ.

@Thenomain said in RL things I love:

@Coin said in RL things I love:

@Kanye-Qwest said in RL things I love:

@Misadventure I am blunt. Super blunt. What little wit I possess is sarcastic and a bit acidic, and I don't hold back when people get in my space with bullshit or smalltalk. I'm mean. I like to argue. I have resting bitch face.

All adorable qualities. Just look at that face. You just wanna pinch her tough widdle cheeks!

You realize you're flirting with Bane, right? I mean, dude, seriously! Get a grip!

Aw, @Thenomain, don't get all jealous. You have adorbz cheeks too. SO ADORBZ.

@Kanye-Qwest said in RL things I love:

@Misadventure I am blunt. Super blunt. What little wit I possess is sarcastic and a bit acidic, and I don't hold back when people get in my space with bullshit or smalltalk. I'm mean. I like to argue. I have resting bitch face.

All adorable qualities. Just look at that face. You just wanna pinch her tough widdle cheeks!

@Kanye-Qwest said in RL things I love:

I love it when people admit I am intimidating. YES, FEAR ME. One of my favorite things.

Adorbz.

@Ganymede said in Vampire the Masquerade 5th Edition:

@Coin said in Vampire the Masquerade 5th Edition:

I thought I was going to have to super-agree with @Ganymede, but no, she hates Assamites, and therefore is still wrong.

Your mom is wrong.

She is if she doesn't like Assamites.

You could easily make diablerie how people gain Blood Potency in-game.

And phew. I thought I was going to have to super-agree with @Ganymede, but no, she hates Assamites, and therefore is still wrong.

Dodged a bullet there.

@Arkandel said in Vampire the Masquerade 5th Edition:

@Coin Yeah, I meant V:tM.

But the setup I enjoy requires the whole nine yards of Generation as well as the rest of the toys Masquarade comes with; the eventual weakening of the Blood, the crime of diablerie as a shortcut to power and the metaplot that came along with Gehenna, ancient secrets and the paranoia induced by the concept there are these things more powerful than you can imagine who've been pulling the strings for so long you can't even tell if you're not still dancing to them.

@Misadventure said in Vampire the Masquerade 5th Edition:

Blood potency is its own thing. You want to reduce its value sometimes, Generation you never want to (and can't) give up value you have. You DO get the stupidity of creating a bunch of vampires 2 generations lower than whatever victim you can diablerize if you so desire.

i think you can adapt BP to function as Generations for most of these things while keeping the concept behind BP in tact. I just prefer it.

Ew, generations.

@Arkandel said in Vampire the Masquerade 5th Edition:

@Coin said in Vampire the Masquerade 5th Edition:

Ew, Generation.

I love Generation. It's one of my favorite things about V:tR thematically, that age begets power. It sets up the entire chessboard for what's to come.

First of all: V:tM, V:tR has Blood Potency.

second of all, Blood Potency technically works under the same principle (in that it takes a lot of time to raise it); just games don't work that way.

In fact, Blood Potency should technically be slower to rise after a certain level (5-ish) since for generation you just have to find lower and lower generation vampires who may be in Torpor or whatever to diablerize (and, of course, not get usurped by them).

Ew, Generation.

Smart dude.

@Arkandel said in RL Anger:

@Coin I thought video games were the best means of sexual protection?

More misconceptions. Turns out you can play video games and have sex.

Turns out it can be super fun to try to make having sex while playing video games a game itself.

Or so I heard.

From people.

@Miss-Demeanor said in RL Anger:

@Coin Facetiousness, man. You should know me better than to think I'm being serious about that.

My time volunteering for the San Francisco AIDS Foundation when I was a kid has taught me to never underestimate people's misconceptions about sexual protection. >.>

@Miss-Demeanor said in RL Anger:

@Coin said in RL Anger:

@tek said in RL Anger:

I'm angry that people who don't even want kids seem to have no problem accidentally having all the kids in the world, but my body is fucking broken and seems to be getting worse. I feel like an evolutionary failure.

One of the reasons I am super careful regarding sexual protection, aside from STDs and STIs, is that I'm irrationally paranoid that my desire not to have kids will result in my being super fertile the one time I screw up. Because that sounds like something that would happen to me.

That said, I'm sorry. I can't imagine what it's like. I hope you figure out a way. if you do, find someone that loves kids as much as I do to drop whem off with once in a while. We return them, I promise! It's part of the reason we like them!

I can attest to this being a thing. Never wanted kids. Used protection. Two kinds, condom and pill. STILL MANAGED TO GET PREGNANT. Double bag it man, just to be extra sure.

Pretty sure double-bagging it reduces the effectiveness due to the friction of latex on latex. At least, that's what I was taught a long time ago.

@Insomnia said in Fanbase entitlement:

@Coin i wouldn't say it's completely entitlement; People have been trained to expect a trailer for a teaser, a pre-teaser, a trailer, and 6 different extended trailers.

Yeah those guys calling him an asshole and asking him when he's going to do it on a Gene Wilder memorial post, yeah, they are assholes. But it also falls a bit on the movie marketers too.

Them asking the director of the movie when they usually don't have a hand in trailers is just them being stupid.

Still entitlement. People have been told it's being worked on. They need to sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up and be fucking patient.

@tek said in RL Anger:

I'm angry that people who don't even want kids seem to have no problem accidentally having all the kids in the world, but my body is fucking broken and seems to be getting worse. I feel like an evolutionary failure.

One of the reasons I am super careful regarding sexual protection, aside from STDs and STIs, is that I'm irrationally paranoid that my desire not to have kids will result in my being super fertile the one time I screw up. Because that sounds like something that would happen to me.

That said, I'm sorry. I can't imagine what it's like. I hope you figure out a way. if you do, find someone that loves kids as much as I do to drop whem off with once in a while. We return them, I promise! It's part of the reason we like them!

@lordbelh said in Arx- Gareth:

@Coin It is now thanks to you.

That's just like you, to blame other people for problems you're contributing to. You jerk.

Latest installment.

Man, this thread is still a thing?

He's also just kind of a jerk? I don't play at Arx (not yet anyway) but in every other game I've seen him, he has been rude, confrontational, annoying (at best) and downright insulting at times to people for no reason other than he disagrees with something. He's also creepy as fuck, if reports have any validity at all, but that last is second-hand knowledge.