Best posts made by Ganymede

@tempest said in General Video Game Thread:

So glad I invested all my stuff so far into assassin + hunter perks and eq, to get to the "conquest" battle, which is literally nothing but a "spam basic attack fest" where anything other than the basic attack buttons is useless.

I only have the Shield-Breaker attack, and everything is just peachy in those battles. You can re-arrange your perks, though, for some drachmae.

Stun is a good ability to maneuver behind folks and gut them. Paralyze Arrows are also nifty.

Oh, and the game's advice "go level up and get stronger :D". WOW. Maybe if the enemies would STOP LEVELLING WITH ME.

As I said, it appears that the enemies stop leveling commensurately at around Level 14. Captains and other "bosses" may rise with you, but the grunts seem stuck at around 13 for me. Also, mercenaries remain as they are.

@auspice said in Good TV:

Netflix has done stellar keeping properly on the dark side without being 'teenager who just doesn't like mommy and daddy right now'

Netflix knows its audience: people that have disposable income. They tend not to be teenagers.

Go with Option 2. Demon was, in my opinion, their best product, and it showed. Be versatile in how you create your demonic avatar, and it'll be a lot of fun to play.

@thenomain

As I said somewhere else, Stan Lee was so well-respected that he got a cameo in a DC movie.

@auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

My aunt is on one of her anti-vax tears on Facebook today and I'm in a shit mood --

Signs of adult-onset autism:

• Lack of empathy.
• Problems taking steps to start a conversation.
• Difficulty understanding their listener's perspective.
• Preoccupation with certain topics.
• A need for sameness and routines.

I double-dog dare you.

@SunnyJ said in Rusalka's Bad Idea: Single(ish) Sphere oWoD:

The right answer is always the Sabbat.

Not going to lie. Also, the answer is always you as a Tzimisce.

@arkandel said in General Video Game Thread:

Any non-8 bit inspired RPGs or such games you guys can recommend for the Nintendo Switch?

Valkyria Chronicles is coming out for the Switch.

@rook said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

Sorry, Gany, I truly am.

That's all right. We all have our travails.

But political commentary should be in the Hog Pit on this board, IMNSHO.

There's an entire section for political talk or discussion. Political sniping is what it is.

My pot-shot was at anti-vaxxers. That's not political; that's just common sense and reason against lunacy.

@Ghost said in Searching for Star Wars RPI:

That "Flublywub" at HorribleGameA shows up a year later as "Unicron" at HorribleGameB?

I will hear no more ill of Unicron.

Anyhow, I concur. Finding a game where the people on top aren't sacks of shit isn't easy.

So, I finally picked up Battletech.

Man, it takes forever to refit my mechs. At least, that's what it seems like.

And why does my Vindicator pilot suck so badly at hitting shit? That's, like, the thing she's supposed to do. Just shoot. Shoot shit, bitch.

[/Mechcommander problems]

@templari said in The Kitten Army (GIF Heavy):

But but.. I'm supposed to be scary.

Flag on the Field... Gronk is a large Man-Baby. I don't mean it in a bad way either, and I'm definitely not a pats fan.

Gronk's learned this from the Colossal Gigantic Boss Man-Baby himself, Brady-baby. Gronk's also a misogynist.

But he's a big man who likes kittens, so that's one thing in his favor.

@Artemis

I have to admit that they do have better vibes than a lot of older games I've played on.

@Thenomain said in General Video Game Thread:

You can pull specific mechs out of a mission?

Poor wording. I meant "finishes a mission."

The Spider is the fastest Mech out there. When scouting, you basically need to run as fast as you can with someone with decent Piloting and probably the Sensor Mark skill. That's it. Keep running around like a maniac because stopping means you'll get mud-stomped by a Striker vehicle, and that's just damn embarrassing.

If the enemy focuses on trying to track your Spider down, they aren't going to last long when my modified medium Mechs come over the hill, I would love to see the opponents' reaction when the Spider zooms past my BJ-version of the Enforcer or gets rained on by my SHWK-version of the Archer.

@roz

So do I.

Fuck you, @Arkandel.

Have you looked into City of Mist? I see ads for it on my Facebook page all the time, and I was always a bit curious about how well it might work.

I'd be interested in assisting from an ideas/system perspective.

@Killer-Klown said in Best (PnP) RPGs of 2018?:

It really was undeserved; given that a lot of what was presented was milder than ... I'd have to say most of the original books. People can make the 'times have changed' argument and all that, but really they were just giving people more of what they had in the early editions (As opposed to the CoD stuff rewriting everything)

How dare you, sir. There is nothing at all objectionable about vagina-face.

@derp

My thoughts.

Have you been working out long? Are you sensing that you're not quite doing the exercises as diagrams show? If so, get a trainer for a couple of sessions, and they will help improve your form and technique.

The benefit to signing on with a trainer is that they will help you keep motivated and on track towards your goals. For some people, this is worth the premium in price. Good trainers will remain in contact with you via text and e-mail to remind you of sessions and to pump you full of slogans to help you stay on target.

I've used them before. They were helpful. For average consumers, the best thing to do is go with your gym's trainers. Those trainers know the place well enough. If you like the training, then hire a private one.

Myself, I've been working out fairly regularly for about 20 years. I've done a lot of exercises and exercising, from when I was fit and in shape to the present. Frankly, I've gotten the most mileage out of online programs, but those have a plethora of routines available, along with the ability to track what you've been doing. I've said it a million times, but it's worth checking Daily Burn out.

@thenomain said in Big city grids - likes and dislikes:

It's Ten Forward vs. The Holodeck.

@faraday, I think this is the perspective Sunny is trying to explain.

@Sparks said in General Video Game Thread:

Beat Saber is one of a handful of games that make VR worth it. (Others are Elite: Dangerous, The Unspoken, and Job Simulator.)

Who the hell would find a Job Simulator to be "worth it"?

Because it seems apt, here's one of my favorite songs from my 20s, with lyrics (because James Dean Bradfield is Welsh, and this side of being incomprehensible).

Also, my favorite song to break up to.

And my second favorite song.