Posts made by HelloRaptor

@Wizz

The best part is all the muscles in his face look like they're perpetually sphinctering shut to prevent any more bullshit from squirting out.

AND YET...

^______________________^

Could this have gone somewhere else? Absolutely. Did I want to miss any opportunity to share this beautiful gem with absolutely everyone? Not at all.

Enjoy!

This is possibly one of the most fantastic eleven minutes of all time.

@Cobaltasaurus said:

@HelloRaptor said:

@Cobaltasaurus said:

I should buy this game again someday and beat it.

Why would you need to buy it again? o.O

I gave it back to GameStop at some point?

Oooh. I don't buy physical copies of games anymore, haven't in ages, so I didn't consider that.

@Cobaltasaurus said:

I should buy this game again someday and beat it.

Why would you need to buy it again? o.O

@Arkandel said:

@Coin It's only in beta. DUHH.

I actually lol'd. Have a super rare Raptor upvote.

@Coin

It's really not fair to take the combat system into account in this regard, IMO, since in general combat systems tend to stand apart and obey different rules (or are subject to sub-systems of rules) within most roleplaying game systems.

There's no need to be fair, really. I wasn't actually trying to make a point about those systems, just noting that it's understandable folks tend to think 'more succs = better' because of them.

@Derp

More successes = better success was not really how it was intended to be

Which is kind of counter-intuitive given things like the combat system, where 4 successes is absolutely you 'doing better' than 1 success is, or contested rolls where the lady with 7 successes pretty objectively 'did better' than the guy with 5, etc.

Also the shit where you only get an exceptional success on an extended roll if the very last roll you make is Exceptional is just arbitrarily dumb. That's not really related to the rest, just something that always annoys me.

@Glitch

What I'm arguing against is the suggestion that popularity should be the primary consideration of a system.

Did anybody say it should be the primary consideration? I don't think @Arkandel did.

But it's entirely okay for it to be a primary consideration, alongside other shit like 'do I enjoy this' and whatever else somebody wants to consider a primary concern.

@TNP

I always used to say I don't give a damn what the mechanics are if it's a theme I want to play. And then FATE came along and made a liar out of me.

Yeah, FATE'll ruin just about anything.

@Glitch

If others don't share their vision, the game will fade or die, but always deciding to go with what you think will be popular is worse than going with what makes you happy.

I'm with @Arkandel: These things are not mutually exclusive. Plenty of people looking to open games do so because the idea of creating something people will come play and enjoy makes them happy, and there's a certain threshold of what counts as a success in that regard even if it's a nebulous one. Three people logging into a Roman-era MLP Alt-History FATE MUSH is probably not what they're interested in putting their effort into, so 'will people want to play this' does become a consideration.

Sure, if all you REALLY want is magical ponies playing senate and nothing else matters to you, more power to you. Make your game. Play with your three people. But not everybody is so laser focused, nor do they need to be.

People should make what they'll have fun with, and what will make them happy, but acting like 'will it be popular' can't or shouldn't be a consideration for either of those things is pretty silly.

@Lithium

Obviously some things are going to be right out (Technomancers), and others vastly limited (Bioware/Cyberware/Gear/Agents) to try and create the wild west of running, back before power creep and weapon bloat.

...create our own future that doesn't end up with stuff like nanites attacking and reprogramming our brains so that AI's can live in the meat (Good for a written book, not so good for a game setting in my honest opinion).

So... reverting Shadowrun to 'the future' as imagined by people a quarter of a century ago, instead of 'the future' as imagined by people from this decade.

That's disappointing.

@ThatGuyThere said:

During the original run of DBZ, I used to joke that one third of every episode of recap, one third in the middle new stuff and one third next time peviews.
It drove fans of the show crazy because is was so close to true.

Only stupid fans, because the rest of us made the same joke pretty frequently.

@Cobaltasaurus said:

Can't tell if happy or complaining

Happy. The bulk of what was removed was filler either in the form of side-arcs that were just dumb (even by DBZ standards) and stretching out a fight scene by lengthening power ups and such for days sometimes, the latter being what gave DBZ much of its reputation as trash.

Kai slimmed it down a ton. I have downloads of both full series', and checked out some of the fights side by side and the difference is pretty lulz at times.

Also, @Roz, if you haven't yet (and I can't recall if I linked them after the move to this forum), you absolutely must watch DBZ Abridged by Team Four Star. I suggest using a download from youtube tool, but streaming works too:

DBZ Abridged - Season 1 (1h34m)
DBZ Abridged - Season 2 (3h34m)
DBZ Abridged - Season 3 (2h10m)

Covers up through the very end of the Android Saga/start of the Cell Saga. They do them episode by episode (episode of abridged, not episode of dbz, otherwise it wouldn't be... abridged), but people have compiled them into full movies and uploaded.

If you've just been watching Kai so it's fresh in your mind, you must go watch Abridged, because holy (dragon) balls I couldn't stop laughing, especially during the Namek/Frieza arc. They're still making them, currently on Abridged ep 48 or 49 of the Cell Saga.

They also did two Dragon Ball Kai Abridged episodes that do a super fast forward from the start up through the Frieza saga, but it's like 99% in-jokes for people who watched the rest of the Abridged stuff, mostly made as a joke when people were asking them if they were going to redo it all with Kai.

@Roz

Dragon Ball Kai (experience of the original but with slightly less filler, thanks)

Hahhahaha 'slightly less filler' is one way of putting it.

DBZ was 291 episodes, Kai pared it down to 159. At roughly 18 mins an episode, they shaved off just shy of 40 hours from the series. ^_^

Now see, that is a 'what the fuck'. >_>

@Arkandel said:

Yeah, so. No mav I've ever seen since beats that, but I'm sure one of you freaks has a better tale to tell.

I know this has come up before, but...

LONG AGO IN THE DARK SPACES BETWEEN TIMES, WHEN ALL WERE FORCED TO BOW BEFORE THE YOKE OF TINYFUGE OR SOME VARIANT OF THE SAME, WELL BEFORE THAT PRACTICE BELONGED ONLY TO THE ARCHAIC THENO-PRIESTS OF THE MODERN WORLD...

I was engaging in a fully explicit bit of what I can't really call TS, because it wasn't really posing so much as me writing several pages of smut to send to a friend who was at work, half to mess with her and half because I was 17 and what else was I going to be doing. It was... I don't know, a few pages long or so, in terminal text. Excessively large. Less a pose than a borderline BDSM short story.

Due to a world collapse with TF I sent the whole thing into a giant player/staff meeting on Texas Twilight, with a few dozen people present to discuss some big ridiculous game-thing, all very srs bsns.

Bammo. Giant doompose of fuckery. And since at the time I basically used variations on the same name (different character object names, frequently, but the same IC 'real name'), it was entirely obvious it was me.

Good times. >_>

@Coin

My "what the fuck" is less indignant and more just "lolz, weird".

You're a pretty indignant guy when it comes to social issues, which while to your credit at times, does make your what the fucks sound like a lot more than lolz weird.

Fair enough, though.

@Coin said:

@HelloRaptor said:

@Coin said:

I leave this here with no comment or opinion other than "Wow".

Every word Brian Ashcroft types makes me want to throw a phonebook right at his face.

I didn't even know who that was, so i checked. You got his surname wrong. Ashcraft. Shame on you. How dare you.

Also, I could give three shits because what the fuck is up with the actual content of the article? ROFL.

What's next? Friday Night Lights: The I.T. Years?

I wasn't aware you rebelled so hard against the idea of cheerleaders to begin with, I guess.

The situation is a bit lulz, but 'what the fuck' seems to be overhyping it. Oh shit, companies have figured out that their predominantly male employees respond to positive social interaction with pretty girls by becoming more productive, and squeezed it out like they do every other ounce of productivity they can.

I can't tell if you're what the fucking over the guys having the audacity to perform better because of it, or that women are somehow debasing themselves by taking jobs as what amounts to a cheerleader/restaurant hostess, or that corporate entities focused on the bottom line are exploiting human nature, or what.

Are you what the fuck-ing because there's no apparent nod given to female or gay male employees, or what? Because again, while this seems worth a bit of a chuckle and shake of my head, I feel like I'm missing why it deserved a 'post and quickly stand back to avoid the fireworks' line, or any 'what the fuck' really.

@Coin said:

I leave this here with no comment or opinion other than "Wow".

Every word Brian Ashcroft types makes me want to throw a phonebook right at his face.

@Ganymede said:

@HelloRaptor said:

In particular the Knight-Enchanter can basically faceroll everything in the game on any difficulty if you're quick with your buttons.

I was never particularly quick with my buttons. All I needed was my lightsaber. Fucking Jedi.

Okay, that's mostly true. It helps if you use fire or ice for a few things. Using the ice charge and some good control to zap right back into dragons as they hop away, well placed fire mines, phase cloak or whatever it's called, etc if used in concert can drastically shorten what are some wretchedly long fights on the higher difficulties.

@Tempest said:

Is the number of dragons limited, or can you spawn random ones eventually? (Should I save all these tier 4 crafting materials until I have better schematics, or can I waste them now without stressing?)

As @Ganymede said, there's a limited number, but you get a bunch for later dragon kills. I'd save them for good Tier 3 crafting AT LEAST. If you do the two DLCs you can pick up a bunch of Tier 4 weapons and such, too.

And yeah, soloing is actually easier than playing with your team, at least for some specs. In particular the Knight-Enchanter can basically faceroll everything in the game on any difficulty if you're quick with your buttons.