Posts made by Testament

I don't have any real love, or hate, for clues. Not because I think they're bad, but mostly because I'm just so outside any realm of influence, they don't really apply to me. To the people that love them, gathering them like Pokemon and getting a better understanding of the lore and world, go my child, have at it.

While I absolutely love reading lore, and more importantly, creating lore, this isn't my lore, so I doubt I'll ever write a theory simply based upon the fact that this isn't mine. Maybe it's just me, but there is just some kind of mental barrier between taking something that I didn't write and trying to make it my own, and something I wholly created from inside my head. This is for the same reason I don't pick up roster characters, I will never be able to play a character as intended, and the perfectionist in me demands that.

But to those of that are more than willing to share clues? Good on you. For awhile, it seemed like unless you were the most bestest of bosom buddies with someone, or some group or circle or whatever, you weren't getting jack. That attitude seems to of changed and that's for the better.

And FYI, I can count my clues on both my characters with two hands. Not sure if that's either a point of pride or shame.

This kind of has a Jim Butcher vibe to it insofar that it slightly reminds me of it. I forget the name of the book series, but it was the one where he basically mashed Pokemon and the Roman Legion together. Someone is going to name it and I'm going to feel stupid for forgetting it.

That all said, I'd love there to be some kind of Steel Seed.

Clearly, we need to ostracize that person for never being as good as the previous one.

After my recent playings of God of War, I thought this was very relevant to my overall opinion.

Hellblade is another game I need to pick up at some point. But it was either that or Uncharted 4, which I had been meaning play for literally forever and never had a chance. Saw it used for 11 bucks and thew that in with it.

Picked up Dad of War. Haven't played it yet, but I'll write more on it once I've gotten a feel for it. People seem to be going wild for it and I have played a God of War since 2 many, many years ago.

The map editor in Farcry 5 is pretty beefy. There's a lot you can do with it. What I wish they did have was lock and joint system that Fallout 4 uses for their basic building pieces. It's just a touch infuriating.

On that note, I'm building an assault level by building a copy of my workplace in the level editor because I have a few co workers that play the game. I've made a dent and suddenly wondered to myself if something like that could get me fired.

@nyctophiliac The dude was a decent guy, but a really shitty leader for an org. I wouldn't mind if he came back, but not in charge of anything major.

Walgreens. I hate Walgreens. Not for any particular reason other than how cheap they mark down Easter candy after the holiday. Do the same with Valentines Day and Xmas.

I don't need this kind of temptation in my life. I don't need to know how cheap bags of Cadbury mini-eggs are.

@arkandel You mean like, for example, preventing a situation like, Player A gets a Diamonplate weapon and gives their now less-shiny Rubicund weapon to Player B?

Not gonna lie, my characters pretty much depend on the generosity of other players when they upgrade to get rid of their old stuff on the cheap.

I'm sort of a stickler when it comes to this. I don't mind that kind of RP when it presents itself, but most times there's usually a particular group of friends who I do those kind of storylines with. In part because those friends are good players with creative storylines that don't allow the relationship to really go stale, but they're very stable and very sane. Which at times, I think trumps anything else.

At the same time, that very restriction might be the one thing preventing me from trying to do so with someone else, even to the point that it came about wholly organically, and there's nothing more pleasant than something developing when you least expected it. And it doesn't even have to be a relationship. Could be a friendship or even rivalry. But the chance of the other player being a couple screws loose makes a bit cautious on the whole thing.

So suffice to say, they're great when it works out and proverbial nightmare of OOC nastiness when it doesn't. Better to be picky than be miserable.

@vulgarkitten said in Buttercup's Playlist:

Some people are just determined to hate others, I've noticed. There's some real, imagined or unintentional slight, IC or OOC, and then it becomes their goal to /destroy/ you. There's not much you can do about it save try to ignore it.

MUing in a nutshell, right there.

@buttercup said in Buttercup's Playlist:

I am a bit relieved to be done with him in some sense. There is a large gap in immaturity where players associate characters with their players. I had seen a lot of it and understand this is a natural tendency for any medium like this. I took Tovell (the pious and dutiful knight) off the roster to sort of just compare experiences. I kept my use of him pretty much unknown and the difference in how I was treated as a player was amazing. Some of the same people that were crap OOCly to me with one alt were friendly, welcoming, and utterly different on the unstated alt. I enjoyed the OOC experience of playing a good-guy far far more.

ICly though playing Abbas was much more enjoyable.

The hypocrisy of some players is staggering at some times when it comes bullshit like this.

I'm not going to list repeats that people have already listen to.

The Jimquisition: video game industry critic
The No Sleep Podcast: creepypasta from Reddit read outloud.
Philosophize This: Breakdown of various philosophers through the ages and what they were trying to say.
The F Plus : Terrible things read with enthusiasm. Really weird shit like taking various pages from glove and flashlight festish forums, various Reddit sections and comments about products on Amazon. If you often wonder how depraved humanity can really be, they've probably read it. I have seriously considered mailing them various threads from this site. Because we totally deserve it.

I don't play on this game, but I just want to point out that this is probably the most positive-related thread I've read on this site in awhile.

So good on you guys.

Started playing Warframe after not touching it for almost two years. A lot has changed and there's a lot of stuff I don't really understand, but for a free to play game, it's pretty good.

Slowly picking my way through Wolfenstien. Old Blood/New Order/New Colossus. Got all three in a bundle. I probably shouldn't be trying to play it like it's stealth. I should be running and gunning. I assume it's this bad habit to try and stealth any FPS I get my hands on. Especially after dumping so much time into Skyrim/Fallout.

Somehow, I wound up working for a five year old start up that's pretty much monopolizing the service we provide, because, well the company I work for owns the patent.

I work in the lab during third shift, and I notice that everyone is more or less my age. I think there might be one or two people older than me, but older as in two-to-four years older than me. As far as I can tell, there isn't anyone 40 and older, unless you start looking IT or HR or some of the more cushy positions. Down on the lab floor, it's everyone more or less my age.

Which is bewildering, that's never happened to me before. But I can say it's not horrible.

@auspice Bought it. Thanks for the suggestion.

And hey, five bucks is five bucks.