Best posts made by Thenomain

@Tyche said in Date Thenomain:

Tyche's fortified bunker is located there?

Hey, I was being self-demeaning, which gives me my quirky charm. I don't want to give people legitimate reasons to flee Ohio.

Recently played:

• Hiveswap (Act 1): Pretty good for $8. Amusing and good music. You don't need to know Homestuck to play this, and it isn't filled with fan service to people who do.
• Tooth & Tail: Here's a game that has an amazingly deep setting, but damn I cannot play this well. I would love to play something this disturbing as a Mu*.
• Danganropa V3 (demo): Use a controller. Probably not a good place to start the Danganropa series, but the first game is usually on sale. It's more like a visual novel with puzzles, but not always trivial puzzles.
• Tokyo Dark: Not as deep as I was hoping. I Kickstarted this.
• Cupid - Visual Novel (free on itch.io Ho. Lee. Shit. This is disturbing and dark and as a visual novel its ending didn't lead me on like many do. I played as cruel as I could to the protagonist and I was not disappointed.

What bridges all of these? Amazing story or world. One point-n-click adventure, one RTS, essentially three visual novels. Yeah, I like me some story.

@Faceless said in Are MU* videogames:

I tend to liken them to reading a book. Often a book written by a horned-up teenager. Or a psychopath. Or both.

One of the original Penn devs said that TS was no more horrible than coauthored fiction-based mutual masturbation.

This pertains to nothing, just coming out of the grab bag of thoughts that is my head this afternoon.

@Auspice said in Dead Celebrities: 2017 Edition:

Adam West.

So long, old chum.

@Ghost

I would play any video game that had me feeling like Alan Rickman. A living Alan Rickman, I should be clear.

And yet, on every WoD game I've seen open for more than six months, there is a push for more alts. Yes, even the single-sphere games, what few of them have existed.

I am 6'1".

I used to weigh 145 lbs.

I was thankful when I rose to 170 lbs.

I'm now 180 lbs.

I need this to stop. Without weights. I do not want to lift, run, do sit-ups or push-ups. I could change my eating habits, but that goes back to "not eating", which as a nerd is where I started.

My bike is old and hard to pedal. A lot of people have questioned me for purposefully riding a heavy bike. I tell them that this is the point.

Now I just need to use it.

@pandora said in General Video Game Thread:

So, I'm currently obsessed with the 'Lords of Waterdeep' digital boardgame on Steam. If anyone here plays, let me know.

I’ve played it a few times on the real board and wouldn’t mind giving it a few more plays. Our group usually goes for games much heavier, but it’s got a nice Catan weight to it that is fun with the right people.

I don't want to play any game where sex or politics is the primary goal of the game or sphere.

@Catsmeow said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

Sex

Psshh, I wish.

Re: Bikes: I would bike more if it was more of a joy, it a good new bike starts around$500, which is not currently in my budget. I live I the part of the Midwest that goes from 90 degrees in the summer to 27 in the winter, with rain, sleet, humidity, rain, ice, heat waves, and rain.

I wouldn't mind biking all times for all reasons, either, but there's something about showing up to work stinking like a rat or looking like a drowned rat that I'm going to have to pass on.

Otherwise, yes. I'm going to have to get over myself and make do.

Edit: Rule #1 of any project? Start.

Goddammit Steam Sale.

"9 of your Wish List items are on sale."

sob

@ThatOneDude

Already said not going to do it for reasons of logistic nightmare.

@Jennkryst said in Date Thenomain:

I can't go to Ohio, because I am on one side of the Hatfield/McCoy blood feud, but I don't know WHICH side, so I'll get stabbed for no good reason.

It's gotten to the point where if you are from Michigan or like UMich or MichSt., you won't be drawn and quartered out of turn. Really, since ESPN tried to make money on our football rivalry, people have eased up on it. Oh, and since the current policy of the Ohio State University is that if you are involved in any kind of riot or property destruction after a football game you will be suspended and probably expelled.

It's about fucking time.

@golgoth said in Date Thenomain:

I should date Theno because I would take him from Ohio, thus saving him from the Children of the Corn.

I live in effing Columbus. Would you like to see our corn statues? Our field of cows within throwing distance of downtown? How about Origins, the Gen-Con Wannabe?

I'm going to Origins tomorrow.

@auspice

I am waiting for the Last Of Us 2 bundle. Which means I'm waiting for Last Of Us 2. Really, it's an excuse so that I don't go, "Hey, I just bought a new phone AND it's a Steam Sale AND Christmas AND oh hey let me just buy a new console and maybe something larger than a 24" display to play it on."

When I say "excuse" I mean "something to stop myself from binge-spending". I'm told this is a key sign of depression. It's been hard not to binge-spend recently, let me tell ya.

@Kanye-Qwest

I can own that.

Twenty years of this hobby plus I like to talk.

Thenomain does mean "cannot be shut up".

Ahhem.

@hedgehog said in Date Thenomain:

@Thenomain

I am married, but I feel compelled to ask what your opinion is on the Giant Butter Jesus (2.0)?

There's always a butter something, so why not a butter Jesus? The State Fair is always a great place to see how the world used to work fifty years ago.

@Jennkryst said in Date Thenomain:

@Thenomain ... I didn't mention sports. The Hatfield/McCoy blood feud over a pig, and something about the civil war? I could tell you which side I'm on if I watch the history channel special on it again. But I am lazy.

Ohio's "Hatfield & McCoy" is, or rather was, a football rivalry between "THE Ohio State University", a huge Big 10 college, and "University of Michigan". Really, Ohio (and Columbus in particular) cared far more about this than Michigan (Ann Arbor) did. There was a time where you couldn't wear anything of the UMich colors in Columbus around the autumn to early winter season without someone giving you shit and maybe even keying your car.

Now it's been gentrified. If you can ever imagine Hatfield/McCoy getting a marketing team behind it and therefore everyone losing that true bile of hate because they're so excited to buy their Hatfield and/or McCoy sweatshirts, doggie jackets, mugs, flags, etc., then you get the idea.

@rook said in General Video Game Thread:

Torment: Tides of Numeria is on 60% off today.

As a Planescale Torment fan, a million thank yous for this note. I hear it’s nowhere as good, but I still want to play it.

@Kanye-Qwest

Well I did say I didn't know how we got to the conversation, so I was covering my bases, and that I started pedantic to make a broader point which I did, then clarified "alts" because I knew someone else would get pedantic, and there it is, someone else being pedantic about it, and AIGH I'M DOING IT AGAIN!

@Sunny

I can't remember the last time I've heard the term "main". More than five years, I think, so yeah our experience is vastly different.

@Ganymede

For me it was Jacob Taylor. I almost wanted to leave him with his dad.

So apparently "A Cave Story" is only $11 right now.

2,300 reviews on Steam, Overwhelmingly Positive. It isn't as brutal as Castlevania: Symphony Etc., but it is a platformer in every sense of the word. I've only seen it via a playthrough, but even Yahtzee Croshaw loves it for a strong narrative and good gameplay.

Just sayin'.