Posts made by Tinuviel

@WTFE There was an article I read somewhere (I'll see if I can find it when I have time) that said the heating element might be unstable enough for copper particles to leech into the fluid it's heating, and thus will be breathed in (potentially causing problems) and breathed out (also potentially causing problems.) The 'phenomenon' of vaping is too new and the studies too poorly funded for us to know anything for certain right now.

The main point, though, is that smokers generally will move, or seclude themselves, or whatever. Not out of shame, but out of decades of developed decency. Persons who vape seem, from my own limited experience and with one or two exceptions, to want people to know they vape. And to demonstrate "ooh how cool" it is.

Just because something might not strictly-speaking be illegal (YMMV of course), like vaping on a train... that doesn't make it acceptable.

@magee101 Bad is a matter of opinion, of course. I would, for instance, call the Dark/Demon Souls games bad, because the premise behind them (die lots, beat things up, progress maybe) isn't a premise I like.

@Arkandel If I need to use external resources to "optimise" my character, your game is bad.

@Ghost Dis...cworld? Fuck you, it's not a stretch.

@Arkandel I don't really care about sustainability in this case. If it's legal to smoke in said 'resting area' then I'm going to ruddy-well smoke there if I arrive first. If people don't like smokers, for whatever reason, they can go elsewhere if they happen upon me while enjoying my hourly-ish cigarette.

@Misadventure It's very much still about who got their first. If I'm smoking ten yards away, regardless of windage, you don't have a right to complain if you arrive after.

Oasis?

@Ganymede Further reason to adore the Gany.

@Misadventure I sit down wind. I also rarely smoke in public, if I can avoid it. My peeve only extends to self-righteous motherfuckers that park themselves next to me while I'm smoking and then complain about it.

@Ganymede Ripped from ME:3, run through a 1990s graphics processor, and then reconverted to modern hardware. Badly. In Russia.

Regarding the vaping phenomenon....

I smoke. If I have lit a cigarette where it is legal for me to do so, and you settle yourself near me... the onus is on you to move. I was here first, motherfucker, and I will cut a bitch that makes demands of me.

@Rook WHY AREN'T YOU DOING THE THING THAT I THINK YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE DOING?!?!?!?!?!

For those that don't understand my remark, I'll refer you to this helpful wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treachery_of_Images

@Arkandel Aye, I remember those halcyon days of yore. Now, even when playing with other adults that work the same hours I do it's very... ugh. I have three hours, give or take, from when child goes to bed to when I have to go to bed. I also have things I need to do in that time.

This is why I have over a hundred hours in Andromeda, for example. Single-player (with multi-player forays, I was curious, please don't hate me) that I can pause, or stop, and come back to as needed.

Amen to that, on both counts. I have only so many hours in the day - between children, work, and other real-life commitments... I don't have time to wait around for people to be ready for a five hour raid.

RP being different, of course. I'm not always expected to act every second of a scene. If I need to pee, I can pee. If I need to let the dogs out/in I can do that. If the child pops up and demands attention 90% of people would understand.

@Arkandel I play games for the single-player.

If I am "manipulated" into buying what is ostensibly a single-player game and it turns out the single-player options are either limited or clearly tacked-on afterwards... I get annoyed. I rarely, if ever, play multi-player due in part to the fact, as I've said before, I play games for the story over anything else. I'm not there to be challenged, or to compete. I'm there to enjoy myself. I don't like sports, but I like reading, for lack of a better analogy.

@Rook When I say men I mean 'persons of any age that identify as but may not biologically be male'.

That said, most of the time I'm having conversations that revolve around the idea of hardcore or go home with self-identified adults. And I live in the developed world's personal 'rural' area, Australia.

@Auspice Amen to that. The super hardcore "broz" (it's almost invariably persons identifying as men) that belittle playing anything but OMGNO difficulty are... well. Broz.

After playing so long with my own custom Ryders, seeing footage of the default faces on YouTube really throws me. That voice goes with the face I designed, not whatever face that is supposed to be.

Sort of similar to playing with the default Shepards and seeing custom faces in others' footage.

Depends on the game.

If it's more story-driven, I err towards the easier side of the spectrum (though normal difficulty is usually fine) as I don't want to be without story just because I can't beat the Firey Thresher Maws of Doom or whatever.
If it's a strategy game (big fan of Crusader Kings 2 and Europa Universalis IV, for instance) I turn the difficulty way, way up. Because I hate myself and want to see what happens.