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  1. That’s Yakuza 3 out of the way, would’ve finished it sooner but due to the way combat works it takes roughly two hours to do one random encounter of beginner level thugs

    about 10 months ago from web
  2. I just found the missing bottle and now I have two bottles. My credibility is in tatters.

    about 11 months ago from web
  3. Golf spammers make me teed off. Geddit readers? Chortle!

    about 11 months ago from web
  4. Now we are targeted by Golf SPAM. I've not seen this before, ever. Not even in my email inbox.

    about 11 months ago from web
  5. I’m a few years out from dating being permanently weird, because pretty soon everyone in my pool is either gonna have kids (I AM BAD WITH KIDS) or be enough years younger than me that I, personally, would feel weird dating them even if other people probably don’t really care that much.

    about 11 months ago from web
  6. Yakuza 3 is old and busted and scary

    about 11 months ago from web
  7. Hmm. I may end up cutting contact with my father.

    about 11 months ago from web
  8. Each successive Trump indictment is funnier than the last because every time he’s practically begged people to riot on his behalf at the various courthouses where his arrests occur and like five people show up every time.

    about 11 months ago from web
  9. In yesterday's D&D session I used my lizard familiar, placed it on my druid character's head, activated the feature to look through the familiar's eyes, and thusly gained 30ft darkvision. A poor man's Goggles of Night.

    about 11 months ago from web
  10. I have only the performance art of violence to express my feelings for the mid-game railroading and complete lack of direction in Pathfinder: Kingmaker !vgp

    about 11 months ago from web
    • I think this hotel is not for people like me, it’s next to a bunch of corporate headquarters and data centers, the lobby is a trendy bar where a bunch of tech guys are drinking top shelf liquor, and the TV knows my name.

      about 11 months ago from web
    • ChatGPT seems to believe that Sora from Kingdom Hearts would be perfectly willing to ally with Tony Soprano but would draw the line at Walter White and I’m uncomfortable with the knowledge that, to an AI, the line between friend and foe lies somewhere between “murderous mob boss” and “murderous drug lord” and not well before both points.

      about a year ago from web
    • Twitter is essentially dead for me. I used to lurk some creators on twitter but my open source twitter client choqok failed to fetch any new data for a week now.

      about a year ago from web
    • Exed? Ecksed??

      about a year ago from web
      • But I also think that "The Devil's Hands are Idle Playthings" was the best ending hands-down no-contest and anyone who thinks otherwise has negative a million concept of storytelling. Yup. :p

        about a year ago from web
        • Maybe it's just because I am absolutely not going to sign up for every idiot corporation's streaming service, no matter the stunt programming they attempt

          about a year ago from web
          • New Futurama’s pretty funny. Billy West‘s voice ain’t what it used to be though. Fry sounds like he’s been in the future for 23 years or something.

            about a year ago from web
          • If I were famous, I'd try to get the casual karate gi to catch on as fashion

            about a year ago from web
          • OK what kind of jerk wears flip-flops to the library, and why did it have to be me? ;_;

            about a year ago from web
          • Well now I'm just confused and over it lol

            about a year ago from web
            • Hello !

              about a year ago from web
            • My D&D group started a new campaign and the starting level is 2. I managed to be at 0HP three times within the first two sessions. The first time was a mimic (a barrel), then a quickling, and then some goblinoids with slings.

              about a year ago from web
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              • @scribus It's a female lizardfolk grassland druid with the name "Chamilia Moonsicle". This type of druid is not a tank. With the natural armor and a wooden shield she has 16 AC. Not bad but still too squishy for my taste.
                The first down-to-zero-HP moment happened as she examined a weird barrel that happened to be a mimic-like animated creature. The next time it was a Quickling she managed to percieve (Quickling moved extremely fast) and followed a few steps out of the door, where she got stabbed 3 times with high damage rolls. Then she was hit to the head with a sling by a goblinoid savage (having little HP at the beginning of the battle didn't help either).
                I didn't play unreasonable and not without caution but it was more dumb luck than anything else.

                about a year ago in context
              • @adiwan Man, does dumb luck get stupid sometimes, though... lol

                about a year ago in context
              • @scribus To be totally frank: I have a long history of having many dead characters and stupid moments initiated by my dumb decisions. This time, I swear, wasn't the case.

                about a year ago in context
            • "melancholy nostalgia" is my new band name

              about a year ago from web
              • It sounds obvious in retrospect that you should just play 0 first anyway but I wasn’t expecting them to insert much from 0 into the remakes given how closely the actual story cutscenes stick to the source material

                about a year ago from web
                • @zeldatra I started with 0 as it is basically the beginning of Kiryus story, even though it was told much later after the Yakuza 1 release. 0 has some minor spoilers for 4 and quite some references to other installments. It didn't bother me. I rather liked it because I got an 'aha' moment and understood the reference retroactively, making the scene a little bit richer and due to the backstory aspect more understandable. The problem one can see more is making the decision when to play 0. When it comes to real downgrades Yakuza games 3 is the one that aged the worst, as it didn't get the Kiwami treatment and modernizing the controls and gameplay feel. Looking back on it it has some endearing retro aspect of the PS3 era when looking past those flaws. Generally starting with Kiwami 1 isn't bad either gameplay-wise, as the other games feel much more open and there are more areas besides Kamurocho.

                  about a year ago in context
              • Not that I think this is a bad thing, but I got whiplash upon learning that Kiryu, a Japanese man in 2005 approaching middle age who in the lead-up to Yakuza has been in prison since the 90s, and before that having been in a criminal syndicate since the 80s, is not homophobic, and is perfectly pleasant and even supportive of his cabaret date upon learning she’s a lesbian.

                about a year ago from web
              • OK well Moho keeps basic, fundamental necessities like "manipulating bezier handles" behind their $400 edition so I think they can mango themselves just on principle alone

                about a year ago from web
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                • @adiwan Then why can every other godrotten POS application handle it just fine??

                  about a year ago in context
                • @adiwan Like, I can get that over the scope of a 3D or even 2D "world" that the *absolute* position of a player character's sword swing is much less relevant than the (...well...) /relative/ position of the sword to the character. God, I wish it could just snap, or use guidelines, or snap to guidelines, or *any* kind of precision that's been available in draw programs since at least 1995. Ugh :shiver: I can't abide loosey-goosey, nosiree, not in this context at least. :p

                  about a year ago in context
                • @scribus Welp... Time to program a new tool with blackjack and hookers

                  about a year ago in context
              • ...I wonder how much of this is subconscious; like, maybe at this point I've put in so much effort that when I do find out how to do it, it'll be "too easy". . . .

                about a year ago from web
                • An octagon has a center, height, width. Known quantity of sides and vertices. I wouldn't even cry if they wanted me to provide all eight of the (x,y) coordinates!! A circle is a simple enough formula of (x,y,z) where (x,y) == center and z == radius or diameter as long as its standard. I can say by how much to move things in a for loop for 360 frames with a 1 degree change per frame. But why is there no Fluffle Puffing software that can do this TI-BASIC level processing?

                  about a year ago from web
                  • Am I actually the madman here? Are the words I use making zero sense??

                    about a year ago from web
                    • Anybody online who might maybe be able to talk me down from self-inflicted head trauma, please?

                      about a year ago from web