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  1. First through of Silent Hill f done. All but the worst ending is locked behind New Game+ apparently so it looks like I’m going in for at least one more round.

    about 9 months ago from web
  2. Silent Hill f earns the distinction of having the most uncomfortable sequence of scenes I think I have ever witnessed in a video game. I was genuinely dreading continuing on to the next room between each and every one of them. Well done.

    about 9 months ago from web
    • @zeldatra Is that their 15th Silent Hill? Did they have an A thru E, too??

      about 9 months ago in context
    • @scribus With f being the sixth letter of the alphabet, I’m pretty sure that among a few meanings, it’s intended to be read as Silent Hill 6. Origins is called “Zero” in Japan, and Homecoming never got a Japanese release and is straight up omitted from Konami’s website, leaving this game as the sixth SH game not including remakes, spinoffs, and reimagining.

      about 9 months ago in context
  3. RGG actually did it.... The game fans are screaming about because they were screaming about it for other reasons. Kiwami 3.

    about 9 months ago from web
  4. going to florida next week. this could be our last chance for an rdn meetup gang

    about 10 months ago from web
  5. It’s kinda hard to celebrate being put up for promotion when the context behind it is that the opening was created because the last guy was sexually harassing customers

    about 9 months ago from web
  6. If only I had the pull to make # trend online....

    about 9 months ago from web
  7. Job had it gorram easy

    about 9 months ago from web
    • @scribus Got the job you were interviewed to recently?

      about 9 months ago in context
    • @adiwan Well, yes; and - I briefly thought I'd lost it before even starting, too! We have termites at the house. The job is work-from-home. I cannot leave for a fumigation in my first month! But there's an alternative treatment that can hold them off until work will allow me three days away. And then, that post, I had meant "Job" like the proper-noun Bible Guy because HAHA here I am thinking I got pre-cherryed for no reason other than God likes torturing his Sims. But I guess it's OK. But I also feel like crap because I panicked and got shouty and hit the walls and scared the cat and dog.

      about 9 months ago in context
    • @scribus Congrats and BIG OOF. I know exactly what you're getting through. One good thing happens and 10 bad follow on its heels. Termites on the other hand seem to be like a biblical plague in comparison.

      about 9 months ago in context
  8. Official RGG Summit prediction: they’re skipping Yakuza Kiwami 3, going straight to Dead Souls

    about 9 months ago from web
    • @zeldatra At this point they are rather remaking 1 and 2 again but with the RPG mechanics from 7 and 8 than overhauling 3. Realistically I see them showing some new footage from Stranger Than Heaven. Maybe they'll announce a new Gaiden game. A Gaiden game with Saejima as protagonist would be the most probable one if any. Personally I would like one with Akiyama and Hana-Chan.

      about 9 months ago in context
  9. Well that's a neat piece of old animation history that's new to me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG6mqAwGnY8

    about 10 months ago from web
  10. I'm already missing the indicator light for whenever a new message arrived. So handy when I'm not at my phone and return back to it.

    about 10 months ago from web
  11. Finally my new smartphone arrived, the Xperia 10 VI, for 250€. 100€ less than I tried to order in May. Now I'm transferring all my data. Only hassle is that I can't use my old SD card because it wants to format it. Have a spare one and it is fine.

    about 10 months ago from web
  12. Database Error begone!

    about 10 months ago from web
    • @adiwan Turns out if you don’t set binary log expiration in MySQL and leave it unattended for about 10 years you eventually run out of disk space

      about 10 months ago in context
    • @ceruleanspark Ah... Makes sense. At a project I was working on they had similar issues. They logged EVERYTHING and had space issues in production. So much so that they had to make rotating logs but soon after so much was logged that the rotating logs would only save about 2-3 hours and yet more and more logging was added. My code had also very verbose logging that could be disabled but the client wanted even that output all the time. Coincidentally their DB views got so big that certain joints in some applications suddenly stopped working because it had too many columns. It was quite the ordeal to debug that.

      about 10 months ago in context
  13. I figured I was good to do another Trump thing because he was in Virginia yesterday but uhhhh now the White House is saying “The President” has an announcement tomorrow. Don’t screw me man. I already have the assets made.

    about 10 months ago from web
  14. A Nation In Mourning
    https://youtu.be/rvnCfCkFzr8

    about 10 months ago from web
  15. Woke up seeing a horrible blob of death at my 3d-printer's nozzle that has engulfed a vast amount of the hotend.

    about 10 months ago from web
  16. On the other hand Tigerella (red tomatoes with yellow-ish stripes) are not that bad and they pump out a lot but they are not my preferred taste with their very juicy and sour notes. If I prepared salads they would have been ideal for that. A Polish sort called Malina on the other hand was described as very sweet and juicy but in my garden they turned out to be dull in taste. The same with a sort called Japanese Crab (it's from Russia) that is not much of a shower in the flavor department. Marmande (from France) is still a very solid all-rounder that I don't mind for being mid in everything. Harzfeuer (German) is also mid but the fruits are a little bit too small for me. Roma tomatoes (Italy) are quite hard, almost like a soft bell pepper and have little juice which makes them eating on bread less desirable. Adora tomatoes that I tasted were also not bad but lacked the qualities it is advertised as with its smoky taste. For me it's a watered-down Black Krim atm.

    about 10 months ago from web
  17. Metal Gear Solid Delta is very fun and the new control scheme is great, BUT, you invariably run into rooms that were designed for the top down camera that wind up being much harder to navigate with the over the shoulder camera, and unfortunately there isn’t any way to switch cameras without reverting to a checkpoint.

    about 10 months ago from web
  18. As a DM I'm struggling hard creating satisfying roleplay moments. So far I used my NPCs to direct the players from place A to B to whack on enemies. I tried to do something, but my players were adamant going the most efficient and direct path. E.g. they skip encounters and don't make prisoners. I threw in moments to gather information but they didn't take the bait. I had to info dump them with a Harper they rescued who was investigating a dragon cult this session because I feared that they don't catch up otherwise. At the end of the session they took finally some prisoners who are leaders of the cult's cell.

    about 10 months ago from web
  19. my assistants come to me for advice their parents should be giving them. Come on man I know I’m bald but I’m not THAT old

    about 10 months ago from web
  20. "Superman" was really good, "Weapons" also was good, and damn it even the "Tron: Ares" trailer looked good in spite of the Jared Leto-ness of it all

    about 10 months ago from web
  21. Turn-based combat is king. All those attempts to do a hybrid approach are failing in my opinion. I think Diablo has poisoned these games with the fancy real time hack and slash combat. I like D&D for intense strategy combat and not for the real-time hectic confusion. I have a party of 4 people against 5-10 enemies. I am too slow to even judge the situation and make a good decision.

    about 10 months ago from web
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    • @zeldatra Yeah. The companion AI might also do a lot of heavy lifting there too. Imagine how bad it would look like if the other characters were potatoes and did the worst decisions. In BG3 I was peeved off any time (out of combat obviously) whenever a character stepped into a trap or dangerous zone. I had to reload and redo a fight because a NPC character completely out of my control stepped into an AOE effect (Moonbeam spell) that was active when every enemy died. Then due to that dumbness the NPC went hostile against me because he was that dumb. It was the hot-headed Roland in the Shadow-Cursed Lands at the edge of Moonrise Towers trying to save his siblings after I defeated shadow creatures to save HIM.

      about 10 months ago in context
    • @zeldatra Hearing about the new battle system actually piqued my interest in playing the remake, I'd previously been put off by hearing about the plot changes

      about 10 months ago in context
    • @scribus the story is banal dogapple but the game itself is very very fun.

      about 10 months ago in context
  22. I think people should be allowed to use whatever bathroom they feel most comfortable in. That's why I walk up two flights of stairs to use the bathroom that's always empty.

    Thursday, 23-Feb-17 17:07:57 UTC from web
  23. Odd dream last night. It was the start of a feature length animated special: a James Bond-type spy infiltrating a heavily guarded freighter containing some kind of device that was the last component needed to power up a North Korean nuclear submarine. The spy stole it but was forced to drop it into the ocean before reaching the rendezvous point. Cut to My Little Pony opening credits! Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie are attending a comic convention somewhere, with Pinkie dressed as an allicorn and Rainbow Dash dressed as the coolest thing she could think of (herself). Genre conventions tell me it was going to be a whodunnit, with one of the unsavoury convention attendees having stolen the plot device: Gilda (dressed as Opal), Sunset Shimmer (dressed as a bunny); but everything was interrupted by a Transformers Animated awards ceremony where Sentinel Prime gave accolades to obscure characters.

    Wednesday, 19-Aug-15 09:31:15 UTC from web
  24. I recently put on a very old piece of clothing that has been washed with scented detergent and it hit my nose really hard. For about 4 years I use detergent without any perfumes. My nose couldn't handle the stench of "freshness" companies try to sell to customers.

    about 10 months ago from web
  25. met another trans girl at a local event who had the same name as me but was way hotter so unfortunately i have to fight her to the death

    about 10 months ago from web
  26. This is me speaking about fashion options as a dude who wears almost exclusively graphic t-shirts and jeans (or sweat pants at home).

    about 10 months ago from web
  27. I have some gherkin plants but they grow too few fruits to make it viable to pickle them. Some are giant while other fruits are barely grown. I'd need thrice as many as I have now to have a good selection of mid-sized gherkins at a time and enough to make it worth the process to put them into the pickle jars. So far I have given them away or ate some myself. I'm not a fan of fresh gherkins but at least they are better in taste than store-bought.

    about 10 months ago from web
  28. British friend just had a kid so I’ve decided I’m going to ruin his accent intentionally

    about 10 months ago from web
  29. It’s worked out pretty well for me so far—sales are way up because I replaced some low sellers with Mr. Beast Feastables and stuck Prime in my coolers to punish Inca Cola for never sending a merchandiser out—but one day the other show will drop.

    about 11 months ago from web
  30. >mfw homestuck is relevent again

    about 10 months ago from web