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did you lose an avatar bet
Musha_Soturi
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Drinking alone in the hotel bar. Awesome.
seems uncharacteristically anime
Screaming Meat
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Listening to jazz standards being played by a solitary pianist?
JonathanEx
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Hotel bars are of the few places you can properly get away with alone drinking and it not looking weird.
Not to say people can't drink alone elsewhere, but it feels better there.
Musha_Soturi
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I wish. Shitty music playing.
Screaming Meat
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See if they've got a karaoke machine... and a free bottle of gin.
Jackben
bitch I'm taking calls.
Maybe Daniel Craig will come in and buy you a drink.
Don't knock it. When I worked at Premier Inn, I'd serve and get chatting to some really interesting people. Like mentiomed above, a hotel bar is the one place you can drink alone in and not look weird. Shame about the lack of jazz music, though.
Hot Coldman
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Trash Lord is such a perfect name change
Jackben
bitch I'm taking calls.
Your opinion on this doesn't count, Greenscar.
Sorry, a Dark Souls post (again) (you can't blame me, I've been waiting to play this for ages!)
I'll spoiler tag it, even though it's probably only 0.00001% through the game.
Ooo, I've got to say that it's also a really nice counter-game to Bayonetta 2. Both involve lots of dodging and counterattacking but one is very methodical, grim and taciturn and likes to think about the hopelessness of all existence, while the other is super fast, happy and camp and really, really likes boobs and bums.
I'll spoiler tag it, even though it's probably only 0.00001% through the game.
So I left the asylum and had a little wander around. I met a man and joined his covenant. I met some skeletons that were not friendly and killed me, until I learned their attack patterns and patiently lured them out to a nice place and killed them. Then I went a bit further into a graveyard and a giant skeleton said hello and killed me. This all took me an hour and a half. I did manage to level up my strength by one point and find a falchion, though. Which means I now do 12 of damage instead of 11! this game is too easy!
Ooo, I've got to say that it's also a really nice counter-game to Bayonetta 2. Both involve lots of dodging and counterattacking but one is very methodical, grim and taciturn and likes to think about the hopelessness of all existence, while the other is super fast, happy and camp and really, really likes boobs and bums.
Rubbish King
The gift that keeps on giving
fuck off is it, I prefer grouse but bells is fine. I'm not a ponse
Ty xxxxx
Well your avatar is shit
Jackben
bitch I'm taking calls.
I bet you don't even know what it is.
Rubbish King
The gift that keeps on giving
Your mum.
Rubbish King
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Up in 4 hours
Bollocks
Bollocks
Nerdkiller
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So...almost one and a half thousand posts until the next thread...what are we gonna do in the meantime?
Speaking of tea.. how do people personally brew up? I thought my way was normal but I keep getting funny looks/remarks when I do it.
I put the tea bag in and any sugar/sweetener. Add the boiling water to 3/4 of cup. Let the tea bag get soaked up for a bit and then bin it. Add milk till the colour looks right. Hey presto.
But I hear people leaving the tea bag in entirely, putting milk in first (dafuq?) and other stuff as well so.. something.
I put the tea bag in and any sugar/sweetener. Add the boiling water to 3/4 of cup. Let the tea bag get soaked up for a bit and then bin it. Add milk till the colour looks right. Hey presto.
But I hear people leaving the tea bag in entirely, putting milk in first (dafuq?) and other stuff as well so.. something.
I put the teabag in, add boiling water, leave it a bit, squeeze the teabag a little with a spoon then put it in the bin, add milk (and sugar/sweetener if any) and stir.
Your way sounds normal to me apart from putting the sugar/sweetener in first. I think putting the milk in first started off ages ago so the boiling water wouldn't crack the cup.
Your way sounds normal to me apart from putting the sugar/sweetener in first. I think putting the milk in first started off ages ago so the boiling water wouldn't crack the cup.
Rubbish King
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Yuck my mood
NinjaBoiX
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I get the feeling it's a bit of a chore for you. Just stop now mane! Take this as someone who wasted a significant portion of last year playing this game, it ain't as good as people will try to tell you. It's really not.
It's got the basis of a fantastic game, but it's shoddily constructed, cheap, refuses to follow it's own rules and is ultimately not worth the constant "NO! DO IT AGAIN YOU CRETIN!"
Seriously, I feel really strongly about warning innocent fools off this game! I though embarrassing bouts of controller snapping anger were behind me. This game isn't good for your constitution mane.
Go play some Mario Kart and smile instead.
Screaming Meat
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You stop that. It's every bit as good as everyone says.
you started dark souls by going into an area you're not supposed to go to until later
i am proud
I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you (yet), but I enjoyed my time with it last night. It felt like a NES game in a good way.
Shh! No wikis, no clues!
Heh!
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Off to Leeds today for a team-building day (which I understand involves jigsaws). At least it's casual dress.
NinjaBoiX
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Let me be bitter and wallow in my own failure OK! It is cheap and does refuse to play by its own rules though. For example:
Oh, your weapons clank off the walls rather than clipping through, that's cool attention to detail!
Oh, the enemies just clip straight through because "challenging" and stuff.
Screaming Meat
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Haha! Don't pull Sploat into your FILTHY SHAME POOL just yet. She's only just started!
Nah, that is a bit shit, but once you know you just get on with it, innit? Off the top of my head, I can't think of any other times where that happens. The game is pretty fair on the whole. Brutal, but fair.
Also, I'd avoid DS2 if I were you. That'd make you scream (and realise how well put together DS1 actually is).
Let me be bitter and wallow in my own failure OK! It is cheap and does refuse to play by its own rules though. For example:
Oh, your weapons clank off the walls rather than clipping through, that's cool attention to detail!
Oh, the enemies just clip straight through because "challenging" and stuff.
This post is baffling. Of all the things you can criticise Dark Souls for, you chose the idea that enemies can have their weapons clip through walls and you also think it was a conscious decision to make the game more difficult.
How far did you even get?
Actually, I think you'll find that it is the shopkeeper from the Mabe Village shop, which is from the game The Legend of Zelda Link's Awakening for the Nintendo Game Boy. While most probably don't really think about shop keepers in games, especially in the old games where they just said one line and had zero personality, the Mabe Village shopkeeper is quite infamous amongst the Zelda fanbase. This is because one can actually steal from the shop, which is still a unique feature within the series, by running behind the shopkeeper so he faces away from the door while you leave. This will, however, lead to your name being changed to THIEF, which everyone will call you by, and, more importantly, you can't go back to the shop. Well you can, but upon your return the shopkeeper will be waiting for you and will shoot a magic spell which will kill you because as a penalty for not paying with rupees (that's the name of the currency in the Zelda games) you now have to pay with your life. Because you cannot escape this attack and it will take all your life, even if you heal during the attack, he is often considered, within the fanbase, as one of the most powerful forces in the series.
I hope you found this useful.
Umm two more things-
I'm still playing MK8 - it's not an either / or. Theres room for everything!
And MK is one of the most unfair games ever. Doing well, player? Blue shell red shell red shell green shell. And for you? A coin.
And and on the clipping thing - that's just the way it's always been. I was playing Super Ghouls and Ghosts yesterday and enemy bullets went through walls while mine didn't. It's comforting to me. Feels like being a child again 😄
I'm still playing MK8 - it's not an either / or. Theres room for everything!
And MK is one of the most unfair games ever. Doing well, player? Blue shell red shell red shell green shell. And for you? A coin.
And and on the clipping thing - that's just the way it's always been. I was playing Super Ghouls and Ghosts yesterday and enemy bullets went through walls while mine didn't. It's comforting to me. Feels like being a child again 😄
Up your load bearing limit and wear rings.
NinjaBoiX
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Play Demon's Souls first, you get +10 nerd cred points.
I was actually thinking about getting the PS4 version when it comes out! But yeah, not sure that's a good idea...
I played for about 60 hours, went through all the DLC too, got right up to the end but got bored after about 30 attempts to beat Gwyn. (I suck at parrying.)
There are plenty of other things that pissed me off, wonky collision detection where your hitbox seemed to be twice as big as your character model sometimes, checkpoints/bonfires that forced you to trek for miles after each defeat (I get that this was a conscious design decision but still), shitty camera, no pause, yadda yadda.
But the inconsistent clipping was the biggest frustration for me. I remember finally getting past the archers in Anor Londo, getting into the main building where the next bonfire is, and getting stabbed with a lance CLEAR THROUGH A SOLID BRICK WALL before I had the chance to save.
Fuck you From, seriously, fuck you!
Edit: also, I'm not suggesting the clipping thing was a choice to make things more challenging, it was more a commentary on the general difficulty of the game, and that it's seen as the main attraction for the series.
MK is the dark souls of racing games.
Screaming Meat
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I shall pop in town later, see if I can obtain a copy.
Screaming Meat
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people who go into dark souls with bravado and think they're the shit because it's the hardest game of all time shouldn't even be worth listening to
there are better reasons to play souls
dark souls 2 was one of the easiest games i played this year
NinjaBoiX
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Yeah Meaty, in the main the hitboxes were pretty tight, but occasionally you'd get stung by a stray swing that was nowhere near you. But when a game is as punishing as DS, you can't help but feel jipped when you die through no fault of your own.
Dude, it's universally renowned as pretty much the hardest game this generation, they based the entire advertising campaign around it. The re-release was called "Prepare To Die" for God's sake!
Yeah, that was one of the most frustrating things to hear on gaming side last year, "It's not even hard, you just suck."
Dude, it's universally renowned as pretty much the hardest game this generation, they based the entire advertising campaign around it. The re-release was called "Prepare To Die" for God's sake!
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