Also, as a note for future petition signers, Hugh G. Rection is much funnier.
― yes this is the real (snoball), Friday, 2 December 2011 21:08 (twelve years ago) link
"1) To enact an immediate ban on the videogame known as "SkyRim" produced by Blizzard Entertainment."
― Dranke, the German Drake Impersonator (forksclovetofu), Friday, 2 December 2011 21:31 (twelve years ago) link
Finished downloading Deus Ex, finally. Makes me wanna read more cyberpunk. And I already caught the first pop culture ref of the game
― kingfish sandbox bonaparte, Saturday, 3 December 2011 03:19 (twelve years ago) link
DID YOU TAKE THE CROSSBOW OR THE GEP GUN OR THE SNIPER RIFLE
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 3 December 2011 03:41 (twelve years ago) link
space miner for ios is free for the weekend; got some coint and plick love if anyone's into itgetting it now
― Dranke, the German Drake Impersonator (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 3 December 2011 06:29 (twelve years ago) link
Guys when is GTAV due out?
― kamb, Saturday, 3 December 2011 06:38 (twelve years ago) link
not soon
― Mordy, Saturday, 3 December 2011 06:39 (twelve years ago) link
BTW guys: EA made Tetis on the iOS a subscription based systemhttp://toucharcade.com/2011/12/02/the-new-tetris-boldly-takes-iap-to-heights-few-dream-of/it would be funny if it weren't fucking nuts
― Dranke, the German Drake Impersonator (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 3 December 2011 06:54 (twelve years ago) link
EA would turn breathing into a subscription based service if they could.
― yes this is the real (snoball), Saturday, 3 December 2011 09:16 (twelve years ago) link
I usually use the crossbow; scoped non-lethal takedowns
― kingfish sandbox bonaparte, Saturday, 3 December 2011 19:24 (twelve years ago) link
Got skyrim, level 6 after about 8 hours. Keep on forgetting to save, dying, having to retrace 1000s of steps. Keep on stumbling upon and attempting quests that I really should be a much higher level for, like labyrinthian. Fuck a multi frost troll attack.
― ledge, Saturday, 3 December 2011 20:24 (twelve years ago) link
Also, i'm a thane, and dragonborn, and I don't even have a house yet! I can't afford 5000 cash, don't they have mortgages?
― ledge, Saturday, 3 December 2011 20:25 (twelve years ago) link
I just want a house! I've got all this kitchen equipment!
― ledge, Saturday, 3 December 2011 20:26 (twelve years ago) link
How are skyrim mods coming? Has anybody put out anything good yet?
― kingfish sandbox bonaparte, Saturday, 3 December 2011 21:17 (twelve years ago) link
Don't worry man 5k won't seem like much septims to worry yourself about by even level 10 or do.
― clay, Saturday, 3 December 2011 22:15 (twelve years ago) link
This game has many more Septims than it has things to buy with them.
― Mordy, Saturday, 3 December 2011 22:42 (twelve years ago) link
I usually use the crossbow; scoped non-lethal takedowns― kingfish sandbox bonaparte, Saturday, December 3, 2011 11:24 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink
― kingfish sandbox bonaparte, Saturday, December 3, 2011 11:24 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink
i have taken the crossbow in all but one of my 839257238942042 playthroughs of this game but the way it makes anyone it hits run around frantically going "OOG!" for a minute before falling down leaves some stealthiness to be desired
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 4 December 2011 00:04 (twelve years ago) link
Oh no Tom I was going to tell you not to buy skyrim cos it's great but to love it you need to turn a blind eye to lots of exactly the kind of stuff you hate. But I was too late. At least tell us you got it on 360 not ps3? http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-vs-ps3-skyrim-lag
― JimD, Sunday, 4 December 2011 00:19 (twelve years ago) link
What stuff do I hate? I mean there's so much - what in particular? :)
Got it on 360 yeah. Gonna spend some time tomorrow just tooling around, pickin' some herbs, doin' some alchemy, chattin' to folk. Dialogue may be cloth-eared but it's such a rich world I think you have try and immerse yourself in it or you'll miss out. E.g. Empire vs. Stormcloaks, what's that about? Whose side should I be on? I figure I won't really find out without talking to people.
― ledge, Sunday, 4 December 2011 00:29 (twelve years ago) link
Haha I was thinking "you'll hate picking herbs and doing alchemy and stuff" so maybe I'm just wrong. To be fair it's a game where you can mostly ignore any bits you don't like and still get by just fine (like I do with shields and blocking and armour and stuff).
Stormcloaks and imperials both seem like dicks to me, been refusing to join either. I'm a werewolf now though. And I'm considering the thieves guild.
― JimD, Sunday, 4 December 2011 00:37 (twelve years ago) link
(actually the stuff I thought you'd hate would be the actual role playing. I think you're right that it's a world you do have to immerse yourself in cos it's also one where the illusion's easily shattered if you don't force yourself to play along with it).
― JimD, Sunday, 4 December 2011 00:41 (twelve years ago) link
THIS. I have mixed (if mostly positive) feelings about the rest of the game, but the dart gun in Human Revolution is a huge, necessary improvement.
― Telephone Thing, Sunday, 4 December 2011 02:29 (twelve years ago) link
How are skyrim mods coming? Has anybody put out anything good yet?― kingfish sandbox bonaparte, Saturday, 3 December 2011 21:17 (Yesterday)
― kingfish sandbox bonaparte, Saturday, 3 December 2011 21:17 (Yesterday)
The toolset's not coming out until January.
― Zora DB, Sunday, 4 December 2011 15:34 (twelve years ago) link
OK, duh, of course there are modders who haven't waited and there was a nudie mod on day 2 after release (please). Child killing took a couple of weeks longer.
On the upside, there are lots of nice looking texture packs out.
I'm waiting until I've finished a vanilla play-through and made my own wishlist before I check out mods though.
― Zora DB, Sunday, 4 December 2011 16:10 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=93W6mB0ZqCM#!
― Dranke, the German Drake Impersonator (forksclovetofu), Monday, 5 December 2011 02:41 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/1iKvl.jpg
― Dranke, the German Drake Impersonator (forksclovetofu), Monday, 5 December 2011 02:45 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― horseshoe loves tom brady, Monday, 5 December 2011 04:36 (twelve years ago) link
idgi is there spoiler-free explanation
― ledge, Monday, 5 December 2011 09:34 (twelve years ago) link
nb i am already tight with lydia
I gots an iPhone 3GS, can anyone recommend some good games for it? Preferably free, just because I can't be bothered dicking about with credit cards. Underwhelmed with Angry Birds, is thus really what people were going apeshit for?
― Osoby, Monday, 5 December 2011 11:02 (twelve years ago) link
Yay. Amazon delivered Skyward Sword to me on release day, even though I chose the cheapest shipping option. Unfortunately it was a present for my girlfriend and I had to wait til her birthday! Finally got to (mostly just watch her) play it yesterday and really liking it so far. It managed to distract me from Skyrim for the whole day, which is no small feat.
― CraigG, Monday, 5 December 2011 11:45 (twelve years ago) link
ledge, no spoilers really: you can use enchantments from captured souls to create magical rings and name those rings. lydia is a pain in the butt; constantly running head on into battles or falling off cliffs or ruining stealth attacks but you can't really ditch her because she's a de facto mule who doubles your carrying capacity. She also whines "I am SWORN to carry your BURDENS" every time you use her this way. Basically, killing her and turning her into a ring would generally make life a lot easier, especially when you're later into the game.
― Dranke, the German Drake Impersonator (forksclovetofu), Monday, 5 December 2011 14:42 (twelve years ago) link
is it a ring that can carry half of your shit, because that would be WORTH IT ZOMG
I have taken to using Lydia and my horse as bait/distractions so I can run up behind mobs and flamechop them in the back of the head. Oh, also I discovered that my horse can outrun the ice troll on the 7000 steps ^_^
― OH NOES, Monday, 5 December 2011 14:45 (twelve years ago) link
holy crap lydia will carry stuff for me?! not that carrying capacity is a major bottleneck for me any more.
also her running head on into battles is probably an asset, she's saved my skin multiple times. and then i accidentally burn her up with my FLAME ON. i don't really do stealth tho.
― ledge, Monday, 5 December 2011 14:51 (twelve years ago) link
lydia > lydia ring since that ring takes up a spot you could use for other excellent ring abilities
― Mordy, Monday, 5 December 2011 14:52 (twelve years ago) link
I just found some leather boots of lifting so that's all good.Yeah ledge: your companions will pack mule and you can use them to carry stuff. Talk to them.Companions only die for real if you accidentally administer the killing blow; if they're being attacked from outside sources, they fight till they're almost dead and invariably the outside attacker stops with them and goes after you. So be careful with the FLAME ON cuz you can kill her really really dead.
― Dranke, the German Drake Impersonator (forksclovetofu), Monday, 5 December 2011 16:05 (twelve years ago) link
BTW, i restarted at level 21 when i realized my stealthy, bow-based tank mage had spread out his perks WAY too much and was starting to be a pain in the ass to play. Ninja mage this go round, level 9. Amazing how I could put in 40 hours, restart and IMMEDIATELY get back into it. This game is a gem.
― Dranke, the German Drake Impersonator (forksclovetofu), Monday, 5 December 2011 16:06 (twelve years ago) link
one of the funniest things in the game to me is when Lydia jumps directly in front of my fire blast and then screams "HEY I'M ON YOUR SIDE"
it's like, "then stop jumping INTO my flames, crazy person"
― OH NOES, Monday, 5 December 2011 16:10 (twelve years ago) link
I just restarted too, like forks a victim of my own diverse folly. Strangely, doing a similar stealth/magic combo, though thus far he seems more dickweed than ninja.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 5 December 2011 16:21 (twelve years ago) link
http://skyrimpatchnotes.com/
― Dranke, the German Drake Impersonator (forksclovetofu), Monday, 5 December 2011 16:26 (twelve years ago) link
refresh for more
― Dranke, the German Drake Impersonator (forksclovetofu), Monday, 5 December 2011 16:27 (twelve years ago) link
i don't really do stealth
apparently sneaking is a primary skill of my race (khajit) :/
― ledge, Monday, 5 December 2011 16:42 (twelve years ago) link
n.b. inverted look on by default \m/
― ledge, Monday, 5 December 2011 16:50 (twelve years ago) link
omg those patch notes, lol
― OH NOES, Monday, 5 December 2011 16:53 (twelve years ago) link
protip: stealth/archer is basically overpowered
― Mordy, Monday, 5 December 2011 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
- Increased cost of Zerg Spawning Pool to 200.
:D
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 5 December 2011 16:59 (twelve years ago) link
lol the magicka one.
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 5 December 2011 17:00 (twelve years ago) link
apple cabbage stew mmmmm
― slandblox goole, Monday, 5 December 2011 18:10 (twelve years ago) link
I assume there's already an alchemy repository out there, so we don't have to start a new one
― OH NOES, Monday, 5 December 2011 18:11 (twelve years ago) link
i like skyrim a lot and am happy with my character but i kinda stalled out after killing the first dragon and havent really been back to it
― є(٥_ ٥)э, Monday, 5 December 2011 18:13 (twelve years ago) link