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I CAN'T NOT MAKE GAMES.
I have enough lockerspace to hold an episode of Friends.
"We'll make a toast to absent friends and better days,
To remembering and being remembered as brave
And not as a bunch of whining jerks!
Don't lose your nerve.
Do not go straight
You must testify
(or I'm going to come to your house and punch you in the mouth)
cause CLOWNS MUST STAND."
- TW/IFS, "All The World Is A Stage Dive"
I have enough lockerspace to hold an episode of Friends.
"We'll make a toast to absent friends and better days,
To remembering and being remembered as brave
And not as a bunch of whining jerks!
Don't lose your nerve.
Do not go straight
You must testify
(or I'm going to come to your house and punch you in the mouth)
cause CLOWNS MUST STAND."
- TW/IFS, "All The World Is A Stage Dive"
Iron Gaia
As the only human awake on board a space station controlled by an insane AI with delusions of deification, you must unravel the mystery of your own identity and discover: "What is the Iron Gaia?"
As the only human awake on board a space station controlled by an insane AI with delusions of deification, you must unravel the mystery of your own identity and discover: "What is the Iron Gaia?"
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okay suckahs give me yo games
Ok like...srsly now guys...that's like the third person who said they were terrified/expecting a harsh review/something of that ilk.
Why are some people so convinced that I am some kind of hardass reviewer? What am I missing here?
Why are some people so convinced that I am some kind of hardass reviewer? What am I missing here?
Dead State
Anybody heard of this dialogue heavy Walking Dead influenced Fallout-like indie RPG? I spotted it on GOG today, I don't know anything about it. Seems rather up my alley, but $29.99 is a bit steep as a barrier to entry for me when a game doesn't have AAA pedigree/sure thing value.
Looks interesting, though. (Definitely not unlike the kind of shit I like to think I'd be making if I was a 'real' videogame dev.)
Les Visiteurs Dans L'Espace Review
I, for once, found it refreshing to have party members that weren't all equally useful offensively, but rather depended on each other's support to survive in battle and defeat the enemies. (Later in the game, Tyrell actually became my most precious character, because his group healing spell is incredibly powerful, while Dirk could quickly restore his MP).
Oh, I had no problem with Tyrell being offensively useless. I actually thought that was neat. It was just that the other characters didn't seem to be making up for it or picking up his slack enough in my opinion. I guess generally speaking it just really doesn't feel good when my attacks are doing that much less than the enemy's.
Which I found in this game. It might be difficult, yes - but imbalanced? (Just for your information, I skipped a whole lot of encounters, hardly ever used items and also never bothered to use Lin's "Focus" abilty.)
I don't know what's going on, then. I mean, are you suggesting I'm lying? I mean I don't actually think you are, but barring that, either we had very conspicuously different brushes with the RNG, or the version I played wasn't quite the same as the version you played. Because the version I played was, while not strictly impossible, was definitely what I would call "impossible to proceed without extensive grinding" at the point where I quit.
P.S.: I really like the name Dungeons & Dataterminals. Did you come up with that yourself?
Yes, quite. It was the original planned title for this review back when I thought it was going to be positive/neutral recommendation.
Now I know that I am fairly hardcore when it comes to RPG combat and I like a challenge which requires strategy.
Anyway I could definitely use someone like you as a tester on my games in future. Since going back to around '08-'10 I have been getting the impression that they're a bit too challenging for the broadest audiences.
Out Of Control Cops - A Serious Problem In America
Really folks, I'm on the out for a relaxing afternoon so hopefully will be able to rant with a clearer head when I get home.
Smoke some pot man it really helps one mellow out and you seem like you could use some mellowing.
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I fixed the list numbers after pianotm reminded me how counting works lol.
#7 would you want to enter a home of a known drug dealer or face an angry mob
who might have guns without an automatic weapon??
I enter the home of known drug dealers all the time completely unarmed no sweat. XD
Seriously tho, yeah, here's the thing. The first of those MIGHT be an appropriate situation for assault weapons/a SWAT team if intelligence indicates the suspect is armed and dangerous and guarded by others that are armed and dangerous. But the drug dealer part on its own holds no real sway...for fuck's sake Linkis most of my friends are strictly speaking "drug dealers", the cops do not need automatic weapons for dealing with them.
I can't imagine how "an angry mob who MIGHT have guns" would ever be an appropriate situation for automatic weapons. Generally speaking riot police are way too quick to deploy and use force and way too much force. Every gathering of people 'MIGHT' have guns so that's a ridiculously stupid standard to use. If you are talking about a large group of visibly armed assailants, then yes, THAT seems like an appropriate situation for assault weapons.
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I should clarify that I phrased #3 poorly last night. I wasn't feeling very well. The word 'automatically' should be removed, and I am referring specifically only to the officers involved in the "worst of the worst" atrocities listed here. To me, it is obvious that even if they are cleared of criminal wrongdoing, all of these guys have OBVIOUSLY screwed up enough that they should be fired.
SOLUTIONS v2:
1) in the cases listed in the OP, jury trials for all cops involved, throw every charge applicable at them and see what sticks in court
2) in the cases listed in the OP, strictest penalties available under the law for all officers convicted of anything
3) in the cases listed in the OP and all cases similar to those presented in the OP, termination of employment without benefits even for officers that are acquitted. I mean this to apply in cases where it is clear that even if criminal wrongdoing is off the table, the officers have clearly and evidently FUCKED UP.
4) in all cases, prosecutors that failed to get grand juries to indict or failed to indict themselves or failed to call a grand jury should be terminated from employment without benefits, disbarred, and charged with obstruction of justice. make an example of these fucking snakes.
5) stricter screening and better training for police officers. massive retraining of the procedure for force escalation.
6) all police officers must wear body cameras according to federal law
7) federal laws enstated that harshly punishes disabling or tampering with your body camera, including automatic termination without benefits
8) restrict police access to assault weapons to appropriate situations i.e. solid confirmation of multiple suspects armed (with firearms) and dangerous
Les Visiteurs Dans L'Espace Review
I didn't buy Focus with Lin but I did buy Multi-Flashbang so I can attest that without Focus it really wasn't very impressive. It seemed to go off something like 2-4 times doing around 40 damage per pop which seemed downright feeble compared to the big hits we were taking from foes (like usually 250-400 damage each from Kilroy). I believe I had equipped a magic damage enhancing item on her too.
Keep in mind that Focus takes a turn to set up and the party's got to keep the very fragile Lin alive for that turn plus however many turns she flashbangs which isn't always easy because two solid hits from just about any enemy will kill her.
One of the tricks to balancing games where the players can customize the characters' skills as they wish is that the player might miss out on skills that are greatly important. I think this was definitely an issue for me with To Arms!. In this case for me it looks like it was at least Focus and Multi-Cure that I really should have taken.
To satisfy your curiosity:
In the Kilroy fight I tried to set up as many buffs as I could on everyone to keep them operational. I had Dirk Haste everyone and I had Alexis Strengthen herself and Dirk. I had Tyrell try to keep everyone healed, but he only had Cure, Revive, Shell, Protect, and Prayer. I tried to have him Protect Lin at the start of the fight but after that he was locked down putting out HP fires. I wasted one of Alexis's turns using Cover on herself hoping that she could help tank hits for Lin and Tyrell to keep them alive. I had Lin "work the rotation" of her elemental magic trying to find a weakpoint for Kilroy after I had her use Multi Flashbang a couple times and noticed that it was doing 'NULL' damage off of the scantily clad ice lady and with random targeting I didn't want to risk it being wasted like that. Anyway it was going...not good...until Kilroy used an ability that hit literally dozens of times for about 70 damage each leaving more of my party members dead than I could possibly re-up.
I also noticed in this battle as in a lot of battles that when I Phoenix-Downed an ally very frequently the enemy would re-kill that ally and/or another ally the next turn, which was very frustrating as again gold was scarce and revival items were rare. That phenomenon is a frustration that can happen in any RPG, though, it's definitely not specific to your game.
I admit that your knowledge of the game's battle balance is probably much deeper than mine. However, that is almost certainly part of the problem here.
If you take nothing else away from this review, definitely be aware that I skipped most enemy encounters because it was possible to skip them, and I felt severely underleveled in subsequent fights. Basically, understand that "forcing" the player to fight can definitely have its benefits.
Keep in mind that Focus takes a turn to set up and the party's got to keep the very fragile Lin alive for that turn plus however many turns she flashbangs which isn't always easy because two solid hits from just about any enemy will kill her.
One of the tricks to balancing games where the players can customize the characters' skills as they wish is that the player might miss out on skills that are greatly important. I think this was definitely an issue for me with To Arms!. In this case for me it looks like it was at least Focus and Multi-Cure that I really should have taken.
To satisfy your curiosity:
In the Kilroy fight I tried to set up as many buffs as I could on everyone to keep them operational. I had Dirk Haste everyone and I had Alexis Strengthen herself and Dirk. I had Tyrell try to keep everyone healed, but he only had Cure, Revive, Shell, Protect, and Prayer. I tried to have him Protect Lin at the start of the fight but after that he was locked down putting out HP fires. I wasted one of Alexis's turns using Cover on herself hoping that she could help tank hits for Lin and Tyrell to keep them alive. I had Lin "work the rotation" of her elemental magic trying to find a weakpoint for Kilroy after I had her use Multi Flashbang a couple times and noticed that it was doing 'NULL' damage off of the scantily clad ice lady and with random targeting I didn't want to risk it being wasted like that. Anyway it was going...not good...until Kilroy used an ability that hit literally dozens of times for about 70 damage each leaving more of my party members dead than I could possibly re-up.
I also noticed in this battle as in a lot of battles that when I Phoenix-Downed an ally very frequently the enemy would re-kill that ally and/or another ally the next turn, which was very frustrating as again gold was scarce and revival items were rare. That phenomenon is a frustration that can happen in any RPG, though, it's definitely not specific to your game.
I admit that your knowledge of the game's battle balance is probably much deeper than mine. However, that is almost certainly part of the problem here.
If you take nothing else away from this review, definitely be aware that I skipped most enemy encounters because it was possible to skip them, and I felt severely underleveled in subsequent fights. Basically, understand that "forcing" the player to fight can definitely have its benefits.
Out Of Control Cops - A Serious Problem In America
@Lou:
It's a fair point if from your opinion my solutions are an overcorrection but to be fair I do think you are overstating that point quite severely. Childishly disproportionate? That is overly harsh. But I am angry, and I should be angry, and I don't intend to deal with this matter dispassionately.
Anyone who values innocent human lives or the concept of justice and fairness should be angry about this mess.
Are you a civilian in this case or another police officer? If you're a civilian, that cop is clean to shoot or taze you or whatever... for trying to grab at him and has the footage of his body camera to sanction that shoot as a clean shoot. So...good luck? But that just seems like suicide by cop.
If you're another cop in this scenario, well that very much seems like a "my word versus his" scenario. All the cop has to do is say that you are the one who broke his camera. Then you have both cops go to court.
To clarify, tampering with a police officer's body camera would be a crime for ANYONE. Not just the officer that's registered to that camera.
Without a measure such as this, how could you reliably guarantee cops wouldn't just disable their cameras? They have a nasty fucking habit of doing that now.
To be clear, items #1, #2, and #3 refer specifically to the specific officers involved in the specific "worst of the worst" cases I have listed here not every cop every involved in a shoot or whatever needs to be dealt with that harshly but if you make an example of the worst offenders it will act as a deterrent for everyone else. Right now the message being sent to cops is "kill innocent people, no consequences". That message doesn't just need to change it needs to change DRASTICALLY.
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Really? NONE of them? Not even number 7? Wow...you really need to ask yourself what that says about you. Because it's not fucking good.
no shit you think?
yeah that's not going to happen. you almost got me to return your ad hominem in kind, but i stopped myself at the last second because that would have pushed this thread closer to locked which is explicitly what you want.
It's a fair point if from your opinion my solutions are an overcorrection but to be fair I do think you are overstating that point quite severely. Childishly disproportionate? That is overly harsh. But I am angry, and I should be angry, and I don't intend to deal with this matter dispassionately.
Anyone who values innocent human lives or the concept of justice and fairness should be angry about this mess.
Example: Say there's a cop I want fired. I break his camera, and tell his superior that he broke his camera. He gets fired without ceremony. I win!
Are you a civilian in this case or another police officer? If you're a civilian, that cop is clean to shoot or taze you or whatever... for trying to grab at him and has the footage of his body camera to sanction that shoot as a clean shoot. So...good luck? But that just seems like suicide by cop.
If you're another cop in this scenario, well that very much seems like a "my word versus his" scenario. All the cop has to do is say that you are the one who broke his camera. Then you have both cops go to court.
To clarify, tampering with a police officer's body camera would be a crime for ANYONE. Not just the officer that's registered to that camera.
Without a measure such as this, how could you reliably guarantee cops wouldn't just disable their cameras? They have a nasty fucking habit of doing that now.
To be clear, items #1, #2, and #3 refer specifically to the specific officers involved in the specific "worst of the worst" cases I have listed here not every cop every involved in a shoot or whatever needs to be dealt with that harshly but if you make an example of the worst offenders it will act as a deterrent for everyone else. Right now the message being sent to cops is "kill innocent people, no consequences". That message doesn't just need to change it needs to change DRASTICALLY.
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Jesus, Max. NO, I can't agree with any of your ideas.
Really? NONE of them? Not even number 7? Wow...you really need to ask yourself what that says about you. Because it's not fucking good.
seems like you're simply a cop hater from way back
no shit you think?
I think this thread
yeah that's not going to happen. you almost got me to return your ad hominem in kind, but i stopped myself at the last second because that would have pushed this thread closer to locked which is explicitly what you want.
Why continue a series?
am i the only one here who thought X-2 was too "girly" to consider playing it?
i mean shit is fucking dress up, right?
i mean shit is fucking dress up, right?
Out Of Control Cops - A Serious Problem In America
yeah, why discuss race in a thread about police brutality! won't someone think of us white people!
i didn't say 'don't discuss race' adon i said don't discuss racism vs. white people
This reminds me of the republicans who say want to be office because they KNOW how to fix the problem.....but don't tell us what that fix is.
Let's try to figure a way to correct the problem that so many are talking about.
You go first Max :)
here's some solutions sir:
1) jury trials for all cops involved, throw every charge applicable at them and see what sticks in court
2) strictest penalties available under the law for all officers convicted of anything
3) in cases similar to those presented in the OP, termination of employment without benefits even for officers that are acquited
4) prosecutors that failed to get grand juries to indict or failed to indict themselves or failed to call a grand jury should be terminated from employment without benefits, disbarred, and charged with obstruction of justice. make an example of these fucking snakes.
5) stricter screening and better training for police officers. massive retraining of the procedure for force escalation.
6) all police officers must wear body cameras according to federal law
7) federal laws enstated that harshly punishes disabling or tampering with your body camera, including automatic termination without benefits
8) restrict police access to assault weapons to appropriate situations
anyone disagree?
Out Of Control Cops - A Serious Problem In America
regardles of your rigid and (quite frankly archaic) definition of racism, my wording for racism is more reflective of what is actually considered racist. the oxford dictionary definition of "racism" is too white-influenced.
fuck this. this is bullshit SJW diarrhea logic and I hate it with every fiber of my being.
white people as a race are the race that has the political/social/economic power
Whether this statement is true or not depends on where and when you are talking about in space and time. But if you are positing it in the context of a universal constant throughout world history, then I must insist it is absolutely false.
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Anyway, I guess Linkis has got us back on the topic of cops so that's good. Let's try to stick with that for a while please.
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