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Comment on Offbeat Fridays – The thread where offbeat headlines become front page news in ~news
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Comment on "Shower thoughts" and other things to ponder in ~talk
CrazyProfessor02 Link ParentBut what type of cheese would you go for?But what type of cheese would you go for?
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Comment on "Shower thoughts" and other things to ponder in ~talk
CrazyProfessor02 Link ParentCoffee and pretzels. Because I run on coffee and pretzels are great. Or I'll go with gouda cheese because I like that one. Or blue cheese because who doesn't like eating mold.Coffee and pretzels. Because I run on coffee and pretzels are great.
Or I'll go with gouda cheese because I like that one. Or blue cheese because who doesn't like eating mold.
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Comment on Tildes Book Club 2024 retrospective in ~books
CrazyProfessor02 LinkHonestly thought that the Ministry for the Future was for this month, and I finished it today. Well at least I will be prepared for January (audio books are awesome). The last few ones I haven't...Honestly thought that the Ministry for the Future was for this month, and I finished it today. Well at least I will be prepared for January (audio books are awesome). The last few ones I haven't been participating, mostly because I was busy with one and I forgot with the other, the City We Became, I literally had the book next to my bed. But the next few ones the coming year I should be able to participate in most of them (unless something comes up) because my library has them as audio books.
As for my general thoughts about the ones that did, the books were really good, my favorites would be Piranesi and Roadside Picnic (and I think it was my first time posting here) and I liked the Ocean at the End of the Lane (despite the controversy that is around that author, but I won't be reading else by him, kind of hate the fact that I listened to it).
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Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games
CrazyProfessor02 LinkI just finished Metal Gear Solid V: the Phantom Pain last night. I have been playing it since Week 4 of the Backlog Burner even that @kfwyre and @Wes puts on. And I have been sick this past week...I just finished Metal Gear Solid V: the Phantom Pain last night. I have been playing it since Week 4 of the Backlog Burner even that @kfwyre and @Wes puts on. And I have been sick this past week with the cold that is going around, so I had decided to finish the game. My thoughts about it had not really changed from my post from that week, which is I really liked it, and with only one mission that I wanted to say "fuck it" because of the amount that I kept dying in that mission. But besides that slight hick up, I had really enjoyed the game, despite the fact that I typically don't really enjoy stealth games.
The mission in question
It's the one that you have to save Quiet from the Soviet Forces after she got captured by them towards the end of the game. I kept getting killed by the double tanks and to the helicopter (sometimes). After dying to the tanks for like seemed like for the 10th time, I finally called in a attack run with my helicopter and a bombardment to take out the tanks. Which I finally got passed that fight.
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Comment on 2024 Spotify Wrapped thread in ~music
CrazyProfessor02 Link ParentThey are a French technical death metal band from a small French border village on the French-Spanish Border (and yes that is the old name for Godzilla) that got memed about because of From Sirius...They are a French technical death metal band from a small French border village on the French-Spanish Border (and yes that is the old name for Godzilla) that got memed about because of From Sirius to Mars, more so with Flying Whales. But this not my favorite song from them, it would be the Art of Dying off of their the Way of All Flesh album.
They typically sing about environmental issues, because one of the Duplantier brothers swam in polluted waters and got sick because of that. And with one of their last singles, Amazonia, they ran a fund raising campaign for the ingenious peoples of the Amazon to help them with legal challenges against the deforestation of the rain forest. In recent times they are the band that performed during the Summer Olympics opening ceremony.
And Mario Duplantier, the drummer, is considered to be one of the best metal drummers right now.
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Comment on 2024 Spotify Wrapped thread in ~music
CrazyProfessor02 LinkTop Five Artists In Flames (One of the original Melo-death bands from Sweden) Gorjira (do I need to explain who these guys are besides the whale band) Orbit Culture (Swedish Melo-Death band)...Top Five Artists
- In Flames (One of the original Melo-death bands from Sweden)
- Gorjira (do I need to explain who these guys are besides the whale band)
- Orbit Culture (Swedish Melo-Death band)
- Crossfaith (Japanese metal core band that injects electronic music in their songs)
- We Came as Romans (American Metalcore band that I really have no idea why they are in my top 5, literally just one song from them because it was in a generated playlist that I listen to)
For what ever reason my minutes for this year is vastly less than the other years. My minutes this year is 3,903. I think I know why my minutes is so low, is that I had listened to more audio books than the other years
Top Songs
- Zero - Crossfaith
- Kingslayer - Bring Me the Horizon
- Darkbloom - We Came as Romans (this is the song that I was too lazy to skip and not that great of a song, considering that there are essentially two versions of the song, one that is with Band of Sacrifice which is the single version and then there is the album version which is just them)
- Future of Hell - Health
- Circle with Me - -Spiritbox
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Comment on November 2024 Backlog Burner: Conclusion and Recap in ~games
CrazyProfessor02 LinkThanks to @kfwyre and @Wes for putting this on. I had fun going through my backlog and trying the games that I had put off playing. CrazyProfessor02's Final Bingo Card Mode: Standard Winning...Thanks to @kfwyre and @Wes for putting this on. I had fun going through my backlog and trying the games that I had put off playing.
CrazyProfessor02's Final Bingo Card
Mode: Standard Winning Bingo! Finished 7/25 You wanted it when you were younger
✅ The Secret of Monkey Island: Special EditionChosen for you by someone else Same number of letters as your username Has cards You can save/pet/care for animals Part of a trilogy
✅ BeholderFocuses on relationships
✅ HadesHas a fishing minigame An updated version (remake, re-release) of an older game
✅ Bioshock 2 RemasterYou can complete it in only a few hours Set in a dungeon Has a score system ★ Wildcard
✅ Party HardHas survival mechanics Has both combat and puzzles Has a review score below 61 Has AI Has a time limit Has a skill tree
✅ Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom PainMakes you think Your friend loves it Released in the year you joined Tildes From a different country than you Has permadeath From now-defunct dev studio
✅ Thief II: the Metal AgeSadly, I really did not get any other game played this past week, my free time was taken up by MGS V this past week. The surprising games that I did enjoy was Hades and MGS V: The Phantom Pain. The reason that these games were the surprising ones is that they are both from genres of games that I typically find really annoying to play, roguelike and stealth games. Roguelikes because for whatever the reason I simply can not wrap my head around the mechanics, take for example FTL, I really want to enjoy this game, to the point that I had picked it up a couple of times, but I find that I can't find any enjoyment, so I just drop it. As for the stealth games, I really don't have the patience to really stealth it out, like that is required in games like Thief series and for the Dishonor series. But for whatever reason these two really clicked for me. As for my least favorite game(s) would be Thief II: the Metal Age and Party Hard. The reason for Thief II is that there was no tutorial, which makes me wonder if it was meant to be played immediately after finishing the first game, because that one did had a tutorial (minus the fact that I was killed almost immediately by a guard). Party Hard because I had found it to be just meh. I really don't have any other reason to why I didn't enjoy that game. And I really can't explain as to why I found it to be meh.
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Comment on November 2024 Backlog Burner: Week 5(ish) Discussion in ~games
CrazyProfessor02 Link ParentIf you want they did make Crusader Kings II free prior to the launch of CK3. Which is a good launching off point for a Paradox game, this one I believe is the second favorite, the other being...If you want they did make Crusader Kings II free prior to the launch of CK3. Which is a good launching off point for a Paradox game, this one I believe is the second favorite, the other being Victoria 2, without paying for it. Although, I would forgo the tutorial because the community finds it to be bad (this applies to most of their games) and really doesn't teach you that much or all of the various game mechanics.
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Comment on November 2024 Backlog Burner: Week 4 Discussion in ~games
CrazyProfessor02 Link ParentThanks. I agree with you that I much prefer stealth games that gives you the option of going loud or stealth is optional. Because it is less stressful for me. And if you get caught it is not a...Thanks.
I agree with you that I much prefer stealth games that gives you the option of going loud or stealth is optional. Because it is less stressful for me. And if you get caught it is not a immediate game over, like the other stealth game that I had played for this. But MGS V does strike a good balance of being a "super" solider and being a squishy human. And it does make sneaking easier with the "sneak suit" because that suit does silence your foot steps, so you can move at the normal walking or crouch speed without making that much noise.
I, too, try to play a games series in order if there is a overarching story or references in the later games that are call backs to the previous games. And so, far, I really have no idea why people are saying to play 5 last, considering that it is a prequel to the other games, including the other 5, which is the prequel to Phantom Pain. And really the only game that Phantom Pain is referencing or calling back to is Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeros, but at the same time, it does a pretty good job of why something is important because the characters keep saying "this is like 9 years ago in the Caribbean." That being said, MGS V is a good jump off point because it takes place years before the original games, so there is nothing to call back on or reference to.
The only thing that it punishes the player is if you use a attack from your helicopter or a mortar strike from your support crew, which locks you to an "A" ranking for the story missions. And if you die more than three times in a short time period the game will ask if you want the infamous chicken hat to make it easier for you, if tell it no because it was mostly outside missions that I keep dying, mostly to bears trying to knock them out.
It's that sort of "mask on" moment from the Payday games where you recognize that guano has hit the fan and it's time to bring out the heavy guns.
I still get flashbacks of the Cloaker's sound them chasing down players, which got a lot scarier if you were far away from people.
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Comment on November 2024 Backlog Burner: Week 4 Discussion in ~games
CrazyProfessor02 LinkCrazyProfessor02's Bingo Card Mode: Standard Winning Bingo! Finished 7/25 ✅ The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition Chosen for you by someone else Same number of letters as your username Has...CrazyProfessor02's Bingo Card
Mode: Standard Winning Bingo! Finished 7/25 You wanted it when you were younger
✅ The Secret of Monkey Island: Special EditionChosen for you by someone else Same number of letters as your username Has cards You can save/pet/care for animals Part of a trilogy
✅ BeholderFocuses on relationships
✅ HadesHas a fishing minigame An updated version (remake, re-release) of an older game
✅ Bioshock 2 RemasterYou can complete it in only a few hours Set in a dungeon Has a score system ★ Wildcard
✅ Party HardHas survival mechanics Has both combat and puzzles Has a review score below 61 Has AI Has a time limit Has a skill tree
✅ Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom PainMakes you think Your friend loves it Released in the year you joined Tildes From a different country than you Has permadeath From now-defunct dev studio
✅ Thief II: the Metal AgeThoughts on the Game
Now this one is the most iffy, and going with the most loose definition of what a skill tree is, but it is "Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain." The skill tree that I am going with is the unlocks that you get by playing the game and unlocking them with the GMP, which I equate to exp in a more traditional skill tree setting. Now, you might be wondering why I had chose another stealth game, while I had hate Thief 2, back in Week 2, the difference is that stealth is optional in Metal Gear Solid, granted I try to stealth it, and I even got some perfect stealths, while playing it. It is a very solid action game. I do like the world that the series takes place in, which helps. And this is the only Metal Gear that I had played, mostly because Konomi, had waited until the 2020s to release the older ones onto the PC and newer consoles.
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Comment on November 2024 Backlog Burner: Week 3 Discussion in ~games
CrazyProfessor02 Link ParentI agree that the relationship aspect of Hades is really smartly integrated in the progression of the game. And it really shows the friendships that Zagreus has, and develops throughout the game,...I agree that the relationship aspect of Hades is really smartly integrated in the progression of the game. And it really shows the friendships that Zagreus has, and develops throughout the game, and the strain relationship that Hades and him have. I really had no idea of what to expect in Hades, when I went into it, so it was surprise to see that it had a relationship mechanic with the gift giving.
I also agree that it is such a beautiful game.
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Comment on November 2024 Backlog Burner: Week 3 Discussion in ~games
CrazyProfessor02 LinkCrazyProfessor02's Bingo Card Mode: Standard Bingo! Finished 6/25 ✅ The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition Chosen for you by someone else Same number of letters as your username Has cards...CrazyProfessor02's Bingo Card
Mode: Standard Bingo! Finished 6/25 You wanted it when you were younger
✅ The Secret of Monkey Island: Special EditionChosen for you by someone else Same number of letters as your username Has cards You can save/pet/care for animals Part of a trilogy
✅ BeholderFocuses on relationships
✅ HadesHas a fishing minigame An updated version (remake, re-release) of an older game
✅ Bioshock 2 RemasterYou can complete it in only a few hours Set in a dungeon Has a score system ★ Wildcard
✅ Party HardHas survival mechanics Has both combat and puzzles Has a review score below 61 Has AI Has a time limit Has a skill tree Makes you think Your friend loves it Released in the year you joined Tildes From a different country than you Has permadeath From now-defunct dev studio
✅ Thief II: the Metal AgeThoughts on the First Game
Bioshock 2 Remaster is the remaster of the forgotten sequel of Bioshock, which barely anyone talks about and I think I know why. In Bioshock 2, you play as one of the hardest enemies from the first game, a Big Daddy that is looking for a Little Sister that your character is bonded to. I did not get that far into the game mostly because it really did not hooked me, as the first one had and the third one really had. Like this one is probably like that of Dragon Age 2, its there but no one talks about because its follow up and previous games everyone loves and talks about it.
Thoughts on the Second Game
Party Hard. You play as a serial killer that is going around the US during Spring Break that is killing party goers, just because a party was keeping your character up. I only got to the Vegas Level and decided that this was not for me. Just found it boring.
Thoughts on the Third Game
Hades. This one really sucked my time, I was originally going to put down as "Set in a dungeon" without realizing that there are other spots that I could put this down. Like I can put it down as a game that "You can save/pet/care for animals," you can pet Cerberus in the main hub, or one that has a "Has a fishing minigame" even thou the fishing minigame is not that in depth. But ultimately I decided to put it down as "Focuses on relationships." The reasoning is that Zagreus needs his friendships with the other characters that is actively helping him in his quest to escape from the Underworld that his father, Hades, runs. Mostly because he wants to find what happened to his mother, Persephone, much to the annoyance of his father.
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Comment on November 2024 Backlog Burner: Week 2 Discussion in ~games
CrazyProfessor02 Link ParentCrazyProfessor02's Bingo Sheet Mode: Standard Bingo! Finished 3/25 ✅ The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition Chosen for you by someone else Same number of letters as your username Has cards...CrazyProfessor02's Bingo Sheet
Mode: Standard Bingo! Finished 3/25 You wanted it when you were younger
✅ The Secret of Monkey Island: Special EditionChosen for you by someone else Same number of letters as your username Has cards You can save/pet/care for animals Part of a trilogy
✅ BeholderFocuses on relationships Has a fishing minigame An updated version (remake, re-release) of an older game You can complete it in only a few hours Set in a dungeon Has a score system ★ Wildcard Has survival mechanics Has both combat and puzzles Has a review score below 61 Has AI Has a time limit Has a skill tree Makes you think Your friend loves it Released in the year you joined Tildes From a different country than you Has permadeath From now-defunct dev studio
✅ Thief II: the Metal AgeThoughts about the game
Thief II: the Metal Age is brought to you by the now defunct studio Looking Glass Studios. I really don't understand why I got this and the other games that was part of the Thief bundle considering I don't particularly like stealth games (more that I don't have the patience for them than anything else and I find them stressful at other times). This one was a real quick ones considering that I stopped playing it at 11 minutes, within those 11 minutes I had to look up the controls more than once and then immediately gotten killed by the guards, and decided nope not for me. Even with newest Deus Ex games, where you can go without killing, I usually forgo that I go on a murder spree, to which in the prison warden in Human Revolution will criticize for this, if you decide to go this route. Mostly because it was counting on the fact that you remembered the mechanics from the first game because it literally dropped you in the game with no tutorial, even the first had that.
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Comment on November 2024 Backlog Burner: Week 2 Discussion in ~games
CrazyProfessor02 Link ParentHonestly, I have been copying and pasting the bingo card from my last postings and just doing the additions manually, not from the web app. So, sorry for the confusion. But I just checked, the...Honestly, I have been copying and pasting the bingo card from my last postings and just doing the additions manually, not from the web app. So, sorry for the confusion. But I just checked, the green check marks do appear in the web app in the Markdown part of it (as seen below), nothing is broken, just me being a complete idiot and not using the web app.
CrazyProfessor02's Bingo Sheet Now With the ✅ Now
Mode: Standard Bingo! Finished 2/25 You wanted it when you were younger
✅ The Secret of Monkey Island: Special EditionChosen for you by someone else Same number of letters as your username Has cards You can save/pet/care for animals Part of a trilogy
✅ BeholderFocuses on relationships Has a fishing minigame An updated version (remake, re-release) of an older game You can complete it in only a few hours Set in a dungeon Has a score system ★ Wildcard Has survival mechanics Has both combat and puzzles Has a review score below 61 Has AI Has a time limit Has a skill tree Makes you think Your friend loves it Released in the year you joined Tildes From a different country than you Has permadeath From now-defunct dev studio I think what's interesting about Monkey Island is how many different versions it's had. Guybrush comes in many different styles, and each has its own charm.
I agree that the two that I had played, Escape from Monkey Island and The Secret of Monkey Island, are different in their charms and quirks, but what I find interesting is that the humor between these two games are the same, which I find hard to do for video games because of staff coming and going.
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Comment on November 2024 Backlog Burner: Week 2 Discussion in ~games
CrazyProfessor02 LinkCrazyProfessor02's Bingo Sheet Mode: Standard Bingo! Finished 2/25 The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition Chosen for you by someone else Same number of letters as your username Has cards You...CrazyProfessor02's Bingo Sheet
Mode: Standard Bingo! Finished 2/25 You wanted it when you were youngerThe Secret of Monkey Island: Special EditionChosen for you by someone else Same number of letters as your username Has cards You can save/pet/care for animals Part of a trilogyBeholderFocuses on relationships Has a fishing minigame An updated version (remake, re-release) of an older game You can complete it in only a few hours Set in a dungeon Has a score system ★ Wildcard Has survival mechanics Has both combat and puzzles Has a review score below 61 Has AI Has a time limit Has a skill tree Makes you think Your friend loves it Released in the year you joined Tildes From a different country than you Has permadeath From now-defunct dev studio Thoughts about the game
The Secret of Monkey Island is one of those legendary point and click adventure games from the 90s that everyone loves. And for good reason, the humor is funny and the gameplay had aged pretty good, especially compared to the only 3d game in this series (which was the only one that I had played, back on the ps2 and more recently on the pc, even then the humor is great). I had always wanted to try the originals, even back when I was playing Escape from Monkey Island back on the ps2, because there were throwbacks to the originals, such as the reoccurring characters, like Otis and Carla, and the reason why they were reluctant to join Guybrush Threepwood's crew of pirates. I am about 15% done with the game, and still on Melee IslandTM, so it is not really a long game. I could have added this to the from now-defunct dev studio, because of Disney's weird decision of closing down Lucas Arts Studios, especially they had Star Wars 1313 in the works (which I believe they were close to finishing), and then reviving it under the Lucasfilms Games. But I have another game that would be under this for the coming week.
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Comment on US election results (other than presidential) thread in ~society
CrazyProfessor02 LinkHere in New York, we passed Proposition 1. The propose of this is to enshrine equal rights for people (and it doesn't harm girls sports or strips away parental rights from parents like some of my...Here in New York, we passed Proposition 1. The propose of this is to enshrine equal rights for people (and it doesn't harm girls sports or strips away parental rights from parents like some of my fellow New Yorkers think) and it also adds abortion to the constitution. And bars any law that could be passed from stripping these rights away. This is just adding to legal protections that included race, color, creed, and religion, prior to the amendment, now it includes
ethnicity, national origin, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, and pregnancy outcomes, as well as reproductive healthcare and autonomy.
In the list of protections that is under my state's constitution.
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Comment on Tildes Book Club Discussion - Kindred by Octavia Butler in ~books
CrazyProfessor02 LinkSadly, I did not have the time to read it, but I am currently reading the next book for the next discussion. So see y'all next time.Sadly, I did not have the time to read it, but I am currently reading the next book for the next discussion. So see y'all next time.
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Comment on Any recommendations for books, novellas and short story collections? in ~books
CrazyProfessor02 LinkThe Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells is a on going sci-fi novella series, with two full length novels. The story follows the main character a Security Unit (SecUnit) named itself Muderbot after...The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells is a on going sci-fi novella series, with two full length novels. The story follows the main character a Security Unit (SecUnit) named itself Muderbot after it had hacked it's own governor module, but it would rather watch it's soap operas and considers spending less time with humans a blessing.
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Comment on 2024 United States election megathread in ~society
CrazyProfessor02 Link ParentI swear, this past election cycle I have seen more Harris signs in my own town than I have seen any other Democrat nominee from the past. Even my neighbor across the street had never put out a...I swear, this past election cycle I have seen more Harris signs in my own town than I have seen any other Democrat nominee from the past. Even my neighbor across the street had never put out a sign for a presidential election or any political sign. But this election they have a small Harris flag.
Granted there is a fucker in town that has a giant ass Trump sign (with a life-size cut out of Trump) that he puts up every fucking time that there is a election, since 2016, and for Trump's birthday, which is really, really fucking weird.
The bald eagle isn't actually America's national bird — but that's poised to change
Some interesting (and weird) news for my fellow Americans on here that thought that our national bird, was not in fact our national bird. It is now, it's just really weird that we were taught this as kids.