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    Quote Originally Posted by BananaStand View Post
    No one is disputing the dishonesty. What seems to be in dispute...is the man's intent. You see "sinister villain". I see "idiot".
    That's a lot of discrepancy there. Not as a comparison obviously, but I just wonder what you think about Bernie Madoff. A misunderstood idiot, perhaps?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jack Sawyer View Post
    ... healthcare?
    I think the only thing I can think of would be mandatory health savings accounts. This would be because young people or just people in general might not understand health related risks as well as a group of policymakers might. Of course that begs the question that the policymakers would only know better if they were put in power by the private sector that knows better enough to put the knows-betters into power. The idea that government can make a better world than the private markets may be a tautology.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jack Sawyer View Post
    More than have already been presented?
    All that's been presented is a case of a dishonest non-disclosure. I haven't seen any definitive evidence of malice. The dishonesty was caught, punished, and corrected. What should have happened instead?

    Yes, the difference being that I try to understand what I read before putting it in a thread trying to make arguments
    I understand that according to the letter of the law, it's not gambling. If you have a problem with that, take it up with lawmakers. Explain to them how the McDonalds monopoly game is ruining kids lives, and needs to be stopped. Start a petition. Get a gofund me page to help all of the afflicted underage gamblers out there.

    But DON"T stomp your feet and demand a whole new judicial precedent that expands the definition of gambling, just so it can be used to shut down a perfectly legal business practice that you find distasteful. And I'll reiterate, this concern you seem to have for the children feels really really phony. I know for a fact there were some terrible stories of kids losing shitloads at online poker about a dozen years ago. I'll bet anything that no one on this forum gave a shit.

    Be honest now Jack...let's say hypothetically you took $1,000 from someone in heads-up cash games online. Then later you got a letter from PokerStars saying "Your opponent was actually underage, and it would be nice if you gave the money back". Are you gonna give the money back?

    See, shutting down poker to protect kids would take away something you like. But shutting down skin-gambling takes away something you don't like, so now it's ok to invoke the "what about the children" argument.....why?????

    OJ did it
    Not relevant. That was one case 25 years ago. As I see it, your problem here stems from the fact that these guys were not prosecuted aggressively enough, and that the 'slap on the wrist' was not a fitting punishment. How is that relevant to OJ? They charged him with two counts of capital murder, and sought a minimum punishment of life in prison.

    There are plenty of bad people who get prosecuted and punished with the full power of the law, every single day. Are you really telling me that your faith in the justice system is shaken because they didn't absolutely destroy the life and livelihood of these kids? Like....is it at all possible in your mind that they're actually good people who just got carried away and made a mistake??

    If not, then maybe you should run for attorney general and actually DO something about the problem. Or communicate with your own local judicial authorities and let them know of your concern. If enough people do that, then it will be considered in future cases.

    But if you're just gonna sit here and say "NAAAAAH, I don't like that....change it!" Then don't get pissy when no one listens or cares.

    I don't really know what my beef is, you know. Maybe it's the fact that he willfully and intentionally tried to deceive the public with something so crucial as ownership of a gambling site (as you know superusers are still a thing [POTRIPPER anyone?]),
    From what I gather, this isn't the same thing as potripper. The superuser problem in poker resulted in people actually losing money through exploitation. There were actual victims, with measurable damages. This skin-gambling thing seems to be limited to a simple non-disclosure in advertising. Not even close.

    Like, if potripper owned the site, and was playing on the site, but was doing so in a way that did not give him an advantage....that's still bad. But it is decidedly LESS bad than if he used his superuser status to cheat.

    or that it's gambling (by every definition of the action except current laws apparently simply refuse to recognize this) aimed at kids,
    There is obviously a lot of gray area here. Laws can't "refuse" to do something, only people can. If the law is being broken, report it to law enforcement. If it's really a problem, if the law is really being broken, they will do something about it.

    But as you are learning....the law is alot more than your own personal narrow understanding of it.

    or that once caught he deflected, still denying ownership, and then eventually owned up to it with apologies claiming "I didn't know",
    So what? Scrambling, desperate denials are not uncommon when people are caught. His denials were proven false, and the FTC acted. So what's the problem?? If the guy has lost credibility in your eyes because of his dishonesty....so be it. He risked his reputation, he lost, and now it's tarnished. I have no problem if you choose to participate in a market response.

    or the fact that these assholes got off with nary a slap on the wrist whereas if one steals fruit from a store you can go to jail for a long longass time
    Again, that's a crime with identifiable victims and measurable damages.

    Do you really really think that these guys should go to jail for a "long, longass time"?
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    Quote Originally Posted by BananaStand View Post
    All that's been presented is a case of a dishonest non-disclosure. I haven't seen any definitive evidence of malice. The dishonesty was caught, punished, and corrected. What should have happened instead?
    Gone to prison for a long, longass time

    Quote Originally Posted by BananaStand View Post
    I understand that according to the letter of the law, it's not gambling. If you have a problem with that, take it up with lawmakers. Explain to them how the McDonalds monopoly game is ruining kids lives, and needs to be stopped. Start a petition. Get a gofund me page to help all of the afflicted underage gamblers out there.

    But DON"T stomp your feet and demand a whole new judicial precedent that expands the definition of gambling, just so it can be used to shut down a perfectly legal business practice that you find distasteful. And I'll reiterate, this concern you seem to have for the children feels really really phony. I know for a fact there were some terrible stories of kids losing shitloads at online poker about a dozen years ago. I'll bet anything that no one on this forum gave a shit.
    Of course no one on this forum gives a shit. Does that make it less bad?

    Quote Originally Posted by BananaStand View Post
    Be honest now Jack...let's say hypothetically you took $1,000 from someone in heads-up cash games online. Then later you got a letter from PokerStars saying "Your opponent was actually underage, and it would be nice if you gave the money back". Are you gonna give the money back?

    See, shutting down poker to protect kids would take away something you like. But shutting down skin-gambling takes away something you don't like, so now it's ok to invoke the "what about the children" argument.....why?????
    Strawman, but I'll bite. You do understand how the blame in this particular strawman falls on Stars right? In proper poker parlance, DUCY?

    Quote Originally Posted by BananaStand View Post
    Not relevant. That was one case 25 years ago. As I see it, your problem here stems from the fact that these guys were not prosecuted aggressively enough, and that the 'slap on the wrist' was not a fitting punishment. How is that relevant to OJ? They charged him with two counts of capital murder, and sought a minimum punishment of life in prison.

    There are plenty of bad people who get prosecuted and punished with the full power of the law, every single day. Are you really telling me that your faith in the justice system is shaken because they didn't absolutely destroy the life and livelihood of these kids? Like....is it at all possible in your mind that they're actually good people who just got carried away and made a mistake??
    It happened a million years ago, yet he still got away light.

    Quote Originally Posted by BananaStand View Post
    If not, then maybe you should run for attorney general and actually DO something about the problem. Or communicate with your own local judicial authorities and let them know of your concern. If enough people do that, then it will be considered in future cases.

    But if you're just gonna sit here and say "NAAAAAH, I don't like that....change it!" Then don't get pissy when no one listens or cares.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BananaStand View Post
    From what I gather, this isn't the same thing as potripper. The superuser problem in poker resulted in people actually losing money through exploitation. There were actual victims, with measurable damages. This skin-gambling thing seems to be limited to a simple non-disclosure in advertising. Not even close.

    Like, if potripper owned the site, and was playing on the site, but was doing so in a way that did not give him an advantage....that's still bad. But it is decidedly LESS bad than if he used his superuser status to cheat.
    All rise!

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    So he wins big at his own site. WHAT A COINCIDENCE?

    95% of his videos were big wins. I wonder why ...

    Oh, and just to help you get your facts straight, it WAS an owner of then UB who did the POTRIPPER-ing. Also the one on Absolute Poker.

    Owners, man, never with any malicious intent

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    Quote Originally Posted by BananaStand View Post
    There is obviously a lot of gray area here. Laws can't "refuse" to do something, only people can. If the law is being broken, report it to law enforcement. If it's really a problem, if the law is really being broken, they will do something about it.

    But as you are learning....the law is alot more than your own personal narrow understanding of it.
    So, you just lay down and take laws? You never dispute anything? If it has been made THE LAW it is correct for you every single time?

    Quote Originally Posted by BananaStand View Post
    So what? Scrambling, desperate denials are not uncommon when people are caught. His denials were proven false, and the FTC acted. So what's the problem?? If the guy has lost credibility in your eyes because of his dishonesty....so be it. He risked his reputation, he lost, and now it's tarnished. I have no problem if you choose to participate in a market response.
    Yup, he got caught, and now came the lies and the denials. If you were just "an idiot" doing it "without malice", fess the fuck up. You already got caught with the hand in the cookie jar. That's an extra 20 years right there

    Quote Originally Posted by BananaStand View Post
    Again, that's a crime with identifiable victims and measurable damages.

    Do you really really think that these guys should go to jail for a "long, longass time"?
    What a silly question
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    Quote Originally Posted by wufwugy View Post
    I think the only thing I can think of would be mandatory health savings accounts. This would be because young people or just people in general might not understand health related risks as well as a group of policymakers might. Of course that begs the question that the policymakers would only know better if they were put in power by the private sector that knows better enough to put the knows-betters into power.
    Because it always ends up at or near crony capitalism. Where the know-betters just keep raising prices of stuff that people need to literally live

    I cannot have any faith in such a system


    Quote Originally Posted by wufwugy View Post
    The idea that government can make a better world than the private markets may be a tautology.
    Only if all you ever do is distrust the government, then yes, this statement makes sense. What I see from following US politics as of late, I see where you are coming from, but I also see kind of where you are headed

    Also, LOL Republican Tax Plan, and LOL Democrats negotiating by dealing away their leverage. It's just one big sad LOL right now. I hope you guys get out of it unscathed, as China is in the on-deck circle and Mandarin is kind of difficult to learn; let's not even mention Cantonese

    /derail
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jack Sawyer View Post
    Because it always ends up at or near crony capitalism. Where the know-betters just keep raising prices of stuff that people need to literally live
    Crony capitalism is when business and government buddy up.

    I'm not sure what you're calling crony capitalism. Free market capitalism and crony capitalism are opposites.
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    Quote Originally Posted by wufwugy View Post
    Crony capitalism is when business and government buddy up.

    I'm not sure what you're calling crony capitalism. Free market capitalism and crony capitalism are opposites.
    Ok wuf, explain to me 2 things please.

    1) How will a fully free market avoid going in the crony capitalism phase? As a firm gets big enough, it can just buy its competition and raise prices as it sees fit, correct? In a free market, how will this not happen?


    2) How would a fully free market avoid the Daraprim situation?

    I have more, but these two will suffice for now. I'm off to watch star wars, so I'll probably be drunk AF tonight to continue discussing
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jack Sawyer View Post
    1) How will a fully free market avoid going in the crony capitalism phase? As a firm gets big enough, it can just buy its competition and raise prices as it sees fit, correct? In a free market, how will this not happen?
    These are two completely different issues. This is not an example of crony capitalism.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jack Sawyer View Post
    Ok wuf, explain to me 2 things please.

    1) How will a fully free market avoid going in the crony capitalism phase?
    That would probably require enough people discarding the anti-market bias so that they don't encourage intrusive government.

    As a firm gets big enough, it can just buy its competition and raise prices as it sees fit, correct?
    No, firms can't do that. We can discuss why that is if you would like.


    2) How would a fully free market avoid the Daraprim situation?
    This situation is a good sign that the market is working to make things better. Here's an economist explaining why price gouging improves lives while not allowing price gouging harms lives.

    http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/..._on_price.html

    I can go a bit more into it than he does in this brief article if you would like.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jack Sawyer View Post
    Gone to prison for a long, longass time
    Holy shit dude.....really???

    Of course no one on this forum gives a shit. Does that make it less bad?
    It makes any criticism of similar behavior on this forum seem ironic.

    Strawman, but I'll bite. You do understand how the blame in this particular strawman falls on Stars right? In proper poker parlance, DUCY?
    Dodge....but I'll bite.

    I get that. I'm asking you if your 'save the children' value system would compel you to give the money back. Regardless of who is technically to blame, in this case you would still have money that you acquired through the exploitation of a child. Would you keep it?

    If so, then your entire argument about kids gambling is a STRAWMAN.

    It happened a million years ago, yet he still got away light.
    He was acquitted. Do you really not understand this? The prosecutors put mountains of damming evidence in front of a jury and they still said "not guilty". What do you think should have happened??

    95% of his videos were big wins. I wonder why ...
    Yeah, I also wonder why casino ads always show cool people having fun instead of showing degenerates giving away their social security check.

    Oh, and just to help you get your facts straight, it WAS an owner of then UB who did the POTRIPPER-ing. Also the one on Absolute Poker.
    I already have that fact straight. It's like you're deliberately trying to avoid my point.

    There is a MASSIVE difference between an owner playing on his own site, and an owner using his ownership privileges to cheat. Both are bad. But surely you understand why one should be punished more severely than the other.

    Was the CSGO lotto site cheating? Did they alter the algorithms in a way that resulted in them winning all the time? Did they actually make money by defrauding other players? Cuz I'm pretty sure that the FTC would have looked into that. Once they were busted for non-disclosure, any sensible investigation would have sought to uncover their motive. So I'm sure they all got a look at the code.

    So, you just lay down and take laws? You never dispute anything? If it has been made THE LAW it is correct for you every single time?
    Does not follow...

    I suggested to you, that if a law has been broken, to report it to law enforcement. What does this have to do with disputing laws?

    It sounds like you're just miffed that the legal definition of gambling doesn't exactly fit this CSGO lotto site because they used a slippery loophole where you don't actually have to pay to play. I think that according to your own personal specific 'eyeball test', it's gambling. And because your eyeballs say it's gambling, you expect the law to conform to your preferred interpretation.

    Good luck with that.

    Yup, he got caught, and now came the lies and the denials. If you were just "an idiot" doing it "without malice", fess the fuck up. You already got caught with the hand in the cookie jar. That's an extra 20 years right there
    Puh-leeeze! I've walked into a room where two of my three kids are crying and the other one is sitting there pretending like nothing is going on. And I"m like "what did you do to your sisters?" Then she says "nothing"

    lol.....20 years.....el oh fucking el.

    They're kids Jack. Chill the fuck out.
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    I set up a second user on my playstation for my kids. I set it up with no privileges, no online play, no chat, and no access to my PSN wallet.

    Apparently Sony realized that this user couldn't buy lootboxes and lost their shit. They made me PROVE that an adult and authorized user was actually doing this. So I had to log into the admin account and process a 50 cent charge to my credit card.

    I tried to set up an account that was insulated against microtransactions and the machine said "50 cents please"
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    Quote Originally Posted by BananaStand View Post
    I set up a second user on my playstation for my kids. I set it up with no privileges, no online play, no chat, and no access to my PSN wallet.

    Apparently Sony realized that this user couldn't buy lootboxes and lost their shit. They made me PROVE that an adult and authorized user was actually doing this. So I had to log into the admin account and process a 50 cent charge to my credit card.

    I tried to set up an account that was insulated against microtransactions and the machine said "50 cents please"
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    Quote Originally Posted by BananaStand View Post
    Holy shit dude.....really???


    It makes any criticism of similar behavior on this forum seem ironic.


    Dodge....but I'll bite.

    I get that. I'm asking you if your 'save the children' value system would compel you to give the money back. Regardless of who is technically to blame, in this case you would still have money that you acquired through the exploitation of a child. Would you keep it?

    If so, then your entire argument about kids gambling is a STRAWMAN.


    He was acquitted. Do you really not understand this? The prosecutors put mountains of damming evidence in front of a jury and they still said "not guilty". What do you think should have happened??


    Yeah, I also wonder why casino ads always show cool people having fun instead of showing degenerates giving away their social security check.


    I already have that fact straight. It's like you're deliberately trying to avoid my point.

    There is a MASSIVE difference between an owner playing on his own site, and an owner using his ownership privileges to cheat. Both are bad. But surely you understand why one should be punished more severely than the other.

    Was the CSGO lotto site cheating? Did they alter the algorithms in a way that resulted in them winning all the time? Did they actually make money by defrauding other players? Cuz I'm pretty sure that the FTC would have looked into that. Once they were busted for non-disclosure, any sensible investigation would have sought to uncover their motive. So I'm sure they all got a look at the code.


    Does not follow...

    I suggested to you, that if a law has been broken, to report it to law enforcement. What does this have to do with disputing laws?

    It sounds like you're just miffed that the legal definition of gambling doesn't exactly fit this CSGO lotto site because they used a slippery loophole where you don't actually have to pay to play. I think that according to your own personal specific 'eyeball test', it's gambling. And because your eyeballs say it's gambling, you expect the law to conform to your preferred interpretation.

    Good luck with that.


    Puh-leeeze! I've walked into a room where two of my three kids are crying and the other one is sitting there pretending like nothing is going on. And I"m like "what did you do to your sisters?" Then she says "nothing"

    lol.....20 years.....el oh fucking el.

    They're kids Jack. Chill the fuck out.

    ITT I learned 25-year olds with clear malicious intent are kids. Good to know
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jack Sawyer View Post
    Just got Witcher 3 complete, let's see if it's a good game or not
    Trailers for it were sick, but I haven't played anything resembling a modern video game in a decade or some shit other than Terraria, Don't Starve and Factorio.
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    Factorio is the game that keeps on giving.

    The game was perfectly stable and playable a year ago (when I discovered it, probably much earlier though, judging by the scope of mods available at that time).
    They're 2 major updates later, with loads of new content, much better mid-game balance and higher-res graphics.



    If anyone is on the fence about Factorio, then download and play the free demo. You'll know right away if the game's for you. If it is, that $20 will buy you hundreds, if not thousands of hours of gaming.

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    Is Factorio, or Steam, compatible with ChromeCast?
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    no, but you can occasionally grab a steam link on sale for >$10.
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    It's on sale for €5,5 atm
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    OMG...when will the world just get on fucking board with ChromeCast

    One dongle for all things.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jack Sawyer View Post
    Just got Witcher 3 complete, let's see if it's a good game or not
    Holy graphics Batman!

    Also, found out I already had Witcher 2 as well. Hahahaha I will be making time for this one.

    This game is good. It's a quest based rpg, with amazing graphics and an expansive open world. Get it ($20 on xbox live right now, $90 retail)
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    the fuck are you talking about! Chromecast only works with chrome and youtube. If you want to quantify functionality, the steam link does everything chromecast does plus games. And it costs as much as a fancy loaf of bread.
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    I'd be playing Witcher 3 if it weren't just beyond my new 'puter's specs. I've been watching a youtube series that's over 100 episodes in at this point @ ~30 min each. Tons of content.

    There's plenty of scenes in that game that I would not at all be comfortable having someone walk into the room and see, though.
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    I've been doing some research into VR and I apologize if some of this is shit because I've been awake for 20+ hours trying to fix my sleep schedule from new years, and I'm easily entertained right now. I've been clicking through all the recent VR posts from the lifestreamfail subreddit and my lungs are hurting from laughing:

    https://clips.twitch.tv/HealthyTenderChipmunkDogFace
    https://clips.twitch.tv/AthleticLove...lOptimizePrime
    https://clips.twitch.tv/ShortStylishOtterKeepo
    https://clips.twitch.tv/SuperTsundereWasabiWow
    https://oddshot.tv/s/H_AspU
    https://clips.twitch.tv/HorribleYawn...leCharlieBitMe
    https://oddshot.tv/s/zpDfeF
    https://clips.twitch.tv/VainExquisiteFlamingoTooSpicy
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    Quote Originally Posted by oskar View Post
    the fuck are you talking about! Chromecast only works with chrome and youtube.
    And Netflix....
    And HBO GO......
    And Whatever they call Showtime's app....
    And Pretty much all the TV channel apps.....
    And Pornhub....

    So fuck steam link
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    I think this is my first post in this thread.

    Woo video games.

    As you were.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BananaStand View Post
    And Netflix....
    And HBO GO......
    And Whatever they call Showtime's app....
    And Pretty much all the TV channel apps.....
    And Pornhub....

    So fuck steam link
    For a guy who is supposedly into markets why would you be annoyed that another company provides you great content for a very affordable price?
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    If you don't like Steam, you can take a look a gog.com.

    If you don't like either, you can buy Factorio direct from the Factorio website.

    It's going to run in its own window, anyway, so there's no need to invoke Steam or any other background client.
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    I don't specifically object to steam or it's associated dongle, it would just make my life a ton easier if there was one dongle for all things.

    Also, I played Factorio over the weekend cause it looked interesting. I played through the demo. I liked it, though I don't get why you have a character that has to move near any buildings just so you can interact with them. It seems like an annoying gimmick and the game would have been alot better if it just followed the Sim-City recipe where you can play the game from an omnipotent point-of-view in the sky.

    Also, shooting alien bugs detracted from the fun for me. I thought it was fun trying to set up the optimum layout for my factory and generate stuff efficiently. But that kept getting interrupted by a swarm of freaky caterpillars.

    Are there options/mods in the full version to fix either of these problems?
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    Quote Originally Posted by BananaStand View Post
    I don't specifically object to steam or it's associated dongle, it would just make my life a ton easier if there was one dongle for all things.
    Ye but there isn't but your options are still great and cheap. As a consumer it's a really shitty point to moan at. Like you come across as worse than jack moaning about micro transactions.

    In other news I recently left my last wow guild, were a few people I didn't get on with that well and I was struggling to make raid times etc. Joined a new guild on trial and it seems to be going ok so far. They don't seem as active as my old guild but much better raiding times and they are much more optimal in their approach to things so we'll see how it goes.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Savy View Post
    you come across as worse than jack moaning about micro transactions.
    BUT KIDS GAMBLING THO!!!!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by BananaStand View Post
    I don't specifically object to steam or it's associated dongle, it would just make my life a ton easier if there was one dongle for all things.

    Also, I played Factorio over the weekend cause it looked interesting. I played through the demo. I liked it, though I don't get why you have a character that has to move near any buildings just so you can interact with them. It seems like an annoying gimmick and the game would have been alot better if it just followed the Sim-City recipe where you can play the game from an omnipotent point-of-view in the sky.

    Also, shooting alien bugs detracted from the fun for me. I thought it was fun trying to set up the optimum layout for my factory and generate stuff efficiently. But that kept getting interrupted by a swarm of freaky caterpillars.

    Are there options/mods in the full version to fix either of these problems?
    If you can create a generic sandbox map, the bugs can be turned off at world gen. Having done so, turn off pollution, too. Pollution's only purpose is to trigger the bugs to attack.

    I recommend trying the mod "Picker Extended Version" for a nice assortment of QoL tweaks. I'm pretty sure there's extended reach which can be modified in the mod settings to accommodate your comfort level.

    Or here:
    https://mods.factorio.com/?q=reach

    Now that I think of it, I believe you can use console commands to fake a Sim City style interface, but I never tried it. The Factorio reddit is one of the nicest corners of the internet I've ever seen, so if you're curious, just ask there.
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    Path of Exile is my jam. I'm trying to beat it without using any trades and while only using the kind of build I find fun (as opposed to one better suited for beating the game). Very hard.
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    Path of Exile is my jam. I'm trying to beat it without using any trades and while only using the kind of build I find fun (as opposed to one better suited for beating the game). Very hard.
    I took a look at the website. Give me a quick summary?
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    Quote Originally Posted by wufwugy View Post
    Path of Exile is my jam. I'm trying to beat it without using any trades and while only using the kind of build I find fun (as opposed to one better suited for beating the game). Very hard.
    I took a look at the website. Give me a quick summary?
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    It's basically a greatly improved Diablo 2 with regular improvements/expansions.

    If you don't know what that is, it's overhead view hack n slash. You use melee and magic and ranged and other forms of combat to kill very large amounts of monsters in a medieval fantasy setting. It's largely loot-based, meaning monsters you kill drop better weapons/armor etc.. Path of Exile has an incredible skill system, where you can get VERY creative with your builds. Or you can stay simple if you want.

    I prefer melee facetanking. I've beaten maybe 85% of the content with this style. But it gets really hard. You almost have to trade with other players for better gear to create your "final" build. I just don't want to do that. Some people have beaten all the content without trading with others (and without trading between their own characters), but they're gangsters who grind like crazy and know how to make the best builds and know how every boss behaves perfectly.
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    My new character this league might be my final attempt to beat all the content. I'll probably level up to 92 (the highest I've gotten), then stop trying to level anymore and instead try to complete the content using lots of deaths. There's a penalty to experience when you die in the late-game, and I always wanted to get a character up to 100, but it's so damn hard. Most builds that can finish endgame can do so around level 90. The people who do it in the permadeath league get to 100 or close though.
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    Interesting stuff. I never played Diablo 2, but I had a friend who was kind of addicted to it, and it looked like a game I'd enjoy.
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    Path of Exile is free to play. That and it being based on Diablo 2 (which I loved) is why I started it. Got hooked pretty quickly.

    I like the company's business model too. It's creative. You don't have to spend any money in order to beat it, and spending money is simply a time-energy saver or for aesthetics instead of making your character more powerful. The game's most hardcore players have spent thousands. I've spent like 30 for a few stash tabs that make life easier.
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    Clustertruck is a solid couple of hours of entertainment.
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    For the past couple of days I've been trying to figure out what games I can get from the sale that I'm most likely to play at some point. So far my list is: Bayonetta, Skullgirls, Superflight and Quadrilateral Cowboy. Probably booting QC.
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  42. #1317
    Speaking of Diablo2, was anyone else active in hardcore, with the resetting ladder every few months? That shit was so much fun/so stressful. Going back to normal was like going back to play money tables.
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    Quote Originally Posted by oskar View Post
    For the past couple of days I've been trying to figure out what games I can get from the sale that I'm most likely to play at some point. So far my list is: Bayonetta, Skullgirls, Superflight and Quadrilateral Cowboy. Probably booting QC.
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    I guess I've been overlooking that one because I've been burned by highly stylized platformers too many times before. But also some of my favorite games of the past have been highly stylized platformers.

    I've been playing VRchat for a couple of hours and it's amazing. It's laissaiz-faire role playing so it's kind of hit and miss, but I was surprised by the depth people have been creating on their own. Everyone should try it. It's free, it's on Steam and you really don't need a VR headset to play it. In the short time I've played it: me and Morty tried to help a guy find more balls. I joined a cult, took part in a mass suicide and had an interesting chat about character creation in Blender with a sack of potatoes.
    Highly recommended!
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    Get the fuck outta here, Garfield! Kill 'im!

    https://youtu.be/eR7yRKBromQ?t=239
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    Quote Originally Posted by boost View Post
    Speaking of Diablo2, was anyone else active in hardcore, with the resetting ladder every few months? That shit was so much fun/so stressful. Going back to normal was like going back to play money tables.
    Same thing in Path of Exile. I don't play hardcore though. Once somebody is good enough, the deaths are bullshit sudden surprise nonsense because the developers allow logout macro
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    Yeah, d2 had essentially the same thing. I forget if we used logout macros or just alt+f4. I think the key that kept it fun was that the ladder reset regularly, and being on top, or towards the top, at any given point gave you bragging rights and I think a special avatar in chat (beyond the hardcore red halo). Because of the reset and the incentives to be at the top, you kinda had to push your character and balance the risk of dying vs the reward of big XP gains. If you just played it safe where you could never get caught off guard and have your HP drained in seconds, you'd never be competitive.
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    Only watch these if you've either been in VRchat and you do know the way, or you don't know the way but you also really don't care to know the way, then watch these. But I would consider these massive spoilers for VRchat. Yes, spoilers for VRchat. Go check it out if you haven't already

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    Mah loot boxes.
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    Quote Originally Posted by oskar View Post
    Only watch these if you've either been in VRchat and you do know the way, or you don't know the way but you also really don't care to know the way, then watch these. But I would consider these massive spoilers for VRchat. Yes, spoilers for VRchat. Go check it out if you haven't already

    At first I thought there might be more to VR chat than meets the eye. Now I see there's less. Thank you for showing me the way.
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    It can only be what you are able to make of it.
    So, no, brudah, dis is not da wae for u brudah.
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    Thumper is just a really good game. Even more impressive that it's a 2-man project and they build it on a custom engine.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih7L9mHBLDE

    interesting talk about the development process:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckm8_SEIXQM

    Still on a quest to find a good game that gives my hands something to do while I'm listening to podcasts. So far no winners.
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    Modded Skyrim SE is amazing.
    Top 3 mods I can think of sitting at work on a slow day in-between last day of classes and final exams:

    Legacy of the Dragonborn is epic.
    Ordinator makes the perk trees more impactful.
    SMIM fixes terribad meshes in vanilla Skyrim.


    Anyone have any Skyrim SE mods to recommend?
    (I'm not interested in any "boob physics" type mods. I'm really OK with cartoon boobs being less than exhilarating.)
  55. #1330
    I heard this morning that there is a man suffering from carpal tunnel syndrome as a result of a game called Fortnite.

    This might not seem newsworthy, however, this particular man has a $100M+ contract to pitch baseballs for the Boston Red Sox.

    Is the game really that good? So good that a man would compromise a $100M livelihood just to play a little more?
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    Quote Originally Posted by BananaStand View Post
    I heard this morning that there is a man suffering from carpal tunnel syndrome as a result of a game called Fortnite.

    This might not seem newsworthy, however, this particular man has a $100M+ contract to pitch baseballs for the Boston Red Sox.

    Is the game really that good? So good that a man would compromise a $100M livelihood just to play a little more?
    It's a shit game for children.

    Also see addiction.
  57. #1332
    Speaking of addictive games for children, I am hooked on splatoon 2. Such a silly little shooter but it's crazy fun

    Has anyone else here picked up a switch?
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  58. #1333
    Played hour and a half of Witcher 3. Do not like. Seeing if can get refund.

    Might try Original Sin 2
  59. #1334
    Main problem with Witcher is I want to play a game not watch a movie. I try to play games the way they are intended, consume majority of content, take it somewhat easy to soak it in and figure it out. Doing that, I had only two straightforward fights in 1:30 of play time. Not fun.
  60. #1335
    COMPLETELY AGREE about Witcher.

    Fucking everything I read raved about it, so I bought it. Two hours in and I think I've pushed like 4 buttons. And when I do engage in some kind of "action", I feel like I'm just mashing buttons and hoping for the best. And it works!! Can't imagine why this game is so popular.
  61. #1336
    The reason for that is you haven't really started playing the game. I avoid stuff like that for similar reasons but it's pretty stupid to say it's bad.

    As for me I'm still just dossing about playing WOW.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Savy View Post
    The reason for that is you haven't really started playing the game. I avoid stuff like that for similar reasons but it's pretty stupid to say it's bad.

    As for me I'm still just dossing about playing WOW.
    I feel like I gave it a chance. I logged something like 5-6 hours, and spent every minute frustrated and disappointed.

    How long does it take to "really start playing the game"?
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    Quote Originally Posted by BananaStand View Post
    I feel like I gave it a chance. I logged something like 5-6 hours, and spent every minute frustrated and disappointed.

    How long does it take to "really start playing the game"?
    Depends how you go about it you can literally spend tens of hours doing nothing or any real relevance. It's one reason why I don't like such open world RPGs. Like with most long forms of media they can seem a little impenetrable at first.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Savy View Post
    you can literally spend tens of hours doing nothing of any real relevance.
    Yeah, and not even on purpose
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    Quote Originally Posted by wufwugy View Post
    Might try Original Sin 2
    It really shines as a multiplayer coop RPG. Single player is good, don't get me wrong.

    It's a beautiful game, with a good leveling system and turn based combat.
    Also has talking cats.
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    I got Divinity: Dragon Commander a while ago pretty much because of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vejayAkO9PM
    Obligatory: RIP Totalbiscuit :'(
    The writing is great. I imagine the same goes for other Divinity titles. The RTS part hurt my pride. I'd like to think of myself as being pretty good at RTS but I couldn't get behind it.

    I'm pretty excited for Rage2. I didn't play Rage because it looked too much like an awesome concept with game mechanics decided on by a committee. From the trailers it looks like they have learned their lesson from Doom.

    There are probably zero Dota2 players here. I got back into it because battlepass matchmaking is always way superior to regular matchmaking, and it's battlepass time again. I like what they did. They sped the game up a fair bit, created more points of contention and just generally encourage fighting more over passive farming and it's probably the best it's ever been. Of course, the learning curve is not as much of a curve as it is a brick wall, so I'm hesitant in recommending it unless you have friends who play and you want to stress test your relationship.
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    new path of exile league is the best theyve done. if youve thought about playing it, now is the time
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    I waited far too long to try out Darkest Dungeon. It's great.

    Such a time sink.
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    Quote Originally Posted by wufwugy View Post
    No, firms can't do that. We can discuss why that is if you would like.
    I wonder what it is Amazon's doing right now
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    Titanfall 2 single player campaign is the best thing I've ever played. Dunno about the multiplayer though
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    Quote Originally Posted by MadMojoMonkey View Post
    I waited far too long to try out Darkest Dungeon. It's great.

    Such a time sink.
    Part of why DD is so much fun is because the central game-design principle seems to be to throw tons of variance at the player and challenge them to limit and control the variance.

    It's a pretty nice fit for a poker player.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MadMojoMonkey View Post
    Part of why DD is so much fun is because the central game-design principle seems to be to throw tons of variance at the player and challenge them to limit and control the variance.

    It's a pretty nice fit for a poker player.

    Yup, totally loving this game after having it for just a few days.

    There's a layering of the variance that's pretty cool - e.g., you first have x% chance to 'hit' the opponent, then iff you hit them you do i-j worth of damage, and whether or not you do DOT is also variable by player and enemy. It makes it pretty much impossible to devise a perfect plan that will see you through an entire battle.

    Add to that all the other perks - the retro, cheesy-but-oh-so-polished graphics, the music, etc.

    I have to say the best part of the feel comes from the narrator though - that voice and that script are both just so awesome.

    "In time, you will know the tragic extent of my failings." lol
  73. #1348
    So i got fucking micro-transaction-ed.

    My kids asked me to buy something called "Robux"

    I did it....for the purposes of my own sanity.

    Who do I sue?
  74. #1349
    How do I make a game that is purely designed to get kids to badger their parents into buying virtual currency?
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    ongies gonna ong
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    I feel like a post disappeared....

    ....seems someone is getting smarter....

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