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[jc6036]

Holy shit.

How did I not know about The Oatmeal before?

I think I've just had an epiphany.

[Itnetlolor]

And since that got me to browsing The Oatmeal...

This pretty much sums up why I hardly ever game online.
'Cept for the jet-skiing.

I usually stay away from online gaming more due to bad sportsmanlike conduct from their end; plus, regardless of my skill, I also am quite a popular target to bully. I don't have the slightest clue as to why (and that includes having my skills up to scratch). However, I recognize a name from a prior nemesis, and such a game (let's say like Unreal) comes across, I know where all my redeemers, sniper rounds, flak shots, biorifle globs, shock blasts will be aimed at. After a bit of practice, studying a map, or playing in a more familiar environment, I tend to return the favor plus interest.

Just ask my brothers in any deathmatching game. They used to destroy me in Doom and so forth, until I got my shotgun skills up, and learned where BFGs spawn. But BFGs were usually reserved for point-blank shame or when I get pinned/flanked by a team effort. Oh yeah, I also learned how to dodge BFGs and their unique splash damage effect which made me a nightmare against them. Unreal was no better. I also learned how to snipe Redeemers out of the sky. The PCGamer Olympics mod (okay, so it tells about it; but you can find the download link elsewhere anyway) was also excellent practice for all my skills too. Try beating that monster in under 5 minutes. Harder than it sounds; but worth it for building up (or rebuilding) FPS skills in a jiffy.

Which reminds me, I gotta get back to deathmatching again. FO3 has gotten me lazy depending on VATS to score critical shots. Back then, I could headshoot with a pistol from 100m away sans zoom (a mod that allowed it proved so). We gotta setup a Bay-12 Unreal (GOTY/2k4) server.

[RedKing]

And since that got me to browsing The Oatmeal...

This pretty much sums up why I hardly ever game online.
'Cept for the jet-skiing.

 Except that it's horribly inaccurate. A lot of people I play with do exactly what the comic writer assumes they don't do.

 Although it's harder to feel smug and superior like that.

It's been pretty accurate in my experience. All my RL friends who I game with are 30-somethings, so even arranging a regular gaming night is tough. When we do game, it's enjoyable -- but in an MMORPG setting, it often got spoiled by twinks who kill us *just because they can*. Albeit, one of our greatest moments gaming together was successfully defending ourselves in WoW from a group of griefers that were significantly higher than us (4 lvl 60s against our group of 5 lvl 52-54) by using actual tactics and cooperation (and voicechat). But most of the time, it would just result in increased frustration and louder and louder obscenities being muttered.

That's one reason we pretty much just play Borderlands now. All the fun of co-op, none of the grief of other people getting in the way. It's a good model for online play, IMHO.

[ToonyMan]

Playing coop with a bunch of on-line friends is fun.  :]

[Duke 2.0]

 I think my beef here is more the overly vague term of "Online gaming." Some games seems to do it a lot worse than others. Borderlands and TF2 both have communities that are very nice to play with. Never played WoW, so I guess it may be a unique feature to that.

[ToonyMan]

Yeah I would have to say that comic is totally aiming at the married 30+ gamer demographic that have a wife that wants to go cave spelunking every single day.

Teenagers are just obsessive lazy-bouts who pop ritalin and chug mountain in the dark cold basement

[jc6036]

Damn straight! . . .

[Bauglir]

Wait, I could've been chugging mountains when I was a teenager? Alas, for my wasted youth!

[ToonyMan]

We ate Doctors too.

[Kadzar]

I remember back when ramen used to be 10 cents a pop (shame it's 30 cents each now; and that's on sale price). Used to stockpile those things like mad. Heck, we practically had a recipe book with all kinds of things you can make with that stuff. Personal favorite still has to be an egg drop soup variety (pour blended egg in after the soup is ready and seasoned) with a red hot sauce (the Chinese restaurant kind, the good stuff) with chayanne pepper, a shake or 2 of garlic powder, and a drop of soy sauce. :d

I just tried this without stopping to consider that some people might make ramen noodles on a stove top and, that, perhaps, it might not be possible to make egg drop soup in a microwave.

[quinnr]

My parents went into the city today (I stayed home because to be honest, big cities kind of freak me out. And I wanted to sleep in.) and they brought me back an Azuki/Red Bean Paste filled bun from the chinatown. I've wanted to try that stuff forever!

And it did live up to my expectations.

[Itnetlolor]

I remember back when ramen used to be 10 cents a pop (shame it's 30 cents each now; and that's on sale price). Used to stockpile those things like mad. Heck, we practically had a recipe book with all kinds of things you can make with that stuff. Personal favorite still has to be an egg drop soup variety (pour blended egg in after the soup is ready and seasoned) with a red hot sauce (the Chinese restaurant kind, the good stuff) with chayanne pepper, a shake or 2 of garlic powder, and a drop of soy sauce. :d

I just tried this without stopping to consider that some people might make ramen noodles on a stove top and, that, perhaps, it might not be possible to make egg drop soup in a microwave.

You can still make egg drop. Just make sure to blend the egg in a separate bowl, and make sure the soup in the other bowl is hot enough for the egg to cook on contact with the soup. Just make sure to keep stirring as you pour it in (stretches out the egg as it's put in).

If stove-top: you can use the same bowl you're pouring the soup into as the egg-drop blending bowl. Just slowly drop the blended egg into the pot as it's being stirred, and then pour it back into the same egg bowl, and not a drop of egg is wasted.

[Bdthemag]

Went to a local record store today, I was lucky enough to find a Metallica "Kill 'Em All" album

[Duke 2.0]

 New headset came in today. Of course I'm stuck with the audiophile issue of being used to my cruddy speakers, so these new speakers feel alien and weird. The quality is confusing my mind.

[Angel Of Death]

Went to a local record store today, I was lucky enough to find a Metallica "Kill 'Em All" album

Yay for Bdthemag!