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[Bauglir]

Extra sharp cheddar! Yesssss.

EDIT: Also, MacGyver'd  duck sauce was a partial success. While this tastes nothing like duck sauce and is quite thin, it's pretty delicious and I may have to make it again, with some sort of thickening. And sriracha.

[The Merchant Of Menace]

Playing Cataclysm.

Ramming a truck through a building and crushing a dozen zombies to death is more fun than it has any right to be

There are vehicles now?!!?!?!?!?!

Mod link in my signature

[JoshuaFH]

I'm happy that I've gotten my sister into playing Godhand, but it's painful watching her play! She's so bad and not receptive to my advice.

One odd thing that has come out of it though is that watching her play the game badly has actually allowed me to learn things I never knew about the game! She just does things I'd never have thought of doing in all my experience playing it, so even though I thought I knew everything about it, turns out I was wrong!

[Aklyon]

God Hand?

[Ochita]

I'm happy that I've gotten my sister into playing Godhand, but it's painful watching her play! She's so bad and not receptive to my advice.

One odd thing that has come out of it though is that watching her play the game badly has actually allowed me to learn things I never knew about the game! She just does things I'd never have thought of doing in all my experience playing it, so even though I thought I knew everything about it, turns out I was wrong!

Let her play as she does. Still, gotta love the various god-roulette moves you can pull off. Plus the whole ending credits and all. And the difficulty increasing/decreasing on how well you play.

[Sirus]

One odd thing that has come out of it though is that watching her play the game badly has actually allowed me to learn things I never knew about the game! She just does things I'd never have thought of doing in all my experience playing it, so even though I thought I knew everything about it, turns out I was wrong!

Supposedly that's the secret behind "beginner's luck": a newbie doesn't know how something is supposed to be "properly" done, and will do things that a more experienced person simply won't expect or think of.

[Leafsnail]

Your technique is terrible why can't I win against it??

[Aklyon]

Your technique is terrible why can't I win against it??

Your technique is awesome why am I winning against it anyway?

[Flying Dice]

One odd thing that has come out of it though is that watching her play the game badly has actually allowed me to learn things I never knew about the game! She just does things I'd never have thought of doing in all my experience playing it, so even though I thought I knew everything about it, turns out I was wrong!

Supposedly that's the secret behind "beginner's luck": a newbie doesn't know how something is supposed to be "properly" done, and will do things that a more experienced person simply won't expect or think of.

Exactly; a novice soldier is far more dangerous to a master than a mediocre one (or another master) simply because they won't act logically, and thus can't be predicted. The medieval-military aspect is one of the older applications of the concept, but it carries over to pretty much anything, in that a complete newcomer doesn't have any idea of what the "best" methods are, and can act unpredictably. It isn't even always a matter of innovation or 'fresh eyes bring new ideas', so much as pure surprise because something which would normally be so stupid, foolish, or inefficient as to be automatically rejected by someone with experience can often work against an opponent who has prepared their defense to counter the standard or logical methods of attack.

[Loud Whispers]

One odd thing that has come out of it though is that watching her play the game badly has actually allowed me to learn things I never knew about the game! She just does things I'd never have thought of doing in all my experience playing it, so even though I thought I knew everything about it, turns out I was wrong!

Supposedly that's the secret behind "beginner's luck": a newbie doesn't know how something is supposed to be "properly" done, and will do things that a more experienced person simply won't expect or think of.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Exactly; a novice soldier is far more dangerous to a master than a mediocre one (or another master) simply because they won't act logically, and thus can't be predicted. The medieval-military aspect is one of the older applications of the concept, but it carries over to pretty much anything, in that a complete newcomer doesn't have any idea of what the "best" methods are, and can act unpredictably. It isn't even always a matter of innovation or 'fresh eyes bring new ideas', so much as pure surprise because something which would normally be so stupid, foolish, or inefficient as to be automatically rejected by someone with experience can often work against an opponent who has prepared their defense to counter the standard or logical methods of attack.

Unless you face a master of drunken martial arts.

[Flying Dice]

One odd thing that has come out of it though is that watching her play the game badly has actually allowed me to learn things I never knew about the game! She just does things I'd never have thought of doing in all my experience playing it, so even though I thought I knew everything about it, turns out I was wrong!

Supposedly that's the secret behind "beginner's luck": a newbie doesn't know how something is supposed to be "properly" done, and will do things that a more experienced person simply won't expect or think of.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Exactly; a novice soldier is far more dangerous to a master than a mediocre one (or another master) simply because they won't act logically, and thus can't be predicted. The medieval-military aspect is one of the older applications of the concept, but it carries over to pretty much anything, in that a complete newcomer doesn't have any idea of what the "best" methods are, and can act unpredictably. It isn't even always a matter of innovation or 'fresh eyes bring new ideas', so much as pure surprise because something which would normally be so stupid, foolish, or inefficient as to be automatically rejected by someone with experience can often work against an opponent who has prepared their defense to counter the standard or logical methods of attack.

Unless you face a master of drunken martial arts.

Alcoholism: For fun and pleasure? 

[Ehndras]

I love how movies always show "hacking" or other assorted computer wizardry in some kind of graphical wonderland (like the infamous "UNIX" system in Jurassic Park) with progress bars and timers and whatnot, but the best way to get someone's jaw to drop and have them mutter something like "You people are gods" still remains pulling up a command prompt and fixing a problem entirely by typing arcane command-line stuff with lots of flags and switches. 

reminds me of something I found ages ago online (acn't find the link ) which was a  comparison of movie hacking, and real life hacking.

movie hacking: maybe if I can initiaite the subroutines in the... damn! he's locked me out!

IRL hacking: 'hello, this is bob, from your internet service provider!'

Damn it, now I want to redownload my old copy of Uplink: Hacker Elite.


...The only game I ever felt badass for playing at work.

[armeggedonCounselor]

Considering futures.

My futures, to be precise. Trying to decide if I want to go to college or the military.

If I go military, I'll need to work out more. Which means less internet. And less soda.

I do like soda.

And yes, I am basing a major life decision around the fact that I am addicted to coke.

[Nilik]

I love how movies always show "hacking" or other assorted computer wizardry in some kind of graphical wonderland (like the infamous "UNIX" system in Jurassic Park) with progress bars and timers and whatnot, but the best way to get someone's jaw to drop and have them mutter something like "You people are gods" still remains pulling up a command prompt and fixing a problem entirely by typing arcane command-line stuff with lots of flags and switches. 

reminds me of something I found ages ago online (acn't find the link ) which was a  comparison of movie hacking, and real life hacking.

movie hacking: maybe if I can initiaite the subroutines in the... damn! he's locked me out!

IRL hacking: 'hello, this is bob, from your internet service provider!'

Damn it, now I want to redownload my old copy of Uplink: Hacker Elite.


...The only game I ever felt badass for playing at work.

I remember that game! I was doing really well, until I decided I was going to cheat on some of my "take down this mainframe" missions by releasing the beta version of Revelation on them instead. Oh the first few times it worked out great, until I accidentally ran it locally...

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Shit. Shit. Shitshitshit.

Then the second time through I decided to hack a bank since I hadn't done that before, and it would give me enough internet moneys to basically breeze through the rest of the game. I guess I didn't cover my trail well enough. The worst part is to this day I have no idea where Uplink keeps it's saves, so restoring a screwed up game is completely.

[Remalle]

Woo.  I can vote and whatever now.