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[DeKaFu]

Can't you continue to play it anyway without the servers, though?

You can, but the online is a big part of what makes the game exceptional instead of only good, in my opinion. Plus, the servers going down would have made at least one item in the game permanently inaccessible (and screwed up an extremely cool boss battle).

[Descan]

Yes, but some things ARE dependant on the servers.

I'm happy that I got TWO interviews from going out to the local warehouses and spraying my resumes over them like an overzealous pornstar.

They're only interviews, but one is for a temp agency that works with at least one warehouse in the area, and one is at the ACTUAL warehouse! Within walking distance, even!

I hope I get the latter, that'd make commuting a breeze!

[Nadaka]

I have a friend who plays Demon Souls IIRC. Isn't that the game where you can get other players invading your world, or coming to your world to protect it from an invading player? or something like that?

[Flying Dice]

I have a friend who plays Demon Souls IIRC. Isn't that the game where you can get other players invading your world, or coming to your world to protect it from an invading player? or something like that?

I seem to recall that it has a system where players can leave messages that are visible to other players in their own SP games, warning of traps, ambushes, and such. Could be wrong, though.

[DeKaFu]

The system's kind of complicated, but in short, yeah.

Spoiler: Long version (click to show/hide)

The gist is that you can either exist in soul form or body form in the game, with body form having more perks. If you're in soul form, you have the option to either travel to other people's games and help them beat a level/boss via co-op, or to invade other people's games without warning and try to kill them. Doing either successfully will revive you to body form.
Likewise in body form, you can get help from soul-form players in beating your game, but you're always at risk of being invaded. Since dying in body form puts you back into soul form and it's fairly hard to get your body back, that makes it actually feel like a high-stakes battle for your life when you do get invaded.

Apart from that, there's also messages from other players left around the levels offering advice (sometimes very bad advice but usually good) and you can see the ghostly sillouettes of other people playing the same level as you in real time. Notably, once the servers go down the only ways to revive to body form will be by beating bosses (of which there are only about a dozen in the game) or using a rare consumable item.

So, while the online portion isn't required to play the game, it's very very much integrated in the single-player experience.

[Miggy]

Today was the final day of lectures and lessons. Apart from 2 exams in a month's time, I now have summer holiday!

[penguinofhonor]

Came out to a friend as trans. She was more accepting than I could ask for.

I guess you guys are going to collectively be person #3 to learn.

[Sirus]

I'm just listening to this music over and over again

[Ochita]

Well, that's pretty good. I hope that things go well for you.

[Fenrir]

Came out to a friend as trans. She was more accepting than I could ask for.

I guess you guys are going to collectively be person #3 to learn.

Human to Penguin?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

If it is not crass to make jokes about such a thing...

[Gunner-Chan]

Someone mentioned it before, but bay12 really DOES seem to have a rather large amount of gay lesbian or trans people. Bisexual too.

[Sirus]

Someone mentioned it before, but bay12 really DOES seem to have a rather large amount of gay lesbian or trans people. Bisexual too.

I've noticed that as well. It's kinda cool, I'm learning more about various orientations and identities than I ever did in school.

[MonkeyHead]

I think it might be more that we have a high proportion of such individuals that are out or open about it. As this forum is slightly more liberal and enlightned about such things than your average collection of internet people, it is far less probable that they will be shunned or ridiculed, and instead accepted for who they are. I imagine that there are as many LGBT individuals in other internet communities, but many choose to not be open about it.

[Duke 2.0]

I think it might be more that we have a high proportion of such individuals that are out or open about it. As this forum is slightly more liberal and enlightned about such things than your average collection of internet people, it is far less probable that they will be shunned or ridiculed, and instead accepted for who they are. I imagine that there are as many LGBT individuals in other internet communities, but many choose to not be open about it.

Enlightened is a weird word to use, but it is incredibly cool how we have a support/protection system for people when they want to be open about it.

[kaenneth]

I want to eat Dragon and Unicorn meat.

Unicorn on the Cob, mmmmm