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[Vector]

Yeah, but I've never played a shooter before.  Closest I've ever gotten were... Mass Effect2 and MGS2.  Seriously.

[Shook]

That's awesome Shook! Parents being supportive of what your doing is always great.

Indeed! Honestly you're lucky in this regard.

Good luck on your drawing!

Thanks! Also, yeah, i'm lucky to have such awesome parents. I even sensed a bit of pride from them. c:
I also then went on to find out that my mom also drew a lot when she was younger, but she stopped. Also, one of her countless cousins is an actual artist, so maybe there is a bit of art running in the blood. :U

[Pnx]

Yeah, but I've never played a shooter before.  Closest I've ever gotten were... Mass Effect2 and MGS2.  Seriously.

Then I guess you're probably in for an experience!

[Vector]

Oh god, this is going to be another one of those things where I compulsively hide under the computer desk, isn't it.

(My first runthrough of Portal was ... an experience, to say the least)


Happy: probably going to finish another hair dec today (yes, there will be photos after it dries!), gonna cook a pie, almost done fixing my bike, did a huge amount of translation work today (editing 9 poems).  First season of Bones and third season of Community should come in at the library tomorrow.

Very, very stressed, but on the other hand pretty productive, watching MASH and all that which is cool because it satisfies my requirements for sufficiently happy media in a sufficiently grim setting.

[Bdthemag]

Spec Ops The Line takes a decent shot at making players feel bad for their actions, but really the game forces you to make decisions (Which usually doesn't matter that much) and then goes "See what YOU did? FEEL BAD ABOUT IT NOW." even though you didn't really make the choice yourself. Mechanically wise, it's not that great either being a generic third-person cover-based shooter.

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The key example of this would be when you use the white phosphorus on the military. It literally forces you to horribly kill them, because if you try to shoot them normally they just keep respawning. Immediately afterwards, it tries to make you feel bad by doing the only thing that could get you to progress in the game so the emotional effect is lost.

[misko27]

I was like that for a while, I literally never played shooters. Never. Being too poor to buy things was probably the biggest reason. I got over it eventually like, 3 or 4 years ago (found some free stuff on the web) but I'm probably one of the few of my generation to get so far.

[Pnx]

Spec Ops The Line takes a decent shot at making players feel bad for their actions, but really the game forces you to make decisions (Which usually doesn't matter that much) and then goes "See what YOU did? FEEL BAD ABOUT IT NOW." even though you didn't really make the choice yourself. Mechanically wise, it's not that great either being a generic third-person cover-based shooter.

It can be reasoned that there's a disconnect between the character and their decisions and the player and their decisions. So in story terms it can be said that when you get railroaded like that it's the character making a bad decision that's key to the story. Not the game forcing you to make the decisions... if that makes sense... Pretty much every game out there with a main character that actually says or does anything does this, but there are times I feel like this sort of thing is handled badly.

[Bauglir]

Spec Ops The Line takes a decent shot at making players feel bad for their actions, but really the game forces you to make decisions (Which usually doesn't matter that much) and then goes "See what YOU did? FEEL BAD ABOUT IT NOW." even though you didn't really make the choice yourself. Mechanically wise, it's not that great either being a generic third-person cover-based shooter.

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I actually felt like they handled it pretty decently. The protagonist justifies everything through necessity, and from his perspective he's right that in most of the situations he was in, he could only do something horrible or die. So, mechanically forcing you to follow through on that necessity is alright, I feel. You're not supposed to have a clever third option.

EDIT: You do have a choice, basically. Stop playing, which is the closest a game can come to "Give up and die", or do something horrible.

Anyway, just a heads up, the game contains some pretty horrific violence, so. Just something I figure it's a good idea to point out before going in.

[Tiruin]

I don't think that would be a good recommendation for Vector. Being a newbie myself to those kinds of things, I'd like it..err, simpler perhaps? I've seen the videos on SotL. Pretty..gory.

[Vector]

. . . Tiruin, you would really be surprised >_> <_<

[Putnam]

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local function assignSpells(unit)
local school = df.global.world.raws.inorganics[magicInorganics[unit.status.souls[1].name.first_name]].material --jebus CHRIS that's a tiny amount of code for what I expected
for i=0,unit.status.souls[1].unk2 do --unk2 is level of magic skill
assignSyndrome(unit,material.syndrome[i].id)
end
end
Oh my god this is fucking ZEN. I thought this code would take 5 functions, each of which would be fairly large, but this looks like it'll work perfectly given how I'm writing my raws.

[Xantalos]

Man of Steel was a good movie.

[Evilsx]

Finally got my headphone to work after an week for fixing them.

Also decided to read home-stuck after finishing 'Docter McNinja', TIME FOR MY WEEKEND TO BE USEFUL AND READ THIS...THING.

[Putnam]

Weekend?

Weekend?

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

[PyroDesu]

So my father is the president of the Barnard Astronomical Society, and a while ago they decided to clean out a safe-deposit box and stop renting it. The contents of the box was two framed pages, that a member had acquired back in the 70's while on a cruise. It was a document citing the other page as real, and a page of autographs. Autographs of: Scott Carpenter, Neil Armstrong, Dr. Isaac Asimov, Dr. J. Allen Hynek, George T. Keene, Dr. Mark R. Chartrand III, Walter Sullivan, and Dr. Fred Hess.

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