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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #26265 on: January 29, 2013, 02:12:44 pm »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSDfxde8fSg

How I tend to feel about it.  [potty mouth]
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #26266 on: January 29, 2013, 02:59:33 pm »

Walked into toilets, everything seems smaller. The ceiling seems to have shrunk, everything is laid out in mathematical rows of twos and twos. Why is everything so tiny?
What happened to the urinal?
By the Gods.
I walked into the ladies' toilets.
And the cubicle door ahead of me has just opened.

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #26267 on: January 29, 2013, 03:05:37 pm »

At least you didn't start peeing into the sink.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #26268 on: January 29, 2013, 03:07:12 pm »

This reminds me of some ~8-year old boy shitting in a urinal.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #26269 on: January 29, 2013, 03:11:47 pm »

This reminds me of some ~8-year old boy shitting in a urinal.
I'm not sure I want to ask.
But how does this remind you of that?
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #26270 on: January 29, 2013, 06:05:00 pm »

Breaking News!
Wait... they actually had things like toilet paper in their bathrooms? At my school, if we want something as simple as soap, paper towels, or toilet paper, we have to spend 10 minutes wondering the hallways going from bathroom to bathroom. 
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #26271 on: January 29, 2013, 06:07:42 pm »

There's a lot of things about the game design that are simply addictive as all hell.  I end up miserable after 2/3 of the games I play, and yet it still has a really strong pull on me.

You know how rpg elements are really addicting?  Watching those numbers grow?  You know how one of the most fun parts of an rpg is starting a new character?  Imagine building an rpg character to max level in about 25 min and then starting over with a new one every 20-40 min.  It throws those dopamine-trigger level-ups and equipment boosts at a hyper fast pace.

Then there's the combat.  It does a really good job of tension build-up, then release.  You have these really long stand-offs in lane where you're poking away at each other and testing for vulnerabilities.  Then something happens and *BLABLABLAKAPOWKRMSAKBLAM* and it's over.  If you won you're like "YEEEEAAAAH FUCKING NAILED IT!" and you get to punctuate your victory with about 30 seconds of dominant rampaging progress as you knock down the enemy towers and make a bunch of gold and stuff without opposition.  If you lost you're like "GRRRRR I'M GONNA GET THAT FUCKER" and you buy a whole bunch of stuff when you respawn in base that has you thinking "I'll win the next one now that I have this stuff."  And you run back out all hyper-focused. 

Then if you win the match you're like "FUCK YEAH I WAS SO AWESOME THERE'S NO WAY I CAN STOP NOW!".  If you lose the match you're like "FUCK THAT SHIT THAT WAS ALL WRONG I CAN'T END LIKE THAT!"

Basically if you're the slightest bit competitive or susceptible to rpg addiction, LoL is meth-crack-heroine.  The core gameplay formula is actually great, but there are certain things about the implementation of that formula that I absolutely hate.  I really think LoL itself is a horrible game, but I'd like to see someone make a similar game that is less competitive and more fun.  Tone down the pacing and the tendency for fights to be resolved in instant !!gotcha!! assassinations and the horrible horrible snowballing, and it would be a really fun game.  Those things turn it into a rrraaaaaggggeee machine.  You're more likely to get really pissed off than to have fun.

I think what LoL does is sort of take the most intense part of an RTS -- the base rush/base defense phase, and just gives you that portion over and over. With the emotional responses that SG noted above.

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #26272 on: January 29, 2013, 06:08:41 pm »

I was playing a DnD game with some of my friends at school today.
Well, it was interesting,
I was playing a Monk, one of us was a Fighter, another a Rogue, and the fourth one was a Cleric.
We were trying to go to the execution of one of us, a Wizard, in the city of Luskan.
Well, I was climbing to the top of a building, to get a look around, and a guard told me to get down.
I do a flip off the building and we all get arrested for resisting arrest.
The Rogue gets away, I manage to escape into the sewers, and our Fighter and Cleric are arrested.
I come out of the sewers, and ask a civilian where the northern gate is.
He tells me it's down an alleyway, and I get a crap intelligence roll. I go down the alley.
Civilian follows me, pulls a crossbow, shoots, and misses.
I try to climb up a wall.
He shoots me in the knee, I fall off the wall, and am currently unconscious.
I now am down to 4 HP, out of 8.
So, one of us isn't arrested/kidnapped so far.

Why are you unconscious? You still have HP, you know. Unless he could somehow afford poisoned bolts.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #26273 on: January 29, 2013, 06:10:36 pm »

There's a lot of things about the game design that are simply addictive as all hell.  I end up miserable after 2/3 of the games I play, and yet it still has a really strong pull on me.

You know how rpg elements are really addicting?  Watching those numbers grow?  You know how one of the most fun parts of an rpg is starting a new character?  Imagine building an rpg character to max level in about 25 min and then starting over with a new one every 20-40 min.  It throws those dopamine-trigger level-ups and equipment boosts at a hyper fast pace.

Then there's the combat.  It does a really good job of tension build-up, then release.  You have these really long stand-offs in lane where you're poking away at each other and testing for vulnerabilities.  Then something happens and *BLABLABLAKAPOWKRMSAKBLAM* and it's over.  If you won you're like "YEEEEAAAAH FUCKING NAILED IT!" and you get to punctuate your victory with about 30 seconds of dominant rampaging progress as you knock down the enemy towers and make a bunch of gold and stuff without opposition.  If you lost you're like "GRRRRR I'M GONNA GET THAT FUCKER" and you buy a whole bunch of stuff when you respawn in base that has you thinking "I'll win the next one now that I have this stuff."  And you run back out all hyper-focused. 

Then if you win the match you're like "FUCK YEAH I WAS SO AWESOME THERE'S NO WAY I CAN STOP NOW!".  If you lose the match you're like "FUCK THAT SHIT THAT WAS ALL WRONG I CAN'T END LIKE THAT!"

Basically if you're the slightest bit competitive or susceptible to rpg addiction, LoL is meth-crack-heroine.  The core gameplay formula is actually great, but there are certain things about the implementation of that formula that I absolutely hate.  I really think LoL itself is a horrible game, but I'd like to see someone make a similar game that is less competitive and more fun.  Tone down the pacing and the tendency for fights to be resolved in instant !!gotcha!! assassinations and the horrible horrible snowballing, and it would be a really fun game.  Those things turn it into a rrraaaaaggggeee machine.  You're more likely to get really pissed off than to have fun.

I think what LoL does is sort of take the most intense part of an RTS -- the base rush/base defense phase, and just gives you that portion over and over. With the emotional responses that SG noted above.

Holy shit, I just realized what I want to do with my life. I want to become a film writer, except just taking any story's climax and stretching it out over 90 minutes! It's all so simple now! I'll be this generation's Orson Welles!
So 90 minutes of a random person slowly bleeding to deatgh as they complain about the things they did in life? Or a 90 minute long kiss as the ship slowly sinks.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #26274 on: January 29, 2013, 06:15:25 pm »

I was playing a DnD game with some of my friends at school today.
Well, it was interesting,
I was playing a Monk, one of us was a Fighter, another a Rogue, and the fourth one was a Cleric.
We were trying to go to the execution of one of us, a Wizard, in the city of Luskan.
Well, I was climbing to the top of a building, to get a look around, and a guard told me to get down.
I do a flip off the building and we all get arrested for resisting arrest.
The Rogue gets away, I manage to escape into the sewers, and our Fighter and Cleric are arrested.
I come out of the sewers, and ask a civilian where the northern gate is.
He tells me it's down an alleyway, and I get a crap intelligence roll. I go down the alley.
Civilian follows me, pulls a crossbow, shoots, and misses.
I try to climb up a wall.
He shoots me in the knee, I fall off the wall, and am currently unconscious.
I now am down to 4 HP, out of 8.
So, one of us isn't arrested/kidnapped so far.

Why are you unconscious? You still have HP, you know. Unless he could somehow afford poisoned bolts.

Oh yeah, it was a poisoned bolt, though I'm not supposed to know that.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #26275 on: January 29, 2013, 06:16:51 pm »

I was playing a DnD game with some of my friends at school today.
Well, it was interesting,
I was playing a Monk, one of us was a Fighter, another a Rogue, and the fourth one was a Cleric.
We were trying to go to the execution of one of us, a Wizard, in the city of Luskan.
Well, I was climbing to the top of a building, to get a look around, and a guard told me to get down.
I do a flip off the building and we all get arrested for resisting arrest.
The Rogue gets away, I manage to escape into the sewers, and our Fighter and Cleric are arrested.
I come out of the sewers, and ask a civilian where the northern gate is.
He tells me it's down an alleyway, and I get a crap intelligence roll. I go down the alley.
Civilian follows me, pulls a crossbow, shoots, and misses.
I try to climb up a wall.
He shoots me in the knee, I fall off the wall, and am currently unconscious.
I now am down to 4 HP, out of 8.
So, one of us isn't arrested/kidnapped so far.

Why are you unconscious? You still have HP, you know. Unless he could somehow afford poisoned bolts.

Oh yeah, it was a poisoned bolt, though I'm not supposed to know that.
I'm pretty sure you're allowed to be OOC when you're not playing.
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« Reply #26276 on: January 29, 2013, 06:20:44 pm »

It always boggles me how much your ears can be clogged with wax.

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #26277 on: January 29, 2013, 06:40:04 pm »

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #26278 on: January 29, 2013, 07:05:39 pm »

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #26279 on: January 30, 2013, 01:03:53 am »

EDIT: Also, got an email (because I'm on a security unit) from DoJ saying that certain components needed an immediate patch. However, the update describing the patch (and the vulnerability) is itself classified above my level. WTF? "Here, run this patch. No, we can't tell you what it does." Um, how about hell no?

Not hard to guess what it relates to, though :P

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