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[Neonivek]

He is kind of hit and miss... Sometimes he just gets too outright whiny for even ironic enjoyment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buUM916QRJk

This parody pretty much tells you everything you need to know about that guy.

[flabort]

Twitch is a corporation, mate. They're already a person with rights, except when it benefits them to not be.

Like cyclists.  Are they pedestrian?  Are they a vehicle?  Its whichever one benefits them the most at the moment.

Grrr...
Can they at least be bothered to learn the laws that govern them, though?
No, they ride across the street to change sidewalks instead of doing the legal thing and getting off the bike before getting onto the crosswalk, then pushing it across. They don't count as a vehicle then, they count as a pedestrian, and in that specific instance of crossing the street it's illegal to ride it. But how many people a day do I see doing that? Counting the days where I don't leave the house, an average of 1. Not counting those days, closer to 20.
If you're going to be a pedestrian and ride on the sidewalks, get off your bike when crossing the street. If you're going to be a vehicle and ride on the street, get off the sidewalk/crosswalk! You're only allowed to ride your bike over a crosswalk if you're going in the direction the cars are going, not the people. You could run into someone and seriously injure them that way, or a car could come out of no-where and you'd get hurt a lot more than if you were walking! They'd have to surgically remove the bike from your legs, and nobody wants that. So stop riding on crosswalks and walk!

[Sergarr]

   Twitch Plays Darksouls actually manage to escape the first part of the tutorial and get outdoors

They cheated by somehow introducing pausing mechanic (as in, they pause the game after every decision they make), essentially turning Dark Souls into a turn-based game. That's from what I see in the stream.

If they had to do it real-time, they would not have done it.

[IcyTea31]

Also know that each time I argue with someone I have infinitely precise definition of things completely independent of what humans do use.

Someone just said this, in as-best-I-can-tell a sincere manner.
Wat.


Also, this same person has been arguing that in an SCP Foundation game, you can't use Foundation characters.

Why would that person say they have an infinitely precise definition of something, and not give that definition? Surely they understand that humans are not telepathic, and aren't receiving the psychic messages they're sending with their alien powers?


Also, the second one actually makes sense. It's a principle of the 'verse that there is no canon, and references to other things from it, such as other authors' characters, should be avoided as much as possible.

[Frumple]

They cheated by somehow introducing pausing mechanic (as in, they pause the game after every decision they make), essentially turning Dark Souls into a turn-based game. That's from what I see in the stream.

If they had to do it real-time, they would not have done it.

... that's still pretty neat, though. Turn based 3D dark souls. That's kinda' cool. Fairly inventive way to make the stream workable, too... almost turns it into a collective tool-assisted run (which... I guess it already was, just... more like tool handicapped or somethin').

[TheBiggerFish]

Also know that each time I argue with someone I have infinitely precise definition of things completely independent of what humans do use.

Someone just said this, in as-best-I-can-tell a sincere manner.
Wat.


Also, this same person has been arguing that in an SCP Foundation game, you can't use Foundation characters.

Why would that person say they have an infinitely precise definition of something, and not give that definition? Surely they understand that humans are not telepathic, and aren't receiving the psychic messages they're sending with their alien powers?


Also, the second one actually makes sense. It's a principle of the 'verse that there is no canon, and references to other things from it, such as other authors' characters, should be avoided as much as possible.

I should clarify that this is not a Foundation-'sponsored' thing.  It's on a different forum.

[Putnam]

there really isn't a foundation-sponsored thing anyway afaik

bright has an in-character tumblr, is that counted as foundation sponsored? SCP-2137 was written by Max Landis, does this make American Ultra foundation-sponsored?

it's a bit of an odd case, heh

[Sergarr]

They cheated by somehow introducing pausing mechanic (as in, they pause the game after every decision they make), essentially turning Dark Souls into a turn-based game. That's from what I see in the stream.

If they had to do it real-time, they would not have done it.

... that's still pretty neat, though. Turn based 3D dark souls. That's kinda' cool. Fairly inventive way to make the stream workable, too... almost turns it into a collective tool-assisted run (which... I guess it already was, just... more like tool handicapped or somethin').

The problem is that I didn't know it was even possible to pause Dark Souls. I thought it was the whole point that the game was unpausable? If it can be paused, then why the heck did I play it without pausing?

It would've made my life so easier, and amount of fun I've had much bigger, if I could just pause in the middle of a fight, to think about the best next move.

[EnigmaticHat]

Someone should make a Dark Souls Superhot hack.

[Frumple]

I don't think there's a native in-game means to pause, no, but there's almost certainly external means. I don't have the game to test it, but I conjectured a bit back somewhere or another that suspending the process (which process explorer, at least, can do pretty trivially) would be an easy(ish) way to pause the game while you're doing something else, assuming the game reacts well to the process. Binding a suspend command to a key or coding up a script of some sort to do the same wouldn't really be all that difficult to do, I don't think, and at that point it's just a matter of tying it in to the command input process.

[Eric Blank]

This goddamn moth. Just go away moth stop smacking me your wings hurt my eye goddamn my phone isn't even that bright gah.

Go die somewhere else you don't even deserve those wing scales. Kittens take you!

[Graknorke]

-angry motorist rant-

You know that cyclists have to go on the road right? As in, it's the law.

You MUST NOT cycle on a pavement.
Laws HA 1835 sect 72 & R(S)A 1984, sect 129

[IcyTea31]

Not everywhere, not always. In Finland, for example, there is a traffic sign that marks a sidewalk where cycling is allowed:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

There are probably similar signs in other countries.

One still has to dismount the bike and push it over crosswalks, though, and flabort complains about people breaking that rule.

[Helgoland]

It's a stupid rule anyway - if the crosswalk's empty, why not cycle across? As long as I don't hurt anyone, it's actually beneficial because it minimizes the time the cars have to wait for me.

[Orange Wizard]

The word "crosswalk" made me go WTF today. It's weird to me.