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[Shadowlord]

OW: Oh, yes, that just leaves mine acting dead* until I press the reset button, so I changed it. :V

* it looks off but the power button does NOTHING

Aklyon: Once the bios finishes its work the bios buttons won't do anything anyways (unless uefi is magically different), so...

[Flying Dice]

Yeah, my Win10 machine goes from "off" to "at the login screen" in about 2 seconds. Even if it was possible and I knew ahead of time which button to press, it'd take a while to time it right.

Presumably it still auto-boots into the usual safe start menu if there's a serious problem, I'd think.

[Shadowlord]

Haha, no, it tries to run an automated fixing-attempt instead. And when that fails it generally (in my experience) just moans at you. I was very glad I made a bootable w10 install USB key, since that has all the troubleshooting stuff on it, although it's not as nice as a Linux rescue disc, what with the lack of browsers and stuff.

[Flying Dice]

Oh wow, that's dreadful.

[Neonivek]

So I found two traditionally low tier enemies that are suddenly super powerful enemies in other games

There is Ghosts who are unstoppable killing machines in Quest for Glory

Then there are Skeletons, yes skeletons, who are insanely tough elite mooks in Die by the Sword.

It is just weird to see traditionally chump enemies suddenly get boosted to deadly status.

[Yoink]

This is the most confusing hangover ever.

[TheBiggerFish]

For some reason, my screen resolution did Weird Shit, and then my desktop got all messed up
I had to re-drag all my icons and whatnot where I wanted them.

[Fniff]

So I found two traditionally low tier enemies that are suddenly super powerful enemies in other games

There is Ghosts who are unstoppable killing machines in Quest for Glory

Then there are Skeletons, yes skeletons, who are insanely tough elite mooks in Die by the Sword.

It is just weird to see traditionally chump enemies suddenly get boosted to deadly status.

In games, ghosts are either low-level chumps or unkillable entities in traditionally the scariest part of the game, e.g. the hotel from Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines. Which has a real problem with colon cancer, by the by.

Really, ghosts should be intimidating in all games. Why? They're ethereal. How can you kill something that your sword passes right through? For this reason, it always bothered me in Elder Scrolls that you could bludgeon a ghost to death. At that point, you're removing all the cool bits of a ghost and leaving a generic enemy, just glowing and spooky.

Napstablook in Undertale is the exception because it makes sense in context that you can hit him, he's sufficiently ghostish in other ways, he's got a kickass theme song, and is just all-around cool.

[GiglameshDespair]

In Oblivion, at least, you can't harm ghosts with normal weapons - as I recall you need silver or daedric to harm them. Or magic.

[BlackFlyme]

But you aren't actually hitting Napstablook. He's just lowering his healthbar out of courtesy so you won't feel bad.

Ghosts should be scary as fuck. They are supposed to be immune to physical damage, unless the source of that damage is magical in nature.

Skeletons can go either way though. Depends on the setting.

[Fniff]

Skeletons can go either way though. Depends on the setting.

I think if they're able to keep moving after being broken apart, they're scary. If not, they're mooks.
Also, didn't realize that about Napstablook. Yet another reason he's one of my favorite characters.

In Oblivion, at least, you can't harm ghosts with normal weapons - as I recall you need silver or daedric to harm them. Or magic.

I wasn't sure about Elder Scrolls... To be honest, they all blur together for me. :S

[Tawa]

Skeletons can go either way though. Depends on the setting.

thank mr skeltal, doot

Speaking of which, what do you guys think about zombie mooks? I think my biggest issue with portrayal of zombies as rank-and-file enemies is when there's canonically an infectious plague but getting bitten just knocks a couple points off your health bar.

[TempAcc]

One thing that also bothers me is when games have places defined as "cursed" or "haunted" and full of undead etc, but what is the cause of the curse? Did lots of people die in this place for some reason? Its almost never mentioned anywhere. Also, curses and other stuff that affect everything and everyone except the main character, even if he's having direct contact with it and reasons to be involved in it.

Even Legend of Zelda does this. Its been said multiple times that whoever enters the lost woods and isn't a kokiri becomes a stalfos, IE a undead skeleton thing. Link is later explained to not be a kokiri, so he should have become a stalfos, except this never happens and is never mentioned in the series, at least in regards to link, since this is a thing that happens to some less important side characters.
/spoiler]

[Shadowlord]

I think Left For Dead 1 and 2 explain it by having the players be carriers (i.e. symptomless but capable of spreading it), right?

[Rolan7]

Yeah.  They seem to be immune, but eventually it becomes clear that they're carriers.
That guy you got the cola for?  Yeah, he turned later.