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Author Topic: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O  (Read 14839453 times)

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #94920 on: January 31, 2016, 06:06:37 pm »

The forum itself has changed over time in numerous ways. Stuff may have been lost to server changes. 'Guest' posts may or may not count towards the counter properly. Lots of bots/trolls/etc. shitpost then those posts get deleted.

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« Reply #94921 on: January 31, 2016, 06:10:33 pm »

I was searching for an unrelated txt file, and happened to notice "Namedroppers.txt" in my Pathways Into Darkness...  doc files?

I guess whoever made this PID compilation (it's been so long, I don't remember where I got it) also saved this bit from the PID story archive.  Which is the best way to experience old Bungie titles, by the way.  I've completed PID a couple of times, but getting Basilisk II working is a little complicated, and... actually *playing* the game, can be very frustrating.  That subdomain is so well crafted, it's essentially a well-written Let's Play of the most chilling game Bungie ever made.  With subsections for explanations, and fan theories.

I say that as a die-hard Marathon fan, and a fan of Halo 1-3.  With proper suspension of disbelief, and ignoring the multiplayer crap, the Halo *trilogy* was a good story.  Pathways Into Darkness and Marathon were great.

I digress.  The file is an examination of the corpses you can speak to in the game....  And who remembers whom.  You see, the dead quickly started to forget their lives, as they lay there trapped in their bones.  Many of them forgot their own names, sometimes before they forgot their friends.  But it's possible to work out who everyone is... was.  The game doesn't reward that in any way, it's just possible.

That mechanic (like the "translator logs" in Unreal, or the terminal messages in Marathon (and System Shock 1-2)) really helped set the tone.  Modern games... try, I guess.  With "collectible" letters and audiologs and such.  But it usually falls so flat.  Maybe because the rest of said games is so desperate to grab attention, and pretend to be a movie (be cinematic).

Far Cry 3 was damn good, and some of its letters had impact, but never so much as happening to find this poor desiccated skeleton in a forgotten corner of a catacomb of waking nightmares.

And the room full of useless gold...  And the pitiable, yet *evil* lost soul within.  Harmless and horrible.
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« Reply #94922 on: January 31, 2016, 07:00:27 pm »

Watching cheesy old kung fu films seems to be a thing I do now. Regularly.
If only I'd discovered their brilliance when I was in my prime, I might have been inspired and grown up doing martial arts stuff. Alas.

Edit: I have been very tempted to make a kung fu RTD for a while now, but I worry that I would fuck it up terribly. :-\
« Last Edit: January 31, 2016, 07:03:26 pm by Yoink »
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« Reply #94923 on: January 31, 2016, 07:22:30 pm »

@Yoink:Just make it one of those really over-the-top things.
No-one will notice.
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« Reply #94924 on: January 31, 2016, 07:30:44 pm »

One of those really... dude, I already said it was gonna be kung fu-themed. Over-the-top is a given. :P
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« Reply #94925 on: January 31, 2016, 07:35:57 pm »

Like, Elephant Parade levels of over-the-top.  ;P
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« Reply #94926 on: January 31, 2016, 07:37:19 pm »

Too much is never enough!
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« Reply #94927 on: January 31, 2016, 07:37:48 pm »

Heck yes.
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« Reply #94928 on: January 31, 2016, 07:38:33 pm »

Like, Elephant Parade levels of over-the-top.  ;P
This... this concerns me. Have I really been out of the RTD arena so long that I am no longer the benchmark for over-the-topness?
I must reclaim my kingdom.
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« Reply #94929 on: January 31, 2016, 07:39:28 pm »

Nah, you can make that point, Tack, your ppd is low enough.

@Yoink:I haven't seen you GMing yet, so yes.
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« Reply #94930 on: January 31, 2016, 07:40:49 pm »

Heck yes.
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Very much yes.  :D
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« Reply #94931 on: January 31, 2016, 08:34:23 pm »

I'm not even in the top 1%.

Damnation i need to spam more nonsense because my 1.4 post/day is not getting me anywhere.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #94932 on: January 31, 2016, 08:36:26 pm »

Reject this post-count seeking foolery, it brings only suffering and destruction, the Buddha didn't get wise off no shitposting

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« Reply #94933 on: January 31, 2016, 08:37:06 pm »

I'm not even in the top 1%.

Damnation i need to spam more nonsense because my 1.4 post/day is not getting me anywhere.

It's a high score and the prize for the top is that you need to get a life
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« Reply #94934 on: January 31, 2016, 08:40:06 pm »

I am in the 1%. I only average 2.5 ppd though.

Is there a ranking for ppd somewhere?
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