hugthebed2

I've always been a firm believer in using the disciplinary action over the escape plan. Being able to whip a teammate and then go into a fight with a few seconds of speed can give you the opening edge in a fight.

I agree with you that there aren't really any weapons that scream out "I'm overpowered!" whenever I play. Though I'm still sad about some of the weapons that are underpowered.

The Dragon's Fury  got over-nerfed for sure in the Blue Moon Update. I heard it best from someone else that requiring hitscan-level-accuracy on a projectile-based weapon (you have to hit center of mass to get the extra pressure cooldown) is just extremely annoying. As it stands now you're better off using the Phlog if you want high damage with weak/no airblast.

The Fists of Steel are also kind of annoying because they way they implemented it's nerf is actually broken, and the reduced healing gained only applies if a medi-beam is attached to you while you have the fists out, so if a medic starts healing you when you have your minigun out and you later swap to the fists of steel, then the nerf doesn't even exist as long as the medic doesn't break the beam. In the same vein, if a medic starts healing you when you have the FoS out, then you'll be stuck at 390 overheal (if you swap to the minigun in this state, the medic gains max Uber rate as long as he doesn't break the beam, so heavy is the best Uber builder).

The second part of the FoS nerf was the slower holster speed, but that doesn't matter because you can just swap from FoS to sandvich to minigun and only add like 0.01 extra seconds to your switching time. The one exception is when your sandvich is on cooldown.

Also apparently a hot take is that the ambassador nerf isn't even that bad. It removed some fun from the weapon but where it really shined was 102 burst damage which can kill any light class if you hit the headshot and butterknife them. People compares its DPS too much to the stock revolver even though it should be a discussion about burst damage.

Regardless of my qualms, I still think the game is fine weapon wise. I am an Iron Curtain purist (die tomislav heavies).

I super regret not getting the steam link when it was like $6. My TV does not support it, so I need the hardware if I want to use it.

I didn't make the same mistake with the steam controller, but I don't really like it that much.

13 minutes ago, Wulff said:

I didn't even post all that much on OG SPUF and I still got invited here to the secret club because I was, by chance, friends with a lot of people who DID post a lot on OG SPUF. It's nepotism all the way down baby. I also believed I called them cringe for referencing a 'secret' forum on voice with me and then not wanting to go into detail about it when I pressed them on it. Fucking imagine.

For real though, I am pretty sad about the death of online internet forums. They still exist, of course, but it used to be you couldn't go to any game/server/guild/whatever without also being directed towards their forum because they were trying to build a community. I've browsed imageboards since I was ~15 years old, back in 2008 (and by imageboards I mean 4chan and not much else) and while I do prefer them over news aggregate sites like reddit, there's still something about 'normal' forums that is nostalgic to me. OG SPUF is a big part of that nostalgic memory, even if I mostly lurked. The only places left with that late 2000s/early 2010s style of forum community are here and Knockout.chat. This place is fairly insular and doesn't really get any new blood so it's pretty much just an old boys club that I have a nasty habit of forgetting about for months on end. Knockout spawned from the ashes of Facepunch and is pretty liberal/left-leaning politically, so I feel right at home there... Even though I still mostly lurk.

As someone who has browsed facepunch since ned_ballad left SPUF for it, I can say I would be extremely disappointed to see Knockout go. I have tried in the past to make friends with people there, but it always felt different from SPUF. I guess I'm not necessarily outgoing so since I post about once a month there if I have an answer to someone who needs help with something, people don't necessarily know what I'm interested in. All of the people I've added from facepunch/knockout in the past have removed me or been removed, as I always say SPUF as my forum home and treated/treat everyone on FP/KO as strangers. My crew to this day from here is still those that posted in Hello! on OG SPUF, which was majorly helped by XYTWO reaching out to me to get me to interact more.

5 minutes ago, Raison d'être said:

I get the impression they wanted to kill them off quickly and hoped nobody would notice since they shut them off abruptly, but it was kind of them to back off and host them for another month for archival purposes.

The only Valve employee who still visited the forums was BurtonJ, and once he left Valve was when they decided to shut them down. I'm guessing he was the one that keeping them up. Sucks because we got a few posts out of him in secret thread #26 in some subforum.

2 hours ago, Gyokuyoutama said:

Very surprised to see Aqua leading in dollars.

The only time I've heard about Aqua was when Smash Bros Youtubers desperate to make some ad revenue, covered her getting into some stupid nonissue with a Japanese Smash Player. I wouldn't doubt many people first heard about Virtual Youtubers from that series of events and Western coverage.

https://datastudio.google.com/u/0/reporting/1WSF8Apsintie0ZKPo9avN9rEODR8JgBR/page/QPwWB

Hollar hollar get dollar

I have seen the first 15 minutes of Wicket City. It's on youtube.

Appleseed is one of those shows I've wanted to watch after falling in love with one of the series songs "Underdog" present on cyberpunk_v2.

3 hours ago, TheOnlyGuyEver said:

A friend convinced me to get Battleblock Theater and it's fun. My favorite levels so far are the timed ones, because in those you usually have to play through the level multiple times and really learn it, and we just like learn ourselves roles at each part of the level until you have every part down pat and just tear through it.

Battleblock is a game I've started 4 different times with different people and we always burn out after one playsession. I have yet to beat the final set of levels.

Being asked to wake up earlier is something I can understand, but as someone who doesn't have any close friends that are not in the U.S., waking up at 8am only to have to wait 4-5 hours for someone to come online sucks.

I guess the other side of the coin is that I also stay up late to the point where no one is on either - the mindset differs there because I can always just go to sleep if I'm truly omega bored.

23 minutes ago, Gyokuyoutama said:

I've lost connection to the Steam Friends network 6 times over the last 24 hours.

 

At this point I've tried literally every single suggested fix that I can find online so if it happens again I have no idea what to try.

 

EDIT: And I just got disconnected a seventh time.

I'm fairly certain this is just affecting random people. I bug people all the time and say "Get on Steam" and they say "I dunno why that's happening but it is".

I like how upbeat this song is.

Re: Out of Touch, I honestly never expected that to be something that blew up on twitter months after I first saw it.

1 hour ago, Gyokuyoutama said:

hugthebed2: Hey guys, I was wondering if you could do anything for me today. I have a request.
A1970Corvette: What kind of request?
TheOnlyGuyEver: Oh, you know, just anything. Anything at all. Just come over to my house and we can have fun together!
A1970Corvette: WHAT?! You're serious?

i can't believe i turned into TheOnlyGuyEver

1 hour ago, Gyokuyoutama said:

I form certain assumptions about users if they use anime avatars.

 

I form completely different assumptions about users if they use Serial Experiments Lain avatars.

I'm actually so livid that, unless this stupid law gets repealed, I'm forever in DST.

Why couldn't they have abolished it instead????????

catch me out of the map on world's edge with totem care package fudgery

Many years later, I finally played through Titanfall 2's campaign. Absolutely phenomenal campaign. Was cool to see all of the guns and such when I've only had Apex Legends gameplay in me.

14 hours ago, Kraszu said:

Lads, is the new Psycho Pass any good?

I enjoyed the Three Sinners of the System movies, so I was a bit sad when I saw that most of the characters they just showed us weren't there, but the new characters grow on you in time and there's enough of the old stuff to reign you in until it's good.

They also somehow turn Mika from hated trash to top 2 psycho pass cuties. I'd say it's worth it.

On 1/15/2020 at 4:22 PM, Gyokuyoutama said:

Somehow search engines have started to become so useless that we legitimately need webrings again.

 

I'm sick of putting in a two word search term and having the majority of the entries lack one of the two words.  Sometimes even using quotes doesn't fix the problem.

 

Youtube's search is particularly bad where you search for practically anything and you just get late night show and CNN results.  But even general search engines, including non-Google owned engines, are getting pretty bad.

I just wish Google didn't decide it'd be a good idea to hide URLs from their search page. Just another stupid anti-consumer change.

In other news, I really should go and get a large HDD and start archiving stuff like all of my liked videos on youtube. Really hate going to that page and seeing deleted/privated videos.

One thing is eternally constant. I will at least once a month get to a point here I stay up to an absurd time with the end of it being Mario Maker 2 videos of family friendly youtubers I normally wouldn't like.

bros you guys have thousands of hours in dota 2 but its not in your graphics

As someone who has been admining a league for a left 4 ded game, Left 4 Dead 2, it's sad that I was able to make a breakthrough that people have wished for for 10 years so late in its life cycle.

For the last 14 years, people operated under the assumption that you couldn't create custom ladders using a tool called "Stripper:Source", a serverside plugin that allows for the modification of props and entities on source game maps without actually editing the maps themselves in hammer (like for say, adding a barricade in the middle of dust2, Dustbowl, or adding a new weapon spawn to No Mercy). Ladders are most integral to Left 4 Dead 2 of any source game as its the Special Infecteds' main source of vertical movement in versus mode, and people just thought ladders were impossible to create using Stripper. I saw someone else found out a super omega convoluted way to create custom ladders using l4d2's vscript system, but that was unfeasible and wouldn't work on dedicated servers, making it useless. 

However, it inspired me to look into making custom ladders using Stripper, which is something that years of threads have said "it's not possible".

As a meme, I did map edits to a custom campaign called Left 4 Mario to add some extra blocks in versus mode. While looking through its entire list of entities I noticed that the ladders themselves are entities, but I didn't pay much mind to them, as their model names were "*number" (with "number" being a number starting from 1 and going up to the entity number it is). I found that one of the blocks on left mario had a model name of "*78", so I tried creating a new prop with the filepath of just "*78" and it worked. A week later, I saw that guy I mentioned earlier say that you could potentially get custom ladders using Stripper, so I tried my hand at it.

It took me 10 minutes and I made a custom ladder. The convoluted thing with them is that there's no documentation on the func_simpleladder entity on the valve developer wiki, and that you can only clone ladders that exist within a map, much like how I did with those blocks on Left 4 Mario. The other caveat is that their "origin" is not the true map origin, but rather how many units away from the original ladder the cloned ladder should be.

It's such a shame that I only found this out within the last two months, since it's something that would've been a HUGE help to the competitive left 4 dead 2 scene, and now it's going to be largely underused. It also goes to show that you shouldn't just listen to people online if they say something isn't possible.

with how important deku palace has become for majora's mask speedruns, this is commonly in my head