Idiot Cube

Every copy of Super Mario 64 is personalized.

I'll have you know it's called "Sorry!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T42WuUpBuHE
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J0H5ah1G7A
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_gObHt1uZA
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peuTnilEv9g
 
Actual god-wizard Tim Follin performed witchcraft to manipulate these old ass soundchips into doing his bidding, I am convinced.

Chatrooms are great with a small group. I know a group that probably only survived because of a chatroom keeping a continuous stream of jokes/memes/random stuff in a more freeform format that couldn't really happen on a forum. But once the group gets too large you get the "discord room collectors" who may as well not be there unless you @ them, and the chat moves far too fast for you to really get much of a discussion, OR everything gets divided into subchats and everyone ends up just checking the one they care about and essentially removing themselves from the rest of the community anyway.
 
FSPF had a decent spread of people that wasn't too insular (an issue subSPUF had once SPUF died, oops) but groups of people still knew each other. When I first started browsing I saw all the stuff you guys did and was fascinated with the culture that had built up. Like Raison said, it was a great "medium" sized community. I can get a decent feel for what a "large" community is with how the Apex subreddit is and it really is shouting into the void. Things move so fast that only the mega upboat ideas circulate (also doesn't help that it's reddit but still). It may have also been some kind of latent high school desire to be a "cool kid" in a group who gets recognized that motivated me to get "in" with the SPUF crowd. But either way it was fun, I enjoyed my time back then and I still like y'all now.
 
I don't really know where I was going with all this, I just wanted to talk about it I guess. I think chats are really best for an insular group so you can share your sick injokes amongst each other, but forums let you get a much more coherent conversation going that can actually last for more than an hour or so before everyone goes back to looking at anime tiddies and stops checking the chat.

Stay safe
 
 

Because you bitched about it I made a sequel.
 


 

It seemed like I was undergoing some kind of character development, from senseless invalid to space armada tycoon, until I got bored with it and decided to just play games with my friends.

So in possibly the most autistic action in my life, I put a bunch of SPUF posts into the "remember" section of AI Dungeon with the format of Username: Post.
 
Then I let it do its thing.  The only real things I added were the initial line, changes to the names when it made up new names (such as GokuFan42, LordDarkness or PonyBoy), with one exception that seemed to have the proper context.  I also reverted whenever things went sexual.
 
Enjoy?
 

Au contraire. Microsoft is turning all of its icons into rectangles with a single letter in the corner.

I beat Half Life Alyx. I know it's been out a while, I got sidetracked. No spoilers in this.
 
+Combat against most enemies is pretty dynamic, VR shooting is pretty fun and most of the areas are open enough to not feel like janky corridoor fighting
+Exploring areas in VR is pretty fun, and the environments in HLA are very well detailed and had great atmosphere throughout (even when texture streaming made them all N64-tier blobs to make up for me not spending 1K+ on a GPU)
+The gravity gloves are fuckin' sick and definitely the most useful and fun mechanic for VR's "grabbing things being a pain sometimes" issue. Other VR games are ALREADY adapting them because they're so nice
+Ran great (I had some weird tracking issues but I wasn't sure if they were my GPU, handmedown Vive set, or the game itself)
+Obviously you'd expect this from Valve, but pretty much every area was "fair" and the game never screwed you over
+Last combat section is awesome
+Weapon upgrades were a good way to reward exploration and provide a power increase over time despite the low amount of overall weapons you get
 
-The more spooky parts weren't very fun tbh. I roadblocked hard on one mission in particular (if you've seen/played HLA you'll know which one I'm talking about) just because I didn't find it fun and upon seeing how much of it there was I dreaded loading up the game. Maybe that makes me a pussy, I dunno. VR spooky stuff hits much harder than non-VR spook. Maybe if you like horror/suspenseful stuff this is an upside for you.
-Load times on first startup are nearing unacceptable levels unless you have it on an SSD (loads after the first level are fine tho). At first I thought it was a glitch that the first save you load just hangs, but after setting down the set and doing some other stuff for like 5 minutes it actually loaded.
-No overly long vehicle sections, wtf
-ABHing and bunny hopping seem impossible in this one so speedruns most likely won't be as whooshy movementy as HL1 or 2
 
Definitely a must buy IF you already have VR. Probably not substantial enough to warrant buying a VR set for on its own, but no single VR game is. It's definitely the most substantial VR game I've played, but most of the ones I've played are more arcadey or tech demo-ey. HLA has an actual plot, progression, all the trappings of an actual game. Good stuff.

I don't like changing profile pictures; I appreciate being able to recognize people at a glance before you commit their usernames to memory. Plus I like this one, it's pretty good, why would I ever wanna change it? I'm the same way with hairstyles.

Not to mention the computer that straps two screens directly to my eyeballs, so I can be rendered completely ignorant of my sad little studio apartment.
 
IF I HAD ONE!

The lifespan of a meme is so short now, a few days to one month at most, that anything one year old is considered "old".

Titanfall 2 because goddammit more people need to be playing it.
 
Honorable mention goes to Overwatch for reminding me that competitive gaming is, and always will be, cancer.

Want us to unpack that for you, or have you figured it out already? 

Dropping by to wish you all a happy 2020! Hope life's treating you well

I was going to say that I'd accept it at this stage of the meme.

But then I saw it didn't end with half a second of a firetruck.

Want us to unpack that for you, or have you figured it out already? 

College is over and I'm graduating.
 
 
Now entering: Hell.

Hey guys, been a while, how's it been around here in my absence?
I can guess, actually:
 
TBH I was checking one of my old posts to see how I reacted to To The Moon when a friend asked about it and was pleasantly surprised to see the place still active, so figured I'd drop in and say hello if nothing else.
If I'm remembering right - [checks post history] and I am - I stormed out in a huff over something very minor, which I probably shouldn't have done at all.
So, hi again, everybody
 

This is going to be the make or break point for Valve's credibility.

They are trying to paint this as a Half-Life 2 situation.  Before Half-Life 2 no game did physics even remotely okay, and very few people were willing to deal with an online distribution system like Steam.  But Half Life 2 legitimately changed the whole landscape of gaming on both counts.  Valve wants us to believe that this game is going to do the same thing to VR gaming.  That is, before this game it is something very niche, but afterwards everyone will be playing VR games.
 
They might pull it off.  If they do, they will probably be everyone's favorite gaming company again.  But if it's bad, or even if it's just a slightly above average VR game but not a game changer, then it will show that Valve is no longer the miracle makers they used to be.  That doesn't necessarily mean that they will suffer as a company since they will just sit back and keep earning the Steam bux, but they'll probably give up on game development.

Drizzt Do'Urden

So it's basically the equivalent of one of these?

So it's basically the equivalent of one of these?