Idiot Cube

You know what would be really poggers, fam? If you yeeted yourself off a fucking cliff.

We got that shit out of the way early on.

I wish I had something to say, because complaining is always entertaining, but the truth is that I don't really mind Steve in Smash these days! There's no denying how big Minecraft is, so it totally deserves to be represented in some way. The only thing I can really complain about is how I find him to be kind of an ugly character... and more importantly the fact that he isn't Poochy.
 
But truth be told, I'm looking forward to his inclusion much more than any of the DLC characters we've gotten so far. He looks pretty neat and is like, the only one who I really gave any rat's ass about at all before they were revealed, even if my thoughts on him were overall negative. Not that I don't like any of the other DLC dudes. They're cool too, I guess, and all brought a fun new universe and unique concepts to the table. Except Byleth.
 
(Also, totally unrelated but the reason I haven't posted in so long is because I forgot my password and was too damn lazy to try to recover it. I'll try and get around to posting more 100% real Smash leaks and soulless tier lists now that I'm back. And hopefully a spooky TF2 update sometime soon.)

I'm having a fucking stroke

Idea for anime: Japanese man in his late twenties is brought to despair by the endless tedium of his accounting job.
 
Then one day he is sent to an isekai fantasy realm full of strange monsters, mysterious dungeons and fabulous treasures.
 
But he ends up working as a freelance accountant, and uses this to build up a terrifyingly strong business empire because all the companies in fantasy land don't understand basic bookkeeping techniques.

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.