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    1 hour ago, Rynjin said:

    Which leads me into my own sidebar on this that I was thinking of before I even got to this post: I do not give a single fuck what people from Nevada say, it's "Neh-VAH-duh" not "Neh-VAD-uh". Take your L, the other 49 States of this country put you in your place a long time ago.

    Psh as if we're scared of the other states. How many times has Nevada been nuked? You don't scare us, come and change the pronunciation yourself. Just don't cut off our water pls we'll die

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    I suppose I'll go on my own little weeb tangent in that I really don't like the adoption of "waifu" as "catch all term for anime girl." This is of course partially because waifu is an established term for obsessive anime losers as is that has very specific meaning (as in a fictional character you are married to) and its not like there are other terms for anime girls out there either. I really don't get why it happened other than because waifu was a late-2000s weaboo word that people heard in weeb-adjacent parody works too often and thought it just referred to literally any character at any time. Either way it both reduces the significance of actually being married to a fictional character and also sounds really fucking dumb (waifu should never be pluralized to "waifus" for so many reasons).

     

    I also feel like the word "shitposting" has done terrible damage to the world, though I think it's just a symptom of how people communicate and not really the term itself. Literally shit posting isn't really something anyone would want to do (except scat fetishists) but since the term was coined it stopped being "posting shit" and became "shitposting," if that makes any sense. This happens with a lot of stuff obviously but there's just something about this one in particular that irks me. Maybe it's because shitpost has kind of become a quirky term for just saying whatever without thinking which I think generally just fosters a reputation for, as the name implies, shit posting quality overall.

     

    This is all a little moot though since I regularly make pretty shit posts, but still. It's a thought that pops into my head now and then. Unfortunately if it wasn't "shitpost" it'd be something else, I don't think there's anything that could save it from becoming a thing one way or another.

     

    11 hours ago, Gyokuyoutama said:

    I'm talking about stuff like "Eelai Minnesota" (for Ely, should be pronounced "Eelee")

    Oh hey, Nevada has an Ely and I guess we pronounce it correctly. I always wondered about that one.

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    I seriously was floored when I saw my friend's win11 computer because it looked like the Mac OSX edition that shipped with the 2011 mac we got back in the day, the context menus and look and feel of the UI is like that. Win10 is usable mainly just because I got classic shell and various little fixes for shit that drove me crazy. Unfortunately Gyoku is right, there's basically no incentive for the UI to be improved from a usability standpoint so it will likely never improve.

     

    It's only a matter of time before win10 gets deprecated and then I'm hoping I can jump ship without issues.

     

     

  6. Posted · Edited by A 1970 Corvette

    ZeXaL is really good tbh. Did the "protag starts out terrible at ygo" thing and actually worked really well and then just kept ramping things up. Honestly I'd say it kind of took what GX was trying to do and did it right, in terms of starting off with a simple concept and ramping things up to crazy space catastrophes.

     

    Arc-V is definitely the best series if you stop watching after the first season and imagine it actually progressing to something awesome instead of what it actually became.


    DM's original charm can't be understated and characters like Kaiba are so iconic and awesome they're still dominating the public view of the series even after so many spinoff series

     

    The other ones I've not watched tho. Arc-V scarred me I guess, never wanted to touch another one after it.

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    You can't pin something so heavy on me! I must have just been running my mouth about a particularly high-profile archetype (especially since they got a lot of outside attention because the author of Kobayashi's Dragon Maid mentioned them too). But hey, if you have fun, that's fine. Personally I don't like card grinds so I stick to simulators, but it really is crazy that there's an official YGO game on PC that has this level of support. I don't think I'd believe anyone if they said it would happen back in the day

     

    p./s. house is cutest dragon maid don't @ me

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    15 hours ago, Doopliss2008 said:

    So, I also got to drive a Tesla model 3 this time for an another alignment, and it is even more bare bones than the Mustang Mach-E, it literally looks as if an Apple engineer fell in love with fake wood trim and designed a car, it had just a big touchscreen in the center of the dash, no start button, no info button save for 2 scroll wheels on the steering wheel, you had to tap on the brakes with the key in hand to start it, maybe its just me, but I prefer more physical buttons and knobs over a giant touchscreen.

    Not that I'm gonna be in a position to deal with new cars any time soon, but yeah I totally agree. I think there may just be such an overload of features that it's easier to say "fuck it we'll just stick a monitor on it that can display whatever they're adding" over designing it all with physically buttons.

     

    Touchscreens are great for certain things, like for example I love a touchscreen for a laptop just to add convenience when doing light browsing, but I'd never give it up and go full tablet because the buttons are so much better for typing. Plus, honestly, for a car console wouldn't you want buttons/knobs that are actually there for physical feedback? A touch screen is more finicky and that's not exactly a great thing for driving.

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    I feel like Lucky Star is a particularly important signpost for comedy shows given when it came out, it kinda bridges the gap between the more absurdist school shows like pani poni dash and ones that came afterward that tended more towards being grounded and slice of lifey (like k-on, though there's probably a closer example in time). It also just was positioned perfectly to infect internet culture due to the time it came out.

     

    Also the show still looks great, which is always a plus.

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    A professor in a class was really grasping for an example when talking about social media networking effects and started going down the "so everyone who's seen X raise your hand" and I totally held up the class for like five minutes because I just didn't at all. They were apparently trying to find an example everyone had seen

     

    After the first few times I had to stop myself from laughing. You'd think he'd have given up or just ignored me once it was clear I was just not on the same wavelength

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    See even if discord fits this community better, we all know that an old forum is peak SOUL therefore we use it. It simply cannot be helped.

     

    Also I know that nobody other than actual SPUFers look at it, but there's a lotta people there and it kinda weirds me out when a discord has about a 1:15 active poster to inactive poster ratio. Not that it isn't also the case here, now that I think about it...

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    I can highly recommend getting the black edition hyper 212 because the non-black-edition was a pain in the ass to install. Other than that, mainly what Moby said. 4k is a meme (coming from someone with a 4k monitor) so honestly I think you're good

  23. Posted

    37 minutes ago, Gyokuyoutama said:

    Every time I remember M:TG exists I find out that they made some decision which leads me down a rabbit hole of determining why they made related dumb decisions.

    I basically only keep up with it for the trainwreck factor and partially so if something good slips through the cracks I can suggest it for my group's cube

  24. Posted

    What have I even played this year? I'm just gonna mind-vomit out everything and then order it afterwards. If it weren't for the steam replay I'd have probably missed a few of these.

    In order from lowest rating to highest rating:

     

    Spoiler

     

    Mass Effect 3 - Felt like Mass Effect 2 times two, as in it seemed to be fluffing up combat that I didn't really care for to begin with in exchange for everything else that was interesting. Lost interest, didn't finish. May come back to, but probably not.

     

    Mass Effect 2 - Kind of mainly played this in 2021 but finished it in 2022. It felt like a less interesting Mass Effect 1 in exchange for marginally better combat. Except by the end every combat was just using the same power rotation and gun setup so it was still pretty snoozeworthy on the combat side. Maybe it'd have been better if I picked a different class but I don't feel like that would fix it for me. Story felt less interesting than ME1, ending was silly, but I liked Legion and I think the "putting together a team" bit was cool.

     

    Just Cause 3 - I feel like there's so little to discuss about this game, but it's not really in a bad way. It's just a quintessential open world game where you're super OP. I feel like there's serious issues with variety (in every factor of the game) and vehicles seemingly alternating between useless and annoyingly numerous. It's still fun tho. Not that there's anything going on in the story or anything, but I didn't quite finish it. Once you've cleared like 80% of the map you might as well just say you beat the game, honestly.

     

    ~~ This is about the line where everything after I actually consider positive / memorable ~~

     

    Blue Archive - Do phone games count? I technically started this in 2021 as well but didn't really actually play until 2022. It's fun and it has cute girls. Story isn't mindblowing but it's nice to see a mobile game that has the "girls and guns" theme without it being some overly gray post-apocalyptic-sci-fi setting.

     

    Subnautica - Also haven't finished but this is definitely one of those "play it nonstop for a week and then give it a rest for a few months, then repeat" game. I don't really think I can say anything that hasn't already been said about this one tbh. It's watery n shit. The story is a nice way to focus the standard survival sandbox game aspect and I actually like what I saw of it.

     

    Rogue Legacy 2 - Still in progress with this one, but since it's a roguelike I think "in progress" is the standard state. It's quite a strong sequel to the original, the art is insanely good and the variety is turned up sooo much from the first one. I think it's really good... But another roguelike has kind of eaten up my brain matter so I haven't got to the end of this one yet. More on that later.

     

    Teardown - I love physics games, sue me. I was waiting for this to get out of early access for a long time and now that I've got it... It's p okay. I wouldn't say it's mindblowing or exceeds my expectations, but I think it's got a nice usage of the tech gimmick of destructible environments and only kinda stretches it too as they try to escalate the later missions. It kinda feels like that game where you really only ever want to replay the first 33% because the later parts are when things get complicated and verge on frustrating. The basic game flow of a physics-simulated heist game is good though.

     

    Atelier Ryza - Kind of spread out throughout the last few years since it was a switch game I mainly played on vacations, but I finished it this year. I really like the alchemy in this game and it was enough to motivate me to navigate JRPG dungeon crawling which is normally something that is a kiss of death for Corv wanting to play your game. I basically kludged through the entire game without understanding the weird hybrid real time / turn based fighting, and I consider that a mark mainly against the game but possibly slightly in its favor as well. I did look up a guide to alchemize super OP shit for the final boss though since it actually required you to either understand how to do the combat or how to use exploits to make infinite quality items. Story was... cute? It was pretty stock overall but it didn't dwell too long on boring bits so I was fine with it. I'm gonna play Ryza 2 sometime and we'll see if the concept is strong enough to keep my interest in the sequel going too.

     

    VA-11 Hall-A - Finally got around to playing this in 2022. I wasn't exactly sure what I had in terms of expectations for the game but I enjoyed the story and pacing and the dialogue and for some reason I didn't expect it to focus on what it did by the end. Haven't gone through the various bonus stuff that's hidden in the game, but after completing it I felt like I'd need to come back for that stuff after some time has passed. So maybe soonventually. Dorothy is super cute but that's not surprising coming from a robot girl fan such as myself.

     

    Noita - Hey I fuckin love this game so much I'm gonna call it goty 2022 even though I got it in 2021 and played it a lot then too. This game is like the only "craft your own magic!!!" games that actually feels like there's skill and knowledge required to actually do it. A lot of times it's like "wow you made your bullet attack deal ice damage and fly faster that's crazy!!!" Not in Noita. In Noita it's "I made a projectile that homes towards and pierces into enemies, freezes their bodies, and shatters them from the inside by summoning eldritch thrashing tentacles." And it's fucking awesome and it makes you feel like you actually are crafting magic and not adding % modifiers to a pew pew attack (and even when you ARE doing that, Noita has lots of ways to make that interesting, like abusing acceleration mechanics or perk stacking). Very rarely do I ever feel the need to play a game so much to 100% it and I'm working on that right now for Noita. The game just demands a lot of knowledge and experience and it sort of really blooms out into new games once you realize you can "break out" of the basic world and uncover all sorts of side stuff like the Orbs of True Knowledge and the mini-bosses and the Moons and all that. At the start of the year I was struggling to win the basic game consistently and now at the end of the year I'm planning out which of the last spells I need to uncover and trying to plan out when I'll undertake the hardest and most time-consuming quest of the entire game. This game feels like it was made for me, and man I am so glad I got it.

     

     

    I've also been playing Wagamama High Spec but VNs aren't games so that doesn't count.

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