The Bridge

Yuuki

10:02 PM

@GodEmperorDune Wait, I thought the Russians put Trump in power?

GodEmperorDune

@Yuuki true but the revolutionary communist party is very anti trump because of trump's authoritarian tendencies

Sterno

@Wipqozn urmom doesn't increment. she's stuck on 0. She just says oh oh oh over and over and never moves up to one.

5

cc @Wipqozn on that sick burn

GodEmperorDune

@Sterno DAYUUUUUUMMMMMMM

that is the sickest burn i've heard in a long time

Wipqozn

@Sterno Daaaaaaaaaaaamn

@GodEmperorDune Yeah it's pretty legit

Dragonrage

I think either my psu or mobo is dying

arda

10:06 PM

@Sterno I WOKE UP DUE TO A FIRE ALARM

STERNO IS ON FIREEEEEE

Yuuki

@arda His best work since WarGames.

On second thought, most people here probably haven't seen that movie.

Well, maybe WarGames, but I'm quoting a different movie.

Wipqozn

That was a nice episode

(just like your mom)

GodEmperorDune

@Wipqozn weak

Yuuki

@GodEmperorDune just like urmom

Wipqozn

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user15026

10:19 PM

Crap. I thought I'd finally found a romance series that involved gamers or video game creators that wasn't stupid but now they're talking about their spacefaring MMO that has a pod racing expansion pack, an FPS expansion pack, and they're about to release some sort of "special ops" expansion pack and I just...you can tell this person doesn't play games

Yuuki

@Ash NOW THIS IS POD RACING.

GodEmperorDune

@Ash clearly you need to write your own

Yuuki

@Ash Alternatively, perhaps the only game that this person has played is Star Citizen.

cc @TimStone on that burn?

user15026

@GodEmperorDune it's very tempting

Tim Stone

@Yuuki OH SNAP

Frank

10:22 PM

@Ash Which series?

GodEmperorDune

@Yuuki or no man's sky

user15026

@Frank Annabeth Albert's #gaymers series. First two were decent (although they tend to do that thing that LGBT romances do where the main conflict is that someone hasn't come out yet)

Frank

@Ash Okay, haven't heard of that one.

user15026

Third one is kinda frustrating me because it's trying to shove references to game development in and the author just has no idea

user15026

@Frank they're indie ebooks so that might be why

Yuuki

10:24 PM

Or they talk exclusively to Star Citizen devs.

Wipqozn

Really tempted to play DKC2. but I'm also lazy.

I blame @Yuuki

Frank

@Ash Don't read Armada.

user15026

@Wipqozn but that game is awesome

GodEmperorDune

@Ash oh man, we're going to miss crunch because the lead designer forgot to wharrgarbl the pixels!

Wipqozn

@Ash I know, but lazy.

I'd need to plugin my wii and everything

Frank

10:24 PM

It's bad. It sorta gets the game references, but it shovels the drek of the Last Starfighter.

user15026

@Frank I haven't yet, and I don't really plan to, because I haven't heard much good about it

Wipqozn

Pretty sure I neve rtransferred my everything over to the WiiU at least

user15026

@Wipqozn the horrors

Yuuki

@Wipqozn Donkey Kong Country 2?

user15026

@GodEmperorDune yep that's what it sounds like

Wipqozn

10:25 PM

@Ash I might even need batteries for my wiimote

@Yuuki Yes

Frank

@Ash I figured it'd be decent, since Ready Player One was good, but sadly, it was not.

Wipqozn

I could also hook up my snes but that's also work

plus I'm sure the battery that saves data has died on that cart by now

GodEmperorDune

@Ash there is this scene black mirror where the screen says "do you want to continue", the actor makes a confirmation gesture, then the "No" button gets shaded and the action goes through

user15026

@Frank Yeah, I kinda felt like he was trying to basically do RPO in another setting almost

GodEmperorDune

it is infuriating

user15026

10:27 PM

@GodEmperorDune that would make me crazy

user15026

All I want is a romance novel involving gamers where you can tell the author has played more than like wii sports or something

GodEmperorDune

it's like they get so much stuff right that i shouldn't be bothered by it

and yet it sticks out so much

Yuuki

@Ash Wii Sports and Wii Fit? You ask too much.

GodEmperorDune

@Ash REAMDE is decent as far as gamer research but it's not really romance by any stretch

i mean it gets unrealistic at points

Yuuki

@GodEmperorDune REAMME, on the other hand, sounds like it would be a very racy novel.

GodEmperorDune

10:29 PM

like there is an MMO/incremental with no level cap and the highest guy has all these ultra powerful spells that no one else can even use but why would that even get dev/qa resources put on it if no one is going ot see it?

i suppose these are minor quibbles

murgatroid99

Ready Player One has some minor romance elements and decent gamer knowledge. Some people say that it's low quality literature, though.

SaintWacko

@murgatroid99 It is, but that doesn't mean it isn't enjoyable

murgatroid99

@SaintWacko Oh, absolutely. When I first found it, I read it all in one sitting, and enjoyed the whole thing. But I see enough criticism that I think it's worth adding that warning

Frank

It's good for a single read, at least.

I wouldn't really recommend Armada to anyone, though.

Yuuki

@GodEmperorDune Random annoyance I have about game-centered fiction is that the main characters are inevitably DPS.

This is beyond frustrating.

murgatroid99

10:35 PM

@Frank I actually liked Armada. The plot is pretty ridiculous, but it's still a fun read

Yuuki

Sure, Log Horizon had a main character who mostly used CC and debuffs, but Log Horizon is more about weirdo economics and politics than anything.

Frank

@murgatroid99 I didn't think so. He was going for a major twist, and the whole thing just fell flat.

GodEmperorDune

@Yuuki i don't think this game had character classes

it was more like EVE where you just accumulate skills and spells and loot

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Yuuki

@GodEmperorDune Sure, but the main character gamer archetype is always "guy who does lots of damage".

GodEmperorDune

10:37 PM

and there was a pyramid scheme aspect to it with gold farming

Yuuki

I'd like to see a gamer character who doesn't revolve around killing things fast.

GodEmperorDune

like gold farming was literally mining in the virtual ground for minerals

that you could exchange for real money

murgatroid99

Runescape?

arda

Pimoroni just released a kit to make your own raspberry pi retro game console

GodEmperorDune

the main character was founder of the company, so his character had more time to accumulate skills and minions to mine for him

arda

10:39 PM

Retro game fans here might like that

GodEmperorDune

and he got a percentage of the pyramid below him and so on

Frank

@murgatroid99 I believe they're talking about RPO's virtual world.

Yuuki

There's been a spate of "stuck in VR video games" anime/manga recently and the other annoying thing is that the main characters are always described as choosing terrible suboptimal skills.

Which inevitably means crafting.

Frank

@Yuuki Overlord is one of the latest.

And while the anime is...not so good, the light novel is interesting enough for me.

Yuuki

And they somehow make those terrible suboptimal skills somehow amazing because they luckily picked just the right combination.

GodEmperorDune

10:40 PM

the last thing i can remember where crafting was a primary thing was second life

murgatroid99

@Frank Oh, I assumed he was still talking about REAMDE, which I haven't read

GodEmperorDune

@Yuuki so they stumbled onto amazing synergy

@murgatroid99 i was

Yuuki

@GodEmperorDune I can't remember the last MMORPG I played where you had to sacrifice other things to be able to craft.

Frank

@murgatroid99 Not familiar with that acronym.

Yuuki

Crafting has always been a thing you can do in addition to normal adventuring as opposed to something you do instead of normal adventuring.

GodEmperorDune

10:41 PM

@Frank its a book

Reamde

Reamde is a technothriller novel by Neal Stephenson, published in 2011. The story, set in the present day, centers on the plight of a hostage and the ensuing efforts of family and new acquaintances, many of them associated with a fictional MMORPG, to rescue her as her various captors drag her about the globe. Topics covered range from online activities including gold farming and social networking to the criminal methods of the Russian mafia and Islamic terrorists. == Plot summaryEdit == Reamde begins by introducing two members of the Forthrast family who reconnect at an annual family reun...

murgatroid99

@Yuuki Runescape

Yuuki

@murgatroid99 Last I played, the skill caps were such that you could easily max your fighting skills and then go level up crafting.

arda

I made a horrible mistake: I checked tumblr without watching the newest episode of steven universe :(

Wipqozn

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murgatroid99

@Yuuki Well, yeah. But they recently added a skill where you literally sacrifice things to be able to craft other things

GodEmperorDune

10:43 PM

@murgatroid99 like skills as mats?

Wipqozn

The existence of @murgatroid99 reminds me of something

murgatroid99

@GodEmperorDune Other way around. You disassemble just about any item, just so that you can level up the skill, which eventually lets you craft other things

Wipqozn

I was driving today with the google maps "tell me the directions", and I took a wrong turn, and I swear Google got upset with me

I swear she got louder and upset with the directions to get me back en route

GodEmperorDune

@murgatroid99 like wow disenchanting or it just gives skillpoints and not mats too?

Wipqozn

I got confused since she told me to get on Cogswell street off the rotary, but there were too cogswell streets.

Yuuki

10:45 PM

@murgatroid99 That's different from not being able to swing a sword because you learned blacksmithing instead.

Wipqozn

ACtually there are three cogswell streets, all next to each other

murgatroid99

@Wipqozn I can imagine a feature where it increases the volume if it seems like you're not listening, to make sure you can hear the directions properly

GodEmperorDune

wow @Wipqozn, even AI thinks you're terrible

Wipqozn

@murgatroid99 that's basically what happened. When it first gave me the directions my mother was on the phone via my bluetooth stuff.

It's funnier to say it was angry at me though

I NEED THEM LIKES

Yuuki

FFXIV has something similar where crafting is done by crafting classes, which are distinct from adventuring classes, but you can easily level multiple classes on one character and switch them as easily as changing weapons.

murgatroid99

10:46 PM

@GodEmperorDune Basically, disassembling just about anything gives you Exp in that skill, and disassembling certain things also gives valuable materials that you eventually craft with

arda

@Unionhawk oops, I missed this message. Thanks for trying, I'll probably leave the android studio download open overnight.

Yuuki

@GodEmperorDune The annoying thing is that these OP combinations that they find are things that I feel like any gamer that I know would mess with.

And so shouldn't be all that secret in the first place.

Wipqozn

@Fluttershy

Yuuki

Like there's one recently where magic is considered a poor skill since cast times are long and you are really weak in close quarters. But lo and behold, main character also uses the unarmed combat skill and suddenly all of magic's downsides are magically solved.

GodEmperorDune

@Yuuki yeah, when gamers want to spade something they SPADE it

what was that game where they found a new section ten years after the game was released?

murgatroid99

10:53 PM

I feel like those kinds of books are written in a world where players generally don't share knowledge about game mechanics, and maybe also where the mechanics are basically secret without personal experimentation

Yuuki

Oh and he learned some charisma skill which has the side effect of making his cast/chant times faster too!

murgatroid99

@GodEmperorDune Hasn't that happened in real games occasionally?

GodEmperorDune

@murgatroid99 yeah it was a real thing

Yuuki

@murgatroid99 If players don't share knowledge about game mechanics, then how does it get around to be common knowledge that magic is a poor skill in the first place?

GodEmperorDune

but i am failing on remember what game it was

it was posted in here when it happened

shadow of the colossus maybe?

on a shorter timescale, i know there was a puzzle in kingdom of loathing that took more than a year to solve, even with group collaboration

Yuuki

10:58 PM

@GodEmperorDune The islands one?

GodEmperorDune

@Yuuki ed's cartouche

basically if you wore Ed's crown, a code would show up after combat in one zone a day

the zone changed randomly

user15026

@GodEmperorDune oh wow.

Yuuki

> This step required construction of a custom cryptanalysis program employing simulated annealing.

That is perhaps the best part.

Frank

...huh.

A recruiter from...Dallas wants to add me to their LinkedIn network.

Yuuki

Don't do it, Dallas is the worst. I'm totally not biased being from Houston.

Frank

11:05 PM

From a company called Hiring Source.

GodEmperorDune

@Ash i was mistaken, it took 7 months to decipher, not a year

march 2015 to october 2015

Yuuki

@GodEmperorDune I think the Islands one might have taken more than a year.

GodEmperorDune

@Yuuki i wouldn't be surprised

Frank

And my old boss viewed my profile a few days ago.

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