The CWAL Rubber Room

[LINK] Anybody want to help kickstart a dating game where you're dating loveable weapons as you raid dungeons together? - Lothos 16:16:37 12018-08-16
- i was going to demand it involve pigeons somehow as well but nope that's a stretch goal we're good [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 18:57:44 12018-08-16
  - Amorous Avians? I'm sold! [NT] - Vektor 21:24:29 12018-08-16
    - The cloaca will never be the same again. [NT] - TheDeamon 05:14:06 12018-08-17
    - oh my god they have sword boyfriend body pillows this is the greatest kickstarter [NT] - Vektor 21:33:10 12018-08-16
      - Now that I'm one of those people again, I appreciate them having Mac support. [NT] - Psycho Sam! 16:06:21 12018-08-17
        The body pillows are Operating System agnostic [NT] - Vektor 20:03:29 12018-08-17
        The teledildonics patents expire soon, so that's not always going to be true. [NT] - Lothos 17:28:12 12018-08-18
Mo Money Mo Roguelikes - Dorg 04:22:40 12018-08-12
That moment where you point out interesting ways of solving a problem a group of students are having on their project, and you can SEE some of them thinking "holy shit okay you're NOT entirely a waste of space - I am reevaluating here" [NT] - Lothos 01:40:18 12018-08-09
dear student: it's hard to take you seriously when you claim to be manifestly baffled about what an assignment expects of you when there are four sample assignments, including one on *exactly the thing you want to write about.* [NT] - Lothos 03:17:30 12018-08-06
- yeah but like, what even IS an assignment tho [NT] - Sassypants McJerkface 11:40:50 12018-08-12
  - once upon a time i'd have laughed with the glorious certainty that nobody could ever be like that, shawn. once upon a time. [NT] - Lothos 03:17:57 12018-08-13
    - You can't just "assign" people to do things, man, it's basically slavery. [NT] - Fron 18:55:21 12018-08-13
      - I spend a surprising amount of time in this job being paid by young people to stare at them because of how they're being idiots. Still, whatever floats their boat: I ain't gonna kinkshame nobody. [NT] - Lothos 01:06:22 12018-08-16
hello friends patrick stewart is going to play picard in a new star trek series this weekend is blessed thank you for your attention - Fron 10:28:37 12018-08-05
- a good tweet on the subject contained here: - Lothos 03:09:53 12018-08-06
  - I'll accept this *or* an entire series like "Captain's Holiday" where Picard is on Risa trying to read books and people keep interrupting to involve him in adventures and/or have sex with him. [NT] - Fron 10:11:01 12018-08-06
    - I would also accept an entire series of a retired Picard roleplaying as that forties detective in the holodeck, with no references at all to the outside world. The mysteries/crimes themselves would remain almost astonishingly campy and derivative, of course. [NT] - Sassypants McJerkface 18:07:01 12018-08-11
      - Yeah, I'd watch "The Dixon Hill Mysteries Starring Jean-Luc Picard Starring Patrick Stewart" [NT] - Fron 18:10:43 12018-08-11
        Actually since CBS wants to have a bunch of different Star Trek series on all the time, we can make a theme out of this. Remake Murder She Wrote with Picard, remake Columbo with Odo, remake the A-Team with Worf and Barclay, remake MASH with Crusher, Bashir and the Holodoc... [NT] - Fron 15:54:32 12018-08-12
        Remake The Odd Couple with O'Brien and Weyoun. [NT] - Psycho Sam! 16:40:41 12018-08-12
        Tempting. I might also submit O'Brien for the Watson in a Bashir-led Sherlock Holmes reskin. [NT] - Fron 17:16:37 12018-08-12
        Any tragic love story except the characters are Bashir and Garak [NT] - Vektor 20:39:26 12018-08-13
        Um, I'm pretty sure that's just Deep Space Nine itself? [NT] - Sassypants McJerkface 23:37:49 12018-08-13
        Yes and somebody should make more of it [NT] - Vektor 01:49:23 12018-08-14
        ... true. [NT] - Sassypants McJerkface 22:50:54 12018-08-14
    - Rotten is looking forward to the granny porn opportunities this presents. [NT] - TheDeamon 10:11:06 12018-08-09
- i have similar attitudes re: this info [NT] - Sassypants McJerkface 14:19:39 12018-08-05
Just finished playing a game demo/introduction designed as an accompaniment to a different MA thesis, and it was *actively good.* MOAR LIKE THIS PLEASE STUDENTS. [NT] - Lothos 01:57:53 12018-08-01
I'm marking an MA thesis and have had to repeatedly avoid writing "In the name of the Moon, I will punish you" in the margins. That's... not a good sign. [NT] - Lothos 23:26:32 12018-07-21
- I'm pleased to see you've leveled up from despairing about undergrads to despairing about grad students. [NT] - Fron 00:21:54 12018-07-25
  - This is true. I despair about undergrads too, but that's more of a constant background miasma of "what the surly tubular rotating fuck is wrong with you mewling infants" rather than anything more concrete that might inspire posts. [NT] - Lothos 17:59:29 12018-07-25
    - actually i am the wrongest thing since wrongtonium was invented in wrongtown by doctor von wrong: student shenanigans miasma is a rich vein of previously unmined CWALboard content. [NT] - Lothos 19:10:01 12018-07-25
      - linear in classroom time respect this we Dear student: [NT] - Frito 15:26:32 12018-07-31
      - dear students: please stop spitting out your snuff into the flushless urinals. They are disgusting enough already without you adding your cancer-chew to them. [NT] - Legacy 07:43:54 12018-07-28
      - dear student, no I did not scoop out your kidneys with a melon-baller in a vain attempt to salvage the only functional, worthwhile part of you for the sake of humankind, but I do not deny the idea crossed my mind. Possibly repeatedly. [NT] - The V Man 23:07:01 12018-07-26
      - dear students: you can't pay attention to two things at once and neither can the people seated behind you, which is why both of you aren't really listening to the lecture you paid thousands of dollars to attend...all because one of you couldn't wait to cruise your Facebook feed or chat on Steam. [NT] - Tssha 01:30:27 12018-07-26
        also, that's not what laptops are for. ostensibly, they're for taking notes that you will later not use to study. [NT] - Tssha 01:31:46 12018-07-26
      - deer students: you're in the wrong class. The salt lick is down the hall. [NT] - Vektor 01:24:23 12018-07-26
        I also love you! [NT] - Sassypants McJerkface 09:47:30 12018-07-26
      - dear students: i stopped giving you course readings this year and replaced them with comics, free videogames and frigging Rick & Morty episodes and you're STILL not doing them. I respect your consistency. [NT] - Lothos 19:42:24 12018-07-25
        I love you. [NT] - Sassypants McJerkface 09:46:49 12018-07-26
        HUGGLES FOR SHAWN [NT] - Lothos 18:07:41 12018-07-29
      - dear student: complaining that we're "social justice warriors" only makes our powers stronger and shows us we're going in the right direction. [NT] - Lothos 19:39:35 12018-07-25
      - dear student: we are happy to work with you to try and find alternatives around your work schedule, but when we provide six options and you turn all of them down, it's a problem but not OUR problem. No, we will not call your boss so he can prove you have to work then. It's not that we don't believe you, it's that we don't care. [NT] - Lothos 19:37:27 12018-07-25
      - dear student, everybody is entitled to their own opinions, but not their own facts. that's... how facts work. they're facts. they exist as true whether or not you believe in them. they are not santa claus or the idea you're an interesting person. [NT] - Lothos 19:34:55 12018-07-25
      - dear student, exams are important and you should go to them. no you can't 'just reschedule.' what. just what. [NT] - Lothos 19:32:18 12018-07-25
      - dear student when we spent weeks telling you submit a missing assignment, it wasn't because we enjoy writing to you. It was because you're going to fail. Your surprise and confusion that you failed after "you passed everything you handed in" just shows you don't know how maths works. [NT] - Lothos 19:28:48 12018-07-25
        Man that kid needs to learn to do the math better. When I was failing high school english half way through the year I buckled down and started handing in 2/3 of my assignments instead of half of them and passed with a comfortable 60. [NT] - Fron 12:14:49 12018-07-29
        Yep. It's not that in-general it is impossible to pass without handing in all the assessments, and sometimes people do. In this case we said "In your exact, specific situation, you're going to fail without this assessment. In fact, you should be able to work that out yourself based on your grades and the size of the assignments." [NT] - Lothos 18:14:36 12018-07-29
        The response of "nah it'll be fi- HOW DARE YOU FAIL ME! UNPOSSIBLE!" highlights a problem in there somewhere. [NT] - Lothos 18:15:10 12018-07-29
- I always wondered what happened to Nephlite after the series run... [NT] - Tssha 22:45:46 12018-07-24
- I think it's a great sign, but then it depends on who we're talking about. [NT] - Sassypants McJerkface 09:26:28 12018-07-24
- Hey, give them some respect. It is hard to write an essay with shoes on their hands. [NT] - Frito 07:54:18 12018-07-22
Frostpunk is atmospheric enough I was able to turn off my air conditioning. 10/10 would send children to toil in the workhouses until their tiny fingers freeze and become lame again. [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 14:52:47 12018-07-18
Probably super late to the party, but Slay the Spire is a fun little Steam game that makes great use of the deck-building genre from the land of tabletop gaming. [NT] - Mana 12:30:36 12018-07-16
- I've seen streams of it. Probably gonna check it out when it's out of early access or something [NT] - Vektor 22:00:06 12018-07-16
  - Dicey Dungeons looks fun too - from Terry Cavanagh of Super Hexagon and VVVVVVV fame. Currently early access on itch.io. [NT] - Lothos 18:27:23 12018-07-17
Okay, ads from Facebook asking me to log in to catch up with friends and family are pushy enough, but putting Pusheen in the ads is a bit too on the nose. [NT] - Tssha 11:25:31 12018-07-14
- Man, you're gonna just up and walk away from Pusheen like that? [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 13:51:20 12018-07-14
  - I only walked away because he kept Pusheen me away! [NT] - Tssha 12:32:04 12018-07-15
    - Look, I can take a hint! I ain't blind! Pusheen has moved on, and so have I!!! *huffs* [NT] - Tssha 17:58:08 12018-07-15
So I created a CWAL room on ZELLO, if you're interested. - Rotten 11:20:25 12018-07-10
- Ohho, hiring senior mobile devs, eh? ... Aw, lame, no remote jobs. Man, why would anyone work for these guys for $140k when they could make $220k doing the same job in Silicon Valley?? You could live in a 1200 square foot condo for 10 years and then retire wherever you want off the equity in your mortgage [NT] - Dorg 13:38:31 12018-07-10
  - BTW great app! I'm using it on a Windows 8 powered Lumia 650 that I fished out of the garbage and it's running like a dream. A good dream, not one of Namrok's twisted nightmares [NT] - Dorg 13:50:01 12018-07-10
- What the poop is a Zello? [NT] - Psycho Sam! 12:01:56 12018-07-10
  - It's like a big Ziolin [NT] - Legacy 10:23:37 12018-08-02
    - I missed this initially. Well played, Legacy. Nicely done. [NT] - Lothos 20:14:36 12018-08-04
  - Some managers in my office seem to think it's a good way to organize work projects. It mostly seems to be the latest buzzword contraption from what I've seen [NT] - Kalledon 20:18:35 12018-07-10
    - You’re thinking of trello? No way would I subject u guys to that [NT] - Rotten 23:30:06 12018-07-10
      - Wasn't that the hipster replacement for Facebook that nobody knew about or used? [NT] - Psycho Sam! 18:17:24 12018-07-13
        You just described eveyr social media site made since 2007. [NT] - Rotten 12:07:10 12018-07-14
  - Sorta' like discord, PushToTalk chat app. I basically use it on my commute to pass the time. [NT] - Rotten 12:07:58 12018-07-10
THE MORE MY BEARD TRENDS TOWARDS THE SALT END OF THE SALT AND PEPPER SPECTRUM, THE MORE ENTHUSIASTIC I AM ABOUT ALL THINGS RADIO WHAT IS HAPPENING TO ME... [NT] - Rotten 11:39:11 12018-07-06
- Hey man, wanna listen to my vinyl mix? I etched it myself. Vinyl has the warmest sound. [NT] - Hipster Tssha 19:08:05 12018-07-07
- Clearly it is some latent wizardry desire expressing itself after concluding that the arcane and sundry details of RF means it must be an embodiment magic. [NT] - TheDeamon 10:29:31 12018-07-07
- HAVE YOU TRIED FLEUR DE SEL LOTS OF PEOPLE GET REALLY PUT OFF BY THE PRICE BUT THE TEXTURE IS SIMPLY INCREDIBLE YOU GET THIS SATISFYING CRUNCHY TEXTURE THAT MELTS AWAY INTO LITTLE PINPRICKS OF SALT THAT THEMSELVES DON'T LINGER BUT DISSOLVE INTO THE MAIN PLAYERS OF THE DISH GENTLY I FEEL WEIRD SPRINKING A $20 JAR OF SALT ON FRENCH FRIES BUT IT IS WORTH IT - Inconsequential Serum Sodium 20:15:29 12018-07-06
  - You guys want some salt from my salt and pepper beard? [NT] - Rotten 21:45:50 12018-07-06
    - Yes. I would like to cover your beard in expensive salt and savour the taste. [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 22:47:52 12018-07-06
  - PLEASE STOP HUMPING THE SPEAKING PILLOW [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 20:16:26 12018-07-06
Happy America Day, fuckers! [NT] - Psycho Sam! 07:25:06 12018-07-04
- HELL YEAH! AMERICA!! BTW anyone know when our trade war is going to hurt the US stock market? I assumed after we crashed China's economy they'd retaliate, but my poor put options are dying here!! [NT] - Dorg 15:08:50 12018-07-04
  - Put options? You mean the Coward's Short? [NT] - Fron 17:00:12 12018-07-09
    - I've been a lot more gun-shy ever since The Bloody Red Ledger went down in flames from selling calls.. [NT] - Dorg 08:39:15 12018-07-14
[LINK] The Second Civil War hashtag on Twitter is especially hilarious. Pro Tip to Alex Jones: never pick a date for your scary event. You risk the same mistake Christian end-of-the-world predictors make so often, when they find out that the day after the end date has come a little too inconveniently. - Tssha 01:30:08 12018-07-04
- If you're talking about the mobile canteen/"roach coach" type vehicles, in much of the United States, they are typically operated by Hispanics, although other minorities are not uncommon either. A white person working on one is almost unheard of. [NT] - TheDeamon 13:25:53 12018-07-04
  - We talking street meat? Street meat trucks are basically an institution in Canada, and are operated by basically anyone who wants to. I'd considered it at one point, and I'm so white I glow outside in the sun. [NT] - Psycho Sam! 13:29:22 12018-07-04
    - Street meat sounds like nothing that I want to be a part of. Nuh-uh. [NT] - Tssha 00:45:11 12018-07-05
      - It sounds like a shorthand way of describing Shawn wandering around the public streets in a drunken stupor. [NT] - TheDeamon 10:26:39 12018-07-07
I saw Ocean's Eight on Saturday. It was one of the more relentlessly okay movies I've seen recently. [NT] - Fron 17:19:10 12018-07-02
- Does anyone else actually end up feeling really depressed when they watch something that's unforgivably joyless and bland? Like I actually end up with sort of a sick feeling from the paint by numbers jokes and hollow relationships. It feels like watching dead people speak. The same sort of eeriness you get from watching late-night infomercials while the ketamine wears off, you know? [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 13:28:55 12018-07-03
  - Watching dead people speak would be cool though. [NT] - Rotten 08:40:14 12018-07-04
  - I mean, it wasn't joyless. A couple bits were funny. They seemed like they had fun making it. It was fine. [NT] - Fron 19:01:56 12018-07-03
  - Or like when you go to work but everyone is acting all *hollow* and you know if you could just get them to part their hair just right you could see right through their head to the gears underneath cause they're all plexiglass but they're hiding it but you know better and you can't think it while they're looking right at you cause they can feel the waves from wrong thoughts. [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 13:32:16 12018-07-03
    - So sort of like the Jurassic Park reboots. Fun in their own way, but I can't concentrate on the special effect dinosaurs when we all know Chris Pratt is extinct and they just make him move with their computers. Also that poor nanny. [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 13:33:33 12018-07-03
      - [SC2] She didn't even do anything. [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 13:34:17 12018-07-03
Happy Canada Day, fuckers! [NT] - Psycho Sam! 17:43:43 12018-07-01
- What's this all aboot? [NT] - thorkos 00:40:58 12018-07-02
No Canada Day shit huh? I think this forum has officially gone downhill. [NT] - Rotten 10:58:01 12018-07-01
- we were all too busy dying of heat to make loveable asses of ourselves [NT] - Vektor 22:37:32 12018-07-03
- I can't believe I almost forgot... [NT] - Psycho Sam! 17:44:19 12018-07-01
- In that case I take it back. [NT] - Rotten 11:47:11 12018-07-01
  - Now take back what you said about the SJW robot! [NT] - Sassypants McJerkface 17:56:22 12018-07-01
    - Honestly I didn't even mind the robot, was just kidding. It was pretty clear she was there for comedy relief. IMO it was a pretty good popcorn movie. People like to pretend Star Wars was Shakespeare or something. Never was, really. [NT] - Rotten 06:47:44 12018-07-02
    - (I actually found that entire story subtread weird because _the droid was right_, yet no one takes her seriously, her plans inevitably fail and have little impact on the galaxy at large, and also she dies horribly.) [NT] - Sassypants McJerkface 18:00:55 12018-07-01
      - Anyway, HAPPY CANADA DAY EVERYBODY [NT] - Sassypants McJerkface 18:01:29 12018-07-01
So I actually thought solo was better than tlj. [NT] - Rotten 15:29:00 12018-06-28
- And yes I cheered when the sjw robot was disintegrated. [NT] - Rotten 15:44:46 12018-06-28
Going to the bathroom: WONDERFULLY wonderful. FIVE stars out of FOUR!!!! [NT] - Rotten 09:25:21 12018-06-28
- One problem with most cyberpunk is that it totally skirts one consequence that over reliance on computers would have: obesity. Just a random thought from noting the prevalence of fatties at the local IT conference. [NT] - Rotten 10:40:52 12018-06-28
  - I saw a documentary about an autonomous trash-disposal robot which actually spent a fair amount of time on the subject. I believe it did have a fairly anti-automation and anti-technology tone overall, however, despite being fairly rosy about the capabilities of the robots it centered around. [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 11:56:28 12018-06-30
    - Wall-E? I thought about that after I posted that, actually. [NT] - Rotten 07:59:04 12018-07-01
  - *sigh* I really need to work out a plot using the setting I have rattling around in my head. Of course, there are a few dozen glaring potential plot holes to address along the way... Even before there is a plot to work with. - TheDeamon 12:00:09 12018-06-29
  - Cyberpunk also tends to involve a large amount of cybernetics, so everybody probably has robotic bellies that sculpt fat deposits into the shape of a six-pack. [NT] - Legacy 11:27:27 12018-06-29
    - or an implant/app that helps govern appetite and food intake. If the IPlant app says you're full, then you must be full. [NT] - TheDeamon 11:50:18 12018-06-29
I just watched a speedrun run of Celeste on SGDQ, and not only did it look completely speedrunnable, but the donation notes and Steam reviews and the game's subject matter apparently make this one goddamn good indie game purchase. [NT] - thorkos 03:28:06 12018-06-28
Into the Breach is on sale at the Humble Store, and is a lot of fun. Lotssss of fun. Good soundtrack, too, though I don't think it comes with that. [NT] - Lothos 17:29:17 12018-06-27
- Out of all the bug drowning simulators I've played, it's certainly in the top 5. [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 11:57:37 12018-06-30
I have 11 steel galvanized pipes available for anyone who wants them. [NT] - Rotten 09:11:26 12018-06-26
- I had 288 empty whiskey barrels until recently? [NT] - TheDeamon 12:45:22 12018-06-26
  - It's nice to know you're making an effort to expand your wardrobe. [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 15:34:16 12018-06-26
- That depends: How do you feel going to the bathroom? Do you enjoy it? [NT] - Sassypants McJerkface 10:31:29 12018-06-26
  - Immensely! *blushes* [NT] - Rotten 23:24:49 12018-06-26
  - My sewer has enough damage to the pipe that the front yard is developing a sink hole. Every time I flush, I wash out a bit more precious soil. Its maw threatens the sidewalk. Travelers will be forced to stop and admire the excavations my excrementations have wrought. Stray animals will fall inwards, never to return. In time, so too will my home. Beauty is all around us. I enjoy it. [NT] - Inconsequential Shaper of the Landscape 11:51:57 12018-06-26
So, the sale event game is as ho-hum and drab as usual. Why freakin' bother? Heck, one of the leading groups has a bot for the game on their front page...not even going to question why that group didn't get instabanned (or at least warned to take it off their page). - Tssha 03:11:19 12018-06-24
- I dunno, the witness finally got pretty cheap [NT] - thorkos 20:52:30 12018-06-25
  - pretty sure i don't have a problem with the low prices [NT] - Tssha 21:25:49 12018-06-25
    - me either. getting things you already want cheaper is amazing, no other way to cut it. what is stupid is buying something you DIDN'T really want, JUST because it's cheaper. I just got the witness for 12 bucks...down from 40. And I've been wanting that game for years, because Braid was fucking awesome. [NT] - thorkos 01:00:03 12018-06-26
- I think the only sale event I really got enthusiastic over had a big list of games that they added event-specific achievements to, and completing those achievements would work you towards a voucher for a random game. It rewarded you for buying specific games but also for being an enthusiastic customer with a large library, and participation meant playing a wide variety of games you might not have. [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 15:41:46 12018-06-25
  - That WAS an awesome event. Wish they'd do more of those. [NT] - Tssha 18:21:55 12018-06-25
  - I may be biased by having a library that's about to burst under the weight of shovelfuls of Humble Bundle also-ran titles. [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 15:43:00 12018-06-25
[LINK] Paul Reich III and Fred Ford are fundraising for defending their creative ownership of the Star Control games in court. - Lothos 23:15:21 12018-06-22
- I dunno, my skeptic senses are tingling. Do we have confirmation it's actually them raising the money? [NT] - Tssha 00:00:19 12018-06-23
  - [LINK] That is an excellent question, and good instincts. Follow-up research sees them mentioning it on the site they're using to update people on progress? - Lothos 00:15:58 12018-06-23
    - Yeah, seems to check out (at least, without doing a DNS check or something, which seems excessive). Sadly I am not in the moneez, but I will cheer them on with little colourful banners and words of praise and encouragement. [NT] - Tssha 00:45:37 12018-06-23
      - Good plan! And yeah, they've been using this site since the fight started. If dogarandkazon.com *didn't* mention fundraising, I'd be raising DIVERS ALARUMS. [NT] - Lothos 03:46:06 12018-06-23
"9 items on your Steam Wishlist are on sale." Guess it's that time again - Kalledon 11:50:41 12018-06-22
- 9? Hah! "25 items on your Steam Wishlist are on sale." "13 items on your Steam Wishlist are on sale." And yes, those were two separate emails. [NT] - Tssha 18:29:11 12018-06-22
- Yeah... I had six pop up, but nothing's jumping out as a "must have" right now. [NT] - Psycho Sam! 13:23:33 12018-06-22
  - The original Dishonored is $3.74 CAD right now, so it's probably less than $3 USD. Anyone who hasn't already picked it up should jump on the chance. The DLC are also exceptional, but they're weirdly each the same price as the game proper, now. [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 17:39:50 12018-06-22
    - Dishonored was my personal choice for "original and new IP of the year" when it came out. Very fun. I like both 1 and 2. Didn't touch the DLC tho, so don't know about them. I generally fucking hate DLC. [NT] - thorkos 00:42:38 12018-07-02
    - I bounced off that game for some reason. Don't know why. [NT] - Tssha 18:29:48 12018-06-22
      - FINE. Deus Ex: Human Revolution is $2.99. Hotline Miami is $2.49. Swapper is $2.84. Devil Daggers is $2.99. SPEND MONEY. [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 19:28:02 12018-06-22
        Deus Ex: Mankind Divided was a "Free with Playstation Plus" game a few months back. I played the opening mission, but the whole thing felt fairly railroaded, does it open up later? [NT] - Psycho Sam! 12:25:31 12018-06-23
        I haven't played Mankind Divided, but the consensus is that it opens up to really sprawling, detailed maps with much improved systems over HR and no awful boss fights. Universal complaint is that the plot comes apart at the end and then the game ends abruptly, which was jarring enough to make a lot of people livid. I'm gonna go with "If you thought Mass Effect 3 was good overall, you'll like it". [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 16:57:22 12018-06-23
        I'll probably play it after I finish The Evil Within, which is like RE4 was written by someone with ADHD. "Okay, you're in a village with psychotic peasants NO now it's an evil mental hospital WAIT FACTORY LEVEL okay no how about firelink shrine WITH A CHAINSAW GUY or maybe creepy mansion watching ghosts no okay silent hill perhaps alright creepy hotel and now for the set of saw okay how abou---" [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 17:04:22 12018-06-23
        "--t this though the last of us was great how about a last of us level but SPOOOOKY" (evil within is actually a very good game and the constant setting shifts is a great way to keep you from getting bored) [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 21:20:51 12018-06-23
        I got fed up with the second to last (I think) boss fight, on easy mode, and never finished it before moving on to The Evil Within 2, which is more Silent Hill town exploration with Resident Evil 4-ish mechanics and a really creepy ghost that sings to you through the Dual Shock's speaker and it's really freaky. [NT] - Psycho Sam! 22:12:04 12018-06-23
        In fairness, I'm using a guide to find all the statues, cause survival mode turned out to not be kidding and I can't see having the resources to fight most of the enemies, let alone any optional boss encounters (FUCK YOU LAURA AND FUCK YOUR ARMS DO YOU HAVE THREE OR FOUR MAKE UP YOUR MIND I SPENT FIVE MINUTES TRYING TO COUNT GIVE ME BACK MY SHOTGUN SHELLS) [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 01:13:49 12018-06-24
        I don't have to do what you tell me! YOU'RE NOT MY REAL DAD! *slams door* - Tssha 23:22:19 12018-06-22
[LINK] Who wants to learn about natural abominations that do things like make FLESH HONEY? - Lothos 20:09:53 12018-06-20
- Bwahaha, at least those parasites don't do anything to other organisms that they wouldn't do to themselves (Re: "...the ungrateful little shits cannibalize their mother from the inside out before emerging to start the cycle all over again") [NT] - Dorg 21:58:31 12018-06-22
- I am unsure that "want" is the appropriate word to attach to FLESH HONEY under any circumstance. [NT] - Tssha 18:28:02 12018-06-22
- "Flesh honey" sounds like something a Borderlands bandit would scream as he charged you. [NT] - Legacy 01:13:00 12018-06-22
  - You are not wrong. [NT] - Lothos 05:53:48 12018-06-22
SO WHO WANTS MY EXTRA GOG KEY FOR CULTIST SIMULATOR - Inconsequential Lurker 15:26:22 12018-06-20
- Let's make a game called "Cultist Simulator Simulator", where you follow a Cultist Simulator player's apotheosis and/or slow descent into madness [NT] - Dorg 19:54:15 12018-06-22
  - (If one of you guys is up for doing the writing, I'll glue it together with some HTML5/JavaScript and stock artwork) - Dorg 19:55:26 12018-06-22
    - Only if it is written in Vue.js. [NT] - Mana 11:40:11 12018-06-25
    - I'm only on board if it's part of trilogy that just adds layers of simulation. Cultist Simulator Simulator Simulator Simulator will be the greatest achievement of Games as Art. Especially the subplot where you just procrastinate and question why you're even doing something this ridiculous on the CWAL forums. (Cleverbot boss fight to be added as DLC) [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 20:16:36 12018-06-22
      - If anyone wants to team up to quickly churn out ridiculously-meta games, drop me a line and LET'S DO THIS TEAM!!! Let's make the meta-game equivalent of 1001 Arabian Nights or "Mr. Show" [NT] - Dorg 21:42:47 12018-06-22
- This definitely sounds like something I would enjoy picking through. [NT] - Jarick 18:38:02 12018-06-21
  - Turns out there's invisible CWALers still around, and we just need to bribe them into revealing themselves. Like a seance. Which is also topical. Should I just add you on Steam or is there a better way to get it to you? [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 20:11:38 12018-06-21
    - Steam works, gmail account in the Google Talk field works, main contact email works, all of that sounds viable. [NT] - Jarick 20:53:05 12018-06-21
    - i n t e l l e c t u a l d a r k w e b [NT] - Fron 20:45:59 12018-06-21
- I've been noodling with it for an hour and it's good times. I have no idea what I'm doing and it's still interesting. [NT] - Lothos 20:09:17 12018-06-20
  - What I really appreciated was how the mechanics and lore really align in a way that makes sense. Like, you can kind of stumble your way through rituals and do perfectly fine through trial and error and seeing what sticks, but pay enough attention to the text of books and rites and the game will tell you how to summon end-game creatures or end the world or sacrifice your flesh for knowledge. [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 20:53:32 12018-06-20
    - I can tell you that the Mansus is accessed through dreaming and anything that fascinates you is related to your goals in some way. Also frustrating your passion might fill you with restlessness, which turns to dread, but fear exists to protect you from the unknown. Be wary of leaving dread behind if you aren't equipped to deal with the perils knowledge holds for the mortal mind. - Inconsequential Lurker 21:28:41 12018-06-20
      - This shit is satisfyingly frustrating. [NT] - Jarick 19:37:26 12018-06-23
        The best part is the systems are fastidiously fair and you'll never die without making a few mistakes in a row and there's systems arranged around defeating RNG. Learning what's a mistake and what's not is sort of the problem, though. [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 19:47:05 12018-06-23
So why do I hate talking to people on the phone and yet love talking to people over radio so much? It makes no sense. The former is just a better version of the latter. [NT] - Rotten 10:00:45 12018-06-20
- Probably all the greybeards listening in. And jerkin' it. [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 14:11:16 12018-06-20
  - what colour is your beard rotten [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 14:12:50 12018-06-20
    - Currently salt and pepper [NT] - Rotten 14:23:20 12018-06-20
      - Ah, there we go. When the greybeard pupa starts to stir it becomes attuned to the calls of its kin and, agitated, attempts to join them without knowing why. It might seem strange at first, but it's a normal part of the ascension process. Soon you'll join the symphony, tapping out morse and demanding strangers help you troubleshoot Windows 95 boxes over the air alongside your invisible kin. [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 14:28:51 12018-06-20
        If you don't know continuous wave, you're a hopeless n00b. [NT] - Rotten 08:41:50 12018-06-22
        ...l33t speak? Ack! Greybeard! *runs* [NT] - Tssha 18:31:46 12018-06-22
        THE BRETHREN SINGS WE SING ALIKE -.. --- . ... / .- -. -.-- --- -. . / -.- -. --- .-- / .-- .... .- - / .- / .-- .. -. ... --- -.-. -.- / .. ... GLORIOUS SONG -- -.-- / -- .. -.-. .-. --- ... --- ..-. - / -... --- -... / .. ... -. - / -.-. --- -- .--. .- - .. -... .-.. . / .. / - .... .. -. -.- WE ARE ONE [NT] - DIVINE VOICE OF THE GREYBEARD HAM HIVE 14:33:15 12018-06-20
[POLL] Same reason why i drink my own urine. Its sterile and i like the taste. - Rotten 23:13:39 12018-06-15
- Query: Why must you feast insatiably on Jordan Peterson's strangely clammy recesses for the fabled "milk of meaning"? [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 01:30:00 12018-06-18
- Question: What might a mild misquote of the early-2000s comedy "Dodgeball" sound like? [NT] - Fron 22:38:11 12018-06-17
- Question: Why the obsession with grannies? [NT] - Legacy 00:55:58 12018-06-16
  - It's impossible for me to imagine a scenario in which you receive a response from Rotten that leaves you feeling glad you asked the question. [NT] - Sassypants McJerkface 18:47:53 12018-06-17
So, West of Loathing is out for the Switch, which is awesome. It came out at the end of May. It's... not findable on the Switch store as far as I can see. It's apparently purchaseable and playable in Australia, but isn't showing up in NZ. I have a confusion. [NT] - Lothos 01:05:38 12018-06-12
- This turned out to make sense in the end: it's being processed for a local rating certificate by the classification office, and that can take a while. I'm looking forward to it whenever it surfaces, now that I've figured out it's not Inexplicably Never Going To Be Available Here. [NT] - Lothos 23:09:55 12018-06-12