Random Rants LVII: wow. many anger. very whining.

[SamSniped]

Getting wisdom teeth taken out tomorrow morning...not looking forward to it. :/

 

[Joecoolyo]

Rant: Spent all day getting worked up over an e-mail I sent to a professor about a very interesting conversation. Though I regretted sending it yesterday, since I think it was overly-long and maybe ramble-y, I was kind of hoping it would get a response.

It didn't, and now I'm not sure what to think considering I have class tomorrow.

 

[gay_Aleks]

Ah. Nothing quite like reading the forum topic for a Top 70 Best RPGs.

Mad rage all around.

 

[Civ'ed]

Ah. Nothing quite like reading the forum topic for a Top 70 Best RPGs.

Mad rage all around.

Top 70?
Oddly specific.
It's like "please pick your top 13.5 cookies".

 

[gay_Aleks]

I dunno. I think this was partially used as a vehicle to bash most games that are released after 2005.

 

[Zack]

I think he's referring to the RPG Codex list. That site has a hard-on for old games and their mechanics. It's a terrible site, I remember skimming the DA: Inquisition thread they had and people were complaining that a fantasy game had "Negroes" and gay people in it.

 

[Farm Boy]

I totes have a perpetual stiffy for some old game mechanics. Cannot stand idiot action games built around 3rd person view, particularly when multiplayer. Usually don't like super forgiving death mechanics, at least force me to engage in the inconvenience of save scumming rather than automatically scumming all the time, ya know?

 

[Zack]

I totes have a perpetual stiffy for some old game mechanics. Cannot stand idiot action games built around 3rd person view, particularly when multiplayer. Usually don't like super forgiving death mechanics, at least force me to engage in the inconvenience of save scumming rather than automatically scumming all the time, ya know?

Planescape Torment (1999), aka the #1 RPG on that list, had very forgiving death mechanics.

 

[cybrxkhan]

I think he's referring to the RPG Codex list. That site has a hard-on for old games and their mechanics. It's a terrible site, I remember skimming the DA: Inquisition thread they had and people were complaining that a fantasy game had "Negroes" and gay people in it.

Heh heh, TES had "Negroes" Redguards since Arena in 1994, wonder what those folks must've thought about it. I'm guessing they're the sort of folks who think Morrowind was what was wrong with the games industry in the early 2000s.

 

[Farm Boy]

Planescape Torment (1999), aka the #1 RPG on that list, had very forgiving death mechanics.

Sounds lame then!

I'm more into The Bard's Tale(not the remake) mechanics. If your party got murderized it autosaved. You then needed to start a new party to farm the cash to resurrect the old party. The store and items that were bought/sold from it were persistent.

 

[Zack]

Heh heh, TES had "Negroes" Redguards since Arena in 1994, wonder what those folks must've thought about it. I'm guessing they're the sort of folks who think Morrowind was what was wrong with the games industry in the early 2000s.

Morrowind is actually #7 and Daggerfall is #35, though those are the only Elder Scrolls games on the list. They absolutely <defecate> on Skyrim, something I agree with actually.

Here's the list, for reference.

 

[EgonSpengler]

Anti-vaccination freaks were mentioned in another thread, and literally minutes later I'm reading in the NY Times that the measles outbreak in California has spread to Arizona, which is about to host the Super Bowl. Arizona has 7 confirmed cases and is tracking 1,000 people who may have been exposed. All the people who lost their minds over ebola must really be <snip>ing themselves. Or not.

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[Farm Boy]

I wholeheartedly support civil liability for those who fail to avail themselves of the system in place for vaccinating their children. I don't want the great pestilences of the past back for another round because dumb.

Measles is way more contagious than ebola.

 

[GreekAnalyzer]

Rants:
Flat Earthers
Anti-vax movement
People
The fact that I've wrote 4 papers this month
The fact that I'm taking logic, which even the teacher admits is bad when I could be learning something useful.

 

[gay_Aleks]

Doesn't Logic fall under philosophy?

(and now, I am waiting for the inevitable post saying "lol no".)

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Of course the Canadian dollar would become weaker when I needed some American currency.

 

[bhavv]

I had an MMR shot as an infant, and still got measles when I was around 5-7 years old.

I didnt know how dangerous it was.

 

[GreekAnalyzer]

Doesn't Logic fall under philosophy?

(and now, I am waiting for the inevitable post saying "lol no".)

It does. I liked learning the fallacies but now I'd much prefer a vocational skill to be taught.
Oh and here's another I just thought of: I keep getting texts from Facebook about people I don't know since the last person who had my phone number didn't turn it off. And there's no way to turn it off.
Oh and my friend accidentally told the brother and of a girl I like that I liked her. (The friend wasn't even supposed to know)

 

[Kennigit]

I feel there has to be a way to turn off facebook texts (messenger?)

 

[GreekAnalyzer]

I've got the top scientists in the country working on it