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

[madviking]

i'm still the best at beerio kart

 

[cybrxkhan]

Meh, don't worry about that. The thing about those sorts of games is that they require a certain way of thinking about things and if you have that the games become surprisingly easy to play. So if you luck into playing that way from the get-go you seem to intuit the game better than someone else.

Yeah, I'm not really worried, it's really just our personalities showing through. I like taking my time, dicking around, living the fantasy, while he plays these games like they are games to be beat, even if he doesn't have the patience to learn every little little detail about them. I've always been the laid-back, lazy sorta person, he's ambitious and competitive, and it shows. Ultimately I guess it's more like I understand a game better, i.e. I "know" it better, but he implements such knowledge better than me.

Also - how can you "be good at The Sims"?

I guess in an open-ended game like the Sims you can't really fail per se, but what I mean is my brother is able to juggle a large family much better than me and get them obscenely wealthy much more quickly than me. Partly it's because, like I said, I take my time while he tries to climb to the top, but also in the case of the Sims he's just simply better at management in that game.

I'm not even 20, it's not because I'm getting old.

Wait, you ain't 20 yet? And all this time I was thinking you were a bit older... I dunno what to think now, man.

The good thing about having two older sisters is that there have never and will never be a time I do not reign supreme in gaming. The bad thing is that they're girls so they care less.

I don't have sisters (that was not an incest joke) but most of my female friends have always been at worst minimally competent at most games. I'm pretty sure most of them can roflstomp me in most games.

 

[Hygro]

the fun comes from adversity and having to find ways to triumph over it. If anything being good at the game wears down enjoyment much faster.

Really good post. I agree. It's very satisfying to reach that point and make the ultimate city/theme park/etc but once you do, the fun diminshes. Playing against the AI on skirmish in Red Alert was amazing as a kid, struggling to beat one easy one. Now beating them on hard is simple, you just out mine them and build tanks. No more immersion.

Sim City 2000 was a struggle to get a functional city going. Now I can play with a 10k bond (hard mode) and if I'm allowed just 5 hydro plants I can sprawl to a bustling metropolis. Pro tip, drop your commercial taxes to zero, your industry to 4, add some parks, and jack your residential to 11. Give or take.

My little brother has a knack for identifying the core mechanic for victory, disregarding other stimuli. His skill-to-experience level of Starcraft is terrifying. For someone so new he ratchets up massive armies of decently the right guys. He doesn't worry about anything fancy because he knows it will only distract him until he learns the game better. He spent only a little time on civ forums and he's no sweat deity civ5 and winning most of his online games.

Anyway, it's why I've found most single player games to be seriously lacking. Once you figure out the system it's over. People are dynamic and will counter you. People keep it interesting. Multiplayer everything.

Also - how can you "be good at The Sims"?

By not playing.

 

[Zack]

Wait, you ain't 20 yet?

I mean, I turn 20 in two months. So that might have been misleading.

And all this time I was thinking you were a bit older... I dunno what to think now, man.

My age is and has always been on my profile. How old did you think I was?

 

[cybrxkhan]

I mean, I turn 20 in two months. So that might have been misleading.


My age is and has always been on my profile. How old did you think I was?

Yeah, now that I think about it I should have known anyways, but I always thought you were just a year or two younger than me, i.e. around 21. Not much a difference in the bigger scheme of things, of course, but hey.

 

[Zack]

Don't blame you, it's a common reaction. I'm very mature for my age.

Spoiler :

 

[Arakhor]

Or, with no other reason to believe otherwise, people tend to think that other people are roughly similar to them in age.

 

[Zack]

Or, with no other reason to believe otherwise, people tend to think that other people are roughly similar to them in age.

I was joking, since he thought I was only a year older than I actually am (a trivial difference).

 

[cybrxkhan]

Or, with no other reason to believe otherwise, people tend to think that other people are roughly similar to them in age.

My thinking process when it come to the age of A random person on CFC whose age I do not know:

1. Assume the person is a few years older than me if they have not implied in some way they are in school.
2. If implied to be in school, and seem more mature than my brother, who's 18 atm, assume they are in college and are at least a year older than my brother.
3. If implied to be in school, and seem as mature as or less mature than my brother, assume they are in high school, ie a few years younger than him.
4. If implied to be in school, but are extremely immature and act like an Internet teenagerr, assume they are in middle school.
5. Exception made for anybody who is clearly Eastern European or a Mod, if so, assume they are at least 30.

 

[Arakhor]

I'm aware you were joking, Zack, but my line of thought is conceptually similar to Cyberxkhan's, in that I assume that people (who are not obviously youthful or visibly wrinkled) are generally somewhere around 30, unless I have reason to think otherwise.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

I'm aware you were joking, Zack, but my line of thought is conceptually similar to Cyberxkhan's, in that I assume that people (who are not obviously youthful or visibly wrinkled) are generally somewhere around 30, unless I have reason to think otherwise.

Being not visibly wrinkled I really like this theory.

 

[Zack]

Being not visibly wrinkled I really like this theory.

Are your wrinkles invisible, then? Cover em up with makeup?

 

[Cutlass]

My mother was complaining earlier that tonight she couldn't drive her car because she couldn't get it out of park. She even called a mechanic and he came and had no trouble with it. I asked her if she had her foot on the break. And she just stared at me. She's had that car for nearly 8 years.

 

[Takhisis]

I mean, I turn 20 in two months.

Kids these days…

My mother was complaining earlier that tonight she couldn't drive her car because she couldn't get it out of park. She even called a mechanic and he came and had no trouble with it. I asked her if she had her foot on the break. And she just stared at me. She's had that car for nearly 8 years.

Hey, you post that brakes rant in the raves thread!

btw why have you deleted it? It might count as a humerus episode.

 

[Kennigit]

Zack is a 74 year old woman in rural georgia

 

[madviking]

I mean, I turn 20 in two months.

heyyyyyyyyy let's go to the bar

oh wait

lame.

 

[bhavv]

I have never been so mad in my entire life

I have to wait till the store opens and order it over the phone instead now.

 

[Snerk]

Those bastards, those cold blooded bastards..

 

[Lillefix]

Isn't this this "not include vat in price"-thing you have in America?

 

[Snerk]

Pounds though