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

[Lillefix]

Sounds lame then!

Considering one of your main goals in the game (apart from finding out who you are) is to die, it actually makes sense.

 

[Farm Boy]

Ok, so "death mechanic" is turned on its head. I suppose I should more accurately state it as "failure mechanic." I get really bored when games simply do not punish failure. I should want to not fail. I should be irritated when I do fail, and failure should be ever looming. Otherwise how is success going to be worth anything?

 

[EgonSpengler]

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.

Like, way more contagious. I heard recently, in a story about the Disneyland outbreak, that a person with ebola typically infects 2 other people, a person with the flu typically infects 4 other people, and a person with measles typically infects 18 other people.

 

[Joecoolyo]

Rant: I'm an idiot. Big mouth, or what not. No idea what I'm doing. Thought I had an opportunity this semester (or multiple actually) to do something academic or interesting. Instead I'm seemingly denied or ignored. I don't even know at this point. I work hard and I try my best to find something interesting, or at least appear interested in something, but it gets me nowhere. Maybe I'm stupid at talking and it turns people off. Maybe I'm a bad writer. All I know is that I'm going to go nowhere now, and my life is just a series of opportunities spurned.

 

[Takhisis]

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

Turn off facebook and meet people face to face.

Rant: I'm an idiot. Big mouth, or what not. No idea what I'm doing. Thought I had an opportunity this semester (or multiple actually) to do something academic or interesting. Instead I'm seemingly denied or ignored. I don't even know at this point. I work hard and I try my best to find something interesting, or at least appear interested in something, but it gets me nowhere. Maybe I'm stupid at talking and it turns people off. Maybe I'm a bad writer. All I know is that I'm going to go nowhere now, and my life is just a series of opportunities spurned.

I don't think you're stupid.

 

[shadowplay]

I'm getting tired of people making fun of sign language interpreters.

 

[The_J]

Just tell them that they're idiots for belittling people who do something a lot better than they could do.


Rant: Caught a cold, and due to that had to cancel a dinner, for which I've been waiting for 2 months :/.
Also can't stay in bed and need to go to work, because today I need to give my B.sc. student the final grade.
Hope it's gone tomorrow, because some people rely on me for driving them.

 

[Arakhor]

[Planescape Torment] Sounds lame then!

You are dead to me, Farm Boy.

Spoiler :

Seriously, play it first and then pass judgement.

 

[GoodSarmatian]

Currently at work waiting to be rescued. I somehow managed to lock myself into a small room and only one person has the key and he doesn't seem to haven cell reception. I've been trapped here now for more than half an hour.

 

[Snerk]

Rant/rave: Woke up feeling really nauseous yesterday. Figured I had a couple days of Noro-virus hell a head. But it never escalated to that, thank the gods! I'm feeling somewhat better today so hopefully I'm back too normal within a few of days.

 

[Civ'ed]

Currently at work waiting to be rescued. I somehow managed to lock myself into a small room and only one person has the key and he doesn't seem to haven cell reception. I've been trapped here now for more than half an hour.

hope you get out

 

[Farm Boy]

You are dead to me, Farm Boy.

Spoiler :

Seriously, play it first and then pass judgement.

Gorsh, it's a painfully obvious first impression on the failure mechanic alone!

And I do get mechanics stiffies for lots of old stuff. I doubt not that it has redeeming features, I just have a hard enough time getting through one game of LoL these days I don't think a new one is going to happen soon.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Rant: I'm an idiot. Big mouth, or what not. No idea what I'm doing. Thought I had an opportunity this semester (or multiple actually) to do something academic or interesting. Instead I'm seemingly denied or ignored. I don't even know at this point. I work hard and I try my best to find something interesting, or at least appear interested in something, but it gets me nowhere. Maybe I'm stupid at talking and it turns people off. Maybe I'm a bad writer. All I know is that I'm going to go nowhere now, and my life is just a series of opportunities spurned.

You're a fun guy with a great sense of humor. You've just hit a rough spot, it happens to everyone. You're most assuredly not an idiot.

 

[GoodSarmatian]

Well, I got out. Least productive workday in years.

 

[azzaman333]

I'm about 10 minutes of bus and 50 minutes of walking from home but I just wanna sleep now.

 

[Zack]

You are dead to me, Farm Boy.

Spoiler :

Seriously, play it first and then pass judgement.

The combat is absolutely atrocious. I hate how so many RPGs feel the need to shoehorn in tons of unnecessary combat when the gameplay sucks. It's the sole reason I stopped playing that game -- I loved the story and dialogues, but the combat was so so bad and so unavoidable.

 

[Arakhor]

Seriously? There were only about four fights you ever needed to be in. The rest was just XP etc.

 

[Zack]

Walk in the city, immediately get attacked by gang.

I quit after the part where there's some long grueling fight in a house. It's been awhile, I don't really remember the specifics too well.

 

[Arakhor]

The radial menus weren't too fun to use, I'll admit, but the combat was otherwise entirely stock 2nd Edition stuff, as in all the Infinity Engine games. In fact, it was probably better, given that the character models were larger and you had a run function in the game.

 

[gay_Aleks]

You could also play Fallout. Any Fallout, really.