Random Rants LXIV: Who's Acting Like a Child Now?

[Takhisis]

Well, I have to get up very early on Caturdays.

 

[Dachs]

Do what David Tennant does and buy lots and lots of identical black socks, so that you're never short of a pair or three.

unnecessary

@Dachs: Dress socks? Eh?

I have two kinds of brown socks. There are the boot socks, of which I possess a large number; they are usually thicker and always longer, and are suitable for wearing when I'm in my work boots or hiking boots or snow boots. Then there are the dress socks, of which I have "not enough", because I can only ever find one of any given pair when I need to wear them with khaki slacks and an indeterminate form of dress shirt. They are not suitable for wearing under boots, because they are too short and too thin, kind of like how my boot socks are not suitable for wearing with the loafers and khakis etc.

If you're confused about the word "dress", it's a modifier used to distinguish nice clothes - i.e. white collar work clothes, fancy restaurant dinner clothes, etc. - from casual clothes.

 

[Takhisis]

Oh, I know what dress clothes are in general. But dress socks… well, I lvie and learn.

 

[choxorn]

Rant: Nobody linked to this thread in the last rants thread.

 

[gay_Aleks]

Far more rant-worthy is the fact that the rage emoticon for the thread is not there.



and roman numerals

 

[Snerk]

Nah the roman numerals are still there brah.

 

[gay_Aleks]

Yes. Precisely that is why I'm ranting.

 

[azzaman333]

Yes. Precisely that is why I'm ranting.

You should be raving about it.

 

[GoodEnoughForMe]

I woke up really early thinking I had work on a Saturday for some reason.

 

[Phrossack]

Georgian numerals are the truth. Georgian numerals are the light.

 

[gay_Aleks]

Takhisis log off from Phrossack's account please

you could get banned

 

[Phrossack]

Takhisis log off from Phrossack's account please

you could get banned

Nay, Takhisis favors Greek numerals, Torni-san! I am definitely Phrossack

 

[Takhisis]

Tolni, I will not be funned with in such a way. Do not tease me with getting into Phrossack… 's account.

 

[Phrossack]

Rant: I have spoiled my Mass Effect experience through a combination of save-scumming and reading spoilers. I would start 3, but I'm torn between doing over my ME2 campaign to undo my save-scum in 1 and then making the same mistakes as my first playthrough on purpose for a pure experience that I know will be disastrous in 3, or go with my happier ending that I cheated to get.

Either I feel kinda guilty for cheating or I feel kinda guilty because I know I made dumb mistakes. Argh

 

[Commodore]

Rant: I have spoiled my Mass Effect experience through a combination of save-scumming and reading spoilers. I would start 3, but I'm torn between doing over my ME2 campaign to undo my save-scum in 1 and then making the same mistakes as my first playthrough on purpose for a pure experience that I know will be disastrous in 3, or go with my happier ending that I cheated to get.

Either I feel kinda guilty for cheating or I feel kinda guilty because I know I made dumb mistakes. Argh

The way I keep it fresh and exciting is by using a random number generator or rolling dice to make all my decisions and sticking with it no matter what. Of course, at times that does make my Shepard appear extremely bipolar.

 

[Commodore]

Bought Battlefleet Gothic: Armada today and it won't run. Nothing I do will work and none of the supposed solutions on the Steam forums for the game will work either. Also, I can't get a refund for that piece of junk game because I bought it through Amazon and they don't do refunds for any digital distribution products.

This just reminded me why I am so hesitant to buy games from indie developers and small studios. Say what you want about the big game developers and their business practices, but I've never had a game I bought from them straight up not work with no potential solution in sight.

 

[Ajidica]

Bought Battlefleet Gothic: Armada today and it won't run. Nothing I do will work and none of the supposed solutions on the Steam forums for the game will work either. Also, I can't get a refund for that piece of junk game because I bought it through Amazon and they don't do refunds for any digital distribution products.

This just reminded me why I am so hesitant to buy games from indie developers and small studios. Say what you want about the big game developers and their business practices, but I've never had a game I bought from them straight up not work with no potential solution in sight.

Perhaps it is an issue with your post-processing/ anti-aliasing settings? I remember when I got the game it had a bunch of issues with AA/post processing settings which made the game look cell shaded (like Borderlands) and was absurdly poorly optimized - although my graphics card was able to power through it.
I know the game is running on Unreal 4, so do you have any other games that use Unreal 4?

Rant: I have spoiled my Mass Effect experience through a combination of save-scumming and reading spoilers. I would start 3, but I'm torn between doing over my ME2 campaign to undo my save-scum in 1 and then making the same mistakes as my first playthrough on purpose for a pure experience that I know will be disastrous in 3, or go with my happier ending that I cheated to get.

Either I feel kinda guilty for cheating or I feel kinda guilty because I know I made dumb mistakes. Argh

That's why I got so annoyed at Bioware in ME2. I couldn't stand the character of Ashley from ME1 and was almost happy she got killed. Unfortunately ME2 thinks I got Kaiden killed and thus if I want Kaiden alive in ME3 I'll have to replay ME1 or try one of the external save game editors and hope it doesn't give me the electronic middle finger.

 

[Phrossack]

That's why I got so annoyed at Bioware in ME2. I couldn't stand the character of Ashley from ME1 and was almost happy she got killed. Unfortunately ME2 thinks I got Kaiden killed and thus if I want Kaiden alive in ME3 I'll have to replay ME1 or try one of the external save game editors and hope it doesn't give me the electronic middle finger.

My problem isn't a save error; it's my bad habit of reloading when I do something dumb. In this case, I

Spoiler :

thought that whomever I assigned to do something in the suicide mission would get killed, so I didn't use Garrus and Tali like I should have. Thane and Legion ended up dead, and I know what this means for ME3. So I reloaded and did the mission without casualties (except half my crew because I dawdled doing my new DLC just after the abduction).

My friends insist I play 3 with the first file, and I don't necessarily want to cheat my way to a happy ending anymore, but I know that my mistake will make a mess of my campaign and I don't want to go ahead just waiting for the disaster to happen, either.

 

[Commodore]

Perhaps it is an issue with your post-processing/ anti-aliasing settings? I remember when I got the game it had a bunch of issues with AA/post processing settings which made the game look cell shaded (like Borderlands) and was absurdly poorly optimized - although my graphics card was able to power through it.
I know the game is running on Unreal 4, so do you have any other games that use Unreal 4?

I wouldn't know what the issue could possibly be since I can't even get into the game. When I hit the play button in Steam or try to launch by clicking directly on the .exe I get a message that says I need to install some "Unreal 4 essentials." When I tell it to install, it says the installation was successful, but then after that I immediately get the "BattleFleetGothic.exe has stopped working and must close" error message.

When checking the forum I saw that I am not the only one with this issue, but no one seems to know exactly what the problem is. There was a possible solution posted and it seemed to work for some people, but not for others (myself included).

And no, I just looked through a list of games that use Unreal 4 and I don't have any of them besides Battlefleet Gothic.

 

[GoodSarmatian]

I feel like a stupid old man whose brain has decided that it's done learning. I'm between jobs for one more week and have got it into my head to try and learn coding, but it all looks like black magic to me. There's an epihany every now and then, but between these flashes of brilliance I feel like I'm on the brink of a panic attack.