00:03:42 ER: wow, that IS a lot of dudes
00:05:31 ER: with the cape, pring boots, and climbing gloves you can basically get anywhere
00:10:55 ER: not a run winner, but fun :P
00:42:54 ER: ahe doesn't like it when you break her alter :P
00:43:23 ER: the bomb was unessesary there
01:00:52 ER: why did you buy spring boots?
01:00:59 ER: you already had spring boots
01:26:21 ER: you can pick up and throw dead red frogs if you're brave
01:27:38 ER: monkeys may be annoying shits, but they don't do damage
01:28:43 ER: this area might be a bit bullshit if you don't know how it all works :P
01:29:57 Devastator: Anyway,
MJ said yes.
01:30:07 Devastator: so it'll be the three of you at least.
01:30:44 Devastator: You guys are screwed.
01:32:18 Devastator: Besides, I think she's got me blocked from PMs.
01:43:17 Devastator: although we could bond over cat-eared characters. ;-p
01:44:31 Devastator: (I do hope that reverts when the spells expire.)
01:46:17 Devastator: and good luck with your mansion. It looks like death or glory there.
01:48:20 Devastator: Should be possible.
01:48:34 Devastator: "I cast six d6 explosion spells at once"
01:59:25 Devastator: blow up all the people.
01:59:35 Devastator: It's str to blow up people's faces, right?
02:03:58 Devastator: And dex to blow up people's faces from a distance.
02:05:16 ER: just had a damsel both exit the level and get eaten by a plant at the same time :P
02:08:12 Devastator: low calorie meal, then.
02:09:06 Devastator: How much health do damsels have, anyway?
02:10:25 ER: almost getting to the black market
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03:24:24 ER: I can see that I missed a lot
04:06:44 Devastator: well, you weren't here so I didn't say anything.
04:08:18 Devastator: dang it, where's that youtube trailer for that fake movie that supposedly consisted of nothing but explosions triggered by George Takei?
04:17:56 ER: this gets easier when I'm not trying to pick up all the loot and get to the city of gold :P
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04:29:13 syv: You gonna be around Saturday night / Sunday morning, at about this time?
04:30:12 syv: I want to run a proper system test then, prolly either Mauser or Mechalopolis, whichever I can get runnable.
04:30:55 Devastator: did some spelunky earlier.
04:31:28 Devastator: Played like shit, mostly.
04:31:32 syv: Also, because I won't do it unless I say it, I'll update Sophia tomorrow. Or, the day that it is when I wake up. Sorry for being horrible about that.
04:31:43 syv: I don't think I've ever even seen Spelunky.
04:32:09 ER: and maybe a little infuriating~
04:33:22 ER: ...as in, more systems-y. The fighting isn't as good, for the most part.
04:33:43 ER: Less luck than nuclear, I think
04:34:40 ER: I'd rank it pretty hign in terms of "player indifference", where the game pretends that you being the PC doesn't make you special or different.
04:34:51 ER: if you fall on spikes, you just die
04:35:02 ER: as does basically everything else
04:36:09 syv: Any redo mechanic? Checkpoints, lack of permadeath, limited life restore equipment?
04:36:43 ER: you can pay money to open up shortcuts to the later stages, but that's about it
04:37:20 syv: Are stages not randomized?
04:38:33 syv: Instant death on spikes, no redos, and randomized levels? Do you have a ridiculous view distance, then?
04:38:56 ER: you really don't fall on spikes much
04:39:30 ER: it's not instant death for touching spikes ever like megaman bullshit, you have to FALL onto them
04:39:57 ER: and they don't cover every surface, just single tiles of spikes in places
04:40:27 syv: Well, that's better than I was thinking. I presume it also doesn't typically generate IWBTG-like levels, either?
04:41:12 ER: for the MOST part, platforming won't be your main challenge
04:41:28 ER: no walljump insanity like meatboy
04:41:52 syv: That's typically the thing that makes me hate a platformer. "Okay, you've clearly mastered jumping in this game, so here's a room where the ceiling, floor, and every wall is spikes, and you've gotta somehow jump through this flappy-bird like series of walls!"
04:42:01 Devastator: meatboy has fewer controls.
04:46:02 Devastator: It's not bad, but I wouldn't say it's spectacularly good.
04:46:48 syv: Speakingf spectacularly good, I watched Deadpool 2 with family today.
04:47:39 Devastator: Agg, don't mention that.
04:47:44 Devastator: well, mention it, but agg.
04:48:06 Devastator: That's a movie that makes me feel like I'm from the moon.
04:48:37 syv: I expected many things from you there, but that was not one of them.
04:49:32 ER: you're not from you moon, you're just an earth goblin!
04:50:06 Devastator: I like my fourth wall.
04:50:25 Devastator: I can find Deadpool funny, but in small doses. Movie-length is too long for me.
04:50:45 syv: Yeah, Deadpool beats the shit out of the fourth wall. And then uses the stuff to paint it.
05:04:49 syv: Just got a notification that a my team lost the loser's round fight in a play-by-email game tournament.
05:05:23 syv: I was knocked out early, got sandwiched between two enemies (one of whom sacrificed himself for it), sochadn't been watching.
05:06:29 syv: Pretty sad about it, since me and my buddy who doing remarkably well with just the two of us against three-man teams, and this round one of our two inactive people came back and joined all of a sudden. We actually had a real chance of winning the tourney.
05:11:06 syv: Warzone. It's *basically* online play-by-email Risk, though we were on an unusual custom map.
05:12:55 syv: I was pretty invested into it because the tourney started over four years ago--when the game was called Warlight, and was written in an entirely different language--and only just recently acquired enough players to start. There was only one team that still had all four players active.
05:13:41 Devastator: one round from the final?
05:14:04 syv: Which meant most fights were easy, though we were kinda bound to lose a 2v4. But if we *had* won, due to the way tourneys apply XP, we'd have jumped ridiculously in levels. Which are purely cosmetic, but meh.
05:14:35 syv: No, I think we placed around eight? Or whatever bracket eighth is in.
05:15:37 syv: Which, on one hand, is beating a good hundred teams or something absurd like that. On the other, about half the teams are either empty or have one person in the
05:15:54 Devastator: Still means you beat fifty teams.
05:16:01 syv: I'd have to check the tourney chart. And I kinda just don't want to. ._.
05:18:50 syv: Well, yeah. Me and my buddy work together great at the game. He's better than the vast majority at tactical play, and I'm better than the vast majority at strategic planning, which has resulted in us both having >70% 2v2 winrates, when neither of us have >50% 1v1. We know we're great at the game when playing as a team, it's just disappointing to not win when we got our hopes up.
05:20:01 Devastator: That's a neat set of statistics.
05:20:14 Devastator: Nice to have a solid pair like that.
05:22:23 Devastator: good having a teammate.
05:22:58 syv: Yeah. The fact we work so well together is most of the reason I even play, really.
05:24:11 Devastator: I remember my Alleg squad had someone describe me as "A team player who works on his own."
05:26:43 Devastator: Too bad about the game. Was it at least close?
05:28:01 syv: Eh. Sorta. We took out two of three enemies, but the third was left free to expand out of control, and was near unstoppable by the time I was taken out.
05:28:17 Devastator: intentional strategy?
05:29:40 syv: Honestly, if our third had chosen a better starting territory pick, or if we didn't have those two enemies get lucky and accisentally counterpick us, it would've gone far better. But as it was, we got bogged down in skirmishes, then our third was trapped between me and my buddy with little room to grow.
05:30:40 syv: Nah. He was actually the only one I had guessed correctly for his startif bonus. I had chosen our picks (not our third, he ignored my advice...) to counter the other two, and they ended up swapping their choices.
05:32:47 syv: If they'd played more normally, we'd have met one of them before he could get a foothold (he normally played in a slow bonus adjacent to the fast bonus I chose), while the other would be left in a poor area, with the third guy being trapped between the three of us before he could get big.
05:33:06 syv: I guess they chose to mix it up because they'd lost their previous round, though. Ah well.
05:37:37 Devastator: Had a second loss earlier?
05:38:12 syv: Yeah. This tourney was set up with a loser's bracket, so you'd get a second chance.
05:39:03 syv: Our first loss was a 2v3 against generally competent people. They didn't make any serious errors, and that's kinda just that when you're outnumbered 50%. You can win if your opponents let you, but not otherwise.
05:40:15 syv: It's more winnable, and the one 4-man team I saw was generally kinda poor. It would have come down to whether our third could play by the team's rules.
05:41:00 syv: The map generally just came down to starting positions in 2v2 and 3v2, due to being large. If one person gets a lot of open terrain, and they aren't intercepted, they win.
05:41:39 Devastator: that's a little sad.
05:42:07 syv: In a 3v4, it'd be more crowded, with the most important thing being to not get choked between allies. So he'd have the option of shooting himself in the foot against our advice. Buuut a lot of randoms are quite willing to do thst.
05:42:17 ER: trying to speedrun spulunky is amusing
05:42:35 syv: Well, it was a decent map for a 4v4, but then it didn't start for four yesrs so most people quit. :P
05:42:42 ER: you can run through stages in like 15-30 seconds
05:52:34 ER: I've also been playing some super smash bros melee, which remains a great game.
05:54:35 Devastator: Who do you like to play as?
05:54:50 ER: was playing mainly as mewtwo
05:55:31 ER: up smash attack is pretty amazing
05:57:14 ER: Roy is also fun because you get to just hit the enemy really really hard with a flaming sword.
05:57:27 Devastator: Always worth doing.
05:57:54 Devastator: I used fox, so you can call me a scrub.
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09:14:52 Devastator: "Man Accused of Nude Swim With Sharks Also Wanted for Assault at Medieval Times"
09:15:03 Devastator: Might want to see that one.
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23:47:08 Devastator: Still need a birdsheet from ya.
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23:51:04 Devastator: good to see ya. Headed out later.
23:52:30 Devastator: Just a late dinner.
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