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02:39:57 Devastator: well, those were some less-than-ideal draws from Wiki wars.
02:40:02 Devastator: still, not too bad.
02:41:46 Devastator: also got to talk to the new guy in Extinction.
02:43:11 Devastator: knows nothing about JRPGs and doesn't know why he read it. ;-p
02:44:24 ER: I pulled on weeds and trimmed plants today
02:44:45 ER: pruning a fruit tree, kind of interesting
02:45:23 ER: some other shrubs had dead bits and one of them was all the way dead due to ant related damage perhaps?
02:46:17 Devastator: although sometimes they just die.
02:46:36 Devastator: oh, wrote some of Alice's backstory in today's extinction update.
02:47:24 ER: indeed, sometimes shit just dies
02:47:43 Devastator: also saw some baby crows the other day.
02:47:51 Devastator: was a good explanation as to why you don't see baby crows often.
02:47:58 ER: but one in a row of four was dead and the other two had big dead parts all the way to the ground
02:48:27 Devastator: they looked just like adult crows except for being a little smaller and not knowing how to properly eat.
02:48:28 ER: and the roots seemed rotted or something
02:48:49 Devastator: not really, like 90% as big.
02:49:05 Devastator: only real way to tell was the big crows brought them food, because they couldn't really find it.
02:49:19 ER: our crows look so similar to smaller ravens, I think you can tell by the beak but I don't know it well
02:49:31 Devastator: one of them did find something and spent several minutes trying to pick it up, mostly unsuccessfully.
02:49:53 Devastator: it did eventually pick it up, but then couldn't manage to swallow it before dropping it again.
02:50:23 Devastator: then the adult came over, picked it up, and put it in the open mouth thing chicks do.
02:55:39 ER: crows kinda make sense to me, I dunno if I'm imagining it. :p
02:55:44 Devastator: eventually a second parent flew over with a third chick, and then they all left.
02:56:21 ER: just groups of a male and a female and their children flying around and turning big brain into food
02:56:35 Devastator: sometimes the come in bigger groups.
02:57:00 ER: are there situations where they need to gang up more?
02:59:51 Devastator: seagull-related encounters.
03:06:52 ER: oh yeah, I saw a jumping spider
03:07:15 ER: mostly black one, fairly big, seemed to react to my presence
03:07:31 ER: they do have pretty good sight it seems
03:19:54 Devastator: ahh, the fun of reading more shitty isekai novels.
03:20:00 Devastator: one day I will write one that doesn't suck.
03:35:09 Devastator: I wrote two chapters of one.
03:35:27 Devastator: sent it to
syv and
MJ.
03:37:29 Devastator: don't have plot ready for everything, but the basis was someone who doesn't have or get an 'I win' button.
03:40:35 ER: where's the fun in that? ;p
03:46:21 Devastator: Also has authority figures who aren't assholes or overbearing figures.
03:47:44 ER: it sounds like you're just writing a fantasy story then :p
03:48:28 Devastator: nah, it'll be an isekai.
03:48:32 Devastator: just one that's different.
03:48:35 Devastator: has to be different to not suck.
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03:53:05 Devastator: oh, updated extinction.
03:54:14 syv: I like that you included the bit about Trence cooking ;P
03:54:15 Devastator: you get some alice backstory.
03:54:21 Devastator: yeah, it was worth covering.
03:54:27 Devastator: plus the lunatic mentioned barrel fat. ;-p
03:54:59 syv: Ah, I thought of another prank. Once Trence gets access to something slippery, coating Talent's saddle in it.
03:56:11 Devastator: well, feel free to suggest it.
03:56:19 Devastator: I'll slit it in when there's an opportunity.
04:00:33 Devastator: I'll do her biography next update.
04:01:46 syv: It might be good to wait on posting it a bit
04:02:02 syv: Maybe during the sea voyage.
04:02:18 Devastator: sea voyage is the next update.
04:06:13 Devastator: I think it's about 70% too cliche.
04:11:21 ER: better too cliche than not cliche at all! ;p
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04:38:35 MJ: My roommates passed out again.
04:38:52 MJ: And my cigar was less fun then expected.
04:39:24 syv: I identify as a sport utility vehicle
04:39:40 ER: I gotta sleep, getting dizzy
04:40:26 MJ: Depends on when I get back.
04:40:40 MJ: But I might be delayed by a day.
04:41:10 syv: Hopefully Spaz doesn't get struck by lightning
04:41:32 MJ: At this point the roll table may have infected Spayz or something.
04:41:51 MJ: Like that man has bad luck.
04:43:07 MJ: Spayz has so far been unable to join MP, because first his office flooded in the most dorfy way possible. And then he got horribly concussed
04:43:44 Devastator: did it involve a monarch butterfly?
04:44:03 MJ: Nah it involves the overseer forgetting how fluids work
04:44:39 Devastator: Yeah, that's pretty good.
04:46:24 MJ: Also clearly in an old man now, I met some old marine officers and an OBGYN resident at a bar and they thought I was their age.
04:46:50 ER: oh yeah
MJ I'm now hooked onto the idea of restarting power and pulse
04:46:59 ER: though I haven't actually started on that yet
04:51:45 syv: Shouldn't this be the song? ;P
04:56:57 syv: Nah, Sh was an eclipse, not mechs
05:01:31 MJ: Hey do you guys have tabletop simulator?
05:01:46 syv: No, but I'm sure it's obtainable.
05:02:33 MJ: Mmm. I had a thought that playing Settlers of Catan with this group would be very entertaining
05:02:52 Devastator: I think I had it once.
05:02:59 Devastator: also, I intensely don't like Cataan.
05:03:29 MJ: Mmm. That would be an issue then
05:04:27 Devastator: yeah, I just find it not fun.
05:06:50 ER: always found it odd that you're supposed to hide how much of each resource you have when all the other players are completely able to figure it out and you want to do trades a lot anyways
05:07:00 ER: so we just played with em face up
05:07:31 Devastator: Carcassone is much better, imo.
05:07:32 syv: I never took it that seriously though
05:07:51 MJ: Yeah I’m not getting that one on a phone
05:08:05 Devastator: yeah, it's complicated.
05:08:13 Devastator: don't see why you couldn't put it on a phone.
05:08:32 MJ: I meant I’m not typing that out successful on a phone with autocorrect
05:17:05 Devastator: yeah, it's a really complicated map building game where you place little men for points, but only on the tiles you just place down.
05:17:16 Devastator: It's immensely difficult to figure out the right move.
05:17:39 Devastator: the rules aren't that complicated, the gameplay just gets insane.
05:17:43 ER: big farmer plays are amusing
05:18:04 ER: also counting how many tiles are left on the back of the manual :p
05:18:17 Devastator: basically,
MJ, you place a tile down and can put a little man down on a feature of that tile. A city, a road, or a farm.
05:18:27 ER: because sometimes you have to hope for something very specific
05:18:32 Devastator: You only get so many little men.
05:18:47 Devastator: They score points depending on what is built around them, and you must link tiles to each other on matching sides.
05:18:50 MJ: I see. Do you know what the tile is?
05:19:05 Devastator: you can put it wherever it can build, so you get lots of choices.
05:19:13 ER: you have to place it so that it matches whatever's around
05:19:37 Devastator: and you get your little man back whenever his feature scores, ie, when the small city has its wall finished, or the road has two destinations.
05:19:42 Devastator: It's much simpler than it sounds.
05:20:02 Devastator: just playing it is complicated, because there's so many possibilities.
05:20:39 Devastator: I think there's a vid on it in Wil Wheaton's boardgame channel if you want to watch how it goes.
05:20:59 ER: it's not confusing
MJ, just hard to explain in text :p
05:21:12 ER: it makes a lot of sense when you see what the tiles are like
05:21:40 Devastator: yeah, it's just 'this side is grass, this side is city, etc.
05:21:46 Devastator: or 'there's a road that goes this way on it.
05:21:55 syv: Should we get tabletop sim?
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05:25:28 ER: better than excrement-tainted blood
05:25:37 syv: "The bloody excrement of a carnivorous beast. Mixed inside with half-digested flesh are dense colonies of tiny eggs of unknown but assuredly revolting origin."
05:26:33 syv: Right after I looted it a giant skeleton crawled out of the ground and vomited a laser beam at me, too
05:27:30 MJ: But yeah I dunno. Just seemed like potential way to play sons stuff. I’ve no idea I’d the game
dev prefers Is on there
05:28:00 Devastator: I'm not against the idea of tabletop sim, but might need a bit of handholding.
05:28:05 Devastator: lemme check if I have it.
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05:36:49 Devastator: temped to do something more complicated, if we can save.
05:37:24 MJ: I’m not sure if saveing is a thing. I think it is.
05:38:53 ER: I played the battlestar galactica boardgame once, it was gloriously overcomplex~
05:40:17 Devastator: yeah, there's some good more complex ones.
05:41:27 syv: A virtual boardgame you _can't_ save would be immensely idiotic
05:41:50 syv: I love Risk, btw. Have played a lot of a virtual browser version.
05:42:03 MJ: I’ve played a decent bit of Risk
05:42:04 ER: also liked the firefly board game, flying around a star system trading things and doing crimes
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05:44:03 syv: ...Firefly would be a show for us to watch.
05:44:18 MJ: I’ve never seen it actually
05:46:25 Devastator: and chuck's reviewed some eps.
05:46:31 MJ: I know the vague idea of it
05:46:47 syv: I've watched it and loved it
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05:59:00 Devastator: well, I'm not against it.
05:59:07 Devastator: although I do want to finish Trigun.
05:59:11 Devastator: the man with one gun.
06:00:34 Devastator: but sure, firefly sounds good.
06:01:34 Devastator: IIRC, it's about six people on a ship, and there's western stuff.
06:02:00 MJ: Right I’m vaguely familiar with it. Sounds like fun.
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06:08:41 syv: Apparently the eggs in the bloody poop are fly eggs
06:08:57 syv: Bloodsucking flies, which makes me think they're mosquitos, but they're called flies.
06:09:09 MJ: There are bloodsucking flies
06:09:10 syv: There's a spell to summon them and make them eat your enemies.
06:09:27 syv: Do they come in swarms and eat things alive?
06:09:54 MJ: They do swarm but they typically don’t kill shit
06:10:29 MJ: Secondary infections do sometimes.
06:10:44 Devastator: sounds like a good time, that.
06:11:43 syv: Well, these ones swarm people and cause massive hemmorhaging
06:14:20 Devastator: sounds like a good time.
08:31:32 syv: Lategame
ER balance is absolutely shot
08:32:01 syv: Die five times total (or less) clearing an -entire- area, including minibosses. Never to the same enemy twice.
08:32:07 syv: Die a hundred times to the area boss.
08:34:25 Devastator: so the lategame bosses are too rough?
08:34:31 Devastator: or should the areas be a bit harder?
08:38:52 syv: The areas feel about right with +0 weapons, so they should probably be harder. But the bosses DEFINITELY need to be essier. They break rules.
08:39:31 Devastator: lategame +0 weapons.
08:40:05 syv: Most of my favorites are pretty early game
08:46:07 syv: Unreactable attacks annoy me greatly
08:50:34 syv: What annoys me even more is that like 70% of Malenia's moveset is nullified by just constantly running away. And most of the remaining 30% is easy to dodge and punish.
08:51:06 syv: Which just means the entire fight becomes "Run away, wait for good attack to randomly happen, hit her. Go back to start."
08:51:29 Devastator: Didn't you beat Malenia the other day?
08:51:41 syv: So I'm not doing that now. Which makes it just entirely unfair. Fun when it works, but unfair.
08:51:48 syv: Now I'm doing her with +0 weapons.
08:52:11 syv: I'd love to get a no-hit but I don't think that's actually possible without playing super passive.
08:53:02 syv: The next endgame boss, Maliketh, is similar. But easier.
08:54:04 syv: Run away constantly, and you can ignore most of his attacks and punish safely. Fight up close? He can't be staggered, seems to have unreactables (or if not they're just very very tight), and is extremely hard to punish safely.
08:54:15 syv: Difference being he does not heal when he hits you.
08:55:01 syv continues to bang his head against the wall
08:58:56 Devastator: yeah, this is a bit gripe heavy, yes.
09:04:53 syv: I just got a perfect phase 1
09:05:12 syv: Still took damage from forced hit attacks, but could heal up passively.
09:05:20 syv: It's a really, really fun fight when you do it right.
09:05:44 syv: It's just annoying they designed it to not let you be actually perfect beyond luck or extreme passivity.
09:44:58 Devastator: or are you going to broken hilt it?
09:46:36 syv: Fists only would be amusing
09:48:06 syv: If I really wanted to do a dumb challenge it would probably be, like, "I have to change weapon every time I land a hit"
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21:30:27 Topic set by syv [Saturday 22 May 2021, 04:44:55]
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23:47:59 Devastator: such is life trying to find old flash games.
23:50:25 ER: isn't there a downloadable project with basically all of em?
23:50:39 ER: I think dino run got a steam version too
23:51:55 Devastator: although I don't trust a major translation.
23:54:01 Devastator: when that was new I 100%ed it.
23:54:19 Devastator: one of the best flash games I remember.
23:55:15 ER: not as good as amorphous+ ;p
23:56:18 Devastator: I'd say Dino Run is better.
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