Apeman42
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- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 3 days ago:
Warhammer 40k: Rogue Trader. If you liked Owlcat’s other RPGs, definitely give this one a try. It’s strictly turn-based, more like their Pathfinder game had a baby with XCOM, but it feels faster than playing Wrath of the Righteous in turn-based. Story is pretty engaging so far, even though I went in knowing very little about Warhammer. Loving some of the characters, which I feel is always one of Owlcat’s strong suits.
- Comment on I started playing WH40k Rogue Trader and I'm digging it, but I know virtually nothing of Warhammer. Any super basic world info I should know going in? 4 days ago:
Sure, but what about Warhammer?
- Comment on I started playing WH40k Rogue Trader and I'm digging it, but I know virtually nothing of Warhammer. Any super basic world info I should know going in? 4 days ago:
Damn dude, that’s comprehensive as fuck.
Maybe you can confirm if I have some other stuff down that you didn’t mention? I poked my head down some wiki rabbit holes, and I love a good origin story so I started looking waaay back.
So the Warp is an alternate dimension affected by the thoughts and emotions of sentient beings from this one, and also apparently a place souls do or would go before being reincarnated? As we evolved and started having more of us and more complex negative emotions, these eddies in the Warp coalesced into Khorne, Tzeentch, and Nurgle.
Earth’s shamans (proto-psykers?) start to notice their fellows aren’t reincarnating so much anymore and figure out the chaos gods are nomming them up in the Warp when they die. They get every shaman on earth together in a council, and decide on a Jonestown Voltron plan, whereby they’ll all kill themselves at once, fuse into a mega-soul in the Warp, and give the chaos gods good wallop to send them running for awhile.
That shaman Voltron soul incarnates in 8000 BCE as the boy that will one day be the Emperor.
Emps just kind of does the Vandal Savage thing on Earth until we get a spacefaring civilization rolling. He starts leading shit, allies with the Mechanicus on Mars and founds the Imperium in the late 30th millenium.
Unrelated and around the same time, the Aeldari (hedonistic space elves) have a rave orgy so good they cause Slaanesh to form and simultaneously fuck open that hole to the Warp someone mentioned.
Yadda yadda yadda space crusade Yadda yadda yadda Horus Heresy Yadda yadda “In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war.”
Is that more or less on-point? I haven’t looked into most xenos too much besides the Aeldari waking Slaanesh. I think the T’au are the galactic newbies and kinda space dwarves? And the Nekrons were far far away genetically engineering slave races while Emps was still shitting his loincloth?
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- Comment on That one time when he made cheese and it broke the ship 1 week ago:
He’s also responsible for all the awful Captain Proton episodes that I always skip.
- Comment on That one time when he made cheese and it broke the ship 1 week ago:
Fuck that. Neelix was heart of Voyager. Someone had to remind them to live on their way back to their lives.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 weeks ago:
I just started Cubivore. It’s fascinatingly weird, deceptively simple at first, but I feel like there’s some complexity growing beneath the surface.
You start as a weird little cubic pig, and you have this one square flap coming off the cube on a hinge that helps you move around, and a mouth. So you go around eating everything smaller than you. And the things your size you can take, you rip their meat flaps off (phrasing) and eat them to mutate. When you kill a boss, you get better meat that unlocks big abilities, and your pig gets to mate and die. Then you start playing as pig’s offspring, who now has an extra flap and more ways to mutate which put those flaps in configurations that make you better at running, evading, fighting, or defense.
Also your pig does a lot of oddly philosophical ruminating between areas.
- Comment on I Hope Epstein was 2 Steps from Kevin Bacon 3 weeks ago:
Kevin Bacon? America’s most beloved invisible rapist?
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
I can’t quite tell from the trailer if it’s what they’re doing, and unfortunately I can’t find the video about this that I watched recently, but I wonder if they’re talking about “animating on 2s”? It’s a technique where the character’s animation only changes every other frame, which gives an effect that’s just slightly choppy but pleasing to a lot of people. It’s how they animated the Spider-verse movie.
- Comment on The witch from Hansel and Gretel is the only person that's allowed to say "Home, sweet home." 4 weeks ago:
It does seem he lives at the factory. I think you’ve got a fair case here.
- Comment on Is it possible that none of this is real? 4 weeks ago:
God, I hope so. How bleak would it be if this were baseline reality?
- Comment on Video games are losing the "attention war" to gambling, porn, and crypto, according to industry report 4 weeks ago:
You’re right, of course. Indie devs with passion are still putting out some great stuff.
My ire was much more for the AAA studios, which seem to have tossed out all the talent and vision that brought them to the top.
I mean, I was Ride or Die with Square Enix for decades, when they were different companies. After 16, I think I’m just done with new Final Fantasy games altogether. Fuck you guys, imma go play 6, 8, and 9.
- Comment on Video games are losing the "attention war" to gambling, porn, and crypto, according to industry report 4 weeks ago:
Not playing games, or not playing the current live service shovelware they keep pulling out?
Lots of people are realizing there were more quality games released between 1985 and 2015 than you could ever play in a lifetime. We don’t need new shit if it’s just gonna suck.
- Comment on I'm glad i grabbed this wii fit balance board from the trash a decade ago, wow! 4 weeks ago:
I’ve been doing both!
- Comment on I'm glad i grabbed this wii fit balance board from the trash a decade ago, wow! 4 weeks ago:
I never tried that one, but I also had a recent late-to-the-party “gaming as exercise” discovery: Beat Saber! I never gelled with rhythm games before I got a VR headset, but I’m really digging it, and it totally gets me sweating after a while.
- Comment on Coromon works really well on old TVs! 5 weeks ago:
OHHH, the Steam deck is reflecting the popcorn ceiling! I stared so long wondering what kind of weird textured opaque screen cover that was.
- Comment on Dragon Quest VIII is so charming 5 weeks ago:
I adore 7. It had just the right balance of memorable party members, but the absolute flexibility of the job system. It is VERY long, and somewhat slower paced than 8 (in the original PSX version anyway), but once it gets rolling it had a sense of wonder and excitement for me that none of the others quite matched.
Having never played the 3ds version, I’m not sure what’s different, but I imagine it’s closer to the original than the new reimagined is in terms of content. Personally, I’d say emulate the PSX version if you can, but I’d just really rather look at sprites than that era of 3d graphics. If you prefer those graphics, or it’s just substantially easier for you to play that version, go ahead. The point is you should definitely play it in some form or another.
- Comment on Dragon Quest VIII is so charming 5 weeks ago:
It gets darker and more serious with its plot, but I always found Breath of Fire to share some of the same charm as Dragon Quest for reasons I can’t quite quantify. 2 and 3 especially. 4 is also magnificent, but it’s something of a a stylistic departure from the previous ones.
- Comment on YSK that radishes are fucking amazing. They improve heart health and are full of Sulforaphene, a powerful anti-cancer substance. They contain almost no calories 1 month ago:
big radish
They’re called daikon.
- Comment on You can sing the words "it's on like Donkey Kong" to the Imperial March from Star Wars. 1 month ago:
You’re talking about “common metre”, and it also includes Amazing Grace, the Gilligan’s Island theme, House of the Rising Sun, Casey at the Bat, and the Lay of Nimrodel among many others.
You can swap any of the tunes and lyrics and they more or less work. One of my favorite music trivia things.
- Comment on Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool — Project Genie crashes stocks. (A.K.A . Investors panic because they don't understand what "real" videogames are) 1 month ago:
If this is widely adopted, I have enough emulators and classic PC games to never buy another game in my life and still be entertained the whole time. Good luck, corpo dipshits.
- Comment on We need libraries, but instead of books, you borrow musical instruments. 1 month ago:
My ideal “non-book library” would be a public woodshop with a Ron Swanson librarian figure to help people use the tools safely.
Woodworking seems so satisfying as both an art and a craft, but between the cost of materials, tools, and the space needed, I could never take up the hobby in the foreseeable future. But if I could go to a public workshop and use shared tools, just providing my own raw materials, the barrier to entry falls dramatically.
- Comment on Why do video game skeletons put themselves back together? 1 month ago:
I was about to hazard a guess that it hearkens back to Ray Harryhausen, but I rewatched the skeleton fight from Jason and the Argonauts, and I’m astounded that they apparently didn’t do it there.
- Comment on "Microwave Math" is a specific instance of a type of numbering system where place value doesn't necessarily correspond to the number of symbols 2 months ago:
…how long are your fuckin showers, man?
- Comment on Shower Thought: The man, the legend, the one-man show 2 months ago:
Picture hasn’t been updated since Lower Decks, it’s missing Agimus.
- Comment on Why is kissing? 2 months ago:
Lips and tongue are erogenous zones that you have fairly fine control over, and aside from feeling nice, pressing your face right up against someone else’s chompers is a sign of mutual vulnerability and trust.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
For the prices, or the access to things they don’t sell anymore? If I went to 1992 I think I could stock up on Ecto Cooler and TMNT pudding pies at the same time, maybe even Crystal Pepsi.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 months ago:
I played the intro campaign of Wildermyth, and not only is it great as the “fantasy XCOM” I was hoping for, but if you’re the type of person to headcanon little stories and relationships between your party in a tactics game, this game is for you.
- Comment on If reincarnation exists, suicide could make things much much worse. 2 months ago:
Someone will come up with a strat to reroll into something obscure like a wood louse and farm so much positive karma with an exploit that it won’t matter how negative you were.
- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 2 months ago:
All the major character replacements on MASH were better than the characters they replaced. It’s not that I don’t like Burns and Blake, but Winchester and Potter were just so much more interesting. Trapper John was kind of a rapey creep even for the time, so there’s no question BJ was the winner there. Honestly as much as I love Radar, even Klinger taking over his position was an improvement. There was only so much more they could do with his Beaver Cleaver Goes to War shtick.