Talk about anything

cybereality

Well, of course, my cat.

Megalomaniak

I'm not sure I want to live on this planet any more...

cybereality

Megalomaniak I'm not sure I want to live on this planet any more...

It's a troll. That's how Palmer rolls.

Kojack

Megalomaniak I'm not sure I want to live on this planet any more...

Well, put the headset on and you won't be living on this planet any more. 🙂

packrat

Megalomaniak I like a bit of virtual blood sport, but biggie tech is piss scared of making the slightest microaggression to anything that breathes, unless they can get money from you. This thing is beyond a microaggression and you can't sap money from someone who's dead unless you're in tax or cremation services, or the body trade. Unless I'm wrong and they've subsidized the death business too.

duane

Megalomaniak

I hated that series. I suspect that you're supposed to empathize at some point with the mass-murderer who killed over 4000 people to make his game more realistic, but I never could see it that way. Ick.

Of course, I've had to accept for a long time that my tastes don't jibe with the majority. 🙂

Pixophir

@Megalomaniak It is disgusting.

@cybereality There's a pitch black one in the cat colony in the road where I live momentarily, with bright orange eyes.

So that's my suggestion to @packrat :-)

Could also be a sky dome from a mouse pov ...

cybereality

Kojack

cybereality
Now I want to play Saints Row 4 again.

fire7side

Speaking of 1984 inspired games, I came across this game on steam. It's a free download. I just played a few minutes so far. OK, we were speaking about it a while ago. Maybe it was even mentioned. I can't remember.
https://www.redbull.com/gb-en/republique-kickstarter-gaming-ios

cybereality

fire7side Speaking of 1984 inspired games, I came across this game on steam.

I really liked the art and the story in Republique, but the controls aren't very good. It was originally an iOS tablet game, and didn't really convert well to the PC.

I still want to play it, I started like the first 2 hours and it seemed good, like the old metal gear games, but the controls are strange.

packrat

she's doing it again

fire7side

cybereality Yeah, I know what you mean. I was using the controller, but I'm not sure the right joystick was working so I used the mouse and the controller. I'm going to try again and see if I just didn't notice the cursor moving. It's kind of jarring the way they switch cameras but I think I could get used to it. It's interesting because I plan to use many cameras on this game I'm working on. I'm not going to do it that way, more like Resident Evil where the camera just switches when you reach a certain area.

packrat

duane I think it's made for tweens. I remember a metric ton of power fantasy and really basic MMO rules, with the story made up as they went based on those two constants.
It makes me laugh because my favorite japanese show is also made up as they went along, the difference was the writers made it up as they were studying gnostic mysticism and they had no problem making the main character look weak as hell when it mostly made sense. It introduced me to Radiohead and my current favorite band Monoral. I am more than biased.
I'm talking about Ergo Proxy

cybereality

No need for Sword Art Online. We're all already playing the game where if it die in the game, you die for real. It's call Life.

packrat

cybereality I'm a big fan of the religion exploit. It bugs the game so when you die, the "is you dead?" check gets skipped and causes a hard crash. You can just reboot the game after that and keep playing. I think you lose all your progress, but I wouldn't know. I've heard some say you can get lucky and lose nothing, but that might be a bug totally unrelated to the exploit.

Kojack

SAO was interesting at first, but went down hill.
As a programmer, I much prefer SOA. 🙂

packrat

Kojack I like it when shows get weird or mystic with sci-fi. I really like it when they take "deus ex machina" very literally. I like it even more when they throw in a heavy dose of 200X era angst. Take a wild guess what my 2nd favorite anime is.

Kojack

packrat I like it when shows get weird or mystic with sci-fi. I really like it when they take "deus ex machina" very literally. I like it even more when they throw in a heavy dose of 200X era angst. Take a wild guess what my 2nd favorite anime is.

Bananya?

cybereality

Ergo Proxy was really good. I used that girl as my avatar for a long time.

Texhnolyze, Serial Experiments Lain, and Paranoia Agent are all up there too.

Nothing beats Ghost in the Shell, though.

packrat

cybereality I have never heard of Paranoia Agent until just now, and it's a sin I never got around to watching Ghost in the Shell. I couldn't get into Texhnolyze but I may give it another chance someday. I have way too much to do to sit down and watch anything. Studying german, trying to get LPI certification, I've redone the same sheets of red green and blue shapes for the past 3 days because i keep thinking of much better ways to program the shader. In the small bit of free time I get, I walk outside, otherwise my face gets rough and my hair gets greasy.
I also post here and get banned from imageboards for rules I never bothered to read. Turns out image boards are way more strict nowadays than 10 years back.

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