What's on your mind?

[Count Chocula]

I've mentioned this before, but it's on my mind a fair amount since it's an anecdote I share quite a bit, in various contexts.

 

A guy in general chat in Star Wars: The Old Republic complained about the fact that they had at some point added fast travel to Skyrim. Which brings to my mind people who make mods that do nothing more than disallow something a player can simply choose to not do. The mod author is essentially saying "I'm too weak-willed to keep myself from doing it, so I'm gonna make a mod to disable it."

Edited April 7, 2025 by chocula

[porkybork]

38 minutes ago, chocula said:

I've mentioned this before, but it's on my mind a fair amount since it's an anecdote I share quite a bit, in various contexts.

 

A guy in general chat in Star Wars: The Old Republic complained about the fact that they had at some point added fast travel to Skyrim. When brings to my mind people who make mods that do nothing more than disallow something a player can simply choose to not do. The mod author is essentially saying "I'm too weak-willed to keep myself from doing it, so I'm gonna make a mod to disable it."

I can’t imagine playing a game that has a map as massive as Skyrim’s without some sort of fast travel system. I understand wanting an extra level of challenge and “gritty realism” in a game, but sometimes I just want to get on with the game without spending 10 minutes galloping through a forest.

[Darkpig]

25 minutes ago, chocula said:

I've mentioned this before, but it's on my mind a fair amount since it's an anecdote I share quite a bit, in various contexts.

 

A guy in general chat in Star Wars: The Old Republic complained about the fact that they had at some point added fast travel to Skyrim. When brings to my mind people who make mods that do nothing more than disallow something a player can simply choose to not do. The mod author is essentially saying "I'm too weak-willed to keep myself from doing it, so I'm gonna make a mod to disable it."

A popular argument I’ve heard to disable fast travel is so you can see the sights. Well the sights have already been seen. Now what? At the same time I kind of get what they’re going for.

For me I’m a min-maxer so I’ve had to personally mod my game to make skill leveling less tedious. For example I’ve had to remove the experience multipliers from the standing stones because having to travel to a stone every time you want to level up a specific skill sounds tedious and not fun.

[Count Chocula]

50 minutes ago, Darkpig said:

A popular argument I’ve heard to disable fast travel is so you can see the sights. Well the sights have already been seen. Now what? At the same time I kind of get what they’re going for.

For me I’m a min-maxer so I’ve had to personally mod my game to make skill leveling less tedious. For example I’ve had to remove the experience multipliers from the standing stones because having to travel to a stone every time you want to level up a specific skill sounds tedious and not fun.

Long story made short, as I replied to that guy in SWTOR chat all those years ago, "It's no one else's business how a person plays a single-player game."

[RitualClarity]

9 minutes ago, chocula said:

Long story made short, as I replied to that guy in SWTOR chat all those years ago, "It's no one else's business how a person plays a single-player game."

Exactly. Doesn't matter how you cheat or mod your game. NO matter what you do to a personal game, it is YOUR game and YOUR experience. Up to you to enjoy or not.

[Count Chocula]

Here's another good one I've shared over the years, including here. This was in the Lord of the Rings Online forums. A guy insisted that using an emote to slap his character was the same as slapping him, and I was as sure as I could be that he was not trolling. Plenty of people get what I will call overly attached to their characters in multi-player games (electronic as well as pen-and-paper RPGs). A lot of people do it, but I don't get it and never will. Because at the end of the day, a character in a game is a bunch of database entries, or toner, ink and pencil on a piece of paper. In my experience playing tabletop RPGs and MMOs in a role-playing context, the more attached a player is to their character, the less they interact meaningfully and reciprocally with other players' characters. What they do, from my perspective, is essentially play the game alone in their heads. When I play a tabletop RPG, I play in character, I speak in character, I interact other player characters. I get into my character's personality. But at the end of the day, if my character dies (practically an impossibility with 5th edition D&D, on a side note), it's just a piece of paper and I can make a new character on a new piece of paper.

Edited April 7, 2025 by chocula

[steelpanther24]

On 4/7/2025 at 4:00 PM, chocula said:

I've mentioned this before, but it's on my mind a fair amount since it's an anecdote I share quite a bit, in various contexts.

 

A guy in general chat in Star Wars: The Old Republic complained about the fact that they had at some point added fast travel to Skyrim. Which brings to my mind people who make mods that do nothing more than disallow something a player can simply choose to not do. The mod author is essentially saying "I'm too weak-willed to keep myself from doing it, so I'm gonna make a mod to disable it."

That reminds me of the time they cut down on the waiting time to go between continents in EQ.  I kinda liked it, as I leveled up my fishing and then on the boat trip, I would usually "learn and language" if there was someone else on the boat ride with me.   I think it was about 20 minutes of just traveling. 

 

 

Ugh...that was 24 years ago.

[porkybork]

Doing a few sets of pull ups: hard, but doable.

Doing even one rep of lat pull downs when the machine weight is equal to my body weight: fucking impossible.

 

Please make it make sense.

[Guest]

> Watched "In the lost land". It's not bad although some scenes make no sense and the end is terrible.

[Count Chocula]

What's on my mind? Always something. This is going to look like a comment about Fallout 4, but it's not about the game (or the mod in question), it's about "Where did this voice actor get that pronunciation?"

 

In the Thuggysmurf mod Depravity (I think, although it might be Outcasts & Remnants), there's a pair of strippers you can hire after refurbishing the Hotel Rexford. They talk like Valley Girls. If you comment on it, one or them says they were raised in the Spielberg Museum in Providence and learned to talk from watching 1980s movies and playing with Cabbage Patch dolls. The important thing, though, is the way the VA says "Spielberg." She says "SHPEEL-berg." I'm not an expert in North American English dialectology, but I cannot recall ever hearing a U.S. English speaker say "SHPEEL-berg."

[Guest]

> More and more statements from journalists like "He/she steals the show", "Everyone noticed one detail" "Everone speaks about that and that" and similar shitty saying are very popular in our country. For me, it is cheap journalism that aims to attract more readers. When I see such titles, I do the opposite; I skip that article or do not open it at all.

[porkybork]

I think it’s funny how whenever you get into an argument with someone on the internet, there’s like a 50% chance that they’ll start talking like an anime villain.

[Count Chocula]

45 minutes ago, porkybork said:

I think it’s funny how whenever you get into an argument with someone on the internet, there’s like a 50% chance that they’ll start talking like an anime villain.

I think it's funny how if a female anime character has large breasts, she's probably a villain or a side kick.

[porkybork]

2 hours ago, chocula said:

I think it's funny how if a female anime character has large breasts, she's probably a villain or a side kick.

Unless you're this chick, then you're the main character and the entire anime is dedicated to titty jokes.

 

[Count Chocula]

1 hour ago, porkybork said:

Unless you're this chick, then you're the main character and the entire anime is dedicated to titty jokes.

I will say I don't watch a whole lot of anime. I have no doubt there are anime with buxom heroines.

[Darkpig]

19 hours ago, chocula said:

I think it's funny how if a female anime character has large breasts, she's probably a villain or a side kick.

Of course they’re villains. Many people would happily get smothered to death by large boobies. Or maybe it is some form of bimbo shaming. I like the first answer better.

[Count Chocula]

5 hours ago, Darkpig said:

Of course they’re villains. Many people would happily get smothered to death by large boobies. Or maybe it is some form of bimbo shaming. I like the first answer better.

Smothered by boobs, or chased off a cliff by a large group of naked women.

[Darkpig]

21 minutes ago, chocula said:

Smothered by boobs, or chased off a cliff by a large group of naked women.

Dunno. Falling off a cliff doesn't sound half as fun as what these guys died of:

 

Oh yeah and consent and all that.

[FauxFurry]

On 4/7/2025 at 3:44 PM, porkybork said:

I can’t imagine playing a game that has a map as massive as Skyrim’s without some sort of fast travel system. I understand wanting an extra level of challenge and “gritty realism” in a game, but sometimes I just want to get on with the game without spending 10 minutes galloping through a forest.

It could work if there is some form of conveyance which is significantly faster than walking on foot, be it an airship or an automobile or even a cannon (as seen in the Seiken Densetsu series). That or the game must star a protagonist who has much faster feet than the usual (like Sonic the Hedgehog in lore rather than in gameplay or one of the characters inspired by him such as Sash Lilac from the Freedom Planet series).

[FauxFurry]

22 hours ago, chocula said:

I will say I don't watch a whole lot of anime. I have no doubt there are anime with buxom heroines.

It all depends in the genre, sub-genre and target demographic. In a Seinen (adult male) action adventure series with a character design theme of 'Bishoujo' (pretty female protagonists), the lead might very well be buxom (like Senran Kagura, Grenadier, or Rin: Daughters of Mnemnosyne)  whereas a series in the same genre aimed at teenage females (Shoujo) will more often than not limit that build to the villains (see Sailor Moon, Pretty Cure or Tokyo Mew Mew for examples).

Josei (adult female) focused series are likely to avoid depicting them unless they are some kind of home wrecker or rival. Femboys outnumber busty women in Josei manga/anime by a wide margin. 

[Count Chocula]

2 hours ago, Darkpig said:

Dunno. Falling off a cliff doesn't sound half as fun as what these guys died of:

 

Oh yeah and consent and all that.

They look like they died of "disintegrated pelvis."

[Darkpig]

3 hours ago, chocula said:

They look like they died of "disintegrated pelvis."

That is... one way to put it.

[porkybork]

8 hours ago, Darkpig said:

Dunno. Falling off a cliff doesn't sound half as fun as what these guys died of:

 

Oh yeah and consent and all that.

The one with the cigarette in his hands gets me every time lol.

[Guest]

> It is Saturday. I have less than three hours of work before I go home to my two angels.

[Darkpig]

Sometimes I feel like modding Skyrim got more complicated since Bethesda added .esl files.  By making certain files take up less space they fragmented load orders more than they need to be and unintentionally encouraged modders to turn their large juggernaut mods into tiny pieces that I now have to sweep up.🤷‍♀️