What's on your mind?

[Darkpig]

16 minutes ago, DrunkenCow said:

I think layoffs only work when you are producing something people want and aren't actively preventing people from using software they've bought a license to. 

 

Also that recent article written by the ambulance chaser about their "investigation" into possible securities fraud wouldn't have dropped their price $25 if they had anything but a house of cards.

Well they don't care what you think and enough customers are dumb as bricks that it shouldn't matter. Last I heard they pretty much have a patent on sports games. Don't know if that's still a thing.

[DrunkenCow]

13 minutes ago, Darkpig said:

they don't care what you think

 

I think it took an amazing bit of engineering to make a game launcher worse than Origin.  They should give those people raises.

[Darkpig]

What happens if masturbation reaches a climax like one million times? Does one's genitals explode into confetti? Does a hot man and/or woman holding a million dollar check knock on your door? Do you become intelligent enough to figure out how to reach intelligent life in this universe or at the very least develop psychic powers? Does reality crack and you enter the Matrix?

[Darkpig]

I remember finishing the main campaign of Celeste. Then the bonus stages be like: "Lets turn this up to 11 shall we?"

Me: Lets not. Well it's not like I have anything else going on. I love banging my head against a wall (╬ಠ益ಠ)

[Darkpig]

I saw some asswipe with a shirt that said “Cancel Me”.

 

Me: *says nothing*

Also me: It worked!

 

 

Canceling is a hell of a super power but canceling can easily be canceled at anytime unless you are Warner Brothers trying to get a tax write off. Regardless all I need to do is say shut up Jerry and 9 out of 10 times the puritan assholes go away. 1 out of 10 times it is a tax write off.

[Count Chocula]

5 hours ago, Darkpig said:

Regardless all I need to do is say shut up Jerry and 9 out of 10 times the puritan assholes go away.

"Shut up Jerry" is some kind of meme, I guess. Or is just all in your head?

 

"Shut up Jerry" means you are telling someone else to shut Jerry up. "Shut up, Jerry" means you are telling Jerry to shut up. The ol' "Let's eat, Grandma" versus "Let's eat grandma."

[Guest]

On 5/4/2025 at 2:28 AM, Darkpig said:

What happens if masturbation reaches a climax like one million times? Does one's genitals explode into confetti? Does a hot man and/or woman holding a million dollar check knock on your door? Do you become intelligent enough to figure out how to reach intelligent life in this universe or at the very least develop psychic powers? Does reality crack and you enter the Matrix?

[Darkpig]

9 hours ago, chocula said:

"Shut up Jerry" is some kind of meme, I guess. Or is just all in your head?

Could be a meme or maybe I was thinking "Shut up, Jimmy". Then again when your head won't shut up like mine it could very well be all in my head.

 

9 hours ago, chocula said:

"Shut up Jerry" means you are telling someone else to shut Jerry up. "Shut up, Jerry" means you are telling Jerry to shut up. The ol' "Let's eat, Grandma" versus "Let's eat grandma."

One day I'll figure out that comma thing. Still. Getting Jerry to shut up Mafia style is one way to solve a problem. Of course that is illegal in my country of America because Americans hate fun.☹️ Oh well. It isn't like I need to do anything for cancel culture to go away on its own. Of course there will always be consequences for being an asshole and somehow people don't get that etc. and so forth. You get the picture.

[Guest]

> We watched "A Minecraft" and "Legend of Ochi" movies with our children. We liked both movies, but the sound the creature produced irritated my luvs, so they lowered the volume when it happened.

[porkybork]

When I was a kid, I never understood why my father liked lying on the floor so much. As an adult with crunchy joints, I get it now.

[Count Chocula]

On 5/5/2025 at 8:42 AM, Darkpig said:

Could be a meme or maybe I was thinking "Shut up, Jimmy". Then again when your head won't shut up like mine it could very well be all in my head.

 

One day I'll figure out that comma thing. Still. Getting Jerry to shut up Mafia style is one way to solve a problem. Of course that is illegal in my country of America because Americans hate fun.☹️ Oh well. It isn't like I need to do anything for cancel culture to go away on its own. Of course there will always be consequences for being an asshole and somehow people don't get that etc. and so forth. You get the picture.

"Shut up, Jimmy" means no more to me than "Shut up, Jerry."

 

I'm sure you already have the comma thing thing figured out. In that context, certainly. If English still had cases like Latin, there'd be no confusion. "Let's eat, Grandma" would use the case for direct address (whatever that's called in Latin) and "Let's eat grandma" would use the direct object case (whatever that's called).

[porkybork]

@Darkpig @chocula “Shut up, Jerry” is a recurring joke from the comedy show “Parks and Rec”. And “Rick and Morty”. Two very different shows with a guy named Jerry as their punching bag. Pretty weird.

 

Speaking of grammar, I’d like it if someone could give me a definitive answer on whether I include the period inside or outside the last quotation mark. I’ve looked it up online, and I keep getting conflicting answers.

[Count Chocula]

59 minutes ago, porkybork said:

@Darkpig @chocula “Shut up, Jerry” is a recurring joke from the comedy show “Parks and Rec”. And “Rick and Morty”. Two very different shows with a guy named Jerry as their punching bag. Pretty weird.

 

Speaking of grammar, I’d like it if someone could give me a definitive answer on whether I include the period inside or outside the last quotation mark. I’ve looked it up online, and I keep getting conflicting answers.

Periods, commas, exclamation points and question marks as a general rule in U.S. English stylistics (which is what this is, not grammar) go inside quotation marks. Colons go outside. Not sure about semi-colons and other less common punctuation like all the various kinds of dashes.

[Glennwood Road Ent.]

Posting transit related dreams stuff on forums website elsewhere for myself. Busses and trains only. 

 

Eg. 

 

 

This photo belongs to the owner, used with permission. 

Edited May 8, 2025 by Glennwood Road Ent.

[Grey Cloud]

Time to crack out the traditional 'Pope Sicola' joke.

 

Edit: Posted that before I knew the new pope was American. Nice to see the Catholic church is continuing its two-millenia long tradition of political manoeuvring. 

Edited May 8, 2025 by Grey Cloud

[Count Chocula]

Today (May 8th) is the day to be an ass.

[porkybork]

I think it's hilarious that Fallout: New Vegas, one of the most beloved games ever made, is a buggy piece of shit held together by duct tape and prayers. As someone who's never had the chance to play it, is the game good in spite of the bugs or do they add to its charm?

[Count Chocula]

7 minutes ago, porkybork said:

I think it's hilarious that Fallout: New Vegas, one of the most beloved games ever made, is a buggy piece of shit held together by duct tape and prayers. As someone who's never had the chance to play it, is the game good in spite of the bugs or do they add to its charm?

New Vegas is the best of the three Bethesda FO games (if the scope of the game and size of the world were bigger, I'd like NV better than Skyrim).

 

FO4 was the first FO game I played and is the only one I ever played un-modded. When a buddy told me about FO 1 after it had been out, I was playing Baldur's Gate. I had no desire to play FO 1 after seeing the turn-based combat watching my buddy play it (my buddy was the opposite; he hated the RTWP system of BG). I still hate the turn-based combat of Baldur's Gate 3.

 

Perhaps the bug-fixing mods for NV keep it from being as buggy a piece of shit as you think. I highly recommend NV.

[DrunkenCow]

Bethesda did very little work on New Vegas, it was an Obsidian game which is why it has a plot and interesting characters.  Bethesda only handled clutter, random NPC voice lines, and (:snort:) engine fixes.

 

Can't headbutt Worf, so it deserved that 84% Metacritic rating.

[Darkpig]

17 hours ago, porkybork said:

I think it's hilarious that Fallout: New Vegas, one of the most beloved games ever made, is a buggy piece of shit held together by duct tape and prayers. As someone who's never had the chance to play it, is the game good in spite of the bugs or do they add to its charm?

I think Fallout New Vegas is a bit overrated but I'm sure I'll get hate for this. For one the Karma system is broken. Just blast a few feral ghouls and you'll never have to worry about Karma ever again.

 

There are some non-bug related things like in the Potential Spoilers Below:

Spoiler

The faction reputation system is a bit screwy as well. For example you could be completely invisible using a stealth boy in the dead end of nowhere like in the Lonesome Road DLC and by some magical force a faction learns you nuked their base and now that faction hates you. There is no snitch to find that we could potentially kill or convince not to snitch or if you're feeling particularly sadistic both.

 

Another bit of bad writing is the Honest Hearts DLC where you are stuck in a stupid canyon with stupid natives that are so busy they can't even be bothered to show you a stupid map out of the canyon and if you do want to leave you need to kill some puritan asshole instead of like just peeking at the map. Some people just want to go home.

 

It does some things better than Skyrim like using skill checks other than charisma in conversations. Like in one quest you might want a guy to donate some dynamite to a small town and you can use the explosives skill to convince him.

Overall the game is just meh.

[Count Chocula]

14 hours ago, DrunkenCow said:

Bethesda did very little work on New Vegas, it was an Obsidian game which is why it has a plot and interesting characters.  Bethesda only handled clutter, random NPC voice lines, and (:snort:) engine fixes.

Saying "New Vegas" and "Bethesda" together always prompts a reply like that. Like saying "World of Warcraft was the first MMO."

[Count Chocula]

25 minutes ago, Darkpig said:

I think Fallout New Vegas is a bit overrated but I'm sure I'll get hate for this. For one the Karma system is broken. Just blast a few feral ghouls and you'll never have to worry about Karma ever again.

If it's not for you then it's not for you. I suppose someone with the emotional attitude of a toddler might give you hate for it.

 

And I agree the karma system is stupid. I guess if you steal a tin can from a shack in the middle of nowhere, you feel bad about it. Of the Bethesda FO games and Skyrim (don't have enough experience with Oblivion, and I last played Morrowind way too long ago to remember), FO4 handles stealing the best.

[Darkpig]

9 minutes ago, chocula said:

If it's not for you then it's not for you. I suppose someone with the emotional attitude of a toddler might give you hate for it.

 

And I agree the karma system is stupid. I guess if you steal a tin can from a shack in the middle of nowhere, you feel bad about it. Of the Bethesda FO games and Skyrim (don't have enough experience with Oblivion, and I last played Morrowind way too long ago to remember), FO4 handles stealing the best.

I agree with everything you said but I never played Fallout 4 and don't plan to in the foreseeable future so I can't say one way or the other but I'll take your word on it.

Edited May 9, 2025 by Darkpig

[Count Chocula]

5 minutes ago, Darkpig said:

I agree with everything you said but I never played Fallout 4 and don't plan to in the foreseeable future so I can't say one way or the other how it handles stealing.

Only if someone (including disapproving companions) who cares about it and sees you do it does it matter. Merchants don't have a magical way of telling something is stolen (a la Skyim) nor does the universe pass judgment about it (a la Fallout 3 and New Vegas).

 

I can certainly remember NPCs in Morrowind getting upset if they see your character stealing, but I can't remember if it has Skyrim's magical merchants.

Edited May 9, 2025 by chocula

[Darkpig]

1 minute ago, chocula said:

Only if someone (including disapproving companions) who cares about it and sees you do it does it matter. Merchants don't have a magical way of telling something is stolen (a la Skyim) nor does the universe pass judgment about it (a la Fallout 3 and New Vegas).

I believe there was a Skyrim mod that removed the stolen tag after stealing Items under a certain value. Can't remember what it was called.