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Post by Canuovea on Oct 12, 2015 17:27:41 GMT
Brain associations are weird.
I was cooking and I went between singing a terrible attempt at this:
Which once that was driving me too crazy...
I don't know what about the preparation of food brought that on.
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Post by demonnachos on Oct 13, 2015 3:31:33 GMT
The oddest names do tend to be from black people. I heard that there was a lady named "La-a" pronounced Ladasha.
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Post by Canuovea on Oct 13, 2015 6:35:30 GMT
La-dash-a? That is clever! I like it.
I'd not use it for my kid's name, but still.
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Post by demonnachos on Oct 14, 2015 3:19:07 GMT
In other weird news, I will confuse here that I like the new My Little Pony cartoon while also loving metal, owning a big loud Dodge Ram (4WD of course), owning a collection of swords and axes, and many other manly man things. So a strange thing is me.
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Post by Canuovea on Oct 14, 2015 3:23:21 GMT
Oh everyone is a little strange here.
Lots of people like MLP. I found it to be interesting, though I've not watched the whole thing, and is clearly a higher level of children's entertainment than what we have had before in the genre. Plus, it manages to appeal to more than its base demographic, which is always impressive.
I'm a sucker for some good folk music, generally speaking.
Don't drive, don't have car.
Stabby slicey implements are great fun, yes...
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Post by demonnachos on Oct 14, 2015 3:42:45 GMT
Despite being a stabby bloke with a big mean truck (which has no tailgate and a big V8), I admit a few episodes caused tears. Kicked right in the feels. I have two cars actually, if the truck can count as a car. My noisey 98 Dodge Ram and my lady in red an 87 Porsche 944S (manual gearbox of course).
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Post by Canuovea on Oct 14, 2015 3:59:37 GMT
I'll freely admit to some Stan Rogers songs getting to me in that way, as well as Gordon Lightfoot's "Home from the Forest".
Nice car. I'm barely car literate enough to know that, I think.
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Post by demonnachos on Oct 14, 2015 4:02:12 GMT
Some songs by a band called Crush 40 who did a lot of the good music from the 3D Sonic games have that effect, as well as some songs from the old Sonic games on Genesis/MegaDrive (and some others like the Duck Tales game's Moon Theme).
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Post by Canuovea on Oct 14, 2015 4:04:23 GMT
A certain way things like that will play on you.
The Siege of Madrigal gives me shivers still, and pretty much anything else from Bungie's Myth series as well. Total Annihilation music is pretty bonkers too.
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Post by demonnachos on Oct 14, 2015 4:41:01 GMT
Sonic 2's ending theme has the power of a Chuck Norris roundhouse kick slamming directly in the weak points of the feels for massive damage. It was the second game I beat (The first being the Genesis version of The Lion King, never could get past the lava level on Aladdin though) and stuck with me quite a lot. I found an interesting bug in Sonic 2 though. If you kill Mecha Sonic during the frames he is turning around after his dash attack (the non-spike ball dashing thing he does), the game will crash. I've done it at least twice by accident, so I know it wasn't a fluke. You gotta be pretty quick to get him down enough HP to do so though, which after 20 some years I damn well ought to be.
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Post by demonnachos on Oct 16, 2015 15:09:35 GMT
I play the game Payday 2 quite a bit and they recently rebalanced everything. Some changes were good as many useless weapons got big buffs, but a lot of changes don't make any sense. For example, pistols now do similar damage to assault rifles, meaning a .40 cal pistol now hits with the same power as an M4 or a G36. The mid-tier pistols now hit as hard as the stronger assault rifles, meaning a Colt 1911 hurts more than an FN SCAR. The magnums (like the .44 Magnum and the .50 Desert Eagle) hit with more power than even most sniper rifles like the WA2000. You can use akimbo pistols for your primary, which now deals 90 per shot (2 shots per mouse click) with a really high fire rate and still darn good stability and accuracy. Akimbo builds are now stupid strong.
They also rebalanced the weapon mods and made the high damage dealing flash hider (which gave considerably more damage than the other options but with accuracy penalties) only do +4 damage with a 8 to accuracy while the outright best one now does +2 damage with +4 accuracy and +12 stability. It is rather odd how little extra damage certain mods now give for such big penalties.
The odder thing is how certain weapons are not paired. The AK doesn't just hit a little harder than an M4, it has DOUBLE the damage (88 vs 45, Elite goons tend to be between 150-200 hp on harder difficulty settings). The AK also has considerably higher accuracy than the M4, despite the opposite being true. The AK-47 has higher damage and almost the same accuracy as the SCAR and FN FAL while it also sports max stability. Because the enemy units are unchanged the buffed weapons are all around the strength of the great weapons, but the really good weapons are just beyond godly now. The AK and AK SMG both are this insane, and the RPK beats the M249 "SAW" in every category save ammo capacity as well. Stranger still is that the Saiga-12 (A full-atuo shotgun known for being a wild ass to control) has considerably more stability than the AA-12 (which is known for being incredibly easy to shoot even in full-auto).
There were some really good changes. LMGs no longer slow you down and give much better ammo pick ups, the minigun can now pick up ammo at roughly the same rate as LMGs and also doesn't slow you to crawl like it used to (though the mods for it I think still say they lessen the speed penalty). The original low-damage+high-fire rate sniper that was utterly outclassed by the WA2000 and Winchester Repeater got buffed to their damage level, meaning my old pet is now viable again. DMRs (Assault rifles beefed up for sniper use like the G3 with a kit to make it into a PSG-1 and an AK mod to make it like the SVD) got a HUGE damage boost putting them a bit above low-tier snipers in terms of damage (they lack shield/wall/body penetration though). They may do more fiddling with the stats, but at the moment I think most of their changes will be for the better (though it means the enemies have even LESS of a chance, especially since most Perk Decks got very strong buffs as well meaning the players are stupid strong compared to how they were a few months ago before all the stat tweaking).
Does anyone else here play this fun Co-Op bank robbery game?
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Post by Canuovea on Oct 16, 2015 22:42:39 GMT
I don't but I was speaking with some people who do. It was a pretty huge update, wasn't it? Something like 5 gigs?
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Post by demonnachos on Oct 16, 2015 22:55:42 GMT
It certainly wasn't small. This past month they've completely redid the inventory interface, completely rebalanced the perk decks, and completely changed the stat system on the weapons.
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Post by Tech on Oct 19, 2015 2:29:49 GMT
I got the game Animal Crossing New Leaf and am quite pleased with myself in making all the rabbit people in the game say "Wot Wot" as catchphrases, I'm sure at least Can can find the humor in that with me
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Post by Canuovea on Oct 19, 2015 2:37:51 GMT
Hah!
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