So, what was the last thing that made you die a bit inside?

[Drops a Sweet Katana]

My housemate made a stir fry for lunch today with a shit load of chillies, so that's currently working it's way through me, burning and pillaging as it goes. I dread to think what the shit's gonna be like.

Spoiler: Probably something like this

 

[Imre Csete]

Getting minimum wage jobs fresh out of college, just because I'm young and don't have to support a family, and anyways, I should be happy that I have a job to begin with. I only earn more than the janitor as a CAD-CAM technican, because night shift gets you extra. Makes you wonder why the Hell I bothered at all.

Fuck yeah Eastern Europe.

 

[Buckets]

When I was told that in the new Battletech video game, you wouldn't have the ability to pick stuff up to use as improvised clubs, I died a lot.

What's to die about this? Battletech is not Gundam. Mechs don't have hands with fingers. They don't 'hold' guns. The guns are just a part of the machine. They don't have anything with which to pick up stuff.

I think he is referring to the new kickstarter game which is touting itself as a faithful reproduction of the actual Battletech tabletop system, you could quite literally pick up your own mech arm that had been blown off, and club another mech with it.

 

[Brainpaint]

Yesterday I was watching The Voice UK. Two 16 year old contestants were told they had to perform "This Is The Last Time" by Keane.

The shortest one said "I dunno what that one is. But I like Keane."
I thought "Seriously? It's one of their more well-known tracks and you don't know it? That's like liking Queen but not knowing Break Free!", Yeah I know, they were both born only three years before the track came out, but I was 3 when Rhythm Is a Dancer was released and I still knew about it when I was 16. That's no excuse. Chart-hitting songs are replayed constantly for the next 10 years after their release to the point that you can't NOT know about them.
Anyway, later on the same show they both proceeded to butcher it:

Knowing that if I was 16 again and on that stage I could've destroyed both of them at performing the same song made it hurt just that little bit more. Only taking up music again at 24 after being forced to abandon it at 13(because screw the Scottish education system that makes you learn only one of everything meaning you can't pick art AND music) tends to fill you with regret like that.

Anyway, I think I'm just getting more and more angry at the idea of people not knowing things when we're in an age where you can find out things almost instantly on your phone.

 

[TheMysteriousGX]

When I was told that in the new Battletech video game, you wouldn't have the ability to pick stuff up to use as improvised clubs, I died a lot.

What's to die about this? Battletech is not Gundam. Mechs don't have hands with fingers. They don't 'hold' guns. The guns are just a part of the machine. They don't have anything with which to pick up stuff.

I think he is referring to the new kickstarter game which is touting itself as a faithful reproduction of the actual Battletech tabletop system, you could quite literally pick up your own mech arm that had been blown off, and club another mech with it.

Yes, and while I, too, would love the classic "pick up your own limb and beat the offending mech to scrap with it" theoretically, the part that made me die a little inside is what always makes me die a little every time I think about Battletech.

Like mech customization, what should be a fun, neat, immersive option for a game turns into the uber-twinks meta-gaming wet dream. It's why I can't stand Mechwarrior games. Everything's too customizable, so what should be a neat in universe thing used by the rich or the desperate becomes a minimum bar to entry. Same problem as the table-top game, which is why I preferred stock/variant only and maybe some small customizations, not "strip out all the guns, alter the engine size, re-jigger the armor, then add in a completely different complement of weaponry". Not even actual Omni-mechs are that customizable, Kerensky dammit.

 

[HybridChangeling]

The Ghostbusters trailer reaction. No, not the trailer itself, because it looked dumb and I thought nothing of it. But then all over Facebook, Reddit, and even here all I see is people complaining about it constantly. Is that one chick racist? Is this somehow sexist to men? Why would they ever do this?

Why is this such a problem... I mean Sony makes crap films, see also Spiderman 2. I don't see the reason to freak out I guess. This trailer didn't go back in time and erase the perfectly decent film that is Ghostbusters, so lets all just not feed Sony more clicks. It literally made me stay off the forums and Reddit for a bit.

Now that being said I respect your hate for it, as I am not liking it either, I just feel the hate/hype train is super overplayed right now.

 

[monkeymangler]

Any post on any internet forum ever. Including my own.

Okay, I sort of jest.

This is where we are now, eh? Final Fantasy franchise. The name that always meant maybe not the best, but beautiful stories, with the most memorable characters and soundtrack... It's games are now judged by graphics.

Let's be fair, a lot of people have been judging Final Fantasy on its graphics for a very long time. In fact, our very own Yahtzee regularly states that he lost interest in Final Fantasy "when it became more about flash than substance" (probably loosely paraphrased, sorry) all the way back with VII.

And considering how hard Square/Squeenix has pushed the graphics engines for their games since the move to the Playstation twenty years ago, it's not difficult to understand why people think that way. VIII and IX are some of the best-looking OG Playstation games, X was astounding for how early it launched in the PS2's lifespan (and how shortly after IX), Kingdom Hearts still stands as a great looker even with its weird cardboard cutscene mouths, and XII? It's got some bad texturing, sure, but the thing looks better than quite a few PS3 games did, with a scale that dwarfs even other games in its own franchise.

And to be honest, people who've had little exposure to Final Fantasy are far less likely to be upset by XIII than those of us who grew up on so many of the games. The story of XIII wasn't really significantly more dumb than any of the other games, even if it was a bit more convoluted and much worse told (though I'll say that the bloat they added on to it with XIII-2 and Lightning Returns did diminish the already-middling quality of the original; I do maintain that the gameplay of XIII-2 was at least better by enough to justify its existence). At least to me, the worst thing about Final Fantasy XIII is that it easily feels like it doesn't have any use for that "Final Fantasy" in the title. It could've been called literally anything else and nobody would've known the difference, because the only previous game it even vaguely resembled was X.

...

What just happened? I always black out whenever somebody starts talking about Final Fantasy XIII.

Er. As for a non-cynical, non-snarky response to the topic at hand, a kidney stone. I got one shortly after my birthday a little over a month ago, and just had it taken out on Wednesday and I've had to live with a stent inside of me since, which I'll likely have for another week. Saying that it's been "uncomfortable" would probably be a massive understatement, and it's pretty much overridden how much I actually care about anything else I've been exposed to over the past month.

I hate FFXIII with a passion. The combat is the worst in series history (barely beating VIII). It took 25 hours to get anywhere. Only game I've returned while crying because I was so disappointed.

That said, I actually really like Lightning Returns. I like Lightning, she was easily the best of the cast (Fang right behind). The combat was fantastic, and a great relief after XIII's atrocity. The story was bullshit and chips but nothing was going to fix XIII's and the ending was actually pretty sweet.

OT: People in general (and some on this site) that still belief that being gay is a "lifestyle choice" and that they are all pedophiles. What the hell...

 

[shrekfan246]

That said, I actually really like Lightning Returns. I like Lightning, she was easily the best of the cast (Fang right behind). The combat was fantastic, and a great relief after XIII's atrocity. The story was bullshit and chips but nothing was going to fix XIII's and the ending was actually pretty sweet.

I kinda felt the opposite, and thought that Lightning Returns' ending was so stupid that it retroactively dragged down what was already one of the weakest games in the franchise.

I've always personally really disliked the Stagger mechanic, too. It never seemed particularly well-thought or implemented to me, and it needlessly complicated a lot of really simple encounters. I'll admit I never played Lightning Returns myself, but the people I watched play it did so in much the same way I would've, and certain boss fights just seemed like they were incredibly tedious and dull because they had millions of points of health (realistically maybe only actually hundreds of thousands, I don't remember anymore) thanks to the need to exploit Staggering.

That said, as mentioned I thought that XIII-2 was a huge improvement over XIII from a mechanical standpoint, so I have no problem believing that people would also feel the same way about Lightning Returns, and if you did then that's awesome. It's always great when people find things to love in a game, even if I can't personally see the same things.

 

[Buckets]

When I was told that in the new Battletech video game, you wouldn't have the ability to pick stuff up to use as improvised clubs, I died a lot.

What's to die about this? Battletech is not Gundam. Mechs don't have hands with fingers. They don't 'hold' guns. The guns are just a part of the machine. They don't have anything with which to pick up stuff.

I think he is referring to the new kickstarter game which is touting itself as a faithful reproduction of the actual Battletech tabletop system, you could quite literally pick up your own mech arm that had been blown off, and club another mech with it.

Yes, and while I, too, would love the classic "pick up your own limb and beat the offending mech to scrap with it" theoretically, the part that made me die a little inside is what always makes me die a little every time I think about Battletech.

Like mech customization, what should be a fun, neat, immersive option for a game turns into the uber-twinks meta-gaming wet dream. It's why I can't stand Mechwarrior games. Everything's too customizable, so what should be a neat in universe thing used by the rich or the desperate becomes a minimum bar to entry. Same problem as the table-top game, which is why I preferred stock/variant only and maybe some small customizations, not "strip out all the guns, alter the engine size, re-jigger the armor, then add in a completely different complement of weaponry". Not even actual Omni-mechs are that customizable, Kerensky dammit.

I don't disagree with you to be honest, while I did enjoy making my own mechs, it was always open to abuse using clan tech and the high impact armours. I preferred just using stock mechs and hammering the stuffing out of each other.
I loved the Solaris IV set for the maps, and we had a sort of campaign mode where you could use the cbills earned from the arenas to buy new mechs and equipment to repair/refit the existing mechs, it made the game a lot of fun, and you were conscious of spending too much on a single mech, one lucky shot and boom all your money wasted. Solaris also made light mechs a very viable option for using close quarters/jump attacks and not being reliant on Long range power weapons.

 

[Parasondox]

R 'n' b and Hip Hop being lazy as fuck in today's music scene compared to 15-20 years ago. Yeah I'm getting older.

Yeah it's always been offensive, but it was creatively offensive. Oh fuck it. I can't keep up with the youth today and there memes. My back hurts and I get cramps and I won't retire until I am 81, so fuck you Tories!!

 

[happyninja42]

Seeing Trump being a strong candidate for the Republican party, meaning that there is that many people in this country who buy into his particular flavor of horseshit, and think that's the best person to reflect their beliefs. Which says a lot about the current mindset of the Republican party.