The Safe haven thread: Talk about anything
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Im trying to start up my own Lets Play channel. So far some video errors with stammering, but ive resolved the audio issues. Also Youtube's upload dealy reminds me how i cant effing wait for Google fiber to get here. Maybe planning to make and edit the videos, save them up, and just crank them out online when i can get to it.
Im also in the middle of a training regiment so I can work as a Fire Fighter. But Ive recently received a lingering work injury in both arms which is limiting me to running, uphill walking, back, and leg work. Alternatively im considering looking up on Rescue Drones and see if i can get into training for that as work just in case.
Im also in the middle of a training regiment so I can work as a Fire Fighter. But Ive recently received a lingering work injury in both arms which is limiting me to running, uphill walking, back, and leg work. Alternatively im considering looking up on Rescue Drones and see if i can get into training for that as work just in case.
Looking for those pesky Gold Bolts in Ratchet & Clank. In all I think I've wasted something like two hours in Aridia alone. Hey, at least I'm farming bolts. The RYNO isn't going to buy itself.
I am so happy to see a thread like this that I'm de-lurking to post in it. Really nice idea.
I've been revisiting old friends. I'm doing a second play-through of the Mass Effect series (half-way through 2 right now), and trying to uncover everything I missed the first time through. It's just as much of a free-time drain as it was when I played it in the past, but I'm enjoying it very much.
I've been revisiting old friends. I'm doing a second play-through of the Mass Effect series (half-way through 2 right now), and trying to uncover everything I missed the first time through. It's just as much of a free-time drain as it was when I played it in the past, but I'm enjoying it very much.
It was pretty damn awesome besides the shitty ending. But you know how it is: birds fly, droolers tweet the latest trends and The Walking Dead season finales have shit endings.Elfgore said:
OT: I already said this in another thread so I won't list them again, but I had quite the enjoyable summer catching up on a boat load of 21st Century Superhero Movies. I also learned that I don't mind stiff acting so long as it fit the character (cough cough).
Finally made myself sit down and play ME3, and so far loving it... though hit a speedbump as my disc 2 has a pretty nasty scratch on it from the 360, and neither the toothpaste trick or the lip balms trick helped (but Argos seems to be selling it for Ā£8 free delivery, so won't be waiting too long to get back to kicking cerberus out of the citadel)
Also enjoying the multiplayer in small doses, though really wish whoever decided the only way to buy guns is through a gachapon mechanic (complete with micro-transactions option) got some karmic payback. (though kinda got lucky and scored My Precious Locust a couple of games back, so a touch mellower hehe)
Also enjoying the multiplayer in small doses, though really wish whoever decided the only way to buy guns is through a gachapon mechanic (complete with micro-transactions option) got some karmic payback. (though kinda got lucky and scored My Precious Locust a couple of games back, so a touch mellower hehe)
Someone recommended "Muv-Luv" as the best VN they've ever read but so far it's all about this "moe" bullshit character shouting "baka" all the time. Kinda annoyed with it so time to continue the Prince of Persia series I guess.
I'll give it another shot later, though, because another VN I read, CROSS?CHANNEL, started of similarly stupid but then turned into this fucking amazing story. Insanity, guilt, mass murder, rape, irreversibility, knowing what's right but being unable to do anything about it and how human connections affect our mental state. All that awesomely crazy shit, but they chose to set it in a high school for some reason.
I'll give it another shot later, though, because another VN I read, CROSS?CHANNEL, started of similarly stupid but then turned into this fucking amazing story. Insanity, guilt, mass murder, rape, irreversibility, knowing what's right but being unable to do anything about it and how human connections affect our mental state. All that awesomely crazy shit, but they chose to set it in a high school for some reason.
Well I've been playing the crap out of World of Tanks lately. I have also had an itch to play Borderlands 2, but I'm missing one bad ass skills that I want to get before starting a second play though with my commando that would be a pain to get on my own. I've also been playing co-op with a few other Escapist, but one of the people I've been playing with is either too busy playing Dark Souls 2 or has to get off after only an hour or two so it makes it really hard to get very far.(you know who you are)
Let's see, what have I done?
Well me and my friends moved into our new house and had a little housing warming with a few friends around the area last night. But I won't be fully moved up till I need to register for my university courses for my final year in 2 weeks time, so until then, I need to finish up summer work back at home to earn a bit of money. Also I'll be heading to Tweed fest with my friends on the weekend which is a heavy metal concert and if possible, I would to meet a girl there, hopefully anyway. And on a final note, I'm getting back into Skyrim again, I blame my friends.
Well me and my friends moved into our new house and had a little housing warming with a few friends around the area last night. But I won't be fully moved up till I need to register for my university courses for my final year in 2 weeks time, so until then, I need to finish up summer work back at home to earn a bit of money. Also I'll be heading to Tweed fest with my friends on the weekend which is a heavy metal concert and if possible, I would to meet a girl there, hopefully anyway. And on a final note, I'm getting back into Skyrim again, I blame my friends.
I recently started school at the University of Dayton, where I really feel at home after just 2 weeks. I'm starting to think this might be one of the best schools in the country.
I'm slowly but surely teaching myself how to use Unity, which I'm using to make a survival/adventure/dialogue/horror game set on Mars. I recently became a registered Nintendo developer (saying any more would breach my non-disclosure agreement) and I'm really excited to get publishing!
I'm slowly but surely teaching myself how to use Unity, which I'm using to make a survival/adventure/dialogue/horror game set on Mars. I recently became a registered Nintendo developer (saying any more would breach my non-disclosure agreement) and I'm really excited to get publishing!
Did my first two hours of my driving lesson today and wow was it fun but complex at first with manual. Did it round the quiet roads where I lived. Started off slow but got use to it but boy I didn't know the gas and brake pedal was so sensitive. I also need to get my left and right leg to cooperate and work with me better because my right foot keeps pressing the gas too hard and left is too sensitive with the clutch. Just need to get the routine right but getting the hang of it and actually enjoying it.
Great day overall and thank you for this thread away from the headaches.
Great day overall and thank you for this thread away from the headaches.
I like this gues avatar, make my snicker every-time, also, congrats on the interview, jobs are still kinda hard to come by sadly, as after over a year a friend of mine FINALLY is getting back to work him self.Padwolf said:
Lemme see, I don't got much else to say right now, I'm close to making a pointless thread of my own to congratulate my self for hitting the 'post' button 10,000 times and saying stuff on the internet of varying levels of value.
I play Warframe and Marvel Heroes. Anybody else where play those?
other then that, despite being a fan of country music, really can't stand Where there's more trucks then cars [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFnPUTVvw8Q] It sounds to openly hostile toward city life and makes it sound as though there's something wrong with you if your not living in some small town somewhere. Not helping is that I'm kinda tired of the sound of his voice.
A few days ago, I finished Haunting Ground, which is apparently a spiritual sequel to the Clock Tower series. I had never played either prior to starting HG, which I could only seem to muster the will to play every couple of weeks.
The twist is that it wasn't out of not liking the game, but having actually been disturbed and horrified at something that happened in roughly the first 20 minutes of gameplay.
I have since watched a review of Haunting Ground that claims it takes the old Clock Tower game mechanics and improves on pretty much everything, mostly making the game harder by not pointing out hiding places and such. If that's the case, I'm a little annoyed to have played the better game first.
The twist is that it wasn't out of not liking the game, but having actually been disturbed and horrified at something that happened in roughly the first 20 minutes of gameplay.
I let the first pursuer, a large, creepy man in a large, creepy castle, catch me, because I wanted to do my usual thing in horror games and see where the line was. That is, I typically like to start the game, find something particularly threatening, and say "Do your worst."
Usually, this just leads to samey, splattery death, like having my head chainsaw'd off or a necromorph giving me several chest piercings. In TellTale's Walking Dead game, I was given the choice of saving a kid and saving some guy, and opted to let the kid die just to see if the game would go through with it.
In this case, it did. The main character was, as far as I could tell, beaten to death and her corpse raped by the large, creepy man.
I started the game early in the summer, and finished it just this last weekend, only getting around to playing it (Granted, part of this was just not being in the mood for horror most of the time, requires a certain mindset and all that) every couple of weeks, for maybe half an hour or so. That changed the further I got, and right after the second psychopath, the most frightening entity in the game in my honest opinion, things kind of wound down in terms of creepiness. Maybe I was just used to it by then, but a normal-ish man in a brown robe with a flintlock just wasn't as scary to me as the broken glass/fire poker-wielding maid that alternated between a creepy monotone and some of the most delightfully insane, shrieky laughter I've ever heard. Most of all if she catches you.
Then we get comparatively un-frightening fellows no less out to get the protagonist, but all being far less intimidating. Maybe it was that they were using guns and magic, instead of creepy mannerisms (The maid shuts the fucking doors, as both an indicator she'd been around recently and a way of costing you a few seconds to open them again while she's in hot pursuit. She is the only one that does this. Did I mention she's the fastest of the psychopaths?)and unconventional weapons?
Usually, this just leads to samey, splattery death, like having my head chainsaw'd off or a necromorph giving me several chest piercings. In TellTale's Walking Dead game, I was given the choice of saving a kid and saving some guy, and opted to let the kid die just to see if the game would go through with it.
It didn't. At least not right away.
In this case, it did. The main character was, as far as I could tell, beaten to death and her corpse raped by the large, creepy man.
I started the game early in the summer, and finished it just this last weekend, only getting around to playing it (Granted, part of this was just not being in the mood for horror most of the time, requires a certain mindset and all that) every couple of weeks, for maybe half an hour or so. That changed the further I got, and right after the second psychopath, the most frightening entity in the game in my honest opinion, things kind of wound down in terms of creepiness. Maybe I was just used to it by then, but a normal-ish man in a brown robe with a flintlock just wasn't as scary to me as the broken glass/fire poker-wielding maid that alternated between a creepy monotone and some of the most delightfully insane, shrieky laughter I've ever heard. Most of all if she catches you.
Then we get comparatively un-frightening fellows no less out to get the protagonist, but all being far less intimidating. Maybe it was that they were using guns and magic, instead of creepy mannerisms (The maid shuts the fucking doors, as both an indicator she'd been around recently and a way of costing you a few seconds to open them again while she's in hot pursuit. She is the only one that does this. Did I mention she's the fastest of the psychopaths?)and unconventional weapons?
I have since watched a review of Haunting Ground that claims it takes the old Clock Tower game mechanics and improves on pretty much everything, mostly making the game harder by not pointing out hiding places and such. If that's the case, I'm a little annoyed to have played the better game first.
I've been watching Friday Night Lights. I really enjoy it although one ore two of the characters are absolute positivity leaches.
On a related subject, I've recently been trying to get my head around American football. It's a game I've recently taken a big interest in (I've played rugby all my life which is kind of similar in terms of physicality), and I have most of the basic rules down. The only problem is remembering all of the damn positions and their roles in the team. I have yet to watch a full game as well.
Apart from that I start college in two weeks and I'm pretty excited.
On a related subject, I've recently been trying to get my head around American football. It's a game I've recently taken a big interest in (I've played rugby all my life which is kind of similar in terms of physicality), and I have most of the basic rules down. The only problem is remembering all of the damn positions and their roles in the team. I have yet to watch a full game as well.
Apart from that I start college in two weeks and I'm pretty excited.
I enjoyed both and can recommend it to you. That said, I listened to Mogworld as an Audiobook rather than reading it, but still.Not The Bees said:
I'm excited for Civilization Beyond Earth, looks like a new twist on Alpha Centauri. That said, I was recently reminded of Civilization: Call to Power, and its interesting 'public works' system rather than the 'workers' system in most Civ games, so I'm alittle sorry to see its still not going to be adopted into main-stream Civilization games.
We could use more threads like this a the mo... it's an endless flame war out there.Gizmo1990 said:
I played a Gunzerker and it was fun as balls, especially with the Conferance Call, granted the enemy AI in Borderlands is still kinda prone to gunning you from a distance and hiding after you go down, making the second wind ability kind of redundant.Gizmo1990 said:
Oh gawd that ending, it was like watching a crippled puppy realizing it can't go to the park anymore...bartholen said:
WHY WOULD I SAY THAT!?!
I do love the fact they focused so much on Asami and Korra's bromance... sismance... friendship. The show was a little heavy on the young love stuff, which I usually enjoy but after two series it would have gotten old.
I've actually been playing Borderlands 2 as well, with a group of friends. I love Zero, and can't wait to unlock his final Bloodshed ability so I can continuously backstab fools ^^
I have to say, though, that while the humour is funny in certain places, they try to be over the top too often, which kinda ruins the dramatic moments a bit.
I have to say, though, that while the humour is funny in certain places, they try to be over the top too often, which kinda ruins the dramatic moments a bit.
I'LL FOLLOW YOURaikuFA said:
What's your Twitter? I've nicked my brother's Vita to play Soul Sacrifice and it's really fun so far. First game I've played in... six weeks, I think? Wait, no, I tell a lie, I played Mega Man 9 whilst on Skype yesterday because I'm an attentive and caring conversationalist.
Kind of glad to be gaming again. I've also been getting back into music and reading (and have finally started making money from the former again) so life seems fun again! Seriously, with the exception of nights out with my friends I've pretty much just been staring at walls during my downtime these past few weeks.