• Shit That Gets You Mad v21 - FUCKING PISSED edition
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[QUOTE=residntevl;47719439]Dark Souls isn't hard. You're going in with the expectation that it is hard.[/QUOTE] WHAT??? I have made at least 3 different characters to try and better my tactics. Admittedly my warrior has gotten farther than my mage but it's fucking hard, the combat is bullshit. I would go as far as to say it's a bad pc port.
[QUOTE=Starlight 456;47719545]As someone who hated it for months before sitting down and forcing myself to play it until I liked it, I can tell you that it's a game that most people will absolutely hate unless they [I]really[/I] want to like it. I had to finish it once and start another character to even begin enjoying it.[/QUOTE] For me, it came from playing Demon's Souls on PS3. The gameplay was solid and I liked the idea of gradually becoming better to overcome the challenges. Dark Souls was no different.
[QUOTE=fudge blood;47719549]WHAT??? I have made at least 3 different characters to try and better my tactics. Admittedly my warrior has gotten farther than my mage but it's fucking hard, the combat is bullshit. I would go as far as to say it's a bad pc port.[/QUOTE] It is. Dark Souls is a [I]notoriously[/I] bad PC port. You need either a controller or mods to make it actually playable because of the awful controls.
Internet Caps. i hate having one because i can't download any big games that are over 10GB, seeing as i live with my parents and sister still.
[QUOTE=Mister Sandman;47719328]Any game can [I]technically[/I] be beaten no matter what they give you, if you make all the right moves and never fuck up ever, but since we aren't robots, we make mistakes. And knowing the items isn't something inherent. You might be a super duper pro at Binding of Isaac, but how many hours have you put in to it? If you know the game front to back (or scoured the wiki for everything because the game doesn't tell you shit), then it is easier, but one, not everyone wants to sink a hundred hours in to a game that gives them the middle finger right off the bat, and two, in Dark Souls, boulders are simple surprise reflex challenges that I haven't really had problems with personally, and due to the kind restart bonfire nature of the game, from what I've seen you aren't likely to die to these things more than a couple times. Going back to BoI, even if you know the items, that still doesn't stop the RNG from giving you items that blatantly suck over and over, or even just not giving you shit, setting you up for failure. XCOM is another example as well. Knowing these games front to back [I]helps,[/I] but you can still get fucked over for no good god damn reason. To explain, take FNAF. In FNAF, sure, you can technically beat every night in a row, but in the middle of one night when the random nature of the game has decided that both Bonnie and Chica are just going to camp outside your door for an entire hour, yes, you can still make it if you're psychic and make 100 percent the right moves, but if not, your chances are way, [I]way[/I] reduced. As well, while most of these games offer quick restarts if you're getting a shitty hand, you don't always find out how shit you're getting it early on. It could be an hour or a few hours before the dice stop rolling in your favor and now you're seriously fucked with nothing you can do but throw away all that time and progress you made. And yes, I am complaining particularly on the side of hard games with RNG because those do tend to be the most common examples. One that doesn't depend on RNG and is still bullshit hard is DayZ. Or CS:GO. Not hating on RNG, because some of my favorite games include Don't Starve and Payday 2, but to compare to those games, RNG is an element that doesn't tend towards disaster. It's very uncommon to get a situation in Don't Starve where there's no way out, and if you do die, you almost always die having learned something of value. Most of the time everything the game throws at you, including it's surprises, can be dealt with by anyone. I don't feel like that's the case with some of the more back breakingly hard RNG based games. Being skilled at these games only treats the problem, but it doesn't cure it. Hell, in my books, if I have to run off to check the wiki for your game, then you're doing something majorly wrong. Also, the fans of these games [I]can[/I] be elitist pricks. Not all of them are, but there are [I]plenty[/I] of pretentious fans for Dark Souls, XCOM, FTL, you name it. Fanbases are more often than not complete shitheads.[/QUOTE] The problem is the types of difficulty are completely different in both games. This is why the argument of difficulty on both of our sides can't resonate with everyone. One is a rogue-like with RNG items and bullet hell combat that punishes small lapses in judgement, whereas another is a realistic action combat game that punishes small lapses in judgement. This argument can be applied to Dark Souls but you aren't doing that. If you do the right moves and never fuck up ever, you can beat the game easy. No one inherently knows the armors, weapons, or skillpoints to put in to make the perfect build. You have to put hours into the game to know that. You are never set up for failure in Isaac. When you get down to it, under the RNG, you are responsible for using that outcome and making it a success through careful gameplay. Dark Souls does this as well. You are responsible for what you build in DS, and if you fuck up you reset your skills points (kinda like resetting a run in Isaac). Dark Souls, however, punishes players who build poorly by only giving a certain number of "skill point resets", essentially eventually locking you into a build whether you like it or not. Because of this, you will rarely see fun builds in online or in playthroughs anymore. It's always "the most effective build to do the thing" which is why I prefer Isaac's scale of difficulty. Making the best of a bad situation is much more fun than doing a thing because it works. DayZ is bullshit hard because of the survival aspect. It's supposed to be difficult to find supplies to nourish yourself, and because of this it instills a mindset into players to take what they need. It applies aspects of human emotion and empathy into the game, and humans are innately evil. This means that while the hunger and thirst and such are bullshit hard, the real difficulty comes from dealing with humans, a point it's trying to bring across. I'm not a huge CS:GO player, but the only difficulty that could be brought by it is overpowered weapons, and to complain about overpowered weapons in CS:GO is like complaining about overpowered weapons in any game ever. They're obviously going to be there. You apply Don't Starve as a game where you learn something of value, but every time I die in CS:GO or BoI I die knowing more about enemy patterns, movement techniques, what items do, etc. There is no need to "cure" RNG game difficulty. It's inherent in how the games are designed and removing that aspect takes away an extreme section of games. Just because the difficulty in those games doesn't match the difficulty you enjoy doesn't mean they need to be cured. As for the elitist pricks, that is on your own end. Every single fanbase in existence has complete shitheads. To say that one group has more shitheads than another is blind and can't be said without being completely biased against them for one reason or another. I don't wanna continue arguing with you though, and I doubt you wanna continue either. I'd rather spare the thread.
[QUOTE=Mister Sandman;47719467]This is exactly what I'm fucking talking about "And while it's fine that the game seems to court the hardcore audience, a gentler barrier to entry might have turned less new players off, and more to the point, made the ones that did get through a bit less insufferably smug. 'Oh yes, that boss fight is easy-peasy as long as you've got the Orange Listerine Ring, which you must have found because it's right there, in the open, in a chest in a basement in a different postcode behind two secret walls and a fire!' " - Yahtzee nobody likes to play something they find hard and then get told that no it's super duper easy by some guy who's done this [I]same shit, 300 times, over and over and over and over[/i][/QUOTE] I'm not being elitist about it. If you have common sense, the challenges presented are fair and simple obstacles. All it requires is your knowledge towards the situation. Combat against the AI is easy because they do predictable things. Traps have predictable tells. You're not meant to run through Dark Souls like you're playing an Elder Scrolls game. You have to have some patience and common sense.
Fucking bots on steam still being an issue. I thought they were gone, guess not...
[QUOTE=Rocko's;47720444]Fucking bots on steam still being an issue. I thought they were gone, guess not...[/QUOTE] Funny, I haven't gotten a single bot invite since that.
[QUOTE=Mr. Zombie;47720452]Funny, I haven't gotten a single bot invite since that.[/QUOTE] Been getting a lot today. They weren't an issue till I got one last night that I accidentally accepted because I thought it was a legit account. [editline]14th May 2015[/editline] [QUOTE=arbio22;47714576]Youtube's new font looks like shit.[/QUOTE] Oh shit, you see that gaudy font too? I thought it was my PC/browser, and was trying to understand why the font looked like that...
[QUOTE=residntevl;47719439]Dark Souls isn't hard. You're going in with the expectation that it is hard.[/QUOTE][QUOTE=residntevl;47719745]I'm not being elitist about it. If you have common sense, the challenges presented are fair and simple obstacles. All it requires is your knowledge towards the situation. Combat against the AI is easy because they do predictable things. Traps have predictable tells. You're not meant to run through Dark Souls like you're playing an Elder Scrolls game. You have to have some patience and common sense.[/QUOTE] What about the part where you're told "You have to go into that lava area!" and the only way in is by hitting what looks like a completely normal wall through sheer frustration and trial and error? Traps, yeah, you should look out, those are fair. But the hidden doors in Dark Souls games are bullshit.
I'm almost thinking that I will have to move my pc to my boyfriends, because my mom keeps saying that she will be taking all of my stuff to the police and that she is going to smash it. Ugh.
A friend of mine's mother apparently let a sketchy person "borrow" his laptop and it hasn't been seen since :downs:
[QUOTE=GamerChick;47720814]I'm almost thinking that I will have to move my pc to my boyfriends, because my mom keeps saying that she will be taking all of my stuff to the police and that she is going to smash it. Ugh.[/QUOTE] prolly been said over and over, but your mom is fucking insane she needs to go nighty-night
Keyboard just conked the fuck out for no reason and now I have to use this horrible curvey keyboard that looks like it has a tumour, very uncomfortable typing experience
It funny, every time I ask to do something, like do a call, or study together for something like that, the person agrees, but then end up doing some other shit like they get in a call with someone else and oOps they already are fucking in a call, or they are playing a video game instead, etc. I just fucking wish they'd decline my offer instead of putting me second minutes later when they said they would.
My mom called the cops again after I told her that she needed to see a doctor.
[QUOTE=elevate;47715196]your mom is a fuckin loony[/QUOTE]
I'm so fucking done with this shit.
Fuck being an extremely heavy sleeper [I]and[/I] a night owl. I'd take all the sudden awakenings in the world if it meant I could get the fuck up in the morning and go the fuck to sleep at night
Styx is a really fun game, but fuck that Querberus quest where you have to lead him to the hideout. Goddamn this game is meant to be stealthy, none of this shit pls. Also, I've done 30% of this game with no health. There needs to be more health drops.
[QUOTE=Alsojames;47717199]I fucking hate how pretty much 95% of all leftovers here go straight to my mum's boyfriend's lunch. Case in point, I come back from my dad's house on Sunday and there's Chipotle leftovers in the fridge. Mum says I can have them. Eat some that night, eat some more Monday, finish it Tuesday. Now keep in mind the boyfriend is working Sunday night through monday morning, then monday night through tuesday. I wake up as he's leaving the house on the Wednesday (today) and he glares at me and says "How was my lunch?" Fuck sakes dude I've been eating "your" lunch for the past three days and you only noticed now?[/QUOTE] Eugh, i get this too. My mums fiancé is just a grumpy old bastard. Hes nice and all but he loves to just pick up on tiny things. He works away from Monday - Friday and then is back for the whole weekend. My mum and him go shopping on Saturday and he pretty much demolishes a good 60% of the food whilst hes here for the weekend and/or takes quite a lot for "packed-lunches" And then he moans about there not being any food left when he gets home on Fridays and assumes i eat it all. I mean. im not a small guy and my metabolism is pretty high, im a big eater.
[QUOTE=GamerChick;47721361]I'm so fucking done with this shit.[/QUOTE] Legitimate question. Have you tried contacting one of those facilities that take in people with mental problems? Your mother seems to have gone off the deep end and putting her in one of those places would probably be the best option for her safety and everyone else's.
You need to think about your safety mate. Your mother is unstable and the only way to fix it is seek help for her.
Suicidal thoughts are coming back after not having them for almost a year.
Today's one of my off days where for some reason I don't feel happy, sad, or mad. Just kinda dead.
Why do I need to read a textbook for summer reading Whyyyyyyyy
[QUOTE=gk99;47722895]Today's one of my off days where for some reason I don't feel happy, sad, or mad. Just kinda dead.[/QUOTE] I get those. You just feel empty, hollow and lonely. Like a walking shell with that horrible feeling in your chest. It happens and you've just got to wait till it passes.
My coworker is a 19 year old weaboo that I have to constantly fucking babysit because he likes to do handstands when we have office meetings and embarrasses the fuck out of me around our bosses. I fucking hate it because I keep having to make excuses for his behavior because we're technically partners. But he's the kind of guy who would play the victim because he's been "bullied" before and normally I would tone back my disdain, but we're not in school. It's a work environment and I'm absolutely tired of his weird bullshit. The fact that we work with kids and a whole ZERO of them respect him should speak for itself. I need this semester to be over.
[QUOTE=greeley;47723057]I get those. You just feel empty, hollow and lonely. Like a walking shell with that horrible feeling in your chest. It happens and you've just got to wait till it passes.[/QUOTE] Yeah, but this shit happens way too often to be healthy for me. Good one day, then the next I'm sitting alone listening to sad-dark songs during my breaks. Like the worst part is knowing I have no huge reason to feel like this and still doing it.
[QUOTE=gk99;47723315]Yeah, but this shit happens way too often to be healthy for me. Good one day, then the next I'm sitting alone listening to sad-dark songs during my breaks. Like the worst part is knowing I have no huge reason to feel like this and still doing it.[/QUOTE] Chemical imbalance if you get it more than every few months. Should go to the doctors and get something prescribed.
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