Posts by Sentura

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If nobody else objects lets just go for wed evening. What time and where?

hey guys, lets put down a definite date asap. i assume monday already is out of the question, so it's probably happening between tuesday and thursday.

can we quickly settle on something? i personally don't mind, so i'll let whoever has plans on other days decide when to go

same, i'm sticking around for a while, but i'm arriving monday and have to figure out administrative stuff there so i don't think i can make it then.

Nevermind, i'm hurr durr

with AMDs shitty driver support i would say go for an NVIDIA card instead, and also SSD. currently having a 660ti, it makes sweet love to my triple monitor setup.

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Yes I understand what ken's saying about the cover but that doesn't mean it has to look like every other generic box cover out there.

but that is exactly what he argues... the content of the game doesn't matter, the box has to facilitate impulse buying, not ask a philosophical question about the hows and whys of government in modern societies.

so should we make a poll for friday then? or do people wanna do later than that?

yeah i'm up for setting a meeting time/day as well. i guess something along the lines of thursday or friday?

well yeah i'd say it's more of a movie intro than a game intro, but there was just so much more believability in it because of the characters seemed real. i'm not saying that wasn't the case for half life 1 either, but the train ride itself wasn't the most memorable part of the intro for me. the whole path downward to the experiment was what did it. it's between there and the trainride that you really pick up on the people working in such place. i'd say both sequences there had good acting between them, with half life's being more "free" in regards to optional exploration.

i don't think i really understood the scale of half life 1's complex before on a rail...

for me it was more of "oh shit i triggered this event" than the trainride. i think black mesa could have been shown to be larger more elegantly, see half life 2 intro.

half life intro was good? ...maybe from the part where you enter the anomalous lab. certainly the train ride, while interesting to look at, was too long.

i think i agree on the bioshock one, it was basically the perfected half life 1 trailer.

i also think far cry 3's intro was worthwhile, the way the character are believable through their actions is amazing.

more so when i notice small things like when vaas says "i'm the one with the fucking dick", which is related to spanish speaking latin american cultures. they really had their shit together on this thing.

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fun fact: i've read that scandinavians in more northern parts used to have their reindeer eat amanita muscaria, so they then could drink the piss of that reindeer. the idea was that the reindeer would filter out all the toxins because they're more resistant to it.

it's a bit weird that they (vikings) would bother to use muscaria when it's mostly a deliriant and produces a much less lucid state than the even more available psilocybe semilanceata (which they also used). perhaps the analgesia made it easier for them to berserk. and perhaps the believable hallucinations made them think they really were at the gate of asgard participating in the most epic battle ever. there's really no limits to the suggestibility of delirium... (or psychedelics for that matter)

i'm hoping we will see some of it in the series. the introduction scene where he hallucinates valkyries was pretty cool.

didn't mythbusters debunk this? fairly sure one episode they have too much of the mushroom and were deemed unfit for fight due to stomach ache and shit. as far as these legends are willing to go, i'm more inclined to believe that their rage was natural

did they prepare it? (drying and/or boiling) that would remove the toxins and make it easier to digest without getting stomach ache. anyway, the mentioned semilanceata is much easier on the stomach and shouldn't have given them too much problems. they could have used the piss-method i mentioned.

i don't think they necessarily did it for rage, but to give a more spiritiual/religious experience during battle. as you probably know, fighting and dying on the battlefield was the most glorious and spiritual aspect of their life. it could also help them to deal with the fact that they might die. still, i agree that the effects (maybe excluding enhanced/sensitive senses) could easily have made it a lot more difficult for them.

i don't know if you've ever watched a mythbuster's episode, but they are quite thorough in their research. i would assume they tested the myth to its extended abilities. that being said, i just stopped believing that they used hallocinogens in battle. they might have been drunk, but i just don't think that due to the extensive effects of drugs they would have been the fearsome warriors they have come to be known as.

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fun fact: i've read that scandinavians in more northern parts used to have their reindeer eat amanita muscaria, so they then could drink the piss of that reindeer. the idea was that the reindeer would filter out all the toxins because they're more resistant to it.

it's a bit weird that they (vikings) would bother to use muscaria when it's mostly a deliriant and produces a much less lucid state than the even more available psilocybe semilanceata (which they also used). perhaps the analgesia made it easier for them to berserk. and perhaps the believable hallucinations made them think they really were at the gate of asgard participating in the most epic battle ever. there's really no limits to the suggestibility of delirium... (or psychedelics for that matter)

i'm hoping we will see some of it in the series. the introduction scene where he hallucinates valkyries was pretty cool.

didn't mythbusters debunk this? fairly sure one episode they have too much of the mushroom and were deemed unfit for fight due to stomach ache and shit. as far as these legends are willing to go, i'm more inclined to believe that their rage was natural

skullgirls plays very well last time i tried it, it's a simplified form of street fighter and i guess on par with MVC3. i personally like it because it is more accessible than SF on average. I don't know how the online meta is at the moment - i've been away from the fighting scene for a while, but it's definitely an interesting game.

at this point i find it hard to believe someone would be so fanatic for something like being from opposite gender, to the point of making snide remarks towards other people for thinking otherwise. fucking master ruseman'd/10

i just dont wnat this to be a mmo so hard. singleplayer would be the best shit ever

i actually really liked COP, almost as much as SOC. i still have to play through CS but i simply have not had the time/inspiration to go through it.

personally i thought pripyat was very interesting as an environment, but the whole passage into it was the best. it's somewhere around 9.5/10 for me

i think he meant it's whether it's harmful.

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You mean your post on the first page that Chimeray mistook for reposting a troll?

ok so you've basically not read the thread. good job.