Apeman42

joined 2 years ago
[–] Apeman42@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

I just started Cubivore. It's fascinatingly weird, deceptively simple at first, but I feel like there's some complexity growing beneath the surface.

You start as a weird little cubic pig, and you have this one square flap coming off the cube on a hinge that helps you move around, and a mouth. So you go around eating everything smaller than you. And the things your size you can take, you rip their meat flaps off (phrasing) and eat them to mutate. When you kill a boss, you get better meat that unlocks big abilities, and your pig gets to mate and die. Then you start playing as pig's offspring, who now has an extra flap and more ways to mutate which put those flaps in configurations that make you better at running, evading, fighting, or defense.

Also your pig does a lot of oddly philosophical ruminating between areas.

[–] Apeman42@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You guys think Starbucks hasn't been waiting for Cthulhu's coming all this time to serve him? Black and green colors? That two-tailed mermaid? Yeah, that's Stæ'Rhabhuk, Holder of the Chalice and Slaker of the Dark Lord's Thirst.

[–] Apeman42@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If you mean encouraged as in "You should know that you have this option, and there is nothing wrong with taking it", then yes. But no one should ever be telling a terminally ill person that they should kill themselves because of it.

[–] Apeman42@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Kevin Bacon? America's most beloved invisible rapist?

[–] Apeman42@lemmy.world 49 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Something about the expression and composition on that little Pepe comic reminds me of old Mad magazines.

[–] Apeman42@lemmy.world 21 points 6 days ago
[–] Apeman42@lemmy.world 47 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] Apeman42@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well I'm certainly a halfling, but I must have been raised by elves because those are the video games I want. Let me use the power of friendship to split the hero into superpowered versions of his id, ego, and superego to fight the five-phase final boss representing the stages of grief, while power metal makes sweet love to latin chanting in the background.

[–] Apeman42@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I can't quite tell from the trailer if it's what they're doing, and unfortunately I can't find the video about this that I watched recently, but I wonder if they're talking about "animating on 2s"? It's a technique where the character's animation only changes every other frame, which gives an effect that's just slightly choppy but pleasing to a lot of people. It's how they animated the Spider-verse movie.

[–] Apeman42@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

It does seem he lives at the factory. I think you've got a fair case here.

[–] Apeman42@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

God, I hope so. How bleak would it be if this were baseline reality?

[–] Apeman42@lemmy.world 51 points 1 week ago (2 children)

So what was the classified part? That there are not aliens in Area 51?

Pretty sure I can confidently say that Bigfoot isn't imprisoned in the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier either. Shit, is that classified?

 

Nothing with too many hearty belly laughs, it was abdominal surgery.

 

I understand there are novels and comics where they both make appearances after their shows, and maybe I read that Wesley is in Picard?

I'm familiar with none of that material, so I'm just curious, does going Pact of the Traveler or Pact of the Wormhole give better spacelock spells?

 

I think I played whichever one was on my Amiga waaaay back in the day, and whichever one was on PS3 for a bit. I was also a big fan of some of the Might and Magic games, which I feel were something of a bridge between the old dungeon crawlers and something like Morrowind.

Anyway I was thinking of trying one out again. Any recommendations, maybe one with modern QOL features to ease in?

I see there's a remake of Wizardry 1(?) and remasters of the Etrian Odyssey games in the past couple years. I'm also kind of intrigued by Undernauts, which looks like it might throw a little Shin Megami Tensei flavor in?

 

I played 1-4 back in the day, but my memory of the details is pretty fuzzy. Something something Umbrella releases a new virus like iPhones every few years, something something, somehow Wesker returned.

Anyway, I hear 7 is kind of a soft reboot? Is that a good one to get back into the series with, and not have to know 12 games of plot?

And if 7 is good, does 8/Village follow directly from that without needing too much prior game knowledge?

 

Lowest price yet according to gg.deals.

I'd been waiting for this to drop under $30 so I could scratch my Shivering Isles itch without spending 6 hours installing mods first.

 

I saw this pretty late, expires in 3 days 20 hours from time of post.

Seems like a great value though, I used to play the hell out of 1 and 3.

There's also a $10 tier with just 1-3 and DmC.

 

I finished the main Crown of the Magister campaign and wanted to check out some of the custom ones while I ponder whether to create a new party for Palace of Ice or not.

I downloaded the top 20 or so custom campaigns from the workshop, but so far the first hour or so of the few I've tried haven't been super gripping. I know that's not much to judge them off, but it doesn't help me decide if they're worth continuing with.

Which ones get really good, in your opinion? I have the Unfinished Business mod for max level cap and more classes, but I'm not using the 6-man party option, which I know a few campaigns are tuned for.

 
 

I've been replaying a lot of the classics recently, and just like with Combs when I rewatch a Star Trek series, I keep finding myself saying "fuck, that's him too?"

Playing Fallout, there's Jim as the main voice of The Master.

Playing the original Baldur's Gate trilogy, there's Jim as Minsc, Gorion, Mulahey, and a bunch of other people.

Taking a break to test out some character builds in Icewind Dale? Fuck me, there's Jim as Hrothgar.

Like I know he's one of the most prolific voice actors, especially of that era, but I didn't realize how entwined he was with that specific genre.

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