Kaftan Barlast

Aaah, sweet homoerotiscism. Its like the zero-point energy of casual comedy.

I just had an argument with some friend regarding absurdist comedy that originated in this comic http://www.qwantz.com/apologies/000006.html right here, and continued into the old falsifications that its only the more wellknown Monty Python sketches with a conventional punchline that are funny, the rest is just random weirdness. My argument is that ALL monty python sketches are increadibly funny and if you dont find absurdist comedy funny, its because you havent taught your brain to 'read it' and understand whats funny about it. But it is possible to aquire this skill later in life with a little help. Now, in an effort to do that, I will now try and attempt to manually explain in bulletpoints why http://www.qwantz.com/apologies/000006.html is increadibly funny: Absurdity - the man walks over what seems to be an alien planet and encounters a bear who invites him to drink tea Social comedy - its apparent that the bear is a really annoying/obnoxious person that the protagonist isnt too fond of Pop culture reference - the bear is revealed to be a trekkie obsessed with Star Trek TNG and mentions the increadibly famous "tea, earl grey, hot" line Unexpected event - suddenly, some kind of monster appears and eats the bear Absurdity - even though he is being eaten, the bear only cares about his star trek interest Absurdist punchline with a sprinkle of social comedy - even though the bear is now devoured, he still insists that he wants to continue the discussion A good test to judge wether you think this is funny is to ask yourself if your brain registers the last frame as a punchline or just an anticlimactic ending with little meaning or purpouse. If its so, my theory is that by thinking in a sensible and objective way about this, it should be possible for everyone to atleast on a purely intellectual level understand why it is funny. I have too much free time. and coffee.

Will this game be playable by normal humans beings, the kind that have played a campaign or two of TW, or is it so hardcore that it will make your head explode?

Today I had too much coffee late at night so Im just waiting for it to go away so i can go to bed. Until then Im keeping busy by thinking about interesting things like: - Can something clever be over-intelligized to the point that it becomes stupid and if so, does it work in cycles so that a something can go through an endless loop of clever/stupid/clever/stupid? And at what stage is it the funniest? Answer please.

Its a hyper realistic military simulator from the makers of the heavily modded Operation Flashpoint. Its hardcore, and not for the impatient. Its what you get when you have too much realism - the desire to whack your monitor. And yes they screwed the AI. But it has some really cool stuff going on in the campaign that are sort of like RPG-ish things. Like how you're given a team and some vehicles and told "go hunt down this war criminal" and you're absolutely free to accomplish that any way you see fit. In a lot of ways it has more depth than sandbox-rpg's like Fallout3. I liked it alot. But the DRM is completely insane. You never know if something is a bug or because the drm has triggered and is corrupting your install.

I meant the concept of MMO's as we know them. Will this be playable/enjoyable just playing by yourself or is it focused completely on mutliplayer? I mean, is there a story of some sort and/or can you go in and just play a few quests by yourself?

I dislike the core concept of the MMO. I want a game with a story and a progress curve that goes from A-Z, I dont want to be 'warrior #827' grinding through endless mobs in ever-respawning instances in order to get loot and exp so you can grind some more in a pointless loop. Fallout wasnt about getting a power armor and reaching lvl 20, it was about the stuff you could do and how it changed things in the wasteland. Nope, that fizzled. I think it was something along the line of Bethesda got the rights back as Interplay had failed to show that they had actually started production.

Im not sure about this. Fallout co-op would be sweet, but MMO? Nah.

The problem with lightsaber combat in JA was that it was largely random, you just went in flailing like a madman and youd usually hit something. You had the force powers and one or two special attacks that you had some precision control over but the regular lightsabering was just a question of who would accidentally walk into whos lightsaber. TFU never had a chance, the designers seemed like complete morons in the interviews so it wasnt a great surpise that the game was subpar. They even bragged about comming up with ideas that were so ridicilous that they proved too much even for George Lucas.

Phh, JA was the cherry on top of the series. It had everything the other games had except more, and you didnt have to play that weird Kyle Katarn fellow.

Yeah, it looks at checksums for the installed files aswell. Which is why you will trigger it if you install a mod that overwrites an original file. And Im still puzzled by the reply I got from that dev "Fade is not a DRM or anything like it." Thats like going 'This is not a car. It might have four wheels, an engine, seats, windowipers and work exactly like a car.. but its not a car.'

Id like a game called 'Intergalactic Solicitation: Turning jedi mind tricks' in which we follow a young black male jedi pimp who trains his hoes and bitches to use the force in order to become better and more efficient prostitutes.

I tried asking on the Steam forums if that version also has Securom+Fade and I couldnt get a straight answer other than that a developer claimed that fade isnt a DRM and closed the thread. So the Steam version probably does come with fade, unfortunantly.

Arma 2 is a textbook example of how not to do DRM. Not only do they have that securom crap, but they also have some sort of homebrewed drm-from-hell that literally destroys your game if its triggered, and thats not hard to do either, make a mistake when installing a mod and "Boom!" your game is gone. It doesnt tell you its triggered and it takes a few days for it to completely wreck the game so you never know what made it go off. Its not confirmed, but reportedly it writes crap into the windows registry that ensures it will destroy it again if you attempt to reinstall the game. The pirated cracked version on the other hand is smooth sailing. So they shot both themselves AND their customers in the foot(feet?)

Talking about things we're not supposed to talk about, someone at a big dev studio accidentally confirmed that Sony are using a "parity" clause in their contract with that studio to stop them from doing things on the 360(and perhaps PC) version of the game that the PS3 doesnt support. In that specific case it was a shader that they couldnt get to work on the PS3, and so had to scrap even though it worked on all other platforms. They've been doing this for years, but it seems like it getting worse lately. Ive always wondered why PC games often come with 360 res, poorly compressed video and it might be something like this behind it (when its not the usual time constraints, lack of space on the dvd, middleware(bink) issues etc. )

Because it looks like piss, and its such a cheapshot to pull graphicswise. Either you go full cartoony like TF2 or even toon/cellshading, or you keep it regular. You dont take a regular game and slap on some cheap outlines because someone in the design meeting is a complete loon.

No, I completely screwed up the rates because a friend of mine was shouting at me to go grocery shopping. Its supposed to be 100 sek = $13.32 or €9,41 And thats what we got for voting no to the euro, although at the time it was relatively sensible to so because the price on absolutely everything would have gone up %5-10 while the wages would have remained at the same level. Kind of like the scam Steam are pulling in europe by doing $49 = €49 even though its actually €49 = $68,3

In sweden is always exactly 100 SEK more than the PC version, sometimes 200. PC will go for 499, 360 will go 599 and PS3 might go up to 699. Just when the 360 came, it was +100 for xbox and +200 for 360 vs the PC versions. 1 sek =

I just dont understand why they went all Prince of Persia on it and added the black outlines around everything. The screens where its not so prevalent look so much better.

HA! I knew you were gonna say that! All lies, it was a totally non-obvious joke. Dude, that would like.. defeat the whole purpouse of the hawt chicks. Itd be like you have this hawt hick companion like Sheva in RE5 and in the end when youve made out and everything its revealed that she used to be a dude.. eeew!!

Phh, i would have done it like this "You're on a really cool friggin spaceship and half the guys turned to zombies and **** and the other half were eaten so its basicly you with a ship full of hawt chicks and zombies and ****. Kill, ****, die, reload and play some more!" pure awesomeness oh yeah! oh, and in the end as a plot twist youd find out that

Our University, as all others Ive heard of, has a pretty friggin strict code that all documents must be sent in *.PDF which cant be read with full formatting, pictures, embedded fonts and everything on all platforms, from linux to a friggin cellphone. She should start using PDF instead and save herself a lot of trouble.

Ive bought 3-4 games from GoG and the only one that didnt work was TOCA 3, which GoG pulled for that reason. The bug itself (trying to access the save menu freezes the game) was never patched by Codemasters, so there was no way the GoG people could make it work.

4chan has always been a hub for japophiles, retards and annoying little kids. Lets not pretend otherwise.

Doom 3 was just annoying as hell. Youd notice a recess in a wall, you checked it to be empty, but as soon as you walked over a trigger further down the hall a monster would spawn in said recess. Juggling the flashlight was also increadibly annoying. But I personally dont get scared of games anymore. I will get startled by sudden high noises, but thats not scared, its just a cause of anger and irritation. Kind of like when someone with a poor sense of humor wacks you in the back of the head with a rolled-up newspaper when you're busy trolling internet forums.