Everything posted by Sarex
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unpopular gaming opinions - here's mine, share yours
Ah, but Red Alert 2 was, for me, the perfection of the singleplayer RTS formula. @Gromnir Tbh, looking back on it I couldn't tell you how I felt about resource gathering in the game. I didn't mind it, I guess. Thinking about it the only game where I would say resource gathering was done particularly well is Homeworld 2, but in multiplayer. Because you could salvage your shipwrecks and probably because that led to the best pvp match I had in any game. For context and on a tangent, my main strategy playing pvp in Homeworld was to rush battlecruisers. The usual guy I played against liked to build out the normal path, fighters in to mid tier units. Our matches usually ended up with me building the first bc and running away with the game, or him managing to harass me enough to overwhelm my early fighter/bomber combo. One day he decided to try my strategy which led to epic fights culminating, at one point, with around 10 bc each a **** load of destroyers and a lot of fighter/bombers on my side and a bunch of flack frigates and missile launchers on his side. He had better unit control and effectively targeted my bc modules and weapons, but I had better positioning. All in all what we had leftover was not enough to finish off the others mothership and at this point we drained the whole map of resources, but at the middle of the map there were a LOT of wrecks. Enough to unit cap for the next fight. We agreed that the next fight was to the last ship and the winner would take all. So we hyperspace in and start closing in on each other and...the game crashes... I guess it's for the best as it left something to the imagination and no one lost.
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unpopular gaming opinions - here's mine, share yours
Red Alert 2?
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What You've Done Today - Don't do today, what you can get someone else to do tomorrow
I just embrace the new. Keeps things interesting and fresh. Although I do not keep the default layout in firefox.
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What You've Done Today - Don't do today, what you can get someone else to do tomorrow
Some people like the social aspect, why though is beyond me. You also have the people who take it as a break from their family/children.
- Ukraine Conflict - The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his
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Build Thread 3.0
I use the bios flasback feature. Safest and the most straight forward way to do it.
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What are you Playing Now? - Games don't make you violent, lag does
Started playing Wartales. I have to make myself play the game without feeling the need to get the best results. It's not that kind of a game.
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Cinema and Movie Thread: flickering images
Honor Among Thieves. Pretty good for what it is. Got more than a few laughs out of me and the action was fairly interesting and engaging.
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Build Thread 3.0
@majestic Which MB/RAM did you get? I search a couple of previous pages and couldn't find it.
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What You've Done Today - Don't do today, what you can get someone else to do tomorrow
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The TV and Streaming Thread: Summer Re-reruns (it's always summer somewhere)
Sanctuary. A show about sumo wrestling. It's pretty good and a warm recommend from me.
- The All Things Political Topic - new edition
- The All Things Political Topic - new edition
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What are you Playing Now? - Games don't make you violent, lag does
Finished Solasta. Took me 40 hours. As far as the game itself, while I am not a fan of turned based, it does do turned based combat in the best possible way, like XCOM. The story and quest are fairly simple and straight forward, but not to the detriment of the game, instead the whole package is very lean and focused. There are no uneven parts of the game, the encounters are to the point and don't make the game drag on. For what it is I'm fairly satisfied with what I got for my money. The only thing that I particularly disliked is that it's a low level adventure and as such there is not that much to customize build wise (although that could also be the edition of d&d) and there is a noticeable lack of interesting items. I think there is an expansion/dlc coming that continues the adventure and raises the lvl cap to 16. I will definitely come back to it.
- The All Things Political Topic - new edition
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What You've Done Today - Don't do today, what you can get someone else to do tomorrow
Only knock against it I would have is that it's a single evaporator cooling, otherwise Whirlpool is a good brand. But man my opinion may not be worth much considering that 90% of the things I bought didn't outlast the warranty. 😄
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What You've Done Today - Don't do today, what you can get someone else to do tomorrow
Which model? Was it better before? 😄
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What You've Done Today - Don't do today, what you can get someone else to do tomorrow
Don't they have those loops that popup behind your head in case of a rollover? edit: NVM 😱
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Cinema and Movie Thread: flickering images
- The All Things Political Topic - new edition
Kid had a hit list (10 targets, of which he got 8 according to early reports) and has been planing this for a month, even picked the day because the classes he wanted to go to were in a short order from the entrance of the school. His father was a gun enthusiast and thought the kid how to use them. The guns were in a safe, but the child knew/figured out the code. Early report say that it went bad from the start, he entered the school pull the gun and the security guy tried to stop him. He killed him, then the 3 girls who were monitors that day, then he went to the first classroom. There he killed 5 more before they were able to get the guns away from him. He ran to the schoolyard and called the police and surrendered. Don't know what the background of this is, I guess we will find out in the coming days, but more likely than not it was bullying. The kid is under 14, by a few months, so he cannot be tried, but his parents were arrested.- The All Things Political Topic - new edition
- The All Things Political Topic - new edition
- Random video game news... RNG says "Nope"
- The All Things Political Topic - new edition
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