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ToxicSlurpee
Nov 5, 2003

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Mizuti posted:

I meant that the tail looked shoddy and low-effort compared to the rest of her. But the battle thong makes its placement look odd, too.


From the screenshots section. A Skyrim to Oblivion de-vamp, how creative!



Am I the only one reading that expression as a horrified "oh dear God what am I?" sort of thing? She looks so confused and tormented. Like she just woke up like that and is not understanding.

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ToxicSlurpee
Nov 5, 2003

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Bieeardo posted:

Is it coming out of her butt?

Three of them are, anyway. Not entirely sure about some of the rest.

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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:

it is the pettiest, most pointless subject imaginable. so duh, of course they do.

Whatever it is there are two truths about it on the Internet.

Somebody, somewhere will get absurdly, unreasonably angry about it. Doesn't matter how petty and stupid it is.

It is somebody's fetish.

ToxicSlurpee
Nov 5, 2003

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"defeat represents reality" is probably the most zen thing I've ever read.

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AlphaKretin posted:

It's "defeat represents realty". :ssh:

I don't know if that makes it better or worse.

...or both.

ToxicSlurpee
Nov 5, 2003

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Polaron posted:

Wait, what? :stare:

It's one of the worst movies ever made for a whole host of absolutely, completely stupid reasons.

That isn't even the worst one.

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Nov 5, 2003

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aniviron posted:

It's funny, the part that really bugs me is tits on a reptile. It's a nice change that it doesn't have that look of existential horror on its face too. That means I rate it only a little mouth-vomit/10.

Lizard tits is a time-honored tradition in games modding. It's probably the Elder Scrolls series' fault more than anything.

Somebody even wrote a play about it.

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Nov 5, 2003

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SplitSoul posted:

loving goddamnit, it is a thing. I should have known.

Is there a word for wanting to gently caress anthropomorphic jellyfish, too? Insects? aaaaaa

Edit: On second thought, don't answer that.

This is the internet.

There is always more.

It is always worse.

Better to just accept it and not stare into the abyss too long.

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Nov 5, 2003

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Kikas posted:

You know the answer to that.
Now the real question is - will they eventually mod it so everytime he takes off his mask there's another pair of breasts under it?

Yes. And those breasts will be so big they'll have their own breasts.

Which will be like J cups.

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Nov 5, 2003

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Backhand posted:

You're not a programmer until the day you make a code comment saying something along the lines of, "I know this is dumb, but it works and I don't have time to do it right, so..."

You truly become a programmer on the day you realize that all code is bad and you will never, ever write good code. Given infinite time and resources you could produce good code but nobody has those things.

The other sign somebody is truly a programmer is they finally got to the day when they looked at some old code and hated it. They read it and thought "what stupid dumb gently caress wrote this garbage? This is terrible!" only to realize, sometimes through git blame, that it was indeed themselves that wrote it.

Another thing is writing code and thinking "meh, don't need to document this. I'll remember what it does" only to not and later need to rewrite it because you can't for the life of you remember what the gently caress you did.

Every program will contain insane, stupid hacks in some way, shape, or form. If it doesn't yet (it probably already does) it will soon. It's only a matter of time.

Source: I, too, am a programmer.

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Midnight Voyager posted:

I thought it was because there was literally no reason for there to be female Gen2s since they can't even try to pass as human. But I guess there's always that one creepy loving scientist who wants to stick his dick in wiring.

Doesn't matter what it is. It is somebody's fetish, somewhere.

That person probably also made a creepy website about it. That website was probably and awful link of the day.

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TGLT posted:

"I am, and I really wish I wasn't right now."

That look just screamed "why? Why do I exist? What horrible monster created me? I know there is no mercy and there are no kind gods because I am here" to me.

It's absolute horror over her own existence.

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Nov 5, 2003

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Zil posted:

So they drink the piss and convert it to fresh water? If so humanity is going to reclassify them as livestock so fast and use them as living water pumps.

No, they turn it into ultra piss which they then can't drink.

ToxicSlurpee
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I like the absolutely, completely nonsensical combination of stripper clips just loving everywhere on a gun that's a revolver. There is no way in hell you're going to load a stripper clip quickly into anything that's a revolver. They're for bolt-action rifles or to quickly reload a magazine. Instead they're on the side of the worst possible weapon to use a stripper clip for.

ToxicSlurpee
Nov 5, 2003

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Moral of the story: humans are gross and weird.

All of us. Every single one.

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Cythereal posted:

In the Realms. We were chatting and I was bouncing ideas off her for Valerie's interactions with Ajantis. I'd concluded that they'd be pretty hostile to each other because while they have a lot of very similar ideas about how the world should be (they're both Lawful Good), they differ on a few small but very important details. There's an element of them both wishing they could be friends, and I observed that if Valerie was straight there'd be ample grounds for a tragic love story that leaves them both hurt and broken.

That was a mistake. If you've played any of Berelinde's mods, you've probably noticed that "tragic love" and "broken relationships" are catnip to her and she immediately jumped down my throat about it, that gay people don't exist in the Realms or if they do they're so massively closeted that I absolutely should drop everything and make a tragic romance between Valerie and Ajantis a central focus of the mod. She did not respond well to my argument that I wanted to write an NPC who happens to be gay who doesn't make a big deal about it, isn't closeted, and any potential relationship with her should be happy, upbeat, and end well.

It's more the "tragic, doomed love that hurts and breaks both people" that was her particular hobbyhorse, but her incredibly homophobic read on the Realms was what made me stop talking to her.

That sounds like somebody who is very, very sad and has never had or seen a healthy, functional relationship.

That or an abusive person who wrecks every relationship or friendship they get into then decides that that's just how things actually work.

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marshmallow creep posted:

i think you need good enough stats in agility, endurance and charisma to do it well, and certain minimum to even get the job. Anyone can be a "fluffer" too if you don't have the stats to actually perform, I think, and doing that results in being poisoned.

It was points-based based on a few things with some minimums, if memory serves. Like having Sex Appeal as a trait and Kama-Sutra Master as a perk helped as did loving everything you could along the way. There were certain attribute minimums (I want to say that Charisma didn't affect it all that much?) but endurance and agility were the big ones.

A sexy Chosen One who went around humping everything willing had an easier time becoming a porn star.

I think there were also special things you could do if you managed to find all the porn mags. I never did manage to accomplish that one; only ever got like 6.

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Brainamp posted:

Deathclaw

I couldn't really tell you why but I always find it hilarious that a scaly monster turned into something vaguely human, even if she still has a monster head, still has perfectly smooth boobs. Even if the rest of her is a hideous, scaly, sharp monster that can be dangerous just kind of standing next to you her breasts will be immaculate.

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dont be mean to me posted:

Girl Genius end-ran around the ethical qualms of not resurrecting a person because they were politically significant by societies having laws that vacate any titles you hold at death, even if you're later resurrected. Hope you didn't abuse your family and connections! (Or you can cover up the fact you died :ninja:) Presumably radical longevity treatments and credentials that are a simple matter of competency and experience don't present the same legal kerfuffles.

Then they even goobered that up too to show how screwed up the world is in the comic. Baron Wulfenbach is a construct that has probably died at least once. He was powerful enough to just go "lol gently caress y'all I'm a baron and I run Europe now."

He set up Gilgamesh as his heir but it's implied that he's a construct as well or, at the very least, Klaus would "break him down for parts" if his son wasn't good enough.

...

Girl Genius is a good comic.

Memento posted:

Isn't the reagent requirement that most of these systems have a way to get around it? If you can only resurrect someone with a pouch full of diamond dust or a unicorn's horn or something, it becomes a far greater barrier than anyone could deal with normally.

Generally yeah. That or the spells to bring back the dead can't bring you back if you died naturally or they bring you back worse than you were. In D&D in particular Raise Dead damages an attribute (always Constitution I think? Or at least it used to be...haven't played since 3.5), Reincarnate brings you back as something different, and Resurrect is crazy expensive. That's really a big question, though; if you can have a priest just go "lol cure X wounds" instead of giving you stitches or splinting a broken arm how will people respond to that?

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Bieeardo posted:

Both of the Foglios drew old-school Magic cards, and they're some of my favourite art from the early sets.

(And it's probably worth noting that while their old XXXenophile output can be seriously weird, it's also vastly more sex-positive than the poo poo we've ewwed and arghed at in here.)

I haven't read much of that but I really don't think Foglio gets into really, really weird fetish territory. He's even said a few times where he draws lines with an attitude of "yeah no that's too far go away." Things can be sexy without being creepy if you do it right.

In the case of weird mods it isn't being sexy in a healthy, sex-positive way it's often treating women like they're objects to be used more than anything. Foglio's female characters aren't just sex objects to be ogled. They have actual personalities. It's a pretty big difference.

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Diabetes Forecast posted:

wasn't new skyrim even buggier right from the get go??

Every Bethesda release being buggier than the last is a tradition at this point.

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Nov 5, 2003

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Guy Mann posted:

I think it was Daggerfall that had a starting dungeon that potentially unwinnable because thanks to the game's randomization you could start the game with an iron weapon in a dungeon full of enemies that were immune to damage from iron weapons, or some permutation of that.

Really, as much poo poo as we give modern games for being broken or unbalanced its kind of mind-boggling how broken older games could be especially considering how comparatively simple they are. Like, Final Fantasy 6 has multiple stats and status effects that just straight-up do not work at all.

It's also interesting how much horrendously unbalanced stuff there often was in games. It was on the level of "was this playtested at all?"

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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:

the pretense of being a hardcore gamer is the sole status symbol they have, despite the fact that no sane person would ever want that label.

Part of it is also feeling like making a game easier in any way cheapens the experience of beating it. So to make the achievement of "I beat this game" a bigger deal it's better to make it harder. That way only a chosen few can claim they've mastered the game. These are also the people that piss and moan about a ton of optional content or a relatively short "main" quest. There are also people that feel the need to beat the player by making something that can't be beaten; hence those that piss and moan if somebody beats the insanely overpowered super ultra mega boss they put in. The person creating that mod wasn't interested in creating a fun experience for others; they only wanted to win. It's all about winning. Nothing else. Just "I must win."

What confuses me the most are those that are all "you're playing this game wrong!" Like who cares? I'm a fan of difficult games myself but I'm not going to judge somebody who wants easier games because it doesn't cheapen the experience. Something like a difficult modifier is great for that; I want to crank that fucker up as high as it goes but it doesn't make my experience less fun if somebody else can turn it down.

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Danger - Octopus! posted:

Why would the cat have long hair like that? Cats already have fur! Is the cat wearing a wig ?

You're really better off just not asking those sorts of questions or wondering too hard about it.

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Zil posted:

If the rule that someone will try to get Doom to run on anything, I look forward to the first bionic eye to have a doomwad installed on it.

Yeah that's one of those "because I can, that's why" things that people will be doing forever. I don't think they'll ever stop.

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Coolguye posted:

what'll be even better is when the alpha AI guys get a visual doom bot perfected that can just play the game by raw video input

then in addition to having doom wads working on pacemakers, we'll have AIs installed on pacemakers killing virtual demons to the beating of your heart

BECAUSE WE CAN, THAT'S WHY.

And then, some fateful day, we'll have competing pacemakers who will be seeing whose heart can beat Doom faster than somebody else's heart.

The future is now, fuckers.

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The Cheshire Cat posted:

Maybe they are a parody. Do we know for sure he actually LIKES the Final Fantasy series?

The worlds in Final Fantasy games got kind of ridiculous after a point. They've always been fairly ridiculous. Maybe he just decided the clothes should be ridiculous as well.

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Because the internet.

Cup Runneth Over posted:

Rape fetishes are shockingly common. I wonder if they were always that way and we're just finding out now, or if our society has changed in a way that makes us fantasize about them.

It's extremely unlikely to be new. Anatomically modern humans are like 200,000 years old and haven't changed all that much in that time. Any fetish you can imagine that doesn't rely on some invention or another has existed just as long. You can even see it in ancient art. We've always been weird and gross.

The thing with rape fantasies is that the people that have them pretty much always realize that it isn't sexy at all on a cognitive level. Even those that decide to role play it with somebody go "ok yeah that wasn't sexy at all let's never do that again."

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Sordas Volantyr posted:

I just want to point out that any arguments about Fallout military tech being designed to be practical can be put to bed by uttering the words "Liberty Prime".

Given that 3, 4, and New Vegas happen literal centuries after the bombs fell and there is still technological advancement happening in an irradiated wasteland I'm pretty sure there's somebody insane enough with the resources to make horribly impractical, bizarre robots.

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Kavak posted:

Can any of them be used to make cosmetics? Genuinely asking now that my joke failed.

If it can be ground into powder or turned into a paste it can probably be used as a cosmetic. How really depends on the era and what is considered cool or attractive at the time. Like apparently ancient Bretons used to spike their hair with lye while dying it blue (and also painting their faces in various patterns) with woad. People used to paint themselves white with lead and lead isn't exactly a rare, expensive commodity. Hell people will decorate themselves with grass and leaves if nothing else is available.

We're human. We find ways to decorate ourselves. It's just one of those things we do.

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Bieeardo posted:

A friend loved instagib. I've got terrible aim, so not so much for me.

That football game mode, whatever it was, that was fun.

That was Bombing Run and yeah that was just bonkers fun. It baffles me that no major release has yet to do that again.

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This is one of the most terrifying things I've ever seen.

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Midnight Voyager posted:

I am reasonably sure that this was the context: There was a plague on. They were locked up in their castle. Wife was caught stealing and eating food because she had the gluttonous trait. If you have certain traits, you can eat whoever is doing this. This person was just automatically doing that and didn't realize it was their pregnant wife until she was already eaten.

I'm reasonably sure you can always do it but you get Cannibal for it. Gluttons are generally the ones that are caught stuffing their fat faces with more than their ration. Eating them whenever that happens gives you extra food which lets you stay locked in longer. If it's somebody you don't like that's just bonus.

Given that Crusader Kings II is apparently a moral abhorrence simulator that can be pretty handy because if you're a cannibal and/or lunatic you can eat annoying vassals/courtiers/lovely heirs in certain situations.

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Midnight Voyager posted:

I think it requires certain traits... or at least perhaps certain traits lock it out. I have been not allowed the option before.

I've never been locked out of it so I have no idea.

Granted sometimes I didn't eat anybody.

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Furia posted:

I understand it varies from actor to actor. Some of them apparently charge by the word

It depends on fame as well. Hiring Patrick Stewart for basically anything isn't going to be cheap. The top voice actors can probably command a pretty big chunk of money for their time, especially if they're a famous actor already.

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Kokoro Wish posted:

Ugh.

The Spriggans were already sexy.

Nothing is ever sexy enough.

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The gods have forsaken us.

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RareAcumen posted:

Well, you don't have to put it on the second you make it.

...why wouldn't you?

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It's a dirty job, but...

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Lt. Lizard posted:

I mean....did anyone REALLY expect anything else?

I expected bigger, honestly. They're slipping.

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