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Grauken

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That obsessive talking death claw guy is the best. There's normal crazy and there his kind of crazy that is just fun to follow all over the net. The guy is relentless in his obsession and MCA hate, and every time I see him I can't stop laughing
 

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That obsessive talking death claw guy is the best. There's normal crazy and there his kind of crazy that is just fun to follow all over the net. The guy is relentless in his obsession and MCA hate, and every time I see him I can't stop laughing
... Is that Nick in another guise? The hate is... similar...
 

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Enjoy the Revolution! Another revolution around the sun that is. Serpent in the Staglands Dead State Divinity: Original Sin Project: Eternity Torment: Tides of Numenera Wasteland 2 Shadorwun: Hong Kong Divinity: Original Sin 2 A Beautifully Desolate Campaign Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire Pathfinder: Kingmaker Pathfinder: Wrath I'm very into cock and ball torture I helped put crap in Monomyth
While searching for drama (goons and resetera really hate us) I found this bizarre mentally ill long twitter thread that's too long to read in its entirety but this part was funny https://twitter.com/StonedKrows/status/1057760036292870144

https://twitter.com/StonedKrows/status/1049595143634993152

I think I've always known that, really, the reason #Extroverts tend to be bad people is due to their similarity to sociopaths & the love affair they have with them (as I pointed out vampires, romanticised parasites). So they see actual monsters as godlike beings to aspire to.

This is why whenever an extreevurt has referred to something as a monster, I've wanted to go in for a second look. #Wolves? Nah, doofy tail-waggy dogs who're just more wild than the domestic ones. So an #Introvert #Werewolf would just be a dedicated, loving, loyal protector.

That's how it goes for everything, really. The extreevurts love slaying #Dragons, call 'em monsters to justify it? Generally, with dragons, all I see is them mostly minding their own business, ruminating in their caves, and getting pissy when extreevurts steal their stuff.

If you've ever read the original, pre-edited version of #TheHobbit, you'll know what I mean. Generally, though, it's given me this weird perspective. And as I'm not an extreevurt, I'm not so familiarity-obsessed in the first place. So not so obsessed with humans, then.

How to spot an extreevurt in a video game? Do they pick the prettiest, human-like character? There's your extreevurt. My partner would pick the cow lady; I'd choose the werewolf. It's fascinating, really, just how everything sort of clicks together. It's like a perfect jigsaw.

Extreevurts fetishise sociopathic monsters as godbeings, thus what is most like the sociopath is most perfect to them. That's why the further you move away from "sociopathic perfection," the less comfortable extreevurts are. Funny that they hate non-human races in video games.

I mean, look at #ChrisAvellone. He's a dick. Also VERY likely a sociopath, or at least an extreevurt. He killed all the talking deathclaws off in #Fallout. Why? They weren't human. Didn't match up to the godly sociopathic standard. And all this has had a weird effect on me.

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It's like he believes that whole introvert/extrovert thing is real and not just a handy abstraction, and then goes on to larp as a SJW², so far off the baseline that he'll probably can't find out of the echo chamber he built even if he wanted to

3849 tweets for 9 followers, that's either dedication or plain insane (I'll go with both)
 

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Why would he obsess over MCA instead of Infinitron?
I have a paryer alter for Infinitron caked in a thousand used condoms. No one will ever be as obsessed over Infi as I am.
 

IHaveHugeNick

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It's like he believes that whole introvert/extrovert thing is real and not just a handy abstraction, and then goes on to larp as a SJW², so far off the baseline that he'll probably can't find out of the echo chamber he built even if he wanted to

3849 tweets for 9 followers, that's either dedication or plain insane (I'll go with both)

Those kind of people will believe anything that gives them a convenient excuse for being a screwup. It's a classic.

Reminds me when I went to some "communication and negotiating skills" seminar.

This freshly graduated girl goes on a similar rant. Oh I'm so introverted and it's so hard, what if I have to do a presentation.

So I say, you do what everybody else does, prepare, learn your lines and do the presentation.

Predictably she goes, oh it's so easy for you to say.

So I ask her to come over and touch my left hand. Everybody's like, wtf? Is he hitting on her? That's so inappropriate. I was tempted to say, don't worry I masturbate with my right, but then I remembered I'm not on the Codex.

Anyway, she finally comes over and goes, oh, your hand is shaking.

Yes, it does. And it's been doing that when I speak in public since I was six years old. So do your god damn presentation.
 

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Use two rogues. Each rogue will then create a sneak attack opportunity for the other when they attack same target, lol.
Useless because i concentrate fire on one enemy. Unless it is a staking bonus,but i never tried it out. Also i change my composition only when it doesn't work.
 

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hes telling you to use your common sense and spank companies with your wallet
 

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I guess one could argue those were bad creative decisions, not the sort of issues MCA was talking about. It was still a questionable claim, though. Pete Hines has refused to admit issues in the past, like when he said Oblivion "delivered on people's expectations", refused to admit FO4 had performance issues on consoles, denied the engine's issues that Sawyer brought up (yet they're still around, even in the Switch version), never acknowledged Dishonored 2's shitty PC port, etc. And that's without getting into the Human Head fiasco, which - if true - was the most despicable thing Bethesda's ever done.

The guy is very good at his job, and I understand that Chris has a good relationship with him/Bethesda, but the idea that he's some beacon of transparency is just absurd.
 

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It was buggy. And it's going to keep on like this as long as we give hacks like Obsidian and Owlcat our money on release day for an unfinished product.
 

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It was buggy. And it's going to keep on like this as long as we give hacks like Obsidian and Owlcat our money on release day for an unfinished product.
Meh... These complex RPGs tend to be buggy at release, I say that is the sign of a rough diamond. Arcanum, Fallout 1-2, Bloodlines, Pathfinder, Morrowind, FalloutNV, Gothic, they were all quite buggy at release, and it didn't hinder my enjoyment. Was there any complex and ambitious RPG which wasn't bug-ridden at release?
 

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Enjoy the Revolution! Another revolution around the sun that is. Serpent in the Staglands Dead State Divinity: Original Sin Project: Eternity Torment: Tides of Numenera Wasteland 2 Shadorwun: Hong Kong Divinity: Original Sin 2 A Beautifully Desolate Campaign Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire Pathfinder: Kingmaker Pathfinder: Wrath I'm very into cock and ball torture I helped put crap in Monomyth
It was buggy. And it's going to keep on like this as long as we give hacks like Obsidian and Owlcat our money on release day for an unfinished product.
Meh... These complex RPGs tend to be buggy at release, I say that is the sign of a rough diamond. Arcanum, Fallout 1-2, Bloodlines, Pathfinder, Morrowind, FalloutNV, Gothic, they were all quite buggy at release, and it didn't hinder my enjoyment. Was there any complex and ambitious RPG which wasn't bug-ridden at release?

(pssst, he's trolling Chris Avellone over what he said about New Vegas)

Meanwhile, on Something Awful: https://forums.somethingawful.com/s...56099&pagenumber=381&perpage=40#post489393881
 

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Yeah but it's not a binary question, buggy or not buggy. They're all buggy, but some are more buggy than others. Gothic was a mess but compared to Bloodlines it was smooth sailing. Deadfire was a mess but it was a flawless gem compared to Glitchmaker. And so on and so on.

The thing that attracts us to these games is all the complex interaction between different ystems and mechanics, but it also makes them prone to bugs. Most people just accept that as unavoidable, but even the most forgiving gamer has his limits.
 

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It was buggy. And it's going to keep on like this as long as we give hacks like Obsidian and Owlcat our money on release day for an unfinished product.
Meh... These complex RPGs tend to be buggy at release, I say that is the sign of a rough diamond. Arcanum, Fallout 1-2, Bloodlines, Pathfinder, Morrowind, FalloutNV, Gothic, they were all quite buggy at release, and it didn't hinder my enjoyment. Was there any complex and ambitious RPG which wasn't bug-ridden at release?



Meanwhile, on Something Awful: https://forums.somethingawful.com/s...56099&pagenumber=381&perpage=40#post489393881
Well thank you very much for posting that link Infinitron, I already feel my IQ decreasing just by reading that one page.

Yeah, dude has the whole internet to post about this and talk to people. Places like Waypoint would happily hear out his story. He chose instead to be the Nazi RPG Chismosa, which frankly says volumes about both him and his complaints.
Bloody hell, maybe he choose this forum because a) we are interested in his side of the story b) he can tell us anything, and we won't jump him and mob him on twitter if he says something controversial.
 

Quillon

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It was buggy. And it's going to keep on like this as long as we give hacks like Obsidian and Owlcat our money on release day for an unfinished product.

So MCA's counting PoE2 among those famous release disasters due to bugs?

If Deadfire was x level buggy at launch, P:K, NV or any Bethesda game was/is x5, yeah let's treat them all the same.
 

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