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mt.real
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now dragon quest builders, a game where the world is populated by hopeless people in a dark age because they've all forgotten how to do anything for themselves (in a dark and poignant picture of our near future) and your job is to show them the wonders of Building Literally Anything, there's a game

i am about to find the ancient text that will teach me the lost art of farming
#282
UNUSUALY COOL
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video games are empty garbage,
#283
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for children.
#284
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Garbage is for children.
#285
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stellaris is the game where you spend 40 hours obliterating all life from an entire galaxy... thats not for children, hell, thats not even for adults
#286
Dont Mess With Sucess
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This could be a level in basically every 4X game

#287
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but how can anyone win if everyone gets australia??
#288
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swampman posted:

This could be a level in basically every 4X game


a strategy game where you're a tribe of indigenous australians competing or cooperating with your neighbours sounds pretty cool actually

#289
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still playing ffxi lol, but also the other offsite is having games club now and this month is wild arms 2 which has been fun
#290
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heard one of the Xs was "Xploitation" and was like no thanks fellas
#291
lies half the time
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just wait til you hear about the fourth X
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#293
UNUSUALY COOL
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I remember when the Def Jam video game came out there was an interview with Method Man and Redman, and Redman explained that the only way he played video games was to buy one video game at a time and play it over and over until he was really good at it, and then invite his friends over, and casually put the video game in like he just then thought of playing it, and then kick everyone's asses and humiliate them. This is correct and it worked for me in college.
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Petrol posted:

Gamming is now one of the elements of Hip Hop. That's right you heard it here first. #WuTang pic.twitter.com/Mxbm7u9KPE

— Wu Tang Clan (@WuTangClan) July 12, 2018


makes sense since wu-tang is also for the children

#295
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#296
UNUSUALY COOL
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*clicks on image repeatedly, frowning* *opens eBay in second tab*
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#298
mt.real
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i played shadowrun dragonfall and it was actually a pretty fun story. first game i've played in like a decade that didn't seem like it was written by amateurs
#299
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#301
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whats the deal with that bit at the beginning of a pubg match where everyones appears in a big group and then just kinda runs everywhere until they magically appear in a plane?
#302
lies half the time
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sounds like socialist realism
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tears posted:

whats the deal with that bit at the beginning of a pubg match where everyones appears in a big group and then just kinda runs everywhere until they magically appear in a plane?



i think you misspelled fortnite

#304
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i did not
#305
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i believe the purpose of that area is to give players something to do until the server has enough connected users to begin a match
#306
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so if its meaningless, why do people like run all over the place when they could like stay still and chill?
#307
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what you are seeing in that case is actually the player controlled avatars. the connected users controlling those avatars are already "chilling" in what is sometimes wrongly referred to as "reality"--typically in a comfy chair known as a "racer"
#308
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i understand that bit... i want to know why everyone sort of collectivly runs around in the lobby, instead of staying still
#309
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Because they are children
#310
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potentially that could account for some of them, but not all of them, not does it really specify why children woud be running all over the place; simply asserting that they are children, who presumably like to run, feels weak
#311
UNUSUALY COOL
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I’m not sure if it’s based in anything real, but it’s a principle of user experience design now that people would rather have an input device produce some useless reaction in the interface than have it do nothing, so, for instance, if people press a button that does nothing at a certain point, they want to hear a little beep or click every time even if they already know it means nothing’s happening, or if people are waiting in a virtual lobby, the idea is that they will get less frustrated if they can run around in it than if they have to sit and wait with their mouse and keyboard doing nothing. I think this is probably at least partly a conditioned response, though, where if you give people the ability to make their avatars run around like maniacs, the people who choose to do that will be more noticeable to everyone, and soon most people will start doing it every time. It’s not like most of the people who play those sorts of games tend to give themselves the opportunity to run around aimlessly for fun in real life.
#312
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i relate it to how, if given the choice between sitting in bumper-to-bumper stop-and-go traffic on a highway and taking a longer back route that will take the same amount of time, I'll choose the latter more often than not

so like... sort of a mix of the absence of the frustration of having to hit the brakes every few seconds, plus the increased input of actually having the scenery change and the little dopamine hits from exerting agency over your given situation in what way you like? just guessing here
#313
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i think it's because it is a game and they want to play, in the game, so they are doing a nonproductive random activity, commonly referred to as playing. just a guess
#314
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i think im starting to understand, unfortunatly
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drwhat posted:

i think it's because it is a game and they want to play, in the game, so they are doing a nonproductive random activity, commonly referred to as playing. just a guess


thats not it, becaue the cant do the main thing the game is about in that bit (killing poeple in a fight 2 the ddeath)

#316
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i cant do that main thing in any part of the game tho
#317
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thats a good thing, imagine being good at pubg, the murder-deathmatch game
#318
mt.real
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tears posted:

thats a good thing, imagine being good at pubg, the murder-deathmatch game


but this is every video game

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UNUSUALY COOL
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drwhat posted:

i think it's because it is a game and they want to play, in the game, so they are doing a nonproductive random activity, commonly referred to as playing. just a guess



that’s two different definitions of the word “play” there though, the difference between “playing poker” and “playing around”, like, a multiplayer FPS is pretty far from “random”... idk this stuff sort of interests me ever since employers decided that making everything into a social media badge-earning game was a good idea

#320
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well there is a sort of adhoc game in the loading area of doing funny or weird thing. but regardless they are using the rules of the "real" game but without any ability to lose/die, so it lets players familiarize themselves with the rules (e.g. how does this gun work) without jeopardizing a 20 minute investment in a game session.