whatchu playing now

crosscode got really intense suddenly and I'm into it again. i guess the second dungeon was just a big speedbump

Obra Dinn rules so far.

bouncing back and forth between dead cells and banner saga pt 2. celeste's b-sides defeated me rather quickly

Just got a Bittboy https://youtu.be/F5JMjsZR-WY so I'm replaying Earthbound.

would you recommend buying a bittboy?

buttboy

my jerk reaction is that that looks uncomfortable to use for games that need the shoulder buttons

ds/3ds are already a bit uncomfortable despite being much wider than that

They're not expensive - $40. Really depends on whether you have lots of time on buses etc. where you could make use of it.

ugh another stupid ass doodad I will never use and now really want

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This thing doesn't have shoulder buttons?

I think there are dozens of similar little things out there now though, in various form factors. Agree this looks too fiddly tbh but there are others which are closer to GBA size and layout, which might be better options.

Though I guess really the best way to do something like this would be to jailbreak my vita.

vita?!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tqTYI55K1eo

Nhex have you ever heard of an extremely sought after, limited release console called Ouya? What if I told you I have one that is practically brand new?

nhex I can sell you a pono

i would take a pono over the ouya. three way trade?

*listens to crystal clear prestine quality audience bootleg of crazy horse*

lol stop, you bastards

oh whoops lol. i assumed it does the way the guy in the vid was holding it and bc the snes does

vita has the comfiest handheld form factor by far

wait - dowd - this thing does SNES too?

yeah i thought batboy was nes and gameboy?

batboy lol

how does that thing work for big thumbs? i feel like i would try to press B and right at the same time and i would end up stomping one of my thumbs with my other thumb

No, just NES and gameboy. I'm playing Mother/earthbound zero/earthbound beginnings.

just played through AC Unity...sad to say that I agree it's not a good game, because I love the setting so much (I mean, I left a life behind to move here), but they barely set anything in the Rive Gauche! it's built as beautifully as the Rive Droite but the main story hardly steps there and even the dumb side missions there are sparse. I hate it when games do this, but AC games seem often to run out of steam at the end & leave big chunks of the map unused (Venice was this way in AC 2 for instance). such a drag because the Rive Gauche would have offered so much beauty. It was great to climb the windows of my work place too!

I already bought Syndicate and Origins so I'm not done with the series, but dang what a lost opportunity.

syndicate is the one where i wanted it to be good bc of the setting but the word of mouth was so bad that i never touched it

I’m gonna play Yakuza 0 next. setting is everything to me these days.

I've bought Elite Dangerous because it dipped below £5, though I'm fully expecting the base game to be almost pointless given that it's had years worth of expansion content added since launch. On the other hand I also don't expect it to hold my attention long enough for me to feel like I'm missing out if I don't have access to all the endgame stuff, I'm just looking to fly around and bit and buy and sell some ores really.

xp good choice

Obra Dinn, Anthem, RDR Online, Florence, Subnautica, Steep, Golf Clash, fantasy basketball

where are you to in subnautica? i got up to the lava castle and took a break and haven't gone back since

I'm not that far yet. Still figuring out the basics.

it's really a fantastic game. deep + immersive!

I did a 3rd Subnautica playthrough, with no vehicles (even the Seaglide), up until the finale module of the escape fetch quests where one's required. It's totally viable to run air pipes from the surface to the lava castle, and it's arguably more fun, save ferrying 40+ air pipes everywhere.

but have u done an ironman run

Yep (2nd playthrough). The times I've died in the game have been almost 100% through underestimating the time required to reach the surface (or getting disoriented in a wreck) and winding up with 0 oxygen at 50m. The sole exception is when I was nibbled to death by leaches in the reactor room and wasn't paying attention. But its a pretty forgiving game on ironman, compared to most.

sorry there's not a dead cells thread to post this on, but i have a question. skip if you have me or dead cells

i'm a little confused about how the HP% increases work. if i'm shooting for a build that would put me at about 4/8/3 (red/purple/green) by the first boss, does it make sense to do the green upgrades first so that i end up with more HP?

when you choose the first upgrade, you can either get a 50% HP boost (red), 40% (purple), or 60% (green). let's say you start with 100 HP and then choose purple, then red, then green for your first 3 upgrades. you'd end up with 336 HP:

40/50/60

100 * 1.4 = 140
140 *1.5 = 210
210 * 1.6 = 336 HP

now let's say you choose the opposite order, starting with the green 60%, then red 50%, then purple 40%:

60/50/40

100 * 1.6 = 160
160 *1.5 = 240
250 * 1.4 = 350 HP

so, returning back to my previous question, if i wanted to be at 4/8/3 by the time i hit the first boss (i'm just making these numbers up, it's probably off), wouldn't it be better for me to first invest in two greens, then three reds, THEN seven purples? or is all of this just kind of silly (not mutually exclusive options, i know)

I don't have an answer to your math question, but my color builds have been like 2/9/2 or something when I take on the first boss. Basically, purple rules.

And to explain myself:
1. Skills (which are what the game calls those traps) are insanely good. Upgrading purple not only increases their damage but also reduces their cooldown time. By the time I get to the first boss, I can pretty much spam them to kill him (I use melee attacks purely as bonus damage when I can manage) -- a combo I like is Wolf Traps with something that can shoot projectiles.
2. After the fight, the levels have a chance to drop colorless skills, and the damage is based on your highest color level.

For clarity: After the fight, the levels stages have a chance to drop colorless skills...

And now I realized you're way past me in the game and I feel like an idiot.

oh, not at all! i'm still struggling. i tend to do the same thing, spamming the purple. i'm in love with the double crossbow-matic/turret + freeze/wolf trap combo. and after struggling with the Conjunctivius boss for a few battles, i've now realized that its way easier if you can freeze him.

i got super frustrated this morning because i lucked into the best possible amulet before facing conjuctivitis - it decreased damage from projectiles by 75%, AND i had the freeze/turret combo going. i had it down to a tiny sliver of health and then i completely lost my cool and blew it in epic fashion. it was one of those dark souls kind of moments where you just panic and hit all the buttons at once, leading to the inevitable death. i much prefer the promenade/ramparts route so i'm eager to finish conjunctivitis so i don't have to go down the sewer path again

Just Dance 2019. Took it out from the library. It's stupid and silly but kinda fun, I can admit, as long as nobody is looking at me.

Anyone wanna try some vs wargroove

100 * 1.6 = 160
160 *1.5 = 240
250 * 1.4 = 350 HP

Hi I don't know anything about Dead Cells, but if the 250 on the last line should be 240 then you'll get 336 either way, which makes sense.

.......fuck! thanks! and shame on me for forgetting basic algebra. (A*B*C = C*B*A, duh)

Whew! On my 35th game of Dead Cells, I beat Conjunctivius for the first time, and then rolled over the entire rest of the game and beat the hand of the king with the barest sliver of hp left! I guess for my play style the combo that worked best was 11 red, 11 purple, 2 green, balanced blade (could have been any sword), fire brand (crucial!), sinew slicer, and ice grenade. I played very cheap and cowardly, spamming fire brand and sinew slicer from as far away as possible. I think the Dead Inside mutation is worth it--it turns out food is less important and an extra 50% hp is more important than I'd thought (at least in this one run)

I'm playing some Wargroove. But I really suck at it.