Author Topic: The Small Rants Thread IX: Leaping into the Well of Darkness (Read 165748 times)

ketaro · « **Reply #140 on:** October 19, 2014, 11:12:09 PM »

At the end of the day, it's a boring game.

linklord231 · « **Reply #141 on:** October 20, 2014, 02:51:22 AM »

Glossing over the whole harassment issue because that's not what I was talking about. The thing that interests me right now is the counter-movement to get Intel to reinstate their ad campaign at Gamasutra.

Basically, what happened was that Gamasutra ran an article (along with literally a dozen other websites) about how Gamers are Dead that stereotyped and insulted gamer culture and gamers as a whole. In response to this, the gaming community sent a bunch of letters to several different advertisers that had campaigns on each of the websites that ran that article. Intel was one of the ones that pulled their ads because of this pushback.

Now, the anti-gamergaters are trying to get Intel to reinstate their ad campaign, and I'm not sure why. It's absolutely logical for Intel to pull ads from a site that blatantly insults a major part of their audience. The only thing I can think of in support of reinstatement is "this is was brought about by the people responsible for a lot of bad things [working in conjunction with people who were not responsible for those things], so therefor it must be a bad thing too."

Gazzien · « **Reply #142 on:** October 20, 2014, 06:44:44 PM »

None of the game stores around me within broke-college-student travel distance are doing the shiny Gengar code distribution. And there's no way I'm going to pay some jerk who took a dozen cards so he could sell them on eBay / your social media of choice.

brujon · « **Reply #143 on:** October 20, 2014, 07:10:14 PM »

Quote from: Gazzien on October 20, 2014, 06:44:44 PM

None of the game stores around me within broke-college-student travel distance are doing the shiny Gengar code distribution. And there's no way I'm going to pay some jerk who took a dozen cards so he could sell them on eBay / your social media of choice.

Today, i beat up Lt. Surge's lvl 28 Raichu on Yellow with a Lv. 23 Kadabra after losing all of my other Pokémon to a single hit. Because he missed *three* Mega Punches in a row.

I had forgotten just how fast his Raichu is. I thought Diglett would make short work of him, but... He always got to act first and defeated him.

Gazzien · « **Reply #144 on:** October 20, 2014, 07:17:23 PM »

Quote from: brujon on October 20, 2014, 07:10:14 PM

Quote from: Gazzien on October 20, 2014, 06:44:44 PM
None of the game stores around me within broke-college-student travel distance are doing the shiny Gengar code distribution. And there's no way I'm going to pay some jerk who took a dozen cards so he could sell them on eBay / your social media of choice.

Today, i beat up Lt. Surge's lvl 28 Raichu on Yellow with a Lv. 23 Kadabra after losing all of my other Pokémon to a single hit. Because he missed *three* Mega Punches in a row.

I had forgotten just how fast his Raichu is. I thought Diglett would make short work of him, but... He always got to act first and defeated him.

I have / had a similar story about my not-shiny Gengar (it's my favorite Pokemon, alright? >w>") winning me a battle against my friend by dodging Sucker Punch three times with... Some stat-boost move, I forget which, then getting lucky because he gave up on sucker punch the turn I decided to give in and attacked.

Jackinthegreen · « **Reply #145 on:** October 20, 2014, 07:46:13 PM »

The usual "stat boost move" that helps avoid hits is Double Team.

Gazzien · « **Reply #146 on:** October 20, 2014, 08:04:14 PM »

Quote from: Jackinthegreen on October 20, 2014, 07:46:13 PM

The usual "stat boost move" that helps avoid hits is Double Team.

Nonono, Sucker Punch only hits someone if they're attacking, but always hits first.

If you're boosting your stats, healing, etc, then Sucker Punch automatically misses.

littha · « **Reply #147 on:** October 21, 2014, 04:46:52 AM »

Quote from: Gazzien on October 20, 2014, 08:04:14 PM

Quote from: Jackinthegreen on October 20, 2014, 07:46:13 PM
The usual "stat boost move" that helps avoid hits is Double Team.
Nonono, Sucker Punch only hits someone if they're attacking, but always hits first.

Sucker Punch is actually only +1 priority sadly. I learned that the hard way when I lost half my team to an Extremespeed spamming Arcanine once...

Amechra · « **Reply #148 on:** October 21, 2014, 02:03:44 PM »

I was brought face-to-face with my mountainous ignorance today. It hurt.

Now to fill my head with knowledge.

Jackinthegreen · « **Reply #149 on:** October 22, 2014, 06:20:38 AM »

Evening of the 20th I went to bed at 10ish. Couldn't get to sleep until past 5 in the morning due to abdominal pains.

And of course tonight I got watching Jackie Chan Adventures and now it's nearly 4:30 AM... And of course I do have abdominal pains along with the tingling in my limbs and a bit up my neck and in my cheeks.

bhu · « **Reply #150 on:** October 22, 2014, 05:03:03 PM »

Guess it was the battery. Couldn't even jump it today. Runs a lot smoother now too that it has new battery.

Frogman55 · « **Reply #151 on:** October 22, 2014, 06:14:11 PM »

Quote from: bhu on October 22, 2014, 05:03:03 PM

Guess it was the battery. Couldn't even jump it today. Runs a lot smoother now too that it has new battery.

Awesome. It's always nice to only spend a hundredish dollars instead of several hundred. I panic a little any time I can't start my car.

bhu · « **Reply #152 on:** October 22, 2014, 07:44:04 PM »

I was kinda stunned by pricing. Any decent battery was 20-50 dollars more expensive than the last time I went looking for one, and they had shittier specs and warranty.

wotmaniac · « **Reply #153 on:** October 22, 2014, 09:00:17 PM »

Quote from: bhu on October 22, 2014, 07:44:04 PM

I was kinda stunned by pricing. Any decent battery was 20-50 dollars more expensive than the last time I went looking for one, and they had shittier specs and warranty.

Lead prices keep going up:
*demand is at an all-time high,
*production is down (both as a matter of less mine-able ore and recent EPA lockdowns),
*it is predicted that all mine-able lead will out of the ground within our lifetimes ... meaning that everything after that can only come from recycling.

You could definitely make worse investments than lead futures.

dman11235 · « **Reply #154 on:** October 22, 2014, 09:04:30 PM »

Also potassium! And pretty much any high atomic number element.

EDIT: why is there so much lead? You wouldn't think there would be more lead than gold in the world....well, I mean, uranium decays into it, but still. you wouldn't think there'd be THAT much lead.

EDIT2: also, looking at the relative abundance of elements in the crust, Minecraft has HORRIBLE relative abundances. I mean, the Tower of Pimps alone contains more gold than exists on earth. And Mekanism puts osmium in the game, which is the rarest of all metals. But they made it more common than gold, and at its layers, more common than iron

wotmaniac · « **Reply #155 on:** October 22, 2014, 09:34:21 PM »

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But yeah, the ratios are pretty "WTF?".

SolEiji · « **Reply #156 on:** October 22, 2014, 09:36:09 PM »

Lead I can imagine being more abundant than higher atomic numbers. Lead is the last element created in normal stars, anything beyond requires supernova. Since I imagine there are fewer supernova than normal stars shedding and burning out, you'd get more lead in the world.

(EDIT: I'm a dummy, right, I was thinking of iron...)

wotmaniac · « **Reply #157 on:** October 22, 2014, 09:40:52 PM »

point being, when osmium is more abundant than iron, somebody failed astro-physics.

dman11235 · « **Reply #158 on:** October 22, 2014, 10:14:08 PM »

Nothing past iron is created in "normal" stars. All elements heavier than iron COST energy to make, and all elements lighter GIVE. Iron gives from both sides. That's actually why it's so common. Everything beyond iron requires supernovae to form.

EDIT: also, lead is heavier than gold by a LOT. It's the last element with stable isotopes (aside from technetium because it's weird like that). Lead does happen to have a stable isotope that's a daughter to some of the more common radioactive elements like uranium (the heaviest element that is naturally occurring).

EDIT: bismuth is the heaviest with stable isotopes, forgot about that one and I have a lovely crystal of the stuff. That is one beautiful element actually. Which is okay though, because polonium decays with alpha, which means that it decays to helium and lead. Radon also decays to lead eventually (within 500 years a sample of the most common isotope of radon will be lead mostly). This radon is also part of the uranium decay mode. So there's that. I guess this must be why there's so much: so many radioactive isotopes decay into it eventually.

altpersona · « **Reply #159 on:** October 22, 2014, 10:33:53 PM »

today i am informed that my boy wants to be moon knight for halloween.

shitty character

anyway, after googling the living hell out of ideas to make this costume, i find the perfect base to work with.

http://www.spirithalloween.com/product/di-stoprm-shadow-std/

just needs the cape, boot and a logo. easy peasy.

not only is it sold out, it isnt available anywhere on the internet.

it would need to be this specific version, i see plenty of similar ones that wont do as well. the padded muscles are the selling point. otherwise i just use any old muscle shirt and a morph suit... which is probably whats gonna happen now...

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Author Topic: The Small Rants Thread IX: Leaping into the Well of Darkness (Read 165748 times)