Off Topic Discussion Megathread

[TheMightyMollusk]

I haven't even left for work yet and I already wanna go home.

[Kaoru_Nagisa]

I haven't even left for work yet and I already wanna go home.

Same. Thankfully today's my last day for the week, weekend relaxation soon. More time for Elden Ring (until I gotta DM my FC's event, anyway.)

[Kolsykol]

I genuinely can't tell if Strangers of Paradise is a troll or not xD.
It really feels like an elaborate troll.

I mean...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK0qDY36jGg

If it is then good job lol.
Every scene I see of this game has been meme worthy , whether it's intentional or not either way it's hilarious and I'll probably play it.

[SturmChurro]

My general mentality of playing mmos has really been good for a game like Lost Ark. Generally, not caring about pushing PvE content, and just liking to play them "casually". It seems to me that Amazon is gauging player progression and how much 'pay to win' they can get away with in that game.

I mean, that isn't to say I'm not comfortably in tier 3, becoming future proofed with alts, and tons of side content done or being done. You can always spot the whales in that game, who have a high ilvl, but low other stats like their roster and everything else. I digress.

[Larirawiel]

snjsca04.us.bb.gin.ntt.net hates me today.

And i need a third monitor. xD



Cheers

[Kaoru_Nagisa]

Elden Ring keeps handing me so many cool/powerful weapons, and here I am on my silly little Confessor still using the grave scythe because I like how it looks.

Oh well, least I can mule some of these things to alt characters. Eventually.

[Kolsykol]

AAAAAaaaaaaaaah, I want Mortal Empires for Total War Warhammer 3 already.
I really hope we can play the customizable Daemon Lord too I just want to play Slaanesh on the big map.
It was a really pleasant surprise that they added that and a great idea, altho there's some issues with balance where dedicating to a specific god is basically just a net negative.
Doesn't matter too much to me but I wish it was a bit more beneficial.

It's kinda funny to think about their monsters tho and how they had to censor their nipples apparently ( dunno if I buy the ratings excuse, are ratings really THAT sensitive about it? ).
Like there's these monsters and mounts that have a lot of breasts on one side in a row cuz Slaanesh.
And in the table top they're just out but in the game they have these small plate thingies covering them with a strap around the long neck.
So...
Some Slaanesh Daemon actually not only crafted those things, but also spent all that time putting each of them on manually one at a time rofl xD?
It's a bit dumb tbh hope a mod solves this playing sanitized Slaanesh just feels very weird to me.

I noticed it too in Diablo 4 tho how the Succubus are oddly modest this time it just feels bizarre to me and like cmon...
Even Diablo 3 didn't do that.
Just kinda annoying as someone who likes those kinds of sexual demons ( my name is taken from WoW, it was the name of my Succubus on my Warlock since Vanilla ), it doesn't even make any sense but also feels like it's treating the audience like children and even then I think it's mostly adults getting upset about them not kids.

In Total War games they sell the blood and gore as DLC too with the excuse of keeping the ratings down which has always been interesting to me and sounds a bit like bs ultimately I think they just want to make money.
How would that even be allowed and slip by rating boards?
So you can just release a game as PG-13 basically, and then you could release DLC that adds gore and still keep the PG-13 rating?
Not sure I believe that I think a lot more devs would do it.


Edit: I am watching Pyromancer stream Endwalker and he's doing a THICK Indian accent lol.

Oh no...
I know he's not trying to mock people he seems to view himself as a great voice actor and tries pretty hard but lel.
Mikepreachwow doesn't do foreign accents and talked about it recently too when people asked him to do an Indian accent too and it's probably for the best.
I am not really offended when people do '' Swedish accents '' if they're actually trying and aren't mocking it and being a douchebag about it, altho it never actually sounds like one I really have no idea what people are trying to do most of the time it sounds nothing like it at all. It's like they've never heard the actual accent before and do something totally random.
But tbh it's always just weird unless you're good at it and kinda painful to listen to, it very easily comes across as mockery even if unintended.

[SturmChurro]

AAAAAaaaaaaaaah, I want Mortal Empires for Total War Warhammer 3 already.
I really hope we can play the customizable Daemon Lord too I just want to play Slaanesh on the big map.
It was a really pleasant surprise that they added that and a great idea, altho there's some issues with balance where dedicating to a specific god is basically just a net negative.
Doesn't matter too much to me but I wish it was a bit more beneficial.

Lost Ark has eaten up much of my gametime with the downtime waiting for an FF patch, but I have put a bit of time into mostly a Slaanesh campaign as well - though it is out of date now, so I want to start another. Probably an order faction this time. I don't really like the daemon prince personally. I think he looks dumb.. I know people like him since he has access to so many units in comparison. The issue with the monogod factions atm is that they are barebones on purpose. This is just the Total War release state. They will become fleshed out, but it'll take a couple years. Same with much of the other factions, it's pretty obvious an enormous amount of DLC is planned.

[Kolsykol]

Lost Ark has eaten up much of my gametime since with the downtime waiting for an FF patch, but I have put a bit of time into mostly a Slaanesh campaign as well - though it is out of date now, so I want to start another. Probably an order faction this time. I don't really like the daemon prince personally. I think he looks dumb.. I know people like him since he has access to so many units in comparison. The issue with the monogod factions atm is that they are barebones on purpose. This is just the Total War release state. They will become fleshed out, but it'll take a couple years. Same with much of the other factions, it's pretty obvious an enormous amount of DLC is planned.

Yeah Warhammer 3 to some extent feels a little like glorified DLC tbh, granted it feels like a big DLC but still.
The Total War Warhammer games are like my guilty pleasure when it comes to supporting money-grubbing shenanigans.
They really do milk the games to a bit of an absurd degree.

There's a lot of stuff to crititicze it too in regards to the UI imo, it sorta feels like they made a lot of changes for the sake of making changes.
Like it's a new game so therefore they need to do it or something and it was mostly for the worse tbh.

On a side note in regards to Warhammer games, I really wish we could get another Dawn of War done properly.
I didn't actually dislike Dawn of War 3 but I think that 2 was the best and had a very unique take on RTS the cover mechanic was great imo and I still play it every now and again.

[Kolsykol]

I've been watching a lot of those videos of people exploring caves through super narrow passages.
I am not claustrophobic but damn lol.
I really don't understand why people do this stuff it seems to me like it's only a matter of time before you get stuck, which some people ofc do.

I genuinely wonder how someone even gets into this.
I can at least see peoples pov if I try really hard with most things but this is just one where I don't get it at all and why people enjoy it so much.
Even crazier when people take their kids into caves so many of these gaps they go through are so tiny they can barely even get one arm and half their torso through.

Claustrophobia warning I guess.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wOYXqvbxyE
@5:28 and 15:25

And that's not even remotely close to the tightest I've seen xD.
People also do this underwater too while diving which is even crazier.

Edit: Again claustrophobia trigger warning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHJIO0YC8rE

Dude.
JUST WHY XD...