Nerd thread. (Video games and anti-social behavior)

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SoulWeaver

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I'm kidding. Every one likes different things, glad you got some entertainment value in it. What console do you play Divity on? PS4?
Yeah PS4.
I only played PC games based on DnD rules (classes, stats etc). But I watched Matt Mercer's campaigns (Critical Role on YouTube) and it's really fantastic storytelling, he's a voice actor too. I did host some small custom RPG campaigns featuring my gameworld. Maybe if I do something like that in the future, I will ask if anyone's interested here. I wish everyone a good weekend :)
 

Lanolin

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I cannot particpate in this thread Im sorry lol

I remember a bunch of guys in high school used to be fascinated with playing on the very slow computers this game where stars kept flashing on the screen and you had to push a key on the keyboard to stop them from invading....something.

Actually all those games just remind me of those microscopic pictures of sperms trying to find their way to the egg.

Ive actually blocked all access to games on the computers in the library because I think children ought to be reading all the books then hogging the one computer. some have NOOO concept of how selfish they are being when they do that.
 

seoulsearch

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I cannot particpate in this thread Im sorry lol
Actually all those games just remind me of those microscopic pictures of sperms trying to find their way to the egg.

I'll never be able to look at Space Invaders the same way again. :eek:

 

kinda

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I cannot particpate in this thread Im sorry lol

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I hate to be the one to break the news, but.....you just participated.

In today's world all are winners.

You are the first winner of the Nerd thread.



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Your prize!


I'll never be able to look at Space Invaders the same way again. :eek:

So, does seoulsearch have a secret passion of Space Invaders?!?! hmmmmmm?!?!
 

posthuman

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I can share you joy of the game. Played it exclusively pretty much from 2005-2014, except for maybe Battlefield, Madden, and Mario Kart. Had a blast with the Wii. What servers did you normally play on? What was your favorite class? Give me panzer/solider all day.

Also, bought the Wolfenstein 2009 (think that was the one) that came packaged with online play, but it was horrible (Online part of it). Bought the Orange Box, which included Portal, Half Life 2, and Team Fortress 2. The rest was history. Really wish they would start dumbing down Madden, it's to complicated. Also, eliminate glitch plays.
i never played battlefield or mario kart. i've always preferred deep single-player campaigns to multiplayer, and the experience of watching RTCW flood with spoilers and drive other players away probably reinforced that. i played madden a little years ago, but i got more into playing the PGA tour games -- they're really kind of relaxing - turning commentary off golf games are a quiet, atmospheric soundtrack - very much in contrast with almost all other games, where there's usually some noise of violence or loud item-pick-up alerts. golf games are just wind, birds, and the occasional bright clink of taking a shot, and muted thuds of the small ball landing on the earth.

i played pretty much everything but medic in RTCW; i never wanted to be 'that guy' -- well, if i was going to do the things 'that guy' did in those games i wasn't going to take what i saw as the easy way out. i played a lot of field-ops, which i know, spamming artillery all day is just as cheese as standing on piles of medpacks -- but hey shot for shot there's no more efficient weapon in the game. still i would always try to match or outdo my airstrike kills with smg. running out of ammo is awful, i wasn't ever good with a knife, and honing smg skill is basic for being good at fps games no matter what class you play, so that was usually my first choice especially for the first few years i played; that and the mg42, because the classic maps all have pinch points where if you can get set up with one of those and someone will feed you ammo, you can mow own the other team almost the whole game and really control the whole flow of the map.
as i got to be more of a 'veteran' at it i played a lot more engineer than anything else. because, land mines and grenades, and because, the straighforward way to win almost every map requires an engineer. i always played to win, even if i was goofing around and waiting until the last 3 minutes to do it. one of my favorite things to do was be on a team that was being severely whomped, sneak/trickjump behind everyone and blow up the objective of an overconfident opponent :LOL:


i used to run the basketball-game map on my servers all the time with low gravity, and coded panzers to shoot patterns of multiple rockets instead of one at a time. that was a blast! does that sound familiar to you? i don't know of anyone who did that but me, and it was always on my rotations once i sorted out how to do all the scripting :)
 

Lynx

Folksy yet erudite
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#47
I used to think playing videos games was nerdy, it really isn't. It's basically watching a movie, that your in control of.
This is precisely why I play games. It's like reading a book or watching a show, but you can walk around in the setting and interface with the cast, learn their backstory... or you can just go on with the main plot. It's up to you how much detail you want in the story.

Oooh, I wonder what's down that alley... Ah, it's an orc who wants to sell me a sword he claims is magic. Quicksave time!
 

Pipp

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Sep 17, 2013
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#48
People long been trying to use this site as a dating site. That's nothing new. And lately that's not been much of an issue.

I'm not a gamer, I'm not good enough at games to be that invested. But I do like to play some as I have nothing but time to kill.

Currently I'm back to World of Warcraft. I started playing 15 years ago, and played consistently for years. Since then I've played in spurts as i have no friends there and get bored.
I was playing Borderlands 3 until they released the xpac based on the wedding of two male characters.
I was playing Mass Effect Andromeda until their save feature caused me to lose Hours and Hours of play time. Probably over 30 hours of game time ddisappeared. About 1/3 of all my time playing.
I tried Batman Arkham City, or something like that. I played for an hour and haven't touched it since. Hated it.
I'm currently rather at a loss at what to play now. With my limited interest in gaming, being unwilling to pay the ridiculous price of new games and only having an Omen gaming laptop my ability to find anything interesting and that I can run is tricky. Which is why I'm back to solo WoW.
Remember that short period of time i played WOW with you?? That was fun even though I stunk at it !
 

Subhumanoidal

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Remember that short period of time i played WOW with you?? That was fun even though I stunk at it !
Did you? 🤔
I think i vaguely remember now that you've said it. Ha! Good times.
 

kinda

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i never played battlefield or mario kart. i've always preferred deep single-player campaigns to multiplayer, and the experience of watching RTCW flood with spoilers and drive other players away probably reinforced that. i played madden a little years ago, but i got more into playing the PGA tour games -- they're really kind of relaxing - turning commentary off golf games are a quiet, atmospheric soundtrack - very much in contrast with almost all other games, where there's usually some noise of violence or loud item-pick-up alerts. golf games are just wind, birds, and the occasional bright clink of taking a shot, and muted thuds of the small ball landing on the earth.

i played pretty much everything but medic in RTCW; i never wanted to be 'that guy' -- well, if i was going to do the things 'that guy' did in those games i wasn't going to take what i saw as the easy way out. i played a lot of field-ops, which i know, spamming artillery all day is just as cheese as standing on piles of medpacks -- but hey shot for shot there's no more efficient weapon in the game. still i would always try to match or outdo my airstrike kills with smg. running out of ammo is awful, i wasn't ever good with a knife, and honing smg skill is basic for being good at fps games no matter what class you play, so that was usually my first choice especially for the first few years i played; that and the mg42, because the classic maps all have pinch points where if you can get set up with one of those and someone will feed you ammo, you can mow own the other team almost the whole game and really control the whole flow of the map.
as i got to be more of a 'veteran' at it i played a lot more engineer than anything else. because, land mines and grenades, and because, the straighforward way to win almost every map requires an engineer. i always played to win, even if i was goofing around and waiting until the last 3 minutes to do it. one of my favorite things to do was be on a team that was being severely whomped, sneak/trickjump behind everyone and blow up the objective of an overconfident opponent :LOL:



i used to run the basketball-game map on my servers all the time with low gravity, and coded panzers to shoot patterns of multiple rockets instead of one at a time. that was a blast! does that sound familiar to you? i don't know of anyone who did that but me, and it was always on my rotations once i sorted out how to do all the scripting :)


I got into the golf game on Wii Sports, if people were around. It's a good game to entertain guests. Hitting the ball in the water is always worth a laugh, or a cry. lol

I liked playing medic on RTCW, because you can heal. Would lay about 5 medic packs and just camp around a corner, than when someone attacks, they are thinking why aren't you dead? Ah-haw! Standing on medic packs buster! lol Love that move.

You were the guy jumping over the wall to blow up both the North and South cannon to rush the map. Tisk-tisk. Did the same thing, but I think they made it a rule later on, that you weren't allowed to skip an objective. I seen some trick dynamite tricks from the back of the cannons, that showed some skill. Couldn't ever do that. I did a few covert operation engineer type moves to lay minds on top of the cannons, than set-up my grenade launcher, and wait for the engineers to get ambushed. Good times.

I liked all the classes on RTCW, really was a great game. The flame thrower was fun on certain maps. If the panzer was taken, usually went for the medic or engineer. I loved laying minds all around the broken down tank, so when the enemy comes....Ka-boom!

Don't remember the multiple rocket attacks at all, but thought it was funny when a present was shot out of the panzer, if you did to many self kills; So humiliating!

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Poinsetta

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The key is to show you’re not scared of the bad guys and you kill them at all costs.
 

kinda

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As soon as I see the nasty animal I say “shoot shoot!” With the tiny laser Pointer.
lol That's hilarious. Those nasty animals are coming from you at all directions though.
 

Lanolin

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I hate to be the one to break the news, but.....you just participated.

In today's world all are winners.

You are the first winner of the Nerd thread.



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Your prize!




So, does seoulsearch have a secret passion of Space Invaders?!?! hmmmmmm?!?!
haha I won the prize even though Im useless at video games.
I remember my brothers used to play sega back in the day and hardly ever let me have a turn, one time they played all night trying to clock it and Am sure they fried their brains. this was before it was proven that videos games cause epileptic seizures in vulnerable children.

I thought they were timewasters and money wasters when we had them at the takeaways where you had to put in coins for each game played...good way to train for being an assassin or a gambler. Both honorable jobs in videogame land but not so in real life

A game might cost upwards of $120 and a console at least $400

I try not to judge people. that play them obviously they enjoy the and killing and shooting imaginary people but not my cup of tea. I try not to worry about stuff like the morality of it all especially games such as grand theft auto that make larceny and theft so attractive that it gets rewarded.

if people want to play around with that then thats their issue with God.
 

kinda

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haha I won the prize even though Im useless at video games.
I remember my brothers used to play sega back in the day and hardly ever let me have a turn, one time they played all night trying to clock it and Am sure they fried their brains. this was before it was proven that videos games cause epileptic seizures in vulnerable children.

I thought they were timewasters and money wasters when we had them at the takeaways where you had to put in coins for each game played...good way to train for being an assassin or a gambler. Both honorable jobs in videogame land but not so in real life

A game might cost upwards of $120 and a console at least $400

I try not to judge people. that play them obviously they enjoy the and killing and shooting imaginary people but not my cup of tea. I try not to worry about stuff like the morality of it all especially games such as grand theft auto that make larceny and theft so attractive that it gets rewarded.

if people want to play around with that then thats their issue with God.

Some valid points, but a little preachy.

I feel the same way about cable television, nothing really good on.

Sort of drifted to youtube though, a lot less commercials for sure.

Noticed that Netflix offers Pure Flix, which is suppose to be family oriented. Ever try Pure Flix?
 

Lynx

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I wish lanolin could see what I am saying. I would tell her about the video game I am playing right now, which rewards players a lot more for using non-lethal methods than for just blasting through with a rifle.
 

Kojikun

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the one with the batmobile?

i liked all the other batman games, but the last one i only played for an hour or maybe 2 and lost all interest. really didn't like the car being added to the game at all and did not want to go on and explore how many other ways it could disappoint me.

i've been finishing the outer worlds atm, over the weekends.
I believe Arkham city was the second one. The third one had the Batmobile