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I was about to bitch about skullgirls but then i got lost in pyps post so

psst

hey

any Dark Souls PC players in here

I wanna kick some ass and take some names

wat rings u got bitch

P.S. if you've got anyone from SL 85-124-ish I'm gonna be trying to take out the 4kids on a NG+, I could use some help with that. It's in the name of darkwraithing! Gotta get dat Kaathe

Was this even words

Oops, sorry! I forgot people who don't play the game would read that, as dumb as it sounds.

"wat rings u got bitch" = A minor meme within the Dark Souls community. May or may not be comprehensible to Red; I probably shouldn't have mentioned it at all.
"SL" = Soul Level, or your character's level. Players must be within a specific range of each other's SL in order to do co-op.
"4kids" = The 4 Kings, a boss known for being particularly nasty, especially in...
"NG+" = New Game+. Pumps up all enemy health and damage output.
"darkwraithing" = Being a member of a Covenant (a group in the game designed by the developers that grants you special items) called the Darkwraiths who invade other worlds for the purposes of PvP.
"Kaathe" = Ingame NPC who allows you to join the Darkwraiths. You have to beat the 4 Kings at a specific point in the game to get to him.

PyP, if you try to Giant's Dad me I swear to god I will Gold Tracer spam/Hornet Ring you to kingdom come

but yes I can help with NG+ 4K tomorrow or after like 10 PM on saturday I have a few files in that range

they're not THAT hard if you have a weapon that's at least moderately fast, deals plenty of damage and you put on something with enough poise

then again it was "Chaos Great Scythe +5 in Havels with 40 Vit/50 End/10 Humanity" so... lol

What's your GFWL, and out of curiousity the build that needs help or do you only have one file

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Spoileralso for the uninitiated:

Poise: a stat that determines how easy it is to flinch a character. Basically, poise is your best friend because if you have no poise you will get stunlocked by anything and everything

Chaos Great Scythe +5: The Great Scythe weapon, fully upgraded along the Chaos path. Basically that means it does split physical/fire damage and its power scales with humanity.

Vit: Health stat. each point in Vit (vitality) adds a certain amount to your HP
End: Endurance. Each point in this stat (up to 40) adds a certain amount to your endurance and how much weight you can equip without being slowed down. after 40 it only increases your carry weight

Havels: the armor of Havel the Rock, who we shall not get into because story is not super clearly defined in Dark Souls (intentionally). It has the highest Poise in the game. It is also the heaviest. This is because it is MADE OF SOLID ROCK.

Humanity: one of the most important aspects of the game. Humanity lets you take on "Human Form" which lets you co-op and PvP (basically if you die, you respawn as a "Hollow", you have to use a humanity item or get "loose" humanity in some other way [there are several], then go to a bonfire (spawn point) and turn human to actually play online). in addition, it adds small bonuses to all of your stats per "loose" humanity you have on you, up to 99; it also drastically increases your drop rate (only up to the first 10) and causes weapons that scale with humanity (mainly Chaos upgraded weapons) to experience an increase in damage total (also only up to 10)

Giant's Dad: A style of character build in Dark Souls PvP, popularized by This video by OnlyAfro. The premise is incredibly annoying, far too common and difficult to counter: It's a min-max build. The concept is to have as much poise as possible without giving up mobility as you would normally have to. The normal problem with this would be that it requires a ridiculous amount of levels into the endurance stat, which cripples your other stats, making it harder to wield weapons. the workaround: Use a weapon that doesn't scale with your stats. It's the originator of the "wut rings u got bitch" meme. unfortunately. The nickname comes from the fact that the armor used to create the effect is the helm "Mask of the Father" (which is extremely ugly, like the other two Masks in its series), an item that increases your equip load, and then the chestpiece, gauntlets and leggings of the Giant Armor set, one of the heaviest armors in the game; and therefore one of the sets with the highest poise. Too many people who see that video or have heard of the build think it's SO GOOD so they immediately go for that build. And thus there are a million of them, they're a pain in the ass to fight because they usually can't be knocked out of an attack and will just walk through any source of damage, run around and backstab you. If you know the build's weaknesses, it's easy to kill them but it's still Not Fun to fight them

Other miscellaneous things:

Invading: More specifically, PvP in Dark Souls works like this: If a player is in an area where they have not killed the boss yet, and they are in Human form, they have a chance of being "invaded" by another player who used a method of invasion, and are forced to fight that player unless they disconnect or challenge the boss. The enemy player is treated as an enemy - enemies do not attack them and cannot harm them, nor can the enemy player harm enemies.

Backstab: there exists a window on all PCs and most humanoid NPCs where if you press the light attack button while facing it, you will enter a backstab animation and deal several times more damage to the target than you would have just hitting them. There is a similar technique, parrying and riposting.

Parrying: with many items, especially shields and fast weapons, as well as bare hands or any item that uses one's hands, if it is equipped in the left hand then pressing the parry button will initiate the parry animation. if you correctly time this action when an opponent that can be parried attacks (generally humanoids/anything you can backstab), then the opponent's weapon will be knocked away and they will be stunned for a second or two. if you are close enough to them while they are in this state and you press the light attack button, you will enter a riposte animation and hit them for critical damage. Ripostes deal more damage than backstabs, but are harder to perform.

Hornet Ring: The hornet ring is an item - a ring, basically one of the two powerful accessories you can have equipped at any time. its effect is to vastly increase Critical damage; or in other words it makes backstabs and ripostes even more powerful than they already are. and a normal backstab/riposte deals two to three times the base damage you inflict with a light swing.

Gold Tracer: Gold Tracer is a weapon. A very specific weapon. Its specific move set basically lets you tap the light attack button repeatedly and you can easily chain a long, fast combo together. however, unlike most weapons with that sort of move set, it deals more damage to poise - so it can generally break a target's poise faster than most other weapons and continue to attack them while their poise is broken, meaning it stunlocks opponents very very easily. :/

but yes I can help with NG+ 4K tomorrow or after like 10 PM on saturday I have a few files in that range

It's cool, I got someone else to help me out.

GFWL tag is Triptocide, in case you didn't remember from the moviestream chat (I found I'd forgotten yours by the end >o>;;;)

haha yeh
sorry about the stream argument

tho you never said what kind of build it is exactly

it's obviously dex if you're using the Baldur swag sword, but is it a pure dex tank or is it an int mix? 'cause the build I was just speaking of is my pure dex tank, tho its less "tank" more "Fast Roll in full lords blade with FAP and Great Scythe"

gonna be honest; not a fan of the great scythe's light attacks, but the heavy attacks and especially the running attacks are glorious

what time'll you be on tomorrow yo let's try for a match or somethin'

alternatively you can jolly co-op with me or something who knows

sunbro Kalameet+

hahaha Kalameet+

also m'GFWL is RedoftheFlames

haha yeh
sorry about the stream argument

tho you never said what kind of build it is exactly

it's obviously dex if you're using the Baldur swag sword, but is it a pure dex tank or is it an int mix? 'cause the build I was just speaking of is my pure dex tank, tho its less "tank" more "Fast Roll in full lords blade with FAP and Great Scythe"

gonna be honest; not a fan of the great scythe's light attacks, but the heavy attacks and especially the running attacks are glorious

what time'll you be on tomorrow yo let's try for a match or somethin'

alternatively you can jolly co-op with me or something who knows

sunbro Kalameet+

hahaha Kalameet+

also m'GFWL is RedoftheFlames

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And I ain't even up to Kalameet on this NG+ yet, given that I only started it a few days ago (and then got ridiculously ill yesterday and felt too woozy to play adequately). I'm currently running around in Duke's though, and that's got a nice enough dueling spot on the first floor.

I'm not actually sure how much I'll be on tomorrow, to be honest - it's struck me that my spring break is running out really fast and I have a bunch of homework due monday I left piled up. If not this week though, sometime during the next.

EDIT: fixed the mislinked picture

yeahhh my spring break was last week... unfortunately I can really only play friday-sunday because I (unfortunately) can't afford to move out yet so I'm stuck with my parents house and "no using your good computer during school you have to use my toaster of a laptop" is (are?) my dad's rule(s)

personally I hate dukes invasions, too many nasty tricks one can pull...

I'll still fight you there tho

tho why ARE you in dukes if it's a pvp only build why are you clearing more areas
because more bosses alive is more places to host

Solly what were you going to bitch about i want to know

Solly what were you going to bitch about i want to know

i don't like the shark and he is incredibly popular for no good reason i can think of and a person i asked gave the amazingly cringe-worthy reason of "He is a Dilbert Shark" and "he's understated for a fighting game character which makes him stick out."

He's just so boring, and everything about him except SHARK!!!!!!! is better represented in other characters like how Roxie and Issac both do SCIENCE better and how Adam does BORING GUY MAN better (and also, as a side note, both of them involve ~gimmicks~ and guess what I like, YES, gimmicks) and I just don't think that compared to Virtually Every Other Mysterious Character he should join the otherwise well design if cheesecaked skullgirl cast.

Scythana is like the only character I might vote for who doesn't have a gimmick??? Everyone else has Something Interesting that I've never seen in a fighting game that I think would be pretty fun to see happen.

Yeah i agree, i don't think he's that bad though but that's only because there are much worse in my opinion, scientist shark dude is at least a bit charming and my reasoning for that is that he's a short, chubby and nerdy science shark-man who's also a sports nerd, he has several things going on for him (even if they're not original). He wouldn't be an extremely incompetent/joke character either like Norimaro, which is great. Fucking Fillia is worse than that.

Personally, i find the blatant rip-offs more offensive. You can't pretend Molly is a different character than Tron Bonne, Hive even has Q-bee's hive hands, or the worst of the worst, Regina a.k.a. Ruby Heart with a different palette. They don't feel "inspired" by those characters, they look like alternate forms of them. Eliza is one that's obviously inspired by Jedah and Anakaris, but also has her own thing going on with the staff, vampirism and living skeleton thing.

If i were to vote I'd vote for Eliza or Beowulf, maybe the bard dude but i'm not sure if the living instrument thing has been done before (that witch chick from guilty gear? I don't remember).

I'm content with both Squiggly and Big Band though.

Aaaaaaaand I want to play Tomato Adventure now. I don't speak Japanese.

yeahhh my spring break was last week... unfortunately I can really only play friday-sunday because I (unfortunately) can't afford to move out yet so I'm stuck with my parents house and "no using your good computer during school you have to use my toaster of a laptop" is (are?) my dad's rule(s)

personally I hate dukes invasions, too many nasty tricks one can pull...

I'll still fight you there tho

tho why ARE you in dukes if it's a pvp only build why are you clearing more areas
because more bosses alive is more places to host

Forest and the Kiln are the only ones I particularly care about; other than that I'm having fun playing through the game and getting invaded as I go. I enjoy PvP, but I also enjoy progressing through areas, although Duke's is honestly the only one of the four after Anor Londo that I enjoy. I might leave Seathe alive and just invade there, I haven't decided yet.

Been playing Half Minute Hero recently. Pretty good game, but...

For the XBLA/PC remake, they made the rather baffling decision to make the rejiggered Princess/Evil Lord/Knight modes only one level each, with almost the exact same gameplay as Hero mode, when in the original they were much more fleshed out and had many different levels.

Thankfully the PC version has the old content as well, though without the updated graphics, but it still confuses me.

I have to wonder if it was a time thing. Like, they didn't have time to make all new resources for the other modes for some weird reason? I have no clue, it's weird.

I need to get it myself.

In an episode of Two Best Friends Play, Matt and Pat bring up how Woolie would kill everyone in "The Walking Dead" game because everyone in the game reminds him of "Street Sharks."

What is it with people feeling the need to insert their stupid webshows in wikipedia entries?

I need to make an addition to the Street Sharks article hold on.

In Eagle Time's video game thread, user Superfrequency posted an image of Big Slammu in response to another user's comments about Stanley of Skullgirls1. Probably because of their similarities.

I thought Wikipedia stopped allowing the In Popular Culture section.

Well, this night I played a bot match in Dota 2 with two steam friends. I ended up randoming as Nature's Prophet. I found him surprisingly fun to play! I still got a long way before I can allow myself to enter matchmaking though.

Also yay getting Dark Souls in twelve days~

There is a game I and a number of friends have been playing frequently in the last few months, called Space Station 13. This is a roleplaying game set in a two dimensional state of the art plasma research space station, built by the benevolent Nanotrasen Coorporation.

In the game, you can play as many exciting jobs Nanotrasen can offer to you!

• Maintenance: Make sure the station is well stocked, and that it has air and power.
  
• Medical: Heal injured people, research superpowers.
  
• Security: Uphold SPACE LAW, be the hero the station deserves.
  
• Science: Invent new technologies, herd cyborgs and slimes.
  
• Other: Be a clown or a mime and perform silly pranks on the crew
  

However, you must heed a warning. The terrifying Syndicate has planted many covert operatives on the station. Some of them are average crewmember who were bribed, some of them are dna eating aliens, some of them are charismatic brainwasher. And lets not forget about the space wizard federation...

Gameplay is a bit clunky, and the learning curve is steep. It is possible to fall out airlocks, get shocked by electricity, or be the target of a hired assassin. However, once you get into the spirit of the game, it will be a good source of anecdotes such as when the space wizards blew himself up before anybody realized that there is a wizard lurking about, or when the station started a cult of clowniness. All hail HONK.

To play it, you need to download a BYOND client, and meet us in this address byond://ss13.nelefa.org:4228
You can chat with the players on #sayustation on Esper!
This is a good starter guide for new players. However, you can safely ignore the "Select assisstant only" advice of it!

The general populace on the server is a small group, where everyone knows everyone, so I can assure you that barring a few Random People, the players will be nice. Beware of covert assassins though!

However, when there are insufficient amount of players online, we set the server to Sandbox or Extended, where no antagonists are present. In Sandbox mode, you can also spawn your items. Good for learning.

Closing words:
Get out there, the station needs you!

Also yay getting Dark Souls in twelve days~

Have fun :D Prepare to die. Don't use any guides your first time through - you only get to experience everything as new once!

There is a game I and a number of friends have been playing frequently in the last few months, called Space Station 13.

I have played this with them and I can attest that it is very fun. It has a "more is more" mentality, so it can seem amazingly obtuse, but the upshot is that it lets many more types of situations take place. It's sort of like Dwarf Fortress, except multiplayer and in space, in that regard.

Oh, I also forgot, games usually start around 6 to 9 PM GMT+0, and last for many hours!

So I finished Ghost Trick and enjoyed it thoroughly. The characters were charming and memorable, the puzzles hit the sweet spot between challenging and frustrating, and the storyline was well-crafted and well-executed.

I really wish I had a PS3, I wanna play Demon Souls :<

any games people are hyped about right now? Considering I only have a PC as far as systems that aren't a nintendo Wii I don't... have much to look forwards to that I can think of

How strong of a PC? I've found that PC gaming is rapidly replacing console gaming for me. Bioshock Infinite and Farcry 3 are my hypest right now, asides the ever wonderful DayZ

How strong of a PC? I've found that PC gaming is rapidly replacing console gaming for me. Bioshock Infinite and Farcry 3 are my hypest right now, asides the ever wonderful DayZ

as in "Built for gaming" PC

but if you really want the specs...

AMD Phenom XII Black edition quad core processor, Radeon 5770 video card, 8 gb memory atm, a gigabyte motherboard and a solid state drive that slows everything else down... lol. tho my dad has been offering to give me a second drive to install in it to add some speed since he doesn't use it

it can still run skyrim at about high quality with minimal lag though. Used to be able to do it at ultra before I started adding mods. and before it had like a gig worth of gifs on it...

>let it be noted building your own computer is both fun and economical yo

So I've been looking back into Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs, and was excited to learn that it's scheduled to be finished in the second quarter of this year. I was even more excited to realize that the team that's working on it is the same team that made Dear Esther, an experiment in interactive story-telling that plays sort of like if Bastion were closer to a first-person storybook. I look forward to seeing what kind of puzzles and horror elements they can come up with! If the trailers are anything to judge by, it's going to be sweet.

e: Red I would recommend you play Cave Story? That's a fun one and will probably last you...well, it depends on how much you're playing it per day, but if you play it mostly nonstop several days to a week I'd say.

After that TF2, which is good and also free and will keep you busy for a while. That's if you don't already play it, of course.

Hnrg, I didn't like Dear Esther all that much. I expected more than just walking across the island slowly. I'm assuming the storytelling mechanic adds replayability, but I just can't bring myself to slog through it again.

Also building your own computer is the best, so long as you don't short something that makes your game crash constantly on multiplayer...

e: also excited for Machine for Pigs though. I'm the only one of my friends that's actually sat down and powered through the whole of Amnesia.