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Discussion / Re: Angel of Death speed randomized?
« on: October 29, 2016, 19:58 »Oooo! Now that you've mentioned it...Hahaha! I love how you phrased that!
...but for realsies, the last time I hinted at taking on some of the "suggestions" I think I got an earful from Sylph(?).
I was thinking about the time we were discussing the removal of corner-shooting, and then Tormuse goes and reminds me of the nightmare corpses! Hahaha
As for this one... I find throwing knives 200 times really boring, and what can I say? I'm a simple girl: I see red stairs, I walk down them!
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Discussion / Angel of Death speed randomized?
« on: October 23, 2016, 23:03 »
Hi folks!
Was the angel of death's speed set to some random value in a recent version?
I just downloaded doomrl for a bash, got tot he cathedral, and lost all my large medkits before running out of the level without conquerer (which led to me quitting).
It seemed sometimes I could move 4 times before he stopped, other times 6, other times 11... Sometimes he'd move twice in the time I only moved once... It was really weird...?
Has this been changed recently?
Was the angel of death's speed set to some random value in a recent version?
I just downloaded doomrl for a bash, got tot he cathedral, and lost all my large medkits before running out of the level without conquerer (which led to me quitting).
It seemed sometimes I could move 4 times before he stopped, other times 6, other times 11... Sometimes he'd move twice in the time I only moved once... It was really weird...?
Has this been changed recently?
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Off Topic / Re: I think the devs should remove TotalBiscuit's name from the game
« on: March 21, 2015, 16:34 »It's reasonable enough you want clear evidence. But I thought the articles I've linked already contained some tweets, or links to tweets. It's not like his Twitter output is the only thing being brought up or the only thing that matters either; you can check this article out for other criticism of TB which pretty much sums up why I want him out of DoomRL. It's not like this stuff is hard to look up individually either.It might well not be, but I'm having trouble, and when you are trying to convince someone, you don't do it by telling them to go and google the topic and please change their mind - if you want to change people's minds, the burden to provide the re-education, particularly displaying your evidence, is on you. You won't win any court cases by saying 'your honour, please google the subject, check his facebook, and look at his mobile phone. You'll probably change your mind. The prosecution rests'.
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I hope for your sake you're not simply demanding finer and finer proof to try and discredit or wear me out somehow.
You might have missed it, but I did link a detailed and admittedly stomach-churning article on page 1
Actually, if you think I'm trying to discredit you by demanding finer proof, you couldn't be further from the truth. In fact you might be shocked to learn I'm actually a female gamer that intentionally tends to resist broadcasting the fact specifically because of harassment I've repeatedly suffered some from misogynistic swathes of the gaming community. I'm trying to get you to adjust your argumentative style specifically because you yourself are making the anti-GG argument look flaky and weak; I think you're misrepresenting it.
My point was that you're not linking evidence. You're linking articles. Your reply was to link another article, then add a clause mentioning that I might have missed you linking an article on page 1! I think you don't get it, I'm trying to encourage you to link evidence instead of empty articles. Replying by linking more articles isn't going to help.
It's not hard, you do it like this:
http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1sihieb
And voila, people can have a discussion about whether or not there's such a thing as privilege. (A conversation, I might add, that really tends to separate teenagers from adults in their understanding of their standing in the world, and as such a conversation I feel is a lot more about world experience than it is about reason and logic, hence why so many reasonably high-IQ kids struggle with it so much).
Trouble is, that URL I linked isn't really evidence of TB being a chauvinist/misogynist/racist/sexist, is it? It's all grey-area. It's circumstantial. It demonstrates that TB leans to the line of thinking that usually reveals sexist or at least sexually misguided views, without being overt proof that his opinions are such... That's my trouble, all these articles you keep posting are just opinion pieces, and when they do try to link to 'evidence', the evidence is incredibly flaky. Posting links to long opinion pieces to encourage your audience to dig through for dregs of flaky, insubstantial evidence makes the anti-GG argument look weaker, not stronger, and that's why I'm trying to help you sort out your discussion style.
Just gonna leave this hereI'd find another name for what you stand behind if I were you. Your intentions are probably pretty clean, but GG as a movement carries so much negative baggage, declaring something like this is jumping into a den with a lot of people you probably don't want to affiliate with.
The entire narrative against gamergate is basically one huge smear campaign, that's what I've noticed so far.
DISCLAIMER: I'm mostly neutral but leaning in with gamergate
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Off Topic / Re: I think the devs should remove TotalBiscuit's name from the game
« on: March 20, 2015, 07:46 »
Trar, instead of posting links to articles that link to evidence, can you just post links to the evidence directly?
A screen-cap of TB being a misogynist would work far better than a URL to an article that describes TB as a misogynist and contains links to forum threads that contain links to more articles etc etc...
I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a fan of TB, and have become less of a fan of him pretty much by the week recently, but I still haven't seen him being clearly over the line in any of these matters.
Your mistake here isn't the side of the battle you're on, it's trying to sway people's opinions by linking them to people trying to sway their opinions, instead of posting the evidence directly.
A screen-cap of TB being a misogynist would work far better than a URL to an article that describes TB as a misogynist and contains links to forum threads that contain links to more articles etc etc...
I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a fan of TB, and have become less of a fan of him pretty much by the week recently, but I still haven't seen him being clearly over the line in any of these matters.
Your mistake here isn't the side of the battle you're on, it's trying to sway people's opinions by linking them to people trying to sway their opinions, instead of posting the evidence directly.
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Discussion / Re: Plate Armor vs. Tower Shield
« on: March 13, 2015, 09:37 »
I had a good whinge about plate armour in this topic:
http://forum.chaosforge.org/index.php/topic,4093.msg33897.html#msg33897
I'm glad it was removed. :)
http://forum.chaosforge.org/index.php/topic,4093.msg33897.html#msg33897
I'm glad it was removed. :)
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Off Topic / Re: I think the devs should remove TotalBiscuit's name from the game
« on: February 02, 2015, 18:08 »
I see your standpoint, I can even agree with a lot of it (although sexism in gaming culture *is* absolutely rife, and it can be a suddenly very hostile environment at a moment's notice). I just think you'd serve your standpoint a lot better, and sound a lot more educated on the matter, if you exchanged the word 'feminazism' for 'third wave radical feminism'. The former sounds like you want a snarky argument. The latter is both specific, and makes it sound like you not only know what you're talking about, but also recognise the difference between giving women the vote, giving women equal human rights, and splitting hairs over female representation in society. ;)
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Off Topic / Re: I think the devs should remove TotalBiscuit's name from the game
« on: February 02, 2015, 04:41 »
Personally, I don't think TBs name should be removed from the game at all. I think he's actually a good voice from the GG side of the fence. He's one of the few people who align themselves with gamergate without making it all confrontational, and in a public dispute these are always the people you should try to reason with. Making a social effort to delete his presence and acheivements in the gaming industry based solely on his gamergate affiliation will only serve to make the gamergaters feel that they are the targets of injustice and prejudice.
Also, months ago I did as you suggested here and tried to look into the 'roots' of some of the accusations about TB. It was during a discussion about his anti-transexual opinions, where I was finally directed to a video of him playing 'papers please'. In the video, he was confronted with a customer that looked like a guy in the picture, but had 'female' on their passport, and TB claimed that it could have been a transexual. There's no anti-trans message in what he said at all, he simply gave a light-hearted take on the fact that it's pretty hard to discern details from 8-bit inspired 2-colour graphics. I concluded at the time that it was people trying so hard to find fault that it felt borderline dishonest. I'm not very inclined to go all private-eye again to waste even more time on someone else's dispute, and I think to encourage people to do so encourages the unhealthy herd mentality that is the root cause of discimination, rascism, sexism and homophobia.
For the most part, people who affiliate themselves with gamergate *do* tend to be overprivileged guys. They tend to be people so unaffected by negative discrimination, they don't even have a real-world compass guideline of what discrimination is, and so they approach the argument with 'if A then why not B' type arguments that work fine in some theoretical utopia. Being, like most old school computer gamers, a little on the autistic side of normal, I can completely understand their confusion about positive discrimination or how female characters or industry personalities have to be treated differently to male personalities. There was a lot of nonsense in a community I was an active player in when a male pro-gamer said before a match that he was going to 'rape' a female pro-gamer, the same way he'd use the word against a male opponent, and was surprised at being evicted from the tournament for it. Personally, considering english isn't even close to a native language for him, I saw his punishment as an overreaction, but I saw the GG reaction to his punishment as laden with hate speech... This is how these things escalate, by each side of the argument being completely rash and binary about it's opinions. Each side being completely unwilling to accept even the possibility that there can be any good coming from the other side of the argument.
Malek - I totally admired what you posted, particularly:
I think that, despite his GG affiliation, TB is a good guy, introduced a lot of people to doomrl, and doesn't deserve his name deleted from the history of this game over a completely unrelated drama on an unrelated gaming blog.
~Sylph
ps. Feminazism is flame-bait. Parasait, you should find a better word to use, as that one, despite being used with perhaps honest intentions, is pretty steeped in sexism these days, and should probably be avoided.
Also, months ago I did as you suggested here and tried to look into the 'roots' of some of the accusations about TB. It was during a discussion about his anti-transexual opinions, where I was finally directed to a video of him playing 'papers please'. In the video, he was confronted with a customer that looked like a guy in the picture, but had 'female' on their passport, and TB claimed that it could have been a transexual. There's no anti-trans message in what he said at all, he simply gave a light-hearted take on the fact that it's pretty hard to discern details from 8-bit inspired 2-colour graphics. I concluded at the time that it was people trying so hard to find fault that it felt borderline dishonest. I'm not very inclined to go all private-eye again to waste even more time on someone else's dispute, and I think to encourage people to do so encourages the unhealthy herd mentality that is the root cause of discimination, rascism, sexism and homophobia.
For the most part, people who affiliate themselves with gamergate *do* tend to be overprivileged guys. They tend to be people so unaffected by negative discrimination, they don't even have a real-world compass guideline of what discrimination is, and so they approach the argument with 'if A then why not B' type arguments that work fine in some theoretical utopia. Being, like most old school computer gamers, a little on the autistic side of normal, I can completely understand their confusion about positive discrimination or how female characters or industry personalities have to be treated differently to male personalities. There was a lot of nonsense in a community I was an active player in when a male pro-gamer said before a match that he was going to 'rape' a female pro-gamer, the same way he'd use the word against a male opponent, and was surprised at being evicted from the tournament for it. Personally, considering english isn't even close to a native language for him, I saw his punishment as an overreaction, but I saw the GG reaction to his punishment as laden with hate speech... This is how these things escalate, by each side of the argument being completely rash and binary about it's opinions. Each side being completely unwilling to accept even the possibility that there can be any good coming from the other side of the argument.
Malek - I totally admired what you posted, particularly:
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at the end of the day both of these men are just human. And that means that they're prone to having faults, and no matter what they do they might have some stupid opinions too. But at the end of the day, what they do is worth more good than their occassional fuck-up does evil.i think that sums the issue up quite well. I'd only add that I've always been the voice of temperance, and while I find the whole gamergate movement abhorrent, there exists within it a significant proportion of level-headed, logical, smart guys, that need only be educated on how treating people fairly is not treating them the same. Removing the most socially aware of them from your community, even trying to re-write history to exclude them, is only going to do damage to gaming journalism, cause further divides between the two sides of the debate, and justify the extreme views that circulate on the other side of the fence.
I think that, despite his GG affiliation, TB is a good guy, introduced a lot of people to doomrl, and doesn't deserve his name deleted from the history of this game over a completely unrelated drama on an unrelated gaming blog.
~Sylph
ps. Feminazism is flame-bait. Parasait, you should find a better word to use, as that one, despite being used with perhaps honest intentions, is pretty steeped in sexism these days, and should probably be avoided.
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Nightmare! / Re: [N!/AoMr/63%/YAVP] Marksman Diamond Revisited (+Video)
« on: December 10, 2014, 06:36 »
There's a section about corpse disposal in my doomrl guide, here:
http://sylph.me.uk/2%20games/doomrl/DoomRLGuide.txt
Might be worth having a read if you're struggling with nightmare, Zuyl.
http://sylph.me.uk/2%20games/doomrl/DoomRLGuide.txt
Might be worth having a read if you're struggling with nightmare, Zuyl.
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Nightmare! / Re: [N!|35%|YAVP] UAC Diamond (With recording)
« on: October 08, 2014, 08:06 »
Can't wait to watch this one when I get home. Of all challenges, the nightmare speedrun ones are the furthest from my grasp! Thanks for posting!
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Nightmare! / Re: [N!/AoMr/75%/YAVP] Marksman Diamond
« on: September 30, 2014, 04:09 »Interesting, I kind of favour Papilio's strategy of startscumming for the agility mod, because I prefer the Speedloader Pistol over the Highpower Pistol too. I find it curious that you said the highpower is good for early game, 'cause I imagine that it would be more useful in lategame when you need to deal more damage. In early game, I prefer being able to fire and reload quickly over dealing more damage.
I don't know... Reloading a speedloader pistol takes 0.6 seconds. Swapping to a second offhand pistol takes 0.8 seconds. I honestly can't see a reason to waste 2 modpacks on saving 0.2 seconds every now and then. It just doesn't make any real difference to my playthroughs.
Being able to knock targets back 28% of the time, though, is an amazing trick for a SoGx3 pistol shooter that can put out a bullet every 0.4 seconds, and when you find your first ammochain, a highpower pistol can keep a monster locked in knockback for ages!
Also, (I know I've said this before, sorry) ammochains remove all the weaknesses of a highpower pistol, but remove all the strengths of a speedloader. That said, even before the first ammochain drops, I'd rather just use the swap weapon command than waste modpacks on a speedloader. I appreciate I'm the odd-one-out here though! :D
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Off Topic / Re: Now playing... (games)
« on: September 29, 2014, 08:42 »
I just finished Legend of Grimrock
Brilliant game, really fun throwback to watching my brother play eye of the beholder on his Amiga! I'd wholeheartedly recommend it!
Brilliant game, really fun throwback to watching my brother play eye of the beholder on his Amiga! I'd wholeheartedly recommend it!
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Post Mortem / Re: [H|Standard|YAVP|93%] First HMP Win and First Azreal's Scythe
« on: September 29, 2014, 08:31 »
Well played! Very impressive - jumping from never passing Babel, to doing the whole game!
Any feelings on tackling the mortuary?
Any feelings on tackling the mortuary?
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Nightmare! / Re: [N!/AoMr/75%/YAVP] Marksman Diamond
« on: September 29, 2014, 08:08 »
Well played! I really enjoyed your writeup!
Just wanted to note that I got this one with gunkata. I actually tried for bulletdance for quite a long time, knowing how sub-optimal it was, as a kind of test to see whether there was some hidden power to bulletdance... Eventually I stopped and picked gunkata instead. I picked gunkata over sharpshooter, knowing that sharpshooter was much better for it. I think it was after we'd been having some discussion on these forums about how viable gunkata was on nightmare?
Either way, I think this challenge is possible with all 3 pistol master traits, and obviously it's pretty nice and easy masterless too. :)
I recorded a video of my entire gunkata run, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEGKushTuBQ&feature=youtu.be
My mortem thread is here: http://forum.chaosforge.org/index.php?topic=6853.0
It goes into enough depth to give a good gist.
Interesting that you saw the speedloader pistol as instrumental. I found that a highpower pistol was far more important for the early game, and I think it might be even more vital for a sharpshooter! I really think highpower is the way to go for high difficulty pistol games, but maybe that's just my style?
I think you're right about the anomaly as well - there's not really any chance of clearing it without invulnerability, but you can certainly pass it without.
Well done anyway! x
Just wanted to note that I got this one with gunkata. I actually tried for bulletdance for quite a long time, knowing how sub-optimal it was, as a kind of test to see whether there was some hidden power to bulletdance... Eventually I stopped and picked gunkata instead. I picked gunkata over sharpshooter, knowing that sharpshooter was much better for it. I think it was after we'd been having some discussion on these forums about how viable gunkata was on nightmare?
Either way, I think this challenge is possible with all 3 pistol master traits, and obviously it's pretty nice and easy masterless too. :)
I recorded a video of my entire gunkata run, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEGKushTuBQ&feature=youtu.be
My mortem thread is here: http://forum.chaosforge.org/index.php?topic=6853.0
It goes into enough depth to give a good gist.
Interesting that you saw the speedloader pistol as instrumental. I found that a highpower pistol was far more important for the early game, and I think it might be even more vital for a sharpshooter! I really think highpower is the way to go for high difficulty pistol games, but maybe that's just my style?
I think you're right about the anomaly as well - there's not really any chance of clearing it without invulnerability, but you can certainly pass it without.
Well done anyway! x
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Nightmare! / Re: [N!/AoMr+AoD/76%/YAVP] Marksman Angelic
« on: September 29, 2014, 08:02 »
Interesting to see this cracked!
This one has been the next on my 'to do list' for ages now. I've been playing too many other games, I'll have to come back at some point, I particularly regarded this challenge as one that was easily within my 'casual' reach (meaning I'd have fun and not tear all my hair out getting it!).
This one has been the next on my 'to do list' for ages now. I've been playing too many other games, I'll have to come back at some point, I particularly regarded this challenge as one that was easily within my 'casual' reach (meaning I'd have fun and not tear all my hair out getting it!).
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Nightmare! / Re: [N!/Standard/YAAM+YAVP] Veteran Angelic + Elite Angelic
« on: September 15, 2014, 03:30 »
Absolutely fantastic post! Love it!
Nice use of Cateye, juggler, and whizkid. They seem a lot of fun combined together, and always felt powerful, but I never thought they had the punch to deal with the lategame. I'm very glad to be proven so wrong!
Nice use of Cateye, juggler, and whizkid. They seem a lot of fun combined together, and always felt powerful, but I never thought they had the punch to deal with the lategame. I'm very glad to be proven so wrong!