For people who may or may not be Brentai who want to play PSO2:

Go here. page translation can get you through 90% of the process without issue but there's also this guide on how to do it.

You'll need to put in Japanese captchas at least once so having Hiragana characters on hand will help.

After you finish patching, run the game once then use the main files for this English patch (not the large version).

Smiler, Patito, Nodal and Simon the Digger all don't ever play with me on Ship 2, which seems to have a large English speaking population.

"The smell of fat chicks put my spine out of place" might just be one of the ballsiest lines in any song ever.

ANYWAY

<beatbandito> Who wants to be a part of the Vic Viper's maiden voyage crew?
<beatbandito> And most likely be killed / replaced by rock people?
<R^2> Beato Bandito, only if you LP it in a thread proper-like

OKAY I GUESS

and then these two said stuff, also.

<patito> last place you can
<myew> You have a good place in a can.

And so it was decreed!
Easy mode because this is a blind play and I would like it to last more than two jumps.


"Princess is kidnapped - You must save princess"


My one objective is very clearly to search everything, game. Is this some kind of test?



Things are going wonderfully so far. I have no idea what to do with drone parts yet, but if I gather more maybe they combine to form voldrone.


At this point I realize I haven't taken any shots of the map. Dunno' if sector layouts change for each new game or just events. Regardless, that wall of danger is certainly new.


Could be worse.


See? Told you.


Taking out their weapons first can't be the world's worst idea.


And then oxygen to suffocate them, right?


Okay apparently not. Damnit Patito now isn't the time for your break.



I fall back on the time tested plan of shooting them until they die then use their stuff to give me new stuff.


That... doesn't seem good.


Giant spiders, 'eh?


NOPE

Okay more like the marines. They get the better close combat training and seem to be at least a bit less likely to be canon fodder. The thing is, this seems like one of those decisions that can never not be made rashly no matter how much you think about it. I also think I've basically already completely decided but still need to make some words about it to make sure I'm not totally delusional.

It's not that I'm secretly super patriotic or a warmonger or anything like that. I've had a ton of different jobs almost all in different fields covering all sorts of different activities and it's recently come to my attention that I could not give less than a shit about the skills I would have to master and work I would have to perform for basically any of them. Unfortunately 'social and economic pariah' isn't the most consistent career and anything else requires like, commitment and stuff. I can't stand in a store, sit behind a computer, fix an air conditioner, sell drugs, wash dishes, drive things, talk to people, care for animals or build / destroy or move various inanimate objects around and really but my heart and soul into it. It is all just invariably about making enough money to continue trying to enjoy myself when not working. That never really ends up working out anyhow.

I am totally okay with being paid to receive training in totally actually relevant life skills. Those being not dying and helping others not die. The world is a really terrible place and I don't want to live on this planet anymore. Fuck this gay earth. All that stuff. Unfortunately since space rocket technology will only let me escape the atmosphere for a little while before horrible death or reentry my choices are a bit limited. Instead of staying somewhere that seems to be actively trying to fuck itself into oblivion maybe I could do something better.

I spend most of my time interacting with people in some kind of competitive fashion. The only real moments of focus and clarity are preparing for or the moment of facing off against others. I'm also that kind of asshole who romanticizes the post-apocalyptic scenario because I think I'd be pretty okay comparatively if I survive the initial cataclysm. So anyway, this is really the chance to test it. Spend a few years of my life trying to be great at survival and either walk away a success or don't walk away a failure.

This is where we get into the hot and heavy delusion. Career paths are not something I've ever been able to see. At most a position lead to the promise of a slightly different position with a little more money. AKA: not things I care about. Where as if I did actually find enough success as a soldier to keep going with it past a first few bullets that is some shit you can actually make a difference with. There is never not some kind of atrocity happening somewhere in the world, and all the people suffering need help. Not just a seven samurai grandeur fighting off an army of bandits, but real help. The basics of helping get supplies or aid of some sort is pretty realistic goal and having more training than the people that don't want those things to happen seems like a good plan.

Roles:

Prophet - Has heard the will of the gods and wants to lead the village to great prosperity and joy. Can not be targeted by any powers or lynching. Each night may choose to scry a target to reveal their alignment, but can't communicate the following day.

False Prophet - Bitter to not have been chosen, his only will is to destroy the work of the gods. Same as prophet but instead of scrying can convert a villager every other night.

Villager - Standard innocent. Wins if the prophet wins.

Converted Villager - Wins if the false prophet wins.

Each day plays out as any normal wolf game. Villagers choose who they think is a blasphemer and hang 'em. Any villager still properly worshiping the gods will surely be have their soul saved anyway, so no real loss.

At any point during any day villagers may instead choose to rally around a priest and expel the heathens. If either priest gains more than half of the current total villagers, the game is over.



I was tossing a bunch of ideas in my head after the VvW talk and this is the heavily edited version of what seemed the coolest and easiest to run. Looking over the final product it's a lot more like the current Kazz game then I wanted it to but OH WELL. Opinions?

So EQII is F2P now. I know enough people have mentioned it / been playing it that I'm surprised there's no thread going yet.

So far it feels a lot different from what I remember, but most of that is probably just due to standard free player lock-outs. Seems like a one time five dollar throw-down gets you most of the basic content, then you can either go for a standard subscription or just buy individual class / race / area / item unlocks if you don't want everything.

I'm currently Pilcrow (Ampersand, Ellipsis, Asterisk and Tilde were all taken) on Nagafen, the only PVP server.

Meanwhile...

Why give Prequel its own thread? Because Kaz kept their end of the deal

Exactly one year ago today, Adrien Brody started his amazing quest across the universe.

BRODYQUEST

As you all know we now celebrate this event by annually presenting him with the award of Best Brody.

BRODYQUEST 2



Happy Broday, one and all.

Saw a group that looked like they had never bathed or worked their bodies leaving Bath & Body Works.

Okay, we've been talking about it in Freeloader for a while now. I love this game, it's amazing.

First off, click here to play

Once the sacrifices have been made and the server lets you connect, type /friend and these names:

Beatbandit
Smilering
Joxam
Malikial
Royalconst
Drethelin
Kayinn
Zarawesome
Zeromatic
Nikumatic

(You can't friend offline people)

Type /room 59 where I'll probably be.


Okay, now some stuff about the game.

As a mouse:
-  There's idle death. Move a little bit at the start of every map.

- Cheese / exit are the only two things you should go towards. There's no reason to move forward if you can't currently make it to either of those without the shaman. It'll get you killed.

- Double jumping can be done by running off the side of a platform and, mid-fall, jumping out of it. Some stages require this to beat them without a shaman.

- Wall jumping can be done, apparently, but pressing away from the wall, against the wall, then up. This will help you get the cheese either first or without the shaman, but is never needed. Kayin is really good at it and no one else.

As a shaman:
- You can only build in a small range around you, except for "spirit" which works anywhere on the map.

- Anchoring is important, it's the main thing you need and new shamans can't do.
  - B button after selecting an item puts a red dot in the middle. This will anchor the plank (only works on planks) by that point only, allowing it to spin still, but not move.
  - C button puts a yellow dot on something. On a plank you can hit C up to three times to change the position of the dot. The yellow dot will connect to other items at that point. Items connected with this don't spin on their own, but provide no actual support, so a B anchored plank is required.
  - N Makes puts a blue dot on the item. The item then starts to spin. Two blue dot planks on each other will push down causing an elevatoresque lift. Generally this is just used to attach anvils to more anvils and make a ragebeast, though.
  - V does something? I've yet to use it, but the help page says it does.

- Things not listed on the help page;
  - Hitting space make an object "invisible". When invisible only other objects interact with that object, not mice / shaman. Only hit space after putting an anchor on the item or adding the anchor may make it physical again.
  - X rotates the item you're about to build. Z probably does in the other direction, haven't tried yet.

- Go to a high enough room that no one will be in and you'll always spawn as a shaman so you can practice anything freely.


I think that sums it up, I'm probably leaving something out. Anyway, play this, post your name for it here, share war stories.

KARMA FIGHT!