4981

My favourite hardcore nerd stupidity story is a WoW player on the Lurker Lounge who posted a puzzled message about how his pre-BC 60th level warrior started attacking ‘by himself’ one time when he was training unarmed on ghouls in Sorrow Hill.

A few queries revealed that he’d been clicking the attack button for each attack up to that point, not realising that there was an auto-attack toggle.

60 levels.

Click, click, click, click.

Edit: Oh god, it’s gold - though I feel a bit mean because he’s so befuddled.

No offense taken, none at all. I asked a question, and got useful answers.

I started WoW the day retail began, capped early February, and have been raiding daily ever since. And, until today when I get home from work, I have been playing with one hand tied behind my back, so to speak.

You guessed why it happened: I played D1/D2/LOD for eight years previously, and no other online game, ever. I tested the key functions when I began WoW, and, coincidentally, saw results that made me think I had to spam the “1” key to attack.

This ongoing mistake has had profound consequences. My warrior build was traditional berserker until level 50+, when I decided that I was playing so poorly that I would respec defense, if only to save my reputation.

I had no idea how to set up a defense warrior, so I started a thread in this forum to find out. You can read my original complaint here:

http://www.lurkerlounge.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=5146

I read every reply very carefully, respecced accordingly, and decided that I was born to be a defense warrior. You can read the summary of my experience here:

http://www.lurkerlounge.com/forums/index.p...st=&#entry72808

These events conspired to mask the problem longer, since one expects to trade DPS for durability when speccing defense, and because the damage output of a tank doesn’t matter in a raid. Warriors are scarce and defense warriors are scarcer, so I don’t get to discuss tradecraft very much.

Jeez Louize. I have never won a duel. Maybe I will, someday, now that I have another hand to use.

Jeez Louise indeed.

4982

GP speculates that it might have something to do with India (and Pakistan) having nuclear weapons. OOC, is there a distribution deal set for Japan? Were the previous Fallout games officially released over there?

4983

So… demonstrating the possible results of a full out nuclear war is bad? Ok sure there likely won’t be any supermutants, only likely, or two headed cows but you still have people consuming radioactive food and living in a pretty messed up area if things go bad. Maybe it wouldn’t be a bad thing to educate the people a little about the dangers so they can tell their leaders, “fuck no, anything but a nuclear war”.

Edit: I dunno I find the Brahmin explanation more likely, from wikipedia and from a poster there.

Brahmin is the class of educators, scholars and preachers in Brahminical Hinduism. It occupies the highest position among the four varnas of Brahminical Hinduism.

The English word brahmin is an anglicised form of the Sanskrit word Brāhman (Brāhman also refers to a mystical concept in Hinduism). Brahmins are also called Vipra “inspired”, or Dvija “twice-born”.

In the Vedic period, the Brahmins dedicated their life to propagate knowledge and dharma. The Kings paid their respect to their Brahmin gurus and took their advice in ruling. By the time of British Raj, the Brahmins had become a powerful and influential group in India, attracting accusations of discriminating against ‘lower’ castes. In modern India, the Brahmins have complained of reverse discrimination.

4984

Honestly, I don’t think that playing through the originals should matter. I played Fallout 2 before Fallout and I don’t think it hurt my experience. Besides, most of the people who will be playing Fallout 3 will have never played either of the two games previously anyway, so a review from that standpoint is perfectly valid.

4985

It’s particularly grand of you to use the word “fit” to describe these imaginary people, given that you aren’t. Keep in mind that there are many of us who only base a trivial amount of our self esteem and identity around our ability to beat games.

What he’s referring to is that being difficult is not the same as being challenging. I can’t imagine how that could be difficult for you grasp, even with those absurd sausage-like appendages. Portal, for instance, is a challenging game, but not a difficult one.

Fallout was too hard/deep/difficult to get into?
Are you fucking shitting me with this?

I just replayed Fallout 2, after having beat it a few times a while back, and I can confirm that much of the difficulty relative to today’s games stems from poor design or a lack of feedback for the player. That’s not a knock on the game, it’s a creature of its time, but for you to pretend that’s objectively a virtue…well…it’s an acquired taste at best.

Oh how I’d love to get about a dozen of these 1334 console fucks together, stick them in a room with 1 PC and install an old school game like Bane of the Cosmic Forge and tell them, “No food or water till you escape from the castle”.
Then sit back and watch them die of dehydration.

Sample bits heard before they die;
“OMGWTF, no achievements, how am I supposed to know if I did any good?”
“Which key brings up the automap?”
“What are the cheatcodes?”
“Where’s the jump button?”

Oh, my bad, it’s not about taste, it’s about being socially retarded. Have fun dying alone!

4986

John, you’re sending mixed messages. The general acceptence of achievements has lead to a decrease in the inclusion of cheat codes in games, not an increase. Whereas mods, hacks and trainers remain pretty easily available for PC games. Especially older ones like Fallout or, oh, Wizardry 6.

4987

That’s funny, I’m getting his message loud and clear. He’s a weird, PC-centric bigot that has somehow entwined his own ego so completely with PC gaming that anything else is considered an enemy, to be destroyed with “clever” nicknames (Console Monkey Shitheads? Really?) and baseless attacks. He apparently has Rose Colored Glasses +4 as well if he recalls a time when penetrating/fighting a games’ basic controls and feedback to the player was fun or represented the heights that game design should continue to aspire to.

4988

Oh, there’s nothing mixed about him being a dipshit. I just meant more that his slights on consoles didn’t make a whole lot of sense.

(Though apparently in the good ol’ days of PC games no games allowed jumping. No wonder we evolved!)

4989

You know … It’s not a big deal, but there is something about jumping that when I can’t do it I feel a bit frustrated. Just a bit. I feel trapped.

It’s a psych case, I realize that.

4990

I think I read in OXM years and years ago that they only added a jumping puzzle to Halo 1 to justify being able to jump and they only added a jump button because people expect to be able to jump.

I will admit that the lack of a jump in Fable 2 is ookin’ me out.

4991

I know man. I just wanted to get my jabs in on what I perceive to be a diatribe of complete and utter bullshit.

4992

Something about only being able to move in two dimensions is paralyzing, I know exactly what you mean.

Originally Posted by John Sansker
Insanity

And here I thought this thread was getting boring.

4993

You’re just a simple Console Monkey Shithead ™. Duh.

4994

For me it’s irritating to not be able to jump in a game like Fable 2 because it makes it way too easy for the devs to implement bullshit invisible walls where the art makes it look like any person in a wheechair could get. I hate, and this definitely goes for Fable 2, when my character is slowed down and/or stopped by geometry that literally anyone could simply step over. This includes tiny rocks and the like, but also very slight inclines which my character can’t even mount, let alone ascend.

4995

I sure hope I’m not one of the 1,334 in question. I mean, I certainly haven’t had sexual relations with that console.

4996

Don’t worry, even if you are one of them, there’s only about a 0.9% chance of getting locked in the room at Sansker’s behest.

4997

Fallout 3 is available for preorder cheap from Dell.ca today. Don’t know if they’ll do the same for Americans.

http://www1.ca.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/days_of_deals?c=ca&cs=cadhs1&l=en&s=dhs

4998

It’s more than that. Let me try to explain while John is catching up on his busy routine of being a shithead elsewhere. You’re dealing with what may well be the definitive caricature of an American man, simultaneously opinionated, fat, and horribly wrong. You see, our story begins with John Candy…

So I think it’s safe to say that console shitheads is the tip of the iceberg.

4999

Achievement unlocked!

Fucktard Piece Of Shit.
You sucessfully included a link to a game without a spoiler tag, proving you are a Fucktard Piece Of Shit.
Besides winning this glorious achievement, you also win a “coveted” place on the ignore all posts from this user list.
You’ll always be #1 with me.
Congratulations!!!

5000

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