The Blackangel

@mont86 I considered the Kennedy assassination, but decided to leave it off. @m76 I completely forgot about flat earth. I knew there was a big one that I was missing, but even with a google search I couldn’t remember which it was. Are you referring to herd animals or animals that live in colonies? Like zebras live in herds and rats live in colonies. Some insects have rather advanced societies as well like ants.

As an extension to the topic about conspiracy theorists, which of the ones listed do you guys find the most entertaining? Like as a joke or as something you believe? I have most of my interest in the moon landing being faked. 9/11 being an inside job interests me as well. And it doesn't matter what it is, someone somewhere can connect the fucking illuminati to it. So what's your pick and why?

I haven't seen a true cheat code since N64. The good old Konami code is something that brings back fond memories. But the 83 character combination of uppercase, lowercase, numbers, and random characters are something I definitely DO NOT miss. Half the time you got the code wrong because an uppercase I (eye) looked exactly like a lowercase l (lilly). Il. That's "eye" "lilly". How the hell am I supposed to know which one it is 44 characters in when they're identical? Fuck. You.

There are some intriguing game designs out there. Some where the protagonist is also an antagonist. GTA and RDR2 come to mind. I can't comment too much on GTA as I don't follow the series due to it not being my style of gaming. But in RDR2, you play as Arthur. He is the main protagonist of the story. But he's also an outlaw. A murderer and thief. You have an honor rating in the game, as shown in the pic below. Now this YouTuber doesn't have a good honor rating, but that's another discussion for another time. But if you look at it, it goes from red to white. Red being low, and white being high. For reference, in the pic below, the arrow pointing down shows roughly where my current honor rating is in the game I'm currently running. But the point of this thread is not to brag. It's to ask a very simple question. In these kind of games, who decides the honor? The gamer or the game? For some of you out there, the most honorable thing may be to rob and kill every last person you come across. To others it may be to help every last person you can. If it's the game, then it's a kind of irrelevant point, as an honor rating wouldn't mean much. Arthur is a wanted man. If he goes to Blackwater he is killed on the spot as he is wanted dead or alive. And you can get bounties on your head in the open world your roaming in the game. The Pinkertons are always after you. you have enemy gangs that you can kill as many as you want, and it doesn't hurt your in game honor rating. But is any of that honorable? When there is no threat, is killing to survive honorable? I don't have to kill anyone, including enemy gangs. I didn't have to steal that horse. I didn't have to loot and rob that house. Did I enjoy it? Yeah, I did. It helps support my gang of outlaws. but was it honorable, to steal from someone else, to feed the mouths of the people I run with. Dutch, Arthur, Hosea, Lenny, Bill, Pearson, John, Jack, Abigail, Karen, Tilly, Grimshaw, Mary-Beth, Strauss, Molly, Kieran, Javier, Charles, Uncle, Reverend, Sean, Sadie, occasionally Trelawny, and even that piece of shit Micah. 24 people. Sure I can go hunting instead, but hunting doesn't buy the ammo to hunt, or the tools needed to cook. Hunting doesn't buy the horses food. It doesn't buy the medecine needed in camp, or the items needed to repair things when they break. That all takes money. And unless deer start shitting quarters, it also means that robbing and stealing are necessary, as no one in the gang can get a legitimate job due to the bounties on their heads and them all being wanted. So is that honor? And who decided if it was or was not honorable? The game, or the gamer?

In RDR2 I have seen people sit down in midair (and other forms of levitation), get hay bales stuck to the outside of their hands, walk through closed doors, play air-banjo, ride their horse upside down, go flying across the screen, and even hold their gun backwards to fire it. Surprisingly, the gun thing actually works and they kill their intended target. I love these kind of glitches. Feast your eyes upon the amazing Uncle, playing his all new air-banjo! Uncle 2.mp4

What breed of pig? Because this sure as hell isn't a farm pig. Those things are so god damn stupid they can't see an open 16' gate, or remember where they get fed. I grew up on a stock farm and have raised a lot of animals. The only animal I ever worked with that was any dumber than a pig was sheep. I'm not counting birds in this. And we raised just about everything. Horses, cattle, pigs, goats, sheep, chickens, geese, and even some wild animals as I had pet raccoons. And while they're not exclusively a farm animal, we raised brittany spaniel bird dogs. We had a neighbor who raised pigeons. A couple towns over there were white tail deer, moose, and elk breeders. All bred in captivity.

Fifteen years is “all the way back” in your eyes? How young are you? Fifteen years ago, I was living in my first home after spending 3 years in a warehouse. I had my first meal that wasn’t cold pizza dug out of a dumpster. The term “All the way back” should have 30 years attached to it, or at the absolute bare minimum, 20. You and I are obviously from different times that had very different ways of thinking. Either way, you damn millennial kids are weird.

Where, exactly, did you pick up the delusion that PS3/Xbox 360 era is “classic”? I just need to know, so I don’t have to read more faerie tales.

The candy cigarettes are real. I remember them from my childhood. They packed enough powdered sugar in the wrapper of them that you could blow out through it once before you unwrapped the cigarette and it looked like you were blowing smoke.

Roar

The Libertine is my absolute favorite movie.

I broke several bones when I was a snowboarder. Luckily it was in the offseason so I didn’t miss any competitions. Competition season here is relatively short, so the majority of winter is offseason.

And their fucking game would be...........................? This constant refusal to identify any of this shit tells me it’s not anything that actually exists.

Ave Nobility is in the eye of the beholder. To some we may be noble, to others, wicked. It will become clear relatively soon who belongs where.

Ave

My girl does that all the time. I tried it, and it's not too bad, but not something I can see myself doing. People think this is strange, but candy to me is jalapeños, dried chili's, and habañeros. I love spicy stuff. I've recently been "training" myself, if you will to be able to withstand ghost peppers. Those things are dangerous to go straight at, but if you work your way up there slowly, then you can handle them eventually. I know another hybrid has been made that makes the Carolina Reaper look like an antacid, but I can't remember its name or how hot it is.

I am on a gaming PC, so I would end up with both. Assuming the PS5 has anything to offer that actually interests me. Specs don't really mean shit because it's an alien language to me. So everything that @FiremanDan listed, is nothing to help me, and I don't even know if he's talking about his PC being better or worse than a PS5. Simple stuff, dumbed down would be the way to talk to me in this area. Reverse compatible Improved graphics Faster processor And so on, in that manner. Not I have no fucking clue what I'm reading. I also have no clue if that stuff there is bad, ok, good, amazing, phenominal, or pure shit.

God, I hope they don't try to bring back Guitar Hero. It's a love/hate relationship with that game. It was one of those games that was so stupid and horrible that it was good. Corny as hell. I'm chuckling right now as I'm writing this. I got sucked into it. I haven't played it in more than a decade, and honestly don't even know where it or either of my Wii's are. I made it to one part that I just couldn't beat. I think it was a character challenge against a character named Lex. I'm not sure, but I couldn't outplay him. This was on Guitar Hero 3, if I remember correctly.

I spent 4 years in a shooting gallery. I did everything I could get my hands on. Blow, angel dust, rock, tar, grass, molly, acid, caps, and nutmeg when money was tight. I have even ground up aspirin to do a couple lines of it. If someone was to pass me something I wasn't familiar with, or was too strung out to recognize, I only had 2 questions. How do I take it? How long until it kicks in? I watched a guy I knew die. He was standing up in front of me talking, got a weird look on his face, and was dead before he hit the floor. I have seen people killed over a gram of blow. If I was running an eSports team or league, I would make drug tests mandatory. The only exception would be medical marijuana. I have a card for that, and use it for pain and anxiety. But it's rare that I go for that. Drugs are not something to fuck with. That's 4 years I don't remember and can never get back. I have flashbacks, and they're not pretty. YOU DON'T FUCK WITH THIS SHIT.

I thought about Pitfall too. But there have been several different Pitfall games made over the years that could be in the running for that one.

There's a better one than this one, but I can't find a clip of it. And there's just one line in this one near the beginning that's comical.

If their library wasn't 99% war games I could pick one. Every fucking thing they make is CoD. They have an extremely minuscule amount of games that aren't CoD, most of which have been abandoned for a very long time. An entire company focusing on ONE game? Pathetic.

My girl has one. It's a Joust cabinet. I've been working on it to get it running for a while, but it's starting to look like an issue with the motherboard, or a processor. i've fixed wiring issues, and replaced capacitors and fuses, but it still won't run. If anyone is curious, I have training in electronics.

I'm extremely near sighted. Anything more than 2' away is a complete blur if I don't have my glasses on. One of the major problems in RDR2 first person, is the movement. Making Arthur turn, can be a challenge because he wants to walk sideways a lot instead. Think original Doom movement. Yes, you can get a front row view of something so close you're scraping your nose, but at the same time, you're not seeing the area around you. Riding is extremely difficult in first person. Forget hunting and fighting. Another thing that makes third person a preferable choice is the rate at which it switches automatically in cut scenes. It leaves first person to show everyone involved. Most of the time it will return you to your chosen view afterwards, but on a rare occasion it will put in the other. I've come out of a cut scene confused because I couldn't see anything, only to realize the game put me in first person mode. Your view of the surrounding area is wider in third person, at least with this game, whereas in first person, all you can see is what's directly in front of you. I won't lie, there have been a couple rare instances where I have switched to first person intentionally. That was so I could get a closer look into a tent in a camp I was looting. After I was satisfied with that, I instantly switched back to third person. First person also defeats some of the features of the game, such as outfits. You can buy different outfits for Arthur, and groom his hair and beard to your liking, but if you play in first person you'll never see it, so there's no point in that. And if you lose your hat, how are you going to know it? You have no real way to know except to open third person. You can get on your horse and check to see if it has a check mark by it in your item wheel. If it doesn't you can select to put it back on, but in reality, how often are you actually going to be checking that? The same goes for your horse. You can customize his/her mane and tail, but you'll never see them in first person. And you have to keep your horse clean to keep it healthy. You don't really have time to constantly look down while you're riding to make sure it's not completely filthy. Dutch rides a solid white horse, the same as me. So I colored my horses tail black as an means of telling them apart. There is other customization you can do, but that's just guns. The only ones I carry in the beginning are the Springfield rifle and varmint rifle. That's just to get the hides needed to get the Legend Of The East satchel. After I get it, the varmint rifle is stowed away in my weapon locker. You can choose the metals, the wood of the stocks, carvings and engravings, and it goes over every last part of the gun. You can have a solid gold gun if you want. If I remember correctly there are around 16 or so woods and 8 metals. And you can mix and match all you want. I have a pearl gripped pistol. And if, like me, you have a hard time playing a game the employs a dual joystick, the third person can help you learn. I was never able to do it prior to RDR2. It was one of the reasons I didn't like Skyrim initially. But I've learned pretty well to utilize them both, and I have no severe issues left, only minor ones. Basically what I'm saying is that for this game specifically, third person is the best choice. It's nothing like the first and third choices in Skyrim. It's a hell of a lot different. In Skyrim, you can always see your hands in front of you. That's not here in RDR2. Not any time I have played it anyway. In the video below, he was in Bloger Blade when he made camp and looked at his legendary animal map. At the 15:00 mark, you're able to see one of the bigger issues when riding in first person. That was in St. Denis. It was difficult to find a video that gave no spoilers, and all of the ones I found, that featured third person views included spoilers.

Tried them. They strain my eyes, and they're a bit too bright. I worked in a darkroom a lot when I was a teenager as I was into photography, and the only safe light in there was red light. It hurt my eyes, and made things immensely harder to see when I came back out from the darkroom.