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Gaming / Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments

« on: June 10, 2020, 09:39:12 PM »

Haven't managed any scores I want to record recently, but I have set a couple new top plays somewhat recently in osu!mania

(the important part here is the rank and when the score was set)

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Gaming / Re: wut specturr'z playing

« on: June 10, 2020, 09:31:54 PM »

Interesting key layout choice. I use sdf space op[ for 7k in mania. For that 8k layout to feel comfortable to me I'd end up using capslock and enter on my pinkies.

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Gaming / Re: The Backlog, 2020 edition

« on: May 13, 2020, 10:39:49 AM »

New Vegas could have been so much better if Obsidian actually had more time. They were super rushed with something like 9 months to create the game, which unfortunately lead to a bunch of bugs and cut content. I'd still put NV above 3 and 4 personally thanks to the interesting story lines, different ways to complete quests, and the overall setting and such.

That said, the game has some very rough points that I don't fault you for having issues with.

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Gaming / Re: wut specturr'z playing

« on: May 09, 2020, 03:36:57 PM »

Just give me my god damned original ATB system back

Nothing against action rpg fighting in general, but as far as I'm concerned final fantasy should stick to ATB or straight up turn based combat.

Also, although I've only played up to where you first get your apartment and flip your shit at your neighbour, most of the areas you fought in felt super cramped and I'll suited for the combat system they're using. Does that get any better as the game progresses?

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Random Chat / Re: How's this coronavirus affecting everyone?

« on: March 28, 2020, 05:44:52 PM »

Honestly, not sure how long an oz will last. This is the first time I've ordered an oz at once. I only really started smoking again (apart from when someone offered to smoke me up) was when the local legal pot shop opened up, and I was just picking up 3.5g at a time (or various prerolls, GF only likes to smoke joints and I never have papers). 3.5g would last me somewhere around a week, but that was also considering I was working, and generally tried not to be high at work.

And yeah, I've got enough seniority there now that once things start picking up I should get back in without much trouble, but that also depends on how quickly things ramp up, since there are a bunch of people with like 15-20 years seniority there too, and they could feasibly run a skeleton crew with basically just all the old farts that are still around.

That's rough Newf. Hopefully it's just some dumb cold that didn't get the coronavirus memo.

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Random Chat / Re: How's this coronavirus affecting everyone?

« on: March 26, 2020, 04:08:26 PM »

Yeah, best we'll be able to do is extrapolate numbers.

As for our politics, federally speaking, the Conservatives and the Liberals are most often the biggest 2 parties while the NDP is usually 3rd place. There are other parties, but the only other really notable ones would be the Greens (currently having only 3 MPs, so almost no power) and the Bloc Quebecois, who actually currently have more than the NDP, but are only able to be voted for within Quebec, meaning they'll never be more than a minor player federally.

Provincially there tend to be more minor parties involved in things, but the top 3 here in Ontario are almost exclusively Liberal, Conservative, and NDP, anything else tends to be like maybe 1 seat somewhere.

All in all I'm actually impressed at how much cooperation there's been during all this. Usually they're at least bitching about each other a bit louder than they have been, even during emergencies like this. NDP complained that the spending bill we just passed doesn't do enough to help people like me, but all in all there's been much less squabbling than I expected. Still enough debate to delay votes into the night here and there, but people seem to be willing to at least push some kind of legislation through even if they don't particularly like it.

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Random Chat / Re: How's this coronavirus affecting everyone?

« on: March 25, 2020, 05:44:12 PM »

A mix. Closing borders, handling modifying employment insurance to deal with the massive influx of job losses, and plenty of other stuff is done on the federal level. On the provincial level we have things like ordering non-essential businesses closed, which Ontario and Quebec have done. Nationally we just made a 14 day isolation period for anyone re-entering the country (as our borders are closed to anyone other than commercial traffic and returning citizens and permanent residents) mandatory (and that they can't isolate with anyone considered at risk too), and we'll probably be enforcing it with police or something.

It's really been a bit of a collaborative effort between provinces and the federal govenment here. There's also a noticeable difference between case numbers in each province at this point: https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/2019-novel-coronavirus-infection.html#a1 (also note that these numbers still highly underreport the actual number of cases)

Generally speaking provinces have less overall power than states generally do, but they do still have a lot of independence. But we also have a less polarized relationship between our politicians than the states, so we have more cooperation between provincial leaders and the federal government at the moment.

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Random Chat / Re: How's this coronavirus affecting everyone?

« on: March 25, 2020, 03:55:07 AM »

I legitimately feel bad for how things have been handled in the US at the national level. It should not be left up to state and city government to try to handle something like this.

As for canada, I feel like we've done a fairly decent job overall, and I'm actually impressed with my premier, Doug Ford's handling of this, even though I dislike him for more or less everything else he's done.

But yeah, this is pretty insane. Events like this are rare enough I honestly didn't expect to live through such a crazy global pandemic.

It's good to hear that you guys are doing relatively well.

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Random Chat / Re: How's this coronavirus affecting everyone?

« on: March 24, 2020, 02:53:08 PM »

Yeah, I'm expecting a pretty deep recession after this passes too.

Technically speaking I work at a business considered essential according to ontario's definition of essential businesses, but since the big 3 shut down my company basically had no choice since they are more or less our only customers. Fortunately I have savings (well, 10k from my grandmother because my brother and I weren't on her will and she decided against changing it, and just gave us our inheritance early), so I'm not in as bad a financial situation as many of the people I work with.

Oddly my city doesn't feel as dead as it really should. Like, plenty of businesses are either closed, or working in some modified way (take out only, reduced hours, etc.) but there's still more traffic than I would have expected.

Also, my girlfriend works for a VERY essential company. She actually makes the face shields you see all over the place: http://southmedic.ca/bettershield/

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Random Chat / How's this coronavirus affecting everyone?

« on: March 24, 2020, 12:57:49 AM »

So, I've been laid off because the big 3 automakers shut down. Initially it's supposed to be for a week, but ontario and quebec just ordered all non-essential businesses to close, and I fully expected the layoff to last longer than a week. Already applied for employment insurance, and ordered an oz of weed to help pass the time.

Gotta say, getting laid off due to a global pandemic was not exactly on my list of life goals, but at least it's gonna be one crazy story years in the future. Still, shit is fucked up.

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Computing / Re: New Motherboard will require a format?

« on: January 31, 2020, 03:02:09 PM »

Man spectere, that's such a good explanation. Yeah these days you can pretty much change what you want and things will just work.

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Gaming / Re: The Backlog, 2020 edition

« on: January 24, 2020, 06:47:22 PM »

I can understand a lot of the frustration. I've had a few quick deaths from enemies who were stronger than I expected but overall once I got a feel for the combat it took a lot for something to kill me. That said some enemies can be a fucking SLOG.

I agree the desert is dumb. And I personally dont enjoy the hacking minigame, which kinda sucks because of how OP it is. Haven't finished the 9s playthrough but I really liked the game.

And the music might be the best vgm I've heard from a game this... I guess last decade now.

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Gaming / Re: wut specturr'z playing

« on: January 24, 2020, 06:40:30 PM »

The variety in gems has gotten better. Still, generally there aren't nearly as many good leveling skills as there are endgame viable ones due to many of them needing lots of scaling to be any good. They almost always add a few gems per season and tweak some of them too.

They are always considering whether to keep a mechanic from a league and by this point the game has grown massively compared to a few years ago.

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Gaming / Re: o2jam is back.

« on: January 04, 2020, 10:54:19 AM »

I cant o2 anymore. Just cant read the game any more :/

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Gaming / Re: DJMax Respect [PS4/PC]

« on: January 04, 2020, 10:53:04 AM »

O2Jam's timing windows changed depending on the speed mod. No, I'm not joking. :|

And yeah, the charting was generally pretty fucking atrocious and the difficulty ratings were all over the show. Not to mention the sheer number of songs that are poorly keysounded (notes that didn't make any sound, keysounds that were just chopped up clips of the song itself and double up, etc). Even the mastering process was inconsistent, with some songs clipping like crazy.

Actually, the timing windows changed on bpm, but had a multiplier for speeds. At 1x scroll speed, you need 80% of your note in the red line to get a cool. At 4x, the timing zone is 4x taller than the red line. But bpm doesn't affect size, so higher bpm meant tighter windows.

And yeah the official charts had some seriously janky keysounds and mastering issues for sure.

I actually like how o2 charts will sometimes throw out bullshit nobody is expected to handle well though.