doomguy77

Not sure if troll or very stupid, etc.

As far as the topic, assuming it's real, don't become homeless. You'd be homeless. How is this a question?

What if, instead of saying a catchphrase, I just shoot whatever I'm fighting in the face while it's saying its own catchphrase? Does that count?

I don't hate this thread, but it's coming across as kind of hilarious to me. There are other threads that are have crazy options in the polls, so I didn't really think about it much. More of a "Teehee... thats fun," kind of thing. But each time I look at this one, it keeps getting more and more hilarious for me. Where most people see a discussion about whether or not Batman is ridiculous in a realistic setting, I see a guy asking me if he's the only one who has a certain opinion... and whether or not I like bacon. It's friggin' adorable! And it's also not unlike the absurdity of a troll thread for me. But I also can't really get into the whole Batman-discussion thing in general, so that might be part of it. It's also kind of funny that there's this actual debate happening about Batman when the focus of the thread is obviously bacon.

My circles of friends that are into these types of things are pretty zealous about it, and I tend to get a little annoyed when I have to constantly hear about it if they happen to be eating bacon when I'm over at their house. Am I really being unreasonable in this?

Also, seriously, I think the whole bacon phenom is great. I'm not trying to bash on people's interests at all, I just find the notion that I'm supposed to take a snack of cured and salted pork this seriously incredibly funny. I know that I'm most likely the minority within this community that feels this way, but I can't be the only one, right? RIGHT? Hello?

@Akeldama said:

@joachimo said:

The last one we did was spec ops: the line, tonight we are up for another - preferably a not to long game, and a decent story. Also it would be nice to be able to buy it on demand like on steam, any suggestions?

Amnesia: The Dark Descent. I fucking dare you to one sitting that one.

Agreed. Maybe I just wasn't very good at it, but it seems to me you'd need the biggest balls this side of 4chan's grenade guy to finish Amnesia in one sitting.

It cycles, but this is probably my favorite:

I can't say for absolute certain, because I did this way back before the 1.04 patch (Which I believe was the one that rebalanced a ton of stuff?). But as I recall I was around 110 and had pretty decent vitality. Wore the ring of favor and protection and artorias' ring and a full set of Havel's armor. I think I had a +4 lightning zweihander at the time, but obviously +5 is preferable. Not sure how much they nerfed lightning either. Like some others have been saying, basically just stay as close as possible and keep swinging. Avoid the grab if possible, but using estus at the right times is more important in this case. If you're wearing Havel's set you'll obviously be overencumbered, but if you just sprint straight at each one as they appear it shouldn't matter. In my case, I think I was able to kill them fast enough to never have more than one on screen at once, expect for maybe the last two.

Fight Club has excellent cinematography, like many of Fincher's movies.

As far as the story, I don't believe it's intended to be realistic exactly. It's masculist fiction, if anything can be called that. Tyler's what a lot of guys want to be like in some way or another, kind of a modern masculine ideal. Not in the cliched chest-beating machismo style, but in emulating a lot of characteristics that the average late teens to early thirties white guy wishes he had. Tyler just takes it the [il]logical extreme and becomes a fanatic anarcho-primitivist as a result.

What I took away from it was that you need to find a balance, like most things in life. In this case, don't waste your life looking for the perfect wallpaper, but don't go trying to blow up credit buildings either.

In my opinion, if anyone is influenced to find rape more acceptable by either of these games, particularly Tomb Raider, they have much worse problems than the games they're playing. It's the same as any accusations of violence in videogames encouraging real life incidents: You should not allow yourself to have your fundamental morals or behavior changed by a videogame. Particularly one that isn't intending to send such a message.

Had no interest in playing either of these games before reading this, still have none now. And, well, if this is really being considered an important problem...

@Eurobum:

I guess this is more a matter of wording then. I would interpret "fps of life" to mean the fps at which one experiences life (your eyes), whereas you are interpreting it to mean the fps at which the world exists. Regardless, it's admittedly kind of a ridiculous question.

@Eurobum said:

FPS can be detected by a camera (by filming a second screen for instance), so no human eyes are required directly. A PC can evaluate and give you the highest measured number, however do tell frames apart movement is required. Thus frames are limited by movement speed which is limited by speed of light. Detection also is limited by the resolution, which in turn is limited by wave length. A pixel change smaller than a wave length cannot reflect/emit light which a camera would require.

Wave length and c however are fundamentally linked, in that wave length divided by c equals frequency (a.k.a. FPS of life). For shortest visible violet light (380nm) this means a frequency of 789 THz or

788 927 521 000 000 FPS.

So this is highest possible and highest hypothetically detectable number for a given EM wave length.

That assumes that one can distinguish every change in the image the eye is perceiving no matter how small it is, though I don't think you meant this as a completely literal answer(?). My guess would be close to 70 or 80 fps at most, as someone said before. But a lot of it depends on what you're looking at, how good your eyesight is, whether you're used to looking for whatever sort of change you're looking for, etc. In a lot of cases, single-frame differences can be hard to point out even at 30 fps.