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Torrents: Do you?
author=demondestiny link=topic=718.msg10391#msg10391 date=1205179942It's the 1mb/s part that will sink DVDs though. Not the pirate part of it. Digital downloads and streaming of films is becoming increasingly popular. In This Week in Tech they speculated that the HD-war will in the end be won through the streaming and download services and not the physical discs (Blu-Ray & HD-DVD)author=Darken link=topic=718.msg10364#msg10364 date=1205161583Yeah, pretty much everyone is doing this now. Soon dvd's will probably become a thing of the past.
I pretty much download everything from games to tv shows, and especially subbed anime. I can get 1mb/s on good torrents. Yar what can I say? I be a pirate sailing the seven seeds.
Top Ten Topic: Board games
"Wood for Sheep" is one I can find while googling.
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/7475
Speaking of boardgames I've found that many board game mechanics are very inspirational in making up mechanics for comptuer games too. Many of the underlying things can be used when trying to come up with balancing ideas and basic ideas for minigames or even regular mechanics. Thinking in dice and decks of cards with bonuses and actions can sometimes help in that battle designing process.
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/7475
Speaking of boardgames I've found that many board game mechanics are very inspirational in making up mechanics for comptuer games too. Many of the underlying things can be used when trying to come up with balancing ideas and basic ideas for minigames or even regular mechanics. Thinking in dice and decks of cards with bonuses and actions can sometimes help in that battle designing process.
Top Ten Topic: Board games
author=kentona link=topic=766.msg10140#msg10140 date=1204750009Yeah unfortunately I haven't had a chance to play Settlers of Catan. I do have the two-player card game version though and it's pretty fun and intense. I'm not sure how much it has in common with the regular game except perhaps that I understand "Cut down trees to get stone" or whatever the Catan proverb is.
I've been meaning to play Carcassonne. I hear that it's a lot of fun.
And where's Settlers of Catan, Shinan? I don't see it anywhere in your list...I thought you'd be a fan if you've played games like Carcasonne.
Top Ten Topic: Board games
This used to have a pretty small selection to go from. But I recently joined a board game group and I've been playing with them twice and I've played at least 15 new games that I haven't fully digested but that have been real fun nonetheless.
Does this include Card games roleplaying games and miniature/wargames games too? Not that I've played a lot of miniature games but I do have the Games Workshop games. But I won't count them in (despite being awesome. Like Necromunda) except the ones that actually has a board. More on that lower down on the list :D
I'm writing the list starting with 1. so if I mention something like "another game like x" BEFORE the actual x it's because I write this backwards.
10. Mutant Chronicles - Siege of the Citadel
I'll put this here for nostalgic reasons mostly. Lower down you'll see Roborally. This is the game I (we) actually made a whole lot of extra scenarios and home rules for because we were 10 and we would play one game for a week. It also had a campaign mode and all that.
Of course being the owner and sole "knower of rules" I always played the bad guys as game master.
9. Railroad Tycoon
Building railroads and stuff. Moneys all over the place and a huuuuuge map. This is mostly on the list because it had really nice pieces :D
8. Factory Fun
Another recent aquintance. Building machines in a hall and trying to produce as much as possible. A bit hard to explain in short but quite fun.
7. Blokus
Almost Tetris in board-game format. I've actually only played this while drunk but I'm betting it's a bit more brain-wrangling when sober.
6. Ingenious
A fun puzzle-tile-placing-pointscoring game. Collecting points of different colours and the one who has most in the lowest category wins. Simple yet very complex.
5. Roborally
A very recent aquintance. I've only played it once a couple of weeks ago but I really enjoyed it. It's just the kind of game I would have loved to have when I was about 10 and was really playing all kinds of long-running games. I can see how this can be interesting on a huuuge map. Except of course that nowadays it's probably best to play in short sessions.
But in playing it once I immediately came up with variant rules and scenarios for it so I only wish I was 10 again and played weekend-long games of Roborally Team Deathmatch and stuff :D
4. Kill Doctor Lucky
I first heard about Cheapass games at a Ropecon I was intrigued but figured there was no way I was ever going to get my filthy hands on one of their products. About five years later I finally did. Cheap production value and a fun little short game that my fondest memories are when I managed to get my army buddies to play it. A great pasttime in the army.
3. Carcassonne
Tile-placing. Simple but with strategy. I haven't tried it with any of the expansions but I have a feeling that it doesn't really get better with them. As it is now it's fairly short and simple. Even though it often feels like it ends too quickly when you're just that one tile away from completing that city.
2. Memoir '44
A fairly simple game of WW2-fighting. Using those lovely hexes and a card-based gameplay. I have only really played it against my little brother but it's still very fun. Sometimes the cards just go against you and there's nothing you can do but overall the game certainly captures the right feel almost always. This in combination with the Hearts of Iron computer game had me watch the whole Band of Brothers series in one weekend.
1. Blood Bowl
The game of fantasy football, football as in the way Americans understand it. Fantasy races from the Warhammer world dish it out on a playing field. Violence all over and a very balanced rule system that can even be played online at http://fumbbl.com. My longest running team there is almost legendary. The Halfling team Fylke's Foodeaters, over 400 games played. And when one game takes about an hour you know what kind of fanatic I am.
I didn't include card or roleplaying games in the end. A card game list would include some additional stuff (Illuminati, Settlers of Catan the card game, Texas Hold 'em etc.) a roleplaying game list would also include a couple of games though I'm not sure I've played enough RPGs to even have a top ten (Neotech, DoD, Vampire, GURPS... Homebrew?) and miniature war games are very few indeed (Games Workshop stuff, Warhammer, 40k, Necromunda... that's probably it)
Also in excluding card games I left out a lot of worthy candidates. So I hope there's a top 10 card games in the future. Because there's a lot of fun card games out there.
Does this include Card games roleplaying games and miniature/wargames games too? Not that I've played a lot of miniature games but I do have the Games Workshop games. But I won't count them in (despite being awesome. Like Necromunda) except the ones that actually has a board. More on that lower down on the list :D
I'm writing the list starting with 1. so if I mention something like "another game like x" BEFORE the actual x it's because I write this backwards.
10. Mutant Chronicles - Siege of the Citadel
I'll put this here for nostalgic reasons mostly. Lower down you'll see Roborally. This is the game I (we) actually made a whole lot of extra scenarios and home rules for because we were 10 and we would play one game for a week. It also had a campaign mode and all that.
Of course being the owner and sole "knower of rules" I always played the bad guys as game master.
9. Railroad Tycoon
Building railroads and stuff. Moneys all over the place and a huuuuuge map. This is mostly on the list because it had really nice pieces :D
8. Factory Fun
Another recent aquintance. Building machines in a hall and trying to produce as much as possible. A bit hard to explain in short but quite fun.
7. Blokus
Almost Tetris in board-game format. I've actually only played this while drunk but I'm betting it's a bit more brain-wrangling when sober.
6. Ingenious
A fun puzzle-tile-placing-pointscoring game. Collecting points of different colours and the one who has most in the lowest category wins. Simple yet very complex.
5. Roborally
A very recent aquintance. I've only played it once a couple of weeks ago but I really enjoyed it. It's just the kind of game I would have loved to have when I was about 10 and was really playing all kinds of long-running games. I can see how this can be interesting on a huuuge map. Except of course that nowadays it's probably best to play in short sessions.
But in playing it once I immediately came up with variant rules and scenarios for it so I only wish I was 10 again and played weekend-long games of Roborally Team Deathmatch and stuff :D
4. Kill Doctor Lucky
I first heard about Cheapass games at a Ropecon I was intrigued but figured there was no way I was ever going to get my filthy hands on one of their products. About five years later I finally did. Cheap production value and a fun little short game that my fondest memories are when I managed to get my army buddies to play it. A great pasttime in the army.
3. Carcassonne
Tile-placing. Simple but with strategy. I haven't tried it with any of the expansions but I have a feeling that it doesn't really get better with them. As it is now it's fairly short and simple. Even though it often feels like it ends too quickly when you're just that one tile away from completing that city.
2. Memoir '44
A fairly simple game of WW2-fighting. Using those lovely hexes and a card-based gameplay. I have only really played it against my little brother but it's still very fun. Sometimes the cards just go against you and there's nothing you can do but overall the game certainly captures the right feel almost always. This in combination with the Hearts of Iron computer game had me watch the whole Band of Brothers series in one weekend.
1. Blood Bowl
The game of fantasy football, football as in the way Americans understand it. Fantasy races from the Warhammer world dish it out on a playing field. Violence all over and a very balanced rule system that can even be played online at http://fumbbl.com. My longest running team there is almost legendary. The Halfling team Fylke's Foodeaters, over 400 games played. And when one game takes about an hour you know what kind of fanatic I am.
I didn't include card or roleplaying games in the end. A card game list would include some additional stuff (Illuminati, Settlers of Catan the card game, Texas Hold 'em etc.) a roleplaying game list would also include a couple of games though I'm not sure I've played enough RPGs to even have a top ten (Neotech, DoD, Vampire, GURPS... Homebrew?) and miniature war games are very few indeed (Games Workshop stuff, Warhammer, 40k, Necromunda... that's probably it)
Also in excluding card games I left out a lot of worthy candidates. So I hope there's a top 10 card games in the future. Because there's a lot of fun card games out there.
Top Ten Topic: Comic Book Series
I had made a really long and elaborate post here but I don't know what button I pressed but it disappeared. FUCK FUCK FUCK. I say to that and will shorten it here. (the only thing saved was #8 because I had copy-pasted it)
10. Les Tuniques Bleues
Stories about the American Civil War. Before the internet I was certain this had at least been translated into English but apparently it hasn't. All my knowledge about the American civil war come from this Belgian comic.
It also spawned the computer game North & South which also came out for the NES and was a huge hit in our neighbourhood.
9. Watchmen
I liked it
8. Barefoot Gen
The first manga I ever read. Before I even knew there existed such a term. I don't remember a whole lot but I remember that it made a huge impact on me. The visualisation of skin melting on people made a huge impression on this 9 year old kid sitting in the library.
7. Maus
Mice as Jews, Cats as Nazis. I read it recently so it doesn't have all the nostalgia flavour all over it but very recommendable.
6. Lucky Luke
The poor lonesome cowboy that shoots faster than his own shadow with his seven shooter. I always liked the factoids that came at the end of each album. My favorite album was probably the one about the real Dalton brothers, where they actually died at the end in a firefight.
5. Asterix
It's Asterix. Roman time humour. Awesome.
4. Johan and Peewit
Medieval fantasy action where the Smurfs were first introduced. How can one not love a short short-tempered little fellow with a love for booze? I should really try to get my hands on these albums again.
3. Sandman
It's awesome. And it kinda legitimized comics too.
2. Smurfs
I go back to the Smurfs about once a year to enjoy their humour and cuteness. The Smurfs are simply great in their roles and especially in the way they speak.
1. Donald Duck (& Scrooge McDuck)
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck
This is mostly for Carl Barks, Don Rosa and a bit of Marco Rota and other Italian masters. But mostly Rosa and Barks.
This is basically all the Donald Duck stuff. Not including Mickey Mouse stuff because I've never been a fan of him. Donald Duck stuff, if separated could probably take up half the slots on this list if left alone.
However it's an extra shout out to The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck. Based on comments made by Barks (or made by Scrooge in Barks' stories) it followed Scrooge through his early days in Scotland and struggling to make his fortune.
"I made it by being tougher than the toughies and smarter than the smarties! And I made it square!"
How he grows as a person, from naive, to tough and hardened. Ending with his huge fortune but alienating his whole family in the process. The final panel of the story is telling. Scrooge has gone through the adventures by being tough and hard and the hard exterior is necessary and impenetrable. He kicks out his family and they say that all he has is his cold money. And it's a bit sad and true. But there's still the glimmer of gold in his heart because to him the cold money is not cold money. Instead it is a reminder of the tough times he had and how he earned his money.
And writing this tears come to my eyes as it comes a lot in the whole 12-part story that is Scrooge's life. It's the most real any comic book character has ever become to me. In the earlier version of this I wrote a bit longer but I mentioned the tears there too, they came earlier then but now I was a bit pissed off while writing but here now at the end explaining this masterpiece of comics the tears are here again.
Damn.
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck is a huge masterpiece in comics and if you haven't read it you should. There's no excuse not to.
10. Les Tuniques Bleues
Stories about the American Civil War. Before the internet I was certain this had at least been translated into English but apparently it hasn't. All my knowledge about the American civil war come from this Belgian comic.
It also spawned the computer game North & South which also came out for the NES and was a huge hit in our neighbourhood.
9. Watchmen
I liked it
8. Barefoot Gen
The first manga I ever read. Before I even knew there existed such a term. I don't remember a whole lot but I remember that it made a huge impact on me. The visualisation of skin melting on people made a huge impression on this 9 year old kid sitting in the library.
7. Maus
Mice as Jews, Cats as Nazis. I read it recently so it doesn't have all the nostalgia flavour all over it but very recommendable.
6. Lucky Luke
The poor lonesome cowboy that shoots faster than his own shadow with his seven shooter. I always liked the factoids that came at the end of each album. My favorite album was probably the one about the real Dalton brothers, where they actually died at the end in a firefight.
5. Asterix
It's Asterix. Roman time humour. Awesome.
4. Johan and Peewit
Medieval fantasy action where the Smurfs were first introduced. How can one not love a short short-tempered little fellow with a love for booze? I should really try to get my hands on these albums again.
3. Sandman
It's awesome. And it kinda legitimized comics too.
2. Smurfs
I go back to the Smurfs about once a year to enjoy their humour and cuteness. The Smurfs are simply great in their roles and especially in the way they speak.
1. Donald Duck (& Scrooge McDuck)
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck
This is mostly for Carl Barks, Don Rosa and a bit of Marco Rota and other Italian masters. But mostly Rosa and Barks.
This is basically all the Donald Duck stuff. Not including Mickey Mouse stuff because I've never been a fan of him. Donald Duck stuff, if separated could probably take up half the slots on this list if left alone.
However it's an extra shout out to The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck. Based on comments made by Barks (or made by Scrooge in Barks' stories) it followed Scrooge through his early days in Scotland and struggling to make his fortune.
"I made it by being tougher than the toughies and smarter than the smarties! And I made it square!"
How he grows as a person, from naive, to tough and hardened. Ending with his huge fortune but alienating his whole family in the process. The final panel of the story is telling. Scrooge has gone through the adventures by being tough and hard and the hard exterior is necessary and impenetrable. He kicks out his family and they say that all he has is his cold money. And it's a bit sad and true. But there's still the glimmer of gold in his heart because to him the cold money is not cold money. Instead it is a reminder of the tough times he had and how he earned his money.
And writing this tears come to my eyes as it comes a lot in the whole 12-part story that is Scrooge's life. It's the most real any comic book character has ever become to me. In the earlier version of this I wrote a bit longer but I mentioned the tears there too, they came earlier then but now I was a bit pissed off while writing but here now at the end explaining this masterpiece of comics the tears are here again.
Damn.
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck is a huge masterpiece in comics and if you haven't read it you should. There's no excuse not to.
Funnest part of RPGs?
I like character customisation. Creating my character is one of those parts I really, really like be it CRPGs or tabletop RPGs, rolling up characters and making up some simple backstory and idea for them is always fun.
I also like the freedom and choices in RPGs. I have a character, now I want to play him in character for me. This is also true of both CRPGs and tabletop. The appeal in RPGs is taking on another role and roam in a world where your actions matter and where you create a legend of yourself.
The stories. Not the stories intended but the stories created. That is the best part of any RPG. It rarely happens in CRPGs but occasionally it does, such as the time I really got into the Malkavian mindset in Vampire Bloodlines or the beginning of Deus Ex where I was really doing all I could to help the guys that would turn out to be the bad ones. (The illusion worked until I couldn't proceed without attacking a person I felt was my ally.)
But yeah I also like fiddling with my stats as I said in the beginning. Character creation where I get to allocate skill points to different stats and I also look forward to each levelup where I get to decide what I'm going to get better at. Or using skills to get skill points in them to use to increase stuff. I love that. Customising.
I also like the freedom and choices in RPGs. I have a character, now I want to play him in character for me. This is also true of both CRPGs and tabletop. The appeal in RPGs is taking on another role and roam in a world where your actions matter and where you create a legend of yourself.
The stories. Not the stories intended but the stories created. That is the best part of any RPG. It rarely happens in CRPGs but occasionally it does, such as the time I really got into the Malkavian mindset in Vampire Bloodlines or the beginning of Deus Ex where I was really doing all I could to help the guys that would turn out to be the bad ones. (The illusion worked until I couldn't proceed without attacking a person I felt was my ally.)
But yeah I also like fiddling with my stats as I said in the beginning. Character creation where I get to allocate skill points to different stats and I also look forward to each levelup where I get to decide what I'm going to get better at. Or using skills to get skill points in them to use to increase stuff. I love that. Customising.
Torrents: Do you?
I use BitTornado for my bittorrent needs, it was the first I ever used and it hasn't really disappointed ever. The interface is simple without any useless buttons and all the information is there clear to see. I love it.
My download speeds vary greatly. On decently seeded places with plenty of connections everywhere I tend to get up to 200kb/s.
I rarely leave my torrents open to seed. Usually it's because I download well-populated open stuff that don't really need seeds and also because the computer I mostly download on grinds to a halt when I have torrents open and in order to be able to do anything on it I must close down the clients. I do tend to leave some torrents open when I leave the house occasionally though, getting the ratio up and nice.
As far as sites go I tend to go to mininova and pirate bay. If I can't find it there I tend to google around and ask buddies. I also use bittorrent whenever possible to download most other things. For example on the site Jamendo they provide most of their downloads with a torrent alternative. I tend to use that.
My download speeds vary greatly. On decently seeded places with plenty of connections everywhere I tend to get up to 200kb/s.
I rarely leave my torrents open to seed. Usually it's because I download well-populated open stuff that don't really need seeds and also because the computer I mostly download on grinds to a halt when I have torrents open and in order to be able to do anything on it I must close down the clients. I do tend to leave some torrents open when I leave the house occasionally though, getting the ratio up and nice.
As far as sites go I tend to go to mininova and pirate bay. If I can't find it there I tend to google around and ask buddies. I also use bittorrent whenever possible to download most other things. For example on the site Jamendo they provide most of their downloads with a torrent alternative. I tend to use that.
Google Mistakes
there's also what happends if you google "the answer to life the universe and everything"
Google tends to throw all kinds of easter eggs around.
Google tends to throw all kinds of easter eggs around.
Top Ten Topic Ideas
author=kentona link=topic=711.msg9488#msg9488 date=1203620288Yeah I noticed the comic strips, which is why I found it even stranger that there wasn't any general comic ones. Considering there was both a comic strip and a cartoon one.
We had a Top 10 Comic Strips
I meant to mention Comic books in my original post.
Hmm. Wait, there wasn't a top 10 cartoons either. That's a suggestion too.
Top 10 Boardgames (or just non-computer games. But you can expand it and add Top 10 card games or war games, though I don't think anyone here plays war games, so just top 10 non-computer games.)
Top 10 *game in genre*
or *movie in genre*
Top 10 *characters from genre or having a certain trait*
Games - Tester
Games - Other
