DAITAKANA FACTS these are true mostly
10:53:12 AM: Flaming_Du: I love this kikoskia mother fucker's LPs
10:53:46 AM: Flaming_Du: "Why do we need to get to get the rest of dracula's parts? Why can't I just put a stake in his heart right now? That's how you--well, one of th emany ways to kill a vampire, a wooden stake in the heart.
10:54:05 AM: Flaming_Du: "I am holding dracula's heart right now. I'll go back to the old dude where I got this heart and buy another stake, and we'll kill dracula right now.
10:54:12 AM: Flaming_Du: "Have you really thought about this, Simon?"
10:56:37 AM: Flaming_Du: just an FYI to repeat, this guy is also LPing Daikatana
10:56:50 AM: Flaming_Du: I always knew the game was "bad," arbitrarily maybe so
10:57:04 AM: Flaming_Du: but I did not know the game pulls one of the most unforgivable things of all time
10:57:09 AM: Flaming_Du: essentially paying to save
10:57:17 AM: Flaming_Du: the problem thus is that you don't really... "pay" to save
10:57:21 AM: Flaming_Du: you have to use a Save gem
10:57:28 AM: Flaming_Du: which are rare and or hidden absurdly
10:57:39 AM: Flaming_Du: in essence, every time you fucking find a save gem you'd naturally use it
10:57:48 AM: Flaming_Du: so the save points become one-time use in other words
10:57:59 AM: Flaming_Du: a sound idea, a horrid execution
10:58:12 AM: Flaming_Du: mario-styled collect-this-glowing-shit sounds a little better
10:58:23 AM: Flaming_Du: say collect so-and-so number of these and obtain a save charge
10:58:31 AM: Flaming_Du: and let the player horde it as per whim demands
10:58:43 AM: Flaming_Du: but not a one-time save point
10:58:47 AM: Flaming_Du: that lets the player save AT ANY
10:58:48 AM: Flaming_Du: TIME
10:58:49 AM: Flaming_Du: EVER
10:58:54 AM: Flaming_Du: and records EVERY FUCKING THING that is going on
10:59:02 AM: Flaming_Du: IE: if you have 20 life, save, load that state
10:59:05 AM: Flaming_Du: and a bullet was flying toward you
10:59:10 AM: Flaming_Du: you load that state you will die
10:59:22 AM: Flaming_Du: locking you forever in an infinite cycle of "you picked a bad time to save"
10:59:39 AM: Flaming_Du: I remember playing Hexen on a PC long long long ago. The platform jumping in that game was just... ew
10:59:47 AM: Eusis: Huh, I thought I was able to save anywhere in the PC version. Maybe this is the N64 version?
10:59:49 AM: Flaming_Du: so every time I would jump to a new pillar, naturally, I'd save again
10:59:59 AM: Flaming_Du: i guess so
11:00:02 AM: Eusis played a bit of Daikatana on GameTap, but that's it.
11:00:07 AM: Flaming_Du: new version maybe
11:00:10 AM: Flaming_Du: who knows
11:00:20 AM: Flaming_Du: the game however has a little bit of a programming flaw
11:00:22 AM: nftyw: I remember picking up Hexen
11:00:28 AM: nftyw: Doom II was more fun I think
11:00:35 AM: Flaming_Du: your previous physics were still calculated when loading a state
11:00:41 AM: Eusis: I'm just speculating since John Romero has to know there's no damn way to get away without letting you save anywhere in a PC game, he was there for Doom and the first Quake.
11:00:45 AM: Flaming_Du: at one point I began to fall off to the left side, paused the game and just loaded a new state
11:00:50 AM: Eusis: But consoles? We're used to save points and whatnot on those.
11:01:05 AM: Flaming_Du: as soon as I loaded it my character's physics were still veering to the left
11:01:11 AM: Eusis: Less tolerant now I think, but that wasn't the case 10 years ago.
11:01:14 AM: Flaming_Du: so as I load a state SAVED WHILE I WAS NOT MOVING at the center of the pillar
11:01:28 AM: Flaming_Du: every time I loaded it I continued to just endlessly fall to the left quicker and quicker every time I loaded it
11:01:35 AM: Flaming_Du: I had to quit the game and restart it for the physics to unfuck
I talk about daikatana more now
11:01:54 AM: Flaming_Du: anyway, Daikatana is an atrocious piece of shit
11:02:28 AM: Flaming_Du: take perfect dark and remove anything good, lower the texture resolution and make your NPC buddies who follow you say the most ridiculous bullshit conceivable, on par with that basketball game on the sega CD
11:02:47 AM: Flaming_Du: which had such lines like "break 'im like a walnut" to which another dude chimes in "sprinke'em on a salad..."
11:03:03 AM: Flaming_Du: both then look at each other, a knowing "bro glance" sparks between them as they both unanimously chant
11:03:07 AM: Flaming_Du: "POUR SUM DRESSIN 'ON THA BOY"
11:03:11 AM: Flaming_Du: this actually happens
11:03:36 AM: Flaming_Du: i think the dude's name in this game is Hiro, btw
11:03:45 AM: nftyw: holy shit
11:03:53 AM: Flaming_Du: which makes me wonder, sincerely, if John Romero read snow crash and decided to rip it off
11:04:19 AM: Flaming_Du: since Hiro is some part-japanese dude who lives in a retrograde dystopian world
11:04:25 AM: Flaming_Du: AND FIGHTS THE MACHINE
11:05:06 AM: Flaming_Du: the difference being Snow Crash is one of the most colorfully vibrantly written renditions of an exact such thing, does so with endless finessé and wry snarky humor.
11:05:20 AM: Flaming_Du: and daikatana is an unreal 2 piece of fucking shit
11:05:30 AM: Flaming_Du: i want to try to download daikatana to thumb through its dats
11:05:34 AM: Eusis: On a related note, you may want to check out Cryptonomicon.
11:05:42 AM: Flaming_Du: I bet you 75% of its data is fucking voice acting
11:05:47 AM: Eusis: Same writer, except that some people seem to feel it's his masterwork.
11:06:00 AM: Flaming_Du: 10% being particle effects, another 10% for physics
11:06:12 AM: Flaming_Du: 3% for the physics and 2% for the GUI
11:06:26 AM: Flaming_Du: notice this leaves no percentile for gameplay because IT DOESN'T FUCKING HAVE ANY
11:06:32 AM: Eusis imagines Snow Crash is a better introductory book though, if for no other reason than the fact it isn't a thousand pages long.
11:06:51 AM: Eusis: Also, his last name is Miyamoto.
11:07:00 AM: Eusis: In honor of... well, that should be obvious.
11:07:10 AM: Flaming_Du: i swear to fuck this game is just an abortion vomited out of a screaming giraffe's asshole right into the vag of an angry PMSing walrus
11:07:16 AM: Eusis: So, Hiro Miyamoto. Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised at ripping the name from Snow Crash either.
11:07:29 AM: Flaming_Du: this walrus was then sliced into fine tubes to be used for various cosmetics
11:07:32 AM: Eusis: I hear the GBC version is, oddly enough, a fairly good Zelda clone.
11:07:44 AM: Eusis: And of course it's the one that never got a retail release, they just went "Fuck it" and put the rom online.
11:07:53 AM: Flaming_Du: SIDE NOTE: I think it's fucking funny that to be "Beautiful" in hollywood you have to wear dead whale fat on your face the "correct way."
11:08:33 AM: Flaming_Du: the proceeds from jumping on this forcibly impregnanted pissed off walrus were then shoved haphazardly into cardboard boxes, microwaved until the interiors were stern, hard and molton
11:08:40 AM: Flaming_Du: and then shipped in a box that said Daikatana on it
11:08:45 AM: Flaming_Du: how it plays is just a random fluke
11:09:02 AM: Flaming_Du: the game is made from the hate-seething remains of a child that never was
11:09:19 AM: Flaming_Du: i am really not sober by the way
11:09:53 AM: Eusis: You DID catch my bit about Miyamoto, right? I figured that'd warrant some reaction.
11:10:14 AM: Flaming_Du: yeah but that's just a name
11:10:17 AM: Eusis: He really did say in an interview his last name was in honor of Shigero Miyamoto.
11:10:19 AM: dn: "hiro" seems to be some common cross-language pun
11:10:25 AM: Flaming_Du: oh wow really?
11:10:27 AM: Flaming_Du: I'll give him that then
11:10:35 AM: Flaming_Du: that's pretty cool, regardless of the game sucking or not
10:53:46 AM: Flaming_Du: "Why do we need to get to get the rest of dracula's parts? Why can't I just put a stake in his heart right now? That's how you--well, one of th emany ways to kill a vampire, a wooden stake in the heart.
10:54:05 AM: Flaming_Du: "I am holding dracula's heart right now. I'll go back to the old dude where I got this heart and buy another stake, and we'll kill dracula right now.
10:54:12 AM: Flaming_Du: "Have you really thought about this, Simon?"
10:56:37 AM: Flaming_Du: just an FYI to repeat, this guy is also LPing Daikatana
10:56:50 AM: Flaming_Du: I always knew the game was "bad," arbitrarily maybe so
10:57:04 AM: Flaming_Du: but I did not know the game pulls one of the most unforgivable things of all time
10:57:09 AM: Flaming_Du: essentially paying to save
10:57:17 AM: Flaming_Du: the problem thus is that you don't really... "pay" to save
10:57:21 AM: Flaming_Du: you have to use a Save gem
10:57:28 AM: Flaming_Du: which are rare and or hidden absurdly
10:57:39 AM: Flaming_Du: in essence, every time you fucking find a save gem you'd naturally use it
10:57:48 AM: Flaming_Du: so the save points become one-time use in other words
10:57:59 AM: Flaming_Du: a sound idea, a horrid execution
10:58:12 AM: Flaming_Du: mario-styled collect-this-glowing-shit sounds a little better
10:58:23 AM: Flaming_Du: say collect so-and-so number of these and obtain a save charge
10:58:31 AM: Flaming_Du: and let the player horde it as per whim demands
10:58:43 AM: Flaming_Du: but not a one-time save point
10:58:47 AM: Flaming_Du: that lets the player save AT ANY
10:58:48 AM: Flaming_Du: TIME
10:58:49 AM: Flaming_Du: EVER
10:58:54 AM: Flaming_Du: and records EVERY FUCKING THING that is going on
10:59:02 AM: Flaming_Du: IE: if you have 20 life, save, load that state
10:59:05 AM: Flaming_Du: and a bullet was flying toward you
10:59:10 AM: Flaming_Du: you load that state you will die
10:59:22 AM: Flaming_Du: locking you forever in an infinite cycle of "you picked a bad time to save"
10:59:39 AM: Flaming_Du: I remember playing Hexen on a PC long long long ago. The platform jumping in that game was just... ew
10:59:47 AM: Eusis: Huh, I thought I was able to save anywhere in the PC version. Maybe this is the N64 version?
10:59:49 AM: Flaming_Du: so every time I would jump to a new pillar, naturally, I'd save again
10:59:59 AM: Flaming_Du: i guess so
11:00:02 AM: Eusis played a bit of Daikatana on GameTap, but that's it.
11:00:07 AM: Flaming_Du: new version maybe
11:00:10 AM: Flaming_Du: who knows
11:00:20 AM: Flaming_Du: the game however has a little bit of a programming flaw
11:00:22 AM: nftyw: I remember picking up Hexen
11:00:28 AM: nftyw: Doom II was more fun I think
11:00:35 AM: Flaming_Du: your previous physics were still calculated when loading a state
11:00:41 AM: Eusis: I'm just speculating since John Romero has to know there's no damn way to get away without letting you save anywhere in a PC game, he was there for Doom and the first Quake.
11:00:45 AM: Flaming_Du: at one point I began to fall off to the left side, paused the game and just loaded a new state
11:00:50 AM: Eusis: But consoles? We're used to save points and whatnot on those.
11:01:05 AM: Flaming_Du: as soon as I loaded it my character's physics were still veering to the left
11:01:11 AM: Eusis: Less tolerant now I think, but that wasn't the case 10 years ago.
11:01:14 AM: Flaming_Du: so as I load a state SAVED WHILE I WAS NOT MOVING at the center of the pillar
11:01:28 AM: Flaming_Du: every time I loaded it I continued to just endlessly fall to the left quicker and quicker every time I loaded it
11:01:35 AM: Flaming_Du: I had to quit the game and restart it for the physics to unfuck
I talk about daikatana more now
11:01:54 AM: Flaming_Du: anyway, Daikatana is an atrocious piece of shit
11:02:28 AM: Flaming_Du: take perfect dark and remove anything good, lower the texture resolution and make your NPC buddies who follow you say the most ridiculous bullshit conceivable, on par with that basketball game on the sega CD
11:02:47 AM: Flaming_Du: which had such lines like "break 'im like a walnut" to which another dude chimes in "sprinke'em on a salad..."
11:03:03 AM: Flaming_Du: both then look at each other, a knowing "bro glance" sparks between them as they both unanimously chant
11:03:07 AM: Flaming_Du: "POUR SUM DRESSIN 'ON THA BOY"
11:03:11 AM: Flaming_Du: this actually happens
11:03:36 AM: Flaming_Du: i think the dude's name in this game is Hiro, btw
11:03:45 AM: nftyw: holy shit
11:03:53 AM: Flaming_Du: which makes me wonder, sincerely, if John Romero read snow crash and decided to rip it off
11:04:19 AM: Flaming_Du: since Hiro is some part-japanese dude who lives in a retrograde dystopian world
11:04:25 AM: Flaming_Du: AND FIGHTS THE MACHINE
11:05:06 AM: Flaming_Du: the difference being Snow Crash is one of the most colorfully vibrantly written renditions of an exact such thing, does so with endless finessé and wry snarky humor.
11:05:20 AM: Flaming_Du: and daikatana is an unreal 2 piece of fucking shit
11:05:30 AM: Flaming_Du: i want to try to download daikatana to thumb through its dats
11:05:34 AM: Eusis: On a related note, you may want to check out Cryptonomicon.
11:05:42 AM: Flaming_Du: I bet you 75% of its data is fucking voice acting
11:05:47 AM: Eusis: Same writer, except that some people seem to feel it's his masterwork.
11:06:00 AM: Flaming_Du: 10% being particle effects, another 10% for physics
11:06:12 AM: Flaming_Du: 3% for the physics and 2% for the GUI
11:06:26 AM: Flaming_Du: notice this leaves no percentile for gameplay because IT DOESN'T FUCKING HAVE ANY
11:06:32 AM: Eusis imagines Snow Crash is a better introductory book though, if for no other reason than the fact it isn't a thousand pages long.
11:06:51 AM: Eusis: Also, his last name is Miyamoto.
11:07:00 AM: Eusis: In honor of... well, that should be obvious.
11:07:10 AM: Flaming_Du: i swear to fuck this game is just an abortion vomited out of a screaming giraffe's asshole right into the vag of an angry PMSing walrus
11:07:16 AM: Eusis: So, Hiro Miyamoto. Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised at ripping the name from Snow Crash either.
11:07:29 AM: Flaming_Du: this walrus was then sliced into fine tubes to be used for various cosmetics
11:07:32 AM: Eusis: I hear the GBC version is, oddly enough, a fairly good Zelda clone.
11:07:44 AM: Eusis: And of course it's the one that never got a retail release, they just went "Fuck it" and put the rom online.
11:07:53 AM: Flaming_Du: SIDE NOTE: I think it's fucking funny that to be "Beautiful" in hollywood you have to wear dead whale fat on your face the "correct way."
11:08:33 AM: Flaming_Du: the proceeds from jumping on this forcibly impregnanted pissed off walrus were then shoved haphazardly into cardboard boxes, microwaved until the interiors were stern, hard and molton
11:08:40 AM: Flaming_Du: and then shipped in a box that said Daikatana on it
11:08:45 AM: Flaming_Du: how it plays is just a random fluke
11:09:02 AM: Flaming_Du: the game is made from the hate-seething remains of a child that never was
11:09:19 AM: Flaming_Du: i am really not sober by the way
11:09:53 AM: Eusis: You DID catch my bit about Miyamoto, right? I figured that'd warrant some reaction.
11:10:14 AM: Flaming_Du: yeah but that's just a name
11:10:17 AM: Eusis: He really did say in an interview his last name was in honor of Shigero Miyamoto.
11:10:19 AM: dn: "hiro" seems to be some common cross-language pun
11:10:25 AM: Flaming_Du: oh wow really?
11:10:27 AM: Flaming_Du: I'll give him that then
11:10:35 AM: Flaming_Du: that's pretty cool, regardless of the game sucking or not