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PleasingFungus wrote:snapping turtles eating dicks is not, and does not even resemble, a common real-life act of sexual violence.

Perhaps not, but it's still pretty tasteless.

Nobody has mentioned the biggest stand out of HEs, their great stat progression, which in my mind is their defining factor. They're low hp gemigods who can worship a god! Ogres, on the other hand, are crappy trolls with a weird high spellcasting apt. So merge HE and DE if you must, but give them a s...

goodcoolguy wrote:Personally, I find even the "you are feeling hungry" messages strike too close to home much too often. "You feel you are on the edge of a nervous breakdown" type messages would be way over the line, in my opinion.

Seriously... that message makes my stomach growl sometimes...

Where does the existing danger descriptor come from? I had assumed it was HD, and thus, basically useless, as pointed out here.

A patch that removed hunger and food would be easy as hell. Replacing them with something else is another matter, but removing is easy.

a human running towards a siren and they have a boner but then a snapping turtle bites their boner off I feel like you really have no leg to stand on getting holier than thou about rape jokes when you post stuff like this. Maybe the snapping turtle was into it, but it sounds quite non-consensual fr...

Yeah dpeg... the players are demagogues... "a political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular desires and prejudices rather than by using rational argument." Hmm, was the person who makes the well thought out posts with specific details and recommendations the one that had no ra...

You probably can do this, but the price is your sanity.

TLDR: The thread where people just literally make shit up to support their argument.

Actually... that's basically the tldr for the entire internet. Actually... more like the TLDR for human history....

While as one of the subjects of these posts, I kinda agree they're gross, they're nowhere near the grossest thing that happens on this forum. Silly incest jokes about video game characters made in good humor are nowhere near as disruptive and bad for discourse as the many posts made just to insult p...

Poison is an important part of the game for many reasons. First, Venom mages have some of the strongest early game while falling off hard in the late game, which is strange given the "Early game is super hard" logic of most players... While the venom mage description does indeed make that...

I can't give you too much help with the FeBe, but I can definitely say you failed the sanity check by playing one. I think with FE the easiest combos are those that can kite and take advantage of the felid's speed. So I'm thinking some kind of mage type background is probably best. I'd say IE is alw...

Yes, clearly this would be better. No, it won't happen because numbers = the devil(according to some).

Also, display invocation current power vs max power, similarly to how spellpower is displayed.

My poor spectators don't last long, because the way I play crawl is not fun to watch. I probably spend about 75% of the time alt-tabbed into something else, then there's a sudden flurry of autoexplore+tab, then more nothing as I alt+tab into something else for a while. I almost wish I could put a wa...

No, I want to use the same old tactics that have always worked. Make the game harder for everything except the best tactics, don't you know how this works? You should be trying to nerf interesting spell interactions, not corridor+tab play. Sorry I seem to be in a very sarcastic mood today. This mons...

No, that was a joke, I totally missed the closing parenthesis. I just claimed that the "elf mentions" variable in my silly equation has a ")" included within it.

So while you may or may not be an idiot, I definitely am. At least, in this case.

The elf mentions variable includes a closing parenthesis, silly.

Yes, I agree. I am really surprised devs are ok with displaying "Small" or "Average" as divine ability piety cost. It is almost useless info. Is "Average" equal to 2 "Small"s? Or to 3? Of course it is obvious that more powerful abilities require higher piety ...

I'm going to post a little lesson here about how to express an idea on a forum for discussion. Step 1: Post a summary of your idea. Maybe make it grabby. Something like "Faded altars are never a good idea". Step 2: This is critical, even more important than step 1. Here you explain why you...

I see how it works around here. Stupid devs stupid remove features, but stupid add more stupid remove devs. So we get exponential growth of stupid removal. Sorry, ongett's digital ghost may have possessed me for a moment there. Welcome to the team, I look forward to giving your work scathing critici...

I'm duvessa and this is my tavern. I work here with my old man Fannar and my brother, dowan. Every thread in here has a shitpost and a thanks count. One thing I've learned after 10 years – you never know WHAT the devs are going to stupid remove next. The shitpost count = the thank count/number of t...

ITT: people who need to learn to use fsim Sure, what is fsim? A fight simulator in wizmode, accessible with &f and &F. See {!source fight_simulator.txt} for the fsim help. In other words, "stop hand-wavy theorycrafting and just do the number crunching in crawl itself to see who is righ...

Here's an example of infinity having to act like a number to yield correct results: Lets say I have a line segment of length 1. There are infinite points on this line segment, so the odds of any given point being picked are 1 out of infinity. Now lets say I have an overlapping parallel line segment ...

Well, the obvious problem is that you're given a contextless number. Of all the time the game could give you a number, accuracy is probably the least useful, since you have nothing to compare it against. So, change accuracy to a random number of !, and then tell us how much damage our attacks do. Wi...

So, lets say I have negative 9 m&ms, and I offer you the square root of the amount of M&Ms I have. How do I give you 3i M&Ms? It doesn't make sense, obviously, therefore you cannot take the square root of a negative number. Sorry mathematicians, back to the drawing board, if I can't do i...

Same problem with ctrl+n, at least in firefox. It opens a new tab rather than swinging your weapon to the southwest. I could swear this used to work normally, but obviously doesn't anymore. And sometimes I really need to swing my weapon to the southwest!

wr pretends to be a ranged start. More specifically, throwing. And then does the hilarious action of giving you only a couple mulching throwing weapons. At the very least, it should start you with some actual tomahawks. Better yet, let you choose a ranged weapon. Better yet, tloc is a terrible basis...

If my inventory is hitting max slots then that tells me one of two things: I'm either carrying stuff I don't actually need, or I'm not using my tools and consumables enough and making the game unnecessarily riskier. So you're saying the dungeon only generates items as you need them? Or that the sam...

Convokers still have channeling right? Do they show their progress?

Also, I propose removing item weight, stalkers, and boring beetles.

It increases character variety, not spell variety. A character with a 0mp fireball is going to be fairly different from a character with a 3mp shatter, or whatever. It accomplishes... exactly that. It also means a high enough level spellcaster can use their favorite spell the same way a bow user use...

Hooves and unarmed have no synergy, fyi. Unarmed isn't a good idea for a backup weapon, it takes too much XP to be worthwhile. Although in my experience you can get by fine with a 0 skill weapon and a bow until arrows start showing up. Centaurs are the hardest race to win, because you have to have r...

One downside of this change is that it would make the game less newbie-friendly. The current system helps prevent beginning players from making severe spell training blunders, such as blowing all their spell slots on a level 5 spell which they can't cast reliably. However, since this mistake would ...

Seems like a turn processing issue, because it's not as if projectiles have a travel time. The bribe acceptance code seems to run between the end of your turn and before your attacks are actually processed. Does ranged work differently from melee in that way? It is occasionally possible to melee an ...

I was sold on those stupid witcher games for their "Deep combat". I guess two attack buttons, each which perform one randomly selected attack from a bunch of completely different attacks (Some lunging, some quick, some very slow) is what passes for deep combat to some people... And someti...

That's just it, all those items can come in handy sometimes. If you throw away a potentially useful item, you're making a choice. These choices used to be easier for me when I'd just throw away all the wands like tabstorm said, but there are times where confuse and paralyze wands come in quite handy...

Well, clearly much of my information is out of date. Eh, everyone knows science is cyclical anyway. I'll just wait until everything revolves around the earth again, then I'll be way ahead of the curve!

I like the general idea, but I'd tone it down and make it less linear. I'd also remove the specific spell part of it. For example, spellcasting 4 makes all your spells cost 1 less MP. Spellcasting 10 makes them all 2 less. 18 costs 3 less, and at 27 all your spells cost 4 less MP. The problem I see...

You're a merfolk, so like you said it's not a problem to get the higher skill. Unless you're already using a good shield, I'd use the halberd. Eventually you'll want a glaive, or demon trident and a shield.

As a merfolk, you can get away with a bardiche, but 26 skill is a lot, even with +4 apt.

Freezing is one of the more desirable 3r brands, because it slows many enemies, including draconians, and isn't too widely resisted. Flaming is OK, not quite as good as freezing Vorpal is nice due to nothing resisting it, but you're doing less damage to non-resistant enemies than you would be anyway...

Well, it would be a player buff to have an unlimited inventory, which is generally undesirable. Stacking wands, goldifying food, doing away with books all would help a little bit, but I suspect to some degree you're supposed to have to choose sometimes, rather than just carry everything. I wouldn't ...

Witcher 1 is amazing game. It has some great moments, but I would be lying if I said the mechanics weren't grossly outdated. Who cares? I give it 10/10 just for the soundtrack. I was sold on those stupid witcher games for their "Deep combat". I guess two attack buttons, each which perform...

It's also because there's a shitload of useful wands, evokables, jewelry to swap to, scrolls and potions that might come in handy. I'm constantly dropping useful things to make room for more useful things. It does take some consideration sometimes. Blaming the user for a commonly complained about pr...

Hirsch I wrote:Path of Exile sucks a lot.
it sucked 1300 hours out of me.
send help.

Stupid path of exile... I just started playing it again.

It is free, and it is a game. It's better than most free games (except crawl, of course).

Well at least I'm not the only one under that impression sandman. I guess the take away is that nobody here knows what the hell they're talking about, myself least of all. At least once my grand unifying theory of everything is complete and humans gain a complete understanding of everything in exist...

I sure hope not, because it would be problematic in many ways. But that's what I've absorbed from pop science, and the various physics texts I could get my hands on as a kid 10-20 years ago, on top of my occasional curiosity leading me to read some random wikipedia articles. I realize an infinite un...

which generally doesn't play by nice rules. As an example of some of these nice rules we lose, in the specific situation I gave, we lose cancellation laws and commutativity. Namely, if (a + b = c + b), we can't say that (a = c) like we can in R, and in general, (a + b) may not be (b + a). More spec...

Well OP is a flimsy race so you play slower and rest more. If you're casting spells on top of that you're going to run into food issues.

Well, in late game with low enough MR you can be paralyzed by an alich on zot 5, then killed in a variety of ways. On the other hand, it's almost impossible to die on the turn an enemy enters LOS on D1.

Well, about infinity of the way down the line, I would think. Halfway to 2 infinity. About 1% of the way to 100 infinity.

Unfortunately....

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