The "What Are You Doing This Moment" Thread

[tagradh]

Guess BarrysWorld woulda been my first forum.

Apparently it died in early 2001. When I was 11.

Having been online and received all kindsa cruel and unusual messages since I was a child makes it pretty hard to feel sympathy for the attention whores that get trolled on Twitter and shit.

 

[mutantllama]

The Gunbound freeboard was the first message board I posted on. Posting on there, playing Gunbound, listening to Black Sabbath and watching porn pretty much took up my whole summer when I was 13.

 

[no country for old wainds]

Not sure which was my first forum, either the Blind Guardian forum which I joined 1999 or some Counterstrike forum for 3D modelling/skinning (modding a mod ) which should have been at the same time as I started playing CS in 1999 too.

i've probably mentioned this before but on CS source i have over 2500 hours playtime and 76,000+ rounds JUST on office. that's over 100 solid days of my life i'll never get back.

 

[tagradh]

i've probably mentioned this before but on CS source i have over 2500 hours playtime and 76,000+ rounds JUST on office. that's over 100 solid days of my life i'll never get back.

In years 9 and 10 I had about 60% attendance at school because I occasionally get migraines and people are gullible as shit but really it was just de_dust.

Luckily alcohol and sex and guitar took over towards the end of year 10 so I don't have to live in basements.

 

[no country for old wainds]

i decided to completely stop playing when i realised it was a genuine addiction and that i was opening the game just instinctively sometimes without even making the decision to play it, and was no longer enjoying it

 

[tagradh]

https://www.newscientist.com/articl...robably-isnt-a-real-condition-study-suggests/

Get addicted to hard drugs, you pussy.

 

[no country for old wainds]

i feel like that's a pretty rigid definition of addiction they're using, but if not then yeah i wasn't addicted at all. maybe more of an obsessive compulsion.

 

[The Butt]

I joined black-sabbath.com in... 2004 I think? Then herzeleid.com in 05, and the now-defunct Wizards of the Coast boards in 06. Then here in 07. I joined Mtgsalvation two or three times but they were no fun. I got permabanned each time because I constantly voiced that newer Magic was starting to suck and apparently that was "trolling". Mtgsalvation was AIDS.

 

[The Butt]

tangentially related but I hate how the card comment/rating feature on gatherer has been broken for literally years I used to love reading people's comments on cards even though I barely even play the game.

Use Magiccards.info. Anything Wizards does online blows.

 

[Mort Divine]

I got permabanned each time because I constantly voiced that newer Magic was starting to suck and apparently that was "trolling". .

well deserved ban tbh

fuck any fandoms version of 'genwunners'

 

[CiG]

Because things can never go downhill and complaints to that effect are never legitimate.

 

[~Lynn~]

poopin!

 

[Mort Divine]

Because things can never go downhill and complaints to that effect are never legitimate.

they can

but all i've heard from Dustin Henderson over there doesn't hold up

its all complaints about power level and shit that are outright false

 

[CiG]

Oh okay, fair enough.

I'm probably a bit sensitive because when I used to complain about certain editions of Warhammer: 40k douchebags would always whip out the ol' "hurrr genwunner dickhead hurrr" and it was so annoying.

 

[Krow]

3:30am, watching the second season of Stranger Things, sipping on a glass of Barenjager.

 

[Vilden]

Mtg has gone abit downhill for two reasons.

#1: The direction the art has gone is waaay too streamlined and clean, which most of the time makes it more soulless imo. Sure the sets are more even and the older art had way lower lows but also higher high. Older sets generally feels less flashy and more obscure and arcane.

#2: The power creep in specifically creatures. I'm tired of all creatures having 2-3 good abilities and also stats that are annoyingly good. Just look at for example Deathrite Shaman. 1 mana 1/2 with 3 good abilities. Yeah that seems reasonable. Leovold is another one on the same theme. IMO the most boring games are when both players just play splashy creature after splashy creature and hope to win the value war. I like grind but it should be with finesse, not just big bombs.

I think wizards has realized this and in the latest sets they've upped the spell power and lowered the creature power which is good.

With this said MtG is still awsome and they do alot of things right so I wont say newer sets suck or anything, just that I liked the direction, both in art and game design in older sets abit more.

As for Games Workshop and Warhammer: They have gone downhill waaay more imo. Mostly because of the cartoony over the top models nowdays which looks rediculous. Just compare the size of old (3rd-4th fantasy) edition greater daemons or Volkmar the Grim. The new ones are awful.

About the rules, I haven't played the newest editions so I can't really comment but as far as I've tester I don't think they've gone in the right direction either.

 

[CiG]

As for Games Workshop and Warhammer: They have gone downhill waaay more imo. Mostly because of the cartoony over the top models nowdays which looks rediculous. Just compare the size of old (3rd-4th fantasy) edition greater daemons or Volkmar the Grim. The new ones are awful.

Are you crazy? I'll admit I'm not familiar with Volkmar but the greater daemon models look so much better now and there really isn't any comparing with old edition 40k to now, it is much better now. 7th edition was admittedly pretty bad but 8th so far seems like a huge improvement and the models these days are mostly much better.

I can't help but assume this is an opinion based almost entirely on nostalgia.

 

[CiG]

Here's a 2002 edition of the greater daemon of Khorne vs a current model, either 2016 or 2017 I forget:

 

[Carpe Mortem]

Got my first respectable smartphone in awhile, ZTE Blade Z. Using Zedge for customizing all my stupid doodly doos, anyone into that and know good uploaders? Currently following 'jovasi'.

Edit: Also discovered this band through a generic 'metal' ringtone search, pretty cool space rock.

 

[Vilden]

Are you crazy? I'll admit I'm not familiar with Volkmar but the greater daemon models look so much better now and there really isn't any comparing with old edition 40k to now, it is much better now. 7th edition was admittedly pretty bad but 8th so far seems like a huge improvement and the models these days are mostly much better.

Well, the new models are ofcourse MUCH better made and much more detailed and dynamic etc etc. The problem is that they are just so over the top and cartoonish that the army feel get lost and you get more superhero or anime vibes imo.

Some examples from old to new:

Mannfred Von Carstein:




I mean wtf is up with this, classic Von Carsteins have the old Dracula look, not big ass muscles and some kind of super monster.

Volkmar the Grim:

I can't help but assume this tis an opinion based almost entirely on nostalgia.

I guess this explains some of it, especially when you talk about rank n file or regular space marines or whatnot. But my biggest problem is the one I showed above which is not just nostalgia.
About the Bloodthirster, the new one is better looking but fails because it is about double the size from the old which just looks rediculous imo.

This also ties in with my opinion hat big monsters are most of the times the most boring kind of unit to play with in Warhammer.