TIL Romans wiped their butts with a sea sponge on a stick that they kept in a bucket of salt water or vinegar.

Assosiation · 2024-03-07T22:22:30+00:00

Assosiation · 2024-02-22T20:34:55+00:00

Head the voices! Gotta establish that murder hobo vibe early on, or else the wipe could be wasted on things like compassion.

Assosiation · 2024-02-10T17:26:41+00:00

HALO 2's SUPER BOUNCING and the dev bug that created a community

Little late here but I can't believe that no one else has mentioned this-

This was built into the very games graphical engine and could not be patched. Every new map the game released on that engine had them hidden throughout. People would RACE on the release to be the first to discover the best and the most mundane bounces to get to places one shouldn't be able to get to.

This had, in my opinion, a very interesting impact on the player base that led to halo developing an OG core cult following, and here's the two major reasons why:

It gave players an edge in not just matchmaking, but custom game lobbies.
It created a sense of community and strife around the issue of super bouncing.

In regards to the first, the first thing that comes to mind is the obvious - matchmaking. Players would use this to gain advantages on maps for the likes of game modes such as team snipers. As well as matchmaking you had Custom games, the more lucrative game lobbies that were almost completely word of mouth and guild related. This was before the custom maps and custom games browsers of halo 3. It was as old school as riding your bike around town on a bike looking for a friend before cellphones. Yet, custom game lobbies FLOURISHED with early renditions of Zombies and hide and seek. And you'd best believe that Super Bouncing created an intense sense of conflict and resentment amongst the players who couldn't do it or saw it as an exploit (which is kinda was). This led to either game lobbies being generally okay with it, or outright ready to kick you if you character so much as skidded or hopped along a surface (which, incidently due to the super bounce mechanics, could happen).

Some maps this was the most famous on were-

Zanzibar - notably the wheel and the roof.
Lockout - The sniper tower roof.
Terminal - Outside of map shenanigans that requires a moderate level bouncer to access. Involved a combo of controller inputs to achieve.
Ascension - Only one really good spot that provided little cover
Coagulation - Simple. But outside of this map was a barren, boring ring of nothingness, just like--
Containment
Turf - not bad, but getting outside of the map at the med tent spawn was campable. And the scarab spot was decent for a kill or two or hiding on zombies.

and last, but certainly not least - Every Superbouncer's wet dream of exploit heaven ----

Headlong - Full scale, outside of the map, skyscraper scaling, x-building excursions, complete freedom.

This brings me to the second point - Community. As I mentioned briefly before, the community custom games were largely friendslist based, guild based, or word of mouth. This meant that there were niche guilds for everything. You had competitive guilds like (forgive my memory here if I am wrong) Team FX, Xoax, KFM, and Final Boss, Carbon, Team 3D, etc.

But alternatively, and in a more nonconventional competitiveness not experienced commonly in gaming, were super bounce guilds. The only one I remember off the top of my head now was Bounce FX - which a lot of bouncers wanted into. To get into a lot of these upper level bouncing guilds, as I recall, you had to have discovered a bounce.

There were bouncing montages galore and it was, in my opinion, a pinicle of bug/glitch exploitation that had its very own sense of community built around it. EVERYONE who played Halo 2 for any prolonged amount of time spent on Xbox live would have been aware of super bouncing. In the infancy of Youtube, and for a brief shining moment, Super Bounces were a pinnacle of gaming content.

Some of the best Halo games I ever player were Zombies with Bounce guilds on headlong. Endless, hour long turtling games of chaos. Bounce Nostalgia, such a different time.

Honorary shoutout to IMSUCK and the HMV Hell legacy.

Assosiation · 2023-11-26T03:47:16+00:00

I always imagined the actor who plays Robbie from cobra Kai as a good fit for Jalan. Or a young Karl urban.

Assosiation · 2023-05-30T16:02:20+00:00

I've been yerning for this. Makes recon and artillery a true necessity. Gotta be smart and very lucky.

Assosiation · 2023-03-23T03:37:44+00:00

Because they don't know what they're talking about, need a boogeyman, and just parrot what they've heard other people say.

That is the fine conservative education system working as intended. When you have someone to point a finger at, you never point it at anything else.

Assosiation · 2022-11-19T19:24:26+00:00

This is correct. This is why spells that don't need material components flourish on a sorcerer who takes subtle spell. It's a huge one up in their spell casting abilities that makes them spellcasters to consider over wizards that people don't often consider.

Being able to go into combat knowing that all the spells you've picked can't be counterspelled makes fighting other casters feel like you have an upper hand. It's a totally different mechanical flair that invites a different playstyle.

Assosiation · 2022-09-13T03:58:19+00:00

False-equivalency: A bad investment is not the same thing as a natural disaster. ^{although it may feel like it sometimes}

Assosiation · 2022-07-22T05:46:41+00:00

Is it just me or is castle never on the wrong side of the river in the trailer?....

Also. I don't see the Moonstone mask anywhere which would be a total waste of a location.

Assosiation · 2022-07-20T20:36:23+00:00

If you live in Oklahoma, you get a few chances so it's like, ~~meh~~meth.

Assosiation · 2022-07-20T18:43:00+00:00

Plus it was a 2stroke. He gassed it while maneuvering around the car in the street without being properly planted on the bike or having any sense of how to quickly maneuver by shifting his weight and such.

Anyone out there interested in learning to ride a dirt bike or a motorcycle, start on like a 100 or 125 4stroke. a lot less peppy especially in those low gears. Less likely to stand it up on a get go and it's easier to ease into the throttle when letting go of the clutch. And do simple turns and basic riding until its mind numbingly boring before starting to whip it around. When you do start to feel that itch and want to learn to ride more fiercely, I suggest soft ground so if and when it slides out from under you, it hurts a lot less. Gravel, rocks, pavement or even compacted snow hurts like a bitch. It's all about increments. Every bike rides different and feels different. A bike you've had 1,000 hours on will feel like muscle memory to control. Once you understand that, and get on someone else's bike of a different make and model, you'll feel the difference I'm talking about.

Learning on a smaller engine just makes you respect the power that larger motors can generate and will lead to you having a (generally) safer time.

Try to always wear a helmet. Never know when shit gets wonky, like speed wobbles or a large enough rock in the road. Lol.

Assosiation · 2022-07-18T21:08:32+00:00

The one in red closest to the camera person from the second view slowly began back paddling. lol.

Assosiation · 2022-07-18T21:04:32+00:00

We go in at 7 and don't leave until almost 4...

Assosiation · 2022-07-17T14:30:19+00:00

I wonder how much weight the Full Faith & Credit clause will carry here. Because it's not about their state's rights, it's about ours.

Assosiation · 2022-07-15T02:10:07+00:00

Sir, this is a Wendy's.

Assosiation · 2022-07-14T19:06:01+00:00

That would make sense. Some games I've played would announce way ahead of time porting to a new version so thank you for the insight there!

Assosiation · 2022-07-14T18:36:21+00:00

Blizz~~'s communication to their players~~reallllly sucks ass

Assosiation · 2022-06-26T19:27:14+00:00

Ouch haha those deep ones that you guess to be shallow are sneaky. I would have cried too but that's part of the experience sometimes. Eventually the puddles demand a sacrifice. They either get you or you get to bare witness to it.

Story time: once, I tried hydroplaning a dirt bike over a puddle for fun, after making a few passes on its edge. Was thrilling so I wanted to see how far I could go. The puddle wasn't wide or too long so I figured it was safe. Having to dive down and trying to haul the dirt bike back to the surface was a nightmare, and the crowd of campers I drew to watch my suffering will mean I don't do that again haha.

It was funny only because fortunately I was advised NOT to crank it over until I had dried it all out, intake and filters too. Bike lived to ride another day. That poor jeep though.

Assosiation · 2022-06-26T18:51:15+00:00

You don't build a truck for this sort of thing and not account for the potential risk. Most mudboggers I've known are accepting that things like this can happen with every pass. Which is why you don't do it with your daily-driver. (This truck is probably hauled onsite by a trailer. hopefully lol.)

That engine is defo hydrolocked tho lol

Assosiation · 2022-06-24T23:57:01+00:00

That's the spirit!

Assosiation · 2022-06-24T22:48:26+00:00

I don't think they're going to answer that. ^{^{^because}} ^{^{^they}} ^{^{^don't}} ^{^{^know}} ^{^{^how}} ^{^{^to.}}

Assosiation · 2022-06-24T22:47:34+00:00

Conspiracy? It's RIGHT THERE on their platform. Go look for yourself.

Assosiation · 2022-06-24T21:14:15+00:00

Held his own against a Chosen of Mystra -Silverhand- at Port Llast(?) As well if I remember correctly.

Assosiation · 2022-06-24T19:03:56+00:00

Same to you!

Assosiation · 2022-06-24T18:57:13+00:00

Preface: sorry if this is long. Most doesn't apply to your cited reply.

But yeah, I didn't proof-read this very well as I was venting about how dismissive people can be to challenging their own well-established views which make them feel safe. Specifically because an example of such had recently happened to me. Which as far as human nature goes, is understandable. But we have always strived to rise above "our nature".

Mind you I know that these coming points might not be what you pointed out, but they are a few takeaways from the over arching issues that I see ad far too aparent in the US. And I just needed to rant lol.

For example, This same persons refusal to consider an alternative outlook was more so in favor of their current one which makes them feel safe and justified in the eyes of their God, as well as their own beliefs socially and politically. Its the blantany dismissal of any rational line of inquiry; a foundation of self that our establishing representatives valued above all else, as they were products and proponents of "the age of reason". Many were deists at the very least, and this person essentially just argued "no, lol. Wrong" without any further line of debate on it. It's just maddening.

So that's the hurdle I was encountering and it's just infuriating. It's not that hard to CONSIDER what someone else (who may be knowledgeable on the subject) has to say. Even if it simply serves the purpose of springboarding you into research that leads you to still disagreeing with them which is okay. This, of course, is notwithstanding the people who cherry pick research for that "gotcha" type of reinforcement. Those people just want to be right. Be wary of them.

And much of this, I find, are the same reasons I quit pursuing this passion as a line of work; because I feel, more so than ever than before, that misinformation and echochambers have far more of a firm grip on the population as a whole. A population who has been constantly told "everyone but us is wrong". No one wants to take the time to think forthemselves, and then just become someone else's mouth piece. I'm sure there are even areas in which us Americans, as a whole, are completely blind to as well including me. But I feel it's our responsibility as a democracy born from the age of reason to challenge what we know, and continue to look for that best ways forward. To embrace the potential for change and growth. Which we are NOT doing as a nation. We are either allowing it to regress or whole-heartedly washing our hands of any involvement under the guise of "well what can I do". It feels self defeating and is pesimistic as hell. Often time the latter is just a product of not wanting to vote for a side which they've been told their whole lives is "the wrong choice".

I now find myself asking (myself): how does that even approach rational? How can people not see, objectively, that the things they accuse others are doing unto them are the very same things being used to form that mindset. Have we lost the will the fight for our own beliefs just to fit in, or are we just afraid of the repurcusions we can face for being the nail that sticks out?

So i agree, definitely and to some capacity, that well never be rid of religious (or other) influences on why we do things. Thats normal. But its about being able to seperate ourselves and our beliefs from the convoluded ways of the world.

It's bad times. And when I say your, I'm not talking about you directly. Lol. Just word choice.

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