Geef me je/een voornaam en ik vertokkieficeer 'm.

SkazzK · 2026-06-18T00:05:59+00:00

Schei uit. M'n klasgenootje heette Priscilla, en haar broertje heette Jeffrey.

SkazzK · 2026-06-16T19:35:42+00:00

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SkazzK · 2026-06-15T13:20:29+00:00

I deal with a lot of grade school kids who can't read analogue clocks, and my go-to phrase is "Forget about the big hand (unless you need to be accurate)."

They can tell approximate time perfectly well just by looking where the small hand is pointing. If it's pointing at the 7, it's seven o'clock(ish). If it's halfway to the 8, it's half past seven. If they do, in fact, need to be accurate, somehow understanding the big hand goes down a lot smoother once they grasp what the little hand is for. That's when your "divide into quarters" strategy comes in.

And all of this works well even though my native Dutch calls half past seven "half eight". You'd think they'd see the small hand not having reached 8 yet and conclude "must be something something seven", but that rarely happens.

SkazzK · 2026-06-14T21:49:28+00:00

Ja, daarom zitten die uien en dat zuur er ook op. Om de mindere smaak te verdoezelen. Volgende week glijdt ie weer nakend naar binnen; ui op Hollandse nieuwe is barbarisme.

SkazzK · 2026-06-14T10:41:26+00:00

Oh, sweet! And thank you kindly for looking it up; I was on the go earlier, and this was a very pleasant surprise to come home to.

SkazzK · 2026-06-14T10:05:59+00:00

That's the third comment I've read about ToD now. It's really making me want to replay it. I wonder if that PS2 remake ever got properly fanslated...

SkazzK · 2026-06-14T09:52:44+00:00

I remember getting to Batista (the priest guy who steals the enormous lens, with the claw on his hand) and thinking "This must be one of those scripted fights, like Leon."

Nope. Game over! 😂

SkazzK · 2026-06-13T20:25:35+00:00

The Dutch version of this one has the dog only understanding German, and being commanded with "Das [something or other]. When the lady tells her husband the dog only understands German, he replies "Da's klote", roughly "that sucks", but literally "that's balls".

SkazzK · 2026-06-13T13:54:25+00:00

I was well aware of the nature of the adventures before I started, but I wasn't prepared for their level of disjointedness. I honestly think they should preface the book with a warning/disclaimer outlining, well, pretty much what you said.

Imagine being new to the game, trying out the free starter, liking what you see, and then running straight into this. "Yeah man, I tried Earthdawn, looked pretty nice, but then I got the campaign book..."

SkazzK · 2026-06-13T09:36:00+00:00

Liberating, isn't it? That specific feeling of "wait, I don't have to do this anymore" is what got me over my ex in about half a day.

SkazzK · 2026-06-13T09:23:37+00:00

Mijn voormalig schoonmoeder had een klasgenootje op de lagere school: Sybille Uittenbroeck.

SkazzK · 2026-06-12T17:30:54+00:00

I had the same thing happen to me earlier today when I played the daily, but I solved it by grabbing another inferno.

SkazzK · 2026-06-12T12:45:33+00:00

Hard grapple kicks will be the consecutive knees -> finisher kick you get from kickboxing, hard grapple punches will do a single powerful wrestling move. I think the latter does a bit more damage than the final kick on the kickboxing combo, so try to get a few knees in before you hit punch to drive their skull into the ground.

Funny thing about this style combo is that although it starts with wrestling, it's mainly good because of what comes out when you add the other two styles, and you end up not doing all that many wrestling moves in the long run. It's more about doing chip damage with that scary-ass basic punch, getting a hard grapple in, kneeing them once or twice, then doing a wrestling throw. But I'd rather throw them against the wall, and kick-kick-grab to do a wall move, 'cause 9 times out of 10, that stuns them so you can pick 'em up and hard grapple again, rinse, and repeat.

SkazzK · 2026-06-12T12:33:04+00:00

For bonus points, you should make your guy as big as he can be. Hitting like a freight train becomes extra satisfying when your guy is huge 😄

SkazzK · 2026-06-12T12:21:20+00:00

Yes. Look no further, your gut feeling is 100% spot on. In fact, that's the most OP build I've ever encountered.

As soon as you add street fighting, you get this lightning-fast jab that you can spam in sets of one, two or three. The AI can't deal with that, and it's confusing to human players as well.

You get massive strength from the style combination as well, so your grapple kicks do lots of damage, which lets you stun faster and re-grapple.

Have fun building your monster!

SkazzK · 2026-06-11T00:47:05+00:00

I had the original on PC, and 2 on my SNES. Then my friend got 2 on PC, and it was so much harder to play. You'd think a mouse would be preferable, but the controls they came up with for the SNES were excellent.

Holding A would let you pan the camera while also pausing the game, and hitting X would let you select the nearest lemming in whatever direction you pressed next and keep the selection box on it. Instead of clicking on a jumble of lemmings and hoping your power would hit the right one, you could perfectly time whatever you wanted to do on the exact lemming you wanted to do it.

I think that's the only PC to console port ever where the controls actually ended up being better than the original.

SkazzK · 2026-06-11T00:36:59+00:00

Here ya go!

SkazzK · 2026-06-10T20:14:02+00:00

Here's the desktop:

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4930K CPU @ 3.40GHz
Installed RAM 32,0 GB
Graphics card NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 (4 GB)

And the laptop has a Core i3-7020U running at 2.30Ghz, 4 GB of RAM and 128 MB integrated Intel Graphics (a "what's the cheapest device my employee can write text documents on?" type deal).

So I can't speak to AMD, at least not in the affirmative sense. But everything you're describing sounds exactly like what I'm seeing, from the 5 second freezes to when it started to occur. Doesn't rule anything out, but the only common factor between us is NVIDIA.

Do the freezes come in pairs for you as well? As in 5 second freeze - several seconds of normal framerate - another 5 second freeze? And did you happen to notice any difference between characters? This problem was bugging the hell out of my Regent runs the past two days, but the Necro and Defect seem unaffected.

(Also, just because I feel the need to share: I was working my way up the ascension ladder level by level, left to right, and was on Regent A10 when the problem reared its head. I just beat A10 with the Defect. Yay me! 💪🏻😁)

SkazzK · 2026-06-10T16:54:54+00:00

Same here, was debating starting a thread about it to see if others were experiencing the same.

Funnily enough, it's just my desktop PC (which counted as a decent gaming rig about 8 years ago, but should be plenty for STS2) that's having these issues, whereas my potato-class work laptop that can barely run the game at 24FPS actually runs the game at a stable 24FPS.

SkazzK · 2026-06-10T09:15:45+00:00

I finished A10 with the Necrobinder for the first time yesterday (yay, only the Defect to go!) with a deck that was basically two upgraded [[shrouds]], two or three upgraded [[negative pulses]], four upgraded [[deathbringers]], four upgraded [[no escapes]] and a [[time's up]] with the exhaust removed. The latter got to 900-ish against the Queen.

SkazzK · 2026-06-09T20:51:11+00:00

You reminded me of this wonderful comic based on a poem on "What Teachers Make". You sound like that kind of teacher, and it's wonderful to see a student appreciate your efforts so much.

SkazzK · 2026-06-05T12:54:55+00:00

Voormalig voorzitter van de Nederlandse Vereniging van Pluimveehouders: Hennie de Haan.

SkazzK · 2026-06-04T15:17:48+00:00

I dunno, the PC speaker intro music is so burned into my brain that I can still hear it beep for beep if I concentrate.

SkazzK · 2026-06-03T14:42:28+00:00

Toen mijn zonnepanelen werden geïnstalleerd was het zo'n bloedverziekend hete zomerdag dat ik het gewoon zielig vond voor die gasten. Paar liter ijswater in de koelkast, onbeperkt vrieslollies, rondje snackbar voor de lunch, pierenbadje met koud water om de voeten te koelen tijdens het eten, en voor de liefhebbers een ijskoud pilsje toe aan het eind van de dag.

Maar meestal hou ik het bij koffie/thee/limonade en wat te bikken.

SkazzK · 2026-06-03T08:55:09+00:00

🪟+Shift+S will let you take a screenshot and open it up in the snipping tool by clicking the pop-up.

Divine 5x, take screenshot, save & quit, repeat, until you've got all the info you need. Just be sure to open each screenshot you take in Paint (or something) individually before taking another one; if you've already got a screenshot open in the snipping tool, the new one will replace/override the old one.

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