haha it does look like a penis, I've never noticed that. It's a sticker from the game we're following up so our logo will be similar but not penis like. We just haven't got our own stickers yet

Zoidberg's there to cheer me up when I've been staring at spreadsheets and Unity for 12 hours straight.

Useless fact - Zoidberg never actually said "why not Zoidberg?" before the meme blew up.

what would be an appropriate amount to discount a gaming PC that is about 2 years old?

I paid around $1300 for all the parts, just curious what an average depreciation rate would be. Like, ask for 60%? Ask for 75%, take 70%?

4th gen i5, 16gb, gtx 960, 2 solid state drives (graphics card and monitor are basically new)

A 2 year old gtx 960 is not basically new. To sell that for 800$ you need to catch a sucker. You can build a better pc for 800$ with new components. Unless you have one hell of a monitor on offer or those SSDs are big. I don't even know how you got to 1300 in the first place.

Then again, the world is full of suckers.

Yeah, i think for 800, you can get a new 970 with better i5.

Well, the price is what it's listed as on pcpartpicker now, which might not be accurate as to what I paid for it then. I'm just too lazy to look up the actual various receipts from when I bought it. Got it as like three orders from Amazon and one trip to micro center. Probably right that it was more like 1k.

Price I estimated earlier included a new 27" monitor tho, fwiw

27"? Pleb size.

Actually bought and returned a bigger monitor. Just didn't like the size.

I was listening to RetroGamers podcast Zelda NES episode and thought it was interesting how they talked about Zelda 2. They said it was completely impossible without a guide or using Nintendo Power or whatever. That's what lots of people, myself included, say about Zelda 1.

But I got through Zelda 2 on my own with very little trouble. There was one point where I thought I was stuck, so I posted on a forum with the assumptions I was making to deduce that I might be in an unwinnable state. They told me one of my assumptions was wrong, and so I went back and wound up solving it on my own. I did have a friend who happened to be in the room during the final castle coach me through the boss fight, but no big deal. The point is, the "puzzles" were not nearly as difficult as these retrogamers are remembering or imagining them to be.

There are also articles like this: http://www.cracked.com/article_19974...e-puzzles.html that talk about adventure game puzzles that are "impossible" to solve, but the 3 of those that I played I solved without any outside help.

My point is, people are really ****ing bad at guessing what constitutes a mentally difficult game/puzzle if they never actually attempted to put time into solving it themselves. It's easy to look at a solution and deem it "impossible" for anyone to figure out naturally, but when you're in the context of playing the game it might be much clearer than it seems.

So I'm probably wrong about Zelda 1 being all that difficult without help.

Cracked article was fantastic. Laughed out loud at the last two

The ****ing gnome better be on that list.

edit:

You won't be disappointed.

What's the name of the podcast? Searching retro gamers podcast brings up a bunch of hits

No Milons Secret Castle, no care.

Yea, for The Longest Journey, Gabriel Knight 3, and Hitchhiker's though they are all completely standard for the genre at the time. It's very en-vogue to laugh at them now a few years later when you can write out how ridiculous they seem in prose, but in context they were fine.

Babel Fish in particular is one of the simplest and most straight-forward text adventure game puzzles I'm aware of. It sounds nuts written out, but in the context of the game you're doing it one step at a time and it makes perfect sense. Not a difficult puzzle imo. All hype.

Oh my bad, it's Retronauts.

I remember solving a lot of the Zelda 1 puzzles by brute forcing. Pretty sure I bombed every rock and used the candle on every shrub in the game.

How mad were you when you finally got the red candle and realized you wasted so much time walking back and forth to reload the candle?

I did the same. Guess that's what you do when you are a kid with few games. Now I don't have time for that ****.

Thinking from an e-sports perspective, I wonder how well this Sea of Thieves game might work out.

http://kotaku.com/how-rares-chaotic-...ork-1782033340

Think about it. Could this be any less fun than watching a Starcraft game on twitch? Watching huge ships duke it out and then one of them slowly sinking over time sounds awesome

I like the idea of teams sailing the boat together.

One my first games was Buccaneer, so I've got a bit of a soft spot for pirate games.

Speaking about puzzles check out the RE7 demo. Still unsolved.

I am really anticipating Sea of Thieves. I hope it doesn't fall flat.

Nintendo recycled the art from a Spaghetti-O's can

That green shell is clearly orange!

overwatch already a bigger game than LOL in Korea

good things are happening