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RPG Heroes Are Jerks
I have to give him credit for smashing the vases to get the medicine, and finding the legendary wedding dress among the rags. However, he forgot to kill the peasants for xp and you should always check the fireplace for any remaining food.
...lolwut?
FINALLY
How come this is still tagged with story?
Doctors do Massage in Longview WA now, who knew?
You think RPG heroes are bad, well let me tell you something: it's been engrained in society since I was only 1-foot tall. Every time I run through a forest, someone decides to encamp right in the middle of the path between tree lines. This is so stupid! It's practically the same as sleeping on railroad tracks, or on a heavily-used road for that matter! And when I try to sneak through, the fuckers awaken and kick me so hard my meats and stuff fall out of my bag! Knockers like me need respect when we travel on our own roads!
Anyone remember Robotrek for the SNES, which made you knock before entering other people's houses?
RPG coders are just lazy (relatively speaking) and don't want to code those features. Whatever...
At least with some games (Fallout) it affects your Karma when you do these things, steal and whatnot.
Fable too.. oh and you get attacked for theft.
BUT it is SO easy to steal.
~Mekkah
Yup. I've often wondered why the very people you're typically trying to save (in most stories) don't "offer" you stuff...instead, you gotta go through their home like a crack-head looking for the motherlode.
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What the fuck has happened to Slashdot?
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Damn, my RAM is full of llamas.
Many a family tree needs trimming.
Even Slashdot should follow its own wisdom.
Good but I would never of thought good enough to appear on Slashdot.
A rare miss for idle...
On the Oregon Cost born and raised, On the beach is where I spent most of my days
Idle? On the front page of Slashdot? What has happened?
What surprises me is that people are bothering to moderate this.
Wait, since the box is so small, am I supposed to use a haiku instead?
Idle is pants
Idle: Never go there! (see, it is all your fault!)
sage, etc.!
Well, I think the story is that the corporate overlords thought "let's be more like digg (and reddit?)" and pushed this crap upon us :/
There has been a whole game (an RPG) made about this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon:_Remix_RPG_Adventure
Had funnier jokes too.
WTF is this doing on slashdot? It's amusing to some extent but it is NOT worthy.
"Where are you taking grandma?"
"Where are you taking grandma?"
"Where are you taking grandma?"
--Chag
Basically, you're all just trying to think of how we can relate this to an operating system argument, rather than nostalgia for 16bit consoles. And throw in a slippery slope argument, whammo, it's f*ing Ebaum's world in here. No, it's just funny/weird and a little misplaced. Enjoy or ignore. Slashdot should welcome the diversity (err, pagehits) and attracting new members, as long as they don't stink the place up with lousy posts (like this one). It is hard to be relevant with such an irrelevant OP though.
If you don't like idle, why are you even reading this article? Seriously, it takes a special kind of stupid to be here commenting on an article then. It's like going out of your way at a buffet to grab a heaping load of beans, and then complaining about how much you hate beans and how idiotic it was for them to put the beans up on the buffet.
"Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSyfGm6wXgs
...is the image next to the article (!). Makes me think of the knight from Monty Python who would smack people in the head with a chicken when they said something stupid.
Now that you mention it...
Never underestimate the potential of Human stupidity. -Heinlein
If you don't like idle, why are you even reading this article? Seriously, it takes a special kind of stupid to be here commenting on an article then. It's like going out of your way at a buffet to grab a heaping load of beans, and then complaining about how much you hate beans and how idiotic it was for them to put the beans up on the buffet.
If I had mod points, I'd mod you up. Why people do that is beyond me. If it's so offensive, stop reading and skip to the next article!
I played this quirky little game named Earthbound just this week, and the heroes actually don't steal stuff (it's even pointed out by a NPC at some point).
The only situation where you actually "steal" is optional and the owner actually goes "How could you...?".
That was a funny video. But what an annoyingly long ad for Nintendo I had to sit through!
-- Cheers!
Okay, this struck me as pretty funny. Mass Effect 2 is pretty conventional for an RPG in that there's a lot of random "break into this wall safe you just happen to be passing by" action. And despite the fact that the game has a classic Bioware "light side / dark side"... no wait, sorry, "Paragon / Renegade" meter, it never seems to budge, no matter how many times you appropriate other people's property.
Normally I'd have overlooked this as just another silly convention of the genre, but there's a scene quite early on in the game where you stumble across a pair of looters ransacking apartments in a part of town gutted by a plague. The looters point out that the residents are mostly dead, and therefore not likely to care. But of course, you get the dialog option that says "No more looting."
It just struck me as funny, considering that on that mission alone, I had already collected a bunch of cash by hacking bank terminals and raiding the coffers of a quasi-legal mercenary group.
There's an elixir in almost every single clock.
Observe your motivations for breaking the arbitrary laws of the current government. Do not miss your chance to be one of us and create the new world order.
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Nothing like a baddie-controlled AI telling you off for robbing apartments...
Through the RSS feed, Idle stories are indistinguishable from regular ones. The RSS buffet contains beans carefully disguised as other foodstuffs.
USE HOT GRITS WITH STATUE OF NATALIE PORTMAN (NAKED AND PETRIFIED)
I mean, really -- they *sell* you swords. They aren't really interested in helping you or the side of good in general. And the few people who *don't* charge you want you to rescue their lost kitten or something before they give you the Gem of Shining Awesomeness or what not. So loot away, adventurer -- villagers are jerks.
This story appeared on the front page for me, expanded, even though most things from idle do not.
If you don't like idle, why are you even reading this article? Seriously, it takes a special kind of stupid to be here commenting on an article then. It's like going out of your way at a buffet to grab a heaping load of beans, and then complaining about how much you hate beans and how idiotic it was for them to put the beans up on the buffet.
Thank you for saying the same thing I wanted to say, except you said it much better than I would have.
I'll take the liberty of modifying yours to say the buffet is free for nearly everyone, only a few voluntarily pay for it.
Is it me or is FlashBlock extension blocking this embedded video? It isn't on my three PCs with Mozilla's SeaMonkey v2.0.3.
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this was on the front page for me. i dont like idle, i dont even use firehose, but i've been reading slashdot since it's inception. I'm not even a fan of slashdot 2.0. I liked the video, but osu-neku is frustrating....
It was such a hassle to remember from which merchant I stole which items... :(
It's not easy being an everyday jerk
He also forgot to pick their pockets as those damnedable peasants were obviously filthy rich and holding out on him.