Hat988

CoH2 with 2800 hours. Many great memories. I will always be a little salty how the developers handed the game over to the community at the end. Fans made buggy and bad balance patches partly because they didn't have the full developer tools made available to them, partly because they only cared about esports 1v1 players, and I think partly because they had some favourite factions. Now the game is stale and crashes. Before, however, the balance was sometimes crazily out of tune, but it was always fun, and there was usually some creative way to counter or unexpected strategy to try. The next most played is Skyrim (SE and original) at 2300 hours, and it is probably the most played if I combine with the time spent adding and creating mods for them. Modding can be its own game of building your own playing environment. Lots of different tools to learn. A pursuit to achieve stability. There are some other really good games I have played and occasionally come back to, but these are by far the biggest time sinks. In CoH2, there was always one more twist to your strategy you wanted to try. In Skyrim, there is always another interesting mod to integrate.

Gorilla Munch really is the greatest. Instead of the restfully content ape of yore, there is now a younger one smiling excitedly and waving his arms.

I wouldn't say it irritates me, but I usually avoid reading large amounts of text or books as presented in-game. If I find I book that looks interesting in an Elder Scrolls game, for example, I will look it up on the Wiki and be able to control the text size and position on my screen with a more legible typeface. If it is Skyrim and I have a lot of graphics mods on, or if it is another demanding game with a lot of text to read, I find it absurd to be running my GPU and my case fans on medium-high, generating heat and attracting dust, all for me to be sitting reading a book. I would rather be exploring the 3D worlds I built the system for.

RTS or FPS I played both competitively for a short time each, not professionally, but I have the concepts of what to learn and improve on. I also enjoy those genres. Fighting games I have very little idea about, but they certainly look fun enough to learn if I have the hours.

I was doing a little trolling on the TF2 area of the Steam Powered User Forums one day and found a topic created by a user named 'hat'. As you may be aware, hats are a major part of TF2. Some of the replies were just asking how the OP got such a vaunted username. It seemed that nobody had bothered to try to register it, thinking it must have already been taken. Anyway, that was amusing enough for me and I needed a name for IntenseDebate on EqD. The 988 is because Hat was taken already.

I removed the habit by having the browser auto-clear history every time it closes and not save tabs. If there is something I still would want to look at I bookmark it. Now... I have a lot of bookmarks. At least it is easier to scroll through the bookmarks manager and use folders instead of looking at the tiny tab previews.

It's hard to find the right posture to read a heavy book like an encyclopedia or long paperback. Holding it up becomes distracting over time with the weight, but hunching over a table isn't good either. I'd like one of those drafting tables with the angled surface.

I recently watched Knights of Sidonia. It had some interesting concepts, but the series did not really involve me until the very last episode which had a nice character moment. There was a small number of memorable characters I was interested in following, but they suddenly reached a stasis of development fairly quickly. The action sequences seemed to be too frequent to consider other aspects of the world or story, except in season 2 where much of it became a simple love triangle story (in space!!) There were also some huge calamities that spanned an episode and were never mentioned again, with no evidence that they happened--this includes some character deaths. The main character experienced some challenges at first, but after a while he started coasting on his prodigious ability that was only semi-explained as genetic. The series was kept together by episodic cliffhangers. An interesting enough watch not to regret my time, but I wouldn't recommend it. I read it is an adaptation of a manga, so maybe that is told better. I did enjoy the animation style.

A couple of series I watched (can't remember the second) had a short clip show at the start of each episode showing what was going to happen. I guess it is meant to be a teaser, but I consider it more a spoiler. Many detective or thriller series are brainless to watch because there is always a handy line of dialogue to keep the audience up to speed. Before moving to stop someone, there has be "we can't let him do that!" so I, as a viewer, can nod and be informed of the goal instead of already knowing what it must be from paying attention. A good series that avoids this hand-holding is Foyle's War. Thirdly, the idea that a character is only important to enough to grieve (when they die) if they are romantically involved with a protagonist. So just before their dramatic death, they have to kiss, because otherwise we just wouldn't care!

For a while I was reading the comments on every video I watched and I noticed a lot of them sound the same. That's OK, people have similar thoughts on similar topics. Then I encounter a comment that I have certainly read before. It has a whole life story to it (it isn't a meme copy-pasted). It seems authentic the first time it is read but when I see it months later on a different video, and this phenomenon happens at least three times with different comments and commenters, I lose trust that the whole section isn't just bots angling to persuade me.

I would feel obligated to watch if I paid for a service instead of once-off for discs to keep.

I usually like to play as someone who gets right in the middle, causes havoc and disappears. Skyrim: two handed sword and heavy armour, FPS: SMG and movement perks, Skullgirls: Ms. Fortune. Even in RTS games I like to roll tanks through the opponent's supply lines and rally points. Games that are particularly good for this playstyle are Dishonored, Severed Steel, Metal Gear Rising. (Outdated now: CoD4.)

Godzilla: Monster of Monsters! for the NES.