What are you doing right now?

[EndOfTheEarth]

Besides posting on here and replying to this thread. Original credit for this goes back to Fate and Nathan on MX.

[nathan_p]

I basically tourguided some of my friends through Bioshock for a while yesterday (I did get to play, but we quickly determined that combat is not at all my strength... so I ended up going "go here so you can do X, and by the way Y is going to be useful" most of the time). So fun.

Excellent. I checked it over and the volume sounds fine to me.

[EndOfTheEarth]

The key, I've always found, is to fully upgrade the machine gun early on and hold off on the other weapons (shotgun included) for use against Big Daddies. Once I had that gun under control, most of the rest of the game became a joke. I almost never used plasmids.

[nathan_p]

I spent five minutes trying to walk around a banister at the very beginning of the game. (We were playing on Xbox, a further handicap.) Combat? Hahahaha no.

 

The person I played with for the most part had some kind of strange love affair with the wrench, and we kept missing upgrade stations, so... we didn't do too well. And kept pissing off Big Daddies.

[EndOfTheEarth]

So you're a PC gamer, or a PS3? I use the Xbox.

Hey, some of the hardest stuff is at the beginning of the game. I've been beaten by silly things like banisters plenty of times. Don't let it be indicative of your combat abilities.

 

The wrench is good if you're being sneaky and have the right gene tonics. If you're just wildly swinging it around, it's junk. And Big Daddies are easy, again, if you're using your Armor-Piercing bullets or electric buck...or the grenade launcher.

[nathan_p]

PC gamer. I kept mixing up "move" and "look"...

 

The first big fight (when Ryan locks the door to Port Neptune) kept killing us, repeatedly. "Shock the water!" I said after having the controller wrested from my hands. And she did. And got shot a bunch before someone else in the group pointed out that we were on Hard difficulty...

 

I don't know what her thing was, but damn, she loved wrenching things to death. And we were terrible at switching ammo, so I think we machine-gunned the Big Daddies to death with plain ammo.

[EndOfTheEarth]

There's the difference. I'm a plot nut, so I go Easy. It makes it simpler to read the headline on the Rapture Tribune if you aren't constantly being shot at.

[nathan_p]

Yeah, we switched down to Easy after that discovery, and died a lot less. I still felt rushed, so wandering around Rapture staring at everything is probably going to have to wait until I play the game on my own time.

[Contradiction]

Life moves too goddamn quickly. And I'm fucking exhausted.

 

I haven't even done anything today. I went to school, which was alright, and then I read about half of Paper Towns. And now I feel like a walking corpse.

 

Either I'm sick, or my hormones really, really hate me.

[Fake Fang]

...

 

*Tea*?

 

 

*is not good at helping people*

[Contradiction]

If you could stop time, that'd be lovely.

 

Otherwise, meh. I'll get over it.

[EndOfTheEarth]

Reminded again, by my younger brother's homework, why I'd make a terrible physicist.

[Xuut]

Redoing my Social assignment that I meant to do over the Christmas break. Really, this makes no sense. In all my other classes my grades are consistent, in Social it's like the teacher marks everything on how she's feeling that day and if she had a drink. I swear. Plus she hates pronouns (for some reason...) and asks questions that a ten year old could answer. I used to really like Social too. 

 

At least we get some interest topics. Today for example, we somehow strayed into, "small Oriental girls get more drunk than ANYONE ELSE!" Note: I am the only oriental girl in that class. And I'm shorter than almost everyone else. Cue accusing looks from classmates and everyone telling their stories of drinking, with the teacher chipping in. I'm not sure if this is awesome or ridiculous.