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C'mon, man, he was just expanding his consciousness.

With his butt?

Personally, I find it difficult to conceive of a better way to push back ones horizons right now.

~Payne: May be on a Freudian kick when he's pissed as a lord

This is definitely not balanced for friendly fire.

If it was, I'd play an Asari Adept all day long, casting Stasis on people and shooting them in the head with the Arc Pistol.  It'd be instant death, and terribly unfair (incidentally, that class and setup should be my next video, after the two I upload tomorrow).

But then, this was designed with only one game mode in mind.  It may be that the devs will introduce PvP...though a lot of people are not interested in it.

I like a Co-Op game where you still have to be accurate and, yanno, good.

I will always prefer the satisfaction of taking down AI players to those who are merely human.

Or, if they're clever, you'll get none.

This has NEVER happened.

TRUDAT!

Does anyone actually consider discordianism to be an ideology? That seems like it would be a counter productive stance. Just wondering...

I have one response to this.

lol, 23

Zipper! A jumbo banana drippy guy is such a nice Toyota burger.

But yeah, to the OP, and I'm glad this thread is starting to go somewhere.

I've considered quitting Discordianism several times in the past, but I decided not to. Neither was because of anything ideological. It was all because of the people. I thought about leaving because I didn't feel like I really belonged, but I decided to stay because you're all so damned interesting. See, that's what's nice about Discordianism. It doesn't have any sort of rigid definition, so someone who practices Khaos Majhgihadickques and a pseudo-nihilist who just likes to fuck with people can both call themselves Discordians and neither will be wrong. This means there are all sorts of people among us who specialize in all sorts of delightfully obscure areas of knowledge and have a lot to say about just about everything. We don't agree on anything and we don't all know the same things, so when you're in(or even just reading) a conversation with Discordians you're always being challenged to learn new things and figure out the "right" side of an argument.
Ultimately, what separates us from the monkeys is the old mantra: "Think for yourself, schmuck!"

I've fucked off from it before (actually have never "bought" into it...) but I am enlightened enough to realise I need the likes of Roger, Nigel, LMNO and ECH to piss me off with their incisive and deeply-personal-without-intending-it-for-me.

Seriously. All the above are assholes and degenerates of unspeakable magnitudes and they're fucking good at it - good enough that I place value on what they say enough to change my mind/ challenge my beliefs/ analyse my reasoning more than on any other persons. Which is a belief structure in itself, but one I can recognise, rationalise and change if need be.

Does anyone actually consider discordianism to be an ideology? That seems like it would be a counter productive stance. Just wondering...

It's not a really useful question, is it?  Discordianism, done right, is too nebulous and mutable to be defined trivially.

Discordianism is more like a sensibility.

Fuck off, no-longer-active poster.

Discordianism is an ideology as much as any other. If it's a word you can tack a "^TM" onto, and something 'interesting' enough to form and field at least 3 opinions on, it can be an ideology.

Interesting point:  When dealing with outlandish noobs, we could ask them what they'd be without Discordianism.

POINT!

What am I without Discordianism? Same twisted little fuck but with less people on my wavelength.

I can attest to this.

And it's almost the only thing P3nT and I see eye to eye on - We're the same people as much with an ideology as without, which puts us both (and many others here on PD) in a Commodore Perry sized dinghy. One with entire batteries of 460 cal cannons.

They help the other 94% of our planetary cohabs get with the fucking program, is what.  Without an ideology to guide them, they'd go the way of the neandertals.

I'm quite sure that's the rationalization.

And it sure helped in 1939.

Oh, point.

So how do you propose we keep ideologies from the masses? 

I don't.  I am uninterested in saving the masses.

That's Payne's job, anyway, and he's dead.

He didn't learn from Curly's fate.  Or Jesus.  Or MLK.  Or Gandhi.  Or Malcolm X.  Or John Dillinger.

The masses don't want to be saved, and they'll kill you if you try.

Oh, that's more like it! A good ol' crucifiction, that's exactly what I was ordered for end, when all the bastards are screaming at me about how it's my duty to help them out.

They help the other 94% of our planetary cohabs get with the fucking program, is what.  Without an ideology to guide them, they'd go the way of the neandertals.

I'm quite sure that's the rationalization.

And it sure helped in 1939.

Oh, point.

So how do you propose we keep ideologies from the masses? 

I don't.  I am uninterested in saving the masses.

That's Payne's job, anyway, and he's dead.

Wait, what?

That's MY job? I thought my job was to die for the fuckers and make them feel slightly bad about offing me - for at least a few weeks.

[SECURITYTM]

Whatever you do, CPD, if you find yourself in a situation where you require the assistance of your HIMEOBS security force, DO NOT authorise your unit to engage the threat in the Salazorian Battle Formation, no matter how strongly they recommend it... and they WILL recommend it.

I've heard it described as a combination between a human pyramid and a human centipede. Horrible, horrible.

I can't even get my security force to quit upper decking their own toilets.  A fight with those fucking Salazorians would have the entire upper atmosphere declared a biohazard. AND I'D BE BILLED FOR IT!!!!! The UN would hire fucking BP and FEMA to handle the space-side clean-up. And while the reek of Dawn dish soap would be a nice change from HIMEOBS BURRITO-FLECKED SHIT STENCH, I don't think the world would thank me for it. And then all the damages from the falling shit-nugget/Salazorian meteors . . .

All I wanted was my neighbor to stop letting her fucking poodle shit on my lawn. 

THIS IS NOT THE SECURITY^TM AND FREEDOM^TM I ASKED FOR!

Thank you.  Those two videos were certainly not my best commentary, either.  I really need to try not doing it live some day, and see how much of an improvement that is. 

It does remove the challenge somewhat, though, which is no fun.

I've not played ME3, or any of the mass effect games, but I like the in-the-moment commentary. I also want to buy the game so I can play it cause it looks cool, but I'm fairly certain my computer and connection would be a little problematic.

Depends, Mass Effect 1 was released in 2008, so your computer, unless it's really quite old, should be able to handle that.  Even ME3's shiny graphics are not that system intensive...hell, the main problem is putting up with Origin, EA's craptastic answer to Steam.

You only need internet for ME3 MP too.

Once I finish the Dragon Age playthrough (likely from about May onwards), I may do a singleplayer ME1 to 3 campaign.  Probably without player input though, just my choices.

Well, ME3 MP was pretty much what I wanted.

My entire life was shunted into weird new directions by playing Battlezone online a couple of years after it was popular - meeting some guys online that drew me to Edinburgh, so I'm always down for a decent bit of multiplayer. Plus, hilarious shit always happens to me in multiplayer games - it'd be amazing to randomly feature in one of your commentaries accidentally blowing my head off right in front of you for absolutely no reason.

"Oh my, that's alarming", you'd say. "I don't like that!"

And I would be shame, and it would be like old times^tm.

Well, the recommended specs are 1 gig of RAM, Direct-X 9, 15 gig on the HD and a 1.80 gig processor.

As for internet, I'm out in the middle of nowhere, using wireless which reaches a download speed of around 800 kb/s and I can host games no problem...when people actually join my lobby.

It may be better to wait for Mass Effect 4 if your computer isn't already up to that level...given the success of this multiplayer, which was originally made with minimal effort and not expected to be at all popular, the chances are they will put up a significant budget for the next installment of the game.  They may also actually get around to working several bugs out of the game, and balancing the weapons and classes properly.

Also, no friendly fire, thank God.  Well, except for locking people in the reactor on the Hazard Reactor map, and killing Possessed Abominations when they are next to people.  Having an all biotic team using Lash, Throw and Pull to throw the Abominations at each other is actually very, very funny...but most people I knew from playing the game are either playing something else now, or else waiting for ME4.

I find online multiplayers are at their best when the game is a couple of years out of fashion. But, yes, maybe ME4.

And friendly fire is the best element of any game that has it. Otherwise it's like me playing my (incongruously and bizarrely) addictive F1 racing sims with the damage, tyre use and fuel use turned off.

Interesting that every post in this thread is now blank, on my end. Internet is taking a shit.

This is PD.

Every post might as well be blank, and there are certain governmental agencies working to make it so. (They may or may not be headed by Patrick Stewart...)

Well if Patrick Stewart wishes it, then make it so!

I'm holding out for Frakes sitting down unconventionally, but after that I'm all in.

The Winner Takes it ALL!

P.S. The Winner Is Cain

Interesting that every post in this thread is now blank, on my end. Internet is taking a shit.

This is PD.

Every post might as well be blank, and there are certain governmental agencies working to make it so. (They may or may not be headed by Patrick Stewart...)

Thank you.  Those two videos were certainly not my best commentary, either.  I really need to try not doing it live some day, and see how much of an improvement that is. 

It does remove the challenge somewhat, though, which is no fun.

I've not played ME3, or any of the mass effect games, but I like the in-the-moment commentary. I also want to buy the game so I can play it cause it looks cool, but I'm fairly certain my computer and connection would be a little problematic.

Depends, Mass Effect 1 was released in 2008, so your computer, unless it's really quite old, should be able to handle that.  Even ME3's shiny graphics are not that system intensive...hell, the main problem is putting up with Origin, EA's craptastic answer to Steam.

You only need internet for ME3 MP too.

Once I finish the Dragon Age playthrough (likely from about May onwards), I may do a singleplayer ME1 to 3 campaign.  Probably without player input though, just my choices.

Well, ME3 MP was pretty much what I wanted.

My entire life was shunted into weird new directions by playing Battlezone online a couple of years after it was popular - meeting some guys online that drew me to Edinburgh, so I'm always down for a decent bit of multiplayer. Plus, hilarious shit always happens to me in multiplayer games - it'd be amazing to randomly feature in one of your commentaries accidentally blowing my head off right in front of you for absolutely no reason.

"Oh my, that's alarming", you'd say. "I don't like that!"

And I would be shame, and it would be like old times^tm.

SLIGHTLY?

Cain's voice could power-bottom me all night long.

I'm a little turned on right now.

No need to be embarrassed. Cains superpower is pance-wettening, and rolls 2d12+Charisma for damage.

I believe it.

Cain, if you want to branch out your videos, you'd get all the fan-girls if you did readings of various poems and books and put 'em on YouTube. Although you'd get compared to Benedict Cumberbatch in the comments for every vid.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNPp74zh8lM

Ah yes. Panties were exploding left and right in that audience And then later online. And every time it is viewed, I am sure. I laughed loud enough to wake up my roommates, when I watched it.

I didn't like it. I'm sure I read in your post a certain british style inflection and dryness that makes me think you didn't either. Although that's hard to do online.

Basically, I just thought you were Helen Mirren being sarcastic at me, and it thrilled me.

I found it to be something of a cheap trick. But I did laugh. I secretly believe Benedict Cumberbatch found that whole thing repugnant but did it anyway in the name of selling his image.

I still find the name funny.

Ben-eh-dicked Come-ber-batch.

Eh.

Needs work.

Though the name generator is endless fun, that has just this past minute or so made me almost drown in dr. pepper/ coca cola mixed with famous grouse, when swallowing became a thing I used to do at a very inopportune moment - following the moment I read "Blubberdick Chickenstrips".