Hey Shacknews! The First Post! feature is back, and this is my first time running it. This article was designed to kick off conversation on our Shacknews Chatty forum back when we did not have a rolling 18 hour expiration on threads, but I have decided to bring it back after requests from the community. This article will go live every day, around 10:00 AM ET.
How goes your Blizzard boycott? Some players from American University held up a "Free Hong Kong, boycott Blizzard" sign during a collegiate Hearthstone broadcast. Please take a look.
in tonight's Collegiate Hearthstone championship, American University held up a "Free Hong Kong, boycott Blizzard" during the broadcast, which was quickly cut away by Blizzard pic.twitter.com/Y9eXtLfuGw
— Rod Breslau (@Slasher) October 9, 2019
Sounds like Facebook really learned a lot from 2016. The company rejected a request from Joe Biden's campaign to remove Trump ads containing false information. I wonder what the Shackers in the daily Trump Dump thread think of that? (Turn on political filters to see that massive thread)
Californians are bracing for potential power outages in the bay area as PG&E tries to prevent forest fires or something. Be safe NorCal Shack!
In case you missed it, we have several reviews that hit the site over the last few days:
- Concrete Genie review by Ozzie Mejia
- Indivisible review by Donovan Erskine
- John Wick Hex review by Josh Hawkins
- Burger Time Party! review by Chris Jarrard
What are you up to today, Shack? Let us know in the comments section. If you haven't, be sure to subscribe to Shacknews Mercury to help support our site for as little as $1/month. Here's a picture of Lola to start off your day.
Am I doing this right?
-
Shacknews
replyAsif Khan posted a new article, First Post! October 9, 2019
-
First First Post! post!
-
I remember when "first post" would get nuked.
-
Me too, it hasn't been a problem in a long while, probably won't be unless it happens too frequently again.
-
-
-
[deleted]
-
Nope
-
[deleted]
-
-
-
-
Yeah, the way the Chatty is presented on the front page articles isn’t ideal. Will definitely bring that up with the devs.
-
Niiiiiiiiiice.
-
-
-
Yes, you are doing it right.
-
[deleted]
-
[deleted]
-
added
-
-
What game are you (yes, you!) playing right now?
-
Resident Evil 4 for the Nth time, Link's Awakening remake, and Super Mario Maker 2 forever and ever. How about you?
-
I haven't played much of anything, recently.
My son is currently trying to re-create Hollow Knight's Path of Pain in SMM2 tho.-
That sounds... painful.
-
He seems to enjoy it lol
-
If I'm ever not working I will definitely get back into building levels. I'm jonesing for it I just don't have any damn time right now.
-
-
-
-
-
[deleted]
-
-
I love Castle Crashers and have been playing it from time to time with my kiddo! It's the only game I've played at all in the last six weeks. :(
-
-
I played a bit with my new girlfriend a couple weeks ago. She likes simple, retro-style games a lot, so this was right up her alley.
-
[deleted]
-
Thanks man
-
-
-
-
-
-
[deleted]
-
Hoping to re-borrow Link's Awakening, I only got about 5 hours into it, I'm not sure if I've done 2 or 3 dungeons, one thing felt kind of like a half-dungeon? Or maybe I'll put more time into the Gameboy Color version now that I've well overshot that save... which was only at the first dungeon as the next day the remake was announced; I do suppose I have my backlit GBA SP all charged up.
The other day I played a few hours of Smash Bros. Ultimate as it had been about six months but I saw Banjo & Kazooie dropped... so, obviously I had to get back to it. Ran a bunch more of the classic modes which is always fun.
Towards the end of my night I finally unlocked Luigi (I have something like 75 characters), and had an amazing run with him in Classic getting up to 8.6 but then got wrecked by Dracula. He is the boss I hate the most mostly because of that stupid high up limited hit box and enormous amounts of invincibility frames seconds. I used to hate the hands the most, they're still my second least favorite boss, but Dracula just isn't fun for me at all.
Got a bunch of Spoopy games installed and ready to go. Finally gonna play Detention, though I'm still annoyed I didn't pick up their newest game before it got pulled because Xi Jinping is a whiny little baby who can't take the slightest criticism.
Probably gonna play Paratopic first though as I know that's fairly short and light on violence which... I don't know, I'm not really feeling horrific/torturous graphic violence right this moment (hilarious graphic violence is pretty much always fine though).
Also I'm looking forward to playing John Wick Hex, that looks rad but I have yet to purchase it. Tempted to wait for a Switch version as it feels like it would be a perfect fit for the console. -
[deleted]
-
Never heard of it!
-
[deleted]
-
[deleted]
-
From the trailers, I get the idea that the devs don't speak English as their first language.
-
[deleted]
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
You, sir, have extremely good taste in games.
-
-
-
[deleted]
-
[deleted]
-
WoW Classic and Borderlands 2 (seeing if I enjoy it enough to warrant a purchase of BL3).
-
Dragon Quest Builders 2, I'm near the end (I think) and I'm ready for it to be over.
It was fun but the islands are all way too damned big. -
still fire emblem :3 i think astral chain is next up on deck though; it's already downloaded!
-
Haven't really played anything since beating Ori & the Blind Forest. Been playing Antimatter Dimensions but that's just a weird clicker.
-
-
Yeah, I've tried to get in 3 times, I don't even have all the characters yet and I just can't make it through. I think I'm done with traditional turn based RPGs, at least if they don't have compelling characters and/or story.
-
-
NCAA College football 2013!
-
-
Still Dead Cells and CounterAttack, LoL and Destiny 2, but I got back on some Grim Dawn recently.
Pisses me off how the Grim Dawn DLC was handled though. I can't use it with my existing characters, it branches them off into a "DLC Version"; I cannot play DLC chars with Vanilla chars. I cannot add a DLC class to my existing single class vanilla char (had the second class slot still open). Also the DLC has my chars at the levels and equipment at the time I purchased it I guess (5-20 levels ago, depending on char).
In Destiny 2 it feels weird to be "weak" again. I guess 'normalized' would be better. Also strange to have no gear superior to any others in power level. And I'm not wasting an upgrade on 750 -> 760.
I've only really gone in to check out any obvious changes; feels about the same, but I have occasional instances of 'too much shit going on/blowing up' video lag now. Also something feels off with the viewport / FOV. I upped it to the max of 105 (which I would like to note, is NOT 110), but still something not right.
As a plus, I feel that when enemies are shooting at you, the projectiles are a lot more ... readable? visible? slow moving? better models and/or lighting? I'm not sure, but projectiles coming from your front arc (in particular, though it seems improved overall) look way better to me now.
-
I finished Dragon Quest 1, and I'm almost done with Dragon Quest 2. I just need one more of the elements or whatever.. Im pretty sure I can just March in the castle and end it, but I want to get in area in the mountains with the fire.. There are a couple of other things I'd like to clear up, but I'm hitting that "What else can I do wall?".
-
BotW in master mode! I don't play games frequently these days so it's taking a long time.
-
Currently working through Gris and getting in a half hour or so a night of The Flame in the Flood.
-
-
Classic Shack! I love that this is back.
-
-
Wow. I had to do a double take when I saw "First Post!"
-
-
[deleted]
-
-
Gooooooood morning Chatty!
On the topic of Activision-Blizzard caving for the mere sake of profit to behaviors that I think we all wish China's government would stop, Washington State's Lieutenant Governor chimed in with a simple, "Shame".
https://twitter.com/cyrushabib/status/1181752500870713345
This isn't the first time I've said it, but I like Cyrus Habib, he seems like a good guy. I remember during the Sea-Tac Airport ICE protests he was quite possibly the first government official on site to support it, he got there really fast. -
-
lets not get ahead of our selves here
-
I want Late Night Consoling
-
Speaking of which- has Chris Remo disappeared since ending Idle Thumbs and moving to Valve or whatever? A strange void.
-
[deleted]
-
Nick has been somewhat active on Twitch:
https://www.twitch.tv/idlethumbs/-
Yeah he didn't go to Valve :/
-
-
-
-
-
-
Reading through the reviews of Indivisible and John Wick Hex on my phone, I feel that the score box is completely in the wrong place.
Putting the score box below the author blurb, the tags, the Lola and the related stories might as well mean it doesn't exist. The link to the chatty post is also too low in my opinion.
Is there a chance you're going to look into this? I know the text should stand for itself and the score box shouldn't be emphasized. But I really feel it's in the wrong place right now, essentially unlinked from the review it summarizes. -
[deleted]
-
I really like that you're bringing this back!
-
Would anyone be interested in a return of the top LOLs / tag count posts?
I've come up with a way to get the top lols, and posted about it over the weekend, although I didn't get much response. https://www.shacknews.com/chatty?id=38961335#item_38961335
I wouldn't want to have these post be under my account. I will provide my program and code to someone who would like to run it, or I'm considering possibly making an account just for these summary posts that the program makes. (And I'm looking at the 'terms & conditions" to see if that is allowed)
If a few people would like to see a return of my version of those posts, I'll figure something out. Also let me know if you have any suggestions for my formatting of those posts, or things I could add.-
I saw that, seems cool. I think you should do it!
-
Oh, one suggestion might be to delay each reply by a while so that the thread gets bumped throughout the day instead of all at once. It might get more traction that way? Not sure.
-
-
Yeah, would be nice to see again.
-
[deleted]
-
Bring back Bunched Up Briefs!
-
[deleted]
-
-
[deleted]
-
-
-
-
Hop on over:
https://www.shacknews.com/chatty?id=38974037#item_38974037
...or go to sleep like I should.
-
