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Lord_Mord
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Nowadays most fans of CRPGs are not teenagers anymore and maybe they can't afford to replay a game over and over again.
I don't know, if there are more people like me, but I choose my games very carefully and if I found one that I like, I play it over and over again, sometimes for years, as I don't have much time and often don't touch it for weeks. My last BG playthrough (together with my wife) lasted 2 years (We installed every possible mod, that wasn't cheesy). Since PoE came out, I didn't play anything else and I like it that way. What I expect from PoE2 is even more content and a high replayability (Which is part of the reason, why I will always prefer variety to balancing). I have no interest in other than IE-style games and that is unlikely to change.
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What does the OP mean when saying Obsidian gave a Black Isle for free? This post seems to assume information that not everyone is privy to.
Black Isle is still out of business, to the best of my knowledge.
Fluffle raised money for a pirate crew inside the game, called the Black Isle Bastards. Obsidian gave us the "create an island"-thingy from the fig campain for free. So the game will have a pirate crew, a ship, if I'm correct and said island, called the Black Isle.
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I had no girlfriend until I went to university. Maybe that was a factor.
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I hope you watched Firefly instead. That would patch things up.
Of course I did. I never really understood the hype, as for me Firefly didn't really feel innovative or something, but it was fun. I was more into older and/or more obscure series at that time. Beyond westworld, the prisoner, that kind of stuff. Whatever I could get my classmates to find and burn for me, as I didn't have a normal PC or any clue how to manage that on my own.
Oh and endless TOS repetitions on TV of course.
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I just watched a video. The Kirk character is indeed ... ok. But now I've watched more gilmore girls than I ever intended to.
Well, you missed Kirk, sitting in the sauna.
What have I done with my life?
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Where have you been when Gilmore Girls was on air?
In another room, mostly.
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It scares me that you know the names of these characters.
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I like all that "Aloth - the master of the rapier" stuff.
Never played him any other way. Spelltongue upgraded to legendary plus some Concelhaut spells, plus the ability to confuse everyone around, when it gets too dangerous. My Aloth is unstoppable in melee (I recently found that cloak that lets him disappear on crit. Makes him even more unstoppable). And he's a good shooter, too. I never understood all that whining about useless mages in PoE. Aloth is the most important member of my group and can even replace Eder as a meatshield if necessary. At least for a while. Like some kind of swiss army knife. I think, I'll try an Aloth solo run.
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Not really going to help the character or the story become truly memorable.
I found PST quite memorable. Remember the first time you woke up in the mortuary again?
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You know, man and woman have different expression of speaking in Japan
Would you mind explaining that to me? In what regard? Sounds very interesting.
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It's clearly something. You don't stick weird codes in your marketting materials for no reason.
I would. Costs little to no money and is always fun.
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How about that: It works with guns, but only if you threw alcohol on them.
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If they would really decide to make Ydwin a full companion, but leave out the fishing and sea monsters, I would be really, really, seriously disappointed.
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They do, don't they, just like the pigeons.
You are indeed a genius.
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Who is the arrogant one, the man who knows and states what he knows, or the man who doesn't know but still demands his opinion to be treated with the same reverence as real knowledge? If you validate the ignorant and their positions, you're obscuring the truth. And the truth quite frankly doesn't give a **** whether people 'like' it or not, neither do I. If you cannot accept reality just because you don't like it, then you're not worth much anything. All thoughts and opinions are *not* valid, no matter how much people who don't know anything about anything want them to be. Thare's only one 'side' that matters, and that is the Truth, not 'my side' or 'their side'.
Derek Kruger already gave you an answer.
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This topic has completely derailed into pretentious nonsense.
Your mother is pretentious nonsense.
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The moment when you can buy 4 minutes and 33 seconds of silence on itunes is when I roll my eyes and say: "enough is enough"
I burned it on a CD once, together with rather normal music (Tom Waits and stuff). Everytime I listen to the CD, there comes this moment of silence, when you realize, that you didn't actively listen to the music anymore. Then I think "There it is" and just listen to the silence for a short time. I think, I even would buy it. I should. I mean, even if his intentions were different: He created this moment.
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It is so interesting how different people perceive that kind of stuff. I never really got into Penderecki, but Cage instinctively makes sense to me.
Apparently the following isn’t supposed to be funny.
But apparently it isn't supposed to be serious either. In the beginning the showmaster says "I take it seriously. If you are amused, you may laugh". I think that describes it best. Personally I consider it music and really enjoy listening to it. Even the laughter of the audience adds to the whole experience. It is not totally random and one can hear that, the whole performance has a clear structure and rythm which I find quite calming. As if the natural sounds of an environment were somehow magically ordered, but in a not obvious way. It's as if he searches for the minimum amount of order necessary to consider something music. Well, I don't really know how to put it. I guess, either you dig it or you don't.
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Now I am like that guy posting videos of IMCF - my passions has hijacked the thread!
I would love to continue, but enough is enough, I guess
However your view on nationalist composers was very interesting. I never saw it that way. I always subsumed those kind of composers under "Naziguys like Wagner, but from elsewhere". Thanks for the talk.-
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Pigeons are funny creatures, and there's a whole flock of them here. The only thing you have to do in order to attract them is bring in a chessboard. they think they're good at the game. ^^
After you've attracted the initial flock, they'll bring in others who are too afraid to play but they love to watch and comment.
I'm kind of on your side on the vision topic, but man: You are an arrogant son of a bitch.
Regarding your argumentation style you are the pigeon here. I even took back a like yesterday, because I didn't wan't to support that anymore.
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HOW DARE YOU! Also whose performance did you listen to. I personally, like my violinists vintage, russian and, probably by now, dead.
Therefore, Papa Oistrakh everyone:
Wow. That makes a big difference. I almost like it that way. Still not my taste, but I think I can dig it now. I listened to Soyoung Yoon with Poznań Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Marek Pijarowski. She plays it way to nicely. Compared to Oistrakh it sounds like the soundtrack to a fantasy movie.
lol Sibelius was very much nationalistic composer. Many of his works are promoting Finnish "spirit" often painting landscapes. I think this concerto doesn't wonderful job at that, with chilly, icy but lyrical opening and lots of storm within the concerto.
Being nationalistic doesn't automatically mean that you have a vision. Many people confuse that these days. You can't just borrow a vision.
Also we, classical musicians, are all bleeding hearts - the more depressing and sad the better:-D.
I am using Xan as a profile pic, so as you can imagine, I can pretty much identify with that. It is not the tone that I don't like about Sibelius, it is the pathos. In my opinion pathos buries the vision under theatrical gestures and inappropriate emotional overstatements. But then again... How do you musically paint a finnish landscape without pathos?
(Sry, if I sound pretentious. I can't always find the right words in english)
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Sibelius’ Violin Concerto in D minor, op. 47
I don't know. Seems a little bit ... fuzzy to me. Visionwise.
Strong start but whole passages of that thing only consist of meandering around, sometimes the oboes or other instruments kick in a bit, as if they don't really know if it's already time. During the Adagio it gets worse. Like the soundtrack to a sad romantic movie about two undecided persons with a very short attention span.
Unless ... unless the vision was that of a violin that was being shot at and is dying lonely in the woods. Small glimpses of hope here and there, but deep down we know the wound is terminal and in the end the oboes will get it. (OK, not the oboes. The other violins. But that is kind of sick and not that funny.)
But what do I know? Maybe I'm just a little simple-minded. I'm a guy that mixes Bach with Captain Beefheart. But both of them got vision, nobody can deny that. So had Keith Emerson, Moondog, Meredith Monk, James Joyce, Burroughs, even Ayn Rand that stupid maniac and tons of other people, that simply didn't give a **** about customer feedback.
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Eh, Fighter/Druid is a way better class than unkitted fighter, especially since Jaheira spent her time in the cell learning to catch flies with her bare hands.
That does not change the fact that she's annoying.
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Poor Khalid.
I wish he had taken Jaheira instead.
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However your view on nationalist composers was very interesting. I never saw it that way. I always subsumed those kind of composers under "Naziguys like Wagner, but from elsewhere". Thanks for the talk.
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Yes. Various.