LadyCrimson

Listening to "The Mournweald" from Dungeon Siege 3. Still one of my fave pieces.

Haha! Planet Explorers will apparently have hovercraft. eg, we'll be able to build them and then fly around the world. Since there are flying creatures, maybe we can have aerial combat too. Even if we can't, flying sure beats "fast travel" for fun. What they show in the video is a crude physics test example, but yeah.... this could be good. $15+ backers will get to play around with it in Alpha 0.6. I really have to learn how to use the build editor better...

Take that back! Trudging through the glorious swamps is never passe! I love the stereotyped knights on armored horseback. It can be .. so majestic.

Yup. Who wants to wear all that armor outside of a more formalized battlefield? Wandering the forest swamp, hiking through the mountain passages, trying to sneak around in a dungeon. Probably can't climb a tree to get a bearing on your surroundings...not for me. ...but full plate does look cool/awesome, especially some of the crazier/wilder designs.

More like a small spoon.

I hear a Lex Luther cackle going on there.

I stand corrected. Altho I was more thinking about the actual size of those wasp waists. I can understand the physics of a design for blow absorption etc, but since I can't tell what the measurements of those armors are by looking at a photo/painting, they just seem....really really tiny, when compared to likely hip width (and I mean hips, based on leg-line position, not the flare-out point of the metal). But then, there were periods where a lot of women and possibly men corseted their ribcages upwards to form 17inch waists, IIRC.

Some people don't care much about those tech advances, outside of how it might be used eventually for something more practical/beneficial/interesting than smartphones/tablets. (and outside of must-for-work type stuff) Marketing is what's convinced the "masses" that they need certain things to stay connected with their loved ones/be in the loop, not an actual serious need. No different than children who think they have to have a certain toy because everyone else has it or "it's cool". Not that I care ... since that's true of most things we all buy and people can do what they want. They are interesting toys, to hear about what they're doing with the tech, with some occasional practical uses...just none for me. I think about buying one those things now and then, but I just have no need so I'd rather save/spend my cash on things that relate to my personal lifestyle more. Like that 90" home theater system. Screw small and portable. I prefer to go large.

Somehow I doubt functional (vs. decorative) female plate armor would have wasp waists, but what do I know.

Notary coming out next Wed. now. Mortgage savings more than we expected. Been some tight/cautious years but I guess it's going to be worth it, financially/future wise. Living where we do, wasn't sure we'd ever get there, but seems like we might. *knock on wood* You know what this means, right? ... my next PC (when I get around to it) will be rockin'. Dang, has it really been 5 years since we moved back up here? I must have been drunk the whole time because I have no memory of it all.

I've never done anything that silly, in any form....never I say.* *Translation: since there wasn't an ever present cellphone/camera presence when I was younger, no one can ever prove otherwise.

They can vary from restaurant to restaurant, and month to month (employee turnover) like most fast food joints. A good one is decent - for fast food - if you like your burgers messier, bigger, more flavor, vs. the fried-oil tasting hockey pucks of McD's. I don't like Jack n the Box or Taco Bell and outside of the fries, neither of us eats at McD's unless forced to while on vacation...so Carl's Jr. is where we go when in a hurry. They're definitely not the cheapest, however...at least where we live. ...and urgh, today I was completely burnt out. Zombiefied. But that didn't stop me from wondering if I could come up with some YouTube channel idea that would actually be worth trying to become a Partner. Probably not, but it hasn't kept my brain from considering it. It's not the possible small funds, it's just ... something that might be interesting to try, because it is there. I like video editing/making, could be fun, and I could use a new hobby to focus on, since gaming becomes less and less of a thing for me.

It's because your link is https, not http. I believe the "s" = secure server, which isn't necessary/desirable (I guess) for forum YT embedding. Remove the s from the address line.

Try hitting the X2 icon between quotes. Seems to force a half-space/space between multiple (separate) quotes. Why exactly I'm not sure, and how reliable it'll be for that purpose, I don't know. No solution for the weird deletion issues while in default mode tho. I've been keeping it in coding mode 98% of the time since the update, because every time I use the DEL key now, instead of deleting one character at a time, it deletes whole paragraphs instead.

I now demand that vendors sell "Blister Wrappings +2" in stores just to make Gfted rage. Actually, yeah...I think that could be pretty cool myself. Imagine giant purplish moons casting an eerie wash of color across a bright sky. Or whatever color suits your fancy.

Cutting back on caffeine was successful ... for about two weeks maybe. Then back to normal. And now beyond. Take a guess why I can't sleep the past few nights.

So...Calax as Clark and Ros as Lex. Maybe we can have a casting call for the other roles and have an Obsidian forumite Smallville production.

I don't care about realism per se - I just like the mood and upped tension in some situations, as well as the added gameplay of deciding to use light spells/torches because they have advantages, or line-of-sight illumination when tech makes it possible. But mostly, the mood. If it's not going to be very dark at all, why bother having it be technically "night" in the first place. Put it on a planet where there are 6 suns and night never truly falls and you can't even see stars in the sky, except maybe once every 2000 years when there's a total eclipse ... oh wait that's an Asimov story, nvm. Or yeah, you could have 3 bright purple moons, making nights bright but purple-hued.... Also, "realism" argument for darkness in general would still apply in basements/dungeons (underground) and buildings (if shades/shutters/doors are drawn). At the least, that "endless" dungeon should be darn dark after the first level or two.

Dear Swen: I'm wearing headphones right now, and your fave games video intro music nearly blew out my eardrums. YouTube shouldn't autoplay at top volume, I think.... Minesweeper is much more fun than Tetris, btw. Because I say so.

Why did this make me think of the film The Gods Must Be Crazy?

I'm often deterred for the same reason. Also, there's the other deterrent that what I really want is something ... new. Yet old-feeling. The old new. Or something.

We do have a Kickstarter thread for making simple links/announcements about projects, where I think your KS has already been mentioned...thought about merging this into it, but you made such a nice presentation of your KS project I'll let it be. I don't personally know anything about the game you're trying to emulate, but looks like a lot of effort and thought going into your project, judging by description, website and your forum. So I wish you good luck.

@rjshae - if you meant my home-gamma-darkened 2nd image, I already mentioned that just doing what I did results in too dark patches/loss of detail, and I'm fairly certain it could be done better by the programmers. I remembered one of the games I was thinking of .... the original Divine Divinity. DD did have the "perfect circle of light" effect around chrs. (and fog of war), but outside of that my memory thinks it had some success at making night feel more night-like and enemies harder to see in the distance (even when fog of war was removed) without being blind to anything on screen. But some would probably like it even darker than in DD... also, looking at screenshots from around the web it doesn't seem much "darker" than some of BG series nights/house interiors etc. Maybe I turned the gamma down when I was playing.

I keep trying to think of a similar sort of game (not some fancy 3D action game) where darkness wasn't "pitch black" and you could go without using torches, but torches etc. were still visually interesting effects/made a difference. I know I've played some but titles aren't coming to mind for me to Google for some example images.... Yes, exactly. I don't know why everyone assumes people are talking about "pitch black like you're blindfolded" when people say they want it darker and want light sources to have more of a visual/gameplay effect.

I'm not playing anything, because all I want to play is Project Eternity, and I can't.