LadyCrimson

I'm sorta assuming this clip is from a TV series episode. Does anyone know what TV series?

From windy/cloudy/occasionally drizzly (60-70F) to sunny/hot (85F-90F) in the space of 30 hours. And predicted to go back down to 65-70F by late week. That's Spring in California by the Bay for you. At least lately. Not a complaint, mind you. Just a wonderment of the fickleness of nature/weather.

That's why I've always like light spells in games. I think people do have to remember this isn't a 3D or 1st person perspective game, too. You're not going to have pretty Skyrim-y (modded) environments...and at a certain point of darkness, it's likely it wouldn't look all that great because the contrast of the more "painted" look of the 2d backgrounds would probably start to look terrible/lose all detail, or something...maybe...dunno not a graphic program expert. While it'd be great to have darkness mean more gameplay-wise, even at a minimum, for me I just think it's too bright at night in the video. There should be a lot more contrast. Even turning the gamma down/darkening it overall could alter the mood without limiting vision or feeling like you're "stumbling around in the dark." I'd be happy enough if the general "world" was just a fair bit darker/contrasted for a more moody effect. This is a still from the video with the original "night." And this is from simply lowering gamma and "darkening" it in a broad sense (excuse my "eXpeRt" photoshop skillz) ... and you can see how the loss of detail starts to look funny in spots with such simple alterations. But I'd assume the actual experts could do something better/more effective. The point is that it's more akin to the darkness-mood I'd like to see outside, perhaps. Not so "bright." You could make the smaller dungeon spaces even darker/more light source dependent (no moon in a dungeon after all), yet still not be "pitch black", I'd think, too.

I'd definitely like it if it was at least darker at night than it typically is in games. I don't personally need pitch blackness all the time (moonlit nights can actually be pretty bright, even if it's not a total full moon) but something darker that makes torches etc. feel more advantageous.

Thanks, Obsidian, now I can't sleep. I don't like this either. There is absolutely no dynamic shadowing. None. Zero. Zilch. The shadows from trees, bushes, etc. never move. I'd guess that's one of those things they still need to work on, assuming they're going to have them. It does seem a little odd once you look for it, but eh...doesn't bother me much at this point.

"I've got chills, they're multiplying. and I'm losing control. 'Cause the power...you're supplying, It's electrifying!" ...I have the graphic part of the video playing on loop and can't stop watching it. The music/sound effects made it even better. And I definitely did notice the character models. I thought they looked darn good as well ... the animation of their walking, the details in the zoomed in view. Thanks, Obsidian, for all the hard work, sharing it with all of us, and making me clap my hands together in delight like the little girl I once was. You all rock. This is going to be such a fun year.

Ah. I haven't played WoW in 2-3 years or more, I can't recall. Guess that's something they implemented much later to make the pets more interesting/retain interest in the game or whatever. It wasn't part of the original concept/what people expected and paid for when they bought the CE, originally. And...is Blizz actually charging $600 for the mounts, or is that 3rd party prices for people selling the "points" to others? I can't imagine even Blizzard would charge that much for a mount, even if it's a cool one you can take into a combat pit or whatever. If they are, that's just....stupid.

What? I'm not talking about gameplay pets (like the Hunter's pets) or mounts, I'm talking about the silly useless decorative pets that follow you around doing nothing but look cute. How does a player benefit from their exclusivity even in a MP game, outside of "bragging" rights? The Diablo "pet" in WoW was a Collector's Edition perk.

Oh, I'd fold on that one. ...but at least human children do eventually use a toilet/flush, won't butt-scoot all over your floor, and don't get hairballs.

This. Blizzard could choose at some point to make all those exclusive "pets" in WoW available to everyone, too, but I doubt that'll ever happen. Or countless other examples of silly little content/rewards/preorder/contest type exclusives from all genres. Whether Obsidian chooses to do so remains to be seen. I personally don't really care, since they're not gameplay affecting. Would I have liked a mini-Diablo pet in WoW if I'd known about it in time? Maybe, they're cute/funny. Do I care that I can't get one? No. But if you're lucky, Obsidian may make such available in some future package deal.

Someone posted this on the Bethsoft fora. So thanks to them for both the reminder of why I'm not "with it" and my chuckle of the day.

1st old thread a bit before my time. The Dating Thread ... I remember that one, heh. I think my fave thing, besides seeing those old names I haven't seen in a long time, is Big Green's closing post. Man time flies.

That's a serious game manual. I love it. I don't think I've had anything more than 150+ page paperback manuals with spiral wire binding.

Clearly, you need to grow an awesome goatee and tweeze your eyebrows a bit, so they can all call you "Ming" instead. Stop it, y'all are killing me. ....still too windy to rake (eg, it'd be pointless). At this rate the house is going to be buried under maple leaves by the weekend. Might have to get a shovel instead of a rake.

*logs into forum* "I think I'll make a quick reply in this thread." *starts typing but then cat yowls for food and hubby hollers my name* *runs off and forgets all about the forum for a while....* ...anyway....the Dead Island statue thing doesn't bother me simply because it's so obvious in it's ludicrousness/desire to shock that I can't take it seriously, and I'd suspect that's how it was intended. It's an Evil Dead sort of thing. But since I'm not into decorating my living room with weird horror stuff, no appeal for me. Well...a small statue of Ash in a ripped up shirt with his chainsaw hand upraised might be cool.... but other than that, not a horror collector. Catz roolz, dogz droolz, any1 who says otherwize is a fulz.* *j/k, dogs are cute too. Kinda. Maybe.

I have a DSLR camera....oh wait. Well, it's a mobile device, right? ....I have a cheap mp3 player and a cellphone-sized video camera and that's it. Still considering an e-reader but haven't actually bought one yet. Hubby has an iPhone (Blackberry's before that) and iPad, neither of which he'd have if he didn't require them for work. He uses the phone a lot and the iPad almost never.

It was really windy late last night, which meant that listening to it while lying in bed, my paranoid fears of some tree branch falling on my car or something grew with every intense rattling of the windows and each thumping noise of things blowing around in the wind, making it hard to fall asleep. Thankfully, all that happened was our yard now needs an intense raking. Hubby and I are pretty tired of this refinancing the mortgage process ... they were going to send someone to the house with all the papers to sign tomorrow, but (for the dozenth time) suddenly find out they need yet one more "thing" from us first, so it's been delayed again. Hopefully still get it finished this week. In case you're wondering, there's no local office to go to, so part of the delay is the problem of distance whenever they need us to send them one more piece of info or tax return or our first born child or whatever. PITA.

I don't think I'm a very good example for this sort of topic. I've always been more one of the boys then one of the girls, if that makes sense, so I'm used to a certain level of - for lack of a better term - boys night out hijinks/perspectives. From my view/lifestyle there's a lot of stuff on the internet/in gaming that is claimed as being sexist that I don't see in that light...thus, even if I'm not interested in it I'm not going to be offended or feel put upon when I encounter it. In terms of forums/'net specifically, it's been rare that I've felt truly uncomfortable or insulted by others simply because of my gender. Usually I'm aware it's meant inoffensively or as a joke, or it's cultural differences, or misplaced youthful aggression. True sexism via random social interaction on the 'net is something I've rarely experienced personally - probably because my interests typically mean I don't find/frequent places where it's likely to occur. As to a (perceived) lack of females on the forum - Maria had a good point about how the "official" forums for many of Obsidian's games are often located elsewhere, but I'm not sure that's specific to females. Certainly it's a reason for why these forums are often relatively quiet, especially between games/big announcements. More generally, there's also the transitory nature of the internet and people's interests, as well as why exactly any one person likes to spend time on the internet. There are long periods where I don't post much, here or elsewhere, even if I'm lurking a bit, simply because I'm not interested in most non-game topics or armchair politicking. Most of my 'net time is spent on the pursuit of specific game/entertainment discussion/help or light chit-chat/silliness and to be honest, at times this place can be too "serious" for me. Whether this is at all a male/female thing, I have no idea and don't pretend to know. I figured it's just my short attention span. Obviously I love it here regardless (as well as loving Obsidian). Still, sticking to one place for years and years, like I have here, isn't something that really happens a lot (but it's nice when it does). The internet is like an immense ocean full of millions of tiny islands and I'm sadly only equipped with a tiny rowboat. Only so many places I can put my full attention towards at one time. ...bah that got long, and I'm not sure I really said much of anything. Ramble-mouth....

The 2012 Snow White. ....I liked it more than I thought I would, in large part because of Charlize Theron's fun performance. So the first 3/4 I was mildly entertained, even when the film started to look and feel like LotR for a little while. But then it sorta fell into a downward spiral and the ending didn't match the rest. And I still don't buy Ms. Stewart as the "fairest of them all." Still, I sorta liked it overall.

Not a fan of that dude. Is he still alive even? Ahaha....I'd like to see forums fit that into their little sidebar boxes.

Oh god, can't stop laughing. Plus, it's true!

Di was awesome. Seems like I've seen her drop by and post once in a blue moon off and on over the years, but not lately. During Kotor2 there were more female posters here in that section as well but I wouldn't say there were "a lot" of them...at least not that I was aware of. I often find it a source of endless amusement on my YouTube account, where comments always call me a "he." The assumption that I'm male is pretty strong. But I've never minded. On YT my nickname doesn't indicate otherwise, and I've found even outside of gaming, that when people don't know, they generally fall back on "he" ... they're going to use something, and it's better than "it." Btw, the main reason I put "Lady" in front of my nickname when I registered for these forums was not because I care about shouting out my gender - it's because after trying several names - including my usual 'net nick at that time, which wasn't gender-indicative - and getting the "name already taken" message, I exasperatedly figured that sticking "Lady" in front of a random color would not be taken....and it wasn't. I don't generally care whether I'm recognized as female on the internet or not...altho there were a few times where I'd pick neutral names for gaming because I didn't want every male toon pretending to want to hit on my chr. Most of the time I realize they're joking, but after the 100000th time, it's not funny anymore.

I've seen that...it's not actually theirs tho. Just some guy who used to post snippets on YouTube then created his own site to upload his entire recorded collection or something. You can tell it's VHS recorded and I'm fairly sure there's some missing. I'd still rather have it on DVD.

I think the trailer looks terrible. Well, the sets look sumptuous, but outside of that. But who knows, could be good. And yes I've read the book/seen the Redford film. Book is great, old film is ok (I have a bit of a soft spot for it, but it's not really an awesome film).

Different spot...it's for a quest where one is supposed to protect a camp/refugee area. I got bored of working on the cave, especially without a concrete plan. I'll get back to designing that later. It looks something like this now tho: