LadyCrimson

Walking Dead finale - a bit anti-climactic, but decent. More importantly, soon it'll be Breaking Bad time!

Lets plays actually seem quite popular on youtube, I guess people are interested in seeing how other people play and how the experience differs to their own? I sometimes watch lets plays to see how other people do stuff, but my main use of lets plays is a way to preview and review a game. Screw big news site reviews, watching someone else play the game is a million times better. Yeah, that's why I usually watch Let's Play's, too. I don't often watch entire Let's Plays's ... I'll jump/skip around the first couple, to get an idea of interface/gameplay without spoiling myself too much. I find that a lot more helpful than written descriptions. But occasionally a LP-er is very entertaining/funny, if you're familiar with the game already, and then I'll watch for the comedy hilarity/the LP's charisma...but that's not often.

No, single player. It'll have a MP/team mode or something but I have no clue how that'll work. Maybe something like a castle defense mode. Exploring/questing does sorta feel/look early MMO-ish so far, but it's more like a cross between Minecraft/Spore (creation) + vastness/exploration/freedom of the MMO/open world.

They move all content into the cloud ? Hush, you. Don't give them any ideas. ....that would definitely put me off (new) gaming permanently.

I liked their simple FAQ list, especially the answer to the "How long is the game?" type question, heh. And from the looks of things, they probably won't have trouble at least getting the 400K. Over half-way there in 4 days. So yay.

You Shall Not Pass. At least not with the gear I had. I've been busy. Lots of tunnels/caverns you can't see, too.

Help, I can't stop mining in Planet Explorers. Now I know how Dig-Dug must have felt. After playing a fair bit with the 1st chr. to see the quests - everything from fetch/kill-this to 'fortify/protect this area" - and see the various enemies (they get hard fast) I started over so I could dig a "cave house" in that spot better/more elaborately. Screw building forts with stone blocks or using fast travel/running overland. It's much more fun to tunnel under the earth instead.

My first ugly gun Sadly I have no dye to color it with yet. The iron/copper colors are funky. Soon as you make it, you can wear/use it. Kills stuff fast, so that's cool. The outfit is pretty silly, however. Mining for resources suddenly turned into wanting to tunnel out a cave-home. Because I can. With ledges and a bed and fires. It's going very slowly... I'll build a "real" house at some point.

Anyone else suffer from irritating cowlicks? I've had straight hair all my life and the main cowlick is the top/back of the head, right side. It's not so much a whorl as an area of hair that likes to split left on one side, right on the other, meaning it can look like I have a part going half way down the back of my head. When I was younger it wasn't very noticeable/wasn't bad, even with really long hair, but the older I get the more unruly and "split" it becomes, causing my straight hair to no longer be so straight (gets wavy at certain lengths). And now it seems like I have one close to the nape of my neck, causing it to want to not lay flat back there either. My scalp is having a mid-life crisis or something! I've had short hair many times, but then you still have to style it to control cowlick issues and I hate hair that's "work." I just might finally shave my head. Maybe get a cat face tattooed on the top. Then probably a divorce from my utterly aghast husband.

Since the last 4-5 pages have largely been about a single KS project/controversy, perhaps it's time to split it off. Stay tuned. Edit: done, hopefully got all the relevant ones. Further/continued discussion on the Susan Wilson KS controversy can be done here: http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/63570-susan-wilsons-kickstarter-discussion-split-topic/

For the life of me I can't seem to figure out this Planet Explorer item creator/editor thingie. I get the idea, and I put together some stupid pistol which is the crap, but man...I suck at it. I think you can share your creations with others somehow...maybe I can steal someone else's weapons and cars, haha. Yes, you can make cars. And cannons. And stuff. The targeting for handheld ranged weaponry has an awkward feel to it in this alpha.

I thought I heard thunder outside, so I went out to see if it's raining. Blue skies and white clouds, semi-sunny, a little humid. Thunder again. Weird. Then a giant, fuzzy, black bumblebee tried to land on my shoulder and proceeded to chase me around the yard while Mr. Grey the cat twined around my ankles trying to trip me. And the thunder continued. Maybe I'm actually napping on the couch and it's all a surreal dream.

Haven't noticed any slowdowns anywhere myself. I must not surf that part of the internet.

The first update features a look at the editor ... which looks like even I might understand the scripting! Anyway, in the video they make a brief scenario via the editor, that made me laugh with a popular game reference. Oh, you cards.

Escort quest? Nooooo! ... oh wait, that wasn't bad. That's fine then. Glad he's not unfriendly unless attacked! Mining by campfire light. No campfire, can't see my own feet.

Don't have to be very tech savvy for that, since she has a ton of domains and registrar info is public legal domain. I remember when I got my first domain and realized that registrar info was visible, I immediately paid the bit extra for the proxxy listing services. But yes, that's a pretty douche thing to do. I have the feeling that's one reason she doesn't close it/take it down. Exposure.

I think Veronica is jealous of your stylin' red outfit.

That's pretty neat. Of course, then I showed it to my hubby and he watched me pan around and said "Yeah...it's a bunch of rocks." He has no sense of wonder.

I don't get it. Cop car I assume, but wtf is the guy in the costume doing in the first place? Heh.

I'd give a lot, sometimes, if someone would invent a product that would allow cats to open cans of cat food and feed themselves. Also, it's funny how if you watch someone sing, they can sound fine to your ears because their facial expressions help convey emotion to you which somehow elevates it, but if you listen without looking at them, they suddenly sound terrible. Or, vice versa.

Stupid Planet Explorer's alpha has me locked in and forgetting about time. Gah, I'm running late on some errands. The alpha does have rough spots but with a year to refine it hopefully they'll be smoothed over. Still highly addictive. I might even up my pledge a bit. But just to say ... if you aren't into building/creation/exploration-while-gathering-resource type games it's probably not a game for you. There is a story and quests, but it's not like Skyrim or something. ...must turn off game now...to do other things...

So what do people think about things like this one? http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1030276638/911-cross-country-road-trip ...does that qualify as "fund my car/vacation?" and not "fund my documentary?" Or this one (image) http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3sdrv4jhE1rugltbo1_1280.png I see stuff like that on KS all the time. The difference is, usually they're ignored or not noticed by backers. Your Kickstarter Sucks - all kinds wonky, weird, silly, and sometimes borderline projects from the past year.

You'll be an old fart in only 7 more years? Wouldn't that mean you're already an old fart? Just admit it.

I think concepts like Kickstarter are going to be prone to growing pains as they figure out whether rules they have work or don't work and how/when they wish to enforce them. I believe they have, in the past, been fairly harsh/closed down on some projects that broke rules, here and there but it wouldn't surprise me if they let some borderline ones slide all the time. I guess it still doesn't bother me in terms of the company itself and whether I want to fund interesting, legitimate projects. They'd have to do more over a longer period of time for me to think they're actually morally bankrupt or something. But anyway, to close/not close now is likely more about embarrassment ... someone at KS thought it was cute/adorable and promoted it, then other well knowns promoted it, etc. To turn around and then cancel it admits they were taken in, or maybe they think it'd make them look callous to youth, or whatever. So it'd likely take a bit more than email complaints to shut it down at this point. National broadcast investigative news story might work. I do think it's a valid point, now, that if the mom is now going to pay for the camp herself and donate the funds to some other organization (to which she's whining that she's not sure which place to donate to that doesn't break the KS rules), why not just close the project. The kid's point was made, mom's now going to pay for the camp, so there's no point in the KS at all.

Of Plumes and Kittens!