LadyCrimson

I'm still waiting for the bobbleheads.

They had another kickstarter for something else that failed. They asked for $20.000 for that one. *looks* Hahaha....velvet superhero capes. If you had donated $25, a terrycloth cape! Donate $1000 and 4 deluxe velvet/silk capes! Hahaha.

That seems like a pretty cool idea, I like city builders a lot so is good to see more. Ooooo.......me likey the videos. I'd be more than willing to try that one. Need moah CB's. I've been waiting and waiting to hear news from Tilted Mill on their Medieval Mayor, but they've fallen silent. (edit: they did have recent power failure issues, pretty bad, but I mean no news on the game itself).

I'm not sure I'd consider cloud-saving of games a "sensible reason." Maybe a personal preference, but "sensible?" Not really. ...that's not an anti-Steam comment. Just saying, heh.

Yeah, that's how I'm seeing this venture too. They might be better off creating a new low-budget IP instead, tho. I'm concerned that there's not enough of an audience for an old-new MM-rpg, and then they'll be back to thinking that because one didn't work, that there's no audience at all.

Earlier: Hubby: "Think I'm done with that." Me: "Yeah? What now?" Hubby: "Maybe I'll go rescue Brick." Me: "You don't rescue him, you're impressing him so he'll...." Hubby: "No, I'm rescuing him from the boredom of being surrounded by his pansy wussy Slabs." Me: "...I suppose you could look at that way." Hubby: "Don't worry, Brick, I'll save you!" Me: "...you need help."

I think it is cute, and well, if her parents say it's cool, why not. But yeah...I won't be pledging either. It's not what I personally want KS to be about. But it's not really that surprising that it may go this way, outside of the "bigger name" projects at least. I've seen plenty of silly or minimal concepts for KS projects long before this. It's not all about gaming, after all. And y'know, I could use a new camera and a couple Canon lenses....so hey, if anyone wants to help me out with that, I'd be glad to send them a copy of every cat photo I've ever taken, in one downloadable .pdf file.

Stolen - that Nic Cage flop. Hahaha....Cage didn't go all over the top but what a terrible movie. Still, it's almost bad enough to be amusing.

*looks at the teaser trailer* Hm. Well, turn based is good. The graphic look that I can see is sorta "meh" - and I don't mean because it's not "shiny" (I actually hope they won't go too crazy graphically). But it's a start.

Dear Diary: URGH. Just URGH. ...time to relax.

Well, we watched The Hobbit. Never got around to seeing it in the theater. For the first 1.5 hours I was lying on the couch with an ever growing sense of "this movie sucks." Not "meh," or "it's watchable" but "sucks." But then latter half picked up and became watchable. At the least, it gave me hope maybe the 2nd one will be a bit better. The issue for me was at no time did I feel any connection to the characters, not even Gandalf. The dwarves were slapstick-y and outside of Thorin, I couldn't tell you who each one was, or why I should care what happens to them. Love the actor playing Bilbo tho, and so far he's the saving grace in the movie for me, even if his role really isn't much yet. And yes I read the book....when I was maybe 11. But the only thing I really remember was the riddle/Gollum sequence. Which was ok in the film, except they removed almost all tension/intrigue. Anyway, the LotR films had their own set of pacing/filler issues too, but at least it made me feel something for most of the characters, pretty quickly. By the end of LotR, I was desperate for the next film. At the end of The Hobbit....not so much. I'll watch it a 2nd time tomorrow, see if that changes my mind about anything.

If I had a cellphone, I'd want something like this cat purr as my ring tone.

I've concluded one reason I can be a master procrastinator about doing anything that requires leaving the house or more than a trip to get milk is that I don't like clothes. Or shoes. And thus I think the world needs to get past the notion that one has to have a certain amount of clothing or a certain standard of non-slovenly appearance in order to be socially (or even legally) acceptable.

I went through a ton of stuff when I had chkdsk/corrupt files...and in the end it was the HDD. Formatting didn't fix it, the whole disc was essentially slowly failing, vs. having a few tiny ignorable holes, so to speak. This wasn't a really old HDD, either. Probably the first time I've had one go kaput like that on me. There may be many reasons why you could get such an error, but seems like the HDD is an easy thing to test/replace to see if that does solve the issue, before pulling your hair out on hunting for mysterious other reasons (like I did, gah).

I loved things like the horsehoes, to get minimal skillpoints, which let you play the whole game without training to level, if you felt like it. Is that munchkin? It just felt like a "can I?" challenge. ....the only super-cheese tactic I remember using was the one where you saved before looting dragon corpses - eg, they acted like high-loot table random chests. So theoretically you could leave MM7's training island with some high gear, because the dragons in that cave were easily beatable if you had a bow.

I don't have the box, but the pc version was ESRB rated at "Teen", which is 13+. Description goes: "May contain violence, suggestive themes, crude humor, minimal blood, simulated gambling and/or infrequent use of strong language." ....so as always with such ratings, depends on the individual child and the parents views on such things. I don't remember anything very untoward either, outside of the usual combat violence, occasional mild/subtle humor jab perhaps, as well as brief social issue themes like work-contract vs. slavery. It's been a while since I played tho.

That's the one! ...the greedy rogue is the one that always made me giggle. "What a deeelicious looking reward." "My ambition has paid off." "Leave my gold...alone."

I don't even remember the writing in the MM rpg series. Well, I remember some basic main plot points of a couple of them, but to me it was a party-based action-rpg that was just far more extensive/broader than, say, Diablo. I never felt a connection to characters (my party or otherwise) or anything....especially with those awful party portraits, heh...it was just running around doing missions, fighting, exploring, leveling, solve a puzzle, fighting, trying to find/be able to use all those bloody challenge pedestals, and so on. So I didn't care about the weird sci-fi setting change at the end...didn't startle/jar me. I liked their dungeons and game play and that's what I'd love to see again, like Hurlshot mentioned. And boy did I love that invisibility spell. I robbed dragons blind.

Last thread ...I'm going to play a little unpatched Majesty:Fantasy Kingdom Sim before going to sleep. Also - last two posts from previous thread: The game is all about the writing and the characters, imo. The VA's did a great job in this, too. Have you installed the unofficial patch? It helps a lot.

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I was thinking about the game Majesty:Fantasy Kingdom Sim (RTS) and how in the first release, one could get single heroes to pick up multiple "stat bonus" items from the ground. It was one of those things where as soon as I made a post about discovering it on their forums, the first patch right after changed it so heroes who already had one of those items wouldn't pick up any more. Aw, darn, no more Super Monks. Heh. Anyway, I still have that 1st-release game disc, so I can still goof around with that fun little glitch a while if I want, before installing patches/expansions. And my thought after that was....I can't do that with Steam.** **well, you can, sometimes, if you buy a game at release and then feel like filling up HDD's with entire Steam game installs, one for every single patched version. Which I did with FNV a few times, until I got fed up with trying to keep all those install versions straight....not to mention the space and/or mod changes for each version...

They do have a video with some terraforming example or something. And their last update mentioned they're working on a better KS front page with video/information. I think it is a "real" KS, but their cred is definitely lacking...and they did a really poor/rushed job of doing a KS campaign. Like, they woke up one morning and decided to "do this" with barely any forethought at all. Oops, NVM. They cancelled their KS, even tho it seemed like they had a good shot to at least reach their funding goal....supposedly because they found their own private backing. Claim it'll still be made/released, DRM free, the backers won't compromise what they want to do etc. But yeah....ok. That's kinda weird or maybe a backhanded ploy....or good luck for them. Whatever your perspective.

"Welcome to the Winter Glacier Roost! Just remember to keep the fire-breathing in check. It tends to ruin the ice sculptures. "

It's even better to be asleep.

It was interesting to note that the ST:OS animated series had a holodeck long before ST:TNG. I'd almost forgotten that. And today, it's a bunch of dull errands, then later, I really need to clean out/organize all my "mules" in Borderlands 2. I did ok for a while at keeping that sort of thing to a low level (well, low for me at least), and 10-12 of them was manageable, but somewhere it ballooned to over 20 of them now. It's becoming seriously unwieldy.