LadyCrimson

Now that would be a strange move; yet I might personally like it.

As has already been alluded to, many instances people give as unwinnable battles aren't unwinnable - they're just artifically inflated difficulty situations, perhaps relying on button-mashing speed and reflexes or the memory/brain to remember spoken puzzle hints from an act or three ago. If there are big hints that you're not supposed to win a fight, would that then ruin it for those that seem to want the fact a to be a surprise? ie, that if you know you can't win early on, it becomes less desirable to continue fighting? And if not, then it seems to me if you then choose to fight anyway, you're just doing it for fun of the battle, which has nothing to do with winning the 'game'. Maybe I'm misunderstanding the thrust of this thread? If people want to be able to do quests/win the day without having to fight a 'boss', that I can see. Or more battles that end in cutscenes of supposed death and new acts. But again, that's not "unwinnable" - just different programmed strategy solutions or plot twists. The quote from the original post: "I've become more and more intrigued with the idea of the hopeless battle. What I see as the biggest obstacle is that the majority of players would not catch the idea that it is impossible to win the battle and therefore would end the game at that spot because they could not finish it." doesn't sound like alternate solutions to win the day was the point, but rather a fight that one could choose to battle even if you knew it was hopeless.

Snapple Iced Teas have a lot of sugar in them. At least they used to, I haven't looked at their labels in a long time. I used to love Snapple, but after a while they were too sweet.

Icewater. It was really hot today. But that's probably not what you meant. Last I tried was a Peels Pear&Lemon. For my tastes - which is mostly "alchohol, ick" - it was fairly decent. Not as fruity as the label might lead you to believe, tho.

Unwinnable battles in general remind me of puzzles in adventure games that are completely random (ie, no way to actually logically figure them out). There is NOTHING so annoying as thinking you have a problem set before you that you're supposed to solve, and then realizing that there's either no way to solve it, or the only way to "solve" it is stupid trial and error and 50 re-loads. Sure, I've put up with it/done it to get through an otherwise good game, but I don't find it fun. I don't have to win a fight to get through a goal - perhaps you may finally realize if you can't win the fight, that the solution is you have to somehow sneak by/trick the baddie instead of defeat/kill him to move on - kind of like getting by Humfrey's moat defenses in the Xanth novel series - but fighting the same battle/reloading for a couple hours before realizing or being told by the game that it was supposed to be unwinnable and there's no other solution would really tick me off. Waste of time I don't really have anymore.

Warcraft is also a RTS, right? So maybe they're thinking of a new Warcraft RTS to go along with their WoW hit? Starcraft does seem a bit more likely tho.

Today I learned that if you're wearing a white shirt and are eating chocolate crackers, you shouldn't absent-mindedly wipe the 'dust' off your fingers by brushing them against said shirt.

I finally saw Aliens vs. Predator. It was absolutely senseless and moronic - but since it made me laugh out loud several times, I can't say it's the worst film ever. And hey, I almost felt bad for the poor wibble Predator at the end ...

I lifted my camera a lot today ... Seriously - it is amazing how just 30 minutes of some exercise a day can make a big difference in how one feels. It doesn't even have to be super-vigorous exercise. Sure, one can go for more conditioning, but in terms of general health, it doesn't take too much, as long as you're not eating 5 pounds of cake for dinner.

I guess I'd have to say character development. Basically, Kotor2 was a game that made me actually pay attention to, and like (or dislike) the characters. Most RPG's I've played, even if I really enjoy the game, characters are just pixels to control to give me an advantage in a battle or there to give me instructions; they affect me emotionally in no way whatsoever. So any that do, are exceptionally memorable to me.

The Lake House. If you're in the mood for the romance drama, it's not terrible. It had one of the fella's from Nip/Tuck in it in a small role, too.

Oooh, how cute, I want one. :D We don't have any red ones near us. I think there are some with red tones, but nothing that red. I need to get back to Yosemite and Tahoe.

No...I'd rather they just leave it alone.

Eh? It's just a Calif. ground squirrel. They're everywhere, usually in huge colonies. Gray squirrels (bigger, bushier tails, less like chipmunks) and the like are semi-common, but you don't actually see them in the open very much, except in certain parks perhaps.

Well, I myself thought that Padme post was kind of amusing ...

So going through a bunch of pics, and I was about to delete the one above for being boringly un-printable, when I zoomed in and noticed what the squirrel was eating. The couple feeding this bunch of squirrels - I thought they were feeding them nuts and crusts of bread. Y'know...what people usually feed squirrels? But no! It's a ..... TWINKIE.

Congrats! Now all you need are some minature game control pads for her to practice with ...

Or get the save game editor and/or some mod tools here.

There was a small dead rat in our pool a while back. Yes, I took a picture. So far, however, no human has fallen into our pool.

I rescue bugs out of the pool, pop them in jars, then take pictures of them. heh Does that camera do pretty well with macros? I need to get a few extenders for my macro lens. I hear they're not too expensive. :D I find in terms of taking pictures I either want to be physically up close (macros) or zoomed in max to get up close (animals/scenes from long distances). Every zoom lens I had in the past (film) was always at max-zoom position all the time. I would love to have a 500mm prime. That optical zoom on your camera seemed pretty impressive, so it'd definitely be the sort of camera I'd like when I didn't want to lug heavy camera gear everywhere.

I don't understand that kind of music. I have nothing against it; it's all personal taste, but if I wanted to listen to someone screaming in my ear I could just pick a fight with my family, or something ...

I'm kind of hoping that smiley face doesn't come with it ... then again, it'd make an interesting convo piece...

What are "noodz?"

I hope it's not a Kotor MMO vs a Kotor3. I personally find MMO's fun to play for a couple months at a time, just like any other game, perhaps, but the MMO as a constant fad on the whole is rather ... dull.

Hubby has a Canon Rebel SLR and during a trip today he managed to accidentally (and fuzzily) catch me in the background of a couple of pics. One of those "picture of someone taking a picture." I was trying to take a picture of these. There were a bunch in tidepools fighting over some dead snail meat. I failed to get a great shot tho.