Everything posted by LadyCrimson
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Most underappriciated games
Majesty. It wasn't actually a sim, and it wasn't your average RTS strategy game, and I think that confused a lot of people, including the marketing folks. It had this premise of being a RTS but you couldn't actually control your units/tell them what to do or where to go via mouse clicks...once you 'get that', it's a ball to play...plus all the unit types had mini-personalities, and loyalty factors (rogues could be enticed to an enemy player in MP with enough gold) and certain races had certain bonuses to you the King etc. I don't typically like RTS games much, but I played Majesty for a long long time. Edit - the Northern Expansion had some maps that were a serious challenge even for experienced players...great stuff.
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Your response to violence in Games
Just adding my .02 to the original question. I typically avoid killing/evil-doing to what I percieve as the innocent. Sometimes, as in strategy games, I even go so far as to try really hard to protect my units from demise. In DungeonKeeper I'd try to win without any of my minions dying - I'd even reload. I guess I've got this thing where I don't feel like I've truly won if I lose companions through my poor or hasty strategy. Like a commander not wanting to lose their men or something. That said, once I start to get bored with a game, I'll often turn around and start killing everything just to see what happens...or because it's funny...ala drowning your Sims or attacking people in town in BG so the peace enforcer mages will come along and you can have a really big fight. lol
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Frappr!
My genetic roots stem there, yes.
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Relationships Thread 2
I resemble that remark... I know that's one of the things that attracted me to my husband. But I wouldn't put too much stock in that as far as dating goes, because that largely comes from a common taste in humor...if you try too hard to be funny, that's often seen as unattractive. If you share the same humor tastes, the laughter will come.
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Happy Birthday
Happy B-day to both! And to anyone else who might have a birthday soon. That picture of Hoff is as distrubing now and the first time someone posted it....
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Ever wanted to go DS without face changes?
Darth Sidious stayed 'regular' looking until Mace fried his face, and he was darkside for years and years and years before that. So I'm going to have to say that it doesn't really make sense to have a sudden face lift just because you go darkside.
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Frappr!
You're not stupid. There is a minor resemblence, but I think it's mostly because my hair is currently short and the similar angle of the pictures. Angle is everything in portraits. Besides, my nose is much wider than his. See?
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"Earth from Above" photo series
Btw, I do think these are great shots, kumquat, thanks for sharing. Such stuff always looks much better to me as a moving picture tho - I remember a video/show called "Over America" or "Over California" or something...it was on PBS...nothing but amazing hi-res video of soaring over stuff like in those shots, without even any narration IIRC. Gorgeous.
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Working on my Image
Firefox 1.0.6, no add-ons like Adblock. The sig just make the browser go kinda wonky/stuttery when I'm scrolling up and down a thread he's posted in numerous times. I think you can turn sig pics off here...I may finally do that. Edit - oh...you have to disable signatures entirely...oh well, I guess I'll do that.
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Working on my Image
If you get rid of the burger signature pic that my browser doesn't seem to like very much, I'll tell everyone I know what a nice guy you are. "
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Movies you've seen lately
Skeleton Key. A little slow, but entertaining enough for an 'intelligent' suspense/horror. The publicity-touted surprise ending wasn't very surprising, however.
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Woman falls 10,000 feet...
One couldn't even begin to carry enough extra emergency parachutes to get me to jump out of an airplane for fun. I'd have to be sooooo drunk...and if I was that blasted, I'd forget to pull the cord, so... :ph34r:
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Frappr!
*scratches head* I don't really see it. I was adopted tho, so who knows...maybe duff is a long lost nephew, twice removed!!!......nah.... Nope. Hehehe.
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Woman falls 10,000 feet...
Maybe she landed on something similar to that pile of cotton in kumquatt's pretty-photo thread.
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Frappr!
Maybe they're shy. :D Last Frappr I did, most people were in the US. More spread out here, which is cool.
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"Earth from Above" photo series
My first impression was sheep...maybe a lot of wool? But yeah, the green tarps, or whatever they are, give it a cauliflower appearance. edit- typo city
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Most visually impressive world?
Dxun. I like rain and grass. Beaches are nice, but I see them too often. Old hat.
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Best order to do the planets?
Cause there used to be/is an occasional bug where if you did it last, and you reached that point where they tell you to go somewhere and wait/do other things, the game would never continue or something (you'd be stuck forever waiting). That's what I remember anyway. Beyond that...people just like to have somewhere to go/something to do while they're 'waiting'.
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So I was watching Starship Troopers today...
"Trans-form-ers! More than meets the eye...." Wait...wrong era...
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"Earth from Above" photo series
What in blazes is that guy lying on top of, in that one picture?
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The president has been hospitalized!!
I've been struggling with Comcast's router/thingie all morning just so I could read that....not. :D I hate Comcast. Every time I think of Ford, I think of Chase.
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Frappr!
Can't say that I have, no...looks like Wendy's tho.
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Woman falls 10,000 feet...
My cousin broke her leg parachuting. She stopped doing it after that. Can't imagine why.
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Frappr!
Ok, Frappr (or Comcast) finally behaved and let me add myself this morning. I do live in San Jose, but I didn't use my own zipcode, so if you zoom in, that's nowhere close to me. SJ is a big town. :D P.S. Child of Flame, that is one weird and annoying signature.
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Best order to do the planets?
IMO it mostly depends on what NPC's you want to focus on being Jedi. The sooner you get them, the more you get to use them. Dantoonie first is pretty common...but I like doing Nar Shadda 2nd, then Onderon, then Korriban. Also, you can skip around them...you could go to Nar Shadda 2nd, say, do a few things w/out triggering the full 'planet plot', then go to Onderon...then back to Nar Shadda. I've done that a few times because I wanted to do some really specific things...but there's no real reason to do it that way. Story wise, it's just little differences, nothing that seems important. Like, that one shopkeeper quest on Nar Shadda, it makes a little more sense dialogue wise if you haven't already done the other planets - plus I like the whole Onderon thing as a more fitting climactic prelude to the end-game, but it really doesn't mattert. *shrug*