Everything posted by Walsingham
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The Drizzt Do'Urden Film and Video Game
Holy crap, long time no see, man! :(
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Addendum
http://mytownlive.com/Coosawatchie.SC I have no idea what that bot was on about. It was so crazy I almost burst into tears.
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Antagonists
It's been a while since I've played The Witcher. I confess I didn't notice any skipups being capitalised upon. However, what you describe is certainly on similar lines to what I'm angling for.
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The Drizzt Do'Urden Film and Video Game
I knew a guy who was a poisonous opinionated buttwad, whose only pleasure in life was urinating on other people's dreams. Sorry. What were we talking about?
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What you did today
Provided the hallucinogens have a slimfast effect I'd imagine we'd all be pretty relaxed about it. Working flat out today. I haven't even had time for a coffee. Or bacon. Which is borderline insane on a much more meaningful level.
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The funny things thread part 3
OK, This one is properly ha-ha funny. It's also soundwise NSFW.
- Music
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What you did today
Slept phenomenally well. Woke up with a bunch of solved problems, from the practical to the philosophical sitting in my mental 'in' tray. From "You should spend the money and fix that window" to "If you consider the change in behaviour it's pretty clear that God actually WAS Jesus, and his subsequent buggering off from world affairs makes perfectly good sense if you understand his life was a message about the futility of even absolute power." Go to bed hungry, it seems.
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The funny things thread part 3
Indeed. A man who admits to comittting rape, and then accuses the women of being hysterical definitely needs a publicist. ~~ I probably shouldn't have laughed, but this story cracked me up.
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The Drizzt Do'Urden Film and Video Game
Brainwave: Leisure Suit Larry.
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What you did today
Congratulations, man. A blow against the tyranny of the mediocre. Now, quickly move to your penguin based office model and see the rewards roll squawking in!
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FO: NV (DLCS) Discussion
You have to like a man who says "Yeah, this post-apocalyptic wasteland is OK, but can I make it MORE apocalyptic?"
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Antagonists
I'm not sure I'd have been happy with whatsisface the legate calling me gay and laughing in a voice which hasn't broken yet, while griefing by hiding in inaccessible map segments. Hence pvp strikes me as ...suboptimal.
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Music
For some reason it feels perfect this morning. I think I may have broken my brain. EDIT: For the love of god, don't watch the video, just listen to it. I do not endorse the incredibly poor quality visuals. Unless maybe it's like Alanis singing about irony with the ironic lyrics that contain no reference to irony.
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new scientific discoveries
'm fatigue irritated, but it occurs to me that a lot of this academic research is unfocussed and unbelievably slow. At least compared with research inside companies. Also, while academic researchers invent ideas, real technological leaps come when those concpets are married to manufacturing kno-whow so that novel technologies can be made at a cheap enough price to transcend performance s-curves. Discuss, or ignore, too tired to choose.
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What you did today
Had a bout of hiccupping last night . Not serious until I doscovered I had graunched my back. Got almost no sleep, despite necking pills. Two hours just before dawn left me feeling quite human. Now in that half-twilight world where I you can do familiar actions, but the unfamiliar leave the mind cold, still, and unresponsive. May have radio interview later. Joy.
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What you did today
Maybe an ammunition bandolier? That would be pretty cool.
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Smart Phones and Cyber Crime
I'll keep that in mind. Must be due an upgrade sometime soon. I should add that my last upgrade qualified for a smartphone but I parlayed it into a craptonne of free minutes.
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What you did today
I've been on nil by mouth. The first thing you eat when you come off it tastes 100 times better than it has any right to. Please convey this to tarna along with my instructions to have a good fillet steak and a good Argentine red.
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Smart Phones and Cyber Crime
Interesting point. I don't have a smartphone because when I'm out and about I don't want a gnat's battery life. Just a thought, but surely the 'herd' are always (and quite logically) going to rely on being in the herd?
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Antagonists
I was about to go to bed, but a thought occurred to me: In every RPG I can think of, and in fact in shooters and even some simulations, the 'bad guy' is entirely scripted. Event triggers or sometimes time triggers cause pre-set actions to be thrown at the player. This works for a bit, but becomes very tedious very quickly. Plus with save and reload, the shock value of big shifts is either obviated entirely or so heavily scripted that the narrative impact is lost in annoyance. What I want - what I suggest we ALL want - is to be Holmes vs. Moriarty. To pit our wits against a clever and resourceful and CHANGING opponent. By which I mean changing and clever at an operational level. I accept that this will be genuinely difficult to do. But I also suggest that it is at least one way in which gaming might take a proper step forward.
- Dragon Age 2
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What are you playing now?
WARNING! DANGER, WILL ROBINSON! Be very very careful about how you build your character. Check guides.
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SW: The Old Republic
Slacker I demand a review in the medium of interpretive home baking.
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What you did today
The EDL's all a bit like trying to solve sexual discrimination in the workplace by setting fire to trees. I'm all "Oh good. Waitaminute..."