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You can kill another dragon in DAO.

Those horns look like headdress. Or heavy winds.

I said more options than real life, not "exactly like real life." But even Earth alone is far more than an empty rock, having diverse biomes to explore by itself, jungles, oceans, deserts, more cities than you can shake a stick at. Add on terraforming concepts, domed/underground colonization, and space stations, for beyond earth destinations you've got well more than "empty rock." The plots of harder sci-fi are quite varied. First contact, robot rebellion, transhuman war, interplanetary war, generation ship colonization and survival, etc. Seems a bit more diverse than Space Opera's evil empires and aliens coming to destroy all life as you know it, which are largely used as retreads of fantasy tropes.

I'd hardly qualify "countless more options than real life" as all that limited. Most sci fi writers don't even use what they have intelligently, settling for planet of hats and single biome planets. You can do all of that with a single planet and species, let alone an entire solar system, no rubber foreheads or FTL needed for that bit.

Not really. Would you consider Firefly 20 minutes into the future? As a setting, it fit Sci-Fi, but didn't focus on science related speculation. What I'm describing is Sci-Fi that actually knows what Sci-Fi is about. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main...OfSciFiHardness A rating of 4 or higher would be nice. Even 3 would be acceptable. Mass Effect and Star Wars hang at 2 on their best days.

Does not compute. Just a thought, but maybe you don't want a sci-fi game? What part of that doesn't compute? Is it the part where I'm wanting Sci-Fi or the part where what I want is Sci-Fi?

Computer's back just in time for Sam & Max: The City That Dares Not Sleep.

I'm waiting for a Sci-Fi game that's Sci-Fi, not Space Opera or a Flight Sim. Something that doesn't do FTL, energy weapons, sound in space, humanoid aliens, psychic powers, and a billion other things. And I would prefer it be a good one with some narrative focus, choices, and RPG staples. There's technically a lot of games that are harder than Star Wars, but the narrative in them is all excuse plot. Red Faction, Killzone, etc.

I see way too many "original concepts" that are just retreads of the old concepts. Just now we have to learn new names for Orcs. And they are Orcs, you're not fooling anyone. Sort of like those Jedi that are new and original fanfic concepts where they use the darkside, but only for the greater good, never for evil. Haven't seen that one before and totally not tired of it. Also one eye is different colored than the other. They seem to be trying harder to distinguish themselves as different than actually do anything interesting. I won't level such an accusation at Mass Effect, though. It's not a fascinating setting in my eyes, but I'm just happy that they're not fighting with melee weapons.

Since my computer's still in the shop (just to change out a graphics card, ffs), I finished a playthrough of The Darkness that I'd put on hold. Then started up a replay of Batman: Arkham Asylum.

And as a Dward Noble (just a different kingdom). What? I'm pretty sure the Dwarf Noble cannot become king. I recall discussions on this on bioware social.

Serial polygamy is a form of polygamy. I'm not actually trying to contribute to this asinine discussion, I just want to see if that comment goes anywhere.

BUT IT'S THE SAME PHYSICS PUZZLE RAZLEFRAZMAGONAGLEBADINGDONGHATREDALLOFMYHATE

I love Half-Life 2. I just hate that god awful puzzle that first appeared in Sandtraps that they just can't stop repeating. They did it at least twice in Half-Life 2. And another time in Episode 2. STOP IT Or I swear to science that I will... do absolutely nothing different.

I dislike episode 2 with a passion. More of those "pick up item, move it, jump on it, pick up other item, move it, jump on it, repeat ad naseum" puzzles? CHECK Defense mission? OH GOD DOUBLE CHECK

Resume was just sent out. eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

I've got to e-mail my resume to a friend later. eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Apparently there was a hole in the channeled moat right over my stone farm. So I've got a flooded basement in my fort. If we last until winter, which we surely will, then I'll be able to plug it during the freeze.

How do you... oh, I see what you did there.

We have some Borderlands fans, eh? Interesting...

Of course it's been figured out. There's a jpeg and everything.

If used retailers respond to it by lowering used prices to reflect the new devaluation, I might start buying more used. What use do I have for multiplayer in half the games I play, anyway?

You can go back to Playthrough 1 and do them. I liked Dr. Ned's.

Reading City of Torment. It's the second book in Bruce R. Cordrell's Abolethic Sovereignty series. Not that exciting. I can't wait to finish it to start reading Equal Rites from Pratchett.

Did some Dwarf Fortress and the new Worms game. For Dwarf Fortress I'm working on building an above ground complex. Several z-levels above ground, in fact. I started by making a blueprint under ground. I realized I had a crappy embark, though. It was perfect in every sense except it was very hilly, which makes walling off the fort and building a moat a major hassle. I took it as a trial run because I realized my workshops connected to bedrooms plan had workshops blocking the entry to the bedrooms. That will be fixed in the next version. The new worms game isn't as fun as the old Scorched Earth game. But I am enjoying it. Needs funky bomb, though.