Everything posted by Lexx
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I think it's better to buy Ubisoft games directly on Uplay anyway, because of the bonus money / points / whatever you get. Pre-ordered Anno 1800 already at UPlay as well, because why not... Steam would just launch the Ubisoft launcher anyway.
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Cinéma vérité - and all other types
Trailer needs more inception zooms.
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TV's Vast Wasteland
Huh, I somehow didn't thought there would be another season of Luther. Damn, if I had known this earlier, I would have watched it this weekend.
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Which Civilization?
Just looked it up again. What I have actually played was Civilisation 2, because it had this windows interface all around.
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Which Civilization?
It's funny because I always only played the very first civilization and never any other. It was fun and now makes me nostalgic.
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In any case, it looks wacky as hell.
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What did you do today?
Finished my short story yesterday with close to 5k words. The last stretch was really hard--- was about the combat scene between the main character and a monster. Here's the thing: I had (and still have) no idea how to write such things. In all my years as a writer for video games, I always only write the mundane things... and combat is later up to active player experience. Thus, I didn't even know where to start without having it sound like a checklist of boring things to go through. It gets especially worse if you have to drag out the combat scene and don't want every other sentence to sound the same. ****, this stuff needs a real big vocabulary, which I - honestly - don't think I possess. Not in english, neither in german. To get a better feel for that, I picked up The Gunslinger from Stephen King again. God damn it, are his combat scenes smooth. I never felt like **** repeated noticeably, even though shooting people with guns doesn't seem at first to be something you can variate on this much. Anyway. In the end, I've decided to add in a chapter with switched perspective.. you basically experience this **** from the eyes of the monster. Thus, the actual combat scene was very short. It's hard to explain for me without laying out the whole story so you fellas get a better understanding of it all... wish I could have written it in english in the first place, but I'm just not that good. Anyway2. I had then someone read over it and got trashed in plenty parts. Too many adjectives, lots of unnecessary words or sentences. So I've started deleting and cleaning up. Another remark I got was that the structure is confusing, so I began adding in a bigger intro, to give some more backstory. It's painful to hear something like that, especially if you crunched through the last 4 days, but at the end of the day, without proper feedback, you just can't improve yourself. Oh, and I've noticed that in paperback format, I'm at 33 pages. Just 117 or something pages more, and I have my own book. Doesn't seem all that unrealistic anymore at this point. Maybe I can fix up that **** to make it better, and think of a two or three more short stories. I'm quite pessimistic about that happening, though.
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TV's Vast Wasteland
That zipper part was great. I lol'd a lot. Also kinda getting a crush on Halston Sage, I think.
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Pictures of your Games 11 - The Quickening
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Made it to 2.7k words with my short story today. Fleshed out some more parts, but didn't progressed as much as I'd hoped. That means, I'm still missing a few important paragraphs, so I've not yet arrived in the "purely polishing" phase. Also got lots of new ideas for future development of additional content. Not that I think I'm going far with any of this, but as long as the ideas are coming, I just write them down and see what happens. Still not sure if this is good at all, but at least I had some fun and that's what matters, no? /Edit: Made it to 3k words. That's enough for today...- What did you do today?
Well, sheet. First time in like 10 years I sat down and started writing a short story. Made it to 1.3k words or something in 3 or 4 hours. It's about half the story, and I'm still not feeling creatively empty. Bit surprised about myself, because I thought I'd never write anything "big" ever again. However, I do feel quite exhausted right now. This thing could become good, or at least interesting. It's based on something I started... about 10 years ago. Couldn't find that anymore, though, so I just started with rewriting parts that I still remembered. Now it's quite different, but so far so good. I mean, it could still all be just a bunch of B.S. so whatever. It's not like I'm a good writer or something.- Forum edit function too... sensitive?
Using the forum edit function for trolling is an art form.- TV's Vast Wasteland
lol they made a remake of Watership Down and it looks horrible...- What are you playing right now?
I'm not at home for the next few days, so decided to continue with Hollow Knight a bit. It's such a great game, but I still feel overwhelmed by its size. I don't know what to do or where to go, because of that... And I also just lost about 4k geo, because I couldn't find another bench and stumbled from one boss area into the next until I wasn't able to recover my lost geo anymore...- Forum Shutting Down
You all know that SonicMage and Melusina are the only one bringing life to this place.- Forum Shutting Down
You all know that SonicMage is the only one bringing life to this place.- RANDOM VIDEO GAME NEWS
Star Citizen people have opened their financial books: https://cloudimperiumgames.com/blog/corporate/cfo-comment-2012-2017-financials- Cinéma vérité - and all other types
Mandy was cool, but yes, the beginning is kinda dragging.- What did you do today?
Oh god, please no! Think of the children! I'm gonna make spinach, potatoes, and some scrambled eggs. It'll be awesome.- Cinéma vérité - and all other types
Meh, looks like they are trying too hard. Also feels like I just watched the whole movie.