melkathi

31 celsius here today. Feels like more. Listening to crickets through the open window. Gives the whole day a summer vacation on an islan feeling, even though I am in the city and drowning in work.

Good luck in Louisville. Though I am a bit worried about the company you keep if you are the most liberal in the group

A 3D modelling guy with a fetish?

That looks so very wrong. Both the screenshot and the Beetlejuice clip

With the Volge finally arriving from the pilot of the show to the game, I played some Defiance. Died more often than the whole past month

Meanwhile on another forum: "Today my older brother actually helped me out for a change. They say as you get older you se everything...." ;)

Costume Quest was a lot of fun but very very short. The Cave was shorter, lacking in fun, lacking in writing but did have some not-very-good-bordering-on-the-bad gameplay and tried to get players to replay it multiple times without truly offering anything through those replays other than getting tired of the narrator's voice. The unskippable intro narration convinced me to uninstal when I realized that even though I could try to play it again, I could not listen to that again.

Antje Traue is not just super hot shes also a good actor you pinhead. *blink* Ok. Your inpeccable manners are most convincing; an indisputable proof of her talent.

And alongside the shirt you also broke your avatar and had to replace that?

Your dog is called Spot?

So we can start a list of shady kickstarter practices? Because Harebrained revealing that their promise for a DRM free game.... eh, well, let's nitpick about the letter of the promise and not the spirit, just after making a drive for pre-orders. that doesn't put them in my list of most honest developers. Not that I am all that keen on hearing that one of the mos successfull kickstarters did not have the cash to implement proper savegames or lootable corpses. It may not have been as badly missmanaged as Double Fine, but it sure as hell wasn't managed well. Makes you wonder (or makes me wonder) if there isn't a reason that some "big" names end up using crowd funding. Sometimes serial entrepeneurs have the "serial" part not just because they have loads of ideas, but because those ideas can only survive if the person who had the idea leaves it alone

Then at least someone knows my password. I sure don't. Password: m1lfluv3r So I have the same password as Mike? Awesome!

Says so in the top right of the screenshots with tiny letters: Firefall Open Beta

I didn't get any mail. Maybe someone hacked it to fix it? UPlay is a bloody mess.

Then at least someone knows my password. I sure don't.

Hehe. I keep telling people to do that in the kickstarter comment section but completly forgot to add a note of the links here Also, the dev video chat in update #5:

Where does Angel come up with this ****?

Other than them saying that you'd abduct researchers to... research for example?

+adjusting taxation to tread the fine line between high income and a revolting population ?

Played some Endless Space. Got fairly lucky with the races that showed up. Imperials were the only evil race. Made for a very dreamy, calm early game. Ended up with two powerful alliance at peace with each other: Horatio and the Sophons on one side and the Imperials, Amoeba and Automatons on the other, with the Sowers stuck right in the middle. As the Sowers were about to be wiped out, I offered them to join us, which my two allies accepted and we split the territory held by Horatio and the Sophons pretty much three ways. And suddenly I got an alert that Amoeba were close to winning the game. Doh. A wonder victory, but only 0% complete, while I was 30% towards the economic victory. no worrie I thought, I'll just continue making cash and if need be, race my research for a wonder victory as well and buy the wonders. Then came the alert that the Amoeba were close to an economic victory: 55% while I was at 35%. Huh? Where did that come from? They must have maxed their taxes. When I was at 72% towards the economic victory they were at 96%. Ended up with me at 97% and them 99% before I clicked "End turn" hoping that I'd get 3% without them getting the final 1%... We both hit 100% at the same time, but the game was kind enough as to count it as a victory for me.

It wasn't all that bad. I got my money's worth out of it fun wise. Far more than I did out of some of the games others here would deem "good" games

Over 1/3 off the funding now. 125k pounds out of 350k With the increasing press coverage more backers may show up.

Hope this gets some more funding soon. I'm very interested in seeing stretch goals

Did you unlock the secret achievements: "muscle ache the next morning" and "why did I think working out would be a good idea?"