Everything posted by Amentep
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To the stars
Eh...Classic Science fiction had that though. John Carter meets red martian alien Dejah Thoris, falls in love and marries her in 1912's A PRINCESS OF MARS. I think it'd be hard to argue that it isn't part of the science fiction oeuvre; now whether it should be pursued in a game is a matter altogether different, but to reject it because it isn't "classic science fiction" is a bit silly when it was there since the earliest days of classic science fiction.
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What's so Funny?
But most of it is either lame, a gross simplification or congressional overreach.
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What's so Funny?
I've never seen the appeal of TV Tropes, to be honest.
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The art thread
Oof, that is lovely. I'd love to get my hands on that. Its really nice - I have the smaller softcover they did first; apparently the hardcover is going to have additional writing about the work and photographs (I believe from Mucha's production photos). Andrew Wyeth is considered to be a top US artist. His dad, N. C. Wyeth, is considered to be one of the top US illustrators. His work on TREASURE ISLAND is legendary.
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The art thread
For anyone who is a fan of Art Nouveau, Alphonse Mucha's Le Pater was reprinted by The Century Guild Museum and Gallery. A larger more extensive hard bound reprint is forthcoming. Unlike his typical poster art, or his magnum opus series of paintings The Slav Epic, Le Pater was created as a printed book. Since the original only had about 500 copies made of it, its a new opportunity to see the book as it was intended to be seen (as opposed to the various images taken out of the book setting seen reprinted over the years).
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New/Modern Games You Would Never Touch...
I can't really answer the question, as any game that doesn't have some element that interests me is generally forgotten in the onslaught of game releases.
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What you did today
- Rejoice! Black Isle Bastards 100% funded! Stretch goal: 55% funded! Thank you everyone!
Amentep replied to Fluffle's topic in Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)Locked at thread starters request. See https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/92373-lets-create-an-item-for-the-black-isle-bastards-what-kind-of-item-should-it-be/ for new thread.- Thoughts on Godlike (are they worth it?)
Amentep replied to firkraag888's topic in Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)IIRC Skaen is scarred as well as missing the nose and ears so perhaps the godlike of Skaen has a body that creates scars and wounds naturally? Maybe they end up looking something like a more natural, less extreme S&M Cennobite in the Hellraiser series?- Is Ydwin yandere or tsundere?
Amentep replied to Rekombo's topic in Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)Yeah super-tech opponents popping up in a high magic world could be interesting even if it wasn't literally the Reapers. Could even bring in the idea of magic and tech not sitting well with each other similar to Arcanum (but hopefully not as broken). Probably not really a Pillars game (or ME) at that point, but it could be interesting.- Fly United or Else!
I believe it's being referred to as an overbooking issue because United followed their overbooking guidelines of first offering an incentive to passengers to take a different flight followed by random selection. Arguably, if your doing logistics right, you would have reserved the seats for flight crews to be moved around, so that they booked those seats could be seen as overbooking, hence the use of the rule. Not an expert though. If one person is allowed to refuse, then they all would be. You then have less of a leg to stand on when you get to the last passenger after all others refuse to be removed, he refuses, and you remove him anyway because your applying your own rule arbitrarily.- Nerdgasm: Movies and Shows for Geeks and Nerds
- Politics 2017 part V
Given her fight with the DNC higher-ups and leaving it to endorse Bernie Sanders, I imagine that the Democratic leadership and insiders will look for anything they can to use against her.- Politics 2017 part V
Have at thee! Last post from previous topic was... How Germany is effing up Europe if they don't want spent their money to strengthen their own defense? I understand that Nato countries maybe angry if they think that Germany don't do as what has been agreed on, and they are free to kick Germany out if nothing else helps. What? There is so many reasons I can't force myself to point them all out. But at least the basics - If we have agreenment both sides should honour it. Its manners 101 Yes this is what all NATO members should do yet only 5 NATO members are paying what they should and contributing fairly, this includes the U.S., Greece, the United Kingdom, Estonia and Poland. So its not just Germany that needs to pay more http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/NATO-Member-Countries-Trump/2017/01/25/id/770363/ I know, thats why USA requested recently that all members should pay their agreed share, and as far as I know some states responded positively - even tho they stated taht it will take few years. Some may not do it, but at least they are not shouting it into media ffs Considering that Czech uses less of their GDP to military than Germany, I would say that you should complain to your own politician first how your country don't do what is agreed on. I am, but our government promised to raise our funding, besides we are behinde Germany by 0.1 percentage Also the Czech economy and GDP is much smaller than Germany's so I would expect Germany to contribute there share with much less objection we are talking about percentages against GDP. Germany gives much more in total for sure- Politics 2017 part 4
Topic closed for length. New one open for business here.- Things you want PoE 2 to specifically avoid if possible
Amentep replied to Katarack21's topic in Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)In game description for might is: So somehow or another physical strength in the Pillars of Eternity universe seems to stand for muscles and spiritual strength. There could be a handwave to this (something like a body-soul interface that requires physical strength to channel the full magical spiritual strength safely or something while mental strength allows one to channel for longer whatever amount of energy ones strength allows to be funneled through the body) but I'm not sure one is ever made in the game.- Things you want PoE 2 to specifically avoid if possible
Amentep replied to Katarack21's topic in Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)This forum is intended to discuss PoE2: Deadfire, to debate its mechanics and story and - at this stage - discuss what we'd like to see in this game. It is not here for posters to discuss each other or to try to tweak the nose of one another to get a reaction. Please modify your posting patterns accordingly, lest the mod team decide that it is time to alter them for you. That people were veering off-topic was already brought up before in this thread - https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/92019-things-you-want-poe-2-to-specifically-avoid-if-possible/page-9?do=findComment&comment=1903849- What's on the idiot box?
gfted1 beat you to it in the movie trailers thread: https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/89834-nerdgasm-movie-trailers-and-clips-fall-2016-and-onward/page-6- True non-linear open world system concept
I think the reason people go back over older areas in open-world gaming has less to do with the character build and more to do with the idea that open-world games are at their heart about exploration, and typically that exploration is multi-level (ie going back to an area with more experience either alters the area or allows you to experience more parts of the area). The narrative, while existant, is secondary to the exploration. Traditional RPGs are about narrative more than exploration. Therefore returning to an area only becomes important to the player if the narrative itself returns the player to that location.- Why are bass(fish) and bass(instrument) pronounced differently?
Irish Spring as in the soap product? I have no clue the product origins, but I'd suspect since its soap, its supposed to refer to both; as in its as "clean as Irish spring water" with a fresh scent like "Ireland in the spring".- Nerdgasm: Movies and Shows for Geeks and Nerds
That's a fun trailer. Hope the movie is as good as that!- RANDOM VIDEO GAME NEWS
Since its not on the pre-vote, it must have something to do with the vote. Like showing which option is in the lead if you can't see the graphic or showing what the voter voted for or something.- Mass Effect Andromeda
You are right, I misremembered Dr. Muzyka's statement as an apology but re-reading it, its clear he did not apologize for anything. I do think the apology with respect to Hainly was for PR purposes; I don't disagree with you there. Whether a re-write is warranted or not, I couldn't say. I talked to Hainly Abrams in game and moved on without that dialogue effecting me positively or negatively - and I doubt any re-write would either. So I'm not the audience who'd care, I guess. I remember Chris Priestly and another moderator whose name escapes me getting (or giving, depending on your perspective, I guess) a lot of heat on my limited time on the old Bioware boards. I heard complaints about some later mods too, but by that point I rarely went there.- Mass Effect Andromeda
- Mass Effect Andromeda
In light of your earlier post - Is the problem that they apologized at all or is it that they didn't apologize to everyone? This seems unclear based on your posts. As someone playing the game, I didn't really feel they need to apologize to me, no more so than Obsidian or Bethesda do, for a buggy game. Or Troika, the only developers whose game hit me with a truly game-stopping bug (where an item necessary to complete the main quest was destroyed in my inventory forcing me to relaunch the game as despite having about 20 saves, the bug was present in all of them). With respect to not apologizing for writing before, Bioware did apologize over the ending of ME3. Not sure if you count that as part of the writing, but I would. So for me at least they have been fazed by criticism of their writing before. Given that we were talking at cross purposes regarding our respective use and understanding of the word it seemed appropriate. You provided examples of your definition, I provided mine. Now we understand our comments better with context, yes? - Rejoice! Black Isle Bastards 100% funded! Stretch goal: 55% funded! Thank you everyone!