Everything posted by Amentep
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Serious first world problems: How do you name your Characters?
Even an old woman Ethel was a young woman Ethel once...
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What's on the idiot box... Part 3
Nero Wolfe is great, classic mysteries. Can't recommend it too highly. Currently watching the Canadian mystery series MURDOCH MYSTERIES first season which is okay. Sometimes not terribly subtle but I like the idea - even if it's sometimes stretched out of shape- of cutting edge science being used.
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Serious first world problems: How do you name your Characters?
"Hello, I'm Albus Sexwithgandalf, of the North Dunland Sexwithgandalfs." Really I play names by ear; I have a few common ones I use but often I just let the lore/world/character speak to me.
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Serious first world problems: How do you name your Characters?
Dave the unemployed dreamer who thinks that he can just grab a sword and run around in some random caves and whack some monsters and grab some loot so that he won't be 'the unemployed' anymore but "the rich bastard everyone hates because he's all 'look at me, I'm rich and have goblin heads in my dining room and all you do is weave baskets or whatever'"
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Dragon Age: Inquisition
I could be wrong. I'm terrible at hunting secrets in game. I remember a few places where ambient soundtrack was strong, but never found anything there that'd indicate a reason for the sounds other than soundtrack.
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Dragon Age: Inquisition
I hear some ambient soundtrack pieces in both of the videos, but nothing that I think is game related.
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my new car
I was driving a 1990 Toyota Corolla when this thread was started... ...which I was still driving into 2013... I'm probably the least likely person to ever post to this thread...
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Movies you've seen recently
I'm wondering if they'll go the easy way out. We already know that Ripley had Alien Nightmares either in cryosleep or coming out of it. Could 3 and 4 be retconned to be Ripley's nightmares in the reboot? This way they still "happened" to Ripley, but only as nightmare fears she had in cryo after the 2nd film.
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Movies you've seen recently
Nightbreed's one of my favorite films. Loved the director's cut. Given that it wasn't an amazingly budgeted film, I think they did remarkably well with the makeup.
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Journalism and bias in the gaming industry.
Yes, the previous Thor series that ended in 2012 was "long in the tooth" at issue #22. That was the post-Ragnarok, rebirth of the Asgardians Thor comic (IIRC). It was followed by Aaron's own male Thor comic (that ran another 25 issues before this relaunch that Aaron says was always part of the story he started telling two years ago). While I'll agree that we can't really draw meaningful conclusions (say on the fact that circulation numbers are a guesstimate since Marvel doesn't release circulation numbers anymore), its not quite the apples-to-oranges situation you describe.
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Pickpocketing
Actually it's pretty easy to implement pocket picking. Just create a few random loot tables based on victim class/wealth/whatever and when sucessful you get a piece of random pocket loot. A few coins, a ball of lint, a lucky rabbits foot, whatever. If desired you can place rare/exotic items in the loot tables (not a good idea if you ask me, but that's my opinion) and the fact that they're generated at ramdom means X NPC doesn't always have Y item so you don't get "Must rob X NPC everytime you play the game because it's the only way to get Y item." It won't be "Must rob X NPC every time to get Y Item" it'll become "You must pickpocket every NPC everytime to increase the odds of getting Y item until you get Y item (unless you can pickpocket 2". But that really wasn't my contention on the difficulty of pickpocketing - my contention is to successfully simulate pickpocketing (IMO) you'd need to consider facing, victim-NPC awareness, other NPC awareness (particularly Johnny Law), which pocket was to be picked, what size/weight the item was before ever being able to calculate success.
- Let's play Fallout New Vegas
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Movies you've seen recently
- I'm a bit worried
How much ram and CPU does it take to run the emulator though? Good point - that's why I said "as much as I can figure that stuff out"!- [Merged] Please make a console version!
People from the future do. That's who knows what the future holds - people from the future. We must find these future people and beat the answers out of them! To arms men! TO ARMS!!!! Shut up or we'll break your two arms Curses, foiled again.- I'm a bit worried
Thats a 16 Bit system, the game only work on 32 bits or 64 Bit systems. So it'll totally work if he hooks up 3-4 Sega Genesises (Genesi?) together, right?- Can you respec?
I restart RPG games all the time anyhow, so for me its no more of a time commitment to restart because I played a wizard and decided to be a fighter than if I start as elf and decide halfway through the game I really would rather play a dwarf. But I admit that's a personal quirk. And personally I don't see any specific harm in a respec option; to me its going to depend rather heavily on the game. I just don't really see a large negative to restarting to create a new character and having no respec.- White People: What They Say in Public vs Behind Closed Doors
- White People: What They Say in Public vs Behind Closed Doors
I was more thinking about what if the woman wants the abortion but the man doesn't. So putting a sense of aside the choice of having sex in the first place as a mutual choice, baring being able to remove the fetus and implant it (either into the man or an artificial external womb), wouldn't the 9 month physical commitment necessitate that the woman's position holds more weight than the man's at this time? (Admittedly, IMO, a lot of the problems with abortion aren't really related to abortion as much as no one likes the currently available alternatives).- White People: What They Say in Public vs Behind Closed Doors
If you didn't want your DNA used, why did you contribute it in the first place? * If she didn't want to use his genetic material, why did she accept the donation? * Seriously, y'all talk like that around May of every year you have to step over people ****ing in the streets to get to work because all the young women have went into heat and all the young men have lost their senses... *Obviously, this is for voluntary transactions only.- Journalism and bias in the gaming industry.
Wouldn't, logically, this argument be applied to all of video gaming? Its frivolous so why debate it? And sports? And TV? And Movies? Maybe I'm not explaining it well, but I see a game like Bayonetta as satire. Attacking Bayonetta for sexualization is like attacking Saint's Row for glorifying gang violence. It's a flawed premise. I dunno, depends on the context to me. If something starts as a satire of a thing, but the satire fails its just the thing. Therefore its open to criticism for being the thing (arguably you could criticize a satire of a thing for still pushing the thing even though its a satire). I don't necessarily agree with it (not having played Bayonetta I'm loathe to criticize or praise it, but Saints Row does a good job of satirizing the GTA style game in its sequels. I wouldn't say its immune to criticism either, though, just that I probably wouldn't agree with much of it). I thought your only trigger was Dwarves. Go Dwarves, Go!- Seven Dragon Saga by Tactical Simulations Interactive (TSI) KS
Guys I don't know if I should pledge towards this game but I'm starting to feel guilty that I haven't..what should I do? Only pledge towards it if you'd like it to be made. Otherwise don't.- Can you respec?
And people respec in real life all the time. Otherwise I wouldn't see the flood of 40-50 year olds leaving their careers to become nurses...- Journalism and bias in the gaming industry.
There is nothing inherently sexist about a person of any sex creating a character of any sex because the creation isn't what defines perception. If you'd rather use an alternate term like positive or negative gender representation or something similar more power to you; personally, I don't care to get in an argument on semantics.- I'm a bit worried
Looks like it meets the minimum requirements on STEAM (as much as I can figure that stuff out). Seems to me (if true) its just as legit to review a game using the minimum specs (albeit, I suppose if possible it'd be best to review the game on recommended specs and then have a sidebar about minimum spec performance). - I'm a bit worried