So, this has been a hectic week aside from my general lethargy / writer block.
- I am getting a refund of 200 euros over an incident with a friend.
- My brothers are bickering over World of Warcraft PvP experiences and it annoys me.
- The online Pathfinder game was set for today after work and I've yet to finish my character sheet.
- One of my friends is having his birthday, but I don't know what to get for him. Another is waiting for me to repay a favor to him.
And my roommate told me yesterday he only has around 50 euros left, so he managed to burn down his paycheck within two weeks of time. Again!
I love ME but I never paid any attention to armour outside of what bonuses it gave. Video game fashionista, I am not. :P
I am, but only with the girls. With the guys it is "Meh. Jeans and a t-shirt work." With the girls it is "OH!!! that would look good on her. And that! Let's try this on her. And this!" What can I say? I like dressing up my dolls. Especially if I have to look at them for dozens of hours on the screen.
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Video Game Fashion Discussion:
My/Ebon's/Scint's NWN server has a tailoring shop in most major cities (off the top of my head Arabel, Suzail, Highmoon, Velethuil, Stonehaven, and the soon-to-be-input Marsember) where players can customize their characters' clothing, armor, shields, and weapon designs, as well as create custom outfits.
You would not believe the amount of time people spend on those things. We have a shop in Highmoon that sells boxes and bags for carrying things (which helps get around limited inventory space and carrying capacity); its best-selling item is a bag that is exclusively for carrying clothing. And going around as a DM, it's very easy to find characters who have five or six of these bags on their person, each filled with three outfits (the most it can carry).
I myself am not immune to this. Just the other day Scint's and my characters spent about an hour making dresses for each other, all thanks to a one-off comment in an earlier conversation where one said she'd like to see the other in something fancier than a squire's tunic.
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Why does this remind me of Heathanson?
Pale imitation. Cain't do better than th' original.
In Freehold DM's honor, I am watching his most favorite TV series EVEA!!! This is his most favorite series EVEA!!!
I prefer watching the DVDS in the microwave.
I call it "buffy condensed"
...and here I thought it was this.
Followed closely by this one.
Hmmmnnnnn... I just got a note from Freehold DM. It says "Please come to New York City. Make it a one way trip since you will not be leaving alive."
you need to read it like this. Substitute your name for striders and New York City for eurasia
It's a garnish now.Son of a b$!#&! A moth drowned in my Scotch.moth went out like a boss.CH, do you have a couple Asian-looking lady bard miniatures that you can set up around the glass? They could sing a song to it:
"Mothra oh Mothra
If we were to call for help
Over time, over sea, like a wave
You'd come, our guardian angel!
Mothra oh Mothra
Of forgotten kindness and ruined spirits
We pray for the people's spirit as we sing
This song of love"
I love Mothra.
I played Strider, once.
I always preferred Shinobi personally.
Do the color schemes mean anything, or are you guys actually talking video game fashion?Definitely video game fashion. But I am sure you had Barbie dolls when you were young. This is like that but with a FPS/RPG style video game to play when your done dressing your avatar.
Which brings up another issue with ME2... There are some outfits that have to be worn complete and can't be mixed or matched with other pieces, and that makes me sad.
IKR!!!
I am planning to be the most curmudgeonly curmudgeon in this game, hating on cerebus while loving the fashions.
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Why does this remind me of Heathanson?Pale imitation. Cain't do better than th' original.
~LAUGHTER~
edit - Thanks! I needed that!
I played Strider, once.
I always preferred Shinobi personally.
back in the old days, those would have been fighting words.
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To be honest the only thing I remember about both is running, lots of running :-)
Now Golden Axe was an epic f#%$ing game I tell you what!
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I never had dolls. Dolls were for girls.
I had action figures. That I dressed. And talked to. And made go to school. And brought to my female friends houses so they could attempt to take their dolls out on dates. They had so much game.
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To be honest the only thing I remember about both is running, lots of running :-)
Now Golden Axe was an epic f$#~ing game I tell you what!
GOLDEN AXE 2 ARCADE DOTA I LOVE YOU MARRY ME
I had Barbie dolls as a kid, they were f+*&ing awesome!
I sure hope Anius is doing well, hasn't been around for a few days.
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Tiny T-Rex has discovered Rampage 2 for our Nintendo 64, he takes the lobster guy every time and uses Mr. Krabs' voice for it, cracks me up:-D
Why does this remind me of Heathanson?Pale imitation. Cain't do better than th' original.~LAUGHTER~
edit - Thanks! I needed that!
T'ain't th' most ugliest poodle I ever seen but's def'nitly in th' top five.
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Considering how much everyFAWTL seems to love Mass Effect, FaWtL VII would clearly have to be Mass FaWtL or FaWtL Effect or something.
I may have to transmogrify female FaWTLs into asari.
I'm sure they will understand.
I am also equally sure David M Mallon will support this transmogrification.
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Video Game Fashion Discussion:
My/Ebon's/Scint's NWN server has a tailoring shop in most major cities (off the top of my head Arabel, Suzail, Highmoon, Velethuil, Stonehaven, and the soon-to-be-input Marsember) where players can customize their characters' clothing, armor, shields, and weapon designs, as well as create custom outfits.
You would not believe the amount of time people spend on those things. We have a shop in Highmoon that sells boxes and bags for carrying things (which helps get around limited inventory space and carrying capacity); its best-selling item is a bag that is exclusively for carrying clothing. And going around as a DM, it's very easy to find characters who have five or six of these bags on their person, each filled with three outfits (the most it can carry).
I myself am not immune to this. Just the other day Scint's and my characters spent about an hour making dresses for each other, all thanks to a one-off comment in an earlier conversation where one said she'd like to see the other in something fancier than a squire's tunic.
In the unlikely event I am transported to the forgotten realms, I will wear nothing but a t shirt and jeans in protest.
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So yesterday was a 15-hour day at work, and one of my closest friends said, "You need a drink! I'm buying!"
Amazing to be 101+ days in and still have people who see me several times a week unaware that I've stopped.
In terms of video games and characters you play, I think I explained it to my kids very well:
Kids: "Dad! Why do you always play female characters?"
NH: "If I'm going to be staring at somebody's backside for the next 200-300 hours, you'd better believe it's going to be a woman."
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So yesterday was a 15-hour day at work, and one of my closest friends said, "You need a drink! I'm buying!"
Amazing to be 101+ days in and still have people who see me several times a week unaware that I've stopped.
In terms of video games and characters you play, I think I explained it to my kids very well:
Kids: "Dad! Why do you always play female characters?"
NH: "If I'm going to be staring at somebody's backside for the next 200-300 hours, you'd better believe it's going to be a woman."
:-D
So yesterday was a 15-hour day at work, and one of my closest friends said, "You need a drink! I'm buying!"
Amazing to be 101+ days in and still have people who see me several times a week unaware that I've stopped.
In terms of video games and characters you play, I think I explained it to my kids very well:
Kids: "Dad! Why do you always play female characters?"
NH: "If I'm going to be staring at somebody's backside for the next 200-300 hours, you'd better believe it's going to be a woman."
Glad to hear that you resisted the temptation.
And I agree about the female characters. 80% of my City of Heroes characters were females and most of my other characters are female.
The vast majority of my characters are also female, both in NWN (my character vault currently has about 15 characters in it, only one of which is male) and in PnP (all my recently-played PCs are female, including Thistle, my AoW character and PC in the only PnP game I'm not DMing). It's less about the eye candy for me and more that I just for some reason prefer female characters. I really don't have a way to define it.
When it started out it was more that I'd come up with the basic concept then decide character gender based on whatever art I found that I liked best, and having more female character art available meant more female characters, but that's less true nowadays as I tend to also go looking for art deliberately rather than only sifting through my creature art folders looking for something appropriate.
Not really sure there's much of a reason to it. It just is.
In the unlikely event I am transported to the forgotten realms, I will wear nothing but a t shirt and jeans in protest.Video Game Fashion Discussion:
My/Ebon's/Scint's NWN server has a tailoring shop in most major cities (off the top of my head Arabel, Suzail, Highmoon, Velethuil, Stonehaven, and the soon-to-be-input Marsember) where players can customize their characters' clothing, armor, shields, and weapon designs, as well as create custom outfits.
You would not believe the amount of time people spend on those things. We have a shop in Highmoon that sells boxes and bags for carrying things (which helps get around limited inventory space and carrying capacity); its best-selling item is a bag that is exclusively for carrying clothing. And going around as a DM, it's very easy to find characters who have five or six of these bags on their person, each filled with three outfits (the most it can carry).
I myself am not immune to this. Just the other day Scint's and my characters spent about an hour making dresses for each other, all thanks to a one-off comment in an earlier conversation where one said she'd like to see the other in something fancier than a squire's tunic.
Funny enough, I can think of five or six characters who have a non-combat outfit that is basically shirt + jeans/khakis/slacks. Single-colored or lightly-decorated torso design plus black, grey, blue, or brown pants really does look like semi-modern casual wear in NWN.
What I wish we had (again, we used to but it doesn't work anymore) was the wide-brimmed musketeer hat cloak appearance, so you could have that and the long duster appearance on armor's robe slot worn at the same time.
As it is the hat cloak doesn't work, but there's a hat robe option on armor. So you can have hat or duster but not both right now. I had a character on a different server where they had the hat cloak option and I thought the hat + duster look looked awesome. Very Harry Dresden.
Glad to hear that you resisted the temptation.So yesterday was a 15-hour day at work, and one of my closest friends said, "You need a drink! I'm buying!"
Amazing to be 101+ days in and still have people who see me several times a week unaware that I've stopped.
Oh, there was no temptation involved. He offered at around 7 pm, when I had another half dozen labs to test. Testing while schnockered = Bad.
I just found it amusing that he offered to buy me drinks while:
(a) I was obviously inundated with work, and
(b) He was still unaware that I stopped drinking months ago...
Glad to hear that you resisted the temptation.So yesterday was a 15-hour day at work, and one of my closest friends said, "You need a drink! I'm buying!"
Amazing to be 101+ days in and still have people who see me several times a week unaware that I've stopped.
Oh, there was no temptation involved. He offered at around 7 pm, when I had another half dozen labs to test. Testing while schnockered = Bad.
I just found it amusing that he offered to buy me drinks while:
(a) I was obviously inundated with work, and
(b) He was still unaware that I stopped drinking months ago...
I think there is just a general cultural understanding among a lot of people that hard/long day = everybody is going to want drinks after. And that if offered (especially if someone else offers to pay) everyone will jump at the opportunity.
Considering how much everyFAWTL seems to love Mass Effect, FaWtL VII would clearly have to be Mass FaWtL or FaWtL Effect or something.
Man I get so confused by all the Mass Effect talk >_> I might play it one day. Probably not, I've got so many other things on my plate first, and I'm having trouble getting to all of them due to how much time NWN takes up.
I tend to catch up on my other gaming during the every-three-months quarter-end overtime in January, April, July, and October. Just do not have the time during those times to put much time into a highly-social, heavily scheduled game like NWN, so most of the time I take those months off and play other things. I might finish FFIX next month as a result. If I can get anywhere with this danged Chocobo minigame.
I hate it when bosses try to buy me lunch, I'd rather they just give me a little extra in my paycheck from time to time.
Funny thing re: Freehold vs. Forgotten Realms. We've considered taking the server out of FR and having some world-changing event that moves it to a custom setting, but every time it's brought up player backlash is so overwhelmingly in favor of leaving it as is (and it's about half and half between "no I like FR, I want to keep playing in FR" and "that's too much work") that it never gets anywhere.
Okay, can someone play Neverwinter Nights to me? As far as I can observe, it's a game based of off D&D that's main draw is not the single-player campaign, but the ability to create MMO-like servers? Am I right here?
So yesterday was a 15-hour day at work, and one of my closest friends said, "You need a drink! I'm buying!"
Amazing to be 101+ days in and still have people who see me several times a week unaware that I've stopped.
In terms of video games and characters you play, I think I explained it to my kids very well:
Kids: "Dad! Why do you always play female characters?"
NH: "If I'm going to be staring at somebody's backside for the next 200-300 hours, you'd better believe it's going to be a woman."
When my friend was creating a character for Jedi Academy or Knights Of The Old Republic and created a female twi'lek he said something very similar to that.
Okay, can someone play Neverwinter Nights to me? As far as I can observe, it's a game based of off D&D that's main draw is not the single-player campaign, but the ability to create MMO-like servers? Am I right here?
I am pretty sure that single player campaigns and ability to create own were the primary appeal. Of course lots of people finished them multiple times now so they got to play with the server functions.
Alright. Cool. Would you reccomend getting it? And if so, which game is Orthos' server on so I can play there?
Funny thing re: Freehold vs. Forgotten Realms. We've considered taking the server out of FR and having some world-changing event that moves it to a custom setting, but every time it's brought up player backlash is so overwhelmingly in favor of leaving it as is (and it's about half and half between "no I like FR, I want to keep playing in FR" and "that's too much work") that it never gets anywhere.
Then again I suppose it has been changed so much it is no longer forgotten realms, not really. So this is a win for Freehold.
Okay, can someone play Neverwinter Nights to me? As far as I can observe, it's a game based of off D&D that's main draw is not the single-player campaign, but the ability to create MMO-like servers? Am I right here?I am pretty sure that single player campaigns and ability to create own were the primary appeal. Of course lots of people finished them multiple times now so they got to play with the server functions.
It really, really, really, really, really depends who you ask. I'd say the only universal attraction is the Toolset and what can be made with it.
Yes, there are a vast variety of good single-player modules out there that a lot of people take as the primary attraction for the game. I'm not one of them. I've played two of the single-player campaigns to completion (Shadows of Undrentide and Hordes of the Underdark, the first two expansions), and part of the original base campaign but never completed it. I've never downloaded a module to play through. But apparently there are some extremely good ones out there that people just gush over.
For me, the multiplayer experience has been the draw since day one. Playing on the NWN server my roommate played on was the reason I got the game in the first place. Heck, I was playing on his computer using his copy of the game for a couple weeks before I got the game myself. For me and those like me, the game has always been more about the worlds we could make, the stories we could entertain other players with, and so forth; the live interaction between players making their own individual stories alongside the server's many plots rather than the single-player story.
NWN players tend to be strongly divided into those two groups. I haven't gone out looking for them, admittedly, but the only times I've run into people from the first group is here on Paizo when the game occasionally gets brought up and people chat about their favorite modules. Otherwise, since the majority of my time on the internet has been on communities for NWN persistent world servers, I really only hear from people like myself in group two. Occasionally you'll have someone pop up who has played some of the single-player modules, but it's really uncommon.
Alright. Cool. Would you reccomend getting it? And if so, which game is Orthos' server on so I can play there?
I do highly recommend getting it. You can pick it up off GOG for fairly cheap including all the expansions, which you'll need to be able to play online.
My server is Cormyr and the Dalelands, linked here. I'm Edge on those boards. There'll be links in the forums at the top to all the hak files and other custom content you'll need to play, server rules, and log-in information.
Funny thing re: Freehold vs. Forgotten Realms. We've considered taking the server out of FR and having some world-changing event that moves it to a custom setting, but every time it's brought up player backlash is so overwhelmingly in favor of leaving it as is (and it's about half and half between "no I like FR, I want to keep playing in FR" and "that's too much work") that it never gets anywhere.
Then again I suppose it has been changed so much it is no longer forgotten realms, not really. So this is a win for Freehold.
We have tweaked a great deal, especially since we divorced ourselves from the core timeline back in DR 1372. Everything canonically past there is nonexistent on CD, including 4e and 5e stuff. We occasionally have to remind players that, among other things, major events like Lolth's Silence and the Rage of Dragons never happened on CD, since those post-date our canon cutoff.
I may join you one day orthos. Operation: New Desktop may not come to fruition until early 2016, and I may be playing a loooooooot of mechwarrior online first, but I do want to at least take a look. I still have my dusty old cds.
We have tweaked a great deal, especially since we divorced ourselves from the core timeline back in DR 1372. Everything canonically past there is nonexistent on CD, including 4e and 5e stuff. We occasionally have to remind players that, among other things, major events like Lolth's Silence and the Rage of Dragons never happened on CD, since those post-date our canon cutoff.Funny thing re: Freehold vs. Forgotten Realms. We've considered taking the server out of FR and having some world-changing event that moves it to a custom setting, but every time it's brought up player backlash is so overwhelmingly in favor of leaving it as is (and it's about half and half between "no I like FR, I want to keep playing in FR" and "that's too much work") that it never gets anywhere.
Then again I suppose it has been changed so much it is no longer forgotten realms, not really. So this is a win for Freehold.
love rage of dragons. Love Richard Lee byers work. Love love love.
love rage of dragons. Love Richard Lee byers work. Love love love.We have tweaked a great deal, especially since we divorced ourselves from the core timeline back in DR 1372. Everything canonically past there is nonexistent on CD, including 4e and 5e stuff. We occasionally have to remind players that, among other things, major events like Lolth's Silence and the Rage of Dragons never happened on CD, since those post-date our canon cutoff.Funny thing re: Freehold vs. Forgotten Realms. We've considered taking the server out of FR and having some world-changing event that moves it to a custom setting, but every time it's brought up player backlash is so overwhelmingly in favor of leaving it as is (and it's about half and half between "no I like FR, I want to keep playing in FR" and "that's too much work") that it never gets anywhere.
Then again I suppose it has been changed so much it is no longer forgotten realms, not really. So this is a win for Freehold.
I'm really kind of the prime DM for Cult of the Dragon stuff, and I have kicked around the idea of running the Rage anyway, if only to see how the many players of Half-Dragons and Dragon Disciples on the server might react. But for the moment my CotD love is wrapped up in a long-running plot about the dracolich Dretchroyaster that is finally nearing its conclusion.
G.I Joe with Kung Fu Grip..hell yeahI never had dolls. Dolls were for girls.
I had action figures. That I dressed. And talked to. And made go to school. And brought to my female friends houses so they could attempt to take their dolls out on dates. They had so much game.
GI Joe was called 'Action Man' over here. He had a skrutty '70s beard, blue swimming trunks that didn't come off and a little switch in the back of his head that made his eyes move from side to side.
Also...
He used to hunt My Little Ponies
Also...
I bought ME1 and ME2, played them once and never touched them again.
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Considering how much everyFAWTL seems to love Mass Effect, FaWtL VII would clearly have to be Mass FaWtL or FaWtL Effect or something.
I may have to transmogrify female FaWTLs into asari.
I'm sure they will understand.
I am also equally sure David M Mallon will support this transmogrification.
As long as maleShep comes around from time to time to mess around with Cortez and/or Alenko.
I sure hope Anius is doing well, hasn't been around for a few days.
i've been alright, as far as being anxious about a Decision out of my control goes.
I've actually not been very interested in talking online these past few days.
supposedly i have an internet addiction but its actually rather conditional. If I have friends in real life (which I actually do now for once) then i don't go on the internet as much. the problem simply is that I have an anxiety disorder and going online has a pacifying effect, and that most people my age in real life don't make good friends for me.