I'm reading about fake and suspect Kickstarters on Hackaday, and I have to wonder: The color-changing pen is cool and all, but is it an answer without a question? It seems that even manual-set CMYK pens are still mostly figments of various designers' imaginations, which makes me wonder if these things would sell even if they could be perfected.
I suspect the people who need Gelly Roll pens or such know where to get them.
Dude, never mind that. Skyrim goes on sale once a forthnight.
And...starting tips. The Int score is always important. Not necessarily for combat (though it will help once you get energy weapons) but it'll unlock more extra conversations than the other scores. Except for possibly Cha. Also, Luck will actually affect your results in a game of chance.
As for skills, Survival won't be particularly useful unless you're doing one of the harder modes. Everyone needs Barter, and everyone needs Medicine and Lockpicks. Everything else is up to how you want to play it.
You don't need Barter if you just kill the shopkeepers.
Each shopkeeper has at least two guards on them at all time, never mind if they're in a civilized area and have allies around them. You can't just gun your way through bartering until at least level 10.
Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
I don't like Skyrim very much.
It's a pretty decent game I guess, it's got interesting mechanics and all that.
But like...every time I play it I can't help but feel like I wasted my time. I'll play for days on end non-stop and then something will force me to stop and I'll feel like life just passed me by.
Each shopkeeper has at least two guards on them at all time, never mind if they're in a civilized area and have allies around them. You can't just gun your way through bartering until at least level 10.
Part of the fun for me is making storylines for each character I play. X won't get involved in any Daedra business because one of them tried to convince him to kill a friend, which led to me going out of my way to not finish certain quests. Y joined the Civil War in a convoluted attempt to gain amnesty for him and his family back in the Empire. Z studies blacksmithing in order to remake her family armor, and her husband (who's trained for light armor) wears heavy armor in an attempt to please her.
Each shopkeeper has at least two guards on them at all time, never mind if they're in a civilized area and have allies around them. You can't just gun your way through bartering until at least level 10.
Violent video games don't necessarily incite violence... but they will mess up the history books when even casual relaxed sites are talking the grisly murder of local entrepenuers.
I useless piece of shit, I have no job, incomplete college education, every fucking living second is pain, dulling, numbing, chronic, whole body fucking pain, that on top of the ADHD makes focusing a nightmare. I have no energy, I get out my bed(which can take over 30 minutes), do the maximum yoga I can do(15 minutes) before just taking care of my basic need. Any extra task is taxing me immensely, I'm basically useless in most jobs if not all. I can't build my self-esteem on stupidity that I partake everyday. I want to do something meaningful for a change. I feel so little and the world so large, on a scale my life is meaningless.
Part of the fun for me is making storylines for each character I play. X won't get involved in any Daedra business because one of them tried to convince him to kill a friend, which led to me going out of my way to not finish certain quests. Y joined the Civil War in a convoluted attempt to gain amnesty for him and his family back in the Empire. Z studies blacksmithing in order to remake her family armor, and her husband (who's trained for light armor) wears heavy armor in an attempt to please her.
Stuff like that
I guess, but I feel like there's not enough for me to latch on to, with regards to roleplaying. There's not enough of the player character themself. I don't feel like I'm roleplaying, I feel like I'm animating a remote-control drone to interact with other remote-control drones.
My suspension of disbelief was broken far too many times.
I useless piece of shit, I have no job, incomplete college education, every fucking living second is pain, dulling, numbing, chronic, whole body fucking pain, that on top of the ADHD makes focusing a nightmare. I have no energy, I get out my bed(which can take over 30 minutes), do the maximum yoga I can do(15 minutes) before just taking care of my basic need. Any extra task is taxing me immensely, I'm basically useless in most jobs if not all. I can't build my self-esteem on stupidity that I partake everyday. I want to do something meaningful for a change. I feel so little and the world so large, on a scale my life is meaningless.
I want to say something, even though this is more Aliroz's territory than mine.
You're doing the best you can, and you shouldn't feel pressured to do what you're not comfortable with.
Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
Oh, a laundry list.
Same repeating set of voice actors.
Stiff animations.
Rather ridiculous weapons.
Not really feeling any real agency.
Being able to do literally any other quest in the game while the world's coming to an end. Seriously, that's what I did. I saved Sovngarde for the absolute last.
There being no real mechanical difference between the Imperials or the Stormcloaks.
Bugs. Bugs. So many bugs.
Other flaws that I feel are worth mentioning.
Wide empty spaces without much to do other than look at the scenery.
Not much point in collecting resources.
Too many different hurdles to get to the thing I want.
I mean I'm playing Dragon Age Inquisition right now, and it's also an open world game. It has its own flaws. But I have a dialogue wheel that allows me to speak to the other characters. Occasionally they ask me my opinion and I can legit give it. They can ask me about my history with something and I can provide it.
I'm somebody in this game. Not entirely the person I want to be, but I'm somebody.
Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
I preordered it, and I played the previous two games, so I'm intrinsically biased. But I'd say "yes."
The closest thing I can compare it to is a really tight single-player MMO. You press buttons on your hotkeys to attack, you wander a big space and pick herbs and mine metals, you go to a hub place that you can customize as you like.
But there's also a lot more to it, like the ability to control the development and actions of the titular Inquisition. You're a fledgling Jedi grandmaster of sorts figuring out your places in the world.
There's also a really in-depth and flexible crafting system, among other things. Pick up stuff in the world that has different effects depending on the context, make neat things out of them, slot in any upgrade you want, make the upgrades themselves...
The story's pretty good, and most of the characters are interesting and complicated. Like a hard-drinking mercenary who has sex with everyone willing, but is nevertheless a devout adherent of a faith that does not allow such things.
Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
I mean it's not like I have a problem with Bethesda's model of open-world games, I really like Fallout New Vegas. And it has worse, stability-affecting bugs.
It's just that Skyrim has a few issues that stick in my brain and just don't quite do it for me.
Something about the Fallout Games vs Skyrim: With Skyrim, I needed to make multiple characters to experience everything I wanted without breaking character. Y came about because I wanted a character who could get Daedra artifacts after X swore off of them, and Q came about because I wanted a character who was psycho enough to willingly join the Assassin's Guild (X, while a sneaky warrior, is more of a thief, and Y killed his version of them when he was trying to be more of a hero; didn't last too long).
With Fallout, I felt like I got everything I wanted with the first character. Not because I did everything possible on the first go, but because their adventures were definitive. We weaved stronger stories for them than the ones we weaved for their Skyrim brothers and sisters.
Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
There's less "class" roleplaying in Fallout than there is in Skyrim. In Fallout everyone's a gunslinging rover trying to make it in the post-apocalypse.
Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
Everyone has the same skillset in Fallout, whereas in Skyrim the characters are warriors, thieves, or wizards, even if the PC isn't limited in that way.
[1:58:39 AM] Magic Jane: " 4: As shikigami are weak against water, computers are weak against it, too. "
[1:58:56 AM] Cerise: haaaaaaaaaaaa
[1:59:11 AM] Magic Jane: I want a laptop youkai
[1:59:14 AM] Magic Jane: how would that even work
[1:59:28 AM] Magic Jane: popular myth is that electronics can't become tsukogami (I think I spelled that wrong)
[1:59:46 AM] Cerise: tsukumogami
[2:00:02 AM] Magic Jane: tsukumogami
[2:00:07 AM] Magic Jane: soo-koo-moh-gah-mee
[2:00:11 AM] Magic Jane: I will try to remember that
[2:00:21 AM] Cerise: Also, electronics simply haven't been around long enough to be neglected for the amount of time necessary for one to become a tsukumogami
[2:00:28 AM] Magic Jane: they're some of the most interesting creatures of legend, I should do well to remember their names.
[2:00:29 AM] Magic Jane: Oh?
[2:00:36 AM] Magic Jane: what is the minimum amount of years again
[2:00:39 AM] Magic Jane: it's a century right?
[2:00:53 AM] Cerise: it's not so much a minimum as a pretty good guideline for when
[2:01:06 AM] Magic Jane: yes, I suppose there are not many computers that have been around since 1914
[2:01:17 AM] Cerise: here's a terrifying thought
[2:01:18 AM] Magic Jane: maybe some creaking vacuum-tube powered thing
[2:01:36 AM] Cerise: in 2080, millions of E.T. atari cartidge tsukumogami will erupt from the earth
[2:01:49 AM] Magic Jane: Gensokyo's most deadly incident yet
Everyone has the same skillset in Fallout, whereas in Skyrim the characters are warriors, thieves, or wizards, even if the PC isn't limited in that way.
Everyone has one of two skillsets.
Not a lot of people take the dumb bruiser skillset, but it does still exist
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guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
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Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
the firebreak is a lava field built two hundred years ago or so by the sentinel's predecessor
the firebreak is north of the woods house
the woods house is east of the deep forest
the deep forest is north and south of nothing, and east of the fields
the woods house is northwest of town