@Ali_Roz: "If you know something is a scumbag move, the best thing to do is to NOT DO THAT THING, rather than to do it so obnoxiously that everybody has to concede that the thing is bad (or at least pretend to do so while you're around). Nothing's …
Dear Ali_Roz,
Beginning a message with "Dear ___________ People:" shows contempt and is unbelievably smug.Beginning a message with "Dear " followed by a name and a comma shows fondness and is polite.
Sincerely,
Aliroz.
Caesar III and Pharaoh both have intuitive basic mechanics taught by well-designed early levels, in addition to extensive in-game documentation, though, of course, Pharaoh's levels do a better job at it because the developers learned from Caesar III…
You know, I'm going to try to enjoy these years where I'm old enough to be a "mature adult" and young enough to still see the appeal of eating all the sugar cookies in the box.
2016 and on are going to be great years!
You doinks, I ought to slap you both upside the head. The real reason the PS2 Shadow the Hedgehog game ought not to exist is that nobody has ever or can ever have fun playing it, and at least the 2006 game gave us a legendary LP.
Consider also how this Queenship would push into the role of “rebel leader princess” (or perhaps, “foremost instigator of pernicious anarchism”, if you prefer) one who is perfectly suited for it.
Consider, also, conqueror, that to have is one thi…
@Ali_Roz: Who are you really trying to convince here? I don't think you're as "mature" and "sadder but wiser" as you're trying to be. If nothing else, the fact that you still do this "Oh, I'm so much more bitter and more disillusioned about this …
... don't cry, I didn't mean it like that, little one.
Hey, come on. I still have hope, and I still want to become an author, unlike old grumpy fun-hater over here (how that one ever turns into our cool 2025 self, I can't imagine).
Be nice, you/me.
If our 2000 self were here, you'd realize that you don't care about all the things you cared about ten years ago.
Besides, 2000-us loved kicking annoying people.
So, it has come to this. One of my textbooks for this semester exists only as an Ebook. I had to spend 63 dollars on an electronic book. If I had had a better GPA last semester, the assistance would have paid all of it. Had I not passed all my c…
Well, I'm not going to do the "start Star Wars at the exact time so that the Death Star will explode at midnight" thing, which would be at the time this post is posted, as far as I can tell from internet memes. I've seen the Death Star explode enou…
I was too hard on this year. I was too hard on this decade. I forgive it, perhaps too late.
There there, it's okay. You weren't such a bad decade after all. A lot was lost, yes, irrevocably, but survival is a win. A blue sky is a success. It's…
The loss of so many constants. The infinity of joys and despairs, of loves and hates and fears and faiths.
How could it have been so long ago that a new sun rose on the world, and how can it be so soon coming that it sets?
I feel I ought to say something. Something meaningful. Something that would put this decade in context, from discovering Tv Tropes, to making friends, to here. The years where my brother was a missionary. The years where my sister was a missiona…
Denethor, in the LOTR books, is a man who would do well in the A Song of Ice and Fire books. His flaw is that he sees enemies where there are only friends, that he gives up hope when things seem hopeless, that after so long fighting against evil wi…
140 hours, 907 savestates over all the years and all the characters I've made.
Girias Gase (a randomly generated name that I liked because it was alliterative and reminded me of "curious case") was created on Nov 28, 2019, and with him I beat the …
Fifteen years and two days after KOTOR II was released, I have finally beaten it.
Thus ends he story. All hail the mighty Jedi Consular/Jedi Watchman Girias Gase in the green bathrobe he claims is a Matukai Apprentice Robe, he of the sweet beard an…
Well, I saw the new Star Wars movie, and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Then again, I do have a Pavlovian response to the sound effects and aesthetics of said fictional universe, so perhaps my enjoyment is more based in me-really-liking-the-texture-of-thi…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BblLfFqKyIg&t=3s A modern anime Star Wars opening, with fluid animation, tons of spoilers, lots of energy, and an annoyingly catchy song with english phrases (note that the actual animation is from Disney's presum…
MTG alpha had some really neat art and cards that I go "oh dang, that's a good card and I want it in the computer games".
Also, Chronicles had this card with art that I like and a neat quote:
Time for facts about Iguanodon bernissartensis, and the genus Iguanodon in general, which may or may not consist of only I. bernissartensis and its subspecies. You can remember bernissartensis by remembering that it was discovered in the bernissart…