'Tis the season to be freezing my butt off... · 8:12pm Dec 5th, 2013
Oh goodie.
Today it was a balmy 0 degrees F (approx. -18 for you metric types) with a -30 degree F windchill (-34 C). Fun fun, oh, and I had to walk into the wind for a good portion of my trip to my classes. It's a little chilly inside at my place, though I'm sufficiently dressed for that to not be a problem...except for my hands. You can't exactly wear winter gloves and use a keyboard effectively.
NOW! Onto other stuff.
Has anyone ever noticed how whenever the developers add some new feature to a sequel that's designed to be a convenience, and you instantly have all of the elitists screeching that it's all a plot by the filthy casuals to take over the world? One random example: Fast travel. I for one don't want to have to spend all that extra time pointlessly wandering through the same area five times. Apparently it's hardcore to waste my time.
Another one: objective markers. Again, it's designed to cut down on aimless wandering and save time. Does anyone remember the minor quest in FO2 where you were asked to collect money from some guy, and you were given absolutely no other information? Where he is, what he looks like, that sort of thing. As it turned out, it was some guy that looked exactly like one of the other twenty identical NPCs wandering around the Den. The only clue you had was if you were to put your cursor over the correct guy, examine, and it gave a different description from the other ones. (He was labeled "You see: A citizen of the den" as opposed to "You see: An addict") Wandering around clueless isn't exactly "hardcore".
Feel free to speak yo' minds! In other news, there seems to be a lot of whispering around some Survivor 2299 thingie...let's hope it's fabulous!
On another random note, I feel like teasing something I plan on doing later in my story (and getting feedback on it now before I do it. Note: It's temporary!)
1 human + 1 baby dragon + 6 ponies + Magical Oopsie Wabbajack-esque thing = 2 humans + 1 fluffypone (not in the...conventional sense) + 1 fatpone + 2 semi-swappedpone + 1 pretty pony prince (It's not Isaac) + 1 adult dragon + shenanigans. Thoughts?
Rarity wants something from you
and have some fat!Derpy eating a muffin man.
Sounds like a good mathematical equation for your story. Also, dat Rarity.
It sounds horribly convoluted and absolutely ridiculous. I like it.
How can I say no to a Rarity face like that?
sounds like it might be an interesting thing, but I have to ask what is with you and chubby ponies?
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Because the snuggliness of a pony is directly proportional to mass.
Therefore, Big Mac, the Princesses, and fatpones are the most snuggly.
"All right. . . Seems in order. .. Magical Oopsie Waba- Wait. . . . What. WHAT. HIT THE FRIGGIN DECK!"
Wabbajack-esque? my friend you clearly don't know enough about our lord and savior Sheogorath, it is either a wabbajack or not, our lord does nothing in mediation.
behold the image of equestria's destructionstatic.fjcdn.com/comments/Wabbajack+Wabbajack+Wabbajack+_eca88627bce3e5ff21acc42035c4673e.png
1576057 sounds like "Explodium's Theory Of Pony Snuggliness" has been born.
My problem with quest markers is that the player is encouraged not to really think anymore. So many players don't even bother to read the flavor text whatsoever. They don't know why they're chasing down an NPC aside from the broadest possible brush of "I need to get to this guy so that the next thing can happen."
If you were to take these human players into the game world and told them to convince the NPC to give them the quest item... Chances are, they wouldn't know what they were supposed to be asking for or why thy need it. They couldn't hold up a conversation with the NPC.
This is what I find so irksome!
1 human + 1 baby dragon + 6 ponies + Magical Oopsie Wabbajack-esque thing = 2 humans + 1 fluffypone (not in the...conventional sense) + 1 fatpone + 2 semi-swappedpone + 1 pretty pony prince (It's not Isaac) + 1 adult dragon + shenanigans =
Magical Oopsie Wabbajack-esque thing brings Moira Brown to Equestria, Pinkie's coat fluffs up, Twilight eats too much, Rainbow plays with animals, Fluttershy becomes a raging dike (as in an earthworks structure used to contain water), Prince Blueblood is pretty as fronk, Spike grows up, and they all fuck.
that muffin looks troumatized
also on that web site, this guy is covering very thoroughly:
If the cold is getting to you, why don't you come down here and experience Christmas the Aussie way, the way where your skin is seared off your flesh by the rays of the sun and everything you know burns down around you when the bushfires strike.
The convenience things aren't bad, but the problem is that some games hold your hand too much and you really feel the game has been dumbed down (often leading people to believe that the devs are performing the satanic ritual of appealing to a wider audience). When a compass points me in the right direction, that's great. When it shoves a huge arrow on my screen over the object I can easily find on my own it ruins the exploration experience and makes me feel like the game doesn't trust me to complete simple tasks.
Proposition approved. Commence shenanigans.
come to me raribear. i will never let you go. never...
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And now it's been confirmed to be fake.
Poo.
1580332poo indeed
damn and i had my hopes up
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You know what will make us feel better? You writing the next subsequent chapters of 'It Must be Tuesday'.
We are ALL survivors here.