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  • NovaNova
    If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.

    ?



    well originally my post was also asking why you were angry


    i assumed you were responding to that



    so you wanna spend that money? Buy me the game, then.



    would you even like the game

  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.

    well originally my post was also asking why you were angry


    i assumed you were responding to that



    oh, i didn't see the original post, fwiw. 



    would you even like the game



    at this stage, i'd like any game >_>

  • NovaNova
    If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.

    oh, i didn't see the original post, fwiw. 



    well, i decided to get rid of it because it's not my business anyway, so ok



    at this stage, i'd like any game >_>



    I could send you some of my PS2/3 games. Um, TES: Oblivion, and Darksiders, and Dragon Age: Origins, but you've probably played them all

  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.

    >TES: Oblivion


    no


    >Darksiders


    nope


    >Dragon Age: Origins


    Noooope. 


    why yes, i've only played 7 PS3 games, why do you ask >_>



    well, i decided to get rid of it because it's not my business anyway, so ok



    Meh, I wouldn't mind being asked about it, although I'd prefer it being left there as is, without elaboration.

  • NovaNova
    If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.

    why yes, i've only played 7 PS3 games, why do you ask >_>



    Well, it would have to wait until Monday anyway, but if you want them I could send them



    Meh, I wouldn't mind being asked about it, although I'd prefer it being left there as is, without elaboration.



    so the obvious solution is to raise a big fuss over it and then never actually ask

  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.

    Well, it would have to wait until Monday anyway, but if you want them I could send them



    You're the best person ever. --nods sagefully--



    so the obvious solution is to raise a big fuss over it and then never actually ask



    Logical!


    but really, i just asked cuz i was confused :c

  • NovaNova
    If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.

    You're the best person ever. --nods sagefully--



    actually it will have to wait until tuesday, as my brother is not paying me back until monday afternoon and by that point it will be too late to walk down to the post office


    but yeah, i will walk down the library on tuesday and pay my library fine and borrow this book for my library course and send the games to you then


    they will probably take a while to get to you though



    Logical!



    that should be my user title


    because i am a logical person



    but really, i just asked cuz i was confused :c



    really, i was just wondering why i was a grasshopper and not a padawan

  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.

    they will probably take a while to get to you though



    Flash news! The pacific ocean's not small! :p


    But yeah, I can wait. 


    um...do i give you my address or what.



    really, i was just wondering why i was a grasshopper and not a padawan



    because you're gonna learn karate, kid

  • NovaNova
    If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.

    um...do i give you my address or what.



    i was gonna pm you on monday or whenever



    because you're gonna learn karate, kid



    but i already have a yellow belt


    or i did when i was like... 5

  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.

    i was gonna pm you on monday or whenever



    fair enough. Just send it whenever.



    but i already have a yellow belt


    or i did when i was like... 5



    Clearly you need to re-remember what you forgot.

  • NovaNova
    If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.

    fair enough. Just send it whenever.



    well, whenever I have the money then


    friday week at the latest, but it should be tuesday



    Clearly you need to re-remember what you forgot.



    I would, but I'm looking into fencing clubs. (the only one is at CSU :<)


    also it's 1:30 i should sleep

  • IcalasariIcalasari
    No rainbow star
    If I had money I'd buy you Amular Cygan :<
  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!

    fencing clubs



    I was in one back when I was homeschooled. It was fun.


    I was also in one in my last two years of highschool, but I was sick most of senior year, so I didn't get to go much.

  • MadassAlexMadassAlex
    One foot in front of the other, every day.

    Currently reading "The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses". 


    It's kind of exciting. I wonder what I'll learn? 

  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.

    Magic?

  • MadassAlexMadassAlex
    One foot in front of the other, every day.

    Magic, swordplay and how to slay a dragon. At the very least. 

  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.

    I'd say that's good enough.

  • MadassAlexMadassAlex
    One foot in front of the other, every day.

    The book has already taught me to see the game and the experience as separate entities. 


    The rationale goes like this:


    An experience is an internal, subjective force that is caused by all stimuli. The role of a game designer is to provide a tool that manipulates a player into having experiences of your choosing. A game itself is only ever a means to an end, rather than the end itself. 


    The essential question when looking at game mechanics, visuals, music, narrative, story and other factors is "How does this contribute to the experience, if at all?" Malk brings up an excellent example of such a question with his criticisms of Skyrim's home upgrade system. The contribution that makes is pretty minimal, and while it may appeal to some players, others simply use home space as a storage tool. Ultimately, given Skyrim's nature as an evolving adventure experience and dungeon crawler, the home upgrade system has a minimal impact on the experience. Oblivion, on the other hand, did better with its DLC "homes" in the sense that they were not standard homes, but themed hideouts. Rather than being a domestic experience, those homes were an extension of the adventure experience, aided all the more by having some distance to major population centres. 


    I like this book. 

  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!

    That book sounds quite interesting.


    (Skyrim has at least one hideout like that, BTW).

  • SaigyoujiSaigyouji
    edited 2012-02-09 13:06:08
    But you never had any to begin with.

    Most of Oblivion's homes were still normal houses, though. Although I would kill for the Wizard's Tower/Frostcrag Spire to be in Skyrim.

  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!

    ^Bet someone's already making that mod now that the tools are out.


    In other news, I'm still working on the specialization system for my RPG. Classifying swords is...well, there are a lot of swords.

  • MadassAlexMadassAlex
    One foot in front of the other, every day.

    But is it really true that most games involve problem solving? One is hard
    pressed to come up with a game that does not. Any game with a goal effectively
    has presented you with a problem to solve. Examples might be:



    ● Find a way to get more points than the other team.
    ● Find a way to get to the finish line before the other players.
    ● Find a way to complete this level.
    ● Find a way to destroy the other player before he destroys you.



    Gambling games, at first, seem like a possible exception. Is someone playing
    craps really trying to solve a problem? Yes. The problem is how to take the right
    calculated risks and make as much money as possible. Another tricky example is a
    game where the outcome is completely random, such as the children’s card game
    of War. In War, the two players each have a stack of playing cards. In unison, they
    each flip over the top card from their stack to see who has the higher card. The
    player with the higher card wins the round keeping both cards. In the case of a tie,
    more cards are flipped, and the winner gets a larger take. Play continues until one
    player has all the cards.



    How could a game like that possibly involve any problem solving? The outcome
    is predetermined — the players make no choices, they just gradually reveal who the
    winner will be. Nonetheless, children play this game just as happily as any other,
    and draw no special distinction about this game differing somehow from other
    games. This baffled me for some time, so I took the cultural anthropologist point
    of view. I played the game with some children and tried hard to remember what
    it felt like to be a child playing War. And the answer quickly became obvious. For
    children, it is a problem-solving game. The problem they are trying to solve is “ Can
    I control fate, and win this game? ” and they try all kinds of ways to do it. They
    hope, they plead to the fates, they flip over the cards in all kinds of crazy ways —
    all superstitious behaviors, experimented with in an attempt to win the game.
    Ultimately, they learn the lesson of War: You cannot control fate.



    My favourite part of the book thus far. 

  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!

    That's...quite insightful. I should read this book.

  • ForzareForzare
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.
    So would it be more worth it to wait like three levels and use the Black Knight sword, or should I just upgrade the Battle Axe I've been using?

    Or use something completely different, like a halberd or something?
  • All NinesAll Nines
    Has friends besides tanks now

    >open laptop


    >27 new tweets


    Riiiiiiiight, that's why I stopped using Twitter for three and a half months.

  • ForzareForzare
    edited 2012-02-09 15:50:50
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.
    Never mind, I decided I didn't feel like grinding and gave my Battle Axe a +4.

    I haven't looked at my twitter in nearly a year.
  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!

    ^^You don't have to read every tweet on twitter :P


    ^Yeah, weapon upgrading is probably better than grinding right there. Are you on the Gargoyle?

  • CrimsonCrimson
    Give us fire! Give us ruin! Give us our glory!

    All but ONE of my Skyrim saves have been corrupted.


    FUCK.

  • LegionnaireLegionnaire

    I lost all of my savegames and had to start an 80-hour character again.


    Also


  • ForzareForzare
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.
    @INUH: Yup.
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