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Goddammit, why do I keep running out of video memory when I assault the alien base?

What does that even mean?

Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on January 26, 2014, 12:10:04 pm

((It wasn't the playing, it was the game.))

((That's like saying "It's the chainsaw's fault that I lost my finger, not my fault for playing with the chainsaw." If you don't know how to use the chainsaw and you do potentially dangerous things with it, you can't blame the chainsaw for that.))

((The problem wasn't that Grate was "playing with" the pill machine, it's that he was putting a manipulator battery in it. The ingredient is part of the game.
Man, metaphors are tough.))

Why use weapons for interrogation at all?

Geez, guys, we have a range. Why not test the guns there?

...Isn't the Tomb of Horrors an adventure, not a sourcebook?

((It wasn't the playing, it was the game.))

I'm thinking of doing a forum game soon which will involve a fair amount of ASCII maps. Like, all maps ASCII. I've been thinking of planning stuff out a bit, so I can get things to work and maybe get feedback.

Let's start with the basics.

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This is a person, obviously.

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This is a brick wall.

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Sections of road.

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A car. Kinda.

Suggestions on how to make things look...less crappy?

((I'm 90% sure you can be on Boarding and something else. Just FYI.))

I know, I know.