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On a somewhat related note, the Colbert Report just delivered this PSA:Quote from: Stephen ColbertKids, do not use the R word(retard), it is totally gay.
I think that is a relevant comparison and fits in at this point. Thoughts?
Illegal loot, in the case of the ebony mines.
I'm expecting them to do it similar to Ultima Online, of course - in an ideal world. You take yer axe, you chop at a tree (and in UO's case, the tree doesn't bother to fall down because if it did the entire world would be deforested in a week), you get a log, and you use your dagger to turn the log into some arrow shafts and then attach feathers which you plucked from some bird that you killed, or use carpentry tools to turn it into a board, etc, then furniture, or a wooden shield, or whatever. Or you take a pickaxe and whack at a mountain for a while to get some ore, which you then smelt into iron, which you then forge into a weapon or a shield, etc, or tinker into some kind of tool. And all of this uses skill checks and requires a certain level of skill to make each item. Or you use your dagger on a tree to get kindling which you use to light a fire (using the camping skill) in order to cook raw meat or fish into something edible, although if your cooking skill sucked, you were liable to burn it instead. (Or keep a herd of sheep in your house to shear them for wool, and sell it for profit)
Seeing as they've cut back on the number of skills in Skyrim, I doubt they're adding a bunch of different crafting and resource-harvesting skills, along with camping, cooking, fishing, tracking, and so on, to make a really in-depth system. So it's probably more along the lines of Gothic II. Kill something, get raw meat, find an already existing cook pot over a fire which never goes out. Use cook pot to cook meat, and never fail. Take iron billets and make them into swords, and never fail, for unlimited profit, but first you have to become someone's apprentice. Etc.
...You seriously call gays "guns" down there? And "gun ass"? I realise logic don't apply very well to insults and the like, but without emotional attachments that just sounds silly. Bössa is a kids word, for god's sake!
Thread got interesting. Let's see who rages.
Them's fightin' words!
You want a piece? Come at me, bro!
*Delicately plucks a piece out of MW*
Kill Bill?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ki42ZSIJjaU
Thread got interesting. Let's see who rages.
Them's fightin' words!
You want a piece? Come at me, bro!
I guess a happy would be that I just got back into DF today actually X3I am not allowing myself to play until I'm done cleaning and cooking, but I am soo looking forward to starting a new game ^^'
It isn't that violent, and I joined pretty much when I started to loose interest in df.
Not when I joined... Remember, I would do pacifist forts... So pretty much there was no blood.
Possibly just depression.
There's a certain kind of mathematics I love, but there's only one man who produces it. For now, at least, the rest of it makes me feel like I'm walking on glass. It's ugly, it's impure, it's written with tenderness but without vision. My grades this semester aren't so great--partially due to this issue, partially due to a terrible schedule (I've officially discovered that I'm nocturnal), partially because I know this isn't what I want to go into.
Everyone wants me to go into their department. I've had three French teachers/professors practically beg. My English teacher in high school, and a professor here. My rhetoric professor, who of her own volition promised to open doors for me. A great mathematician gave me a tour of the library... I became a legend in high school for performance in a particularly difficult history class, and my teachers said "Oh, Vector? Don't compare herself to her" to their students. Honorable mention in a computational linguistics competition, having never studied any whatsoever. So many teachers telling me to please, write books, write fiction, give us something. So many students saying "Teach a class for us," even in subjects that I've never studied and only provided offhand comments about. When I interviewed for Harvard and discussed the Japanese club I ran in high school, the interviewer, shocked, said that it sounded like a lecture series for a college course. I've solved interview questions for computer science in a third of the time it was supposed to take a PhD graduate in the subject--and I've only taken the most basic course, not even recommended for people majoring in the field.
What on earth am I supposed to do?
Part of me says: "Well, stay the course and keep on with the mathematics." The other part of me says "I can do all of these other things, and with their forces concatenated, I could create something larger than what I would ever produce there--an edifice to withstand time."
But I'm not so sure about that.
Do you think they're serious about the whole lumberjacking/mining/smithing/farming part of the game that was mentioned a while ago?
It seems that increased background radiation from the Fukishima nuclear power plant meltdowns has given me the power of internet-invisibility! Now, do I use this ability to torment people with invisible 2048x2048 meme images or to hack an evil government's website?
BUAHAHAHA!!!
Anyways, you guys seriously need to let this whole ego-battle over M&B and Severance go.
I'm currently working on a PIE-ish protolang. And my conworld is coming together.
