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Messages - Frumple

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... let me just say, that in the area I'm in, there's about as many, possibly more, fat people over 80 as there are not-fat people over 80.

Maybe... maybe all the grease acts as a preservative? Or perhaps they've managed to pickle themselves via beer and moonshine, I'unno.

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General Discussion / Re: Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« on: March 27, 2013, 07:27:02 pm »
... so like a smaller scale addventure*? I could dig it. Probably not participate, but it'd be interesting to watch :P

Spoiler: * (click to show/hide)

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Oh right, sorry, other countries have bigger cities so there is absolutely no reason why we also shouldn't, my mistake. :P
You're absolutely right. That's no reason why you guys shouldn't.

Because it's an entirely disconnected issue and should have no weight whatsoever as to whether you guys trend toward heavier urbanization or not. Hell, even heavier urbanization isn't much of a factor in relation to population increase from what folks have been saying. Y'all apparently have plenty of rural and undeveloped areas that could support a population infusion without terribly much trouble.

Y'don't seem to have reached the point where continued growth has much in the way of negatives, judging by the sound of it, yeah?

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Other Games / Re: Tome 4: Tales of Maj'Eyal
« on: March 27, 2013, 09:28:46 am »
Bombs would give you a lot of dakka :P

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Our cities are small. Some American cities have population that match the whole country.
... 'ave you lost it, brah? Largest individual city in the states is NYC, and it's only got around 8 million or so. Largest in south america is sao paulo at only 10 mil or so. Aussie's total pop is 22+ mil.

Some of the metropolitan areas come close, but they're all a million+ short at the most. Think you're either overestimating the population over here or underestimating it where you're at, yeah?

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: March 27, 2013, 05:15:23 am »
Ad got me to notice that... apparently Final Fantasy XI got a new expansion pack released...

... this year. Over a decade after the game first came out. I find myself surprised there's still a equine corpse left to beat after all this time :-\

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RPD is notably more violent, after all. It's actually a little distasteful. AssCreed has somewhat more class.

Presumably. I've never played any of the AC games (and likely never will, heh.).

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Yeah... biased history is kinda' more or less all we actually have. Few hundred years of working at it in a formal manner and we still haven't really figured out how to get bias out of history.

We do try a lot harder nowadays, though. Which is an improvement! But unbiased history is still a bit of an oxymoron. And we get a lot of good work on the more practical screw-up prevention front from the biased stuff, so saying it's useless for that is kinda' silly.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« on: March 27, 2013, 01:35:57 am »
Bluh. Condolences Vec. Can't really offer anything more n'that, but... yeah.

Own sadness is that I've apparently entered into another "no sleeping longer than three hours, no sleeping at all for four or five hours after waking up" period. Kinda' miserable. Hard to synch up with normal schedules, which makes other things more troublesome. I continue to kinda' hate sleeping. Dreams are alright. Rest of it could kindly bugger off.

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Atronach just makes things annoying to play with this mod list. Not even necessarily harder -- alchemy created potion chugging mostly ends mana issues, just at the cost of UI annoyance. Doesn't really increase suffering, just increases key presses. The rest was fine.

Seriously, the playability increase from passive mana regen is simply frakking tremendous. Y'wanna torment yourself, fine, but something for show should probably give a nod toward making things more rather than less interesting. And Atronach is more clumsy, more annoying, and a fairly massive downgrade from... any of the other signs. S'not really fun to watch or play, compared to the other choices.

S'different in base Morrowind. Atronach's not much worse than normal, in that, and only slightly more clumsy to use. Dis innit base Morrowind, yeah.

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If it is lower, MW, I'd wager it's 'cause the environment surrounding the skillsets needed for game development is still a bit toxic to females (programming specifically... from what I understand, it's a bit less troubled in the graphic design et al arena). S'true both in and out and academia, unfortunately. It gets harder to learn when there's barriers into the communities that build up around what you're trying to learn, yeah?

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All right.  Do you know of any trans female main characters outside of dating games?  I don't. 
I'm fairly certain there's been a couple of text-based ones along those lines. I mean, like one or two. Then a single-digit amount of experimental stuff related to it. From what I remember at least one or two of them were pretty specifically done by the MtF trans game developer whose name I've forgotten. One of her games was that female-protagonist upward scrolling jumpy thingy from a few years back. Pretty damn rare stuff, though.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: March 26, 2013, 05:55:40 pm »
... note to self. If manage teaching, never give perfect scores. Only one degree away from them. Always room for improvement!

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« on: March 26, 2013, 04:08:08 pm »
Eesh. Y'all poor folks. Worst the caf at th'place I did the bachelors at was somehow fuck up rice. Which is one of those things I still can't figure out. How the hell do you make rice that tastes worse than microwaved rice? And like, bad brands for it (some can microwave decently. We're talking the ones that can't.).

Rice is one of those foods that are just incredibly difficult to mess up. Put rice in boiling water. Reduce heat. Wait. Done. This isn't rocket science or arcane alchemy. And yet somehow, some way, they buggered it up. Boggles the goddamn mind.

Everything else (that I ate, anyway) was pretty alright. Even the themed days. Lucky me, I guess. Helped that if you got it to go you could usually stuff in enough food to feed you for an extra day or so.

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Oh hey, tallies. Yes. One last vote swap! Argonian anygender, steed, stealth.   Conditional: If atronach gets another thumbs up, star sign vote goes to "any combat".

Which should tie argonian and breton and put steed one doublevote from surpassing atronach *eyebrow waggle*

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