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General Discussion / Re: Monogamy?
« on: March 15, 2013, 08:29:52 pm »
... that's probably more cultural than anything, yeah. Kids in general, regardless of gender, are pretty incautious. You've just happened to grow up in a society where indulgence in suicidal stupidity is a little more encouraged for males.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« on: March 15, 2013, 08:28:10 pm »
No one person can read all the books. Not even immortality would allow for that. Books are created faster than any human can read.

One can see it as despairing, for you shall never read them all. I see it as glorious, for I shall never have to stop reading.

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Other Games / Re: Tome 4: Tales of Maj'Eyal
« on: March 15, 2013, 08:03:11 pm »
*fist shake* Go shopping!

Seriously though, absolutely no movespeed boosting items in the entirety of the west? That's bloody close to impossible :-\

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Other Games / Re: Tome 4: Tales of Maj'Eyal
« on: March 15, 2013, 07:29:04 pm »
Yeeaaahhh... ghouls that reach east keep a pair of speed boots (or those sexy artifact ones, whatever) around for world travel. And probably feathersteel amulet as well. Maybe a set of nimble armor too, whatever. Point is you pick up some movement speed so you can mostly ignore those bloody patrols.

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Other Games / Re: Tome 4: Tales of Maj'Eyal
« on: March 15, 2013, 05:21:24 pm »
Heh. If it means much, most of the classes (including shadowblade >_>) have been won on roguelike or nightmare already. Only thing I'm not seeing in the vault are slayers, wardens, rogues, archers, marauders, and shadowblades. And the last three I'm fairly sure there's forum posts for victors for them (Checking, I'm seeing nightmare shadowblade, roguelike archers and marauders. There's a roguelike 'slayer in b40, a few version back. I zero-death'd a TW many versions back, but that was before they were considerably toned down :P). So it's kinda' possible, at least. But considerably more difficult, well. Yeah.

E: Whoops, should have gone back a page. Yeah, we've got roguelike rogue winner in 1.0.0. And a warden. Slayer, shadowblade... looks like everything's accounted for, actually.

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Woah, doublepost.

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Mm... there were several AoS maps that had notable minion interaction, honestly. Steps in the right direction, if not really there yet due largely to SC/WC3 engine limitations.

Just as soon as the AoS style at large gets around to pulling its head out of DotA's ass we might actually see some interesting stuff again. Everything public so far still have their craniums pretty firmly ensconced in Ancient sphincter.

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Semi-reoccurring dream (which is to say one with parts of it that were reoccurring, but parts original) made me realize the best goddamn configuration for a college campus building in freaking ever. You know those giant plastic things in stuff like chuck-e-cheese (I think. It's been a long goddamn time) or the outdoor playgrounds that certain fastfood joints have/had? You know, cubes with plastic dome windows connected by tubes and with the occasional chute/slide thing coming out of it? One of those. But the size of a freaking building.

Classrooms would be interspersed throughout, probably sometimes in ball pits. Never in squares or whatever. No repeating patterns, likely nothing with a direct Z level path to each other. Ladders, inclines, slides, maybe free drops or ziplines around. That.

Now, concessions to usability would probably come through scheduling (so people actually have time to get to/find their next class) and high-tech classrooms so folks don't need to carry much around and like safety netting and shit and their might need to be some kind of 'net conference thing built into the classrooms for the disabled (or an alternate campus for those who physically can't get around. This probably wouldn't be a very wheelchair friendly place, unfortunately.) or something.

But that. That would be the best goddamn thing in ever. All buildings need to be built like that, but especially schools and places of higher learning, academia, and research.

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Other Games / Re: Tome 4: Tales of Maj'Eyal
« on: March 15, 2013, 10:37:37 am »
S'what the ideas subforum or an addon's for :P

Particularly the latter, if it comes to that. There hasn't been much traction for changes to the escort quests in that sort of direction, really. DG seems pretty content to have them fairly heavily RNG based. General word of God has been you're more or less intended (i.e. get RNG screwed) to fail a few, and they're not exactly necessary. I'm fairly sure one of my old winners ended up saving none of them or like two or three or something.

Plus it's not like those crazy bastards in the infinite dungeon don't get buggers down to the hundreds or whatever without any escorts whatsoever, and ID is viciously more difficult than the standard campaign overall. You could strip the escorts out entirely without meaningfully changing the game's balance too much, really. They're just a nice bonus. Outside of undead being a little more annoying at times. Light tree's pretty sexy on 'em.

That kind of mechanic sounds like it'd be more interesting for a pet class of some sort, though. There was an attempt at a marshal or captain or something class a long ways back which was pretty interesting but never really panned out much

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Other Games / Re: Tome 4: Tales of Maj'Eyal
« on: March 15, 2013, 10:09:11 am »
Nah. I've contributed a little bit in terms of code (note: I'm freaking terrible at coding) and helped a bit more intensely than your average player with testing, bug hunting, and design discussion at varying points, but nothing even remotely substantial. Most of the code on the corpsebow was me, I mangled the code for the femur so horrifically DG couldn't stand looking at it and made something functional from it, and I contributed an idea or two that someone else did the work on (Such as the mentioned Umbraphage -- original idea was me, fixed up and made more sane by... PureQuestion, iirc.), but that's about it. Mostly I just spend bouts of time where I hang around the IRC and guinea pig stuff or throw in a $0.02 here and there.

Sometimes I even throw in a two cent worth something :P

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Other Games / Re: Tome 4: Tales of Maj'Eyal
« on: March 15, 2013, 09:51:58 am »
Not really. Closest thing to a time limit is that a random potion besides the one you turn in will be completed every time you turn the ingredients in (though it won't double-tap the one you help out that time, o'course.). When someone finishes their set (which can be as few as three turned in or as many as... five or six, I forget what the upper limit is.), then you can turn in no more.

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General Discussion / Re: The Crossover Thread
« on: March 15, 2013, 09:30:00 am »
Changing the rules may simply be how you interpret the henge, heh. Beyond that, m'pretty sure genderflip is far from outside the realm of canonical Naruto power purview. Magical girl status might just carry a bit of an annoying rider clause for anything not originally female.

And you totally know Sasuke'd snap that shit up in a second. Which hey, would make continuing the Uchiha name that much easier, ahahahaha!

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Chronophage is terrifying roughly up to the point you realize that "one who consumes time" is... pretty much everything. Eat time, do stuff.

But yeah, -phage makes for great stuff. Helped inspire an artifact named Umbraphage for ToME4, heh. Glad I didn't have to code that one :P

Necrophage is actually a D&D critter, I think. There's one in Incursion, anyway.

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General Discussion / Re: Soylent Green Is Real, People!
« on: March 15, 2013, 07:41:31 am »
Including Auschwitz and blowjobs.
Anything even remotely related to the prostate seems to cause cancer, yeah. From what I vaguely remember that thing's like a little fleshsponge of cancerambulations, at least once it's been marinating long enough. And if Auschwitz didn't it probably would have started to after a while. Random arbitrary carcinogenic radiation seems right up that sort of thing's alley.

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Mancer is like cancer just man instead of metal.

Mancer is less metal than cancer.

And cancer is not very metal at all :-\

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