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... yeah, I hear the street outside constantly. And the air moving. And the bushes outside rustling. And the AC when it turns on, and the laptop's fan, and my own breathing, and usually my heartbeat (that one's tough to keep a hold of, though), and etc., and so forth, and so on. I frakking hate televisions. I spent like a decade of fairly concentrated effort getting to the point I was actually able to consistently hear. I'm somewhat hypersensitive to sense datum these days as a results, and distraction and trouble it brings aside, I wouldn't give it up for something as trivial as a particular slice of sanity. Which makes not noticing the thing was on my hand even more strange. I'm usually pretty aware it's there and fiddle with it as a mannerism.

So Forum Ents are the people who've been around for ages and only speak in multi-paragraph?

What... what about those of us that have been around for ages and only occasionally speak in multi-paragraph? Are we like, forum hamadryads or something?

Descan isn't constantly have a seizure of some sort. That makes 'em easy to tell apart.

Cue Vorthon making one of those spazvatars from Desc's moeviking.

I kinda' enjoy even your watered down shitty AoS-style maps (Because they're still Starcraft/Warcraft 3 custom maps until they start doing something actually interesting) that have become popular, but yeah, they've basically taken everything that's awesome about the iconic Aeon of Strife style and made it, just... sports like, is the best way I can put it. Plays and specific mechanical bitsies and specialized knowledge and blah and blah and blah; hyperfocused small-scale tactical application of a game style whose potential is best expressed in large-scale tactical scenarios with a heavy strategy element; you're supposed to be heroes and war leaders altering the tides of battle with your very stride, not sportsmen dueling each other on a playing field, of all things.

... I've ranted on AoS maps a few times before, actually. Eh. These DotA inspired ones continue to underwhelm. One day, though... one day. Someone, somewhere, will say to hell with this DotA suckling bullshit and actually do it right and proper. It starts by multiplying most things (number of minions, size of the map, meaningful and major objectives, etc., etc.) by something like ten, or to the power of ten. I can wait, I guess.

I... sorta', SG. Thing is, I can't see it in Avatar's case. An actual corp of the stripe we've got nowadays would have the entire Na'Vi hooked on psychoactive substances and being used as miners and/or slaves and/or whores without even considering jacking off however much money the Avatar program spat through, and they'd have done it with a spotless public record. Or just found a sufficiently shiny trinket, introduced (hell, possibly unintentionally) a plague only they could fix (gimme th'rocks and your culture doesn't die), or any dozen of other things. I didn't get an "Evil Industrialist" vibe, I got an "Idiots" vibe. Which, I mean, the latter fits with a group actually seriously calling something flipping Unobtanium.

And point, MSH. I don't even remember them attempting a non-pryo chemical assault -- but again, it just... snaps part of my suspension of disbelief. They're telling me that they can (apparently flawlessly) clone the buggers but not make functioning knockout gas for 'em, and my hindbrain goes, "Bullshit."

It's probably just some weird personal hang-up, t'be honest. What triggers that sort of reaction is oddly inconsistent (I mean hell, I read lots of fanfiction that commits far worse world-building sins, so I'unno.). Space-elf Avatar just rubbed me in a lot of wrong ways. But, being fair, it was hella' pretty; total appreciation for the aesthetic aspect. Just not so much the literary.

They are kind of a long way from Earth, unforeseen equipment gaps can't be filled.

... they were able to call for folks like Jake and had the time and tech to vat-grow the avatars themselves, but couldn't fit in or cook up a couple canisters of sleep gas, just in case? When they were already doing the avatar thing itself for ambassadorial purposes with a known hostile group? That's kinda' exactly what I was talking about with the whole "Incompetent Villain" thing, man.

Why does this please my ears so!?

Totes reminds me of the Zelda played on beer bottles thing. World needs more of stuff like that.

*joins general Vector welcoming crowd*

As far as sads go, had the strangest crying jag earlier today and it's still kinda' lingering. Seemed to be kicked off by one of the old shuttle launch soundbytes, so I'm not sure it's entirely sad so much as... something or other, but it's kinda' disconcerting. Might be a bit of that whole subconcious, "Goddamnit humanity, you can be awesome, why do you do other shit?" thing.

I've also apparently buggered up my wrist somehow when I was helping load up a motor scooter thingy, yesterday, and the pain of it's starting to kick in harder today. Might have just stressed tendons or something, I'unno, but having a somewhat limited field of motion that doesn't cause pain spikes with my hand is annoying. Might be a doc visit in the near future if I don't see improvement

Also kinda' looking like I'm going to have to go strangle either a glasses maker or an optometrist in the next week or two. Daily headaches, bleh, and I'm pretty sure the cause is the new glasses.