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Ended up writing out some more on the natter I spat out in sad thead. Finished writing for the moment with this, which is happy in a reaffirming-of-purpose-once-more way. Impossible though it likely is, I would hold nothing better than to one day to reach the point where essence finally precedes existence.

My dream is for man to come to the end of all things, when the stars have burned out and all motion and potential for motion has ended, and for man to stand up at that point, say, "I Am the I Am, and though existence may end, I Am will not," and for that truth to write itself anew into the firmament of existence.

Never played perfect dark, eh? Pretty sure that was it, anyway. X-ray sniper rifle, shot through walls. Beautiful thing.

Yeah, watched the first couple of minutes. Immediate thought was "build deploying frames machine that picks up the reactors in the floor and moves them to opponent's ring, and then detonates."

I can already see a variant. Give them castles, instead, a distance apart, and make them build self-moving machines to go and destroy each other. Probably a longer build period, though.

Kind if a belated chime in, but I'd throw out that 2d vs 3d in animation falls almost precisely where it does in video games. Remember well the PSX era and the insistence continuing to this day on making 3d games when 2d would be massively more aesthetically pleasing (handhelds, cough, cough) when dealing with the form's limitations. Not exactly surprisng, there, considering the connections between media forms,

If I had to wager a guess, I'd say that the techniques and the tools for working with 2d are currently simply more refined -- and more importantly, more prevalent -- than 3d, both in game and non-game media. In time, as 3d rendering and creation tools and methodologies advance, we're likely to see excellently done 3d animation become more ubiquitous. Well, moreso, as things have indeed kinda' been upswinging from what little I've paid attention.

Eventually, it likely won't be so much a better or worse than a different tool for difference desire thing. We'll likely see more mixed d media, I'd wager, as our content creators become more familiar and fluid with the more recent format.

Second party went better!

... sorta. It was just some random joe cleric following me along the kobold den gnash tooth stuff, but things went pretty well until I did something that in retrospect was perhaps a little silly. Got to the prison place in the rescuing wozname quest that came right after, figured hopping down to the cell area was a good idea. Shortly thereafter, well. I made it. My hireling didn't. Cleric didn't either

Dude hopped out the quest at that point. Eh. Somewhat of a positive experience.

So, question. Chests and parties. No one losing anything, right? No first-come best serve stuff?

Ye' gods, the gods apparently don't want me partying. First try at it, irestone inlet on hard... about a minute and a half into it, both my hireling and myself are dead and lightning knocks out the internet long enough to cause me to disconnect. Zeus is apparently displeased by hobgoblin on dwarf gangbang.

E: In other news, Irestone tears me a new one. Any suggestions besides "Come back with better gear and/or at a higher level"?

So... wait. Doublecheck this for me. The most XP efficient way to go about it is to do all the quests at X level on normal once, then swing through the gauntlet on hard and then elite? Or would you do it in multi-level swaths, i.e. at character level three, you do every quest from level one to, say, five, on normal, and the sweep through the lot of them on sequential difficulty levels? If you were trying to be silly, I mean

That doing one on normal resets the bravery thing does explain why I wasn't getting any of the buggers despite having chewed through all the first level quests on elite. Do you actually have to be grouped, or is solo fine? E: Wait, wait, wait. You have to actually go into the quest the first time on hard or elite? So grouping is requisite?

That said, I was hoping to farm a bit to get a better bodyfeeder weapon than that +0 scimitar. Checking the auction seems to suggest I'm not going to find bodyfeeder enchanted weapons until level six at the least, though. Sad. Though checking the wiki says maybe otherwise. Hrm... I think level four would be the minimum for a +1 bodyfeeder. Have to keep an eye out, anyway...

In other news, kobold assault. That is a fairly notable amount of kobolds. Normal wasn't too bad, at least for my two-weapon dude and a third level cleric hireling, just somewhat time consuming. I shudder to think about hard or elite, though... my saves aren't that high, and even on normal the shamans were getting through fears and suchlike. The kobold brothers quest had th'buggers nailing me with hold person and crap on elite (which I tried once, got one-shot by the flame trap ), which... is worrisome in relation to the kobold assault. So many shamans >_<

Anywaay. Dhoorm's up to level four, now, and I'm turning in for the morning. All the first level quests done to elite, starting to get the normal difficulty runs on the level two stuff. Thinking about ditching the sorcerer for something with lockpicking, though. Fighter keeps getting annoyed by not being able to unlock stuff and pass search checks, bleh. E2: Also, very much aware I've got like four pieces of equipment that aren't actually doing anything. I know how D&D stacking works, I just haven't managed to get usable stuff for some slots yet