Update on Infinite Potential, and some other updates · 10:17pm Jul 21st, 2019
Okay, so since I had been very unproductive as of late, I thought that I would give a sign of life make an update on the story I am currently writing. Which as you've probably figured is Infinite Potential. And the chapter issssss... coming. Slowly.
Ugh.
It's 11k words long so far, and I think it will be around 20k long, so its about half-way done. Of course, I've been shown to have very bad grasp on how long will the chapter end up being, so might be wrong. Anyway, work has been keeping me busy, and not only it takes ton of my time I also am very exhaused by it. Didn't write anything this weeked, for example, because work on Friday, and work and chores on Saturday; used Sunday to rest after it. Normally I would at least try to write over a 1k words on Saturday and Sunday, but no such luck this week. 
Yeah, so hopefully I'll be able to speed up a little, though I doubt I will finish it before the end of July. Buuut on the plus side, the next chapter I'll be working on will also be for Infinite Potential^^ So you will get two in a row^^ I mean, granted, it will probably be a month or two apart, but still...
In other news, as I mentioned in my other blog posts, I won't be attending BronyCon. I wish all of you who will to have tons of fun^^ (aaaaand express hope that you will attend EuroBronyCon next year in Vienna cause I'll defintely be there ;p But nah, seriously, have fun).
In other other news, I thought I'll mention that my latest form of rest and recreation involves playing Fallout New Vegas for about a hundreth time^^ Will see if I'll manage to finish it this time (only finished it two times). On an interesting note, I'm playing as female that I named... Morning Glory! Yeah, I know, most of you'd expect that I'd play as Angel, but I've already done it about 5 times over New Vegas, 3 and 4's runs. Also, playing Angel "realistically" is hard and annoying. Have you tried killing a Deathclaw with a knife and strenght of 1?! But with Morning Glory, I can use energy weapons^^
Honestly, I used her name because I've been rereading Project Horizons finally after all those years, got myself the Ministry of Image's printed books, and you know what? I've suddenly grow to love that character even more^^ Like, I loved her before, she was part of my OTP and the other half of it, Blackjack, is (my) Best Pony so I obviously enjoyed her, but rereading PH again... dunno exactly why, but I think I might start consider Morning Glory as Best Pony^^ (even if she had done a very stupid thing near the end of PH that upsets me to this day, but yeah, everybody makes mistakes...). I think that might be partially caused by the fact that since I've started writing Infinite Potential I've caught myself often trying to look at matters as Angel would, and I had long since came to a conclusion that out of whole PH main cast, if given a chance to meet them, Angel would most likely like Glory the most (she would of course be very impressed with Blackjack, but I think she would chalk up most of her actions to a severe case of PTSD and survivors guilt). So that might probably be it 
(also I love energy weapons in the Fallout games so this probably is a factor too)
Playing Fallout game, as always, gave me ideas how to "smooth" some things over in my story down the line, polished some ideas better, so I'm sorta spending this time productively, kinda. Also gave me ideas what I'd like the next Fallout game to look like; I'll probably make a blog post sometime later to let you know... even though considering how occupied Bethesda is with 76 we probably have time before the next game comes out :/ oh well...
Okay, that's about it from me. See ya^^
Thanks for the update. :)
Sorry work's been so tiring.
Good luck!
Unfortunately, I don't expect to have the resources to travel to Europe, but thanks. :)
Ah, interesting; I've fewer playthroughs but a a higher complete/total ratio, so I'm guessing you've tried out a lot more character concepts.
"But with Morning Glory, I can use energy weapons^^"
Heh. :)
Glad you've been enjoying the reread! And liking one of my favorite characters. :)
You think that's bad try playing Roleplaying Hired Gun.
Sniffle, we have lost another good writer to the curse of PH... A moment of silence and my deepest condolences
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Sniffle, we have lost another good admin to the curse of PHate... A moment of silence and my deepest condolences.
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You're welcome^^
Well, at least its mostly easy right now, as long as any new catastrophy doesn't come along...
Thanks^^
It's alright, and you're welcome^^
Well, it's mostly that I try to do everything before finishing the game, and around the time after wrapping up all the DLCs I grow tired of the game... oddly, I always finish with the Lonesome Road, so maybe it's just this DLC... Though I blame the fact that I am bummed about not getting the "Blackjack" Courier Duster ever!
... On that note, who do you think Morning Glory would support? Since Courier is NCR citizen, I guess Courier based on Morning Glory would support NCR too, right? (I hope the next Fallout game we start off as Enclave member, btw). Definetly not Legion, maybe House though I doubt she would agree with blowing up the Brotherhood part, independant is more likely... And no, "supporting whatever Blackjack would decide" isn't an acceptable answer in this case 
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Well I always liked her^^
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I assume you mean because of her low intelligence? Meh, I think I could make it work... need to play stupid character at some point anyway, for... reasons... Also need to finish Heroes, ugh, been a few chapers behind for years.
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Preeeeeetty sure my love for PH had been made apparent long before. About the only way I could have made it even more apparent was if I had posted a picture of me in my Blackjack shirt (got two now) in author's notes under one of the chapters
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Meh, he's entitled to his own opinion.
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Nu er du altså bare plat at høre på om jeg må bede!
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Hiss I say! HISSSSSS!
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Ah, that's good. Good luck on avoiding catastrophes.
Ahh. I generally try to do different combinations of things based on the character I'm playing. And sometimes have a playthrough not have the events of a DLC occur... most often Lonesome Road too, as I recall (I'd say it's fairly clearly my least favorite of them).
Sorry about not getting the duster. :) I think I installed a mod that changed how the duster-path was assigned, since there were some problems with the vanilla-DLC version...
Well, hm. That's one of those questions where one has to decide how much they're still them with a different background. Interesting one, though! I think we can pretty definitely say "Not Legion", but might be any of the other three... I think you're probably right about it being NCR though. Seems like she'd be fairly likely to do that even if she wasn't a citizen.
(I did have at one point an seed of an idea for a game set up in the Northern Commonwealth, with potential factions including post-NV Great Khans and the Enclave-semi-deserter-founded town of Washington. Didn't develop the seed much, but it seemed interesting. NCR coming into the area as part of the plot incitement might be interesting. Even if the Great Khans and Enclave in the area have moved on from the old conflicts, relations might well be plot-causingly tense. :)
...And now this idea is trying to spool out a bit more in my head. :D
Fallout with horseback riding? The Great Khans as the dominant faction in the area, ruling relatively peacefully over other settlements? NCR scouts and rangers beginning to show up? Internal debate in Washington over how much they should keep to their new, not-looking-abroad-for-foreign-monster, peaceful "Traditional American" ways (them having gone with some sort of interpretation like that to justify not continuing to lose against the rest of the continent) vs. getting a bit more aggressive with the old power armor? Other factions in the area, maybe tribals who were there before the Khans and Enclave both? An Enclave-Remnants-like group, but of former members of the Legion?
And of course, what criminally insane vault experiments might have been going on in the region?)
Oh, and I see that your thoughts on that continue after the parenthetical bit. :)
Well, the Brotherhood-House alliance is very nearly in the game, restorable by a mod. My most recent completed playthrough (a while ago now) used that, for instance, with a character who was, among other things, in-universe inspired by A Canticle for Leibowitz and saw a future among the stars for the Brotherhood with Mr. House's help (with Mr. House getting out of it a proven culture of skilled, dedicated soldiers, scientists, and engineers determined not to blow up the world again to use as astronauts and colonists in the long term and help with his plans in the short term).
Heh. :)
Aye, but glad you've been continuing to! :D
(By the way, talking about the Great Khans, coincidentally I happened to come across this the other day. No idea if you'd be interested, but since it came to mind, though I'd give you the chance to see.)
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Thanks^^
I see. Hm, I used to consider Honest Hearts as my least favorite DLC, but the more I played the game the more over the years I came to consider Lonesome Road the worst too. I still love the whole "two couriers battled under the old world's flag, each with message to the other" concept, that line alone is amazingly awesome. But the whole questline is so... straight, you just keep going forward, only talking with Ulysses and the robot occasionally. :/
I think I tried looking up mods for the duster but was never able to find a good one. Also all those advices about wearing faction armor to make one faction neutral didn't work for me for whatever reason.
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(Sounds interesting^^ I honestly forgot about the Great Khans when thinking about future Fallout games
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Yeah, I have that too. Both blessing and a curse when working on stories... helps polish up some ideas, make them much better (most of the time), but at the same time usually end up extending the story
Horseback? I keep wondering why we can't ride brahmins ;p Or why none of the cars work, especially since we were able to fix one in Fallout 2. I want the next game to have a working tank! But if we don't, horseback riding would be cool too^^ Especially if the survival mode would once again disable fast travel
Anyway, so I take in this scenario NCR annexed New Vegas? Cause in case of losing it to House or Courier I'd think they'd learn their lesson with overstretching
Love learning about crazier and crazier vault experiments
Oh wow, I never knew about this cut content, thanks^^ Next time I have a playthrough where I support House I will use it^^ Next one though would probably be with a character who supports Legion, might try to finally get it done, I think I have the right character in mind finally.
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(Looks and sounds interesting, didn't know the band, will look up more of their stuff when I'll have the time, thanks^^ Hm, I feel that I should return the favor... the best music video that comes to mind is this, considering the topic and stuff
Hope you enjoy it^^)
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Interesting; I wouldn't call Honest Hearts flawless, but it doesn't stand out to me as particularly bad in my eyes either. Hm. I suppose it might be the worst of the three non-Lonesome-Road ones? But that's hard to judge; all three have their flaws and good points, and I think I kind of like them but in different ways, and with some being more appropriate for some characters than others. Whereas as I recall I not immediately but pretty quickly decided that I clearly liked Lonesome Road less than any of the others (though I do think it still does have good points too).
"I still love the whole "two couriers battled under the old world's flag, each with message to the other" concept, that line alone is amazingly awesome. But the whole questline is so... straight, you just keep going forward, only talking with Ulysses and the robot occasionally. :/"
It has some good ideas, I think, but it feels so... ehh... poorly executed? I don't like the way it locks in a past for the Courier more strongly than any of the rest of the game or DLC (though that's still weaker than other Fallout games, and there are ways to work with or around it, I think), but mainly the setting just... I mean, consider Old World Blues: There's a lot of pretty crazy stuff in Big Mountain, but to me it seems like it at least mostly makes sense within the world of Fallout, and it's used well. Whereas the Divide, hm... Ahhh, the phrase "feels like a set piece" comes to mind; I don't think I'd ever put it so concisely before, but that feels right. It's a set piece that has some cool-looking bits of backdrop, and some interesting-looking bits of backdrop, and it can indeed be fun to go through it, but it doesn't feel like it can immerse me the way the rest of the game and DLC can. The loot's too obviously there to be looted, the enemies are too obviously there for the player, specifically, to fight, the linear environment is too obviously a path for the player to follow.
...Hm. Still haven't played Fallout 3, but it now occurs to me that all of that would make sense in an in-universe simulation, like I've heard is in one of the Fo3 DLC. Unfortunately, I don't think there's really a good way to go with that in a playthrough without ignoring a lot of what's actually in the game around the DLC.
"I think I tried looking up mods for the duster but was never able to find a good one. Also all those advices about wearing faction armor to make one faction neutral didn't work for me for whatever reason."
Er... hm. Let me see...
I think it's this one I was using, but it's been a while.
Might also be something about this in Littlepip's Fixes, but I'm not sure.
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...Huh. Actually, possibly slightly relevant: one playthrough I did with probably the most morally good character I've done in NV was NCR and believing in the best of it, also not forgetting the "to be set right" part of "My country right or wrong". She tried to find diplomatic and mutually beneficial solutions whenever possible and both spread the NCR's influence and make it worthy of that spread. Also not born a citizen of the NCR, though, instead becoming one as a child when her vault joined up. Relevant because her vault (which in this playthrough I located down near San Diego, on the shores of Lake Otay which would go on to give its name to the town that began growing around the vault) was the long-closed Vault 69, which had managed to survive and retain genetic diversity by getting female-female reproduction working (through Fallout SCIENCE!, as one of those rare few vault experiments that actually worked (Vault 68 in this playthrough, though, not so much)) and as a result was an isolated high-tech enclave of mostly lesbians.
You can see why I might have suddenly realized that might be relevant. :D
(My headcanon epilogue for that playthrough has my character eventually becoming President of the NCR. And incidentally, glancing down at the next bit, later in life making a lasting peace between the NCR and the new nation of the Great Khans, who of course she saved and helped get away.)
((I've played a somewhat interesting diversity of characters. One time I challenged myself to do a Good Natured (roleplayed) Legion run, with a female character as usual, and I think I pulled it off.
Then there was another Legion run (and I'm not sure I ever actually got a male character out of Doc Mitchell's house) where the PC was a mutant (On a number of cases I've used console commands to add various items and/or traits at the start to set up a background.) cannibal with a grudge against the NCR, who I headcanoned as convincing Caesar to not absorb the Great Khans but give her a chance to turn them into an elite force. Also as I recall had a bit of a thing for Legate Lanius, and not in spite of the violence.
Then (though not in the chronological sense necessarily, for any of these) a character who believed that only fictional characters and robots could actually be Good, had pretty much no feelings one way or the other about killing basically anyone, and who worked for Mr. House purely because he could pay her better than anyone else could. Used some advanced stealth armor (from a mod), had extensive cybernetics, and ran Lonesome Road and in headcanon brought the other ED-E back; ended up living in the basement of the Lucky 38 in quarters devoted in large part to a workshop. Also developed an odd affection for Sara Weintraub, which she didn't really understand but went with anyway. I think I also imagined them somewhat awkwardly bonding over a shared interest in Giddyup Buttercup, though I don't remember the details. :)
(That character, I think I recall, was partially inspired by reading one of the ending slides on the wiki: "The Courier, cruel and merciless, had ensured that Mr. House would maintain complete control over New Vegas and everyone in it. Mr. House afforded him/her every luxury at his disposal in the Lucky 38, partly out of gratitude, and partly out of fear."
...Though as I recall, I failed to actually get that, due to killing the Powder Gangers giving Good Karma. No, game, I am completely mercilessly gunning down a group of people purely because they've obstructing a trade route I'm paid to secure! My character's behavior and feelings about it probably would not change at all if the Powder Gangers were pacifists who were obstructing traffic with signs for their combined orphanage and puppy petting zoo! Or if I was here to hire them all instead of kill them! ...Sigh, fine, I'll just patch this over with IMAGINATION! too.
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Thanks. :)
Well, they're not that major a faction, but I do think they have potential, particularly with that one of their NV endings. And they do have a long history.
Heh. :D
Ehh, well, people don't generally ride cows for transport that I'm aware of.
As for the cars, though, I've argued about this before, but I'm pretty sure the NV-era NCR has working road vehicles shown in game. They've just not shown moving in game due to engine limitations.
A game had survival mode disabling fast travel?
I'm not sure I'd thought that far, but yeah, good point, they'd likely need to have won there. Or at least go with some sort of blend of endings, like seems to have been done with New Reno, that has them taking most of the Mojave.
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Oh! Glad it came up, then! :D
Pretty sure it's this mod I used. And yeah, apparently the quest markers and voice acting and everything were all already in the files, just disabled.
(Mind you, you need a high Speech to actually get House to accept, but that's not that surprising. And there's no real mention of the alliance by anyone else that I recall, which may or may not have been the case if they'd fully finished this option, but, well, imagination can fill many holes. :))
Oh, you've not finished a Legion run before? Good luck! And yeah, I get the difficulty, I think; their, ah, nature and behavior do kind of rather narrow down the list of characters who'd side with them, a lot.
(As I recall, my Good Natured Legion run basically used the argument "They're terrible now, but they have potential seeds of future good, and I'm a practically immortal cyborg with all the SCIENCE! of Big Mountain behind me and can probably impress Caesar enough that he'll make me his successor. Then I can use the immense power over the Legion's people, which I could get over no other population, to begin a long-term process of reshaping them".
Whether that's actually morally good is of course debatable, but it was enough for me to get the character through. :))
(Of course, then I recall another character, don't recall which one since most of my characters have been anti-Legion whatever their other leanings (surprise surprise) pointing out that, hey, what's probably the thing that Ancient Rome is the most famous for? More than anything else? Oh, right... falling! And this is what you picked as your model for your society supposedly optimized for long-term stability?)
((My currently-technically-active-but-I've-not-played-in-ages is, as I recall, a bit different, working with the Legion currently but coming to (in the plan) the decision to turn on them and fight for an independent Mojave, but actively trying not to destroy them or kill Caesar (indeed, I recall the plan involved saving him from the tumor). Before leaving with the Great Khans to make her new life with theirs (leaving the Mojave truly for its people), she'd, if I remember the plan, give Caesar a copy of Vitruvius, and tell him that he can do better than building his New Rome in the corpse of the Old World. Or something like that. I think there was also the idea that the Legion, from a combination of rumor and propaganda, would see her, as a somewhat unusually quiet person who was also, despite being a woman, intelligent, quite tough, and a formidable melee fighter, who then actually managed to turn back the Legion, using technology without being corrupted or captured by it, and then gave Caesar a book of great things in the Legion's language and a message that the Mojave is unworthy of him, was some sort of divine being or messenger both praising the Legion's virtue and chastising it for losing sight of its great vision. Or something like that.))
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(Oh, you're welcome. :))
[watches and listens]
Oh, neat; thanks. :)
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Well, maybe not a catastrophy, but I will spend the weekend doing paperwork stuff over the weekend because of stupid circumstances... Will find time to write a bit, though I had hoped to get the chapter done this week so this is disappointing.
Aaaaand a catastrophy
I think I liked it less because it was right between Dead Money (the best DLC in my opinion) and Old World Blues and seems sorta... dull in comparison to those two. Also, I recall being excited about finally meeting the Burned Man, after all the stories I've heard in the main game about him, but he doesn't have that big of a role, unlike Father Elijah in Dead Money for example. I think I actually enjoyed more the subplot about the Father in the Caves' story than Joshua Graham's storyline.
Yeah, I was super confused about the whole Divide and Courier's past. Divide itself had been brought up a few times through the main game, sure, but I don't think it was ever indicated that the Courier had been there. There is a great fanfic here, Wayward Courier by Speven Dillberg, where the Courier from New Vegas gets send to "vanilla" Equestria, and at one point he recalls the Divide and says that he had lost his memory of what he had done there out of guilt. Wish there was an explanation like this in the game... also, despite going through the Lonesome Road many times, I STILL have no idea what exactly this Divide had been before it got blown up. Ulysses talks about it like some awesome community, but there are almost no signs of it in the game. No signs of some normal living, only some notes and terminal entries that are all military-ish, all which seem more like they're from pre-war.
Hm, Fallout 3 starts very good in my opinion, and only falls short near the end, at least in terms of the story. I think you could safely be entertained for the first few hours before starting the DLC content.
Thanks^^
Damn, I wish they would show in one of the games what became of the Vaults like those two xD Speaking off female-female reproduction, there is actually a very good Polish movie called "Sexmission", where two guys gets hibernated and wake up in a world where all the men had died out and there were only women. Dunno if you can get it anywhere with english subtitles, but would recommend watching it, it's hilarious. And I HATE Polish movies, I think I could count on my hands all the good ones.
(Well, that president in New Vegas time was also some war hero I think, so it's quite possible the Courier would end up as the President if they'd help NCR.)
I recall I once tried playing on the Legion's side, but I don't think I went far with that playthrough. Until recently I've always tried playing as "myself", with only a few variations, so I find helping Legion kiiinda difficult.
Yeah, the whole Karma system wasn't perfect... it's even funnier in Fallout 3, believe me
Seems legit
Well yeah, but until Fallout New Vegas, brahmins were the only four legged domestic animal that was big enough to be ridden on. Or heck, just get a cart and make them pull it. It just seems more efficient than just walking everywhere.
Well, I suppose if they'd show working cars, this would probably turn into Mad Max
Yeah, Fallout 4's Survival mode changes a lot, adds diseases and parasites and medicines for those, headshots are pretty much instant kills, you need to eat, drink and sleep more regularly than NV's hardcore mode, and limits how much you can carry. Aaand it also disables fast travel, which I was okay with, though I found it unrealistic that you can't use Institute teleport to fast travel (leaving Institute would teleport you out to the same place you came from, which is just stupid). However, the worst was that it disables saving. You can only save by sleeping, it creates an autosave then. There are mods that disable that, thankfully.
Thanks^^
But yeah, you'd think that after spending about 30 years or so on conquest and having a huge territory, he would want to rest a bit and focus on construction, to ensure his Legion would survive his death.
Well, in my opinion the Roman Empire, on which Caesar had supposedly based his Legion on (we see little of that aside from their military, sadly) was better than the 1000 years that came after its fall, so I could roll with that idea. Sadly, I don't see them continuing to be good-ish after Caesar's death, as we can see with the differences between endings with Caesar and his Legate in charge. Buuut the character I came up with would probably go for as evil endign as possible ;p
To be fair, most societies in history had fallen at one point or another (and, well, this game is basically based on modern societies all killing each other). The Roman Empire lasted about 500 years and the Bizantian Empire over a 1000 after parting from Roman, so they are a bit more impressive. Seeing how Bizantian would keep losing territory for about half of that run, I can't really blame Caesar on picking Roman...
Yeah, I recall I once wondered why Caesar wanted to expend so far. I know he wants New Vegas to be his Rome and stuff, but while I can understand that he wanted an undamaged town to be his capital, I don't think the, um, esthetics of the city would fit his Legion... though then again, the real-life Vegas has a sphinx and a piramid, I think? Well okay, that is a bit Roman Empire-ish... whish those were in game, that would be really fun
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Ah, sorry about that; good luck with the paperwork, at least.
Ah, thanks; that makes sense.
re Wayward Courier:
Ah, yes, I've read that one. Probably a while ago, given the publication dates and that I don't remember much about it, but it's marked as read, upvoted, and favourited for me.
re the Divide:
Aye, exactly. It's confusing, and it doesn't seem to make sense as the things it's claimed to be, or to some extent at all. It's a pretty set piece to fight through, but possibly for me the least immersive part of NV and all its DLC.
(Oh, and the ending was badly weakened by the necessities of format. So I can launch nuclear missiles at both the NCR and Legion, and... no one in the Mojave so much as mentions it? Really? Really? I get that they couldn't revamp the whole rest of the game for this, but that takes a whole lot of suspension of disbelief and/or imagination-filling-in-the-massive-gaps.)
(Hm, and following on from what you said earlier about Honest Hearts, might be that it looks even worse to me in comparison with the game and the other DLC.)
Ah, I think there might have been some confusion on this one, sorry. I wasn't talking about Fallout 3 or its DLC being entertaining or the like, but Lonesome Road being a simulation like that Alaska thing in one of the Fo3 DLC. Which I recall reading did explicitly use the fact it was an in-universe simulation to justify some gamey features. So I was thinking that that might work for Lonesome Road too, but then that it would be difficult to go with that interpretation in a New Vegas game without ignoring a lot of what's in New Vegas and Lonesome Road about the connection between the two.
You're welcome, and good luck! :)
(I've been thinking a bit about starting another NV game, but I don't know when/if I'll get to it given all the other things I have to do at the moment, among other things.)
Heh. :) Though I'm not sure how well they'd pull it off.
And I don't watch a lot of movies even in my native language, but thanks for the recommendation. :)
(Aye, indeed.)
A good thing to find difficult if playing as yourself, I think. :)
(Seems a bit odd to me to do that, but then, to each their own; for my part, for instance, I tend to use the exact same strategy in every game of Master of Orion II...)
I think I've heard that. :D
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Aye, I believe it was mentioned in a previous game that horses went extinct in the NCR core region, at least.
Well...
https://youtu.be/xbLtBwWK9jI?t=42
But yeah, might be reasons beyond engine limitations too, now that you mention it. :)
(But I'm pretty sure the NCR did have working trucks there, even if hijacking them wasn't an option. :D)
Huh, interesting; thanks.
And yeah, not surprised there are mods for that; sounds like they mixed up a survival mode and a hardcore mode, when those two should really be separate but combinable to better serve the different sectors of the playerbase, I think.
I'm not sure exactly which thing in the previous post you're thanking me for here, but you're welcome. :)
(Aye, would have been nice to see more of it, though difficult too, of course.)
Ehh, but he specifically talks about long-term survivability, as I recall. I mean, his ideas aren't completely groundless, but they have some significant flaws, too.
Which deepen the extant and potential characterizations, of course, so I'm not complaining. :)
regarding after Caesar's death:
Well, that depends, I think. If the Courier sides with the Legion and Caesar is still alive... well, as at least one of my characters thought, that's time available to make Lanius not Caesar's successor.
But yeah, at least one of my other characters did not particularly care and if anything might have preferred Lanius's ways.
Hm, aye, the Roman Empires did last a while; I don't think I'd even thought of the Eastern Empire here. Good point. Like I said, his reasoning isn't groundless.
Aye, indeed. Not really sure why Vegas stuck in his head so at first, though why it got stuck even harder could perhaps be explained by it having been denied at first.
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Well, took me a whole week to wrap it up, but it's done. Hopefully. Gonna meet with boss to do last check up on all the documentation I had to do and make last minute corrections before it gets submitted, aaaand for better or worse that will be it. Ugh. Barely wrote Infinite Potential through this stupid ordeal :/ Hopefully I will get it done within the next 1,5 week, WoW Classic is coming out next Wednesday and I expect I would be very busy with that. (I mean, I should be able to finish it, I don't have too much to wrap up the chapter, but still :/)
Yeah, it's a pretty old fic. Read it before I even actually made myself an account here. One of the fics that made me try writing a fanfiction myself. And reading its sequel sometime around a year after making an account made me wanna replay Fallout New Vegas again (after a long break from it), which led me to wanting to read that famous Fallout x MLP crossover fic that I've been seeing being mentioned here and there. Sooo if it wasn't for it I probably wouldn't be writing Infinite Potential at the very least, if not at all. (And the author of it reads my MLP x Warcraft crossover fic, which just blew my mind when I realized that
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Well, I almost always stopped the missiles from firing, so it never really bothered me that nobody comments on it xD Hm, Glory wouldn't fire at the Legion, right? Pity, first time I woul actually got a chance to use those nukes.
Ah, I see.
Yeah, I'm actually probably not going to finish this run after all, that past 1,5 week I didn't play thanks to that stupid work thing, and now I want to focus on writing, and then WoW Classic comes out and I will definetly be playing that for a looong time. Still, will finish this run as Glory eventually, got only some of the DLCs and a few last quests before the final battle, will wrap it up at some point eventually.
Same, about the only movies I watched as of later were Marvel's. And I don't watch ANY movies in my native language xD Seriously, almost all that comes out here are romantic comedies, and if you have half a brain you notice that there isn't anything funny in them and that "romance" is more creepy than charming if you think about it half a second.
And yet while playing Star Wars the Old Republic as Sith Inquistor I keep blasting people with lightning in dialogue options... and I don't even want to do that, I want to be subtly seduce and corrupt people into doing what I want!
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(Huh, never heard of Master of Orion, actually
Oh, I see. Hm. Kinda weird that cows and deers survived, even if so heavily mutated, and horses didn't :/
Ah, Tactics. Never could power myself through it, finished only like two first missions.
Yep
Hm, I think it was about a link to that mod? Maybe? Hm, maybe I should reply to those sooner
Ah, I see.
Well, to be fair, the Bizantian Empire grew so different from Roman that it's sometimes hard to think about it as being a part of Roman Empire.
Probably xD
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Ah, good luck with those corrections, then!
Sorry about that.
Though I hope you mean getting the chapter done rather than the story. :D
And enjoy WoW!
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Ah, looks like I read the sequel, too. At least up until where it went on hiatus in 2013.
And very glad you came across it, then! :D
(Oh, nice!)
Ah, yeah. I don't remember which characters of mine fired them...
Aye, yeah, I doubt Glory would fire them at anyone. :D
Ah, aye, sorry. Yeah, I remember I was enjoying my technically-current run, but it's been so long since I last played... [shrugs]
Oh, but you do think you'll finish it eventually? Nice, then; good luck! :)
Sorry about that. :D
Ah, poor dialogue system, or just a character class/type that really likes lightening? :D
(Oh, wow! Okay, don't play 3. 3 is... generally considered to be not good, and I did play it a bit and... yeah, uh, at best it had a few good ideas in it, but yeah, unless you think you might be an outlier there or are really bored or morbidly curious or something, I'd say save your time and/or money. That leaves three other games, last I knew, two of which I believe are just called "Master of Orion", the original and one of those modern reuse-the-same-title entries in the series. Haven't played either myself, nor do I know that much about how the modern one was received; you'd have to look into it yourself if you're interested. The original, though, is generally considered to be very good, and I can personally add to the consideration of II being very good. There's apparently some debate on which is better, though. But yeah, if you're interested, looks like a combo of 1 and 2 is currently on GOG for ~6 USD, and I've found the GOG version of II to run quite well. Prior to getting the GOG version I was using a DOS version I found for free that had most of the features, so you might want to consider looking into that as well if you don't want to spend money to try it out.
(I originally played it as a kid on the family computer, but I don't recall what version that was; wasn't available to me when I got back into the game with the DOS version in undergrad, though.)
...So, ah, yeah, not going to say II is some transcendental work that will be wonderful to everyone, but I can say it's really good to at least some people; if you've no exposure at all, you might want to look around online to see if you might be one. :))
"Oh, I see. Hm. Kinda weird that cows and deers survived, even if so heavily mutated, and horses didn't :/"
Well, we didn't see the mutated deer in the core region in the first two games, either, and communication hasn't been very good. So I think it's quite possible that there are populations of horses, possibly heavily mutated, elsewhere in North America.
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I just realized that there's potential for sapient mutant ponies in the Fallout universe. I mean, there were the sapient deathclaws, and I think there was that concept for the sapient racoon village or something that ended up not getting put in the first game.
Well, that's an interesting idea. :D
Huh, might be some grounds for it being in that hypothetical game we were discussing, too, as some faction out in a corner. Could be interesting! Might also lead to the first Fallout companion doubling as a form of transportation. :D
So we've got the Great Khans and the main power in the region, the peaceful Enclave city, some NCR scouts starting to come in, the Legion remnants, the small and possibly secret population of sapient mutant horses...
(Though I'm now also wondering what the normal mutant horses are like. Hm. Extra pair of legs? Don't know how well that'd work, just tossing the idea out.
...Wild Wasteland, classical unicorns? :D)
...Anyway, no sign of a massive game development budget landing on my head, so moving on for now. :D
(...Not that there being no prospect of a budget's stopped me from coming up with concepts for a few train stations and things, of course...)
Iiii didn't manage to finish the first mission, as I recall. Glad I'm not alone in not getting through. :D
Sorry. :D
Aye, aye, though as I recall, they tended to pretty firmly identify as part of the/the Roman Empire, at least.
Aye, Vegas may not actually be that useful to the Legion, but then the NCR denied it to him. And the NCR has to be fought and beaten from a number of things in Legion ideology, and now taking Vegas has gotten wrapped into that. Actually, and I'm not sure if I'm coming up with this or remembering something from the game without remembering it was in there, that may be what's special about it, that an actually much nicer and more suited city built from scratch in the core of Legion land wouldn't have: it's a symbol of victory over the NCR, and over House. The technology of the Old World and the politics of the Old World, both crushed by and proven inferior to the Legion at Hoover Dam and Vegas beyond. Aye, that seems like it could explain why he's so determined.
...Also, what the hay why am I not following you?
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Well, had to work my ass off on those corrections, but at least its out of my hands now. The documentation had been submitted, now all the questions they have (and they already emailed us twice) will be answered by my boss. Hopefully they will piss off soon.
Well duh, I am determined to get this story to a proper finish, with an epilogue and shit (though hopefully not a sequel). As for the chapter, I had hoped to get it done this weekend, but still got two or so scenes to write. Hopefully will get them done tomorrow. Then it's just a week or two with proofreaders/editors, and the chapter will be good to go^^
Oh, I will, I miss the old game, where leveling up through the world was part of the adventure. Now leveling is just a chore, and you basically only play in the few newest zones for two years before they add another expansion.
Cool^^ Wish that sequel had continued, but well, what can you do.
Yeah, I figured. Angel maybe would have fired them at the Legion... and actually, given her encounter with democracy so far, I'm not 100% sure she wouldn't consider nuking NCR either...
I see
Yeah, I'll probably will, I barely started Dead Money content, and that's my favorite DLC, actually, so will definetly finish that one up at least, and will get back into the playthrough this way.
Well, the dialogue system is bad, basically similar to Fallout 4's, buuut I can't blame it on that, as the options that result in shocking people are always marked with (shock him). But shocking people always gives you dark side points, and since I am trying to actually help the Empire and make good decisions, I keep getting light side points, so I try to keep things balanced. And also, let's be honest, how many conversations in real life you wish you could end with a lightning?
Sounds interesting^^ Will have to make time to check the first two games at least, though with WoW Classic coming up that might take a while
Well, I always thought that there should be some more mutated sapient races than just super mutans and ghouls in the game, though admittedly never thought about ponies xD Would certainly be interesting. I did briefly consider that in one of the Fallout games there would appear a sort of "mechanical pony"; You know of that toy from Fallout series, Buttercup, or something, right? Well, there was this one creepy moment on the DLC with alien space ship with that toy... it was sorta weird thing to throw into the game out of nowhere and not serving any purpose, and not eplaining what exactly this was (the toy was lid red and was surrounded by... corpses, I think? Or something). Dunno what that was supposed to be, but kinda thought this would pay off in some future game.
Yeah... I actually really wanted to play through that game, I think the general idea is interesting and supposedly the ending is quite good too :/
Yeah, that pretty much sounds like it. Everybody wants something that was denyied them.
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Good luck!
Heh, thanks. :)
Given at the moment I've got about nine thousand words of editing to do on one story and about sixteen thousand of listening/reading on another in the queue for today at the moment (and those are just on the fanfiction front of my list of things to do today), eager as I am to get the new chapter, I must confess a bit of relief that I'm not getting it right now, too. But looking forward to it when it does come out! :D
Good. :) Though I think as I recall I only played enough to be at that state (only playing in the few newest zones) in the latter part of Wrath.
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To clarify, that's not reaching that state and then being in it for the rest of the time I played, that's when I was in it, and the peak of my WoW playing, and I fell out again when Cata came out and never got it back before eventually losing interest in playing.
(....Allllso, since apparently this is among other things a "Reese links fanfiction" post, I've also recommended Travels through Azeroth and Outland (Main Page/Epilogue, First Entry) to you before, right?)
Aye.
Eh, hard to say without knowing what she'd know and think of them by that point. I do expect she'd be open to firing at both under the right conditions, though.
Was there meant to be something after that "I see"?
Enjoy! :)
(Argh, noticed a typo in my previous post: *lightning)
Ah. So basically you're a thoughtful, benevolent-ish patriot, but also just kind of like zapping people with lightning whenever you have an excuse? :D
Heh, aye, no worries. Hope you enjoy one or both of them if you do check them out, though!
Well, there were the sapient deathclaws.
I hadn't thought about ponies either until then. :D
I heard about that part, aye, I think. Thoooooough Mothership Zeta may be one of the parts of officially-Fallout-canon I ignore hardest. I believe to the extent that I was put off a fanfiction I'd been enjoying when, quite a ways in, the Lone Wanderer showed up in the Mojave with a bunch of alien tech, and the author said that, yes indeed, Mothership Zeta was canon to the story. Fortunately it wasn't a favorite story or anything.
(On that note, I've recommended A Dead World to you before, right? That one is, for reasons I do not entirely understand, one of my favorite stories.)
The alien tech wasn't the only problem the Lone Wanderer, from my perspective, brought into the story, nor was the story flawless before, but... yeah. Just put me off it.
(Though... really, in general, although I still haven't played Fo3, and gave up some time ago trying to get it to run so I could give it a try, based on pretty much everything I've heard about it, my comprehension of why a lot of people seem to think it's a better game than NV rests pretty much entirely on that same lot of people looking for very different things in the two games than I am. I'll certainly admit that, from what I've heard, it has good points, but... yeah, I'd very much count myself as a "thinks NV is much better than 3 and 4" person.
...Probably not a coincidence that one fic I do like which has the West interacting with the East (pre-NV, as I recall, and it seems to be a dead fic unfortunately), New California Dreaming, seems to favor the West.)
(...And while I'm recommending Fallout fics, why not make it three? A (complete) Fallout 1 novelization I remember as being good. (Been a while since I read it, though.))
(...Aaaand to be fair I guess I'm also following A More Perfect Union, which while an AU is a Fo3 fic. Hasn't updated in more than a year, though.)
(I thought of also sharing the one that had the Lone Wanderer show up and me leave, but I find that I apparently didn't remember its name well enough to find it here and, at least in the amount of searching I was willing to do for it given it's a story I dropped and so the amount I can recommend it is kind of significantly limited.)
Yeah, what I read about it sounded interesting, and what little I played of it looked interesting, but... that didn't help me so much with actually getting through it.
Aye, you're welcome! :D
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Guess I'll have to finish it over the weekend... well, assuming the servers won't be crowded and I'll be able to play... silverlining, if they are crowded and I won't be able to play, I get to write...
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But I stayed in the game through it all, only taking breaks for a few months now and then. Actually only now I had lost interest with the main WoW game, though I hope I'll get myself back into it at some point, no way I'm letting all those years I wasted into the game go to waste!
Well, it's about an hour before Classic comes out, aaand I still hadn't finished the chapter
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Yeah, I know how that feels... imagine my frustration when I woke up today to see that Somber posted a new chapter of Homelands xD Still not as bad, though, as when the chapter 65 I think for Project Horizons came out,... about 6 hours I was leaving for a week-long trip from my archaeology course (I was still studying back then), where I would be without internet. So of course I read it immediately, and went to sleep around 3 am, so was super sleepy the next day and depressed over what happened in that chapter to boot. It was a fun thing to explain to others... and my professor xD Have you ever tried to explain to somebody who had no idea about MLP what PROJECT HORIZONS is about?! (the funny part was that my professor understood the most, as he watched MLP; well, with his baby daughter, but still
Actually, I too only hit max level during Wrath time, I stared playing after Burning Crusade came out (didn't have good pc and internet before), but shortly after I finally managed to get my main to Outland I got distracted by Pokemon Pearl game
(Hm, I don't think you did, but they look interesting^^ Will look them up more when I'll have the time... which miiiiight take a while... Still rereading Project Horizons, actually. I stopped in the middle of the second-to-last chapter of volume two, as I didn't want to read the last half of it and the last chapter without having the printed volume 3. Aaaand while I waited I found myself too engrossed into other stuff to find the time to read, even though I now have volume 3 and will be ordering volume 4 when I get next paycheck... though I might actually wait a bit for volume 5 to come out to save the money on the shippment...)
Well, she would be open, indeed, but she's, hm... "more of a doctor than a surgeon". Meaning she wouldn't want to cut out an entire limb to deal with a problem, unless she would have to
I think I'm going to use that metaphor at some point ;p
Hm, nah, don't think so, I think I just forgot to put a dot there.
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There is no such thing as a "benevolent" Sith
Well, I suppose there are, but they quickly become Jedi or dead. Or both. Nah, I'm just making the Empire stronger because in my headcannon I'm planning to take it over. It is Sith way for the strong to rule after all. "Through Strength I gain Power", and stuff. As for the lightning, I'm only doing that to people who fail or try to kill/cheat me. Which happens a lot in this game...
True, but I kinda don't count them as regardless of what we do in Fallout 2 (unless we avoid their vault and just go for the Oil platform base) they end up dead save for two specimens. Supposedly the "genes that make them smart" are carried by males, so they could repopulate, but we have yet to see them. Which is a pity, I would love to see them in the newer games.
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I actually liked the idea for Mothership Zeta, but admittedly, the ending kinda always bothered me. At least with Old World Blues there was a reason why the Courier hadn't brough all of the Big Empty's inventions into the Wasteland, something they did "forbade him" from speaking about it, or something... How didn't the Lone Wanderer take over the Wasteland with alien tech? At least have the ship get destroyed or something... or have it make an impact on the game! But the idea alone was good, there had been aliens since the first game, I think, so it was interesting to fight them. Although wish they were cooler. I like Kkat's idea for aliens more in Fo:E more. Wish it was explored a bit more.
Hm, I actually hardly know anybody who likes 3 more than New Vegas. Almost everybody agrees that New Vegas is the best Fallout game. But 3 is good too, honestly, what bothers me most in 3 is the mechanics, actually. How you zoom in instead of looking through iron sights, lack of mods, lack of reputation, stuff like that.
(Thanks for all the recommendations, will look them up^^... aaaaat some point
Yeah, sounds about right :/
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Ah, sorry. :D
Aye, Homelands was the sixteen thousand. :D
...That sounds like quite a difficult thing to explain, aye. :D
Well, glad you derived such enjoyment from it, and good luck! :)
(Oh! Glad I thought to mention it now, then. :)
Sorry about the queue there. :D And good luck with the books. Volumes 1-7 of nine were apparently available for purchase at Bronycon, but fortunately for me they sold out before I even found out about them, so there was no agonizing over whether to spend a big chunk of my vendor hall budget on them or not. :D)
Right. Just dropping a lot of nukes is rather crude. :)
Heh, and glad it was generated here, then. :)
Ah, thanks. :D
I did say "benevolent-ish". :D
But yes, that seems a much more direct motivation. :D
You'd think they'd learn... "Hey, there's Lawful Evil McThunderbolt, famous for tormenting with lightning people who try to cheat them! Let's try to cheat them!"
Eh, that's because of a bug, though. And actually, it's better than I thought: I was checking the wiki just now to refresh my memory, and the entry on the bug specifically mentions similarity to bugged endings for the Hub and Followers in Fo1. And both of those had later game appearances establish unavailable-due-to-bugs endings as canon. So I think that just the ending where they survive being bugged and the fact we haven't seen any of them don't necessarily mean they aren't there, even without needing to go full AU.
[shrugs] Aye, I don't know. And eh, the aliens in previous games were more easter eggs, though, as I recall.
Did we get anything about that (potential aliens in Fo3) besides them being a possible origin of that gun type (star blasters, were they called?)?
Aye, but apparently there are a good number of people who do think that, I've heard.
(No problem. :D)
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Admittedly, work didn't help (found human bones on one construction a few days ago so had to check it out, quickly turned out that they aren't just randomly "shuffled" by all the previous constructions, but there was an in situ grave in there, so had to stay there two days carefully cleaning it, documenting it, and then taking it out, ugh, had to stay up to 6 pm), and to make it even worse, the beginning of the week my favorite shows decided to update: on Monday I learned that the second half of third season of Lion Guard (yeah, I know, dumb show, but third season's previous made me give it a second chance) was online (and it blew, and I am a guy who was satisfied with 8th season of Game of Thrones!), and on Tuesday Steven Universe the Movie came out (LOVED IT, highly recommend that show and movie) and Miraculous Ladybug's (I know, stupid name, but the show is surprisingly good; have a blog post about it somewhere if you're interested) two episodes (which were super funny^^), so all of that slowed down the progress. But it's finally done, and I am free!... until I'll start working on the next two chapters... yeah, I said I would write 2 in a row, but considering my yearly quota and that it's September already, I might do 3 in a row to be safe. But nah, those two WILL be shorter, Goddesses-dammit!
CHRIST, I loathe myself. Only now I had finished the chapter. Why, WHY did it end up being the longest to date?! Why do I keep doing this to myself?!
Ah, yeah, that makes sense. Hadn't looked up the number of words at the time. Ugh, still have to read it, been too busy with everything to even do that
Yep
Thanks^^ It probably slowed down my writing, too, buuut I managed to get my human warlock to level 27^^
Thankfully the queue isn't TOO BAD... although on the first hour the servers nearly crashed, I logged in and there was like a thousand players in the starting area. And yeah, I would have the same dilema too
Yep.
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Ah, right ;p
) and I am pretty sure this is where most of the stuff about the Sith, including their core, had came from^^
To be fair, most of the people who try to scew you either think they are more powerful than you, or actually are more powerful than you xD
Actually, shortly before Classic came out, I began playing Knights of the Old Republic instead, happens 300 years before. Watched some video about philosophy of that and its sequel and was interested again... plus it's not a MMORPG like Old Republic, it's more like Dragon Age and stuff, so choices matter more, you get multiple endings and all that stuff. Unfortunately, I am too big of a fan of the character how it's in canon (well the old canon; pretty sure the shitty new Star Wars canon had made him non-cannon... fucking Disney...), so I won't go all evil on it, but thinking about doing that in the second game when I get to it. Anyway, highly recommend those two, they really explore a lot about the old Star Wars lore (before Disney
(Speaking of Star Wars, what also slowed me down was Star Wars: Rebels show. No idea why so many people disliked it, I am loving it, so funny^^ I would gladly take it over the new movies)
I'm aware of the bug, but I thought because of it, the ending says that the Chosen One killed them; the Enclave killing the deathclaws is scripted to happen within a few weeks after entering the Vault, I think. Forgot about the bugs from Fallout 1st game though
And people say Bethesda is full of bugs...
Hm, well, one was present in Fallout 2, though as a corpse researched in military base, and I think it was said or suggested that bio gel and some other stuff was based on alien tech.
I think it was also suggested that what caused corruption of the Everfree Forest and Lune into Nightmare Moon was alien in origin? I wrote a few PMs to Kkat over the years, and in one she mentions that she imagined the aliens in FoE as in one Lovecraft novel "Color from Outer Space". Highly recommend it, btw, as well as one of the movies that was based on the story, only know of 2-3 other good movies based on Lovecraft. As for Star Blasters, Kkat had said that it was never made clear where they come from.
I see :/
(^^)
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re writing:
Ah, sorry. :D
re work:
Ah, sorry.
re television and movie stuff:
Ah, sorry about the negatives in there (if I'm reading you correctly), but glad for the positives. :)
re Miraculous Ladybug blog post:
Eh, perhaps I'll track that down at some point. :)
And good luck with those future chapters. :D
"Ah, yeah, that makes sense. Hadn't looked up the number of words at the time. Ugh, still have to read it, been too busy with everything to even do that
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Ah, sorry.
I found it good, though!
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Heh. Congratulations. :)
Ah, good.
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(Probably would have been a big chunk of space in my luggage, too. :D
As it was, I took home some respectable stacks of books to fit in a shoulder bag, and I just barely got everything in after discarding some water bottles I was hoping to reuse (Though I did realize later I could probably have fit one more bottle in my backpack. Oh well.).)
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"Ah, right ;p
To be fair, most of the people who try to scew you either think they are more powerful than you, or actually are more powerful than you xD"
That would admittedly make the pattern a little more difficult to notice, perhaps, yes. :D
Yes, I have heard some quite negative things about Disney Star Wars... and nothing that's made my interested enough to actually try one of the movies for myself.
Thanks for the recommendation, though I have no idea when/if I'll try them.
(Ah, glad you're liking the show. :) Is it set in the
pre-ruineder, pre-Episode VII era?)[checks wiki to be sure]
Well, the bad, only-one-available ending does say "By eliminating the deathclaws of Vault 13 you", but the good, bugged one has the Vault Dweller preventing the Enclave massacre and helping Vault 13 become a thriving community.
Oh, though apparently one of the developers claimed the ending was not bugged but scrapped. So that muddies the waters a bit... but we work with fanfiction, so it's not as if we haven't worked with much larger divergences than this. :D
(Or that the Fallout series has never tried to change how things have been.)
Well, Bethesda is fully of bugs; it's just not the only one. :D
re the aliens in Fallout:
Hm, don't recall one way or the other at the moment how much they were present, sorry.
re aliens in FoE:
And don't recall that at the moment either, sorry.
...Though I suppose one could call the Eater of Souls an alien. Not the sort I was thinking/talking about there, though. But closer to the Lovecraftian version!
(And I've read that story (I don't think it was a novel, though?), thanks, though years ago. :)
Though I've not seen the movie. Not sure how that story in particular could have been done justice on film, actually, so impressive they apparently pulled it off.)
Ah. :)
Aye. [shrugs] I mean, I can see why someone who was looking for different things might think that. Don't care about what NPCs eat or why factions are doing what they are, and would much rather have exciting firefights with great big monsters in a ruined cityscape than walk through a desert taking shots at the occasional giant scorpion? I've heard that Fo3 does have some good and atmospheric gunfights.
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Thanks^^
Thanks^^
Yeah, you got it right. The ending was really disappointing, even more so since I considered this show to be crap for 2 years, gave it a chance and grew to like it, only for the latter half of last season to blow :/ But at least I got Steven Universe Movie right the next day to balance it out, so overall I'm happy
Meh, it's not really that great, it's basically me saying how I watched the show's opening song on youtube with clips from show and went: "Well shit, now I have to watch it,"
Thanks, they'll certainly be interesting
Well of course it's good, its Homelands^^
Thanks^^
Hm, you know, now that I think about it, it's probably good that I hadn't gone there. I always have trouble fitting everything into my luggage, and considering how much stuff I'd buy there, I'd probably be better off buying another bag and pay to change my ticket for two bags or something.
Yep :)
Admittedly, there are some good things about them, one certain scene in Rogue One was certainly worth sitting through that entire movie (even though I technically despise it the most for "officially" making Kyle Katarn story from Jedi Knight games non-canon), but overall they fall short for me on a LOT of aspects, and the fact that they seem to take the best ideas from Extended Universe and poorly execute them is just pissing me off.
I think it's post VII movie era, though it is somewhat difficult to tell; it starts about 5 years before the events from 4th movie, and the whole era between 3rd and 4th was the one I had probably known the least about... I mean, aside from the Force Unleashed game, which I think took place shortly before 4th movie, but I had always found that game's storyline a bit confusing, so I don't mind them changing that too much. The most I had read and played through was centered in the years after 6th movie and almost 4000 years before in the Old Republic games.
Ah, I see. Damn, pity that choices in Fallout games have such big consequences, if they were smaller then maybe the could have a game that can look up saved data from previous games and change accordingly, like Dragon Age series, or you answer some questions in game like in Witcher. But I guess that would be too much to ask for :/
Yep, thought about Eater of Souls too, but we were talking about the Kkat's FoE so didn't bring it up.
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(Ah yes, it was a short story
Not surprised, I'm not sure myself how I stumbled upon that movie, I think the trailer probably popped up in suggested videos for me when I watched trailers for some other Lovecraft-based movies, though I am not sure how I found THEM first... anyway, here's a trailer for it:
Hm, well, that's one way to describe those. I would rather call them exciting gunfights rather than atmospheric. Hm, how to best explain it... there are a few fight moments in the game that border on anime, actually. Like, you know, fighting with great big monsters as you've said, though that's rather rare, actually. If you are refering to super mutant behemoths, there are only 5 of those in the game.
The fights in Fo3 aren't that good for me, actually. With one of the DLCs came out a few higher level enemies that have ridiculously high damage resistance, you could be just standing next to it, blasting a shortguin into its face, and you'd have to waste like ten shots to kill it.
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Ah, oh well; would have been nice to have gotten that wrong.
Glad you balanced out to overall happy, though. :)
Ah, okay; thanks. :)
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Well, yes. :D
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Well, I did have a backup plan of "find some way to mail excess books to myself", but fortunately I didn't have to use it. :D
(I also (eventually; they were scarce, I assume because of all the people wanting them) had a poster tube which just barely fit diagonally in my bag.)
Though the packed bag actually ended up really nicely balanced, in terms of weight (I had the books in two stacks, one at each end, with other things in the middle and a floor of flattened cardboard food bar boxes underneath, and the poster tube and some soft things on top, and with how packed things were, the weight didn't shift much, either.).
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Ah, sorry. Glad you found at least some good in it.
(By the way, it turned out that a friend earlier today hadn't heard of this before, and it just occurred to me to share it with you here, too, just in case. :))
Oh, huh.
...Er. Wait, I'm confused. So it's post VII, but also pre IV? Does it span a lot of time or something?
Yeah, those would be some pretty big changes it would have to accommodate. :)
Weell, Kkat's original never goes into it explicitly, does it, or in much detail? Whereas PH...
(Ah, thanks.)
THEM?
re the trailer:
Ah, neat; thanks. And very clever idea doing it in black and white! I can see two ways they could do the Color that way: either have it also be rendered in black and while, so we're obviously not seeing its full eldritch nature, or have it be the only color in the film, still just pretty mundane color to us but alien to its environment!
Ah, thanks. Well, exciting gunfights too, then; NV has some of those, depending on how it's played, but I can imagine it's not quite the same.
re the more detailed explanation attempt: Hm, thanks.
Ah, sorry about that.
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Like literally got the last mega spoiler a few hours before finding the english episodes online 
Will probably get around to it soon to avoid anything else...
^^ Now I have to get around to watching the last 5 episodes of MLP, english ones just got leaked into internet. Yeah, dutch ones had been up for a few weeks, but I prefer watching things in original dub. Of course, I had since then got super spoiled about what will happen, as assholes had put clips on youtube with spoiler names and spoiler video thumbnails that pop up in people's suggested videos
Ah, I see.
(Huh, interesting, will have to give it a proper look once I have some time, thanks^^)
Ah, no, it happens about 5 years before New Hope. What I meant was that the show is part of the new canon that was established by Disney with the new movies; yeah, not only did they change everything happening past Return of the Jedi, but also stuff happening between prequels and old movies (through Rebels and Clone Wars; actually, part of the blame falls on Lucas for the latter, first example that come to mind being how General Grevious was portrayed, or that nonsense "pacifism phase" of Mandalorians, both of which I am very unhappy about), and even FURTHER back. Korriban, the homeworld of the Sith, has been changed into "Morriban", no idea why as it is still the very same planet (some other writers for the show, after Lucas forced through the name, said that since it had been thousands of years, the name of the planet could have changed. Still makes no reason for the writing stuff to change the name, but whatever...), and Darth Bane's remains had been burried there. DARTH BANE - the creator of Rule of Two - HAD NO BODY LEFT TO BE BURIED, HIS BODY DESINTEGRATED DURING HIS DUEL WITH HIS APPRENTICE DARTH ZANNAH! Oh, and I would imagine they made Darth Revan and all of the Old Republic games non canon too, though considering it was over 3000 years ago they had no opportunity to officially state it.
Yep.
Indeed^^ Although PH also didn't really go specifically into aliens territory, didn't it? I mean, Eater of Souls aside, there weren't mention of aliens, aside from the Enclave's posters of whatever mentioning "threats from above" and Morning Glory's dad talking about some kind of alien detection program Enclave run? I'm not counting the stars stuff as those were spirits of course. I don't think there were even any Star Blasters in it.
I meant those other Lovecraft movies' trailers, I'm not sure how I stumbled upon them.
(Wish I could find a good movie based on Mountains of Madness story, I got really into topics of antarctic and polar exploration about a year ago thanks to tv show Terror. I do know there is a game Conarium slightly based on it, though; been getting around to playing it for half a year now, need to finally sit down to it...)
Exactly^^ I think the movie can be found online under name "Die Fabre", just recalled that its German for some odd reason.
Yeah, I suppose.
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Ahh, I'm sorry about that. I still seem to have avoided any major spoilers for the finale, fortunately.
(You're welcome!)
Ahh, okay, thanks.
...Yeah, why change that letter?
Huh. Even if someone wanted to fake a grave site to draw tourists or something, presumably most people who'd want to be tourists would know there wasn't one...
:)
Well, like I think I said, depends on how you define aliens.
Ah, okay, not counting the stars.
Hm. I don't recall either, off the top of my head.
Ah, thanks!
(Sorry about that.
Good luck with that game!)
Ah, thanks. :) Though, I mean, it sounded like German to me.
Suppose?
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Damn you're lucky. Or maybe I spend an unhealthy amount of time on the internet and youtube specifically... oh well ;p
I have no idea, but then again, that's a perfect sum up of most stuff George Lucas modified/changed/"reintroduced"; and I am actually okay with most of those, but damn that's a stupid change...
Yeah. Honestly, this feels like they were trying to pay homage to the Extended Universe lore in an effort to get geeks like me hyped, but those changes kinda feel like insults to me :/
Yep. I usually define them as just people, meaning that they have some form of society and stuff (with the exception of animals, like xenomorphs, of course; then again, they do have a sort of "society", since they have queens and stuff... but you get what I mean), and be sorta... mortal-ish, I guess. Soul Eater and alike are closer to gods than "people", with how much bigger and more powerful they are from an avarage being.
(Thanks, though I need to stop laying WoW Classic first, which might take a whole
Also got a game that just came out, called "Man of Medan" (made by same people who made "Until Down"), which I think might be partially based on Ourgang Medan ship story.
Once I finish this one I'll be able to start thinking about getting Conarium
)
Yeah, but I meant that the story takes place in Germany for some reason, instead of... around Arkham or wherever "Colour from Space" took place. Dunno if they movie was actually made by Germany or not, though, and they simply adopted it like this...
Well, I would say that firefights in New Vegas are actually more exciting than in 3, you see. In 3, especially when you got to higher levels and would run into those 3 hard to kill enemies (2 of which only used melee attacks, so would always run into your face), the fight would just devolve into shooting them in the face repeatedly until you'd kill them, and there was little risk you yourself would die, as stimpaks heal you instantly (and one of the side quests takes, usually taken somewhere between levels 10-15, takes you through a hospital, letting you get a ton of simpaks), so you'd just hotkey them and could heal yourself up instantly. New Vegas' fights are a tad more complicated with Hardcore mode on, and I don't recall there being such annoying enemies in it. Then again, I think there are also more options in game to avoid fights via dialogues, but it's been a while since I played 3, so I can't really make a good comparison
I would say that Fallout 4, for all its faults, has the best firefights, and Survival mode I think even makes headshots kill you instantly, so they are also more realistic.
PS: One of the reasons why I hate when chapters come out this long; it takes forever for my team to go through it
It might take them another week before the chapter is ready. On the plus side, it gives me an excuse to lazy about before starting next chapter (as I like to see readers' reactions to the chapter before starting the next one) 
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It probably also helps that I generally only look at YouTube in ways that apparently prevent it from long-term tracking what I watch, at least in the sense of suggesting other videos to me.
Sorry.
Ah, thanks.
(Heh, well, enjoy WoW while you are playing it, at least. :))
re the video:
Hm, interesting.
Heh, enjoy that one too, then. :)
Ahh, okay; thanks.
Though, adopted it? Not entirely sure what you mean there. Just about the resetting of the story in Germany?
Ahh, and thanks. Aye, I wasn't complaining about the quality of NV's fights; they seemed fine to me. :)
Ah, sorry. :D
Well, enjoy the (well-timed, it sounds like) excuse for laziness, then. :)
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Ah, I see.
(Thanks^^)
Yeah, that channel has all sorts of informations about creepy stuff, like Dyatlov Incident or those girls that got lost in Panama, its really interesting^^
Thanks^^ Also been thinking about The Sinking City, but for some reason it seems to have very bad reviews :/ Although it did occur to me recently that it might have been downvoted on websites I visit by Steam users (this game won't come out on Steam until next year, you see).
Yep, that's what I mean^^
Same here^^
Thanks^^ The chapter should be ready later today or tomorrow
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:)
Hm, don't think I've heard of that incident.
What's it like? The game, I mean?
Thanks!
:)
And I see it is in fact out! And big! :D
Well, not sure when I'll get to it, hopefully tonight, but tonight and tomorrow are looking a bit busy for me and... ~32.3 kilowords. :D Longest chapter of the story yet, it looks like, actually.
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Well, it was in USSR in the 1959, so no surprise there, I only learned about it because... okay, honestly I don't remember how I learned about it, I THINK when there was an anniversary of that a few years before somebody wrote an article about it and I stumbled upon it by accident. This later did lead to me growing curious about misterious deaths and disappearances though. To make it short, 9 hikers were going through those mountains in February, and something caused them in the night to rip out their tents and run away in very light clothing, some practicaly in just lingerie. All of them died, most of hipothermia, but some had rather unusual wounds, too. There was no sign of avalanche, no additional footprints left in the snow so no third party, so nobody knows for sure what had happened.
(They recently added a third part with a new theory about what happened that seems most likely).
Also, a game had been developed based on this tragedy, Kholat. It's rather boring game, but very scary, I actually never finished it because I got too scared at one point
From what I understand, you are a detective (which I think is the case in most of Lovecraft based games) in a city that had been partially submerged, and solve misteries, with several possible ways of solving them. I think there's an open world there, and apparently you can even go underwater with diving equipment.
Yeah, I honestly didn't expect/mean for this chapter to be this big, I expected it to be around 20k at most
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Ah, thanks. :)
Ah, and thanks. :)
Heh. :)
Well, I might have to read it in multiple sessions, and will hopefully be able to start it tonight, but I'm looking forward to it. :D