Currently playing Perfect World Entertainment and Cryptic Studio's newest MMO, Neverwinter (not to be confused with Neverwinter Nights). This game apparently uses the latest rules for the Dungeons and Dragons game (4th edition I think).
Anyone wanting to play this will need to check their system if it meets the requirements for the game.
http://www.game-debate.com/games/index.php?g_id=1199&game=Neverwinter
You can check in Windows XP by clicking the start menu, clicking Run, then typing DXDIAG in the bar. Don't know how it's done in other windows systems…
Anyways…
Keina Galford as she appears in the game.
She's only level 14 at the moment so she doesn't have access to the usual flowing robes that all wizards like to wear.
My guess is that bulky/chunky/massive characters (male AND female) are the norm in fantasy MMOs. We can thank WoW for that. Now I hope that I don't hear that story I read about in WoW… where a girl offered herself as a real life "mount" to any guy who would give her enough gold to buy one of the new mounts that came out at the time (I have a hard time believing it as I don't think any self respecting woman would do that to herself for a video game).
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That bulky look to rpg characters was all taken from warhammer and warhammer 40k, with they way they made their miniatures. Not an rpg or table gamer myself, but I did used to like reading white dwarf magazines for the pics back in the day and saw that style slowly evolve in their miniatures, as opposed to the ones from other rpg systems.
Everything in WOW is completely derivative, from the anime style elves and trolls to the D&D dragons, to the bluky warhammer style knights and orcs…
Hahaha, I only really care about the art styles. :)
@Scarf- sounds like a shelighlia … I can't spell it. Irish club for bashing! My grandmother had one of those…
I've located the perfect piece of blackthorn to make one of these - very hard to find a straight branch of the right type.
Only problem is it's growing in a preservation area right next to a grade 1 listed building. I may have to do some moonlight pruning, but that'll be tricky with the thorns - I've heard of people losing arms and even a buttock after getting spiked by one of those thorns.
e:why can't I get usernames to come up in quote damnit!
Quotes take too many tricks to keep straight…
To do names I just edit it in html and remove all the lame html formatting. …then faff aroind with all sorts of guff till it works.
Don't lose a buttock!
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The hot city of Darwin here there are Irish people everywhere! Drunk as buggery…
And I swear, There's a road called Dick Ward Drive and it goes straight to Fanny Bay. Hehehehehehe :)
kawaiidaigakusei wrote:I was too busy to go to my local gaming/comic/hobby store on sat. Eh, hopefully there will be scraps tomorrow…
Free comic book day today!! Yeahhhhh~~
Is the whole world celebrating with free comics?
I believe I may be going through an existential crisis.
I just crossed through a relatively bad case of depression, few years ago, largely due to me being at a bad place in my life. That changed when I managed to formulate a plan where I consolidated my debts and entered university with the goal to reeducate myself.
Problem is that now with graduation on the horizon, I'm due to enter the end of my planed period. I'll find myself back at crossroads and I have no idea where the paths lead.
When I first joined Drunk Duck, it was with the purpose to practice my penmanship, which I had left neglected since my youth. Back then, I was written plays and short stories, even occasional poems. When I became unemployed during the financial crisis, I was well on my way to start writing full time. Now I feel like the education has forced me to neglect my penmanship yet again and I'm left to wonder if I'm doing the right thing.
Financially, I'm most certainly doing the right thing. What I'm studding is in high demand and entry level salaries in that field ranges around the $40-50k figure. With salaries like that, and living frugally, I'd stand to be completely debt free in less than a year.
Yet, I can't seem to shake away feelings of dread and worrying. This affects my motivation and I've genuinely had moments where it was hard to get out of bed in the mornings (not because I was still tired).
I believe I may be going through an existential crisis.
Kinda like this guy?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrQEMBN8DNU
*starts at 3:00 unless you want to go through the other stuff first
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrQEMBN8DNU&t=3m1s
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Well, fine. Since you wanna make a cheap joke out of my post then no, I'm not dealing with suicidal thoughts. And frankly, if I were, then your joke would be in even poorer taste.
And quick tip: If you want to have people jump to a specific point in a video, include "&t=XmYs" at the end of the url, where you replace X and Y with number of minutes and seconds, like I've done in the url above.
Product Placement wrote:
I believe I may be going through an existential crisis.
I'm pretty sure you're describing Classic Senioritis. It can definitely be a mindbender.
Try to avoid using your penmanship on any dotted lines for awhile and keep your mind and eyes open. Drinking heavily is optional.
Product Placement wrote:Whoa… I meant no offense. I guess I should choose such jokes more carefully. I thought a laugh might lift you out of your pit, or at least make you see that some beings (even if they're fictional) have it worse.
Well, fine. Since you wanna make a cheap joke out of my post then no, I'm not dealing with suicidal thoughts. And frankly, if I were, then your joke would be in even poorer taste.
I apologize if you were offended. That was never my intention and I feel pretty bad for it. :(
Product Placement wrote:
I believe I may be going through an existential crisis.
Finding it hard to get up (or to get to bed) because of "blahs" or "racing thoughts" may mean you're concerned about the future. The future is always uncertain until it becomes the present. But you will survive. This will not kill you. You may not be as comfortable as you'd like and you may not have all the cool stuff you want. but you won't get torn to pieces by wolves. The level of anxiety is based on an outmoded fear reaction left over from when things were really nasty. You have a plan and you'll be fine. Accept the anxiety, pat it on the head as the natural reaction of being a human animal and do what needs to be done. Make your future plans your present achievements.
Another technique is to focus on one day or one step at a time to the exclusion of all other concerns. Don't worry about tomorrow until tomorrow is today. Taks one step at a time and concentrate on that one step. And walk around humming that song from Santa Claus is Coming to Town
"Just put one foot in front of the other…"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OORsz2d1H7s
And then there's tantric sex. Sex in the morning is one of great way to get out of bed and sex three times a week is good for the prostate.
And here's my "futile" attempt at deflecting all this depression and sadness with something cute…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yl_BhJL_sdE
Lonnehart wrote:
Sorry :(
At least you learned a nifty way to manipulate youtube urls. They're working on ways to set it so that you can manipulate endpoints on videos as well, but it's a bit finicky at the moment.
ayesinback wrote:
Senioritis.
Of course there's a medical term for "Getting sick of studdying". Sure, there are elements of me being tired of endless classes and project assignments but it feels a little bit more then that.
bravo1102 wrote:
tantric sex.
Seeing as I'm currently in a long distance relationship, I'm sure that a certain someone would not approve of me following that advice.
…and seeing as that there's a certain someone's mother monitoring this thread, that's all I'm going to say.
Product Placement wrote:Precisely why I suggested it. Just trying to lessen the disance between you and that special someone. When it ocmes to personal interaction bewteen people physical distance doesn't matter. One can be stand right next to somone and yet be miles away and conversely a continent away but within each other's very soul.
Seeing as I'm currently in a long distance relationship, I'm sure that a certain someone would not approve of me following that advice.
…and seeing as that there's a certain someone's mother monitoring this thread, that's all I'm going to say.
Product Placement wrote:
Seeing as I'm currently in a long distance relationship, I'm sure that a certain someone would not approve of me following that advice.
…and seeing as that there's a certain someone's mother monitoring this thread, that's all I'm going to say.
Monitoring, ey? Geez.
Well, might as well look the part – but I couldn't decide between this
and this:
You pick, sweetheart.
btw– "senioritis" encompasses far more than being sick of studying (otherwise it could as well be called junioritis, sophomoritis, etc.) A significant component of senioritis is realizing that your current circumstances will no longer hold in a few months time, whether you have a plan or not. It's exciting, intimidating – all that fun stuff, and of course it's worse when there's no plan laid out.
In other news, I get to spend a couple of days in NOLA.
OZONE!! What should I make a priority of seeing?
NOLA?
Mardi Gras world is good. Heyena Hell gave me a great behind the scenes tour there of all the restricted areas… but she doesn't work there anymore :(
It's still worth it though.
The markets in the French quarter are popular but just looking at all the old houses and the lovely beads hanging from all the trees like jeweled vines are quite interesting. All the permanently burning gas-lights on most of the houses are pretty disturbing though.
Snake and Jakes dive bar was probably where we ended up most nights…
The green streetcars are great to ride on…
Zotz on Oak street is the BEST cafe there! Visit it!!! Hyena Hell aka Becky works there late at night.
Magda's second hand clothes shop, which is almost next to it, has a great selection of cool clothes. Tomorrow on my flight back from Darwin I will be wearing a shirt I boughy from there…
Myers hat shop in the city is cool. Look at all the pics of the celeb customers and talk the the guy who runs it: Amazing accent!!! Straight out off a Tenesee Williams play!
Ummm… the mississippppppiiiiiii? The GIGANTIC Ponchotrain highway?
Gumbo was boooooring…
Alagotor poboys were nice.
Benguets (?) were disgusting.
The strip clubs are great!
You have to drink the local deinks too- Schlitz is yuk, anything with jagermister in is revoltingly sweetly disgusting, Mint dewlips are wonderful, especially when drunk from a silver stirrup cup… and other stuff. Can't recall it all but it was quite nice.
The gay quarter is pretty cool, very good food there.
There are no streetcars on Elysian fields… no streetcar named desire and Elysian Feilds is as far away from the meaning of that name as it's possible to get… STELLAAAAAA!!!!
bravo1102 wrote:
One can be stand right next to somone and yet be miles away and conversely a continent away but within each other's very soul.
What kind of person would ban a guy like that? You'd have to have a heart of spearmint.
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Mother and daughter? I did not know that ayes' - what a cool family!
(Must be a beast in the attic or something - there's always a bad one somewhere).
e: I don't like spearmint.
He will be missed. I remember him most for his animation work with films such as Jason and the Argonauts. The animated skeletons looked pretty scary back at the time. And all this without the assistance of computers…
Woke up from a very bad nightmare. Day care centers and newborn wards of hospitals and elementary schools being blown up in the name of a religion. And crazy people saying that if they weren't born to parents who worshipped their religion then they are "tainted" and must be put to death…
I don't think I'm gonna go sleep for a while… :(
Ray Harryhausen was a real innovator. It's amazing that many of his models and armitures still exist. Can't say that about CGI effects. Nothing to look at or touch just an image on a screen. There's my kinesthetic side again.
He was the first to do many things in the footsteps of the great Willis O'Brien. (The original silent Lost World and King Kong ) These guys practically invented our modern concept of dinosaurs.
If you can find it read the From the Land Beyond Beyond. http://www.amazon.com/From-Land-Beyond-Harryhausen-Windhover/dp/0425035069
Gotta love some of the players of the free to play MMOs I've been messing around in. Some of them keep saying that a subscription based game is better as you're guaranteed tech support, better content, etc… Problem is… in this day and age not everyone can afford to pay for the subscription fee every month.
I'm guessing a lot of the new players I've encounted playing Neverwinter must've come from the WoW playerbase. Most of them (that I've seen so far) are complaining about the apparent cost of high level mounts (+3) in the Zen Store (Neverwinter's Cash Shop). Funny thing is… I think $40 for the mount (it being an armored War Bear) is reasonable as every character you have on the account can claim it upon reaching the required level… meaning every one of your characters can have one just like every character who is elegible for one in Star Trek Online can use the starships you buy in their store.
The game needs more fashions though. I'm not sure how much longer my Cleric can run around in the same looking suits of chainmail armor (and yes… they have slots like in WoW).
ozoneocean wrote:Definitely. Even when he did something as simple as flyng saucers he made them visually interesting and uniquely his own. He sure could destroy Washington D.C. monuments (Earth vs the Flying Saucers) and Greek monuments (Twenty Million miles to Earth)
The main thing is the skill of the artist, not so much the techniques they used. Ray was an amazing artist.
Haha! yes - Earth vs the Flying Saucers was an impossibly lame movie, but his iconic saucers are totally unforgetable. If like me, you watched that film on the back of seeing the saucer footage - well it's akin to listening to a Barney the purple dinosaur singalong album and suddenly there's a Hendrix solo.
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What am I talking about, beast in the attic; they've got Product Placement!
Ironscarf wrote:
What am I talking about, beast in the attic; they've got Product Placement!
Meh. We don't make him stay in the attic when he visits. Maybe because Product Placement ignored this advice:
As far as being a houseguest goes, always bring a sack of dirty washing and leave them out with a note to be cleaned and pressed, but do it one item at a time.
Also, smoke cigars or a pipe and carry a large supply of matches to constantly strike on expensive looking surfaces.
Edit: oops, nearly forgot - pretend to be French if you can carry it off. I don't know why, but it adds weight to the above tactics.
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