Dug out my copy of Battlefield 2142 after talking about it today, put the serial in Origin thinking I'd be able to download it, like with Steam.
How foolish of me. Of course I can't.
On the upside, 4 years ago when we moved I put a ziploc bag in the case with a $20 and $10 bill from 1950 in it, and a silver certificate from 1957, that I'd been looking for for four years.
Origin should be prosecuted by the Hague.
I'm sure there will be business classes using it as an example of how not to launch a content delivery service in the future. Or, how if you have a big enough stable of whores, I mean developers, you can launch a terrible service and still succeed.
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SarksusATTACK AND DETHRONE GODRegistered Userregular
It is a really poorly thought out and slap-shod setting, yes.
Though I don't really know how much you can expect of a setting derived from some dudes' DnD campaigns that includes a province called "Elsewhere".
I like "Elsewhere" better than [hackneyed fantasy name #5]
has character
but the map is like, a parody of the fantasy way of making maps.
I agree, I think in general I am sick of everyone making up their own dumb fantasy world that is the same as everyone else's.
I want to see more, like, historical fantasy and shit.
Like I would not be sad if no one ever made another thing with an elf in it.
this is so silly
if people actually made Tolkienesqe elves (instead of D&D elves) that would be pretty fresh and different. Or look at Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrel or Terry Pratchett evles.
how the hell would it be fresh and different if someone aped after tolkien
When I think Tolkien elves I think an old race that is past their prime and kind of withdrawing responsibility for the world.
Not really the kind of elves that are popularly done over and over again.
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KageraImitating the worst people. Since 2004Registered Userregular
Dug out my copy of Battlefield 2142 after talking about it today, put the serial in Origin thinking I'd be able to download it, like with Steam.
How foolish of me. Of course I can't.
On the upside, 4 years ago when we moved I put a ziploc bag in the case with a $20 and $10 bill from 1950 in it, and a silver certificate from 1957, that I'd been looking for for four years.
Origin should be prosecuted by the Hague.
I'm sure there will be business classes using it as an example of how not to launch a content delivery service in the future. Or, how if you have a big enough stable of whores, I mean developers, you can launch a terrible service and still succeed.
gfwl
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Donkey KongPutting Nintendo out of business with AI nipsRegistered Userregular
Man, the next episode of Adventure Time is gonna be OFF THE CHAIN
I am unreasonably excited.
It's kind of remarkable how something that was superficially a kid's show about butts and adventure is actually a show about the fall of civilization. It's really story driven.
It's starting to remind me of the way The Venture Bros went off the rails and became hugely character/plot driven instead of a Johnny Quest parody.
That episode with Marcelline and the Ice King was depressing as hell too, way moreso than the christmas episode. Usually they try to shove in a few laughs to keep it light but they sure didn't there.
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ChanusHarbinger of the Spicy Rooster ApocalypseThe Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered Userregular
Terry Bradshaw is a modern-day Howard Cosell... in the fields of alcoholism and racism.
It is a really poorly thought out and slap-shod setting, yes.
Though I don't really know how much you can expect of a setting derived from some dudes' DnD campaigns that includes a province called "Elsewhere".
I like "Elsewhere" better than [hackneyed fantasy name #5]
has character
but the map is like, a parody of the fantasy way of making maps.
I agree, I think in general I am sick of everyone making up their own dumb fantasy world that is the same as everyone else's.
I want to see more, like, historical fantasy and shit.
Like I would not be sad if no one ever made another thing with an elf in it.
this is so silly
if people actually made Tolkienesqe elves (instead of D&D elves) that would be pretty fresh and different. Or look at Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrel or Terry Pratchett evles.
how the hell would it be fresh and different if someone aped after tolkien
When I think Tolkien elves I think an old race that is past their prime and kind of withdrawing responsibility for the world.
Not really the kind of elves that are popularly done over and over again.
Agreed. Or if you go with the Silmarillion the elves in there aren't the kind you see outside of Michael Moorcock either.
It is a really poorly thought out and slap-shod setting, yes.
Though I don't really know how much you can expect of a setting derived from some dudes' DnD campaigns that includes a province called "Elsewhere".
I like "Elsewhere" better than [hackneyed fantasy name #5]
has character
but the map is like, a parody of the fantasy way of making maps.
I agree, I think in general I am sick of everyone making up their own dumb fantasy world that is the same as everyone else's.
I want to see more, like, historical fantasy and shit.
Like I would not be sad if no one ever made another thing with an elf in it.
this is so silly
if people actually made Tolkienesqe elves (instead of D&D elves) that would be pretty fresh and different. Or look at Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrel or Terry Pratchett evles.
how the hell would it be fresh and different if someone aped after tolkien
because almost no one actually has in time since his stuff was published
and the huge difference beetween someone making d&d-ish elves and tolkien-ish elves would be?
ShivahnUnaware of her barrel shifter privilegeWestern coastal temptressRegistered User, Moderatormod
Fuck Tinkerbell, dullahan for best faerie.
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MrMisterJesus dying on the cross in pain? Morally better than us. One has to go "all in".Registered Userregular
I am strongly convinced that the best way to write fantasy is to have a strong grasp of a real historical setting and then to draw on that for inspiration (everyone has noticed, after all, that the Shire sure looks like an agricultural English village). If the setting isn't tethered to actual human history, in all its surprising complexity, it runs the risk of drifting into bland cliche.
Dug out my copy of Battlefield 2142 after talking about it today, put the serial in Origin thinking I'd be able to download it, like with Steam.
How foolish of me. Of course I can't.
On the upside, 4 years ago when we moved I put a ziploc bag in the case with a $20 and $10 bill from 1950 in it, and a silver certificate from 1957, that I'd been looking for for four years.
Origin should be prosecuted by the Hague.
I'm sure there will be business classes using it as an example of how not to launch a content delivery service in the future. Or, how if you have a big enough stable of whores, I mean developers, you can launch a terrible service and still succeed.
gfwl
Yup, for all the issues I have with Origin, and getting things to work, they do, eventually, work.
GFWL is something else. It's like Microsoft's iTunes. But somehow, inexplicably worse.
Donkey KongPutting Nintendo out of business with AI nipsRegistered Userregular
Make a fantasy setting where both science and magic exist side by side, only really consider the way that the two would evolve together. What would be easy with magic and therefore be underdeveloped as technology. What would be easy with tech and impossible with magic.
Be sure to include lots of mechanical golems.
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TavIrish Minister for DefenceRegistered Userregular
Watching Fox News. The consensus is that Romney will win and that Karl Rove is a handsome man with a full head of hair.
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SarksusATTACK AND DETHRONE GODRegistered Userregular
It is a really poorly thought out and slap-shod setting, yes.
Though I don't really know how much you can expect of a setting derived from some dudes' DnD campaigns that includes a province called "Elsewhere".
I like "Elsewhere" better than [hackneyed fantasy name #5]
has character
but the map is like, a parody of the fantasy way of making maps.
I agree, I think in general I am sick of everyone making up their own dumb fantasy world that is the same as everyone else's.
I want to see more, like, historical fantasy and shit.
Like I would not be sad if no one ever made another thing with an elf in it.
this is so silly
if people actually made Tolkienesqe elves (instead of D&D elves) that would be pretty fresh and different. Or look at Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrel or Terry Pratchett evles.
how the hell would it be fresh and different if someone aped after tolkien
because almost no one actually has in time since his stuff was published
and the huge difference beetween someone making d&d-ish elves and tolkien-ish elves would be?
Elves in D&D always came off as fetishized, powerful and too perfect.
Make a fantasy setting where both science and magic exist side by side, only really consider the way that the two would evolve together. What would be easy with magic and therefore be underdeveloped as technology. What would be easy with tech and impossible with magic.
Be sure to include lots of mechanical golems.
eeeeh.
Kind of sick of D&D magic.
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ChanusHarbinger of the Spicy Rooster ApocalypseThe Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered Userregular
I am strongly convinced that the best way to write fantasy is to have a strong grasp of a real historical setting and then to draw on that for inspiration (everyone has noticed, after all, that the Shire sure looks like an agricultural English village). If the setting isn't tethered to actual human history, in all its surprising complexity, it runs the risk of drifting into bland cliche.
Just also have a strong grasp on at what point your story is DRAGGING ON FOR FUCKING EVER GOD DAMN YOU GEORGE MARTIN
the best thing I liked about gfwl is how much microsoft's internal bureaucracy and infighting came through it its design
you could practically smell the windows team going: no, no, it's gotta have this, and then the windows live team says: no, it's got to have that as well, and then the xbox team says...
It is a really poorly thought out and slap-shod setting, yes.
Though I don't really know how much you can expect of a setting derived from some dudes' DnD campaigns that includes a province called "Elsewhere".
I like "Elsewhere" better than [hackneyed fantasy name #5]
has character
but the map is like, a parody of the fantasy way of making maps.
I agree, I think in general I am sick of everyone making up their own dumb fantasy world that is the same as everyone else's.
I want to see more, like, historical fantasy and shit.
Like I would not be sad if no one ever made another thing with an elf in it.
this is so silly
if people actually made Tolkienesqe elves (instead of D&D elves) that would be pretty fresh and different. Or look at Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrel or Terry Pratchett evles.
how the hell would it be fresh and different if someone aped after tolkien
because almost no one actually has in time since his stuff was published
and the huge difference beetween someone making d&d-ish elves and tolkien-ish elves would be?
Elves in D&D always came off as fetishized, powerful and too perfect.
tolkien's elves were kind of like that too
they were wankers
EDIT: LOTR elves far more than the hobbit/silmarillion elves
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MortiousThe Nightmare BeginsMove to New ZealandRegistered Userregular
Make a fantasy setting where both science and magic exist side by side, only really consider the way that the two would evolve together. What would be easy with magic and therefore be underdeveloped as technology. What would be easy with tech and impossible with magic.
Be sure to include lots of mechanical golems.
eeeeh.
Kind of sick of D&D magic.
D&D magic wouldn't work for that kind of mix because it would suck like D&D.
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ShivahnUnaware of her barrel shifter privilegeWestern coastal temptressRegistered User, Moderatormod
Make a fantasy setting where both science and magic exist side by side, only really consider the way that the two would evolve together. What would be easy with magic and therefore be underdeveloped as technology. What would be easy with tech and impossible with magic.
Be sure to include lots of mechanical golems.
I think when you try that you usually end up with magitech, rather than magic things and tech things. Like, FFVI had magitek, which really seems how things'd be. Magic is powerful but obviously technology never makes anything worse, so fuse them and you get robots that shoot lasers.
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MortiousThe Nightmare BeginsMove to New ZealandRegistered Userregular
Make a fantasy setting where both science and magic exist side by side, only really consider the way that the two would evolve together. What would be easy with magic and therefore be underdeveloped as technology. What would be easy with tech and impossible with magic.
Make a fantasy setting where both science and magic exist side by side, only really consider the way that the two would evolve together. What would be easy with magic and therefore be underdeveloped as technology. What would be easy with tech and impossible with magic.
Be sure to include lots of mechanical golems.
Full Metal Alchemist?
I have to admit that the setting of FMA is pretty incredible.
Thousands of hot, local singles are waiting to play at bubbulon.com.
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MrMisterJesus dying on the cross in pain? Morally better than us. One has to go "all in".Registered Userregular
I am strongly convinced that the best way to write fantasy is to have a strong grasp of a real historical setting and then to draw on that for inspiration (everyone has noticed, after all, that the Shire sure looks like an agricultural English village). If the setting isn't tethered to actual human history, in all its surprising complexity, it runs the risk of drifting into bland cliche.
Just also have a strong grasp on at what point your story is DRAGGING ON FOR FUCKING EVER GOD DAMN YOU GEORGE MARTIN
GRRM is a great example of how desperate the fantasy audience is for an author that can competently represent actual human relations of power, love, and respect.
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SarksusATTACK AND DETHRONE GODRegistered Userregular
It is a really poorly thought out and slap-shod setting, yes.
Though I don't really know how much you can expect of a setting derived from some dudes' DnD campaigns that includes a province called "Elsewhere".
I like "Elsewhere" better than [hackneyed fantasy name #5]
has character
but the map is like, a parody of the fantasy way of making maps.
I agree, I think in general I am sick of everyone making up their own dumb fantasy world that is the same as everyone else's.
I want to see more, like, historical fantasy and shit.
Like I would not be sad if no one ever made another thing with an elf in it.
this is so silly
if people actually made Tolkienesqe elves (instead of D&D elves) that would be pretty fresh and different. Or look at Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrel or Terry Pratchett evles.
how the hell would it be fresh and different if someone aped after tolkien
because almost no one actually has in time since his stuff was published
and the huge difference beetween someone making d&d-ish elves and tolkien-ish elves would be?
Elves in D&D always came off as fetishized, powerful and too perfect.
tolkien's elves were kind of like that too
they were wankers
EDIT: LOTR elves far more than the hobbit/silmarillion elves
I already explained why I don't think that's the case. D&D elves are perpetually in their prime and have a lot of influence. Elves in LOTR are leaving the world, their time is over, they hardly even deal with the ring. They're not the same type of race at all.
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I'm sure there will be business classes using it as an example of how not to launch a content delivery service in the future. Or, how if you have a big enough stable of whores, I mean developers, you can launch a terrible service and still succeed.
When I think Tolkien elves I think an old race that is past their prime and kind of withdrawing responsibility for the world.
Not really the kind of elves that are popularly done over and over again.
It's belt guy get it right plebe.
Lords and Ladies.
In fact I don't know that there are any others. I can't think of one off the top of my head.
gfwl
It's starting to remind me of the way The Venture Bros went off the rails and became hugely character/plot driven instead of a Johnny Quest parody.
That episode with Marcelline and the Ice King was depressing as hell too, way moreso than the christmas episode. Usually they try to shove in a few laughs to keep it light but they sure didn't there.
Agreed. Or if you go with the Silmarillion the elves in there aren't the kind you see outside of Michael Moorcock either.
the daedra are really interesting
the tribunal is cool
morrowind is interesting
the rule of dragons of old was kinda cool too
I like the dwemer
and the huge difference beetween someone making d&d-ish elves and tolkien-ish elves would be?
The Wee Free Men
Surprisingly, I haven't read any of his books for chillblains.
It's a Guy Fawkes Belt Buckle
maybe i'm streaming terrible dj right now if i am its here
I thought they were in a Tiffany Aching one, but I wasn't sure.
Celtic mythology is the shit, from what little I know of it.
Every time I go to a Wikipedia article, it's amazing. I should look into it more.
Like, why isn't this in every game.
any derivation of tolkien was done to death so long ago. If I see one more human-like but fairer and fonder of nature fantasy race I will puke.
Yup, for all the issues I have with Origin, and getting things to work, they do, eventually, work.
GFWL is something else. It's like Microsoft's iTunes. But somehow, inexplicably worse.
It’s not a very important country most of the time
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Bastion had a great fantasy setting
Be sure to include lots of mechanical golems.
Elves in D&D always came off as fetishized, powerful and too perfect.
eeeeh.
Kind of sick of D&D magic.
Just also have a strong grasp on at what point your story is DRAGGING ON FOR FUCKING EVER GOD DAMN YOU GEORGE MARTIN
you could practically smell the windows team going: no, no, it's gotta have this, and then the windows live team says: no, it's got to have that as well, and then the xbox team says...
tolkien's elves were kind of like that too
they were wankers
EDIT: LOTR elves far more than the hobbit/silmarillion elves
You should make a setting with "Selves". Physical manifestations of idealized humans. Beautiful, ethereal and eternal.
But totally not elves.
It’s not a very important country most of the time
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D&D magic wouldn't work for that kind of mix because it would suck like D&D.
I think when you try that you usually end up with magitech, rather than magic things and tech things. Like, FFVI had magitek, which really seems how things'd be. Magic is powerful but obviously technology never makes anything worse, so fuse them and you get robots that shoot lasers.
Full Metal Alchemist?
It’s not a very important country most of the time
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I have to admit that the setting of FMA is pretty incredible.
GRRM is a great example of how desperate the fantasy audience is for an author that can competently represent actual human relations of power, love, and respect.
I already explained why I don't think that's the case. D&D elves are perpetually in their prime and have a lot of influence. Elves in LOTR are leaving the world, their time is over, they hardly even deal with the ring. They're not the same type of race at all.