simonwolfi can feel a differencetoday, a differenceRegistered Userregular
edited April 2016
Hey friends, it's Anzac Day!
Grab your Anzac biscuits and your well-worn copy of Gallipoli, settle in for a day of remembering one of the worst campaigns in the First World War
Today is also the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Long Tan, where a hundred Australian soldiers held and fought back around two thousand North Vietnamese
So here's a classic Australian war song, I Was Only Nineteen
This apartment is so nice overall and I've basically escaped my evil landlord cleanly, fuck him
But I still think that there's a decent chance I'm actually allergic to cats which I didn't know.....
So
Hrmm
Goddamnit I hope I'm wrong and it's just pollen
short term, become friends with benadryl, or zyrtek.
get the stuff that you need to show your drivers licence to buy so they can track smurfs; that's the good shit.
It's not a nose thing or a sneezy thing
It's more an itchy skin, swelly throat thing
(Not terribly dissimilar from mild exposure to peanuts for me)
So far it's only happened twice though I've been in the apartment a bit, and was after (this is just me thinking or drawing connections) I touched cat
But I pet cat yesterday and was fine or didn't notice any issues and same for last Sunday when I first came to apartment
I let him lick my hands and such
Hm
Let's see
At the very least not letting cat enter my room for now until I determine if this is true or not
Pray that it's not but now I know so many people with cat allergies I wouldn't be surprised
This apartment is so nice overall and I've basically escaped my evil landlord cleanly, fuck him
But I still think that there's a decent chance I'm actually allergic to cats which I didn't know.....
So
Hrmm
Goddamnit I hope I'm wrong and it's just pollen
short term, become friends with benadryl, or zyrtek.
get the stuff that you need to show your drivers licence to buy so they can track smurfs; that's the good shit.
It's not a nose thing or a sneezy thing
It's more an itchy skin, swelly throat thing
(Not terribly dissimilar from mild exposure to peanuts for me)
So far it's only happened twice though I've been in the apartment a bit, and was after (this is just me thinking or drawing connections) I touched cat
But I pet cat yesterday and was fine or didn't notice any issues and same for last Sunday when I first came to apartment
I let him lick my hands and such
Hm
Let's see
At the very least not letting cat enter my room for now until I determine if this is true or not
Pray that it's not but now I know so many people with cat allergies I wouldn't be surprised
benadryl helps with those symptoms too!
just sayin'
SW-4158-3990-6116
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
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also I hope its not the cat and everything will be awesome.
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simonwolfi can feel a differencetoday, a differenceRegistered Userregular
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
This apartment is so nice overall and I've basically escaped my evil landlord cleanly, fuck him
But I still think that there's a decent chance I'm actually allergic to cats which I didn't know.....
So
Hrmm
Goddamnit I hope I'm wrong and it's just pollen
short term, become friends with benadryl, or zyrtek.
get the stuff that you need to show your drivers licence to buy so they can track smurfs; that's the good shit.
It's not a nose thing or a sneezy thing
It's more an itchy skin, swelly throat thing
(Not terribly dissimilar from mild exposure to peanuts for me)
So far it's only happened twice though I've been in the apartment a bit, and was after (this is just me thinking or drawing connections) I touched cat
But I pet cat yesterday and was fine or didn't notice any issues and same for last Sunday when I first came to apartment
I let him lick my hands and such
Hm
Let's see
At the very least not letting cat enter my room for now until I determine if this is true or not
Pray that it's not but now I know so many people with cat allergies I wouldn't be surprised
benadryl helps with those symptoms too!
just sayin'
Yah I know
But if it's actually the cat that's not a long term solution
Let's hope it's not who knows maybe I'm just a paranoid hypochondriac
I think the hardest thing in world building for a pnp RPG is the naming process for countries, geo features, continents, etc.
I've found that stuff from the bronze age eastern Mediterranean / near east is great for this. Since there is essentially no cultural continuity from the bronze age to today it sounds appropriately fantastical. But you can still get multiple names / places from the same culture so they sound cohesive.
the new Battletech Q&A went up a few days ago and it's pretty good stuff although, of course, lots of nerds don't know how game dev works and are like CAN YOU NEGOTIATE JUMPSHIP FEES? when the devs are talking about, like, prototyping the combat engine.
- Each weight class of ‘Mech has an Initiative value. Light ‘Mechs are the fastest, with an Initiative of 4 and assaults are the slowest, with an Initiative of 1.
- Combat rounds are divided into 5 Phases, counting down from 5 to 1. ‘Mechs are allowed to act during the Phase that matches their Initiative. (That 5th Phase is the province of extremely skilled MechWarriors piloting Light ‘Mechs.)
- Each Phase, each side takes turns choosing a ‘Mech to Activate. When a Mech is Activated, it can both move and then fire its weapons. However, once the ‘Mech fires, its turn is over and it can’t act again until the next Round of combat.
- After you Activate a ‘Mech and take a turn, the game attempts to give the next action to the other side. If the enemy has units available to use in the current Phase, they get the opportunity to activate one of them. If, on the other hand, they have no more units they can activate in the phase, and you do, you’ll get to go again.
- This means that if you and your opponent are both using full lances of assault ‘Mechs, every Round will be pretty predictable: You’ll go, then your opponent will go, and so forth until all eight ‘Mechs have been Activated and have taken a turn.
When the game finishes counting down Initiative values and Phase 1 units have taken their turn, the Round ends. The Phase counter resets to 5, and every ‘Mech is ready to act again.
And now the really cool part:
We think this is a neat system because it reinforces and distinguishes between the different weight classes of ‘Mechs - but the place where it really becomes really interesting is when you start reserving ‘Mechs’ Phases for use later in the Round.
Any ‘Mech that isn’t an assault can be held in reserve when its turn to act comes up. That temporarily sets its Initiative Value one lower. So a Light ‘Mech that normally acts in Phase 4 will instead act in Phase 3.
With this system, you can keep reserving your ‘Mechs’ actions, holding an entire lance of ‘Mechs until Phase 1, if you wanted to.
What’s so interesting about reserving actions? First of all, consider the case of a whole lance of Light and medium ‘Mechs being reserved until Phase 1, where they’ll get to act right at the end of a Round. Then, when the round ends and a new Round starts, they’ll immediately get to act again in Phases 4 and 3! (This tactic isn’t theoretical - in a recent battle, I snuck up behind our Lead Designer Kevin’s Centurion with a Jenner I’d reserved to Phase 1. Then, on Phase 4 of the next Round I got to make a full alpha strike right into his back armor.)
As you’d guess, there’s also a lot of value in using this tactic to locally outnumber an opponent. You want your engagements to be uneven in your favor, and you want to be able to fall back from any engagement in which you’re outnumbered. Focusing your forces in one spot when your enemy is spread out is right out of Sun Tzu.
Our initiative system, which allows you to reserve units, means you can locally outnumber your enemy in time as well as space. If you can take three actions in a row, and all three actions are effective fire on a target with no chance for it to respond by moving or returning fire… you’ve essentially made part of the turn a 3-on-1 battle.
Conversely, reserving your faster ‘Mechs to break up long sequences of enemy action with opportunities to respond can be useful in preventing your own forces from becoming focus-fired.
We’re reinforcing the role of Light ‘Mechs in other ways, but this system is a significant component of their value. Light ‘Mechs get to choose where and when they engage, and if used carefully can be exactly the tool you need to get out of a bad situation. Heavy and assault ‘Mechs pack a much bigger punch, but the tradeoff is that they’re inherently more predictable - and thus are more often reacting than acting.
The crazy part is that this sounds like they may actually have found a solution that makes Light Mechs viable in tabletop. In the stories, lights are supposed to be scouts, artillery spotters, and so forth. They had a point. In the tabletop, they often just kind of took up space.
So the Death From Above RPG team has actually started test-driving this initiative system for their twitch stream tabletop games and it apparently works pretty well. I guess even the head of Battletech tabletop dev at Catalyst Game Labs is a fan.
I really like the idea that maybe at the end of all this we might have not just a cool video game but a souped-up Battletech tabletop game made with game design principles from after the 1980s.
I saw a good comment on the system that it might be cool to base the initiative phases off of max speed (or max speed + weight) rather than just weight class. It would cover cases where you have an unusually fast heavy (like the 3025 era Dragon) or clunky light (Urbie). Since the Dragon, for example, has to give up a ton of firepower for that speed it seems like it would be good to bump it into a higher initiative bracket.
So since I've got my controller working with my desktop, I'm finally getting around to playing MGR. It's pretty much confirming what I suspected; that I was playing Dark Souls because I wanted to play a character action game and was going with the closest thing I had.
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oh also for tabletop RPGs I tend to make up most stuff as I go so usually just compile a few long lists of place / people names that I can pull from as needed.
I think the hardest thing in world building for a pnp RPG is the naming process for countries, geo features, continents, etc.
I've found that stuff from the bronze age eastern Mediterranean / near east is great for this. Since there is essentially no cultural continuity from the bronze age to today it sounds appropriately fantastical. But you can still get multiple names / places from the same culture so they sound cohesive.
Holy crap. This is awesome.
You go in the cage, cage goes in the water, you go in the water. Shark's in the water, our shark.
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Gotta avoid the internet for the next hour till I can watch it.
Made good progress in DS2. I'm in
Drangleic Castle
and took out the LGK through the power of Jolly Cooperation. Found another lady who speaks to me, but she seems menacing. Especially with the painting that curses the shit out of me if I get to close. Tempted to go shoot her with an arrow.
I think the hardest thing in world building for a pnp RPG is the naming process for countries, geo features, continents, etc.
I've found that stuff from the bronze age eastern Mediterranean / near east is great for this. Since there is essentially no cultural continuity from the bronze age to today it sounds appropriately fantastical. But you can still get multiple names / places from the same culture so they sound cohesive.
Holy crap. This is awesome.
The Hittites (as we call them) as particularly good as they had several different languages current in their empire.
Attacked by tweeeeeeees!
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I bet in this season there is an edgy sexual assault, tons of murder, and problematic potpourri
bloodyroarxx got a reply from the Dark Souls peeps and I don't think you're going to like their answer:
Apologies for my confusion! All Add-ons and Retailer Bonus Unlocks will be available from retailers and ourselves here at Steamforged Games upon general release, and be packaged seperately. Hope this answers your question, sorry again!
So yeah, looks like all the stretch goal stuff will be packaged separately
That just confuses me
What was the question?
So the Dark Souls KS is doing a single price point for personal copies of the game, with stretch goals (beyond Boss add-ons) being added to the base package at no extra cost - I asked if those would be included in future retail copies as well
Holy hell, so the retail version is a huge ripoff.
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Grab your Anzac biscuits and your well-worn copy of Gallipoli, settle in for a day of remembering one of the worst campaigns in the First World War
Today is also the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Long Tan, where a hundred Australian soldiers held and fought back around two thousand North Vietnamese
So here's a classic Australian war song, I Was Only Nineteen
Greetings from low-res, sunbathing Bowser:
Exactly!
It's more an itchy skin, swelly throat thing
(Not terribly dissimilar from mild exposure to peanuts for me)
So far it's only happened twice though I've been in the apartment a bit, and was after (this is just me thinking or drawing connections) I touched cat
But I pet cat yesterday and was fine or didn't notice any issues and same for last Sunday when I first came to apartment
I let him lick my hands and such
Hm
Let's see
At the very least not letting cat enter my room for now until I determine if this is true or not
Pray that it's not but now I know so many people with cat allergies I wouldn't be surprised
benadryl helps with those symptoms too!
just sayin'
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
protip: don't world build
Please stop
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
Yah I know
But if it's actually the cat that's not a long term solution
Let's hope it's not who knows maybe I'm just a paranoid hypochondriac
I would like everything to be awesome
But it's fun.
Dat middle cellphone holding seat. This luxury
QUIET IN THE REALM
I like using the under-seat storage in those cases so that I can keep the one infront of me clear. Such luxury.
groovy, baby.
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It's a game of thrones reference
I've found that stuff from the bronze age eastern Mediterranean / near east is great for this. Since there is essentially no cultural continuity from the bronze age to today it sounds appropriately fantastical. But you can still get multiple names / places from the same culture so they sound cohesive.
I saw a good comment on the system that it might be cool to base the initiative phases off of max speed (or max speed + weight) rather than just weight class. It would cover cases where you have an unusually fast heavy (like the 3025 era Dragon) or clunky light (Urbie). Since the Dragon, for example, has to give up a ton of firepower for that speed it seems like it would be good to bump it into a higher initiative bracket.
I guess this is cheaper than my copay
You know nothing, milski
Holy crap. This is awesome.
Yeah and you get to do science
Made good progress in DS2. I'm in
The Hittites (as we call them) as particularly good as they had several different languages current in their empire.
Holy hell, so the retail version is a huge ripoff.
Damn, oh well cest la vie
the forumer is still someone
the faces are for no one
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.