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I just finished miracle mask and i knew I had to illustrate the sequel to this when I came upon this conversation in gameRelated content
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Search all the objects! Basic rule of video games: things are everywhere and dead ends always offer rewards.
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unless you are exploring the underground caverns in AC3 in which dead ends actually don't seem to offer anything
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Really? That breaks one of the fundamental rules of gaming! The blasphemy! XD Never disappoint someone by giving them something to ponder about and providing nothing.
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well it filled out a map that you never had to look at again...
i think part of the point of the underground tunnels was to get you not to take those dead end routes but i had to know if there was anything on them... it proved tedious and accomplished nothing
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Why would the point be to not have you check them out? That's like making a fork in the road and telling someone they can only go left while leaving the contents of the right just out of sight. It nags at you, the not knowing. The same is true of the buried subway tunnels in Fallout; many are dead ends (literally, they are filled with ghouls and landmines) but there are a sparing few that lead to new areas of the collapsed city and you have to know or else tear your hair out "wall jumping" the Bethesda way outside trying to get over a pile of rubble.
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it nagged at me the first time i went through an underground map. the second time... not so much...
that sounds very... time consuming and only slightly rewarding haha
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There are multiple like this one in the game?
I know, but there's always that slim chance that you might find a new dungeon/building with rare loot or a quest, maybe even one of the coveted bobbleheads (as rare as gems of Berenziah) that permanently raise your stats. You just have to keep searching.
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well there are two
yup. and that chance just mocks you as you run around in areas where there is nothing to be found.
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At first I thought you were making a pun because I have a friend named Chance who does, on occasion, mock people for things. XD
Ooh, they announced the expansion to Dragon'sDogma today. The full content. I've listed some of the bigger news:
- 5th tier for gear (above wyrm-forged)
- 3rd tier for abilities (including magic)
- 14 new passive abilities spread out among classes
- tons of new equipment
- item enchanting(?)
- more customization (no concrete details)
- new enemies (looks like upgraded versions; strigoi/vampire version of gargoyle) and fight demony dude
- unlimited ferrystones and 6 sets of new stuff for free
Oh, and it costs $40.00. 0_0
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forty dollars? are they joking??
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Apparently not. Just got more info today. It WILL NOT be available as downloadable DLC. It is an entirely separate disc, essentially a re-release of the game. I don't know why I bothered to go out and get the main game again; I should have seen this coming. Capcom has followed this exact route, releasing major DLC as re-released games, for the past 2 years and nearly all of their titles. MarvelvsCapcom, ResidentEvil, you name it, they've done this with it. I hoped for better. Price of main game now set to plummet as well as its worth. Oh, and production of original version of game is set to stop completely. Fun.
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awwww that's unfortunate =[ and really annoying
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This business model can't work for them forever. I'm all for getting the additional stuff for this game, but I can wait until the price falls.
I just spent the better part of the last week reading the end of TheWheelofTime books. So much happiness and also sadness. The end of a series that went on for twenty years and that I've been reading since high school. The result is bitter but I am pleased with the ending.
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oh hmmm some of my friends have read those but I myself haven't
i hear good things
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Definitely good things. You wouldn't like some of the characters but nobody likes all of the characters in a book, especially when there are dozens upon baker's dozens of them. It is a dark series (not totally related to characters). I've always felt an odd sort of empathy for the protagonists and I'm going to miss their adventures.
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oh there must always be characters that are not to be liked. i mean, i appreciate a good villain but some of them are just... they cannot not be hated
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Some are downright impossible to like and you find yourself filled with satisfaction and disgust when justice finally comes. Others are good people with the right intentions but they never see justice. There is one villain in the series that fills the role of likable bad guy; he is one of the strongest characters in the series, in personality and in power.
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disgust. yes. good word.
i do like likable bad guys. although ok, sometimes they are not that likable but i like them for some other reason such as they have a specific fault or just stand in contrast with any of the other characters in some way that i appreciate.
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They are memorable and you can, just maybe, understand part of where they are coming from. Sometimes you root for them when they are not entirely wrong. Or maybe it's their vibe, their characteristic intrinsic vibe.
Judging by the time dA says you wrote this, you guys were up late. I take it the Scrabbleathon went well?
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yes, memorable
but i dunno sometimes they're just scoundrels... i can think of one baddy i really likd that killed one of my favorite characters. i was horribly conflicted.
yeah we left around 1:30 i think... i was very tired =_= scrabble was fun. "manofsteel" and "zomgvulpix" both made it onto the board
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I think those are the best kinds of villains. It is easy to hate someone completely for what they've done but it shows a lot more effort on the writer's part if you can feel both sides; not just read and see both sides, but feel them. The same goes for characters that you feel a genuine attachment to when they die. Some are a loss you didn't expect and others are losses you didn't want.
That last word is unfair to the max. How many points is zomgvulpix even worth? I'll bet you could buy a small horse with that many credits. (and manowar would be acceptable)
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yeah, very true
gosh, i get so nervous for any side characters that i like when dangerous things happen though...
well we weren't playing for point so i don't really know...
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There was one guy that I always thought was awesome and a real hero, a sage who always followed through with the protagonist with the best of intentions, and he died a very ignoble death in the grand finale. Mind-controlled and then blown away in fire by one he would call his niece as he tried to kill her. I've decided to make a Skyrim character out of him; I used to have a character for him in another game (DynastyWarriors) from 2 or 3 years ago. I had a lump caught in my throat when he died.
I'm sure it was more credits than the cost of a Porygon at the game corner.
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what was he from?
oh and hmmm now i'm reminded of Thomas from Downton Abbey if you've ever seen/heard of that... i could not staaaaaaannnnnd him for the longest time and then they began revealing pieces of his tragic back-story and I was like, "nope. nope. noooooo pity. but... nope. oh but it's so sad. no. cannot think this way. but... buuuuut...... saaaaad" and now after several lumps in my throat he's almost onto my good side.
i believe zomgvulpix may have been one of the ones going off the board too so i am super not sure how it would be counted...
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Wheel of Time dude. Dry humor, loyalty, leadership and the skills of a masterful fighter, he was one I wanted to see make it to the end.
I do not know him but I think that is a sign of good storytelling. Empathy is hard to build.
Any letters that go off the board enter the Twilight Zone and so may be counted for any worth so long as it is a prime number divisible by 2 and 17.
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so of course, he did not. as that is the way of things.
so in other words i still don't know how to count it
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He made it real close. Up until the last 200 pages of the entire series. Ah, but there is always a good line for a character's death as well. One woman, one that I did not think would ever be so much as hurt, was unceremoniously cut down and beheaded by her former officer, then he tried to perform a machete c-section on a woman that the dead one was supposed to guard; the dead woman came back as a ghost, killed all the traitors and shot arrows through the officer's eyes through the back of his head. (for the record, that is not the good part about her death; I can't say it without spoiling a lot and I realized that after writing this)
Yes. I thought about ending it with "primes divisible by 2" but that would make all of them 2 so I decided to follow the rules of the void and create a number the human mind cannot comprehend, like -i.
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so close and yet so far
that sounds very complicated haha, are all character deaths so dramatic?
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No. Most of them are pretty mundane unless they are a main character, such as a major hero or villain present for multiple books. Most of them go down like a sack of potatoes. One second they're fine and the next they're in a montage of lesser character deaths. I think more characters died in the last half of the last book than existed in the first book.
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that's nice to know. high mortality rates are saaaad
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I'm reading a bushel of tragedies for my English class right now. Currently taking bets on who makes it to the end. Last one had 3 out of a dozen or so make it. And people have the gall to suggest that our culture's media today is more violent than it ever has been.
Most books today tend to shy away from the idea of death. They either don't portray it realistically *cough* Eragon *cough* or display too much of it *cough* still Eragon *cough.*
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have you been wrong yet?
Eragon hmmm yeah that book series where no matter how many times i read it, i can only remember the first 50 pages or so.
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Very hard to be. Pretty much anyone who is immoral or knows anyone immoral will end up on a spit of sorts. Survivors of The Jew of Malta: no Jews, one Turk and a handful of Catholics. No Protestant characters were in the play.
Haha. How does that happen? You know, now that I think about it, there isn't much in the book to remember; there are a few key events but the story is otherwise unremarkable. My roommate and I agree that the book has the most easily predictable story ever.
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oh that's cheatiiiiing
i don't knoooow - i just remember an egg and then that riding a dragon was really uncomfortable and resulted in much chafing and vertigo.
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It's cheating because they aren't in the play or because there were no Jews at the end of The Jew of Malta (also, they lied because there was more than one Jew to begin with)?
You should try reading it again and record the opening of the infinitesimal vortex that steals your memories. I recall dwarf jokes about dragon spikes being a good way to get castrated. I also recall Eragon's very limited vocabulary: pretty, elf, woah, magic, dragon, no. That's it. It rhymes.
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because you can predict it
but then i would have to read it again. also i don't have it with me.
yeah he did have crap vocab hmmm
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Characters in the title do tend to die, don't they?
I have it at my house... which I am not at... which is nowhere near somewhere you could borrow it from. lD He had the vocabulary of a reticent cucumber.
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i suppose i won't be reading eragon then. such a shame.
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Oooooooooor you could find it online. It is a fantasy novel and thus must have a dedicated fanpage.
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Nonsense? *dramatic turn* THIS IS SPARTA! (okay, so that wasn't the best use of that one)
Currently making a poster doo-hickey with 3 role-model video game characters on it. I'm thinking of Mario, Commander Shepard (going with shepherd for analogy) and Flynn Scifo. I'll show it to you when it's done and has been applied.
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my high school mascot was a spartan. there was no such thing as an inappropriate time to use that.
coolio, bro. i really do like my shepard.
also i saw this and it reminded me of a conversation bit we had the other day [link]
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Didn't it get redundant after a while? (also, friends here just showed me a video of a school doing "oppa Spartan style" and I hope it wasn't your old school because it is terrrrrrible; could be one of many schools as there are many with Spartan mascots)
Shepard and company ended up on Individual Representation used in RA interview. Here's hoping they worked.
That is like five kinds of bean dip awesome. 0o0 (whoa face) I have now watched a bunch.
I can use dA again but I have to log in via Safari. Something is wrong with Chrome and sites right now.
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a li'l bit
and yeah lots and lots of spartans... i recently saw a gangnam style video for davis so i proobably shouldn't judge
that video makes me feel inferiorrrr. also Roommate is looking at famous sculptors while i draw my comic and that is too.
but. but chrome D: maybe uninstall and reinstall?
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There are meme videos for everything. It is the essence of the meme.
Or maybe it makes you feel like "yes, that is my goal and I shall be able to do that, too."
I could try that. I want to take it into the computer assistance building here on campus on Monday to get it checked into. On an unrelated note (maybe), an update for Civilization5 cleared all my saved data, including replays, multiplayer matches, records and preferences. At least I got to keep the achievements...
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it does that and make me feel horribly inferior
i should find the computer assistance building because my computer does not like the school interwebs and that is shtupid
also that is very sad
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That's only a bad thing if the latter sticks more than the former. I find that it instills a desire to learn more than anything and so that shouldn't be a problem.
You must be forceful with your computer and teach it obedience to the meh school network.
After an extensive amount of digging, I found the game files. They are in a file by a different name (identical to new empty files in all other ways) shelved inside another area of my computer as inaccessible documents. How game files ended up alongside my school Word documents, I don't think I'll ever know.
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yes, i get almost competitive with these random artists i don't know
the problem is that i have to look up how to fix it online but i have no interwebs when it happens
well at least they live? except they are inaccessible so i dunno if that counts?
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Compete with all the people?
Your problem seems cyclical. PERPETUAL IMMOBILE DEVICE. Patent it.
They so briefly lived. Accessing them made the game crash and so they have been resigned to the bin of trash, taking the replacement files from yesterday with them. Oh well. Each save is separate and starts from the beginning so nothing is really lost.
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im sure people would buy the crap out of that
at least you got to say goodbye
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