Codicier
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I haven't played this game for 2 days, not because i don't want to but because I still cant decide what i want to do about a choice the games given me because having read the books etc, I have a distinct feeling for what Geralt as a character would do but it conflicts with what i as a person want to do >_<
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It's amazing how well the game actually seems to tie everything together: everything is still consistent with the first Witcher game, the world and the characters still look somewhat of the same style, even if it's now from a slightly different perspective and level of detail. And then the way it introduces characters and things from the books so seamlessly, it makes one think that they had the whole trilogy planned out even when they were working on the first game. It just all fits too well. But on the other hand it's hard to believe that they had it exactly scoped like that, putting Geralts story in The Witcher 1 and 2 just at the right time so he could get his memory back when the whole world known from the books is opening up to him.
[edit] I guess what makes the consistency kind of astonishing to me is just how differently each game works, while still maintaining this very high coherence. But they must have just been doing each game with what was available and in reach technology and budget wise.
There's also a lot of written material that exists outside the game for them to build around and having read everything thats come out in english so far i can confirm they have done a great job of keeping the relationship dynamics from that in tact. Infact (spoiler for books and game below
Geralts relationship with Yenneffer has always been centred on both of their doubts that they can truly love anyone. That their unusual natures (witchers and mages are both almost always sterile and both age very little and live very long, additionally witchers undergo psychological training to try and make them less emotional) mean its hard for them to replicate "love" in the same way as they have seen in those around them, and have throughout their relationship caused them to push back against each other at different times but in particular yen to push back against geralt.
Forgive me. There are gifts which one may not accept, and there is nothing in me i could repay you with.
So the whole quest line on skelig centred around reversing the titular "last wish" really worked well, with Yen clearly worried they might be falling in love again but terrified that the capacity to return that love might be a illusion, & with Geralt (at least with how i played him) not wanting to to have on his conscience that he forced Yen to love him through a wish.
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This game fixes so many things open world games are prone to fail on, within that i include:
NPC's that automatically match the speed you want to move at? tick
This is huge for me, in so many games ive ended up running circles around npc's as they dawdle along a route.
A mount that actually has some personality: tick
I love what they have done with roach, the fact that i frequently find him/them has moved to the nearest hay tough of patch of grass from the point i left him is a tiny thing but just give him far more personality than otherwise. I may be wrong but i thinhk he also is resistant to wistling when hes at these poits, if he's got he snout in a big tough of hay your gonna have to run up to him and drag him away (or just be a boring git & run until hes out of sight)
A Romance that I don't want to happen!
Ok so i've always felt Triss was more a close friend to Geralt that a women he loves and so it's frustrating as all heck to get to a point where it's obvious i have to choose between either Triss leaving Geralts life completely or (at the very least verbally) committing to her, but I think that frustration is actually kinda great.
I really like that the game doesn't give me that option because a just a friendship is clearly not what Triss wants, it's really refreshing that a a character other than the protagonist actually gets to define their relationship
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I've really enjoyed the game so far, the story is strong and the quests varied but i think I've got to the point where the potion/decoction system has slightly broken the combat for me. You can just combo certain things to do silly damage. I've 1 shoting some mob my own level and killing others 7-8 levels above me if i'm careful. Now admittedly if one of those big gits hit me it would 1/2 shot me as well and utterly break my "combo" but still.
Now i just want really want a multi-player qwent
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ooo I'd be really excited for that episode. Can we also compare it to Legend of Korra and explain why the latter is awful?
Korra was certainly a less even show in how it executed on it's storyline than Avatar, but it tried to do things which were more difficult, so personally i forgive it occasionally falling flat on its face for the moments when it succeeds at the more ambitious stuff.
On a more general note there are endless topics going forward. The main thing I think is to try and replicate what makes the main anime thread great, a diverse selection of viewpoints talking about shows, themes, and issues they are passionate about (& i very much hope we will get some more of those people on going forward).
As long as we do that I'm sure everything will be fine.
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Now look here Gorm if Blambo isn't climbing battle scarred and shell shocked from the onslaught of a full season of pure moe this isn't gonna work.
Ok maybe it is but I sure do enjoy Blambo in full "this is the worst thing ever mode"
So how about a compromise K-on Movie & Perfect Blue double bill
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I advocate strongly for the Moecast.
I think the criteria for a Moe show were made clear Blambo, so get ready for some Clannad/K-on marathoning.
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I've been watching Ninja Slayer recently, that and Inferno Cop might be a good core to build a episode about low budgets on. it's a example of when shows take their limitations and do silly/interesting things with them. With maybe Voices of a Distant Star (I think that's what the damn thing was called anyway will have to check in a mo) rounding it off as a example of something made my one person. Also maybe some talk about shows that notoriously ran out of money.The sound was excellent. You could hear the Skypiness shine through with certain hosts, but that's more a result of their mics than anything else.
Thought I'd springboard a few suggestions for future discussions:
-The Big Damn Ghibli Episode
-Food in Anime
-LGBT in Japan
-Episode 2.22: This is (Not) the Evangelion Episode
-Summer Wars is Basically a Perfect Movie
-Osamu Tezuka
-Moe: Threat or Menace?
-How Low Animation Budgets Shaped the Aesthetics of Anime
-"Gender and Its Place in Japanese Media" (or "Why Women in Hentai Always Sound Like They're In Pain")
-Magical Girls
-Anime Influence on Western Media
Side note: everyone recorded the pod locally & then mailed me their recording overall I think the majority of us sounded good.
However I think I have a very bad voice for radio, quite nasal, a problem probably caused by the fact I broke my nose aged 10 by running into a smaller child and my nose colliding with his forehead (almost a reverse head butt) & then running away from the doctor who tried to give me sleeping gas while he reset it (I made it all the way from his office to the car park).
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It's really nice to see people enjoyed this one.
When we recorded it felt like there was some good stuff there, but wrangling those 2hrs or so of recording together was tricky.
Id like to know from both listeners and participants whether they felt I got the balance right between keeping the audio clean and understandable and sounding like a natural conversation.
I ended up with a policy that if someone wasn't part of a conversation id sometimes end up editing their laughter out to stop thing getting too cacophonous, and that laughter that went on more than a few seconds would get trimmed if possible, & when people talked over each other I time shifted the ones which seemed pertinent and which worked together as a flow.
The two thing i considered fixing but ended up not. 1.there were some time delays on some people laughter on the recording which i could have fixed by moving them in the timeline so they & others overlapped more, & 2.when laughter did overlap considered bringing everyone's laughter down by a few dbs not hugely but just enough so the overall noise level of the final mix was less.
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I was actually stunned how long we talked about that damn movie.
I was stunned that Blambo & Twig almost (but not quite) made a simple but actually fairly robust case for why it probably shouldn't be hated as much as it is
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It's here! Key Frames, Episode 00 - Don't Feed the Dragon (Little Witch Academia)
Show notes are below.
Spotlight:
Little Witch Academia (1:07:57)
Discussed:
Rurouni Kenshin (manga) (5:47)
Mentioned:
Rurouni Kenshin: Trust & Betrayal (7:06)
The Secret World of Arrietty (23:16)
Neon Genesis Evangelion (23:33)
Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei (35:42)
Revolutionary Girl Utena (37:02)
Mobile Police Patlabor (41:38)
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (49:26)
Great Teacher Onizuka (1:13:27)
Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi (1:18:36)
Inou Battle Within Everyday Life (1:36:44)
His & Her Circumstances (1:40:24)
you forgot one
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace 9:05
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I have just finished installing both and are keeping myself occupied while the drivers finish doing their thing and updating, before I actually get to starting doing the fun stuff.I pulled the trigger. Twin Frozrs will be mine on Friday. That SSD looks awesome. I was given explicit instructions from the internet to avoid the Samsung 840s, but the 850 is supposed to be amazing.
Oh god there's a glowing LED dragon on the side of the card, I really know where my cash has been well spent now!
Edit: damn, I dint realise that despite the disk copy doing a otherwise good job of cloning my OS from my old HDD to the new Samsung it would keep the same huge chunk of system reserved space it had on the much larger original. Humbugs
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How do we get a podcast which mentions robot fish and not the immortal classic James Pond Robocod
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ok gentlemen thanks for the advice, will prob order my TWIN FROZRS tomorrow, along with maybe a 500gb samsung ssd heard some very good things about it in terms of ease of installation (great disc cloning software bundled apparently)
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Lu , on 24 Apr 2013 - 11:05, said:
I have a hard time dealing with clutter in my personal space. It makes me feel restless, or something. Let's not check my bedroom, though.
Lu i kind alike the look of that chair hiding partially out of shot, adjustable arms + mesh back look like the kinda thing im gonna be after, what brand is it?
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Yeah it's a Nostromo, they are a little strange to use to begin with but once you get used to them they are extremely comfortable & easy to use.Looks like a Razer Nostromo. It has a few rows of buttons analogous to WASD + adjacent, a d-pad type thing, and a joystick type thing if memory serves. Kinda like a dedicated gaming keyboard to accompany a regular keyboard.
It's particularly useful for MMO's or any other game which require a ton of key binds
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Do any of the smart people here have any ideal if a Nvidia 970 like this would be bottlenecked by a i5 3570k (3.4ghz) with 8gb of ram?
The Witcher 3 looms on the horizon and i'm thinking about upgrading to a beast which can show it at its most shiny of settings and the new nvidia chips are tempting me because they seem to draw a lot less power & create a lot less heat than old top end GPU's.
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Do any of you guys know what the conventional wisdom is regarding how your arms should rest when holding you mouse and keyboard? Is there a ideal distance to have you keyboard & mouse in terms of their distance from your chest?
I was always taught that the ideal was to keep your arms as close to a nice L shape as possible, but that feel difficult to do & despite trying to keep to roughly this position i seem to have managed to have picked up a shoulder injury while working to many hours at my desk recently
This is my current setup
I think i my need a new chair because i cant fit it under the desk properly at the height that feels right, however removing the arm rests also feels wrong
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Yeah, that looks great Codicier!
I did some more googling on this and read (just a bit) about the painting process and it looks like there are a lot of complicated steps to get good results. And I realized that painting all the Cyclades player figures would be like a few months part-time work even for someone more experienced... Also, what if I fuck up just one of those things (I was gluing one slightly broken one back together and realized just how tiny they are). Would it be possible to get the colors off again if a horrible mistake is made?
On the other hand I saw some painted Cyclades pieces and they looked great, except the player color could be not that obvious any more on some when placed on the board. So another challenge may be to make the player color still dominate for people to identify the pieces from all angles.
Now I'm having doubts that maybe I like the idea of having the pieces painted, but maybe not so much the idea of spending months of actually painting them. I'll have to think about it some more before I start
[edit] Or maybe I should just paint a couple of the monsters, to get an idea how much I would like the process. The Kraken would be so much more impressive on the board when painted. Should I start with a less frequently used one for practice?
Do you have any other board games with fewer pieces you could take on as your first project in place of Cyclades? I'd always advise someone doing this for the 1st time to pick a such a game because as with learning any new craft you want to give yourself nice easily completable goals at first. Once you feel more confident in your work flow taking on a big project wont feel so intimidating.
The techniques used on those pictures you linked are all fairly simple ones (it looks like they have just used a simple dip/wash for shading) and could be done pretty quickly (& improved upon with only a small bit of effort if you so choose). All you need to get stuff done to that quality is to take good care with the prep, be neat and tidy with your brush work, and mix a wash/dip that has the right consistency for the scale your working with, all of which are things which are very doable. I feel like you should be able to get that sort of effect with just a bit of practice.
Going forward If you pick your first project out (Be it just the Cyclades monsters or some minis from a another game) I can take a moment to recommended basically everything you'd need to get good result
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That's really handsome and impressive.
tnx!
If Erkki wanted i could do a step by step of my process for working on BG pieces.
i've been thinking of doing the Minatures from the Spartacus boardgame for a while.
They would be quite a nice challenge for me since unlike tabletop wargamming stuff from games workshop etc since they don't really have a amazing amount of detail on the sculpt's themselves, so you really have to be careful with your painting to enhance that detail and not obscure it.
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There's two ways to approach painting baordgame mini's.
1.The traditional tabletop mini style
2. Paint them so they look like classier materials than they actually are (make plastic look like wood, marble, metal etc) this can work very nicely but actually needs pretty strong technique
Often the biggest problem with board game pieces it they often aren't designed to take normal mini acrylic paints. theres really no way to know untill you try though so i'd offer these tips
-always do a test on the underside of a piece
-soak plastic pieces in warm soapy water and give them a very light brush with a toothbrush to remove and invisible residue from the manufacture process. Electronic toothbrushes (used gently), and ultrasonic jewellery cleaner units are good for this too just don't use harsh solvent or leave them in a long time.
-use a good quality spray primer, don't ever use auto spray it has a horrible tendency to pool.
-brush wise & paint wise, vallejo are my favourite mix of price and quality for paints and small acrylic brushes though Games workshop have much improved in recent years, army painter do a good budget range & winsor & newton series 7 are the best of the best
here's a skaven ship i did a few years back for a GW game called Dreadfleet (its a more traditional tabletop mini than the ones you are talking about but still it not often i get to post about something i feel im legitimately good as so im gonna
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man this really has been a slow time anime wise. there's basically only a couple of series worth watching atm, and while they are all enjoyable enough none of them really make me go "wow!" or want to unpack them in any way.
All there is left to do now is take the occasional screenshot of the latest "MANLY CRYING FACE!" pulled by Gouda from Ore Monogatari!!
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I hate my voice.
Its the worst.
Seriously, there has never been more malignant or troublesome utterances committed to sound than those that escaped my lips during the test recording. Not only does it have a distinct nasal almost croaky tone, it hisses.
Its like basketful of snakes & frogs mixed together.
I want a voice like Blambo's, a nice well behaved sound that is pleasant on the ear and needed very little attention. Unlike my own which swallows up equaliser settings, and gobbles up filters before spitting them back out at me.
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So my computer's been randomly failing on me for a while, and I figure it's about time I replaced it. I can salvage most of the parts, but I'll definitely need a new CPU and motherboard; they're what's been dragging this one down for so long. I have no clue what to replace them with though. I use my PC primarily for Photoshop, gaming, and opening hundreds of tabs in Chrome; so go nuts with suggestions. Just be aware that I'd rather buy from trusted sites (namely Newegg) and that I've got a limited income at the moment. Also feel free to suggest anything else I might need. RAM would be good; my graphics card is a little dated but fairly beefy.
the more info you can offer the better tbh Tegan, but Quick Essential Q's would be:
-what size case do you have?
-what rating/wattage PSU do you have?
-are you currently using the intel stock Heatsink or do you have a custom one?
the GPU/RAM/HDD details would also be groovy but wouldn't make or break any recommendations (unless your GPU is a insane power leech)
edit: if you want to look at a ok mid range build for parts ideas you could take a look at this http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/pq7vcf which i built as a office/ lite photoshop pc for my parents. Though obviously ALOT of that was based on the case size i was working with
you might even want to put the parts you have and want to keep into http://pcpartpicker.com/ and then see what are the recommended/popular choices for the bit you want to replace
Ouran Boast Club - Planning an Anime Podcast
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So bellow I provide a handy identification guide:
Gorm is Ben
Our host and a man who bravely set forth to see if anime was the route to a ladies heart
NinjaSquirrel is Andy.
The man who revealed the truth behind 'nice boat'
Codi is Duncan.
The idiot who talks about why key frames are important on a podcast called key frames.
(Ok maybe it wasn't called that when we recorded but I still think posterity will judge me a muppet).
Twig is Jon.
The guy who made a Star Wars joke (nuff said)
Blambo is Ray.
Prime dispenser of puns, and hater of all things Moe