I miss turn based RPGs. It used to be, you got to decide what every member of the party did. You had plenty of time to decide. Now, you control one character. Everybody else in the party is run by a crappy AI that you may have no control over at all. OTTOMH When I tried the first Vampire The Masquerade computer game, you could check boxes on what things the other party members would or would not do. The party members kept doing things I had clicked for them never to do.
In the game Ravenloft- Stone Prophet, I found that the thief could backstab. I only found this out when I took control of him. He never did it once on his own. I then found out that due to further poor programming, you could backstab an opponent repeatedly and that you could backstab any opponent- even if they were undead, or elementals without vital organs.
I’ve been playing Metaphor: ReFantazio lately (it came out on Game Pass on Xbox not long after Clair Obscur did). It’s made by the same people who did the Persona games, and plays very much like Persona 5. There’s some good turn-based combat in that one, much like in the Persona games, and you have full control over your party. (Well, after a while you do; in the early part of the game, which is a bit tutorial-like, you only control the main character, but that doesn’t last very long.)
Very fun, very chill combat. I like the story in it. It’s an interesting spin, where the game takes place in a fantasy world, and the protagonist has a fantasy book that describes our modern world as an amazing place with giant glass buildings, no magic, and no monsters.
Anyone looking for a new turn-based game, I recommend checking it out.
Apparently Facebook has rewritten their coding again to circumvent FB Purity. I’m suddenly getting sponsored posts again. Although a lot of the posts seem to be anti-Trump, which is why it took me a while to distinguish them from what I usually get from my friends.
Look what I found trying to get IN to my cat paddock? Poor little terrified kid
Who needs a kitten? I already have 18 cats! The Universe must have known I don’t have an Orange though. Sigh …
I’m an idiot, but he’ll probably stay.
(Not sure if the FB link will work, but I made it public so you don’t have to be on FB to see it)
As much as I would love to acquire a kitten, at my age there is a serious chance that I would outlive it. Also, my elderly cat might not take well to having a hyperactive furball in the house.
I work for an organization that does a variety of water testing on rivers. For one program we send a person out to dams and bridges to collect a sample. It’s pretty easy for one person to accomplish. The dams are safe as they are gated, well lit and lots of people around.
Until today.
One of our samplers (25 y.o. female) was out at a small dam and the one guy working there came up and made a comment about her looks and asked her if she was alone.
Christ on a pogo-stick, why do dudes have be creepy assholes??
One thing for sure, she won’t be traveling alone again!
Because someone else will not only have to find the poor cat a new home, but also have to explain to it why the human who raised it is no longer there to cuddle it.
Years ago I took in a friend’s cat after she died, and for weeks the poor thing wandered around my house meowing and looking for my friend.
Speaking as a canine and natural hater of all cats, I have to say that is a very compelling image of a little orange kitten. I would definitely keep it, and I recommend adding it to your menagerie, regardless of how big said menagerie already is. This little guy deserves your love and affection!
Still stuck in the same fucking scene in my book. It’s been, I think two months of trying to figure this shit out.
What I want to do is cut the scene completely, but I’m not sure if I can, due to the sensitive subject matter. It is concerning the aftermath of an assault. I feel responsible to show what that looks like. The book is about this woman healing from assault, so it’s important to show the impact, how the female MC is changed and how the male MC deals with it because it’s a romance novel and there’s a lot of internal conflict to look at.
But it is at the same time not quite fitting the story?
This scene used to be perfectly fine until I started doing rewrites and now it no longer flows. So I went back to the drawing board and round and round and round, I’ve done like twenty versions (I’m looking into whether this could be ASD related because I get stuck in these loops a lot, where I just write and rewrite and rewrite the same part over and over and get nowhere.)
Why do writers do this to ourselves?
I don’t do drugs but I imagine there’s some parallel, in that you can spend some times writing feeling pure unadulterated euphoria and other times wondering how you got here and what the hell you’re doing with your life.
I think anyone who gets involved in creative work deals with that now and then.
It’s great and then at other times it’s a nightmare.
Art sucks, in that it’s not like fixing an engine or painting a wall. It’s not just some rote thing you can do without effort any time you need to, because you have experience and know how to do it. You have to pull it out of somewhere, and there is no science to it.
That’s why I never got into an art career. I have certainly been involved in creative projects. I’ve done amateur video game design, I sometimes draw and paint (and I’ve been paid to draw things for people like tattoos). I do sometimes get involved in graphic design stuff as part of my job (my job involves occasional web design). But I can’t do it all the time.
I get the impression that this is something you do for yourself, I know it’s not your regular job or anything (as you work for a group that helps women in need), is this something that’s just fun, or a kind of therapy/meditation, or a bit of side cash? Just curious. I know we have published authors on this board (and I’ve bought some of their books which are genuinely really good; one Doper is one of my favorite authors and I’ve read dozens of her novels). But I was just curious.
I’ve done a little writing. I had to do it as part of game design (which was a hobby, didn’t make a dime for it, it was just fun). I also sometimes run tabletop games and I have to write for that. When I was younger I wanted to write novels; heck, I had a whole series planned, but never could get the inspiration to write more than a couple of chapters. I realized I’m not that kind of writer. I really respect people who can do that.
