Re: [Official!] Project Horizons Comment Crew Chat thread.

[Guest]

@Worm RP

It's not a fic or anything but I might go back through the thread and make some crappy art of the characters. Not much of course but at least they'd be used a bit.

[Scienza]

I'd love to get back into the RP whenever it starts up again.

[Frost]

I recall that there were concerns about how it ended up (a bit convoluted and a bit too serious for some peoples' tastes) beyond scheduling concerns as well, but that was intended to be a pilot run anyway. We could give it another go or turn it into a straight story; however works out for anyone interested.
EDIT: if there's to be interest in the characters and such again; I'll update the OOC thread with the most important information we can provide: notes and info for shipping.

[Guest]

I brought up Heroes yesterday and new hero.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b215Y8QgA3Y

Kinda wish it was Lady Vashj instead.

[Harmony Ltd.]

Cool Sierra Madre art

[RoboRed]

Finally, the end of one of the most grueling semesters I've ever had.

Thank. God.

[Frost]

Those are a lot of fair points, Swick. We can definitely dial back the Sultans from a criminal hegemony to a more conventional (though organized and powerful) gang. I'm likewise all for character interactions, but it'll be a lot harder to pull off a Worm (or superhero in general) scenario without combat. And I can't speak for anyone else, but I rather like the several interconnected factions and their realpolitik/cold-war/stalemate balance of power rather than a simple faction-on-faction faceoff

[O. Hinds]

Congratulations to both of you, swicked and RoboRed!

[RoboRed]

possible swickedbait:

http://asimos.deviantart.com/art/Trixie-the-Wandering-Wizard-530349256

[Katarn]

English can be weird...

[Frost]

Those are a lot of fair points, Swick. We can definitely dial back the Sultans from a criminal hegemony to a more conventional (though organized and powerful) gang. I'm likewise all for character interactions, but it'll be a lot harder to pull off a Worm (or superhero in general) scenario without combat. And I can't speak for anyone else, but I rather like the several interconnected factions and their realpolitik/cold-war/stalemate balance of power rather than a simple faction-on-faction faceoff

Eeeeeehhhhhhh......
When faced with a fight most of my characters respond by running and gunning. Attack, disengage, etc. I prolonged fight consisting of ducks, dodges, blocks, parries, various kinds of punches and kicks or powers, blah... I find it boring. Action is boring in text, actions spanning seconds dominating paragraph after paragraph. It just translates very poorly through the medium, I feel. It's a personal issue, I know. I can barely even read through the fights Somber puts in PH, or in ANY story.
As for the politics... yeah. I made my points, we are simply of opposite opinions in that matter.

I won't be able to reliably participate in anything for another two weeks or so; until this Advanced Homelessness Training is done. Plenty of time to work out any kinks

[RoboRed]

possible swickedbait:

http://asimos.deviantart.com/art/Trixie-the-Wandering-Wizard-530349256

Oooooh, yeah, I like that.
Something's eerie about it, too. Dunno what.
Time for another avatar change...

Dem hoofboots, tho'.

[Scienza]

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[Harmony Ltd.]

So, finally watched Puella Magi Madoka Magica: Rebellion.

That was a wild ride.

points of interest:

[Icy Shake]

Congrats, Robo, swicked!

Though that's something I'm not looking forward to when I return to school in the fall after a few years away . . .

[O. Hinds]

Good luck, Icy Shake.

[Icy Shake]

Thanks!

[Ironmonger]

Lulz:

[Frost]

I'm really curious as to what fucking eight-year-old is commanding OPFOR right now. 

"Eighty invisible rockets from space kill you all. You can't kill me, though; I'm invincible."

[Scienza]

points of interest:

KyoSaya top OTP.

Man, I love that movie.


On an unrelated note, I saw Age of Ultron tonight. Unfortunately, they didn't include the incest subplot between Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver from their Ultimate incarnations.

[Frost]

Eh; most audiences'll quickly tire of a character whose whole depth is "a spy who wears leather and does butt stuff", especially after all ten movies she's been in.

[Guest]

Anyone here like jazz/big band stuff? Gavin Harrison recently did a solo album of reworked Porcupine Tree songs in that style. It's really neat. Linked one is of Hatesong/Halo.

[Harmony Ltd.]

So, I bought Cities: Skylines.

I have made a terrible mistake.

I've spent 9 hours on it today alone, and I don't even know where that time fled.

This game is seriously addictive.

Far more finished, polished and full of features than the latest (and last, apparently...) Sim City. It's also far more intuitive and simplified (in a good way) than Cities: XL.

Overall, my verdict so far is: if you like city builders, go get it.

[Frost]

Eh; most audiences'll quickly tire of a character whose whole depth is "a spy who wears leather and does butt stuff", especially after all ten movies she's been in.

...you're joking, right?
I'm going to assume you're joking.
Her badass character does a 180 and becomes a sensitive pomf romantic who plays jane to Hulk's tarzan.
That wasn't character development. If she was a one-dimensional  stereotype before she's an even more one-dimensional stereotype on the exact opposite end of the spectrum now.

Maybe next they'll make the playboy a mormon or the boyscout a gangster if this is what passes for character development now.

Eh; considering I liked both Hobbit and Dark Knight Rises, which you recalled in colorful variations of "it was shit"; so it seems I'm just a lot easier to please when it comes to entertainment

[Guest]

Replayed RE4. I didn't notice the first time around but they did a fantastic job of transitioning Resident Evil into a more modern game.

Though whoever decided to increase the difficulty of the reaction commands of all things for the harder difficulty is an asshole.

[O. Hinds]

So, I bought Cities: Skylines.

I have made a terrible mistake.

I've spent 9 hours on it today alone, and I don't even know where that time fled.

This game is seriously addictive.

Far more finished, polished and full of features than the latest (and last, apparently...) Sim City. It's also far more intuitive and simplified (in a good way) than Cities: XL.

Overall, my verdict so far is: if you like city builders, go get it.

I've looked into that (particularly since good old Simcity 4 broke with the OS "upgrade" and I've not yet found a way to fix it), but unfortunately the Steam page explicitly says that my hardware isn't supported.

Actually, it looks like Steam has a current Mac version of SC4. I don't know whether the mods I was using would work on it, though, and I'd rather not spend that money for a game I already own.
(I was using this wrapper to run it. It's by the same person who made the wrapper I was using to run New Vegas, actually. Unfortunately, they seem to have been last online in October of 2014...)

[RoboRed]

Random question: what's the wordcount on the latest PH chapter? (asking here because I'd rather not risk my eyes to spoilers)

[O. Hinds]

Approximately 25800. A bit more than that if you count the entire document, a bit less if you don't count the notes at the end and the like.

[RoboRed]

I was just wondering about the chapter sans endnotes.

[Scienza]

spaceflight is the future of humanity:

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