DM of the Rings Remastered LXIV: A Shocking Revelation

By Peter T Parker Posted Sunday Mar 24, 2024

Filed under: DM of the Rings Remaster, Random 5 comments

In the comments of the previous strip, I said, “In hindsight, the ideal thing would have been to cast Aragorn as a dumb, distracted stoner. He spends about half of the movie blinking very, very slowly. I can come up with a shot of him looking baked or mouth-open stoopid in just about any scene. I should make a “I am so high” montage out of all these shots.

The amount of screen time he spends in a vacant stare or a prolonged blink is sort of alarming. I’ve come to think of him as Stareagorn.

– shamus Thursday Feb 15, 2007

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Wednesday Action Log 3-20-24

By Issac Young Posted Wednesday Mar 20, 2024

Filed under: Epilogue, Action Log 15 comments

This week I’m emulating Wind Waker. This is my first time playing it, and I can see why it’s a lot of people’s favorite, it has a lot of quality of life improvements compared to Ocarina along with the combat feeling a lot smoother, Ocarina is probably still my favorite but I think that’s mostly just the nostalgia talking.

What are you guys playing?

 


 

SWTOR: NO PUNS ABOUT DAILIES

By Paige Francis Posted Monday Mar 18, 2024

Filed under: Epilogue, Paige Writes 2 comments

I don’t normally partake of “dailies” in MMORPGs. For those who don’t know, “dailies” are a traditional component of MMORPGs that USUALLY aren’t included in the initial release of the game. Or at least, that’s the way it started; newer games frequently have this repeatable content included from the beginning. Dailies are most often repeatable quests using assets already in the game. A good example would be adding a repeatable quest that is nothing more than doing the basic parts of a story quest once per day. For instance, if you had to fight through a bunch of enemies to reach an NPC you needed to talk to in order to advance the story; the “daily” version would just be having to go kill 10 of those enemies again. The reward, instead of moving the story along (since you’ve already done that) will usually be some of the game’s primary currency, PLUS some “reputation” currency. The “reputation” will be assigned to a faction connected to that area of the game, or to some kind of bigger faction…it can be as general or highly specific as you want. The IMPORTANT part isn’t the additional XP and money that you may or may not receive. The REPUTATION currency can be saved up and then spent with a new vendor added that will sell items UNIQUE to that reputation faction. I never did dailies in World of Warcraft until I started collecting mounts, and I found that dozens of factions in WoW offered a special mount. For FREE, you just had to play the game a lot. In Star Wars: The Old Republic, I only recently started looking into the reputation awards available from different vendors and found not only MOUNTS/VEHICLES, but ARMOR DYES. So, I started doing dailies with Rix’larril’an.

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DM of the Rings Remastered LXIII: Overly Requited Love

By Peter T Parker Posted Sunday Mar 17, 2024

Filed under: DM of the Rings Remaster, Random 7 comments

Sometimes the most sadistic thing the DM can do to is to let the players have their own way.

-Shamus, Tuesday Feb 13, 2007

 

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Sims 4 Overthinking: Reno Day

By Bay Posted Friday Mar 15, 2024

Filed under: Epilogue, The Sims Overthinking 7 comments

Alright! It’s finally reno day for the downstairs. What used to be a just kitchen is becoming an entirely self-contained studio apartment. Having a playable separate home space wasn’t possible when this series first started a year and a half ago. But now, The Sims 4 For Rent pack has finally released and you can section off different parts of a build to be separate households. You just have to ignore the $40 price tag, and the fact that it’s deeply and broken and almost unplayable. The bugs include but are not limited to: Tanking frame rate on lots with rentals on them, landlord sims receiving little to no payments if someone moved out or in within a in-game weeks time (several playing hours) and every renting sim inexplicably baking several cakes a day, slowly filling your residence with cake.

But, you know, other than that, it’s great.

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Wednesday Action Log 3-13-24

By Issac Young Posted Wednesday Mar 13, 2024

Filed under: Epilogue, Action Log 22 comments

This week I’m emulating and playing Ocarina of Time I don’t really have much to say about the game, it was the first Zelda game I had and I’m glad I have save states.

What are you guys playing?