Wednesday Action Log 3-27-24

By Issac Young Posted Wednesday Mar 27, 2024

Filed under: Epilogue, Action Log 14 comments

This week has been eventful.

I’ve played more Wind Waker and I believe I’m near the end of the game; I’ve gotten almost all of the heart pieces and treasure charts. I probably would have finished by now but my cat is a menace and I got to learn that my GPU wasn’t aquatic. I hope that my new graphics card is waterproof and that no other parts of my computer becomes SpongeBob’s new neighbor.

On a better note I also played Teardown, I’m absolutely delighted with it, I thought I would get bored with the puzzles, but just about the time I’m getting sick of one mission type it changes things up with a new location or goal, it was also surprisingly fun realizing that instead of going around everything you can just remove it with anything from your sledgehammer to just a chunk of a wall. Also the game is beautiful, the lighting is great and it’s extremely fun to watch objects made of voxels crumble.

The Menace in question. (Her name is Betty Blasphemy)
The Menace in question. (Her name is Betty Blasphemy)

 


 

SWTOR: Rix’larril’an of the Ascendancy 2.04 – Crazy Train

By Paige Francis Posted Monday Mar 25, 2024

Filed under: Epilogue, Paige Writes 5 comments

Brengle says we will have to override the security for the MOST-top-secret-labratory at three different consoles that have the proper clearance. The first is in the busy warehouse we passed a few minutes ago, the second is at the heavily-guarded power station next to the warehouse, and the third is at a lookout station next to the power station. Disabling those systems will give us access to a building in the first courtyard next to the goal of our search for Duchess Sarnova’s missing men.

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DM of the Rings Remastered LXIV: A Shocking Revelation

By Peter T Parker Posted Sunday Mar 24, 2024

Filed under: 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

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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 6 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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