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| Topic | The return of the lewd (and occasionally other stuff) |
| Sahuagin 07/06/18 3:34:58 AM #121 | I sure do miss having pics load... --- |
| Topic | is it ever ok for a white person to say the n-word? |
| Sahuagin 07/06/18 3:29:49 AM #25 | you should ask variablast haven't seen him in like 10 years, here's a sample  well, that has a good thumbnail but the video is kind of boring. this one is a little bit more WTF worthy, but it's not recent  --- |
| Topic | I feel bad for the poor souls who have to search the high seas.... |
| Sahuagin 07/06/18 3:11:11 AM #7 | Krow_Incarnate posted... But the SoD update was marred with a highly controversial UI update, more bugs than ever, and according to some, awful storytelling. I wouldn't know because I never made it out of the first dungeon(I've made three attempts to play with the new UI and I just can't do it). for the UI thing, do you mean how the whole game now has that stupid black and red UI? even though black and red are my favorite colors, it doesn't fit at all with the regular game. (otherwise, what is it you don't like about the UI?) --- |
| Topic | I liked Fallout 3 (for the looting, same with Skryim), but not Fallout NV |
| Sahuagin 07/05/18 3:52:05 AM #88 | ParanoidObsessive posted... I would say yes to every single one of those things. k, great, although it'd be a lot better to hear that from someone who isn't a contrarian Even at the most basic level, the overall "orange-y/brown" aesthetic that's at the core of NV design looks better to me than the sickly green aesthetic of Fallout 3 (even the amber Pip-Boy filter looks better than the green one). On a more granular level, I'd argue that NV takes most of what 3 does in general with design and tone and does it far better. k, but it's not supposed to be "I like particular thing better", or "I'd argue that X is better", it's supposed to be that the whole qualitative experience is thoroughly more enjoyable to you, regardless of the individual pieces. the rest of your post just mentions particulars. --- |
| Topic | Woman badly injured in subway begs people not to call ambulance |
| Sahuagin 07/04/18 2:29:36 PM #37 | Jen0125 posted... in the us they can be up to $5k i've heard in some places yeah k, it's not that much (why would it be $5k? what exactly are you paying for with a price like that?) http://www.cbc.ca/marketplace/blog/map-ambulance-fees How much an ambulance costs [in Canada]: I just remember as a kid after breaking my leg skiiing, my parents complaining about the ambulance bill. I do remember it was around $300, which sounded like a lot at the time. --- |
| Topic | will we be able to have internet in space? |
| Sahuagin 07/04/18 2:25:12 PM #6 | Zikten posted... like when we have colonies all over the solar system do you think there will be a solar system internet that's all connected? we'd lose the monolithic nature of the current internet. you'd end up with multiple internet hubs. there'd be earthnet, marsnet, lunanet, etc., and depending on the location you'd have extreme lag between hubs (or worse without proper satellites in place you'd have blackouts to other hubs at certain times of day). you could maybe have something like wikipedia replicated to marsnet. mars could then have a readonly version of wiki that's like 30 minutes behind the earth version or something. it would probably be tricky or impossible to have the local cached version writable, so to write to earthwiki from mars you'd need to suffer through the lagtime. it's possible new protocols would emerge to support browsing with such extreme delays. --- |
| Topic | Woman badly injured in subway begs people not to call ambulance |
| Sahuagin 07/04/18 4:28:43 AM #32 | to be fair, ambulances aren't free in Canada either, you need a special plan for that to be covered. --- |
| Topic | I liked Fallout 3 (for the looting, same with Skryim), but not Fallout NV |
| Sahuagin 07/03/18 12:37:26 AM #57 | TallTamryu posted... I feel like you didn't play the game or get very far at all. played through exactly once from beginning to end. played F3 like maybe 5+ times all the way through. TallTamryu posted... I mean I also played FO3 first, but wasn't disappointed at all playing NV second. I get the feeling if you played NV first you'd think the exact opposite. That's the sort of things your posts point to. We'll never know if that would be true or not though. it's possible but I doubt it. I didn't like F3 at first in fact, it took like my third attempt to play to actually get hooked. TallTamryu posted... Those same sounds are IN NV as well, that's the point. And no, they're definitely not worse. Feel free to watch youtube clips of the guns in both games. Some quite nice sounding stuff in both games, just NV has more of it. Some "meh" and then some amazing ones. it's not about this one specific thing anyway, that was the point. I'm not saying "F3 had better gun sounds, that's why it's a better game". it's the whole package. the subway tunnels, the lighting/pixel shading, the particle system, the music, the enemies, the environments. it all adds up to a very unique experience that can only be had in one place, and not even NV the game most similar to it there will ever be can capture that experience. (it captures its own experience, of course, but one I subjectively enjoy significantly less.) so, this is like the third "rebuttal" to what I've said that has completely missed the point of what I'm saying. a proper counter-argument to what I'm saying is to say whether or not you found the "total aesthetic" as I've described it better in NV than in F3. has anyone? maybe you like the game more, but does anyone appreciate the overall atmosphere and aesthetic of NV more than F3? is exploring the mojave a thoroughly more enjoyable and satisfying experience than exploring the DC wasteland? --- |
| Topic | I liked Fallout 3 (for the looting, same with Skryim), but not Fallout NV |
| Sahuagin 07/02/18 11:01:03 PM #53 | TallTamryu posted... If anything there's MORE of this stuff more of what? more sounds? the point is not that it has "gun sounds" it's that the gun sounds are satisfying. listen to the hunting rifle in F3 compared to the guns sounds in NV. the NV guns look duller, sound duller, and IIRC they tend to have more ammo and do less damage, too, requiring more shots. the end result is (to me) a less satisfying experience, despite the pieces being ostensibly the same. --- |
| Topic | I liked Fallout 3 (for the looting, same with Skryim), but not Fallout NV |
| Sahuagin 07/02/18 9:24:42 PM #48 | shadowsword87 posted... All that he said was that he enjoyed 3 because it was fun, and NV wasn't fun, and the atmosphere of the games matter. they sort of do, it's just difficult. exciting music is "funner" than boring music. satisfying bangs when you shoot a gun is "funner" than dull sounds. a finely adjusted lighting scheme that captures the right feeling for the moment is "funner" than lighting that's all over the place. etc.etc. and yes it's all subjective, that's the point. but even though it's partly subjective, there's still also a genuine difference between exciting and crappy sounds. Specific details like "I didn't like how they used the skill system", or "I am a fan of the wackier side of Fallout, and NV toned that down", or "I felt like the color scheme was bland", or "the story was shit", and so on, those are details that matter. I'm trying to broaden the idea to be more applicable than to just this one game. I can give you a big list of small things that all add a little bit to the "total aesthetic" of fallout 3, but the point is how none of them alone is enough, and it's something that's even hard to articulate when you know about it. (for example, for myself, I'm surprised by the fact that I just can't get tired of shooting ghouls in the face with a shotgun, and I'm not exactly sure why.) so I guess here's a list of some of the small details that add up to a lot more than I'd expect them to, but if you don't "get it" when you play the game, you're definitely not going to get it reading a list. remember the point is how these all mix together, not just how good they are individually. also, this is not an argument for why *you* should like the game, this is an argument for why *I* like the game despite it's flaws. - the soundtrack by Inon Zur, particularly the peaceful music and the combat music - the real looking and feeling broken concrete and crumbling city, in particular the way the broken concrete looks with rebars sticking out of it, etc. - the Washington DC monuments - the voice acting of super mutants - the sounds made by mirelurks - the way the radios sound - the way the debris objects look and sound (the way nuka cola quantum looks) - the way gunshots sound and guns are animated - the way explosions sound - the way "dismembering" sounds - the way ghouls sound (which I personally find hilarious) - the rag-dolling - probably one the biggest is the explosion system; the way cars explode is *amazing*, but if you go into the editor there's actually a pretty robust explosion system. I used it for a "cherry bomb locks" mod I made. I just basically said "make an explosion of about this size with about this much smoke and this much noise, doing this much damage (none), centered on this object." I barely had to test it, it was almost perfect on the first try. - the projectile system as well, the way you can see bullets whiz by but also *hear* them whiz by (or feel them hit you) - the lighting system so much of this is all so perfectly fine-tuned and so well made artistically. it's not easy to do that. I mean, it's really really hard to do that. it's so much more than saying "yeah the game has good sound". the guys who made NV didn't get any of this at all. I remember fighting Caesar troops, and it was such a chore to down them. there was none of the satisfying aesthetics from the F3 combat, it felt like punching a brick wall. --- |
| Topic | Rate this cartoon DAY 7: Hong Kong Phooey (1974) |
| Sahuagin 07/02/18 6:39:51 PM #9 | never heard of it or seen it before. doesn't look the greatest. --- |
| Topic | I liked Fallout 3 (for the looting, same with Skryim), but not Fallout NV |
| Sahuagin 07/02/18 6:26:22 PM #44 | shadowsword87 posted... All of these words, and not a single point. I had plenty of fun playing NV, so I guess everything you were talking about by "adding or removing fun" was just sorta moot? I think I explained it pretty well. (I don't see how you can say I didn't make a point, I very clearly did.) The subjective sensual experience of playing a game is not something we often focus on. We might say a game has good music or cool sound effects, but the total aesthetic that a game captures is, I don't think, something we identify very often, other than to say it had "good atmosphere" or something. so as I said, for me, the total aesthetic of Fallout 3 was good enough that I can enjoy the game despite its endless flaws, and the opposite is true of NV (I don't enjoy its aesthetic despite the endless technical ways in which it's superior to F3). and yes, this is necessarily subjective, so another person may enjoy something I don't and vice-versa. that's kind of the point. the subjective experience of playing the game can be just as or perhaps more important than the objective mechanical parts of the game. how the game feels when you play it can be more important than what the game looks like on paper. (this is why, for example, music is often such a surprisingly important part of a game. objectively it shouldn't be important at all but instead it's very often one of most memorable parts of a game.) --- |
| Topic | Rate that thing ~ Day 1732 ~ Socks |
| Sahuagin 07/02/18 2:21:18 AM #4 | you might as well write a bot to do this (which actually sounds like a small fun project to try out sometime...) --- |
| Topic | I liked Fallout 3 (for the looting, same with Skryim), but not Fallout NV |
| Sahuagin 07/02/18 2:16:54 AM #30 | I think Fallout 3 gets a lot of things right that we don't usually think about that makes it fun despite its flaws, and NV gets a lot of things technically right, but misses a lot of what made Fallout 3 fun. I remember reading about the developer of World of Goo saying how one of his rules was to make sure that everything was "juicy". Every interaction you had with the game should make squishy/poppy sounds and always give some kind of sensual response back to the player. I think this sort of ineffable atmospheric/sensual experience is an important part of what makes a lot of games funner than they could be. In other words, it's possible that gameplay (game mechanics specifically) isn't quite as important as we think it is. If you reduce most games down to just their gameplay, turning them basically into spreadsheets or whatever it would look like (varies by genre), they lose a ton, maybe all, of their fun. A lot of the fun of a game comes from the sensual experience, not just the game mechanics. So, for me, Fallout 3 had a fantastic sensual experience which more than made up for its flaws in just about every single other area. The experience of exploring the wasteland in Fallout 3 is so unique and authentic and FUN, and it was sure as heck not replicated in NV, even if NV might be technically better in a lot of ways. --- |
| Topic | Rank the Quentin Tarantino movies in your opinion |
| Sahuagin 07/02/18 2:01:01 AM #11 | from what I've seen (best to least best): Kill Bill Django Unchained Pulp Fiction Reservoir Dogs Inglourious Basterds --- |
| Topic | After a month of practicing driving, my skills with some kind of car still suck. |
| Sahuagin 07/01/18 5:09:01 PM #29 | EclairReturns posted... Mostly the fear of ramming into other cars or something else in a high-speed environment. I just get nervous when I'm pressured to drive over thirty-five miles-per-hours because I know that every other car on the highway is driving about fifteen miles-per-hour more than that. It just got me freaked out that a car might possibly ram into me because I'm driving too slow, and it also freaks me out because I might ram into something because my field of vision is limited as a result of the speed at which I'm travelling. yes, what's dangerous is speed differential more than just speed. if you're going significantly faster or slower than everyone else, that is what is dangerous. that IS something to be wary of, the problem is the anxiety hijacking your ability. only practice and repetition will get rid of that. To a much lesser extent, I'm also afraid of driving too much to the left or too much to the right in my lane, there's a lot more space around your car than it feels like. (though obviously don't overestimate it either). something I think helps is to notice where your front left wheel is relative to your left foot. depending on the shape of your car, your left wheel is basically right there beside your foot, rather than way out where it "feels" like it is. I also always have this habit of double-checking my mirrors and looking over my shoulder when crossing over to some other lane, because I'm afraid of ramming into some other car. why is this a bad thing? you are supposed to check mirrors and shoulder check before changing lanes. I'm also freaked out because while I'm doing this, because my attention is shifted away from the front of the car, and that will also have a good chance of causing a collision. you're right to be aware of this. it can be tricky if traffic ahead of you is slowing down, and you're changing into an exit lane or something. do your best to mentally keep track of both things and slow down as necessary. I also lack general common sense on a road. Like, today, I checked my left side for incoming traffic at a stop sign because I thought that that was a thing to do, despite the fact that there's no road leading into the intersection from the left. In short, I really have absolutely no confidence in my driving skills whatsoever, and I honestly believe I'm a danger to everybody on the road, including myself. I'm a nervous wreck, I scare very easily, and don't have much confidence in adapting to unfamiliar situations. I don't even think I know how to control the car as well as I should be able to; like, I didn't even know up until today how to "straighten my tires". I don't think I have any business driving, whatsoever. it sounds like you need to take a driving course. there's things I still do today almost 20 years later that I was taught only once way back then. they will also let you drive a car under safer conditions (the instructor will have his own brake pedal), and tell you what you're doing right and what you're doing wrong. --- |
| Topic | Have you had this classic sandwich. Day 7: The classic PB andJ |
| Sahuagin 06/29/18 12:44:46 AM #8 | is there a person on earth who hasn't?! that seems strange to consider... how can you have had a childhood without having eaten a peanut butter and jam sandwich? --- |
| Topic | Destroy All Humans! was the shit. |
| Sahuagin 06/24/18 11:32:13 PM #5 | it's the kind of game where you play it and think "why the hell hasn't this been done before?!" --- |
| Topic | Name a game where the guy goes through a TON of bullshit to save the girl |
| Sahuagin 06/24/18 11:30:07 PM #19 | it's not really a spoiler, but almost, since it describes the later parts of the story: Final Fantasy Mead posted... Titanic --- |
| Topic | sees poll of the day,which 10 year dormant franchise should be brought back |
| Sahuagin 06/24/18 12:58:43 PM #25 | afrodude77 posted... Destroy all humans yay --- |
| Topic | Ogre Battle 64 FTW! \o.o/ |
| Sahuagin 06/23/18 1:00:54 PM #10 | Body Harvest for me though I never managed to play Ogre Battle 64 --- |
| Topic | What are some forgotten entries in a game franchise? |
| Sahuagin 06/22/18 3:36:37 AM #29 | a lot of people don't like it but I really liked Turok: Evolution Civilization 2: Test of Time was probably my favorite Civ game. I never actually played vanilla Civ 2. Hexen is in many ways my favorite of the doom engine games. --- |
| Topic | Best of these game trilogies?Metal Gear, Resident Evil, Sonic, Silent Hill, FF |
| Sahuagin 06/21/18 9:56:12 PM #12 | BigOlePappy posted... Per series, which of each is the best of the triology? Metal Gear 1 but haven't played 3 more than 5 minutes (I'm assuming this means MGS1-3 and not MG? Maybe you mean MG3 = MGS or something?) Resident Evil 2 but that's the only one I ever played Sonic they all suck Silent Hill never played Final Fantasy 7 (9 could be the best, but I only played half of it once) --- |
| Topic | Man killed after getting hit by someone speeding 140km/h in a 50km/h zone |
| Sahuagin 06/20/18 11:12:30 PM #15 | been watching russian car accident videos a lot lately so I'm kind of used to that now. didn't take long to get desensitized. (warning: potentially disturbing. I'm pretty used it now. haven't seen much blood, but there's quite a few that are probably fatal, and a lot of pedestrians and motorcycles getting hit. lots of the motorcyclists are killed instantly, though it's not always that bad.)  --- |
| Topic | Fucking A, grandma! Close the goddamn door if you're changing clothes! |
| Sahuagin 06/20/18 2:07:21 AM #9 | doesn't "fucking A" mean "fucking awesome!"? --- |
| Topic | Why do cats feel the need to knock everything off a surface |
| Sahuagin 06/18/18 4:05:37 PM #12 | as far as I know, things like that are because cats are actually pretty mentally primitive. they're like all hippocampus and very little cerebral cortex. they're basically robots compared to dogs, who have especially complex cerebral cortices. --- |
| Topic | Best Nolan Trilogy |
| Sahuagin 06/17/18 1:47:47 PM #11 | Batman Begins is probably my single favorite movie. Seen it 10+ times at least. TDK I didn't like at first, but has grown on me with repeat viewings. TDKR I liked at first, and still like a lot in ways, but I haven't seen it in a while and what I remember of it is meh. Bane was the best part by far. The script needed more work I think, but Nolan kind of rushed it. --- |
| Topic | Joker origin movie won't be set in the DC Cinematic Universe |
| Sahuagin 06/17/18 1:27:57 PM #10 | Joker is more interesting without an origin. In fact, maybe there's an exception somewhere, but has it ever been a good idea to introduce an origin/explanation for something that didn't already have one? Interestingly, origin stories are actually the *most* interesting. Less interesting, but still potentially interesting are post-origin stories (part 2). But among the least interesting seem to be post-hoc origin stories. For whatever reason, the feeling of "filling in the story gaps" is actually not all that satisfying and always ends up feeling strongly artificial. Doesn't seem to have that problem when told chronologically, though, so maybe it's related to our natural expectation of things becoming more complex and understanded over time, and not in reverse. --- |
| Topic | i like being able to buy glasses and not have to leave my house. |
| Sahuagin 06/17/18 1:09:48 PM #12 | LinkPizza posted... Kyuubi4269 posted...Sahuagin posted...Jen0125 posted...i spent around $100 for both. I think I made the mistake of going to a ritzy area of town. There was a definite "we're rich people, what are you doing here?" vibe to the place. The features my glasses have are, I think, thinner lenses and flexible bendy frame (looking at it more closely, the arms are double-jointed so they can move up and down; I guess this relieves a lot of stress on the central part of the frame since it means the arms won't twist it). --- |
| Topic | These parents being put on the hook for $132,000 were being negligent... right? |
| Sahuagin 06/17/18 5:25:04 AM #25 | is that was he was doing? trying to climb it? hard to say what his intent was for sure, but really the first thing he does is grab its boobs, and the next thing he does is pulls it forward and puts his face between the boobs... note that the video has the recording play at 2x speed, so play it at 0.5x speed to see it at regular speed. --- |
| Topic | i like being able to buy glasses and not have to leave my house. |
| Sahuagin 06/17/18 4:49:02 AM #6 | Jen0125 posted... i spent around $100 for both. geez. my last pair of glasses cost around $700. pretty sure I got ripped the hell off. at least it forces me to treat them a lot better than the pair before that. --- |
| Topic | Skyrim |
| Sahuagin 06/14/18 3:03:35 AM #10 | zebatov posted... Is it possible to enter the College of Winterhold with a non-magic character? IIRC they ask for you to cast Summon Flame Atronach, which is not that easy for a non-caster. I think sometimes they might ask for something else that's a little easier (though I can't remember for sure), but there's also a way to impress the person by just using a shout as well. --- |
| Topic | Dark Souls III or Dragon Age: Inquisition |
| Sahuagin 06/13/18 2:16:56 AM #8 | DS3 with DLC is among the best gaming experiences it's possible to have --- |
| Topic | Favorite Fire Emblem game? |
| Sahuagin 06/12/18 9:47:23 PM #11 | played and beat Path of Radiance. it was good. tried Radiant Dawn next, but the way they changed the names of the difficulty modes really messed me up. didn't get very far after that, but probably would have liked it too. --- |
| Topic | Favorite of My Least Favorite Movies? |
| Sahuagin 06/12/18 9:44:35 PM #9 | I liked Prometheus I'd probably like Gravity and Lebowski if I had seen either of them yet. I will eventually. --- |
| Topic | Today's PotD (Monday) |
| Sahuagin 06/11/18 9:06:47 PM #9 | I'm not excited *because of the trailer*, I just happen to anticipate that game more than the others. the poll is "which of these are you most excited for", not "which of these presentations impacted your opinion the most". --- |
| Topic | Are you a fan of projector TVs? |
| Sahuagin 06/11/18 3:25:28 PM #6 | lol --- |
| Topic | How come the modern ports of Street Fighter 2 still don't look as good as arcade |
| Sahuagin 06/11/18 3:23:28 PM #3 | arcades seem to often have especially good visuals, probably because the hardware is custom designed, or at least because the display is fine-tuned for that particular game. --- |
| Topic | The Elder Scrolls VI speculation thread |
| Sahuagin 06/11/18 1:17:41 PM #18 | wow, what a preview... it's almost nothing but a height-map --- |
| Topic | What are you following more closely right now? |
| Sahuagin 06/10/18 7:47:50 PM #4 | SunWuKung420 posted... Neither. --- |
| Topic | this is the most epic chiropractic adjustment ever |
| Sahuagin 06/10/18 3:29:05 AM #6 | argonautweakend posted... i can see some chiropractic being bullshit but this seem clear cut. it seems staged to me. it's all just one big placebo effect for the viewer to sell you on the idea of chiropractic. I mean, that's literally all there is to these videos, even in the unlikely case that it's not fake. --- |
| Topic | this is the most epic chiropractic adjustment ever |
| Sahuagin 06/10/18 1:57:28 AM #2 | pretty sure that's bullshit. additionally he was temporarily banned for performing "back cracking" on new borns... --- |
| Topic | Ok PotD, I need your help (music related) |
| Sahuagin 06/09/18 12:55:37 AM #12 | coffee7729 posted... songs that you may or may not connect with lyrically, or maybe you have no idea what they mean at all, but when you hear that song come on it immediately puts you in a good mood. Grand Funk Railroad - Some Kind of Wonderful  Norman Greenbaum - Spirit In The Sky  --- |
| Topic | Chrome, Firefox or Opera |
| Sahuagin 06/08/18 11:25:03 PM #12 | Chrome, but it seems like Mozilla/FireFox is getting better and better, while Google gets more and more evil. So I may switch some day, but for now I still prefer Chrome. --- |
| Topic | Which game have you replayed the most and how many times? |
| Sahuagin 06/07/18 11:36:31 PM #41 | I'll never know for sure. Some games like Diablo and its clones maybe don't count since they're designed to be played through repeatedly. Some games maybe don't count since you can load your save at the end, beat it, and watch the ending, over and over. I think in terms of starting a brand new game and playing all the way to the very end, these are probably the most, though some of the much much shorter games below might technically surpass them in total number of playthroughs. Descent 1 (includes source ports) Baldur's Gate 1 (includes BG:EE) Dark Souls games Games from my childhood: Fantasy Zone (countless) Mega Man 2 (countless) Starfox (countless, but not in a long long time) Batman (NES) (a lot, but not in a VERY long time) FF3 (6j) (a lot, but some are loading specifically to fight last boss) SMW (same) (once played through and *96ed entire game in one sitting) (really, probably some huge ass list of SNES games that I'm forgetting. Zelda 3, Super Metroid, Secret of Mana, Contra 3, DKC games, etc.etc.) Other games I've played through more times than I can count (which means at least 5 times, but some may be 10+): Doom 1 TES games Factorio Borderlands 2 Civilization 2 MOO2 Deus Ex System Shock 2 SimCity 2 and 3 --- |
| Topic | Which of my favorite wii games is your favorite? |
| Sahuagin 06/07/18 10:05:43 PM #9 | the Wii Punch Out was one of the only Wii games to ever truly impress me and I think the only other one might have been Wii Sports --- |
| Topic | You won't believe that this animal is the elephant's closest relative. |
| Sahuagin 06/06/18 11:21:05 PM #2 | eating4fun posted... elephant's closest relative closest land relative I guess. manatee and whatever a dugong is are closer. --- |
| Topic | Do you believe secret societies like the illuminati are real? |
| Sahuagin 06/05/18 11:45:39 PM #10 | may or may not count, but still interesting and worth noting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_Credit_and_Commerce_International this site is supposedly legit, but I don't feel especially confident of that http://www.historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=bank_of_credit_and_commerce_international --- |
| Topic | I just had a really dark thought regarding the new Dune. |
| Sahuagin 06/05/18 11:36:25 PM #19 | the first book is amazing, I've read it at least 3 times. what I love about it is the real sense of moving to another (barely) habitable planet, and really living there learning to cope with its fundamentally different ecology (in this case, absurdly different, moving from an ocean planet to a desert planet.) even a whole profession "planetologist" for someone who specializes in studying the ecology of a particular planet. I guess saying it, that's actually not that unique sounding, maybe even cliche, (fish out of water?), but the way its done seems pretty unique to me. it feels very believable. the mystical stuff is all kind of weird and not necessarily that amazing, but the sci-fi parts sure are. there's stuff I like about the second book, which sort of ties up a lot of the loose ends of the first book, though it sure has a different feel to it. the third book I found boring and it didn't really do anything interesting at all. kept waiting for it to intrigue me, but it was just boring. when it finally should have gotten interesting, it just got weird instead. --- |
| Topic | Regarding today's poll, why are so many peeps excited for Nintendo's conference? |
| Sahuagin 06/05/18 11:19:12 PM #35 | Poto2222 posted... why are so many peeps excited for Nintendo's conference exactly what I was thinking... at most there will be, what, if you're lucky some new pointless gimmick tech, and a rehash or two of a franchise that will not even justify the existence of the platform they're made for. whoop-de-friggin-do. --- |
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