You have. You're on lists now.

ShadowDuelist wrote:

The Prometheus bringing fire line is fantastic. I'm going to pretend I'm writing an english paper and read really far into it: This ones hidden message leans more toward the fire being cleansing rather than destructive. The reference to Prometheus indicates the fire also represents both knowledge and the bringing forth of a new era of civilization. The hallowed Mountain is this one likely is the Vesuvius of the last. Volcanoes, while destructive, also create very futile soil with their destruction, allowing people to rebuild a new civilization on top of the buried old, and is very appropriate symbology. The We are We line begins to make sense, the old collective becomes the new collective, We are We represents transformation of humanity as a whole into the new civilization.

Close! I was going more literal with the Hallowed Mountain being Olympus, as in the Prometheus myth he stole fire from the Olympians to bring to the mortals, but Vesuvius is an interesting interpretation and I won't say it's wrong; in fact I like the idea of the "new civilization on top of the buried old", as you put it. Everything else you looked so deeply into was in fact intentional.

Can't believe I'm writing another of these. At least what we did was the least horrible thing this disused Post Office had seen for the past few days.

*****

This City crumbles under the weight of Their Artefacts. Walking among these concrete canyons of conceit, We are suffocated.

The oppressive Weight of past sins permeates This City and crushes Us. Every district, every mile, every block the fortresses of Hubris stand above us. We will stand up against this onslaught and through it will place our own Just Weight upon their shoulders. The terror Atlas is made to support Us until he is forgotten.

We will be Prometheus, bringing fire to the mortals of This City. We will be a Titanic force against the oppression of those who sought to rule. We will bring Power out of that hallowed Mountain and give it freely, so that Power belongs to All of Us.

These Artefacts belong to the Past. These sins belong to the Past. These sinners belong to the past.

They are Then. You are Now. We are Now. We are We.

*****

Not quite as happy with this one. Whether We are Titans or Olympians changes from paragraph to paragraph but frankly I'm running out of my limited knowledge of mythology. Maybe for the next one I'll have to delve into Nordic themes.

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I assume starting the call by 7, playing by 8. If I haven't been called by 7 I'll ring up whoever's online.

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That was amazing, dude. Great job to everyone involved!

681

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Cool.

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If/when I add another species of fish I'll do a new video to a different ME cue, just for you.

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Just confirming: we're meeting again tomorrow night, July 6?

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That was awesome. The most experience I have with quadcoptors is a DJI Phantom 3 that we use for work - not as nimble as those, incapable of flips, and while I have goosed it a few times I haven't pushed it nearly as hard as the guys you were running there. Looks like mad fun!

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I'm in MY capital region. Crazy mild summer so far (not counting that weird week in May that felt like mid-August). Climate change swings that pendulum both ways, I'm lucky to be on the cold and wet side for now.

Good luck with the heat, guys! I recommend a desk fan and a bucket of ice.

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All of those fishies. I need to get more panda corys, they prefer to be in larger groups but all the store had was two, so I'll wait until they restock. I've considered getting a third species, a more colorful tetra, but tetras are harder to maintain and die more easily, so I may just keep getting more danios as well. Get some nice shoaling going on.

Vapes actually commented on the second one I did (below) saying it'd be a good loop, too. Remember when he was active on here for like a month? Damn kid, gotta yank him back in here.

About that shot - GoPro on a kitchen timer. Said timer is in the shape of a camera lens and has a flat top for the camera to rest on top of. This hodgepodge was then set atop my too-nice-for-this-setup Manfrotto tripod.

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My birthday was back in May. I asked people for gift cards to PetSmart so I could start a fish aquarium. My sister was instrumental in helping me set up and I got a lot of advice from my Dad as well. I started off with five zebra danios at the beginning of May, and just got five more and a couple of panda corydoras.

Naturally, right after filming and posting that, I got another decoration and rearranged a bit. Ah well.

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I hopped back into Elite: Dangerous a couple of weeks ago. Still going the trading route, though I've done some minor exploration and stumbled across an NPC with a bounty that I killed and turned in.

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The cockpits on the first and third images are the same size... just the bottom ship is that much bigger. (Also don't mind the slightly dodgy panorama stitch on the third one.)

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Post Replica was just officially funded with more than double their goal, and a couple of stretch goals along the way big_smile I did a video of an Alpha build playtest that was a lot of fun, can't wait to see the full rulebook and such.

Fairly sure. Chronology and continuity isn't something they've been overly concerned with in this series.

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That should work for me! Maybe BDA can use the time to edit the video of the first couple sessions?

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There's only one time that I've ever had a character act opposite of the outline of a project. Ollie was supposed to Hit Anderson, and storm off, but I realized that where both characters were at that point in the movie, with what had happened, he wouldn't have stopped hitting the guy until he was pulled off... which isn't where I wanted it to go.

Anyway, somewhat on topic. Going back to Invid's thought seed of switching narrators midway through a book - it'd definitely have to be someone that's been in the story. The hero's sidekick, who now has enormous shoes to fill and an even worse plot to uncover.

To some extent, this happens with the Legends of the Duskwalker series, though it's more of a split between books.

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The first book, Three, mainly centers on a somewhat mysterious gunman, named Three, who finds himself tangled up getting a mother and her child out of a hostile situation. At the end of the book... he dies, and the child is now the protagonist of the second book. They are different books but the effect is much the same - Three served his purpose as a guide and even a mentor, and now Wren carries on his legacy.

(Glad I remembered that series, too; when I got into it, only the first two had been released, and looking for the third book in a series whose first book is named Three is, um. Anyway, out in this August, so yay.)

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That... I like that. A lot.

Ah, you excluded Asian. I'll point this out anyway - Jade Empire, a video game, was a great example of a fabricated, Eastern-style mythology, done by a Western team.

Prey comes to mind. It's not a fantasy - it's sci-fi - but it incorporates Cherokee spiritualism in a way that isn't overly offensive; I'm not well-versed in Native American culture to know whether it's actually good.

Death is an escape.

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redxavier wrote:

I agree that the death needs to make sense and have an effect on the story or the characters. A key thing too is to have an investment in the character that dies, ie, we should care enough (either negatively or postively) to feel something (and that can also happen indirectly through another character that has a strong connection to the deceased).

I'll add a corollary to that. If a minor character dies, one with a name but that we haven't spent time with, that's fine. Use its weight appropriately in your story though; your other characters should care as much as you want the reader to care. Kill an important character and people aren't affected, it's cheap. Kill a minor character and everyone loses their minds, it's cheesy.

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Get rid of the "s" from "https" when pasting a YouTube link to get it to work right.

I saw the Ares trailer before Jurassic World, looked good but yeah, definitely is of the more "show the whole movie" variety. I gotta run, will check out that video later.

"You what?!"

"Yeah, I considered taking that Atlantis one and going in a different direction with the Heads and all, considering Jackstand's trophy."

"...What."

"Don't look in the bag."

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Sorry you have a hard time having fun.

I couldn't care less if the ME Andromeda thing was a cutscene or not, for me it announced what direction they were going in for it and it was a teaser. That's enough for me.

The only presser I've watched all the way through was EA's, but I heard Microsoft and Sony did really well with theirs. I've heard great news coming out, with hardware and some great game announcements. (EA's for me was mostly meh, seeing some Catalyst stuff was nice but gameplay was nothing new over the last game, just prettier. Also that Battlefront gameplay, mmmm.) So far it seems to be shaping up to be a good year.

Indeed. Bolded words strung together don't mean anything through.

Or do they?