Random Thoughts.....What Are You Thinking?

It might be, yeah. But I'll take any excuse to listen to "Sweet Child O' Mine", so the trailer wasn't a total loss.

Ok, recorded 30 mins of gameplay of Arc the Lad II following recomendation that says the story is best told by starting with II up till a point then moving back to I to complete it.

So far, the story doesnt seems like its missing anything. Just gonna try finding a video editor and try to reduce those 30 mins in like 5 just with key aspects.

And the story do seems promising.

Downside is the PSX emulator im using, with some wallmart configuration the sounds are playing like garbage.

The sound on some pc's will be janky. You've got to try some settings in the emulator.

Probably so that as few of the packages were exposed to the weather as possible.

That new garry Potter movie was a snoozefest

I went into the first "Fantastic Beasts" with a completely different movie in my brain, and my expectations were shattered for the worse. I don't remember much about it, but I remember how I felt: strong feelings of regret.

I have fond memories of the first couple of Harry Potter books/movies with their more upbeat attitudes and stronger focus on establishing rules and the universe within.

I'm coming up with descriptions for a block of spells I call "Celestial Magic", which deals with the fabric of space and time. It's taking every fiber of my being to not just describe each spell as "F*ck around with spacetime until (effect happens)"

But naw, I want it to appear professional, so I'm using words like "alters" and "distorts" >_>;

i always thought it was weird that ice and fire magic are always considered so different and opposites. to me ice and fire are the same. fire is atoms moving quickly and ice is them not moving or moving extremely slowly. i always thought if you can control one you should be able to control the other. i guess it's a too realistic take on it?

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If you're talking about a magic system with semi-realistic physical properties, then there is a way to explain a one-sided approach. If the magic that comes out of you has a static property of either contributing to or pulling energy out of its environment, then it's feasible that the magic user would only be able to do one of those things. In a more vague magic system where the magic user has the ability to manipulate such energies at will, then it makes more sense that they would be able to do both.

If one wants to be too strict with 'magick" concepts, most magic would have implicitly some matter creation what would make silly any attempt to explain it: for example, to create ice, ok, you could pull the air humidity but it seems kinda hard to believe that a caster would create any sort of hazard with only that amount of water. Similar to fire, to keep a fire you need some combustible unless the caster would be converting other atoms properties.

Earth, wind and thunder though, seems less reliant to some material pre-requisite but then probably the caster would become more tired casting earth magic than wind and thinder.

Dark/darkness magic, that doesnt even need energy at all. Just pull the plug and done. Darkness.

I had the same thought. In a previous iteration of my game, I came up with a fire-elemental spell that drained you of your heat to blast an enemy with heavy damage, and an ice-elemental spell that did the exact opposite, and you could use them back-to-back for enhanced effects. This concept ended up becoming my first block of spells, which I call "Entropy", which controls the ebb and flow of energy: heat, cold, electricity, light, and darkness.

In my brain, that heat still has to go somewhere. Though my game does have abilities that mechanically encourage specialization. You can already "convert magical energy into thermal energy", and I've been contemplating allowing the reverse to happen - kind of a FFXIV Black Mage situation. It just implies some balance issues in a tabletop RPG.

Air, Water, and Earth Bending are all basically telekinesis.

Oh, great….

My iPad update broke my favorite game app.

I guess this means no more slacking and get back to work

Take care of yourself, Hugs! And thanks for letting us know so we don't worry!

i heard hugs was stinky

the new wow Expansion looks *** insane its going to take over FFXIV easily lol i may actually play it, haven't touched it since WOTLK

Lol

FFXIAH post frequency -20%.
also weird moment to cut FFXI ties when the anniversary patch is right around the corner.

I can understand relationships behind social medias tend to be more prejudicial. As you mostly never get fully related to someone while still being subject to all negativity there is on internet.

Recently I decided to just turn off my cellphone during work time because in the end living constantly checking if there are new messages on zapzap, receiving all ***from people you dont really like or sharing something and noticing none really cares can affect ones humour. Props to the ones who can just control themselves without resorting to forcibly shutdown, im not one of those as i noticed i normally used to check the phone every 15 mins interrupting my concentration over nothing (though i turn off my personal cellphone i still keep my porn/jokes-meme cellphone and ipad on, luckly i just check them once every 2h so thats still a win).

Personally i felt that i needed some sort of reset of those medias. And trying to use them wisely never checking feedbacks (for example, every meme/pun i post on imgur i never check if someone liked - likes are cancers and i just noticed it). But i do agree parting with it will be more benefiting in the long run

Though interestingly, i work through a social media (MS Teams) since the beginning of pandemic. As much as we try to “seems like a human” when interacting, its just a bizarre way to live

A lot of it is like looking in your fridge every 5 minutes, expecting there to be more/different food in there. When depression kicks in, it's hard to not try to grasp at every thread of possible serotonin you can.

Reconnecting with FFXIAH was a big improvement for me. Even before I recognized how bad the group I now call the "Thumpers" were, I knew I needed some kind of connection to people who didn't spend every waking millisecond sh*tting on all of my interests. It also let me uninstall Facebook from my phone, which was another massive step in the right direction.

Coming up with names for characters is becoming more and more difficult. I don't know why I am struggling with it all of a sudden.

Is your work period-based, or have its core roots in some existing culture or tradition? I can only begin to imagine the complexity of trying to generate not just a world, but then make the inhabitants of that world both believable and interesting...and nothing could be more crucial to that first "hook" than the naming. If your work does have some connection to something already in existence, maybe draw from that with variation?

Thoughts like yours make me realize Tolkien's genius in building languages first, and then writing a story after. He had to create a foundation for the story to live in, or it all would come crumbling down in time. Best of luck!

Stuff like that is super subtle. But even if you don't think of it consciously, your subconscious is going to know if something like a name was made up in 1 second on the spot, or if it was naturally derived from the world you developed.

It's a little different for Tolkein. He was a linguist first and a writer second, he constructed over a dozen complex languages and was unhappy that he had no one to speak them with, so he made the people afterwards (add in the fact that he was stuck in the trenches during WW1 and used writing as an escape). A typical writer isn't going to have that same kind of creative flow and I usually don't expect them to

Oh yeah, I would never expect a writer to go to the lengths he did to build a world. However, I do think it's important to establish a world first. Readers can always tell if you're just making stuff up as you go along.

You can do whatever you want in fiction, as long as you lay down the ground rules first and stick to those rules. You don't have to explain each one before the story begins, but having them in the back of your mind is crucial for consistency.

Xenoblade 3 release date changed from September to July. Wtf that's amazing