Well hey there Sailor.
Hello there!
I would have posed sooned but I was determinded to read all three books and the bonus stories... And I did. I am back to that state of withdrawl. Damn. At anyrate;
I resently turned 19, I live on the west coast of canada. Amongst my friends I am well known for my awkwardness, tallness, and my onomonopias.
I spend most of my time reading books to faster than I intend too, writing my own stories, doodling, and playing a horrible amount of video games. Oh, right, I suppose I do have a social life too. 
Anyway, it's almost five in the morning here, so i am going to go to bed, I have partying and a tattoo to reseive in about six hours and should sleep alittle before that.
Terribly nice to meet you all~
*big swooshing bow*
*falls over and sleeps*
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An Intimate History of the Greater Kingdom and Scryer's Gulch by Lynn Siprelle writing as MeiLin Miranda are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
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welcome! we're glad to have
welcome! we're glad to have you around, registered, posting, and (quite recently) having a birthday.
It's supposed to be a challenge, that's why they call it a shortcut. If it was easy it would just be the way.
--Road Trip
"Funny. Terrible, but funny." (that's typically my aim)
-NorthwoodsMan
All I could think of
Was Emeril shouting "Bam!"
Thanks for posting an intro. You sound a lot like me, except for the partying.
Which video games are you a slave to?
When you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. -Arthur Conan Doyle
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It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
Ah, well I'm not very much of
Ah, well I'm not very much of a partyer
, this is the obligatory once a month party deal... but usually i dont go. But since its my party I have to make an appearance. Lol.
Currently I am slaving to Bioshock, Oblivion, Viva Pinata, All the Katamari games, Soul calibur 4, Assasins Creed, Ico, Scratches, RPGmaker, Persona 3, Harvest moon, Portal, and rune factoy...
Damn, I didnt realise I was juggling that many games, ah well. : D
Wow.
Haven't played a single one of those xD
I keep getting scowled at for not trying Oblivion yet. Right now I'm hunting for an MMO to keep me entertained until Guild Wars 2 comes out or I can afford to play WoW again. Other than that, I'm playing Spore, Titan Quest, and Sims 3. I'm not the kind of person who continues to play RPGs once I've completed them, so Mass Effect doesn't make the cut, and neither do Half-Life 2 or Neverwinter Nights 2 or any of the adventure games I play.
When you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. -Arthur Conan Doyle
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It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
Ah, I miss the times when i
Ah, I miss the times when i could afford World of warcraft. Those times were good. And sims 3? Is it AMAZING? I've still only got 2 D :
Spore also sounds awesome, curse my loack of money!
I am very jealous ofyou right now. : P
Hmm.
My ability to play those two games come less from a surplus of money and more from a deep seated resentment of EA. I'll leave it at that.
Sims 3 didn't really do much to entertain me. Do you happen to watch Zero Punctuation? If not I suggest you check out his video on it. He pretty much nails it for me. It's visually more impressive than Sims 2, and some of the stuff they've added is incredibly cool, but I'm either bored with the franchise, or they over-hyped it. I can't shake the feeling that they're just milking the cow at this point. And it kills me to say that because I know a large number of programmers spent hours hunched over a computer screen to create it. I feel like I should make myself poke at it some more because I might have missed something.
Spore is very cool. It starts as goofy puzzle game and transitions into a fully realized RTS with RPG elements. If it weren't made by EA I would recommend picking up a copy.
Also, yes this means I am also boycotting Bioware now. My world shattered when EA acquired them. Mass Effect was a birthday present from a friend. I couldn't even "tsk" at them because it was a gift and that would be rude
When you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. -Arthur Conan Doyle
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It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
Not to discourage anyone from
Not to discourage anyone from playing it, but I thought Spore was a load of bollocks. It promised a ton, and delivered roughly none of it. Going in, it seemed like we'd be getting five fully realized sub-games. Instead, we got one open-ended game which bored me quickly and 4 mini-games you have to play through to get to it. Cell stage was my favourite part of the game, but it lasts maybe an hour at most before it tells you to go on to the next stage and actually prevents you from gaining any more points to spend on your creature. Creature stage was also an amazing disappointment, its gameplay concept essentially being WoW at a level a toddler could play. (This one, however, allows you to pimp out your creature in any way you feel like before carrying on, but it's pretty much just looks. Also, even with as much health and damage boosting as possible, Epic creatures are nigh-impossible to take down)
Then follows the tribal stage which can be best described as a very simple RTS. Then the city stage which is a somewhat more complicated one. And then there's space, the open ended land of opportunity, except there aren't very many mission generics, so killing pirates and abducting animals soon becomes incredibly boring.
It was a fun game, I'll admit, but I was expecting each stage to be deep enough that I could hang around for hours after I had unlocked the next one. Instead, I found myself tiring of almost all of them by my second playthrough. (I would love to play cell through for hours and hours, but unfortunately it has next to zero depth, and most of the time I spent in it was attempting to defeat the cells with the bloody probiscus to get it for creature stage.)
I'm no end table, I'm a nightstand.
I hadn't heard anything about it.
Possibly me reaction would have been much closer to the "mediocre" stamp I gave Sims 3 if I had had any expectations about it.
As it stands, since I knew nothing about what to expect going in, the only part I really didn't like was creature, because I hate it when games put you in impossible odds situations. The goal is to make the game challenging, but all it does is make them frustrating. Several times I tried to go in a wide circle around an epic creature, or avoid it altogether, only to have it spot me and chase. I sometimes got away, would make it to a friendly camp, but it had still followed me an incredibly long distance, and I would still die. Even worse was when they snuck up on me, usually while I was in the process of trying to befriend a unique creature. One time I tried to see if it would follow me into the water. Yes, yes it will. Will it be killed by the creatures that lurk in the water like I was? No, no it will not, despite the fact that the water creatures could totally take it.
It doesn't bother me that the stages were timed, but I could see how it would be irritating to someone who wishes each stage were a sandbox.
ETA: Proboscis strategy: Swim around the back, attack, swim away (I had the poison gland on the back of my cell, so I could do damage while things chased me) and around to the other side once it turns to face you, and attack again. That was the only part I enjoyed about that stage, since there needs to be more to a casual game than what cell stage is to keep me occupied and I felt the whole thing was sort of pointless, since most (I say most because I had not tested them all) the creature parts you get lose their function once you're on land.
When you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. -Arthur Conan Doyle
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It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
I love Zero punctuation, but
I love Zero punctuation, but havent been there in a while, I will simply be forced by Yatzee's sheer awesome to watch his review of the sims 3
I had no idea EA bought Bioware. Its always so hard for me to keep track of these things @_@
Yep. And...
Blizzard is now owned by Activision, the other great evil for the video game publishing world. I am less heartbroken over that one, since I didn't play anything by Blizzard until I was in high school. If I had been one of those people who'd grown up playing Starcraft at LANs, it might be different. Bioware has produced several of my favorite games, and they had the good fortune to inherit my goodwill toward Black Isle Studios when they scored the Dungeons and Dragons license.
I am ambivalent about the Bioware/Bethesda merger. Bethesda also has Black Isle ties because of Fallout, which I have never played, but like I said, lots of love for the studio, which died (or was brutally murdered by Interplay/Bethesda), but sort of came back as Obsidian Entertainment. Sort of. So ambivalent. Bethesda's done bad things, Bioware's supposedly going to be in control of the merger, and EA's promised to leave Bioware to its own devices, but it's not a democracy over there. EA's got a warped sense of what fosters consumer loyalty, and if they think it's in their best interests to axe my beloved Bioware, they'll do it.
When you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. -Arthur Conan Doyle
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It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
Thaeodora wrote:I resently
Is that to say that you are not happy about turning 19?
Or should we attribute it to lack of sleep?
PETA = People Eating Tasty Animals
A failure to plan on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.
Most definatly the lack of
Most definatly the lack of sleep.
I am of course very excited, legal drinking age here.
Greetings and Salutations
Welcome to the nut....erm clubhouse.
Please don't feel bad about turning 19 we all have to live through it sooner or later. you'll be legal soon. I promise
Anything that kills your inner-song is always going to be bad for you. - Personal Wisdom
ah ha ha! But I am legal...
ah ha ha! But I am legal... well here at least, still no vegas for me yet D :
Welcome, welcome! What is
Welcome, welcome! What is your tattoo going to look like?
Supreme Minister of All Livestock
"Use, do not abuse. Neither abstinence nor excess renders man happy." - Voltaire
Its the wonderous Oscar
Its the wonderous Oscar Wilde.
A portrait of him in a really fancy fedora like hat. I am so stoked on it : D
Sail her? i hardly even know her!
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hiatus...
Despite his hiatus and comming back to MeiLi's, he's right there with the zingers...
Welcome back stranger...
PETA = People Eating Tasty Animals
A failure to plan on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.
XD! Thanks for the Welcome.
XD!
Thanks for the Welcome.
I giggled alot, I will not lie to you!
Heya
It's nice to see you around
. Enjoy your time here 
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Hm. We seem to be having a
Hm. We seem to be having a rash of west coast Canadians lately... not that that's a bad thing, of course. Though I would prefer if they were closer to Ontario, at this rate it's going to be quite a large distance for any Canadian meetup
I'm no end table, I'm a nightstand.
Oh, I know! hsould be
Oh, I know! hsould be interesting to see where the Canadian meet up end up being located.
welcome
don't feed the bears
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