Be free, printers!
Posted 4 years agoFor those of you who might be interested in the muscled Renamon figure I posted a preview of, I've decided to go ahead and make the STL files available for people to print out if they want to give it a go. Links are in the image's description. Be aware you might need a Cults3D account, since it's an adult item.
Had a bit of a support failure on my first go at printing it myself though, so that was 7 hours wasted. Aside from that (which caused part of her dumbbell and one breast to not come out right) everything else deems to have printed just fine, so hopefully second go around works out.
Had a bit of a support failure on my first go at printing it myself though, so that was 7 hours wasted. Aside from that (which caused part of her dumbbell and one breast to not come out right) everything else deems to have printed just fine, so hopefully second go around works out.
Ponies!
Posted 13 years agoPootis! Er, I mean, Ponies!
Yes, I know Im late to the party, as usual. But that's just how I roll.
Anyway, after getting sucked into the endless cycle that is MLP fanfics, I decided to take my own crack at it. No shipping, no clop, not even characters from the show. I tried to remove myself as far from the established stories as I could, while still being connected. The result is events both dark, tragic, and grim, takeing place in basicly the pre-history of Equestia. The story is called 'Heart of Shadows', and it's about how pain and sorrow can transform one normal pony into the monster feared through the ages.
The first part is posted up over on FiMFiction.net website. It's my first attempt, and without an editor, so expect there to be some spelling and grammar errors involved. Hopefuly, if people seem to like it, I might continue with the story. Just dont expect things to be sunshine and rainbows. This is a sad, tragic, often violent story. There might even be some clop involved later, but nothing pleasant.
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/182.....art-of-Shadows
Please, check it out and let me know what you think.
Yes, I know Im late to the party, as usual. But that's just how I roll.
Anyway, after getting sucked into the endless cycle that is MLP fanfics, I decided to take my own crack at it. No shipping, no clop, not even characters from the show. I tried to remove myself as far from the established stories as I could, while still being connected. The result is events both dark, tragic, and grim, takeing place in basicly the pre-history of Equestia. The story is called 'Heart of Shadows', and it's about how pain and sorrow can transform one normal pony into the monster feared through the ages.
The first part is posted up over on FiMFiction.net website. It's my first attempt, and without an editor, so expect there to be some spelling and grammar errors involved. Hopefuly, if people seem to like it, I might continue with the story. Just dont expect things to be sunshine and rainbows. This is a sad, tragic, often violent story. There might even be some clop involved later, but nothing pleasant.
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/182.....art-of-Shadows
Please, check it out and let me know what you think.
Holiday of the Interwebs
Posted 13 years agoI havent slept in a while. So expect a dis-jointed rant here, hopefuly atleast somewhat entertaining, if not totaly full of typos, bad spelling, and gramatical errors.
It just occured to me, after reading up on a few web pages talking about the second attempt to get SOPA passed through Congress along with some new bills (ACTA, for one), that holidays on the internet are nothing like holidays in the rest of the world.
Seriously, follow me for a sec. Christmas comes by, every store closes. Thanksgiving rolls around, every store closes. President's Day, and every bank and post office closes. More and more it seems the defineing quality of a holiday is that it causes places people depend on most (stores, banks, post offices, ect) to all close up and be unavailable. Yet, dispite this, the one thing that most people in this country (and others) depend on, the Internet, is never closed for any of these. That changed when the big media groups tried to push SOPA and PIPA through into law, and suddenly websites everywhere, includeing some very major ones, all closed up shop for a day in protest. It was the closest thing to 'closeing up for the holiday' that the Internet has ever done collectively. A day or so later, the bills were put on hold cause of it all.
So it got me to thinking, if stores and buissnesses and banks can have holidays where they close up reguardless of who's depending on them, why shouldnt the Internet? There should be an Internet holiday, where those websites people depend on most remind us all of what could happen if we let those in power take censorship too far, and forget that freedom may be earned, but it should never be sold at any price. One a year, for one day, websites throw up their black screens, showing us that we can never stop in defending our rights. And maybe, if it does happen, those in power might think twice about pushing the people too far.
Hell, if they can give talking like am out-dated stereotype it's own day, we can atleast give one to protecting our rights.
It just occured to me, after reading up on a few web pages talking about the second attempt to get SOPA passed through Congress along with some new bills (ACTA, for one), that holidays on the internet are nothing like holidays in the rest of the world.
Seriously, follow me for a sec. Christmas comes by, every store closes. Thanksgiving rolls around, every store closes. President's Day, and every bank and post office closes. More and more it seems the defineing quality of a holiday is that it causes places people depend on most (stores, banks, post offices, ect) to all close up and be unavailable. Yet, dispite this, the one thing that most people in this country (and others) depend on, the Internet, is never closed for any of these. That changed when the big media groups tried to push SOPA and PIPA through into law, and suddenly websites everywhere, includeing some very major ones, all closed up shop for a day in protest. It was the closest thing to 'closeing up for the holiday' that the Internet has ever done collectively. A day or so later, the bills were put on hold cause of it all.
So it got me to thinking, if stores and buissnesses and banks can have holidays where they close up reguardless of who's depending on them, why shouldnt the Internet? There should be an Internet holiday, where those websites people depend on most remind us all of what could happen if we let those in power take censorship too far, and forget that freedom may be earned, but it should never be sold at any price. One a year, for one day, websites throw up their black screens, showing us that we can never stop in defending our rights. And maybe, if it does happen, those in power might think twice about pushing the people too far.
Hell, if they can give talking like am out-dated stereotype it's own day, we can atleast give one to protecting our rights.
Boycott GoDaddy cause of SOPA
Posted 13 years agoApparently, this happened, and it honestly shocked me. The cheap web domain service, GoDaddy apparently thought they'd be the retards of the internet world and support the SOPA and Protect IP Act that's trying to get through the goverment. If you havent heard, there's a movement to boycott GoDaddy, trying to talk the people that use their service to leave, or just stop traffic to those web domains to show them they've backed the wrong horse. Since It's technicly christmas and Im half aslsspe, I'll just leave you all the link down below and go enjoy my coma. Night night!
http://godaddyboycott.org/
http://godaddyboycott.org/
Cool Art Livestream
Posted 14 years agoNo, it's not me. I cant doodle to save my life. It's my sweety Emogarg! She finaly got a new art tablet, and she decided to do something crazy with it. Livestreaming! She's going to be doodling the boobies tonight at 10 (eastern time). Here's the link to her little announcement, the link to her Livestream page is found there.
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/6802303/
Come take a peek and show a new artist we support her!
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/6802303/
Come take a peek and show a new artist we support her!
Mech madness
Posted 14 years agoWell, since the new Mechwarrior game is apparently stuck in legal hell thanks to the ass-lickers over at Harmony Gold, I've found myself wanting a good mech game again. Doesnt have to be a Mechwarrior game, just a good one. Yes, I got the free download of Mechwarrior 4 and, while I enjoyed it, for some reason it's very unstable, locking up and crashing alot. So Im wondering if anyone else out there can sujest a more recent mech game I might enjoy? Has to be for the PC, and before anyone says it, Im not looking for an Armored Core or Gundam or other game like those. Im looking for something very similar to the Mechwarrior or old Earthsiege games, one where you're in the cockpit and in the middle of battles. Good ole stompy mech fun!
Cell phone help?
Posted 15 years agoI recently (finaly) got a new cell phone. It's an LG Remarq, and while I do like it and alot of the featuers on it, Im haveing problems. I know the phone can run applications/games and use mp3 files as ringtones. However, trying to copy games or ringtones from my computer onto it via USB doesnt seem to work. I can copy music and pictures fine, but when I try to bring up ringtones, nothing shows up. And games I've downloaded (yes, games for mobile phones in the correct format) give me an invalid file error when I try to run them on the phone by going to the Mass Storage option that shows me the files on it. I've poked around online, and it seems most people say that to get ringtones to work is to send them to yourself attatched to a text message. Problem is, the service plan I have has text messages blocked. My phone is a second line on another plan, and the person who owns the service plan is old, meaning they think phones are for talking into and nothing else XD. so Im forced to do everything through USB, which doesnt seem to work.
So does anyone have any experience with the LG Remarq or know how to get this stuff to work?
So does anyone have any experience with the LG Remarq or know how to get this stuff to work?
Send in the Cows!
Posted 15 years agoWell, someone else started it, and I totaly agree. (not just for the free icon offer). Why the hell is Apple listed under mammal, but not Cow? I mean seriously, do the FA admins just open a book of nouns and randomly pick what to put on the list? I mean, I can understand a rarely seen or even known of animal like a pangolin or dougons not makeing it on the list, but Cow? Aside from being one of the most numerous animals on the planet, there's alot of us that play cows, and even those that dont still draw them. Hell, Half'n'Half is one of Strider's more well known characters. We need a Cow tag for FA
Vote for Cow and down with the Apples! http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/1721391/
Vote for Cow and down with the Apples! http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/1721391/
Another year
Posted 15 years agoWell, in a few days, I'll be another year older. Not that I have much to celebrate this year. My rabbit died about a month ago, then my best friend's house caught on fire. Now my cat, whom I've had almost 20 years just died the other day. So yeah, things are realy looking up for my birthday. -_- My friend has atleast found himself a new house, and they're going to be over for a cookout on my birthday, as well as explosions, since it's on the 4th. So maybe I'll get cheered up some, though I kinda doubt it. I guess it's the story of my life. Any happy event will be soured somehow, someway.
Pimpage: Part Two!
Posted 15 years agoYeah, Iz a pimp.
But this time my girlfriend has decided to share her art for those wishing for something more specific.
emogarg has finally decided to go ahead and take on some commissions. She's just doing sketches now as this is her first time, and there's a real limited number of them available, but they're real cheap, as low as $5, so they might go fast! Please check out her art and help her out by getting your own character sketch from her ^_^
But this time my girlfriend has decided to share her art for those wishing for something more specific.

Pimpage!
Posted 15 years agoOk, first off, I got a new user icon! Yay for lethal bitchslap!
More importantly, Im here to be pimping!
emogarg Has finaly posted some new artwork after haveing nothing but some old stuff on her page. It took me forever to talk her into it, so Im hopeing I can get enough people to her gallery to encourage her to draw more. So please be nice and giver her a shout or a fave or two.
More importantly, Im here to be pimping!

Help with ZBrush/Poser
Posted 15 years agoIm looking for someone that can tell me how to rig a figure made in ZBrush for animation in a program like Poser. Im pretty sure it can be done either in one of those two programs or with a seperate one, but I just cant find any information on how to do it. I've seen where alot of artists on here have made models useing ZBrush and have done Poser work with them, so Im hopeing that someone out there will be able to help.
And please, if your only comment will be to 'Google it' then dont bother posting anything. I've tried that and it hasnt been helpful atall.
And please, if your only comment will be to 'Google it' then dont bother posting anything. I've tried that and it hasnt been helpful atall.
Hunting down a Pic
Posted 15 years agoOk, you ever see a picture somewhere that's so awesome, so interesting, it inspires you to do something? Well, turns out I found one, here on FA no less. There's only one problem. I cant find it again! >.<
I found it while randomly scanning through the Favorites of some other people, which I often do in search of artists I might like. And I came across this one picture that stuck me as very interesting. However, before I could save it, fave it, or go through the artist's gallery, my browser locked up and died on me >.<
Now I've tried going through my browser's history but unfortunatly it looks like it wasnt saved. I have tried looking and even usieng the search function, going through the favorites of people I've been watching. Nothing has come up.
Im hopeing that maybe someone knows of the pic Im looking for. Unfortunatly all I can give is a very vague description, as that's all it realy is in my head at the moment. I do know a few things for certian. It was an inked sketch, rather technical in design, of a set of power armor. I believe that it was intended to be a redesign of a set of Terminator armor from Warhammer 40000, or atleast that's the impression it gave me. It had a similar helmet design, only it was recessed back and had a sort of three part cowling comming out over and infront of the helmet. Other than that, Im not entirely sure, which is why I've been driveing myself crazy trying to find the picture again.
If anyone knows of this picture and can point me to it here on FA or the artist that drew it, I'd be most greatful.
I found it while randomly scanning through the Favorites of some other people, which I often do in search of artists I might like. And I came across this one picture that stuck me as very interesting. However, before I could save it, fave it, or go through the artist's gallery, my browser locked up and died on me >.<
Now I've tried going through my browser's history but unfortunatly it looks like it wasnt saved. I have tried looking and even usieng the search function, going through the favorites of people I've been watching. Nothing has come up.
Im hopeing that maybe someone knows of the pic Im looking for. Unfortunatly all I can give is a very vague description, as that's all it realy is in my head at the moment. I do know a few things for certian. It was an inked sketch, rather technical in design, of a set of power armor. I believe that it was intended to be a redesign of a set of Terminator armor from Warhammer 40000, or atleast that's the impression it gave me. It had a similar helmet design, only it was recessed back and had a sort of three part cowling comming out over and infront of the helmet. Other than that, Im not entirely sure, which is why I've been driveing myself crazy trying to find the picture again.
If anyone knows of this picture and can point me to it here on FA or the artist that drew it, I'd be most greatful.
New Icon!
Posted 16 years agoYeah, it's cheap and I ripped it off from a Digimon manga. But I like it! It's also black and white, so dont suppose someone could color it for me maybe? Pweese?
Testing
Posted 16 years agoThis journal is a test and will be deleted once Im finished figuring out how the fuck you add someone's user icon to a post!
Annoyeing Dumb-shits
Posted 16 years agoWhy is it, whenever someone posts a picture of something that's not considered 'normal' (and in this case, normal is a relative term depending on the persons in question), some idiot that doesnt like the subject of the picture has to go on record of telling everyone how aweful they think it is based solely on the fact that they dont like something in particular.
Case in point. An artist (who I shall not name at this time out of respect), who is very well known for drawing pictures involveing herms, posts a new picture which involves herms, as does many other pictures in his gallery. Another individual comes across the picture, opens the page to view it, sees that it apparently involves (big shocker here) herms, which he doesnt like, so then proceeds to post a comment telling everyone how much he hates herms and how aweful he thinks the picture is, and that it's tired of all the herm pictures out there wasteing HIS web space.
This is the shit that makes me want to rage out and start biteing the ear-lobes off of people. You fuckers do realize that that clicky thing on your desk called a mouse has to have a human to opperate it, right? It doesnt just click random picture links on it's own, ya know? If you opened up a picture you didnt like, it's your own damned fault for clicking on it. Dont waste everyone's time, exspecialy MINE, by telling us how much you hate something you were not forced to look at, dispite how much you claim you are being forced to look at it. And you know what else? That little X at the top right hand corner of the screen? Yeah, that closes the fucking window, dipshit. That way you're not 'forced' to look at something any longer than you have to.
This is the level of stupidity that's makeing me want to cut myself off from humanity and live in a thatched hut somewhere in some remote mountian chain. Everyone has to find some way to blame someone else for things they did themselves, and everyone has to let everyone else know what they think, as if their opinion mattered to everyone else. The only opinion that matters is your own, and it only matters to yourself. End or story, no debate, no exceptions, no crying. That's it!
Now, Im done channeling Lewis Black for the moment. If any of you feel Im being too harsh with all this, all I can say is fuck you, that's the way I see it and I dont feel the need to be gentle about it. If you cant handle my honesty, well, there's instructions on what to do listed above.
Case in point. An artist (who I shall not name at this time out of respect), who is very well known for drawing pictures involveing herms, posts a new picture which involves herms, as does many other pictures in his gallery. Another individual comes across the picture, opens the page to view it, sees that it apparently involves (big shocker here) herms, which he doesnt like, so then proceeds to post a comment telling everyone how much he hates herms and how aweful he thinks the picture is, and that it's tired of all the herm pictures out there wasteing HIS web space.
This is the shit that makes me want to rage out and start biteing the ear-lobes off of people. You fuckers do realize that that clicky thing on your desk called a mouse has to have a human to opperate it, right? It doesnt just click random picture links on it's own, ya know? If you opened up a picture you didnt like, it's your own damned fault for clicking on it. Dont waste everyone's time, exspecialy MINE, by telling us how much you hate something you were not forced to look at, dispite how much you claim you are being forced to look at it. And you know what else? That little X at the top right hand corner of the screen? Yeah, that closes the fucking window, dipshit. That way you're not 'forced' to look at something any longer than you have to.
This is the level of stupidity that's makeing me want to cut myself off from humanity and live in a thatched hut somewhere in some remote mountian chain. Everyone has to find some way to blame someone else for things they did themselves, and everyone has to let everyone else know what they think, as if their opinion mattered to everyone else. The only opinion that matters is your own, and it only matters to yourself. End or story, no debate, no exceptions, no crying. That's it!
Now, Im done channeling Lewis Black for the moment. If any of you feel Im being too harsh with all this, all I can say is fuck you, that's the way I see it and I dont feel the need to be gentle about it. If you cant handle my honesty, well, there's instructions on what to do listed above.
Left Fur Dead
Posted 16 years agoJust wondering if anyone here plays and might want to play together sometime? Not too thrilled with it's random online game asignment. Most of the games I get in to with random people, someone ends up hacking or useing something to get an advantage over everyone. Super-jumps and extra speed gets old fast. Need to find some people that are fun to play with, exspecialy since I want to get better playing as an Infected.
OpenSim and RealXtend servers HELP!
Posted 16 years agoPretty much what it says up there. Im messing around with OpenSim and RealXtend servers and I sorta need some help. If you've got no idea what that means, you know only slightly less than I do apparently. Basicly, Im looking to use one or the other to set up my own little role play world where I can let friends connect to host some LARP style roleplaying in a world I create. But so far, it's not going very much of anywhere. I cant seem to get more than one sim to work in OpenSim which apparently is missing it's physics, and I cant get the RealXtend server to work atall. If anyone out there knows how to get one of these working, please let me know.
HAGGIS!
Posted 16 years agoYup, I said it. The dreaded H word that sends so-called culinary experts screaming for their mommies. And I want it! I have been jonesing for some haggis, which might seem odd since I've never been to Scottland. Fact of the matter is, my family came from Scottland and I've always been partial to the history. I've only had haggis twice, but it was something that tasted wonderful. I've never had anything quite like it since, unfortunatly. Thing is, I've been looking for an easy haggis recipe that I could fix with what I can easily get here in the US, and so far, I havent realy found anything. So Im hopeing someone out there would have a recipe that I could maybe use. I'd be useing plastic boiling bags rather than stomachs, and probably ground beef rather than lamb and liver. Im also wondering how well it would work out useing rice rather than oats. The big problem Im haveing is finding some suet. Seems it's one of those things that no one realy carries around here. So, anyone got any ideas?
WARmongering
Posted 16 years agoWell, some of you may or may not of heard that the 10 day free trials for Warhammer Online have started officialy. If any of you out there might be thinking of trying them, there's something you should know. The 10 day free trials are the same as the Recruit-A-Friend trials that they've had for a couple months now, except there's no reward for an already exhisting player. And while I think that it's great people can jump in and try the game out without haveing to already know someone already playing it, I've got several free trial passes sitting on my account with no one to give them to.
So, if any of you are considering trying it out, let me know first and I can send you one of my trial passes. All I'd need is your name and your email address, which you can send to me in a PM if you want. You'll get 10 days to play free up to level 11 (meaning you can play through the first tier if the game, and visit the capital cities), the code to create your trial account, and a link to download the trial version of the game. In return, if you decide to upgrade your subscription to a paying account, I get a 30 day credit to my account, and a bonus ingame pet, and if I get 4 or more new recruits, I'll get an item that allows me to increase group EXP gain and raise the level of someone up to my own, so new players can get further and catch up to everyone else faster.
Oh, and like most games, when you subscribe you get the first month free. So you'd be getting 10 extra days for free and helping someone out. Aint that always good? ^_^ This offer also applies to people who have been gone for the game for more than 60 days, so if you want to come back, that'll work too.
Right now I have 6 trial codes I can give out. Every month I get another code up to a max of 6, so it's somewhat limited. Any codes I give out expire after 30 days if they're not activated, but I get a new code if that happens, so none get wasted.
If you want to read more about it, here's a link. http://www.warhammeronline.com/recruit/index.php
So, any takers?
So, if any of you are considering trying it out, let me know first and I can send you one of my trial passes. All I'd need is your name and your email address, which you can send to me in a PM if you want. You'll get 10 days to play free up to level 11 (meaning you can play through the first tier if the game, and visit the capital cities), the code to create your trial account, and a link to download the trial version of the game. In return, if you decide to upgrade your subscription to a paying account, I get a 30 day credit to my account, and a bonus ingame pet, and if I get 4 or more new recruits, I'll get an item that allows me to increase group EXP gain and raise the level of someone up to my own, so new players can get further and catch up to everyone else faster.
Oh, and like most games, when you subscribe you get the first month free. So you'd be getting 10 extra days for free and helping someone out. Aint that always good? ^_^ This offer also applies to people who have been gone for the game for more than 60 days, so if you want to come back, that'll work too.
Right now I have 6 trial codes I can give out. Every month I get another code up to a max of 6, so it's somewhat limited. Any codes I give out expire after 30 days if they're not activated, but I get a new code if that happens, so none get wasted.
If you want to read more about it, here's a link. http://www.warhammeronline.com/recruit/index.php
So, any takers?
Surfing the Audio
Posted 16 years agoNow, Im normaly not one for buying download games, I always worry about running the risk of haveing to do a full whipe and looseing everything. But I just played the Audio Surf demo and, well, I WANT IT! It's like a bad trip of acid. You know you shouldnt, but you just want more! You want to see the pretty colors! Anyone else feel that way? Anyone have the full game?
Skinz!
Posted 16 years agoNot much to talk about that's not me ranting about something. However, I do have something, a help wanted offer. If you've even glanced at my gallery you'd know I build things to sell in Second Life, and a number of those things are from Warhammer 40,000. Well, Im currently sitting on a 99% finished project just waiting to be released. The problem is, if I released this now, I'd likely be useing the same skins from another project. The item in question is a set of Chaos Terminator armor. For the Imperial Terminators I released them with two skin options, a couple of skins I got full permission from a builder's resource pack (in otherwords, they are meant to be used along with original creations for resell). While there wouldnt be anything wrong with useing the same skins for the Chaos versions, I dont feel that they quite fit with the corrupted nature of Chaos, and the Terminators are supposed to be some of the oldest, most corrupt of the lot. I've tried applying diffirent filters and alpha textures to the skins I have in Photoshop, but I've not been able to come up with anything I'd consider decent enough to sell with my armor. So, Im hopeing someone that reads this might have some experience with either creating skins or atleast with manipulating things in Photoshop who wouldnt mind helping me out. I'd like atleast one good skin, possibly more if the individual is willing. I'd perfer whoever it is to have an SL account, so I can pay them in-game, but if not we can figure something out. It wouldnt be a high-paying job though, but I dont think that is should be too difficult for someone that knows what they're doing. If anyone's interested, just message me here or in SL under the name BonBun Paperdoll and I can give you more details.
Let loose the dogs of WAR
Posted 17 years agoAlright, Im sure someone else has posted something like this, and Im probably a bit late, but I wanted to play around for a while before I posted anything. Firstly, some of you that know me in SL might of noticed I havent been on much or been releaseing anything new lately. The blame rests squarely on Warhammer Online. Now, I know Im probably biased, since I've been a fan of Warhammer for years, but I can honestly say that Im enjoying it alot more than I ever enjoyed Warcraft. Saying that, I mean as far as the game itself. There are still a few things that are pretty rough and need to be refined some, but that's to be expected with a game of this kind that's only recently come out. I mean, when WoW first came out, nothing worked. But anyway, the quests make alot more sense to me. You're not running into some dungeon to bring back someone's favorite spoon. All the quests revolve around the war that's going on. Yes, there is an actual war in WAR. It's all about killing NPCs that work for the other side, or raiding their supplies, or bringing more NPCs over to your side, and that's just the strictly PvE quests. There's lots of quests that send you either right to the front lines for the objectives, or are all about killing other people, as you'd expect quests to be when there's a war going on.
The Public Quests are great in my opinion. Some people might think it's the same as the rep-grind in WoW, but they'd be wrong. Each area within a zone has it's own public quests and area if Influence, and there can be three or four such areas in each zone. When you wander into the area, you're suddenly part of the Public Quest, and you can take part in it, even without havieng to be in the same group as other people. You can even jump in in the middle of it all. Ofcorse you get loot and exp for what you do in it, and if you see it through to the end, you get a quest reward, depending on how much you contributed to it. A smart idea to avoid those people that just try to jump in when the last fight is almost over. I've even chewed through most of the first part of a PQ, went to do something else, and came back as some other people finished it and got something for the effort I put forth earlier! And best of all, you can do them over and over again! Now, what does this have to do with Influence? Well, killing PQ mobs (that's mmo speak for monsters) or doing the other objectives gives you Influence in that area. And when you get so much, you can go talk to an NPC back at camp and he gives you more loot! Now, Im bet you're thinking that's still like a WoW rep-grind. Well, here's the kicker. If you dont want to bother with it till later, you dont have to. You can skip the PQs and Influence in areas and move on to later ones if you want, and still get those rewards which are higher level than the ones you skipped. Now, you may still want to do the others too, since all the gear is tailored for the level range the PQ is in, so it's a good way to keep your gear up.
Speaking of gear, I LOVE that everything you get from quests is for YOUR career (class in other words) and you wont be vendoring quest rewards just cause it gave nothing good for your class. If you come through the same area with a new character of a diffirent class, all the rewards will be for his class, so you never end up with quest rewards you cant use. Now, dropped loot is another matter. You will still find gear for other classes off of monsters, and that's to be expected. But they also added in junked items. Now, these are bits of gear that are damaged and cant be used, but you can take them to vendors and have them fixed into something useful. And the best part, it will tell you what it can be made into, and the same junked item can be made into something else for any class just about! So if you have an orc with badass shoulders, find a set of junked shoulders that aint better than the ones you got now, mail them to your goblin shaman and he can use them instead!
Now this brings me to the PvP. Oh Dark Gods, the PvP is SO much better than in WoW. All your class skills are useful in PvP, there's nothing wasted. Even the de-taunts you use to make monsters attack someone else cause PvP targets to do less damage to you. The classes work great in PvP. Granted there's a few I think need to be tweeked a bit, but again, that's to be expected. Healers are a major danger in PvP, and not just for keeping the other people alive. They HURT! Not only that, but in the scenarios (their version of WoW's Battlegrounds) healing actualy counts like damage for how much Renown you get at the end. People actualy heal in PvP fights rather than just trying to throw out the most damage to get more kills. The scenarios are more than just capture the flag. There's King of the Hill type ones, relay races, even keep-away ones. Not only that, but you get quests to do each one, and you can turn the quests in over and over again. And the Open World PvP is something I actualy enjoy. Now, let me just say that back in WoW, I hated PvP. It wasnt balanced, there was no real insentive beyond getting better items. The Battle Grounds were only slightly evened out cause everyone was within 10 levels of you, and most of the time it was a constant blur of getting gang-raped while I was trying to find the main group. In WAR, if you're a low level, once you join a scenario or enter a PvP zone, your stats, health, and items all got buffed up to a couple levels below the max for that area. All you were realy missing is the abilities with those levels, so you stand more of a chance. And while on the topic of things being more fair, there is one thing I have to say. ALL HAIL THE CHICKEN! I swear, it was a stroke of divine genius when they came up with that. Say, you're like level 5 in WoW and you're on a PVP server. You run out to do your questing. A level 70 from the other side rides up on his mount, one-shot kills you, then rides off to find the next lowbie to kill. Alright, now say the same scenario happens in WAR. The guy rides up (level 40 in this case), goes to hit you, and suddenly he turns into a chicken with 20% life, no idems, no abilities, and crap stats. Serves him right! If you get your jollies by killing people that cant fight back and makeing them miserable, then this is the reward you get. I know it throws realism out the window but damn it, this is a game we play to enjoy, not to get filled with angst cause someone wants to be a killjoy.
Siege weapons, keep assaults, battlefield objectives, city attacks, the list of awesome PVP goes on. But there's only one big problem with WAR right now. It. Needs. People.
WoW has been around so long, there are way too many people that are afraid to leave it. Worried about havieng to start over in something new. Afraid to leave something they know for something diffirent. People keep saying there's so much more content in WoW. Firstly, when they look at the map of WoW and the map of WAR they say that WoW has more zones. And it does, but the zones are ALOT smaller. If you actualy look at the area of each zone in WAR and WoW, WoW is only slightly bigger, which means it only has slightly more content (latest expansion not included). They also say that WoW has more stuff. Well, they've had what? 5 years? Ofcorse they'll have more stuff since they've had more time. Doesnt mean that WAR isnt going to be adding more stuff or that WoW's stuff is better. Any MMO that comes out now or later is going to be compaired to WoW and you have to realize that the longer an MMO is out, the bigger it will be, and any new games need time to expand before they can fairly be compaired to one that's been swelling for years. Hell, WAR is about to do something that WoW has never done, add in classes in an update patch. WoW has only now decided to add in a new class.
I can understand sticking with WoW if you're afraid to change, if you dont want to leave your comfort zone. That's fine, it's your choice. But when you look at the two games on the barest level, WoW doesnt stack up to WAR. And it's annoyeing the crap out of me that a game like this doesnt have the playerbase it should just because people are afraid to leave WoW behind. It's had a good run, WoW has been alot of fun, but it's time to move on and grow up.
BTW, if I've offended anyone in my little rant, I'd just like to say that this is my opinion, and you're free to form your own. But still, I do have a point with all this.
The Public Quests are great in my opinion. Some people might think it's the same as the rep-grind in WoW, but they'd be wrong. Each area within a zone has it's own public quests and area if Influence, and there can be three or four such areas in each zone. When you wander into the area, you're suddenly part of the Public Quest, and you can take part in it, even without havieng to be in the same group as other people. You can even jump in in the middle of it all. Ofcorse you get loot and exp for what you do in it, and if you see it through to the end, you get a quest reward, depending on how much you contributed to it. A smart idea to avoid those people that just try to jump in when the last fight is almost over. I've even chewed through most of the first part of a PQ, went to do something else, and came back as some other people finished it and got something for the effort I put forth earlier! And best of all, you can do them over and over again! Now, what does this have to do with Influence? Well, killing PQ mobs (that's mmo speak for monsters) or doing the other objectives gives you Influence in that area. And when you get so much, you can go talk to an NPC back at camp and he gives you more loot! Now, Im bet you're thinking that's still like a WoW rep-grind. Well, here's the kicker. If you dont want to bother with it till later, you dont have to. You can skip the PQs and Influence in areas and move on to later ones if you want, and still get those rewards which are higher level than the ones you skipped. Now, you may still want to do the others too, since all the gear is tailored for the level range the PQ is in, so it's a good way to keep your gear up.
Speaking of gear, I LOVE that everything you get from quests is for YOUR career (class in other words) and you wont be vendoring quest rewards just cause it gave nothing good for your class. If you come through the same area with a new character of a diffirent class, all the rewards will be for his class, so you never end up with quest rewards you cant use. Now, dropped loot is another matter. You will still find gear for other classes off of monsters, and that's to be expected. But they also added in junked items. Now, these are bits of gear that are damaged and cant be used, but you can take them to vendors and have them fixed into something useful. And the best part, it will tell you what it can be made into, and the same junked item can be made into something else for any class just about! So if you have an orc with badass shoulders, find a set of junked shoulders that aint better than the ones you got now, mail them to your goblin shaman and he can use them instead!
Now this brings me to the PvP. Oh Dark Gods, the PvP is SO much better than in WoW. All your class skills are useful in PvP, there's nothing wasted. Even the de-taunts you use to make monsters attack someone else cause PvP targets to do less damage to you. The classes work great in PvP. Granted there's a few I think need to be tweeked a bit, but again, that's to be expected. Healers are a major danger in PvP, and not just for keeping the other people alive. They HURT! Not only that, but in the scenarios (their version of WoW's Battlegrounds) healing actualy counts like damage for how much Renown you get at the end. People actualy heal in PvP fights rather than just trying to throw out the most damage to get more kills. The scenarios are more than just capture the flag. There's King of the Hill type ones, relay races, even keep-away ones. Not only that, but you get quests to do each one, and you can turn the quests in over and over again. And the Open World PvP is something I actualy enjoy. Now, let me just say that back in WoW, I hated PvP. It wasnt balanced, there was no real insentive beyond getting better items. The Battle Grounds were only slightly evened out cause everyone was within 10 levels of you, and most of the time it was a constant blur of getting gang-raped while I was trying to find the main group. In WAR, if you're a low level, once you join a scenario or enter a PvP zone, your stats, health, and items all got buffed up to a couple levels below the max for that area. All you were realy missing is the abilities with those levels, so you stand more of a chance. And while on the topic of things being more fair, there is one thing I have to say. ALL HAIL THE CHICKEN! I swear, it was a stroke of divine genius when they came up with that. Say, you're like level 5 in WoW and you're on a PVP server. You run out to do your questing. A level 70 from the other side rides up on his mount, one-shot kills you, then rides off to find the next lowbie to kill. Alright, now say the same scenario happens in WAR. The guy rides up (level 40 in this case), goes to hit you, and suddenly he turns into a chicken with 20% life, no idems, no abilities, and crap stats. Serves him right! If you get your jollies by killing people that cant fight back and makeing them miserable, then this is the reward you get. I know it throws realism out the window but damn it, this is a game we play to enjoy, not to get filled with angst cause someone wants to be a killjoy.
Siege weapons, keep assaults, battlefield objectives, city attacks, the list of awesome PVP goes on. But there's only one big problem with WAR right now. It. Needs. People.
WoW has been around so long, there are way too many people that are afraid to leave it. Worried about havieng to start over in something new. Afraid to leave something they know for something diffirent. People keep saying there's so much more content in WoW. Firstly, when they look at the map of WoW and the map of WAR they say that WoW has more zones. And it does, but the zones are ALOT smaller. If you actualy look at the area of each zone in WAR and WoW, WoW is only slightly bigger, which means it only has slightly more content (latest expansion not included). They also say that WoW has more stuff. Well, they've had what? 5 years? Ofcorse they'll have more stuff since they've had more time. Doesnt mean that WAR isnt going to be adding more stuff or that WoW's stuff is better. Any MMO that comes out now or later is going to be compaired to WoW and you have to realize that the longer an MMO is out, the bigger it will be, and any new games need time to expand before they can fairly be compaired to one that's been swelling for years. Hell, WAR is about to do something that WoW has never done, add in classes in an update patch. WoW has only now decided to add in a new class.
I can understand sticking with WoW if you're afraid to change, if you dont want to leave your comfort zone. That's fine, it's your choice. But when you look at the two games on the barest level, WoW doesnt stack up to WAR. And it's annoyeing the crap out of me that a game like this doesnt have the playerbase it should just because people are afraid to leave WoW behind. It's had a good run, WoW has been alot of fun, but it's time to move on and grow up.
BTW, if I've offended anyone in my little rant, I'd just like to say that this is my opinion, and you're free to form your own. But still, I do have a point with all this.
Spore (yes, another one)
Posted 17 years agoAlright, after hearing what everyone has been complaining about with the game Spore, and finding out that the creature creator actualy runs on my system, I decided to try the game out myself. No, I didnt buy it, I got a torrent. Figured if I bought it and for some reason it didnt run, I'd be out the $50+ so I'd better spend the couple hours downloading. But anyway.
Firstly, most of what everyone has been complaining about is right. Mostly. Spore is a game that runs with a good idea that few other games have tried. Unfortunatly Maxis didnt do so well in actualy putting it together. As for apperance, it's actualy pretty good. It's not mind-blowing graphics (atleast not on my system) but they're still pretty good for running on pretty much any system. Spore seems as if they took the play styles form alot of their other games and kinda mushed them together. And while that may seem fun, it means that there's no single learning curve that carries you through the whole game. Every time you move on to the next stage, you're starting from scratch all over again. So it's a case of one step forward, two steps back.
This also means that all the commands and controls you learned are all useless once you move to the next stage. The interface you learned in creature is useless in tribal, and the same for tribal to civilized. If the transition was more gradual, and not such a total, abrupt change, then it probably would or worked out better, and make for a longer lasting game.
As for space, it's way too complex. The only thing you learned from civilization that helps you atall is how to arrange buildings in colonies and to set up trade routes whenever possible. While the scope of the space stage can be overwhelming, it's also where the fun comes in for it. There's so much to do and so many things you can mess around with, you can generaly find something you like. Unfortunatly with so much to do, that also means you get called on way too often. For instance, you're on a planet makeing a smiley face out of the land cause you can, and setting up your colonies for the eyes, when you get an alert that someone is attacking another one of your colonies. Ok, so you go to take care of that. Once that's done before you can get back to your terraforming, you get another alert that there's a virus spreading on another one of your wolds. And on your way to try to take care of that, you get yet another alert that someone is attacking one of your allie's worlds. Unless you set up alliances with everyone or destroy everything you come across, you end up running around like a chicken with it's head cut off. It gets realy frustrateing. The more planets you have, the more you get called on, and you start to wonder why you're the only ship in your whole empire that can deal with these things.
Now, I have to say, dispite all this it is a fun game. The most fun I have is in the creature and tribal phases. And, ofcorse, there's the creature creator, which is the biggest draw for any of this. Unfortunatly the way you build your creatures dont have much effect on the game past the creature phase, and only a small effect in the tribal phase. You can still have fun designing vehicles in the civilization phase, but unfortunatly the way you build your space ship has no effect on it's abilities.
The hints the game give syou from time to time are the bare minimum you need to play, so you have to read into alot of things and try things out. Alot of people have complained about not being told how to do certian things, and this is a problem through alot of the game. You have to keep trying diffirent things to learn how it all works, and some of it doesnt seem to work much atall. I'd still recomend it if you want something that'll be a distraction, but my advice is to wait a few months for the price to come down. To me, this is more of a $20 game, rather than a $50 game. Ofcorse, I'd give what's left of my soul if someone can tell me how to make colonies with sea ports >.<
Firstly, most of what everyone has been complaining about is right. Mostly. Spore is a game that runs with a good idea that few other games have tried. Unfortunatly Maxis didnt do so well in actualy putting it together. As for apperance, it's actualy pretty good. It's not mind-blowing graphics (atleast not on my system) but they're still pretty good for running on pretty much any system. Spore seems as if they took the play styles form alot of their other games and kinda mushed them together. And while that may seem fun, it means that there's no single learning curve that carries you through the whole game. Every time you move on to the next stage, you're starting from scratch all over again. So it's a case of one step forward, two steps back.
This also means that all the commands and controls you learned are all useless once you move to the next stage. The interface you learned in creature is useless in tribal, and the same for tribal to civilized. If the transition was more gradual, and not such a total, abrupt change, then it probably would or worked out better, and make for a longer lasting game.
As for space, it's way too complex. The only thing you learned from civilization that helps you atall is how to arrange buildings in colonies and to set up trade routes whenever possible. While the scope of the space stage can be overwhelming, it's also where the fun comes in for it. There's so much to do and so many things you can mess around with, you can generaly find something you like. Unfortunatly with so much to do, that also means you get called on way too often. For instance, you're on a planet makeing a smiley face out of the land cause you can, and setting up your colonies for the eyes, when you get an alert that someone is attacking another one of your colonies. Ok, so you go to take care of that. Once that's done before you can get back to your terraforming, you get another alert that there's a virus spreading on another one of your wolds. And on your way to try to take care of that, you get yet another alert that someone is attacking one of your allie's worlds. Unless you set up alliances with everyone or destroy everything you come across, you end up running around like a chicken with it's head cut off. It gets realy frustrateing. The more planets you have, the more you get called on, and you start to wonder why you're the only ship in your whole empire that can deal with these things.
Now, I have to say, dispite all this it is a fun game. The most fun I have is in the creature and tribal phases. And, ofcorse, there's the creature creator, which is the biggest draw for any of this. Unfortunatly the way you build your creatures dont have much effect on the game past the creature phase, and only a small effect in the tribal phase. You can still have fun designing vehicles in the civilization phase, but unfortunatly the way you build your space ship has no effect on it's abilities.
The hints the game give syou from time to time are the bare minimum you need to play, so you have to read into alot of things and try things out. Alot of people have complained about not being told how to do certian things, and this is a problem through alot of the game. You have to keep trying diffirent things to learn how it all works, and some of it doesnt seem to work much atall. I'd still recomend it if you want something that'll be a distraction, but my advice is to wait a few months for the price to come down. To me, this is more of a $20 game, rather than a $50 game. Ofcorse, I'd give what's left of my soul if someone can tell me how to make colonies with sea ports >.<
Computer Problems
Posted 17 years agoAlright, so I headed out for a week at my friend's house. Get there and find out that my computer is borked. Turns out that the clips that hold my heatsink onto the CPU are all broken. Fortunatly my friend can rebuild it if I can get the parts. Unfortunatly it will take about a week to get the parts. For now he is letting me use his computer till then. So, for those of you that know me on Second Life or talk with me on AIM, I will likely only be on rarely within this next week or so till we can get things working again. Which means all of the new items that I had planned on releaseing to my Chaotic Creations vendors will be delayed because of this.