Rhinestone Jedi

Look out world... and because I can't take six, this shall be a priestless run (sorry Michael...) Really takes me back: Compared to the new beginning screen: ~ I like the way Jeff's games have subtly evolved graphically. Although I like the look in A3RW just fine, I think I'm more a fan of the Avadon style character icons. Happy playing, everyone!

So today I was setting up a virtual machine with Windows 98 so that I could play some old exile 3 goodness, and it got me thinking... what other old games can I play while I'm at it? Anyone have any favorite very old games, that are still legally gettable? Aside from Exile 3, I used to really love two games that are now abandonware... one called Crime Fighter where you walk/drive around the streets of a town, pulling various heists, trying to become crime boss of the underworld... and another is WinWarII, a World War 2 turn-based game that I absolutely loved back in the 90s. They'll both be getting some love on my virtual machine.

Going to buy the Deluxe Edition from the Humble Store as soon as it's up. Can't wait!

1996 > 2004. Exile 3 was the original monster hunter.

One more week. I'm excited.

I know it's not going to happen, but "Blades of Avadon" for Nintendo Switch would be epic.

My body is ready.

I've been playing Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle and they did something really interesting with the "chance to hit" mechanic. Basically, it's either 0% "not going to hit," 50% "might hit might not", or 100% "you're going to hit." Loses a little complexity, but also no strategy destroyed because a 97% hit failed you. Wondering how a hit% strategy like this would play out in an Exile game. Maybe it could be applied to Casual mode, at least. Probably would need to compensate for it by tinkering with resistances, but eh.

The best flavored hot sauces are probably Sriracha and Cholula. Save the Frank's for perhaps some chicken or stir fry. It's good heat but works best in stuff that will mask the taste. Tabasco is not my go-to but it's good on pizza. Tapatio is good in enchilada dishes.

Jenneke, Thissa, Frrrrrr, Adrianna, Feodoric, and Michael. How I loved the six-party combat and the monster encounters lumbering around... Buying right from the site is what I did the last couple games, and that purchase interface is a Humble Widget. I'll probably buy it right from there. I've actually never played the Avernum 3 remake from back when... just Exile 3 every once in a while. I first got it on a demo disc, and I thought that "this is sacred ground..." "...not to us!" was so cool that I dove right in.

Oh oh. And I want

I want a couple weeks paid time off so I can play, that's my wishlist. @_@ edit: and

Hype. Exile 3 was my first Spiderweb game. Can't wait to play the Ruined World remake a good couple playthroughs. Will Jeff get more money if I buy the game on Humble Widget, or is there someplace else that will give him a bigger cut while still giving me a Steam Key? I'm going to rename my first character Jenneke for old times' sake.

During the week I eat one meal a day, dinner after work, that consists of basically red meat and non-starchy vegetables. On Saturdays I also eat one meal a day, but it's more like 2 PM, and I may or may not have a light beer and some kind of low-carb snack in the evening. Sundays I usually have two meals, the first some kind of omelette or something for breakfast, and then more meat and green vegetables later. Sometimes I have chicken instead of/in addition to the red meat. Basically, I do "keto" and "intermittent fasting" (but I don't fast really on Sundays). For an example, yesterday (Friday) I worked from 6AM to 430 PM, then had a bunch of shawarma. Actually no veggies yesterday. Today (Saturday) I had a salad that was a bed of lettuce, roasted peppers, guacamole, sour cream, salsa, steak, and chicken... and then I had a can of bud light while I tried to write some roleplay. Tomorrow (Sunday) I'm going to have eggs and bratwurst for breakfast, and probably a whole chicken for dinner, and then no more food until after work on Monday.

I saw this today and it made me think of this thread: http://i.imgur.com/Ql0aNP9.jpg I don't know why, and I failed to mention last time, but the images made me think of an old game called Dave Dude in the Holiday Story 95. But I went back and looked/reminisced at screenshots from that game and there doesn't seem to be a solid reason why. It's funny how memories work like that.

You are a: Socialist Anti-Government Traditionalist Collectivism score: 50%Authoritarianism score: -33%Internationalism score: 0%Tribalism score: 0%Liberalism score: -17% Weird. I had a few maybes and a couple other questions where I don't think I expressed well because of nuance. In real life I was essentially a social liberal and fiscal conservative. But there are a few problems that eroded away at my fiscal conservatism. At heart I still have fiscally conservative "feelings" - but taken a step back to the big picture, if something comes down to "being good to people" vs "saving a negligible amount of money" - then "being good to people" is almost always the obvious answer. Public works/programs/etc that actually wind up saving money and/or acting as great investments in the country's potential don't seem (to me) like they should be anathema to fiscal conservatism... but I'm in bizarro world sometimes in this country. The other thing that has to be accounted for is automation. There will come a time when very few jobs actually need to be done by humans (or can be done by humans competitively against robots/machines/computers). Things like "basic income" are going to be necessary someday. And it's either going to cause humanity to flourish, or become a dystopian nightmare. Thirty people can own everything while the billions starve and rot... or basic income will allow people to participate in the market and pursue their dreams - find a way to work if they want more, or create things, and have art, design, music, literature, architecture, etc, flourish. No matter how right "cut taxes, earn your own way" sounds, it's not any of the previous centuries anymore, and people have to jump off that train before it's way too late to do anything for humanity.

Finally took the time to figure out getting back in. I like the new look.

I didn't have trouble identifying any of them (except one, see comments), but I'm not certain of the market appeal of these. #6 looks cool and maybe could go on pajamas? As a proof of concept these are mostly recognisable and I suppose, you see someone from afar and think "oh an (object xyz) on the shirt, neat" and then you get closer and see just how pixelated it is and think "neat". I think people might identify with 7 and 10 just because they are popular items. I'm not sure if the other ones have either nostalgic pull or identifiability. Gotta hit them with the ol' appeal to pathos. Maybe as a happy medium, if you have a design that was important to you but doesn't seem to be selling, you can use a cafepress shop for those so there's no overhead, Having inventory you're not selling can sink you, but having a few extra designs on a cafepress shop I don't think can hurt anything. I buy tons of nerdy stuff but I'm probably not buying pixel duds if I can't identify with it.

You know, it's not a "name" cameo, but Protus looks a lot like Baelish, with similar intrigues and temperament.

I noticed that with Potion of Disguise also: I found five in my playthrough. I used one, so I can't say anything for the fifth, but the other four... three of them stacked together, and one would not. Odd behaviour, but there may be a reason for it?

I just completed my first playthrough... at last. I bought the game within moments of its release but just had a crazy busy past year. For what it's worth I did it on Torment and explored every small piece of map, so on top of being busy IRL, it was a (worthwhile) slog of a game. I'm going to play through the ending sequences a few times to see different endings. I played as basically a sycophantic Redbeard loyalist. Besides earning all my followers' trust. Which apparently . After I tinker through a few endings, I'm going to do another playthrough on casual just to experience the story of playing the opposite way. And then I'll try out the Bovine and a few other mods. Whatever will tide me over until Ruined World comes out. I have some post-game thoughts but I didn't tag the thread title as potential spoilers so bear with me. And okay, the Wyldrylm has a legitimate concern. Why did I have to spend two and a half games thinking they hate me and I'm destroying their culture because of tolls. And anyway, bearing the series in mind, here's my revised map of the world:

I think perhaps my one small exception, a nuance I forgot to include in the poll, is rooms behind locked doors. I'll save the game, use my lockpick(s), and if there's nothing I wanted on the floor/chest/etc in that room, I'll reload, sparing myself that lockpick, and technically leaving that room unexplored.

While I enjoy earning all my companions' trust... I'm so tired of Wildrylm people.

Is there any way to ?

I was wondering how many people who play Spiderweb and similar games are map completionists. I was thinking about this the other day, because I'm many hours into my Avadon 3 playthrough and still not finished with the game. It's taken me quite a long time to finish pretty much all the Spiderweb games. I almost obsessively uncover every piece of map I possibly can, going all the way back to my playthroughs of Exile 3 in the 90s. I could finish the games a lot quicker without doing this. And it's tempting because I want to get through the story quicker, but I feel much more satisfied when I've taken the time to uncover everything... even if I had to battle zillions of bats/rats/chittrachs/etc and even caught myself cursing in some of those Avernum caves when I discovered a trap door leading to yet another sublevel... I went and uncovered every drop. And then when I got the Orb of Thraalni, go back everywhere to make sure there's no little nib that I've missed... and so forth. Does anyone else play these games this way?