The Almighty Doer of Stuff

Yup, that always happened. Just don't right-click those buttons. :)

No, you can't get past the portal. If you find all the metal triangles and put them in place in the gate before that, though, you can talk to Legare the slith, and he'll eventually grant you access to the bow in that box. I'm pretty sure that's how you get the bow, at least. I know you can't travel to the deeper slithzerikai lands though.

That's a much more succinct way of saying what I meant!

Instead of playing Exile 3, I did some neatening and weeding of this website and re-uploaded it: http://mentalhealthpride.com/ I hope someone gets use out of it.

Thank you. It is a passing mindset, probably some type of "mood" associated with bipolar disorder or schizophrenia; usually I keep occupied with something at least but on uncommon occasion I can't bring myself to be interested in anything at all. That's why I was asking about it. It's not a chronic thing, but it happens maybe two or three days out of a month. I usually call it "malaise" but it's been so long since the last time I felt this way that I forgot the term until about two hours ago. I wonder if that is a good term for it. The boss around here is a psychiatrist. Maybe he knows. Except I think I've asked him before... Hm. I just can't shake the notion that it's a psychiatric affect akin to mania and depression, or maybe a variant thereof, and not just a passing mood. If I had any resources I'd look into studying it. Or being studied. Maybe someday. Anyway it's kinda passing and I think I'll play Exile 3, but discussion is still welcome. I'd hope it wouldn't be all about me specifically though. Oh well. Maybe people aren't as interested in psychology in general as I am. I know yesterday I had dysphoric mania. I spent all day sulking, moping, and dreading, until the evening when my mom suggested I take a pill. It felt like depression but I took a sedative and it went away, whereas if it was real depression and not dysphoric mania, it would get worse. I usually spot that feeling quickly but it's uncommon enough that I'm not on the lookout for it usually. Maybe it's something like that. I feel like this post is disjointed but I'm still manic and I can't straighten it out. I hope you all don't think I'm complaining. I'm not. I do like to start intellectual discussion. EDIT: Actually what I call "malaise" tends to be filled with more discomfort and unease, like something is wrong in the situation but no matter what I think about it or what I do I can't pinpoint what it is or shake the feeling, even if there's really nothing wrong at all. This feels different. I realize that I'm more of a headcase than most people even within the mental health world, recovered and skilled though I am. Maybe my maladies are breeding and creating new hybrids which have never been spotted in the wild. 😛

It may just be a schizophrenia thing. Maybe nobody here will relate for that reason. Or maybe they will.

Well, I've been playing Exile 3, making a BoE tutorial, playing Minecraft, watching movies and shows, listening to music and making CD-length mixes, cleaning my apartment, going for walks, making pixel art, talking to friends and family, and more. Just not today, or on other days that I'm unable to predict until they hit me. I'm not sure you read my post correctly. Maybe I stated it poorly.

I currently have nothing I really have to do other than chill out due to life circumstances. My friends are taking care of the hard work for a change, and they say I should just relax, enjoy myself, keep up my ADLs (Activities of Daily Living, for those who have never been at a psych hospital to hear the term; bathing, cleaning, eating healthy, etc.) and wait patiently. I should be pretty good. But there's something that happens now and then throughout my life, where I'm bored, and I want to not be bored, but doing anything else would be just as if not more loathesome than doing nothing. Is there a word for this? Some people call it "ennui" but I think really that's just a synonym for "boredom". I know I'm not the only person who ever feels this way. Two thirds of my life has often had refreshing this forum over and over hoping for a new post as my entertainment. Saying that doesn't make me feel good. :P But I know many people do that with Facebook or similar websites. I've seen memes about it.

Yes, I could do that although I'd have to prop open a door on one end. I've been told you aren't burning calories unless your heart rate is up. I'm glad that's not true. Thanks! I like to put on music in my headphones when I go for a walk, aiming to listen to either one long album or two short albums usually. But I don't know how I'd input slow walking into my exercise tracker. If I exercise too much without counting it, I may eat too little to compensate and potentially ending up binging. SparkPeople only has walking at X speed as input, and no slower than 2mph. EDIT: For clarity, I gradually degress to half-steps rather than actual strides, to the point that I'm nearly shuffling. Hopefully I'll get less sluggish when my thyroid medicine is adjusted. I have hyperthyroidism, which I'm told causes fatigue and sluggishness.

I use SparkPeople.com to make sure I'm eating and exercising within my calorie goals, and I'm starting that back up today. Jogging is hard on my joints, yeah, but I find when I try to walk I can't keep up a pace and quickly end up doing more of a slow mosey than a walk, which isn't any good for exercise. I do have a hallway in my apartment building which I use when I want to walk on cold or rainy days, but it feels like a waste of time if I'm not focusing on it enough to move quickly consistently. It's frustrating.

I want to get my jogging-in-place habit back. At one point I was up to 1000 steps 2x/day. I want to get back down below 270 pounds, about 50 pounds loss. That's roughly a pound a week, which could be manageable. My friends tell me I'm too easy to bait, so I want to be more mindful of that. My best friend says I'm never going to get the one thing I keep demanding, because it's too easy to rile me up just by denying me it and people think it's funny.

Your party has PTSD from something they experienced and have used their rapid adventurer brains to cope immediately. It grants you a small amount of mental effects resistance. 1% is what someone said last time I asked, I think.

I see a lot of people describing the Exile trilogy cave floor as green, and a lot describing it as blue. I've always perceived it as far more blue, although really it's more of a dark cyan than a blue or green. I know this a silly random question, but I don't think there's anything wrong with that. Is there some reason for this perceptive difference? Is it just that a lot of people don't know what "cyan" is or is it something deeper neurologically? Is it similar to that photo of the striped dress? I'd post a screenshot but something seems broken.

Yes, you can put it all on one character if you want but it's not necessary. Depending on your play style and playing ability, sinking that many skill points into it on one character may detract from other skills your character may need to survive though.

Cave Lore is cumulative for the whole party. Luck is cumulative for the whole party for making certain encounters go better, but it also has individual benefits in combat.

Ugh! I hate that too! My finger twitches in dialogue and I click something, miss something important or cause a problem for my characters, and have to reload an earlier save. This has been happening since Exile 3 and someone should have suggested this sooner...

Question: Does it come before or after The Za-Khazi Run? I may replay the included BoE scenarios first and then switch to BoA for your trilogy depending on your answer. EDIT: I'll probably replay them first regardless, now that I think of it.

Is it an animated refresher with corny jokes representing serious plot points to save time? Exile III has one of those. It's great! I'm still inching my way through Exile III, but I will play your trilogy someday, hopefully before you're dead so I can compliment you on your work. I'm a slow, slow gamer though. I'm thinking I'll play it next, before I start playing BoE again.

Leave it to Sudanna to provide a much more helpful answer than my dumb teasing. You do that a lot and I like that about you. I know you don't like me, but I'd like to dedicate a song to you and the other Refugi: Meg Myers's cover of Kate Bush's song "Running Up That Hill". I can't say much else to you right now but I hope you give it a listen. "Do you wanna know, know that It doesn't hurt me? Do you wanna hear about the deal I'm making? It's you. It's you and me, it's you and me. You won't be unhappy." (Note the seizure warning on the official video.) If you tend to keep your hand around the number pad for movement after you close the inventory panel, it's not really that much of a stretch. There are two Emter keys, one on either side of the number pad.

Yes, the ESC key. Did you try it before you wrote this rant? 😛

Thanks for this list! It's a small detail but I think it's cool information to have handy for completionists! It's also good to know at a glance that the party will make their money back and more.

I'm going to guess that if you include the obviously-placed name "Slarty" as the included forum member, the rest of the names don't line up. I look forward to seeing if this is true. Also, it could be "ADoS". Probably not. 😛

The idea is the Cave Lore gives them better navigational skills, so they avoid pricking themselves on poisonous fungi or falling into toxic sludge.

Good Constitution reduces the impact of poison and disease, yes. That's it's primary function.

It's definitely something wrong with the node chain, because when I just place a Change Terrain node on a floor tile a short distance away, it re-locks the door. I don't know what's going on... EDIT: Just a weird glitch, I guess. I have it working now. EDIT: Also, setting charges works for gold but not comfrey root. Gold's charges are set with Item Level, not Charges, for some reason, and that must be what the Item Details pane checks for. This bug also happens on Windows XP.