bgillisp

Master of Orion (the remake) I actually curb stomped everyone on Easy. I should go back and try that on a harder setting.

The remake is boring to be honest.

The last game on Master of Orion for me was pretty easy. I avoided wars between the other factions, basically forming Alliances early on. And when the factions went to war ( not really actually fighting each other) I declined to break the Alliances with any of them. Then the vote came and I won hands down.

Is your semester teaching over, professor?

Nope. 20 days left. Then I get 4 days off then summer term starts.

but this will be my last semester... its kind of hard to explain, but it'll be kind of hard to leave. It took my five years to get through it for my associates. I dont feel like I got much out of it though. A little unsure of what Im going to do next, what with everything thats going on.

Ah yes, that countdown. Are you sure the semester won't be extended to make up for those 7 lost snow days?

@Kes : Colleges can't extend the term. We had to make it up another way.

Awwww man! Why can't there be a game that pays ME $8509 when I buy it?

lol, how this game can be so expensive?

Thinking of the money that we do not have.

Beta Test-ception...

When you testplay a Game cause you found a bug only to testplay it some more cause you found more bugs, then testplay it only to find the bug you thought you fixed needs fixing again.

I should have had it that I'm beta testing a game where I beta test a game where I beta test a game.

Might still be worth it as square hasn't done too well on their last few PC ports

Very true. Hmmm

nightmare scenario: the spritework gets the FF4-6 mobile port treatment. They did that art dirty.

Don't be like me and rush it. The last thing you want is to play a 20+ hour game that's bugged in a way to make the true ending impossible...

@Seacliff : Thankfully the true ending only depends on you getting one item and taking it to the final battle, and that has been tested by more than me.

@Bonkers : Yes.

BTW, my tester's final save was at almost 40 hours. 20 - 25 is my playtime through the game.

What I'm doing now is just making sure my fixes to what the tester found didn't add a new bug or 3.

Yes, many times yes!

Usually it's "Ugh, they paid money for this pixel art? They should have hired a real pro. Grr, I wanna fix it!" Or "What kind of writer doesn't know not to do this?" As for the game itself, not usually. I'm too much of a newb with no skills.

This is like my source of motivation every day.

That sounds an awfully lot like Skyrim.

526 quests split up over 24 well made NPCs sounds far better. In fact, that could make for a very cool and in depth game where there are only 24 NPCs but with all the content that you'd expect in a large rpg.

@kirbwarrior : I'd take 24 quests over 24 well done NPC's at this point. At least the main plot is interesting though.

Bear is horrible however. Imagine the toughest, stringiest steak you've ever eaten and multiply the grease dripping off of it by 5 and you more or less know what a well-cooked bear tastes like.

@WhiteW humans are pretty much at the top of the food chain. If its alive, someone somewhere will eat it.

If alligator, snakes, bears, all of this is on the menu, I wonder when humans will make the chef's recommendation!

@Windows i7 Actually, since you can get a legit copy of Windows 10 for free (the not activated windows is fully functional, just pesks you around with activation and doesn't allow certain personalized settings), there's no real reason to pirate older OS's.

Of course unless your PC is years old, in which case it might not accept Windows 10 well.
Nevertheless, I'm quite unburdened with updates nowadays. Having Win on SSD the updates usually take two minutes max.

Widnows by default have stupid setting. You need to set them up properly. As for the updates, best solution is before going to sleep you should check for updates and let it do them. Learned that the hard way, when I had to wait for a 40 minutes, when I was on an on site support situation for a client. Ever since, I am extra careful.

You can always do the classic "movie day" with the movie most vaguely related to the study.

My art teacher in highschool would do movie day if he was too... spaced out... to teach lmfao.

Good ideas, but this class already lost 7 days due to snow, so we really can't miss a day. Thankfully the fact I was the one moving around helped a lot and I got through the 2 hours.

Prior to me dating him, to clarify.

This is incredibly bad. Not that 24 hours can save them but you did your best and your duty. Now if they didn't believe you... too bad, they will learn from their mistake.

I wanted to get bloodpills, empty capsules and a pillbottle and chug the empty pills down my throat infront of my manager then walk off somewhere in a corner collapsed. missed opportunity there.

I'm sold. They should also come out with one for Tolkien Elvish.

On the other hand, I saw some jokes in that old version that are no longer in the game!

Hey, jokes are crazy important! Still I bet it was really cool to see the old version

Every time I find something like that my immediate response upon looking at it is "Wow, this is garbage."

I'm so harsh on past me.

I like my local Barnes & Noble, but I'd like my local Barnes & Noble a WHOLE LOT MORE if they had this!

@Wavelength : All I remember is you had an option to go for 1 point (kick it across the store exit), 2 points (run it across the exit while dodging two bouncers), or 3 points (no idea...the dream didn't show how you could do that).

Also somehow there were field goals where you had to kick over the bookcases and still have it airbone when it cleared the line that was the store exit.

@bgillisp That is so dayum awesome (and detailed!). I think Supermarket Sweep would look something like that if it took place in a bookstore.

Oooohh. I'm interested!

So you're a respectable university (?) professor that writes educational books and create games? What would I give to have you as a teacher!

Community college actually. I've only written one book so far, though I do have ideas for another that I might do once my game is done.

@AmieLK : PM me if you want more details.

*owls hooting*

My name's Jeff.

I wonder who will be the next idiot to come on here whining "I lost my project that I've been working on for a year" because they didn't back up their stuff.