You should watch the Expo videos. Clearly I don't mind looking crazy.puff ball said:
Good suggestion, though, perhaps I'll try that.
Escapist Podcast: 072: Achievements, Replays & Voice Acting Vs Text
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Good suggestion, though, perhaps I'll try that.
Washington actually gets just as much rain a year as New York (we just have it more spread out) there is a sun in Seattle.
no one that room has a phone that can bring up IMDB. doesn't the audio person have a computer.
on the replaying games after you beat them. I find that I will do this from time to time, but only very open ended games. sometimes I will play a game on like normal, and then play the game again on like hard, or so, but many times I will not finish, and this is more along the lines of "how far can I get before I get frustrated. though I find that I pay less attention to the story on subsequent playthroughs as I am the type of person that if I start watching a movie part way through I almost can not watch it again because I start almost breaking it down completely. though combine this with my reading speed and I only really need to read a book once to absorb the details (though retention of minor details is only maybe a moneth)
on the dialog vs text: I feel that because I can be on the slower side of reading speed I can find sub-titles to be distracting especially if I can hear the words as well. because I will try and be at the speed of my reading instead of the talking, and because they expect you to be able to read subtitles at "regular" or faster speed that I will actually start to miss things that are being said.
no one that room has a phone that can bring up IMDB. doesn't the audio person have a computer.
on the replaying games after you beat them. I find that I will do this from time to time, but only very open ended games. sometimes I will play a game on like normal, and then play the game again on like hard, or so, but many times I will not finish, and this is more along the lines of "how far can I get before I get frustrated. though I find that I pay less attention to the story on subsequent playthroughs as I am the type of person that if I start watching a movie part way through I almost can not watch it again because I start almost breaking it down completely. though combine this with my reading speed and I only really need to read a book once to absorb the details (though retention of minor details is only maybe a moneth)
on the dialog vs text: I feel that because I can be on the slower side of reading speed I can find sub-titles to be distracting especially if I can hear the words as well. because I will try and be at the speed of my reading instead of the talking, and because they expect you to be able to read subtitles at "regular" or faster speed that I will actually start to miss things that are being said.
Yes!! I finished up my L4D2 campaign as the podcast was ending, It never works out that way. >Winning
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On a more related note I'm curious how Susan's dislike of the silent protagonist (at least in DA:O) works in relation to the Elder Scrolls games.
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On a more related note I'm curious how Susan's dislike of the silent protagonist (at least in DA:O) works in relation to the Elder Scrolls games.
Well... I was browsing reddit and I'm sorry to report that your million dollar 'all-year Christmas tree' idea has been taken. And copyrighted. And put before dragon's den.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=6067ATwc80s#t=1557s
It was on /r/cringe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=6067ATwc80s#t=1557s
It was on /r/cringe
Enjoyed King Arthur with Clive Owen immensly. Have the Directors Cut here on DVD.
Good to hear that the new Total Recall is fun. I'm a huge fan of the first version and would have been disheartened to see a simple update. A new twist on the second and third act is exactly what I was hoping for.
Love re-reading books and re-watching old movies and shows, if I have the time. I've read Microserfs at least ten times or my favorite RPG book(Paranoia v2 rules) probably thirty times. The Jack Reacher series gets the odd re-read here and there(Cruise better be good in a good film). I replay some games occasionally. I love Just Cause 2 because the world is huge and beautiful, and screaming guards being roped in to fall for a mile off a building never gets old.
Real Xmas tree at my mothers house, collosally decorated by her, and there's always the "how does it look?" question. I've gotten better at answering that over the years.
Love both text and VO in games. Good to have the option to display subtitles, but rarely use them with VO. Doom3 and Bioshocks audio logs are my favorite.
I've also posted a smoother mix of the podcast again. Hot caramel for those who like it.
https://soundcloud.com/airon-extv/escapist-podcast-072-smoother
Merry Xmas ladies and gents
Good to hear that the new Total Recall is fun. I'm a huge fan of the first version and would have been disheartened to see a simple update. A new twist on the second and third act is exactly what I was hoping for.
Love re-reading books and re-watching old movies and shows, if I have the time. I've read Microserfs at least ten times or my favorite RPG book(Paranoia v2 rules) probably thirty times. The Jack Reacher series gets the odd re-read here and there(Cruise better be good in a good film). I replay some games occasionally. I love Just Cause 2 because the world is huge and beautiful, and screaming guards being roped in to fall for a mile off a building never gets old.
Real Xmas tree at my mothers house, collosally decorated by her, and there's always the "how does it look?" question. I've gotten better at answering that over the years.
Love both text and VO in games. Good to have the option to display subtitles, but rarely use them with VO. Doom3 and Bioshocks audio logs are my favorite.
I've also posted a smoother mix of the podcast again. Hot caramel for those who like it.
https://soundcloud.com/airon-extv/escapist-podcast-072-smoother
Merry Xmas ladies and gents
Malt-o-Meal Chocolate Marshmallow Mateys is childhood in a bag. I never ate anything like it as a kid but one bowl and I suddenly had the urge to pop in some Duck Hunt and watch He-Man.
On the topic of decorations, my halloween decorations are still out. A few uncut pumpkins, squashes, and corn stalks, with the christmas wreath on the door that lights up and sings. If they didn't melt, my Legend demon and bubblehead nurse jack-o-lanterns would be there right next to the wreath. I might finally toss the decorative veggies on the 26th, out into a field so they could grow into vines next summer.
On the topic of decorations, my halloween decorations are still out. A few uncut pumpkins, squashes, and corn stalks, with the christmas wreath on the door that lights up and sings. If they didn't melt, my Legend demon and bubblehead nurse jack-o-lanterns would be there right next to the wreath. I might finally toss the decorative veggies on the 26th, out into a field so they could grow into vines next summer.
Susan, is the author that pissed you off Melanie Rawn? If so I am guessing the never to be published book is "Captal's Tower" and I am similarly PO'ed. It has been years since I read the first two books and I will honestly say I thought it was a duology until I picked up another book a few years later and saw the title in the author's other works list. Kept an eye out for it for ten years until I found out on Goodreads that Rawn had stated that she had dropped it and had no intention of trying to finish it. Honestly makes me not want to buy another Rawn series until the entire thing has been published.
YES! So angry. It's just so rampantly unprofessional, and such an FU to the readers.Ken Sapp said:
And sad as I really enjoyed the The Dragon Prince/Dragon Star trilogies and the first two books of the Exiles trilogy. The apologists on her own site forum and elsewhere don't help the matter any when they fling entitlement accusations against legitimate fans who would like to buy and read the third book of a trilogy that has been hanging in the wind for a decade plus...Susan Arendt said:
I would have a hard time taking an author that could do that seriously were they to present a anything other than a completed script to me. Probably why she switched publishers...
The only other author I have read that left a series hanging was Robert Jordan and he has the legitimate excuse of having died before he could complete his epic even though he was writing and releasing on a fairly regular schedule until his demise. At least his family is allowing another author to take his notes and close out the series.
Started listening to the podcasts again after a long while. Been distracted by so many games lately! Forgot how much I love these things.
P.S. Finally you guys have discovered OCRemix! Good stuff on there.
P.S. Finally you guys have discovered OCRemix! Good stuff on there.
I have been "that guy" since the late 90s, but I was way worse then. I genuinely never enjoyed being around other people as much as I loved games. I could only stand to be around 1 friend at a time, I didn't want to see them more than once a week, I had photophobia & hated being in the sunlight, I soloed through multiplayer games & never used chat, I almost failed the first college I went to because I was addicted to The Sims, when I got home from school or work it was straight to the computer, I got my entire family hooked on my habit (which turned out mentally beneficial for my grandmother), & when the company I worked for went under, I avoided looking for a job for a year because I was bored when I wasn't playing games.
Fortunately I hit a crash where games suddenly became boring & I had to move onto something else. But I didn't know what that something was, so I had to do lots of different things. One of them was hiking with friends or family, which we unfortunately can't do in the cold seasons.
Somehow the end result today is that I went from endless tedium to being unable to stay interested in anything for more than a short period of time. The gradual advancement of Adult Attention Deficit disorder seems like I downgraded from Office Monkey to Toddler.
Fortunately I hit a crash where games suddenly became boring & I had to move onto something else. But I didn't know what that something was, so I had to do lots of different things. One of them was hiking with friends or family, which we unfortunately can't do in the cold seasons.
Somehow the end result today is that I went from endless tedium to being unable to stay interested in anything for more than a short period of time. The gradual advancement of Adult Attention Deficit disorder seems like I downgraded from Office Monkey to Toddler.
As far as bookwritting goes and not knowing the end.
I wrote two books. One of them - the first one, i just "made it up as i went". And while i never got to be a celebrity, not that that was my aim, people whose opinion i cared about liked it. thats all i cared about anyway. the whole writting deal started with making up a "quick story" for a friend, turned out i continued writting till it ended up in a bigass sci-fi setting fantasy book. but the reality is, i made it up as i went, every day, and a person reading it would give her opinion every single day and that input actually made me fix and explain some things and made the book better.
so a alive book that evolves and goes where it goes without having an endgame planned CAN work.
As for being into games, i went over my addiction phase, used to skip school for a game. i realized how bad that is and totally agree with opinions said in the cast. Im still very much into gaming (duh im on this site every day), but i do other things as well. Frankly i probably watch movies more thna games nowadays, which is quite sad state of work + studies = i get more free time on a bus watching movies than actually at home.
I wrote two books. One of them - the first one, i just "made it up as i went". And while i never got to be a celebrity, not that that was my aim, people whose opinion i cared about liked it. thats all i cared about anyway. the whole writting deal started with making up a "quick story" for a friend, turned out i continued writting till it ended up in a bigass sci-fi setting fantasy book. but the reality is, i made it up as i went, every day, and a person reading it would give her opinion every single day and that input actually made me fix and explain some things and made the book better.
so a alive book that evolves and goes where it goes without having an endgame planned CAN work.
As for being into games, i went over my addiction phase, used to skip school for a game. i realized how bad that is and totally agree with opinions said in the cast. Im still very much into gaming (duh im on this site every day), but i do other things as well. Frankly i probably watch movies more thna games nowadays, which is quite sad state of work + studies = i get more free time on a bus watching movies than actually at home.