What's on your mind?

[Guest]

> I am a very emotional person, the stone in my luvs' shoes, but having emotional turbulences, and unexpected ups and downs is something I can't comprehend in some people.

Edited December 13, 2023 by Evaloves4

[Carabosse]

World War Three has already started.

[Darkpig]

On 12/11/2023 at 4:45 PM, Evaloves4 said:

 

> I was very skilled in this 7 years ago. But now, I don't even know how to do it and have no desire to do it.

Bitchcraft Mac & Cheese

[Guest]

> It's not that I miss it but these pictures just reminded me of my Ivy and me ...

Spoiler

 

> such smoking and dinking parties always ended in a sex.

 

 

[Guest]

> This is only one of many reasons why we do not want to meet in person with anyone we meet online. Our life is already dangerous enough and we do not need extra jeopardy.

[steelpanther24]

On 12/11/2023 at 5:47 AM, KoolHndLuke said:

Yeah... stopped playing it until they finally stop that shit and, as I have said, it ain't nothing new since it's practically a Bioware game from the 2000's with more content. I'm actually a bit sad they won game of the year for it since that probably means it's the last good game they'll ever make lol.

Hey, I still play some of those Bioware games from the 2000s.   I understand the desire to recognize games that are considered superior, but to put on an award show?  Oh well, I guess it is there money and they can waste it how they see fit. 

 

IMO the real award should go to the game that remains on everyone's hard drive years later.   XCom:UFO defense, Buzz Aldrin's Race into Space and Star Wars Rebellion and Colonization are some of the 80s/90s games still on my hard drive.   Is there an award for best old classic games?

[Idyll]

3 minutes ago, steelpanther24 said:

Is there an award for best old classic games?

 

Ah, yeah, I haven't had the chance or mind to try the others but I sporadically hop on X-COM UFO Defense, it's been great eversince I found it in my dad's old stuff...

 

As far as I'm aware that category tends to be a top# between friends, sadly "full-fledged" awards with some sort of a token/trophy usually are reserved to be used for marketing the "next big thing," which they all tend to be flops these days.

 

Baldur's Gate 3 shows a sad, stark contrast when compared to the vast majority of other contemporary titles: Decrepit avaricious minds steer the direction of game development nowadays, sucking the soul - which BG3 has - from ideas even before they think of them. Which of course is no surprise, I guess.

 

Before, games were of passion and dedication to the project...

 

Whilst by now gaming's been explored by money grinding sorts over the years, which devolved the prior passion and love of their creators for this form of entertainment. It's been turned into a "legitimate business" whereas before it were more "rustic," in a sense.

 

I tend to enjoy Indie games more than what the big names have been chugging out, I hope Larian doesn't stop making good games like BG3 and the Divinity series, I love their games.

[steelpanther24]

1 hour ago, Idyll said:

 

Ah, yeah, I haven't had the chance or mind to try the others but I sporadically hop on X-COM UFO Defense, it's been great eversince I found it in my dad's old stuff...

 

As far as I'm aware that category tends to be a top# between friends, sadly "full-fledged" awards with some sort of a token/trophy usually are reserved to be used for marketing the "next big thing," which they all tend to be flops these days.

 

Baldur's Gate 3 shows a sad, stark contrast when compared to the vast majority of other contemporary titles: Decrepit avaricious minds steer the direction of game development nowadays, sucking the soul - which BG3 has - from ideas even before they think of them. Which of course is no surprise, I guess.

 

Before, games were of passion and dedication to the project...

 

Whilst by now gaming's been explored by money grinding sorts over the years, which devolved the prior passion and love of their creators for this form of entertainment. It's been turned into a "legitimate business" whereas before it were more "rustic," in a sense.

 

I tend to enjoy Indie games more than what the big names have been chugging out, I hope Larian doesn't stop making good games like BG3 and the Divinity series, I love their games.

There is a saying that pioneers get slaughtered while settlers proper.     Also, there was another saying, though I do not know if I came up with it or stole it from someone that states:

Explorers find the new thing (barely 1 % and in terms of PC games, these are the individual computer scientists who made games when not working on room sized computers)

Pioneers adapt to living with the new thing (5% who follow or were former settlers who decide to see if they can make games for a living)

Settlers make the new thing adapt to them (14% of the people who want to make games and sell them so they can keep making games...and drive a nice car)

Boring people make the new thing old (80 % of the people who see money is being made by doing something, so they do that something to make more money)

 

Many of us in this forum have already talked about how corporate execs are now making decisions on where to take the games.   Occasionally they will score big (Assassin's Creed Odyssey is, imo, an example of a great product), but lets face it, most of the people in this forum are NOT the 80%.    Now, we need the new set of "Explorers" to hack the latest generation of games to build modding tools, which will violate copyright laws and run the risk of shuttering websites, but it will have ot happen.   

 

Everything is a cycle.

[Idyll]

8 hours ago, steelpanther24 said:

Everything is a cycle.

 

Agreeable wisdom.

Edited December 13, 2023 by Idyll

[Idyll]

[Darkpig]

I’ve been wondering if the song Hit The Road Jack has anything to do with with Jack Daniel’s the whiskey.

[Guest]

5 minutes ago, Darkpig said:

I’ve been wondering if the song Hit The Road Jack has anything to do with with Jack Daniel’s the whiskey.

> Since Jack is quite a common name for male dogs in our country, I wonder if Jack was Daniel's dog.

[Darkpig]

2 hours ago, Evaloves4 said:

> Since Jack is quite a common name for male dogs in our country, I wonder if Jack was Daniel's dog.

Lol! Does that mean Jack was a working dog? Also in France is it pronounced Jacques?

Edited December 14, 2023 by Darkpig

[Alessia Wellington]

2 hours ago, Darkpig said:

Also in France is it pronounced Jacques?

 

It is. Fun fact: Googled jacques english and got this:

 

Spoiler

 

[Darkpig]

1 hour ago, Alessia Wellington said:

 

It is. Fun fact: Googled jacques english and got this:

 

  Reveal hidden contents

 

I can imagine it now. I watched ze movie Jacques Jacques Attaque I speak a ze French. Ze bébé Jacques Jacques go chop chop ze head of his ennemis make great révolutionnaire.

 

yes I’m a bad piggie for this Frankenstein’s Monster mash of a language I created. Totally worth it though?

[Alessia Wellington]

2 minutes ago, Darkpig said:

I’m a bad piggie

 

Yep, you are. That's what makes you so crispy.

[Idyll]

27 minutes ago, Darkpig said:

I can imagine it now. I watched ze movie Jacques Jacques Attaque I speak a ze French. Ze bébé Jacques Jacques go chop chop ze head of his ennemis make great révolutionnaire.

 

yes I’m a bad piggie for this Frankenstein’s Monster mash of a language I created. Totally worth it though?

 

I need a english to "whatever this is" translation dictionary.

[Alessia Wellington]

6 minutes ago, Idyll said:

I need a english to "whatever this is" translation dictionary.

 

You can't translate piggish.

[Guest]

37 minutes ago, Alessia Wellington said:

 

Yep, you are. That's what makes you so crispy.

[Darkpig]

4 hours ago, Alessia Wellington said:

You can't translate piggish.

Pig Latin

 

I mean 

 

ooledfay ayay

Edited December 15, 2023 by Darkpig
My Pig Latin is a little rusty

[KoolHndLuke]

"Crossing some strange boundary" has always sounded so cool to me. Seems like an excellent preface to some much needed insight.

[Guest]

[Guest]

> I hate when I am put in the middle of two people who don't like each other or are in a fight and when I am directly or indirectly asked to pick a side like Dragonborn when visiting Whiterun. I have been many times in that situation and I'm not too fond of it because no side lets me be independent. In the end, both sides did not speak with me because I talked to both of them. That's not fair. The only time when I prefer to be in between is sex.

 

Edited December 16, 2023 by Evaloves4

[Darkpig]

6 hours ago, Evaloves4 said:

> I hate when I am put in the middle of two people who don't like each other or are in a fight and when I am directly or indirectly asked to pick a side like Dragonborn when visiting Whiterun. I have been many times in that situation and I'm not too fond of it because no side lets me be independent. In the end, both sides did not speak with me because I talked to both of them. That's not fair. The only time when I prefer to be in between is sex.

 

I just lie through my teeth that I prefer one over the other then do absolutely nothing

 

In game I mean in game!

[Idyll]

On 12/14/2023 at 7:06 PM, Alessia Wellington said:

You can't translate piggish.

 

Hold my gag...

 

*Courts in piggish*

 

Woah, that's a downward spiral.