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Quote:I was so pleased at being a lore geek when that came up and I was all, "ooh, ooh, I know!"Originally Posted by AzureSkyCiel
anyway though, I honestly enjoyed the story, though despite someone's comment about the dialogue trees being forced, I'm actually thankful since one of the questions involved a bit of lore not everyone's familiar with since it's in an out-of-game source so I screwed up that question twice before getting it right.
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Quote:*laughs*Originally Posted by Scythus
inb4 Venture's "why it sux" post.
I didn't have the guts to try it at x8 (though I might on my MM later)... but GOD I want those maps!
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Total props for Malaise's last line.
Played both sides, enjoyed both sides. And it was nice to see it referencing a lot of little disparate elements from the game to tie it all together.
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Quote:During the last Ustream, when Synapse (Phil Zeleski) was on, I asked him if we could get escrima in the game at some point. From what he said, I gather he's already made inroads into seeing if/how they could do it. Now that we have dual blades (and once we get staves), it'll hopefully bring it more into the realm of possibility.Originally Posted by chawk
My thoughts exactly (tho I really want to see dual staff/stick fighting one of these days).
But for those who are looking forward to TW have fun for me also.
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Actually, what this whole thing reminds me of is this... (very slightly NSFW)
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COH Beach Party!
Sun. Surf. Sand. Random Nemesis mole machines coming up through the ground.
New emote - Volleyball spike shot (imagine a variant of Total Focus/Air Superiority)
New emote - Lie flat on stomach on beach towel
New emote - Build sandcastle
New emote - slow-mo jog with surfboard (or Rocketboard) under your arm
New currency - Sand Dollars! (or Clams!)
Used to buy Sunblock (prevents damage during zone event, described below), Portable Cooler (increases the # of inspirations you can carry), Summon Lifeguard (think a variant of Backup Radio or Amy), etc.
New beach event - Bodysurfing
New zone event - HEAT WAVE! Lord and Lady Summer are setting Paragon and the Rogue Isles on fire! Heroes and villains with cold powers (to offset the heat) and electrical powers (to get the AC working again) are desperately needed! Bonus prestige if you use the Extinguishers from the burning buildings in Steel Canyon to take them down!
New zone event - FIREWORKS! The various villain groups are partying it up, but no one's told them that you don't exactly fire off a box of Roman Candles INSIDE a building! Think a variant of the Burning Building event where the players must re-acquire the boxes of fireworks that were to be used by the city - if the players fail, a random necessary building gets taken out of commission for 15 minutes... if they succeed, players get a neat fireworks display that acts as a morale buff for all open zone events for 15 minutes.
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From another thread from a while ago...
How about a soapbox derby? Crafted out of clockwork gears (wheels), hydraulic pistons (axles), ceramic armor plates (better than a cardboard box for safety)... we can even go for Soapbox Death Race 2000! Or recreate the Fast and the Furious by having teams of really hot /kins in bikinis speedboosting the derby cars as they go by...
Being able to actually SAIL out on the water! We've got all those speedboats... set up a buoy circuit and let us race! "Hundreds gathered today by the docks of Talos Island to witness the beginning of the first Paragon Cup, as crews race the circuit across Paragon Bay..."
Praetoria can get in on the event with a crew team... make going for the River badges much more entertaining...
Clambakes on the beach (the normal kind, not the type you have in an enclosed car)... Kheldians may wish to remain in human form.
New travel power: Sack Hopping
New tailor look: Sunburn
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Quote:The one I use to compress is VirtualDub (using the ffdshow codec) - saving as AVI compresses files down to a much more manageable size.Originally Posted by LadyGrimrose
1) Is there some secret to getting vifs past the 3.95 gb limit I'm experiencing? Totally, newbie here, so lamen terms would be appreciated.
2) Since I seem to be stonewalling into this gig limit, is there a way to splice two or more vids together, maybe even once uploaded to YouTube?
3) Annd lastly, is there a good way to compress the file sizes and still be able to upload them to YouTube?
(Kinda in a bind atm, Vid series Starts Monday! So any help will be greatly appreciated.)
I then use Sony Vegas Movie Studio for my actual video editing, and save the output file as WMV, which compresses again without significant loss of quality.
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Beginning my daily mention of RWH in my Twitter feed to spread the word... AND I'm contributing to this year's auction!
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Quote:Oh that was so bad it was good...Originally Posted by Schismatrix
That's DJ Mao Mixx.
He keeps offering to take over when DJ Zero gets bored to no avail.
He's even offered to give Zero a CD with more than one track on it.
Also to no avail.
I've already gotten requests to make a video for that character. Three guesses as to which song.Quote:Originally Posted by Scythus
Best pun name of the day. That's right up there with this week's earlier entry, "Sidhe Bang."
A bit slow on the uptake? Did you pull a Posi and start cutting caffeine out of your diet or something?Quote:Originally Posted by Zwillinger
Oh good gravy I finally got that...
Michelle
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I got through about five days before life, in typical fashion, dropped a ton of stuff on me in November (a string of paying video gigs topping the list).
ARGH.
Gratz to those who made it though!
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Naginata and Yari for staff melee.
Nodachi and... crud, I forget the "horse-cutter" sword's name (Lone Wolf and Cub).
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Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!
This year I'm grateful that three friends of mine have taken the leap of faith to move to Seattle to make a fresh start of their lives. They all got here in the last two days. We're celebrating.
Michelle
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I wanna say about 45 minutes in? I THINK?!
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*laughing* Not as bad as I was afraid there might be.
Incidentally, what I said that made everyone in the room laugh was, "I can't keep doing these for you, you guys are putting stuff out too fast!"
(It was not intended as "hire me", it was intended as "stop dragging your feet and advertise more.")
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Hooray, our thread has been restored and restickied!! Thanks so much, Avatea!
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I didn't quite get down on my knees to beg them not to kill Positron, but it was pretty close. I gave John Hegner my best wide-eyed, hands on heart, sentimental pleading. He just laughed at me.
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I guess now this means I really need to finish my Dark Astoria video...
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Quote:Probably because I'd asked Brian and Zwill on Sat night when the alcohol was flowing a bit more freely and they seemed quite flush on the success of the summit. Once they sobered up the following morning, reality might have sunk in.Originally Posted by Red_Gren
I talked to Zwill to find out about next year & the answer I got was that he couldn't promise that there would be a Pummit in 2012. He did say Paragon Studios very much likes doing an event like this & they would very much like to do one in 2012, but Zwill couldn't PROMISE that there would be one. I don't know why Sam & I have discrepancies in our information.
Being the eternal optimist, I put it down more to "who knows what the hell NCsoft is going to do next/economy ups-downs/Marketing will kill us if we commit/we're releasing something uberbig next year and might not have the time" stuff as to the caution, but I really do think they'll hold one.
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Quote:I personally would love to see the ones from the Keynote speech - if the Twitter comments are anything to go by, I gather the snark when I got up to... ummmm... encourage the Marketing Team with great enthusiasm and volume is probably worth reading.Originally Posted by Snow Globe
I have the chat logs for all the ones I've been on for... It isn't pretty.
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Quote:Oh, I did. I'd mentioned some of the Lore threads and he was like, "Really? Where?" (coz several were from before his time at PS) So I mentioned a few to look for, a couple posters' names usually associated with them, etc.Originally Posted by Melancton
I am sure you can point him to the various threads we have participated in that attempt to make sense out of the lore as it is. I still think Astoria went dark, was redeemed by the Freedom Phalanx in the 50's and went dark again after the Rikti invaded in 2002.
I am still totally holding out for the day that I get a job at PS... videographer would be nice, technical writer would be nice, but I would LOOOOOVE the job of "Keeper of Canon Lore, Seneschale of the Internal Wiki, She Who Should Be Asked Before You Write ANYTHING". It'd look nice on my business card.
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You know, I just had an idea of a way to both keep and yet 'lose' the fog...
I'm just not sure if Tunnel Rat can pull this off on this scale, but it'd be a variant on an effect that she added to the last room of the last mission of the Mender Ramiel arc. An otherwise normal Cimeroran map has a very faint, golden, almost twinkly look to it, representing the aftereffect of the well. (It's actually a beautiful effect, and one I wish I could duplicate via demoediting, but alas...)
I wonder if it'd be possible to add something similar to that to the revamped Dark Astoria, giving it a faint silver/grey effect (or other subtle color), and not quite the 'twinkle' but a slight shimmer to indicate that this place is not really all 'there', as it were. Those motes out of the corner of your eyes that make you wonder what was just there...
Okay, gonna PM her this one and see what she says.
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Quote:And all I can see in my mind is this.Originally Posted by Avatea
[*]The Battle Fury Aura. Your character will appear to be channeling awesome cosmic powers.
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Quote:Hey, feel free to snark. Just don't take my head off if I brought back news from the Plummit that you personally don't like, as if it were my decision or my fault.Originally Posted by Aura_Familia
I have a snarky comment about what's happened to the writing in this game since the early days, but I'm going to leave it alone.
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Quote:I don't think there's a word strong enough to describe it. "Excrement." "Abominable." "Horrendous." "Insulting." "Demeaning."Originally Posted by Eva Destruction
Wow, really? I would have hated to see what it was like before.Quote:Originally Posted by Dark_Respite
The beta testers got the devs to change the Keith Nance arc after THAT first draft was nothing short of flaming poo into something worth playing. If needs be, we'll do it again.
In a nutshell, it didn't matter that by lvl 20, you were (usually) recognized as a hero of the city by Statesman and gifted with a cape, recognized by at least one, maybe two members of the Freedom Phalanx for exceptional heroism (for the TFs), etc.
Nance didn't like you, and was just WAITING for the excuse to assassinate you.
With super-sekrit hidden invulnerable ninjas.
Yes, it was pluralized.
And that was just the opening story of the arc. It got worse from there. Never mind all the ridiculous inconsistencies about where we were sent, why we were sent, etc. AND it was so badly broken we couldn't finish it to just get it over with and move on to the next arc.
The ENTIRE beta group revolted. We told the rednames in NO uncertain terms that if this arc made it to live, we would stop at NOTHING to tell the entire playerbase not to play it, because it went against everything we as players believed about our characters. We might range from novice to veteran heroes, we might range from reluctant to enthusiastic, from bright futures to shadowed pasts, but we were still HEROES. This completely demeaned everything we had done for the past 20 levels.
To their credit, they asked, "What would you do instead?" We gave them new ideas, made suggestions, hashed it out amongst ourselves and the devs. They tried another iteration - better but still needing a ton of work. We went back to the drawing board. Again and again. Finally they said, "Okay, try this..." And we said, "Yes... THIS will do."
That became the current Keith Nance arc. Later I found out they'd applied those lessons to the sequel arc (Jenni Adair's), and refined it quite well, to the point where it's one of my favorite arcs in the game.
So... yeah.
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*hugs all around to the Justice gang*
It was terrific seeing you guys again! (And meeting Turg!) Sorry I wasn't able to join you guys on Fri night/Sat morning, but Sat lunch and Sun breakfast was worth it.
BTW, John (Bloodspeaker) thanks everyone for the well-wishes, and hopes to be there for the next get together!
Michelle
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