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Pretty sure having undefended exhaust ports is a requirement for being an Ultimate Power in the Universe. Without it yer nothin' more than a Mary Sue!

I'd like to see a source of that, personally, as that's not how I remember it. As I recall, the reason they didn't redo the Rikti War Zone geometry was PRECISELY because it would save them a ton of time which they could then spend making the Rikti Base tileset, artwork for the new NPCs, new contacts and so on. That was the point of Melissa's "We could either do the zone or do the story and we chose to do the story" comment.

I have a hard time comprehending how doing that AND making a brand new zone from scratch could have been pretty much the same as just doing that and leaving the zone unchanged.

Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

If my memory serves, I recall someone telling the devs that in-person and the reply was that there *are* actual women in the art group that makes costumes. Assuming there aren't any is actually a dangerous presumption in a lot of ways.

It's like they assume that just because an outfit looks like "OMG! The physics wouldn't work and a RL woman wouldn't wear that?" that a woman artist can't think "This would be awesome! This would look great! This would look cute! This would..." ect ect

People assuming such silly things.

Unless I'm mistaken, to FINISH them, no you don't.

Which was my point.

Welcome to the internet?

I know. I was being silly.

You are correct. They either typoed and left out the 'r' or was just mistaken.

Honestly? I'd let Arcana attest to that in person. Or not attest to it, if that is what Arcana chooses.

Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

Fortunately, I managed to acquire a rare picture of Arcana;

Originally Posted by Zwillinger GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.

Originally Posted by Captain_Photon NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.

Here I am.

Are you going to rock him like a hurricane?

I mean a source of the original quote. I don't mean to be a dick here and go "Pics or it didn't happen!" but I remember that post from War Witch and I don't remember it going like that. Do we have it recorded somewhere so I can refresh my memory? Because I honestly do recall her saying that the development team at the time intentionally didn't do almost anything in the zone specifically as a means of saving time and money so that they could get the other things done.

If a not doing a total revamp of the zone from scratch didn't save much effort, why didn't it happen? Wouldn't that mean it wouldn't have been much effort to do it?

Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

Cheryl Austin is a character artist, and Carolina Tello Alvarado is a concept artist.

Apart from the heels, I don't really think there's anything wrong with the barbarian outfit - but Iwon't be swpping my spandex for it

Quite frankly, a number of different devs said this a number of different times so consistently, that I find it odd you remember it differently. If you remember a dev saying it was relatively easy, then *you* find that quote.

I LOLd.

or....

Playing with those Memories again.

Mea Culpa
But then again, everyone on the web is male unless proven otherwise

Fair enough. We both know I don't have one. And again - I wasn't saying you prove what you're saying is true. It's just so different from what I remember that I... Don't get it, honestly.

I remember Melissa saying the chose no to redo the War Zone because they didn't have the resources to do it, and I remember Matt Miller saying that revamping an old zone is as expensive as making a new zone, but at the time he was referring to the Faultline revamp which WAS a new zone. I simply have a hard time understanding how making a whole new zone and NOT making a whole new zone can be relatively the same amount of effort when making a new zone has always been said to be a lot of effort.

Again, I'm not doubting your word, I just can't make sense of this in light of what I remember. It's possible I remember wrong, it's possible you're referring to posts I never saw. I could well just be wrong. But it's difficult for me to just conclude I've been remembering this wrong for how many years now?

Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

No, that's can't be.


GLaDOS just needs to be loved.

Arcana is a monster.



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