lissahearn

I came across the Fish Companion mod again and thought that with a little tweaking while recreating it, the fish-spidermechs could be spawned a massive but weak horde to stomp to death. Or there could be small clusters in different locations that might have the number spawned when you near the locations get higher the longer it takes you to reach as a quest that has you defeating all the fish-mechs for a special prize from the quest-giver (most likely a mage or someone obsessed with dwemer-tech). The prize? A giant person-sized spidermech mount that has a higher movement speed than any horse. I know I'd never use it. Which got me thinking. A fair few Junji Ito stories would make for interesting locations or quests. Like you come across the ruins of a town where a few ramshackle rowhomes still stand but mostly its just clumps of ash and broken trees. You spot a lighthouse off near the pier. Its empty although trying to enter it past a certain point sets off unseen fire runes. If you return to the town proper you might encounter a few insect enemies maybe a giant slug but if you reach the center of the town grounds you'll spot a custom-textured manhole. If you enter it you find a massive cave with hints of dwemer-tech... but further you go the more you find twisting flesh-toned stones covering up machinery. At its core is a retextured copy of the Eye of Magnus. The Enigma of Amigara Fault would just be an easter-egg location where a few cracks on one side of a mountain are shaped like silhouettes and if you can find the exit side its a weird squiggle that should you interact with spawns a highly distorted corpse. The Dissolving Classroom would be a bit harder to pull off. The lazy route would be having a young girl and her brother in an otherwise empty house. Entering the basement would reveal its covered with bloodstains, mostly near the door or against the opposing wall. Closer inspection would also reveal lumps of flesh-colored rocks stuck in the floor. Entering the basement would trigger the inhabitants aggression and also a poison rune. The biggest thing would, naturally, be Tomie. Wait no actual biggest would be Hellstar Remina but I doubt that thing would get anywhere near Nirn. For the most part you could cherry pick ideas from the Kyoufo Manga Collection but Tomie would abuse the idea of same-face-same-voice NPCs. Some might be just living wherever you find them, some might be potential Followers... but either way they're very annoying to deal with. They are cold and cruel to your character and the catch with the Followers here is that you can't tell them to leave or wait and they're terrible in a fight. If your character attacks and kills them, the Tomies are now enemies. Your bounty goes up in whatever hold is closest to your then current location. Maybe there's more of them now but there is a random chance that the one you encounter remembers you killing them and acts scared and makes the closest male NPC attack you and killing that NPC also drives up your bounty/infamy because its treated like an act of aggression on your part. All in all just a strange idea.

I remember reading similar ideas in that the world and all beings within it are the imagination or dream of some higher level being. Its an interesting idea although not a pleasant one. Are you a person because you perceive yourself as one or are you a person because you are a fragment of a real one? Is everything around you real or are the inconsistencies and haze in memory the result of the dream moving on and the old parts no longer matter? The idea that we are all but a dream is inherently flawed by our understanding of dreams. On the other hand how would we know if we are dreams? We wouldn't know if what we know as fact is actually fact. However for sake of argument the idea that we are nothing but a dream relies on reality being mutable in every aspect. This is not the case although if it was would we be able to recognize this? The idea that everything is a computer simulation is unfortunately more plausible as data is retained with greater fidelity by a computer than a mind. Events can be procedurally generated, the more components you have in a simulation the more it can shift and sway from the core... Again there is the problem of how do we know we are real if everything is a simulation? The human mind is a blackbox unto itself that we have yet to truly unravel. However here too is a catch with the idea: the more complex a computer simulation is then the more prone it is to glitches. Just look at any video game or simulation that has water physics for a key example. We don't have random water spires or massive gaps in an otherwise full lake, we don't have heavier than air objects frozen in the air (aircraft don't count)... That being said this assumes that the technology is comparable to what we have even if it is incredibly better at rendering and managing everything. So in the end while an interesting and terrifying idea, it isn't plausible.

Look into your heart. You know the truth. You know they'll screw it up big time.

I believe it was Super Mario Bros but it could had been Doom as I'm not sure which I played first. All I remember is sitting next to my older brother as we took turns in the former while the later was completely due to him having the PC first so most of the games were FPSes... and Myst. And Maniac Mansion. That being said we have a Commodore 64 and Atari 2600 but I have no idea if we had them because of Dad being a such a tech geek or if we had them because my brother got them years later like with the Sega Saturn.

(cracks knuckles) This took a bit to write but here we go. Playstation: Tail Concerto, Ape Escape, FF7 (found 8 a bit clunky but I never got around to trying 9), Digimon World 3, Chrono Cross, Gauntlet Legends, Megaman Legends, Metal Gear VR Missions, Klonoa, Silhouette MirageSeries: Crash Bandicoot, Spyro the Dragon, DDR, Parappa the Rapper and Um Jammer Lammy, Twisted Metal, Soul Edge and Soul CaliburPlayed as Ports: PoPoLoCrois, Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure, Star Ocean, Dino Crisis and Time Crisis (I think they were arcade versions of the same but I'm not sure now),Games I still mean to try: Suikoden, Grandia, Persona/Shin Megami Tensei, Digimon World 2, Vagrant Story, Valkyrie Profile, MediEvil, Wild ARMS, Xenogears, Armored Core, Tactics Ogre, Vandal HeartsPlaystation 2 Klonoa 2, Parappa the Rapper 2, Okami, Space Channel 5, Jak and Daxter (1, didn't play the rest), Shadow the Hedgehog (it was incredibly stupid but I treated it like a B-movie), Zone of the Enders, Chulip, Stretch Panic, Under the Skin, PsychonautsSeries: Kingdom Hearts, .hack//IMOQ and .hack//G.U. 1-3, Ape Escape, DDR, Ico and Shadow of the Colossus, Dragon Ball Z Budokai, Ratchet & Clank, Soul Calibur, Viewtiful Joe, Dark Cloud 1 and 2, Magic Pengel and Graffiti Kingdom, Katamari DamacyPlayed as Ports: Gitaroo Man, Secret Agent Clank, Tales of Symphonia, Ys seriesGames I still mean to try: The Bouncer (bought it, yet to try), Enter the Matrix, God of War series, Prince of Persia, Dynasty Warriors, Sly Cooper, Armored Core series, Drakengard, Romancing SaGa, Odin Sphere There's a lot more to the lists but I can't remember everything I played. Like I remember this one weird boxy animal game where you ate other animals and absorbed their parts into yourself but I can't remember the name for love or money. I also remember playing a Spider-Man game and a Hulk game but I don't remember their systems but I think they were PS2. Then there's the fact that a lot of other games I remember were my older brother's. He played a lot of horror games like Resident Evil, Clock Tower, Parasite Eve, and Silent Hill. Likewise he played Sly Cooper and Metal Gear Solid and although I didn't enjoy the genre as a kid I'm find enjoyable titles in the genre so I may go back to these. This is also the case with SRPGs like Disgaea although I have problems that are unique to NIS games rather than the genre as a whole which is namely grind and item decay. He also played God of War, Guitar Hero, Rock Band, and Fighting games like Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter. Some titles I can blame on him like Silhouette Mirage, Twisted Metal, Ico, and Chulip. Others are squarely on my shoulders like Magic Pengel and .hack//. All this is just for two systems not counting games ported to the PS1 and PS2 like Innocent Life and Chrono Trigger. This is what you get when your parents are tech geeks and kind of used the gaming systems to keep the kids corralled in a single room so he could get things from work done without going too far to check on the kids from time to time after they got their homework done.

I just realized that I don't believe I ever posted in the forums. Chatroom, sometimes, but not the forums. And its been... a while since I registered. Er, so as I said: hello. I am a lifelong gamer who dove headfirst into modding PC games a while back. Not creating mods... I'm ashamed to say that my attempts to work with 3D models have been subpar. I can do textures fine but creating and posing the models is another thing entirely. The first game I modded I believe was Morrowind although it could had been KOTOR. Or maybe it was Minecraft? No, that was mostly custom maps my toying with the mods came a bit later... Currently I'm redoing my modlist for Skyrim. Over 200 mods and I'm nowhere near done... It doesn't even include most of the graphical mods that change up the characters' textures and models or make the landscape easier on the eyes. Vortex is helping me keep the different lists straight. New Vegas is sitting on the wayside although I had a bit of a nasty shock while starting out with Who Vegas. I keep eyeing the Dragon Age mods but I want to experience the game for itself first even though it took me forever to decide to buy it. Didn't help that every time it was on sale I saw dozens of other games I wanted to play more for less. I have a slight problem with staying focused on just one game at a time. I have a new save of Breath of the Wild with the DLC that's on hold because I found a cheap copy of Radiant Histora for the 3DS which in turn I paused to try out Adventure Time Because I Don't Know and its terrible which is a shame because I enjoyed Secret of the Nameless Kingdom. I Don't Know feels like they were originally going to make a roguelike but wanted to do an action-adventure dungeon crawler instead. With Android games its even worse between the actually good stuff and the things I've gotten on sale or were temporarily free to buy. I can only play Zen Koi for so long, Morphite is a good idea but the execution of a FPS on an android tablet leaves something to be desired, but Path to Luma is a nice free puzzle game. I blitzed through Unpuzzle even with all the ads, finally completed The Room series only to find out that there's a new fourth game that doesn't show up on my device's store, slowly making my way through the WitchSprings series, put Framed on hold, about to replay Layton Bros since I found the other mobile Layton game to be lacking (and refuse to buy the 3DS version since it keeps the eshop instead of having everything included in the price because why do you need to raise the game from $15 outside of sales to about $40 even with the roughly $30 worth of DLC being bundled in), struggling with finding the last few notes in the Faraway series, and to say nothing of my struggles with M-Box and I'm dreading its sequel. This doesn't include any of the games on PC that are just sitting around waiting for me to continue such as La Mulana, Mainlining, and Steins;Gate (I am struggling to get through the prologue as the protag is so chuuni it hurts but a friend swears it gets better). At least I was able to complete the Shadowrun games and Subsurface Circular but then I saw the Shadowrun UGC and its like I give up this is my life now. I've regularly rattled off long mostly curated lists of games to friends based on their interests in the past and I've started to do so with mods as well. A friend likes to run mages? Here's a long list of mage armor, staves, some spell packs, and quests. Necromancer? Here's a few extra armor, a mask, and this one spell/quest that is amazing. Oh you want to run a paladin? Here's a few mods that will help change your game outside of just armor sets. Play an evil character or want a fall from grace? I remember this old Oblivion mod... its a bit late-game but it was totally worth it. Playing Fallout? You know there's a lot of really good original quests to help liven up your new run how about... Starbound? There's so many things that add more content but if you use this it will change the game extensively so use it only if you're sure. I also get a bit chatty when nervous. Not sure why its not like I haven't spent about five years off-and-on lurking the site. [/sarcasm] I'm just going to hit post. Hope everyone's having a pleasant day and its nice to meet you even if I'm being an awkward nut.