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  1. Posted

    2 hours ago, SeriousJupiter said:

    Oh yeah, I somehow forgot Raven. Still, seeing as he doesn't know about most of the Main Eight and that they all know about him, I don't see him volunteering to train anyone any time soon unless the Main Eight make the first move.

    That'd be a fun way for the Main 8 to not be under DGB's authority while additionally dealing with a lot of the Tedd / Noriko / Raven / Edward drama. It'd also get Raven into the story, which would bring Pandora along again...and it would allow for the Main 8 to get some training they desperately need.

    I rather like that idea.

  2. Posted

    17 hours ago, CritterKeeper said:

    And don't say there's no plot to the Sims, there are several ways to play with a goal in mind, newer versions include plenty of

    challenges, and there are separate games with even more plot, like Castaways.

    My only quibble is that plot != goals. Nor would I equate it with "storyline". I'd say Sims has plenty goals, storylines, storytelling opportunities, etc...but not so much plot.

    12 hours ago, Sweveham said:

    Not just Myst and Monkey Island, but the entire adventure game genre is in general non-violent, as is similar genres like visual novels.

    A fair amount of the adventure game genre is about finding all the funny ways you can die horribly and brutally. Really depends on which segment you're looking at.

  3. Posted · Edited by Matoyak
    Added question, edited previous statements for clarity. Increased clarity caused unfortunate brusqueness though.

    On 3/20/2016 at 3:10 AM, HarJIT said:

    I've been working on possible banners: http://m.imgur.com/a/UnOeJ What do people think about it?

    Hmm. There needs to be a little bit more padding between the different elements of the image, I feel (especially width-wise). The words and the character busts are a tad too cramped together. (Nanase is the best example of this. The "e" is almost in her ear. Allow the banners to be a bit wider to give some breathing room).

    (I'd personally prefer a different font as well, and no gradient, but that's personal bias speaking, not something I feel is broken in the image).

    EDIT: The old banners had a quick description of the character's personality. Will these as well? I kind of prefer them small like this, but maybe offering one that has the desc would be good too?

  5. Posted

    24 minutes ago, CritterKeeper said:

    I rather like the idea of Pandora being one of the options.  Mr. Verres, too, and maybe Greg.

    Ellen from Elliot would have to be how outgoing and impulsive Ellen is, vs how laid-back Elliot is.  Any question about going out of town would nail that distinction.

    Now, some quizzes, every question and every answer is obviously steering you towards a specific result.  I've always likes quizzes where at least some of the options arn't obvious in their intent.  Any question which asks about where you want to go on vacation, and has an option for staying home, EGS readers will know picking "stay home" will mark them as Elliot.  Can anyone think of a more subtle way to ask that question?

    Yes, I hate quizzes where the answers are too clear. Hnmmm... Maybe a question about instant gratification, with three answers, one where they go for it, one where they delay it for later, and one where they just coast? I dunno, still seems a tad too obvious to me there...(though that might still make for a good question.)

    We should also probably have an idea about how many questions there should be. I vote for "More than 15, less than 50" to start out with, Anything less and you almost HAVE to be obvious about the answers, because you can't get any real nuance in.

  6. Posted

    40 minutes ago, Scotty said:

    Well maybe more for Diane then to be in the third option. Charlotte is all for investigating spooky stuff but wanted the group to research the details and narrow down where to look instead of just wandering around the city searching, that feels like a #1 choice to me.

    Ah, but she called in backup for when it was go-time, and needed backup of those better versed in the subject to do the research as well. ...honestly, the third option is a bit of a subset of the first, to me. Most safe solutions involve calling in the backup that you know is better at the subject, if calling in backup is an option. I could change the oil of my car just fine. But the safest solution would be to call in an expert: my dad. And he could call in his buddy Rob who's a mechanic at a Kia dealership.

  7. Posted

    13 hours ago, Sjmcc13 said:

    Am I the only won who feels that Andrea and Tara are interacting like a married Tedd and Elliot?

    If it weren't for the idea that they're from the other half of EGS-land, I'd be down for the idea of them being alternate universe alternates of Tedd and Elliot/Ellen.

    1 hour ago, hkmaly said:
    3 hours ago, Changer said:

    It sounds like magic is pretty commonplace in the first half of the universe, while it is secret in the second. Did magic have a falling-out with it's self over whether or not it wanted to be common-knowledge and split in half?

    Actually, the disco wizard said Magic has no desire to go mainstream and make itself available to everyone.

    I think what changer was saying is that there may have been one entity that was "Magic" in the start...and then at some point part of it wished to change to make magic available to all, while part wanted the opposite. The end result is either a split creating two magics, or a magic with literal multiple personality disorder.

  8. Posted

    4 hours ago, Scotty said:

    When faced with a potentially risky situation do you...

    Look for a safe solution.

    Jump right in and wing it.

    Call for backup.

    The first could apply to Tedd, Nanase or Sarah and maybe Charlotte or Diane, the second could apply to Elliot or Ellen, and probably Justin, Ashley, Catalina maybe Noah too. Third could be Grace, Susan, Tensaided, Melissa and Rhoda

    I feel like we have an example that proves Charlotte and Diane would be the third option: the current Main storyline.

  9. Posted

    4 hours ago, SeriousJupiter said:

    I've completed my 4th, 5th and 6th Gen Pokédexes (not counting every event Pokémon). It took quite a while, but I did it and I'm quite proud. However, I believe I won't buy Sun and Moon. I've played Pokémon for most of my life, ever since the first Gen came out, so perhaps it's time for me to find some other hobby.

    I'm thinking I might get into the next gen, whatever they do with the NX. Would be my first one since Gen II. (I played Diamond back when, but only 5 or 6 hrs or so by borrowing a fat DS from a friend). I'm currently playing Pokémon Zeta, and I'm rather liking it. Mostly 'cause it's the beautiful sprite based stuff....I freakin' hate the 3D art in the later games. It's so hideous. The balance is odd to me due to the games being based on Gen V, so the balance is way different than my Gen I and Gen II experiences.

  10. Posted

    11 hours ago, Arcanimus said:

    I suddenly feel much more accomplished for making ends meet (and getting ahead) on an estimated yearly income of about $13k before taxes (~$9.2k after taxes). 

    24 minutes ago, ijuin said:

    Yeah, I would assume that you are able to get by on that amount because you are paying comparatively little out-of-pocket for your housing and medical coverage.

    https://aspe.hhs.gov/2015-poverty-guidelines

    Persons in family/household Poverty guideline
    1 $11,770
    2 $15,930

    I'd have to guess the same. (Also, I think the poverty guidelines are pre-taxes, not post-taxes.)

    I make roughly the same amount as Arcanimus (slightly less), but I happen to still live with my folks while doing school. I'm lucky in that way. I don't have health insurance at all, and my car was paid off a few years back, which means I can have only liability coverage.

  11. Posted

    On 3/16/2016 at 11:08 PM, Scotty said:

    This is kind of random way to end a story, gonna have to file this under "not sure how I feel".

    I know there's 1 more Friday that'll really end the story, but not sure what to expect for that.

    I'm putting it firmly in the "ehh...not a fan" category for me. Just a limp way of ending the storyline.

  12. Posted

    On 3/16/2016 at 11:01 PM, Scotty said:

    That's a turtle? For my entire time here I thought it was a type of scarab associated with the whole Pharaoh deal. Lol

    I've never actually been able to figure out what it was. Just too pixelated, and my brain could never make it out. I see the turtle now.

  15. Posted · Edited by Matoyak

    8 hours ago, hkmaly said:

    Another bugreport: Something broke fonts on site. Seems it's called ACME.

    Yeah, the fonts look...off. Awkward, in a way. Titles are condensed and bold in bad ways, the forum headers are outlined hideously in white.

    Also, the report post buttons are gigantic and seem like they're from a different site entirely. One designed 5 or 10 years ago.

    EDIT: Yeah, boy. The fonts and those buttons are really bad. Woof. I can't seem to get over them. Also, because of the font change the spacing of the stuff in the navbar is off. The house icon is touching the edge of the blue box, and the "Mark site read" link is as well.

    Additionally, the background color for "drag files here to attach" makes the "choose files" link near impossible to read. (Also, @Zorua pointed out that at the bottom of threads the navigation buttons [ie: "Go To Topic Listing"] should probably have a background color).

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  16. Posted

    15 hours ago, Thom Revor said:

    More than Weisman.  Star Trek writers had been doing that for decades for the same reason.  Too many loons who sue because someone wrote a story/movie/song that happened to be similar to what they wrote but was never read/heard by the people being sued.

    It's just good legal sense, unfortunately.

    This is why game companies and game developers beg people to NOT give them game ideas. Game Devs do NOT want to hear your ideas...they can't legally risk it.

  18. Posted

    20 hours ago, The Old Hack said:

    Given that Tara is a knight and their persistent mention of royalty I am starting to suspect that their half of the world (Darn you, Dan, EXPLAIN THAT!) is a monarchy with a feudal system of some sort. Possibly a vestigial one with some sort of civil representation. Moreover, I find the reactions of the griffins rather interesting. I have this feeling that they still have Nanase placed in the slot marked 'royalty' in their worldview and that they go along with not calling her 'princess' mostly as polite acceptance of royal caprice. ("Uh, of course, your Majest -- I mean, your Elizabethness -- I mean Elizabeth!")

    Hmm. Possibility of Abraham being from that half of the world as well?

    Also, I'm guessing something vaguely Arthurian for the Griffin world.

    Also also, it's pretty amusing seeing "do you know how many laws of physics you're breaking" coming out of the mouth of a flying tiger-bird :P

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  19. Posted

    1 hour ago, PSadlon said:

    True Velociraptors are Asian and they were peacock sized. What are shown were supposedly the North American Deinonychuses (which were just tall enough to bit of a man's junk) and they made them almost as big as another Asian inhabitant the Achillobators. Utahraptors were about polar bear sized. All of these genuses were members of the Dromaeosaurids

    Hehe, ninja'd ya by about two days or so :p. I like your measurement for height of them though :P

  20. Posted

    1 hour ago, Wixelt said:

    There was alot of really good fanart on the old forum. It'd be a shame that alot of it will probably be lost now.

    This is why it's probably best to not upload directly to forum databases, and instead to host them elsewhere, (While keeping local copies and backups via HDD and online like Backblaze or Crashplan). Forums / forum databases tend to be more likely to go down than something like DeviantArt or Imgur.

  21. Posted

    7 hours ago, exterminator said:

    I think @ProfessorTomoe was doing that in the old forum? I think I remember getting my old avatar from a thread he made about it. Might be mistaking him with another user, though.

    He sort of was. It was more like his own art thread, and most of his art happened to be avatars. The Gunnerkrigg thread has lots of people putting lots of avys in, and it's purely used for avatars.

    5 hours ago, Scotty said:

    Personally, forums avatars can change based on the person's interests and mood "Hey this looks good as an avatar."::4 months later:: "Oooh I like this one!" and so I would have preferred people keeping the name they used in the old forums. Names are a more permanent identifier for me.

    Which is why I also like having a thread where you put your previous avatar into a post when you change to a new one. I guess since on these boards you can change your name 3 times a month, we could make a thread about "Forum Identity" and any time you change your name or avatar you would make a post with your current name+avy and what they previously were.

    4 hours ago, SeriousJupiter said:

    I suppose it's kind of my symbol/logo/whatever you want to call it.

    Mine's similar, though it's a more recent logo and I've had a few of them throughout my internet life.

  22. Posted

    3 minutes ago, Stature said:

    I think availability, preferability, and "aesthetic" holds some people back from posting an avatar.

    Though I so agree on this too. Even IRL I know people more by face so I then can call their name.

    Oh, I totally understand that. I tend to use avys I've made myself for that reason. For help with finding appropriate avatars, I do like how Gunnerkrigg Court's forums have an Avatar thread where people will take images from the comic and crop them into avy form. (Gunnerkrigg Forum Thread) It's nice for people to be able to pick like that.

    And yeah, I know the vast majority of people by faces, not names. I'm just really bad at remembering them. Takes months of knowing a person to really lock in their name. Forums make it even harder, so I rely on Avatars mostly. (I was constantly getting @HarJIT and @hkmaly mixed up until the former got an avatar, for instance. I believe I actively replied to one when meaning to reply to the other once, even).

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  23. Posted

    11 hours ago, The Old Hack said:

    I am torn. I love some of the forms they have come up with but on the other hand I would like to see something new. Maybe something involving Susan? She hasn't been around even in the main comic for a while.

    Yeah, I'm pushing for "get on with it so we can see new things! And Susan, pls!", myself.

    12 hours ago, Sjmcc13 said:

    Looks like grace is mid-changing back in the last panel. 

    I noticed this as well.

    10 hours ago, SeriousJupiter said:

    Dan said that Tedd would show up in this storyline at some point..

    Did he? I thought he said that Tedd "may" show up in it, not that it was a guaranteed thing...

  24. Posted

    2 hours ago, CritterKeeper said:

    Were the giant velociraptors asian?  I thought they'd only been found that big in Utah.

    Utahraptor is a different genus than Velociraptor. Additionally, Dromaesaurines (Deinonychus and Utahraptor, among others) are a different branch than Velociraptorines.

    So, being a bit pedantic, there are no giant Velociraptors, Asian or no. The little guys were about the size of a German Shepard. Would come up just above the average human male's knee if it was standing normally. (Though including tail would be roughly 2m long). :) But if you were speaking of Utahraptor, then yes, those guys are "American" (for values of American that mean "fossils found in modern America" :P). These guys were big, unlike Velociraptor. Standing normally they'd be taller than the average human, and including tail would be roughly 7m long. About the size of a Polar Bear. Another "American" raptor was Deinonychus, the closest thing we know of to Jurassic Park's Velociraptor in size.

    I believe that all Velociraptors have been Asian, though, with the majority of them being found in Mongolia.

    Additionally, Dromaesaurines, like Velociraptorines, were almost certainly feathered creatures. We have confirmation of such in Velociraptors, and strong strong evidence for the others in these groups.

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