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Bugs are like the sims, if you read someones narrative on their sims, it sounds exciting and makes you want to play the game. When you play the game, your sims wander around and everything you found endearing about them from the narrative is just part of the game and not very interesting or unique at all. Bugs are mostly only interesting when you add extra words about them.
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nvining posted:Heh. I wish it was that exciting. Where we are right now with the pre-alpha - before The Magnificent Seven even get a shot at it - is that people will play the game and then, suddenly, everybody will just stop working, starve to death, and die. Not so much a downer as more of a reality check. Since the adventures of Steam Green light I think a lot of gamers have realized that beta (or alpha) testing is not all sunshine and rainbows, but rather actual work. Just keep the insanity forest.
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Jan 23, 2014 23:58
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nvining posted:"Hey, everybody suddenly just starves to death and it isn't actually funny." Hmm, I dunno. A random "Argh, the boar-worms are devouring my innards!" settlement wipe does give me at least a little dark amusement...
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Jan 24, 2014 00:02
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nvining posted:Heh. I wish it was that exciting. Where we are right now with the pre-alpha - before The Magnificent Seven even get a shot at it - is that people will play the game and then, suddenly, everybody will just stop working, starve to death, and die. Isn't losing all will and wasting away one of the common effects of cosmic horrors? Just add a check that makes everyone start to babble gibberish and call it a feature. Debugging is more or less a perfect analogy for service to an Old One anyway. It sounds all glamorous and peeling back the veil to understand the working of the universe but but you really only sacrifice people on the big holidays and only after hours of chanting. And most of the secret workings you discover are frittata recipes you already knew but looked more exciting because the cookbook was a hypercube. And you'd really like to try making your own cookbook but the stove is proprietary and only works with the old cookbook and changing the stove would mean switching out the sacrificial alter and you only just got the blood stains looking good on the one you have.
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LtSmash posted:Isn't losing all will and wasting away one of the common effects of cosmic horrors? Just add a check that makes everyone start to babble gibberish and call it a feature. Besides, I'm perfectly content with the mozzarella sticks beyond human comprehension with marinara sauce that should not be that we already have, no sense changing things up when they work just fine  I just realized that we MAY need a :cultbert: smily.
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Volmarias posted:Besides, I'm perfectly content with the mozzarella sticks beyond human comprehension with marinara sauce that should not be that we already have, no sense changing things up when they work just fine Work just fine is the lowest possible bar to set for the non-euclidean appetizers. Your efforts to cater to the widest possible audience has left our entire meal so bland it makes me want to stop doing everything and starve to death where I stand. This cult was founded on the idea that we could bring into existence an unspeakable cuisine, that to merely gaze upon the menu; without even understanding the smoking glyphs that make up the names of the dishes; would be sandpaper upon the psyche. That the cyclopean smells wafting from the kitchen would drive men to gibbering madness. To see the plating of an entree would induce those with the strongest wills to gouge their own eyes out lest the essence of their very being be consumed by the vortices of un-reality in the coulis. But mozzarella sticks are 'just fine' so I'll go back to scrapping gum off the bottom of the tables while the bigwigs struggle to figure out why get such poor reviews.
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LtSmash posted:Work just fine is the lowest possible bar to set for the non-euclidean appetizers. Your efforts to cater to the widest possible audience has left our entire meal so bland it makes me want to stop doing everything and starve to death where I stand. Look, every time you try to summon a better recipe, like half of the wait staff gets eaten and so do all of the mints that say "take one." I'm not saying that we shouldn't shoot for the stars, I'm just saying when the stars shoot back for us it gets very expensive in terms of payroll and misc. expenses, and maybe you could try summoning something that understands what "one" means, whether that's "one" sacrifice or "one" mint.
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See, the twist can be that new features and happenings are then designed to trigger via those horrid and/or obscure buggy mass death events and whatnot---The Easter Egg of the new modern gaming age. "Gaslamp, suddenly my screen went black after examining a bottomless void of darkness with a right-mouse click! I can still enter commands though..." "OK, fixed in trunk, with the upcoming build that is now a sudden or "cinematic" fade to darkness. Give it a ~13 seconds and you should see a rotoscoped, period-appropriate analogue to Bill Cosby slowly walking towards the center of the screen from the nothingness as the camera zooms in on his magnificent feathered hat as a clavichord plays and he whispers unintelligible esoteric mysteries---see what happens when you check his mood and report back?"
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nvining posted:Your story of friendship touches me. Haha, another true story: I'm that friend, and I had steam closed to do my Crawl LP, so I didn't get his message about the cool happenings right away. So, my first reaction seeing the avatar was "Wait, Admiral Funk doesn't have avatar buyin' money! Ohh". Thanks a lot, now I feel less bad about needing to buy a replacement diggle when my brothers dog ate my first diggle. (Digsby, Son of Digsby is safe at my office with a bust of Geralt of Rivia.)
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Jan 24, 2014 03:15
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nvining posted:
Given his role in  BOATMURDERED it really is rather appropriate he be in the first batch of testers for this game.
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Jan 24, 2014 03:37
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Schizotek posted:Given his role in I'm hoping that's a factor of why he was chosen.
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Congrats Tias! I think I forgot who you were at one point and bumped you off my Steam friends list, but I think I gifted you Dredmor. Glad you got into CE!
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Volmarias posted:Look, every time you try to summon a better recipe, like half of the wait staff gets eaten and so do all of the mints that say "take one." I'm not saying that we shouldn't shoot for the stars, I'm just saying when the stars shoot back for us it gets very expensive in terms of payroll and misc. expenses, and maybe you could try summoning something that understands what "one" means, whether that's "one" sacrifice or "one" mint. Well, if we could find an Invisible Geometer or the like that at least understands that the day before payday is our equivalent of "when the stars are right", the payroll wouldn't be an issue at all. On that note, we need to find another orphanage. St Nyarlethotep's says the orphans that would age out of their system are now "following a greater calling" instead of looking for work. However, they are offering us a good deal on tinned meat product.
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Deadmeat5150 posted:I'm hoping that's a factor of why he was chosen. ... well, of course. I do love the classics.
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Will it be possible for your colony to encounter a famine due to a bad harvest? Most games just treat farms as a steady supply of X amount of food and as a result it's hard to actually run out of food after you're past the first stages. There's also the choice for players to use different crops based on the conditions they're predicting. Crops that vary how much work they take to plant, care for and harvest, and how well they survive variations in temperature, amount of rain and the presence of diseases. And eldritch rituals / SCIENCE to predict and control the weather. You could even import tinned rain, a fresh refreshing invention from the mainland. Maybe it won't work. Or maybe it will. But I'm sure it's perfectly safe regardless.
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nvining posted:Heh. I wish it was that exciting. Where we are right now with the pre-alpha - before The Magnificent Seven even get a shot at it - is that people will play the game and then, suddenly, everybody will just stop working, starve to death, and die. The Intel HD3000s are an abomination of a graphics card and every single one of them should be fired into the sun
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Some incarnation of the broodwich from aqua teen should make it in. A sandwich so tasty you must constantly fight it away from the gluttonous. When they eventually eat it horrors are unleashed.
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Goodpancakes posted:Some incarnation of the broodwich from aqua teen should make it in. A sandwich so tasty you must constantly fight it away from the gluttonous. When they eventually eat it horrors are unleashed. A variation of each of the seven sins could manifest inside the nobility, think demons in Dragon Age. A noble possessed by a demon embodying a sin will act in a certain manner. A wrath demon will murder his spouse and children at the slightest provocation. A greed demon will amass all the wealth in the land. A sloth demon will cause his possessed body to gradually convert into this: 
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Jan 24, 2014 09:38
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I still only have four e-mails...
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Jan 24, 2014 23:18
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nvining posted:I still only have four e-mails...
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Wiggly Wayne DDS posted:I can send more if you want He'll only send you more replies and require you to play multiple testing copies simultaneously.
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If anyone reading this thread hasn't picked up the excellent Dungeons of Dredmor yet, and is somehow unable to pick up the current humble bundle, I will donate a copy to the first asker. Post, post, post!
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nvining posted:I still only have four e-mails... Hey, if someone doesn't want their spot...  Yes this is a sutle hint you should give me one
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Rudi Starnberg posted:Hey, if someone doesn't want their spot... This guy can't spell subtle, I should get that spot.
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I, too, would like a spot.. 
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OwlFancier posted:He'll only send you more replies and require you to play multiple testing copies simultaneously.
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Eonwe posted:This guy can't spell subtle, I should get that spot. Not at all, it clearly demonstrates my eagerness to test, regardless of consequences. Fakedit: Besides, there are three spots, so we can have one each. Perfect.
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I know I don't want one of those pre-alpha chances to test out this stupid game, and would refuse any offer. In fact, I dare you to try me.
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nvining posted:I still only have four e-mails... And twenty-six coffins still remain...
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My experiences with Eldrict horrors in no way qualifies me for testing more then the average bloke.
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nvining posted:I still only have four e-mails... Yep, if you need more just ask I'll be happy to oblige! What if I was classified by a friend's ex girlfriend as an authentic eldritch horror? Does that qualify me? deathbagel fucked around with this message at 00:28 on Jan 25, 2014 |
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nvining posted:I still only have four e-mails... Incoming! Sent from adminfive at gmail. I can only hope my extensive fungal expertise from Dredmore comes in handy. StarkRavingMad fucked around with this message at 00:57 on Jan 25, 2014 |
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I was going to say I PMd the others but it looks like SRM got it already.
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What is the NDA policy going to be like? Will we be getting screenshots and DF-esque stories and reports from these goony goons? 
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Demiurge4 posted:What is the NDA policy going to be like? Will we be getting screenshots and DF-esque stories and reports from these goony goons?
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"NDA RULE #367.4: Do not post videos that have the potential to summon Yeogoroth, the Eater of Worlds, who will destroy the 'real' world."
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StarkRavingMad posted:"NDA RULE #367.4: Do not post videos that have the potential to summon Yeogoroth, the Eater of Worlds, who will destroy the 'real' world." Oh, I dunno, let's monetize that. For those not keeping track of my Twitter: I'm doing some cult programming today because I've been doing frantic UI stuff for long enough and I want to add some color to the proceedings. Consequently, after joining the Fraternity of the Squamous Polyp, Milicent Cog proceeded to rename her refinery to "The Crucibles of the Enfleshened Lump" and is now churning out what I think is maddening charcoal.
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nvining posted:Oh, I dunno, let's monetize that. GOTY right there.
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nvining posted:Oh, I dunno, let's monetize that. I asked a long time ago but I figure I'll ask again as so much as progressed forward. Will my workers take 'trinkets' found in the woods home and place them on their bed stands? It's all Perfectly Safe of course. Totally no danger of horrid mind-twisting dreams driving someone to homicidal rage, right?
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Deadmeat5150 posted:I asked a long time ago but I figure I'll ask again as so much as progressed forward. Will my workers take 'trinkets' found in the woods home and place them on their bed stands? It's all Perfectly Safe of course. Totally no danger of horrid mind-twisting dreams driving someone to homicidal rage, right? Please direct all questions to our trailer video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x1iLpQjULA
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