1) Doing nothin’ can be pretty cool. I’m still waiting for the school year to start back up and hopefully get a full time aid position.
1) Doing nothin’ can be pretty cool. I’m still waiting for the school year to start back up and hopefully get a full time aid position.
2) Pretty low, only slightly lower, and statistically insignificant.
3) No. To be honest, Strawberry, I don’t really appreciate your dream as my part in it would be one of two mares and nothing more. Hugs are special and I don’t want mine to be trivialized.
4) Bon-Bon: I even thought I gave a pretty detailed answer… Guess I was wrong.
Lyra: I liked the little human silhouettes better. The gray balls are dumb. Almost every anonymous question I get is from a human anyway. Also, I miss the flower in the background.
Lyra: What would being a secret madame connote? Also, I had to look up 1 Direction. Which makes me feel bad considering they’re evidently a pretty big deal.
Bon-Bon: Now I know I’ve heard of Faberge Eggs before…
Lyra: I… I am that one fat guy behind the dumpster!
Bon-Bon: [Audible gasp]
Lyra: Testing out deodorants sounds like a long process. And I don’t think Twilight would make a very successful movie.
Bon-Bon: What are Easter Eggs?
Lyra: Woo! Willie!
Bon-Bon: Woo! Potato!
Lyra: Now wasn’t this fun?
Bon-Bon: Eh.
Lyra: Oh- you suck.
So, as an addendum to what I said about Shadowrun Returns, the last “dungeon” was crap, mechanically. Still avoiding spoilers, there was nothing I could use my deck on, so that was a wasted weapon slot. And on top of that you have to carry around this gimmick gun to kill these gimmick enemies once you’ve weakened them (which you have to kill in one turn or they get their power back). So my main character only had one real weapon.
At first I thought the final boss was going to be all Deus Ex-style, where there’s things set up for you to take advantage of depending on how you built your character. But nope. Can’t debuff the last boss at all. Nothing to hack. More and more gimmick enemies spawn the longer the fight goes. And they spawn faster and faster. I couldn’t keep them under control because of how many shots it takes with the gimmick guns to bring them down. Only reason I won on my third attempt was because of a lot of lucky rolls letting me just drop her quickly (and my S rank rig was really accurate).
BUT! The story was still really cool. And the campaign the game comes with is less of “this is it” and more of “this is an example.” Because it’s not really a standalone game so much as a level editor. And to that end, it’s great! I’m positive that other players are going to make some awesome content!
Just, you know, don’t forget about deckers in your last dungeon.
1) Lyra: Isn’t that kinda sexist?
Bon-Bon: No, I used to have that dream too. Grew out of it, though.
2) Wow! Thanks! You make it sound so great!
I’ll be honest, when I first started taking the pictures, I sort of thought they were pretty good myself. But I like to keep the ego in check.
3) Lyra: You were the one I thought might watch. Bon-Bon could care less.
Bon-Bon: It’s true!
Lyra: I don’t know… Keep reminding/pestering me about it and I’ll look into it. Don’t even know how it’s done right now.
4) I hadn’t at the time I got this message, but I saw some stuff for it and wanted to. Didn’t want to yar-har fiddle-dee-dee, though. Ended up doing it anyway, but I’d rather pay for stuff like this to support the company. I hate having no money.
But yeah, I’ve played it. It’s AWESOME! Like, wow! Am I ever having a good time! Decking is sick and super fun! And the mission I just did was crazy! Not going to spoil anything, though.
Some obvious issues; in particular you can’t use walls for cover-fire for some reason. And it crashed on me once. But yeah! Kickin’ rad!
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1) I dunno. Sounds kinda dumb, but it’s not like information about the Princesses past is public knowledge. I mean, they haven’t been around forever, so they had to come from somewhere.
2) It’s cool. I’ve been slacking anyway. Skipping days ‘cause I know I had flowers being posted. I need to quit that.
3) Wow. I didn’t know that’s what it was called. Not that a mare who doesn’t read much has a lot of reason to be visiting a library.
There are definitely other rooms. There’s at least one side room and I know there’s a basement. But, I mean, yeah. Lot of books. Couple of beds. I don’t know about anything that’s changed, I don’t really keep track.
… I mean, why would I?
4) Yup yup. Third baby. It’s a girl. Where we are right now she’ll sometimes say a word or so. I did see the animated show. I thought it was fine! I would have preferred an older Zoe, like you said. But where it is right now is sort of… Well, sometimes the kids will act as straight-mares and say things that are entirely too clever for primary school-aged children. I mean, it’s funny, but it sort of brings you out of the experience. Makes them engines for a punchline instead of believable characters you know?
1) Oh no. I was just taking the pictures. But thanks! Glad you like them!
2) Maybe. Could you link one you liked or something?
3) Bon-Bon: Bon-Bon. With the hyphen. And no. I have one sister. She’s Tootsie’s mom-and didn’t I already answer this?
Lyra: You know, I’m not sure. I thought I remembered getting a question that just said “Hi” a while ago, but I never answered it and now it’s gone. No telling how many times that’s happened.
Bon-Bon: Well, that’s not fair.
4) It certainly has! I figured you were okay. At least I hoped so. What have you been doing?
5) Thanks! Glad you enjoyed! Unfortunately tomorrow is my last one. Was fun having a steady morning queue for a while!
1) Lyra: Sometimes I wonder if scrunch battle was worth tasting a book over.
Bon-Bon: Just be glad it didn’t go up the other end.
2) Bon-Bon: That’s happened all of, what, twice? Usually I’m the one that’s gone. I have a full time job and a business to run.
3) About one-and-a-half times bigger in overall size. He’s only about a head taller than me standing, though. Most of his size is in his body mass. He’s actually small for a bear. Having seen his family I think it’s hereditary.
The banner on my page is pretty good. His head is a little bigger. Sort of makes it look like my head is bigger/same size as his.
4) I’m pretty sure I’d have one pony that would watch for like five minutes and then go “boooooriiiiiiing” and disconnect. I mean, the only thing I’m really playing on my computer right now is Warframe. Although I do have this one really cool automatic shotgun I’ve modded so that it fires like a machine gun. It’s pretty fun.
5) Hey! That’s pretty cool! I like hearing stuff like that, where the team put some real thought into even the simple things.
1) Salut! Hello! Good to hear from you! I’m fine. How are you?
2) Bon-Bon: Sorry. I’ve seen commercials for it, though! If I do watch it, it will probably be after it’s finished and I can marathon all the episodes. I just hate getting wrapped up in something and then having to wait to see what happens.
Lyra: Too much production and not enough content.
Bon-Bon: Again, nopony asked you.
Lyra: I’m just sayin’.
Bon-Bon: And I’m just “sayin’”, shush!
3) Uh… Not that I know of. Interesting story, though.
Well, I mean technically every system up until the current generation was illegally manufactured. They were all recreations based upon studying schematics. But there was never a new system created to play games on.
4) Aw… Sorry about your save file. I’m sure that party was a blast, though!
Sorry I didn’t really do anything for three days. It’s not like I’m busy. I’m just playing video games.
1) Transformers is alright. I don’t really know the characters very well.
I’m going to a birthday dinner in Canterlot for a friend tomorrow. It’s my online buddy. Bon-Bon went to hang out with a friend of hers. Nothing else I can think of at the moment.
Bon-Bon and I can both swim. In fact, the place I was house-sitting for had a pool! Rich ponies love to have pools. I swam in it a few times.
2) I doubt she’d want to. Fortunately, I know most of the story. She was playing as a rat hunter; that means she killed bandit NPCs, sort of like you would in a traditional MMO. Sometimes she’d get attacked by a player. One time it happened she blew up the ship and while retrieving the cargo of the other player, found a ship log. It contained information about the player’s corporation selling contracts to unaligned players to have them attack this other corporation. There were a bunch of player names in the log, and it listed the leader of the other corporation.
So, she sent a message to the leader and got a reply. They went back and forth over details and agreed to a meeting out in unprotected space, which is about as shady in the game’s world as it sounds. They meet; guy had a huge ship with enough firepower to blow my friend up before she could even lock on. But it all went down civilly and she hoofed over the log.
And you know, it’s all serious business, because it’s a hardcore game. But at the same time it is just a game. So the whole time the leader guy was reading over the log he was just saying, “This guy was such a [omitted] idiot. Why would you write this ingame? She could have just windowed out to look it up.”
So he handed some astronomical sum of money to my friend, because it was hayseed to him. She gets herself all set up in a pretty decent ship and everything. Then, as she tells it, the following starts. Ships just following her around in protected space. If she hangs around too long in lower security sectors, a ship or two would show up and start locking on her. She wound up so paranoid she had to quit all together because she couldn’t do anything!
Anyway, yeah, those Digimon World games always seemed to have pretty questionable quality. And I only played the first one, but I never knew what I was doing. Anything I accomplished, which was a fair deal, was a complete accident.
