Angevon's Fantasy Life

Previous --- Index --- Next Scarn 3rd - Morning Invye and Jim have taken the town of Castin during the night. Originally, they were to head south and take Tourla Castle, but with the enemy still in sight, our strategist has ordered them to bunk down and repel the expected attack. Jim the manticore is in trouble. Chimeras are super-effective against him. Invye, on the other hand, is pretty strong against them. And dragon pups are always a pain in the ass. The enemies have multiplied overnight. Fortunately, our ghost squadron has arrived. MJ proves his use by paralyzing a skeleton. Paralysis is simply AWESOME. It's why I made sure to get 5 ghosts ;) The enemy can't attack or counterattack me when paralyzed. Also, my units pretend like the paralyzed unit isn't even there, so I can walk through it. Movement is always a problem. The movement range is affected by enemies nearby (as well as terrain and unit's race). See the gap between the skeleton

When I heard there was going to be a Toy Story 3 , I was immediately pissed. With Hollywood's bad sequel madness, what else could I expect but compete failure? So, I refused to believe anyone who said it was good and went to see it with a decidedly pessimistic attitude. From thepeoplesmovies As it turns out, I was wrong. The movie far exceeded my expectations. Its target audience is someone who hasn't seen the original Toy Story in years, and may or may not have even seen the 2nd one (which wasn't that great), and is now going to see this new one so many years later. It's like we've all grown up a bit since we've seen these characters and we understand them all the more for it. The movie takes place around 10 years after the first one anyway. I won't spoil the movie, but I'll just say it was very, very good, despite being very sentimental. There are a number of moments that will choke you up with emotion --- although the little kids in t

So I've been cleaning out my screenshot folders to make it easier to transfer everything to my future laptop. I came across a couple of old, old ones. Herro bought Soma a kangaroo rat and we leveled him at mongooses. Gosh, Herro and I look emo >_> Probably the oldest screenshot I still have. Uchocobo is playing the Power Rangers theme song (which I didn't recognize, having never watched the show). I still think Dice is supercute. More Griffins. All pets should have color palettes.

Previous --- Index --- Next Scarn 2nd - Morning (cont.) A hobbit named Euld who dreams of being ordained as a priest has enlisted. I sent him out immediately. Hobbits make amazing healers and we will definitely need his help. Buklauu's injuries are proof of this. The strategist has ordered him to rest for a while. The REST command sacrifices the unit's turn, but, if he survives the enemy turn, he will start the next turn with a lot of HP recovered. This is a cheap, easy way to heal injured units. You can rest even when fully healed, so it's great to recover if you expect to get seriously hurt during the enemy's turn. Link was hit by an enemy priest's ZAP spell, but he still went ahead and attacked the skeleton nearby. There seems to be some trouble keeping Shirster out of enemy hands. Manticores Jim and Bob have backed off their bee-line mission to help out. Scarn 2nd - Evening We are rounding the bend towards Milsey, but the going will be t

I'm getting a laptop pretty soon, hopefully a decent one for gaming. Now, I know if I made it a desktop I can get the same specs for half the cost, but there are a few reasons. 1. My parents are specifically paying for a laptop. They assume I'll need one when I get a job and possibly move out, since I'm graduating soon. Yes, I'm 24 and still live with my parents.  They won't let me leave o_O and why give up free room, food, and board? 2. I told them a new desktop would probably be better for my purposes, but my mom just stared at me. "But the computer you're using now is perfectly fine ." 3. They somehow think I want a Macbook because I use my brother's when I get up in the morning. It's not because I want to --- it's just less likely to wake my brother up in the morning. Plus the laptop is set up in a better location than my desktop. The desktop I'm using right now is a Dell e510. It's about 5 years old. It'

My posts on BioShock. Pretty much my thoughts on it. Intro Weapons Enemies Misc. Story BioShock 2 Coming when I get the game :)

Previous The game's plot unfolds from the conversation between Atlas and other NPCs, and through the recordings you find. People in Rapture used tape recorders as diaries. Through these you are given a glimpse of what the city once was, and how it became the mess that it is now. You also see ghosts sometimes, a side effect of the plasmids. The screen gets all fuzzy and gray like white noise when you're near a ghost scene. So it seems that splicing started out as a luxury, as the advertisements found throughout the world indicate. Want to be manlier? Get the SportBoost gene tonic. Starting to go bald? It's in your genes; there's a tonic for that, too! And people went for it. But they didn't know the side effects. Pretty much, you grow crazy without regular consumption of a substance called ADAM (hurrrr ADAM to go with EVE). ADAM is harvested from certain sea slugs. But the slugs simply don't produce enough, and so Rapture descended into cha

Previous --- Next By the way, this game isn't really for the squeamish. It can get pretty gruesome. When you shoot/hit an enemy, raspberry jam splatters out. It's not realistic, but it is graphic. They also get 3rd degree burns when hit with incinerate. I heard this effect was censored in the German version. Dead bodies are pretty common, too, lying around in every level. In the second level you go through a medical facility, and there are some mutilated corpses around... In the demented doctor's surgery, some of his patients (or, rather, victims) are hung up above his surgery table, looking like they were crucified. There are quite a number of hung corpses decorating other levels too. A body strung up in a freezer. There are also two points where I looked away from the screen because I was really bothered by the violence: a splicer getting impaled by a Big Daddy's drill when you're first shown the relationship between Big Daddy and the Little

Previous --- Next If you're wondering why I keep posting about this game, it's because I can't stop thinking about it. It's engrossing. I guess I'm strange like that :)  I don't get that much time to play it... Anyway, one of the things I like about this game are the type of enemy. The enemies are called splicers. They're average, everyday people (sort of). Not aliens or zombies or terrorists or soldiers, as per other FPS standards. They are normal people who've become something less than human from abusing the genetic modifications available to them. Okay maybe this one isn't that human o_o But remember, there are freaking vending machines that sell genetic modifications! Like candy! Welcome to the Gatherer's Garden! Atlas explains it best. Apparently, no one knew the side effects of splicing (dementia and insanity) until after it had become standard in society. So basically, what's left in Rapture are the craz