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yamamanamaGood news, everybody! Assange was arrested, looking like either a deranged Santa Claus or like Mr. Burns in $pringfield (or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling, and Omar Bashir was ousted.
I finally played through Mithril Vault and the only reason I scraped by is because of the hilariously stupid AI. The optimal levels are 28-29. My characters were between 16 and 21.
Seriously, the only AI the monster has is "% to cast spell," "% to use missile weapon" "% to run away" and "% to surrender, which is usually zero except in special fights."
So, the plot is this: Winter Haven gets raw mithril and forges it into stuff but their shipment dried up, so you go to see the dwarves about that and we're like "oh, yeah, we need to build a vault made from mithril because our court wizard was cursed to turn into a lich when he dies" and you go through Morbius the Lich's castle to get a stone called the Geyser, which "produces a lot of heat energy when placed in water" and a diary entry mentions beings from the stars." They show up to take the Geyser back and then you go to their base where space marines and their battle robots help you and explain that the planet's core is made from magic. In the last real fight, you fight some of your own mechas that were reprogrammed by the aliens and if you don't defeat them within one turn, some aliens and their spider mech show up. Repeat if you don't defeat them within one turn. I have no idea how anyone pulled this off. Nobody complained about it on the newsgroup, though. Maybe it's a problem that came up in a later version of Realmz or maybe Realmz' following had already dispersed.
It's ironically harder on lower difficulties because difficulty levels affect how much HP the monsters have and not how much damage their attacks do, and this affects your allies as well so say goodbye if you don't get good initiative. The battle's over quicker and you ge less experience but this doesn't matter because I don't even think Tim Phillips knows what Siege at Natari and Blood Ties are. Tim had moved on to New Centurions, which is, alas, unfinished and I'm not sure if it's possible to register it.
(the New Centurions manual says that each difficulty level has a minimum chance to hit and a minimum chance to miss" and I'm not sure if it applies to Realmz or not. It also has things like equipment modification and better drops on higher difficulties that isn't in Realmz.)
The aliens show up earlier. There's a cave with a dead body, and there's a small base where you fight some aliens. It wouldn't be a hard fight except you have to beat them in one turn of they open the gate and release about seven or so big melee alien vusks and it continues to happen even once all the aliens are dead which once again, I don't think is supposed to happen that way.
Wow, Zelazny out of nowhere.
I assume that the monster limit is the last 2 digit number: 255.
There's a boat with some power cores. There are some broken alien robots and you can use the power cores to take control of them. Please don't do this until you're finished with Morbius' castle because you have to lose a fight to get them and there are no major fights between the Dwarven warrens and Morbius' castle.
We got our first raccoons on April 4th and a batch on April 8th. We have a lot of squirrels, most of whom have fur on their tails. The great horned owl's eye is looking better, says Julia. Otherwise, a quiet day. Lindy brought a guinea pig with no name.
Someone brought her blue and yellow macaw, Layla, who makes a strangely human scream. I read the 2019 Dystopia Logbook on Hipinion and have come to the conclusion that the United Kingdom is soft fascism and Michael wonders if there's a way that Scotland can remain part of the EU because they didn't ask for Brexit and the only reason they stayed in the UK is so they could keep all the EU benefits.
Venti means wind in Latin, Julia points out. It also means 20 in Spanish and Italian, coming from the Latin viginti, not to be confused with vigintillion, which is 10^63 and is smaller than almost every number. Grande means big, so they think it should be the largest. They should just make it parva, medium, and magna. For whatever reason, a venti is 24 ounces in Canada. In China, they used 小,中,大. and got rid of 小 and made a new one meaning “especially big."
Primrose had a bag of Taki’s and someone, I want to say Elissa, said that they’re easy to get in Brockton.
I don’t know if I said it before but I’m noticing that even as the country gets more and more diverse, cuisine is getting less diverse. I can't even blame Trump for this because it's been a problem for much longer.
burning question: so remember last week when I said Google does plenty of evil things and we don’t have to make shit up? Why would Google even entertain the thought of having the Heritage Foundation president on their board of artificial intelligence ethics? I don't know that much about the Heritage Foundation but something tells me they have fuck-all to do with artificial intelligence R&D.
I finally played through Mithril Vault and the only reason I scraped by is because of the hilariously stupid AI. The optimal levels are 28-29. My characters were between 16 and 21.
Seriously, the only AI the monster has is "% to cast spell," "% to use missile weapon" "% to run away" and "% to surrender, which is usually zero except in special fights."
So, the plot is this: Winter Haven gets raw mithril and forges it into stuff but their shipment dried up, so you go to see the dwarves about that and we're like "oh, yeah, we need to build a vault made from mithril because our court wizard was cursed to turn into a lich when he dies" and you go through Morbius the Lich's castle to get a stone called the Geyser, which "produces a lot of heat energy when placed in water" and a diary entry mentions beings from the stars." They show up to take the Geyser back and then you go to their base where space marines and their battle robots help you and explain that the planet's core is made from magic. In the last real fight, you fight some of your own mechas that were reprogrammed by the aliens and if you don't defeat them within one turn, some aliens and their spider mech show up. Repeat if you don't defeat them within one turn. I have no idea how anyone pulled this off. Nobody complained about it on the newsgroup, though. Maybe it's a problem that came up in a later version of Realmz or maybe Realmz' following had already dispersed.
It's ironically harder on lower difficulties because difficulty levels affect how much HP the monsters have and not how much damage their attacks do, and this affects your allies as well so say goodbye if you don't get good initiative. The battle's over quicker and you ge less experience but this doesn't matter because I don't even think Tim Phillips knows what Siege at Natari and Blood Ties are. Tim had moved on to New Centurions, which is, alas, unfinished and I'm not sure if it's possible to register it.
(the New Centurions manual says that each difficulty level has a minimum chance to hit and a minimum chance to miss" and I'm not sure if it applies to Realmz or not. It also has things like equipment modification and better drops on higher difficulties that isn't in Realmz.)
The aliens show up earlier. There's a cave with a dead body, and there's a small base where you fight some aliens. It wouldn't be a hard fight except you have to beat them in one turn of they open the gate and release about seven or so big melee alien vusks and it continues to happen even once all the aliens are dead which once again, I don't think is supposed to happen that way.
Wow, Zelazny out of nowhere.
I assume that the monster limit is the last 2 digit number: 255.
There's a boat with some power cores. There are some broken alien robots and you can use the power cores to take control of them. Please don't do this until you're finished with Morbius' castle because you have to lose a fight to get them and there are no major fights between the Dwarven warrens and Morbius' castle.
We got our first raccoons on April 4th and a batch on April 8th. We have a lot of squirrels, most of whom have fur on their tails. The great horned owl's eye is looking better, says Julia. Otherwise, a quiet day. Lindy brought a guinea pig with no name.
Someone brought her blue and yellow macaw, Layla, who makes a strangely human scream. I read the 2019 Dystopia Logbook on Hipinion and have come to the conclusion that the United Kingdom is soft fascism and Michael wonders if there's a way that Scotland can remain part of the EU because they didn't ask for Brexit and the only reason they stayed in the UK is so they could keep all the EU benefits.
Venti means wind in Latin, Julia points out. It also means 20 in Spanish and Italian, coming from the Latin viginti, not to be confused with vigintillion, which is 10^63 and is smaller than almost every number. Grande means big, so they think it should be the largest. They should just make it parva, medium, and magna. For whatever reason, a venti is 24 ounces in Canada. In China, they used 小,中,大. and got rid of 小 and made a new one meaning “especially big."
Primrose had a bag of Taki’s and someone, I want to say Elissa, said that they’re easy to get in Brockton.
I don’t know if I said it before but I’m noticing that even as the country gets more and more diverse, cuisine is getting less diverse. I can't even blame Trump for this because it's been a problem for much longer.
burning question: so remember last week when I said Google does plenty of evil things and we don’t have to make shit up? Why would Google even entertain the thought of having the Heritage Foundation president on their board of artificial intelligence ethics? I don't know that much about the Heritage Foundation but something tells me they have fuck-all to do with artificial intelligence R&D.
