LiliArch

I think he is probably more nuanced than that, depending on which version you are talking about, but I don't follow comics much, especially DC, so I can't claim more than a passing knowledge.

The Christopher Nolan film was what I was referring to

I don’t recall what happened in that film, but I definitely agree with you, especially as an answer to my original question. After all, I didn’t ask what makes villain an interesting character, and I seriously doubt that a character who acts solely out of malice would suddenly be not-villain due to their lack of noble goals.

Imagine realizing that a planned story feature is impossible with the planned rules of the world. Good thing is that the whole thing is still in its design stage, so changing things isn’t TOO difficult, but I’m curious as to what people think.

(My personal stance is that the best course of action is to change the thing that is less important to the whole.)

Universe building or world building is secondary to primary story. If your primary idea and theme of the story is in the story, and not the story world, then you should adjust the world, or vice versa. In other words, which is idea/concept is dominant, pick that one. 

Something else to consider is how elaborate each one is, the more work into one idea might justify priority over the other. 

My suggestion is to pull ideas for the story from the story world rather than forcing the story world to adapt to whatever narrative you're writing.

If your story is so rigid that it requires the lore to explain it, then it may be better to evaluate whether that story may need revisions. Inversely, some worldbuilding elements could be removed if they're interfering with the tone or purpose of the narrative you're writing.

Essentially, use all of the elements you create for the lore in the story and draw inspiration for how to enhance that story from the world as you build it.

For example: The location requires hovercraft to get to the destination; now your characters can have a moment to interact as they're stranded when the hovercraft inevitably breaks.

It happens to be a very common Finnish name. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juhani

(My net was out. It happens.)

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It happens to be a very common Finnish name. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juhani

Lol Juhani wouldn't be pleased knowing this.

I think at the time of first play, many more people wondered why they even made Juhani at all!

Computer science.

To be honest, the thing I’m mostly worried about is money. 😕

As a bitter old man who has done a number of degrees, let me pass on this: the piece of paper you get at the end is essentially worthless. How worthless varies somewhat depending on the field, but ultimately all it really amounts to is a tick of one box on a long list you'll be measured against when trying to get a job. My advice would be to try and get as much real world experience as you can during your undergrad so you actually have something meaningful on your CV once you get the piece of paper. The world is awash with degree graduates. Make sure you come out of your degree with something that helps you stand out from the pack.

It’s a bit late for that, since I’m technically a bachelor already (trading that for a master’s degree). Technically. I mean, the degree I have is not exactly a bachelor’s (other than in English, anyway) but it equals (Finland’s schooling system may be a bit confusing). Not that it would have done me any good. One of the reasons for me to apply was to get something reasonable to do, since it seems to be impossible to get a job anyway (without having years of experience, which is impossible to get if you never get a job without experience in the first place. It’s crazy, but I probably don’t need to tell you that). Here’s hoping I’ll be able to build some connections at least.

Steam is a piece of work... lol

Dominating and bleeding crystals? Good thing I don’t care about Disney canon.

That's Disney for you: trying to get blood from a stone.

I really dislike what they did with that. So yeah, I ignore it... for me a Jedi or Sith can carry any colour.
It's not like we saw Anakin's saber turn red during his fall to the dark side, episode 3 is still canon? Silliness...

Yeah, it could have turned out quite nasty. Although the realization that I could have died without even knowing is way more frightening than the actual incident. (I was napping on the back seat, so pretty much all I gathered was a ”whoa”, a sharp turn, and a ”thunk”. Luckily the deer was already mostly past the car’s nose at that point. And even more luckily, it wasn’t a moose.)

Glad hear you made it out okay and doing fine, LiliArch. Try not to think about what could of happened, sometimes that leads to anxiety in my own personal experience. Think positive thoughts like something funny you saw on the TV the other day or a joke you heard. That always helped me in the past.

Glad you are OK!

I did it. Will do it. Can't say its that bad, but it is dangerous waters, things can go wrong quickly.

Hmm... would it be a bad idea to make a sample video and let people tell if it should be cut before production?

Depends on the VO. If there is no splicing and the lines make sense I'd green light it.

Thanks SH! But I'm not going to skip ahead. Think I should finished the KotOR playthrough first and then will see what The Sith Lords put on the table. Not going to lie if I already know the twist of the KotOR's plot but not all the details; and that's what I wanted to find out. Hats off to the maker of this playthrough though, lots of effort on this one I am certain.

In all seriousness though, Kreia usually makes sense even when she’s cryptically lying, so I get quite confused about writer’s intent when I can’t wrap my mind around something.

For the record - I’ve been pondering with and without the help of the LP, and I think I can finally say I get what Kreia is saying. The manner she delivers that line is even more confusing as usual, and the lack of difference she seems to give between what may be a feat and what is a requirement is what keeps throwing me off the track, but she tends to be extreme like that, at least from what I gather.

Thanks, SH. I was wondering if reporting my own post would cause me assigning a warning to myself, or something similarly bizarre. Good to know.

Well banning you would stop the double posting....

That would be a pretty dumb thing to ask for oneself.

Or Scandinavia?

Who said I live in North Dakota?

I figured SH meant it would be where ”state of general cynicism” is located in North America?

Lili, I've got an alternate proposal: what sort of modding would YOU like to do?

Fair point, SH, but the thing is, I tend to promise to do stuff and then forget about it. I'm trying to track if I've left any of those hanging there, it's annoying.

Everything HK said is true, but the thing that confused me here is that the Tavion NPC in particular should not have been able to escape the boundary line. I've been playing this game for years and thought I memorized every minor detail of the boss fights. Maybe the collision with Tavion on the player temporarily halted the boundary? For all of the times I played that boss, even with cheated force powers, I could never push her off.

I didn't push her, she jumped on my head and bounced (she was jumping from the top of her ship, and I was standing on top of one of those crate-like things). It would have looked pretty weird if she would have halted mid-air by an invisible wall when she met the boundaries, I think. Nonetheless... what I am most confused about is why she decided to land on Kyle's head in the first place. I don't think I moved, instead I was trying to figure out which side of me she was going to la...

Just pure luck on your part. Force enemy NPCs ocassionally jump on my character too sometimes.

Well Ndix has got a new TGA to TPC converter he just released. Pretty handy if you want to try it.

I am interested in hearing more about this solution you are talking about, Liliarch.

I guess shots of two different heads won't do. See, I made that find when I was adding a headgear hook to a head that didn't have it originally. While positioning it correctly I notied that the Vanilla head I was comparing it to had... issues.

@VP - I'm not sure you are. It includes changing coordinates in ascii file, compiling with MDLops, bringing into game to test, and repeating the cycle until it looks good, after which I take the hex values of the coordinates and put the...

...put them into the original mdl.

Yeah, I know how that feels...

Thanks for letting me know about the Origin sale. Just picked up Medal of Honor Pacific Assault for 50% off.

Till August 30 as far as I know. But waiting on the remastered edition might be a good idea considering that the DLCs for ME3 are still 40€ on PC and never on sale (I would hope that they are included if that remaster comes). But if you just want to get the main game, you have about two weeks left.

Thanks for the info! There's no reason why I couldn't wait. I just bought ME1 & 2 from Steam sales, and since I hate owning incomplete series, started to look for ME3. But I don't really need it right now, so I can hold off just as well, since I'd probably end up struggling with buying the DLCs anyway.

When you first pictured it in your head, what did the mod do in the game? Then go from there.

Heh. Not sure I could make Ebon Hawk's weaponry customizable.

It's generally not an issue these days, but at launch some class quests were extremely difficult without good gear and/or being overlevelled. The Jedi Knight's final class quest at 50 was famously virtually impossible to solo at launch.

Oh, right, THAT one. Heh. It was pretty frustrating, yes. I had to set T7 as Tank to cheat him being attacked with that one-hit-kill Force push instead of me, so yes, I can see your point. (I finished Smuggler and Knight as F2P so end battles were lvl-50.) They seem to have changed something there, indeed, Sith final class battles are ridiculously easy (since they're on Korriban, so final bosses are somewhat lvl 12...) which looks pretty badass but less convincing.

I'd also add regarding grouping for class quests that if nothing else it helps expedite the process, especially at lower levels. TOR's design is typically just endless corridors of trash mobs with a cutscene and a boss mob at the end, so having someone else along (especially with higher level AoE abilities) can really speed things up.

No go spacebar-ing through it I gather?

Seems like the bug has been around for years but still no confirmation of the cause.

Does the week of sub from a referral give you forum/support access?

@lili If you decide to settle in Begeren Colony, let me know!

@Parametric: Nah, it's not like I couldn't afford buying a subscription (technical issues aside), I'm just irritated because a bug in software code is not a force majeure that should free the company from their promise. I screwed that character anyway, so I may just as well start over and see if I reproduce the issue or not.

@VP: will do.