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.

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.

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!

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...

Steam is a piece of work... lol

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!

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.

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 was 4 MB/S an hour ago... just HOW can it casually drop that much, I wonder. Maybe it's getting too late for the router.

Peak hours?

Hard to tell. I noticed later that Windows had updated itself, too. That might have had its part to play...

105% ?

5% + 50% + 45% is 100% to me.

Whoops, misread that

Hmmm?

They don't accept PaySafeCards as payment method from where I live, even though they accept it from other countries AND other companies (say, Steam) do accept it from here, too. And there's no way I'm going to give my real bank card number to any web store before I have set up a bank account specifically for that purpose.

Sounds like there's a story there.

Isn't there always?

Hmm I was not bioware of that!

ba-dum tss

Got stuck in a mod conflict that disables half of the mods installed.

I'm going to play devil's advocate and suggest fixing it and here's why: it'll be an interesting learning experience for you.

I actually was going to fix it anyway, but only after I've first seen how far I can get... but now I can't even start all of the added quests, as several mods overwrite modules from each other. Guess I have to dump them together and see what hilarious results I can get (well, except crashing my graphics card).

I searched for some pictures about TSF uniforms and noticed that there's some kind of round thing inside a square in the middle of their chestplate and shoulder straps (http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20070224025231/starwars/images/3/3c/Tsforce.JPG). Grenn has same thing in his chest, though it's in different location. I wonder if that's supposed to be the symbol, though if so, it looks quite dumb.

I can try to make one if you like. Do you prefer silver or gold?

Both, if you don't mind.

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.

Certainly. I got this idea to get "additional" appearance slots by creating character-specific disguises (so they would have that character's head) so they wouldn't look like disguises. But of course certain appearances need to be restricted to certain characters, so I thought that I could make a custom upgrade for every character that would a) set the armor be useable only by that character and set it to be that character's "additional appearance slots" disguis...

...disguise. Ack, half of my text got cut. I need to re-write it.

Adding these custom upgrades to wrong armors would screw up the appearances, though, so I thought that I would create generic "restrict to x" upgrades, and then set the appearance they use per armor -basis. So, installed on a regular armor it would only set it to that specific character, but installed on a additional-appearance-slot-using armor it would set it for that custom appearance. Or, another way would to so...

somehow override upgrade screen so it would show only those items from your inventory that belong in a pre-set custom group, but I don't know if that is possible, either.

I tried to set a feature of an armor to require a certain upgrade, but at least the way Kotor tool set it to me, the game ignores such features. Of course I don't know if that is because I was using a non-custom upgrade, but at least changes to that certain upgrade's uti file made themselves into the game.

Yeah, I know how that feels...

Even if I'm not now a "software engineer" as I believed but a "software developer". Title translations can be so confusing sometimes.

Congratulations!