I have begun work on the new forum design! Same functionality, new look! I will be working to make it work better with the homepage and actually have that feeling of belonging that the homepage and forums have never actually shared, but now I’m bustling down to work, I will have the playground up shortly for anyone who wants to check out my progress! (Please leave any suggestions you may have on here or the forums!)
The Slaaknoer
The Slaaknoer have been finished by one of our most valued members, Casanova! He did a phenomenal job with this adopted race, creating a fully-developed society! Read more here! I will say I am highly impressed by the work he put into this.
The Slaaknoer are a humanoid race Icthoreptilian in appearance, with more lean to reptilian. A race of average height, they stand between 6 and 7½ feet in height. The Slaaknoer have no sexual dimorphism. Their build varies between lean and muscular, and are very athletic. They have very sharp non-retractable claws on both hands and feet and a tail (approximately ½ of their height) with fins to aid in swimming. They are covered in fish-like scales from head to toe and come in various colors, with patterns dependent on how the light hits the scales. Besides their tails, they have fins on their arms, legs, back, and the top of their reptilian-shaped heads. Female fins are more frillish than male fins to differentiate the two sexes. Their eyes have round pupils with the iris coming in one of three colors, predominately brown or gray, with violet being very rare and only seen in the higher castes, believed to be Ssawden’s mark of leadership; it is almost unheard of in the lower castes, but in lower castes their position within the system would be promoted. With the exception of violet eyes, the colors are not associated with the caste system.
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And the Rivers Run Red!
Oh wait, sorry, wrong topic. The first snow has fallen here! Now we will have mostly nonstop snow from now until most likely May! Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow! Anyone have any fun times with snow?
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New Beast: Renz
Well, not exactly new, but I have recreated the Renz on the wiki, there are several differences to make it more realistic as well as to improve its gaming abilities. Read more about these massive dragon-like creatures on the wiki!
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Growlithe Pet Skin For The Sims 3 Pets
That’s right, I actually did a bit of semi art stuff and made a skin for The Sims 3 Pets, its a growlithe! Check it out and/or download it here! For customizing it for multiple pets (as in reality, they would not all look exactly the same) simply add a few markings here and there, color them varying orange colors or cream colors and you have unique growlithe pets!
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Dungeon Keeper Online: The Next Installment!
The Dungeon Keeper line, produced by Bullfrog (a company now wilted away within the copious folds of EA, as with so many others), is making a come back! It has been confirmed that the long-awaited next installment of the Dungeon Keeper game is coming back to us loyal players. As far as rts games go, the Dungeon Keeper games are by far my favorite. I will even admit that as a… younger child, I would create dungeons and play with my Legos and Knex in the likeness of my favorite game line, Dungeon Keeper. This is one thing that I am looking forward to more than ever. Though there is no estimate, even remote ones, as to when it could possibly be released, it has been confirmed that the Online game made by a Chinese developer, NetDragon (who obtained the rights to make the game from EA), is finally going to bring it to America in a formerly sad market at its loss. I believe this could possibly be the longest-awaited continuation as Dungeon Keeper II was released way back in 1999 and we most likely will not see this new online version until 2012 at the earliest (though I would be EXTREMELY happy if it came out in 2011 and would starve myself to get it) making it a wait of more than 13 years. For more information/speculation on the game itself, you can find it on MMO Culture. On behalf of all the Dungeon Keeper fans out there: BRING ON HORNY!!!
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Fireballs… They Ain’t What They Used to be…
I must say I miss the old D&D definition of the common Fireball… A ball of flame launched from the caster as it flies to the destination and explodes in a fiery inferno, incinerating friend and foe alike (not straight from the book, but my own interpretation). That was one of the more powerful and lethal spells a caster could achieve and manipulate; however, nowadays half the games toss the Fireball out like candy at the first level. They usually do minimal damage, used as more of a “filler” spell, not to mention, no area of effect damage. Or you have the games that have it mostly as powerful, except it does not hurt your friend. Sure, that’s more friendly, but then its more magic than massive explosion. I plan to bring back the REAL Fireball in Gizmos, it will be spectacular and deadly as it once was and shall be again.
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Best Game Music Ever = Baldur’s Gate
This will likely start some controversy here on the site, but that’s okay, as it can not be argued with. Baldur’s Gate has the BEST video game music ever, plain and simple. Such powerful music that just screams “this is THE game to play.” All orchestral, it has its power and its softness, every time I start the game, it begins with a powerful orchestra proclaiming the greatness that is Baldur’s Gate (both of them). I shall let you all be the judges though for a change, listen to the main theme of both the games and try telling me they are not the best.
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Maximum PC – 600 MHz
I loaded up Baldur’s Gate II today to play that for a bit and I just had to laugh. The game makes you config it before you start it for the first time and on there it has a list:
- Maximum PC – 600 MHz
- Above Average PC – 533 MHz
- Average PC – 450 MHz
- Below Average PC – 333 MHz
- Minimum Machine – 233 MHz
- Below Min Spec – 200 MHz
I simply can’t help but laugh at this as my computer blows their “maximum” PC out of the water by a long shot considering my processor comes out at 2.8 GHz and that’s the worst part on the computer. Sometimes its hard to remember the… Well, I can’t really call them good old days, so I’ll just call them the primitive days when a computer with 4 GB of Hard Drive Space (not RAM, mind you) was considered a kickass computer (excuse the language). I remember playing the first Warcraft and being amazed by how awesome it was, how you could select up to four people by pressing CTRL and click and drag. Then when the second Warcraft came out, I was once again amazed at how much better it was, I mean, now we can select NINE people at once and don’t even have to hold down CTRL anymore! Then we got to Warcraft III, my poor computer at the time just could not handle it, so I tried it at my dad’s and loved it and spent many years wishing I could play it again until I finally got a new computer with a whopping huge 160 GB of hard drive! I did not know what to do with it all, I mean, there was SO MUCH SPACE! A couple years went by and I finally discovered just how small that was and decided I needed to upgrade and so here we are today, I have a 1.5 Terabyte hard drive in this kickass (again, excuse it) computer and that baby is nearly full. I have enough space in my case to hold 14 regular hard drives, I think I need to upgrade…
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