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Justinian Ezkantion
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  • I came to an epiphany and have realized that the entire dragon age series can be used as a sort of tree ring system of how role playing games of the past decade have progressed. You have the first game riding on the coat tails of earlier ideas and having a sort of GoT Essie idea of making a flawed fantasy setting in reaction to older high fantasy settings. The. Two has an ultra violent "badass" conception designed to draw in a larger demographic, the inquisition starts to have some elements of creeping tumblr crowd influence.
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  • Every new video game builds on older video games, I don't know of a single exception except the first video games, which built on non-video games .. which ultimately got their inspiration from the ever-classic "Who can kill the most antelope" and "Who can gather the most berries" games, which weren't even invented by humans.
     :P
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  • Every new video game builds on older video games, I don't know of a single exception except the first video games, which built on non-video games .. which ultimately got their inspiration from the ever-classic "Who can kill the most antelope" and "Who can gather the most berries" games, which weren't even invented by humans.
     :P

    Except Megaman Battle Network.  That series went two sequels forward, then took a massive step back, and then two sequels forward again.
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  • Every new video game builds on older video games, I don't know of a single exception except the first video games, which built on non-video games .. which ultimately got their inspiration from the ever-classic "Who can kill the most antelope" and "Who can gather the most berries" games, which weren't even invented by humans.
     :P

    Except Megaman Battle Network.  That series went two sequels forward, then took a massive step back, and then two sequels forward again.

    Of course there are also the games that fail to build on older games at all, these games are what I call "boring" :p

     "Retro" type games are building on an older generation of games than the current one, recombinating newer concepts into older ones in a sometimes quite pleasing way.
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  • I read a book on the early history of computer games called Dungeons & Dreamers, which I think I posted about here at the time, but it's amazing how many of the first computer games, especially the RPGs were derived from Dungeons and Dragons, which in itself was derived from elements of tabletop wargaming.

    So basically everything is derivative. :P

    In any case, I spent some me time tonight...sitting in front of the air conditioner (it was warm enough that it actually wasn't weird despite it being November), reading, and then meditating and reflecting. For me, just the sound of the air conditioner and the feel of the cold air really helps relax me and puts me back in sync with life, but my thoughts actually drifted to my dad's old apartment that I would spend every other weekend at until I was 18. There were two units attached to the place that he worked...he was on the bottom and for most of the time the top unit was never used. Even after the place went out of business they let him stay in the apartment until the demolished the whole thing to put up a senior citizen center...which was a year or two after I stopped going there.

    But what came to mind was just...the feeling that I would get there when he went to bed at night, like I had the run of the place. There was a small kitchen with this cheap faux-wooden table...he would leave the radio on in there at night, and I would change the station and either read or work puzzle books at night. I specifically remember this song coming on a lot. Beside of it was the living room...with a godawful green leather couch on one side, and a recliner under one of those hangy lights beside an in-table on the other...then there was the tv in front of both, which never had anything on because he was too cheap to get cable so it was just local broadcast stations. And then the room beside that was...well, I've no clue what it was supposed to be, but practically it was the room with the phone in the corner where I would call my mom...when I got there, every morning, and every night.

    I don't even know why that's what came to mind when I meditated and let my thoughts wander...maybe it was the feeling of peacefulness at night there, too. I think the night is peaceful in general, but over there I didn't have a computer to distract me (and yes, I hated that!)...who knows, lol.
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  • Every new video game builds on older video games, I don't know of a single exception except the first video games, which built on non-video games .. which ultimately got their inspiration from the ever-classic "Who can kill the most antelope" and "Who can gather the most berries" games, which weren't even invented by humans.
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    Except Megaman Battle Network.  That series went two sequels forward, then took a massive step back, and then two sequels forward again.

    Of course there are also the games that fail to build on older games at all, these games are what I call "boring" [emoji14]

     "Retro" type games are building on an older generation of games than the current one, recombinating newer concepts into older ones in a sometimes quite pleasing way.
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    Please vote for Trump. I'd like to order myself some stuff online as your currency plummets.
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    Please vote for Trump. I'd like to order myself some stuff online as your currency plummets.

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  • Dear Americans,

    Please vote for Trump. I'd like to order myself some stuff online as your currency plummets.
    >implying killary wont start ww3 with Russia
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  • If that happens, it will be just as much Russia's doing, and there's no denying that.
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  • If that happens, it will be just as much Russia's doing, and there's no denying that.
    How do? Are they bad people for exposing Hillary as a bad person?
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  • I don't think there are many good people in politics...bad is pretty much just a given.
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  • Russia has earned quite a bit of my respect for being so daring on the international stage, but they are definitely playing an increasingly belligerent role, as well. If another world war happens, there won't be one single person, event or country to blame. These things are all complex and inter-connected. Examining both world wars and the cold war, it is clear the events which set everyone on the path to those eventualities were spread out over many decades, with seemingly insignificant events only showing their full impact in hindsight.

    There is no logic to the thought that one person can cause a world war.
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  • The good news is that if there is another World War, it'll probably be the last.


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  • The good news is that if there is another World War, it'll probably be the last.
    Woo! Real life Fallout! :P
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