It's Personal...

Blasted · Post by **Blasted** » Wed May 28, 2014 4:16 am

hoorah! That's the longest I've ever spent in one position. Which is probably not something to brag about, but there you go.

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Wed May 28, 2014 4:18 am

fectin · Post by **fectin** » Thu May 29, 2014 6:13 pm

Making new characters for a campaign, the DM insisted that I should optimize heavily, and that outsmarting him was going to be the fun part. Also, I should make two characters.
Was very tempted to build a wish / word knockoff, but the books available were limited (core, first completes, and PHB2). That's still plenty of cheese. I picked incantatrix and Ur-Priest, plus thought bottle, because limberger. I eagerly await seeing how this stacks up against "scout" and "seven levels of sword & board fighter". Fiancée continues to play Ser Snarl, having declined to melee a dragon with the rest of the (former) party.
I plan to sandbag extensively, but this should be interesting.

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Thu May 29, 2014 9:07 pm

You're never finishing the Farcast review, are you?

fectin · Post by **fectin** » Thu May 29, 2014 9:42 pm

Well, Bonus Work gave way to Final Project/Exam, and now there's this whole wedding thing in the fall...

But no, farcast review is simply lower priority than game night.
(you might have noticed that my posts have gotten a lot shorter in general though; it's not just you.)

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Thu May 29, 2014 9:47 pm

Oh, I'm just yankin' your chain.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Thu May 29, 2014 10:58 pm

So, i am pretty close to getting rid of my old TV.
It's still a CRT Monstrosity that weights almost as much as i do.
Seeing how 4K TVs have droppes massively in price and probably will continue to take a head dive because of football in brazil, i am considering jumping over full HD and going directly into 4K/Ultra HD territory, seeing how there are already some 4K/Ultra HD TVs that cost less than several FullHD TV's . .
Anybody have any recommendations for me?
The Sony 55" 4K one looks the most promising to me right now . .

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Fri May 30, 2014 4:27 am

Why would you get a 4K TV when there's so little support for it?

Blasted · Post by **Blasted** » Fri May 30, 2014 5:16 am

I'm hanging out for a decent 4K monitor to become available. I can't have enough pixels.
In terms of the tv, I have a steam box hooked up to my tv, so that's a possibility for some I guess.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Fri May 30, 2014 9:26 am

@Maj
Why would i now still get a Full HD TV when the decent Full HD TVs still cost more than some of the 4K TVs?
Future-Proofing as well.
Same reason why nobody in their right mind would get a socket 775 CPU anymore today, because the newer ones are better and cheaper too.
And german rooms are not as big as americans i guess, so we usually sit much closer to the TV. Mine is 2m away from me, so if i got a 55" Full HD, i'd be able to still see the pixels . . I have been to several shops and tested this . . good eyes can be a curse in this case i am afraid <.<
And i got to see a 65" 4K TV in one of thse shops too. And even when i was only 2 hand widths away from the display i had trouble making out the individual pixels. So there is that.
And 4K Material will be coming some time and if the upscaler in the TV or in my 4K AVR is good enough even Full HD Material will still profit from the more in resolution as well.

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Fri May 30, 2014 6:13 pm

If a 4K TV is cheaper than the Full HD, then that's cool.

Personally, I haven't obtained an HD TV because I don't want to deal with the support. TV channels are more prevalent in HD now, but I don't have TV because I can't afford it. Netflix will be more than happy to stream in HD, but then I starting hitting walls when it comes to internet quality. It needs to stream faster (the lines where I live don't support it - DSL or cable), and usage rates will apply (because file size is an issue). And then, there's quality... I would honestly rather look at all not-quite-as-clear-as-HD pictures than watch standard definition programming on an HD screen. I hate the artifacts more than I hate the lack of clarity.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Fri May 30, 2014 6:30 pm

The cheaperst 4K TV with 39" i could get is 450€
But the cheap ones are usually crap in terms of technical specs and quality.

And yeah, you need good source material and with non HD material you need good upscalers as well.
I have seen "analog" TV on a Digital Screen . . looked worse than 90's VHS x.x
I am liing in a big city (hamburg, germany) and have a 50Mbit/10Mbit Down/Up line, which is enough to stream anything without a Problem really.
But in germany, we don't have much streaming in the first place <.<

It's just i am getting tired of not having HDMI(My CRT TV has ONE SCART(no idea if you people over there know what that is) connector.) and nothing really works with that anymore. No Media-Players, Laptops and Smartphones or Tablets can't be connected to it at all.
Can't even use one of these HDMI Android Mediaplayer Sticks to make it into a SMART TV . .

And with these prices, i simply don't see the point in getting a FullHD TV anymore. 4K Material will be happening and if the upscaler is good even FullHD Material looks better still than on a normal FullHD Screen.

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Fri May 30, 2014 6:39 pm

I get that. I'm not quite there yet. And oddly enough... I think my CRT has an HDMI port. I wonder what it does. I mean... I know what it does, but it's a standard def TV. ???

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Fri May 30, 2014 8:55 pm

Yeah so?
HDMI can transport more than just HD resolutions.
If the TV has the electronics to tell whatever is supplying the TV with a Signal via that HDMI Port what resolution it is running, it will be set up automagically. And if it's a good quality CRT it may even have the audio out there so you can connect a sound system to the TV via that port and have the sound come through separe speakers

Meikle641 · Post by **Meikle641** » Sat May 31, 2014 1:05 am

Well, I registered my company today; I am now the sole proprietor of Heartbreaker Press. Got my business account all set up as well this afternoon. So that was pretty cool.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Sat May 31, 2014 9:40 am

O.o
Dating Service?

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Sat May 31, 2014 4:21 pm

Game design.

We go around talking about fantasy heartbreakers TTRPGs...

Meikle641 · Post by **Meikle641** » Sat May 31, 2014 7:28 pm

Stahlseele wrote:O.o
Dating Service?

As Maxus says, game design. Heartbreaker Press beat most of my other name ideas (the original was Bag of Rats Games, ages ago).

The plan is to release the Biwa system with a campaign setting to start, with 2 other campaigns in the pipe. Looking to eventually publish some other systems as well, when the time comes.

Pie in the sky goals are to get a character builder made, paper-doll style character visualizer, digital tabletop, etc.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Sat May 31, 2014 9:16 pm

Ambitious o.O
Impressive as well ^^

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Sun Jun 01, 2014 1:14 am

Meikle641 wrote:...paper-doll style character visualizer...

Can they be nude when not wearing anything, like in Daggerfall?

Meikle641 · Post by **Meikle641** » Sun Jun 01, 2014 4:22 am

Shrapnel wrote:Can they be nude when not wearing anything, like in Daggerfall?

I.... don't know (Maybe age locked DLC?). Frank mentioned they could be a good alternative to actual 3d renderings for characters. Could be cheaper, too.

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Sun Jun 01, 2014 12:31 pm

Well, I mean, it was the one redeeming feature of an otherwise terrible game. Not that I'm comparing your game to Daggerfall, of course, but nudity makes everything better. Like lesbians.

Count Arioch the 28th · Sun Jun 01, 2014 7:39 pm

Don't interpret this as me returning (relax, Kaelik, you can put down your pitchfork and torches, I'll only be shitting up your message board for this one post. If I do post again, it's strictly gaming, which we mostly agree on and don't get into stupid fights)

It's been a year and a half since I relocated to somewhere that isn't America's Asshole (The stories I posted were fictional, but I really did end up ditching nearly everything I own, packing the bare essentials into a rented van, and left. I did spend a non-zero time sleeping in the van while parked by a river).

-Within a week of arriving at my new kip, I found a job that paid more than the crap job I hated so much in Virginia.

-Within eight months, I had found a job at nearly double my old pay.

-Currently, I work a job where my income is almost triple what I made back where I used to live.

-After (severe and repeated) prodding from one of my pathfinder bros, I re-entered the dating scene. The first week I had sexahtimes with three different women (note: That's awesome if you're in college, not so good when you're still recovering from a month long illness and you're not carrying enough testosterone in your bloodstream to kill a horse.)

-Funny thing about dating I never realized: when you're not surrounded by psychotic holler honeys, dating is a lot of fun because people that want to go on a date with you will usually have enough in common with you to still be friends if there's no "spark" there. And if they're not interested, they have better things to do than try to destroy you as long as you act like a grown-ass adult and move on.

(Note: the people who supported me in the past can stop reading right here. Or not, I'm not your master. But the rest of this post is for those fuckers, you know who you are.)

Here's where I'm going to be extra smug here. Want to know how I managed to change my attitude? I DIDN'T CHANGE ONE GODDAMN THING YOU IGNORANT SOFTBELLIED COCKGRABBERS. Not. one. god. damned. THING.

Do I still get depressed? Sure do, that's a problem I've been dealing with my entire life. Do I still sometimes say inappropriate things on the internet? Not as bad as I used to, but yeah that's just part of who I am. I get gloomy and I overshare when I'm depressed. It's not the best way to deal with shit, but it's better than drinking, drugs, and playing 4E.

And if my ex wife is here (she might have given up trailing me a while back, but you never know):

I'm not going to say our marriage was wine and roses; furthermore not a day goes by that I'm not glad it is over. That being said, I will admit in public you were much better to me than I let on, and even though I was justified at one point I held onto my rage for much, much longer than was healthy. I don't want you back, and I don't want to be your friend, just know that I forgive you.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Sun Jun 01, 2014 9:08 pm

Glad to hear you're doing better, Count. I know some of how it feels to just have all of life shit on you, and I know that trying to "think positive so good things happen" is bullshit.

Kaelik · Post by **Kaelik** » Sun Jun 01, 2014 10:55 pm

Count Arioch the 28th wrote:Don't interpret this as me returning (relax, Kaelik, you can put down your pitchfork and torches, I'll only be shitting up your message board for this one post. If I do post again, it's strictly gaming, which we mostly agree on and don't get into stupid fights)

You know Count, there are a bunch of people on this board, silva, ISP, formerly PR and Tzor, that also shit up the board. Also PL, but differently.

I don't care about people shitting up the board, but seriously, every single "stupid fight" we had was because you went out of your way to pick stupid fights with me because you hate me. Sort of like right now, when the first sentence of your first post was you calling me out as having a grudge against you for no reason.