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idaman008 replied to your post: i-love-rattmann: actingwithportals: ...

Improvised ukulele covers with Doug Rattmann. “Ain’t No Rest for the Wicked,” by Cage The Elephant. “Creep,” by Radiohead. “Rain Dogs,” by Tom Waits.

(( PLEAS E )) 

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idaman008 replied to your post: Going to be a little raw for a while.

Was just looking through your blog and saw this. I’m sorry for your loss, Chrome! He sounds like an amazing kitty. Hit me up if you need to talk.

Thank you! Will do sometime. I'm better today than I was yesterday but still Feeling It. <3

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idaman008 replied to your post: Stream’s starting!

Gonna jump in as soon as Ally’s up and I won’t bother her with the light.

No prob. And it's very quiet. (Still the only one here. XD) But having fun anyways. :D See you soon!

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Can’t seem to reply to this in new xkit (wtf?) so uh

idaman008

Cortex Reavers aren't that difficult as long as you can get in close with a laser rapier. The devs didn't place them as effectively as they could have, which I largely suspect is because the things would be un-killable if they had.

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I meant the Cortex Reaver from the Game Over scene, (Haven’t gotten the regen station working yet) but I do agree from the LPs I’ve seen. 

I wouldn’t be surprised if the devs had a blast coming up with them, making them so damn dangerous, and then realized how ridiculously overpowered and impossible-to-kill they were when they laid out the levels. So I figure the Cortex Reavers were just too cool to throw away, so they just uh, put them in rooms and at close range...

Though if you’re really feeling kill-happy I’ve seen one LP where the player absolutely wasted the Reaver with a Skorpion. :D

I’m hoping Night Dive’s version makes the Reavers properly hard to kill. If only because nu!Shock could use some more sub-boss fights besides Cyborg Diego. 

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idaman008 replied to your post: GODDAMMIT

Ironically enough, I think the blog that posted that picture was a porn bot.

Well that just figures.

[fuchsiamae]

so out of sheer stubborn boredom I’m still working on aperture-izing this

there are 55 stanzas. so far I’ve done three:

Gold optic that gleams like a jewel Whose gaze may make mortal men cower; The heavy white limbs, and the cruel Sweet voice full of terrible power; When these fade to nothing but shadows, What shall rest of thee then, what remain, O sombre and sacrosanct GLaDOS,                 Our Lady of Pain?

Seven scientists tried to deny thee, And fell 'neath thy merciless hand; Now solitude doth deify thee, Empress of a desolate land: The empty and silent facility, Endless tests to complete and control; All the splendour of pure possibility,                 All lacking a goal.

O ghost of a life interrupted, O grave where the guiltiest fell, O angel of vengeance, constructed By hands that built heaven in hell; O song in mechanical choir, O temple of knowledge profane, O she of unquenchable fire,                Our Lady of Pain! 

truly, my masochism knows no bounds

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idaman008 replied to your post: “I think I might download Scrivener and give it a go but…like, I feel...”:

Scrivener is really useful for organizing research, outlining and making a first draft. You can break your project into sections as small or as large as you care to, link sections together and mark / search sections of the doc by whatever tags you choose. Having a copy isn't really much of a motivator to get you writing though, any more than buying a notebook, some index cards, a pegboard and a bunch of thumbtacks would be. Believe me, I know. :-(

That’s helpful, thanks!

I’m motivated and I usually have ideas but there’s always this weird THING going on where everything just feels like a catastrophic mess when I write so I end up spending so much time trying to get everything in order, and looking stuff up and cross-referencing...hell, even formatting (especially for the audio/script format junk). It’s somewhat discouraging. I tried moving it to Word, but it didn’t really do much.

So if anything, a program like this might help on that front? But yeah, I know it’ll do jack squat for the actual Butt In The Chair part, sadly. But it’s a free trial, so...may as well try it out!

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