Uni and I were discussing in-game sounds and one thing led to another. This thread on the official forums turned out to be a lifesaver. So I'm sharing
it.

How to silence specific game sounds

(or, How I Learned To Love My Game Again)

--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs

I especially love the guy's mask
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll

Has anyone considered the effects of long-term, low-grade exposure? I was considering the fact that, since almost every vehicle and habitat in Fenspace is
treated with 'wavium in some fashion or another, whether or not such exposure might cause subconscious biomodding, of a minor degree, in people. Nothing
extreme, but perhaps a "housecleaning" effect. People who spend a lot of time around 'wavium find themselves less prone to minor health
difficulties (allergies, headaches, etc.). These changes aren't noticeable, or if they are, people attribute them to things like "clean living."
As 'wavium effects, they are dependent on the type of person they are; they have to act "in character" or the mods break down.

Opinions?
Ebony the Black Dragon
http://ebony14.livejournal.com

"Good night, and may the Good Lord take a Viking to you."

I LOLed. ^_^

Wasn't keeping up with it but someone sent me the animation:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJI_pTR_B34

The Jason has already introduced blood oranges to Fenspace, and I've been considering what else that I could work on, healing-wise. I've been having
fun with the Jason's 'Son Goku' theme - those participants of the 2015 Port Phobos Invitational may well have noticed that he's apparently
picked up at least the rudiments of Hou Quan, or Monkey Fist - so in keeping with that, I give you...the senzu bean! Commnts are welcome; I THINK this should
be workable, but I'd appreciate opinions.

Senzu Bean

Roughly the size of a large brazil nut, a ripe senzu bean is an extremely concentrated package of proteins, oils, and sugars, laced through
with a limited variant of Expresso handwavium. Senzu beans are really only useful for biomodded organisms, since they depend on the effect Expresso has on
biomods to work. When ingested by a healthy person, it simply kicks the digestive system into a slightly higher gear to quickly absorb the nutrients for a
quick burst of energy. If the person is injured, cells at the site of the injury are targetted by the Expresso effect and go into a metabolic supercharge mode,
rapidly dividing and growing. Bruises fade immediately, small wounds visibly heal, and even larger wounds stabilize and start to close. Bones will start to
knit, but if not set first this can lead to them healing improperly. Truly life-threatening injuries should still be treated by a trained professional, but one
of these beans can buy time to reach one and aid in the recovery afterward. Please note that while the bean will supply an initial burst of energy and
nutrients, for larger injuries the body's own resources will have to pick up the load and an IV drip might be required if being used to speed treatment of
more severe injuries.

The most useful property of senzu beans is that they work on biomodded patients. While not as potentially effective as triggering an emergency biomod in a
normal, they can help pick up the slack in emergency treatments for those already possessing a biomod. The beans have a fast burst of initial growth when
planted, similar to kudzoom though slower; once germinated, a tiny shrub will appear within a day or so. After the initial appearance, the plant takes about
six months or so to reach a stage where it can start producing beans. Being a medium-sized shrub, they can be grown in pots where desired.

So - opinions? Any ideas on changes or do you think it's not feasible? And does anyone have ideas for other sorts of medicinals?

This is what my new video card does for me. This is a before/after shot. Yow.

Purchase from plaync.com, comes with a month of gameplay, netting you the mac pack for $4.99 - and there are a LOT of options in Valkyrie! Armored wings,
capes, 3 different shoulders (two of which are fergin-huge!), switchable 'wings' applique on almost all pieces.. all sorts of delicious stuff. Jay
really outdid himself!
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies

http://www.drdemento.com/index.html

The good Dr has taken to providing 'streaming' downloads of his weekly show for $2 per...
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky?
That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry-
NO QUARTER!!!
-- "No Quarter", by Echo's Children

It's often been said that there are only seven (or eight, or twelve) basic plots in the world, and originality comes from what you do with them.

Sometimes, "what you do with them" sounds a lot like what somebody else already did with them... especially if one deliberately writes a description that could apply to more than one story.

I already mentioned this one over in the current Crossovers That Should Not Be thread:

A beautiful woman with unusual abilities (played by Kikuko Inoue) comes to Earth, where circumstances beyond her control force her to live with a male student. The student quickly realizes that his friends must never find out about his new lifemate's secret. The woman and the student eventually fall in love. But before they do, the woman's female relatives -- one sultry, the other younger and somewhat bratty -- come to visit, and the newcomers' misunderstandings cause problems in the previously-established relationship.

Please Teacher? Ah My Goddess? Could be either! (And http://robkelk.ottawa-anime.org/seiyuu- ... megami.jpg]this image, which inspired me to come up with that description in the first place, doesn't help matters any.)

So... anybody have any more Similar Plots?
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012