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[Graknorke]

Re: Cat attack -- if you've been mauled by a cat, it was you screwing up, not the cat, sorry. They're pretty easy to deal with if you know how. I've tamed a couple of full ferals (insofar as housecats get) with no lasting injuries, and had cats as pets for most of my life. Don't like 'em more or less than most other animals, but you do have to know what you're doing... same as any other nonhuman.

I am in no way an animal trainer, but you shouldn't need to have taken training to stay safe from an animal that is supposedly a domestic pets.
In experiences with equally house-living cats and dogs, cats are by far the most problematic and least likable.

Also I think we should probably start closing off this derail and put the thread back on it's tracks.

[Sirus]

Moderator Kitten disapproves of this off-topic discussion.

[Graknorke]

Moderator Kitten disapproves of this off-topic discussion.

And now for a convenient transition to the game-master mode for Starbound. It allows some people to access a server/planet and be able to 1.See everything 2.Have world editing powers and 3.Control any NPC.

This allows for things far more complex than can be gained from scripted events. For example, the GM could create some ruins filled with treasure and tell the players by means of an NPC or signs or something to go in, then spawn a boss inside and `cave in` the entrance if they try to run, so it's either they run with good mining equipment or they kill it.
Sounds pretty versatile.

[Kind of off-topic but also on it]: How long do these confirmation e-mails take? I have been waiting a number of hours and still nothing. I've asked fr it resent too.

[Neonivek]

It may be sad but the one thing that really impresses me about this game is that you can walk up inclines

[penguinofhonor]

This /r/starbound post has some new screenshots. Also a ketchup robot.

[Neonivek]

This /r/starbound post has some new screenshots. Also a ketchup robot.

And the quality of the game is starting to become suspect.

[Sirus]

This /r/starbound post has some new screenshots. Also a ketchup robot.

And the quality of the game is starting to become even more apparent.

ftfy

[Neonivek]

This /r/starbound post has some new screenshots. Also a ketchup robot.

And the quality of the game is starting to become even more apparent.

ftfy

Community assessment complete.

Beware of hype-generators.

[Graknorke]

This /r/starbound post has some new screenshots. Also a ketchup robot.

And the quality of the game is starting to become suspect.

Elaborate?
Just so you know, the ketchup thing is an obscure reference to a Heinz advert, I believe.

[Darkmere]

The penguin with the turtle shell wasn't enough to hint that the game wasn't entirely serious?

[Neonivek]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

This /r/starbound post has some new screenshots. Also a ketchup robot.

And the quality of the game is starting to become suspect.

Elaborate?
Just so you know, the ketchup thing is an obscure reference to a Heinz advert, I believe.

Ohh I know it is supposed to be funny.

It just means this is going to be a soupy game which is one of the indicators of negative quality (which is a shame because I love Soupy games done right). Judging by the Comedy it means it is also going to be light-hearted soup which is also an indicator that this could be a Mudbox game. It is showing its gameplay unfocus.

It is suspect but only so much that it means I'll have to pay close attention to this game to see if it is good. Judging by other people's reactions is also means I cannot take anyone's word for it because this game seems to have a strong community hype factor as well given that people will just outright edit your posts to say the game is awsome. It may have been a joke but as someone once said "You learn more about someone in a hour of play then in a hundred days of conversation". The chances that I will be called out on this is also high, the tone and amount of information indicative of community hype generation.

I work by percents and indications.

"The penguin with the turtle shell wasn't enough to hint that the game wasn't entirely serious?"

Didn't see it. It could be cutesy but I thought it was a product of the art style. Plus Cutesy is a rather poor indicator of quality.

Whatever just ignore the spoiler.

[Graknorke]

Sorry for not being very well informed on the videogame reviewing industry, but what do all of those words you used mean.

[Urist Imiknorris]

They mean he doesn't know if the game will be good or not.

[Neonivek]

They mean he doesn't know if the game will be good or not.

Actually yes, this is exactly it.

[Sean Mirrsen]

Ohh I know it is supposed to be funny.

It just means this is going to be a soupy game which is one of the indicators of negative quality (which is a shame because I love Soupy games done right). Judging by the Comedy it means it is also going to be light-hearted soup which is also an indicator that this could be a Mudbox game. It is showing its gameplay unfocus.

Can you... uh, translate that into an existing language of some sort? Because "soupy game" and "mudbox" isn't even Tropese, though I can probably sort of infer the meaning, or part of it at least. "Mudbox" probably relates to "sandbox", and "soupy" would imply a disparate style conglomerate a la, say, Nethack, but beyond that I've no idea. If I'm right on the "soupy" definition, I see nothing badong with it. Given the game's general scope (how many variations of rocket launcher did they say they have?), having everything up to and beyond the kitchen sink's long lost Cybertronian half-brother in the bestiary and environments can only be a good thing. Being normal (or even "sane") would only be detrimental here.

And really now, given how great Terraria was, can you really blame people for being excited about a space-based Spore/Roguelike offshoot project? Even if only half of the things promised are done in the end, the sheer scope and scale of the project will make up for it, at the very least it'll be another Terraria. I'm not excited for it as anything more than an expanded Terraria clone, but even that has me rather anxious to see this game.

...aand ninja'd, of course. Still, I'd like some clarification on those terms used.