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Author Topic: Things that made you sad today thread.  (Read 9699487 times)

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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #23520 on: February 28, 2011, 06:04:09 pm »

Bluh. I've written myself into a corner. It's either timeskip past the boring recuperation and miss out on a character, or go through a couple long and boring essentially plotless scenes.

Obviously the latter is out of the question.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #23521 on: February 28, 2011, 06:19:53 pm »

Let me just tell you I won't be reading a boring book anytime soon.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #23522 on: February 28, 2011, 06:29:33 pm »

Bluh. I've written myself into a corner. It's either timeskip past the boring recuperation and miss out on a character, or go through a couple long and boring essentially plotless scenes.

Obviously the latter is out of the question.
Couldn't you use flashbacks in another place to introduce the character anyway, or would that be too much work?
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #23523 on: February 28, 2011, 06:38:04 pm »

How well developed is the character in your head? If he's detailed, see if you can put him somewhere else without shoehorning him. What is this for, may I ask?
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #23524 on: February 28, 2011, 06:43:06 pm »

Nah, I was talking about 12 Monkeys.  That movie was weird and confusing, and had no real resolution except "The nominal good guy destroyed the world with a stable time loop, whoopse!"  Yeah, my point is, the plot was just so convoluted I don't know who was supposed to be what.

I didn't "get" that movie either.  Brad Pitt's wacky antics did nothing for me, even though I've liked him in plenty of other movies.

Oddly, I'm sick too.  Got a fierce fucking fever that refuses to stay away.  Last night I had crazy fever dreams that were like a fictionalized version of my job, where some arithmetic operation caused a giant cascading corruption during a database merge, and my brain kept replaying the failed merge in full detail, going up and down the stack trace.  Then I woke up and temporarily banished the fever with ibuprofen and a shit ton of hearty food, long enough to get some real sleep.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #23525 on: February 28, 2011, 06:45:26 pm »

F*ck. Done ten sheets of calculus, and now I don't know in what order they came D:

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! That sums up calculus quite well. Just endless streams of numbers and letters on a page, with little to no regards to rhyme or reason.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #23526 on: February 28, 2011, 06:52:34 pm »

Caves of Qud failed to install properly. I really wanted to try it out, too.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #23527 on: February 28, 2011, 06:53:13 pm »

Caves of Qud failed to install properly. I really wanted to try it out, too.
:[  It's refreshing roguelike too.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #23528 on: February 28, 2011, 06:55:40 pm »

Caves of Qud failed to install properly. I really wanted to try it out, too.

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Download the zip version?
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #23529 on: February 28, 2011, 06:56:23 pm »

Caves of Qud failed to install properly. I really wanted to try it out, too.

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Download the zip version?
There's a zip version?!

...I need to pay closer attention to my download options.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #23530 on: February 28, 2011, 06:56:51 pm »

How well developed is the character in your head? If he's detailed, see if you can put him somewhere else without shoehorning him. What is this for, may I ask?
Moderately. Enough that I'll have to change her background. Probably what I'll end up doing though.

And it's for pleasure. Otherwise I probably would have just written through and then edited later.

Make the scenes entertaining or blur through them in a paragraph or two.
There was some necessary exposition and a bedded character, I'd been kinda floundering at making them entertaining.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #23531 on: February 28, 2011, 06:57:54 pm »

Caves of Qud failed to install properly. I really wanted to try it out, too.

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Download the zip version?
There's a zip version?!

...I need to pay closer attention to my download options.

Yeah, second link on the site https://s3.amazonaws.com/CoQ/coq.zip
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #23532 on: February 28, 2011, 07:03:55 pm »

Aaaaannnnddd the zip version isn't any more responsive than the installed version. At least the installed version had the decency to inform me that it couldn't run properly because I wasn't system admin, but this one isn't producing an error message at all. I never really understood that, either. On every computer I've ever had, it has refused to allow me to be system admin despite my account being the only one on the computer.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #23533 on: February 28, 2011, 07:04:47 pm »

OS?
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #23534 on: February 28, 2011, 07:05:28 pm »

Aaaaannnnddd the zip version isn't any more responsive than the installed version. At least the installed version had the decency to inform me that it couldn't run properly because I wasn't system admin, but this one isn't producing an error message at all. I never really understood that, either. On every computer I've ever had, it has refused to allow me to be system admin despite my account being the only one on the computer.

You running the XRL file?
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