Implemented some silly secret you-have-died messages for when the player is being particularly creative, lol.
I’m trying to avoid “you can’t do that” messages, in favor of “you try it and fail, but this failure is kinda funny tho” messages, or having the player character at least warn the player why it won’t work, but allow them to try anyway.
I am happy to see I am not the only one trying to be creative. imagining Joey sitting with a silly grin thinking up all kind of weird messages for players to gawk at. Those standard “You can’t do that” messages are boring as hell. It is a challenge to keep decorum when trying to do the impossible 
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Walking into walls and bludgeoning your nose when alone is one thing, but now imagine doing that in the presence of an uncouth barbarian… One has high standards to maintain if one wants to preserve the image of being the most esteemed gatherer of valuables.
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Absolutely devoured my belated lunch after skiving off on lunch and an early start to the day. The chocolate bonbon was that much yummier for being ravenously hungry. And it’s always a good day when you eat garlic bread!
Most probably get the reference, but for those who don’t, or want a refresher:
As for good things? Well, not to me specifically. Non-sportyball fans may wish to pass. But I hope there is a general positive message here.
If follow college basketball, you may still be laughing at what is going on in the Big Ten. With Michigan’s loss last night, there is a 7-way tie for 2nd, and there would be an 8-way tie if Rutgers hadn’t blown a 10-point lead to Minnesota with 90 seconds left. it might be 9 if the Michigan State/Minnesota game hadn’t been canceled for tragic reasons. It’s such a statistically improbable thing, though.
I was born in West Lafayette so I am a Purdue fan, and last night worked out well for me, between Illinois’s win over Michigan (clinched an outright title) and Purdue winning at a very decent Wisconsin squad. The best part of the game, besides the win, was that the indoor heating did not fail.
Many people (probably rightly) feel Purdue is overrated in the polls because the polls are a ladder and Purdue just consistently beat decent teams in front of them, and I have to agree with people who say Purdue is a good bet to get upset in the NCAA tournament. But all the same they did way better than expected this year & even if sports don’t really matter, and college sports has serious problems, it’s something to be grateful for & its getting back to normal in late 2020 helped a lot of people bounce back.
Without deluging folks with college basketball history, Purdue is one of those consistently very good teams that are never quite elite. Purdue hasn’t made the Final Four since 1980, which was before I was a Purdue fan. Due to steady success in the past decade, they also have the most NCAA tournament wins without a national championship, which is a title of sorts, though Gonzaga may overtake that mantle.
Whether or not we are sports fans, hopefully we’ve had some “You can’t always get what you want” moments where we know everything isn’t perfect, but we’d be fools to go back in the past and ask for a re-roll. That was the case last night.
An unfortunately pretty bad day turned good by my belief in “when life seems hard, take a bite out of the silver sandwich!”; I had some very delicious spaghetti and spotted a very rotund bird outside.
I was laughing pretty hard last night at one in particular, lol.
I obviously won’t get everything, especially when I need to work faster lately, but there are quite a few actions that players would assume are possible alternative solutions, but the antagonist has already made a contingency plan for it, so it simply wouldn’t work.
So I’m letting the player use the player character’s insight abilities to be forewarned about certain attempts. Again, though, after the player is warned, some of these actions will let you try anyway, but you have basically accepted the coming loss screen.
I might do more brainstorming for the post-comp version and add more of these. But I’m just trying to get the more obvious ones for now.
We’re about to watch the new episode of Star Trek: Picard. Any day I get to see the old gang is a good day.
I’m holding out for the Wesley Crusher reboot series.
Today was a good day! Got to eat some cake with my name on it, still high on winning, had my favourite dinner, and added 2 volumes of The Way of the Househusband to my collection.
Also was pretty productive too
Good days like this don’t come often. That was really nice
I’ve been having a lot of fun putting together birthday cards for the abundance of spring babies amongst the regulars. Here’s some from the last while:
re the po’ boy:
Good stuff! A bit sweeter than my usual, but a fun change of pace
Shut up, Wesley.
be still, my beating heart.
What’s your go-to, if you don’t mind sharing?
If the place is good, fried shrimp with lettuce and tomato (mayo, tartar, or cocktail) is good enough for me. I like to mix it up, though. Catfish, oysters. It really just depends on whether the seafood is fresh and well-seasoned.
Some places do their version of Nashville hot chicken, which is almost always good.
I don’t think I’ll live here forever, so I’m trying to get this food while I can.
I shared some fried pickled okra too, I love that stuff.
Was randomly gifted a wide ruled notebook (the small single subject 70 sheets sort of book) and the spacing is quite good for my thicker tipped gel pens. Good to draft in… I have special notebooks for working in, but I’m not someone to turn down a stationery gift- takes some of the stress out of the equation, I suppose, and it’s been awhile since I used a pencil.
A very nice positive thing to round out my evening: chatting with Autumn and sipping a perfectly chilled Ramune (first one I’ve had in a very long while too!).
If you break the bottle for the marble pretty please can you take pictures. I’ve never quite managed to do it on my own!!
I’ve never done it myself either! I’ll do my best though, and keep ya updated!
I felt dizzy and sick and nearly passed out while volunteering at my local community run this morning (not the positive/neutral bit). I don’t think I’ve been taking care of myself properly during the last couple of weeks of manic game-finishing, so I’ve cleared the decks and am spending the rest of the weekend focusing on eating well and resting. Husband has Persona 5 Royal on the main TV screen (a really engaging story that I’m enjoying by proxy) and I’m settled on my laptop with the PunyJam and SeedComp games on the go.
