Folstag ate Age of Mythology:EE and hurled Titan Difficulty into the river!

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Technowolf: Nov 4, 2009

Jimmy4400nav posted:

The one black sheep for smiths seems to be in Norse mythology. Wayland the Smith (V�lundr), was crippled and chained in a kings basement to make stuff. He killed the kings sons, made goblets from their skulls and may or may not have also raped the kings daughter. After he left he then went on to make most of the cool swords in Norse mythology.

To be fair, that's not out of character for any Norse deity.

# ¿ Jan 4, 2017 03:51

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# ¿ Apr 30, 2024 01:04

Technowolf: Nov 4, 2009

Melth posted:

Computer adventures continue!

After a day and a half of trying different things to solve the audio-visual desync (Which I eventually figured out was caused by VIrtualDub), I finally resolved it with a different program. I went to bed with Zarx encoding the fixed video to an MKV so I could upload it... and woke up to a system diagnostics screen warning me my hard drive had failed and no operating system was detected.

A restart seems to have resolved this completely, but I think you'll understand that I'm taking that with a grain of salt.

This isn't any kind of practical crisis for me because I have an old computer I can fall back on and because I've backed things up religiously ever since I almost lost my 2200 line epic poem last summer, but it might get in the way of updating on schedule. We'll see.

On the positive side, yesterday was totally awesome.

You might want to check you hard drive's SMART status to see if it is actually dying. Here's a good list of monitoring tools, including free ones.

And, like Poil said, you should really look into replacing the drive soon.

# ¿ Jan 19, 2017 17:54

Technowolf: Nov 4, 2009

Don't units garrisoned in building regenerate very slowly, or am I thinking of another Age game?

# ¿ Jan 24, 2017 22:12

Technowolf: Nov 4, 2009

Mr Luxury Yacht posted:

I booted up 2 recently since EE1 is entirely unplayable on Windows 10 as far as I can tell

The hero system was just weird in it. Why the hell did they scale them differently so you have a fifteen foot tall Winston Churchill stomping around?

I think you answered your own question.

# ¿ Feb 5, 2017 00:10

Technowolf: Nov 4, 2009

Melth posted:

You mean you don't ship him with Ajax?

# ¿ Mar 4, 2017 23:06

Technowolf: Nov 4, 2009

cheetah7071 posted:

I suspect that the variants of the myth that have the palace of Byblos being a temporary resting place for Osiris' body didn't come out of people thinking it made a better story, but rather out of Byblosians wanting to insert themselves into the myths of their neighbor, possibly while said neighbor ruled them. You see the same thing with Rome claiming it was founded by Trojans in order to insert themselves into the Greek mythic world (while still remaining distinct from the Greeks).

One theory I heard of a long time ago was that the different variations of the myth were actually separate myths that were created by the various city-states of the Nile region and when they were unified the priesthood just decided to mash all the different myths together.

# ¿ Jul 26, 2017 15:25

Technowolf: Nov 4, 2009

Just wanted to let people know that the Extended Edition is currently on sale for $7.49 on Steam.

# ¿ Dec 22, 2017 22:01

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# ¿ Apr 30, 2024 01:04

Technowolf: Nov 4, 2009

This game is only $7.50 on Steam until Monday.

# ¿ Feb 17, 2018 05:43

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