Posts by Silent Lion

This is a cool idea. Likin the stories.

I had the day off on Wednesday. As a stay-at-home dad, that means my wife took the kid out and I was left alone. I used to savour living alone, but after nearly six years of living with my partner, and sixteen months with the baby, having the house to myself seemed suddenly strange and unnatural. An anxiety sets in that is alien to me. So, I try and learn some programming, read a book, all the things I love. But it doesn't take the edge off it. I decide to go out, get some excercise (which for me is in short supply) and go somewhere new. I pull out my old commuting bike, and I'm shocked to discover that it works. I mean, I've left it to rot in the rain for over a year, and besides slapping some vegetable oil on the chain six months ago, I haven't touched the thing. But no - chain's fine, gears are fine, breaks are fine. Apart from pumping a little air into the tyres, I'm off.

There's a couple of nature reserves not too far away from me. One of them is right along my old work commute, but I never got round to visiting it. So that's where I end up. I wasn't actually my intention - at first I was just rehashing my commute for old time's sake, then I take a detour into an estate, get a little lost, find a subway under the motorway (freeway) and find myself in the forest. Anyway, soon the forest clears and there is the most amazing view. I'm a sucker for a good view. Every so often I hit a sight that stops me dead, and I just gotta look at it. This one is a hill that falls away from me into a rolling valley filled with wildflower meadows, bordered by another wooded hill on the far side. And the sun is just breaking through the rain from the right, giving everything a gleaming, mystical glow.

As I continue the trail then curves to the right through the valley and opens into a field of millet and more wildflower. This particular reserve is known for its plentiful variety of plantlife. One of my hobbies is wild food and herbalism, so I'm in paradise. I've soon got a carrier full of pineapple weed, chamomile, and all the regulars. It rains again but that just adds to the experience. The trail goes on through a patch of stunning chesnut forest, and I get hopelessly lost. When I eventually emerge from the reserve on the far side, muddy and exhausted, I am faced with the prospect of retracing all my steps. Except no, because as it turns out, I'd gone in a bit of an arch, and I recognise myself to be on a road that leads downhill all the way nearly to my home. Win!

I couldn't have had a better day. I came home feeling genuinely elated.

I need money!! This looks awesome. Zelda meets trad rpg?

Never had the chance to play online RTSs. Sounds like fun. Heck, able to touch any games these days.

Used to play a lot of KKnD2: Krossfire (anyone remember THAT?)
Other than that, I just dabbled at other people's houses (a bit of Shogun or Roman Total War here, a bit of AoE there). Populus the Beginning on PS1 was fun, but my disc was shot. And there's a couple of cool obscure PC ones from late 90s/early 00s that I just can't remember the name of.

There is also Graal, which isn't Zelda but is a world-builder with very similar graphics and mechanics to aLttP.

I think you should continue. Because it'll be fun, and because you'll get a ton of programming experience.

Must've switched off notifications for this thread somehow.

All very good points. I guess I'm looking at it from the narrow viewpoint of someone who's first Zelda games where OoT and MM. It would seem that only the N64 games had that exotic feel, and it's something nostalgic that belongs to that generation, but nothing more.
@Sardonic Pickle I think WW had some of the best music of the whole series. Loved every second of it.

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^ Editted. I'll hang back for someone else to chip in.

Any genre boundaries?

I'll go for Faded by Alan Walker [3:28]

I also agree with everything LinkSkywalker said.

From my own experience with Asperger's, I can only confirm what he said - the discovery needs to be a tool of self-understanding, not a pass. Thing is, I don't know you well, if at all, and have no idea about your spectrum severity or overall behaviour, so it's a little unfair to assume you don't already know that based solely on this incident. What he says about your condition being irrelevant to this situation is also true, though - your dad was obviously in the wrong.

From my experience with a violent father, I know the temptation will be to return to normality once the dust has settled and you run out of angry steam. I'd like to recommend against that, but in the end it's your judgement. Do file a police report. If he has a history of this sort of behaviour, I'd not bother with contact at all again - as he doesn't live with you, it would be a good opportunity to shut the door. If it's a one-off, it will be all the more tempting to return to normality. In this case, if you feel you need closure before turning the lock, try to talk to him about it. He sounds like the kind of guy who would make that futile, but the point isn't only to get a positive response, it's to confirm the choice you make. You'll need to decide beforehand that any reaction other than unreserved apology will result in estrangement. I don't think you're morally obligated to talk to him at all, but equally, it's very difficult for someone of your age to enforce estrangement over an adult with so much power over you, and that might give you a path to achieving that conviction.

Apologies for the walk-in wisdom, but I do feel like I have some experience in this matter. Anyway, good luck to you, remain positive.

I said 74!!!!!

9 billion people (abouts) on the planet, buddy. They exist.

Obvs I'm married with a kid, but hypothetically:

Requirements:

Respects my authority over me. In other words, not violent or abusive, respects my right to be in charge of my own body and my own personal affairs. When my ex was on my lap and I asked her to move or get up, I'd get "No, I'm comfy". Sod that. I treat my other half's body as her sacred property, I expect the same in return.

Doesn't cheat. I like the idea of an open relationship, and I think in the early stages, I'd be happy to indulge in one. But knowing me, I suspect I wouldn't continue to be happy with it as the relationship progressed. As much as I'd like to be, I'm not cut out for an open. My relationship is a refuge from wider society, and I'd like to keep wider society out.

Honest. We all have flaws, but we don't all have a genuine desire to reduce them. In a relationship, I put a lot of effort into growing and improving for the other person, to get to know them and how to make them happy. It can't be one-sided. If someone doesn't care about being a good person, and standing by their own standards, they can't be trusted. Under the same banner, if we need to talk about something, we need to talk properly. I don't expect everyone to be versed in the logical fallacies, but I certainly need someone who can rise above name-calling and point scoring to have a proper conversation when we need one. That's being honest.

Let's me have some time. I don't mind her being a little clingy, I can understand that. But a little solitude now and then is healthy.

Accepts my vegetarianism, my political and religious viewpoints, and my choice of clothing.

Between 18-35.

Is female

Is human

Preferences:

Of course, being versed in the logical fallacies would be a bonus.

Loves learning. Doesn't matter what.

Likes some of the same music. Music is huge to me, always has been, always will be.

I was going to put 'speaks English' but actually, I imagine it'd be really cool to date someone who speaks something else. Communicating in other ways, and growing into each other's languages over time might be a transcendant experience.

Is compassionate.

74

Cool with me.

Out of curisoity, what kind of discussion were you hoping for by making this thread?
Purely to allay my confusion.

It's possible, but not conclusive. Time travel is complicated. I mean, when you travel back to Young Link (YL) era, you emerge at the point in time when you left. So, when Guru-Guru says YL messed up the windmill, it might well be true even in the one timeline. From your point of view, YL might not have messed it up YET, but he WILL DO. From Guru-guru's point of view, it's already happened.

You could say that's impossible, because it's Guru-guru's words in the Adult Link (AL) era that allow us to go back and mess up the windmill, creating a grandfather paradox - but then it's possible that YL would have learnt the song of storms anyway had that not have happened (even if the gameplay doesn't present that possibility to us). I'll admit it's a contradiction though, because there are other things in the game, like the deku seed platforms, that don't appear in the future unless you plant them in the past, suggesting that YL has no effect on AL era unless you go back and actually do the stuff yourself. So, you've that on your side.

But, I see that as a continuety error on the part of the game. Because how did this second timeline come to be in the first place? How did the sages know about the other timeline in order to send Link there? Either a) YL could mess up the windmill originally, in which case no need for a second timeline, or b) he couldn't without Guru-guru's information in AL era, in which case we get a paradox. Also, even if an alternate YL messed up the windmill, he could have done it after Ganondorf entered the sacred realm. And does this mean an alternative Link is created every time we plant some deku seeds and change the timeline? One AL for the timeline that the platform isn't there, one for when it is.

For me, there's just too many questions - I'm going to have to stick with 'the game writers messed up'.

Well, I hope it goes well for you. If you can keep them out of your house, you're already winning half the battle.

The situation you describe, is three things - shit_y, difficult, and simple. These people are not friends. I think it's important you don't shrug that fact off as 'oh I know that', because you clearly seem to regard them as your asshole friends, when really you need to regard them as dangerous. You need to break contact, estrange yourself, block their numbers. The logical thing would be to regard them as dangerous criminals, not as mates who happen to be dick_. Violence is never casual, and you should not treat it as such. If violence happens in future, hope that it's in a public place or a place with cameras and file a police report (it's illegal, FYI). Do not pass it off as normal, unless you want your life and attitude towards it to be messed forevermore. You need to make a decision to lead a normal life, and not be flexible about it.

Hey TS! (nobody else here with those initials, no? Don't think so... cool.)

Glad you're here. Ed's right, there's some good convos around here on all manner of subjects that could be resuscitated. But, of course, do what takes your fancy - wherever you end up, I look forward to having you around.

Never used Mininova (I haven't googled what it is yet, either)
I have spent way too much at gas stations.
And I have a microwave in my home.

I am officially dead.

Admirable blow sir, but neither have I.

Never have I ever bet money.