A video game I want to play
by Nojh on Apr.29, 2013, under Art, Articles, Entertainment, Gaming, Video Games
The author of Dresden Codak, inspired of the Video Game Tropes vs Women series, decided to design a Legend of Zelda story idea with Zelda as the primary character, and it sounds awesome.
A fan made concept of a Zelda game where Zelda is actually the main character.
Aaron, the creator of Dresden Codak, does a little bit more than just make a cover but also goes as far as to describe and draw the main characters (Zelda, Prince Link, and Ganndorf) and explain the mythology of Hyrule, and layout the items and magic that Zelda has access to.
A fan made imaging of Zelda as the main character of her own The Legend of Zelda game.
And more. Please check out his post to read up about it.
I mention that this would be a game I’d love to play. It isn’t just because it is Zelda in her own game. That’s actually beside the point. It is the gameplay described in the details of the game. Weapons, magic, enemies, and the plot all sound very compelling in a two-dimensional or three-dimensional third person video game. The plot could be re-written to be a completely original set of characters for all that it matters, if the gameplay is solid.
Weird Word: Paucity
by Nojh on Apr.26, 2013, under Articles, Weird Words, Writing
Paucity
Noun
- Fewness in number; too few.
- A smallness in size or amount that is insufficient; meagerness, dearth.
Used in a sentence:
- Our food stores were so full of paucity, that it was just about the only in the stores we had a large amount of.
Source: Wiktionary
Commentary:
Before you even say a word, yes it is grammatically acceptable to end a sentence with a preposition, if the preposition is required to understanding the meaning of the sentence. Yes I could re-write the sentence to say something like ‘in large amounts’ but that wouldn’t let me rant about it!
Ahem.
Paucity isn’t so weird a word. I think it is used in Dickens books, which means it’s heard by modern ears about once a life time or so. But I like it anyway because it reminds me of paws and city, which makes me think of a city of cats (or dogs if that is your fancy).
Free Write #69: Security
by Nojh on Apr.24, 2013, under Entertainment, Free Write, Writing
Welcome to Free Writing! Quick fiction written for entertainment purposes. This week we have another piece of flash fiction. We’re continuing the story from the last few weeks. So if you haven’t read the others, click here to see them all. Enjoy!
We’re getting close to the end folks. Just a reminder Free Write will be going on hiatus after this story concludes.
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Security
By Nojh Livic
It was at this point, with at least one human dead, several injured, and Prime standing in a humanoid configuration that several more warriors pushed their way into the room via the metal door wearing more weaponry and armor than the previous warriors had. When the general told them to stand down, they took up defensive positions in the room, with two inserting themselves in the space between the general and Prime, their weapons pointed but not firing.
Paul who was rubbing at his ears and his left wrist, had sat down in his chair and was watching the entire situation with little to no reaction. The general began giving orders. Several of the new warriors were told to escort the assistant and the conscious warrior out of the room while humans that wore slightly different coverings than warriors and scientists arrived to look over the woman and other warrior.
“Prime. Are you capable of making agreements?” the general asked, distracting Prime from its observation of the new type of human.
“I can agree or disagree with concepts, ideas, and courses of actions, yes,” Prime stated, turning to face the general.
“Will you agree to not attempt to escape, remain under guard, and answer my questions?” the general asked.
Prime considered this for a moment. “For what period of time?” The general smiled slightly.
“The next few days at least but an indefinite period of time, until I can ascertain if you are a threat and talk to my superiors.”
Prime looked over at Paul. “I can agree to these courses of action with a limit of ten cycles. After ten cycles I will want to re-ask the agreement. Additionally I will agree to these courses of action if the Paul remains undisciplined for his actions related to my existence and remains as my interpreter,” Prime looked over at the scientist, who was the only non-warrior left in the room. He too was being guarded by two other warriors. “If the Paul agrees.”
“Hell yes I agree,” Paul said immediately. “I want to know what the fuck is going on.” Paul was clearly agitated.
“I believe I can agree to those conditions,” the general said, glancing over his shoulder at Paul. “Assuming Paul is willing to agree to answer questions as well, truthfully, about his activities the past few days, and agrees to never point a gun at me ever again.”
Paul lifted his hands into the air and shrugged. “Sure. Unless everybody suddenly starts shooting each other randomly again and talking about invasions. Then all bets are off.” The general chuckled. Prime was not sure why it was funny but elected to mimic the human, which drew the General’s attention. The general’s smile faded.
“We need to get you to a secure location,” the general stated.
“I agree. I also suggest you only use warriors currently in this room. It is possible any of your warriors could be reconfigured,” Prime advised. “Since none of them have attacked, the likelihood that they are is low but not impossible.” The general did not seem happy by this suggestion but nodded
“Sir, we need to get both of them to the clinic immediately,” the non-warrior human interrupted, standing up from the now prone female human. The general nodded. He ordered several of the warriors in the room to go with them and to keep on the look out for a possible attack from anyone, including the hospital staff. The female was carried out on an expandable table, along with the other unconscious solider. The general began arranging their transfer.
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Prime, Paul, and the general White sat in a larger but more secure laboratory about a decicycle later. Two warriors, which were called soldiers according to Paul, stood at the lab’s entrance, instead of outside the door. Paul and the general had been brought food. Prime had declined any organic matter.
“Okay. Lets start from the beginning. Why are you here?” White asked.
Comic Links: Citation Needed, Junior Scientist Power Hour, Girl Genius
by Nojh on Apr.22, 2013, under Comic Links, Entertainment
Citation Needed: 2009-08-06: Self Marketing Food 2
I’ve never actually noticed this. I’ll have to try it…
Junior Scientist Power Hour #32: And Now I Have Rabies
This is why you don’t go into tall grass alone!
Junior Scientist Power Hour #56: Tales of Young Abbey
I never connected flat tongues with dogs before. Huh.
Girl Genius: Volume 13, Page 048
That should totally be a new rule in the Evil Overlord book!
Weird Word: Acerbic
by Nojh on Apr.19, 2013, under Articles, Weird Words
Acerbic
Adjective
- Sour or bitter.
- Sarcastic or cynical.
- Sharp-tempered.
Used in a sentence:
- I like to think of myself as a realist but she liked to call me acerbic, not that I had a clue what acerbic meant but I knew it likely wasn’t good.
Source: Wiktionary
Commentary:
Here is a word you think is related to exercise, or breathing, or something medical, right? Nope! It’s the best description for that jack-ass in school who always seemed to have the perfect cutting retort regardless of the situation, like they stayed up at night thinking up perfect scenarios in which to belittle, torture, and torment you!
…
Not that such a thing ever happened to me of course.
Free Write #68: Introduction
by Nojh on Apr.17, 2013, under Entertainment, Free Write, Writing
Welcome to Free Writing! Quick fiction written for entertainment purposes. This week we have another piece of flash fiction. We’re continuing the story from the last few weeks. So if you haven’t read the others, click here to see them all. Enjoy!
We’re getting close to the end folks. Just a reminder Free Write will be going on hiatus after this story concludes.
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Introduction
By Nojh Livic
“That is well above your security clearance, doctor. Put the gun down,” the general ordered, turning to face Paul, who kept it level on the man. Prime continued to use the female human as a shield against the robotic assassin by holding onto her neck and pointing an arm mounted laser at her ear. The assassin had previously been camouflaged as a fashion accessory around the woman’s neck and Prime stifled a laugh as it considered how the two had effectively traded places.
“No. You put your gun down!” Paul shouted, nodding to the two warriors who were sitting on the floor, one of which appeared unconscious, the other reaching for his rifle. Paul was Prime’s only human friend on the planet. Right now he was being an incredible asset to Prime’s existence by threatening his employers with a weapon, after his boss had brought in another human to replace him and inadvertently smuggled in the assassin. The two warriors sitting on the floor were injured from laser fire that Prime and the assassin had exchanged. Both were obviously suffering from confusion. One put his gun down immediately. The other had no weapon in hand. There was one last human in the room. An assistant to the general, who was only armed with a flat tablet like device. This man was hiding behind the warriors.
The general took a step closer to Paul. “Now son-”
“Please refrain from intimidation maneuvers. Refrain from closing to combat distance with Paul,” Prime warned in English. To make its point, it fired a low intensity laser past the general’s line of vision, over his shoulder. The general froze mid-step, then took a step back. It seemed the general could not tell the difference in laser intensity. Prime’s two lasers was considerably less powerful than the assassin’s torso mounted welding laser but they were far more precise.
“I just want to know what is going on. That thin-ahhh!” Paul cried out as the assassin disengaged from its staring contest with Prime and leapt at Paul. While prime only had one blade extended from its alternate arm, the assassin’s frame contained numerous sharp edges and spikes. Prime had time to fire its more powerful arm laser but that would impart no force with which to deflect the attacker from its path and Prime was too far across the room to attempt its own interception. It fired its laser anyway, scoring a hit across the robot’s shoulder and head. It was an incredibly impressive and lucky shot by Prime’s own personal standards, which admittedly were not very high. (continue reading…)
Writing Time: Everlasting #54, Camp NaNoWriMo April 2013 #7 (Day 16)
by Nojh on Apr.16, 2013, under Articles, NaNoWriMo, Writing, Writing Updates
Camp NaNoWriMo April 2013
Session Count: 1,407
Word Total: 13,326 (delta: -2,674)
Today’s writing was a little halting. I added to a scene I wrote yesterday which got me about six hundred words rather quickly. Starting a new scene with a new set of characters, the rest of the words took a little bit longer but not as bad. I got to describe and introduce two new characters and I think I handled a slight info dump partially well by using it to help characterize the two new characters. Yay me!
Everlasting Update
Word Count: 134,757
We’re getting there. Our group of military types have what they need to take on entire hoards of zombies and get to their last bastion and my specialty character is informing the reader about a situation they are about to arrive in. My third group is engineering the seeds for how our survivors might actually survive and triumph during this mess. I’m nearly at the end!
Writing Time: Everlasting #53, Camp NaNoWriMo April 2013 #6 (Day 15)
by Nojh on Apr.15, 2013, under Articles, NaNoWriMo, Writing, Writing Updates
Camp NaNoWriMo April 2013
Session Count: 1,695
Word Total: 11,919 (delta: -3,081)
So yeah I had a busy weekend of not writing. Hence the negative delta. The NaNoWriMo website says I need to write 1,131 words per day to meet my goal, which sounds perfectly feasible, so that is what I’m going to do and likely then some. I only wrote a little bit last Thursday, about two hundred words, and then wrote nothing until today. A small sabbatical I suppose. Still today’s writing session went very smoothly and interestingly. I had one minor hang up with editing but I wrote in about five hundred word chunks, only checking my word count twice.
Everlasting Update
Word Count: 133,350
Three scenes in a row about Armor. I like Armor. I like the idea of it. It doesn’t fit well in my story so I’m wondering if I’ll need to cut it. The idea is basically steampunk styled mechanical power armor. Like most weaponry in this world, highly deadly, but mostly used in ceremonial sport so it rarely kills anyone. Armor is primarily used for defense, or assaulting standing defenses, as it provides the wearer with an incredibly strength, endurance, and actual armor, but at the high expense of mobility. Actually thinking about it I should put some Armor in the airship camp. It actually is a decent anti-zombie weapon, as long as you aren’t too swarmed.
Short Film: Cargo by Ben Howling & Yolanda Ramke
by Nojh on Apr.15, 2013, under Art, Entertainment, Videos, Visual Media
Stranded in the midst of a zombie apocalypse, a man sets in motion an unlikely plan to protect the precious cargo he carries: his infant daughter.
Directed by Ben Howling & Yolanda Ramke
Produced by Ben Howling, Yolanda Ramke, Marcus Newman, Daniel Foeldes
Weird Word: Vim
by Nojh on Apr.12, 2013, under Articles, Weird Words, Writing
Vim
Noun
- Ready vitality and vigor.
Used in a sentence:
- What our hero did not know was how much vim her opponent kept in reserve, ready to forestall any punishment she could unleash.
Source: Wiktionary
Commentary:
So the old cliché Vim and Vigor is equivalent to saying ATM machine, or Windows NT Technology. Probably just survived this obvious inefficiency by being alliterative. Will I say it is high time we broke vim away from it’s repeative existence and start using it solo. Give vim back some of its vim, as one might say!
