Lilura's Blog: An Ongoing Codexian Obsession

[Lilura]

Lilura when did you clear out your ignore list?

No one has ever been truly ignored. I read every post.

 

[octavius]

Lilura when did you clear out your ignore list?

No one has ever been truly ignored. I read every post.

So who won the "most butthurt about being ignored" title?

 

[anvi]

Scorpia has some weird taste. There are only a few RPGs I even give a shit about Lilura loves them, so I wuv her.

 

[Lilura]

Edit: Also, first you say you want me to use moderator power to Retardo the thread, then you accuse me of abusing moderator power by posting on your precious private profile. More flip-flopping! You're like a hooked salmon!

I didn't accuse you of abusing moderator powers at all. Do you abuse moderator powers? If so, I'll leave.

I didn't ask you to retardo the thread either. However, if you want to I wouldn't mind a bit. I have a feeling this thread is going to escalate, not incline.

 

[Daze]

"Hahaha, just kidding, silly... Now read my stupid fucking blog for God's sake!"

 

[Alpan]

This new Lilura reads more reasonable and accommodating than the old one. Something seems off.

 

[Lilura]

So who won the "most butthurt about being ignored" title?

A few general shitposters/hate-squad members I can't remember the names of.

 

[Chippy]

Just another example of Lilura's rampant flip-flopping.

We should start calling you Lil' Exitium.

Flip-flopping? From my profile (which moderators can post on):

So do you want me to shut the fuck up or not?

Also, do you want to retardo this thread? Feel free.

Any chance you may have had a chance to test that?

Yes, conventional stealth fails after one round if in LoS of hostiles.

At last. true vindication.

It would be in poor taste and un-sportsmanlike for me to tag all of the Codexers that accused me of some kind of lower-tier gaslighting when I brought this up. And I'm too much of a gentleman to do so. A retard in another thread called me a bet-orbiter (or something) for reading Lilura's blog, but credit where it's due for someone who has so methodically covered the IE games. Lilura if IWD is of any interest to you, maybe you could track down an answer from Sawyer on whether he purposefully changed this? Might give fans an indication of when his autism began.

Ok, I can't help it. Maybe just one - hey Cael: up yours!

 

[Lilura]

A retard in another thread called me a bet-orbiter (or something) for reading Lilura's blog, but credit where it's due for someone who has so methodically covered the IE games.

Thank you for the kind words.

Lilura if IWD is of any interest to you, maybe you could track down an answer from Sawyer on whether he purposefully changed this? Might give fans an indication of when his autism began.

It's not my forte to correspond with devs.

 

[Tom Baker's Arse]

Lilura, me lass, please remove my name from your esteemed ignore list. For it would be a treat indeed to converse on all matters D&D with ladies. Something I do not get to do that often.

 

[ItsChon]

It was clear that Lilura was joking about the whole "iggy-binned" thing. Even while ignored I distinctly remember Lilura still upvoting or downvoting some of my posts. She was always just messing around, and still read a good bit of the comedy that was posted. Sure, there was the occasional butthurt from either her or people that got ignored, I was not exempt from said butthurt, but glad she's back and got rid of the whole ignore thing.

Lilura I was having issues running IWD2,

Alright, so I downloaded everything and the GUI is fitted to the screen and the resolution is a nice 1280x800. The only problem now is that the game seems to run really poorly? My mouse is constantly teleporting around the screen like I'm having major drops in FPS, and when I try to move around, I get the same strangely choppy feeling. Anyone have any idea why this is the case?

this was recommended to me as the fix,

Alright, so I downloaded everything and the GUI is fitted to the screen and the resolution is a nice 1280x800. The only problem now is that the game seems to run really poorly? My mouse is constantly teleporting around the screen like I'm having major drops in FPS, and when I try to move around, I get the same strangely choppy feeling. Anyone have any idea why this is the case?

I had a similar issue, used this:
http://www.bitpatch.com/ie_ddrawfix.html
with the set up from this thread:
https://af.gog.com/forum/icewind_dale_series/how_to_run_iwd_2_on_windows_10?as=1649904300
and it helped.

but I have no clue how I an use the first link, or how I'm supposed to use the setup outlined in the thread. Any ideas/help perhaps? Did you have similar problems when first running IWD2?

 

[CappenVarra]

I've only read the first one - The Crystal Shard -

Were you able to finish that? I tried because some friends told me it was nice + it was D&D, but couldn't finish it.

Yes, in order to write an authorative review.

oh boy

i read the whole trilogy a lifetime ago

an earth-of-the-salt dwarf oiling his buttocks and setting them on fire to kill a shadow dragon, truly rivetingly great stuff*

a working-class autistic barbarian boy crushing his rival's skull with his bare hands, why not?

aegis fang: what landwhale loser permanently disconnected from the Divine Essence (TM) came up with this shit?

the memories mang, the godforsaken memories persist

people who know the above don't ask why i drink daily - and yet i rememember why i no longer read popular fantasy novels (especially Raw Assfluid Salvatore) and stick to Appendix N

*not

 

[Lonely Vazdru]

Hey Lilura , since you're still around and I just finished replaying the whole BG saga (damn, ToB is a such a chore...) there's something I wanted to ask you. When you play, do you name your saves ? And, if so, do you have some sort of method regarding the naming ? Because I sure do (stuff like "dungeon", "explore", "town", "Level up"...), and I thought you might be one of the few posters methodic/autistic enough to do too.

Method to the madness is pretty .

 

[Generic-Giant-Spider]

I name my saves after locomotives.

 

[Lonely Vazdru]

Like... Thomas ?

 

[Catacombs]

Like... Thomas ?

That's the backup save. The main is called "The Dank Engine."

 

[agris]

Hey Lilura , since you're still around and I just finished replaying the whole BG saga (damn, ToB is a such a chore...) there's something I wanted to ask you. When you play, do you name your saves ? And, if so, do you have some sort of method regarding the naming ? Because I sure do (stuff like "dungeon", "explore", "town", "Level up"...), and I thought you might be one of the few posters methodic/autistic enough to do too.

Method to the madness is pretty .

A start save plus saves named save 1,2,3,4,5 and a quick save. I rotate through the named saves, overriding the oldest. Keeps save bloat down, and with game time shown prominently it’s easy to see the oldest. Fixed saves made when leaving large areas or before big fights / quest resolutions.

That’s my ocd way to deal with named saves. Games that auto name and have 10s of save files give me an eye twitch.

 

[Roguey]

I use a number and also a short description for context.

This new Lilura reads more reasonable and accommodating than the old one. Something seems off.

Seems to me like the result of roughly three days of social isolation. A break can do one good as long as it doesn't last too long.

 

[Farewell young Prince into the night]

Looks like the 'Dex is worth reading again.

 

[Lilura]

but I have no clue how I an use the first link, or how I'm supposed to use the setup outlined in the thread. Any ideas/help perhaps? Did you have similar problems when first running IWD2?

You unzip archive, place it into IWD2 root dir, and install it.

Hey Lilura , since you're still around and I just finished replaying the whole BG saga (damn, ToB is a such a chore...) there's something I wanted to ask you. When you play, do you name your saves ? And, if so, do you have some sort of method regarding the naming ? Because I sure do (stuff like "dungeon", "explore", "town", "Level up"...), and I thought you might be one of the few posters methodic/autistic enough to do too.

Method to the madness is pretty .

It depends on the RPG. In BG, my savegame files might be named "Begin", "Gorion", "Imoen", "Kivan", "FAI", "Nashkel", "level 2", "mines", "Mulahey" etc.

Some save-game names are descriptive and quite long (as in Jagged Alliance 2), others are just "1", "2", "3" (if I'm going through some long, boring dungeon).

For notable save-games to be employed for commentary purposes, I may archive them with 7z along with readme.txt that goes into depth about game-state.

 

[Lilura]

I rotate through the named saves, overriding the oldest. Keeps save bloat down, and with game time shown prominently it’s easy to see the oldest.

I only overwrite save-games if the changes concern inventory management, spell scroll scribing etc. Like if I just ID'd 20 quivers of arrows, moved around 50 items, re-equipped combat units or scribed several scrolls in IWD2, I'll overwrite.

I don't overwrite to combat save-game bloat. Once I feel there are too many save-games, I "cut" them out of the folder and place them elsewhere, or otherwise archive them.

 

[Max Damage]

Did she ever end up writing about how people only heard and got into ToEE and Infinity Engine games because of mods? I've been waiting for that self-masturbatory piece for a while.

What are you talking about, you monkey?

Your post from "TOEE is orgasmic" thread:

No matter how I look, I don't see the point in playing ToEE unmodded, it isn't something you'd actively look out for if you have any sanity left.

This always happens when mods gain traction. You get these little butterflies thinking they're better than others because they play Co8 for ToEE, SCS for BG2 and 1.13 for Jagged Alliance 2. And putting down people who want to play the original. Modding fanbases are the worst, which is why I take them to task on my blog.

I've taken 1.13 to task and SCS to task. Looks like it's time to take the Co8 mod to task, too. I've never liked that mod, anyway.

Still waiting for you to show us the light, o holy one.

 

[Catacombs]

Lilura, are you playing these games on Steam/GOG? How many hours have clocked in?

 

[anvi]

TOEE was a total mess at release though. In fact I think it was unplayable which wasn't common back then. Took a lot of patching to make it good. She was right about the mods too. One of them was really useful (the codex guy who added graphics options and stuff), but the one which added more content was really bad imo.

 

[Lonely Vazdru]

I don't care much for BG2 and JA2 mods, but playing ToEE "as is" is really wanting to punish oneself. I always use Co8 patch, if only to get rid of the overgreedy and always overburdened NPCs and their uncontrolable inventories.