majmalphunktion wrote on Oct 22^nd, 2013 at 9:48am:


How is it that you're in QA and not a producer? You clearly get it - the big picture stuff that is. This is the type of stuff that you'd think would be obvious to someone that designs games for a living. Is it really more of a forest for the trees thing though...that when you're in the trenches turning out updates to a game the big picture gets harder and harder to see as you get deeper and deeper into the details?

Honestly, what I'd like to see from Turbine right now is that they don't deprecate their old systems in any way until new systems that encompass the entire breadth of the game (Eberron and FR's/Heroic and Epic) are in place and have a couple update cycles to get the bugs out. Then sure, you can deprecate away. But sagas are really half-baked at the moment - they cover a minor portion of the entire game's content, have a weak UI, and could use some more attention to detail on the reward end (more options for loot).

So in this case, before deprecating Tokens of the Twelve they need to finish Sagas in a real way. Sagas could be as much if not more of a part of the game as Explorers currently are. They need more of them, unique rewards from them, store rewards (cosmetic armors for example), and they need to cover all level ranges and content. If Turbine can pull that off then Tokens of the Twelve would be an afterthought.

Aeolwind wrote on Oct 22^nd, 2013 at 4:02pm:



I'm getting Maj spends most of his days in a leather suit with a ballgag.



Feather of Glin can be occassionally heard yelling "Bring out the Maj" accross the cubicles.

To which Tolero might reply, "The Maj is working."
...

You know the rest. At the end of the day, Maj is violated and Feather of Glin is working on a football.



The REAL question is,  Can/Will Maj ever put a friggin' katana off the wall or grab a shottie and start getting medieval up in that piece?

Cause THAT is what we need... metaphorically if not literally.

Aeolwind wrote on Oct 22^nd, 2013 at 11:58am:


I have one of these. 

We bought one for my father in law on father's day.  His comment after opening it was

"Whelp, thanks for the murder hammer" 

Meat-Head wrote on Oct 22^nd, 2013 at 4:07pm:


My mind immediately replaced M with V and J with G.

Am I the only one?

chemist wrote on Oct 22^nd, 2013 at 11:58am:


Intensive Care Unit, also Critical Care Unit. If you cannot figure it out from there in relation to a hospital, then I hope you die.

Dr_tank2vich wrote on Oct 22^nd, 2013 at 11:12am:


yeah those NW chicks are fuuuuuucked up.   too much rain so they're used to everything getting pissed on.

Persiflage wrote on Oct 23^rd, 2013 at 4:15am:


You can't possibly be insinuating that a tool manufactured as a zombie-killing gimmick isn't actually well-made enough to do the job it was originally intended for. What dark heresy is this?

Those ravening undead hordes of zombies is what will become of players once Turdbine implements this newly proposed self-punishing reincarnation system and methods of obtaining items needed for it.

Osharan Tregarth wrote on Oct 22^nd, 2013 at 4:38pm:



This was related: http://www.amazon.com/Innovation-Factory-Truckers-All-Purpose-Survival/dp/B005HA...

WHY do I not own one of these right nao?

majmalphunktion wrote on Oct 22^nd, 2013 at 9:48am:


Maj, you generally seem like a nice guy, and I'm inclined to give you the benefit of the doubt, but those words

"nothing is set in stone"

have always been Turbine code for

"we've invested all the exploratory resources we intended to on this topic and are moving toward putting this into production.  By the way, you're going to feel a slight pressure"


Please don't say "nothing is set in stone".  Jerry and others before you have ruined that phrase.

Persiflage wrote on Oct 23^rd, 2013 at 7:25am:


Size was my reasoning actually.  I wanted a moderately sized crowbar for in car carry.  I didn't like the selection they had at Lowe's either.

Works well enough for busting out windows and prying open dented car doors.