- they/them
The dream of a gently woken lamb. Each blade of grass as it lies down. Sibling to those other blades you might have heard of. I've been described as "resilient; optimistic; patient."
Non-binary, agender, transneutral, neutrois. Begrudgingly attached to another word for my gender group starting with βNβ.
You might know me by a pen name, and you'll find I've got another profile under that pen name.
I tried playing Koumei Satou's wonderful Mistake of Pythagoras in Half-Life 2: VR... but then its scripting completely failed in the second map. Some incompatibility to do with running maps made in 2004 on Half-Life 2: VR's version of Source? My understanding is that there were a number of mapping functions which were deprecated in later engine versions.
Last year I played through Zebrajack's Pseudomod more or less without issue in Half-Life 2: VR, with the exception of one map running very poorly on my PC. I really liked Pseudomod - it felt to me like it shared the kind of sensibilities you'd see in a Half-Life 1 mod, namely an 'anything goes' tone of free-wheeling, playfully-written adventure, and it was kind of... wonderful to get to experience that, in VR, in 2023. Pseudomod also had a particularly tall ladder for me to climb, quite literally, and the mundanity of what I'm about to say may shock non-gamers, by hand.
(By this point in my playthrough of Pseudomod I'd installed a 'HEV-less hands' mod just 'cause)
Evolving from violent language to ultraviolent language | |
|---|---|
β Instead of | β Say this |
| We're going to pull the trigger | We're launching all missiles |
| I'll take a stab at [it] | I'll take several stabs at [it] |
| Did we jump the gun? | Did we dodge into the bullet? |
| I'll bite the bullet | I'll bite the bullet til it screams |
| That'll kill two birds with one stone | That'll murder two birds with one stone |
| What's the deadline? | When does the kill switch trigger? |
| We have to pick our battles | We have to pick our war crimes |
| Can you shoot me an email? | Can you full auto me an email? |
| That was overkill | That was megadeath overkill |
| I bombed the presentation | I carpet bombed the presentation |
| Let's just roll with the punches | Let's just launch a frontal assault |
| We can soften the blow by... | We can not get our asses kicked so hard by... |
| I'm going to take a shot in the dark | I'm going to empty a magazine in the dark |
| That's not a bad idea | That's a kick-ass idea |
| Let's not beat a dead horse | Let's not beat a dead horse when we can beat a live one |
| I was blown away by her presentation | I was murdered on the spot by her presentation |
| I was kicking around an idea | I was roundhouse kicking an idea |
| He's a straight shooter in meetings | He's a laser-guided smart bomb in meetings |
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