Torment Torment: Tides of Numenera Pre-Release Thread [ALPHA RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]

[Adam Heine]

A few folks weren't there. *cough cough*

 

[CMcC]

A few folks weren't there. *cough cough*

Not through any fault of OURS, Mr. I Have to Renew my Visa.

Also, you should probably get that cough looked at.

 

[kazgar]

Codex Exclusive: Proof of Torment team infighting revealed, what does this mean for the already leaky kickstarter boat, and how will it effect gaming's next Citizen Kane The Man Who Knew Too Much?


naaaaaahhhhh

 

[Chaotic_Heretic]

It's imaginary payment for watching RSS feeds like a hawk and posting new information, developer Tweets, et cetera, often before anyone else does. In a way, he's providing a service.
He's doing real work for imaginary money. Worst Jew ever.

 

[J_C]

A few folks weren't there. *cough cough*

Not through any fault of OURS, Mr. I Have to Renew my Visa.

 

[Kem0sabe]

The bald one is smiling, i think i have never seen him smile in a photo, something very wrong about that smile.

 

[Logic_error]

They really ought to feed Ziets a bit more. He looks emaciated.

 

[evdk]

They really ought to feed Ziets a bit more. He looks emaciated.

Suffering fuels his artistic powers. He's hungry for success.

 

[Logic_error]

Also, Karl Marx in shorts. Who would have thought.

 

[Roguey]

Monte Cook looks like an overgrown child, big surprise.

I hope this means Mur Lafferty has been quietly sacked, but it probably just means she's working from home and wasn't there in person.

She lives in North Carolina iirc. Brian Mitsoda, from Seattle, couldn't make it either. Then there's the YA author who lives in Utah or Texas or some other comparably worthless southwest state, I can't even be bothered to remember.

 

[Bitcher1]

I can't even be bothered to remember.

Well, there must be a first time for everyone.
And yeah, I was wondering where Mitsoda was.

 

[communard]

George is such a fucking qt3.14.

 

[Infinitron]

Map of the Ninth World: http://ninthworldhub.com/photo/ninth-world-map

 

[CMcC]

Map of the Ninth World: http://ninthworldhub.com/photo/ninth-world-map

Most of Torment is off to the east somewhere.

 

[Chaotic_Heretic]

Map of the Ninth World: http://ninthworldhub.com/photo/ninth-world-map

Most of Torment is off to the east somewhere.

Yeah "beyond the beyond"

 

[Surf Solar]

That map looks fairly boring

 

[Roguey]

A forest shaped like a star, are you kidding me?

 

[evdk]

Bullshit magical terraforming.

 

[Zeriel]

Seas named after MURICA.

 

[Infinitron]

Seas named after MURICA.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mare#Latin

 

[Zeriel]

 

[J_C]

Another map, another Codex nitpicking.

 

[Zeriel]

To be serious for a second, I actually am not a big fan of them going the "it's been so long there is nothing recognizable geographically, continents have shifted, etc" approach they've taken, even setting it far into the future and with no actual recognizable landmarks, they could have done a lot that would have been interesting geographically, seeing what later civilizations did with the shape of the world (like the Bosphorus strait).

 

[J_C]

To be serious for a second, I actually am not a big fan of them going the "it's been so long there is nothing recognizable geographically, continents have shifted, etc" approach they've taken, even setting it far into the future and with no actual recognizable landmarks, they could have done a lot that would have been interesting geographically, seeing what later civilizations did with the shape of the world (like the Bosphorus strait).

But it is so long into the future, it would be totally unrealistic to stick to the current geographics.

 

[evdk]

To be serious for a second, I actually am not a big fan of them going the "it's been so long there is nothing recognizable geographically, continents have shifted, etc" approach they've taken, even setting it far into the future and with no actual recognizable landmarks, they could have done a lot that would have been interesting geographically, seeing what later civilizations did with the shape of the world (like the Bosphorus strait).

But it is so long into the future, it would be totally unrealistic to stick to the current geographics.

Especially as it takes place after the rise of several civilizations to Clarke's Third Law levels of technological knowledge and their eventual Armageddons. The planet may actually be a duplicate constructed from a Dyson Sphere debris by errant nanobots for all we know.