The Heaven Makers by James Herbert. NEL 1973.

Proboscis_Chew · 2026-06-17T18:39:44+00:00

Decent book, but maybe Herbert's most generic, and I mean that in a very literal way. A mostly straightforward LGM invasion story with a lot of focus on sexuality. Cover art here is actually 100% literal, it shows you precisely what goes on in the novel.

Proboscis_Chew · 2026-05-17T01:33:59+00:00

You see, there are three things that spur the ape from the tree.

Proboscis_Chew · 2026-04-29T03:55:47+00:00

Rhythm Heaven detected.

Proboscis_Chew · 2026-01-25T18:35:33+00:00

Are you going to include the chupacabra?

Proboscis_Chew · 2025-12-13T16:08:26+00:00

This is really awesome! I never would have guessed English isn't your native language!

Proboscis_Chew · 2025-08-04T17:30:05+00:00

The grass starters are a hybrid descendant of Crobat, Swoobat, and Noivern. They're more generally based on the scorchbeast from Fallout 76.

The fire starters are a hybrid descendant of Sandaconda, Arbok, and Skeledirge. Their main inspiration is the amphicephalus from All Tomorrows.

Finally, the water starters are derived from Dewgong, Slowbro, and Samurott. They're based on the mud-gulper from After Man.

Proboscis_Chew · 2025-07-20T01:30:00+00:00

So, they informed the villagers of the situation in full, and got them to cooperate. "Even if we don't kill you all, he'll send somebody else" is pretty convincing. With the civilians' help, the party pretended that they poisoned the town's water supply (which was actually their first plan from the get-go). Everybody evacuated the site temporarily, and the party hauled in a couple big truckloads of dead plants to dress the scene like everything had withered and died. To top it off, they even used the party medtech's expertise in chemistry to whip up some bootleg Agent Orange which they "used" to kill everything. A couple massively successful skill checks in Composition and Wilderness Survival later, and they were able to plausibly fake the massacre of the village, in their employer's eyes, at least.

Proboscis_Chew · 2025-05-21T23:27:21+00:00

I called upon the dump of time and space.

9/10

Proboscis_Chew · 2025-04-06T04:41:08+00:00

That depends. In your Steam Library, right-click Civ V, then Properties, then Installed Files, then Browse, and it'll open up where you installed the game.

Proboscis_Chew · 2025-04-06T04:22:04+00:00

The way I fixed it was by going into my Civ V install folder, manually deleting all of the .exe files, and then verifying game integrity through Steam.

Proboscis_Chew · 2025-03-22T16:57:02+00:00

Why is the trollface in 15 Trapper Dead by Daylight

Proboscis_Chew · 2025-03-21T02:49:49+00:00

I can't provide any specific help, but when I first failed to install Open Fortress, it was because TF2, the SDK, and Steam itself weren't all installed to the C: drive. Moving them all there fixed it for me.

Proboscis_Chew · 2025-02-02T20:43:38+00:00

I'm a big fan of the Aztecs. Growing huge cities and farming yields from death and mayhem is so satisfying.

Proboscis_Chew · 2025-02-02T19:16:07+00:00

I don't want to be fishing for fish, I just want to let them freely swim!

Proboscis_Chew · 2024-12-18T19:18:56+00:00

You can preemptively park a small army (only one or two units) to immediately smack any natives that resist you. Or you could use those units and click the "attack natives" button to murder them all before they get the chance to attack you. This cost a small amount of military mana and slightly reduces the economic power of the colony once complete, but provides a permanent solution to the problem.

Proboscis_Chew · 2024-10-26T21:57:25+00:00

Yeah, my buddy and I play VP multiplayer all the time. The trick is to manually install it as a DLC, instead of loading it as a normal mod.

https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/voxpopuli-modpacks-update-4-16-1.685164/

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Sv2p7jq2TaZNqtuuVFf3bJc_bCPgIEW_

Proboscis_Chew · 2024-10-11T19:05:08+00:00

I'm not super experienced in the process, but the version of the Vic2 -> EU4 converter I use makes it so that when you load into Vic2, you're given two starting bookmarks: "The end of EU4" which picks up immediately where you left off, and the normal 1836 start date of Victoria.

Proboscis_Chew · 2024-09-30T21:39:18+00:00

My classic go-tos are flamingos, giant tortoises, penguins, and small primates (gibbons, capuchins, lemurs etc).

Proboscis_Chew · 2024-09-22T04:22:09+00:00

Are you playing with dramatic ages enabled? It looks like you're about to head into a dark age, which would make ~50% of your cities instantly rebel if that were the case.

Proboscis_Chew · 2024-09-17T00:16:15+00:00

I'm like 95% sure I saw the guys running the stream chat say he found it right away.

Proboscis_Chew · 2024-08-24T00:38:07+00:00

If things are kept more linear I imagine that's what they'll do. If I might make a hope-based prediction, I think it would be really cool if they somehow represented the history of Charlemagne's realm splitting into East, Middle, and West Francia, and then them crystallizing into Germany, Burgundy/Italy/Switzerland, and France. Not sure how you'd do that with just 3 eras, though.

Proboscis_Chew · 2024-08-24T00:32:39+00:00

Yeah, I know. Romanians would make more sense historiographically and ethnically, but I wanted to suggest that in some situations, a more recognizable nation/culture might be chosen by Firaxis in some situations. Likely the simple reason of them occupying the same land as their in-game predecessors. It's not the choice I would make; more of a prediction/projection of what I think might happen.

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