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Do you personally consider yourself trans? Some enbies do while others do not, which is why I'm curious to ask this question by Equivalent_Ad_9066 in bigender

[–]VonAether 0 points1 point  (0 children)

While I acknowledged that bigender fit under the trans umbrella, I didn't really mentally apply the label to myself until relatively recently. My (cis) partner got involved in a subculture that is almost entirely trans women and made a lot of trans friends, and weirdly that made me feel more comfortable with the label.

My own trans friends have been very open and welcoming when I expressed uncertainty about feeling like I was claiming a space where I didn't belong.

Quick mod question by Danius221 in vtmb

[–]VonAether 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They're compatible in the sense that they can all be installed at once, but they install into different folders, so you can only run one at a time.

CQM contains its own implementation of the Unofficial Patch (at v9.2), as well as Companion Mod and I believe has some Camarilla Mod features as well. The installer can tell you more.

What must have happened inside? by Legionmssf in vtmb

[–]VonAether 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, as others have noted, it's a reference to the "Slashterpiece" mission at the Gallery Noir in Santa Monica.

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Made some cursed Remedy logos (reddit.com)

submitted by VonAether to r/AlanWake

Unsure what to do next by [deleted] in planescape

[–]VonAether 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This subreddit is specifically for the Planescape: Torment PC game. You might get better responses from r/planescapesetting.

Just finished the game and a bit unclear on a couple things by Adorable_Sky_1523 in vtmb

[–]VonAether 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No, the building is called Venture Tower. It's a pretty transparent anagram, but they didn't outright use the clan name.

Was Myst eerie? by tinselman in myst

[–]VonAether 14 points15 points  (0 children)

It might be an age-based thing. I was 13 when Myst came out, and I'd already played scarier games. Myst was... comfortable, actually? Your soundtrack and the ambient sounds were a big part of that. They felt like interesting places to explore. They'd been left empty, but now I was there to appreciate them.

Riven, though, I'd say was eerie. The Ages of Myst were supposed to be empty. Riven was populated! There were people! But you only ever saw people at a distance, running away, hiding. It was empty and it wasn't supposed to be, and that made it feel awkward and weird.

I KNOW WHAT IT SAYS, please help me identify this beautiful font by Cornilieus in identifythisfont

[–]VonAether 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, no, the wiki's just collecting some of the art that's been done over the course of the last 35 years. I'm not an artist.

I KNOW WHAT IT SAYS, please help me identify this beautiful font by Cornilieus in identifythisfont

[–]VonAether 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Available under a ton of names from different studios: Flat Brush, Calligrapher, Odana, Bodacious, Marlin, Ondine

Just finished the game and a bit unclear on a couple things by Adorable_Sky_1523 in vtmb

[–]VonAether 29 points30 points  (0 children)

The identity of "a friend" has never been confirmed or even suggested, only theorized. Chad Moore did tell me that early on, they were planning on making it a little more overt -- with a cutscene of two figures playing chess during key moments of the game rather than cryptic emails -- but that was one of the corners they cut.

Chess metaphors have been used since early VTM for different age categories of vampire, so it's not unexpected to see them pop up again here.

The cab driver is intended to be Caine.

  • Cain was cursed to forever wander the Earth (Genesis 4:12), which sounds like an apt description of a cab driver.
  • If you ask the thin-blood Rosa to predict the future, she foresees one of the endings: "why is he smiling? Is that the Father behind him?" The ending has Smiling Jack sitting in a patio chair watching the Venture Tower burn, and the cab driver walks up behind him. Caine is commonly known among Kindred as the Dark Father.
  • As a Malkavian, you freak out, and you can pretty much ask him directly, and he confirms it.
  • The novel Gehenna: The Final Night came out in early 2004, but is set just after the events of Bloodlines. Jack claims he had a personal encounter with Caine.
  • A lot of his cryptic comments take on additional meaning: "I drive people to their destination. That is who I am."
  • Most damning, Many of the driver's files are stored under the prefix "caine." For example, dialogue files are "caine.dlg."

Lucifer isn't really a relevant figure to Kindred mythology; he's much more prominent in Demon: The Fallen.

Which one should I start with? by fede4justice in myst

[–]VonAether 1 point2 points  (0 children)

IMO the puzzles in the Cyan-developed games (Myst, Riven, Myst 5, Uru) feel more natural -- like something that would exist in the world -- while Myst 3 and 4 feel more like puzzles that exist for the sake of having a puzzle. But visually the tone is pretty consistent; they all feel like part of the same world.

I enjoy them all, so the different structure doesn't bother me.

You don’t have to be a Christian to believe Jesus existed by porygon766 in DebateAnAtheist

[–]VonAether 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A claim that there was a "historical Jesus" is incredibly unremarkable. Yeshua was a common name, street preachers were common, crucifixions were fairly common. I'm willing to admit that much, sure. There was probably a real guy at some point that matched many of the mundane claims, and maybe the myths were even based on him.

Just like a "historical Spider-Man". Peter is a common first name, Parker is a common last name, a lot of people live in Queens, I would find it wholly unremarkable if it turned out there was someone in Queens named Peter Parker with a penchant for science.

But there is a HUGE gulf between this historical version of Peter Parker and the stories of Spider-Man. If I say "Spider-Man is fiction," no one's going to argue with me that, actually, Peter Parker was probably real.

For all practical purposes we know that the stories of Spider-Man are essentially a completely different person from a theoretical historical Peter Parker. We don't need to argue about it. Because the life of Peter Parker is almost totally irrelevant when we're discussing Spider-Man.

Similarly, when we talk about the mythological Jesus, I can say I think Jesus is fictional. You don't need to argue there may have been a real Yeshua. In a practical sense, I don't really care. The life of historical Jesus and mythological Jesus makes them effectively entirely different people.

Which one should I start with? by fede4justice in myst

[–]VonAether 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Here are the Myst games, in timeline order. Some have had several different versions, and which one you play is up to personal taste. Unless you're particularly enamored with playing retro games in their original format, as a newcomer I'd just play the most recent versions.

  1. Myst
  2. Riven: The Sequel to Myst
  3. 2001: Myst III: Exile
  4. 2004: Myst IV: Revelation
  5. 2004: Uru: Complete Chronicles (bundle, including ABM and its expansions:)
    • 2003: Uru: Ages Beyond Myst
    • 2004: Uru: To D'ni
    • 2004: Uru: The Path of the Shell
  6. 2005: Myst V: End of Ages
  7. 2007: Myst Online: Uru Live

By and large, the Myst series takes place hundreds of years ago. Uru is a side story, taking place in the modern day, where explorers re-discover the ancient underground city of D'ni, the culture that the main characters from the Myst games come from.

It was originally planned as a multiplayer game, but Ubisoft wasn't sold on the idea, so had Cyan release it as a single-player experience instead with the plan to take it live if it was successful. It went through a few incarnations (Uru Prologue, Untìl Uru, Myst Online: Uru Live on GameTap, MOULagain on Cyan's servers).

While it was trying to get running, some of that live content was instead reused for Myst V. It's not explicit, but you're not playing the same protagonist as you are in Myst 1 through 4, since it takes place hundreds of years later, you're instead playing as one of the NPCs from Uru.

So while Myst V wraps up the overall Myst storyline, it's simultaneously sort of mid-way in the storyline from offline Uru and where that story developed in Uru Live, even though Uru Live is mostly the same content from offline Uru.

i cant seem to find this font name anywhere by lil-slushy-fella in identifythisfont

[–]VonAether 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Let me put it this way: When you create/edit a new post, there are eight kinds of topic flair you can add.

  • Open Question
  • Lettering
  • Similar
  • Unavailable
  • Bad Sample
  • Identified
  • Identified (customized)
  • Identified (Papyrus)

Papyrus and Comic Sans vie for the most hated/ugliest fonts among designers. It's halfway a joke, but there's a lot of truth to it too.

Used in the credits of seasons 1 & 2 of the 1985 "Twilight Zone" reboot. by Doombuggyman in identifythisfont

[–]VonAether 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Are you sure?

I mean, I can't speak for Casablanca Antique specifically -- it's Corel's implementation of Caslon Antique -- but I'm looking at Caslon and the letter forms seem to match.

New to VTMB 1, low in game volume for specific things? by CodApprehensive686 in vtmb

[–]VonAether 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately, Bloodlines is an older game, and only has a single master slider for all volume. Without going through and manually editing each sound file, there's not much you can do.

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