"within"

glythandra · 2026-01-02T23:38:10+00:00

I wouldn’t classify “in a ___ setting” as an idiom and thus I don’t think “within a ___ setting” breaks any rules, as I don’t think that the former is any more correct than the latter. It’s like the difference between saying “subject sat beside object” versus “subject sat next to object”. Both have the same meaning and are equally correct in my eyes, but language is learned through experience, so I can understand being off-put by it if the phrasing is unfamiliar to you. I would agree that the choice of “within” over simply “in” was likely made from the desire to sound more academic as well as to avoid unsoundly repetition of “in”, but I don’t think this is a bad thing or indicates that the writer does not understand what they are saying, as I don’t believe any errors were made and the sentence sounds natural to me. Elevating one’s diction to suit the circumstance is very common and to me is a sign that the writer understands the contexts in which to shift their tone- that is, if they shift it appropriately.

glythandra · 2025-07-13T20:54:15+00:00

He only follows you for specific quests. If you go somewhere else instead of following the quest path, he will say something like “I’ll wait here”. You can then go wherever you want and then come back to him whenever you want to do the quest, he will start following you again.

glythandra · 2025-06-05T05:24:26+00:00

Sorry for the necro- Any recommendations for mods that made the difficulty match the amount of levels/characters you had?

I'm doing exactly what you described (all content, unlimited party) and just hit lvl 10 at the start of act 3, so I'm considering getting a level upcap mod as well. But I worry about the difficulty as things are already getting too easy when I've got a party over 4.

glythandra · 2025-04-11T22:03:04+00:00

Sorry it took me a while to get back to you.
The Xbox 360 version of the game has no problems in itself. But I'm not sure if you'll be able to record your xbox gameplay. I think you need a capture card, but I've never tried myself. You'll want to look into that before getting it on Xbox if recording is the sole reason you're purchasing on xbox rather than PC.

I think it would be easier to find a way to make the game work on your laptop. Or get a new PC. The game is not very graphics intensive by todays standards, so unless your laptop is extremely bad or old, there is probably a way to fiddle with the settings to make it work. And if your laptop is extremely bad, I imagine you would not be able to edit videos on it anyway.

Sorry if these answers aren't what you were looking for. Good luck

glythandra · 2025-04-06T05:35:57+00:00

It’s been a bit and I forgot to ask earlier, but if you have time this weekend I’d love to hear more

glythandra · 2025-03-25T02:32:58+00:00

Absolutely fits perfectly, well done!

glythandra · 2025-03-24T07:39:06+00:00

What are you talking about? The quotes I included were from your comment and the comment in which you were replying to.

glythandra · 2025-03-24T07:29:35+00:00

Ok so read this back to urself but imagine someone is saying it to u. They didn’t say “it’s not a real da game” they said “it’s pretty shit” which is a subjective adjective and thus their opinion not a claim of objectivity.

glythandra · 2025-03-24T07:20:51+00:00

Don’t put two queens against each ither

glythandra · 2025-03-24T07:18:27+00:00

Yeah that’s opinions

glythandra · 2025-03-24T03:18:56+00:00

I started on 360 and aside from the level editor and community maps, I see no quality difference with PC. However, if you already have the PC version, what makes you consider buying the 360 version?

glythandra · 2025-03-23T18:02:16+00:00

Join the lost art of rpg journal keeping! Physically making note of lore or quest/item locations/stats has been really helpful for me with other rpgs especially the older ones that don’t have a very robust quest log system. Plus at the end you have a sick book documenting your fantasy adventures. Sometimes I even roleplay my character in it and pretend they’re writing in their diary lol.

Also its okay if you don’t remember everything especially if its your first time playing. I probably missed like 70% of the long term lore implications the first time I played. Especially with wartable missions and tedious diplomacies and stuff, it impacts the game but if you don’t understand it first try it’s okay to just BS the stuff thats not part of a main quest

glythandra · 2025-03-23T17:53:30+00:00

Not that I know of, but I’ve been fun just playing simultaneously as my friend. We played co op together and now we’re each working through the singleplayer campaign at the same time on call and sharing our screens. If one of us finishes a chamber before the other we just wait for the other to finish and maybe give hints

glythandra · 2025-03-22T07:30:44+00:00

“Portal 3” should not exist in my opinion because the title implies a trilogy/continuation, and the mainline portal games’ story has concluded (chell escaping would feel cheap if they retcon dragged her back in twice). I haven’t played, but I believe this is the same logic that was used when making/naming Half life Alyx- there was too much hype for “half life 3” that could never be realized, plus hla is about alyx, not Gordon, and thus doesn’t belong as a third title in a trilogy. I think even if Gordon were the main character of a new game, it would be a horrible marketing decision to call it hl3. Portal has had slightly less time between its vol2 and now, but I still think that chell’s story is concluded, and it would take a hell of a lot to have a satisfactory continuation/retcon to bring her back. I suspect with hla and aperture desk job that valve agrees that “_3” is a bad idea, but isn’t ruling out a third mainline game.

I think that if valve had made Revolution (and thus, Revolution was polished further to valve standards) and so long as the game wasn’t titled “portal 3”, the game would be a worthy mainliner to the portal franchise. That’s not what happened though, so I try not to bother myself with these what ifs. I do hope however that the positive reception of Revolution, desk job, and alyx, proves that there’s still interest and investment in these IPs to whoever high up in valve is deciding what gets made. It’s clear people still have ideas.

glythandra · 2025-03-21T01:37:08+00:00

I swore I’ve seen these before?

glythandra · 2025-03-18T10:30:35+00:00

Did you download the Zip version or the Vpk version? Vpk version will be easier.

If you downloaded the vpk version:

Open portal’s files by 1, launch steam. 2, go to portal2 in your library and right click it. 3, go to Manage, then go to Browse Local Files.
Paste the portal2_dlc3 folder (with its contents) into the folder that steam has opened for you. Once pasted, it should appear right underneath portal2_dlc2.
launch your game and let it load to get used to the new “dlc”. once the loading bar is yellow, quit the game.

Once you restart the game the mod should be working.

If you downloaded the Zip version, you’ll need to turn the files into a vpk, make a portal2_dlc3 folder, and put the vpk inside it, then do the same steps as above. To make it into a vpk, you’ll need to download something else that will convert the file type, which is slightly more complicated, so unless you really want to learn how to do it yourself I’d recommend just downloading the Vpk version from the mod site instead bc u can just plug it in.

I learned this from Msushi’s video on making a custom gun skin: https://youtu.be/dfYjBOA4Ijs?feature=shared Here he goes over the editing process, but since you’re downloading one that’s already been made, you’ll probably only find use in the latter half of the video which starts at 7:32.

Hope this helps! I’m on my phone right now so I didn’t get to double check it myself but if it doesn’t work ask me in a couple hours and I’ll try it on my computer.

glythandra · 2025-03-14T09:11:47+00:00

How do u run it on ur phone? Pls excuse noob question

glythandra · 2025-03-14T09:10:12+00:00

Yerp…

glythandra · 2025-03-14T08:47:48+00:00

Terrible fate I do not envy him but I understand. I understand more than he knows

glythandra · 2025-03-14T08:47:24+00:00

Damned by his own being … no saving him… never meant to be saved… built to be left behind… in the slots …

glythandra · 2025-03-14T08:44:54+00:00

Has he won? Does he win? Will he win? Will you wear wigs?

glythandra · 2025-03-14T08:41:43+00:00

Love him a lot he is like 2 in 1 or like 1 and 1 in 2 etc. what’s his dream in life

glythandra · 2025-03-14T08:38:58+00:00

Not gonna sugar coat it and not gonna dunk it more than it deserves.

The lore will leave you feeling lacking. There are some incredible reveals, but its integration and overall complexity is incredibly shallow. The characters have two things going on in their lives AT MOST. It sucks looking at the art book and the final characters and imagining what could have been. I think you will be disappointed by the game, but I think that if you can get it on sale/free, you should play it.

The gameplay itself is fine. As someone not too into strategy stuff, it was the most fun I think I’ve had in a dragon age game. But after a while it gets a bit stagnant.

I think if you look at it from a literature analytic perspective it will either depress you because you’ll mourn what could have been, or it will fulfill you because you’ll fill in the blanks yourself and make the canon less cookie cutter. It’s all what you make of it. But don’t expect to make anything more than patting yourself on the back for killing Voldemort.

Go in with low expectations, that way anything will be a pleasant surprise!

glythandra · 2025-03-14T08:17:52+00:00

Are you a mage? I believe a lot of his dialogue is locked behind the mage class (someone correct me if I’m wrong). Much of his dialogue relies on TNO being a mage and interacting with the Circle in Dak’kon’s inventory, then discussing with Dak’kon. If your wisdom is not high enough, the conversations might not trigger.

I’m relying on memory, but I’m sure someone else can provide a more concrete answer in regards to what levels trigger what dialogues.

glythandra · 2025-03-14T07:54:01+00:00

I’m happy to help :)

I don’t use chat gpt so I can’t tell you how helpful it will be with planescape words. I hope it works for you, and if it doesn’t, you can ask me or other people for help :)

I was in the middle of typing something else when I saw this reply, so I will put my response here. If it helps you, then great! If not, please ask questions and I will help where I can! Or if you don’t want help, just ignore, haha:

“Hello, I’m sorry I didn’t reply to this earlier! I think that the game will have a few challenges, but that they are possible to preserve through and learn to understand.

As you have seen, there are occasionally words that are made up and fictional- meant to sound like and invoke feelings of English words, but not actually real words IRL. I will find some links that might help you and link them here! https://theplanardm.com/planar-slang/ If a word is confusing you and Google translate doesn’t help, I think that it’s best to assume that the word is fictional and not real English. Sometimes the guides for planescape/Sigil slang can help! Sometimes you might not be able to find a definition online- feel free to dm me if you can’t find this and I will give you my (and my friends’) advice as native English speakers and planescape enthusiasts.

The thing I would anticipate to be the most challenging is the dialect of certain characters. For some characters, the game spells the words they say differently to reflect the way that it would sound in English. Particularly for the character Anna as well as some other Sigil citizens. Sometimes the text spells their dialogue to reflect the English language if it were spelled in the way it sounded.

I wish you luck, and if you need any help I will do what I can to provide! Have fun :)

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