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Offline ShadowOTE

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Re: Cursed golem description is poor
« Reply #15 on: December 27, 2010, 07:34:32 pm »
Is it... chocolate cake that comprises this golem?

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Re: Cursed golem description is poor
« Reply #16 on: December 27, 2010, 07:41:41 pm »
but you can't keep crying over every mistake,
you just keep on trying till you run out of cake....

I'd support the idea of a cake golem lol

Yeha but I am just trying to help. Not complain. I mean I am fine without the description.

Someone doesn't understand the reference. 
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Re: Cursed golem description is poor
« Reply #17 on: December 28, 2010, 07:46:24 pm »
but you can't keep crying over every mistake,
you just keep on trying till you run out of cake....

I'd support the idea of a cake golem lol

Yeha but I am just trying to help. Not complain. I mean I am fine without the description.

Someone doesn't understand the reference. 

HAHAHAH...lol....! sry my bad. I had my girlfriend tell me that it was a rhyme (probably from a song) and was a joke. lol sry. xD

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Re: Cursed golem description is poor
« Reply #18 on: December 28, 2010, 09:41:32 pm »
but you can't keep crying over every mistake,
you just keep on trying till you run out of cake....

I'd support the idea of a cake golem lol

Yeha but I am just trying to help. Not complain. I mean I am fine without the description.

Someone doesn't understand the reference. 

HAHAHAH...lol....! sry my bad. I had my girlfriend tell me that it was a rhyme (probably from a song) and was a joke. lol sry. xD

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Re: Cursed golem description is poor
« Reply #19 on: December 28, 2010, 11:04:53 pm »
but you can't keep crying over every mistake,
you just keep on trying till you run out of cake....

I'd support the idea of a cake golem lol

Yeha but I am just trying to help. Not complain. I mean I am fine without the description.

Someone doesn't understand the reference. 

HAHAHAH...lol....! sry my bad. I had my girlfriend tell me that it was a rhyme (probably from a song) and was a joke. lol sry. xD

LOL now he thinks the reference is to the bake a cake song.  :D

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Offline PineappleSam

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Re: Cursed golem description is poor
« Reply #20 on: December 29, 2010, 01:02:14 am »
The Cake is a like.

All the reference you need, and I'd highly recommend that you give the orange box a try at some point, as that contains portal.

...after picking up multiple copies of AI war and it's expansions for your friends/family/neighbour/dog etcetera of course :P

Anyway, back to topic. TL;DR the cursed golem's description doesn't give any reason to take it, but the stats do. Except you can't see the stats of a broken golem until it's repaired.

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Why not have broken golems set up the same way as spire mining enclosures, where you can see the structure's stats AND the ship(s) it produces? I'd support that!

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Offline Wingsofdomain

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Re: Cursed golem description is poor
« Reply #21 on: December 29, 2010, 12:50:31 pm »
I have played portal. I have heard the song. But I didn't know that it was THAT song you thought of... I don't remember the whole lyric of it? xD lols.

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Re: Cursed golem description is poor
« Reply #22 on: December 29, 2010, 05:31:10 pm »
Everyone's been skirting around it, but no one's posted the link to the actual song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6ljFaKRTrI

It's Portal's closing credits song "Still Alive".  The crying/cake lines are about 40 seconds in.  It's absolutely brilliant in how it manages to capture the passive-aggressive personality of GLaDOS, reveal the ending twist, and be funny and relevant to the context of the game, while also being a catchy tune.


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Re: Cursed golem description is poor
« Reply #23 on: December 30, 2010, 08:35:05 am »
Everyone's been skirting around it, but no one's posted the link to the actual song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6ljFaKRTrI

It's Portal's closing credits song "Still Alive".  The crying/cake lines are about 40 seconds in.  It's absolutely brilliant in how it manages to capture the passive-aggressive personality of GLaDOS, reveal the ending twist, and be funny and relevant to the context of the game, while also being a catchy tune.

...it's the reward for completing the game, and hearing it before completing the game made it less amusing and unexpected for me.

Spoiler: Even though you broke my heart / And killed me / And tore me to pieces / And threw every piece into a fire. <- Hints at the ending somewhat :P

On a completely different note, does anyone know the Hexcode for the background of the forum? The closest I can come to is E8E8E8 and even then I suspect it might be a little on the dark side...

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Re: Cursed golem description is poor
« Reply #24 on: December 30, 2010, 12:27:57 pm »
It's absolutely brilliant in how it manages to capture the passive-aggressive personality of GLaDOS, reveal the ending twist, and be funny and relevant to the context of the game, while also being a catchy tune.



Which is exactly why the last thing one wants to do is hear it before completing the game.