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31  General Category / General Discussion / Re: Emoticons on: April 04, 2015, 02:08:53 PM
Well, that's where it'd get weird. I mean, why would you need to use items? (And I have hardly seen anyone use them, as I'm mainly in the modding forum anyway)

Diamonds to you, is a good example in the Minecraft forum. People also like using the notch and creeper faces as well as apples alot.

In Mythruna, there's actually a tad more room for emoticons simply because, though it isn't ready, the audience this game will attract will likely include RPers. So adding in little sword icons or wands would... expediate things. In the case of the smilies thenselves, more genre specific smilies would fit in much better than the generic ones we have now.
That's what I meant by embarrassing, too. Why notch? Or apples? Heheh.
32  General Category / General Discussion / Re: Playing with loading music... on: April 04, 2015, 02:06:33 PM
Going in for a rare occasion there, aren't you Wink

Or not so rare, if they're as hard to kill as Paul makes them out to be.

... And you just accidentally used an emoticon. xD
What I meant in the other thread was excessive use of emoticons. Hehe
33  General Category / General Discussion / Re: Emoticons on: April 04, 2015, 12:45:34 PM
Well, that's where it'd get weird. I mean, why would you need to use items? (And I have hardly seen anyone use them, as I'm mainly in the modding forum anyway)
34  General Category / General Discussion / Re: Playing with loading music... on: April 04, 2015, 12:44:45 PM
Going in for a rare occasion there, aren't you Wink
35  General Category / General Discussion / Re: Playing with loading music... on: April 04, 2015, 12:39:37 PM
It would work well as music in a tense situation, but loading, it seems a bit... intense.

That said, I really like it. But it might be suitable for something else, I guess. Main menu music wouldn't be bad.

Loading menus are so intense though! That's when all the hype happens.
Yea, but if I'm starting new in the game, I would want something ambient, hehe. Maybe loading music for different situations though.
36  General Category / General Discussion / Re: Emoticons on: April 04, 2015, 12:36:25 PM
I always thought emoticon use was embarrassing, though I'm fine with text emoticons xD. I like the ones already on Mythruna, but wouldn't mind more if others do want them.
37  General Category / General Discussion / Re: Playing with loading music... on: April 04, 2015, 12:26:00 PM
It would work well as music in a tense situation, but loading, it seems a bit... intense.

That said, I really like it. But it might be suitable for something else, I guess. Main menu music wouldn't be bad.
38  General Category / General Discussion / Re: Reign of Kings on: March 25, 2015, 01:39:43 PM
Whoa what, it's made by the same guys!? I thought they went out of business or something. I hope they fixed their practices of hiring 30 people on a team without having the money to pay them.
39  General Category / General Discussion / Re: Lack of Life Energy on: March 19, 2015, 06:05:50 PM
I meant in real life, but yea. It makes more sense in the way you describe it if you mean ingame xD.

And yea, exactly. But all you really have to do is be interested in the process to read up on it. Hehe.
40  General Category / General Discussion / Re: Mythruna RP Rules (Major WIP) on: March 19, 2015, 10:29:28 AM
Apparently this thread has been viewed over 1,000 times. Something tells me there are lots people out there that are pumped for this. How interesting. Tongue

Looks like you may be right about this after all, Ebag.
They might've been expecting something different though, if you look at the title and think about it xD
41  General Category / General Discussion / Re: The Discussion #13 (3/19/15) on: March 19, 2015, 10:27:49 AM
It already isn't happening? What's the US then? Wink
42  General Category / General Discussion / Re: Lack of Life Energy on: March 19, 2015, 10:26:10 AM
Sometimes when questions like this arise, I have to recite the ancient mantra: "Itza Viddy O'gaym"  Smiley

Since we are (allegedly) actual human beings and not projected physical constructs... I doubt we really have proper reference to understand what it would be like for our characters.

Well, I suppose ATP(Adenosine Triphosphate) may be our form of life energy. ATP is what fuels... just about everything. Muscle movement, thought, regeneration... it all requires ATP to function. Plants are the primary source of the world's ATP and they make it from using the sun. ATP's energy  can be converted to heat energy, kinetic energy, etc, but at a loss. Really, it would seem life energy is practically parallel with ATP. I'm surprised it took me so long to notice that. xD


A lack of ATP would likely be signified by 'brain fog'(Neurons use active transport to create a concentration gradient to become batteries...blah, blah, blah. They need energy to make thinking happen), fatigue, muscle stiffness(Muscles need ATP to relax, this is why rigor mortis happens), and slowed healing(Cells need ATP in several stages of the cell cycle). It may also decrease heart rate and breathing, and would definitely cause a decrease in body temperature for endotherms(ATP = Energy, Heat is one of the possible energy products, as I said before). In low levels, it basically slows everything down... And if they get low enough, you'll slowly die.

Same goes for plants, sort of. They use ATP to the same ends.

Thoughts, Paul?
We also eat our own bodies when we run out of excess energy. So fats, and muscles. All of it. If we'd be realistic in being that life force is energy, then we'd probably just get skinny if we overdid it Wink

Lipids are inefficient sources of ATP, actually. It's much more efficient to tap into sugars and starches that are in the bloodstream. Metabolizing lipids would probably be what would allow you to actually restore life energy the day after a battle, but it wouldn't be able to instantly restore it, or even quickly restore it. If that was the case, you'd be able to exercise all day if you were fat. That doesn't happen, though, and you don't lose any weight after a day of exercising aside from water weight. The lipids are used up afterwards, to rebuild the muscles and help build more muscles fibers.

We don't actually "consume" our muscles when we have no food, either. Muscle atrophy from starvation is due to the muscles not having enough energy to be maintained(Since the metabolism has to slow down to keep you from dropping, and the body has to choose between giving your biceps or your vital organs energy), and consequently breaking down on their own. Our receiving usable byproducts from the atrophy is just coincidental(Note: There is a net loss from muscle atrophy so your body doesn't really want your muscles to break down). Overdoing it would, really, only have an effect on muscles if you were overdoing it all the time.


Real talk, only a biology major would know some of this stuff. Or anyone in the medical field, I guess. What's important is that you made a reasonable assumption. :3


P.S. Since we're talking about biology, here's an interesting article I just finished reading. It discusses our intimate relationship with viruses, so it's not entirely relevant, but it's really cool. Viruses are AWESOME! ^_^


EDIT: "Inefficient" may not be the right word for fat energy. It's energy dense and very useful, but lipolysis is slow compared to glycolysis.

EDIT2: To clarify, here's an example. If you use up 200 units of life energy, you'd only be able to effectively use lipids to replenish those 200 units of life energy after the fact, and probably over the course of a day or two.  The life energy you have at your immediate disposal would be akin to glucose and other sugars. That would also mean that eating a meal half an hour before a fight should actually increase your available life energy(But not your hit points, of course)... which makes sense, actually.
I also forgot to add, that this normally only happens during starvation. Since this is magical lifeforce, I imagined the energy being directly tunnelled to the needed task. And nah, you'd literally just need to pick up a book on lipids. ;P No specialization needed to understand something.
43  General Category / General Discussion / Re: Lack of Life Energy on: March 18, 2015, 05:59:14 PM
Sometimes when questions like this arise, I have to recite the ancient mantra: "Itza Viddy O'gaym"  Smiley

Since we are (allegedly) actual human beings and not projected physical constructs... I doubt we really have proper reference to understand what it would be like for our characters.

Well, I suppose ATP(Adenosine Triphosphate) may be our form of life energy. ATP is what fuels... just about everything. Muscle movement, thought, regeneration... it all requires ATP to function. Plants are the primary source of the world's ATP and they make it from using the sun. ATP's energy  can be converted to heat energy, kinetic energy, etc, but at a loss. Really, it would seem life energy is practically parallel with ATP. I'm surprised it took me so long to notice that. xD


A lack of ATP would likely be signified by 'brain fog'(Neurons use active transport to create a concentration gradient to become batteries...blah, blah, blah. They need energy to make thinking happen), fatigue, muscle stiffness(Muscles need ATP to relax, this is why rigor mortis happens), and slowed healing(Cells need ATP in several stages of the cell cycle). It may also decrease heart rate and breathing, and would definitely cause a decrease in body temperature for endotherms(ATP = Energy, Heat is one of the possible energy products, as I said before). In low levels, it basically slows everything down... And if they get low enough, you'll slowly die.

Same goes for plants, sort of. They use ATP to the same ends.

Thoughts, Paul?
We also eat our own bodies when we run out of excess energy. So fats, and muscles. All of it. If we'd be realistic in being that life force is energy, then we'd probably just get skinny if we overdid it Wink
44  Player's Corner / Gallery / Re: Latest character creation screenie... on: March 10, 2015, 12:32:25 AM
Nice and well done! The male model is pretty buff.
Looks like he's more on the line of being a lot more thinner than average xD
But this looks good. I likey!
45  General Category / General Discussion / Re: Stagnation on: March 10, 2015, 12:29:21 AM
This was also a reason I wanted to start a little IRC channel way back before. ;P

Lol, I saw that. How'd that go, anyway?
Noooowhereeeee. Sadly, since Paul more-or-less just said he wouldn't be able to be there much, I forgot to propose just being idle in a channel. Like a lot of people do.
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