CavusRex, The Reader

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4/1/2023

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4/4/2025 6:27 PM

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Creator and sole developer of Songbird Editor, as well as occasional writer, programmer and ass.

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Nautilus

Grudges must always be the first to die when a storm arrives.

After years away you return home to your dying father, but will you be able to get your brother to forgive you for leaving? And will you step up to the challenge to inherit your father's most prized possession?

Written as part of the 2023 Spring/Summer Contest: Gone Fishin' it is a game with a much bigger focus on story than gameplay, but still there is a decent amount of endings and variation for something this short.

Republished to fix a coding error in a later scene

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End Master's Prompt Contest 4 on 4/2/2025 2:54:34 AM

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Interesting comments 10 on 4/1/2025 5:38:22 PM

I'd give that translation a 6/10. The general meaning is there, but multiple phrases and sentences have been butchered. Still better than I expected google to handle it considering.

Interesting comments 10 on 4/1/2025 3:10:14 PM

The Polish did at one point in history look at the alphabet and liked it so much they decided to use as much of it as possible in each word while adding a few of their own letters to it because it just wasn't big enough.

Cavus' Nook of Reviews - Looking for suggestions on 3/31/2025 4:51:22 PM

I'm split between that one and Sabbatical, I might end up flipping a coin over it. I had a blast with Tally Ho despite its Monty Python-esque style of comedy not being my usual thing.

Cavus' Nook of Reviews - Looking for suggestions on 3/31/2025 4:45:55 PM

Thanks. I can totally see how some people would like it given the prose is solid and the world building was interesting, but as a story it falls very flat to me. I'd like to read something of Gower's next since I like to alternate between dramatic and comedic works if possible, but I also have a little review planned for tomorrow, but that one probably won't be included in the list here.

Cavus' Nook of Reviews - Looking for suggestions on 3/31/2025 4:38:24 PM

And march is coming to an end. Good thing I prepared this month's review way ahead of time because I don't think I'd find the time to read anything in the last few days. Also a good thing I decided to not read EMB in february as was the plan originally because I postponed having to slug through something that genuinely caused me pain by the last few routes.

Romance in RPGs (again) on 3/30/2025 1:51:41 PM

Been a while since I played Mankind, but I'm pretty sure you could do that to all the bosses on top of the option to deal with them non-lethally.

Romance in RPGs (again) on 3/29/2025 2:35:51 PM

I believe the explanation was that she was fully focused on her research and barely interacted with people in general before the game. Also the 100 years is somewhat more believable for a species that lives up to 1000.

Romance in RPGs (again) on 3/29/2025 2:59:09 AM

There's dozens of characters like that in a new genre of AI generated sci-fi slop power fantasy stories you can find on youtube. Took me weeks to prune it from my feed, but I bet they're still being uploaded.

Romance in RPGs (again) on 3/28/2025 5:39:15 PM

ME in general always felt bad at believably establishing relationships but once they were established it shined with paying them off in various ways. Also I always felt that Tali's romance was very similar to Liara's in their fundamentals, but so much better executed simply because she was a proper character and there was a believable explanation behind her crush. I almost feel like it'd be better if she was romanceable in 1 instead of Liara.