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Nathan Slake's avatar

Amazing once again. I love the detail of the worldbuilding here along with getting a closer view of the pod and all its detail. I want one. When can I jack in to the neuralnet and get one?

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Alexander Ipfelkofer's avatar

Thanks, Nathan. I would love to hook you up now. But... I am afraid GAIN will not let you unless you choose a designation. I mean "faction" albeit, in SPHEREAN jargon, it is called designation. Which one you may be... SPOILER! I do know. I can't tell. I won't. I mustn't. We must wait until all is written. 😇

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Nathan Slake's avatar

A full faction post coming soon then...?!

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Alexander Ipfelkofer's avatar

Soon™

It's delicate. There are a lot of intricate details to consider. Trying to figure out how to best present this without taking away the first reading effect but yes, the LORE page will list the factions ideally, the main characters, the pods, some cool details and places (it's Earth so...) and more pods.

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Taegan MacLean's avatar

Love this one! The music fits perfectly. Im also enjoying the lore bits you provide with these videos. I usually have a hard time understanding lore. I was that guy in WoW who didn’t know Arthas was the Lich King the entire time I played the game 🫠

But yeah, I’m digging the world you’re building here and can’t wait to find out more.

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Alexander Ipfelkofer's avatar

Thanks, Taegan! Yeah, I was very happy that Matt agreed to let me use his songs. It's that kind of vibe I was going for. Like in Lost in Translation, For relaxing times...

Funny you should mention Arthas! The Wrath of the Lich King intro cinematic is near and dear to me, having been the one to be in the recording studio for it in Germany, which is to say I prefer the German audio on that particular video ;)

I get it re: Lore, though, esp. in MMOs where no one reads any quest texts (skip skip skip, click click click let me have the reward come oooon). Right?

Going forward, I will focus a bit more on text. More flash fiction, CARTER is coming, and the SPHEREAN LORE section incl. a map but that's far off. Time...

Glad you enjoy the content!

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Alexander Ipfelkofer's avatar

I speak the truth when I say.... no. Sadly, no. It was all Kay Occamore that deviant Omniversant (another faction).

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Alexander Ipfelkofer's avatar

I have a plethora of such links... https://youtu.be/-mTUmczVdik to which your response will be..?

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Nathan Slake's avatar

Hehehehe.

I've heard that 60% of the time, those pods are burgundy 100% of the time!

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Alexander Ipfelkofer's avatar

Thank you, my friend and fellow poet. Glad you like it.

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Alexander Ipfelkofer's avatar

Oh wow, thank you! My car designer friend Joe used Vred for the videos. I will let him know! He will be happy to hear that. I wish I could use Unreal but I have zero experience in it. He gave me the .wire files from Alias but Unreal wouldn't load them (probably because I don't have Alias installed). The plan is to create more realistic videos down the line using the Unreal Engine if I can find the time to learn it :)

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Nathan Slake's avatar

That's so good. What a lovely thing to do.

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Alexander Ipfelkofer's avatar

Oh gosh, this is unexpected! How can I thank you? You can send it to talesfromthedefrag@gmail.com. 🤩🤩 Speechless!

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