OraCLesofFire

Hello! I'm OraCLesofFire, also known as Baby Altaria. I've had a place in my heart for this game since I first played it on my fathers computer as a child. I had no clue what I was doing then, but I knew that I loved it. Now that I'm older, I've decided to try my hand at developing a campaign for the game! If you have also enjoyed this game, feel free to speak up and discuss it below with others! I'd love to discuss and bounce ideas off of you! for the uninitiated: https://www.wesnoth.org/ Now about my campaign: Orcish Civil War The Concept: Follow the exploits of a goblin known as Gneelb, and his condescending Orc brother Dulfish as they march through the Northlands, uniting the Orcish clans under one banner, and ending the 100 year civil war in which their nation had been embroiled. Fight against Elves, hidden enclaves of Dwarves, Terrifying Monsters, secret bands of human theives, and of course, plenty of Orcs, all while protecting your arrogant brother from the consequences of his foolhardy actions, and reunite the four clans. Prologue: "20 years after the founding of Wesnoth, a great Orcish Host descended from the north on the human city of Tath. Vastly outnumbered, the men of this post had no hope of survival. Seeing this, a young elf by the name of Kalenz mutinied against his people, choosing to fight with the humans side by side. Even with help from the few elvish forces, the humans could do little more than hold their position. But all they needed was an opening, an once the advance was stopped, Kalenz and his friend Landar journeyed deep within the Orcish territories, and assassinated the Great Chief Brurbar. The anarchy within the orcish ranks that followed was unprecedented. Orc fought against orc, lusting for the power of the combined Orcish horde. Out of the chaos, 4 major clans ascended to power. Led by the 4 generals of Brubar himself, Ozul, Gvur, Tamitahan, and Khrubar, the fighting became more organized, and the 4 clans sent out raiding parties to claim minor clans, their soldiers, and their gold for themselves." The campaign is being developed on Wesnoth Version 1.13.10 which unfortunately does not have backwards compatibility. -- I expect the campaign to have anywhere from 15-20 scenarios (o.O) and be set in 4 chapters (1 for each clan). Development could last anywhere from 2 to 5 months depending on how busy I will be with school. To accommodate the role the main character will play in the scenario, I will unfortunately have to create a few (5-8) new units which fall under the Goblin faction, hopefully they won't be too burdensome to learn for older players, and will add a bit of spice to the otherwise single-dynamic playstyle the orcs tend to fall in. (brute strength) the goblin faction needs more diversity anyways I am developing nearly the entire campaign myself, but once it is applicable, will start looking around for artists to make some splash art, portrait art, and do spriting for the new units. I want to make sure that this campaign looks and feels smooth and top-notch before releasing it and adding it to the add-on server. -- That's all! Hope you have a wonderful day! If this post gains enough attention, I may begin posting updates. If you want Spoiler-ish materials I will post updates and screenshots of development on my Twitter. Below is the current design of the first scenario map

I do not know why, but I find myself compulsively drawn to asking, "What is the most ___ thing you've ever done/experienced?" when I'm having conversations in my head. The most common word to fill in the blank is "painful"... I have no clue what this means, and the fact that I constantly find myself repeating it over and over in a loop in my head is super annoying...

"Actions accessible by the bot API, chosen at a frequency comparable to humans" I believe they're saying that they've added in human reaction times with this statement, which is probably the biggest relief out there because it means abilities with an animation won't be completely useless outside of the laning phase. The bots obviously won't make mistakes that humans would make, like accidentally walking into a pudge hook. I think the more interesting thing to look for is how the bot will react to some of the weird and crazy stuff than humans do, and how they'll learn to interact with each other and map movements. The number of ways you can play a full game is immeasurable, so I think that it will be very possible for humans to beat the bots by out-playing them on a teamwork and game plan level, and out drafting them. The best thing humans have against an AI is that we can act irrationally.

So I know a lot of the people here don't play DotA, but I thought this was a very intriguing topic that the entire Moba scene would find interesting. OpenAI https://openai.com/ a non-profit AI research company recently built an intelligence which was capable of consistently beating the best DotA 2 professionals in a 1v1 mid situation. The AI was revealed at The International 7 DotA 2 Championships where it handily beat the best of the best in recent history. The rules of Mobas are extremely fluid, meaning the bot had to adapt to it's opponent's extremely diverse array of moves and possibilities in real time. With the implications of this simple feat. OpenAI has released a blog post showing their intentions for the future of this AI, being able to compete in a full game of DotA (5v5), and how they expect to go about working towards that goal. I thought this was an incredible accomplishment, and figured that people who play other mobas league would find this very interesting. https://blog.openai.com/more-on-dota-2/

what's a showdown? A lot of people have moved to Discord for chatting, as Az said. Feel free to join us there

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I generally don't speak much about my past relationship with the people here, mostly because I've been struggling with some things that happened during it. But I'm confident that I'm moving on and putting that in the past, and as such I want to try to write up some of my feelings about it. I'm going to write this story in two different sections, one will be about the relationship itself, and I will tell a few of the things that happened, and the other will be about how it has affected me, and how I've come to terms with what happened during the relationship. The events I don't really want to talk too much about her, and because of certain events that have occurred I'm even afraid to say her name out loud. When we started dating, I was still rather immature and not sure where I was going in life, and I really didn't know how to deal with my anxiety. I was a senior in high school, and she was a year below me. She became really really attached to me and during the relationship she was the only one who initiated any kind of action between us, whether it be going on dates, or even just conversations. That being said, it wasn't that I didn't like her, and didn't support her, I was just too afraid to put myself out there. She had rather bad mental health issues as well, and frequently was depressed and had frequent thoughts of suicide. I felt like it was my place to support her and make sure she was happy, and I took it very personally every time she did get depressed. I felt like I had failed her, and would get extremely upset with myself. Our relationship went on like this for a while, it really wasn't the healthiest of situations, but it worked for her. Eventually I graduated high school, and was going to go off to college in Minnesota. By this time she was thoroughly in love with me, and she decided that we could maintain a serious relationship across the distance, even though I could barely communicate with her when she was this close to me. Obviously things didn't work out so well, and our relationship experienced a rapid decline as we started communicating even less and seeing each other very infrequently. I mentioned "certain events" and that is something I should talk about. I got to meet her parents early on, and I learned that her mother had just recently gotten remarried. It was all good and fine at first, she seemed ok with the guy, and her mother seemed happy. But after a while, especially right after I left for college, things started happening. He started getting abusive, and it got worse and worse, until eventually she and her mother were forced to run away. They changed their names, moved to a different state, and had no money to support themselves and ended up in a homeless shelter for a while. I feel very guilty about this part, because when I was in college I started getting very depressed. I'm sure in part it had to do with what was going on in her life, but there were plenty of other factors as well. The depression only worsened our communication, and at times I would ignore her for days. It hurt her a lot, and it hurt me as well. I needed to support her during this frightening period of her life, but I only crawled further into my shell of depression, Isolating myself from her. Looking back it hurts a lot. I'm a very self-critical person, and I have felt so much pain and self-hatred over what happened next. It was nearing the end of the Spring semester, and I was failing all my classes because I hadn't been in to any of them in months. I had become completely reclusive, and refused to communicate with her nearly at all. She decided that the her life wasn't worth living, and attempted suicide. I was scared, I still cared about her, even if I wasn't sure if I felt like I wanted to be in the relationship anymore, and I felt like the decision she made was my fault. Maybe if I had been a better companion, she wouldn't have felt like she needed to take that route. After that, and some counsel from a friend, I decided to break things off with her, and not too long after, I ended communication with her altogether. My feelings Looking back, I haven't had the most positive view of our relationship. I told myself a lot of lies about how I felt, and I tried to ignore and forget what happened. I told myself that I never really liked her, and that what I did in the relationship I only did to keep her from hurting herself. I went on with this lie for a long time, I tell others that I wasn't really in a relationship with her, and that it was just that she was in a relationship with me, but that wasn't true. I had a memory come back to me from this relationship several days ago. It was a memory of how I communicated with her. Because while I was afraid and rather incapable of talking about anything moderately serious with her (or anyone really) in person, I could still write to her. I frequently use writing as a way of expressing my feelings, and the majority of the communication I do have nowadays is text based. And so what I did was I would stay up at night after she brought up something she wished to discuss with me, or there was something I wished to discuss with her, and I would write it out in a very long text and send it to her overnight, and that was how I communicated with her. It stopped a bit after I went to college and as our relationship declined, and maybe that's why I forgot. But what that memory made me realize, is that I did care about her. I made a conscious effort to communicate, I cared, and I was involved in that relationship, maybe not to the extent that she was, but I was still there. And rejecting those feelings wasn't a healthy way of going about things. When I went to college, I should have stopped the relationship, but I didn't. And that was my fault. I still may feel like it was somewhat my fault that she chose the road she did at the end of our relationship, but I can't blame myself for her choices. It isn't my responsibility to make sure she is always happy. I was out of the relationship long before she was, and I was afraid to end it, and that was the biggest mistake I made. -- I wanted to write that story down and think about and express my feelings in words. It's been very therapeutic for me, and I think it's helped me move on from what happened. I hope that in posting this somebody else can benefit from my experiences or revelations. also check out the story of my surgeries here if you haven't already ->http://www.rebornevo.com/forum/index.php?/topic/27965-about-my-surgeries/