<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by vesselle:
try to get thru a battle with a kitty sitting on top of the monitor.

she flicks her tail into my eyes, and always when i am totally engrossed on getting off that killing strike!! (her tail is very fluffy so it acts very effectively as a blinder!)

however, she works from both ends. while the tail is getting me, she has one paw reached down to slap at whatever i am currently fighting!! at times, half her body is draped across the monitor, becuase, i swear, she wants to enact some keyboard commands! ::winks, smiling::

frisky little warrioress! bout as freaky as her owner. ;)

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I have a flat-panel monitor, but I have a shelf over it. One of my cats sits there while I play. She is a Turkish Van and has an *extremely* fluffy tail. Sometimes she gets miffed that I'm pushing it out of the way. Then she attacks attacks my hand! So I'm fighting slimes or roaches (I'm just starting out!) with my mouse hand and losing to my attack-cat with the other!

Other times she'll look over the edge of her shelf and watch, fascinated, what's on the monitor. Doesn't seem to matter if I'm fighting or not. She's absolutely enthralled by the movement on the screen. Once in awhile she'll reach down to swat at the monitor.

And when she's finally bored and wants my *complete* attention, she'll jump down and land on the keyboard. I try to push it out of the way of her landing site when I can, but the desk isn't big enough.

The other two cats are completely uninterested. But that may be because Phoebe has taken over that shelf as HERS.

Welcome to the board. My cat, Merlin, insists on sitting on my lap when I'm playing Wiz 8. He usually sleeps and makes it quite hard to do battles. Occasionally though, he wakes up and watches the screen. He loves it.

My oldest cat, Chani, loves Wizadry 8 too. She likes to sit right in front of the monitor (about 4 inches away - her vision isn't as good as it used to be). It makes it difficult to see what's happening, since she is a rather big cat, and not very transparent. :D When there is a lot of movement on the screen, she will paw at it. I also have to keep cleaning the nose prints off the screen.

One of my other cats (Duncan) isn't interested in anything on the screen - he just wants my attention. If I don't pet enough while he is on my lap, he will try to climb up and drape himself across the back of my neck. It's very hard to do anything on the computer with a 15lb cat draped across the back of your neck. :D

Wow, Kerivan!
Your cats and mine are too alike not to say anything!
Our "Sweety Pie" is severly far-sighted (but barely two years old)
and he gets all up close to the monitor when he is interested in seeing what has his attention but loses it and backs off, poor thing!
He swats at the wasps from a distance LOL.
"Boo" is 14 lbs LOL...his fav place in the world is on my lap...curled up with his head hanging over my elbow. Supporting him with one arm while he naps and playing the game with the other has been difficult at times! He'll start twitching his tail and get mad at me if I move too much...he is definitely more cat than I have lap!
I am SO thankful he has not taken to climbing up on my shoulders! We'd both fall outta the chair!

[ 01-12-2002: Message edited by: Moni ]</p>

Hey Moni, I've got a (smaller) cat exactly the same! He curls up with his head on either arm making things extremely difficult. He does it to get my complete attention. All my kittens are very interested in the movement on the screen and will watch for hours.

Greetings Gentle People;

Cats!

It seems that our cats have figured out that computers are great tools. Before computers, there were newspapers and magazines which they could walk onto and try to attract our attention, but they were usually shoved off. Now with computers, they have a captive audience, and can curl up on our laps, arms and back-of-necks with wild abandon :D

Two of our six cats desire my affection and are fond of curling up in front of the keyboard and between my arms. They know they'll get a lot of petting, interrupted intermittently by me targeting monsters and walking around. Resting their heads on my arms is another favorite, but one that eventually leads to pins and needles (these are hefty cats!)

They haven't paid that much attention to what's on the screen, though (I guess they figure that's the 'silly stuff' that's used to lure the humans). The mamacat did like the plants - their super-smooth animation and wiggling movements really set off her edge receptors. She's too dignified to bat at the screen, so she just watches them, her head swaying gently side to side...

Oh, and one more thing - she also loves to lie on top of my monitor, like many of yours do - but she's a manx and has no tail, so no trouble seeing the screen [img]smile.gif[/img]

Im sorry Sazerac, but the graphics in this game arent superb. They would have been superb 2-3 years ago, but not now. Sir-tech did a great job with an old blocky engine, but its still an old blocky engine.

just because you pump your Honda to 500 horsepower doesnt make it an Audi, or a Mercedes, or a Jag. It only makes it a 500 hp Honda.

The graphics are not superb, they are worse than half-life, a game that came out about 3 years ago. the fact that it can enthral cats isnt a deciding factor in weither or not the graphics are good, cats can be enthral'd by balls of yarn, computer games are just more complex.

This does not mean the game is bad, its one of the best games ive played in a long time, it only means that the graphics arent superb. They arent, by just about any comparison to just about any modern game. Maybe im just pampered by highly detailed games, well done graphics like Ghost Recon, but in the graphics department this one just doesnt hold up.