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Try coming in shallower? You know, bleed off speed by spending more time in the upper atmosphere slowing down before hitting the lower atmosphere.

The Lord of the Rings! Hobbits, dwarves, elves and men, kings and queens!

Also Tom Bombadil, extra-long introductory scenes, and never being read when I'm about to start needing to read some other book for whatever English class.
For the second two above-mentioned reasons, I've never even finished the Fellowship of the Ring, but it seemed like The Hobbit was better-paced. You certainly didn't have a chance to forget what the hobbits were doing.

Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on May 07, 2014, 07:38:45 pm

Maybe? I'll freely admit that I've never read Atlas Shrugged.

There's a John Galt in Atlas Shrugged? Huh, never read it either. Heard mixed things about it though, mostly humorous jabs.

"Who Is John Galt?" comes from Atlas Shrugged.

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Wow. I'm not sure, but I think that I'd rather follow the "How To Succeed as a Stephanie Meyer" chart.

He's had a very fitting career. I feel like, if someone tallied all the deaths in ER, at least 50% would be teammate related.

Well, let's see. Grate's first death was from an enemy amp specialist, then he got shot by a panicky teammate, the third was a joint venture between himself, the Armory Master, and the laws of metaphysics, followed by a death from giant fan which can be considered a neutral party.
25% of Grate's deaths were due to enemies, 42% were from allies, and 33% were caused by bystanders.

And a large amount in no way deliberate.

For me, 58% were caused deliberately.

If you guys want some good fantasy literature, read those Patrick Rothfuss novels.  They're excellent on many levels.

That name sounds familiar...
*Google*
Oh, he's the guy who wrote/is writing the Kingkiller trilogy. Good books. Still, I've a feeling that Kvothe's post-University time will be unfortunately contracted to a fraction of the final novel, which is a shame since it sounds like a good fraction of his great deeds occurred after he was expelled. Although I guess killing a king would probably get him kicked out.

Any advice on Anton's so-called attack strategy? I've been trying to poke Steve into giving him some examples of how space battles are usually fought around here, but in the end I am forced to keep using Gundam as my space battle reference... which is really suboptimal, if you think about it.

I tend to assume that space battles are like rocket tag in three dimensions and slow motion.

Quote from: Radio Controlled on May 08, 2014, 12:47:04 pm

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Jhoseph is dead. May too. Both gone, for good this time. Renen...he might be alive, somewhere in the wreckage. The doc did good work on him. There's not much left to kill. Maybe if ARM wins this, salvage crews might find a brain case in the debris field. Maybe.

Rest in piece, you magnificent bastards. You died well.

That one hurt.

Ayup.
Good trope to add.

You grab the weasel, run for the edge of the seating area, trip, fall and go flying right off the edge. Both you and the weasel plummet 40 feet to your deaths. Then rocks fall and you die.

Yeah, both of you are dead. Wanna know why? four 1's in a row.

"I think that was more entertaining than any of the scheduled mayhem so far..."

What does everyone think of this? Do you like it enough to put a DD or two towards it?

I like the sound of it. Speaking of DD, I haven't gotten mine for post-respawn yet. Can we fix that?

"Use your teeth, Larry! Use your teeth! Bite that blighter in the eyes!"
Jangle my dragon teeth and start chanting "murder" over and over.

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Where did you get dragon teeth?

I love how the audience participation is almost as dangerous as the game.

Almost? I sure hope I survive longer in the game than I did as an audience member.

Found that. Thanks.

EDIT: I tried to fly one of Farram's "stock" craft, the Dark Hammer II or something. I drifted a bit to the left, and...well...



I think I should find  way to correct that sideslip. Probably by not having the plane explode.

Inside the cockpit.

Just sayin'...

((birthday shopping for Angel, mostly. Also, should ICARUS destroy the moon, no more werewolf issues ?))

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Dude. The Moon's important, and even if it wasn't, we don't want to go the way of Endor. Curing Lizzie of lycanthropy is not worth causing a mass extinction!

((That doesn't change the fact that that sounds pretty important and I asked what's happened a few posts ago.))

Now will you stop leaving out important details when I ask that kind of question?

((nothing happened yet. All info that Will provided was a) they have this bomb called the seraphim bomb somewhere and b) they will teleport it into the vatican through some teleport circle that is - on the biggest flat surface in the vatican and - powered by mana incarnate. That is all we know.))

I thought they were air-dropping it?