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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: October 18, 2014, 01:02:31 am »
Personal-sized shields in the Star Wars verse are ridiculous energy drains, which is why you don't see them more often. As far as droidekas are concerned, the shield seems to be projected from the top of the ball-shaped "waist", which is probably why they can't be used while rolling, and if my memories of the movies are correct they can't even use the shields while walking around (which to me implies that the shield requires a stable platform to work with). The droids are supposed to roll into place and then deploy as a sort of light turret, not be a standard foot soldier.

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Other Games / Re: How did you last die?
« on: October 18, 2014, 12:36:00 am »
Does me dying of laughter count?

I was playing Medieval II: Total War, and I was attacking a rebel town with a new general. I decide to listen to his pre-battle speech, expecting the usual comments about how killing the rebels would be a blessing because it would get them away from the shrill whores they call wives, stuff like that.

Instead, the general launches into a clearly-not-at-all-prepared speech in which he forgets his lines, rambles about the weather and the food, and at one point realizes that yes, he's going into battle and it might not be a very nice experience. His soldiers clearly don't know what the fuck is going on, since they don't cheer once during the speech.
(spoiler alert: we win anyway)


Okay...actual death (or close enough, anyway). The Pope calls a crusade on Cairo, and I, being a good Catholic English King, decide to send my faction leader and a large army by ship. They draw closer and closer until, two turns away from landing in Egypt, the faction leader dies of supposedly-natural causes. This causes EVERY. SINGLE. UNIT in his army to desert on the next turn (despite still being on ships, and no I have no idea how they got away), which means I lost thousands of florins worth of soldiers and mercenaries, not to mention my faction leader, for absolutely no gain whatsoever. We never even freaking landed in Egypt.
Spoiler (click to show/hide)

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General Discussion / Re: [???] What do they kno? Snoooooooooo (Happy thread)
« on: October 18, 2014, 12:28:10 am »
Quote from: Putnam on October 17, 2014, 11:13:19 pm
Quote from: Sirus on October 17, 2014, 10:28:13 pm
So far, my best character in the new Smash Bros is Zero-Suit Samus. He only problems are a lack of ranged attacks (her stun zapper has piss-poor range) and lack of defense. On the bright side, she's speedy as hell and kicks much ass. Literally.

In addition to her, I've got old favorites Ike and Power-Suit Samus along with Villager and Sonic.

Zero Suit Samus is almost universally considered to be one of the top 3 best characters in the game at this stage. It's stupid early, so obviously something may be discovered down the line (homing ganoncide plz), but she's looking monstrously powerful right now.
Wait...really? ???
Huh. I'm so used to being terrible with so-called "top tier" characters like Falco or Fox that I never imagined that a character I'm actually half-way decent with would be considered powerful :P

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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Fire Emblem On Forums: NoH: OOC thread: Megapost Central
« on: October 18, 2014, 12:23:48 am »
We need to survive what, three more turns? I do wonder how we'll get out of this mess, since I doubt we'll be able to kill every single remaining unit in that amount of time...

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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: FEF: Final Hour IC thread. Prologue: Prison Break
« on: October 17, 2014, 10:55:26 pm »
Harlan raised an eyebrow at the quite possibly rabid girl, then moved to intercept the incoming guards.

2 north.

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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Fire Emblem On Forums: NoH: OOC thread: Megapost Central
« on: October 17, 2014, 10:43:44 pm »
Quote from: Blade Master Model 42 on October 17, 2014, 10:36:32 pm
Ursa has two settings: Horrible failure, and exploding enemies into gore. There is no middle ground.
I laughed out loud :v

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General Discussion / Re: [???] What do they kno? Snoooooooooo (Happy thread)
« on: October 17, 2014, 10:28:13 pm »
So far, my best character in the new Smash Bros is Zero-Suit Samus. He only problems are a lack of ranged attacks (her stun zapper has piss-poor range) and lack of defense. On the bright side, she's speedy as hell and kicks much ass. Literally.

In addition to her, I've got old favorites Ike and Power-Suit Samus along with Villager and Sonic.

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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Fire Emblem on Forums: Shattered Hope OoC (Currently accepting new signups)
« on: October 17, 2014, 10:17:22 pm »
: "Your education is important, Madam Swordstar. There is absolutely no problem with you taking a break."

What she said. If you start this thing back up, I'll be there!

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Other Games / Re: Hatred
« on: October 17, 2014, 10:10:59 pm »
Others have said it as well, but my take on this is that it's pretty much aiming to get sales on being as deliberately "edgy" as possible in order to capitalize on the inevitable backlash. There's "no such thing as bad publicity", so they say, and I'm guessing that most of the sales will be to the morbidly curious rather than anyone who expects it to actually be good.

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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Fire Emblem on Forums: The Nature of Humans: IC thread
« on: October 17, 2014, 10:04:11 pm »
Dazed by the axeman's return strike, Ursa looked woozily about and saw a horde of enemies to the north, threatening a familiar blue-haired form.

: "PRINCESS! Ursa coming to help!"

(6,9), Short-Axe the Druid! New PS comes into play!

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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Explorers of the Angaeron, Chapter One IC Thread: A Long Goodbye
« on: October 17, 2014, 09:57:30 pm »
"I'll agree to that. To Toad Island, then?"

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Other Games / Re: Hatred
« on: October 17, 2014, 12:21:49 pm »
Quote from: Fniff on October 17, 2014, 12:16:01 pm
Quote from: Sirus on October 17, 2014, 12:13:15 pm
Quote from: Fniff on October 17, 2014, 11:57:21 am
I stopped immediately at the gruff narration. "My nayme is not important--" no, not interested. I can already tell that this is leading down a stupid path. Am I right in my assumption that this character is going to have 80% of his dialog be adolescent nihilism?
Going by the rest of the trailer? Probably more than that.
I assume that the remaining 20% is 10% grunting in pain and 10% screaming in anger.
Nah, the other 20% is the helpless civilians screaming.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: October 17, 2014, 12:15:58 pm »
I unlocked Jigglypuff on the first try, but it was close. It took me two tried to unlock Dark Pit.

Why did they feel the need to include Dark Pit? That's a real WTF for me.

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Other Games / Re: Hatred
« on: October 17, 2014, 12:13:15 pm »
Quote from: Fniff on October 17, 2014, 11:57:21 am
I stopped immediately at the gruff narration. "My nayme is not important--" no, not interested. I can already tell that this is leading down a stupid path. Am I right in my assumption that this character is going to have 80% of his dialog be adolescent nihilism?
Going by the rest of the trailer? Probably more than that.

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Other Games / Re: Blaze's SHSL Dieting - Mutual Consumption Giveaway (Voting + Application Period)
« on: October 17, 2014, 12:04:04 pm »
Might as well sign up anyway. I mean, what are the odds of that happening twice?

I think I'll vote for Shadowlord.

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