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Other Games / Re: Heat Signature: SuperHotline Space Miami
« on: September 22, 2017, 11:06:32 pm »
Another great piece of kit: the self-charging subversive grenade launcher. Hacks turrets, inverts enemy shields. The grenades are set off remotely, so you can set traps. The grenades are also sticky, and can be picked up and passed around by guards. The explosions are also totally silent, so even detonating the grenade in a room full of guards won't alert anyone.

The character that has this grenade launcher (and the previously-mentioned teleport trap) has just completed his personal quest, and I plan to retire him and pass on one of his great items. Which one are people more interested in?

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Other Games / Re: Heat Signature: SuperHotline Space Miami
« on: September 22, 2017, 08:54:12 pm »
I have found possibly the best piece of kit ever: a self-charging, reusable teleport trap.

Do you have a lot of guards to deal with? Do they have shields or other annoying, dangerous things? Plant the trap on their patrol route, set the teleport destination outside the ship. Laugh maniacally as they step onto the trap one by one and are teleported instantly into deep space, doomed and damned. About the only times it isn't useful is on bloodless missions.

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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: FEF: Final Hour IC thread. Intermission 2: Calm Before the Storm.
« on: September 22, 2017, 06:23:30 pm »
: "So that...is when Harold pulled out a book of pick-up lines. No, I have no idea where he got it from. He just flips to the first page and starts reading them off, one after another: 'Did it hurt when you fell from heaven? Is it hot in here or is it just you? Do you believe in love at first sight, or should I walk by again?' Stuff like that. I think he was expecting one of them to be the 'magic words' that would get Palla to fall for him right then and there. He made it through the first half of the book and then started into the dirtier ones near the back. That's when the girls stopped laughing and started getting angry." The memory is so funny, in fact, that Harlan bursts out laughing

: "Harold's getting scared now, but he doesn't give up. Instead he just starts reading them faster. The cheesiest, filthiest pick-up lines I've ever heard, and he's reading them so fast that he can barely breathe!" The thief calms down somewhat, partly in thanks to a brief coughing fit, but the wry grin is still on his face as he continues.

: "Anyway. The girls are pissed, they're starting to shout, and that's when I decided to save my brother's life. I came out of my hiding spot and pretended to be out of breath, saying 'There you are! Get back to the house this instant, Harold! Mother's furious enough as it is! You're overdue for your medicine!' The girls start shouting at me, I guess they were still pissed, and I explained that Harold was...well, crazy. He got weird ideas in his head and didn't know right from wrong, and he slipped away without taking his meds. Luckily Harold went along with it, doing things like flapping his arms to fly or whatever, and I gave my deepest, most heartfelt apologies to Palla as we left. Of course, I had to keep the kid in a headlock until we got to the river, at which point I dunked him. I don't think he ever went near Palla again after that."

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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: FEF: Final Hour IC thread. Intermission 2: Calm Before the Storm.
« on: September 22, 2017, 05:39:03 pm »
: "Oh, he certainly had self-confidence. That was about all he had, unfortunately."

: "Anyway, on the big day he goes to the alleyway where Palla and her friends liked to hang out. I was following along sneaky-like, partly because I wanted to see how he'd do but mostly for his protection. Palla had a boyfriend at the time, see, and Harold wasn't much of a fighter. I'm sure you've noticed that even nowadays he prefers magic to muscle. Well, back then he didn't even have magic to fall back on. If Palla or any of her companions started getting rough, he'd probably need help."

"So my kid brother, this scrawny and awkward thing just going through a growth spurt, he marches straight up to Palla and just...starts flirting with her. He actually started out okay; compliments, quoting a bit of poetry comparing her to a summer's day, that sort of thing. It got Palla and her friends giggling, anyway, though I think she just thought it was funny and wasn't actually smitten. Like I said before, she was hard to please. But since things were going well, I started thinking that maybe he'd get out of it in one piece."

: "That's...when things went wrong. Harold bows so low that he nearly falls over and he says 'My dearest and most fair lady, would you do me the honor of accompanying me to dinner this evening?' This just got Palla and the rest laughing even harder; I think they thought it was still an act. Harold seemed to get nervous, because then he asks 'Or maybe tomorrow? How about Saturday? I'm free any day'."

"At this point, the girls figured out that Harold was serious. The other girls just started laughing more...meanly, I guess, while Palla told him 'No!' I think most guys would have given up at this point, but Harold was kinda stupid. Plenty of book-smarts, but he was terrible at dealing with other people. Especially pretty girls. I say this, because I want you to understand that I am completely, 100% serious when I tell you what he did next."

With his second drink having just arrived, Harlan takes a moment to wet his parched throat. He wasn't used to talking quite this much. He also, shrewdly, wanted to see if Cat could guess where he was headed.

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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: FEF: Final Hour IC thread. Intermission 2: Calm Before the Storm.
« on: September 21, 2017, 06:22:53 pm »
: "Oh sure, lots of stories about Harold. Some of them are even appropriate for conversation." Harlan polished off his glass and lifted it in the air, signalling for another round.

: "Alright. There was this one time, back in Ixion, when Harold started to realize that girls existed. I think he was 14 or 15 at the time. Anyway, he got it into his head to try and flirt with one of the most popular girls in our district. Palla, or Pella, or something. She was a good three years older than him and was used to...well, a certain level of quality in her would-be suitors. With me so far?"

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General Discussion / Re: I like anime, do you like anime?
« on: September 21, 2017, 05:02:35 pm »
Quote from: IronyOwl on September 21, 2017, 02:45:31 pm
I'm not sure I buy that particular explanation, because the mechanism seems suspiciously loose. Not everyone who sees Foxin Hood becomes a furry, and not every furry saw Foxin Hood as a kid. Even if there's a correlation, there seems to be a lot of interference from elsewhere.

It's also the same story as... well, pretty much everything else. Genre preferences, favorite characters, that one thing that horrified you as a kid. Everyone's got stuff they can point to and say "that was the first time I noticed X, so maybe that's what caused it," but it's all different stuff, even from people who've seen the same things.
You say "Foxin Hood" (great nickname, by the way), I say "Great Mouse Detective". I challenge anyone to find another animated film aimed at a young audience that featured a mouse performing a freakin' burlesque striptease.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« on: September 21, 2017, 04:47:43 pm »
Whether it's "bad" or not is a matter of personal opinion. All it really means is that you're partaking in the good-ol American tradition of wishing death on your political opponents.

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General Discussion / Re: [wao] An uncorrectable meme threatens the squids. (Happy thread)
« on: September 21, 2017, 04:42:33 pm »
After the debacle that was yesterday, today went amazingly well. Even got to go home early.

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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: FEF: Final Hour IC thread. Intermission 2: Calm Before the Storm.
« on: September 20, 2017, 09:08:55 pm »
Harlan, unfortunately, had been sipping his drink during that last line. He coughed, sputtered, and very nearly choked as surprised laughter and alcohol conspired to drown him. After a moment his throat cleared up, but the thief kept chuckling.

: "Oh, that's good. Your father sounds like a barrel of laughs."

: "That was a pretty good story. I feel like I should return the favor, somehow. Anything you'd like to know in particular?"

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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Fire Emblem on Forums 3 (FEF3):Re IC thread. Chapter 2: At the Gates of Wisdom.
« on: September 20, 2017, 07:09:53 pm »
G-18, ZAP the Slasher!

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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Fire Emblem on Forums 3 (FEF3) the Remake! OOC thread. DOGPILE
« on: September 20, 2017, 07:06:31 pm »
Now that's an Amberly level.

* Sirus sighs

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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: FEF: Liberation of Izzarra IC Thread
« on: September 20, 2017, 06:55:25 pm »
: "Yeah. What Martyn said."

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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: FEF: Liberation of Izzarra IC Thread
« on: September 20, 2017, 06:34:38 pm »
Sam decided to try the wet-cloth trick Sharne mentioned, seeing as how they were close to a place they could get more water. She certainly wasn't going to be taking any clothes off!

: "Roux, I swear, if you just jinxed us I'll...I'll...I'll come up with something once my brain stops overheating."

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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Fire Emblem on Forums: The Gates of Rundum (OOC thread/Recruitment is closed!
« on: September 20, 2017, 06:19:36 pm »
I couldn't have taken the Recover Staff. I had Tiena, Heal, Antidote, a vulnerary, and the Guiding Ring. That's a full inventory. Only now do I actually have the space to carry it.

Maybe I could have dropped off the vulnerary, but how the hell were we supposed to know that Recover would be needed so soon? We literally just promoted.

Oh well. So, what's the plan? Mass heals are sadly out of the question and there are a LOT of downed units. People are gonna have to fall back to that good old standby: the vuln dance.

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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: FEF: Liberation of Izzarra OoC Thread: Maniacal Laughter
« on: September 20, 2017, 06:07:44 pm »
+1 to Samartyn.

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