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Yea. One of the person in the video apologies for saying fuck EU, including US blaming russia for leaked content. So it's pretty much confirmed that the transcript is legit.
... you do realize Nuland isn't physically on record for apologizing, and the actual source for your statement is from a person who is basically "Political Double-Speak, the Job" claiming it happened (without any context or framing for whatever nuland actually said, if anything), right?

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General Discussion / Re: I like anime, do you like anime?
« on: November 19, 2014, 07:28:29 am »
keyman
Wow, I like.

I only read the first chapter so far but you know what art style it reminds me of? 80's sci-fi comics, UK style.
Might be just 1st chapter though.
I've finished reading through what's been translated so far, at this point. The art style is... actually pretty damn consistent throughout the whole thing. There's just a... few particular elements that haven't been introduced yet, in the first chapter. Mostly the vavoom and the cthulthu. Well, some of the vavoom is, but... well, if you keep reading, you'll see. Be prepared for both breasts and some fairly off the wall stuff. I'm not saying it gets weird weird... but it gets weird. Good weird, mostly, imo, but weird.

Also the salacious bits cut off pretty heavily past a certain (the kaiju, mostly, iirc) point. Never quite goes away, but it downshifts hard compared to the early part.

E: Seriously though, you get things like (Warning: These are all pretty sizeable, especially the first spoiler which has two images in it and shrinking them makes 'em look like arse and the second which is just buggerhuge)
Spoiler: this (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: and this (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: and this, too (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: last one (click to show/hide)
And it's just pretty great. Plus the reporter is just gwarble. It has a fairly sensible romance subplot some freaking how woven into the story! It's ridiculous! But there are also breasts and definitely excessive sexualization of some things, for those that find that off-putting. It's, like. "Beware the tits! They guard the gates to awesome."

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: November 18, 2014, 11:51:36 pm »
It was a fine upstanding bantam... seal?

Oh dag,
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In three of the four recorded incidents the seal let the penguin go. But on one of the more recent occasions, the seal killed and ate the penguin after trying to mate with it.

Welp.

This. This is why we don't turn to nature for moral instruction.

...

... they'll be dead in a minute or twoooo. sweet monkey jegus why brain why

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Other Games / Re: Tome 4: Tales of Maj'Eyal
« on: November 18, 2014, 10:42:13 pm »
not that this class really needs the help to totally dominate everything, but what do you guys think would be the better defensive prodigy for a summoner - draconic will, tricky defenses, or spell feedback?
Almost certainly draconic will. Doubly so if you're shalore -- timeless + DW is one of the ultimate defensive tricks in the game (only topped by adding unstoppable to the mix, which turns into what amounts to 10-15 turns of absolute invincibility, not that summoners have access to it). Feedback would be secondary, but ideally a summoner won't even be getting hit, so... same deal with tricky defenses, really.

Basically, your critters should be tanking for you, you want stuff that stops or prevents you from not getting more critters out. Status effect mitigation, more or less. Or more offense, so everything's just dead instead of attacking you.

--

As for the tier ones, if you don't want to look at the actual map:
Spoiler (click to show/hide)

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General Discussion / Re: I like anime, do you like anime?
« on: November 18, 2014, 10:18:23 pm »
Okay, wow, I am kinda' conflicted as hell on this keyman thing. On one hand, there's tits hanging out during a fair chunk of the chapters so far and there's bits that are honestly kinda' skeezy.

On the other hand, the art direction both during that and especially everywhere else is basically goddamn amazing. This is a series with a tyrannosaurus-man as one of your primary characters. Among other things, he fights gigantic animal-conglomerate more-or-less kaiju with a multi-breasted witch sticking out the top and skull-headed doom-butlers that kicks the shit out of things with a cane. And, just. It's part 60s noir detective, part super-hero comic, part eldritch monstrosity flick, part... a dozen other things. And almost all of it looks kinda' incredible.

It's. I half-way don't know what to think. Other than to keep reading. This is both mildly off-putting and kinda' great.

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... clear plastic wrap and duct tape?

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Other Games / Re: Tome 4: Tales of Maj'Eyal
« on: November 18, 2014, 09:28:11 pm »
... well, if you've cleared out all the tier 1 dungeons (Trollmire, kor'pul, norgos, gloom heart, scint. caves, rhaloren camp, anything racial) your probable options are the Maze or Old Forest. I guess maybe the hidden compound if you've got some cash and want a fairly alright artifact ring, but there's not much beyond that in the wave of XP and loot in that joint. Maaaybe the sandworm lair if you've got a nice source of teleportation (rune, amulet, or psychoport torque) and/or movement infusion.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: November 18, 2014, 09:22:59 pm »
Yeah, they've got fairly functional PS2 and Wii ones. Dunno about the Xboxes. And the PS2 one'll run on a fairly cruddy computer -- not terribly well (Low FPS on a dual core ~2.1 ghz, shitty integrated video card, 4 gigs ram -- also about six year old computer :P), but it'll run. Nothing beyond that, that I'm aware of (well, barring the handheld stuff), but even just gamecube and earlier encompasses most of the consoles games in existence.

Though nah space, emulation is usually considerably harder on a system than the actual console, at least until very far into the emulator's lifetime. You tend to need stronger hardware than the original system. Iirc the normal quote is... what 5x the resource requirements starting off, progressively lowering as the code becomes more effective and optimized? Something like that.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: November 18, 2014, 09:06:43 pm »
... in fact, it's pretty possible to enjoy most of both right on the PC. I look forward to the days in the future where even more becomes accessible. Frumple cares not from whence the spice games flow.

That said, computer's side is waaaaay less expensive on the net, from what I've experienced. Even before the online sales became common and without yarharharing. Three cheers for FOSS and FOSS related products, etc., etc.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: November 18, 2014, 07:58:14 pm »
Oi, oreo cookies are tasty, man.
... only once they go a bit stale. Get a bit chewy and all. Then they're nice. Before that... ehn. There's a reason they tend to be shown eaten with milk to soften 'em.

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General Discussion / Re: I like anime, do you like anime?
« on: November 18, 2014, 07:56:20 pm »
Mm. Well, there's always the possibility it actually would work for ninja, too... chakra is magic, et al. One-eye might have been giving accurate advice. Just... not advice you should follow if you're in a world that doesn't have random physics hax and whatnot. Or maybe even starting out on genuine advice (ninja medicine applied directly to open wound) before fishcake jumped the gun and stabbed 'isself like a twit.

... or the writer didn't know what the zog they were talking about :P

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General Discussion / Re: I like anime, do you like anime?
« on: November 18, 2014, 07:48:04 pm »
... you, uh. Do know that Naruto would have probably been fine even if he hadn't done that, right? Of course that wouldn't even remotely work -- that's not what fixed the problem :P

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General Discussion / Re: I like anime, do you like anime?
« on: November 18, 2014, 07:45:20 pm »
... so this... keyman thing. Seems to be a few years old. Fanservice aside (and yes, if anyone goes looking, it's got fairly rather explicit fanservice.), kung-fu tyrannosaurus-person detective.

I... anyone know what I can expect from this? I intend to keep reading, but. But.

Actually, can folks recommend awesome lizardpeople in general? This one's the most impressive scaled thing I've seen since monster collection. Which... was also pretty fanservicey, actually. Is there some sort of correlation with that?

Non-humans in general would be okay, I guess, but scales seem to have a certain panache. Non-mammal in general, I suppose...

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... stepped into some weird shit, apparently.

Any actual confirmation that youtube video means anything? Proof it was who they say it was, any signs of actual substantial involvement, etc., etc.?

Though, uh. No, Nuland hasn't apparently said anything on the subject*, from what I could find out checking those and a few other sources. Someone else said some diplomatic non-speak (which I'd honestly expect to come out sounding about the same regardless of whether the video was real or not), according to the articles flapping around, but that was about it. Not really sparking my US!shadowpuppetting switch. Maybe a "politician being politician" one (assuming that's actually who was involved in the conversation), but not much more than that.

*Did Pyatt? Standard cursory skimming and whatnot didn't notice any mention on that end. Most I can find on apparent official statement comes from Psaki's words a few days after the video was posted.

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Other Games / Re: Tome 4: Tales of Maj'Eyal
« on: November 18, 2014, 06:31:25 pm »
... not sure if bugged, per se. It does look like it's only purging physical effects, though, and there may or may not be a percentile check involved. The code definitely doesn't look like it's matching the description, for what that's worth, but I don't actually know what the code is saying it's doing... just kinda' guessing at it. E3: Wait, wait, the description actually says it does that. Odd... I don't remember that.


E: Actually, here's the % check:
Code: [Select]
getPurgeChance = function(self, t) return self:combatTalentLimit(t, 100, 5, 25) end, -- Limit < 100% I, uh. Don't actually remember how to parse the lua's number scaling whatsit. I'm guessing the chance is definitely pretty low if you've just got a point in retch, though...

E2: For what it's worth, if you had any interest/hadn't already checked yourself, the code's split between the ghoul file in undead talents and retch inside damage_types.lua. Not terribly hard to find, really...

E4: But yeah, a <100% chance to remove a single physical effect per turn isn't the sexist thing in the world. Nice on insane/madness to strip vitality off, though... possibly, anyway.

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