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... doesn't that, like. Not work? Forget exactly what happened, but the last time I moved an unaffiliated character off into a nation a lot of stuff was just flat locked out, iirc. Think it might even have blocked grouping, but I don't quite recall.

The woman that we commonly refer to as Vector is partially... err... uhh... thingy thing thing. You know, absorbs more UV rays than people that are... different?

Dollar, for singling out people. What about non-people and things beyond that? Also what Grak noted.

(I know there's something about black people and watermelons but I've never understood why :x)

Honestly, from what I've seen it's more "poor southern people" than specifically and entirely black folks, but I couldn't quite tell you the why of it beyond there being hella' watermelons down here.

Quote from: Aklyon on August 08, 2014, 06:53:39 pm

Quote from: Dutchling on August 08, 2014, 06:52:31 pm

Petition to rename Vector to Shawty.

I don't get it.

PM inbound.

... shawty. Shorty. Not entirely sure why that'd need a PM. As for further explanation, direct yourself to sir mixalot:

36-24-36... only if she's 5'3" [...]

Space Empires IV, where does it rate at the grand scale of 4X's?

Couldn't quite say re: the grand scheme of things, but I would say it's a pretty decent sci-fi 4X. Is nice, definitely one of the better ones. Also some fairly expansive mods for it. I'd definitely recommend it if you can nab it for less than, say, five USD. Three bucks is a good price for it.

... I've personally won the game as a fighter with about three different dual wielders -- dual spiked chain twice, dual scimitar once -- a couple standard sword/board builds, at least once heavy armor spec'd (which was, admittedly a nightmare until free action/druid boots were found), and at least one ranged spec'd (high-luck halfling slinger, which wrecks all the things). They're a pain until they get some utility (like FA or levitation/nature's stride), after which that hoard of feats starts paying off -- especially weapon specialization, which can lead to things like sub ten crit ranges.

Do note that neither mage armor, nor so far as I can remember, barkskin, provide any cover. All the natural armor in the world is going to do precisely jack-all when a bonebat or something flaps by. Also, no, not level three. Barkskin is a second level spell, so a druid/mage stacking mage armor and barkskin is going to need at least level four, at which point they (assuming going abjurer) get something like +14 natural armor, no cover, and... lemme' see, around 80 mana sunk. Along with fatigue, a feat, a being locked into abjurer, wasting mana on something that should be almost completely useless to them... congrats, you've netted almost as much armor efficiency as a fighter can, by building your character in a hilariously suboptimal and mostly useless direction :V

Also you still can't hit anything, have effectively little to no HP and can't dodge worth a damn, and have anywhere from a half to a third of your MP making you tough to kill... in melee. Where you shouldn't be. Ever. Barring maybe wildshape, but all the good forms in that have reach anyway so...

E: Make no mistake: Fighters pretty much are the worst class in the game. Their lack of utility renders them notably suboptimal compared to everything else. Even monks. But they're pretty much the best at a few, very specific, things. Dual-wielding, ranged damage output (not general ranged weapon use, mind -- nighthunter mounts and a spell list render rangers superior in that), armor and reach weapon use -- stuff that's very feat intensive and/or benefits from the BAB and weapon specialization. You're just not going to have a mage/druid that can tank as well and hit as hard in melee, at the same time, as a high end fighter (note: They don't freaking need to, because they're casters and they can just blow things up while drowning them in bodies).

I don't remember much of Phase Killer except that it was cool.  I didn't get many chances to play it.  I tried hard to make it happen but it was a tough sell, most of the more complex games were.  Even in the earliest times I played the custom lobbies were almost all dota, I can't imagine how it looks now.  Might be a bit better actually, with dota 2.

There was actually a fair bit of time, before the bots came in, that the games list wasn't majority DotA -- particularly before DotA Allstars and what came after came about. Still had a lot of AoS games, but there was considerably more variety.

It was pretty nice. Then the bots came and shat DotA all over the everything and it was much less nice, ha.

Turkey bacon will still be fine, right?

... right?

_{aww, who am I kidding, the price will up proportionately even if the cost of production slash supply/demand ratio doesn't change, because capitalism}

E: I liked this part, though:

“We’ll take part of the hit, and we’re feeling it,” Meyer said. “There are no winners here.”

"'There are no winners,' says Meyer, while still maintaining vaguely ludicrous markups on cost." I guess being less of a winner is like not being one, right? Sorta'?

Enfos, maaan. Enfos in the new millennium. Also battleships, carrier commander or whatever that was that was like battleships but sci-fi, all the not!DotA AoS maps, that... square thing of awesome with the four sides and the majesty-style faction to choose from and all that neat stuff. The RPG maps, the RP maps, civ and its offshoots, the SC LotR style stuff (Sweet zeus I would near kill for those, aaaahhhh), the list goes on and on and on. So many things, assuming DotA2's engine can handle the more expansive stuff.