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The Flood / Re: Be Insulted [No More!]
« on: October 02, 2015, 12:34:45 AM »
My only "insult" to my bfffff Cindo, is when there is a rather testy debate going on and she's proven wrong, she tends to never reply again. ever.
Nigga that's a lie and you know it.

The only people I don't respond to are Salty, Panzie, and Pyro. The first two because they're either too thick-skulled or just baiting to ever get a point across, and the third because "well have you ever BEEEEEEN to this specific area of the world?!" gets annoying as a counterpoint.
haha

Okay, I can understand the last one

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The Flood / Re: Be Insulted [No More!]
« on: October 02, 2015, 12:33:02 AM »
i don't care what the reply is. say "fuck you" if you want

I JUST WANT SOMETHING

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The Flood / Re: Be Insulted [No More!]
« on: October 02, 2015, 12:32:24 AM »
My only "insult" to my bfffff Cindo, is when there is a rather testy debate going on and she's proven wrong, she tends to never reply again. ever.

But this could just be me making my



face and loving when people get proven wrong. am I a sadist?

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The Flood / Re: Be Insulted [No More!]
« on: October 02, 2015, 12:28:38 AM »
No one did me yet

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Gaming / Re: Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain Discussion Thread
« on: October 02, 2015, 12:06:53 AM »
the entire thing seems so one sided too
lol
That was her job, that's why. But she eventually grew to love him.

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Go, Verby. These are my orders.

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my what?
Your opinion on what I should do >:I

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LC, pitch your onions, pls.

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Okay, sorry for the delay everyone. Weather and MGS V grinding to the end occupied me, but I now have the first entry (and our choices) for this campaign.

Here's a song for the post

YouTube


Update 1
So like I said in the OP, our objective was to get our of the middle of everyone (you start around northern Poland). We only have one unit, no settlement, and need to move away from the ever aggressive Huns. So we made our way to THE UNITED KINGDOM where we will plant our seed~ in the heart of those filthy Britons, and show them the way of Christ. If we can secure the entire region (or at least, let's say, the north), we don't have to worry about attacks on all sides.

Speaking of which...



Right out of the gate, the Vandal Kingdom is the ONLY faction I've met that actually see's me favorably. Their strength rating is also 3rd best, so you know what that means. After a turn or two, I secured a non-aggression pact with them. A bit later, they countered my offer for going to war with the Picts (more on that in a sec), with a marriage proposal.

Marrying one of his women is great to increase our closeness, and starting off I'm going to need as much help as I can get. I'll be looking to keep these guys as my allies for a long long time, unless they drag me into some war. They have a trade agreement with the Persians though (I think they're the strongest in the game), so I shouldn't have to worry about that.

So anyway, I invade mid Britannia and take the Picts declare war on me. I need a place to settle and defend against large numbers, so I invade one of the Caledonians unwalled cities and take it easily (however this makes me go to war with them as well). Naturally, both are trying to attack me.



The Picts and Calashits both team up to try and take me out and silence Christ. This must not be allowed to happen. To battle we go!

Battle
The great thing about cities? Choke points. When you're outnumbered, a single few units can pull a 300 and route waves of enemies. The Calashits tried to invade me from the East, and the Picts from the West.



I don't think the Caledonians expected such a slaughter, and by only two of my units. They had around 7. Again, choke points will be KEY for us when defending early on until we can push back.



Another choke point managed to tie the Picts up and me flank them to route them. At this point the units are about to break off and flee.



Which is what they did. After losing so many men, they threw their arms down and ran (A SHAMEFER DISPRAY!) like the stupid barbarians they are.



Or rather, they tried to run. The Caledonians lost a top general, and the Picts (as pictured above) lost their faction LEADER. Big mistake for them, as the balance will easily tip in my favor now.



They gave me a "close" victory (probably because I lost a disposable unit or two) instead of an heroic one, but the numbers don't lie. It was a slaughter for then.



And like I said, they lost their leader.

A few sides notes apart from me directly is that the Vandals decided to join me in war with the Picts, but they're all the way in Africa, sooo... I doubt they'll be of much help.



The Huns are also doing what they do best, and that is declaring war on everyone and burning shit.

Now for our decisions. My FIRST question is this.



This man is trying to sell a relic that apparently drowned a saint of ours 13 times (how do you drown 13 times? Unless this man is some wizard, you only drown once. Idiots), and wants us to take the bribe. Do we do so and take this holy relic? Or do we expose him of him crimes (read what it says lol)?

Lastly



I'll post a map update every entry to see us slowly expanding. Now, do we go up north and secure our northern borders against the weakened Picts who lost their leader? Or do we push south against the Caledonians? The latter will be the harder of the two options, and still leaves me vulnerable to the north however, but this is your guys's decisions! Like I said, we rise together and fall together.


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Serious / Re: Oregon Umpqua Community College Shooting
« on: October 01, 2015, 05:54:55 PM »
White House is already politicizing it. It seems we've hit step 3 of 5 in Luci's "It's so obvious and repetitive you can't help but feel jaded" steps.

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Gaming / Re: AC is getting a trap
« on: October 01, 2015, 05:53:44 PM »
How the fuck does that work? Doesn't the game take place when Medicine was one step above Barbarism and the closest thing to surgery was chopping limbs off?
It was during the Industrial Revolution, not Roman times.
Well I mean, 18/9th century medicine was pretty dire.
It wasn't the best but if was far better than what the post implied :P

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Gaming / Re: AC is getting a trap
« on: October 01, 2015, 05:42:40 PM »
How the fuck does that work? Doesn't the game take place when Medicine was one step above Barbarism and the closest thing to surgery was chopping limbs off?
It was during the Industrial Revolution, not Roman times.

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TEUTONIC ORDER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Gaming / Re: Tetris Multiplayer
« on: October 01, 2015, 04:24:44 PM »
I was listening to this while playing

YouTube

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Gaming / Re: Tetris Multiplayer
« on: October 01, 2015, 04:24:28 PM »
</3

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Gaming / Re: Tetris Multiplayer
« on: October 01, 2015, 04:11:16 PM »
im here

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Gaming / Re: AC is getting a trap
« on: October 01, 2015, 03:56:29 PM »
It's gonna fail miserably just like Bioware's shit. Making a gay/trans character for the sake of being gay/trans is always a disaster.

Fallout is a great example of doing it right because Veronia wasn't defined by being a lesbian, and it's only really a passing moment.

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Serious / Re: Oregon Umpqua Community College Shooting
« on: October 01, 2015, 03:16:49 PM »
Its as if one of these happens bimonthly
It's not "as if", it is. But it'll be the same cycle.

1. People mourn

2. Media obsesses over gunman and glorifies him

3. President and others come out saying we need better gun laws

4. Republicans think "muh amendment" and say government is oppressive and saw laws won't help cuz criminals don't follow laws

5. Nothing happens, not even things people should come together on with things that make sense.

and repeat

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Gaming / Re: Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain Discussion Thread
« on: October 01, 2015, 03:15:23 PM »
Old but still good.

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Gaming / Re: "Deus Ex: Augment Your Pre-Order" Has Been Cancelled.
« on: October 01, 2015, 12:38:38 PM »
Huh.

kudos to them, i guess
More like kudos to us. They tried to fuck over consumers who lashed out and realized if they went through with it, it'd hurt them more.

Every once in a while we'll get companies or publishers that try to test the waters with how far they can go. Microsoft tried it with the Xbox One original plans until they had huge backlash. Same here.

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Gaming / Re: Just got Pillars of Eternity (and for only $10 too)
« on: October 01, 2015, 12:37:03 PM »
god i fucking love pillars. Expect a fantastic classic RPG
Finally a real answer. Do you have any tips?

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Gaming / Re: Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain Discussion Thread
« on: October 01, 2015, 02:45:25 AM »
Also, I did my own little head canon for a better ending/followup to MG 1.

My own head canon is that the loss of his men, along with Quiet, finally pushed Boss over the edge. He lost so many men, just learned his whole life was a lie, then he lost the girl he "loved". He thus made a promise to himself, vowing to be more powerful or something and not make the same mistake of losing anymore of the people he cared about. Then he gets the call from Big Boss to die like The Boss for "the mission".

Venom says fuck this, and doesn't want his men to die for nothing (at this point he'd be more or less obsessed with getting stronger and not losing anyone. Basically like Miller was with revenge). So he gets the nukes as a deterrent for Big Boss if he tries anything, thinking this will make him stronger. He's already not in 100% state of mind, so it'd make sense.

Thus the US government gets an "anonymous tip" (from Big Boss himself) about Outer Heaven containing nukes and planning to do something. This is naturally a lie. Venom doesn't want to attack any nations, or anyone really except maybe Big Boss, but he didn't have his nation yet. The US, with the wrong information given to them, decide it needs to be handled and deal a preemptive strike. Thus they use their best forces of Fox Hound to take him down. Solid Snake goes in.



There. I just did a better story than MGS V actually had.

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Gaming / Re: Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain Discussion Thread
« on: October 01, 2015, 02:41:08 AM »
I think Paz was a nice touch. It was the medic's guilty conscience getting at him for not saving someone in his care. He probably drove himself crazy about it thinking how he could have saved her if he'd just been a little more thorough.

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Gaming / Just got Pillars of Eternity (and for only $10 too)
« on: October 01, 2015, 01:14:40 AM »
G2A is amazing for cheap prices as compared to steam.


Anyway, any tips to anyone who's played? Or things I should expect? I know it's as classic an RPG as you can get, which is why I got it.

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Gaming / Re: Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain Discussion Thread
« on: October 01, 2015, 01:04:09 AM »
I didn't mind the twist now that I saw it for myself. I just wish they handled things better and actually showed him turning evil (when in reality he's like... better than Big Boss himself). His troops dying woulda been great, like that article said. Speaking of which

http://whatculture.com/gaming/metal-gear-solid-v-phantom-pain-15-easter-eggs-references-secrets-you-must-find.php/13

It's crazy what hints are thrown at you.

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Gaming / Re: Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain Discussion Thread
« on: October 01, 2015, 12:41:19 AM »
http://whatculture.com/gaming/metal-gear-solid-v-phantom-pain-10-huge-problems-nobody-wants-to-admit.php/10

*spoilers ahead*

This article summed up my problems with this game.
I think once the initial hype dies down, MGS V will go down as a game that should have been, and fucked over life long fans.

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Gaming / Re: Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain Discussion Thread
« on: September 30, 2015, 11:45:37 PM »
He made a design from the get go to do this because of the backlash of 4.

Was this confirmed, or are we just assuming?
Oh, I thought we were just assuming, sorry it sounded so final. He had so many years to develop. I think it was just a bad choice.

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Gaming / Re: Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain Discussion Thread
« on: September 30, 2015, 11:35:01 PM »
Not saying it was bad they did it in the tapes, just that in cutscenes or something would've been nicer, but I get it was due to time and resources.
I don't think it was any of these, I just think it was a poor design choice to be the antithesis of MGS 4's codec/cutscenes. He implemented it in Ground Zeroes as well, way before the splitting got bad. He made a design from the get go to do this because of the backlash of 4. Only going to the complete opposite end of the spectrum is NEVER an ideal solution.

As for resources, well... It was a huge budget game. I don't think resources were an issue.

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