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7291
« on: August 01, 2015, 04:27:33 PM »
>tfw people think roose bolton is a white walker
This is an actual theory?
Yes.
7292
« on: August 01, 2015, 04:19:29 PM »
>tfw Howland Reed is gonna come out of retirement and fuck everyone
>tfw people think roose bolton is a white walker
7293
« on: August 01, 2015, 04:17:21 PM »
>fast food
>eating it
7294
« on: August 01, 2015, 04:09:45 PM »
Joffrey is dead though
So is Micheal Jackson but people still love him.
he isn't even dead though
7295
« on: August 01, 2015, 04:06:41 PM »
Lannister's are just a bunch of conniving, incestuous, pricks that deserve what they have coming to them... Except for those two whom we love.
Tywin and Jaime?
Cerscunt and Joff.
Joffrey is dead though
rest in rip u were a gentul sole
7296
« on: August 01, 2015, 04:01:39 PM »
Lannister's are just a bunch of conniving, incestuous, pricks that deserve what they have coming to them... Except for those two whom we love.
Tywin and Jaime?
Cerscunt and Joff.
Tytos and Ser "not in the tv show" Cleos?
7297
« on: August 01, 2015, 04:00:06 PM »
Well that and they're rich / most of them are alive.
got_rekd.jpg
7298
« on: August 01, 2015, 03:59:05 PM »
Lannister's are just a bunch of conniving, incestuous, pricks that deserve what they have coming to them... Except for those two whom we love.
Tywin and Jaime?
7299
« on: August 01, 2015, 03:56:55 PM »
B...but muh winter?
Valar morgulis.
7300
« on: August 01, 2015, 03:49:56 PM »
The Starks don't get cool songs like this.
7301
« on: August 01, 2015, 01:20:40 PM »
It's a shame I have the redux edition on XB1. I would have downloaded them both from GwG if not.Best games on there for a long time.
7302
« on: August 01, 2015, 01:16:45 PM »
Hey Verb. I never specifically asked yet which has me curious. What speficially don't you like about Halo. -snippity snip-
It's a shame that you haven't played campaign. The story mode/ lore is the best part about Halo. The expanded universe moreso than the in-game campaigns.But they're a lot more fun than the multiplayer, probably because the fun weapons to use are actually viable in the campaign. But otherwise, you've summed up every reason (Except for the maps stuff) why I have a dislike of Halo multiplayer. It's something I literally only play with friends, and why I stopped playing Halo 4 after the title update. It just turned into battle rifle spamfest after that.
7303
« on: August 01, 2015, 08:51:53 AM »
7304
« on: July 31, 2015, 05:55:22 PM »
the raw power of being Nathan Fillion.
We all know he could have taken Thel's fleet on his own, but he had to restrain himself, lest he accidentally destroy Reach with his rugged good looks and clever one-liners.
Buck was the real reason the Halo Array was created. The Forerunners knew there was no weapon they could create powerful enough to vanquish the galaxy of Nathan Fillion's predecessors destroying the Forerunner fleet with raw charm.
7305
« on: July 31, 2015, 02:10:43 PM »
It's not even attempting to join the party or game. Fuck it.
7306
« on: July 31, 2015, 01:10:25 PM »
I'm just watching a show. I'll be on once it's done.
7307
« on: July 31, 2015, 10:47:51 AM »
The only time it would probably affect me is if they were super religious and kept trying to convert/ hae a go at me. In which case I would avoid them as much as possible.
Other than that, nah.
7308
« on: July 31, 2015, 10:43:36 AM »
The 8th season should be about the food. If what my dad told me is true the books have a decent amount of pages or space just about food.
Reading descriptions of meals always makes me feel hungry. These books are the only ones to do that, everything just sounds so nice.
7309
« on: July 31, 2015, 10:39:00 AM »
The 4pm BF4 one tomorrow I should be able to make, I think I've already got you added so I'll turn up around then and jihadifield 4 it up.
Jihadobots, form up and roll out!
7310
« on: July 31, 2015, 08:10:14 AM »
I wish battlefield wasn't so late at night.
Regardless, GT- BaconShelf
7311
« on: July 31, 2015, 05:09:55 AM »
Wait...
Don't you pretty much live in the Land of Always Winter?
How does a big fire start in that kind of climate.
because trees like to catch fire in a dry summer.
You can have dry summers that far north? I always presumed that where he lives it was pretty much a permanent snow cover. I'd expect big fires to be something like you see in the south US or Australia or something.
7312
« on: July 31, 2015, 04:56:49 AM »
K
7313
« on: July 31, 2015, 04:52:19 AM »
Wait...
Don't you pretty much live in the Land of Always Winter?
How does a big fire start in that kind of climate.
7314
« on: July 31, 2015, 04:48:39 AM »
Well, they're picking up the Greyjoy stuff next season anyway. Jon will probably come back in S7 so we'll have two seasons to see him either claim the throne and/ or fight whitewalkers. (As in, Jon is Azor Ahai)
7315
« on: July 31, 2015, 04:42:17 AM »
I don't think anyone argues that
I just find it funny Tali falls off a cliff and kills herself. What a decent character turned fuck awful through the course of the series.
You don't make the right choices then.
7316
« on: July 31, 2015, 04:39:18 AM »
If you make a tragic story it must evoke pity in some way from the audience or the experience loses impact, and at worst becomes comedy.
I sympathize with Reach because it had the task of conveying heroic tragedy in an interactive experience. Pity and power seem very disparate, but that's what the story had to deliver on in this setting (Halo doesn't have moral ambiguity like a Spec Ops the Line type game does). I think Reach tries to convey the futility in heroism against overwhelming odds, and some moments in Reach really do capture this kind of tragedy ( the Lone Wolf mission and Jorge's death) and they're some of the game's highlights. When these two qualities are treated not as disparate, but different aspects married, there's a sense of dissonance in player actions vs. the setting and it really makes players think about their experience.
I can't say there's this kind of effect in most of the game though. I don't feel connected enough to characters to feel pity, instead their futile heroic acts seem more comedic, especially considering their contrived archetypes which make them more like caricatures than people. Soldiers don't need sob stories, true, they need substance. They need enough emotional range to convey the message of the narrative, and I don't get this feeling from Reach most of the time. Everyone reeks of a flat, idealized (and cliche) stoicism which doesn't convey human depth, but of automatons following orders.
I don't have as much to say on gameplay, but I liked it.
The new things Reach did with space combat and diverging objectives were well implemented and enjoyable. I didnt expect anything from the space combat, but it's one of my favorite sections in the game.
I'm not familiar with level design at all really, so I can't add any meaningful comment on that. Except Nightfall on Legendary Solo was a conveyor-belt of ass kicks. Fuck Skirmishers.
I'd have to play matchmaking again (I didn't play it nearly as much as 3's) to give my perspective on it, but I remember enjoying it overall (not really any of the modes though). I particularly remember liking Living Dead getting its own permanent lobby.
The forge world editor had rotation snap and physics modifications, which alone made it superior to Halo 3's awkward base-building.
I don't think Reach is a bad game, honestly, I do think it has some story flaws, mostly tangential to characterization.
Halo does have the morally grey stuff, it's jut all in the books. And starting to creep it's way into 343's work. Obviously there's the SII and SIII program's for instance. It's pretty obvious Bungie just saw it's crowd as a bunch of kids that can't comprehend a story, so they just got worse and worse over time.
7317
« on: July 31, 2015, 04:35:40 AM »
I'm a great believer in MAD, an it being why we haven't had a major war since WWII.
You can also make the counter that they are the reason why we almost had another major war. Something simple in the monitoring system ended up braking we caused 2,000 fake nukes to be heading towards the US. If we jumped the gun we would have ended life. During the Cuban Missile Crisis which the clock was at three minutes to midnight. There's also that period when Russia set off their first nuke test. Having nuclear weapons are more of a problem than not having them. In today's world the world as calmed down a lot more than what it was during the Cold War and before that. Now it's really just the Middle East starting shit and maybe North Korea which really isn't a threat.
It's a double-edged sword. I mean, I believe that NATO and USSR would have gone to war in the Cold War if the threat of ICBM's wasn't a thing. Nukes are now scaring us into not fighting. Maybe when it gets to the point where we co-operate because everyone is happy, then we will disarm.
7318
« on: July 30, 2015, 02:10:29 PM »
Oh ya. Speaking of bad memories.
How about dat glitched and never fixed, never played Juggernaught gametype?
How about LOLHeadhunter?
Remember invasion on breakpoint?
7319
« on: July 30, 2015, 09:16:58 AM »
You guys dissing FF are dumb. That was the most fun thing in the game.
The way it was implemented in matchmaking was awful. Playing an actual survival gametype was fun as hell like in ODST, but the arcadefight shit was terribad.
7320
« on: July 30, 2015, 07:12:01 AM »
-"Dick about for a few levels before doing a fetch quest" the plot.
-Bloom.
-Armor lock.
-Zero skill required for ranking.
-Horrific colour design.
-FF being tossed aside for matchmaking like a used pair of shitty underwear.
Forge is the game's saving grace really.
I liked the art style for Reach. The forge pallette was certainly in dire need of some colouring, but the rest I rather liked. The UNSC looked military/ indurstrial and so did the Covenant, albeit in that weird alien way that still looked cool. Though it still pisses me off that they played up Firefight Versus/ Generator Defence in the run-up and beta, but the final game pretty much pretended the game mode didn't exist. Hell, the only time firefight was used was a shitty bastardisation of it that just turns into a fuel rod fest. I never understood what the point of that was.
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