Tali'Thread vas Clan Zorah nar BSN 6.0

[Dragaros]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgR9XBBEKjI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ecg7aEpD490

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy31gXEMzcg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj3R0KShZ_A

[Dragaros]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZG_PFZh-HQ

Yes, Assasssin's Creed Origins DOES Have Loot Boxes & Microtransactions

A Detailed Breakdown of Assassin's Creed Origins Loot Boxes & Microtransactions

[Dragaros]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFVcD7OaHlw

[Dragaros]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwZ1WVjAjYQ

[Vol]

I promised myself I'd go a whole month without any coffee this year. Going to do it in November. The pain will make me stronger.

Well, I like the High Elves since they got the closest thing towards a balanced army and their diplomacy buffs are very much working into my playstyle of "divide and conquer". The whole "every race has some sort of specialized tactic" has rather played against me enjoying the Warhammer Total War games, since I like to build a well balanced force with archers, sword-wielding infantry, spear-wielding infantry and cavalry.

The other thing I've been missing is having a humongously large army at the end of the campaign. I did two playthroughs of the first game and at the end could affort something like 8 full stacks. Then I just re-read AAR's I wrote for some of my Rome 2 and Attila playthroughs from three to four years ago and there I'm talking about crazy late-game shit where I got 8 stacks of elite troops conquering Italia with the Eastern Roman Empire, while I'm amassing 10 more full stacks on the Sassanid border and am building 2 more full stacks to shore up that upcoming invasion. I barely remember those things, but it sounds epic as hell and I hope Mortal Empires can satisfy that itch in its late-game.

Attila was some hardcore shit compared to TW, but I like the dichotomy. My "never lose a settlement" campaign as WRE/Legendary was...an ordeal, heh. I think I hung on until Attila showed up, and his stacks wouldn't ever assault my settlements, and the amount of actions I had to take every single turn was painful. But I'm looking forward to the next historical title, for the depth it would presumably bring again. I didn't care for the faction politics as it was, but I could see a fun system in there.

The end times in Mortal Empires is going to be nutty as it goes on. Already fairly long at campaign start, but losing all the bitch factions isn't going to help much. But yeah, the sharp ramp-up in army costs is annoying. My L/DE campaign I finished on the Vortex, I had 1 elite stack, then around 3 low-mid tier stacks, and a Black Ark, and that was it. I miss the old captain system.

[Someone With Mass]

Well, I woke up at 07:20 because someone across the street thought it was hilarious to rev up one of those machines you use to flatten and neatly pack the laid out rocks and then pour asphalt on to form a road. All after waking up about three-four times during the night because my nose got so stuffed due to sickness that I could barely breathe and because of a very sore throat.

Something like this is almost making me glad that I didn't follow up on my thoughts of buying a recurve bow, because someone would have ended up with an arrow in them when shit like this happens.

[magnuskn]

The end times in Mortal Empires is going to be nutty as it goes on. Already fairly long at campaign start, but losing all the bitch factions isn't going to help much. But yeah, the sharp ramp-up in army costs is annoying. My L/DE campaign I finished on the Vortex, I had 1 elite stack, then around 3 low-mid tier stacks, and a Black Ark, and that was it. I miss the old captain system.

Yeah, my High Elf campaign with Teklis isn't going as well as I'd hoped, although I'm only yet at turn 86. I need to eradicate the Skaven, who just keep pumping out stacks to go around my forces and conquer the little towns in my hinterlands. Very annoying. I had them on lock-down two times when, out of nowhere, one entire stack of troops of some other big regional power who are located half the map away came in to do another sneak attack on my town furthest up north. So far it seems they are occupied now elsewhere and I got two half-stacks of Lothern Sea Guard guarding the approaches, so Teklis himself will mop up the rest of the Skaven and then it's on to build up my forces to confront the savage orcs who wiped out most of the Lizardmen nations.

[SciFlyBoy]

I promised myself I'd go a whole month without any coffee this year. Going to do it in November. The pain will make me stronger.

Are you going to carve out the days onto a wall?

[SciFlyBoy]

Well, I woke up at 07:20 because someone across the street thought it was hilarious to rev up one of those machines you use to flatten and neatly pack the laid out rocks and then pour asphalt on to form a road. All after waking up about three-four times during the night because my nose got so stuffed due to sickness that I could barely breathe and because of a very sore throat.

Something like this is almost making me glad that I didn't follow up on my thoughts of buying a recurve bow, because someone would have ended up with an arrow in them when shit like this happens.

Are you taking anything to knock you out?

[Someone With Mass]

Are you taking anything to knock you out?

Don't have anything like that, sadly enough. Only have something that's supposed to help someone fall asleep, but it's too weak for me.

[TTTX]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdAAHtmDmh0&list=WL&index=13

well here is Jim sterlings final thoughts on shadow of war.

[Dragaros]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDssrDDifT8

Hellboy, hell yeah!

[TTTX]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sw4PsDJ1UVA&index=13&list=WL

[Dragaros]

A robot that once said it would 'destroy humans' just became the first robot citizen

Saudi Arabia bestows citizenship on a robot named Sophia

SAUDI ARABIA GRANTS CITIZENSHIP TO A ROBOT

[Dragaros]

CANCELED VISCERAL STAR WARS GAME'S GAMEPLAY, STORY DETAILS REVEALED

VISCERAL'S STAR WARS GAME WASN'T CANCELED BECAUSE IT WAS SINGLE PLAYER, SAYS EA EXEC

NINTENDO WAS AS SURPRISED AS YOU WERE ABOUT GAMECUBE CONTROLLER SUPPORT ON SWITCH

ZELDA: BREATH OF THE WILD STORY DLC STILL COMING IN 2017

FREDDY KRUEGER JOINING MULTIPLAYER SLASHER DEAD BY DAYLIGHT

[Dragaros]

[Dragaros]

[Dragaros]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MANlLMVbdaM

[Dragaros]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIYTG_bBEOY

[Vol]

Well, I woke up at 07:20 because someone across the street thought it was hilarious to rev up one of those machines you use to flatten and neatly pack the laid out rocks and then pour asphalt on to form a road. All after waking up about three-four times during the night because my nose got so stuffed due to sickness that I could barely breathe and because of a very sore throat.

Something like this is almost making me glad that I didn't follow up on my thoughts of buying a recurve bow, because someone would have ended up with an arrow in them when shit like this happens.

I woke up at 6 AM because the boss insisted we beat traffic because cars are a blight. When my alarm went off, and I opened my eyes, for an instant, I felt an intense anger towards life.

Also I just got over a mild cold, so best of luck on that one! Nasal spray made breathing bearable at least.

Yeah, my High Elf campaign with Teklis isn't going as well as I'd hoped, although I'm only yet at turn 86. I need to eradicate the Skaven, who just keep pumping out stacks to go around my forces and conquer the little towns in my hinterlands. Very annoying. I had them on lock-down two times when, out of nowhere, one entire stack of troops of some other big regional power who are located half the map away came in to do another sneak attack on my town furthest up north. So far it seems they are occupied now elsewhere and I got two half-stacks of Lothern Sea Guard guarding the approaches, so Teklis himself will mop up the rest of the Skaven and then it's on to build up my forces to confront the savage orcs who wiped out most of the Lizardmen nations.

I played super defensively, tier 2 garrisons in every settlement, and so in the end, even the Vermintide ended in only 4 or so razed settlements. 2 of which had no walls because they were the worst climate, 1 walled had no other garrison, and the last one had a full army garrison, but the cost of taking it broke the Skaven. It was awesome. They were within spitting distance of Naggarond, but never threatened it.

Are you going to carve out the days onto a wall?

The first week will be hell, but I should be fine after that. Probably. Good to prove your force of will now and again, but not in a hippy "cleanse" way.

[Someone With Mass]

NINTENDO WAS AS SURPRISED AS YOU WERE ABOUT GAMECUBE CONTROLLER SUPPORT ON SWITCH

I still have three really dusty GameCube controllers, so I'm okay with this.

[Someone With Mass]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg7IMjyis84

Well, someone should get fired. So glad that I skipped this game. Nothing interesting or good seems to come out of it.

[Someone With Mass]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYpRRVENXDE
Fun fact: The guy who voices Cloud in this is also doing the voice for Midoriya in the English dub of My Hero Academia.

[Mobius_118]

We just had our first snow. Not bad, a couple inches of snow and a layer of slush on the roads.

Reminds me of the Blizzard of 93, where we had at least a foot drop on us Halloween night. Maybe we'll have a repeat.

[magnuskn]

I played super defensively, tier 2 garrisons in every settlement, and so in the end, even the Vermintide ended in only 4 or so razed settlements. 2 of which had no walls because they were the worst climate, 1 walled had no other garrison, and the last one had a full army garrison, but the cost of taking it broke the Skaven. It was awesome. They were within spitting distance of Naggarond, but never threatened it.

Sounds suitably epic. Erm, vermintide? Is there a late-game giant Skaven invasion coming from the south I need to know about? Because so far I've been planning on not putting a garrison building into every small settlement, given that most of them already have a mandated harbor slot...

[Vol]

We just had our first snow. Not bad, a couple inches of snow and a layer of slush on the roads.

Reminds me of the Blizzard of 93, where we had at least a foot drop on us Halloween night. Maybe we'll have a repeat.

We're finally into chilly days over on the coast, first 50 degree highs coming soon. Hoping for a good snow this year, last year was shit. Needed to shovel only twice or so.

Blizzards are awesome, right up until they take down the power.

Sounds suitably epic. Erm, vermintide? Is there a late-game giant Skaven invasion coming from the south I need to know about? Because so far I've been planning on not putting a garrison building into every small settlement, given that most of them already have a mandated harbor slot...

Whoops, thought you'd beaten a campaign. It's the last ritual spawnings. The second round caught me entirely off guard, so all I had in the path was a medium tier army to try and blunt it.

I mean, building walls on everything did hamper my economy, so if you're playing aggressive and want to be able to build units outside of designated provinces, as well as not ruining the fun of the challenge, I wouldn't bother doing it my way.

[magnuskn]

Sorry, I never got to play a full nexus campaign. I started with Tyrion, but then Shadow of War came out and, well, that occupied all my time.

If I did not have so many ports, walls would be also in about every small settlement. So far things are still working out, though, and who knows how the endgame of Mortal Empires will look?

[Dragaros]

"Are you ready for a new generation of gang warfare in the 41st Millennium? If you’re excited about Necromunda, you’ll want to get your hands on November’s White Dwarf, packed with all sorts of in-depth previews of this returning classic, alongside all the great hobby content you know and love.

Starting with interviews with the game designers and ending with a close look at painting and assembling the models from the set, this is your guide to every element of Necromunda. From a look at the game’s origins (which have their root in the new Sector Mechanicus kits), to the new background (which includes a look at many of the other hive cities on Necromunda), to a detailed battle report, there’s everything you could need to know about the game of skirmish battles in the underhive.

There’s more – if you prefer your battles on a larger scale, November’s White Dwarf looks at the latest iteration of the Tyranids, catching up with the Design Studio’s Jes Bickham for a detailed preview of the new codex. From the return of the Screamer-Killer Carnifex to new mechanics and more, if you’re a loyal servant of the Hive Mind, then this should give you plenty to get your teeth (or feeder tendrils!) into."

[TTTX]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyDZSC-sWAc

[Vol]

Sorry, I never got to play a full nexus campaign. I started with Tyrion, but then Shadow of War came out and, well, that occupied all my time.

If I did not have so many ports, walls would be also in about every small settlement. So far things are still working out, though, and who knows how the endgame of Mortal Empires will look?

Yes, well, starting a Last Defenders ME campaign, it may not be feasible to do that. Easy enough to beat enemy stacks, since you're up against rats and undead at first, but even with the cost of a saurus unit down to like 70g a turn, my economy is anemic with 2 full provinces.

[Dragaros]

We just had our first snow. Not bad, a couple inches of snow and a layer of slush on the roads.

Reminds me of the Blizzard of 93, where we had at least a foot drop on us Halloween night. Maybe we'll have a repeat.

Snow on a Halloween. Never seen that before. Never really thought about it, but yeah, that must obviously happen in the colder parts of the country/world. That's an interesting combo. Would make for an engrossing tableau beyond the "classic" All Hallows' Eve aesthetic. I'm gonna google that later.

Going trick-or-treating in a foot of snow would have made for an interesting experience as a kid!

That offers some unique possibilities decorations-wise for those really passionate about the holiday. One could make snowmen with jack-o-lanterns for heads. Maybe try to make it look like the frozen corpses of doomed Arctic explorers were coming out of the snowbanks. Yetis and rabid polar bears for flavor. White Walkers and Wights for the GoT enthusiasts. If one was feeling ambitious, and had some extra money to spend, one could try to do something out of The Thing.

[Dragaros]

[Dragaros]

[Dragaros]

[Dragaros]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRNwHoc7bq0

[Dragaros]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=110q-bglwdM

[Vol]

The argument that immortality would be awful because you'd lose all your loved ones bothers me. If you live a normal lifespan anyway, you're going to lose all the ones older than you, probably, and a handful of the ones you make as you go. And we deal with it in our own ways. So this idea that losing all the people with love in a given, say, century would make billions of years of experience just so awful makes no sense to me.

Or am I heartless here?

[Someone With Mass]

The argument that immortality would be awful because you'd lose all your loved ones bothers me. If you live a normal lifespan anyway, you're going to lose all the ones older than you, probably, and a handful of the ones you make as you go. And we deal with it in our own ways. So this idea that losing all the people with love in a given, say, century would make billions of years of experience just so awful makes no sense to me.

Or am I heartless here?

Honestly, having your perception of time unaltered as you live longer than stars would worry me more than being able to watch the deaths of loved ones. An event that happened millions of years ago can feel like it happened last week. Thousands of years will feel like the blink of an eye because your mind isn't made to store that many experiences and will filter out or merge the ones it sees as unimportant or mundane without you being able to do anything about it.

The death of a loved one is a natural course of life. Letting that drastically affect your life is a bit wasteful and pointless. Yes, it's painful, but getting over it isn't the same as forgetting it.

[TTTX]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5kcaS0Yewo

[Dragaros]

The argument that immortality would be awful because you'd lose all your loved ones bothers me. If you live a normal lifespan anyway, you're going to lose all the ones older than you, probably, and a handful of the ones you make as you go. And we deal with it in our own ways. So this idea that losing all the people with love in a given, say, century would make billions of years of experience just so awful makes no sense to me.

Or am I heartless here?

There are a lot of pros and cons to the philosophical immortality question, and yeah, that’s one of the weakest if not the weakest of the con arguments.

I’d be more concerned about how immortality affected one’s personality/perception/memories/morals. The fear of losing or altering what makes you YOU, and the results not being positive. The possible threat of the slow erasure of your humanity/self over time: the decay of your sense of empathy or compassion, the loss of treasured and important memories, of falling victim to apathy and ennui, developing an increasing feeling of isolation, losing the desire for interaction, the alteration of how you perceive the passage of time, etc. Among other things.

[Dragaros]

[Dragaros]

[Dragaros]

[Dragaros]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMedAeX6cmc

[Vol]

Honestly, having your perception of time unaltered as you live longer than stars would worry me more than being able to watch the deaths of loved ones. An event that happened millions of years ago can feel like it happened last week. Thousands of years will feel like the blink of an eye because your mind isn't made to store that many experiences and will filter out or merge the ones it sees as unimportant or mundane without you being able to do anything about it.

The death of a loved one is a natural course of life. Letting that drastically affect your life is a bit wasteful and pointless. Yes, it's painful, but getting over it isn't the same as forgetting it.

See, I think that the perception of time acceleration would hit a maximum at some point. Sure, a century might "seem" like it wasn't all that long, because after childhood, the new memories worth keeping around became rarer, as you've experienced it all before. That's what a lot of us should be feeling now, as we age up and familiarity becomes routine.

So what I think would happen is that eventually you would top out on this effect. Nothing particularly new or noteworthy happened, so that length of time feels an instant. But it won't feel _faster_ than that either, you've topped out on what your brain can compress into a period of nothing. That or immortality comes with some brain-mods so you _do_ remember shit and time slows to a crawl, perception-wise. Because...

There are a lot of pros and cons to the philosophical immortality question, and yeah, that’s one of the weakest if not the weakest of the con arguments.

I’d be more concerned about how immortality affected one’s personality/perception/memories/morals. The fear of losing or altering what makes you YOU, and the results not being positive. The possible threat of the slow erasure of your humanity/self over time: the decay of your sense of empathy or compassion, the loss of treasured and important memories, of falling victim to apathy and ennui, developing an increasing feeling of isolation, losing the desire for interaction, the alteration of how you perceive the passage of time, etc. Among other things.

...this. I think after a long enough time, an immortal would probably cease to be human as we know it. You can go through the love and loss cycle a hundred, thousand, million times, and still be able to love another, but I would think that after a point, your perspective would be so alien to the rest of humanity that it would be effectively be something else. "I love you, Becky, as I loved Samantha, and Crissy, and Bjork, and Abu, and a thousand others, a thousand lifetimes before you." Whereas now, we have the time constraint, barely a century if you're lucky, with most of it spent physically frail. The view of someone who could remain hale and perfect forever, and how they'd think of themselves, and other humans, and go about the biological necessities they still have, would be incomprehensible.

[Mobius_118]

At that point you should devote time to becoming ethereal energy or something.

[Someone With Mass]

See, I think that the perception of time acceleration would hit a maximum at some point. Sure, a century might "seem" like it wasn't all that long, because after childhood, the new memories worth keeping around became rarer, as you've experienced it all before. That's what a lot of us should be feeling now, as we age up and familiarity becomes routine.

So what I think would happen is that eventually you would top out on this effect. Nothing particularly new or noteworthy happened, so that length of time feels an instant. But it won't feel _faster_ than that either, you've topped out on what your brain can compress into a period of nothing. That or immortality comes with some brain-mods so you _do_ remember shit and time slows to a crawl, perception-wise. Because...

So in short, when you wish for immortality with the Dragon Balls or whatever, make sure to get it with benefits.

I also finished Wolfenstein 2 last night. I thought it was a pretty solid sequel. It had entertaining characters and collectibles. I often stopped to eavesdrop on two Nazis talking about the most everyday stuff and current events. Then I chopped their legs off.

Aside from a checkpoint system that I thought was horrendous (it could do the old Halo thing where it'd trap you in a death loop by saving just before that killing blow lands or send me all the way back to the start of the mission or back enough to piss me off even though I'd think that I had progressed enough to get a little assurance) and it didn't mix things up enough to not make killing Nazis feel like a chore.

At one point, the weapons remains the same because I had basically unlocked every upgrade and encountered every enemy, I'd been looking for commanders to kill in areas I've already visited and it felt like the game stopped progressing entirely story-wise, which is not good, since it is easily the strongest thing around. Killing the commanders becomes routine and when that happens, the wow factor goes away a little.

But if you don't care about the side stuff and just want to experience the story, I'd say it's a fun ride, even though it falls in that classic Bethesda trap that makes me not feel like playing through it again. The gameplay isn't THAT rich and I've already experienced the story. I could go for the part where i choose to save the other guy, but I doubt it'll change the game enough to give me back that drive. Mostly because I weigh the possible new stuff against having to kill all those Nazis again and...no, I don't think it's worth it. Contrary to popular belief, you're not an unstoppable freight train. You can and will get killed rather fast if you simply go toe-to-toe with every enemy you encounter. DOOM rewards the player for being aggressive. This game just drops a few health kits and food here and there in between fights.

Also, I heard ACG on YouTube comment on the meatiness of the sound and feel of the shotguns and I can't agree at all. Killing Floor 2 and the first FEAR have meaty shotguns. This game does not. Maybe it's because the sound racking of another shell into the chamber of a gun that I know can kill most things with one shot over a fair amount of distance is adding to it.

[Mazder]

TBH I can't stand the thought of being immortal as you'd end up becoming the only one of your race. because you technically wouldn't be human any more. Nothing humanity does would touch your perceptions of both time and reality.
Doctor Who hit a great notion of being immortal but with a relatively human mind and the concept of being unable to hold on to ALL of your memories was a scary one to me. Every life you affected or that affected you could be lost to time. You could help or you could be a great destroyer and you would not know. You could have humanity despise you and yo'd wake up after sleeping for a few thousand years and awake to see them act like you're a god.
I, personally, wouldn't want that. I wouldn't want to become this being that could not connect with the race that made him, to abandon his world and all that he knew just so he can say he lived a long time, possibly forever.
I mean what is the point of living forever? Yeah you might see some things but would that even matter? Would humanity doing things even be worth your time?
Would you need to eat, or sleep? Would you need to breathe? Would you feel pain?

Immortality also isn't invulnerability so you could become a living vegetable from a brain aneurysm, or your limbs could be blown off if you're caught in a terror attack, or you cold contract a disease you're now stuck with for all time. Or you could just be hit by a car crossing the road. I mean immortality isn't all it's cracked up to be.

I also finished Wolfenstein 2 last night. I thought it was a pretty solid sequel. It had entertaining characters and collectibles. I often stopped to eavesdrop on two Nazis talking about the most everyday stuff and current events. Then I chopped their legs off.

Aside from a checkpoint system that I thought was horrendous (it could do the old Halo thing where it'd trap you in a death loop by saving just before that killing blow lands or send me all the way back to the start of the mission or back enough to piss me off even though I'd think that I had progressed enough to get a little assurance) and it didn't mix things up enough to not make killing Nazis feel like a chore.

I loved trying, and I say trying, to be a mad axe murderer in this game but on anything other than "baby" difficulty you're just cheated out of it.

Also FUCK THAT SYSTEM!
That shit happened to me while I was on the rocket train in the middle of a corridor and they respawned the guy I had just killed behind me! So I was fucked!

[Someone With Mass]

I loved trying, and I say trying, to be a mad axe murderer in this game but on anything other than "baby" difficulty you're just cheated out of it.

Yeah, throughout the entire game, I was hoping and looking for an upgrade for my axe, since more and more enemies started to wear armor, but alas. The only upgrade I found was to throw it further, which is a bit pointless, since I'll just use a gun instead of having to line up my throws.

Speaking of upgrades, I didn't see the point in making me choose one of the movement upgrades, only to almost immediately give me the option to hunt down the other two.

[TTTX]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbIJZSzrF1k&list=WL&index=12