Tali'Thread vas Clan Zorah nar BSN 6.0

[Dragaros]

The news I'm hearing is that Soul Calibur 6 is a reboot, not a direct sequel. They might be pulling off a time-travel thing like Mortal Kombat did if this is going to be canon, or it might just be a what-if timeline that doesn't have to follow the established rules and story of the prime continuity so they can include any character they want, in the prime of their life, regardless of whether or not it makes sense. Time will tell. If nothing else, this will allow old fan favorites to come back into the roster. Rumors are that a Dark Souls character will be one of the exclusives/DLC.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKm5u2CwgWI

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJPSdgZ3HkE

[Vol]

That really looks like it would be Bloodborne 2, so it's probably not. Or is it?

[TTTX]

That really looks like it would be Bloodborne 2, so it's probably not. Or is it?

we don't know yet.

[Rune]

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[Mazder]

Hmmm, so humble bundle is giving Vegas pro 14 out in a bundle for $20...
https://www.humblebundle.com/software/v ... ve-freedom

Plus some other shit.

Am I being an idiot or is that a deal too good for anyone with the tiniest inkling of video editing to pass up?
Unless it's only a year's license or something....

[Rune]

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[Mazder]

What the fuck? Thats great. Edit doesn't have the authoring software but its got everything else

What is the authoring software?

EDIT: Also do you see a time period lock?
I'm not but I am not the best eye for stuff like that.

[Someone With Mass]

Considering that I had to throw out almost ten times as much on an older version, I'd take that bundle in a heartbeat. Sounds almost too good to be true.

[Rune]

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[Mazder]

Authoring software is where you burn it to blu ray and make chapters and such. I don't see a time period lock either.
Edit: Unless you mean for the deal, thats got 12 days left.

Ah, right.
Well I am sure that software would be easily acquirable in lieu of the rest of the cost of vegas pro.

So I have 12 days to decide if I wanna get it.
I am very tempted.
Even if I do have a *cough* version of premiere pro *cough cough*

[Rune]

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[Vol]

The OW holiday event is pretty fun, Yeti Hunter. Games are real quick, and if you know how to play Winston at all, you can usually win. Takes a few rounds to get used to the tweaked abilities and map layout, but for a seasonal mini-game, not bad at all.

[Vol]

Seems like the Alliance might be the ones who set off the faction war this time. On the public test realm for the next patch, some new content to deal with the post-Sargeras-stabbed-the-planet world, Horde set up a mining operation in Silithus to collect Azeroth's crystallized blood (powerful), Alliance send in a team to kill and steal.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQ1RPo8tbho

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

[Dragaros]

Finished reading The Talon of Horus and The Black Legion, the first two books of a 40k trilogy. Its basically about rebooting/detailing the story Abaddon the Despoiler, to make him badass again. And you know what? Its works. Ol' Abby is presented here as an intelligent, charismatic, cunning, and perceptive leader. He has his flaws--he's much better at ground assaults than space warfare for example--but he's always presented as a dangerous and competent warlord, and is enough of a long term planner that he's not afraid to sacrifice short-term victories to achieve goals that will help him greatly in the long run. Even if he loses, he still wins something, like David Xanatos from Gargoyles. He's actually empathic to his truly loyal soldiers, but knows when to assert his authority to keep them in line. His rise to power and formation of the Black Legion feel earned, through hard work and grit and blood and will. It doesn't feel forced or disingenuous, and he can back up his words with his combat skills here. And this is all before he gets power boosts from the Chaos Gods and Drach'nyen. Abaddon has changed over time; 10,000 years of the Chaos Gods and Drach'nyen constantly whispering in his mind has cracked him a bit, making it harder for him to reign in his pride and temper, but considering the constant strain he endures every single day, its impressive he's managed to hold onto so much of his own self and not gone completely insane. And of course the ironic truth of it all is that while he considers Chaos as his allies, not his bosses, he's just as much a pawn as Horus was. He'd have far more long-term victories if Chaos would let him off the proverbial leash they have on him, but that would hurt their own plans for the galaxy, so they can't let him achieve too many grand wins. Which gives him a classic Greek mythology "Sisyphus pushing his boulder up a hill only to watch it fall back down again for all eternity" vibe. Making Abby threatening and competent again even with that proverbial yoke around his neck is no small task, especially considering how GamesWorkshop treated him for a long time and the memes and jokes that spawned from it. (I have to give the writer Aaron Dembski-Bowden some kudos. He's good at writing Traitor Marine characters, showing the humanity inside the monsters, but without deminishing their vile natures and the depths of their evil. His Night Lords trilogy is great, and I highly recommend it, even if 40k isn't your normal cup of tea.) Here’s the concern now for Abaddon going forward in the present. With all the Daemon Primarchs taking more active roles in the story now, the Great Rift open, Cadia smashed, and the Thirteenth Black Crusade scattering in a million different directions in the wake of that, I'm not sure how much relevance Abby has anymore. If he keeps to his old M.O., then there's not much more he can do in the present narrative without feeling superfluous and falling into loser territory again. Abby either needs to change his role and reinvent himself in the setting, or go out with a bang. Better he dies on a high note than stagnate again.

"After the Canticle City came the Illumination, when we battled those who would not swear allegiance to the Warmaster and sought to end our rise. During that era we traversed the Empire of the Eye, ending the Legion Wars with our ascendance above the Nine, and one by one the primarchs bowed before Abaddon. Some willingly, some only grudgingly, and one who had to be brought to his knees. But all of them bowed in the end: Lorgar, Perturabo, Fulgrim, Angron, and my father Magnus… even Mortarion, who came closest of all to slaying us through his holy plagues.
And after that came our First Crusade. Imperial record remembers it as the first time the Nine Legions broke free of the Eye and returned to the galaxy in strength against an unprepared Imperium. The Nine Legions remember it for the triumph at Uralan, where the Warmaster claimed his daemon blade, Drach'nyen. We of the Ezekarion have a different recollection - or, at least, one with a profoundly different focus. Perhaps the new regents of the Imperium did not expect our return and so were unprepared to face us, but not all of the Emperor’s servants had forgotten its wayward sons.
I can see him still: that ancient Templar-king sitting upon a throne of hand-carved bronze, his armoured fingers laced around the hilt of his great blade. I remember how, to my secret sight, his immense pride and absolute faith in our grandsire turned his aura into a raging halo of pearl and gold.
‘So you have returned.’ His voice was deep, as old as time itself, yet uncracked by the years it carried. 'I never doubted you would.’ He rose smoothly from his throne, his back straight, the Sword of the High Marshals held loosely in one fist. By that point he was a veteran of more than a thousand years. Age had ravaged him, yet he burned with life.
Abaddon stepped forward then, gesturing silently for us to lower our weapons. He inclined his head in respectful greeting.
'I see time has blackened your armour as it has ours.’
The ancient Templar descended the three steps from his throne, his gaze fixed on the Warmaster’s face.
'I looked for you. As Terra burned in the fires of your father’s heresy, I hunted for you, day and night. Always lesser men blocked my way. Always they died so that you might live.’
He came to a halt no more than two meters from Abaddon.
'I never stopped searching for you, Ezekyle. Not through all these long years.’
Abaddon bowed then, with no hint of mockery. Not in his eyes, nor in his heart. Ezekyle had always cherished valiant foes, and none were more valiant than this knight.
'I am honoured, Sigismund.’
Both of them raised their blades."

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"I am Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End! I am That Which Is, Which Was, and is Yet To Come! And you will know my name is Megatron, when I lay my vengeance upon you!"

[Vol]

As much as thinking of Abaddon as a limbless failure who's a meta-joke is fun and some needed levity, his thematic purpose is a bit too great to not make actual use of. So an elaborate campaign to retcon him into a competent person is, if nothing else, a good choice. And now he's an honorable crazyman no less! Heh.

[Vol]

Protip: If you're going to try to do deadlifts, make sure to eat enough food during the day to fuel it. A bowl of spicy ramen and half a pizza was not nearly fucking enough, and it showed.

Overwatching musings -
1) Orissa is a damn fine pick for being a one person frontline, even on a team with nothing but flankers and snipers. Can't carry every match, but it's better than nothing usually.
2) My aim with Widow seems to get actively worse if I stop to line up the shot. Jerking my aim and firing as soon as possible seems to be more successful, and that bothers me.
3) I have no idea how to bust a heavy defense team, meaning, a bubble tank + Torb + Symm, and then usually a DVa and/or Mercy. Without serious coordination at a high level, it seems a perfect strategy for QP.

[Alienmorph]

A guy ran some semi-indepentend AIs on a Quake III server for a few years, they learned the best way to win the game was to not play it, and stopped killing each other. The moment someone logged in and fragged someone, they all killed him and went bonkers to the point of crashing the server.



For some reasons it both fascinates and creeps the hell out of me.

[Someone With Mass]

I think that's hilarious. It's not nearly as creepy as the Facebook (or was it Google?) AI developing their own language and only communicated with each other to the point where they had to be erased.

As long as these AI don't pass a Turing test, I think we're good.

[Dragaros]

A guy ran some semi-indepentend AIs on a Quake III server for a few years, they learned the best way to win the game was to not play it, and stopped killing each other. The moment someone logged in and fragged someone, they all killed him and went bonkers to the point of crashing the server.

For some reasons it both fascinates and creeps the hell out of me.

We're totally going to accidently create a real-life SHODAN/GLaDOS/Mother Brain/Skynet/Ultron at some point in the future.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEu6RxUqkOE

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuRyOuNy3cE

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

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Another new day on Azeroth, another apocalypse on the horizon.

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[Vol]

Translation:
Horde v Alliance naval battles is helping N'zoth break free, if he hasn't already, and he's going to be the big bad of the expansion.
Sylvanas (Or Alleria, Tyranda?) is going to royally fuck up leading their faction, possibly on purpose.
The new Lich King is, as we've known, going to make moves.
Shadow priests' artifact weapon is the Knaifu, a talking (sexy) dagger from the Black Empire, before the titans arrived, back when the Old Gods reigned over Azeroth. It sounds like this crazy fuck either gets it during the big artifact weapon turn in, had it at some point, or has a different one.

So it reads like the faction conflict will heat up, N'zoth will rise, some female-led faction will get fucked hard, Bolvar will do some crazier shit, and tits go up. Awesome. Game really needs new villains badly at this point.

Where'd that book come from anyway?

[Alienmorph]

Speaking some more about AIs... one has been tasked to try write an Harry Potter book

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFYckCslt74

[Alienmorph]

Ohh boy... Tomb Kings are coming!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpWqKme-g_4&feature=share

Kinda wished they kept them for the last game of the trilogy... Nagash would have made for an awesome final boss, but hey they look awesome, so I'm not complaining.

[Vol]

"We wuz actually kangz."

Awesome. Looks like good unit variety, that big motherfucker at the end, mmm.

[Dragaros]

Translation:
Horde v Alliance naval battles is helping N'zoth break free, if he hasn't already, and he's going to be the big bad of the expansion.
Sylvanas (Or Alleria, Tyranda?) is going to royally fuck up leading their faction, possibly on purpose.
The new Lich King is, as we've known, going to make moves.
Shadow priests' artifact weapon is the Knaifu, a talking (sexy) dagger from the Black Empire, before the titans arrived, back when the Old Gods reigned over Azeroth. It sounds like this crazy fuck either gets it during the big artifact weapon turn in, had it at some point, or has a different one.

So it reads like the faction conflict will heat up, N'zoth will rise, some female-led faction will get fucked hard, Bolvar will do some crazier shit, and tits go up. Awesome. Game really needs new villains badly at this point.

Where'd that book come from anyway?

https://www.reddit.com/r/warcraftlore/c ... s_us_some/

Without the looming threat of Sargeras to keep them on their toes, Azshara, N’Zoth, and the Void Lords are free to make their moves. No matter what the people of Azeroth do, they get screwed either way. If they don’t get slaughtered by one Big Bad, they just open the door for another Big Big to jump in.

Ohh boy... Tomb Kings are coming!

Kinda wished they kept them for the last game of the trilogy... Nagash would have made for an awesome final boss, but hey they look awesome, so I'm not complaining.

Yes! Praise the Undying King!

In the fullness of time, all will bow down before the glory of Nagash! He may not be the one they want, but Nagash is the hero the world of Warhammer needs and deserves!

[Someone With Mass]

Speaking some more about AIs... one has been tasked to try write an Harry Potter book

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFYckCslt74

Still better than most fanfics I've seen. While I agree that there's a danger with letting AIs grow smarter, I also think that it's incredibly fascinating that they're taking baby steps towards what we might consider sentience. Even if most of this bot's "story" is purely based on pattern recognition.

[Vol]

https://www.reddit.com/r/warcraftlore/c ... s_us_some/

Without the looming threat of Sargeras to keep them on their toes, Azshara, N’Zoth, and the Void Lords are free to make their moves. No matter what the people of Azeroth do, they get screwed either way. If they don’t get slaughtered by one Big Bad, they just open the door for another Big Big to jump in.

See, I don't want the faction war to end per se. I think the visible formula, which extends to the entire story, is the problem. So I'd like if, say, the Alliance wins big in BfA. Horde loses EK, Silvermoon is under siege, Zandalar holds, but there's an Alliance army in Silithus and coming out of Dustwallow. Couple big Horde NPCs get killed, storyline canonically goes that the Alliance did great. And then next expac, we're the underdogs, lean and angry and bruised, fighting like cornered dogs.

It's the design of 1:1 that makes it boring, not the concept. Though if I had that level of creative control, I'd also implement a "Traitor" system for changing factions via a difficult feat of grinding and skill, as well a neutral third.

[SciFlyBoy]

Does anyone have a traditional/nostalgic holiday video game they play? For me it was Star Fox 64, since that was the biggest game I got for Xmas and we spent the entire week off of school playing nothing but it. So when this time of year comes around I have an urge to pull out the 64 and give ole Star Fox a spin.

[Dragaros]

Does anyone have a traditional/nostalgic holiday video game they play? For me it was Star Fox 64, since that was the biggest game I got for Xmas and we spent the entire week off of school playing nothing but it. So when this time of year comes around I have an urge to pull out the 64 and give ole Star Fox a spin.

I don't have one for Christmas.

My holiday video game tradition is playing Super Ghouls N' Ghosts on Halloween if I'm not doing anything. My father and I played the shit out of that when I was little during my SNES days, trying to reach the end but always falling short at the very last step. I've since beaten the game multiple times, but the game has a special place in my heart and its always a good challenge. My SNES died a long time ago, but I downloaded it to my Wii from the Nintendo eShop.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQTcf2bnRhY

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[Vol]

Does anyone have a traditional/nostalgic holiday video game they play? For me it was Star Fox 64, since that was the biggest game I got for Xmas and we spent the entire week off of school playing nothing but it. So when this time of year comes around I have an urge to pull out the 64 and give ole Star Fox a spin.

Not particularly. Would usually end up spending the day with family or playing whatever new game I just got, heh.

I did get my present from family this year, early since I'm flying south tomorrow to visit my mother and brother. 144hz monitor, yeah booooys. So much smoother, it's night and day. Though my GPU (GTX 970) isn't doing great, have to drop setting levels real low to run games at a good FPS, so now I might have to upgrade that too.

[Vol]

For the price, it seems like the GTX 1070ti or the 1080 is the best bet for performance now and longevity. My 970 lasted over 4 years, and only now is it stumbling when I need 60+ FPS at all times @ 1920x1080 w/ High settings.

Rune, this is your bread and butter, opinions?