Tali'Thread vas Clan Zorah nar BSN 6.0

[Vol]

Well, grandma's reacting poorly to the second dose of her vaccine. Sounds like the most common symptoms, malaise, aches, so I'm hoping it's all passed by tomorrow. No inflammation at the site, so it seems like her immune system's just going a bit wonky.

Managed to stay on track with my New Years goals. Low, low standard, harder to fail. But man, seeing how bad my art can be is something special. And the harder ones are still ahead. But it's nice to have some, loose structure to keep me from totally wasting my free time.

[Ragabul]

The Oldest Known Globe to Depict the New World Was Engraved on an Ostrich Egg, Maybe by Leondardo da Vinci (1504)

I'm inclined to be skeptical about this, but it's really cool if true.

[Dragaros]

Well, grandma's reacting poorly to the second dose of her vaccine. Sounds like the most common symptoms, malaise, aches, so I'm hoping it's all passed by tomorrow. No inflammation at the site, so it seems like her immune system's just going a bit wonky.

My father had a bad reaction to the second shot as well, but the symptoms faded really fast and he was perfectly fine not long after. The second shot has a bit of a kick to it.

[Dragaros]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axP6el8Xzu0

"[Rumor] Elden Ring leaked off-screen trailer #1."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyWxr039K2c

"[Rumor] Elden Ring leaked off-screen trailer #2."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLxF4nHmJIg

"[Rumor] Elden Ring leaked off-screen trailer clip #3."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3FRRXGPSHc

[Dragaros]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUT063DejZ0

[Dragaros]

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

[Dragaros]

So, according to a recent Warhammer 40k novel, Penitent by Dan Abnett, this is now confirmed:

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The first and greatest of the Custodes is back. Constantin Valdor is confirmed to be alive and active in the current setting. He goes by the alias 'The King in Yellow" (heh heh). He's got an army of cloned Blanks, his own war fleet, and a few Custodes still under his direct command. What has he been up to since 30k, and what are his current goals/objectives/mission? No idea, because the book ends on a cliffhanger. Begin speculations.

[Vol]

My father had a bad reaction to the second shot as well, but the symptoms faded really fast and he was perfectly fine not long after. The second shot has a bit of a kick to it.

Yeah, she's feeling much better today. Tough old bird after all. Figure even if she had gotten kung flu, she'd have toughed it out. But the late 80s is not a time to be showing off, so we're all relieved.

So, according to a recent Warhammer 40k novel, Penitent by Dan Abnett, this is now confirmed:

► Show Spoiler

The first and greatest of the Custodes is back. Constantin Valdor is confirmed to be alive and active in the current setting. He goes by the alias 'The King in Yellow" (heh heh). He's got an army of cloned Blanks, his own war fleet, and a few Custodes still under his direct command. What has he been up to since 30k, and what are his current goals/objectives/mission? No idea, because the book ends on a cliffhanger. Begin speculations.

Fuck yeah!

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He better kill a daemon primarch to settle the question once and for all. But if he's back, means big shit is going down.

[Dragaros]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B63_ljZ91Mc

https://www.aliensfireteam.com

"Cold Iron Studios’ new Alien game has finally been unveiled! Aliens: Fireteam is a cooperative third-person survivor shooter set in the year 2202, 23 years after the events of the Alien trilogy. Players will assume the role of a a Colonial Marine stationed aboard the USS Endeavor. You’ll play through four campaigns compromising of three missions. You’ll encounter 20 different enemy variations, including 11 different Xenomorphs types from Facehuggers to Praetorians, each designed with their own intelligence to ambush, outsmart and ultimately take down any marines. There’ll be five unique classes – Gunner, Demolisher, Technician, Doc and Recon – each with their own special abilities and character perks. Players will be able to select from over 30 weapons and over 70 mods/attachments."

So this is the Aliens game that's been hinted about these past few years?

[Mobius_118]

So I finally joined the VR craze, got myself an Oculus Rift S yesterday.

I put it on, got some games, and 12 hours later I put it down. Anyone remember those old aerobic workout VHS's from the 80's? I feel like I did 12 hours of those.

[Vol]

Other than Half Life and VR chat, haven't heard much coming out of VR these days. Any big studios working on it?

[Mobius_118]

More than likely, although I just got into the scene.

Blade and Sorcery, and Boneworks is where I'm at right now. I knew it wouldn't be quite as immersive as I want, considering my way of CQB involves a lot of knees and elbows, but it's pretty good.

Still, 12 hours of stabbing and shooting my way through enemies has rarely been this fun. My training actually comes into play a little bit.

[Mazder]

Oooh, knee sensors for VR, a good idea!

Also is Oculus the one tied to Facebook?

[Mobius_118]

Yeah, unfortunately.

I wonder if I get put in FB jail, will I be banned from using my Rift till the sentence is served? Oh I'd better not shit on any more conservatives.

I may save up for the Valve Index and sell the Rift, or just be happy with what I got.

[Mazder]

Well after I upgrade my computer I am saving up for some decent VR.
My only problem is glasses. Don't fit in the headset.

Well, that and the whole "we're strapping our own shitty little headphones on it so it makes using your own harder" bullshit.

[Dragaros]

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

[Dragaros]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OBTM2E3gr0

[Dragaros]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4w092H6K0XM

[Dragaros]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f11hDGN6C1M

[Dragaros]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2E480jlDpE

[SciFlyBoy]

My parents got their 1st vaccine shots this past weekend and after hearing that some people had a reaction after their second I'll just hold my breath when that happens. They're both nurses with well over a century of experience combined, so they should be okay getting through it.

In other news by brother read something somewhere that EA has agreed to keep it's hands off of their subordinate companies game developing. Has anyone else heard this?

https://www.cgmagonline.com/2021/03/02/ ... e-control/

[Someone With Mass]

In other news by brother read something somewhere that EA has agreed to keep it's hands off of their subordinate companies game developing. Has anyone else heard this?

https://www.cgmagonline.com/2021/03/02/ ... e-control/

They've promised similar things in the past, so I believe it when I see it.

[Vol]

Yeah, it's the second that seems to hit some people with the malaise. No idea if the Johnson & Johnson 1-shot does the same,.

I heard that they were, at least with Bioware, largely doing. Gave them enough rope to hang themselves with. But it was clear they were meddling with the MP and monetization models, so backing off that crap is welcome.

[Deano]

I think EA is basically saying with BioWare, you've got one more shot, if it doesn't go well this time you're gone. Whether that shot is just the next Dragon Age or the new Mass Effect as well who knows.

[Dragaros]

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I9emZnl4_k

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeDBCgDSiB4

[Dragaros]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuIV9-gY_5A

[Dragaros]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqZWTMENCG8

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fX0f2kUE0wA

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfpdibS4daU

[Dragaros]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Oh5ARY_MCM

[Vol]

If the unit pathfinding wasn't borderline nonfunctional, the siege attacks/defenses in Medieval 2 would be the best in the franchise. Ranged units can't spam a defending army to death, artillery is absolutely needed, especially on multiple tier castles, towers aren't as long as the map, but way more deadly, and heavy infantry is mandatory to win the chokepoint meatgrinders.

It's nice. Pathfinding is broken 9/10 times you issue an order, but it's impressive that in all the ways they've progressed the series, this one, they've regressed hard. Attila came closest to a good successor, actually. Playing as the WRE, you had to pull off some insane bullshit to win battles with a 500 man garrison against 2600 man barbarian stacks. Chokepoints, rear charges, terrain, it was gratifying to cheese one out, dammit.

Really hoping that's one of the reasons TW3 is so delayed.

[magnuskn]

If the unit pathfinding wasn't borderline nonfunctional, the siege attacks/defenses in Medieval 2 would be the best in the franchise. Ranged units can't spam a defending army to death, artillery is absolutely needed, especially on multiple tier castles, towers aren't as long as the map, but way more deadly, and heavy infantry is mandatory to win the chokepoint meatgrinders.

It's nice. Pathfinding is broken 9/10 times you issue an order, but it's impressive that in all the ways they've progressed the series, this one, they've regressed hard. Attila came closest to a good successor, actually. Playing as the WRE, you had to pull off some insane bullshit to win battles with a 500 man garrison against 2600 man barbarian stacks. Chokepoints, rear charges, terrain, it was gratifying to cheese one out, dammit.

Really hoping that's one of the reasons TW3 is so delayed.

I think it's rather that they worked together with GW to implement Kislev and Cathay as fully playable factions, but I really hope your hope is correct. ^^ Although I think the whole chokepoint thing is hard to do with magic being around. Multiple things need rebalancing in TW:WH3, anyway, like ranged always being better at higher difficulty levels than melee and especially better than cavalry.

I do remember just corner camping in Attila inside the standard settlement maps (where you had a town with an extremely defensible town center) and winning lots of battles that way with the ERE against overwhelming Barbarian hordes.

[Dragaros]

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

[Dragaros]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FX8192MVmd8

[Dragaros]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZco0Da52K0

[Dragaros]

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

[Dragaros]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRFk5YPMRnY

[Dragaros]

Fuck yeah!

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He better kill a daemon primarch to settle the question once and for all. But if he's back, means big shit is going down.

It gets better:

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Apparently, from what I've read online, he has his own fortress in a pocket dimension/alternate reality, and in addition to his other forces and resources, he's also created an army of winged space marines, using the DNA template of the Blood Angels. I'm seriously going to have to track down this book and read it for myself. This shit is crazy, yo.

With all these specialized legions at his command, what could he be building such a military force for? Wage war in the Webway again? Go after the Daemon Primarchs or Abaddon? Is he doing this all on his own, or did the Emperor give him one last command? I've heard some people say one possible reason he disappeared was that he left to go find Russ; could this possibly mean the Space Wolf Primarch is not far behind?

[Dragaros]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALvBDbi4DbQ

[Dragaros]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpH26Fs7O7w

[Dragaros]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmXe6ONNjaM

[Vol]

I think it's rather that they worked together with GW to implement Kislev and Cathay as fully playable factions, but I really hope your hope is correct. ^^ Although I think the whole chokepoint thing is hard to do with magic being around. Multiple things need rebalancing in TW:WH3, anyway, like ranged always being better at higher difficulty levels than melee and especially better than cavalry.

I do remember just corner camping in Attila inside the standard settlement maps (where you had a town with an extremely defensible town center) and winning lots of battles that way with the ERE against overwhelming Barbarian hordes.

That's actually a good point. GW didn't announce the Old World project until last year, if I recall, and given those are the main Order factions, that means the game was reliant on them. Hm. Though I would hope they weren't idle waiting on that. Honestly, if they took the Attila sieges and changed the skins, it'd be acceptable. Maybe add some proper high walls for special places. Though magic does complicate it, the AI barely uses it effectively, except fucking Warp Lightning. Eh.

ERE was easy-mode in comparison, riiiiight up until the Sassanids and their 30 vassals declare war on you. If the White Huns aren't gouging out chunks of them, bad times ahead.

It gets better:

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Apparently, from what I've read online, he has his own fortress in a pocket dimension/alternate reality, and in addition to his other forces and resources, he's also created an army of winged space marines, using the DNA template of the Blood Angels. I'm seriously going to have to track down this book and read it for myself. This shit is crazy, yo.

With all these specialized legions at his command, what could he be building such a military force for? Wage war in the Webway again? Go after the Daemon Primarchs or Abaddon? Is he doing this all on his own, or did the Emperor give him one last command? I've heard some people say one possible reason he disappeared was that he left to go find Russ; could this possibly mean the Space Wolf Primarch is not far behind?

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If I recall, he has a special weapon that's linked by fate with Russ', so that'd be a fun teaser. Though I've heard some people framing it like he's being set up as a bad guy, which would be gay beyond words. I want my boy _back_, with his secret project _flourishing_, and Chaos to catch five across the eyes.