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Got the mail slot achievement wooooooooooooooooooooooooo


CELEBRATORY NUDITY IS BEST NUDITY


Freehold DM wrote:
Got the mail slot achievement wooooooooooooooooooooooooo

That was the first one I got. Snipers FTW.


David M Mallon wrote:
Freehold DM wrote:
Got the mail slot achievement wooooooooooooooooooooooooo
That was the first one I got. Snipers FTW.

as I may have stated before, this is the first game I have ever enjoyed being a sniper in. I usually find them beyond frustrating to play as (I always turn down sensitivity on controllers as I was raised in the s/nes generation) and even(god how I hate this word) overpowered due to fanboyism on the part of the programmers. Possibly due to the type of game mass effect is, that isn't the case here.


Weird. I almost always snipe, yet find it hard to do so in ME.


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I upgraded to Windows 10.

Discovery: the '10' stands for the number of minutes between system lockups requiring hard POR.


Freehold DM wrote:
David M Mallon wrote:
Freehold DM wrote:
Got the mail slot achievement wooooooooooooooooooooooooo
That was the first one I got. Snipers FTW.
as I may have stated before, this is the first game I have ever enjoyed being a sniper in. I usually find them beyond frustrating to play as (I always turn down sensitivity on controllers as I was raised in the s/nes generation) and even(god how I hate this word) overpowered due to fanboyism on the part of the programmers. Possibly due to the type of game mass effect is, that isn't the case here.

On the rare occasions when I play FPS games, I always play the sniper, but nothing compares to playing one in Mass Effect. No matter what class I play, I try to build my character so that they can use some kind of scoped weapon (case in point, my rifle specialist biotic adept-- nothing but long-range kills for 3 games straight).


Treppa wrote:
Weird. I almost always snipe, yet find it hard to do so in ME.

It's a little wonky in the first game unless you put a lot of skill points into it, but by ME3, it's magical.


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Freehold DM wrote:
Got the mail slot achievement wooooooooooooooooooooooooo

This girl is a sniper all the way.

Still why can't my Shepard pick up one of those shields for use in missions where cover where I want it would be awesome?


Treppa wrote:
Weird. I almost always snipe, yet find it hard to do so in ME.

interesting. We may be opposites here.


Aranna wrote:
Freehold DM wrote:
Got the mail slot achievement wooooooooooooooooooooooooo

This girl is a sniper all the way.

Still why can't my Shepard pick up one of those shields for use in missions where cover where I want it would be awesome?

I want then shields so badly...they mixed with one of the smgs would looks almost EXACTLY like the armament for a GM in original mobile suit gundam(beam spray gun x1, shield x1, beam saber x1)

Want that shield so bad!

And a helmet that looks like a GM head..obviously.


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I just had a brilliant piece of fridge logic about my Pathfinder campaign setting. It's Eberronish, but the magitech relies chiefly on alchemists instead of low level spellcasters. It's also based around the 1960s instead of the 1920s. The rise of drug culture is a part of the setting, given that it is supposed to emulate the Sixties, and I just realized something that totally backs this up. If alchemists are the main driver of technology, that means people are experimenting with all sorts of concoctions. Well, it stands to reason that some of those might get you really high. Like, magical high. Literally. People are probably snorting some sort of magic dust. Which means the rise of drug culture meshes perfectly with the alchemical basis of technology.

Yes, it's all starting to come together nicely.


I wish there was a class that specialized in the smg. I would have the vanguard(whoever the armor specialists are) use it best.


Rosita the Riveter wrote:

I just had a brilliant piece of fridge logic about my Pathfinder campaign setting. It's Eberronish, but the magitech relies chiefly on alchemists instead of low level spellcasters. It's also based around the 1960s instead of the 1920s. The rise of drug culture is a part of the setting, given that it is supposed to emulate the Sixties, and I just realized something that totally backs this up. If alchemists are the main driver of technology, that means people are experimenting with all sorts of concoctions. Well, it stands to reason that some of those might get you really high. Like, magical high. Literally. People are probably snorting some sort of magic dust. Which means the rise of drug culture meshes perfectly with the alchemical basis of technology.

Yes, it's all starting to come together nicely.

interesting.

In my campaign setting, the gods are living impaired. While they still have a double handful of priests left who await their return (or think they are new/old gods reborn), most associate/conflate the magical abilities of priests with those of adepts, who get their power from the dragons who slew the gods in the first place. Adepts are a grow stronger/ learn new spells only through the absorption of draconic humors, which can take the form of just about any secretion imaginable, but are most potent when shared willingly. As a result, all but the most sober and paranoid dragons have sizeable harems of acolyte-mates, each vying against the other for more time with their godlike spouse as well as fractions of divine power. There are a few who seek dragons out simply to slay them gorge themselves on their flesh and blood, but this is a method as inefficient as it is insane. Still, the market for dragon ichor remains fantastically profitable...


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Freehold DM wrote:
Rosita the Riveter wrote:

I just had a brilliant piece of fridge logic about my Pathfinder campaign setting. It's Eberronish, but the magitech relies chiefly on alchemists instead of low level spellcasters. It's also based around the 1960s instead of the 1920s. The rise of drug culture is a part of the setting, given that it is supposed to emulate the Sixties, and I just realized something that totally backs this up. If alchemists are the main driver of technology, that means people are experimenting with all sorts of concoctions. Well, it stands to reason that some of those might get you really high. Like, magical high. Literally. People are probably snorting some sort of magic dust. Which means the rise of drug culture meshes perfectly with the alchemical basis of technology.

Yes, it's all starting to come together nicely.

interesting.

In my campaign setting, the gods are living impaired. While they still have a double handful of priests left who await their return (or think they are new/old gods reborn), most associate/conflate the magical abilities of priests with those of adepts, who get their power from the dragons who slew the gods in the first place. Adepts are a grow stronger/ learn new spells only through the absorption of draconic humors, which can take the form of just about any secretion imaginable, but are most potent when shared willingly. As a result, all but the most sober and paranoid dragons have sizeable harems of acolyte-mates, each vying against the other for more time with their godlike spouse as well as fractions of divine power. There are a few who seek dragons out simply to slay them gorge themselves on their flesh and blood, but this is a method as inefficient as it is insane. Still, the market for dragon ichor remains fantastically profitable...

That's certainly an interesting take on religion. How are adepts portrayed? Are they typically brainwashed junkies, or are they capable of being heroes? What about divine spellcasters other than adepts?

I went with a mixture of several approaches to religion, myself. It's actually kind of complicated to explain:

Spoiler:
That some gods exist is a proven fact, but there are a large and uncertain number of them. They are known by multiple names across multiple languages, and whether groups of names refer to the same diety or different dieties is often uncertain. It doesn't help that some gods are outright fictional or horribly embellished and some exist largely as is told, and which is which isn't clear. At one point, the world was ruled by an organization of gods called the Celestial Bureaucracy, though only a minority of gods were ever part of this organization. The Celestial Bureaucracy did keep demons, witches, and magical monsters under control, but their rigid, uncompromising, violent, and racially deterministic style of government was not pleasant to live under. Ever since the Celestial Bureaucracy fell to human rebellion 150 years ago, the gods have been unable to get involved in the world, even those that were not part of the Celestial Bureaucracy and sided with humanity during the rebellion. The reason for this is a mystery. During the war, the angels (who were not nice creatures at all) were either thrown out of the Celestial realm and forced to live as mortals or killed. Those angels and their descendants became the aasimar. Tieflings are the descendents of relations between humans and demons, and the demon blood isn't consistent about whether or not it skips generations and how many it skips, so it can pop up quite unexpectedly. Both aasimar and tieflings face much social discrimination, but tieflings get it worse because of the active threat demons still pose. Gods do not provide divine magic to humans, nor do they speak to them. What happens when people die is unknown.


now I want again to research my family history, but without a rudimentary grasp of the Polish language, among other issues, I probably won't get far.


Every time I play me3, I am amazed at the number of fasa properties mentioned liberally throughout the game. I wonder if that is intentional ribbing, if they are fans who got permission, or if the simply pulled a semi-mechwarrior/whedon.


now I want again to try to learn Polish, but I have tried many times in my life and made no progress.


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Rosita the Riveter wrote:
Freehold DM wrote:
Rosita the Riveter wrote:

I just had a brilliant piece of fridge logic about my Pathfinder campaign setting. It's Eberronish, but the magitech relies chiefly on alchemists instead of low level spellcasters. It's also based around the 1960s instead of the 1920s. The rise of drug culture is a part of the setting, given that it is supposed to emulate the Sixties, and I just realized something that totally backs this up. If alchemists are the main driver of technology, that means people are experimenting with all sorts of concoctions. Well, it stands to reason that some of those might get you really high. Like, magical high. Literally. People are probably snorting some sort of magic dust. Which means the rise of drug culture meshes perfectly with the alchemical basis of technology.

Yes, it's all starting to come together nicely.

interesting.

In my campaign setting, the gods are living impaired. While they still have a double handful of priests left who await their return (or think they are new/old gods reborn), most associate/conflate the magical abilities of priests with those of adepts, who get their power from the dragons who slew the gods in the first place. Adepts are a grow stronger/ learn new spells only through the absorption of draconic humors, which can take the form of just about any secretion imaginable, but are most potent when shared willingly. As a result, all but the most sober and paranoid dragons have sizeable harems of acolyte-mates, each vying against the other for more time with their godlike spouse as well as fractions of divine power. There are a few who seek dragons out simply to slay them gorge themselves on their flesh and blood, but this is a method as inefficient as it is insane. Still, the market for dragon ichor remains fantastically profitable...

That's certainly an interesting take on religion. How are adepts portrayed? Are they typically brainwashed junkies, or are they capable of being heroes? What about divine spellcasters other...

as dragons are the main antagonists in the setting any who have positive dealings with dragons are usually enemies. I kicked around the idea of adepts being almost indoctrinated since I love mass effect, but I discarded that idea.

Some adepts are capable of becoming heroes(or perhaps I should say heroes are capable of becoming adepts), but this is quite rare, as those who slay a dragon almost never have enough of the humors left to become an adept themselves- one must literally ingest (a few sources say bathe in) an entire unwilling dragon's lifeblood to gain a single level of adept,; it is said devouring a dragons heart provides greater power. It takes significantly less volume of other humors - roughly the amount a dragon would expend in a moment of passion, which is how many prefer to bestow such a gift- when done willingly. Still, most know dragon humors have magical properties, and so are often used as a base in magical potions.

Other divine spellcasters draw power from the Covenant- a barely sentient/living promise left behind by the gods to empower their priests while they recover their corporeal forms after being slain by their most powerful and treacherous servants.


Interesting. I like the idea of the Covenant. Haven't heard of getting magic from a promise before.

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My carrot is very purple.


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Aniuś the Talewise wrote:
now I want again to try to learn Polish, but I have tried many times in my life and made no progress.

I tried to learn German. Didn't work.


Rosita the Riveter wrote:
Aniuś the Talewise wrote:
now I want again to try to learn Polish, but I have tried many times in my life and made no progress.
I tried to learn German. Didn't work.

I wonder if, due to my studies of Old English and historical germanic linguistics, I would have better luck with German.


Aniuś the Talewise wrote:
Rosita the Riveter wrote:
Aniuś the Talewise wrote:
now I want again to try to learn Polish, but I have tried many times in my life and made no progress.
I tried to learn German. Didn't work.
I wonder if, due to my studies of Old English and historical germanic linguistics, I would have better luck with German.

The German language is inefficient enough to make English seem functional. Seriously. Eight plural forms and no clear rule about which one you're supposed to use when, because every rule has too many exceptions to follow. And Germans from different regions can't even understand each other. If you are a foreign speaker, you're hosed.


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Zoroastrianism is pretty cool. I'm reading a book about it.


I...didn't save miranda. Damn


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Huh. I was talking about my great-great-grandfather murdering Indians, and I realized something. The generations on my mother's side of the family and my father's side of the family are spaced radically differently. On my father's side, one of my great-great-grandfathers fled Ireland during the potato famine, fought in the American Civil War, and worked on the Transcontinental Railroad. On my mom's side, I don't know much about my great-great-grandparents, except that they were middle aged when they came to America during World War 2, which would put them as reaching adulthood in the 10s or 20s. That generation spacing is radically different.


Rosita the Riveter wrote:
Aniuś the Talewise wrote:
Rosita the Riveter wrote:
Aniuś the Talewise wrote:
now I want again to try to learn Polish, but I have tried many times in my life and made no progress.
I tried to learn German. Didn't work.
I wonder if, due to my studies of Old English and historical germanic linguistics, I would have better luck with German.
The German language is inefficient enough to make English seem functional. Seriously. Eight plural forms and no clear rule about which one you're supposed to use when, because every rule has too many exceptions to follow. And Germans from different regions can't even understand each other. If you are a foreign speaker, you're hosed.

*looks this up*

why, german?? why can't you be as nice as Old English?? ? ? ?

i blame the HRE.


Rosita the Riveter wrote:
Huh. I was talking about my great-great-grandfather murdering Indians, and I realized something. The generations on my mother's side of the family and my father's side of the family are spaced radically differently. On my father's side, one of my great-great-grandfathers fled Ireland during the potato famine, fought in the American Civil War, and worked on the Transcontinental Railroad. On my mom's side, I don't know much about my great-great-grandparents, except that they were middle aged when they came to America during World War 2, which would put them as reaching adulthood in the 10s or 20s. That generation spacing is radically different.

the varying ages at which people have children can lead to that sort of phenomenon.

My great-grandmother was a teenager during world war 2, and my lineage from her is affected over multiple generations by young births. I'm the first person in a few generations to break the pattern, because PiV is gross and I'm probably infertile anyway.

EDIT: wait my mom wasn't my grandmother's first child, my uncle was, which affects the generation spacing. and actually my uncle doesn't have any kids and never will, so I guess he broke the pattern first, and a generation before me at that.

It's 2:30 in the morning, don't mind me.


Okay, seems that online Pathfinder I got invited to is on Friday, and we have a different DM (and campaign) than I thought. I'm going to play a Kobold Sorcerer!


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Time for another episode of Orthos's Bizarre Dreams.

I dreamed that Dracula [Castlevania version] was in the house I grew up in in Texas because he wanted to capture (or was it consume?) the ghosts that haunted the place. We arrived just in time to see him grab a couple at the front door, then he led us upstairs into my old bedroom, talked spooky for a bit, then left. The last thing I remember about it was thinking I was gonna have so many nightmares about ghosts that night then realizing they probably wouldn't be nightmares.


Remember, Draculas weak spot is his eyes.


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Rick and morty is some f~##ed up shit.


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the scale of the warhammer 40k universe is mindboggling.

in our world, agriculture became a thing only ten millennia ago.


i accidentlaly scratched one of my beard hairs out of its follicle! I'm so sad


Aniuś the Talewise wrote:
i accidentlaly scratched one of my beard hairs out of its follicle! I'm so sad

don't be.


Freehold DM wrote:
Aniuś the Talewise wrote:
i accidentlaly scratched one of my beard hairs out of its follicle! I'm so sad
don't be.

but the poor thing was tragically killed in an accident!


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Rosita the Riveter wrote:
Aniuś the Talewise wrote:
Rosita the Riveter wrote:
Aniuś the Talewise wrote:
now I want again to try to learn Polish, but I have tried many times in my life and made no progress.
I tried to learn German. Didn't work.
I wonder if, due to my studies of Old English and historical germanic linguistics, I would have better luck with German.
The German language is inefficient enough to make English seem functional. Seriously. Eight plural forms and no clear rule about which one you're supposed to use when, because every rule has too many exceptions to follow. And Germans from different regions can't even understand each other. If you are a foreign speaker, you're hosed.

Ah, German, the much simpler and ordered language than Polish. Rather simple word order, only four grammatical cases, less exceptions, much less ways of inflecting words...


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Aniuś the Talewise wrote:

the scale of the warhammer 40k universe is mindboggling.

in our world, agriculture became a thing only ten millennia ago.

Eh, it's mostly "expand quickly overextending our logistic lines - collapse due to internal or external reasons - recover from collapse - start a new expansion - overextend again - collapse - repeat". At random intervals add "stamp out the cultural and technological developments to keep the masses in the state of ignorance".


Just out of curiosity (and because the name of the thread has the words *53,000+ new messages*), what does fawtl stand for? And what's this thread (at least originally) supposed to be about?


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forums are way too long


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And we have reached Day 100!

My original plan was to go for 741 days to reach my 50th birthday.

Considering how remarkably difficult it's been, and how I still crave gin & tonics at least 2-3 times a week, I think we're looking at more like 1000 days.

If the cravings are still around then, we'll just keep going...


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cmastah wrote:
Just out of curiosity (and because the name of the thread has the words *53,000+ new messages*), what does fawtl stand for? And what's this thread (at least originally) supposed to be about?

Forums are way too long - Original thread.


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NobodysHome wrote:

And we have reached Day 100!

My original plan was to go for 741 days to reach my 50th birthday.

Considering how remarkably difficult it's been, and how I still crave gin & tonics at least 2-3 times a week, I think we're looking at more like 1000 days.

If the cravings are still around then, we'll just keep going...

Good luck. Having said that, my advice is to NEVER touch any more alcohol for the rest of your life. Sorry, but IMHO that phase of your life should be over. The price for drinking alcohol is too high and you deserve to have a good life free from it. Sadly, the craving probably never will be gone.


today on I want to stab my eardrums out: open mouthed chewer RIGHT NEXT TO ME


Aniuś the Talewise wrote:
today on I want to stab my eardrums out: open mouthed chewer RIGHT NEXT TO ME

closes mouth

Sorry.


Freehold DM wrote:
Aniuś the Talewise wrote:
today on I want to stab my eardrums out: open mouthed chewer RIGHT NEXT TO ME

closes mouth

Sorry.

thank you for taking pity on this poor old soul


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Aniuś the Talewise wrote:
Freehold DM wrote:
Aniuś the Talewise wrote:
i accidentlaly scratched one of my beard hairs out of its follicle! I'm so sad
don't be.
but the poor thing was tragically killed in an accident!

i suppose he did leave his family behind.


Sharoth wrote:
cmastah wrote:
Just out of curiosity (and because the name of the thread has the words *53,000+ new messages*), what does fawtl stand for? And what's this thread (at least originally) supposed to be about?
Forums are way too long - Original thread.

wow.

Look at all the hair Sharoth had back then!


Freehold DM wrote:
Sharoth wrote:
cmastah wrote:
Just out of curiosity (and because the name of the thread has the words *53,000+ new messages*), what does fawtl stand for? And what's this thread (at least originally) supposed to be about?
Forums are way too long - Original thread.

wow.

Look at all the hair Sharoth had back then!

~pulls some nose hair~ Eh, whatever. I have more hair now than I did before.

Silver Crusade

cmastah wrote:
And what's this thread (at least originally) supposed to be about

Stuff...That does not relate to politics, sports or flamewar crap

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