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Strange. I always thought European colonist expansion was to raise money and resources for the main military powers, so they could afford to keep fighting each other in Europe. Sometimes European wars spilled over into the colonies, rarely the other way (I think, no hard evidence)

Ah, those crazy Skitt (a race of sentient rat humanoids). Fixing up a ship stuck in a crevasse in the middle of the desert. Never mind that it was an ocean once Not too bright individually, but like PS:T's cranium rats, they get smarter when together. I do love their designs and the little notes with smileys to the far right.

I had a feeling... even before clicking it, that it would be a very large picture Bok Ah well, dream on Gorth, might get a "real" gfx card some day.

Yay for double posting. Beat the last boss in the core game of Guild Wars 2 on my second character this evening. One really pissed off undead dragon closing in. A few of Zhatains dragon minions had been disposed off just before this.

Just waiting to get a word in about the atrocities of Richard Lionheart and maybe the French victories in the 100 years war

Nothing that sophisticated Just a meta-event boss at the end of the event chains (wacky Asura and their equally wacky experiments running amok). Grabbed a 'Heart of the Destroyer' too from the light pillar in the background. Event completion on Mount Maelstrom was part of the daily reward goals.

Hey, it enables more boats to park! Tactics?... screw tactics!... everyone GET HIM!!! (I later got lucky and found a group to take down the boss for the Vinewrath rewards - 1 Carapace Armour chest piece for me)

The Law of Go FAQ Yourself...

Shiny new thread here!

Start of old thread End of old thread Where we left off... may the best chess piece win! Time for the pawns to overthrow the tyranny of the feudal system! Ohh, or why not Battle Chess, party against party? ... I think we're onto a winning concept here!

I'm such a game controller noob. When not playing Guild Wars 2, then I'm having a go at Nier Automata (I wouldn't attempt Nier without a controller again). The game is fun and interesting enough, but ffs, stop releasing games without real game save features built in dammit, I do sometimes need to take a break when it's convenient for me and not the developer! Grrr... That's why I buy single player games.

A rather surreal detour from Tyria (Guild Wars 2), a crystalline dimension ('Glints Lair') and quite surreal to walk around in. Last boss was horribly badly balanced though with some rather questionably design decisions. That fight alone made me decide to skip this bit in the future on other alts (it's optional, something called Living Story Season 2).

Beware the fowl minions of Zhaitan, lord of the undead! Yeah, I think this chicken is past it's best by date

@melkathi Sniff... that is sheer nostalgia! Still playing mostly Guild Wars 2. My favourite area so far is still the former human kingdom of Orr. Sunk underneath the waves by magic out of control and raised centuries later by equally powerful magic (including the former inhabitants). The area is huge and has a staggering amount of detail (for a MMO) Same place, my necromancer scouring the area for crafting materials... Such a nice and gloomy feel

On topic... still playing Guild Wars 2, still having tonnes of fun just running around exploring and doing open world PVE. Finally got my Necromancer leveled up to 80 and had hero points to spare, so unlocked the 'Scourge' elite specialisation and put the remaining point in it. I can't help myself, too many alts! Anyway, cheated a bit, besides jumping to first part of Path of Fire, also jumped to first part of Heart of Thorns. PoF to unlock a mount, HoT to unlock the gliding skill. Gliding is fun.... until I noticed that shrinking endurance bar, which sent me plummeting to my death once it was exhausted

Dang, I bought that one not long ago!.... fun game btw.

I know this is mostly for a (currently non existing) history thread in way off topic, but there was a bit more to the story about nukes, japan and surrender than most westerners seems to think about normally. In august 1945 the Soviets invaded Manchuria with 1.5 millon troops and annihilated the Japanese army there (700k strong) in two weeks and were poised for invading Japan within a short time. Nobody in Washington fancied a million strong Soviet army taking over former Japanese territories (the latter being entirely my speculation)

Moved to the POE II section as requested by the OP

Australia, Australia never changes.... This article is a few years old, but as of today, it still applies Canberra, the coup capital of the world... https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-34249214

Ironically, I play some not quite new coop games when feel like playing with friends (mostly Portal 2 and Saints Row 3) and when I feel like playing solo games, I play Guild Wars 2 (yes, an MMO, don't ask, I know it doesn't make sense) We had so much fun completing coop Portal 2, I think I need to play the solo campaign too some day, never tried that, and frankly not sure it will be the same.

It's like 'The Little Shop of Horrors' in here... where is my herbicide when I need it???

Heh, aliens stole the fruit snacks... Just guessing now, Trump will blame the press for inventing fake fruit snacks, Fox will blame the Democrats for taxing them out of existence, BBC News will blame Putin for stealing them... could go on for a while

Usually Fox "News" is only good for a laugh, but in this case, the Danish politicians response to the rather uninformed (nicest way I can put it) person making some really weird claims about Denmark is more funny than the original video...

The "Magician" you encounter first time at level 10 (if human of noble descent)? Yes, I recognized the guy. I still remember bursting out laughing

So, finally finished the "main" story in Guild Wars 2. The big bad guy is defeated and you go back to Fort Trinity to celebrate and count your losses. I didn't really pay attention to the music until the vocals started (about a minute in), but I quickly took a liking to it. Youtube search ftw!