Everything posted by Musopticon?
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Chosen one have pip-boy, Michael have iphone
The only one I remember hearing in the past was their version of "Wicked Games" (which blew Chris Isaaks version away). An old CD with Apocalyptica (which I mostly got for their covers of old Metallica classics) is all I have with Finnish bands :blush10: Hmm... Finnish rock music, that *would* be an unusual soundtrack for a game Isaaks supposedly thanked Valo for the great cover. You have to face it that there's been a wealth of horrible covers of "Wicked Game", so I guess I understand the old guy. I have that Apocalyptica cd as well. Man, it's a small world.
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What are you playing now?
The hooded guy will decrease the energy cell cost of fueling your car, IIRC. He's always been there in my games. I remember Merk as well, but I've never taken his missions.
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Chosen one have pip-boy, Michael have iphone
My mother bought a collector's edit of the HIM collected singles album for herself last year. It was pretty decent. but I liked the band more before the whole love metal sellout. I do admit that it's nice everyone and their granny listens to it here. Or used to. As for Sonata Arctica, Kakko has a good voice and did a great duet for Nightwish's Astral Romance(2001 version) That's about it. And that's about it for me and symphonic metal as well. And me and off-topic.
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The Most Unwanted Song
I can't believe Archie actually knew the romanization of the "song". Macross F is still awesome, even though it spawned that.
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Anime recommendations: Part 2
lol wikipedia. In a nutshell, Vincent was created before the weakness struck into other of his kind. And the Amrite cells are highly adaptable.
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The Force Unleashed Vs The KOTOR's
If you seriously let the choice of gender limit you in a game genre as asexual as 3rd person action games...I mean, you can just about imagine the main character being female, seeing as he has just about no characterization. Force Unleashed is not a roleplaying game, you could just as well be playing a robot with force powers who is just called "Vader's apprentice" ffs. Don't let the lack of choice in terms of gender limit you, I'm sure the game would play identically no matter if the character model had boobs or not. Just enjoy the storm trooper mayhem!
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The Music Thread
Rabbit Junk - Crutch Digital hardcore. These guys did one song on Gits: Stand Alone Complex soundtrack, kinda bummed now that I'm listening to their other works. Different, kinda listenable.
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Books
I have to say that I actually liked the Belgarath book somewhat, even though I read it years after the two trilogies. Althalus was actually pretty good, which surprised me. That new series however...I think I made 40 pages into the first book and then woke up an hour later. Fortunately I've never actually bought any Eddings books.
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Pathfinder RPG
I kind of like the art direction, actually. I think it looks fresh. Guys, it's fantasy art, I don't expect H
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What are you playing now?
I was doing that pitbull trick already, heh. Thanks Deraldin. Now to just hope that the AI doesn't change the unit composition it throws through the northern gates into armour. Am screwed were that to happen. Hell, it seems I'm still kind of buffed over this game.
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Books
Yeah, I like Lovecraft's little circle(Howard, Derleth, Lovecraft, etc) for that same thing - they are great for reading on the hurry or just spending that odd hour, but they'll swallow you if you let them. Don't mind the chronologies, or any of my posts for that matter. I'm a nut when it comes to old pulp lit of the period. Just enjoy.
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What are you playing now?
I'm playing on Normal. I have to say that it's not any exact problem I'm having. Instead I just do not seem to have the patience for mauling the Temple. If you do decide to got through the mission for me, then I do thank you. I just don't know what kind of help I would need. The worst problem I seem to face currently is that of defence. The AI is rather nice for an RTS and seems to look for holes in my defence, which means that if I a) make the initial base more central on the map and circle the tib field with it in order to protect my economy, there's soon rocket militia and fanatics sneaking in the back and I have like three directions to defend, but if I b) make the base to the edge of the map, nod armour attacks my harvesters constantly. I'll try the firehawk strategy once I'm home, it sounds like something I should have come up with. Maybe 8 firehawks to start with, and once most of the facilities are down, ergo the tide of black hands is down for the moment, bring in the death metal. I have a central base save where the situation isn't too dire yet(no shadows yet), but there I haven't taken the northern tib field though. Will probably restart. The pen them in -idea is good as well, with some Rigs, as it would move the fighting away from the tib zones and my bases. Edit: I can't believe I'm this stumbled on a C&C game. Well, just about a whole new dev team and all, but still...
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Bioware - Are Their Games Actually That Good?
Does Bioware have the "mantle of Lordship over CRPGs" right now? What is that anyway? Technical innovation is nice, but I have not cared two zits over Bioware's rpgs ever since they started to remake the same story in a new setting. I concede that Mass Effect was a good effort, but there they instead decided to shamelessly rip off Alastair Reynolds, which wasn't a very polite thing to do to be honest. It did make for a very refreshing villain and a nice premise, just not ones that were of Bioware's own design. I give Bioware one thing, if I want fries with my rpg-burger, they provide. I go into an entirely different restaurant for something beyond the ordinaire. Are you a fanboy? Yep. Did you write this on a competing company's board fully aware it would have to contain fanboys? Yep...in fact you did it intentionally to stir us up.
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SWK.com interview with Vince D. Weller
I'm with pixies. Srsly now. I've been following Age of Decadence since it was 2D, back then it was mostly my post-Avernum 2 withdrawals that drew me to the, rather decent-looking, 2D crpg. I had heard that the project was some kind of "bet you I can make a turnbased crpg that compares to the classics"-show off idea initially, but I didn't pay it much mind since my world was a vast plain of no indie crpgs back then. Now that I've actually heard those same rumors again, I give them even less ear. I remember being revolted by the change to 3D, mostly thanks to how ****ing bland it looked from the get-go, but after they got their design in gear, enviroments gained shadows and the writing began to show from amidst forum sneak peeks, I sort of fell in love again. Now it is a matured love. One that has been rejected by Avernum 4 god-awful art direction and given new gusto by the rise of other new indy projects. Please bring it on. Totally Lady Deirdre Skye.
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What are you playing now?
Was that the Temple Prime mission? Yeah, Temple Prime as GDI. I do fine till Nod techs up to mass shadow teams and black hands. Then it becomes an exercise in tedium. I got as far as to the first ion protection field last time, but my forces were too spread(basically a long queue of Mammoths) and I was swarmed by beam cannons and a couple of avatars. I don't feel like doing it all over again, but I want to see the missions in chronological order and am trying to hold up playing further as Nod(in Sarajevo as well). It's too bad because I thought the previous Eastern Europe missions were superb as GDI goes.
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Books
He did a couple. I read the translations and the characters were as inconsistent as heck. Pretty much the only feature of Conan Jordan got right was that he was a mad swordsman. For Hurlie, if you are looking for some chronology in your reading, you'll find that this is a decent one. However, it's a good rule of thumb, if the link was tl.dr, to start with anything where Conan is a young thief, like Tower of the Elephant, proceed to stories about the South and piracy, then read all the tomb-raiding and pioneering and end with his latter days as the king of Aquilonia, in Hour of the Dragon.
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What are you playing now?
Damn Tiberium Wars, I give up. I can't get through that Sarajevo mission no matter what. I just don't have the patience to roll out yet another wave of Mammoths and watch them slowly get shredded to pieces thanks to horrible path-finding and atrociously quick game speed. Ugh, **** it. I'm installing Red Alert 2. Edit: No wait, Hostile Waters it is!
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First Look: Star Wars Animated Show
lol at anakin, total uke material there.
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US Presidential Elections
It's unfortunate that the situation is not that simple anymore. The support that USA is giving to Iraqis is practically a life support system for the area. US troops are pretty much the only ones with any kind of medical capacities in the area, they frequently clear the city districts of mines(read up on Mosul if you don't believe me), they patrol parts of the countryside against robber barons and constantly interfere on the warring factions in the area(not that it's always by choice). Warlords, religious sects and pure human brutality would tear the are to shreds were the US presence just suddenly leave. I know I don't agree on the reasons they initially went to Iraq(or Afghanistan, or anywhere during the last couple of decades), but they are essential for the survival of the region right now. At least until UN can and is allowed to set up a permanent support area for the civilians.
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US Presidential Elections
I wonder what kind of deathcamp spawned Hilde?
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
More than you might think Oh, make no mistake, I know. I know I liked the endings because they weren't about you saving the world(or even Ukraine), instead you just looking for some kind of redemption.
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What are you playing now?
Homeworld is kicking my ass periodically. I can not stress enough how much I am failing with those salvage frigates, while the ions ships I purchased technology for from the Bentusi(who were incredibly cool) seem to wipe the floor with pretty much everything except strikecraft. I constantly try to keep up a team of salvagers, but there's never enough credits for anything and the enemy usually picks them as their first target(hell, I would), so I guess I'll be going against all the hints I've received so far("build salvage frigates to win the game") and just forgo everything for counter-unit tactics. Ion cannons and bomber squadrons away!
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The Music Thread
Eric Brosius - The Rutheford Castle That is some mean ambient.
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The Music Thread
Inon Zur - Imperial Guard Theme