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- Tue May 17, 2022 7:52 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Annoying Game Questions You Want Answered
- Replies: 5992
- Views: 953861
Re: Annoying Game Questions You Want Answered
I remember other things from that thread; I thought it was a full on "what if we made an Infernal sourcebook for a hypothetical AS release" which claimed that Nezumi were sometimes thought of as an Infernal type of zombie using some kind of logic that surely would also apply to other lycan...
- Thu May 12, 2022 7:26 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: The Biden Administration (No Lago)
- Replies: 905
- Views: 880607
Re: The Biden Administration (No Lago)
Yeah, given the "in whole or in part" qualification, there's clear intent on Churchill's part to cause the deaths of Indians, and that this intent was driven by their ethnicity, so doesn't even squirm out of the UN definition that was carefully workshopped to avoid finding any of the signa...
- Thu May 12, 2022 6:45 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: The Biden Administration (No Lago)
- Replies: 905
- Views: 880607
Re: The Biden Administration (No Lago)
You need to stretch the definition of genocide a lot to make the Holodomor fit. Here are some things I believe you'd need to consider genocides if you want to call the Holodomor a genocide: The Great Leap Forward. US sanctions against Afghanistan (and really any US sanctions that involve food and m...
- Thu May 12, 2022 6:28 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: The Biden Administration (No Lago)
- Replies: 905
- Views: 880607
Re: The Biden Administration (No Lago)
Edited. Thanks for picking that up before it got used as a gotcha against me. Really I should've been more careful before commenting on something this serious.
- Thu May 12, 2022 5:43 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: The Biden Administration (No Lago)
- Replies: 905
- Views: 880607
Re: The Biden Administration (No Lago)
You'd think this is a lesson the west would have learned when they wrote a bunch of scholarship about how the Holodomor was definitely a genocide, and then when the USSR collapsed and they went through the soviet archive it turned out that actually the Russians just implemented policies they though...
- Thu May 12, 2022 1:55 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: The Biden Administration (No Lago)
- Replies: 905
- Views: 880607
Re: The Biden Administration (No Lago)
You don't need to lie about what Russia is doing or how they're doing in the war to make them look bad. Their military is underperforming, their action are wicked, but they aren't a horde of orcs or some shit. They're doing regular imperialist war stuff in a regular imperialist war. The word "...
- Sat Apr 23, 2022 5:29 pm
- Forum: In The Trenches
- Topic: [Let's Play] Fighting Fantasy 20 - Sword of the Samurai
- Replies: 165
- Views: 9683
Re: [Let's Play] Fighting Fantasy 20 - Sword of the Samurai
Sure, throw out the Golden Company now.
Weren't we meant to say some shit over the Dai-Oni's corpse when the time comes?
Weren't we meant to say some shit over the Dai-Oni's corpse when the time comes?
- Sat Apr 23, 2022 2:13 pm
- Forum: In The Trenches
- Topic: [Let's Play] Fighting Fantasy 20 - Sword of the Samurai
- Replies: 165
- Views: 9683
Re: [Let's Play] Fighting Fantasy 20 - Sword of the Samurai
Throw the Golden Company at the problem, see what the rules say about how many companions they count as.
- Sat Apr 23, 2022 9:30 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: 5E: Summons still suck
- Replies: 70
- Views: 11964
Re: 5E: Summons still suck
Without wishing to endorse any kind of punitive bullshit for summoners, I feel like the constant reiteration of "but you could get hirelings" or especially "but you could befriend a barbarian" is a bad counterargument. Generally, you expect the difficulty of the challenges you're...
- Wed Apr 20, 2022 2:46 am
- Forum: In The Trenches
- Topic: [Let's Play] Fighting Fantasy 20 - Sword of the Samurai
- Replies: 165
- Views: 9683
Re: [Let's Play] Fighting Fantasy 20 - Sword of the Samurai
So we were told outright we'd be lost forever if we entered the wood. I think we go for the Endless Sands of Akhon next.
- Wed Apr 20, 2022 12:46 am
- Forum: In The Trenches
- Topic: [Let's Play] Fighting Fantasy 20 - Sword of the Samurai
- Replies: 165
- Views: 9683
Re: [Let's Play] Fighting Fantasy 20 - Sword of the Samurai
Obviously use an item; attacking would be obviously more harmful than just turning around and walking away.
This is about the only thing I remember other than one of the bad endings from having a physical copy of the book, and I utterly forgot the context.
This is about the only thing I remember other than one of the bad endings from having a physical copy of the book, and I utterly forgot the context.
- Tue Apr 12, 2022 8:16 pm
- Forum: In The Trenches
- Topic: [Let's Play] Fighting Fantasy 20 - Sword of the Samurai
- Replies: 165
- Views: 9683
Re: [Let's Play] Fighting Fantasy 20 - Sword of the Samurai
Goading the attackers into an honourable duel is the most Dudes Rock honourable response to this situation.
- Sat Apr 09, 2022 4:18 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: 5E: Summons still suck
- Replies: 70
- Views: 11964
Re: 5E: Summons still suck
What's the difference between summoning a human with a sword and shield via magick versus giving him like... 100 gold? There are two important distinctions. One, the spell gives a reason why your summon remains loyal unto death and follows your commands even when it loses all its hit points doing s...
- Fri Apr 08, 2022 3:36 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: 5E: Summons still suck
- Replies: 70
- Views: 11964
Re: 5E: Summons still suck
What's the difference between summoning a human with a sword and shield via magick versus giving him like... 100 gold? There are two important distinctions. One, the spell gives a reason why your summon remains loyal unto death and follows your commands even when it loses all its hit points doing s...
- Fri Apr 08, 2022 12:36 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: 5E: Summons still suck
- Replies: 70
- Views: 11964
Re: 5E: Summons still suck
Don't forget one-shot summons like FF style. Big AOE for one turn, with or without debuffs. I'm not sure FF is a good example - the "summons" there are not game mechanically summons in the D&D sense for the most part. Sure the flavour is that an otherworldly being shows up and perform...
- Fri Apr 01, 2022 5:09 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: [Non-US] News That Makes You laugh/cry/neither...
- Replies: 3796
- Views: 936420
Re: [Non-US] News That Makes You laugh/cry/neither...
Honestly I took tussock's comparison of Russia's supposed military goals to their actual results to be more of a "ok thats actually kind of funny" observation rather than in any way indicating that their stated goals (especially the dEnAzIfIcAtIoN bollocks, not that Ukraine isn't in dire n...
- Thu Mar 31, 2022 9:06 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: [Non-US] News That Makes You laugh/cry/neither...
- Replies: 3796
- Views: 936420
Re: [Non-US] News That Makes You laugh/cry/neither...
Russian asset media is legitimately capable of being nuanced. Redfish Media larps very well as an "independent media" source while really just being a Kremlin asset, and the piece that really brought that side of it on the map was a 100% factual piece of whataboutism flagging how the media...
- Sat Mar 26, 2022 6:47 pm
- Forum: About the Gaming Den
- Topic: Welcome Back!
- Replies: 152
- Views: 359981
Re: Welcome Back!
Spoiler tags stopped working as far as I can tell.
- Thu Mar 24, 2022 9:00 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: [Non-US] News That Makes You laugh/cry/neither...
- Replies: 3796
- Views: 936420
Re: [Non-US] News That Makes You laugh/cry/neither...
Russia cannot "win the war" in the sense of utterly overwhelming Ukrainian opposition on a time scale consistent with their initial pre-scheduled "news" releases, if only because their original deadline has already passed. Russia, on the other hand, can almost certainly "win...
- Thu Mar 24, 2022 11:04 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: [Non-US] News That Makes You laugh/cry/neither...
- Replies: 3796
- Views: 936420
Re: [Non-US] News That Makes You laugh/cry/neither...
1: it's new. News is stuff that doesn't normally happen, and this doesn't normally happen. Counter point. Yes it fucking does normally happen. And it isn't normally news when it does. Certainly not like this is. It normally happens further away from Europe, and it normally doesn't happen to white p...
- Tue Mar 08, 2022 10:04 pm
- Forum: In The Trenches
- Topic: [Let's Play] Fighting Fantasy 58: Revenge of the Vampire
- Replies: 773
- Views: 27632
Re: [Let's Play] Fighting Fantasy 58: Revenge of the Vampire
Start lucking damage when she's on 3 HP. Not sure we can do anything about her Attack Strength.
- Sat Mar 05, 2022 12:57 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Annoying Game Questions You Want Answered
- Replies: 5992
- Views: 953861
Re: Annoying Game Questions You Want Answered
Is there any real advantage to having a big list of weapons that are going to get seldom if ever used? If the fighters are most likely going use longswords, do you really need to have an option for someone who wants to have a glaive-guisarme and won't take a glaive or guisarme or guisarme-glaive? I...
- Fri Feb 18, 2022 9:05 pm
- Forum: In The Trenches
- Topic: [Let's Play] ACE Gamebook 04 - Beowulf Beastslayer
- Replies: 226
- Views: 12829
Re: [Let's Play] ACE Gamebook 04 - Beowulf Beastslayer
I feel like the unfailable tests would have been less unfailable if we hadn't been minmaxed to shit from the get-go; but also, it's 2022, we don't need bullshit deaths to pad out the experience. Was there any consequence besides missing out on Hero Points for losing the riddle contest, the flashback...
- Fri Feb 18, 2022 8:57 pm
- Forum: In The Trenches
- Topic: [Let's Play] Fighting Fantasy 10 - House of Hell
- Replies: 276
- Views: 13940
Re: [Let's Play] Fighting Fantasy 10 - House of Hell
The fact that we're being given an out almost certainly means it's the right decision by gamebook logic. Kill the fascist extra for cowardice.
- Thu Feb 17, 2022 8:44 pm
- Forum: In The Trenches
- Topic: [Let's Play] ACE Gamebook 04 - Beowulf Beastslayer
- Replies: 226
- Views: 12829
Re: [Let's Play] ACE Gamebook 04 - Beowulf Beastslayer
Named shivs are better shivs. Not sure why the other sword becomes unusable during the fight but oh well.