In the middle of Walking Dead Season 2...



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#teamkenny

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Am I the only person on Earth that doesn't like
Kenny? I mean, I feel like people want to cut my head off on YouTube Comments, simply because I don't like Kenny and bitch about him. They want to chase me like the Ganados from Resident Evil 4. lol

Well that's YouTube comments for you. Post any comment and you're bound to be hated on by some idiot 12 year old who thinks he's edgey. (I'm not talking about Edgeworth here.) For that reason I barely even leave comments anymore because what's the point there's just going to be a huge flame war. Back when I was a Brony I was hated on just for having a pony avatar. Even now with my Kill La Kill avatar people call me a "weaboo" even though I'v only watched like 5-6 anime in my life.

I don't see the fix?

Also I wouldn't worry there's plenty of Kenny-haters out there. You'll just need to see for yourself if he absolves himself in this game.

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Recently I'm doing a run-through of Warcraft. Everything. Of course this includes the RTSes, but it also includes the novels, and I have... methods... of playing the vanilla quests of WoW. They changed so much (especially the starter areas) in Cata, and it really grinds my gears that Blizzard basically deleted an entire world-state and made so many quests inaccessible. Yeah, I understand vanilla WoW didn't really have a cohesive storyline, but if you read between the lines a lot there's a lot of intriguing stuff going on there. Build-up to TBC, Wrath, and Cata (the latter especially is actually done really well), and political stuff. Vastly underrated, in my opinion. Gameplay isn't as up to par as more modern MMOs (even current WoW) or as classic as EverQuest, but it has its charms.

Additionally, I'm playing through Myar Aranath, a SureAI total conversion mod for Morrowind. They later made Arktwend as a sequel, also for Morrowind, Nehrim as another for Oblivion, and recently released Enderal for Skyrim. I like to play games in order, so even if I had to deal with some weird English patching issues from the German, it was worth it to me.

On that subject, I do still play Morrowind, when I get the chance. I actually entered the Elder Scrolls series as a serious fan with Skyrim, but one day I picked up Morrowind and never looked back. I know that's not the case for many, but being a tabletop gamer I felt right at home. I'm also really into the lore, so if anyone wants to discuss weird metaphysics, I'm around.

Finally, I'm also playing SpaceChem, by Zachtronics. It's a puzzle game that pretends to be about chemistry but is actually about programming. I have a couple other Zachtronics games, but those require a bit more of a time commitment, and I don't have time at the moment to play games about assembly coding when I have to do actual assembly coding for university. But I'll get to them. One day.

Phoenix Wright 3-2 is one of my favorite Phoenix Wright cases ever! Zvarri!

It definitely was...pretty complex for a second case.

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Only cause it didn't make sense.

C-A

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Puzzle Quest 2. It's a really awsome puzzle game about evil stuff and magic. I'm actually really far in the game. and I'm stuck on the Iron Golem boss. Well if this Iron Golem boss is in front of a door and is really hard. I can't imagine what's on the other side.

Just attended Symphony of the Goddess, the Legend of Zelda concert. So in honour of it I'm going back to play some Link between Worlds

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Civilization VI is on the verge of release. I'm looking forward to playing it. However, I also know Crusader Kings II has a new expansion in the works, so I'm going to give priority to completing my playthrough before any new mechanics can muck things up. Remember the Harunids? The vassal limit mechanic from the Charlemagne expansion pretty much made that playthrough unplayable.

I'm now on my twentieth character in my current playthrough: Calipha Navvaba Fareeddokht. Her mother, Calipha Ghoncheh, died in 1299, just barely failing to make it to the fourteenth century. Coincidentally, she died near the turn of the century in the Hijri calendar, too, almost making it to the year 700 AH. Under Ghoncheh's rule, the Yohannanids expanded only slightly with a bit of territory being seized from the Talibids in Syria. The ultimate shock to Europe came when Ghoncheh invaded Malta and Sicily in a successful war against the Romans; it was the first time the Yohannanid Empire had ever sent forces directly onto European soil. Malta and part of Sicily are now part of the Yohannanid Empire. Navvaba has her sights set on the rest of Sicily.

It's at this point that I'd like to bring up the Threat mechanic, which was introduced in the Conclave expansion. Threat gradually decreases on its own and can be further decreased by granting independence to vassals. Conquering land increases your Threat score. When your score is high enough, neighboring realms will begin forming Defensive Pacts. At first, it's split according to religion; there's a Christian coalition, a Muslim coalition, a Mazdan coalition, a Dharman coalition, and so on. If you attack someone who's in a Defensive Pact against you, everyone else in that Defensive Pact will come to your target's aid. If your Threat score exceeds 50%, all the Defensive Pacts other than the one of your own religion will gang up on you if you attack any of them. If it goes above 75%, even the Defensive Pact of your own religion will come to your target's aid. If it goes above 95%, your own religious head will take up arms against you. What all this boils down to is that if you're too aggressive, you'll pretty much unite the whole world against you.

Threat is also affected by the size of your realm. The minimum amount of Threat you can gain is 2% per county conquered. The maximum is 15% per county conquered. The bigger you are, the more Threat you gain per county conquered. On the positive side, Threat increases are always maxed out at 50%, so even if I take a hundred counties in a single war, I'll only gain 50% Threat. That said, my empire is so big now that any war that adds four or more counties to my realm gets me to the 50% mark.

Edit: Navvaba died of natural causes after reigning for only three years and seven months. Her reign saw the conquest of some of Syria from the Talibids. Excluding a single wilayah in Homs, Syria is now completely under Aryan control. I am now playing as Caliph Dariush Zandzade, my twenty-first character and Navvaba's son.

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Threat seems like a good way to curb peoples enthusiasm for war.

Especially compared to Civ 5 where everyone starts thinking of you as a warmonger for vague reasons.

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Jell

Riot managed to find my greatest weakness so I guess I'm back to playing LoL

Anyone want to be a mahou shoujou with me?

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Just playing some Pokémon ORAS to wake myself up.

Yeah was great...but it was weird how they ended it I thought.

They played Ballad of the Wind Fish, Majora's Mask medley and finished with a Skyward Sword Medley in the encore....
And yet this was the one that got a standing ovation and rightly so. 8:30 gives me chills.

Just seems like they would have been better saving that for the end.

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Phoenix Wright 2-4. The Nickel Samurai is coming to get you!

Replaying bits and pieces of Umineko Ep. 1 in order to get a better feel for the characters while I continue writing Turnabout of the Golden Witch.

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I'll make him rust before he gets a step towards me.

C-A

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Nickel is highly resistant to rusting, Cat

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I guess that means she's really determined to stop him.

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I'm playing Market Crashers on Streetpass and I just got the final goal! I got 10 billion gold! I'm kinda stuck on how to unlock the items though so if anyone else got this game instead of Slot Car Rivals can you please link me a guide or something?

Unsurprisingly, I've been playing Civilization VI lately. I was quite pleased to see Pyotr Tchaikovsky among the possible Great Musicians. If only the developers had gotten his music right... When he creates the 1812 Overture in-game, you instead hear the Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture. When he creates the Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture in-game, you instead hear Swan Lake.

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How IS Civvi though?

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I'm enjoying it so far, though it's kind of demanding on my computer (time to upgrade, perhaps?). Most of the mechanics from Civilization V are back, which made it relatively easy to jump right in, though the new mechanics take some getting used to.

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What's so new in it?

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SCP Containment Breach. My favorite SCP in this game is SCP - 049 "The Plague Doctor" My favorite SCP item is SCP - 714 "The Jaded Ring" If you want to read about these check them out on the SCP Wiki. If the foundation was real (Who knows maybe it is.) I would almost definantly work there. I don't know which Site but most likely Site - 19. I would be one of the doctor's working there but I wouldn't want to be D class personnel that's for sure because I don't want to get killed by a Euclid class or even Keter class SCP.

Hu boy... Where to start...

Well, I suppose the big one would be the district system. I don't know if you've been following the "First Look" videos and the other stuff the Civilization team revealed before the release, so I'll err on the side of caution and assume you haven't. Cities are no longer restricted to a single tile, which definitely takes some getting used to. Surrounding tiles can be absorbed into the city in the form of districts. Each district serves a particular purpose, and while some structures can be built in the city itself, most structures have a prerequisite district. Libraries, for example, require a Campus. In addition, how many districts a city may have is dependent on its population, meaning that it's almost inevitable that certain cities will be geared toward certain types of projects. There are also "adjacency bonuses" that improve a district's output based on what it's next to. For example, the Commercial Hub loves being next to rivers and Harbors. Wonders are arguably in the same boat; rather than be built in the city itself, they occupy a tile outside the City Center, which can complicate district placement if you don't plan ahead. Thankfully, a Wonder doesn't count toward a city's district total.

Religion has also been tweaked. While most of the mechanics from Civilization V remain in place, there are some new additions. For starters, there are three religious units: the Missionary, the Apostle, and the Inquisitor. The Missionary spreads a religion, naturally, just as it did in Civilization V. The same holds true for the Apostle, which functions largely the way a Great Prophet did in Civilization V. In addition to spreading a religion, the Apostle can Evangelize, which will add a belief to your religion after it's been founded (similar to how a second Great Prophet could Enhance a religion in Civilization V, but in this case, a maximum of two beliefs may be added, requiring two Apostles). In addition, they can start an Inquisition, unlocking the Inquisitor unit. The Inquisitor removes heresy, just as it did in Civilization V. "Theological combat" is a completely new mechanic, though. You can--to an extent--wage an undeclared war against other religions. Inquisitors and Apostles can initiate theological combat with heretical Missionaries and Apostles, effectively the same as conventional combat, right down to the units losing HP. Missionaries can't initiate theological combat, but they can still defend themselves, so they're not just easy pickings for Inquisitors. Apostles can also earn promotions to help them in theological combat or in their efforts to spread the faith. Theological combat has risks beyond losing units, though; a unit that falls in theological combat causes the religious pressure in the surrounding ten-tile radius to change in favor of the victor at the expense of their own religion. Religion is also one of the paths to victory in Civilization VI; you win a Religious Victory if the religion you founded is the majority religion in every civilization. As such, founding a religion is fairly important, if only because it's the most effective means of preventing other civilizations from winning a Religious Victory.

City-States are also back, though you gain influence by different means than in Civilization V. In Civilization VI, you gain influence by sending envoys, which you gradually accumulate over time. You unlock a bonus for having one envoy at a City-State, an additional bonus for three, a third bonus for six, and a fourth bonus for having more envoys there than any other civilization (as long as you have more than three envoys there, that is). Gaining the fourth bonus makes you a City-State's suzerain, giving you access to their resources, part of their line of sight, permission to enter their lands, and the authority to command their troops (for a price), not to mention they'll be your ally in any wars you're fighting as long as you remain their suzerain.

Technology is no longer purely a scientific endeavor. Several buildings and actions are unlocked through Civics, which are developed through Culture. As you grow more advanced, you gain the ability to change governments. You also unlock new policies with almost every Civic you master. Policies give you particular bonuses and are split between Military, Economic, Diplomatic, and Great Person. There's also a Wild Card slot that you can put any policy in, allowing for some versatility. You have a limited number of policies you can have at any given time. I think of it as similar to tools in a shed with your government as a toolbox; you have all the tools in your shed, but there's only so much room in the toolbox, so you have to choose which tools to bring along carefully. Some Wonders give you additional slots, too.

The means by which you may declare war also changes over time; in the Ancient Era, you can declare war on someone without warning and for no reason. As you progress, however, picking random fights becomes less acceptable, leading to warmonger penalties. In certain circumstances, though, you may use a casus belli to reduce or even outright eliminate the warmonger penalty. Declaring a war to liberate one of your cities or an ally's city will have no penalty at all as long as you limit yourself to liberating the cities in question (regular penalties apply for any city you take that isn't eligible for liberation). You can declare a Holy War on anyone who converts one of your cities, you can declare a Colonial War on anyone two or more eras behind, and you can declare a War of Territorial Expansion on anyone who has two or more cities within ten tiles of two or more of your cities, though those wars all involve reduced penalties rather than no penalties at all.

Much to my annoyance, the Worker unit has been replaced with the Builder, which has a finite number of improvements it can build before it's lost, meaning you have to repeatedly churn out Builders if you want to improve your lands. Some policies and Wonders can increase the number of builds a Builder has before disappearing, though. I was quite pleased by the tweaks to Strategic Resources, though; you can churn out as many of a particular unit as you want as long as you have access to the necessary resources. Only two units of Iron? Enough for a dozen Swordsmen and then some.

I've probably left out plenty of other changes.

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Oh wow that sounds like quite a lot of extra things to swallow. I find the new war declarations especially interesting.

Did they keep the tourism win condition of culture? I preferred the Utopia project so in eager to know which way they went.

Did you find it hard to grasp all the new mechanics?

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Just went back and checked the PC ports of the Laura Jones Duology,and sheesh,did they ever mess up the iOS port. Some hints don't even work in the latter,and character models stay stagnant in there too. Who thought this buggy,incomplete mess of a port was even feasible in the first place?

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Cultural Victories are earned by ensuring that you get more visiting tourists than any civilization has domestic tourists. I don't fully understand it yet.

As I said, the new mechanics take some getting used to, so I'm sticking with lower difficulties until I have a better understanding of how everything works. I think I'm learning rather quickly, though.

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Persona 5 on the PS3, of course. I grabbed the free DLC (casual attire/school uniforms + bathing suits) and then realized, when trying them out, that it really didn't suit the phantoms to run around and look epic in bathing suits or pajamas... now, if the costumes would work outside of the battling areas, that'd be cool. (Answering questions in school in a bathing suit? Yes, please.) So, I deleted them and, of course, it then said I can't load my savefile, so I had to restart.
Well, I had just managed to unlock the 2nd dungeon, so it's not that big of a deal.

There's one thing I need to complain about for P5, though it's minor. It's not really a spoiler, since it occurs within the first 30 minutes of the game and isn't actually talking about spoiler-stuff. But putting it in, just in case.



Also, I know some out-of-context spoilers for the game. And some with-minor-context spoilers.
Well, given that one of them involves something that I said as soon as I started the game, but also read it's not well hidden, I'll not take credit for it.

C-A

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Playing Resident Evil 4 HD I got from gamefly before I cancelled. For some reason the game feels harder than I remember. Maybe I been getting bad at video games lol. Also laughing so hard cuz one of my friends is pissed that on league, she is still bronze V in rank, and i barely play rank, and have a 2-10 record, and yet I was promoted to Silver V xD

I'm playing Black Desert Online and Guns of Icarus Online, there's so much I could say about both these games... but I'm not here to write a review... so I'll just recommend both, they both cost about 10 bucks each, and give a ton of great gameplay, buy 'em.

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You may have already seen it but brace yourself:

It's all well and good too say Kennys ideas were off the rail and bad but



Now on the supposed rational level-headed Jane


Hell if they went with your ending for the canon one I probably wouldn't buy any of season 3. I was happy with the ending of 2 and really I can be comfortable not continuing that story.

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Ok here we go

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