Posted on 09/10/2014 1:53:53 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Edited on 09/10/2014 2:07:07 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
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Absolutely. As long as you’re suited up in T50, have 2 followers likewise attired and unlimited ammo for the 50 cal, it’s a veritable petting zoo for the kids....
Fond memories of that place. Just got a new motherboard so with any luck, I can stop by later tonight.
Well. after saying hi to Lydia and checking the house in Falkreath. Been gone from Skyrim and stuck in this wasteland you people refer to as ‘real life” or some such.
Once you discover the Nexus (Fallout/Skyrim) you’ll have PLENTY to do I promise ;)
-Always shoot Three Dog in the face. You get to listen to your music faster.
-Charisma is a dump stat. Someone should have told Soetoro IRL.
-In Fallout:New Vegas, you rarely lose Karma for murdering people, but you frequently lose it for trying to hack into PCs and stealing items.
-Drugs (Psycho, Jet, Turbo, Mentats) make you significantly more powerful, but it’s easy to forget to use them in gameplay. Exactly the opposite of real life.
I remember the Gauss Rifle from Fallout 3 fondly, I loved ragdolling enemies across the floor. .50 cal was awesome in New Vegas, but with a silencer the .308 sniper broke the game. I remember at one point being idolized by both the NCR and the Legion...
The question must be asked: Imperial, Stormcloak, or neither?
I am Volarian Lionheart. A name that strikes fear from Cold Harbor to the Shivering Isles!!! Having conquered all of Cyrodil and Skyrim, you dare ask such a question? YOU DARE?!?!?!?!
Soon I too shall ascend and sit with Mighty Talos as the tenth DIVINE!
Imperial or Stormcloak indeed....I did not build an army of Valkryes to MERELY involve myself in the affairs of men you know...
Sheesh...
KC, you have any of the old Lydia Pics handy to school this poor soul on the sheer awesome?
;)
bfl
Sean Smith killed at Benghazi was a gamer. From reports at the time:
On Tuesday, Sean Smith, a Foreign Service Information Management Officer assigned to the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya, typed a message to the director of his online gaming guild: “Assuming we don’t die tonight. We saw one of our ‘police’ that guard the compound taking pictures.” The consulate was under siege, and within hours, a mob would attack, killing Smith along with three others, including the U.S. ambassador.
In his professional and personal life, Smith was a husband and father of two, an Air Force veteran, and a 10-year veteran of the Foreign Service who had served in Baghdad, Pretoria, Montreal and The Hague. But when gaming with EVE Online guild Goonswarm, he was a popular figure known as “Vile Rat,” and alternately as “Vilerat” while volunteering as a moderator at the internet community Something Awful. Smith’s death was confirmed on Wednesday morning by the State Department and reported widely in the news media. But the first people to report Smith’s death were his friends. Their reaction was shock and mourning.
“My people, I have greivous [sic] news. Vile Rat has been confirmed to be KIA in Benghazi; his family has been informed and the news is likely to break out on the wire services soon,” wrote Goonswarm director Alex Gianturco in a message mirrored to Something Awful at 11:21 EST. “Needless to say, we are in shock, have no words, and have nothing but sympathy for his family and children. I have known Vile Rat since 2006, he was one of the oldest of old-guard goons and one of the best and most effective diplomats this game has ever seen.”
According to his friends, Smith had emerged as a key leader for the community, and was known as a senior guild diplomat who helped engineer the destruction of Goonswarm’s chief rival, the Band of Brothers. He let his guildmates design his tattoo. On Wednesday, Gianturco posted an obituary for his friend of more than six years. “He was on jabber when it happened, that’s the most fucked up thing,” Gianturco wrote. “In Baghdad the same kind of thing happened – incoming sirens, he’d vanish, we’d freak out and he’d come back ok after a bit. This time he said ‘F__K’ and ‘GUNFIRE’ and then disconnected and never returned.”
Next, media reports began circulating that the consulate in Benghazi, and the U.S. embassy in Egypt, had come under attack. Gianturco, known in the EVE Online community as The Mittani, “freaked out.” Gianturco wrote that he was “in shock” and felt dead inside.
“I’m not sure if this is how I’m supposed to react to my friend being killed by a mob in a post-revolutionary Libya, but it’s pretty awful and Sean was a great guy and he was a goddamned master at this game we all play, even though a lot of people may not realize how significant an influence he had,” wrote Gianturco. And that “if you play this stupid game, you may not realize it, but you play in a galaxy created in large part by Vile Rat’s talent as a diplomat.”
At Something Awful, Smith was a long-time member — more recently a moderator — who posted about football, politics and working with the Foreign Service. Forumers are now leaving messages in Smith’s memory, and others are doing similar at the EVE Online forums. Gamers are now also re-naming virtual space stations after Smith. EVE Online, which takes place in a simulated galaxy, center around the digital stations as bases for trade, socializing and fighting. Smith’s username “was a name you could mention in any conversation about the pointy end of EVE, without needing to explain who he was,” posted developer CCP Greyscale.
Forumer SpaceGirlArt wrote that Smith had “been part of my internet presence for a decade, right back to the old #ce [IRC] channel. I can honestly say that I never expected to feel this gutted over the death of someone that I never met in real life. This is unbelievable.”
One forumer expressed concern that Smith’s death would be politicized by the media during an election year. But, “Through the bullshit media circus, we will know ‘That was Vilerat, and he was actually way awesome.’”
You have answered correctly, noble warrior! Thalmor toadies all, they both were!
100% Reflect Damage
100% Spell Absorption
The Sheogorath power to teleport offenders into the sky
Bring it
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It won’t be long before a gamer ‘faction’ rises up against the libs. People doubt me on that as many libs are gamers themselves.
Virtual reality is the last bastion of anything resembling freedom. Many gamers ‘live’ for lack of a better term online since they have had every normal pursuit destroyed in reality. They have given up on trying.
Once libs take over the gaming ‘world’ or try to, they are going to be surprised at the backlash. They are trying now as more games are being targeted for ‘social justice’ action. And they are making progress.
But when ‘they’ finially push these people too far, they will find that half of their own team leaving the field and joining the other side...us.
Oh I brought it ;) I practically have Skyrim memorized. Literally. I stopped counting the number of playthroughs. The great thing is with all the mods, it is different (mostly) every time.
God I love that game ;)
Tom, is that you? I thought you were at the movies.
It’s the same in the comic book press. They are furious that there are not enough movies starring female superheroes, and then even more furious when the movie people have the audacity to cast a woman (and a patriotic Israeli to boot!) as Wonder Woman instead of a tranny with his penis hanging below the skirt. They also scream at the injustice of having a white male as the central character in Guardians of the Galaxy. Thor is now a chick and Captain America is now a black dude, so it’s time to start the rage building for the next installments of their respective movies. They better not dare go back to the bigotry and misogyny of male, white devils in the title roles!
IYKWIMAITYD?
It does matter because the SJW/Whiteknight-d0chenozzles managed to shut down all of one side of the discussion. What Zoe Quim did or did not do to her boyfriend is immaterial to the question of whether the leftwing point of view is going to entirely prevail on the Internet. Doxxing, hacking and DDoS’ing all opposition is just the digital version of what leftists have been doing since Murrow’s Boys took over the agenda. Dismissing leftwing censorship as a mud-wrestling content without sympathetic characters isn’t going to make it stop.
If you know what I mean, and I think you do.
From the parts of the argument I saw there were no political wings. There were a bunch of people using profanity and threats and slander on one side, and then a bunch of people using profanity and slander and threats on the other. Yeah the chick eventually managed to get the women defenders on her side, but maybe if the people attacking her hadn’t been insufferable #$%^s she wouldn’t have been able to pull that off.
You need to find out a little more about what happened. Whether or not the fight was political in the first place [it was, regardless of what you think you know] Quinn attacked her detractors via proxies she enlisted on the basis of her being a feminist “hero,” and the incessantly repeated lie that gamers are all misogynist @ssholes. If it wasn’t political to begin with [it was] it rapidly did become a typical leftwing fascist censorship project.
You need to find out a little more about what happened. Whether or not the fight was political in the first place [it was, regardless of what you think you know] Quinn attacked her detractors via proxies she enlisted on the basis of her being a feminist “hero,” and the incessantly repeated lie that gamers are all misogynist @ssholes. If it wasn’t political to begin with [it was] it rapidly did become a typical leftwing fascist censorship project.
Nope, No Tom here. I just got sick of playing this NNO called ‘Modern America’ filled with right wingers who support libs and libs that love Sharia for the freedom it provides (I mean come on that premise would never sell!!!) and decided to forge a realm of my own.
Not like it’s any more ‘unreal’ a place in Skyrim than this one is...unfortunately...
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