Re: [Official!] Project Horizons Comment Crew Chat thread.

[Scienza]

I won't be around much tomorrow or Saturday, because I'll be going to Kentucky to hang out with one of my older brothers. We'll be shooting off a bunch of guns, like the Nagant and the Dragunov, and it'll be the first time I've used a firearm in 4-5 years. Do the other gun-guys have some shooting tips for me? My brother tends to yell when people show ignorance, and I'd rather that not happen.

I'm not really a gun person, but this is a bit of advice I picked up from the internet.







When in doubt, put in your butt.

[OneMoreDaySK]

@Frost
Instructions unclear, knives are lost at the moment.

Hey, dorks! Are pony askblogs still a popular thing? I just read through all of Firestarter Spitfire the other day because CaptainHoers is awesome. I loved the emotion and personality of the character (even though the story was a little disjointed) and was wondering if there's any other pony blogs/comics that hold that level of depth. Not really into the grimdark levels of LMR or anything though, but what sold me on FirestarterSpitfire was the spastic bipolarnessness, almost like BJ. More stuff like that would be coooool.

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No guarantee of depth, but ones I frequent are Slice-of-Pony-Life and SteamQuestria by the same writer/author as Moonstuck. There's Statued Discord Replies, Redeye's blog by RandomBlank that I'm sure is on indefinite hiatus, A Dash of Chaos, Ask the Cutie Mark Crusaders (Responsible for Button Mash Videos), Ask the Slaves, Ask Mafia Octavia, and Sombers' own Requiem.

[Frost]

In other news, I've decided to go Imperial on this Skyrim run. The more I think about it, a ragtag nationalistic hyper-religious/traditionalist rebellion of relatively untrained warriors trying to push out a corrupt and currently somewhat struggling, but ultimately well-intentioned diversified nation with a professional army......kinds strikes a bit close to home.

[Scienza]

Basically the only thing going for them is that the Imperials tried to execute you at the beginning of the game. Honestly though, given the things that I usually end up doing by the end of every playthrough (like, say, assassinating the Emperor), I'd have done the same.

The Stormcloaks are assholes.

On an unrelated note,

Cutest Bioshock art ever:

[Scienza]

Maybe if you like Vikings better than Romans, but other than that, probably not.

Though, to be fair, I bet like 50-60% of players play as Nords.

[Scienza]

Yes.

That's pretty standard. It's why Bioware found that like 80% of people who played the Mass Effect games ran through as the default male Shepard.

I'm not even joking. Literally every single poll I've found online regarding player's most used/favorite player race has Nords winning by at least 20%.

[Frost]

I mean, Vikings are cool and all, but at a certain point, you have to realize that the Empire's probably better in the long-term for Skyrim. 

Plus, you don't have to Backstab Balgruff if you join the Imperials. And Balgruff's a bro. Bros don't Backstab bros.

[Scienza]

Aye. Basically, what passes for long-term goals among the Stormcloaks is shitting on the ethnic minorities and having a guy who can shout really loud.

Also, Romans (albeit, Pseudo-Romans), kick some serious fucking ass.

[Zolaheuzis]

Well I chose stormcloaks my first playthrough. but that maybe has something to do with that I'm a real life nord and had a small crush on Ralof. But yeah wish I had done a Blackjack and chose no side and just try to save people instead.

[Guest]

Yes.

That's pretty standard. It's why Bioware found that like 80% of people who played the Mass Effect games ran through as the default male Shepard.

I'm not even joking. Literally every single poll I've found online regarding player's most used/favorite player race has Nords winning by at least 20%.

I'd be willing to play as Femshep, If Jack was bi. Too bad she isn't though.

[Stringtheory]

Well I chose stormcloaks my first playthrough. but that maybe has something to do with that I'm a real life nord and had a small crush on Ralof. But yeah wish I had done a Blackjack and chose no side and just try to save people instead.

Honestly, in the end, I kinda felt the same way. Some of the deposed Jarls I couldn't care less about, but others... well, it's a game.
Still, I feel like my character should have felt bad or something for screwing them over.

Yes.

That's pretty standard. It's why Bioware found that like 80% of people who played the Mass Effect games ran through as the default male Shepard.

I'm not even joking. Literally every single poll I've found online regarding player's most used/favorite player race has Nords winning by at least 20%.

I'd be willing to play as Femshep, If Jack was bi. Too bad she isn't though.

Ah, Mass Effect...
After wasting so much time on Skyrim, I'm reluctant to start another long, complicated, addicting game.

I tried starting the first game, then I figured out that the combat, at least on PC sucks ass. Which is a shame since the talkie bits and character interaction seem to be really good.

[Frost]

Aye. Basically, what passes for long-term goals among the Stormcloaks is shitting on the ethnic minorities and having a guy who can shout really loud.

Also, Romans (albeit, Pseudo-Romans), kick some serious fucking ass.

Maybe I'm just getting too in-character with my Dunmer assassin-mage right now, but I'm getting a bit sick of unwashed, unread, unshaven dickwaffles waving their crude axes at me and saying that because 
A.) I use magic 
B.) I use stealth, and 
C.) I'm not a Nord, 

I should probably do everyone a favor and kill myself. Whatever. Once I wrap up this Dark Brotherhood shit, I'll get started on fucking the world in the form of doing the Daedric Princes a bunch of favors in exchange for cool stuff. And shitty stuff. Mostly mediocre stuff. I'm mostly doing it because my character's the kind of person whose nice and agreeable nature bellies the omnicidal urge to drown the world in flame.

Also, an image has wormed its way into my head and refuses to leave, and has now lodged itself into my headcanon.

All the Daedric Princes give you powers and weapons and armor and stuff, ranging from the kinda shitty and attitudes to match (Dagon throws his dagger-that-might-occasionally-sometimes-kill-people at you with an expression of "alright, now go the fuck away"; while Molag Bal gives you his shitty like-thirty-something-pound-mediocre-damage-Soul-Trap-mace while telling you that you're his bitch forever now. Literally.) To giving you pretty awesome and unique items with the attitude and clear hope that you'll put it to good use (Namira's folks give you her devour-the-flesh-of-fallen-foes-to-fuel-your-rampage ring while saying that you're a classy motherfucker and you're super good at eating people; and Hircine gives you his infinity-werewolf ring and/or magic-and-poison-is-cheating,-bitch armor while pretty much saying you're a fucking badass for murdering a pack of his faithful disciples that were expecting your help, and/or killing your friend and ripping off his skin--which doesn't say much about deer-man's sanity, really, but at least he's nice about it.) But nobody can compete with one particular prince, who's attitude doesn't seem to match up.

Hermaeus Mora doesn't just give you a neato ability-ring or armor or weapon. He gives you, in the main game, a means of gaining five entire fucking levels in your chosen skillset, which is pretty much a guaranteed level or two for free right there. In Dragonborn, he gives you three separate other gifts that grant you totally unique abilities that are borderline superpowers even by the standards of possibly manbeast/vampiric nigh-invincible warrior-mages who consider demon-god-dragons part of a balanced breakfast, and, on top of that, teaches you a new shout that lets you scream at everything in the world until it's your bitch, including dragons themselves. He then concludes by pretty much saying that you're his best buddy forever now.

He's not an evil mass of tentacles and forbidden knowledge. He's just a giant, ancient nerd that really, really wants you to be his friend even though he's extremely socially-awkward, so he just expresses his friendship through his presents because he's a rich loner.

From there, it all spiralled out of control. Now I can't help but imagine the Daedric Princes all in high school, with Mora the shy, nerdy type and his two best friends (Hircine, the crazy flannel-wearing hunter guy that lives out in the mountains, and Namira, the goth chick with a "unique eating disorder") As they deal with jocks like Mehrunes Dagon, stuck-up chicks like Azura, creepy probably-turning-tricks-for-cash Nocturnal and Molag Bal, the school bully voted "most likely to become a serial rapist." With the dubious help of Sheogorath, the school stoner who probably laces his shit with acid.

[Meleagridis]

Who's Clavicus Vile, the guy with the dog?

[Frost]

No one knows who actually runs the school, as Principle Lorkhan died a while back and the unoccupied Vice Principle position, having never been filled, is held by Sithis. He is not.

He's also not interested in your bullshit problems, so stay out of his office.

[Frost]

Truth (I never did fuck much around with the Thieves' Guild, so I'm less familiar with her). 

I just remember especially that no matter what you did with Hircine, you won. Just so long as you looked badass, he's down with it. 

Molag Bal is implied to rape people into undeath to make pure-blood vampires, so he's probably not going to be a nice guy in any incarnation.

[Valikdu]

Plus, you don't have to Backstab Balgruff if you join the Imperials. And Balgruff's a bro.

[Tytan]

Yay! two new things courtesy of Last and myself.:

[Ironmonger]

Yay! two new things courtesy of Last and myself.:

Nicely done!

[Katarn]

Nice work, both of you.

[Ironmonger]

For some reason, I now have a strong urge to do a Let's Play while speaking like Boomhauer.

[Valikdu]

I shouldn't really be surprised at this, but still...
...
...
...wat?

[Katarn]

Well...I've expected this from Japan, but..well...I have no right words.

[Scienza]

Well I chose stormcloaks my first playthrough. but that maybe has something to do with that I'm a real life nord and had a small crush on Ralof. But yeah wish I had done a Blackjack and chose no side and just try to save people instead.

Honestly, in the end, I kinda felt the same way. Some of the deposed Jarls I couldn't care less about, but others... well, it's a game.
Still, I feel like my character should have felt bad or something for screwing them over.

Yes.

That's pretty standard. It's why Bioware found that like 80% of people who played the Mass Effect games ran through as the default male Shepard.

I'm not even joking. Literally every single poll I've found online regarding player's most used/favorite player race has Nords winning by at least 20%.

I'd be willing to play as Femshep, If Jack was bi. Too bad she isn't though.

Ah, Mass Effect...
After wasting so much time on Skyrim, I'm reluctant to start another long, complicated, addicting game.

I tried starting the first game, then I figured out that the combat, at least on PC sucks ass. Which is a shame since the talkie bits and character interaction seem to be really good.

Yeah, the combat in ME1 sucked ass. It does get exponentially better over the course of the games, even if it means that Bioware had to do some slightly weird lore choices (Guns use ammo disposable heat sinks now!). Playing as a vanguard from ME2 onwards is some of the most fun I've had in a game in a long time.

[Frost]

One has to wonder why, instead of single-use disposable heatsinks, they didn't just put in two of the normal heatsinks that alternate, with one cooling while the other is used. Fast-firing infinite ammo.

But that would require innovation and free-thinking, which I suppose is more than you can expect from a bunch of bitches that found artifacts in space and decided to blindly copy and build off them instead of making their own shit, figuring out how the artifacts worked, or even knowing exactly who or what built them.

That's kinda why I prefer Halo's lore. Forerunners slaying their quasi-deistic creators the Precursors, who in turn turn themselves into a flesh-consuming plague to damn all that lives to eternal suffering in the backstory, and the modern day features a pan-galactic human empire being threatened by a hyper-fanatical religious alliance of freaky aliens that--wrap your head around this one--don't want to fuck you.

Although one has to wonder how a fight between a Krogan and a Mgalekgolo would turn out.

[Tytan]

1. I think the reasoning was that heat sink weapons were cheaper and hit harder than non-heat sink weapons and they eject the sinks when they're at the point of melting. I guess that sorta explains why you keep some ammo when you reload with a partially unused clip.

2. Can't disagree with you. And I kinda like how the forunners are constantly fucking over and giving the biggest advantage to humanity.

3. Krogan. They don't have soft spots.

[Scyto Harmony]

I think some people here can appreciate this.:

[Tytan]

I did not see that coming. And yet, I should have.

[Guest]

3. Krogan. They don't have soft spots.

They're also on average 5 feet shorter and 9,700 pounds lighter (according to their respective wikis). That's a hell of a weight class difference.

[Tytan]

I'm pretty sure Master Chief (and Spartans in general) are significantly lighter than that.

[Frost]

I'm pretty sure Master Chief (and Spartans in general) are significantly lighter than that.

They're also outrageously augmented and armored one-man armies. And they still have trouble with Hunters. Krogan are just "tough" and can be killed by a spinny ninja-move from a Drell. Hunters have starship-grade armor and weaponry and are twelve feet tall.

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