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

[Tytan]

Not exactly. I did get the chance to play it coop with my brother over the weekend though.

[Valikdu]

Seriously:

I think it's more like this:

Spoiler:

Her bikini top seems slightly more conservative now that she's a mother. No more underboob.

Speaking of that, does the choice in DA:O matter in any way?

[Valikdu]

Her bikini top seems slightly more conservative now that she's a mother. No more underboob.

Speaking of that, does the choice in DA:O matter in any way?

I would say yes. Not sure which you're referring to, but I'm still in my first playthrough. I dunno what would happen in alternate histories.

I mean the one near the end with

Spoiler:

[Scienza]

Her bikini top seems slightly more conservative now that she's a mother. No more underboob.

Speaking of that, does the choice in DA:O matter in any way?

I would say yes. Not sure which you're referring to, but I'm still in my first playthrough. I dunno what would happen in alternate histories.

I mean the one near the end with

Spoiler:

Yes.

I'm actually not sure what happens if you make the other choice, but it did seem pretty important to the main quest.

[Harmony Ltd.]

Minecraft on steroids shaders

[Guest]

Sooo, watched a couple episodes of that Hist'ry Channel show about the Vikings. It's okay, for a sub-par Norse-themed Game of Thrones coattail-rider. Plays a bit fast and loose with actual historicity, but it's not unentertaining. I admit, though, I'm rather hoping they discard the premise of history altogether and have the characters do ALL the Viking things, not just the raid on Lindisfarne but all the way to lying about Greenland ("Is it green? Oh, aye, it's positively verdant!") and pissing about in America for a bit. And THEN, when they run out of stuff to do (after having packed all the Viking Age into the span of a decade, tops), I want them to visit Egypt for a crossover season with Ancient Aliens that culminates in them stealing a starship and Viking their way across the galaxy. The last episode will be the first colonists on Mars cresting over a ridge only to find a big ol' runestone already there.

[Frost]

Just as Troy semi-de-mythified the Illiad, Vikings semi-de-mythifies The Saga of Ragnar Lodbrök. It's not meant to be historical.

[RoboRed]

Australia just got more awesome: http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/unified-weapons-master-future-fighting/

[Frost]

"Integrating sensors and impact-resistant materials under carbon-fiber plating" for "full-contact martial-arts tournaments" my ass. Just wait til someone fucks with the Aussies and they start rolling out their bulletproof ninja warriors in their robot suits.

[Guest]

@Frost
Ah, well, that both opens things up and shuts others down, I guess. What I meant about playing fast and loose was more about taking liberties with the way characters behave, in a sort of "eh, could have happened" way (the young monk in Northumbria who has traveled to Norway at some point if I'm reading his implication right, the half-sidelining of the rape and pillage stuff to keep the audience happy - which is completely understandable, mind you). Being accurate to actual historical events is something I'm less concerned about - I wasn't kidding about kinda wanting to see an overview of the Viking Age, almost like Forrest Gump. Didn't know it was based on an actual mythical dude, though, so that's cool (and also probably rules out trips to Byzantium, America, and Mars). The most fun thing about it, for me at least, is when they're just sort of Viking around with the English and their things, and nobody understands one another very well, and then somebody gets stabbed, and then a whole lot of people get axed, and the Vikings are very excited about all of it.

@Robo
Definitely interesting. If it's what they're hyping it up to be, I'd probably watch some fights. Feels very sci-fi.

[Frost]

Then perhaps you'd like the part in the original saga where the Swedish King that the Ragnarssons spend most of the tale fighting has a massive God-cow that can cast Mass Frenzy over enemy armies after it's been sated with enough human sacrifice. 

Yeah. Really.

[Katarn]

@Frost
Invade Australia? That's Nope.Nope.Nope.Nope Just google 'australian deadly'. I don't know what madmen would invade that place.

[Guest]

Then perhaps you'd like the part in the original saga where the Swedish King that the Ragnarssons spend most of the tale fighting has a massive God-cow that can cast Mass Frenzy over enemy armies after it's been sated with enough human sacrifice. 

Yeah. Really.

Hell yeah.

[Frost]

Though Space Vikings going and killing the shit out of space would be quite an entertaining story in and of itself. The influence this would have on the other cultures they visit (much like some theorize they turned the Northern Amerindians from a peaceful people into a warrior culture) would be interesting indeed. 

"Live long and rape, pillage and burn"

"Keelah Sal'Axe"

"May the All-Father be with you"

Etcetera.

[Harmony Ltd.]

Australia just got more awesome: http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/unified-weapons-master-future-fighting/

I'm pretty sure I linked to a video of that a few days ago... *pouty face*

[Frost]

Yo, so check it out. I like worldbuilding, and I'm either too lazy an asshole or too obsessive a fan to build my own world; so I've created a little world-state for post-game Skyrim, as a possible ground for hypothetical fics if I decide to stop being a lazy asshole. To widen the focus (significantly) the PC's accomplishments have been split among several wildly-varying people:

Fanwank:

[Valikdu]

Anyone run into this too? I'm trying to get a free-to-play game (Sunrider) on Steam, but the "play game" button does nothing. I was pointed to this thread, but the install link there also does nothing. What do?

[Stringtheory]

Anyone run into this too? I'm trying to get a free-to-play game (Sunrider) on Steam, but the "play game" button does nothing. I was pointed to this thread, but the install link there also does nothing. What do?

Can't help, Sunrider installed and played fine when I tried it.

[Valikdu]

I've just checked; the problems are with all Steam F2P games, not just Sunrider. Although the official site has a direct download, so that's good.

[Harmony Ltd.]

And opening the game's exe file directly doesn't do anything at all?

[Harmony Ltd.]

FNAF / Mario Kart crossover

[Harmony Ltd.]

Metal Gear Solid lulz

[Valikdu]

And opening the game's exe file directly doesn't do anything at all?

In Sunrider's case, things are great. But I'll have to find a direct download (if any) for any other F2P game I'd want on Steam.

Also, I found something curious: There Came An Echo is a tactical RPG (?) that looks somewhat like Shadowrun, and is controlled with voice commands. The reviews seem to favor this feature.

[Guest]

The Curator quote for sunrider is pretty funny.

[Valikdu]

...
Does history remember the origin of the word "waifu"? Preferably in the form of a name. Then maybe we could do a Kickstarter to hire a hitman or something.

[Guest]

Uhhhhhh... Well, I guess it's nothing to lose your head about, a lot of it sounds very theoretical still, but dang. The mad scientist in me wants to see what'd happen if we tried this.

[Valikdu]

Uhhhhhh... Well, I guess it's nothing to lose your head about, a lot of it sounds very theoretical still, but dang. The mad scientist in me wants to see what'd happen if we tried this.

nothing to lose your head about

Hmm... Somehow I don't remember seeing this happen in any story (literature or cinematic), except for one very old Soviet SF novel.

Well, let's see what happens!

[Frost]

Camo, what have you done

for Sci:

[Harmony Ltd.]

Yo Hinds!

I think you may want to play this game


Here's the result of my first playthrough:

Spoiler:

[Stringtheory]

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Does history remember the origin of the word "waifu"? Preferably in the form of a name. Then maybe we could do a Kickstarter to hire a hitman or something.

Officially it's one of the Japanese words for wife, coming from 'wife' in english. I'd totally support killing whoever set it up as a fandom term though.

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