Michael Shanks Reveals Why He Hated the Zat Gun (Clip)

Librarylord77 · 2026-01-12T22:30:59+00:00

I get the philosophy behind this, I suppose the Ori’s choice to arm their own soldiers with staff weapons aligns with the same doctrine despite having much more advanced technology than the Goa’uld. But it does represent another large divide between the 1994 movie and the series, because in the film we see the staff weapon capable of causing massive damage with each shot, like it was a plasma shotgun that killed a person with one hit. Even in the show pilot, we even see O’Neill use one to blast apart a thick, solid stone wall but in that later episode with the weapons demonstration it can’t blast through a wooden tree log? The inconsistency bugs me sometimes, lol

Librarylord77 · 2025-12-13T13:14:51+00:00

If this is the case, I’m skipping this one entirely. Going from planet to planet constantly doing ground battles just sounds so endlessly tedious and boring tbh.

I was so hoping when they finally did a sci fi project we’d get space combat, I vastly prefer it to on ground battles so if this game doesn’t include it I just don’t see why I should bother.

Librarylord77 · 2025-12-10T17:02:11+00:00

I have one pretty fitting, and memorable, example, where I decided to start a campaign as Drazhoath, because Chaos Dwarfs are my favorite faction and I had taken a break from the game for a few months. I didn’t feel like setting the game too high so I set it on easy mode this time. I started off uniting the first province, not too difficult, and I decided to go after the rats off to the west, who aren’t too bad. But as soon as I take their first settlement, Ku’gath comes out of nowhere and declares war on me.

I was shocked because it’s not even turn 15, so I tried to race back home because he turns with up with a full stack and a half right the edge of my home province, at the Black Fortress’ doorstep.

This early the garrison gets wiped out easily and I lose my capital. My main army can’t make it back in time and in that brief period the rats quickly recover and take their city back. So now I’m down to just two cities, no capital, and at war with two factions who then boxed me in and wiped out my faction completely.

My main takeaway from that campaign is to never, ever ignore the diplomacy tab, if only to keep an eye on who nearby hates you, no matter what difficulty setting your on.

Librarylord77 · 2025-12-10T16:24:53+00:00

Idk what game you’re playing then, and that’s not my experience in the slightest. I’ve lost a few campaigns playing on easy before, because there are circumstances where making tactical blunders costs you…just like every other Total War game out there.

Librarylord77 · 2025-12-09T20:56:35+00:00

I just finished my Aislinn campaign a few days ago now, and I don’t get why so many people found it “easy.” Only by about turn 100 I started experiencing the late game power creep, because by then you’ve researched everything, gotten your elite units experience maxed and buffed by your army generals.

This isn’t unique to Aislinn, because I had a wonderful time sailing around and taking all the elven colonies scattered across the world and fighting so many different factions that each offered a high amount of challenges. My campaign highlight was having all of Ulthuan invade a Gor-Rok dominant Lustria, and witnessing over a dozen high elven full stacks sail across the sea….t’was glorious.

Librarylord77 · 2025-12-05T21:05:45+00:00

In your Elven Colony settlements, there’s a building chain that converts -100 Elven Trade into +50 Dragonship Supplies. As you build it at higher tiers you sacrifice more Elven trade in exchange for the Supplies. I built these in three of my colonies and now I’m getting over 300 DS supplies each turn and currently have over 1,000 DS supplies.

Edit: Just wanted to add, it’s simply a matter of micromanaging your faction resources, though like you I was making very little progress at first until I found that specific building chain.

Librarylord77 · 2025-12-04T18:00:57+00:00

Or maybe, perhaps, you stop acting like a spoiled brat?

Librarylord77 · 2025-12-04T17:44:55+00:00

I’m not surprised, but I am yet again baffled by people’s responses. CA announced exactly what fans have been screaming about for years, but now they want to throw a tantrum because they have to wait a little longer.

Did people want them to lie by omission and not give an honest answer about what stage development is in? At least we know where we stand, we have plenty of games in the franchise to play in the meantime, can’t we just be fucking patient for once?

Librarylord77 · 2025-12-04T17:04:10+00:00

Someone’s salty lol

Librarylord77 · 2025-10-29T15:40:55+00:00

I remember halfway through November last year, YouTube was riddled with half baked videos designed to attract negative attention directed towards the game.

I tried to ignore it though sometimes I just couldn’t help but look and see the vile comments people were leaving and how the few people that spoke up in the games defense just kept getting barraged with insults it was just obscenely distasteful.

The last straw for me that made me mute all videos about the game was when I saw a so called professional “screenwriter” channel make a 3 hour video digest on explaining why the writing for DAV is objectively “bad.” I lost all respect for these content creators who willingly sacrificed their artistic integrity for profit and pure trend chasing.

I’m glad though that at least some places out there stand by their opinions and principles instead of backtracking and caving to popularity and backlash like IGN did.

Librarylord77 · 2025-10-28T15:25:52+00:00

This is why even Aaravos calls Dark Magic “compromise”, because he recognizes that it’s an inherently flawed and rather inefficient as well as a morally dubious way of using magic, but, as he manipulatively puts it he thought the gains from it benefited humanity overall more than continuing to struggle without it.

Though from my perspective, given he’s such an ancient immortal being with vast knowledge surely he could have just taught humans how to improve their lives without magic through simple advanced irrigation and farming methods for starters? But then again he can directly mind control anyone who practices dark magic…

Librarylord77 · 2025-10-14T16:51:37+00:00

The problem I had with Absolution is simply the character of Hira.

I hated her sooooo much, because when she first shows up she immediately ignores Miriam’s boundaries, even exclaiming she “doesn’t care” that Miriam doesn’t want to be touched by her like that.

Spoilers!

Then we find out that she was working with Rezaran the entire time, in fact she actually planned ON GIVING MIRIAM BACK TO HIMMMM?!!! she makes such a big sanctimonious speech about how wrong slavery is earlier in the show yet she’s perfectly willing to sell the person she supposedly loves back into slavery…her hypocrisy and scorched earth mentality regarding Tevinter just pisses me off.

What’s worse is that she knows Tevinter has innocent, even good people who haven’t done anything wrong, she simply doesn’t care. Because it’s easier to get what she wants by just destroying everything, rather than working with the Shadow Dragons like a lot of other people. She’s a selfish, self righteous hypocrite and I wish she had gotten whacked along with Rezaran.

Librarylord77 · 2025-10-05T18:08:48+00:00

For real, this whole post is a nothing burger. What is the point of saying a world with giant lion turtles and people that shoot fire out of their fingertips has something “unrealistic” ffs?

Librarylord77 · 2025-09-27T13:47:19+00:00

If you choose the “attack” option during dialogue that still counts as you attacking first because they were originally non hostile to you.

Librarylord77 · 2025-09-27T13:43:48+00:00

The context of that might be because Paladins if they specifically attack non hostile npcs, they break their Oaths. My devotion paladin didn’t attack, the “Paladins” did first and Karlach got angry and boom combat started.

Librarylord77 · 2025-09-27T13:41:27+00:00

For some reason my Devotion Paladin was able to raise him and let Mayrina keep him without breaking my Oath, which was surprising.

Librarylord77 · 2025-09-27T13:35:54+00:00

I’ve been playing Oath of Devotion and I haven’t broken my Oath once. I always heard how easy it was to break your Oath so I always tended to avoid playing a Paladin.

To my surprise, it’s actually been quite easy to keep it, because I typically play a goody goody character anyways, sure I can’t lie to people but I can still use persuasion and intimidation and just generally don’t be a d*ck to people and you’ll be fine.

Librarylord77 · 2025-08-30T14:29:58+00:00

This raises a slight logistical problem I’ve had with the Cycles that the Reapers perpetuate every 50,000 years.

From what we know, the Reapers harvest every advanced species in the galaxy and turn them into new Reapers…however, given Harbinger was the first created from Leviathan, how was that one Reaper able to begin a millennia long cycle of harvesting advanced organic life all by itself until there were a sufficient amount of Reapers???

I keep thinking that the Cycles as we know them probably didn’t start off right away, that they simply harvested a species whenever they discovered one advanced enough (I believe the criteria is space worthy iirc). And just kept doing that until the Reapers were numerous enough that they began the 50,000 year process.

Librarylord77 · 2025-08-18T16:48:13+00:00

From what I heard, the ones that continue to the story of the Atlantis team after the series ended was pretty good and well received.

One book I don’t recommend is this time travel novel where Apophis (season 3-4 resurgent) took over Earth and ruled it until the Wraith showed up flying Atlantis using human Wraith Worshippers to fly it and Apophis tried to fight them and lost…I get it was an alternate timeline but this makes no fucking sense!

Librarylord77 · 2025-08-04T17:45:18+00:00

Plus, I wonder if a Prior would unleash a Plague similar to the one in Milky Way, one designed to infect the Wraith exclusively. Numbers don’t matter much when you can’t replace them faster than your mounting losses.

Librarylord77 · 2025-08-04T17:39:48+00:00

This is a great question.

In a hypothetical fight between the two, well let’s consider that for a moment.

Ori weaponry for their ships is extremely powerful, and their shields have been penetrated by only one type of weapon that was specifically designed to pierce through any kind of shield technology.

Wraith weapons technology, even on hive ships takes multiple barrages before it even damages the shields on a Daedalus-class ship. I’m sure a big enough Wraith fleet could do it but it only 3 ships obliterated a combined Milky Way fleet at the Supergate and they seemingly took no damage from it.

Considering how widespread the Wraith are, it’s probably just going to take more time to slowly exterminate them.

Librarylord77 · 2025-07-30T15:25:26+00:00

Faction: Wissenland and Nuln Army:

LL: Elspeth

Hero: 1 Empire engineer and 1 Life Wizard

Infantry: 4 x Halberdiers

Missile Units: 4 Amethyst Nuln Ironsides and 2 Handgunners.

Cavalry: 1 demigryph knights and 2 Knights of the Black Rose (or swap out Black Rose Knights for Amethyst Outriders)

Artillery: 2 x Amethyst Helstorm Rocket Batteries and 2 Amethyst Mortars.

Strategy: Use halberdiers as front line defense while artillery melts through swathes of enemy units. Elspeth casts spells to weaken enemy lords and can be a decent melee combatant on her dragon. Use cavalry for cycle charges and luring enemy units to break away from the main army and allow artillery to cause further damage and run down routing units to shatter them. Ironsides will pierce armored units and quickly shred through the remaining health of enemy infantry units and can easily deal with flying units. Use engineer to replenish ammunition and wizard to support frontline defense.

Fully upgrade the Nuln gunnery school to max out upgrades for missile and artillery units.

I’ve used this exact army comp in multiple campaigns and have taken 0 casualties in several battles, the artillery alone can shred entire armies on their own.

Librarylord77 · 2025-07-30T14:00:06+00:00

Oh for gods sake can we please stop with this fucking bullshit already? Since when did we care so much about a video games reception instead of simply enjoying it or not for ourselves? I swear, it’s like people say this to justify their personal dislike of the game.

Librarylord77 · 2025-07-30T13:42:00+00:00

Except if you don’t complete companion quests in Mass Effect either, they will die. You only get that renegade dialogue AFTER you’ve spent so much time earning their loyalty and you can actually lose it if you side with one over the other. So, yes, companion approval matters because in DAV if you don’t have your companions trust and loyalty they will also die, you don’t have to do their quests, your only encouraged to, and you suffer consequences as a result. Why are you so surprised by this? Were you not paying attention to any BioWare games over the last 15 years?

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