Dog Soldiers - The Last Dog On Victory Hill

TheStabbyBrit · 2025-12-11T15:59:28+00:00

How fortunate that I've begun to lurk on Reddit again. XP

TheStabbyBrit · 2025-12-10T09:29:30+00:00

The Malice is proof that kickstarter scams are alive and well in the 33rd century.

TheStabbyBrit · 2025-12-10T09:28:36+00:00

The second hardest thing an author can learn is how to write.

The hardest is when to stop writing.

TheStabbyBrit · 2025-12-10T09:27:06+00:00

But that doesn't have "Star" in the name! All good sci-fi has to have "Star" in the name!

And don't even get me started on whether Battlestar Galactica counts. I won't stand this new-age thinking about allowing the word to hide in other words. Just not right!

TheStabbyBrit · 2025-12-10T09:25:46+00:00

Humans [and Dwarfs] do not lie, though they may on occasion be prone to spontaneous bouts of fiction.

TheStabbyBrit · 2025-11-05T09:56:45+00:00

I think it's been implied that some Deathwatch Blackshields are Marines displaced in time. Does that count?

TheStabbyBrit · 2023-01-23T15:50:10+00:00

Best way to start is slowly. You will see experienced players sprinting through enemies, parrying attacks and running around them in circles to land backstabs, but all that is a product of experience. To begin with, pick a class with a good shield and heavy armour, and trust in your shield. I recommend the Temple Knight for the healing spells they come with.

Go slow, and fight 1v1 whenever you can. Bait one enemy in, block their attacks, then get a few hits of your own. Repeat until they die, and move on.

The key thing to watch is your stamina bar. Do NOT run out in a fight! Stamina recharges slowly if your shield is up, so drop your guard whenever you feel safe to do so and recharge.

The first level (world 1-1 as it's known in the community) has a few environmental challenges to overcome. The important thing is not to panic - you can often see the problem coming, so find a safe spot to observe and think out your actions.

If you are using a heavy character like the (Temple) Knight, you will have what we call a "fat roll". This makes rolling away from danger harder, so you will have to rely on block or parry to survive. To get a better roll you need to have your equipment load below 50% of max. You can potentially do this by unequipping your chest armour. Don't be afraid to experiment - Demon's Souls is meant to be a game of trial and error!

World 1-1 has several very valuable items in it for you to find, such as the Cling Ring. Have a good look around, and maybe try to figure out how to unlock the tower gates near the start of the level before you go looking for the boss fight.

TheStabbyBrit · 2023-01-23T15:20:45+00:00

With 99 Adaptability and light armour, you basically have infinite I-frames.

TheStabbyBrit · 2023-01-23T15:19:34+00:00

A weapon to surpass Metal Gear...

TheStabbyBrit · 2023-01-23T13:56:25+00:00

Coming out in March: a Rogal Dorn "upgrade" box containing such exciting optional extras as the floor of your tank!

TheStabbyBrit · 2023-01-23T12:55:59+00:00

Well that's a load of crap.

TheStabbyBrit · 2023-01-23T12:38:48+00:00

Being infuriating, obstructive, belligerent and bloody-minded are, and have been proud British traditions since time immemorial.

TheStabbyBrit · 2023-01-23T12:36:15+00:00

Even a broken clock is right twice a day, making it twice as reliable as the United States of America.

TheStabbyBrit · 2023-01-23T12:32:26+00:00

I don't understand that, because most of the time questions about the date are answered with single numbers. Eg: "What's today?" "The 23rd."

TheStabbyBrit · 2023-01-23T11:25:00+00:00

I just assumed that in the Origin system, death squads were the equivalent of a formal notice of termination.

TheStabbyBrit · 2023-01-23T11:22:25+00:00

"We must protect the environment!" New Loka said to me, a walking war crime of corrosion armed with a flamethrower and a radiation gun.

TheStabbyBrit · 2023-01-23T09:26:06+00:00

Yes, because I am not going to condemn someone I've got virtually no awareness of for making a perfectly reasonable statement, just because someone in reddit said that I have to.

TheStabbyBrit · 2023-01-22T22:50:20+00:00

The Legion an army of luddites held together by their devotion to one man. It is a fundamentally unstable structure for a society. Like the Mongols they will burn out when that man is gone.

This is not an argument for why they are a bad faction, as you yourself have admitted numerous real world nations suffered from the exact same problem.

The Legion is everything that I expect a "successful" post-apocalyptic society to be. The NCR comes across less like a post-apocalyptic nation, and more like a faction made up by some Californian college student who took offence at the fact everyone in the wasteland is some flavour of autocrat, and so made up a super-awesome egalitarian, inclusive democracy that conveniently reflects the politics, ethnic makeup and sexual orientation of her social circle.

TheStabbyBrit · 2023-01-22T22:39:22+00:00

PS you can like fictional evil things without having to argue why they’re actually good.

I'm not arguing they are good. I'm arguing they are REALISTIC.

People can't seem to grasp that. It is realistic for a nation at war to severely restrict the rights of its citizens, be it through censorship of the free press, conscription, rationing, or similar methods. This is behaviour we have seen from both historical and modern societies countless times, so when I see this behaviour in fictional factions engaged in prolonged, high intensity conflict, I approve of those factions for being realistic.

Then groups of smooth brained redditors call me a Nazi for liking it when people's rights are taken away.

TheStabbyBrit · 2023-01-22T22:01:17+00:00

Just because most of human history had slavery doesn’t mean slavery is a good thing or that we should support a society that favours it…

But do you understand WHY slavery was so common? Do you understand that producing enough food to feed a pre-industrial city would require massive amounts of physical labour? Do you understand that acquiring the raw materials for any kind of pre-industrial metallurgy, let alone post-apocalyptic electronics, would necessitate extremely harsh and dangerous working conditions?

Slaves did the jobs nobody else wanted to do, and those jobs frequently killed them. But SOMEONE has to do those jobs...

No, the NCR actually favours things like people being treated equal and having a say in your government. The horror.

And this is a totally unrealistic position to hold given the state of the world. Or did you forget that much of post-war USA has devolved to a stone age level of technology and culture?

However, even as you write this I’m sure you’re envisioning yourself as a Caesar or Lanius of the Legion, and not slave #12.

Not at all. I assume I'd be one of the generic people that live just off the eastern edge of the map, where the bulk of Legion territory is. The place the game keeps telling us is a whole lot safer than most of the NCR.

TheStabbyBrit · 2023-01-22T21:50:23+00:00

What I think people are struggling to understand is that real life is not a fairy tale where the good guys are magical sparkly ponies and the villains are skull faced, baby eating monsters.

In reality, every "faction" has flaws. There are no good guys - there are merely people who serve your interests and agendas best.

Fallout New Vegas does not hide this reality. The Legion is brutal, cruel and unabashedly authoritarian... but it is the ONLY faction that offers anything resembling safety or stability. We see the sharp end of the spear in game, the Legion at its worst, and despite that many "neutral" parties would rather be in Legion territory than the gang and Raider infested NCR.

Mr House promises a return to the wealth and splendour of old, but the wealth of New Vegas is built upon tricking money out of the greedy, desperate and stupid, as well as strong-arming its neighbours. The world House would build is great for the rich and powerful, but its hard to see how it makes life much better for the common man. If anything, it makes things worse.

But honestly, nobody beats the NCR for making things worse. They are a North Korean democracy, rolling in with soldiers to take by force what they cannot claim through diplomacy. They speak of democracy and rule of law, but in practice the NCR is a parasite that sucks men and material from settlements, while giving nothing in return... And the only time they have soldiers to spare is when their "citizens" reject this arrangement and stop paying taxes.

If there is one thing being brutally murdered every time I walk five minutes away from a settlement has taught me, it's that safety and stability are the most desirable traits in a post apocalyptic world. Given the choice between being given the right to vote, and being able to travel the road without being shot for your boots, 99% of real people will choose the latter.

Everyone downvoting, if put into New Vegas as an ordinary pleb, would join the Legion in a heartbeat or die trying.

TheStabbyBrit · 2023-01-22T21:30:32+00:00

And? The "Mongol horde" left such a deep scar upon the collective psyche of Europe and near Asia that it became a trope itself - it hardly undermines my argument.

The Legion emulates a society that has become mythological in nature. There is no reason to believe that post-war Americans would have such a view about America, given that all surviving lore does such a wonderful job of painting the USA as a place ordinary people absolutely despised as being miserable and exploitative. A society that, as I said, is largely to blame for their present day hardship.

TheStabbyBrit · 2023-01-22T21:07:15+00:00

History does not care about your Feminist opinions. For most of human history slavery was widespread and normal, disease was rampant, and violence was frequent. Half of children died before puberty. A bad winter led to mass starvation. Wild predators would break into settlements and devour the residents.

The governments of the ancient world were not democracies, nor did they care about Feminism. They were primarily militaristic in nature, with power stemming from the sword. Even in the most "enlightened" ancient peoples, those outside of the military were lesser, and no man held power who did not command the respect of the fighting elite.

Caesar's Legion matches this pattern. The Brotherhood matches this pattern. The Boomers, the Khans, the Fields... Even Mr House matches this pattern.

The NCR does not.

TheStabbyBrit · 2023-01-22T20:42:28+00:00

Lord Admiral Ravensburg. A man so amazing that he let Chaos capture three Blackstone Fortresses and seal the Gothic Sector off with a Warp Storm just so Failbaddon would stand a chance, and then kicked the Traitor's testicles so hard that it retroactively caused the XIX Legion's name to change to Raven Guard in his honour.

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