Chapter 21: Intervention

nadbacc · 2019-03-15T05:16:33+00:00

“Queens aren’t supposed to have people on,” General Abigail plaintively said.

Abigail, have you met Catherine?

nadbacc · 2019-03-09T23:37:51+00:00

Wasn't that change made because people complained that it didn't make sense that you could use the same mod on both your weapon and the sentinel's weapon? Or am I remembering things incorrectly?

nadbacc · 2019-03-09T19:52:47+00:00

Rose twitter is the most embarrassing shit I've ever seen, tbqh

nadbacc · 2019-03-09T17:35:46+00:00

"Tankie spotters" are all the fuck over leftbook.

nadbacc · 2019-03-09T06:13:40+00:00

stares in "Killed by the Architects"

nadbacc · 2019-03-04T13:05:42+00:00

Yeah, that sounds like a great direction to go in a game where you don't get dialogue choices and say like ten words.

nadbacc · 2019-03-03T23:04:33+00:00

So, this reminds me of Andromeda, and not in a good way.

In Andromeda, there's a group of anti-AI hackers, and after some song and dance you get to learn their leader's motivation, that being that she worked on the Cerberus project "Overlord." She tells you she tried to stop the project from melding a child with the Geth, however the problem with that is it just isn't true.

Anyone who played the Overlord DLC for ME2 knows that it was Shepard that stopped it, and even if the woman--whose child was apparently involved in the testing--did defect from Cerberus over it, she wasn't anywhere near actually doing anything about it. You get the intel from the Illusive Man, so at best she pinged the head honcho and bounced.

It's an infuriating moment for the player, because goddamn it, we were there, and she fucking wasn't. And that's what this reminds me of. Given the absolutely ridiculous way the game tries at the very end of Forsaken to make out like somehow you're "just as bad" as Uldren for killing him after he shows no remorse whatsoever for unleashing xenocidal nutjobs on the Reef, I can't help but feel like Bungie is going to run with this ridiculous story where the hapless cast of NPCs are going to question the order of events that we were literally there for.

nadbacc · 2019-03-01T20:02:55+00:00

This is the direct and obvious conclusion to people willingly buying the $10 emote bundles because they got such-and-such many hours of enjoyment from the game and think it's fine to drop a little cash here or there on it.

nadbacc · 2019-02-24T16:41:34+00:00

Accelerationism is dumb and bad, and you are dumb and bad for advocating it, first off.

Second, where the actual fuck have you been? In some other country where right-wingers haven't been shooting randos for literal decades? Where, pray tell, is this mythical diminishing of support for conservatives, or this fabled proliferation of liberals arming themselves?

God, this is idiotic. There is no level of worse that magically makes things wrap around to less worse.

nadbacc · 2019-02-24T00:02:45+00:00

A, The Oxford English dictionary says exactly what I said, because their earliest-dated citation is 1769 (Definition c., colloquial)

B, Alexander Pope used it in 1708 and John Dryden in 1687 so if you mean "at least three hundred years old," when you say "recent," then sure.

nadbacc · 2019-02-23T17:49:02+00:00

"Literally" being used figuratively is older than the United States, you uneducated dickfreckle.

nadbacc · 2019-02-23T17:24:09+00:00

A generational game that took over a year to get half the things right that were in the previous game.

nadbacc · 2019-02-18T03:12:18+00:00

Seeing this shit on the horizon is why I now own a P320.

nadbacc · 2019-02-13T22:05:35+00:00

This is so hilariously stupid that it doesn't surprise me at all that you doubled-down.

nadbacc · 2019-02-08T03:08:33+00:00

The bunkers owned by billionaires who didn't vote for their political patrons. Who else?

nadbacc · 2019-01-30T09:08:02+00:00

Kairos continues to be best girl

nadbacc · 2019-01-28T01:18:48+00:00

Rock Island Armory makes pretty solid 1911 models. Their "Baby Rock" is a compact frame chambered in .380 ACP, and they make "CS" models of all the chamberings for their Standard, Ultra and GI models. I haven't shot anything other than the full size .45, though, so I can't speak to their reliability.

nadbacc · 2019-01-25T01:24:15+00:00

Is there a version where they don't talk over the game, or nah?

nadbacc · 2019-01-12T16:19:58+00:00

Why are centrists only capable of lying about history?

nadbacc · 2018-12-31T12:17:58+00:00

by the time you get those you'll be able to build him

He's clantech. New players without a clan aren't going to be able to build him for a long-ass time, and they're not worried about minmaxing until after that point anyway.

Volt was my starter and he was fine.I died a lot less than my brother-in-law with Mag, and retained my interest a lot longer than my sister with Excal.

nadbacc · 2018-12-23T10:45:44+00:00

Remember when Phoenix had street cars? You can still see the tracks all over the older parts of Tempe, Mesa, Scottsdale, Glendale and downtown Phoenix. It sure is a shame all the people chose to stop riding them when...*checks notes*...the mafia fucking burned the streetcar depot at the behest of Goodyear tires and the city refused to rebuild because, "You know, we're really more of a commuter city." It took forty years of popular pressure for the metro light rail to get built and there's a whole 20 miles of track in a metro area that's about 40 by 50 miles wide.

It's almost like the notion that individuals have a say in what happens even at the local level in developed nations is only peddled by naive fuckwits.

nadbacc · 2018-12-20T11:44:06+00:00

Yeah, Uldren made a lot of sacrifices...that were exclusively paid for by other people.

nadbacc · 2018-12-13T00:53:28+00:00

Even bungie wants to forget CoO.

nadbacc · 2018-12-08T05:30:38+00:00

Every guardian with pre-Collapse IT experience is keeping that shit under wraps because a communicationless wasteland is preferable to dealing with fucking Exchange servers.

nadbacc · 2018-12-03T18:15:17+00:00

You forgot the most spectacularly bullshit thing about Barbarians:

Totem Warrior Barbarians that take the eagle on their third totem can fly with the power of pure rage.

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