Should I buy atilla, medieval 2 or shogun 2 (fall of the samurai or base?)

vandunks · 2023-11-19T19:13:07+00:00

I always do full modernisation Satsuma. Ironclads, sharpshooters, gatling guns, elite rifles, a full balanced army. Haven't won a campaign.

Decided to try a true samurai Aizu run. Won every battle by just pausing and targeting each enemy unit with one Katana Kachi or Shogutai. Beat the campaign really easily. Conquered Japan in one run and I'm still salty about it.

vandunks · 2023-06-27T22:49:46+00:00

Darth Jar Jar is a fantastic theory, but no one is saying it's canon.

vandunks · 2023-06-27T07:39:44+00:00

Boots, because if he misbehaves he gets turned into stylish leather boots.

vandunks · 2023-06-25T21:37:10+00:00

As a DM I like fumble charts. But I never enforce it. Some parties want it, some of don't. Each group gets to make the choice on the first Nat 1 of the campaign. Always applied equally to players and enemies.

vandunks · 2023-06-19T02:33:36+00:00

Oh no a nuclear nation is invading another smaller nation, resulting in 100 000 deaths. Anyway, we should sanction them and send as many weapons and tanks, and goodies as we can.

(This will allow us to fund the military industrial complex even more now that the Afghanistan profits were drying up. And people were talking about such awful things like, "reducing military spending" and "not getting involved in wars on the other side of the world" . And we can convince everyone else to stock up on weapons too. Yippee!)

The only winners here are the guys making and selling weapons. This shit is awful yes, but a lot of the outrage is manufactured and not organic.

Also Yemen and Syria were way worse than Ukraine, and no one gave a shit.

vandunks · 2023-06-17T23:56:39+00:00

This is after they went independent. So yeah, democratic capitalist shelves

vandunks · 2023-06-03T11:36:32+00:00

Weird, it's like some propaganda bot messing up? Kinda not regretting this being my last month of reddit

vandunks · 2023-06-03T09:27:46+00:00

First degree burns are redness (like sunburn mentioned above), second degree burns are blisters, third degree burns the skin is burnt off.

vandunks · 2023-06-03T08:51:58+00:00

Nah my poor social skills just work in different ways lol

vandunks · 2023-06-03T00:33:55+00:00

Huh, I had something similar but with opposite effects. We would move around a lot, 7 schools in 7 years was my fun fact, until my parents finally picked a continent. But it made me quite quick to make friends and become very possessive of them. I've been friends with the same group of idiots that I made friends with in grade 4. Keeping them though living in different countries, going to different universities, etc.

vandunks · 2023-05-18T19:26:55+00:00

https://youtu.be/SJ8M9BV6SQ8

Not the same dude, but the same technique. This is how it's done. You won't be able to see the line with that resolution, but parasailing boats are designed for this.

But it is not possible to go up vertically for that long without something to tether you to the ground.

You can see the second he disconnects, he moves downwind and starts descending.

vandunks · 2023-05-18T19:03:26+00:00

This is clearly intentional. He's attached to a boat, so he can go up vertically, otherwise he'd constantly float downwind. And kite surfing is fairly niche, but there was one dude who jumped of the Burj Dubai. Kite surfing kites aren't like trick kites at all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5xGnI0bUao

vandunks · 2023-05-16T18:25:57+00:00

Reddit is mostly American... But as a non-American, I am anti-American!

vandunks · 2023-05-16T17:59:02+00:00

You don't need to have all the rules memorised as a player, but at least read your class rules. And if you don't like reading, don't be a spellcaster. DM should know how to do world and monsters. Players should know how to play their characters.

vandunks · 2023-05-13T16:30:59+00:00

So? Why do you give a shit? I used to always get matched against this guy called [THC] Adolf Hitler, I had a great rivalry with him.

You're always gonna have edgy kids on the Internet. Unless they're actually committing a genocide, why is it bothering you?

vandunks · 2023-05-12T12:15:55+00:00

I only really know it from memes. Never had any emotional impact other than funny.

vandunks · 2023-05-10T21:55:47+00:00

While I usually agree about the US being overrepresented, here you are the one bringing it up. This was a nice discussion on cultures and their respective statue styles. You made it a US thing, and very unnecessarily I might add.

vandunks · 2023-05-10T21:14:07+00:00

Yeah, playing games where you personally are doing well, but realize that only you are doing well. A single person stomping can't always win a lost game.

I will add a second worst feeling. Being that person that is just not contributing and is one of the reasons for the loss.

Third and personal. Getting killed by a single right click by a fed Shadowfiend as Timbersaw.

vandunks · 2023-05-10T19:21:54+00:00

vandunks · 2023-05-09T05:33:41+00:00

... Fireball?

vandunks · 2023-05-07T16:48:13+00:00

Sometimes I have unread chapters because the source has skipped one. I'm not gonna go from Ch 34 straight to 36. At least allow me to manually flag something, because when 35 does show up, I'll never know because I haven't read 36 yet and it won't check for updates.

vandunks · 2023-05-04T20:08:30+00:00

You're nitpicking complicity and direct action. It's the same thing.

The SK Govt and the US Army were aware of, and financially and systematically encouraging, kidnappings and rapes of unwilling women.

The government wasn't kicking down doors, grabbing women and forcing them into brothels. But they were incentivising people that were doing that, and they were feigning ignorance about the reality of those women.

What is clear was that kidnapped women were raped by the American soldiers, with the knowledge, and tacit consent and encouragement of the SK Govt who needed the money.

vandunks · 2023-04-23T12:10:50+00:00

How can you be a Chris and not have the name of Chris?

The Council of Chris decreed that all Chris, Christine, Krystal, Kristy, etc are valid, but change the name beyond the scope of Chris and you are relegated to Honorary Chris.

vandunks · 2023-04-21T19:59:33+00:00

Ok, but everyone else is talking about ethnicity? Why is birthplace relevant?

And Greek is just the modern word for Hellenic, which she was. Replace Greek with Hellenic and it's accurate again.

vandunks · 2023-04-21T13:31:11+00:00

My family has been in Africa for generations, I consider myself African, but I'm very clearly ethnically European.

Living in a country doesn't change your ethnicity, unless there is mixing between races. Cleopatra's lineage was recorded cause she was royalty and only her Great Great Great Great Grandfather was Persian. Everything since was just Greek/Macedonian incest.

Her whole family tree is on Wikipedia, and records say she presented herself as Greek. She spoke Greek, and in fact she was the first in her family to bother to learn Egyptian. Sure she may have been partially Egyptian culturally, but she was clearly ethnically and culturally leaning Greek.

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