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Is the previous round of voting even finished?  I think y'all are getting ahead of yourselves again.In case I'm wrong, I vote for Death Race. VV Yeah I gotta go with Defiance here. Mackies don't have hatchets; therefore, I do not see the appeal. 
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jng2058 posted:AH, but when going Davion is also going Kurita? With ADVANCED MACKIES? I think you need to reconsider that opinion, friend. None of those things you just said are appealing in any way. Going Kurita has meant being House Davion's more ineffectual counterpart since, what, 3050?
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Aug 1, 2013 20:05
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The voting isn't even open yet, but I still can't see how you all could want anything other than clanner death race.
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Aug 1, 2013 20:50
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Remember folks a vote for the Confederation is a vote for heinous war crimes! And we all know those are fun to play out in a purely fictional game with no connection to the real world, so vote for them!
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Aug 1, 2013 20:58
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Defiance Industries posted:None of those things you just said are appealing in any way. Going Kurita has meant being House Davion's more ineffectual counterpart since, what, 3050? Then you have no soul. But since you're a Lyran corporate shill, I suppose that goes without saying.  Mind you, I'm not advocating voting Drac Suns if the Clan Death race is still an option, but neither should we dismiss the Suns out of hand due to some misguided Lyran prejudice. Drac Suns Mackies would be beautiful and there's nothing you Davion-haters can say will change that.
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Aug 1, 2013 22:36
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jng2058 posted:Clan Death race For a minute or so there, I had forgotten about there being an actual scenario we were calling 'Clan Death Race' and just started visualizing an actual Clan based on the movie characters. Khan Frankenstein would have owned.
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Aug 1, 2013 23:52
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MadDogMike posted:Bah, the most memorable Taurian stuff is just them acting like Death Commandos atrocity-wise but not being nearly as cool (especially since they do it out of paranoia; what's cool about terrified lunatics?). Sure, they aren't always like that, but isn't this during the reign of one of the more paranoid Protectors? Or did he get knocked out already; can't remember this thread's BT canon too well on the Periphery. See I was just drawn in by the prospect of southern-themed, if only because someone called them Space Texans, Mechwarrior's because there is the chance, however remote, of having a group of tank commanders or Mechwarriors that act exactly like the Duke Boys.
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anakha posted:For a minute or so there, I had forgotten about there being an actual scenario we were calling 'Clan Death Race' and just started visualizing an actual Clan based on the movie characters. Being the Clans (and requiring that Frankenstein be his bloodname), he would of course be Khan Racist Frankenstein
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Aug 2, 2013 03:23
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Never not vote FWL.
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Aug 2, 2013 04:42
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jng2058 posted:Then you have no soul. But since you're a Lyran corporate shill, I suppose that goes without saying. I don't have to change anything. If anyone's in need of some alchemy, it's you, trying to make House Davion seem interesting.
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Aug 2, 2013 05:16
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KnoxZone posted:I think it is about time we vote Draconis Suns. Unleash the Mackie. No, we should play the secret FWL Cyborg Commandos. Why FWL cyborg commandos? Because I said so. Clearly they're closet Blakists.
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Aug 2, 2013 10:01
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Marik was already the "racist against cyborgs" faction, and the WoB didn't help things. They'd never have managed to get Parliament to fund a Cyber-Commando program, let alone one that reached Mark IV style... MOTHAFUCKA!
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Aug 2, 2013 10:19
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Defiance Industries posted:Marik was already the "racist against cyborgs" faction, and the WoB didn't help things. They'd never have managed to get Parliament to fund a Cyber-Commando program, let alone one that reached Mark IV style... MOTHAFUCKA! But maybe in this alternate universe, they have no choice but to use an experimental unit of SAFE agents, crippled by war, rebuilt by man. In BATTLETECH: BLOOD DRAGON.
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Aug 2, 2013 12:06
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Not "The Six Million CBill Mechwarrior"?
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Aug 2, 2013 16:40
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Shoeless posted:Not "The Six Million CBill Mechwarrior"? Justin Xiang/Allard already exists  e: though I forget whether or not he has a cyberfist in PTN's timeline, so I dunno
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Shoeless posted:Not "The Six Million CBill Mechwarrior"? A six-million C-Bill MechWarrior is "a guy in a Warhammer," and there's already a ton of stuff about that guy.
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Aug 2, 2013 22:05
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I don't follow. I brought it up as a mechwarrior whose transformation from normal mechwarrior to cyborg cost 6 million cbills. This has nothing to do with what mech he pilots.
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MJ12 posted:No, we should play the secret FWL Cyborg Commandos. Secret Canopian Cyborg Commandos (they actually exist.)
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Aug 3, 2013 14:48
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jng2058 posted:Drac Suns Mackies would be beautiful
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Shoeless posted:I don't follow. I brought it up as a mechwarrior whose transformation from normal mechwarrior to cyborg cost 6 million cbills. This has nothing to do with what mech he pilots. I think it's what is known as a "joke". This kind of device (or method, the records aren't really clear) seems to have been used to distract opponents before murdering them. At least, that's all we can glean from the few examples left in the memory core.
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Aug 3, 2013 17:02
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It's true. Here's an example: "Knock Knock" "Who's there?" "The Blessed Blake."' "The Blessed Blake who?" "The Blessed Blake who will murder you if you continue to decrypt this memory core." Been effective so far! As a security precaution, the jokes are stored in ROM.
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TildeATH posted:I think it's what is known as a "joke". This kind of device (or method, the records aren't really clear) seems to have been used to distract opponents before murdering them. At least, that's all we can glean from the few examples left in the memory core. Oh. Darn, guess it just went over my head. See my great great granddad told me about jokes (don't tell Comstar!), but according to him jokes were supposed to be funny. Guess that's why I didn't recognize it. I'm just messing with everyone, please don't take this as an actual jab at DI.
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Shoeless posted:Oh. Darn, guess it just went over my head. See my great great granddad told me about jokes (don't tell Comstar!), but according to him jokes were supposed to be funny. Guess that's why I didn't recognize it. The state of being known as "funny" is a mystery to scientists throughout the Inner Sphere ever since records relating to humor were obliterated in the wake of Operation Holy Shroud. Recently researchers at NAIS claimed to have rediscovered this "humor" that is said to be in some sense connected to being "funny," but peer review has shown that this was in fact a dedicated psychological warfare operation by the Ministry of Information, Intelligence, and Operations; the "humorous documents" that the researchers "discovered" turned out to be copies of General Thomas Hogarth's service record, and were designed to embarrass the Draconis Suns' premiere filmmaker. That said service records did in fact cause laughter in test subjects remains as yet unexplained.
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Interesting. You know about TSH? Triple-Strength Humor? The Fedsuns deployed it against the Capellans, didn't they? But it was a trap, when activated the supposed humor only led to bad racial stereotype jokes, which left them embarrassed and easily defeated by the Suns. Apparently the CC are working on a version that actually works, if they succeed their jokes can be told at 150% normal speed and cause twice as much hilarity!
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No discussion of the history of comedy in the Inner Sphere is complete if we don't include Alexander Kerensky's epic tour where he reportedly told "The Aristocrats" in every comedy club from the Periphery to Terra.
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Aug 3, 2013 17:58
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I'd mention Clan jokes, but by this point they've been thoroughly overdone. Twice. In half the time.
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AJ_Impy posted:I'd mention Clan jokes, but by this point they've been thoroughly overdone. Twice. In half the time. You know what's funny? People should be getting really steamed about the whole Clan jokes thing, but for some reason you can keep telling them and they seem to make people less heated than you'd expect.
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TildeATH posted:No discussion of the history of comedy in the Inner Sphere is complete if we don't include Alexander Kerensky's epic tour where he reportedly told "The Aristocrats" in every comedy club from the Periphery to Terra. Don't forget his son's attempt at a follow-up tour. It was 30 minutes of a man with brain damage yelling about honor that concluded with him making GBS threads himself.
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Defiance Industries posted:Don't forget his son's attempt at a follow-up tour. It was 30 minutes of a man with brain damage yelling about honor that concluded with him making GBS threads himself. No, it concluded with him making GBS threads on the entire audience, then rolling around in it, then making THEM roll around in it. Then they all went off and kept running through the same routine for a thousand years.
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TildeATH posted:You know what's funny? People should be getting really steamed about the whole Clan jokes thing, but for some reason you can keep telling them and they seem to make people less heated than you'd expect.  Had to appreciate this one.
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Aug 3, 2013 21:39
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AtomikKrab posted:Secret Canopian Cyborg Commandos (they actually exist.) Also a valid compromise. In general any scenario which allows the players to be cyborg commandos is awesome and should be chosen.
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Aug 3, 2013 21:50
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We haven't had a single scenario with the Duchy of New Syrtis yet, I want to see how their war with the Capellans is going now that House Liao has backed off of invading House Marik.
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MJ12 posted:Also a valid compromise. In general any scenario which allows the players to be cyborg commandos is awesome and should be chosen. Crazy Joe Wilson posted:We haven't had a single scenario with the Duchy of New Syrtis yet, I want to see how their war with the Capellans is going now that House Liao has backed off of invading House Marik. The Ebon Magistrate is always cool, but I think Amaris replaced the Canopians this time around. Still leaves us with Capellan commandos (maybe even with the myomer implants the Capellans helped pioneer  ) stomping on New Syrtis.
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Crazy Joe Wilson posted:We haven't had a single scenario with the Duchy of New Syrtis yet, I want to see how their war with the Capellans is going now that House Liao has backed off of invading House Marik. We also haven't had a single scenario with the best faction of them all; Clan Ghost Bear 
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Bad Moon posted:We also haven't had a single scenario with the best faction of them all; Clan Ghost Bear You misspelled Goliath Scorpion. The Besides, the faction that focuses on targeting computers and clan energy weapons is clearly capable of capturing the Inner Sphere on it's own.
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fool_of_sound posted:You misspelled Goliath Scorpion. The Clan Large Pulse Laser & Targeting Computer sounds like my new favorite clan. Their totem can just be an anthropomorphic LPL wearing glasses named Larry.
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Moving everything into a new thread is probably a mountain of work for ol' Poptarts and I don't envy his position right now. Once things kick back into gear, though, I wouldn't mind seeing some of the oft-ignored options getting some play in the near future. We've ignored the Highlanders for forever. And Syrtis. And Taurians. And Pirates. I'm pretty sure there's others we've ignored so hard that I've already forgotten them.
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If he was creating a second thread, he wouldn't move everything to it I don't think. He'd just link back to the old one and pick up from there. Moving everything that is in this thread to a new one would just have the same problems he's currently facing.
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T.G. Xarbala posted:Moving everything into a new thread is probably a mountain of work for ol' Poptarts and I don't envy his position right now. Do the Northwind Highlanders even exist as a unified, coherent force at the moment? The last I remember of them in this narrative, they were scattered to the four winds by the Capellans (following their role as scapegoats in Justin/Romano's Plan to kill ol' Mad Max).
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He just needs a sweet rear end recap video. "Last time, on non-canon Battletech!"
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