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Falukorv posted:I like Hamiltons idea too. If my hours spent playing Sid Meier's PIrates! are historically correct, English Governors would not only pardon you for acts of piracy against whichever nations they were at war with but also give you gold, land, and let you marry their daughters. Letters of Marque were real enough though. However I'm pretty sure if that game were accurate Flint could lose all his men in an assault on the fort, but still manage to capture the fort by beating Vane in a sword fight. Now that I think about it, when Flint and Vane do come to blows it should be that epic. PaybackJack fucked around with this message at 14:24 on Feb 16, 2015 |
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Falukorv posted:I like Hamiltons idea too. Yeah they sort of did like 200 years before, but they all did it, the Dutch, French, Spanish. The English used them for a long time due to having no real Navy, the Royal Navy wasn't founded until 1660. The Spanish and Portuguese had been pulling gold and poo poo out of the americas for about a 160 years. During the lead up to the golden age it was out of hand, so they killed most of them. Rocksicles fucked around with this message at 14:23 on Feb 16, 2015 |
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Falukorv posted:I like Hamiltons idea too. My brother's a history guy, and he says that there was a pardoning from whoever was king back then. Hornigold (the real guy) took the offer, and Vane didn't. After a while, Hornigold noticed that there were still pirates cruising the waters and got to work for the British as a sort of pirate hunter. I'm not the historian, I don't have any sources. I just think it sounds badass.
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Tokubetsu posted:My favorite scene tonight was definitely the one where Silver learns just how miserable of a person Flint is. Then it gets reinforced with his decision to fire at the end. That was an amazing scene. He was just staring into his eyes and taunting him about how he felt about himself. This season owns.
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Horse Divorce posted:My brother's a history guy, and he says that there was a pardoning from whoever was king back then. Hornigold (the real guy) took the offer, and Vane didn't. After a while, Hornigold noticed that there were still pirates cruising the waters and got to work for the British as a sort of pirate hunter. It was King George in 1717.
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 Horse Divorce posted:My brother's a history guy, and he says that there was a pardoning from whoever was king back then. Hornigold (the real guy) took the offer, and Vane didn't. After a while, Hornigold noticed that there were still pirates cruising the waters and got to work for the British as a sort of pirate hunter.
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Feb 17, 2015 00:37
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Team Flint has John SIlver so I'm fully in that camp
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If memory serves Vane did take the pardon when he was captured and then immediately stole a ship and restarted a - pirating once he got to shore. Not that the show is following history very well anyways. Vane was dead for years before Low was lost at sea.
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Feb 17, 2015 02:22
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Team Rackham.
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CODChimera posted:Team Rackham. If my computer with photoshop wasn't a flight away I would be on this as we speak.
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CODChimera posted:Team Rackham. I think Flint is a more interesting character than Vane, but that is not exactly saying a lot. Rackham on the other hand is the best character on the show.
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Team Naft 'Flint. Flint. Vane. Vane. Plant. Plant. It's the fuckin' same!'
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Is that a Twilight joke? In that case, #holyfuckteamVane.
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SaltLick posted:Team Flint has John SIlver so I'm fully in that camp It's pretty funny, I still remember how at the beginning of season 1 pretty much nobody (including myself) liked Silver at all. But by now he's somehow managed to pull me over on his side through sheer smarminess. It's like we're the crew and every time he appears on screen he's doing his morning address  Also, obviously team Gates forever 
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Feb 17, 2015 12:27
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Perestroika posted:It's pretty funny, I still remember how at the beginning of season 1 pretty much nobody (including myself) liked Silver at all. But by now he's somehow managed to pull me over on his side through sheer smarminess. It's like we're the crew and every time he appears on screen he's doing his morning address The best part is how he keeps flat out stating that he gives no fucks about anything other than getting paid and will stab you in the back the moment you are between him and getting paid, or even the moment he sees a better opportunity to get paid and you need a stabbing for this to work out.
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Yeah but #teamforearms is about the crew. Pirate union: We care man
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Orange Devil posted:The best part is how he keeps flat out stating that he gives no fucks about anything other than getting paid and will stab you in the back the moment you are between him and getting paid, or even the moment he sees a better opportunity to get paid and you need a stabbing for this to work out. Flint's not worried, he read the book.
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Team Vane has Eleanor. It is a bad team.
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If I've learned anything, like half the people on Team Vane are there because of her and her occasional nude scenes. If Max picks a side, it's over.
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Is it a pirate rule you have to give up your coat when you're deposed as captain?
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nooneofconsequence posted:Is it a pirate rule you have to give up your coat when you're deposed as captain? you cant let a man walk around with such a glorious coat if he isnt captain.
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You need to be a no bollocks taking motherfucker to wear that in the Caribbean sun
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HUGE SPACEKABLOOIE posted:#TeamFlintsCoat Team up with #teamjacksshades and poo poo yeah.
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Now we need a gif wizard to retool that gif of the two dudes sitting at a table with a third suddenly showing up to flip it but replace the sitting guys' faces with Flint and Vane and the flippant's with Duke Rack'em.
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Uh, i was browsing wikipedia to see if i recognized Toby Stephens (Flint) from somewhere, because i vaguely recognize him from somewhere. Uh, i found out that his Maggie Smith's son. I was very surprised, but most of you probably know that already. Falukorv fucked around with this message at 19:34 on Feb 18, 2015 |
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If you saw the last terrible Pierce Brosnan Bond movie, he plays the villain in it.
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Party Plane Jones posted:If you saw the last terrible Pierce Brosnan Bond movie, he plays the villain in it. Disagree. That was the most Bond, Bond movie there was. It was the natural conclusion of everything that makes a James Bond movie. He fights the sub boss who has diamonds permanently embedded in his face, in an Ice Palace and the sword fight with Graves(Flint) is hilariously awesome. He plays a Korean man who's had reconstructive surgery in order to look like a British industrialist. It's great in that it's so awful, it's fantastic.
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I love how over the top this show is. I didn't realize that the second season had started, so I binge watched the last four episodes. Holy poo poo is Flint hot. When do we get to see him naked? 
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Mouse Dresser posted:Holy poo poo is Flint hot. When do we get to see him naked? The coat never comes off, Flynt married that coat and unless someone puts a sword to his throat that ain't changing any time soon.
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This was probably discussed in the last thread, but the music composer for the show has a fantastic blog on making the music for the show: http://www.bearmccreary.com/#info-center/black-sails
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tastychicken posted:I'm with #teamHurdyGurdy The hurdy gurdy is arguably the greatest musical instrument ever.
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thegreatcodfish posted:This was probably discussed in the last thread, but the music composer for the show has a fantastic blog on making the music for the show: http://www.bearmccreary.com/#info-center/black-sails I know this is only tangentially related, but it's one of the most interesting things I've seen a musician do. He made the theme to Da Vinci's Demons palindromic. Bear McCreary is a badass. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_ymDF3CdBc&t=161s
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Falukorv posted:Uh, i was browsing wikipedia to see if i recognized Toby Stephens (Flint) from somewhere, because i vaguely recognize him from somewhere. Uh, i found out that his Maggie Smith's son. I was very surprised, but most of you probably know that already. He's also one of the people on the corporate retreat in the British horror movie "Severance". Which was on Netflix streaming forever, but is currently not up.
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You talking about tonight's, or last week's?' I'll be disappointed if we don't get some fighting tonight.
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