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Hello new background.
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Feb 18, 2016 06:42
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drat the Caesar in Gaul Spartacus sequel is looking wierd as hell.
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Feb 18, 2016 09:50
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Uh can someone elaborate on what that is because it looks fuckin awesome
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Feb 19, 2016 07:34
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It's a painting someone did for fun, first thing I thought of when I read space pirates  Here's another:  Pretty sure those are the only two the artist did, sadly. To my knowledge it's not tied to any show or anything, which is a shame.
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Feb 19, 2016 07:46
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How are those not already modded into XCom 2?
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Feb 19, 2016 08:06
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VDay posted:How are those not already modded into XCom 2? Seriously. The arnold is the only good mod atm.
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Feb 19, 2016 08:43
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Hells yeah, when at the end of this week's episode, after Flint convinced the Queen into a partnership with him and his crew, they concluded it by returning The Motherfucking Coat of Legend to him as his crew got released. Like a bawse. CrazyLoon fucked around with this message at 12:22 on Feb 20, 2016 |
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Feb 20, 2016 12:20
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CrazyLoon posted:Hells yeah, when at the end of this week's episode, after Flint convinced the Queen into a partnership with him and his crew, they concluded it by returning The Motherfucking Coat of Legend to him as his crew got released. Is there some combination of  and  we could get or maybe just someone with emote talent come up with a :blackcoat: emote for me to buy?
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Feb 20, 2016 14:53
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If you're reading this and you're unsure about starting/continuing to watch this show: 1. Season one mostly sucks 2. Season two is much better. Seriously, it has the stuff you came here for. 3. It's totally worth it to trudge through s1 to get to s2, but if you're really hating s1 you can skip it without too much consequence. I can understand their being a low viewership at first (the show really does take a while to get going), but gently caress it really should be more popular than it is.
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Feb 20, 2016 21:59
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Season 1, in retrospect, suffers a great deal from having a pretty loose structure over 8 episodes. It's almost like a collection of scenes and events that start, lurch towards one direction, then head somewhere else. Even the central theme of the treasure hunt is that way, in how the preparations go for it, and yeah...that can definitely be frustrating.
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Feb 20, 2016 22:26
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What are those black spheres the urca gold was converted to?
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Feb 21, 2016 05:43
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Holyshoot posted:What are those black spheres the urca gold was converted to? Black pearls. I really liked the scene with Flint's big speech half in shadow.
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Feb 21, 2016 05:48
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They had no money in season one so you get like 2 episodes of boatin, gotta fill that time up with something. It's still really good tv.
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Feb 21, 2016 06:48
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I think we're about to see some hardcore piratin' sometime in the next several weeks.
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Feb 21, 2016 08:12
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Invalid Validation posted:They had no money in season one so you get like 2 episodes of boatin, gotta fill that time up with something. It's still really good tv. I agree with whoever said playing Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag was a good primer to this show. Even if you don't care about the genre, AssCreed4 is a really fun game despite the name sounding like something a middleschooler would come up with in their creative writing class. AssCreed kicked off my interest in pirate history, and its cool seeing some of the real life pirates make appearances in Black Sails. Though don't think that writing in Mary Reed would make the overall story anymore interesting unless they give her a big arc, but I might just be acting cynical at this point.
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Feb 21, 2016 09:34
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Airborne Viking posted:If you're reading this and you're unsure about starting/continuing to watch this show: Nah.
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Feb 21, 2016 10:50
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I liked season 1 Season 2 is better but 1 was pretty decent
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Feb 21, 2016 13:28
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I like Season 1 too. But yeah, I like it for its specific scenes moreso than the overall narrative (even if I liked the deconstruction of Flint's "I am your king!" a lot). As for specific scenes, there's many of them in Season 1 I still love a great deal. Silver getting: "You're a thief!" thrown in his face over and over. Andromache fight (really liked Dyford's actor). Gates confronting Flint on what happened to Billy. The first fraying between Eleanor and Hornigold, when they have to set up the consortium. A lot of good stuff in Season 1, just yeah...best treat it as a series of events without a central theme yet formed and is hence skippable if you're really short on time, I'd agree on that. After all, Season 2 is when The Coat finally makes its legendary appearance. CrazyLoon fucked around with this message at 13:58 on Feb 21, 2016 |
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Feb 21, 2016 13:46
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I was half expecting Vane to be adopted by Inigo Montoya's snazzy waistcoat. Those old timey Spanish sure know how to throw a leather garment together.
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Feb 21, 2016 14:34
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I thought Season 1 was great. Wasn't everyone pretty positive on it at the time? I didn't like Silver in the first couple of episodes though, and I remember others complaining about him as well.
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Feb 21, 2016 14:41
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Someone on the production team needs to find the 3d files for the opening sequence and upload those somewhere so we can go get those printed. I REALLY want to print out a 3d model of some of those sculptures. gently caress Starz, even just sell a model of the last scene in the titles on your loving website. I'd toss a $100USD at a painted resin model of the pirate and skeleton reaching for the flag.
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Feb 21, 2016 14:52
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Had it's whingers, because it was too slow.
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Feb 21, 2016 14:52
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Rocksicles posted:I was half expecting Vane to be adopted by Inigo Montoya's snazzy waistcoat. I'm glad I'm not the only one to name that Spaniard Inigo.
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Feb 21, 2016 18:06
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They only need to have a French ship getting boarded/involved with the pirates, with their frog-tastic lingo (Max deffo doesn't count), and they'll have hit all 4 of the major powers that were present there during the Age of Sail.
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Feb 21, 2016 18:52
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"We beat the loving game and you want to turn back?" God Jack you coulda just got in the loving boat.
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Feb 21, 2016 22:43
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So what's stopping New Governor Guy and Eleanor from just killing the Spy Maid so she can't report that they're gonna profit off the missing treasure?
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Feb 21, 2016 23:43
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CODChimera posted:I thought Season 1 was great. Wasn't everyone pretty positive on it at the time? It was terribly slow and island politics was not what I wanted from a pirate show. But it turned out that that was all setup for season 2 going balls-out awesome. savinhill posted:So what's stopping New Governor Guy and Eleanor from just killing the Spy Maid so she can't report that they're gonna profit off the missing treasure? Nothing that I could figure out. She hadn't told her handler anything yet since she literally just found out seconds before barging in on them, so while it would be suspicious the spanish spy went missing, it IS an island full of criminals after all.
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Feb 21, 2016 23:53
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savinhill posted:So what's stopping New Governor Guy and Eleanor from just killing the Spy Maid so she can't report that they're gonna profit off the missing treasure? I don't think the spy was threatening to tell the Spanish anything, she was warning them that Spain already knew that some of the gold had been converted into other assets and that Max hadn't really given them everything. Killing her might have been cathartic but it wouldn't have changed their situation at all.
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Feb 22, 2016 00:01
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ShakeZula posted:I don't think the spy was threatening to tell the Spanish anything, she was warning them that Spain already knew that some of the gold had been converted into other assets and that Max hadn't really given them everything. Killing her might have been cathartic but it wouldn't have changed their situation at all. The spanish would have known the gold wasn't all there regardless of what had been done with it. They were going to just claim the pirates ran off with it until the spy found out it had been commoditized and was still around to be reclaimed.
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Feb 22, 2016 00:43
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Is the spanish navy way better then the British navy or does Britain not care enough to mount a defense of the Spanish come knocking for the gold?
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Feb 22, 2016 01:39
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For me, I'm moreso wondering if Blackbeard + Vane intercepting all that information hasn't actually bought Nassau some extra time, at the very least before the next batch of reports are sent back to Spain. Something tells me Spanish ships will come roaring at the end of this season either way, to find out wtf is going on with their gold exactly and get it back any way possible, since they don't trust Woodes as it is. The predictable thing is for Woodes to go into full crackdown mode, likely try to nab and impound whatever he can from Max and will also quite likely nab Jack, who would've otherwise beaten the game, dragging Anne back into all of this too. Then he makes the best show possible, to appease the Spanish (not bloody likely to work)...while Flint/Blackbeard's pirate fleet also likely returns by then and ololol - threeway clusterfuck ensues from there. Another possibility would be Woodes not going full crackdown, maintaining some goodwill while carefully pressing behind closed doors, pirate fleet returns and brits + pirates decide to team up to fend off the Spanish...then probably turn on each other in the last episode or two. In short, this is bound to get mighty complicated from here on out. Holyshoot posted:Is the spanish navy way better then the British navy or does Britain not care enough to mount a defense of the Spanish come knocking for the gold? Ultimately, all of this is Woodes Rogers' private expedition, backed by a Commodore's escort of the Royal Navy. Meaning that *technically*, this is a privateering expedition and not an official British operation, for reasons that Britain probably doesn't want to go to war with Spain over this yet again (a point made in Season 2 by Richard Guthrie, when he makes the point of how reconciliation with Britain will never work, if you piss off Spain and they don't want to risk another war). So Woodes' expedition here is very much all he has. The pardons worked spiffingly, but they're of no use against Spain and he knows for a fact that they'll send 10 ships and 1500 troops to, basically, raze everything to the drat ground and get their gold back. CrazyLoon fucked around with this message at 01:46 on Feb 22, 2016 |
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Feb 22, 2016 01:40
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Does Blackbeard have the big rear end boat (is it the urca? or another ship?) they stole last season?
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Feb 22, 2016 01:49
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Iseeyouseemeseeyou posted:Does Blackbeard have the big rear end boat (is it the urca? or another ship?) they stole last season? Yap. Spanish Man-O-War, name not known. But the true prize The Motherfucking Coat of Legend is, fortunately, still in Flint's possession. So it's gonna be a helluva standoff between them, when they link up again.
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Feb 22, 2016 01:50
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If I were running for office in the Bahamas, i'd wear THE COAT to every single campaign stop. Every time you'd see me, you'd see THE COAT. A guaranteed victory.
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Feb 22, 2016 01:54
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IRQ posted:The spanish would have known the gold wasn't all there regardless of what had been done with it. They were going to just claim the pirates ran off with it until the spy found out it had been commoditized and was still around to be reclaimed. She's not the one who told the Spanish that though, she was telling Rogers that the Spanish had independently become aware of the transactions, and thus that he would not be able to pocket the extra money.
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Feb 22, 2016 03:37
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the one thing ive learned from looking up the final naval battle in season 1 is that this show has awaken an ancient internet blood feud between spanish and english people in the comments
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Feb 22, 2016 06:49
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Dreylad posted:the one thing ive learned from looking up the final naval battle in season 1 is that this show has awaken an ancient internet blood feud between spanish and english people in the comments Well didn't vane say pirates don't attack Spanish vessels because the Spaniards will attack them? Why is that? Does Spain go after pirates harder then Berrian? Seems like Spain would win the argument then!
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Feb 22, 2016 07:43
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Not attack them, they would attack Nassau. Everyone was basically in a proxy war... you don't attack us, but the French, English, everyone else is fine. Nassau being effective an English island, but taken over by pirates. If they invade, it's sort of declaring war. Rocksicles fucked around with this message at 07:54 on Feb 22, 2016 |
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Feb 22, 2016 07:51
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But didn't the information effectively get intercepted by Blackbeard this episode? I mean the guy with the papers offed himself the moment he risked being captured which means that the information must have still been confidential. Doesn't this mean that Roger's is essentially about to gently caress himself over for nothing?
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