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Ugleb posted:I skipped 18 pages because the previous 20 were low on content and high on defensive rhetoric. Sadly I can't find time to read this all so I'll get to my point.
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spectralent posted:Aww jeez Many cats live long and basically healthy lives with FIV+. It is less serious for a cat, than HIV+ is for a human. However, eventually it will get them. Their ability to fight infections and stuff can be boosted with medication and supplements etc. etc. but at some point they'll get sick with something and not beat it. It's transmitted by deep bite wounds - saliva to blood contact, basically. So outdoor intact males are the ones most likely to both have it and spread it, since their hormones drive them to fight one another for access to food, mates, and territory. Crash, of course, was an outdoor intact male cat, so... Moola posted:Stay safe kitty Yeah he's gonna be in there for at least a week or two. Bare minimum, he needs to heal enough to have the wound above his balls be at a point where the vet can stitch him up, and have his strength up enough to not be super vulnerable to more infections etc. Based on experience, he's going to be sick of being stuck in a bathroom within a few more days, and as he gets stronger, he'll protest about it more. We're thinking about setting up some kind of kennel to house him in the garage or on the patio once he's well enough. Mixing with our cats is not going to be an option since he's FIV+. Once he's fixed, his drive to fight other males should go down, but I don't think we're going to be confident enough that it's safe that we're willing to put our own cats at risk. Cats with FIV+ picked up by local animal control are usually destroyed. But they can make good pets, provided the owner is aware of the possible issues and keeps up with medical care. We're still hopeful we can find a good home for him in a month or two, when he's doing better. His jaw will be healed up enough to remove the wiring in 7-8 weeks, and at that point, he should be good to go.
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Any shitposts I've made in the 40k thread are sincere and made in good faith because shitposting is my natural state
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Terrible Opinions posted:Agreed GW shouldn't be praised for making very timid steps toward be better, just like EA shouldn't be praised if their newer games are technically less bad than Dungeon Keeper Mobile. ea just released the steaming pile of dogshit known as mass effect andromeda so maybe hold your horses there chief!
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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:ea just released the steaming pile of dogshit known as mass effect andromeda so maybe hold your horses there chief!
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Terrible Opinions posted:It's bad but less bad than Dungeon Keeper. Same way that everything GW releases is still bad but not purposely bad legacy armies for AoS bad, or latest Tyranid codex bad. I play eldar; they're pretty good!
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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:ea just released the steaming pile of dogshit known as mass effect andromeda so maybe hold your horses there chief! I like ME:A and think most of the criticisms are people just piling on. The animations are not great. Fine. The game is good and the Multiplayer is top notch.
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TKIY posted:I like ME:A and think most of the criticisms are people just piling on. 
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TKIY posted:I like ME:A and think most of the criticisms are people just piling on. drat you got ownzored by bioware
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Terrible Opinions posted:Agreed GW shouldn't be praised for making very timid steps toward be better, just like EA shouldn't be praised if their newer games are technically less bad than Dungeon Keeper Mobile. It's like GW is EA and the other games are Yoko Taro being all like "why do they keep giving me money" and putting out gems like Nier. I've been playing Nier is what I'm saying.
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TKIY posted:I like ME:A and think most of the criticisms are people just piling on. I am enjoying Andromeda but it is weird not having your hand held like usual in AAA level games. Like you can build your character with pretty much any power set. Moola posted:its really and fun and cool How does the app make it better? I'm wary of gimmicks
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Bad Moon posted:I am enjoying Andromeda but it is weird not having your hand held like usual in AAA level games. Like you can build your character with pretty much any power set. Yeah but it seems like you'd have to really try to make a build that just outright sucks, which already puts it leaps and bounds ahead of GW in terms of game design.
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spectralent posted:I don't think anyone's really concerned about Monsanto's profit margins except Monsanto and people they have in pocket in the legislature. You talk about "recruiting more farmers" as if that's a trivial thing, and you're also talking about this as if it's a solely American concern. Where are all these people going to come from that aren't in other industries? Will thousands of people find subsistence farming viable? "Just work more" looks like a really grim future, and I'm not sure it's tenable at all. World population by 2024 is projected to be 8 billion, 9 billion by 2040. This is very near future stuff and we have serious environmental challenges on top of that. Forget more labour; we might well have less land, and less viable crops. You're right that it's simpler to ban GMOs (from human consumption, presumably?) than it is to build state run hydroponic farms, but that's not the alternative; the alternative is "Ban GMOs and totally reorient the entire global economy back to farming while simultaneously preventing significant losses in arable land from climate change and also creating an international supply mechanism for food distribution that's more effective than any we've previously had except perhaps war-time ration convoying". Even if 'just recruit more farmers' was a doable thing, where the gently caress are they supposed to farm? I live out in the middle of the grain belt, and farmland is absurdly expensive and has spent the last three decades being consolidated by big commercial farming operations. The 'family farm' where a nuclear family had a hundred acres or so under cultivation is a dead concept for the most part because farming is not a great job. Most family farms that do still exist are worth millions on paper, but that's all tied up in land and equipment to the point that they go into debt on seed and chemicals. NTRabbit posted:What's there to be excited about? It's a rerelease of an extremely dated 20 year old rule set that wasn't even a good game when it was released, just with different teams to encourage people to invest more money. Massive case of nostalgia over reality, especially when so many actually good skirmish games have been released in recent years. It's an almost pavlovian response to everything they release now. What's it like to be so bitter that even the idea of someone having fun with something makes you hiss and hide your face like Bela Lugosi seeing sunlight? Liquid Communism fucked around with this message at 08:05 on Apr 5, 2017 |
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Liquid Communism posted:What's it like to be so bitter that even the idea of someone having fun with something makes you hiss and hide your face like Bela Lugosi seeing sunlight? I don't know, what's it like to be so deeply in love with a corporate entity that legitimate criticism of it by others is seen as the bitter, baseless barbs of an ex-lover?
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Bad Moon posted:
It automates how enemies work, so you don't need an "Overlord" player. It also tracks what you've spent XP on, and what Items you have bought. It also randomizes the side missions you have available.
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NTRabbit posted:I don't know, what's it like to be so deeply in love with a corporate entity that legitimate criticism of it by others is seen as the bitter, baseless barbs of an ex-lover? Dunno, you'll have to ask the 'why does everybody hate GW, they're good' shitposters for that one. I'm just looking forward to having other people interested in something Necromunda-like that I can play with models I've mostly got lying around in a box somewhere already from years ago.
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Liquid Communism posted:Dunno, you'll have to ask the 'why does everybody hate GW, they're good' shitposters for that one. Scrappers from Osprey is coming out in a couple weeks.
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Liquid Communism posted:Dunno, you'll have to ask the 'why does everybody hate GW, they're good' shitposters for that one. I think what he's getting at is that it's disingenuous to say that Shadow Wars is fully compatible with Necromunda when the Necromunda gangs are likely to get totally mauled by the new lists. I don't buy into the thematic defense just because it makes for boring, predictable gameplay. Gangs lose, marines win. What would be neat is if the game wasn't just 2e 40k but rather was a game with modern mechanics, and if Necromunda gangs could play with those too, wouldn't that be awesome? Like imagine that Shadow Wars is a new game with new mechanics, but the new Necromunda was based on that and wasn't just a rehash. Instead, we get "Notcromunda" and the old gangs are outgunned from the start in a game with seriously dated gameplay.
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Atlas Hugged posted:I think what he's getting at is that it's disingenuous to say that Shadow Wars is fully compatible with Necromunda when the Necromunda gangs are likely to get totally mauled by the new lists. I don't buy into the thematic defense just because it makes for boring, predictable gameplay. Gangs lose, marines win. Yeah, that could be solidly awesome. I don't mind the gameplay in principal, though, as it doesn't look much more clunky than most of the other stuff I've played. The 40k setting's something of a guilty pleasure, and at least it doesn't need a car trunk full of thousands of bucks in resin to spend six hours playing two turns. I've got a lot of local buddies who were 40k players 10-15 years ago and probably have minis lying around somewhere and could be persuaded to maybe come out and push them around a table now and then if it didn't take so much of a commitment. I also, noting the thread we're in, am fairly sure that GW trying to write new mechanics for this would gently caress it up worse than just reusing Necromunda's with the numbers rubbed off. That said, where are people getting the 'compatible with Necromunda' from? I haven't ever seen anything from GW suggesting that SWA is an expansion for Necro, or compatible with it, just people saying the rules are mostly the same. Liquid Communism fucked around with this message at 08:32 on Apr 5, 2017 |
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Is shadow wars literally the necromunda rules? Like if i have my old necromunda books I'd have the same rules or has there being a community living document like blood bowl they've turned into book form?
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Can't say for sure how much of a copy paste job it is as I haven't read it, but the rules of the game are the same as 2e 40k, yes, and the campaign system is basically Necromunda's. It uses points instead of credits though.
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TKIY posted:I like ME:A and think most of the criticisms are people just piling on. Nah the criticisms are legit and it's a pretty bad game
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In the last six months I've been playing guild ball (with Lego teams!) and star wars armada. Most of my table top gaming is board and card games. Current regulars are star wars destiny, mechs and minions, and the Arkham horror LCG. All great. It seems like I do have common ground with most of the shitposters, as none of us play 40k or AoS...
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I play Kings of War semi-regularly, the national KoW community is very small but all of the players are really nice people, who play to have fun. I've had more fun at our KoW tournaments than I've ever had at local 40k tournaments. Part of it is the rules, but I'll admit most of it is due to the community. The local 40k community is super competitive and my playstyle and personality don't quite match it. I've also played a lot of board games, my friends have finally come around on the idea of playing board games regularly. Last weekend we started playing Gloomhaven, it's great. Although mostly I just paint stuff, since that is the part of the hobby I enjoy the most. I've started painting historical minis from Gripping Beast and Perry. It's been refreshing to paint some realistically scaled dudes after a decade of heroic scale. I do still paint heroic scale stuff, mostly skellingtons, but I mix up regularly to avoid color exhaustion.
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Reading the more in-depth complaints about all of Mass Effect Andromeda's weaknesses, it sounds like it's a somewhat worse Dragon Age Inquisition. Which itself was considered a pretty decent game until Witcher 3 came along and blew it, and Fallout 4, out of the water.
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It really wasn't hard to blow Fallout 4 out of the water. It was crippled by being written by Bethesda. :P
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Xarbala posted:it sounds like it's a somewhat worse Dragon Age Inquisition. Yeah pretty much Even if the game had no animation, voice acting or lighting issues... it's still just extremely mediocre and boring
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I haven't played any games lately, because I am a slow painter and don't have a place to frequent, since the Tin Soldier/Hall of Heroes in Penrith died. Not that I have anyone to play with, anyway. Yay misanthropy!  However, I would like to thank the British Isles for tanking their own currency. If this keeps up, it'll be like the days when Maelstrom was still alive and solvent. Cheap mans for all (below the equator)!
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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:ea just released the steaming pile of dogshit known as mass effect andromeda so maybe hold your horses there chief! ME:A has been a ton of fun. I guess it is not some weird platonic ideal of a perfect game though? Playing games is really fun though guys! I would recommend it for all of us!
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Lord_Hambrose posted:ME:A has been a ton of fun. I guess it is not a weapon to surpass Witcher 3, though?
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Xarbala posted:Witcher 3 Fair.
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