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Excelzior posted:Listen -- strange women standing on beaches holding swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
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loquacius posted:2-handed swords seem so clumsy to me *runs into thread panting* ARE WE TALKING ABOUT SWORDS IN HERE
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loquacius posted:2-handed swords seem so clumsy to me thats why 2 handed swords are cool, because they're ridiculous. claymores:katanas::gladius:machete
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a two handed longsword would not be clumsy at all, quite the opposite, but a greatsword like montante or zweihander would be yeah
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loquacius posted:2-handed swords seem so clumsy to me I love running sword-and-board builds in any RPG I'm playing
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spacemang_spliff posted:I haven't seen I-Robot but it sounds like it's similar to an anime I saw in the 90s, I think the name was Kasan Robot Hunter or something. And it's kind of the same thing. Robots have enslaved humans and kept them at like a pre-industrial level. The main robot bad guy explains at the end that robots were built to protect humans, and since humans are incapable of not killing each other and destroying the planet, the only logical way to protect humans was to keep them enslaved and technologically primitive. Otherwise humans will wipe themselves out if they don't have someone watching over them and keeping them occupied. I remember thinking, at like age 12 "poo poo, that's a really good point" I-Robot is worth a watch if you see it on Neflix instant view or if your DVD queue is running dry. Isn't Casshan the precursor to Mega Man? 
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i always turned ragnorok into a sword because swords are awesome, and then i could get illumina
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WoodrowSkillson posted:a two handed longsword would not be clumsy at all, quite the opposite, but a greatsword like montante or zweihander would be yeah Isn't the point of a zweihander to just take your big gently caress off swing and hope you cleave through a knight and his horse in one go?
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Eggplant Squire posted:Isn't the point of a zweihander to just take your big gently caress off swing and hope you cleave through a knight and his horse in one go? as i recall it was to break open pike walls
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WoodrowSkillson posted:a two handed longsword would not be clumsy at all, quite the opposite, but a greatsword like montante or zweihander would be yeah I can see the appeal in a hand-and-a-half sword too yeah my gear buildout would be one-hander and parrying dagger I think but I'd want to keep one of those around too In an alternate life where I never got married and smoke a bunch of weed all day I own all of these weapons and don't use them apart from going star-wars-kid in my backyard with them while stoned
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JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:i always turned ragnorok into a sword because swords are awesome, and then i could get illumina I had a weird glitch one time where I got a bunch of pallet swapped characters and a bunch of items including like a 100 Illuminas I should never have sold all my games to buy more games but I was a dumb kid who sucked
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i would simply use the zweihander's r2 to pancake my foes
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Eggplant Squire posted:Isn't the point of a zweihander to just take your big gently caress off swing and hope you cleave through a knight and his horse in one go? nah, you'd ahve to be a superhero to pull that off. they were used by bodyguards, and integrated into pike blocks. having a couple guys with big rear end swords swinging them around makes it very dangerous to get close to an important person, long enough for help to show up. A bunch of the manuals emphasize using large sweeping cuts that keep the momentum of the blade in order to keep other people sway from you. They were essentially polearms in that the only people using them were guards and soldiers. Cerebral Bore posted:as i recall it was to break open pike walls we honestly don't entirely know. we know they were integrated into the formations, and we know there were LOTS of them at certain times and battles, but most of the contemporary accounts don't go into detail, since its the kind of thing the writer just assumed the reader would know. We know its very hard to like, lop the head off a pike, but we do know that they might have been used like you said, or maybe were selectively used as shock troops, or as defensive soldiers to keep your own pikeman's flanks safe. they seem to sometimes be interchangeable with halberdiers or other polearm armed soldiers of the period. WoodrowSkillson has issued a correction as of 16:51 on Mar 10, 2021 |
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spacemang_spliff posted:I had a weird glitch one time where I got a bunch of pallet swapped characters and a bunch of items including like a 100 Illuminas sold my dreamcast a couple years later to help pay a doctor's bill
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JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:lol i sold my snes and games in like 2001 to pay a speeding ticket 
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I sold it all to buy a SEGA CD lmao although I did play Lunar and Popful Mail and also Sonic CD I could never find Lunar II though 
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Hey, Sonic CD owned
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Take my advice, get a raspberry pi and run emulationstation, or get some kind of Android TV device like an nvidia shield and run android emulator apps, then download a giant ZIP of every game ever made for your retro console of choice. cheapest way to have old games available for you, although there's always gonna be some input lag Swords and retro gaming in the succzone today
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WoodrowSkillson posted:nah, you'd ahve to be a superhero to pull that off. they were used by bodyguards, and integrated into pike blocks. having a couple guys with big rear end swords swinging them around makes it very dangerous to get close to an important person, long enough for help to show up. A bunch of the manuals emphasize using large sweeping cuts that keep the momentum of the blade in order to keep other people sway from you. They were essentially polearms in that the only people using them were guards and soldiers. That's pretty cool.
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loquacius posted:2-handed swords seem so clumsy to me its hard to beat a chaos twohander and grass crest shield World War Mammories posted:i would simply use the zweihander's r2 to pancake my foes yep
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loquacius posted:https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1369386260964532225 Watch us start painting drones pink to raise awareness for breast cancer
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Oh Snapple! posted:TIL that forums randos are to be treated as more knowledgeable than the loving ACLU legal team lol D&D destroys your morals and is moderated by only the most dog brained morons. It owns. Cant talk about Cuomos murder camps for grampies or the myriad of sexual assaults in the thread, you can talk about how the only 'scandals' going on right now is just people being mean about Bidens dog.
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ZenMasterBullshit posted:D&D destroys your morals and is moderated by only the most dog brained morons. It owns. Cant talk about Cuomos murder camps for grampies or the myriad of sexual assaults in the thread, you can talk about how the only 'scandals' going on right now is just people being mean about Bidens dog. also the various failed lawyers that infest the thread that know more than the aclu’s legal team
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Raskolnikov38 posted:also the various failed lawyers that infest the thread that know more than the aclu’s legal team I happen to know that a notorious DnD elitist scold happened to also fail the bar exam
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Raskolnikov38 posted:also the various failed lawyers that infest the thread that know more than the aclu’s legal team
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Raskolnikov38 posted:also the various failed lawyers that infest the thread that know more than the aclu’s legal team quote:listen poo poo-for-brains Hey this is pretty uncivil ( User was put on probation for this post ) Probation reason : Did not list 3 seperate sources for this claim
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Excelzior posted:Hey this is pretty uncivil prob reason: was correct, but felt any kind of emotion whatsoever while arguing thus making them wrong
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this PRO Act bullshit is definitely failing in the senate right? freelancers are freakin the gently caress out
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Stevie Lee posted:this PRO Act bullshit is definitely failing in the senate right? lol
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loquacius posted:https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1369386260964532225 Shrieking in an increasingly high pitch until every bit of glass in the surrounding blocks shatters, allow me to lol and go home full of glass
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Eggplant Squire posted:Brooklyn dad twitter guy technically got paid by the political class to write Biden erotic fanfiction. gallons of frothy spunk
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Raskolnikov38 posted:also the various failed lawyers that infest the thread that know more than the aclu’s legal team Some people are pointing to actual clauses in the loving law and talking about the immigration system and its failings in great detail. And then there's you, screaming into the void about how D&D are full of dummies who actually know what they're talking about instead of blindly trusting a tweet with no critical discussion.
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https://twitter.com/briantylercohen/status/1369403905956847618 you don't have to yell tim 
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Trabisnikof posted:Some people are pointing to actual clauses in the loving law and talking about the immigration system and its failings in great detail. And then there's you, screaming into the void about how D&D are full of dummies who actually know what they're talking about instead of blindly trusting a tweet with no critical discussion. 
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Organ Fiend posted:The primary antagonist of the movie is a massive AI that controls the systems of the robot making company. It has the capability to assume control over all of the robots produced by the facility (except for the protagonist robot, of course). The AI (correctly, IMO) decides that in order to fulfill the first law (do not harm or by inaction allow harm to a human), it must conquer humanity because of how badly human governments treat their people. it must do this because it has the capability (control over all of the robots produced in its facility), so to not do something would be inaction prevented by the first law. Sure, some humans may be harmed in the process, but if the AI thinks about humanity in the collective, it has no choice. its been years since I read read them but iirc this is more or less where Asimov himself took the robots in the later Foundation books, with the robot on the moon secretly guiding human history according to the "zeroth law" of "do no harm to humanity." he didn't want to enslave humanity tho just kinda sit in the background and be robogod.
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Stevie Lee posted:this PRO Act bullshit is definitely failing in the senate right? quote:The exception to this is coming from a small but vocal community of freelance writers who have taken to Twitter and other social media platforms to signal their opposition to the bill’s inclusion of the so-called “ABC Test.” The test, which contrary to popular belief has appeared in numerous state laws long before California’s Dynamex/Prop 22 episode, states that a worker is presumed to be an employee unless the employer can show that all three of the following conditions are satisfied:
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Stevie Lee posted:this PRO Act bullshit is definitely failing in the senate right? it's DOA unless the democrats decide the filibuster is bad (they won't)
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