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At last, the thing the game's been building up to for ages! Wow, let me review that, there's a massive sound glitch at the beginning. ... Let's keep it, it's surreal. SelenicMartian fucked around with this message at 06:36 on Jun 18, 2019 |
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I definitely wasn't expecting Washington to take such a sudden turn towards being adorable.
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Jun 18, 2019 08:08
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Oh Louis IV, what have you gotten yourself into this time? ....Where do the hands go? Fleshwit posted:I definitely wasn't expecting Washington to take such a sudden turn towards being adorable. He's an old man, addicted to laudanum. I think he might be sundowning.
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Jun 19, 2019 04:07
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Solumin posted:He's an old man, addicted to laudanum. I think he might be sundowning. Next we'll discover he's loving invincible.
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Jun 19, 2019 07:55
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Fleshwit posted:I definitely wasn't expecting Washington to take such a sudden turn towards being adorable. "Oh Piglet look, I found a clue!"
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Jun 20, 2019 20:38
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Sindai posted:I got serious Winnie the Pooh vibes from some of those lines. Now that you've pointed that out, I'm not going to be able to stop hearing him as Winnie the Pooh. Thanks (I think).
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Jun 22, 2019 00:43
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Did you like searching the entire map in quest 10? You're going to like quest 11!   Pick your spear: https://www.strawpoll.me/18220608
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Jun 25, 2019 05:13
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Can Louis IV take the Saturn V please
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Jun 25, 2019 07:49
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Too late. Today we learn that the game forces you to talk to Piaggi, i.e. go crypt->maze->dining hall->maze->crypt, before you grab any spear. We don't learn where the hands go.
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Jun 25, 2019 08:11
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Thanks for the book rec! How is it illustrated - worth getting in print, or would a pdf be good enough? As for the hands, it sounds like there's a lot of rodents chittering in the crypt, and they would need something to eat to survive in a sealed cave...
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Jun 27, 2019 10:50
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Lokapala posted:Thanks for the book rec! How is it illustrated - worth getting in print, or would a pdf be good enough? The cover really sets the mood.  Jesus groomed three beards for our sins. 
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Jun 27, 2019 13:37
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That is an amazing penis dragon sort of thing.
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Jun 27, 2019 23:07
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Jun 29, 2019 12:10
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OK, a least some things have been cleared up  Also, a brand new skill! 
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Jul 1, 2019 21:30
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Well. That was extremely silly. We went far from the original premise of silly historical fanfiction, didn't we?
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Jul 1, 2019 22:15
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Louis I am your father! Also your grandfather! So is Sarah escaping in a rowboat with only one arm?
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Jul 1, 2019 22:28
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 that jingle after Louis slugs Napoleon!
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Jul 1, 2019 23:49
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Are you ready to learn everything about Demons in history? Also, some people may die.  
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Jul 2, 2019 08:10
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The plot twists are way better if you skip through the dialogue like you did in the first video. Having Louis calmly chat with Mortimer about every last detail of demons really ruins the impact.
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Jul 2, 2019 11:56
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Mortimer in Ancient Egypt was better known as Ahkenaten, father of Tutankhamen. Ahkenaten was a bit of a heretic, advocating the worship of only one sun god Aten over the myriad of other deities. Louis should not have known about him, as he was removed from official lists of kings, and was rediscovered archeologically in late 19th century.
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Jul 3, 2019 08:10
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So my tinfoil was right... Mortimer is immortal and the spear is the only the thing can kill him. Ha
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Jul 3, 2019 08:34
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Of all the directions they could've gone, I certainly wasn't expecting anything this stupid. Louis AND Sarah both are demons as well? Jesus.
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Jul 3, 2019 08:39
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mortons stork posted:Jesus.
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Jul 3, 2019 08:48
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Jade Star posted:So my tinfoil was right... Mortimer is immortal and the spear is the only the thing can kill him. Ha I remember reading that and thinking 'that's ridiculous. They're never going to do that. Right? Please? Nah, there's no way this will be that … ". I beg the board's forgiveness for thinking SelMart would LP a game as sensible as I initially thought this one would be. Maximum Roman Holiday meets the mother of all acid trips meets I don't even freaking know what at this point. I particularly like introducing mind-reading as a talent when the game's almost over and there's almost nobody left to use it on. My brain searches from the proper adjectives to describe how I feel about the Council now, but I have not the vocabulary to express them. There are far worse games. It still has major, significant redeeming attributes. Which really makes it more aggravating to me. When a game doesn't pretend to be anything more than a steaming pile of crap, or even mediocrity, then it can still be appreciated for what it is. I expected a lot more out of this from the first couple of episodes. *Sigh*.
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Jul 3, 2019 08:50
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I was kind of with this up until right now. That was just the dumbest poo poo I've ever seen. I knew from the start there would be some kind of Cthulu-Mystery esq thing to this so Sarah complaining about him being a demon was just fine by me. I took the characters being stilted and odd as being something to do with that. But Mortimer's little "My Dad, Jesus Christ" speech just destroyed it all. Holy crap, why did the Authors think that was a good idea? Plus does that knife even work? I gathered from Mortimer that JC was still alive. I'm probably wrong since I'm a moron, but he spoke like JC was alive. So if the spear didn't kill him why would Morty be worried?
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Jul 3, 2019 10:51
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To me the most amazing thing is how it's possible to have the plot twist "I am a demon and also you are a demon and I am also your father and oh Jesus was a demon too" making so little impact. Much like murdering one of the characters we've interacted most with by three seconds of the worlds lightest choke hold, I guess. Also, I'm irrationally annoyed that Mortimer has went through the trouble of faking hundreds of years of family history, but in a way that makes it look super suspicious even at first glance, and not even bothering to change up his signature. C'mon, that's just lazy.
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Jul 3, 2019 11:09
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I lost it at that voice actor's line read of "DIE BITCH"
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Jul 3, 2019 23:45
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I described The Council to my friends as "What if it was only the parts of the Assassin's Creed series where you're fiddling around in Templar memories and files and puzzles" and I was pretty tickled to find that when I said as much back when I played ep1, it carried through all the way.
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Jul 4, 2019 07:49
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I am so glad I didn't spend money on this.
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Jul 4, 2019 08:06
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I was going DO IT DO IT DO IT during the conversation and cheered when Lord Mortimer told Louis that he was his father. Jesus, though, uh
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Jul 4, 2019 12:58
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Gotta say, did not expect them to devolve an occult alternate history fiction into dysfunctional family squabbles. Although I'm with them on the claim that a lot of history can be explained through daddy issues.
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Jul 4, 2019 16:01
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I'm honestly not sure if the game outsmarted me by subverting my expectation that the -player- would be a Daemon, or if I'm too clever for the game. Or something. I don't even know anymore but I am very excited to see more.
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Jul 5, 2019 02:47
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I just caught up with this LP... and wow, I did not expect this dive off the deep end. So far it hasn't really amounted to anything, so I'm tentatively interested to see if this demon plot actually leads anywhere.
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Jul 5, 2019 04:57
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Ratoslov posted:I am so glad I didn't spend money on this. I nearly bought this myself. The "my father, Jesus Christ" is amazingly stupid. Why do Holm and Mortimer give a poo poo about democracy vs monarchy enough to kill for it? Is Mortimer supposed to be secretly a good demon helping people? Also the "but I'm a good demon" dialogue option to Peru is hilarious and you will never convince me otherwise.
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Jul 5, 2019 05:44
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Fleshwit posted:I am very excited to see more. TheGreatEvilKing posted:Is Mortimer supposed to be secretly a good demon helping people?  Let's pick the ending! https://www.strawpoll.me/18269599
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Jul 5, 2019 06:13
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They really couldn't help themselves with the Emily thing, could they? I can't wait to see how Mortimer deploys his secret weapon... George.
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Jul 5, 2019 08:05
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Haven't watched that latest yet, but the 'good demon' thing bothers me. They're only called demons because its a title being taken from mythology. Morty hasn't confirmed if that kind of stuff is actually true or representative of what they are. There's no real reason to assume that the immortal beings are inherently evil. Yet. Let me go watch this video and see if that holds up...
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Jul 5, 2019 08:23
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Didn't Mortimer say something about Daemons making up, at the very least, Christianity, hence Dad Jesus.
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Jul 5, 2019 08:30
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Even if that's so, it just means they made up a fiction for men to believe in. Not an accurate depiction of their species. All I'm really trying to say is that though they use the label of Daemon, there's nothing about them that necessarily follows from that label. When we talk about demons, we think of evil beings, devils, hell and fire and brimstone, etc. right? But that doesn't need to be the case for Morty and company. They're just immortals that inhabit man. They aren't evil by definition.
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I assume they call themselves Daemons in the classical mythology sense of guiding spirits / lower gods. The shift towards Demons in the Abrahamic sense is probably something a Daemon did for some reason or another - a diversionary move, targeting other Daemons in some power struggle, etc, I'm sure we're going to hear about it given the way things are going so far - that they've continued to perpetuate, again for reasons that'll probably be exposited to us. Possibly by Jesus Christ himself.
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