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They're bored? Wow, these writers are terrible.
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I mean. I've seen worse.
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So PTN, you plannin on recruiting the rest of the players to the alliance?
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 Knights of the Fallen Empire Update 24: Bad Influence  Click for Video        Tone’s a little different on that one, huh? Suddenly blowing up a building matters. They’re awed by Firebrand, but they fear the Outlander. I got lazy, figured there was no way through to these people. Set my sights low with bridges and spaceports. Next time, you should try blowing up their Immortal Emperor. That might do the trick. Now that the power junctions are rigged, can we strike at the Overwatch? Pretty much. Force fields cycle in an hour, so we’ll trigger the blackout then. Meantime, I’ve got maps and everything. Let’s talk tactics…. … Everything goes down in the droid control center. You grab your data, I blow the machinery. And hopefully shoot the administrator. You’re sure the data’s complete? The full city schematic? Every droid in the city runs on those specs. You ever go to war with the Spire, that’s your winning card. It’s time. Step one: Blow the junctions! That feels good. Come on--expect droids, maybe a few Knights… a grand old time.  Gotta love the buildings on the bottom left that just appear out of thin air.   Life is as empty without terror as without love. I would permit this creature’s existence from my throne. She cannot truly threaten perfection, but only enhance it. But though chaos can be beautiful… it cannot last. So you’re ok with me letting her do whatever then? Great. Shut up.PTN’s note: I don’t hate this sequence. It may be where the game decides to gently caress over stealth classes by making them fight the battles everyone else has had to fight for 70 levels by pitting the player against repeated waves of pre-agroed enemies, but at least in Judge Dredd HQ they do neat things like jumping at you from side offices and hallways rather than appearing out of thin air the way they’ll be doing everywhere else from now on. I, of course, did not capture any of this on film because it’s still irritating MMO chaff. But I did appreciate that they were trying for once. This does not last.  Now if only we had a commando team to make use of it. I’ve got enough bombs here to slag the droid controls. Fancy automated city won’t be automated anymore.  Jazzhands! drat it, Terry! Not now! But my play is coming up! My directory told me he wanted me to keep practicing even if the Outlander showed up for a chat! He’s not here for a chat! Now shut up and run! What is it? The trash is here. Also, I’m not the center of attention again.    Kaliyo dot jpg Tayvor! I was worried you ran away. You should have turned yourself in to the Skytroopers. I can’t protect you from this--not your scheme, nor allying with the Outlander. Actually, the Outlander came to ally with me. Meet Overwatch Administrator Tayvor Slen. Hello. I gave you friendship, a home, a purpose. You mock me. Getting steadily more pissed off that I’m a background character in this expansion. You can’t trust her, Outlander. Let me slow down my response so you can comprehend it: Nnnoooooooo shhhhhhiiiiiiiiiit. Tayvor convinced me to sell out. Like I said before--when I saw I couldn’t hurt the people here, I got lazy. He offered me a pretty cage--nice house, free pass from the Skytroopers. I could bomb little targets and he’d make sure no one got killed. You sponsored her. The Eternal Empire paid me to do 9/11. It was an outlet for our people’s darker urges. A drop of poison to vaccinate against the disease of unrest. You were also really into me. Then I remembered comfort isn’t everything. She is betrayal personified. Even you, Outlander, deserve better. I already killed “Betrayal Personified.” Kaliyo’s a small-time backstabber at worst. My skills as a fighter are the model for our Skytroopers. I will execute you both, and make amends for my errors. So, what you’re saying is, every Skytrooper I’ve ever fought has just been the perfect training to eventually beat you? … I didn’t think that through. Gunships!  It would probably help if they were actually aiming at me.PTN’s note: Near as I can tell, the gunships Tayvor summons do absolutely nothing except render him invincible as long as they’re around. This is a scene taken right from Mass Effect 2, and made infinitely shittier.  PTN’s note: It does make for some pretty screenshots. Also, despite being the “model” on which the Skytroopers are based, Tavor uses an assault cannon. Which probably explains why the Skytroopers are so bad at their jobs.   What? I take it back. That is Kaliyo dot jpg. This time, when everything burns? No fire suppressor units. No medical droids. No Skytroopers stopping riots. You never mentioned that. You get it now, Tayvor? You tried to use me. You all humiliated me. Now your happy city is going to hurt.   PTN’s note: Mort is alone, frustrated, and has just been gravely wounded for the second time in his career. His best friend and psychological lifeline has been missing for five years. He’s been thrust into a battle with an enemy he’s come to viscerally despise. The Mort of five years ago would have stopped this. Kaliyo wants him to, or she wouldn’t have given him the opportunity to talk her out of it. He and Kaliyo are bad for each other.       I told you they paid me to do 9/11! You blew up one building, put another on fire.gif, and violently detonated a street-level fruit vendor. Impressive. Shut up. Don’t ruin this for me. I also made all the cars in the city fall out of the sky, which they would've done even if I hadn't blown up a building. Droid controls! The devs did not think the light-side version of this scene through. Time to go before an army of Knights shows up. They were in no rush when we took the place over, I can’t imagine why they’d be in a hurry now.     PTN’s note: I’m sorry for the delay. I had a good reason, and it wasn’t to ramp up tension. On my last update, my right hand started aching from resizing / transcribing everything. I wanted to give myself some recovery time before trying again, to see if was just over-stressing myself in the hopes that things would get better. They haven’t, which means it’s probably carpal tunnel. I’m not sure what my best plan is from here, but I’ll think of something. 
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Aug 10, 2017 05:30
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We just assumed you were dead!
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Aug 10, 2017 06:39
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Man, carpal tunnel. I had a slight version of that a few years ago because I was a dumb kid who obssessed over Guitar hero wI had to go to the hospital. I did the second one and came out lucky, it stopped hurting, and now my carpal tunnels are made of Pure Leather. Also, yeah, I assumed that SWTOR managed to break you, since I still saw some posts in your other long-running LP.
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Aug 10, 2017 07:59
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drat, carpal tunnel. The curse of the ~*~True Gamer~*~. My condolences! Your health is more important then showcasing this stupid nonsense, my guy.
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Doctor Reynolds posted:drat, carpal tunnel. The curse of the ~*~True Gamer~*~. My condolences! Your health is more important then showcasing this stupid nonsense, my guy. I thought the curse was Gamer Claw, where your hands' resting state is curved around an invisible mouse/keyboard or controller.
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Carpal tunnel'd Gamer Claw is the true curse. Sorry to hear about the Carpal Tunnel PTN!
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A true gamer uses vocal commands for everything. It's the 21st century after all. I remember being just bored by this chapter. Kaliyo's doing the same schtick as in the main game, and there seems to be more tedious skytrooper fights than ever. You're missing Valkorion's portraits for his cameo.
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Inferior posted:I remember being just bored by this chapter. Kaliyo's doing the same schtick as in the main game, and there seems to be more tedious skytrooper fights than ever. I honestly don't mind Kaliyo's shtick. She's only a terrible companion because they paired her with the Imperial Agent. If she'd wound up with the Bounty Hunter, the Smuggler, or event the Warrior people would hate her less. She'd play off the smuggler in a far more interesting way than Akavi does, she'd have been an interesting devil on the shoulder for the Warrior, and she's the perfect match for a Dark Side [interrupt conversation by murdering target immediately] Bounty Hunter. But because they crammed her into the most nuanced story, she comes across as one-note. She's sure as hell better realized than Pierce or Broonmark, especially once you realize she is an inveterate liar who is utterly incapable of ever telling anyone the "whole, unmodified" truth.
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PoptartsNinja posted:I honestly don't mind Kaliyo's shtick. She's only a terrible companion because they paired her with the Imperial Agent. If she'd wound up with the Bounty Hunter, the Smuggler, or event the Warrior people would hate her less. She'd play off the smuggler in a far more interesting way than Akavi does, she'd have been an interesting devil on the shoulder for the Warrior, and she's the perfect match for a Dark Side [interrupt conversation by murdering target immediately] Bounty Hunter. And for what it's worth, Fallen Empire officially nixed Kaliyo's heavily implied bisexuality. She'll seduce women to mess with them and get them to do what she wants, but she's not attracted to them.
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Glad to have you back PTN; though yeah as others have said, rather have you fit and healthy rather pictures and words of a red guy stabbing guys with glowsticks. That said, anyone one mind doing a brief summary of where we're upto at this point? My memory is very fuzzy after the hiatus. I don't really have the time to re read the thread anytime soon. I recall picking up Baldy, but I was under the impression we were at a point where we were building an army or something... not just doing terrorism back on Zakull (that I thought we'd just left?) for some reason?
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We're doing both! We escaped Zakul to build our army (And it's implied due to the building montage it's been at least a couple of months since our fight against Arcann), but now we are on a recruiting Drive, looking for either Armies to recruit or important strategic figures. Baldy here is kinda both, she's strategically useful, as she's been doing Terrorism in Zakul since before Mort woke up and knows the underbelly of the planet, not to mention plans and stuff, AND it is implied she has her finger in several zakulian rebel pies, altough it seems they decided to retire after seeing how bad Kaliyo really is.
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We got captured by Zakuul for five years and freed. Things were hectic for a bit and it culminated in Mort getting stabbed. Now we're in the "do busywork for five or so chapters" phase while the game trudges inexorably towards a confrontation with Arcann.
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Aug 11, 2017 01:57
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PTN, is it mouse or keyboard related carpal tunnel? Tried trackballs or vertical mice?
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Found you a solution, PTN
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"I do not understand! I am waving my hands in the air, precisely as if I did not care, yet circumstances do not improve!"
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Synthbuttrange posted:PTN, is it mouse or keyboard related carpal tunnel? Tried trackballs or vertical mice? Mouse and writing. Probably keyboard too but I don't notice it. I've had trouble with writing since I was... eight or nine? Oddly I'm usually ok while sketching, but the short precise motions required for writing start hurting me very quickly. I'm also usually ok with a mouse, but it's been getting worse lately. The repetitive click->crop->resize that this LP demands starting to hurt as much as writing does. It's these two fingers that are the problem:  They have been for so long that I actually type 90 or so wpm with my left hand and the thumb, index, and middle finger of my right. I've never relied on the other two for much. I'm OK with other devices like game controllers, although I do miss the original X-Box controller. The big one everyone complained about was actually the perfect size for me. Most modern controllers just feel too small, and a lot of mice are the same way. I wish I could find a mouse that was oh, 50% larger than average? Anything that would stop me from resting the offending fingers on the top of my desk while I work would probably help immensely. I can't put any real pressure on them for any extended period of time, which is why I've never really considered a vertical mouse. It seems like it'd hurt more than it would help.
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Buy one of those motion control Wiimote-style mice, bind different motions to your hotbar and start larping TOR.
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You might need a custom solution then or more seriously, shop at ergonomic specialists? http://www.opcergonomics.com.au/products/contour-mouse-extra-large-right-hand/ http://www.opcergonomics.com.au/products/ergonomic-mice/ Synthbuttrange fucked around with this message at 04:43 on Aug 11, 2017 |
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Hey PTN, why not some of those big old corded mouses? There are converters to USB so you can use them in current computers after all. I suppose using a notebook's mousepad would be worse too, huh? How does this one look: https://www.amazon.com/Anker-Ergono...86bebdf51cfe52b
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