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General Chatter - The Boozer / Re: Funny Picture Thread
« on: May 23, 2022, 10:10:03 AM »
I see nothing wrong
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Total War Mods - The Engineer's Shed / Re: Rus TW - Fortis Bellator
« on: May 20, 2022, 11:14:53 AM »
I'm getting tempted to buy Rome 1 again
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Narnia Total War / Re: Narnia - Fall of Telmar Submod
« on: May 16, 2022, 01:08:36 PM »
Yeah I'm pretty sure that's the case. Some mods that have just been straight ported over really don't look great.
In terms of ease of modding, from what I've heard it's been made very mod friendly, with a lot of the hard coded limitations removed. Lots of possibilities, but I think these limitations were only removed relatively recently so not so many mods have made use of them yet as far as I can tell. But I don't really know, I just watched some YT videos
In terms of ease of modding, from what I've heard it's been made very mod friendly, with a lot of the hard coded limitations removed. Lots of possibilities, but I think these limitations were only removed relatively recently so not so many mods have made use of them yet as far as I can tell. But I don't really know, I just watched some YT videos
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Narnia Total War / Re: Narnia - Fall of Telmar Submod
« on: May 16, 2022, 09:02:27 AM »
Cry face emoji
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Narnia Total War / Re: Narnia - Fall of Telmar Submod
« on: May 10, 2022, 08:05:49 PM »
Looks cool. Is this for Rome or Rome Remastered?
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General Chatter - The Boozer / Re: A Weird Al Movie? Biopic? Thing?
« on: May 06, 2022, 04:03:33 PM »
Hell yeah brother
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General Chatter - The Boozer / Re: Workshop Booze Up VII - New Year, Same Plague, Same Booze Up, Deja Vu
« on: April 27, 2022, 10:03:21 AM »
Play some funky music. Or whatever it is that gets you going. Sometimes just getting up and moving is enough to wake up.
Could also try something like https://youtu.be/pL02HRFk2vo
Could also try something like https://youtu.be/pL02HRFk2vo
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General Chatter - The Boozer / Re: Workshop Booze Up VII - New Year, Same Plague, Same Booze Up, Deja Vu
« on: April 19, 2022, 07:29:53 PM »
I was visiting someone there so spent a lot of time with her in Lusaka, just seeing some of her haunts and did some coupley things. We also took a trip to Livingstone and did some more touristy stuff, got sprayed by the sprays of Victoria falls, took a short cruise on the Zambezi, went for a game drive etc. Got bitten by mosquitos. All good stuff.
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General Chatter - The Boozer / Re: Workshop Booze Up VII - New Year, Same Plague, Same Booze Up, Deja Vu
« on: April 19, 2022, 08:56:41 AM »
Dover castle is definitely a place I'd like to visit, is the reconstruction and decoration still ongoing or was that just for a temporary display?
I've been in Zambia for the last couple of weeks, was very good. Saw some stuff, did some things, ate some foods. 10/10 would go again.
Unfortunately there were no direct flights from here and the traveling has left me pretty knackered, and my mum caught covid shortly after I left and then possibly fractured her ankle just before I returned, so there isn't much rest for me right now. Back to school tomorrow too.
I've been in Zambia for the last couple of weeks, was very good. Saw some stuff, did some things, ate some foods. 10/10 would go again.
Unfortunately there were no direct flights from here and the traveling has left me pretty knackered, and my mum caught covid shortly after I left and then possibly fractured her ankle just before I returned, so there isn't much rest for me right now. Back to school tomorrow too.
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Writing, Poems, AARs, and Stories - The Storyteller's Hall / Re: What are you reading?
« on: March 17, 2022, 06:41:45 PM »
The series wasn't too bad, just not great. TBF they were hit by the pandemic about halfway through filming, and one of their main cast dropped out which can't have been easy to deal with, but there were also changes from the book story and the magic system that didn't make much sense and don't seem to improve the story.
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Discussion and Debate - The Philosopher's Plaza / Re: Russia/Ukraine Crisis 2022
« on: March 16, 2022, 01:06:55 PM »
Kyiv seems to be under heavier bombardment now, I imagine this is meant to put pressure on Ukraine for the negotiations going on. Ukrainians clearly aren't going to welcome Russian control anywhere so I guess Putin might as well use full on terrorism against them now.
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Writing, Poems, AARs, and Stories - The Storyteller's Hall / Re: What are you reading?
« on: March 16, 2022, 10:14:04 AM »
I thought I'd already posted this but apparently not.
I watched the Wheel of Time series a couple of months ago, not particularly good but it at least made me look into WOT which lead me to giving the books a try. Was hesitant because of the length of the series, but so far I'm 4 books in and loving it. Quite interesting to see the differences between the show and the books too, don't think I'll bother watching the second season unless reviews for it are top tier.
The world seems to be really original as far as I can tell, there's obviously some Tolkien influence in the story and characters (particularly the first book) but the mythology and magic is not like anything I've seen before. Will probably read into what the influences were behind this series once I'm finished with it.
The world is a kind of post-post apocalypse setting, people have stories and legends of a golden age followed by a great war against "The Dark One" which resulted in the most powerful male magicians imprisoning the dark one but in doing so they have their source of magic corrupted by him, which means any man who uses magic is doomed to go mad (apart from men who serve the dark one apparently/maybe) and kill a ton of people. This leads to a kind of apocalypse as all the male magicians start going nuts and messing things up in a very high fantasy fashion, with female magicians still able to use magic and eventually getting the men under control. Lots of knowledge is lost, men who can channel are rounded up and cut off from their ability to use magic but they become super depressed and usually kill themselves when this happens because magic is kind of like a euphoric drug in this system.
A couple thousand years go by (iirc) and our bunch of heroes are born, the story starts of with a pretty traditional farm boy with mysterious origins story, the protagonists are all from the same village in a shire-esque isolated rural area which no one bothers over and never has any war. Starts of quite slow but I love that slow build. Then things happen. Go read.
I watched the Wheel of Time series a couple of months ago, not particularly good but it at least made me look into WOT which lead me to giving the books a try. Was hesitant because of the length of the series, but so far I'm 4 books in and loving it. Quite interesting to see the differences between the show and the books too, don't think I'll bother watching the second season unless reviews for it are top tier.
The world seems to be really original as far as I can tell, there's obviously some Tolkien influence in the story and characters (particularly the first book) but the mythology and magic is not like anything I've seen before. Will probably read into what the influences were behind this series once I'm finished with it.
The world is a kind of post-post apocalypse setting, people have stories and legends of a golden age followed by a great war against "The Dark One" which resulted in the most powerful male magicians imprisoning the dark one but in doing so they have their source of magic corrupted by him, which means any man who uses magic is doomed to go mad (apart from men who serve the dark one apparently/maybe) and kill a ton of people. This leads to a kind of apocalypse as all the male magicians start going nuts and messing things up in a very high fantasy fashion, with female magicians still able to use magic and eventually getting the men under control. Lots of knowledge is lost, men who can channel are rounded up and cut off from their ability to use magic but they become super depressed and usually kill themselves when this happens because magic is kind of like a euphoric drug in this system.
A couple thousand years go by (iirc) and our bunch of heroes are born, the story starts of with a pretty traditional farm boy with mysterious origins story, the protagonists are all from the same village in a shire-esque isolated rural area which no one bothers over and never has any war. Starts of quite slow but I love that slow build. Then things happen. Go read.
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General Gaming - The Arcade / Re: Adventures in the Forgotten Realms (Baldurs Gate, Neverwinter Nights, etc)
« on: March 14, 2022, 09:24:11 AM »
Planescape Torment has an absolutely phenomenal story, would definitely recommend it. Haven't really played any other of these style of games, the gameplay itself isn't really interesting for me.
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Discussion and Debate - The Philosopher's Plaza / Re: Russia/Ukraine Crisis 2022
« on: March 14, 2022, 09:21:31 AM »True for Kyviv but Kharkiv is basically on the Russian border so Russian troops there should be able to be supplied largely by rail (of course there has been shelling here but how heavy is it compared to how heavy it could be?) and Kharkiv and Mariupol are on the coast where Russian ships should be able to supply their troops. I know Kherson was taken so perhaps it wasn't shelled because the Russians were expecting to take it, could be the same with Mariupol.Russia does have a lot of artillery though, they honestly could be doing a hell of a lot more damage than they already are. Hopefully that's not the next step but who knows.I think that may come down to logistics again. Rockets and howitzer shells are heavy, and the Russian army is short of trucks. Back when Putin was making threats, one of the arguments that he would not act on them went like this:
Looking into it Kharkiv has been shelled pretty heavily already so I could be way off here. I'm also pretty sure rockets and bombs are very expensive so a relatively conservative approach makes sense considering the cost. And of course the cost of rebuilding these cities if Russia actually wants to annex these regions is a factor to consider and it may be that annexation of these border regions is still the goal (it looks like they're trying to annex Kherson in a similar manner to how they took Crimea, which makes some sense since it secures water supply to Crimea).
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Discussion and Debate - The Philosopher's Plaza / Re: Russia/Ukraine Crisis 2022
« on: March 13, 2022, 03:05:03 PM »
I'm pretty sure Russia has more troops in total on paper but on practice they can't actually mobilise all of them at once of course, or at least not without stripping literally every other border of troops. And that's even disregarding the logistical issues of supplying large troop numbers.
Russia does have a lot of artillery though, they honestly could be doing a hell of a lot more damage than they already are. Hopefully that's not the next step but who knows.
Russia does have a lot of artillery though, they honestly could be doing a hell of a lot more damage than they already are. Hopefully that's not the next step but who knows.