Workshop Booze Up V - We're going to the future!

[Jubal]

Did you give it anywhere to swim? Aquaticness is a thing.

[Silver Wolf]

Oh, no way. It was a hydrophobic land-raider-tank dinosaur relict. It would rust and then explode when exposed to a body of water.

Joking aside, it was a Hermann's tortoise (Testudo hermanni), which really had a weird name in English by the way, but that's not the point. The point is that they're not so fond of water. 

[Jubal]

Ohh, I thought you said it was a turtle not a tortoise. Hermann's tortoises are lovely

[Silver Wolf]

Wow. I never knew that there was a difference.
I always tough that turtle was just an American version of tortoise.
Now that's embarrassing.


As a side-note,  I'm seriously thinking about growing my hair to shoulder length and a short beard.

[Jubal]

Hmm, apparently the usage differs. In Britain generally freshwater and seawater ones are referred to as turtles and land-living ones as tortoises. Apparently this doesn't make any sense taxonomically, but it's what we do. The Americans on the other hand refer to all of them as turtles, but still sometimes call land-living ones tortoises.

Also some of the freshwater species are called terrapins for no reason at all, just to be confusing. 

[Silver Wolf]

In 3 years of studying biology I've learned that taxonomy is just one huge work-in-progress mess.

[comrade_general]

Holden: You're in a desert, walking along in the sand, when all of a sudden you look down...

Leon: What one?

Holden: What?

Leon: What desert?

Holden: It doesn't make any difference what desert, it's completely hypothetical.

Leon: But, how come I'd be there?

Holden: Maybe you're fed up. Maybe you want to be by yourself. Who knows? You look down and see a tortoise, Leon. It's crawling toward you...

Leon: Tortoise? What's that?

Holden: [irritated by Leon's interruptions] You know what a turtle is?

Leon: Of course!

Holden: Same thing.

Leon: I've never seen a turtle... But I understand what you mean.

Holden: You reach down and you flip the tortoise over on its back, Leon.

Leon: Do you make up these questions, Mr. Holden? Or do they write 'em down for you?

Holden: The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping.

Leon: [angry at the suggestion] What do you mean, I'm not helping?

Holden: I mean: you're not helping! Why is that, Leon?

[Leon has become visibly shaken]

Holden: They're just questions, Leon. In answer to your query, they're written down for me. It's a test, designed to provoke an emotional response... Shall we continue?

[Gen_Glory]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25497013

'Tis a sad day

[Jubal]

I think I may agree with him that he (and everyone else) would've been better off if he'd designed a lawnmower. 

Certainly a historic moment though.

[comrade_general]

Could you imagine such large scale killing with a lawnmower though? Such a mess...

[Silver Wolf]

Could you imagine such large scale killing with a lawnmower though? Such a mess...

Actually...

And the best part... It's a Peter Jackson movie.

[comrade_general]

And that would be the world we would live in if Kalashnikov had designed a lawnmower. xD

[Silver Wolf]

I've played RTW2.

TW has changed a lot since MTW2.
I don't like it.

The battles finally have some kind of organic feel, possibly due to pretty animation. Battles are a lot harder though. I just kept loosing the first few.
And they feel so much more random. In MTW2 I could easily defeat a superior foe with limited forces, IN RTW2 I can barely get a close victory on even odds.

And diplomacy is finally kind of sorted out. There's place for improvement, but nonetheless it's is light years from what we had in RTW1 and MTW2.

But I don't want to talk about menus, campaign maps and town. Such a mess. Horrible, boring, unintuitive and impractical. Definitely the worst in whole series.

[Jubal]

Title change!

Happy Christmas/Yule everyone!

[comrade_general]

Yay!