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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #94065 on: January 18, 2016, 03:31:58 pm »

That'd be quite funny, if everyone secretly had nukes but didn't own up to it

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #94066 on: January 18, 2016, 03:42:39 pm »

Also yeah i saw one of those books.
Poland joins the Axis, helps defeat the CCCP and ends up backstabbing Germany so the author can say "Poland strong (and not completely evil)".
The book you talk about is Wallenrod (not Konrad Wallenrod by Mickiewicz). A bit different story, since "Operacja: Dzień Wskrzeszenia" (the one with nukes and time travel, I guess it would be Operation: Ressurection Day in English) is mostly about time travel and shenanigans, and less about Poland rescing everyone. When it comes to Wallenrod you have to know history a bit better to break the suspension of disbelief (other than that Pilsudzki is saved by a fucking miracle, that is) and actually is pretty nice spy story about the woman who basically becomes Ewa Braun (which, in turn, commits suicide after being accused of betrayal, both political and personal), but is secretly Polish spy. I suppose I can spoiler the thing since nobody here is going to ever read it, but Hitler gets nuked in the end which is nice.
There's also Pact Ribbentrop-Beck which ends in Polish defeat though, and tons of other books with similar themes. www.1939.com.pl is about group of modern-day Polish soldiers with tanks, helicopters and whatnot going back in time to help win the September campaign and really, the whole thing is fucking popular. We just like to cry over our past mistakes and imagine we could do something better.
That'd be quite funny, if everyone secretly had nukes but didn't own up to it
It would stop being funny after first war.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #94067 on: January 18, 2016, 03:50:04 pm »

No I'm sure it'd still be funny

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #94068 on: January 18, 2016, 05:19:37 pm »

Why is Yume Nikki something that I unconditionally recommend?

I can sorta understand Undertale, that game is a labor of love by a guy who is a lot like me so if you play that game it's almost like if you're playing a game that I made except not shit. Spirited Away got applause from a bus full of high schoolers, you don't forget something as weird as that, and something about it makes me want to really want to share with people who've never seen it.

Yume Nikki has nothing I can think of that makes it particularly stand out except of what it is. It doesn't represent me in any way; it's about a reclusive girl who seems occupied with her femaleness in some way, and the whole game's just an exploration of her weird dream world, there's nothing there I can relate to, but it's just so good, it's just a big world full of odd things that I can't think of anything bad about. I can't think of any reason you shouldn't play it.

Everything about Undertale appealed to me nigh-instantaneously but it wasn't until the Yume Nikki connection that I really loved it. Why?! I can't see how that game means anything to me...
Also I'm personally fascinated by Kikiyama themselves, the mysterious creator of Yume Nikki. I would like to know what they're doing now, and I hope they're alright because they have created a dark, strange game.

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http://yumenikki.net/

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« Reply #94069 on: January 18, 2016, 05:30:27 pm »

Yumi Nikki is a game that I will ALWAYS say that it is better to watch then it is to play. It is better to theorize then it is to actually experience.

It... isn't all that good to be honest.

It has a lot of great elements held together with poop.
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« Reply #94070 on: January 18, 2016, 05:48:30 pm »

Yeah...  I was bored and had hours to spend on it, and basically all I got was a colorful romp through a few worlds.  And maybe one item?

I never figured out how to actually progress, I didn't even realize there were many items.  Parts of it were really pretty to visit, though.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #94071 on: January 18, 2016, 05:53:25 pm »

Also, fun fact, there is a quite popular Polish book where Poles basically built a nuke in secret and ACCIDENTALLY (because that is what we would totally do) exploded it which caused a nuclear war and later on we had to mop it up by going back in time.
That sounds amazing
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #94072 on: January 18, 2016, 06:07:19 pm »

Also, fun fact, there is a quite popular Polish book where Poles basically built a nuke in secret and ACCIDENTALLY (because that is what we would totally do) exploded it which caused a nuclear war and later on we had to mop it up by going back in time.
That sounds amazing
But how can Poland back in time if Poland cannot into space?
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #94073 on: January 18, 2016, 06:24:29 pm »

Also, fun fact, there is a quite popular Polish book where Poles basically built a nuke in secret and ACCIDENTALLY (because that is what we would totally do) exploded it which caused a nuclear war and later on we had to mop it up by going back in time.
That sounds amazing
But how can Poland back in time if Poland cannot into space?
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Technology. Also, in the book aliens disguised as cats are basically guardians of time, one of the people who goes on the trip literally dissapears simply because he tried to buy some pre-WWII Polish chocolates (they jump around quite a bit, XVIII century, I think, pre-war Poland, other times... I don't exactly remember) And when they, in the end, fix the whole thing so the nuclear war never happened, the sole survivor (two of them actually lived through it, but the other one sacrifices himself because their target (guy responsible for the nukes) is basically one of his distant ancestor) comes back to world where nobody knows he even existed, what happened and said technology doesn't exist. And Poland is stuck in completly fucked-up state, for reasons. And he has second thoughts becuase all of his best friends basically sacrificed themselves and nobody will ever even remember what they did. He shouldn't even exist but temporal fuckups and cat aliens.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #94074 on: January 18, 2016, 06:28:27 pm »

Polish Sci-Fi is one hell of a drug.

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #94075 on: January 18, 2016, 06:29:55 pm »

Technology. Also, in the book aliens disguised as cats are basically guardians of time, one of the people who goes on the trip literally dissapears simply because he tried to buy some pre-WWII Polish chocolates (they jump around quite a bit, XVIII century, I think, pre-war Poland, other times... I don't exactly remember) And when they, in the end, fix the whole thing so the nuclear war never happened, the sole survivor (two of them actually lived through it, but the other one sacrifices himself because their target (guy responsible for the nukes) is basically one of his distant ancestor) comes back to world where nobody knows he even existed, what happened and said technology doesn't exist. And Poland is stuck in completly fucked-up state, for reasons. And he has second thoughts becuase all of his best friends basically sacrificed themselves and nobody will ever even remember what they did. He shouldn't even exist but temporal fuckups and cat aliens.
This is actually a metaphor for Poland

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #94076 on: January 18, 2016, 06:36:02 pm »

Progress Quest, the best MMO ever.
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« Reply #94077 on: January 18, 2016, 06:46:07 pm »

Blew my nose, saw a drop of blood on the tissue. It looked dry and there's no more blood, so it's probably okay.
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« Reply #94078 on: January 18, 2016, 06:48:41 pm »

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« Reply #94079 on: January 18, 2016, 07:22:47 pm »

Polish Sci-Fi is one hell of a drug.
This is one of the least amazing ones actually. Whole Slavic Sci-Fi and Fantasy is literal gold. Recently I was reading a book about bunch of vampires, you know, the classical ones who live in coffins and suck people's blood... living in Communist Poland. Hilarity ensues, like this one time when ZOMO (the communist riot police) comes up with a plan where they take a dead body from Police morgue, disguise is as one of theirs and use it to fake a casualty during some "riot" suppresion, of course have it all on camera and whatnot. But, the body turns out to be a vampire, and Vampires of course don't show up on recordings and since he's not dead in traditional sense, he also dissapears with additional rolls of toilet paper as a payment for being the main actor.
There is also a visit from American Vampire "cousins" which sip animal blood and that makes them crazy and sparkle and... yeah, still better love story than Twilight.

Or those about insane... redneck... exorcist and monster hunter Jakub Wędrowycz... this one I don't even know how to explain, it's... it's batshit insane even by our standards. It involves stuff like time travel (obviously), shooting, stabbing, killing Nazis (also turning them into werewolves, the eastern kind, the ones that turn themselves inside-out through a small hole under armpit... that's really important information), getting rid of annoying gods (mostly acient Egyptian ones since they decided to send down some curses on him) with a sharpened stick, UFOs (his friend feeds one broth through a small pipe) and Imperial Russia airships (which is really helpful when you have to go kill Dracula) hidden under the barn (which itself has enough weaponry hidden inside to destroy the whole Earth and maybe a good bit of moon), shooting mammoths (he also got some mutants from Prypyat for Spielberg when he was making Jurrasic Park) and cavemen (they had trouble with christianization so the Pope himself asked Jakub for help) with PPSH (curiously enough, this time there was no time travel), Lenin (Wędrowycz kills him like three times) who always lives which actually is a bit (Lenin also sets up his own communist rule inside Egyptian afterlife due to mummification, Wędrowycz of course brings it all down) of problem for Soviets (also James Bond), harrasment (half of the place got exploded to heaven, and yes, I'm being literal) raids against hell itself (remember, if they ever try to boil you in a huge cauldron in hell, remember that holy water does not dilute and you can throw a grenade inside to cause some... disturbance) and setting up a brewery in heaven (and in prison... after all, they can't imprison you even more!), and of course a lot of superstition (he sent down some werecows on Osama Bin Landen which, in turn, ended in psychiatric hospital) that isin't actually superstition (locking a bunch of satanist in the cellar and then showing them how to actually summon devil), and a lot of 100% pure alcohol (which apparently was the cause of Titanic getting sunk). Oh, and he also killed a dragon (and several knights) using an chinese RPG-7. And a crocodile using an (genocide-grade) old sock. And kind of incapacitated Death with a panzerfaust.
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