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[Graknorke]

Was playing Nethack for the first time today.

I read a scroll, which chained an iron ball to me.
I then fell down some stairs.
See where this is going?

It just keeps hapening?

In other news, I sent a small squad back to deal with a threat my (also a noob) opponent sent about a minute before departure, and I didn't want to have to deal with the potential butterflies of just changing my past orders, because they were part of a defensive force, so I didn't want them to mess anything up.
I sent them back, they destroyed the pre-attack, then I sent them over to where they departed so that they would still arrive in time enough to fight off the attack in the present. I spend a while reorganising the defense around to cover some weak spots, when a time wave passes and I notice my defensive forces have moved with it. But not just little shifts like I'd expect. They were mostly in one corner of the now half destroyed base, the rest ineffectively trickling through the gaps in the buildings and getting picked off.

Turns out that the team I sent out to deal with the past-attack had got caught up trying to navigate the base and I hadn't checked, so it messed up my entire defense. The pathing is so broken ;_;

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Achron.
The pathing really is so incredibly broken. The Resequence engine is good though, so it has that.

[Hanslanda]

Okay, to save some time, I'm just going to say this:

Game 1: Overpowered by Tyranid advance
Game 2: Overpowered by Tyranid advance
Game 3: Tyranid deepstrike crippled forces
Game 4: Overpowered by Tyranid advance
Game 5: Held off Tyranid advance until ran out of resources, then was overpowered
Game 6: Held off Tyranid advance long enough to kill a single Tyranid player, then the ally they were swarming was destroyed, and their massive force turned it's malevolence upon me.
Game 7: Overpowered by Tyranid advance

I haven't had this much fun in a loooong time. And I'm on easy. Sure, they outnumber us player wise three to one, so its still highly disadvantageous, but I think it's doable.

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Dark Crusade Tyranid mod

[Smashness]

Before I could get there, though, a pack of fucking wolves just appears out of nowhere and absolutely mauls me. In the pharmacy. In the middle of a city.

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Cataclysm

Scavenger wolves?

Anyway, I was wandering around having a jolly good time and I spotted an Elven Cat. I readied my weapons snuck up on it.

In this game, Cats of any kind have a HUGE Spot skill (helps them see you, dogs and stuff have high Smell and Hearing, which I like) so they can basically see you through a crystal wall. The cat woke up and tore my face off. GG.

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Incursion: Halls of the Goblin King

[Rolan7]

Oh gods. Imperial Guard versus seven Tyranid Easy AIs. I quickly set up a formidable defense point in what I believed what the only entrance to my base. The Tyranids probed it for awhile, sending a few squads of 'stealers and a couple carnifexs, which I fought off with little trouble.
They then began their full scale assault. My initial defense network was... Instantly overpowered. Just... Fucking gone in seconds. A huge blob of red was advancing through my base's entrance, but I'd laid a ton of mines there, and I had squads and basilisks building behind the walls of mines.

Then the Tyranids swarmed in through the negative cover hugging the coast. The coast that I thought was impassable and I had neglected to defend in my haste to lockdown the main entrance. Good god, they're just like in the books.
 

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Dark Crusade: Tyranid Mod

That sounds really fun, I'll have to try it sometime.

Uh, last death... just FTL again.  Couldn't decide between missiles and lasers, and half measures don't work well against the boss.

[Hanslanda]

That sounds really fun, I'll have to try it sometime.

It's pretty fun. I'd gotten quite bored with Dark Crusade until I downloaded that and Lights of the Warp. LotW adds stuff like Devastators and other such tabletop goodies. But the Tyranids are still pretty OP in numbers. One on one they're pretty tough but when there's literally five hundred of them on screen at once, it's impossible.

[MantisMan]

Last death was against the Rebel Flagship.

The most recent loss was my max leveled shield specialist. I apparently sent him into a room to deal with fires, and didn't move him out before he burned to death. My ship is doing better this time. I survived the first round against the flagship. I have maxed shields and weapons, but I'm still nervous about my chances in the next round.

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FTL

[Tarran]

Zoltan Border Police with 2 drones and a missile launcher and 3 boarders while my ship is 50% on fire and at 1 HP. Yeah...

This is what happens when I name a ship "Burning Glory".

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FTL

[Oliolli]

Zoltan Border Police with 2 drones and a missile launcher and 3 boarders while my ship is 50% on fire and at 1 HP. Yeah...

This is what happens when I name a ship "Burning Glory".

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FTL

Do not give the universe ideas.

[Wimopy]

Zoltan Border Police with 2 drones and a missile launcher and 3 boarders while my ship is 50% on fire and at 1 HP. Yeah...

This is what happens when I name a ship "Burning Glory".

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FTL

Do not give the universe ideas.

Most general error people commit. The universe hasn't got much creativity, but it will use your ideas.

To stop a de-rail:

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World of Tanks

Was testing physics system on test server with T-50-2, in Port. Had to cross rails, but they halved my speed with each rail and sent me flying. I collided with a wagon and a T92 (highest dmg in the game!) managed to land a shell directly on my tank. Kaboom.

[Mephansteras]

The engine room aflame with all 4 crew inside trying desperately to get them back up so we can warp out of a bad situation. Then my fiance walks into the room and starts talking to me. Distracted, I fail to pause the game or properly micromanage my crew, causing all of them to die in the fire.

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FTL

[varnish]

Fighting that old rebel flagship. I had knocked out most of its shields, taken out three weapons ports, and nearly destroyed its hull. Unfortunately, they had done much the same to me. And their missiles hit before mine could fire. A fiery explosive death for my crew.

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FTL, of course. I almost had it, too! I would have won, if I hadn't stupidly attacked a slaver ship right before meeting the flagship. Ah well.

[miauw62]

There's a HUEG influx of great demos into my fav turbine server...
Cant reflect everything.

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TF2

[612DwarfAvenue]

My last death was nothing special, just got steamrolled by the enemy Protoss player because i really, really need to move faster. I'm slow at these kinds of games, damnit D:.


However, the match before that one deserves special mention. Since again, i'm not exactly a fast player, so the enemy Zerg player had enough time to mass some Overlords, load each one up with Zerglings and Banelings, and literally just send the entire cluster of Overlords into my base and drop those -lings everywhere. I had Missile Turrets up (i was Terran in both matches), but nowheres near enough. It was truly an awe-inspiring sight seeing all those Overlords doing the equivilent of a bombing run.

But, that's not what killed me. Did some good damage, but i held that attack off. No, what killed me is when he did the exact same thing with the Overlords except with Ultralisks instead of -lings. Good god almighty.


Starcraft 2.

[lishain]

Was killed by giant...porcupine, I think.

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The world ends with you.

[Hanslanda]

Tyranids. Just... Tyranids.

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Dark Crusade Tyranid mod

Edit: The Tyranid builder unit is this little red light thingy, called the Will of the Hive. It can teleport a long distance, and is automatically infiltrated. So when you look at the dark corner of your base, and FIFTY GORRAM SQUADS OF GAUNTS SWARM OUT, you know why. Because they built buildings in there. Secretly. Because they are bastards.