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[overseer05-15]

I never was good at megaman games.  But I love making levels.  So I got Mega maker.  Spent a good 2 hours making a megaman level created with love and care.  It's probably somewhat easy compared to what others have created but it's mine.   I go to upload and it tells me I need to beat the level first to prove it's beatable.

....I can't beat my own level.  Not because of shinanigans no.  But because I'm so godawful at megaman games I can't beat bog standard bomb man.

Mega Maker

You introduced me to this rad game, if it makes you feel any better.

[EnigmaticHat]

I had a mission to free a slave.  Problem: I'm a gorilla.  I can't talk to the slaver to buy the slave, I can't use any clever methods to free the slave, and the way the mission area was set up was horrible for stealthily killing the slavers.  Oh, and I'm playing with the time limit mutation and there's only a minute thirty left.  My only advantage is that I have 3 allied gorillas following me, and they'll help me fight the slavers.  What I decide to do is punch the slave to make them angry and fail the mission.  If I try to fight it out openly there's a 95% chance the slave dies in the fighting anyway, so at least this way they get to live.

I do that, but the slavers see me and chase me back to my gorilla posse.  For whatever reason, I don't know if it was just a reflex or if I was trying to get them to follow me and pressed the wrong button, but I clicked on my gorilla buddy as I was running past.  This causes me to punch him.  You do reduced damage to allies so 3 damage is done and gorilla buddy doesn't mind.  However, things start happening very quickly.

1.  A cop sees me punch my buddy, and attacks me because I broke the law.
2.  The cop hits me.  To defend me, the same gorilla buddy I punched hits the cop, also hitting me and knocking us both towards a slaver.
3.  The slaver use uses an axe to smash both me and the cop through a fucking wall.  The cop he hit dies.
4.  This reveals another cop with a baton, who smacks me back towards the melee.
5.  The cops, slavers, and gorillas are now engaged in a 3 way war.  2 more cops join the melee, one of them has a gun and starts firing at random into the combat.
6.  I'm killed.  Out of sight, the sounds of horrific violence continue unabated for a good half a minute.  I have no idea who won.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Streets of Rogue

[Flying Dice]

Scoped out a checkpoint, only spotted some infantry, a manned tripod .50, and a couple unmanned low-tripod grenade machineguns. Decided to try to run it since I had a pickup full of illegal guns to sell at the harbor. Promptly died in a massive flurry of explosions. As it turned out, those GMGs were unmanned in the sense of 'magically track and fire autonomously' rather than 'not occupied'. RIP

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

ArmA 3, of course

[Teneb]

I had a mission to free a slave.  Problem: I'm a gorilla.  I can't talk to the slaver to buy the slave, I can't use any clever methods to free the slave, and the way the mission area was set up was horrible for stealthily killing the slavers.  Oh, and I'm playing with the time limit mutation and there's only a minute thirty left.  My only advantage is that I have 3 allied gorillas following me, and they'll help me fight the slavers.  What I decide to do is punch the slave to make them angry and fail the mission.  If I try to fight it out openly there's a 95% chance the slave dies in the fighting anyway, so at least this way they get to live.

I do that, but the slavers see me and chase me back to my gorilla posse.  For whatever reason, I don't know if it was just a reflex or if I was trying to get them to follow me and pressed the wrong button, but I clicked on my gorilla buddy as I was running past.  This causes me to punch him.  You do reduced damage to allies so 3 damage is done and gorilla buddy doesn't mind.  However, things start happening very quickly.

1.  A cop sees me punch my buddy, and attacks me because I broke the law.
2.  The cop hits me.  To defend me, the same gorilla buddy I punched hits the cop, also hitting me and knocking us both towards a slaver.
3.  The slaver use uses an axe to smash both me and the cop through a fucking wall.  The cop he hit dies.
4.  This reveals another cop with a baton, who smacks me back towards the melee.
5.  The cops, slavers, and gorillas are now engaged in a 3 way war.  2 more cops join the melee, one of them has a gun and starts firing at random into the combat.
6.  I'm killed.  Out of sight, the sounds of horrific violence continue unabated for a good half a minute.  I have no idea who won.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Streets of Rogue

That sounds pretty awesome.

[Akura]

Killed by a hacking group, shooting my Sunderer through a wall/vehicle shield with a Liberator Tank Buster. I can confirm that vehicle weapons fire cannot go through that particular vehicle gate shield, since I tried to fire on them with my own weapons. Said Tank Buster also overwhelmed my Sunderer Deployment Shield far too quickly.

Seriously, fuck these guys, Russian Airborne Troopers([RuAT]). I've been watching how they play for months. They always gang up on smaller numbers of defenders, while very obviously seeing(and occasionally shooting) through walls. They almost always disappear if more people show up, and often have the nerve to complain when someone does something actually intelligent and pulls a MAX. Just these assholes showing up is enough to make me quit.

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Planetside 2. Further probably evidence of hacking: they had already done a flyby, but I forced their Liberator off with my flak gun - they flew out of sight to repair. While they were gone, I did the smart thing and moved to a different position. When they came back around, they were beelining for my new position, not my old one.

[Tawa]

Became the king of Finland and ruled over vast lands and territories.

Then my son died, and within a couple of years, I died before I could produce an heir, even though I had taken three concubines (all of whom had a fertility boost of some sort.)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Crusader Kings II

On the plus side, I figured out a non-gamey way to get around the nightmare of elective gavelkind. I used to take the Seduction focus and just have affairs with unmarried courtiers, then legitimize a bastard I liked, but that never felt quite right for a number of reasons (mainly, it's blatant metagaming, but it also feels weird that pagans play by the same bastardry rules as Christians.) But now I've realized that instead I can just take concubines. There's no penalty for setting them aside (so no expensive divorces like with wives,) and although the kids suffer from a minor penalty due to their parentage the way legitimized bastards do, it makes much more sense than the children of a polytheist barbarian king being considered illegitimate in the William the Conqueror style because he didn't tell anyone who he was screwing.

The only reason my one-son plan didn't work out was because I made the stupid decision to appoint him as a commander.

[KingofstarrySkies]

Legs cut off, murdered. Over, like, ten times now.

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Star Wars mod for DF.

[pisskop]

Became the king of Finland and ruled over vast lands and territories.

Then my son died, and within a couple of years, I died before I could produce an heir, even though I had taken three concubines (all of whom had a fertility boost of some sort.)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Crusader Kings II

On the plus side, I figured out a non-gamey way to get around the nightmare of elective gavelkind. I used to take the Seduction focus and just have affairs with unmarried courtiers, then legitimize a bastard I liked, but that never felt quite right for a number of reasons (mainly, it's blatant metagaming, but it also feels weird that pagans play by the same bastardry rules as Christians.) But now I've realized that instead I can just take concubines. There's no penalty for setting them aside (so no expensive divorces like with wives,) and although the kids suffer from a minor penalty due to their parentage the way legitimized bastards do, it makes much more sense than the children of a polytheist barbarian king being considered illegitimate in the William the Conqueror style because he didn't tell anyone who he was screwing.

The only reason my one-son plan didn't work out was because I made the stupid decision to appoint him as a commander.

concubines will create legit heirs.

just ... elect good heirs and suppress bad ones into armies or obscurity.

obulettes do wonders for diplomacy lowering, and diplo is the next strongest thing to holding titles for determining elective title popularity

[Tawa]

Elective gavelkind creates kingdoms to give to your heirs if you have enough land. Regular gavelkind is manageable enough as long as you don't own more than 1 top-tier title for long, but elective gavelkind is a nightmare that gores up your borders and deprives you of hard-earned work. In a difficult area like Finland (which is generally immediately eaten by Vikings whenever you play there and left untouched for centuries if you don't,) the last thing you need is a power struggle.

The idea behind my concubine strategy is to just get one heir from them. It's not costly the way getting married and divorcing your wife is, and it's not immersion-breaking and metagamey like affairs are.

[pisskop]

i marry chaste genius women who are attractive first, and for the stats if not.


and i almost always wait until im like 40+ before i marry.

i pick up emergency concubines if i must.


buuut absolute tribal authority is easy enough to get

[Tawa]

buuut absolute tribal authority is easy enough to get

Reforming, however, is not.

You ever play Finland? It's not easy.

[pisskop]

I'll let you in on a secret

Spoiler: metagaming (click to show/hide)

1.
use your 500 prestige army to take your fellow moosenites.
you dow one, raise an tribal army, fuck sieging and go for the assault.

then pause

make peace and dow another.

rinse and repeat until you have a kingdom or have no money.  or run it negative, idc, it works until you run out of men.

remember that THEY can also raise tribals at 500 prestige.
but most importantly remember that taking all of somebodys settlements will 100% the warscore no matter what army they field.




2.

use holy warriors to do the same, but utilize their zero cost for religious enemies in defensive wars.

a peasant revolt counts.  lets a romuvan or norse revolt sit there, call up an army, and go murder all your targets eith oddles of free soldiers that cost easy to get and otherwise usless piety.

[Tawa]

I do that already. I've been playing this game for quite a while.

Finland is hard because it's not always possible to get enough prestige and enough land to fight off Vikings (particularly the Jarl of Uppsala) before they're on your doorstep, and the Vikings are more than happy to attack the High Chief of Satakunta very early on.

[pisskop]

Yea Ive noticed that the vikings can expand east well enough, and even south if they get a good king, but they dont do England so well anymore.

that kind of upsets me.  they spend early game fighting each other and finland and sometimes pommerania, and then fighting for saxony.  then they convert and dont even do england.

[Culise]

Decided not to listen to the harvest sprites.  Instead, I packed up my dead grandfather's belongings and left, leaving the entire village to be demolished to make way for a theme park.  Fade to title screen.
^{I always like BokuMono/Harvest Moon's willingness to say, "well, you don't want to play? Fine." ^_^}

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Harvest Moon: Hero of Leaf Valley