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[Teneb]

Yes. Humanity. The 'Dark Souls' of humans. Hence why they're black with a white outline, in contrast to the white/yellowish souls of everything else. _{I just didn't want to repeat the word humanity in the sentence twice, and I thought that using 'dark souls' helped drive my point across at how disconnected the second game is from the first. But you're right. You used Humanity to restore your Humanity in the first game. And Human Effigies in the second for no good reason.}

Since this is a derail and getting into spoiler land, going to put stuff into spoilers.

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Dunno why the shift to effigies, really, but humanity isn't dark souls. It's kind of its own thing that can exist outside humans and is... produced? by them. Dark Souls are the actual souls of humans, who all originate from the Furtive Pygmy. None of the bosses from the first game are humans (except the Four Kings, but they had a bit of Gwyn's Soul transplanted into them), and their souls are quite different. All the non-boss souls we see in the games belong to humans, we never see "soul of a <insert monster here>". It's also noted that humanity is useless for humans, but highly-sought by hollows. It's also confirmed in the third game (and heavily hinted in 1 and 2) that hollows are the "true face" of humans. Since hollows (true form humans) can exist without humanity (only needing it to look like living humans), and hollows still have souls, humanity != dark souls.

[miauw62]

I came across the apex predator while randomly mutating cells. I have decided to name it the "shit-town worm" after its curious coloration. It preys on other cells, but unlike most predators, it can survive and even thrive off petri dish nutrients just fine, so it keeps going after devouring new species. It is also extremely radiation-resistant, barely changing over many, many generations despite the highest radiation setting. I don't know how exactly it reproduces, considering its literally just a devorocyte splitting itself into a devorocyte and a fagocyte, which the devorocyte promptly consumes, which then repeats itself. This provides propulsion, but not reproduction.

Cell Lab

E: well it looks like the good ole undefeatable lifeform has arisen. that being photocytes with kerwtinocytes. Can't eat them, can't infect them, they just keep growing.

[ArchAIngel]

Got the Master Protector achievement... by hypnotizing another Big Daddy and sitting in a corner.

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Bioshock 2. Achievement requires a full session of a Little Sister collecting ADAM that is uninterrupted by enemies attacking her AND requires you taking zero damage during it. The Demanding Father tonic speeds up the collection, and there's nothing to say that hypnotized enemies can't take all the hits for you.

Unfortunately, a crash bug seems to have deadstopped my playthrough of this game, as the game now crashes within seconds of the game loading.

EDIT: Got past that crash bug. Thankfully it was just that level, but I correctly deduced it was a graphics issue and had to reduce the graphics detail to their lowest setting. The next level I could turn everything back to high. That's an own on it's own, but then I received an ability described as "Bring Your Daughter to Work Day". {My "daughter" just clad herself in Big Sister armor and kicked the shit out of two Brute Splicers - and that's the least of her badassery.}

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Bioshock 2

Okay, something to note, this is actually the fault of how old the game is. See, the updated version(kinda) Steam sells is able to handle modern-day amounts of RAM, but it doesn't know that. So if you try and use said RAM, it says "Oi! You're overloading your computer! I'm shutting down so you don't hurt yourself, you moron." because it doesn't know that today, the amount of RAM being used actually exists.


I don't remember how to fix it, but it's a line in a text file somewhere you can change. Google should help you there.

[Amperzand]

My teammates and I noted that the other team had a hacker, who was rather irritatingly killing everybody he could see. We decided that the best reaction to this was to get as many people as possible dominating the hacker as well as preventing his team from winning. We prevented his team from so much as reaching the first point in one round, then rushed to victory within two minutes of game start the next.  As part of this process, I had my best medic life to date, healing more than 5300 points and ubering several times, each strategically placed to counter an enemy uber or to break up the enemy foothold outside their spawn doors. Several of my teammates ended up dominating the bastard. He proceeded to become very mad in chat, and was then VAC banned for his trouble.

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Team Fortress 2

[AzyWng]

[quote author
=Amperzand link=topic=83528.msg7121035#msg7121035 date=1470369369]
My teammates and I noted that the other team had a hacker, who was rather irritatingly killing everybody he could see. We decided that the best reaction to this was to get as many people as possible dominating the hacker as well as preventing his team from winning. We prevented his team from so much as reaching the first point in one round, then rushed to victory within two minutes of game start the next.  As part of this process, I had my best medic life to date, healing more than 5300 points and ubering several times, each strategically placed to counter an enemy uber or to break up the enemy foothold outside their spawn doors. Several of my teammates ended up dominating the bastard. He proceeded to become very mad in chat, and was then VAC banned for his trouble.

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Team Fortress 2

[/quote]

Tell your team:
I
FUCKING
SALUTE YOU

[Amperzand]

Sadly, they were just random dudes, and I don't know who all was active in chat to salute. T'was fucking awesome though.

[Tawa]

My teammates and I noted that the other team had a hacker, who was rather irritatingly killing everybody he could see. We decided that the best reaction to this was to get as many people as possible dominating the hacker as well as preventing his team from winning. We prevented his team from so much as reaching the first point in one round, then rushed to victory within two minutes of game start the next.  As part of this process, I had my best medic life to date, healing more than 5300 points and ubering several times, each strategically placed to counter an enemy uber or to break up the enemy foothold outside their spawn doors. Several of my teammates ended up dominating the bastard. He proceeded to become very mad in chat, and was then VAC banned for his trouble.

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Team Fortress 2

Tell your team:
I
FUCKING
SALUTE YOU

FTFY

[Blaze]

Driving the death road to Canada as "The Swole", after being stuck alone for about 3 days in game, I flexed against a body builder, who promptly turned to stone and fragmented into a million pieces.

Spoiler: Now my first partner is a bit odd. (click to show/hide)

Edit:

Spoiler: Wait, are her eyes getting bigger? (click to show/hide)

Edit2:

Spoiler: There is a point where we've gone too far, but let's keep going and see what happens. (click to show/hide)

[Steelmagic]

It is truly my greatest creation. I am an artist, not a child.

Spoiler: War Thunder (click to show/hide)

It looks really goofy with all of those jerry cans.

[BlackHeartKabal]

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Right, since my reaction can't be more properly conveyed ;
What the fuck.

[Haspen]

After capturing a minor toxic planet Fundus III from Sakkra Feudal Empire for Terran Imperium after a gruesome evenly-matched battle of 20+ ships on each side, Rear Admiral Tellik's depleted fleet was to stand there and wait for reinformcents to arrive while the 2nd fleet was en route to Sakkra homeworld (we needed Fundus III to have just enough range to hit the homeworld). The fleet at Fundus III was comprised of 3 Galleys (ships with Troop pods, Augmented Engines and PD systems only), Rear Admiral Tellik's Centurion (beefy ship with many missiles and lotsa structural points thanks to Reinforced Hull) and four tractor-beam using Paladin cruisers.

Unfortunately, the Sakkra rushed for Fundus III and within two turns I was seeing 2 Sakkran Battleships, 6 Cruisers and 7 Destroyers bearing down onto Tellik's fleet within a turn. Hyperspace Comms aren't a thing yet so I couldn't redirect Mystic-X's fleet from Sakkran Homeworld. Reinforcements from Meklar and Terra were too far to reach them in time, but if Fundus III were to be recaptured, Mystic-X's fleet would have to auto-retreat from Sakkra homeworld, so...

We battle.

Noting that Sakkra used smaller but plentiful swarms of Merculite missiles and Interceptor fighters, I moved Rear Admiral Tellik's ship to front, with all my ships firing Anti-Matter torpedoes and Pulson Missiles at one of Sakkra battleships. Meanwhile, the Galleys sneaked through the top and bottom and to the sides of the second Battleship. Rear Admiral Tellik, with Class III shields only on his ship, decided to take an extreme survival tactic:

He begun spinning his ship in circles.

The infuriated Sakkra wasted their missiles on Tellik's ship which was losing shields, armor and structural points very slowly. Then Ka-boom, went the 1st Sakkra battleship, after last of Pulson Missiles were launched. In the meanwhile, the tractor-beam Paladins moved forward far enough to immobilize the 2nd battleship. Cue the Galleys swarming in and delivering Terran Marines on board!

That's when Rear Admiral Tellik noticed that the Sakkra Battleship have Troop pods of their own.

Solution? More Terran Marines!

The Paladins closed down on the second Battleship and began delivering their own, smaller but equally-capable Marine deatchments onto the Battleship. After grinding down a god-awful amount of Sakkra soldiers manning the security stations (no wonder they were so persistent), the 2nd Battleship was captured.

Meanwhile, the Rear Admiral Tellik managed to spin-absorb most of the Sakkra missiles and lost only 2/3 of the ship's structural points. Paladins then, in conjunction with Galleys (never underestimate numerous PD Fusion Beams!) pew pew'd the Sakkra Cruisers and Destroyers to dust, and the remaining Galley marines even managed to further boost their score by snatching a Cruiser near the end of the battle.

Sakkra losses: 2 Battleships, 6 Cruisers, 7 Destroyers and a complement of Transports that was meant for re-conquest of Fundus III
Terran Imperium losses: NULL

GLORY TO THE TERRAN IMPERIUM!

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Master of Orion II

[A Thing]

Managed to kill a bunch of strong (each one has more health than the boss at the end of the megadungeon) enemies without using the plot weapon that you're supposed to use.

Pillars of Eternity: The White March Part 2

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Didn't realize I was supposed to soul-bind Abydon's hammer. Ended up finding out when I soulbound it to my Barbarian because she was doing good damage with it.

[TheBiggerFish]

Made it to almost the end, after a full 40-some minutes and a maxed-out difficulty bar.  I'm still not sure how.

Doing a stupid and getting summarily ganked by a double Magma Worm afterwards was slightly less fun, but hey, I still almost beat the thing.

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Risk of Rain

[SeriousConcentrate]

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Wait, what? What caused that? Just her strength stat going up? I've never recruited her; I might have to now just to see that. O.o

[Arx]

You know, I was thinking Pinwheel was probably being unfairly underrated. Then I killed him in three hits. He was taking three times as much damage as skeletons! What? Anyway, now I've just got to not get wiped in the Tomb.

Dark Souls.