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[Culise]

It's a tiny "own," but it's one of my own.  On my first voyage deep into the black, I've finally docked at Amundsen Terminal, one of half a dozen or so tiny outposts scattered out beyond human space, and my intention is that it will be the last human outpost I pass before I continue coreward.  Dropped off a wee bit over 13 million in exploration revenue just reaching this point, including several minor rocks and main-sequence stars not surveyed by any others, and both tripled my bank balance and gained some accolades as an explorer in the progress.  Also patched up some nicks and scrapes due to various mishaps (pro-tips: do not accelerate too close to gas giant ring systems, and - as I posted a while ago - do not kill your superluminal drive while it's still driving you at superluminal velocities). 

Also, the Lagoon Nebula is rather pretty, I think.  I haven't decided if I want to stop by the Trifid Nebula or Traikaae next, though I think I shall wait for the next version to release before I continue on coreward in my little Adder. 

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Elite: Dangerous

[RazielReaver]

Dodged Syphilis from my Sister-wife.

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Crusader Kings 2

[IronTomato]

It's a tiny "own," but it's one of my own.  On my first voyage deep into the black, I've finally docked at Amundsen Terminal, one of half a dozen or so tiny outposts scattered out beyond human space, and my intention is that it will be the last human outpost I pass before I continue coreward.  Dropped off a wee bit over 13 million in exploration revenue just reaching this point, including several minor rocks and main-sequence stars not surveyed by any others, and both tripled my bank balance and gained some accolades as an explorer in the progress.  Also patched up some nicks and scrapes due to various mishaps (pro-tips: do not accelerate too close to gas giant ring systems, and - as I posted a while ago - do not kill your superluminal drive while it's still driving you at superluminal velocities). 

Also, the Lagoon Nebula is rather pretty, I think.  I haven't decided if I want to stop by the Trifid Nebula or Traikaae next, though I think I shall wait for the next version to release before I continue on coreward in my little Adder. 

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Elite: Dangerous

Yeah, I just got this game the other day and I can confirm that exploring spehss and looking at pretty things is fun. I've barely started the game and I'm already looking forward to visiting Barnard's Loop.

[Rolan7]

First time playing Shadow of Mordor in a while, run the Test of Defiance.  One life, less health.  Can't brand.  Choose not to shadow-strike (teleport up to an enemy, killing them) because that's always seemed OP.  Oh, and you basically need to wipe the entire board of captains and chiefs.

Technically lost.  I needed to kill 6 warchiefs.  There are only 5, and I killed all their captains first, so there was nobody to promote up.  And there's a bizarre glitch in this mode, such that passing time doesn't spawn new captains.

The hardest part was probably the "make the supporter scream" quest.  The supporter hangs out in an arena surrounded by a dozen guys, and you have to hold him for 20 seconds straight.  The game doesn't explain, but basically you need to kill all those guys without raising the alarm or killing the supporter.  I drew 4 of them off with an explosion (such stealth), killed 6 with slow-mo archery, leapt onto the penultimate one, then shot the final one in the foot.  That poor supporter, hehe.

That quest is definitely the toughest IMO, felt pretty good though.
So yeah, Shadow of Mordor

[Akura]

Scored 20 straight wins in Double Battles, taking down Blue at the end. While #18 was harder than him and #19, I was worried Blue might have a shot since he scored first kill and the final matchup was my Lucario and Mawile against his Aerodactyl. I had expected Aerodactyl to use Earthquake and one-shot both, except he used Sky Drop on Lucario. Lucario barely survived, and Aerodactyl largely shrugged off Aura Sphere, but Mawile scored the finishing blow with Iron Head.

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Pokemon Sun. Earned far more than enough BP to get a Lucarionite. Still I wonder if it might have been better to keep him holding Ghostium Z. It's a great surprise move you wouldn't expect Lucario to use.

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Solution: Lucario has two hands, so put it in the other hand

[Akura]

Sadly no, that won't work. Pokemon can only hold one item; Lucario can hold a Mega Stone or Z-Crystal in one hand, but he needs the other hand to facepunch people with hadokens.

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_{i know, i was kidding}

[Akura]

Different game. On a whim, designed a space shuttle with a booster engine, similar to the real life Space Shuttle. I had strapped some solid-fuel boosters to the sides of the booster engine, but that didn't work. Too... floppy. Removed them. Had to rotate the entire launch assembly so that the weight of the booster engine dragged the rocket into a gravity turn(in real life, it's the shuttle's weight that does this).

Had to play with throttle output and flight controls mid-flight, but eventually got to a decent orbit. Noticed while in orbit that the three rocket engines on the rear of the shuttle were misaligned, probably resulting in much of the frustration getting up. Deployed a communications satellite. Retro-burned to decaying orbit, eventually stalled out forward momentum fairly close to the space center. Chutes deployed, and eventually hit the ground, losing only the nose cone(the one with C&C stuff in it) on impact due to the fact that the parachutes were on the top rear of the shuttle and I had not landing gear or anything like that. Plus I forgot any form of power or reaction wheels(plenty of fuel for RCS thrusters, and the RCS thrusters, though). All in all, mission accomplished.

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Kerbal Space Program.

[Draignean]

We had a escape pod crash outside camp in the very early game. What was inside... wasn't human. It was a wounded Elder Thing. Still, we bandaged it up and, out of gratitude,  it chose to join us. It's 1871 years old and its name could not be pronounced by our colonists, so we simply called it Doris.

Turns out, Doris is an excellent cook. This makes me smile a great deal in the mornings.

Manager Tom: "Ah, another day in paradise. Sentry guns are online, generator power is still steady, and we should be ready to work on the expansion to the freezers today. You up for it Gale?"

Miner Gale: "You bet, just as soon as I wash up and get some breakfast. Speakin' of... Doris, what's for chow?"

Elder Thing Doris: [INCOMPREHENSIBLE ELDRITCH SCREAMING]

Miner Gale: "Aw, man, you remembered! Strawberry pancakes are my favorite!"

Rimworld, with many mods.

[Reudh]

I got a Widowmaker from a random drop, which is essentially an Engineer shotgun which uses metal instead of bullets for ammo, but after every shot you get metal equal to half of the damage it dealt (I think). I figured this would be a good weapon to use with the Gunslinger, which I rarely ever use, so I decided to try it out.

I joined a random Control Points map, and immediately started shitting out mini-sentries all over the place and blasting people, managing to rack up a high score very quickly. Within a few minutes, a member of the opposing team declared that I was cancer.

Team Fortress 2

I friggin' love the Widowmaker. Widowmaker/Pistol/Gunslinger is a fun loadout, poop out some minisentries and recoup your lost metal by getting some nasty little meatshots.

Widow's stats: Does not require reloads. Uses metal as ammo, 30 metal per shot. From full metal, this means you have 6 shots (like the shotgun) before running out. 1 point of damage= 1 metal returned. If enemy is being targeted by the engineer's sentry, Widowmaker deals +10% damage.
Given that a nice meatshot from any of the shotgun weapons is around 90 damage, the widowmaker is a fantastic little weapon.

[CABL]

Night pirate raid on my colony. There was 1 sniper (very low shooting skill), 2 shooters (one with LMG, the other with a machine pistol, don't remember their skills), two grenade throwers, a lot of melee fighters, and one guy with friggin' Doomsday missile laucher! I thought the game was over, but the shooter missed. The rest was pretty easy despite superior numbers of pirates.

Rimworld.

[Akura]

Was going to a spot to hunt goats. Got swarmed by komodo dragons instead. Little bastards like to bite. Almost died, but I think at zero health there's a bit of mercy there, giving me time to jam a needle made from arrowroot and/or screw pine into my arm, bringing me back up to two bars. Used up almost all my ammo killing them and the tiger that showed up to help(them, not me).

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Far Cry 3.

[Dunamisdeos]

I used to do ABC sequencing and MIDI arranging thereof for LOTRO.

I meddled with it again in Archeage.

Now Starbound has it, and the tools since was last really into it (LOTRO) have advanced by bounds. I can make multi-instrument sequences like it aint no thang, and they even sound like I want them to in-game.

[Sirus]

Not to diminish your ownage, but ABC sequencing has been in Starbound...basically since it was fairly early in development