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Other Games / Re: Team Fortress 2

« on: September 04, 2011, 06:29:26 PM »

I've been playing on and off since release myself! Now I tend to stick around the Free Frag servers since they have decent map rotations, some nice people, and tend to have people who know what theyre doing. I never noticed much flak against new players either. There are a few bad apples, but they dont take too much away from the experience.

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Feature Requests / Re: Bankers can be Stewards of any realm's region

« on: September 04, 2011, 06:23:43 PM »

I am more or less in favor of this. However, I wouldnt want to see entire realms forcing lords to accept the option when they wanted to deal independently. Would it not be possible to make it against the rules to force that on a lord? Perhaps a version of a lords inalienable rights to manage their region's food if they choose?

The reasons why I support it mostly come down to my personal preference. As a lord I usually get pretty annoyed playing with a food game I dont always understand even after all this time. As a trader I get pretty annoyed playing with lords who dont bother replying to letters about trading when having to contact a banker for those lazy lords would work just fine (Seriously, running around Dwilight to places claiming to be selling food and getting zero response from the lords who said they'd sell food gets old after a while. If traders could just directly contact bankers it'd be nice.)

On the flip side I'm glad we have given lords to ability to be independent and control their food. Jens, for example, has made a pretty good run of it in the Barony of Makar, as does the lord my trader serves in Dwilight. It'd be a shame to see that lost.

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General Talk / Re: Game of Thrones

« on: August 01, 2011, 07:47:58 PM »

I'd always heard of the books but never got around to reading them. Then I kept hearing that this pilot for some series called Game of Thrones was awesome, so I decided to watch.

I love love love the series. I really need to buy the books (I've read some of Martin's other stuff and really enjoyed it) but my backlog of books is getting silly and his books are far down on this list.

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Other Games / Re: Anything to actually look forward to?

« on: May 11, 2011, 09:59:33 PM »

Fella, you don't need anything new. Go buy Super Smash Brothers Brawl. Best game on Wii for having fun with your friends, guaranteed.

Not a huge Wii player, but Melee and Brawl are both top notch games. I'm not even particularly good at them and I love playing them with people who play in tourney's for each game.

Scribblenauts, at least the first one, was neat but underwhelming compared to the hype. I'm getting ready to give the newest Pokemon game a whirl myself in coming weeks and I'm a fan of the Cooking Mama games.

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Other Games / Re: Mount and Blade (Warband)

« on: April 28, 2011, 11:26:02 PM »

For those interested, it looks like Steam is having a little sale on Mount & Blade and Warband for the weekend. I might just pick up Warband myself.

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Feature Requests / Re: Top bar opens a new window instead?

« on: April 26, 2011, 12:02:29 AM »

I didnt actually know my third button would open a new tab.

It kinda just blew my mind!

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Feature Requests / Re: Top bar opens a new window instead?

« on: April 25, 2011, 09:10:50 PM »

I dunno if all browsers do it, but in Chrome you can just right click and choose to open them each in a New Tab/New Window. Sure, its not coded in but it gets the job done.

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BM General Discussion / Re: Where did you draw your inspiration for your characters?

« on: April 18, 2011, 07:20:51 PM »

All of my characters I tend to develop based on their experiences with a touch of backstory and a template to start them out.

My first character, Ender, I have just developed from Day 1 to be a product of his experiences.

Cid was specifically designed to hate what Ender and his concept of Vikings were. From there, he turned into a product of his experiences which happened to equal brutally honest religious zealot.

Weland was meant to be a tamer version of Ender, he died before I ever developed him much farther than that. He pretty much stayed a noble lord with a touch of barbarian in him for flavor.

Corin was meant to be my way of playing a trader for the first time, so I had a sort of wealthy merchant with a taste for the finer things in life in mind for him. I havent strayed far from that but his experiences have changed him from what I thought he'd be at this point.

Edmund/Letta are my way of exploring what I made into Cid down two different paths. One is meant to be what Cid could have been had he not turned into a die-hard zealot and the other had he never became a priest but adhered to his initial beliefs in honor, chivalry, and faith with a distrust for what he believes to be barbarism. So far, so good there, though its early to see what either might become once they've had more experience behind them.

For my adventurers: First was a commoner with no tact and a love for causing trouble, he got himself killed, and the second I thought to try working towards becoming a noble but decided to take a break with him.

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Dwilight / Re: The Dwilight Experience

« on: April 08, 2011, 05:46:44 PM »

Mine may not be as exciting as others, but my first character on Dwilight was in Everguard, which then promptly fell into a civil war and was overrun by outside realms.

Needless the say, I didnt stay for very long and ended up next door in Astrum where I'd been trading when the whole rebellion started.

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General Talk / Re: You're a noble, but what are you by day/night?

« on: April 06, 2011, 08:04:37 PM »

I graduated from college last May with a degree in History. Most of my research while in school focused on modern European and military history.

Since then I've been doing freelance writing while trying to find a steady job. Only recently I picked up a job that should lead to some management training. It wasnt what I wanted to do, but I'll take what I can get.

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Other Games / Re: BioWare offers ME2 free to owners of DA2.

« on: April 06, 2011, 07:33:39 PM »

It'd be nice if this was the other way around. Then again, I havent played DA:O yet so I guess that would be pointless.

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This Forum / Re: How long have you spent on this Forum?

« on: April 02, 2011, 10:32:24 PM »

Total time logged in: 16 hours and 27 minutes.

I usually just pop on occasionally to read through the threads I'm interested in. Since I dont post much I dont spend a huge amount of time on here.

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BM General Discussion / Re: Nice One, Tom

« on: April 01, 2011, 07:43:26 PM »

I read through that list of things you could buy with utter horror on my face. Then, I raced to the forums wondering what madness this could be only to be reminded that: yes, it is April 1st, and yes, Tom fooled me once again.

I dont know how you do it but it's amazing! 

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Far East Island / Re: Could the FEI realms unite against invasion?, a (sadly) hypothetical question.

« on: March 28, 2011, 04:50:38 AM »

I dont know the ins and outs of the Order since it wasnt going to be negotiated until the Fall of Soliferum anyway, but I do remember it being started for a reasons similar to this so I'd hope it'd work as intended.

That said, I would love for a daimon/undead/monster invasion of FEI if only because I keep missing my chance to participate in the actual ones. And besides, turning FEI head over heels and shaking the foundations of the long established realms would be great fun.

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Feature Requests / Re: Judicial Punishments with Teeth

« on: March 25, 2011, 03:50:25 PM »

How about torture or ban punishment.It's like this:
Oance the sentence is given the noble has the following options:
A)accept torture-he has 3 days to do this after the sentence is cast.
B)Ignore sentence and get banned-this happens if he has not accepted torture in 3 days.
C)Leave the realm in 3 days.
The judge will receive no penalties for this torture since it is being done with the noble's approval.
He can also determine how severe the torture will be.

Being unconscious is worse than jail.At lest there are things you can do in jail.

How many nobles would honestly submit to being tortured? There are also quite a few realms who consider torture the worst thing you can do to a noble, so I doubt that would ever really work.