general-chat

[flint flame]

Nothing makes me feel tinier (despite being a cm or two shy of 6ft) than visiting my dutch cousins lmao - I have to crane my neck up to make eye contact

Absolute giants. It's absurd

[cosmic burrow]

Your cousins kid

[somber stream]

😨

[obtuse oak]

milk and potato diet goes brrrrt

[novel marlin]

Pretty sure it’s nephew still?

[cosmic burrow]

Make him become wide and start doing strongman type stuff

[flint flame]

Milk and potato diet only made me grow horizontally 😔

[cosmic burrow]

Succes guaranteed

[obtuse oak]

ok. in Dutch he's my "achterneef" which I would translate as something like "over-nephew"

[ripe tangle]

First cousin once removed?

[karmic idol]

Man okay so this one time my school hosted a voting thing for something I don't remember but this dude almost was able to get in there and vote but then a teacher stopped him and was like "Dude, you can't be doing that get back to class" and the people there where so confused it was absolutely hilarious

[astral basin]

Yall wanna talk about tall folk
My cousin in law is ugandan
He has like 5 brothers
Im 6ft flat. Im shoulder height to him alone. And hes the shortest sibling

[obtuse oak]

but Dutch doesnt make a distinction between cousin and nephew anyway. the 'cousin' word has no cognate, we use niece/nephew for both your uncle's children and your brother's children

[elfin rose]

I can't play Havoc, it showing me stuick in a strike team, i restarted game but no fix? anyone know

[astral basin]

My cousin is 5’4 married to this pole of a man btw

[obtuse oak]

yeah they got some tall mfers in africa in some places

[cosmic burrow]

He is tall and lanky or a man of stature

[wispy wadi]

I am so happy there is like only 1 kid after my generation in the family No confusion with distinctions

[obtuse oak]

oh that sounds about right

[somber stream]

Damn, i'm 1.7m, like rounded

[cosmic burrow]

I nearly 180cm

[obtuse oak]

I'm 187cm and a lot of my friends are taller still

[ripe tangle]

The Dinka of South Sudan, they’re all extremely tall and naturally thin iirc.

[wispy wadi]

How are you gonna fight in the trenches when your head pokes out?

[obtuse oak]

guess i'll die

[somber stream]

The average modern German male is about 1m8 - 1m9

[hasty sky]

modern german male lmao

[ripe tangle]

when I was in Germany, it seemed like everyone was taller than me lmao

[somber stream]

I'm getting culled

[wispy wadi]

Think I am 1,78 or something but my posture makes me 1,76

[hasty sky]

It's EOL for you boyo!!!

[hasty sky]

I'm also 176

[wispy wadi]

Got that Necronspine going on

[somber stream]

Sounds cool

[obtuse oak]

ye germans are pretty tall too

that whole germanic haplotype. dutch, german, danish, swedish, norse

[astral basin]

Tall and lean.

[south mica]

emphasis on "manic"

[somber stream]

Apparently my mom didn't get the memo while she was cooking me

[ripe tangle]

Slavs and Celts tend to be pretty tall too from what I’ve seen

Southern Europeans like Italians and Greeks not so much though…

[obtuse oak]

there was a frisian warlord in the 1600s called grutte pier that was famous for his absolutely massive size and gigantic sword (pictured)

[astral basin]

So apparently my cousin is 1.6 meters
And he is pretty flat at 2 meters

[obtuse oak]

legend has it he could cut two men in half with one swing

[gloomy tartan]

I’m a slim bastard

[marsh iris]

is that his 1H sword

[bronze dawn]

I press quick play THREE TIMES and it still takes me to power supply distribution, when shock trop high intensity is there three times over. Fml

[astral basin]

Mfw everyone is playing train map

[hasty sky]

I love rolling steel

[karmic idol]

I hate the train map

[bronze dawn]

Fuck that train map

[ripe tangle]

iirc wasn’t Edward IV of England like 194cm?

and he lived in the early to mid 1400s

[karmic idol]

Every autistic is angry rn tho for sure

[obtuse oak]

hah no that's a twohander for sure. originally a german sword, probably taken by pier from a fallen saxon soldier.

[ripe tangle]

and Edward IV’s grandfather was nicknamed “Longshanks” because he was over 2m iirc

[karmic idol]

Anyways uh my friend invited me to a world on Minecraft with 16,000 petabytes worth of mods on it apparently

It's just a really funny visual glitch and I love it tbh

[astral basin]

Actually. Maybe i should get my height in cm
Getting it in inch is inconsistent for me

[somber stream]

Metric always.

[karmic idol]

Yeah you should because I've personally had my height change in 3 inches in either direction and I don't understand it

[ripe tangle]

but Licht, Metric was invented by the French!

[somber stream]

It's okay, i partially forgave them

[marsh iris]

metric 4 lyf

[ripe tangle]

lmao

[astral basin]

Speaking of ye olde germans
Apparently they were among the first to have knights with guns

[south mica]

shouldn't it be metric 10 lyf

[amber delta]

German... two handed.... you could say it's.... a.... zweihander

[somber stream]

Pistoleer

[somber stream]

That is no Zweihänder...

[obtuse oak]

"biedenhander"

[astral basin]

There were armored calvary riding with double flintlocks

[ripe tangle]

did you know Germans used Farenheit as standard temperature measurement for nearly two centuries until only like a little over a century ago?

[amber delta]

it's a bass cannon

[obtuse oak]

but it's even bigger than most zweihanders

[marsh iris]

i mean fahrenheit is german sounding

[amber delta]

https://tenor.com/view/giant-dad-dark-souls-swag-snoop-dogg-drop-it-like-its-hot-gif-5316809

[astral basin]

Lmfao VINDICATED
was on the f vs c topic a while ago

[obtuse oak]

this sword is 2.13cm long and weighs 6kg

[somber stream]

Mistake were made, doesn't mean we can't change or the better

[obtuse oak]

entirely impractical for regular mortals

but they did extensive forensic analysis and the sword is really from his time and was really used in combat

indicating the presence of a titanic frisian warrior

[amber delta]

nephilim

[somber stream]

Shock and awe, mainly use to disrupt formations

[low wharf]

Grutte pier

[ripe tangle]

Daniel Fahrenheit was a German doctor from the 1600s and 1700s, he set the temperature based on the freezing and boiling temperature of brine in his lab.

(This is not a joke, I’m serious.)

[obtuse oak]

he was originally a farmer and only took up arms after the saxons burned his farm down during a war between some duke and some baron. not his fucking problem, just fuck off outta frisia. he ended up fighting both, doing lots of freedom fighting/piracy (depends on who you ask) on the south sea

[elder merlin]

Rolling Steel is the only map i would play in this game if i could

[split mauve]

he wasn't german

[ripe tangle]

wait

he was from Poland, wasn’t he?

[somber stream]

He was German, his parents were German

[split mauve]

he was

[split mauve]

that doesn't make you german in the slightest, i hope you realize

[astral basin]

I feel like that mission is supposed to exemplify the difference between darktide now and darktide a year or so ago

[somber stream]

He has the blood.

[split mauve]

we love some racial theory

[amber delta]

the blööd

[astral basin]

Brine… what kind of brine…

[somber stream]

Ehem, Marie Curie

[amber delta]

may I have some lööps bröther

[ripe tangle]

he was born in Danzig, which is in Poland today but back then it was a Hanseatic City that was culturally and ethnically German but ultimately part of thr Poland-Lithuanian Commonwealth… so saying he’s German is kinda right, but also technically wrong.

[twin flower]

pickle brine

[elder merlin]

Honestly, regular auric has just been pissing me off with all the modifiers

[split mauve]

Danzig was in fact part of poland

[amber delta]

It's... called... GDAŃSK

[astral basin]

…pickles

[somber stream]

Guy had German parents, spoke German, born in a German speaking city and later moved Dutch Republic... isn't German

[ripe tangle]

anyway, yeah he set temperature for freezing and boiling as Pickle Brine, which is why in Fahrenheit freezing and boiling temp isn’t 0 nor is it 100

[split mauve]

Born in a polish city and then moved to the Dutch Republic, which again isn't german

yeah i'd say he wasn't german

[marsh iris]

they mustve love their brine back then

[drowsy prawn]

The real question is, are austrians germans 🤔

[cosmic burrow]

Yes

[hasty sky]

It's almost as if these discussions on origins of famous scientist never accomplish anything. Exact same arguments happen about Nikola Tesla's origins the whole time

[ripe tangle]

that’s like asking if Canadians are American

[somber stream]

Did he speak Polish?

[split mauve]

i dunno, let me ask him

[cosmic burrow]

Nah cansdians are french

[marsh iris]

wake him up

[astral basin]

You mean to tell me that
While the world is judging temp on how water is feeling
Theres an amount of us that pretends to feel the weather like we are pickles in a jar

[split mauve]

what would it matter, am i english since i speak english

[amber delta]

Germans in denial

[ripe tangle]

yes lmao

[astral basin]

Honestly. Im not mad. I know way too many people obsessed with pickles anyways

[somber stream]

Then you're uncertain if he's Polish, and he's not German nor Dutch? Also yes the language you speak matters when it comes to your heritage

[split mauve]

i am not uncertain he is polish, he literally was

[cosmic burrow]

So most americans are actually english

[split mauve]

He moved to the Dutch Republic (which isn't germany)

[ripe tangle]

his family were Hanse merchants that travelled between Hanseatic Cities, most of which were German and he likely spoke German natively and primarily.

[marsh iris]

stop fighting guys, he's european

[cosmic burrow]

Europe aint one country

[amber delta]

London is my country

[somber stream]

All im saying is that he has the blood, speak the language, practice the culture. He can be considered as a German

[cosmic burrow]

London is a state of mind

[marsh iris]

londonese

[amber delta]

Birmingham is a state of lack of mind

[split mauve]

lol

[astral basin]

Ancestrally, a percentage
But thats diluted due to extensive isolation with daddy britain being slapped in the face

[ripe tangle]

this actually reminds me of a thing that irks me about calling all people who speak Spanish as Hispanic and claiming it’s a race, that would be like claiming Australians, Americans, British People, Nigerians, and Jamaicans are all one single race because they all speak English.

[split mauve]

you know you are saying some silly shit when you talk about blood

[hasty sky]

he's dead and we can't ask him for his opinion

[somber stream]

🤷‍♂️

[ripe tangle]

people count Hispanic as a race, but it literally means they come from a country that natively speaks Spanish 😐

[cosmic burrow]

Yea they all are subjects of the king of england

[marsh iris]

bring out the abc board

[split mauve]

people count Hispanic as a race because they are ignorant

[hasty sky]

It's called ouija 🗞️

[cosmic burrow]

Or something

[split mauve]

just counting races as a thing is pretty ignorant to begin with

[ripe tangle]

Yeah that’s the reason, and it irks the hell out of me when they do…

[cosmic burrow]

Ive seen people calling people from africa afro-americand

[split mauve]

oh don't remind me lol

[ripe tangle]

who the fuck!?

[cosmic burrow]

Nah youre black

[cosmic burrow]

Some of your country men most likely

[astral basin]

Ngl. The hispanic thing just puts a specific shine on what the us does to itself
Just… more infighting rather than pride

[ripe tangle]

I’ve never met anyone who made that mistake, and also… not all black people are even African, there are native black people from Indian Ocean, SEA, and Australian Aboriginies, also a lot of Caribbean people are black and associate their heritage and culture with the Caribbean rather than where their ancestors were enslaved in Africa but okay

[split mauve]

i did see some people make that mistake

[cosmic burrow]

Yes. But some are very stupid

[ripe tangle]

i haven’t, but I also wouldn’t be surprised if someone did tbh

[split mauve]

reminds me of that cleopatra documentary

[cosmic burrow]

She was greek

[ripe tangle]

Wasn’t Cleopatra from the Ptolemic Dynasty which was Greek?

[split mauve]

she was
and inbred

[gloomy tartan]

Yep

The story of Helen of Troy is crazy

[cosmic burrow]

Illiad by homer

[gloomy tartan]

Goddesses ask a himbo who’s hottest and he picks his reward as the girl of a warlord and causes the craziest crash out ever

[ripe tangle]

the Ptolemics were so entrenched with Greek superiority and keeping their selves pure that they were about as inbred as the Hapsburgs, Cleopatra was also the first to actually learn the local Egyptian Language even though her family ruled Egypt for centuries before she was even alive.

[astral basin]

Cleo was paler than what she was depicted as. Especially that documentary
Id imagine she had a tan. But. She wasnt bronze.

[gloomy tartan]

Gets his brother killed, his city sieged, kills Achilles with Dies getting shot by another archer

Paris was kinda a shitty prince

[wispy wadi]

I love how general chat will teach you little trivia facts every day

[obtuse oak]

well you can see Hispanic as a cultural and racial legacy, being either Spanish or descendants of Spanish colonisers and/or the people that they colonised. there is something of a global Hispanic culture as a result. but purely as a race, that term doesnt make sense no lol

[gloomy tartan]

Lightly tanned like French fries

[cosmic burrow]

Paris is kinda shitty city

[steady flare]

lame bronze women are hot

[obtuse oak]

I mean

[gloomy tartan]

Do you guys like the Iliad ?

[obtuse oak]

greeks can be pretty bronze

it's also unlikely that the people who inhabit the Greek peninsula now are genetically the same as the people who inhabited it at the time

same thing happened to the Italic peninsula

Italians are not the genetic descendants of the Romans, they're people who migrated into the area

[gloomy tartan]

Odysseus had the craziest boat. Ride back home man…

[ripe tangle]

I liked it alright, read it in Highschool… or was it Middle School? I don’t remember which, I haven’t really read it since though.

[astral basin]

Some of my family achieves the kinda orange that the president tries to fake
But. They dont maintain it well

[gloomy tartan]

I allways thought it was neat that the Supr badasses Achilles didn’t even wanna join the war until patro died

He just wanted to hangout and chill then his besti dies and he says fuck it we ball

[ripe tangle]

Lombards, Vandals, Ostrogoths, etc, all Germanic peoples who settled in Italy after Western Rome fell and mixed in with the locals, let’s also not forget Sicily having had a similar treatment with Arabs and Berbers a few centuries after that.

[astral basin]

We have history buffs in here. Depends on the day.

[obtuse oak]

"his bestie"

chat does he know

[gloomy tartan]

What?You can’t be bestis with someone you fuck?

[obtuse oak]

exactly.

[split mauve]

imagine dying to an arrow to your ankle

[gloomy tartan]

You can’t fuck someone who is isn’t your besti?

[wispy wadi]

they were roomates

[amber delta]

fwb

[obtuse oak]

oh my god they were roommates...

[astral basin]

Achilles hiding in straight drag
“LOOK AT DIS FOKIN SWORD”
“BITCH WE GOT YOUR MAKE-UP PERFECT STOP THAT”

[gloomy tartan]

It was poisoned too bruh

[split mauve]

could have cut the foot off

[obtuse oak]

nah that's cool just as long as we're on the same page about the fuckin and suckin

[obtuse oak]

with what?

[split mauve]

also poison isn't that fast acting

[gloomy tartan]

I think it would of literaly insta killed a lesser man

[obtuse oak]

the rest of his skin was impenetrable remember

how is he gonna cut his foot off

[gloomy tartan]

It’s magic poison from the gods and it hit his one human spot so he died

[split mauve]

if the rest of his body is invulnerable

[ripe tangle]

iirc majority of Turks are a mix of Turkic and Greek, which makes sense considering history.

[amber delta]

he should have just sanded his heel off

[split mauve]

how did he cut his hairs and beard. Ever thought about that?

[obtuse oak]

sibling rivalry tbh

[gloomy tartan]

The magic water covered the outside of his body not inside his asshole and gutty works gang

[obtuse oak]

outside of his skin

fair game

it was specifically his skin that was the magical part.

[acoustic pebble]

Bleh, I feel like shit

[gloomy tartan]

Every outer part of his body except his one ankle

[obtuse oak]

because his mom dunked him in the... styx? I wanna say? but probably some other river tbh.

[wispy wadi]

Mother shoulda have dunked him holding his hair

[obtuse oak]

oh it actually was the styx, nice.

[acoustic pebble]

But then if someone sliced his hair, he'd die

[obtuse oak]

gymnasium education still bouncing around in there somewhere

[amber delta]

mother was dumb she could have just dunked his top half, then grabbed him by the arm and dunk the lower half

[gloomy tartan]

Did your mom dip you in magic water? No ? Then stop judging his mom

[split mauve]

no, his ankle was just normal

[wispy wadi]

Ohhh fancy yellow name gone to the fancy big brain school

[acoustic pebble]

I know, just making a dumb joke

Tf is a school?

[astral basin]

The ankle he was held by when dipped in styx
…wait does that mean that the majority of his body was in the afterlife already? You wade through river styx to cleanse the soul of its previous life, and start new

[obtuse oak]

heh don't worry i crashed out and didn't graduate

im a loser like the rest of u :^)

[somber stream]

:o

[wispy wadi]

A looser with mod perms tho

[obtuse oak]

true. it's the little things in life i guess

[acoustic pebble]

Hey, I'm not a loser! I just win later

[somber stream]

Eat him

[wispy wadi]

Where are my glasses I need to start proofreading what I type

[amber delta]

excuse you I did graduate (a useless degree)

[obtuse oak]

I turned out ok in the end but high school was a disaster

[wooden creek]

You're thinking of Lethe, not Styx

[obtuse oak]

fortunately life gives you plenty of second chances if you're willing to just wake up on time, groom yourself, and can muster a respectable level of banter

oh and being white helps. but let's not get into that.

[somber stream]

You don't need a piece of paper to move up in life. Certainly help at times but not mandatory

[astral basin]

Didnt graduate high school off merit.
Graduated to uphold the school average. Having above average standardized scores just made the decision easier

[obtuse oak]

eh? he was dipped in the Styx I'm pretty sure

[wooden creek]

Yeah but drinking from the Lethe is what removes all memories of past lives

[obtuse oak]

oh my bad

[astral basin]

Yeah i remember an old myth about losing memories for a new life via river
Idr what happened if you were in the river styx

[acoustic pebble]

Achilles should've just stayed in his burrito blanket

[gaunt palm]

Don't drink the water, they put something in it to make you forget

[acoustic pebble]

I don't even know how I got here

[obtuse oak]

based on the authentic documentary "Disney's Hercules" you turn old as shit and then die or smth

[ripe tangle]

@obtuse oak does it surprise you at all I was considered a gifted kid through compulsory school, then when I got to College I crashed the fuck out and dropped out? lmao

[amber delta]

So you guys know how there's a saying that a person's weakness is their Achilles' heel? What do you think was Achilles' weakness?

[obtuse oak]

no

[astral basin]

Thats the tragedy
Everyone was doing everything they can to keep him out of the war and risk him dying
He was sent to an island of women by his mother and was done up in total drag to keep him away

[obtuse oak]

his heel.

[ripe tangle]

[gaunt palm]

Wasn't Styx a river made out of souls or something

[acoustic pebble]

I just think it was funny since he had no actual reason to be in the war

[gaunt palm]

I remember Charon was the dude who got you to Tartarus safely

[astral basin]

Styx was the river of souls that you had to pay chiron the ferryman to safely cross into hades itself

[obtuse oak]

yup

[gaunt palm]

HADES WAS A GOD

[obtuse oak]

the dead were given a coin in their mouth to pay old buddyboy the ferryman with

[gaunt palm]

God of the Underworld

[acoustic pebble]

Hades is also the underworld realm

[gaunt palm]

You mean Tartarus?

[astral basin]

Hades was the name of both the god and the underworld.
Same for tartarus being both the hell side of hades and a titan

[acoustic pebble]

Tartarus is different iirc. There is also Elysium where good people go

[gaunt palm]

Underworld then

[raven furnace]

man, i was hoping for a bit more reveals about the new class before it launches in 4 days :3

[acoustic pebble]

Tomato tomato

[amber delta]

Disco Elysium mentioned

[split mauve]

NDA breaks today i think

[acoustic pebble]

Yup! 12pm EST

[raven furnace]

ah.. then that's as big as it can get then

[amber delta]

7pm CET I think

[raven furnace]

thanks 😊

[gaunt palm]

I don't remember Hades being also the place. I mean people do say that the dead people went to Hades

Which was the caretaker of the dead I presume?

[wooden creek]

Both

[gaunt palm]

Thanatos was the god of death which was locked in the cellar

[amber delta]

🤓 just play Hades

[obtuse oak]

Hades is the underworld, Tartarus and Elysium and such are parts of the underworld

[astral basin]

11 central time

[raven furnace]

curious what hive scum will bring to the havoc 40 table. feels like the holy trinity of ogryn-psyker-veteran is tough to break

[acoustic pebble]

Honestly, Hades is a real chill dude. It's his wife you don't want to piss off, or even get her attention

[wooden creek]

Styx is referring to both the goddess and the river

[gaunt palm]

Then is Zeus the Olympus?

[wooden creek]

Well, maybe not in the same depiction, but it can be used for both

[acoustic pebble]

Bro he's the king of Olympus

[split mauve]

no

[obtuse oak]

eh? no. these things dont have to be symmetric lol

[astral basin]

Tartarus was the titan of the underworld, before hades
He was chained to the pit when he was overthrown

[gaunt palm]

Zeus was the God of Gods afaik. Also the god of thunder

[obtuse oak]

besides it's not like the Greeks themselves ever had this unified picture of their mythology like the one we have, or are trying to have.

[split mauve]

just the top of the hierarchy of gods

[obtuse oak]

there wasn't one greek faith that incorporated all of these elements at the same time.

[acoustic pebble]

And father to almost every demigod that resides in Olympus

[split mauve]

doesn't mean people call olympus Zeus

[astral basin]

“Abrahamic”

[obtuse oak]

the mythology as we know it is an amalgam of different stories, myths and religious traditions from the entirety and duration of the Hellenistic civilizations

[acoustic pebble]

He's the horndog of all horndogs

[obtuse oak]

not every god entered the pantheon(s) at the same time, for example. it is likely that Dionysus originated as a foreign god before he was adopted by the Greeks.

[acoustic pebble]

He puts US to shame

[gaunt palm]

He put Slaneesh to sham

Dude has more bastard kids

[astral basin]

I think. The precedent was more “you will go to hades”
Hades and his realm were synonymous at times

[gaunt palm]

Oh right

[obtuse oak]

Zeus is another aspect of the proto-indo-european sky god "Dyeus Pater", who is found in most mythologies that descend from the original Caspian Steppe tribes that migrated into Europe and the Near East

[acoustic pebble]

Don't say HER name or you'll get her attention

[obtuse oak]

same god, same name, different bastardization: Jupiter.

Dyeus Pater -> Zeus
but also Dyeus Pater -> Jupiter

[gloomy tartan]

Damn I’m back from a havok and y’all is all on Greek god talk noice noice

[acoustic pebble]

I just want my Hive Scum gameplay

[gloomy tartan]

3 hour fent lean cinematic instead

[acoustic pebble]

Absolute Cinema

[gaunt palm]

Wasn't Dyeus the greek name?

I remember from school that Hercules is the Roman version, Heracles is the Greek version?

[gloomy tartan]

I like that one philosopher who was all when I’d die throw me over the walls so the wolves can eat me lol

[wispy wadi]

The monkey paw curls, a whole weekend of streamers getting to play before you!

[obtuse oak]

Zeus is the greek name

[acoustic pebble]

Big sadge

[sleek harness]

4 days for new class

What yall naming your gangers

[acoustic pebble]

Jakka, cuz it rhymes with Dakka

[gaunt palm]

Thrash

[sleek harness]

Lame

[acoustic pebble]

And it sounds scummy

[gaunt palm]

Either Daxx

[sleek harness]

Lame

[amber delta]

idc ganger I'm waiting for havoc quickplay

[obtuse oak]

Nine-Toes

[sleek harness]

Lame

[acoustic pebble]

You're lame. Don't even recognize the great Thanquol

[sleek harness]

Hank please make daddy Fatshark remove the slow down so I can call every single one of your names lame

[obtuse oak]

no

[acoustic pebble]

Lame

[sleek harness]

Why not, was it because I called them daddy?

[amber delta]

lame

[acoustic pebble]

We found the bottom

[compact adder]

And kept digging.

[amber delta]

it's because your name is lame

[magic thistle]

RAHHHHH HIVE SCUM

[acoustic pebble]

I am sooooo ready to scum

[gaunt palm]

There is an Arsonist? Then Pitcher

[twin flower]

So ready to S'cum

[gaunt palm]

WAAGAAAGH!

Scumming so hive

[magic thistle]

What sorta build are yous thinking of running for the hive scum

[wispy wadi]

Tox Dots

[compact adder]

I'm gonna make like Zootopia and try everything.

[acoustic pebble]

Definitely going gunslinger. My Killing floor 2 skills call to me

[wispy wadi]

Stim yourself up and then pump the enemies full too. You get high if you like it or not

[magic thistle]

RAHHHHHHH GUNSLINGER BUILD WOOOOOOO

[gaunt palm]

"Stand still, I want to heal you, not bloody shag you"

[magic thistle]

GIVE ME DUAL REVOLVERS OR GIVE ME DEATH

[wispy wadi]

Is there still the jank going on where weapon rending perks make your dots get stronger too?

[acoustic pebble]

If Hive Scum ever get dual revolvers, then I won't use another class again

[gaunt palm]

We have a crowbar as a meele, Gordon Freeman time's

[twin flower]

Jesse, its time to Stim

[gaunt palm]

Actually I can see people calling their scums like Gordon

[acoustic pebble]

Or Morgan

[twin flower]

Nah, calling mine Gunk Daddy

[magic thistle]

Rickety Cricket

[gaunt palm]

Little Jon

[acoustic pebble]

I'm calling mine Gash-Smasha-Weed-Stasha-Banana-Slam-Man-Tanbaram

[gaunt palm]

Knives Kevin

Stabbin' Steve

Murderin' Mike

And Larry

[hasty sky]

My friend said they're gonna name their hivescum Woker, can't wait to see

[somber stream]

Im just going to name mine Bob

[gaunt palm]

Why so queer, Batman?

[acoustic pebble]

I caught a Pokémon Batman

[twin flower]

Bubba Sumpwater

[wispy wadi]

There is no laws for the servitors batman!

[gaunt palm]

Shut up I'm in uni

[wispy wadi]

What kinda name is Uni, tell her to pick a better one.

[rare pulsar]

NO JOKER STOP

[gaunt palm]

I almost laughed

[acoustic pebble]

I'M GONNA DO IT BATMAN!!

[rare pulsar]

NOOO PLEASE

[gaunt palm]

In terms of human and Pokemon companionship

[twin flower]

Was batman just on a cuck chair that entire time with joker and the lopunny

[acoustic pebble]

Yes

[rare pulsar]

Yes

[compact adder]

Joker kidnapped him and tied him to it.

[rare pulsar]

Would batman even act considering joker doesnt break the law?

[gaunt palm]

Involuntary cucking?

[rare pulsar]

Thats not a crime

[final herald]

You can't be cucked if its not your girl

[twin flower]

Joker is Batmans girl

[final herald]

You're just a voyeur at that point

[wispy wadi]

All I am saying is I rather see Pokemonfans go after the Anthros and Evees then the human characters they usually go for.

[final herald]

Getcho lego batman offa my lawn

[rare pulsar]

Thats fair

[gaunt palm]

HELL FUCKING YEAH BUZZWOLE

[wispy wadi]

Not a Pokemon

[gaunt palm]

It's a buff mosquito

Tf you mean not a pokemon

[wispy wadi]

It's a ultrabeast or whatever they are called

[final herald]

If you say "its an ultrabeast" explode

[wispy wadi]

[gaunt palm]

The fuck is an ultrabeast

[final herald]

Lore

Pokemon has a multiverse now basically
Because of course it does

[obtuse oak]

im da woker baby

[gaunt palm]

I'm da fucking woker
I make fuckin cool wokes

[obtuse oak]

me when i'm 4 beers and 15mg of dexamphetamine deep and ready to lock tf in

[wispy wadi]

Real Hive Scum gameplay

[final herald]

Hank sprinting down the street in complete silence

[obtuse oak]

it's how i played roadhog, funnily enough. i was so wired i could see the future. be hooking people from places they didnt even know they were gonna occupy

[gaunt palm]

"Commissar the hivers are smoking fent again"

[obtuse oak]

https://tenor.com/view/the-matrix-matrix-matrix-vision-code-the-one-gif-4011231

[wispy wadi]

I just hope the DLC comes rather early so i get to play before I leave for NIghtreign

[final herald]

Performance en-hank-ing drugs

Or....performance en-hook-ing?

[obtuse oak]

roadhog

[acoustic pebble]

"Commissar it seems the more you shoot, the more they WANT to do the thing you shot them for"

[final herald]

Yes thats the point if the hook part

[obtuse oak]

roadhog

[final herald]

Hello alex

[lilac crag]

I used to do this in ow1 comp. got reported constantly. OW discord CM had to sit me down and look at my clips. was a little funny

[lilac crag]

hiii my favorite rodent

[obtuse oak]

the best feeling was timing and placing a hook on a rewinding tracer accurately

YES BITCH I REMEMBER WHERE YOU WERE 4 SECONDS AGO, GET OVER HEREEEEE

i miss that sometimes, shame what they did to ow.

[gaunt palm]

Activision is a cancer

[steady flare]

me in overwatch 1 having 100% hook accuracy on roadhog as off tank

[gloomy tartan]

It’s dat mouse

🐁

[astral basin]

Get the same feeling when i stun lock as brig

[gaunt palm]

Or when you bring down Mercy with Reinhard

With his projectile

[final herald]

A tickled rat lets out tiny giggles

[obtuse oak]

i also played a lot of reaper and timing his ult right wasnt that kind of skill but it still felt really good to get teamwipes with

[gloomy tartan]

I used to have a cool pet rat that was buff

He would jump to the top of his cage from inside and do pull ups and he was FUCKIMG swole. He napped on my chest and gave me little kisses

[lilac crag]

holy shit so true. one time I grabbed a sombra off invis cus I saw her throw her TP off-invis and guessed the way she'd run on-invis after

[gloomy tartan]

I miss buff rat 🐀 he was a good jock

[gaunt palm]

Same with spies in TF2

[gloomy tartan]

🐀

[obtuse oak]

but roadhog was just the perfect hero shooter character to me

[gloomy tartan]

I love tiny tiger from crash bandicoot

It’s literally just the joke of that guy from Robbin hood being called small but he’s huge

Tiny tiger is so fucking buff lol

[steady flare]

fat, shotgun, hook ability, self heal

[cosmic burrow]

Prefered paladins to ovetwatch played both roadhog was my boy

[steady flare]

paladins is DEAD

[obtuse oak]

great voice and voicelines too

[gaunt palm]

HiRez literally killing every game they created

[tacit geode]

Remember when doomfist did that shit in a trailer he was so cool for that

[obtuse oak]

I absolutely fucking loved taunting people with the voicelines after hooking them

[steady flare]

yeah because they're perpetual trend chasers who make a genuinely good game that they then kill off the second trends shift

[obtuse oak]

"like taking candy from a baby"

[gaunt palm]

Smite?

Paladins Royale?

[cosmic burrow]

Yeah was fun though

Smites weird

If mobas are to make a comeback deadlock is the challenger

It would be nice of valve to returb to 4 lane desing

[split mauve]

it would be nice for the genre to explode in a ball of fiery fire actually

[mint otter]

true

[amber delta]

paladins had some good r34

[obtuse oak]

i tried deadlock

that shit is way too complicated man.

and i played dota 2 for 3k hours

[amber delta]

dead ck

[obtuse oak]

the combination of hero shooter gameplay with moba buildcrafting and lane management and shit is just bananas.

cool idea though

[final herald]

You gotta approach it one peice at a time

Its rlly not that complicated, it just...feels that way alot.

[obtuse oak]

I dont have enough brainpower to keep up with everything without the isometric pov

and not enough willpower tbh. i also stopped playing dota for a reason

[final herald]

Play mcginnis and chainsaw the objectives to win without actually bothering to fight ppl

Me when I say "fuck you" to the enemy teamcomp by just playing macro

[obtuse oak]

ratting is for swedes

[final herald]

The swedes are not adding ratlings no

[obtuse oak]

anyway im having fun with darktide and battlefield, thats about where i want the complexity of my games to be at in my advanced age

[final herald]

How old r u even

[little marten]

Old timer

[lilac crag]

" advanced age " grandpa??????

[obtuse oak]

32

[tacit geode]

Karktide

[final herald]

Midwife crisis

[little marten]

Hahahaha next stop;

THE GRAVE

[amber delta]

ngl I thought u were like 40, 32 is young

[lilac crag]

recent studies show that being 32 strongly enforces full adult-hood of the brain. you're a grownup now

[obtuse oak]

i play 0 to 2 hours of videogames per day, i need things to be relatively simple

[final herald]

I just play dnd instead

[astral basin]

Can i get some McDs on the way?

[obtuse oak]

ofc im exaggerating. i do have the lifestyle of a modern 40 year old though because i became a dad at 27

[lilac crag]

I rawdog 5 games after my 9-5. DT SM2 MC WF and 2077

[final herald]

Warframe?

[amber delta]

[lilac crag]

yeah. or PVZGW2

[obtuse oak]

im glad you wrote "rawdog" and "2077" and not "cp"

[final herald]

Uuogh I wanna play warframe again

[jade stump]

do it

[lilac crag]

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNKKKKK

[arctic escarp]

HAAAANKKK DONT ABBREVIATE CYBERPUNK HAAANKKK

[jade stump]

continue the grind

[amber delta]

rawdog cp

[marsh iris]

[little marten]

Hank make my your child’s godfather

[lilac crag]

dude I fuckjng hate how cool rawdog sounds in the context of doing something off of pure will and bare bones with no filter whatsoever but I WISH IT WASNT A SEX TERM ALSO

[little marten]

They will need me god forbid something happens to you

[final herald]

What else would it mean to have it be raw

[obtuse oak]

the past 3 years have just been darktide alternated with cyberpunk 2077, elden ring and baldur's gate 3 on repeat and tbh i wouldnt have had it any other way. i finally added a pvp game again with bf6 but that barely counts with how big the matches are anyway, it still feels like i can just mess about a bit

[jade stump]

fresh off the dog is what i assume

[lilac crag]

smashes your skull in with my keyboard

[amber delta]

undercooked hotdog

[final herald]

"Man I wish balls to the wall wasn't about balls"

[gloomy tartan]

Raw dogging it can mean you have no socks on or boxers or your going in with little else but what you have on you

[final herald]

Promise....

[lilac crag]

okay here's another one. breaking one's back

[gloomy tartan]

Dogs are associated with feet duh

[obtuse oak]

breaking one's back isn't a sex term

[jade stump]

i thought with that one all i had to do was worry bout stepping on cracks

[gloomy tartan]

My dogs are barking aka my feet are tired

[little marten]

Raw dog has transcended from its sexual origin

[final herald]

....bad news buddy

[jade stump]

i thought that was blowing ones back out

[obtuse oak]

backbreaking labor? nah dog.

yeah blowing someone's back out is the sex thing

[lilac crag]

one time I was on 2077 with my gf and I obliterated some fucking chud off the street from behind with Rebecca's shotgun. I yelled in excitement " duuuuude I blew his back out " and I got scolded for using the term

[gloomy tartan]

I wish the word goon wasn’t worried

[obtuse oak]

HAHA

[jade stump]

i love henchmen

[gloomy tartan]

Goons are the best type of enemy type

[final herald]

Bad news. Buddy.

[little marten]

Hang out the back of ya

[obtuse oak]

fake news

[lilac crag]

good news

[jade stump]

goon propaganda

[final herald]

Goon morning

[obtuse oak]

eh

I use facetanking where I would otherwise use rawdogging. works pretty well and doesnt have the weird connotations.

[lilac crag]

" I facetanked a whole mutant wave " implies I got grabbed by any of them. " raw dogged a whole mutant wave " means I did that shit FLAWLESS AND GRITTY

[little marten]

It has evolved to mean doing something without preparation or like that weird shit where dudes sat still on a plane for 10 hours

[obtuse oak]

ah true.

[obtuse oak]

yeah but there you could say he facetanked the plane ride

and I think it's funnier

[final herald]

I factanked her while she gooned and then broke her back rawdogging her

[obtuse oak]

dont talk about my mom that way

[little marten]

lol that does sound more impactful

[astral basin]

Who remembers when kick was a chat service?

[obtuse oak]

people describe that as a "guy thing" but i think sitting still on a plane ride for 10 hours without any kind of activity or entertainment is actual psycho behavior.

i dont need anything other than a pair of headphones but there's gotta be SOMETHING going on

[lilac crag]

so true tbh

[final herald]

Look our the window

Turn yer eyes yonderlike towards the horizon

[little marten]

Yeah it’s dumbass behaviour to the max lol

[jade stump]

when im on a plane i see what they got movie wise, most recently i had some canned wine on my last flight; wasnt as bad as i assumed

[final herald]

Fucking DUMBASSES doing dumbass shit like being unproblematic on a plane

[jade stump]

it had a "wine not" deal on a cheese tray if you bought em together so i said "fuck it never drunk on a plane before"

[final herald]

Those anti-autism posters in kindergarten trained me for YEARS for this

[obtuse oak]

the lowest stimulus I can take without anything else is walking outside. I can do that for a long time without being bored and having nothing else except my thoughts to occupy my mind. the locomotion of my body and the things I'm seeing just occupy my surface-level attention so the rest of my brain is free to think about other stuff. but just sitting still in a static environment? dawg you need to disassociate so hard at that point

just go to sleep at that point or something

[final herald]

EYES
Are watching
EARS
Are listening
LIPS
Are closed
HANDS
Are still
FEET
Are quiet

[little marten]

Plane travel is such a great opportunity to do something productive like listen to some music or get a chunk of reading done - not that you need to do anything productive ofc

[surreal ermine]

just play video games in your head smh they are all literally free

[obtuse oak]

that's fun, but it's not what that one post described. it was a guy in an aisle-side seat who just stared straight ahead for 10h.

that's abnormal

[lilac crag]

I couldn't afford therapy so I just took long walks with music on to envision myself in a better light until i felt content with myself

[final herald]

I can garuntee you he did not actually do that

[jade stump]

therapy's baller

glad you made do without it

[obtuse oak]

the comments were full of dudes going "haha yeah guy things lol women cant imagine it just being quiet in our heads whenever we want pfffft"

[final herald]

Surely people on tiktok wouldn't vastly exaggerate their accomplishments

[lilac crag]

I rawdogged it, if you will

[obtuse oak]

which is really what I'm replying to

or ranting about

[little marten]

I only think about nothing when women are talking to me

[humble aspen]

Fun fact: imagine some gameplay of Doom now
||you are now running doom on your own brain||

[final herald]

I think about power rangers

[little marten]

Which one is your favourite

[humble aspen]

Which series was your favorite

[obtuse oak]

because you're paying 100% attention to what she's saying or because you're zoning out so completely that you have accidentally achieved nirvana?

[final herald]

I don't have a favourite one but SPD was up there

[humble aspen]

Spd is the one with the dog right?

[final herald]

Ye with the dreadlocks

[humble aspen]

Mine was either that or rpm i think

[final herald]

Car

[obtuse oak]

or is it because the prolonged eye contact she's giving you while you guys are talking and the way she's curling a strand of her hair around her finger and the vague smile that keeps playing around her lips is wiping your mind clear of thoughts and you're struggling to focus on the topic at hand and you just wanna lean in and--

because same.

[gloomy tartan]

There’s a higher than 0 percent chance that a spaxe rock hits you in the gizzard

[final herald]

Uhm yeah its called earth

[gloomy tartan]

Stay prepared

[jade stump]

gravity? who gives a crap about gravity

[gloomy tartan]

That’s just a normal damn rock mouse I’m talking about rocks from outer space crashing through the atmosphere like the one that killed the dinosaurs

[jade stump]

cut to me gettin ledged by a barrel i detonated

[final herald]

Earth is a space rock

[gloomy tartan]

Earth is home. Also apparently it has a hum frequency that astronauts notice missing when they leave earth

[final herald]

Its in space

[gloomy tartan]

Yeah but I ment one that’s far away not constantly below us

[final herald]

It can be far away if u jump

[gloomy tartan]

How do we feel about comets?

[final herald]

Nothing I've never touched one

[little marten]

They have my undivided attention of course 🙏

[gloomy tartan]

They like ice asteroids or some shit

[astral basin]

So. There was a study on lines of awareness
The average person can hold like. 2-4 tasks at a time, either physically, in their head or both
I think the study said that women typically had more lines of awareness, but men were able to more reliably shut them down for “rest”

[obtuse oak]

Neat

[gloomy tartan]

Reliably shutting off women?

[obtuse oak]

No, lines of awareness

[gloomy tartan]

Wait is that how I can lock into something I’m really invested in ?

[final herald]

Adhd

Its called hyperfocus

[little marten]

Women are the superior sex tbh, but don’t tell them I said that or they’ll bring it up in an argument in 6 years time

[gloomy tartan]

I have that shit. I can’t remember back in my day it was add and adhd and then they said it was only adhd from now on and I was confused

Women are a broken build yeah

[pale shoal]

Praise Horu- The Emperor!

[final herald]

Asmongold comment

[gloomy tartan]

Women are basically like dex users from dark souls, they are better than us because they can parry any attack.

It doesn’t matter how big your sword is if they parry your shit and back stab you 🙁

[stable nest]

Game is currently on Steam sale
Not sure why they don't announce it?

[final herald]

It was free

[gloomy tartan]

You gotta do swing cancels and shit to confuse them it’s so fucking hard

[amber delta]

Fatshark marketing team is currently busy cooking up the worst promo clips for Ganger, they have no time to announce a discount

[little marten]

Ruthless and efficient 😈

[gloomy tartan]

Discounts in this economy ?

[arctic escarp]

what if I inform every woman of this comment

[surreal ermine]

they are pulling the oldest most decrepit geezers off the street to record their scum gameplay footage i swear

[gloomy tartan]

The ending of evangelion will happen

[little marten]

I apologise for stereotyping women 🙁 I’m just angry that they are all repulsed by me

[amber delta]

what nintendo exces tell you after you ask for a 10% discount on a 30yo mario game

[gloomy tartan]

Here’s some man who was doing a fent lean on the street we grabbed at 4 in the morning to show you some gameplay?

[gloomy tartan]

That’s not even a joke that’s just factual

[surreal ermine]

only $15 for the original mario bros its a steal smh

[little marten]

I’ve made some unseemly shitposts today and I will exile myself now to reflect on my behaviour and hopefully return a better instance of myself 🙏

[gloomy tartan]

Super Mario sunshine was lit

[arctic escarp]

nooo stay

[gloomy tartan]

Stay and jojo pose

[surreal ermine]

can we get the really gay looking johnny and gyro pose for arbites and their dog

[little marten]

Ok bestie ❤️

[gloomy tartan]

Every jojo pose is really gay looking

That’s why it’s awesome

They might as well be voguing

[astral basin]

I remember the conversation yesterday on games being treated like products, and that we should strive for them to be like art
Just had the thought that modern art has largely become a money laundering scheme. Made me wonder if this is the fate of video games.

[gloomy tartan]

How do you know YOU aren’t a money laundering scheme ?

[south mica]

it was so good

[astral basin]

I mean. Have you SEEN the shameless cash grabs in mobile gaming?

[gloomy tartan]

Products being money laundering schemes is such a crazy concept to me still Ngl it’s just something accepted that happens

[gloomy tartan]

Oh I get that I mean larger games or even films

[safe adder]

when we gonna get more levels? 😭

[gloomy tartan]

The future

[safe adder]

also is the crackhead dlc going to add more endgamey stuff? like reasons to grind

[amber delta]

we dont know

[steady flare]

unlikely and frankly kinda glad the game doesn't have much of anything like that

[astral basin]

I mean. Studios are being collected like trading cards, just so that the money can be raked in.
Idk

[safe adder]

i have 150h and wanna do 150h more, i love the 40k-ness of the game but wish there was more reason to spam missions

[gloomy tartan]

Oh god I forgot about that

[amber delta]

if you mean maps, dec 2nd. if you mean character levels, probably never

[steady flare]

I just want to log on to play the game because it's fun not because I'm obligated to grind xd

[safe adder]

oh yeah i meant maps

[gloomy tartan]

I heard wolf of wall street was a money laundering thing

[astral basin]

The replayability is the penances and the random loot.
Builds and cosmetics are player style.

[safe adder]

yeah but i love a little paragon system or like grinding a "god roll" smth like that

[safe adder]

yeah i'm gonna play a sht ton of crackhead either way so guess i'll find out

i hope they're cooking up Darktide 2 with chaos and greenskin enemies

[surreal ermine]

i dont think we're getting darktide 2 any time soon

[ocean widget]

darktide 2 is where we play as wolfer fighting admonition

[astral basin]

Tax evasion, but yeah

Dt2 better have jean thieves

I wanna fight for my pants

[somber stream]

Alien BEANS

[surreal ermine]

wheres my shirtless ogryn fatshark
give him to me NOW

[fast gorge]

[candid stratus]

Is the embargo lifted yet

[rocky radish]

not yet

but if I'm not mistaken it's a matter of hours

[tacit geode]

Peak cinema

[candid stratus]

counterpoint what if we had Darktide 2 but you play as orkz

[somber stream]

Cyberpunk 2 is in development and will not release before 2028

We're looking at at least 7 years here

[marsh iris]

give it 8-9 years maybe we can get nemesis system in cyberpunk2

[tacit geode]

I believe that's at least 3

[marsh iris]

no wait 11

[somber stream]

CP2077 took 8, from 2012 to 2020

[formal mortar]

Will we get flying cars?

[carmine steppe]

Unlikely, 4 rejects stand no chance against Orks

[drowsy prawn]

2028..aliens will be here before that game is released 😒

[safe adder]

l4d2 multiplayer where you play as both🤤🤤

[somber stream]

The year is 2032. Half-life 3, GTA6 and CP-2 is out. Still no word from TES 6

[carmine steppe]

Bro why is GTA 6 nominated for most expected game

[obtuse oak]

because it is?

[carmine steppe]

That shit is not coming out next year, people are gonna vote it next year too

[somber stream]

I mean there's a trailer and everything

[obtuse oak]

GTA 6 is easily the most anticipated game of all time

[surreal ermine]

in theory it would be out by the time the game awards happen next year

also its the game awards who the fuck cares

[carmine steppe]

Oh yeah I just mean that it's not coming out next year, so they will be voted next year too

[hollow zephyr]

half life 3

[obtuse oak]

not evne close

[surreal ermine]

shit dont matter man its a bunch of gaming journalists jerking each other off

[somber stream]

It's currently still a myth

[formal mortar]

HL3 will never exist

[obtuse oak]

half life is a niche videogame series appreciated by a small audience. gta is the biggest entertainment product in the history of mankind.

[carmine steppe]

Game awards are fake and a scam except when a game I like is nominated and wins

Like Expedition 33

[carmine steppe]

I thought the biggest entertainment product in the history of mankind was drugs

[formal mortar]

Its the expedition 33 awards

[somber stream]

It got 3 votes from me

[obtuse oak]

heh

[carmine steppe]

That or alcohol or cigarettes

[formal mortar]

Alcohol is a drug

[arctic escarp]

approximately 5 hours from now that we'll see some gameplay footage

[little marten]

I guess TES 6 will be most anticipated after GTA comes out

[surreal ermine]

you mean skyrim 2 :^)

[little marten]

💀

[somber stream]

It's been 7 years since the last trailer, what's the current record for game release waiting time?

[formal mortar]

They forgot to keep working on tes 6, probably wont remember until Todd is dead

[little marten]

I don’t even think they were working on TES 6 when the trailer came out

[rare pulsar]

Alcohol is not a solution……its a distillate👆

[formal mortar]

They werent

[carmine steppe]

13 years with Duke Nukem Forever I think

[obtuse oak]

correct. they were making shartfield. the trailer was only made to tell people to stop asking about TES6

god what an unbelievable waste of time that game was

[somber stream]

Let's make it to 14, it would be really funny

[carmine steppe]

Ahhh Starfield, what a game, you could even call it a game in the year

[little marten]

It’s crazy the time and resources that went into whatever the fuck shartfield was.. like the problem with rockstar is for however shit the company is they NEVER fumble the bag and it’s safe to be hyped because you know their output will be exemplary

[surreal ermine]

beyond good and evil 2 is gonna beat out dnf at this rate, that shits never coming out

[obtuse oak]

"we never made our dream space game before, we didnt have the technology"

makes the space game

"we dont have actual spaceflight, we dont have the technology"

THEN WHY DID YOU WASTE ALL THIS TIME MAKING THIS DUMB PIECE OF SHIT LOADING SCREEN SIMULATOR?

and on top of that all the writing was excruciatingly boring

[surreal ermine]

TEN BILLION RANDOMLY GENERATED PLANETS

[carmine steppe]

It had some good ideas and some cool missions (only one) but it was dragged down by those stupid procedurally generated wasteland planets

[surreal ermine]

i knew shartfield was gonna be slop when the gameplay trailer thing came out and it looked like it played exactly like fallout 4

[carmine steppe]

Since they wasted effort in that they only had like 3 cities and boring ass missions

[little marten]

Ngl when I launched starfield and went through that musuem at the start where you learn about the universe it got me so fucking hyped.. wtf came next

[candid stratus]

bethesda has been such a fucking joke ever since oblivion

everything after morrowind was downhill

[obtuse oak]

i played it for 25 hours and cried in the shower and contemplated suicide and never touched it again

[carmine steppe]

I argue Skyrim changed the landscape of gaming

[little marten]

I’m glad you’re still with us without you we wouldn’t have 18 seconds of hives scum footage

[novel marlin]

I really like it as a bounty hunter sim I play for a couple of hours every 6 months and then forget about

[obtuse oak]

skyrim was good at what it did. fallout 4 was pretty good. starfield didnt even do what it set out to do, and it sucked at what skyrim and fallout 4 were good at.

[carmine steppe]

After that everyone had to be an "Open world with vast opportunity for exploring and wasting your fucking time"

[surreal ermine]

it did no question but its not a very good rpg

[obtuse oak]

failure on every front

[candid stratus]

Tbh skyrim was viewed through rose tinted lenses and is heavily overrated

[somber stream]

Yeah Skyrim was fun to play, despite its flaws

Oh god there were so many flaws

[surreal ermine]

its up there with the most overrated games of all time but its playable

[carmine steppe]

I'm not saying it was a good rpg, I am saying that it started a trend with open world games

Yeah oblivion was out but it didn't have the same impact as Skyrim

[surreal ermine]

skyrim does about a million different things and none of them to a very satisfying degree

[amber delta]

skyrim's world vibes did a lot of heavy lifting for that game

[candid stratus]

I beg to differ, Skyrim didnt have a fully functioning goblin ecosystem with gang warfare

[obtuse oak]

i dont think its overrated at all, it just isnt very deep. in any direction. but it is so supremely accessible that it was a global smash hit

[carmine steppe]

Exactly

[novel marlin]

To be honest

Red Dead ruined RPG’s for me

Because I can’t walk around sipping from a cup, or smoke a cigarette

[obtuse oak]

there's a simple beauty to skyrim that resonates with a lot of people. all of the actual systems and the writing are mediocre, but it somehow has enough charm for large parts of it to remain memorable

[twin flower]

Dont like that your char actually gets tired?

[surreal ermine]

i was too young to have played oblivion when it released but i gave it a shot after the remaster came out and i enjoyed it so much more than i ever did skyrim

[somber stream]

Try stalker GAMMA, Free. Can drink booze, smoke, get mugged by hobos

[obtuse oak]

if you could somehow get into morrowind, that game would actually blow your mind

but i understand that that ship has sailed for the current generations

it is simply too outdated and jank

[arctic shoal]

Tyranny is pretty good

[surreal ermine]

ive given morrowind a couple fair shots but yeah the jank is a lot to take in, and i can usually handle jank

[candid stratus]

I think skyrim also went backwards in a lot of ways though. Then again Bethesda has a habit of always seeming to work backwards with mechanics. Like the spells just got simpler and simpler and then Skryim removed the ability to use twohanders with magic.

[amber delta]

when I first trid morrowind my first combat experience was walking into a nearby cave and getting absolutely molested by some wizard

[candid stratus]

Also Bethesda completely butchered ES lore after morrowind

[obtuse oak]

the best way to think about morrowind is that it isn't actually a 3d rpg. it's a crpg that happens to have a 3d world and interface. but whether you are actually hitting your attacks or succesfully casting your spells is up to the dice rolls. if you attack a kwama with your dagger, you are really telling the DM "okay I want to hit him with my sword. roll for attack"

[candid stratus]

Honestly thats the beauty of it though

Also the spell crafting was nutty

[surreal ermine]

yeah i get how the rolls work it just doesnt feel very good for a 3d rpg

[obtuse oak]

it's a fabulously unintuitive system which is why nobody has ever replicated it

yeah it feels like it makes no sense

[novel marlin]

Exactly the kind of shit I need to see

Is Stalker the one based on Roadside Picnic?

[candid stratus]

Also again in regards to working backwards, Morrowind had so much more armour customization with the piecemeal system, and then in Oblivion it goes down to 5 pieces, then in Skyrim its down to 4

[amber delta]

yes but very loosely

[somber stream]

Yes, but don't expect the game to feel like the book lol

[obtuse oak]

but behind all that jank is the most compelling worldbuilding that bethesda has ever managed in their entire sordid existence

[amber delta]

it's more inspired by roadside picnic than based on it

[next cradle]

so about the conveyor belt in clandestium gloriana moving in the wrong direction

[novel marlin]

Depressing, heart breaking and absolutely soul crushing?

[surreal ermine]

outside also looks like youre wading around in all of tamriels toilet constantly with all the brown but i can excuse that for an old rpg

[obtuse oak]

and its faction quests are at their most immersive. you spend so much time doing ordinary busywork, lol, and very often there isn't really an overarching storyline that you progress through. you are just... doing jobs for a guild. and becoming more important as you climb further.

and many factions are mutually exclusive with each other

[candid stratus]

Thats because they had an actually competent writer who allegedy locked himself in a hotel while under the influence of psychoactive drugs while writing out the lore, but I cant remember if that was a disproven story or not

[obtuse oak]

disproven

he locked himself in his room with bourbon and then wrote very specifically the thirtysix lessons of vivec

[candid stratus]

Ah, well still, even more credit to him for writing that shit sober

[obtuse oak]

not the whole game while tripping balls

[dapper trench]

damn

is it the weekend already?

[candid stratus]

Ok not sober but still.

[surreal ermine]

elder scrolls lore goes crazy though, not super well versed in it but its got a lot of cool ass concepts like dragonbreaks

[obtuse oak]

kirkbride isnt much of a narrative writer but he does amazinggggggg worldbuilding and mythology.

[somber stream]

The novel is a critique of violence and anti-war. In stalker you can own a Saiga-12 fully automatic shotgun to mess up the guys you hate

[obtuse oak]

a lot of the crazy stuff comes from morrowind

[candid stratus]

Kirkbride got me chimming out

[rare pulsar]

They should start taking drugs then mabe tes6 will have a good main quest

[next cradle]

I was unappreciated in my time. I was also the guy who told the Phasmophobia creator that he put the windows inside out on his maps

[candid stratus]

Also the fact that Morrowind is so fucking ALIEN yet its a fantasy world is nuts and I've always loved it for its aesthetics and general world feel

[obtuse oak]

i was going to sum up morrowind's story but it's so interwoven with the history of morrowind at large that i realised it would still be very long

and that's why it's peak

[surreal ermine]

skyrims main story is such a fucking bore

[rare pulsar]

Skyrim quests in general sadly except for the guild stuff amd sidequests

[next cradle]

it had a story?

[amber delta]

I always stop the mainstory right after getting the horn and never revist it

[candid stratus]

Hank trapping you in a public restroom for a short presentation on Morrowind lore (its 73 hours long and he's constantly chugging bourbon)

[surreal ermine]

i think i would have been interested in actually learning more about the aldmeri dominion and that type of shit instead of le dragons

[rare pulsar]

Read all the books in skyrim thats actually good lore

[candid stratus]

I've actually never completed the main storyline for Morrowind because in my humble opinion Dagoth Ur (the person not the place) was right

If Morrowind had given you the option to side with Dagoth Ur it would have been the greatest game ever in terms of story

[amber delta]

real and N'wahpilled

[dapper trench]

skyrim

[candid stratus]

See but thats what I dislike about it is that all the good lore in skyrim needs to be read from books, literally all the cool lore takes place OUTSIDE the game

[rare pulsar]

Yeah fair enough

Honestly the best part about the game finding those notes and diaries around the map while exploring

[candid stratus]

Also I'm just gonna say it, I think skyrim in general and the filthy ape nords that inhabit it are just kind of boring and the norse aesthetic has never really interested me

Like yeah the dragons are cool and all but idk sue me, I just dont really find norse aesthetics all that cool

[rare pulsar]

I loved the feel and look

[candid stratus]

Compared to Morrowind where you feel like you are genuinely in another world all together

[dapper trench]

wat

[rare pulsar]

[dapper trench]

[obtuse oak]

ok basically a long time ago, the dwemer and the chimer lived together in morrowind. the dwemer then found the heart of a dead god underground and they were like "shit, we can use this" and started messing with it. the chimer and the dunmer started a war with each other, even though they were previously friends. the leader of the chimer was a general called indoril neverar, served by his counsillors vivec, almalexia, sotha sil and voryn dagoth. then during the final battle of their war, the dwemer did ????? with the heart and all vanished. poof. gone at once. then neveravar died, either killed by voryn dagoth or by his other advisors (there are conflicting accounts and the game never gives you the unvarnished truth in a straightforward way), and those other advisors were like "hey shiieeet let's use this heart to become gods ourselves!"

and azura, the daedric prince and big fan of nerevar, was like "you guys are fucking insane. im gonna turn the whole chimer race into the dunmer with dark skin and red eyes because of your hubris and folly."

and some of the now-dunmer were like "yeah that was some messed up shit. i dont want no part of this" and they went to live as nomads in the ash-wastes of morrowind and became the ashlanders. they prophecize that nerevar will one day be reborn and cast down the tribunal.

and the other dunmer accepted the new gods as the tribunal and became civilized dark elves, organized into the great houses.

a lot of time passes

you, the player character, are a prisoner that is brought to morrowind by boat and released, by express order of the emperor. you dont know why but you have instructions to go find a dude. this dude turns out to be a blade. he thinks you are a worthless greenhorn and you have to spend some time doing sidequests (mandatory! great idea). eventually you start piecing together that you might be nerevar reborn, aka the nerevarine. you gain the political support of all the dunmer and also all of the ashlanders. you even get vivec's help, even though he might be the one that killed nerevar, because voryn dagoth is back with a vengeance and is stealing their divine power to become a crazy monster-demon-god. you beat him up and take his lunch money and the heart of lorkhan disappears and the tribunal also lose their divine power. (this is why morrowind is eventually destroyed and there are a lot of dunmer refugees in skyrim. you won, but at what cost? lol oops)

[rare pulsar]

[dapper trench]

[slate summit]

ES lore in my darktide server?!!?!

[slate summit]

What about Pelinal Whitestrake??????????????????????

[rare pulsar]

The Ayleids did nothing wrong!

[obtuse oak]

the ambiguity of "is the prophecy actually real? am I really nerevar reborn or do I just happen to be doing the right things? how did nerevar really die? why did the dwemer disappear? who the fuck is vivec really?" is what keeps morrowind compelling even to this day.

[carmine steppe]

Prophecies are but words, I judge actions

[molten matrix]

morrowind also has pretty deep systems

[short oar]

HOPIUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM RAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[ocean widget]

moon-and-star ring

[marsh iris]

[earnest cairn]

Can we see the live demonstration video tomorrow? Is there a live broadcast

[round mica]

Bait use to be believable

[candid stratus]

It isnt bait I genuinely think skyrim was boring aesthetically speaking

[round mica]

Sounds like bait

[jaunty path]

Hey this person doesn't like something most people likes. Lets set him on fire and laugh at his charring corpse

[wispy wadi]

Skyrim is gray and snow and Bethesda

[round mica]

Aesthetically was the best thing about skryim, everything else falls flat

[astral basin]

Skyrim explores the how the dwemer disappeared by saying that a lot of their tech is… tonal. Sound and vibration based
Supported by a wizard from the College using some non-descript dwemer artifact that needed a tuning fork as the final instrument
He phases out the plane of existence, and you get the power to summon him back

[surreal ermine]

skyirms aesthetic is okay but the novelty of it wears off pretty fast

[somber stream]

Speaking of Skyrim, i have 3 elder scrolls stuck in my Inventory and i have no idea how to rid of them

[surreal ermine]

who up elding they scroll

[round mica]

At this point it's more 50/50

[astral basin]

Alduin questline, vampire lord questline

[drowsy prawn]

after quest you can sell them to the mage guild library 👍

[astral basin]

That too

[somber stream]

Yeah but i already finish the vampire bit. Guess i'll have to advance the main one and see what happen

20 kilo a piece, god damn it's heavy

[little marten]

When does the nda go away again

[astral basin]

Yeah them weighing any amount todd howard units for being a quest item has always annoyed me

[wooden creek]

In roughly 4 hours

[drowsy prawn]

It Just Works™

😌

[astral basin]

Missus thats a crime

[jaunty path]

Whos hype for furry femboy class release

[jaunty path]

You're saying this cuz my skins dark

[astral basin]

Im saying that bc you on some heinous shit 😭

[somber stream]

Isn't Servo melanin rich as well

[astral basin]

Nah

[jaunty path]

Black on black discrimination bruh

My dad deadass said "theres too many WORDS at this waffle house" and hes as dark as I am!!!!!

[somber stream]

I misremembered

[astral basin]

Sid is the only other person i remember saying something
Hes an everything man

[dapper trench]

based dad

[jaunty path]

Lmfao 😭

[astral basin]

I just read lichts edit 😭

[jaunty path]

[raven furnace]

im curious what the class icon for hive scum will be

[jaunty path]

Good question...mmm

[astral basin]

Cute. In a. Set it on fire so i dont have to look at it way

[somber stream]

But that's like, your cousin or something

[astral basin]

If i claimed relations with every half dead thing out there

[ocean widget]

nestle logo

[raven furnace]

i googled the nestle logo, and it's a bird-mom feeding her children

[jaunty path]

Hell nah

[ocean widget]

and its the logo of nestle, the water cartel

[raven furnace]

is nestle something in wh40k?

[astral basin]

So thats why my waters brown? Its chocolate?

[ocean widget]

american?

[round mica]

India

[raven furnace]

confused 🥹

[ocean widget]

ok so yeah you're american
great

[raven furnace]

no, im norwegian!

[astral basin]

Apparently nestle is a swiss company

[dapper trench]

can get someone to critique this drawing before i start inking it?

[ocean widget]

education certainly doesnt seem like it

[somber stream]

nestle is practicing modern slavery

[dapper trench]

no shit

[ocean widget]

given how you're less likely to find this than someones going to find straw with a metal detector though
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_of_Nestlé

[raven furnace]

yea, we're educated about this in school, for sure

[astral basin]

The answer is likely no. Its not
Idk any real world companies in 40k. Tbf, humanity collapsed like 3 times in 40k

[ocean widget]

a basic education wouldn't prevent you from knowing nestle and researching what they have done

[raven furnace]

i know what nestle is

[ocean widget]

nestle lives on in spirit as the water cartel
which was the joke before i had to explain it to steinar

[somber stream]

To be fair, you won't know much about Nestle's thing if you don't spend a whole lot time on the net

[ocean widget]

i found out about nestles shit from reading a news article that popped up, having a lot of time online isnt required

[astral basin]

I barely know about the diamond monopoly in passing

[somber stream]

Youth these day don't go wander around news sites as well, reddit maybe

[ocean widget]

[jaunty path]

I get all my knowledge from youtube shorts

[somber stream]

I get political update from my sister who is a popo, i barely touch the news nowaday

[raven furnace]

the confusion was that ive seen people mention "water cartel" in darktide, so when you added "water cartel", which is not what i know Nestle for since we dont have any water from nestle here, i assumed it could actually be a thing in wh40k (though doubted it). and the reply was a confusing "american?"

[ocean widget]

i've seen your knowledge missus
it comes from more than youtube shorts ill say that

[jaunty path]

LOL

[surreal ermine]

my main source of news is breaking bad clips and subway surfers gameplay with some other shit on top of it idk im mesmerized

[jaunty path]

ILLNFUCKINGSKINYOUALIVEDENSE.

LEAVEYOURHOUSEARMED.

[dapper trench]

langauge young lady

[ocean widget]

sick

[proper light]

Wtf the reward for the ration event is just a portrait. Lmfao

[somber stream]

Did you expect a hug

[ocean widget]

nestles not just a water company
nesquik, baby formula, after eights

hold on wikipedias got a list

[somber stream]

Because i did, for a job well done

[ocean widget]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nestlé_brands

[somber stream]

There are now animated frame guys

[raven furnace]

exactly. i know nestle for all the other things, except water

[ocean widget]

i think i've seen bethesda game bugs with more logic than that

[dapper trench]

And it's done; portions are fixed. Does anyone have anything they want to check it on?

[somber stream]

Time to move on

[astral laurel]

Now that they've revealed Arbites, I wonder when the next class is going to be revealed :>

[ocean widget]

defo 2026 at the earliest

[raven furnace]

american?

[astral laurel]

Omg Marquis de Cat

[jaunty path]

I think most people only know nestle for chocolate

[ocean widget]

i think you need to figure out how to use insults before you try

[jaunty path]

Which means slavery!

[somber stream]

Fellas

[ocean widget]

yay

[jaunty path]

Dirty American

[raven furnace]

yes, it's me

[surreal ermine]

root artstyle is so cute

[ocean widget]

thankfully not

[astral laurel]

And you like Wingspan and Terraforming Mars. Good shit right there.

[astral laurel]

Yeah Kyle Ferrin has a fun style

[dapper trench]

wat

[jaunty path]

2 days till I go home

[dapper trench]

Listening to Whoops - Dj bountyhunter

[spiral fog]

do we get hive scum channel later today or only at release 2. dec?

[dapper trench]

ask one of the mods

[somber stream]

I reckon on release

[astral laurel]

I gotta go back to work unfortunately but ttyl

[raven furnace]

im glad you reckognize these things 🥹

[ocean widget]

Release

[wraith phoenix]

TF?? Space Marine 2 just got a techmarine! Where is my skitarii femboy with the 2-ton ass, fatshark!?

[jaunty path]

Quit ur job

[spiral fog]

rip

[somber stream]

What are you going to do if there is one now even?

[jaunty path]

We will be putting down fatshark

[ocean widget]

Scum in it

[somber stream]

Thought so

[surreal ermine]

theyre making up for it with shirtless ogryn

[jaunty path]

@ocean widget what u naming ur scum

Name it something Jenkem related

[shadow scarab]

Aneurism IV mentioned??👀

[jaunty path]

AGAIN LMFAO

[shadow scarab]

That is a good idea though. I will inspire mines by aneurism aswell!

[jaunty path]

U not a real jenkem fan

[shadow scarab]

what do you mean, I snorted that stuff when the game barely released

[jaunty path]

Real jenkem fans been doing it way before aneurysm iv

[versed nest]

look in points shop
no darktide

[shadow scarab]

in gmod, yeah. How was it called?

[jaunty path]

Dorktide

[somber stream]

You can instead buy Gem Defender: Soyjak Survivors and get the animated avatar

[jaunty path]

The fuck man

[proper light]

Nah its not in the point store yet

[molten matrix]

we got animated steam frames holy peak

[amber delta]

steam points rewards lookin more exciting than ganger gameplay

[proper light]

Not in points store yet

[somber stream]

But it said now available, surely Fatshark wouldn't lie

[proper light]

Go check for yourself. I wanted to grab them but the page is blank

[dapper trench]

AYE PERSONA 3 SOUNDTRACK IS PLAYING

[raven furnace]

i felt "delete Loner" was more pressing than "quickplay to Havoc" 😝

[dapper trench]

ITS GOING DOWN NOW

[jaunty path]

Quick play havoc when

[dapper trench]

you get yourself some bitches when?

[jaunty path]

I already have one....my body pillow

[dapper trench]

.....my low respect for you has gotten lower

[candid stratus]

has the embargo ended yet

[jaunty path]

Why are you so mean

Have you ever tried being wholesome and kind...

[dapper trench]

[round mica]

I need a body pillow

[dapper trench]

i am wholesome and kind