MOUNT AND BLADE

[Capntastic]

Have you felt the thrill of crushing a troop of armed knights with little more than your ragtag militia of farmers and merceneries lately?/

It's like a cross between old school Pirates! and a strategy game and some other stuff. It's very simulatorish, and the game is very very hard, but not in an unfair way. The item prices are really wunked up, but they don't seem so bad once you slowly work your way up to getting decent troops.

Despite being in development and having a lot of flaws is still amazingly addictive and you will play for hours, telling yourself "Just one more battle." The incomplete game costs about $20, but this will allow you to get on the ground floor. Of course, you can download the demo which will still entertain you for hours and hours.

Jak agrees; this is not a game one should pass up.

[Jak Snide]

He's telling the truth, you know. I've only messed around with fighting in the arena in the starting town, but the combat is surprisingly fun. Can't say much for the graphics, but they're merely dated rather than awful (which also means it'll run smooth as butter on anything but the most crappy machine). Got some good music in there too! Character creation is also awesome. You get a good deal of control over what your character looks like (adjustable eye position, nose width, forehead size etc etc).

And it's totally free. The "demo" is actually the full game but with a level cap. So get downloading!

[Choark]

See I would but...

I like playing with my Bunny, Mr Hop Hop, he's so cute and special. Ee's got these magical powers that lets him see through wall, lies and socks, which isn't very handy for a bunny and sometimes it depresses him so he stops hopping around so then he goes to see his counciler, BarHamount, which is a Half Wolly Pig Sheep with horses hooves, but all BarHamount wants is money and for people to pay taxes even though its supposed to be a free country and everyone hates him really...

But he only wants taxes to build roads and forests so even though everyone hates him hes actually a good guy so that makes him sad, so thats why he listens to other peoples problems, like my Bunny, Mr Hop Hop. Mr Hop hop hasn't been feeling so well since I cleaned him though. He got a smelly after falling into the drain that I accidentally left open when I had to fight the icky green rats that got caught in there, so I put him in the washing machine and afterwards he was all wet and tired so I put him in the tumble dryer, of course I don't have a real one of them so I just heated up a pan and put Mr Hop Hop in it and he dried pretty quickly. I think BarHamount must of told him to relax in a Suna or something because there was a lot of steam coming frmo the pan so I helped again in a small way to make Mr Hop Hop all better. Mr Hop Hop must be feeling better because he's looking after all his little freinds, the Yellow Maggots, in his tummy, so he must like them to be sharing his food and skin like that.




And thats why I'm not joining in.

Its not you, I just need to be there for my Bunny. <p><div style="text-align:center"> </div>
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<div style="text-align:center"> <span style="font-family:century gothic;font-size:x-small;">HEROES DON'T NEED PANTS</span> </div></p>

[Spleen]

Cho, do you know what you're typing when you type it, or do you come back later and look at it? <p>-_-___-___-___-_-

"The universe is all in the mind that perceives it, and sensation is the first and only reality. If a tree falls in the forest with no creature to hear it, then there is no tree."
-Dungeons and Dragons: Complete Arcane, page 167

Arch mage144: Spleen doesn't bother with penis size contests; instead, he goes straight to penis number.</p>

[Choark]

I do sometimes admit that I have these white noise moments and when I get rid of it I find out hours have passed on by. You know? Like when you leave a T.V. on with no channel and you get that noise, I kinda get that but my head twitches violently for a short time. Weird stuff.

Oh true story... I was testing a game here, multiplayer, and I swear I totally >Did Something To DO With The Game< and showed off about it, thing is my team mates are looking at me and point out that A) I'm not actually playing at the moment and B) Everything I described didn't happen at all. So they tell me what happened and, well, I didn't see it. Kinda weird. Really happened, just yesterday in fact. I'm kinda hoping its just a prank but its not actually the first time something like thats happened to me.

There was also that time I had a conversation with someone until I realised I couldn't be because I was home alone. Can't even remember what I was talking about but I do know I was talking for over forty minutes. Oh and one time I was laying in bed and I heard this god awful noise that got louder and louder and louder and I couldn't move then I heard something else, a buzzing, it was a fly in another room. This noise was so quiet a fly buzzing could go over the top of it but for a short while it was deafing. Another time I was laying in bed and all I could hear was a baby crying behind me, I turned eventually but nothing was there. I assume next door had kids or something even though no baby ever made a noise again that I could hear.

Never woken up nekkid in the street or with blood on me so I'm not worried or anything. Besides I've had to put up with this for so long it doesn't matter.

Thankfully I don't believe in Aliens coming down, spirits or the even the afterlife otherwise I might be creeped out. (PS This is all actually true!) <p><div style="text-align:center"> </div>
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<div style="text-align:center"> <span style="font-family:century gothic;font-size:x-small;">HEROES DON'T NEED PANTS</span> </div></p>

[pd Rydia]

Those are typically called 'hallucinations'--sensing things (hearing, seeing, tasting, feeling, smelling) which aren't there.

I've had a few of those, though of significantly milder variety, and all restricted to the sense of hearing. It took a while to even notice the sounds -weren't- there, and I also didn't really thing it was out of the ordinary much. They mostly coincide with periods of high stress or anxiety, so I figured it has a lot to do with that. I've learned to recognize what's there and not, and, if I keep my stress down, I don't have any, so... *shrug* <p><hr /><div style="text-align:center">dictionary.com | encyclopædia dramatica</div></p>

[Capntastic]

Once when I was exploring my grandfather's mansion I heard both laughing and sobbing. I also think I saw a book fly by. It was intense.

[KingOfDoma]

One night, as I was watching a particularly racy SNL (a Taxicab Confessional spoof), the TV turned the channel all on its own, to TV static.

No big deal, right? Could just be a glitch.

...

IT WAS A DAMN DIAL TELEVISION!

True story, I swear to God. <p><hr />
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[Capntastic]

Have you felt the thrill of crushing a troop of armed knights with little more than your ragtag militia of farmers and merceneries lately?/

It's like a cross between old school Pirates! and a strategy game and some other stuff. It's very simulatorish, and the game is very very hard, but not in an unfair way. The item prices are really wunked up, but they don't seem so bad once you slowly work your way up to getting decent troops.

Despite being in development and having a lot of flaws is still amazingly addictive and you will play for hours, telling yourself "Just one more battle." The incomplete game costs about $20, but this will allow you to get on the ground floor. Of course, you can download the demo which will still entertain you for hours and hours.

Jak agrees; this is not a game one should pass up.

[E Mouse]

You know, I think I'd rather have a Mr. Hop Hop. <p><hr />

<span style="font-size:xx-small;">"Their rhetoric... You didn't put communists in his bed did you!" came Amber's indignant reply.

"Why not? All I had to do was open a gate to his bed and stick up a sign saying 'Hot virgin willing to make the ultimate sacrifice in the name of international socialist fraternity.'"</span>

<span style="color:blue;font-size:xx-small;">Excaliburned:</span> <span style="font-size:xx-small;">Ah yes, I'm thinking of having the USS Bob be preserved outside the Arena as a monument of sorts</span></p>

[BrainWalker]

This topic is crazier than I am.

Every now and then, though, usually when I'm trying to sleep, I'll hear very, very faint, vaguely conversational noise, like there's a radio on set to a news channel somewhere downstairs, or something. Makes falling asleep a bit trickeir.

Oh, and I'll probably have to give game this a shot sometime, just to screw around with the character creation. <p><div style="text-align:center"></div></p>

[Endesu]

I saw the Easter Bunny once. No joke.

Also, I'll be interested in trying this when I'm not tired.