Posts made by Monogram

I can't upvote this game idea hard enough.

Is the game still running? Just tried peeking at it and there's no connection going.

Pretty sure I had my own ship there.

Damn, need to remember my character.

Yep, Ares from BSG Pegasus = Azrael from Game of Kings.

And I'll vouch for what @Auspice just said. Especailly the reading of +mail. That was something really liked to do.

I played on EC, albeit very briefly. Once I had been told about the theme lifting was one thing. And realizing how Nermal and Hobbes were pretty much running the game to make their alts look amazing an cool I decided to jump it.

Although, I have a personal and seething dislike for Nermal. I don't know why, but I have never really disliked a staffer the way I dislike her. I think her whole 'people were mean to me so now I'm a bitch' justification for everything does on MUs makes me really salty.

Addendum: As one of the very first original staffers of Game of Kings(who got tossed by Azrael and then promised to bump my stats up on the down-low if I took the demotion without a word of complaint), that place was doomed before any of us realized it. But also weren't aware of just how crazy Az was. None of us did. Which is the staffer who had build half the grid and in a final act of 'fuck you', she had all the rooms she built and desc'd @chowned to her bit, so when the bit was deleted, so were all the rooms. Whatever staff came after us(there were four of us that bailed before the game even ever opened)I have no idea what happened. I had no association with the game after that point.

Pretty sure the Knicks is where stars go to die. Has Mellow done anything of real note since going there?

Man, I need to go watch First Contact now.

Well, if all the thread is Crino ranting at himself and replying only to himself, that would make sense, wouldn't it?

So the new Doom has this nifty little thing called Snapmap, that allows you to create and then play MP levels that you yourself throw together to create PvP or PvE type matches. Pretty much anything you can think of.

Problem is, for a game that's pretty much new, I can't find any matches on it. Which is a shame because I really enjoy the new Doom.

So if anyone has a XB1 handle and wants to play anything like that, let me know. Granted, I figure this is because everyone is off playing Overwatch(and probably because I'm a horrible console peasant), and since I'm not really deathmatch kinda person(I do love co-op PvE stuff)that might be part of the reason there's nobody playing it right now. Still, if anyone is interested, be happy to play with them.

There's two incidents that I've either witnessed or seen the results of. For the life of me, I cannot, to this day, explain either of them. Nothing that science can explain. Whatever I say here, I'm going to understand if people are dubious of. Had I not been witness myself, I likely would be too. So feel free to believe or disbelieve at your leisure.

The first incident happened in the early 2000s. 2004, I want to say. It was winter in Wisconsin, and I had been homeless for the greater portion of it, living in a 92 Chevy Cavalier convertible with a broken heater core. I had found a job working second shift in a factory(a job which I hated, I might add, but I was desperate for work).

I was getting near the point where I had saved up enough for an apartment of my home, though I had no desire to really live in the city which I worked. For those in the know or at least know the area, I worked in Beloit, WI, and was 'living' in Janesville, WI. It was about a 15 minute drive between the two cities, and the road I traveled on was this county highway. At this time, it was empty, save for maybe the occasional car or semi. I'm driving home, at around 1am. It's winter, as I said, just recently had a snowstorm. In between these two cities is a lot of farmland, so a lot of open space. As I'm letting my mind just kinda 'drift', I pick something out of on the passenger side window. At first I thought it was a medevac chopper, which wasn't uncommon. But I took notice of the fact that it looked like there was a spotlight shining on the ground. Which, didn't really make sense to me, because what the hell would a medevac chopper be doing looking at farmland?

As I kept driving, I saw it coming closer, like it was going fly over the highway in which I was driving. Because of all the snow, it made for a pretty bright night, when it's not as dark as it could be. Helped that the moon was out and it was clear. Which also meant it was really cold(and without heat in your car, you really notice that kind of shit). I kept staring at it, and I realized it's sillouete wasn't of a helicopter. Looked more like a triangular wedge. Big. Not like...a 100 yards across or anything that huge, but it was big enough to pick out it's shape.

I had no idea what I was really looking at, it didn't make sense to me. But I was 21 and stupid, so curiosity got the better of me. I pulled my car over to the side of the road and got out to try and make sense of what the hell it was. Funnily enough, I wasn't the only one, someone going the opposite direction did the same thing. I remember most of the conversation:

Me: Hey, you see that shit?

Him: Yeah, you ever see anything like that?

Me: No. Can't figure out what it is.

Him: Yeah, why I stopped.

So, both stood there, staring at this thing, coming at a vague angle towards the road. It made no sound. Didn't hear anything, which is what made it so strange. But I do remember the sensation of tasting burnt ozone in my mouth. And at that time, I remember, somewhere in the back of my skull, something is telling me to get in my car and drive. Get the hell out of there. But I just kept staring, my desire for curiosity was just too strong.

See...and this is the part where I lose people, if I hadn't already. Because this is where the tinfoil hats come in. From the opposite direction, I heard the distinct 'whoop whoop' sound of helicopters. Two of them, infact. And not like your standard police or medical ones. Military ones. Apache types. Or something that'd qualify as a gunboat. And they were going right for whatever that 'thing' was. Apparently, it too had an idea of what was coming, and it just took off at an angle that I didn't expect into the air. Like doing so with such an amount of acceleration, that many Gs would've turned someone into paste. And it was just gone.

My newfound friend and I also realized that it was probably the best time to get the hell out, so we both got back into our cars and tore out. I remember going back to my friend's apartment, and she thought I looked like I had saw someone die, I apparently appeared that white. I told her what I saw, and while I could tell she was more than dubious, she simply shoved a joint in my face and told me to light up.

So that's one of my stories. I'll tell that other one if anyone wants to hear it, but like I said, I completely understand if anyone thinks I'm blowing smoke up their ass. On the other hand, I know what I saw. And it was from that point on that I knew there were things within and beyond the confines of our world that are beyond explanation. So yeah. Believe or don't. I know I do.

Are talking specifically ghosts, spirits, demons, vampires, etc? That kind of supernatural?

Or does aliens, UFOs, bigfoot and other such things?

I'm skeptical of the former like everyone else has more or less said so far, it's likely measuable but science just hasn't caught up or figured out how to do so yet. However, the latter? I've seen enough shit with the latter that I know exactly what I saw, and it still scares the shit out of me when I start thinking too much about it.

@Lorne'eth Could you play the troll and internet-tough-guy card any harder? I never played on KD, but if it's full of people like you, sorta glad I never bothered with the place.

I'd probably play were it not for the FC thing. It's an interesting concept otherwise.

@Kanye-Qwest said in Dragon Age: Smoke & Shadows:

What sort of system is this game using? How are you handling mages/apostates? Hanging out in the Gallows all the time doesn't sound super thrilling. Well. "Thrilling", perhaps, but maybe not fun.

They say FATE, but I logged on as a guest just to look. Their +sheets look like FS3. Which...is that FATE? I don't even know.

I'm of two minds on this whole thing. On the one hand, I find the idea of FCs being played as weird on a Dragon Age game. I still may play it, but because DA2 was the most interesting of the series(in terms of doing something seperate from the normal BioWare formula), but the idea of chumming around with Varric or Hawke or even that huge emo Anders is a bit strange. Maybe I shouldn't care because I've played on comic-based games where that's the standard fare, but maybe because that's expected. Just think it would be better if the game was based post-DA2 and everybody had ran off.

Then again, on the other hand there's the chance to sleep with Isabella....hrm.

@ThatGuyThere
I think it's worse because I actually don't mind pork rinds.

But they're little green wafers. Who the hell would want to eat that? Sounds boring. What would that even taste like? Beyond tasting like people.

@ThatGuyThere said in The 100: The Mush:

I eat and enjoy many species of fish but if someone was offering "fish" I would decline in a heartbeat. Much like i would is someone offered me "land animal."

Ah, good ol mystery meat.

@GirlCalledBlu I love sushi. Don't ask me why that makes it different from fish, but it does. Sushi is exempt from fish tasting like ass.

Does scallops count as fish?
Because I really like scallops.