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[Malphaestus]

I do not know about villains, but do you know of the flamberge?

It is a sword, typically of a two-handed variety, with a waved, or flamed, blade. With ornamental qualities, it added increased cutting power when paired with a sharp edge.

 

[Darklord95]

I do not know about villains, but do you know of the flamberge?

It is a sword, typically of a two-handed variety, with a waved, or flamed, blade. With ornamental qualities, it added increased cutting power when paired with a sharp edge.

I’m sure I’d recognize a picture of it.

 

[Malphaestus]

Undoubtedly, it's in Dark Souls.

 

[Darklord95]

Undoubtedly, it's in Dark Souls.

Oh yeah I recognize that.

 

[Darklord95]

Oh yeah I recognize that.

When it comes to weapons in video games I usually go for hammers myself

 

[Emotional Enigma]

The word "gei" in geisha means art, and to be a Geisha means to be judged as a moving work of art
Geisha spend their lives until their teen years training in entertainment so that they can sell their mizuage and pay off their debt to their okiya. If they don't pay it off they have to continue to work for the okiya but its doubtful they'll be able to with the cost of their kimonos and other materials.

 

[Darklord95]

The word "gei" in geisha means art, and to be a Geisha means to be judged as a moving work of art
Geisha spend their lives until their teen years training in entertainment so that they can sell their mizuage and pay off their debt to their okiya. If they don't pay it off they have to continue to work for the okiya but its doubtful they'll be able to with the cost of their kimonos and other materials.

I honestly don’t know how to respond, Uh.....

 

[Emotional Enigma]

I honestly don’t know how to respond, Uh.....

It's just a quote from my favorite book/movie. Theres a common misconception about Geisha but the book is great about talking about the japanese culture during meiji period and on

 

[Darklord95]

It's just a quote from my favorite book/movie. Theres a common misconception about Geisha but the book is great about talking about the japanese culture during meiji period and on

Cool, what book?

 

[Darklord95]

Also, I just want to ask, I started a poll on this, I’m wondering wether or not I’m the only one who can see it, could you check, it’d be at the top of the page.

 

[Emotional Enigma]

Cool, what book?

Memoirs of a Geisha
I strongly recommend it as a movie, the book is amazing too but it's a bit long

Also, I just want to ask, I started a poll on this, I’m wondering wether or not I’m the only one who can see it, could you check, it’d be at the top of the page.

I can see it

 

[Darklord95]

Memoirs of a Geisha
I strongly recommend it as a movie, the book is amazing too but it's a bit long


I can see it

Good, also neat about the geisha thing, I’m not much into history personally but I can see the appeal.

 

[Darklord95]

Just saw it’s a beautiful day In the neighborhood, I give it a 9/10

 

[Darklord95]

Today’s get to know you question is
What is your favorite fictional world, mine is the world of the paper Mario and Mario and Luigi series, I love how they expanded on the normal Mario games while making it their own unique thing.

 

[Kharotus]

Frieza forever ❤

 

[Darklord95]

For today I would like to know, who is your favorite arrow villain, mine is count vertigo

 

[Kaztastrophe]

If you count every show in the Arrowverse not just Arrow: Barry Allen the Flash tied with Lex Luthor

Just Arrow: Malcolm Merlyn the Dark Archer

 

[Kazami42]

I thought Painkiller and Necrovision was pretty good.

The former is an arena-like shooter where you're some poor sod that offed themselves accidentally. Then gotta go into purgatory to smite corrupted souls and kill super demons with some of the most fascinating weapon choices I've ever seen in my life. Though I prefer the rocket chaingun and stake gun myself. The biggest point of the game is the entity types - looks, and map design/architecture. Ranging from medieval setting or so maps to murdering my skeletal kin in area 51. The requel makes their fate different. Though I liked the OG cover art. Actually looked like a guy ready to rock and load. Praiseth be the skeleton army. [And the omnisiah.]

The other one is a WWI FPS shooter type. You play as an american volunteer in the trenches early on in around 1916-17. You eventually have to gun down the undead, general abominations, paranormal vampire dudes. You eventually get a cool talking glove with super powers, necromancy powers, and turns you effectively into wolverine. At the end you get to pilot a dragon. Though between that and lost company, LC I like a bit more. It seems like it knows more of what it wants to be and you get more ammo for the more fascinating guns. The vamp SMG and its flamethrower I believe, being a notable addition in both. The technically DLC lost company is more like an OG expansion pack. Back when they added maps, weapons, storyline, and all in one rather than the brain dead cowardice people do now. A dedicated map pack, a skin pack, a weapon pack... Looks like someone deserves a good gassing or bayonet smiting.

Both games have a thing to do with difficulty. Changing it in necrovision alters the ending you get. Difficulty in at least the first painkiller game added more maps you could play with. Battle out of hell pretty much adds onto the OG game. You can fight in Leningrad/Stalingrad. The semi remake semi sequel alters some of the maps with new things. You could skip it. There's albeit some sketchy mods that update the graphics and textures to a more standard modernized look anyway. The series pretty much ends with the first game. Though my CD version when I played didn't even have the campaign/storyline but had all the maps and enemies. Only realized it had one when I watched a YouTube review like 9 years later after I lost the game. Some might love it, some might hate the story. Personally I like to view it as a comedy before I get to play as leather Rambo again. Primarily the lines and animations during the story scenes. Also I think they only ever appear during a chapter change or major map. My favorite map is the military base/51, and hell. The scenery just looks beautiful to me. Pretty much used both games as influence for more psychological warfare works in RP, along side my studying knowledge of both wars.

All games and dlc get new weapons I believe too. Lost company has the BAR or similar looking weapon, and you play as the Germans I believe. Yet again throwing in the personal card, I liked their style and trenches during the war. The lack of games and all following similar premise annoys me. It'd make for great stories, but apparently story telling takes a back seat to simply run and gunning everyone. Something similar I could rant about for games and a certain group of people I associate with on here. I believe the titles are worth talking about. Most probably still don't even know em. Don't want them to be lost like those in the mud!

Outside this, all I can really talk about is simulators and history associated medias and literature. Verdun thus far is the closest we got to an authentic setting, BF 1 bringing some more people among the ranks in regards to the subject. Some believe the stereotypes and some remaining myths. A shame really. And don't even get me started on WWII tanks and depictions in games. Only a fool believes in design, a wiser man logistics, and the higher look at both and all the tiny and overlooked details. Though, I do admit playing with a mythological specs version of something like a Tiger I is amusing. All hail the Renault FT-17 though. One of the actual good ones of the earlier setting. Also a fantastic template for diesel punk derivatives. So is the "willy/wheely" if merged with other design characteristics.

Also the British respirator tube mask I forgot the name of wasn't that bad either. They also add an intimidation factor like the "sturmtruppen". They might not look menacing at first, but properly fitted and being armed would actually be a sight to behold. Better than those horrid bags with a hole in it. Also cambrai is a November/December 1917 battle worth looking into. One of the key examples of warfare that would be more commonly mimicked but altered throughout WWII by at least Germany. Ironically having committed to their own copying even before 1914. Closest to an early blitzkrieg you'll ever read. Had limited success, but several assets, namely tanks, were used en masse. Initially attacks were pretty great. 62nd division I believe, from their start point they got around five miles or so. You may eye roll, but in that portion of the front and at that period it was pretty god like. Just "yeeted" right in there. At that time you'd probably end up dead from celebrating the very idea of covering that distance. Presumably if you were a higher rank or bought the drinks anyway.

Also a minimal thing but probably worth looking into or discussing: the propaganda during WWI by some at least near-demonized the German empire, yet another insult to injury while they starved out the Germans with that blockade. This is one of many factors that accumulated up to Germany post war, alongside the treaty. This helping result in making the second world war happen. When you break a people, they will no longer care about you and others. This makes it easier to demonize you and thus try to eradicate you. When they have nothing left but a miserable existence caused by others, this makes it easier to hate you. If an enemy is afraid or hates you, they try harder to get rid of you. When you get to this level during or prior to a fight or war, it gets easy to throw blame and cultivate extremists. The end of the war made another inevitable. Another contributor could of been shellshock, a very ancient name for post traumatic stress disorder. I can elaborate on this further and provide a psychological devastation comparison between wars. It'd certainly be on topic and related to the above, but some people squeel like a pig. Not discussing it is actually harmful and can repeat it in future generations but I digress.

Finally, knowing all of this for RP helps create an authentic atmosphere and builds the world/universe/characters. Though that is merely a side benefit that I can't exactly use, without another player suddenly trying to perform OOC, or screams to a mod since things don't go their way in their perfect ideal of reality. I find these weak types quite amusing honestly. Still quite parasitic and annoying. Or having seen people go up to others that know more than they do, happened to me too, and trying to say that isn't how it works or being hyper stubborn and rejective of how something happens. No one really asks questions unless convenient or to get you in trouble. Forgivable, but still pathetic when not done in a civil manner. I recommend being cautious if you encounter those types and are a roleplayer. Far more sensible people than the rare exception, but the rare are as potent as the gas is.

Also Sir John Monash is pretty epic/metal, too. I'm sure someone else might want to speak about his glory, or you might wanna look him up. So I won't add another 50 super paragraphs on here. Just more references and IC jokes.

Other than that, all is quiet on the western front.

 

[Darklord95]

Just watched a found footage movie called “Grave Encounters” it frigging sucked

 

[Kazami42]

It sounds like a story where a guy visits a cemetery, then freaks out when they see a tombstone. The "footage" appears flamboyantly heretical. However, as far as I remember, it doesn't suffer from ghost operator syndrome. [Someone picking up the camera when everyone around is busy elsewhere or dead.]

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[Darklord95]

It sounds like a story where a guy visits a cemetery, then freaks out when they see a tombstone. The "footage" appears flamboyantly heretical. However, as far as I remember, it doesn't suffer from ghost operator syndrome. [Someone picking up the camera when everyone around is busy elsewhere or dead.]

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Oh, nonononono, the second one does that, literally in some cases!

 

[Kazami42]

Oh, nonononono, the second one does that, literally in some cases!

Oh God, the heresy.
The unadulterated film heresy!

 

[Darklord95]

Oh God, the heresy.
The unadulterated film heresy!

But in all seriousness I thought back to it more, neither of them are that bad, the second one definitely comes close a lot of the time, but personally I’d still recommend both of them if you like the idea of found footage movies

 

[Kazami42]

But in all seriousness I thought back to it more, neither of them are that bad, the second one definitely comes close a lot of the time, but personally I’d still recommend both of them if you like the idea of found footage movies

I think paranormal activity was cool, and diary of the dead alright.
But not really into them in general unless the concept interests me.
Some of these types of movies don't even really work under even their own logic. I can handle throwing out pure realism, but if the biggest antagonist is a cheap 3% Pikachu costume painted black and red, and the protagonist is buff jock #5972, that's a paddling. Same for GOS. Only barely just spared from a good thorough smiting.

 

[Darklord95]

I think paranormal activity was cool, and diary of the dead alright.
But not really into them in general unless the concept interests me.
Some of these types of movies don't even really work under even their own logic. I can handle throwing out pure realism, but if the biggest antagonist is a cheap 3% Pikachu costume painted black and red, and the protagonist is buff jock #5972, that's a paddling. Same for GOS. Only barely just spared from a good thorough smiting.

I like the idea of found footage in horror movies because it helps the viewer feel like they’re experiencing the horror with the characters, if something’s running after them, it feels like they’re running after you too, unfortunately most of them aren’t done well, but I’ve seen my fair share of really good ones, I recommend Cloverfield, the Monster project (although the beginning and the ending kinda suck), and trollhunter, you know if you’re interested, I’ve also heard a Spanish one called [REC] is really good