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Wolverine II Went with this: Movement: Jump to 0910 facing 1010. Shooting: Firing Gauss rifle, Medium pulse laser then SRM at the pillager in that order in 1111.
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Don't forget to send in orders guys. 
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They may still think that Lowtax's credit card bounced again.
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Yeah, the downtime is pretty terrible if you're not in the US time zones and given that it was an automated process it might strike again tomorrow if they don't find it and, well, since they didn't find it the first time... It might be worth it to extend the time limit a bit. SIGSEGV fucked around with this message at 20:03 on Jan 13, 2016 |
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Ah, I didn't know the forums were having trouble. That is entirely grounds for a delay-of-game. Get those orders in when you can and I'll roll with it. 
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Yeah the forums have been down from 1 am - 10 am for the last two days since our new cloud host (located in CST) keeps automatically/incorrectly deactivating Lowtax's account nightly and can't fix it till the billing department opens at 9 am their time. It's dumb!
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Well, poo poo. They should tell their janitors to stop unplugging the account servers to dust.
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It's an automated process in billing deactivating certain accounts for various reasons according to certain criteria and clearly they aren't chosen as well as they could be. It's pretty amazing that it happened a second time.
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I was being facetious.
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Jan 13, 2016 21:52
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I am rather bad at human communication.
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ovement: starting 2116 walking(backwards) 2116->2215->left turn-> 2214 -> rt turn end 2214 facing 2115 shooting: ERppc, both lg lasers at the Pillager in 1111 Puts me out of LOS from the blue shadowhawk and hopefully can help drop that pillager. I'm trying to stay alive for as long as possible to keep taking shots. also @!#$%%!@#$!@# forum downtime shalafi4 fucked around with this message at 07:18 on Jan 14, 2016 |
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Does anyone still need to submit orders still?
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No, but I didn't have time today to do an update. Update will be Sunday, since that's the next day I'll have the 3+ hours set aside to do the update.
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Let’s Read Mechwarrior Dark Age A Brand New Era, A Brand New Saga! GHOST WAR a BattleTech novel NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR MICHAEL A. STACKPOLE Part 7 Chapter 16 The novel decides it’s going to remind us that it could’ve been a BattleTech novel but is poo poo instead by giving us a Pointless Combat Exercise moment, just like when Kai Allard Liao heroically shot up a water tower with Yen Lo Wang that one time! No really, let’s compare them! Stormcrow: 55 ton 6/9/0, XL engine, endo, 9.5 tons of FF armor, 23 tons of weapons and equipment. Mad Cat III: 55 ton 6/9/0, XL engine, endo, 9 tons of FF armor, 23.5 tons of weapons and equipment. Really, the only “remarkable” thing about the Mad Cat III is that it’s a 55 ton `Mech with a part of Artemis LRM-20s. Other than that it’s got a couple of medium lasers and some lovely back-up weapons. The only half-decent thing about the Mad Cat III is that one variant carries Ferro-Lamellor, which might’ve been pretty great if the Mad Cat III-X had more than 75% armor coverage (it doesn’t). Getting effectively 20% more armor isn’t all that beneficial if you’re sacrificing 25% of your efficient maximum to get it.  But I’m digressing. Mason is having a training exercise with Janella. At first I thought they were fighting each other since Mason’s shooting at a Centurion and when we last saw Janella in a BattleMech it was a Centurion (and Mason was going to be in the terribly lovely Dark Ages Black Hawk), but apparently she was just dicking around in it and left her good `Mech on Terra. Janella’s actually in a Tundra Wolf, the ugly piece of poo poo on the book’s cover and the real “iconic” ‘mech for Clickytech. I’d talk about the Tundra Wolf a little but all you need to know is that it weighs 75 tons and the common Dark Age variant Janella uses needs an XL Engine to reach speeds of 3/5. It’s an underweight, fragile Dire Wolf. But I’m digressing again. Mason’s named his lovely babby Timber Wolf the “Ghost.” Because you need a Ghost to carry a Ghost Knight into his Ghost War so he can make some Ghost Heat while doing Ghost Damage to Ghost Enemies in this Ghost Plot.  Janella’s Tundra Wolf is named “Andrea.” Named after her mother. Not creepy at all. Some bullshit happens including Janella one-shotting a Catapult with her LRM-10 (lol) and they head back. Also the Mad Cat III, a design based on the Inner Sphere nickname of a Clan `Mech, has a nickname of its own. Apparently it’s the “Miffed Kitty.” … Goddamn it. I keep waiting for something to happen this chapter but nope, time to spend three pages talking about the beauty of the desert. Then he hits on Janella and I care so little about any of this that the novel actually takes a moment to remind me to try to pay attention to it. quote:[A paragraph-length Stackpole sentence], eliminating distraction is vital. Focus. It’s all about focus. Emphasis not mine. Chapter 17 Mason and Janella have dinner with Janella’s parents. It is so hard to care about any of this, even when the phrase “the near orgasmic moaning that accompanies dessert” is used. Also, lolwhat? Anyway, nothing of any interest happens and we’re back in the briefing room and oh hey Kitsune Kurita’s here. Nothing happens this chapter. I’d say ‘character building’ but Mason’s pretty established, this is just padding. Chapter 18 Things be bad in the Republic of the Sphere. Victor Steiner-Davion calls all humans everywhere unthinking idiots. quote:“I would challenge your assertion that we are really thinking creatures.” quote:“[…] While we can hope we are wise, most of mankind is barely sentient. When you look at Maslow’s Hierarchy of Human Needs, it is concerned mostly with food, shelter, and reproduction. And that’s a snake-eyes on that to-hit roll and Stackpole misses the point of Maslow's Hierarchy completely! This is, of course, presented as absolute fact because Victor Davion is saying it (and, as he’s correcting the prior assertion of a female character I guess that means he’s mansplaining it too). quote:Janella arched an eyebrow. “You’re not trying to say that humans are cattle, are you, my lord? So of course this is a segue into another analogy in which Mason is going to become a wolfhound. Because it’s Stackpole and he loves those. Hooray. This would all be pointless except at the end of the dinner that happens in this chapter (something like the fifth or sixth meal we’ve had in the past four chapters) Mr. Handy sends Sam Donnely AKA Mason Fuckface a job offer. HOW CONVENIENT! Chapter 19 Mr. Handy is on Basalt, a minor world of no significance. Just like the plot of this book! Nothing happens. 
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To be fair, "completely extraneous and worse than a Stormcrow" describes at least 95% of all mechs and clickymech rules have wildly different design goals.
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Jan 15, 2016 23:05
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Oh, humanity has a set of universal needs and someone decided to make a food pyramid out of them? Welp! That's proof that everyone's hosed.
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PoptartsNinja posted:But I’m digressing again. Mason’s named his lovely babby Timber Wolf the “Ghost.” Because you need a Ghost to carry a Ghost Knight into his Ghost War so he can make some Ghost Heat while doing Ghost Damage to Ghost Enemies in this Ghost Plot. Sounds like a real ghost infestation. Better get Hogarth's Heroes on the job.
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I try to tell myself that these let's read updates seem to make no sense because I only read them diagonally and
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poptartsninja posted:For those not in the know, the Mad Cat Mk. III was Dark Age’s attempt at making a signature `Mech Clix used the Mad Cat MkII as the "iconic" mech on a lot of their products. Strange thing was that they never actualy made a mini for it, just the Mad Cat II which was essentially a Mad Cat. They did eventually come out with the Savage Wolf (Mad Cat Mk4) and the Vulture Mk4, which are beautiful sculpts, and from what I see over in the CBT forums, pretty well received. I always thought the Tundra Wolf would've looked way better if they had just made the legs less spindly. Was always a cool mini though.
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This "Let's Read" has helped to assuage any doubts I may have had about dumping this entire series at a used book store years ago. Except, possibly, a small regret that I may have inflicted them on some other poor, unsuspecting soul.
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If Andrea was dead I would have made a Neon Genesis Evangelion reference. Sadly she is not?
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PoptartsNinja posted:Kitsune Kurita This name makes me angry for some unexplained reason. 
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Naming your ride after your still living mother is even weirder than if she was dead.
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Not that weird if she's dead.
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Affi posted:Not that weird if she's dead. The Fury Road flamethrower guitarist was wearing his dead mothers face.  What's in a name? I don't see the problem here.
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Back Hack posted:This name makes me angry for some unexplained reason. It's like when it comes to naming Kurita characters Stackpole just thumbs through a list of vaguely japanese terms. And then of course he picks only those starting with "k" because you should always apply additional alliteration.
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Doesn't Kitsune mean fox? Isn't there already a pretty high up master strategist guy called that in the BT Universe?
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DatonKallandor posted:Doesn't Kitsune mean fox? Isn't there already a pretty high up master strategist guy called that in the BT Universe? Yes. Kitsune Kurita is Victor and Omi's secret bastard son. Omi named him after Hanse Davion in a way that somehow nobody could guess, because nobody in a Stackpole novel is smarter than Stackpole himself. It was treated as a shocking surprise.
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Perestroika posted:It's like when it comes to naming Kurita characters Stackpole just thumbs through a list of vaguely japanese terms. And then of course he picks only those starting with "k" because you should always apply additional alliteration. Boooooo.
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Kitsune is a dude? From the name I thought they were a girl. Michael Stackpole is insufficiently weeaboo to be writing about the Combine imo.
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Just remember, as dumb and boring as Ghost War is it's still not the worst BattleTech novel Stackpole ever wrote. That honor goes to 'Natural Selection,' which I'm considering reading after I finish Ghost War. I might make the choice part of a contest or a vote: do I gush about the Cassie Suthorn books, or do I smash my face against Natural Selection and PoptartsNinja fucked around with this message at 21:42 on Jan 16, 2016 |
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Jan 16, 2016 21:35
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Gush about the Caballeros. You deserve some measure of pleasure.
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Did you ever finish the Warrior trilogy?
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PoptartsNinja posted:Just remember, as dumb and boring as Ghost War is it's still not the worst BattleTech novel Stackpole ever wrote. Gush about Cassie, cause that actually interests me!
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If you got them Sword of Sedition or Surrender your Dreams would be enjoyable. Or Pandora's Gambit if you want some real political dickering and backstabbing.
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I think it may finally be time to gush over the Cassie Suthorn books. It would be a nice change of pace for you to finally Let's Read something good.
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I've actually been really curious about Cassie Suthorn and the Caballeros ever since PTN started gushing about them oh, about four years ago. Instead we get the 'best' of Stackpole and Jeremiah Rose. And  . Basically I think we've all earned something nice for a change.
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LeadSled posted:Basically I think we've all earned something nice for a change. But isn't the best BattleTech fiction written by some dude named "Poptarts Ninja" and read by some other person named "Duncan Fisher"?
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