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Clarste posted:I want to do an LP of it because I think it's got a cool story and aesthetic, but the fact that it's a gacha game turns away a lot of people who'd otherwise be interested in it, in my opinion.
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Ibblebibble posted:Fun fact, Rim Billiton is fantasy Australia, due to its references to BHP Billiton. With everything else going on here, that makes me wonder if we'll be getting into Eureka Stockade territory at some point, then.
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Jul 13, 2021 14:58
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I guess it must be one of those things that makes less sense in hindsight. Just based on what I've seen from the LP so far, I don't really see the problem. Even if Reunion ultimately prove to be sympathetic and the authorities don't, none of that's been explored yet, and I'm willing to go out on a limb and say that violent insurrection is not inherently righteous.
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Jul 14, 2021 17:27
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quote:These guys have roughly 1 tile range, so it's pretty small, but later enemies will have bigger squares. It's also important to remember that they count the tiles diagonally too, which gives them slightly longer range than otherwise.
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Jul 16, 2021 08:08
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You know, I thought something felt off. That's probably it. I just put it down to the lack of audio in an LP.
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Jul 17, 2021 11:38
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Well this is my first clue that Reunion are supposed to be sympathetic: because they get all the coolest character designs.
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Jul 18, 2021 07:14
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I like this a lot. It's a shame you wouldn't normally see this conversation right now, immediately after chapter 1, if I understand correctly. It does a lot to develop everything we've just seen. Though I don't mind "war crimes and Mephisto" as an introduction in the first place. You're right that Reunion make a terrible first impression because of it, but if anything, I think that makes it more interesting. After all, isn't that the point? If you're someone like Patriot here, you know Reunion isn't a monolith and the worst parts of the organisation don't represent everyone in it. But you also know the rest of the world isn't going to care, because they just saw your men slaughtering civilians, and why on Earth would they listen to your side of the story after that?
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Jul 20, 2021 10:03
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Despite all the EU4 I've played, I somehow didn't make the Knights Hospitaller connection before. I was just thinking "Colossus", and I wasn't sure how that could play into it at all. Oh well. I was only off by about 2000 years.
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Jul 21, 2021 06:15
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Night10194 posted:i was wondering if Amiya was betraying her employers all update except no, she thinks the cops really will protect Misha, huh.
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Jul 22, 2021 06:45
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And she's just three days from retirement, too.
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Jul 23, 2021 06:53
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quote:Our next chapter is Stinging Shock, taking place in an Unnamed Desert outside of Great Lungmen. Is it just me, or would Greater Lungmen sound better?
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Jul 26, 2021 03:15
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As a native non-rhotic-accent-haver, I'll pronounce it that way no matter how you spell it.
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Jul 26, 2021 13:39
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I'll be gravely disappointed if this LP ends without Amiya living up to her heritage and getting in some proper Australian swearing. This last update seems like it would have been the time for it.
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Jul 26, 2021 14:32
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Clarste posted:It's sort of implied that the Doctor is the one commanding all the actual battles, and that letting an enemy through means they get to attack the Doctor in the back lines (which is why you lose), but also like half the battles in this game do not take place where the Doctor can see them. And also half the cutscenes. It's kind of funny actually.
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Jul 26, 2021 15:40
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Gideon020 posted:Sadly, it is implied that Amiya has lived her childhood in the wartorn Balkans-analogue hellscape that is Kazdel, and being a ward of Kal'tsit clearly means no such shenanigans were ever allowed.
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Jul 27, 2021 02:25
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I note your struggle to avoid using any third-person pronouns for Skullshatterer in that that boss fight, and I sympathise.
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Jul 27, 2021 04:49
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quote:Along with her class change, Kroos has also been upgraded to Australian. By which I mean she calls people "mate" sometimes. So close, yet so far. This isn't idiomatic Australian at all! quote:
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Aug 2, 2021 04:57
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I think you were right that Ancient Forge didn't fit that well this early in the LP, but I like this a lot more.
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Aug 3, 2021 08:21
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Good use of "poor bastard". Correct spelling of "mum". I'll give them a passing grade this time. Bonus points for switching between that and Zhuangzi-esque allegory in such quick succession. I like it.
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Aug 4, 2021 07:24
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Even without all that much setup, I was still surprised to stray this far from the science fiction end of the spectrum, personally.
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Aug 4, 2021 16:38
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Man, this is really good. Kind of makes me want to watch Re:creators again.
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Aug 7, 2021 05:09
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Personally, I'd like the Doctor a lot more if they were a cute anime girl. That's true of most characters, though. In this game, and in life in general.
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Aug 12, 2021 08:01
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Bloody postmodernists...
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Aug 12, 2021 08:18
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quote:Last but not least is FrostNova. The grumpy bunny. I want to say her name is kind of dumb since it's a spell from Diablo 2, but apparently in Chinese it's "freezing star", which I guess is cool enough. They also made the fatal mistake of naming a character I'm supposed to take seriously in CamelCase.
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Aug 15, 2021 03:38
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Chuu posted:Being in the US it's hard to hear 'Texas' without all the cultural baggage that comes with it, and I've wondered if for their operator names Hypergryph just went 'let's find two wolves that were hunted to extinction in relatively modern times to parallel their in-game story' being somewhat unaware of all the connotations.
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Aug 15, 2021 05:22
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Though on reflection, I should have known better, because in this universe apparently only Catholics use guns.
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Aug 15, 2021 05:25
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That's the trouble with putting a replay feature in a real-time game, right? It can take subtle effects based on frame timing, which nobody would ever notice under normal circumstances, and make them very obvious.
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Aug 16, 2021 02:44
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This is gonna sound crazy, but hear me out. What if we could make a gun that didn't need Arts to fire? We could cap the cartridge with some kind of impact-sensitive compound, which would explode and ignite the powder when struck by some suitably hard metal piece inside the gun. The user could then safely actuate this assembly by means of something like the trigger on a crossbow.
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Aug 18, 2021 04:28
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Ibblebibble posted:That sort of talk is a good way to get yourself assassinated by Laterano. But with a weapon to rival Arts in the hands of every common soldier, the nations of the world would no longer have any reason to fear the Infected! Discrimination would end overnight! What could possibly go wrong?
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Aug 18, 2021 05:41
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These new character designs are way too outlandish for me. I've got no problem with cat-people, or bear-people, or dragon-people. But ape-people? That's just silly.
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Aug 19, 2021 09:31
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Cooked Auto posted:I think there are a couple of male characters showing up later in the plot but don't think there's any playable ones. Well yeah. Then they'd have to change the name to "Unisex Frontline".
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Aug 22, 2021 15:51
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quote:Tachanka is a Russian (Russian) from Russia (Russia). He refuses to elaborate on his past, although it's clear that he's had training from a professional army of some sort. It is impossible with current science to replicate the arts-less ammunition his machine gun was originally designed for, although the engineers at Rhodes Island have managed to come up with a custom-made alternative to gunpowder with a third the range and much less stopping power. Arguably it's not worth the trouble compared to using a crossbow, but he continues to lug it around. He has a hearty sense of humor and shows unusual interest in the country of Ursus. In the real world, gunpowder was discovered by alchemists in their search for medicine, and here it's a pharmaceutical company. Just as they say: history doesn't repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme.
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Aug 23, 2021 03:06
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Clarste posted:The best place to live that we've seen in-game are probably the rainforests of Sargon. Have you seen the size of those spiders? I'll take my chances with the megacorps!
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Aug 24, 2021 03:53
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"Hannya", as in "prajna"? She named her weapon Prajna?
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Aug 30, 2021 04:32
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Oh, right. That's not as funny.
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Aug 30, 2021 05:25
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quote:You call that a uniform?!
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Aug 31, 2021 06:45
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This variable-size text in the dialogue options is killing me.
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Sep 2, 2021 11:19
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Clarste posted:I mean, as a translator it is super convenient not to have to worry about text length all the time. I respect it.
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Sep 2, 2021 12:57
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Clarste posted:I would say that the game is philosophically opposed to the Chinese government but gets around it by not showing Yen directly. And also trashing Russia and the USA at every opportunity.
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Ah, Superintendent Ch'en, welcome! I hope you're prepared for an unforgettable luncheon!
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