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Yesterday, 04:55 PMGloatingSwine replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)The Legion has garrisons all over Morrowind (because they're supposed to stick out as an occupying force) but the Ordinators still exist as the...562 replies | 13982 view(s)
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Yesterday, 03:59 PMGloatingSwine replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)If they wanted that, why demand southern Hammerfell? The Adamantine Tower is on the isle of Balfiera at the far end of the Iliac Bay. And it's not...562 replies | 13982 view(s)
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Yesterday, 03:37 PMGloatingSwine replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)That's not been the case during any of the games. The provinces have always had their own local forces as well as the Legion, and even wars between...562 replies | 13982 view(s)
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Yesterday, 03:17 PMGloatingSwine replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)You'll note they did not invade, occupy, or fight much against the armies of High Rock, Orsinium or Skyrim, still parts of the Empire at the time....562 replies | 13982 view(s)
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Yesterday, 02:20 PMGloatingSwine replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)They beat the Empire by invading Cyrodiil. They didn't invade the whole Empire, just the soft bit where the political pressure to capitulate would be...562 replies | 13982 view(s)
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Yesterday, 01:19 PMGloatingSwine replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)Subterfuge is how the Dominion became the Dominion. They covertly supported one of the factions among the Bosmer and took over in a succession...562 replies | 13982 view(s)
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2024-04-15, 04:11 PMGloatingSwine replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)There's pretty good empirical evidence that the Empire will either not stand up to the Dominion again or do so worse than Skyrim could alone. The...562 replies | 13982 view(s)
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2024-04-13, 03:04 PMGloatingSwine replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)Treaties that are based on the concept that neither side can achieve victory don't have completely unilateral concessions. "Well they can't beat us...562 replies | 13982 view(s)
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2024-04-12, 10:36 AMGloatingSwine replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)The terms of surrender was that they gave the Dominion everything it was originally asking for and now Imperial generals are basically subservient to...562 replies | 13982 view(s)
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2024-04-12, 09:44 AMGloatingSwine replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)Hammerfell kept on fighting alone until they won, so the workable plan is actually just "kill more elves". Cyrodiil is perfectly happy to throw...562 replies | 13982 view(s)
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2024-04-12, 12:35 AMGloatingSwine replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)He’s the only thing keeping Baar Dau from hitting Vivec City. The nuke is floating there for all to see. And the time of his godhood is nearing...562 replies | 13982 view(s)
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2024-04-11, 03:23 PMGloatingSwine replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)I'm not so sure administrative capability was going to be high on the list of desired qualities for the Jarls when they were picking a new high king....562 replies | 13982 view(s)
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2024-04-11, 05:09 AMGloatingSwine replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)Yeah, but "Agents of a hostile government perform hate crimes in your province and your own alleged government takes no action" kinda does. The...562 replies | 13982 view(s)
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2024-04-11, 04:17 AMGloatingSwine replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)The fact that the Thalmor openly operate beyond their treaty powers and the only consequences of that come when they accidentally try it on a...562 replies | 13982 view(s)
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2024-04-10, 05:07 PMGloatingSwine replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)Yeah, that doesn't amount to a hill of beans against the reality that the Empire has to accept the spies and enforcers of the Dominion and give them...562 replies | 13982 view(s)
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2024-04-10, 10:04 AMGloatingSwine replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)It's a law the Empire was forced to institute in the White Gold Concordat. As was the dissolution of the Emperor's guard and intelligence service. ...562 replies | 13982 view(s)
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2024-04-10, 07:04 AMGloatingSwine replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)Well Hammerfell decided that they weren't part of the Empire, hadn't lost the war, and carried on fighting and didn't lose.562 replies | 13982 view(s)
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2024-04-09, 04:57 AMGloatingSwine replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)Yeah, and that's not an independent Skyrim's problem. Remember this is in the context of whether Skyrim will be bound by the white-gold concordat...562 replies | 13982 view(s)
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2024-04-08, 04:18 PMGloatingSwine replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)They might want to do something about it, but they've actually got to do it. Skyrim is about the furthest away from the Dominion's lands you can...562 replies | 13982 view(s)
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2024-04-04, 01:19 PMYeah but so’s Doom, they’ve wasted Kang, done Skrulls and they’re just not gonna do Mole-Man at this point.20 replies | 1312 view(s)
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2024-04-04, 01:15 PMGloatingSwine replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)Only because she’s an essential character and I wasn’t allowed to kill and eat her.562 replies | 13982 view(s)
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2024-03-30, 10:10 AMGloatingSwine replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)The thing is though that it’s not a public execution, it’s in the grounds of a Legion fort with basically no non-Legion witnesses. The logic for a...562 replies | 13982 view(s)
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2024-03-30, 08:14 AMGloatingSwine replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)It’s not the Empire’s fault that Alduin showed up, it is their fault that Ulric was taken to some random ass border fort to be executed. If...562 replies | 13982 view(s)
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2024-03-29, 02:45 PMFuzzy Nation is also an authorised sequel/reimagining of Little Fuzzy by H Beam Piper.834 replies | 96201 view(s)
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2024-03-22, 09:27 PMGloatingSwine replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)The Emperor has made his decision, now let him enforce it!562 replies | 13982 view(s)
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2024-03-22, 04:46 PMGloatingSwine replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)My dude nobody is discussing systems of government. This is 100% about the capability of the government. Which is bad, because it got kicked in the...562 replies | 13982 view(s)
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2024-03-22, 12:48 PMGloatingSwine replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)Where did anyone say the Empire is bad “because it has an Emperor”? The Empire in the 4th era is bad because it is weak and useless, and appeals...562 replies | 13982 view(s)
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2024-03-22, 10:33 AMGloatingSwine replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)Well yeah, when your entire driving ideology is racial supremacy it’s hard to integrate others as anything other than inferiors or slaves. Which is...562 replies | 13982 view(s)
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2024-03-22, 06:30 AMGloatingSwine replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)If the empire was too powerful there wouldn’t have been a civil war. The fact is that the Empire is not sufficiently powerful to stop a secessionist...562 replies | 13982 view(s)
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2024-03-19, 06:53 PMGloatingSwine replied to a thread DM Help Ideas for "Grey morality" optional side quests in Roleplaying GamesThat's the easy way of doing it, yes. The better way is when the choice contains both good and bad, inextricably linked. You can have either or...31 replies | 2813 view(s)
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