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2017-12-03, 09:11 PM (ISO 8601)
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“Evil is evil. Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.”
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2017-12-05, 03:24 AM (ISO 8601)
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James (i.e. Dad) from Fallout 3 is a psychopath. There's a great writeup of this on Reddit by Tagaziel.
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2017-12-09, 08:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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Since D&D's Use Magic Device skill uses the charisma stat it may represent the ability to make up convincing technobabble (or rather the mystical equivalent thereof)
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2017-12-10, 07:26 AM (ISO 8601)
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Dad built a water purifier that didn’t work, for people that didn’t need it, and then made it release radiation it shouldn’t have, to prevent it from falling into the hands of people trying to fix it. This killed the man who had no reason to sabotage it and didn’t kill Colonel Autumn, who had no means to survive. This put the Enclave – an army with no reason to attack – in charge of the purifier, which was of no value to them. Then the player entered vault 87 to recover a GECK, a magical matter-arranger that they shouldn’t need and that would be better put to use in virtually any possible manner besides fixing the purifier. Colonel Autumn, who shouldn’t be alive, captured the player with a flash grenade that shouldn’t have worked that was thrown by soldiers who had no way to get there. The final battle was a war between the Enclave and the Brotherhood of Steel, to see which one would get to commit suicide trying to turn on the purifier that neither of them needed. This resulted in more sabotage that threatened to explode a device that shouldn’t be explode-able, ending with the death of the player character, who had the means to survive but didn’t, and who was never given a good reason for doing any of this.
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2017-12-10, 09:04 AM (ISO 8601)
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How much of this is explicitly acknowledged in the game, and how much of it was inferred by you or your sources?
If you read this post out loud to the writers of Fallout 3, would they likely agree with most or all of it?
I just realized, given the thread title, that this might be your headcanon, but I initially read it as only a comment on Dad, not as your headcanon. I'm not sure what your intention was, really. I apologize if I'm coming off as rude due to not knowing what the correct interpretation of your post is.Last edited by gomipile; 2017-12-10 at 09:11 AM.
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2017-12-10, 09:45 AM (ISO 8601)
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It's mostly snark about the ****ty plot structure of Fallout 3 and how comically ineptly its central conflict is constructed.
(It's also nicked off Shamus Young).
Bethesda are OK at building worlds to mess around in, but they can't plot their way out of a wet paper bag.
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Presto the Magician from the D&D toon was a cleric, not a wizard.
Presto is said to have 'good magic' that opposes Venger's 'evil magic'. Typically magic is just a tool in D&D, with only certain spells having anything to do with alignment, but clerics are magic users who can get magic from a force of good itself. The magic dichotomy may also have been Dungeon Master simplifying the ideas of 'arcane vs. divine' or class spell lists to Presto.
It also seems likely that Presto's casting ability is Wisdom, not Intelligence. Presto's magic seems to work best when he has an intuitive understanding of what he needs. Overthinking a rhyme or reaching for something specific normally interferes with his magic. His magic also seems more effective when he is resolute about his intentions, like going into The City at the Edge of Midnight or when he tries to slay Venger.
There's also some accounting for the creatures besides Presto that have used his hat. A basic lizardfolk manages to pull out an eagle for snatching someone's weapon on their first try without any rhyme. Even Uni manages to summon something useful when trying to save Presto and a baby gold dragon. Both of those creatures are well known for being stupid, but potentially wise.
Lastly: Presto's magic is so freakin' scattershot and used so infrequently, it may as well be a Divine Intervention roll.
I also heartily approve of the xkcd headcannon.
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2018-01-02, 09:30 PM (ISO 8601)
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I've actually posted this before on other sites, but I find it hilarious to consider what George R. R. Martin did completely by accident:
Central to the Song of Ice and Fire saga is the myth of Azor Ahai, the legendary figure of Asshai'i myth who used his mighty sword Lightbringer to drive back the darkness of the Long Night in ages past, and is prophesied to come again. Most speculation about this figure is about which of the remaining characters is the reborn Azor Ahai. But I think it is important to look more closely at the man behind the myth.
Here is what A Wiki of Ice and Fire has to say about the mythical figure Azor Ahai:
Darkness lay over the world and a hero, Azor Ahai, was chosen to fight against it. To fight the darkness, Azor Ahai needed to forge a hero's sword. He labored for thirty days and thirty nights until it was done. However, when he went to temper it in water, the sword broke. He was not one to give up easily, so he started over.
The second time he took fifty days and fifty nights to make the sword, even better than the first. To temper it this time, he captured a lion and drove the sword into its heart, but once more the steel shattered.
The third time, with a heavy heart, for he knew beforehand what he must do to finish the blade, he worked for a hundred days and nights until it was finished. This time, he called for his wife, Nissa Nissa, and asked her to bare her breast. He drove his sword into her living heart, her soul combining with the steel of the sword, creating Lightbringer, the Red Sword of Heroes.
But that shouldn't be read to mean that it's complete bunk. Obviously, if we are looking at the historical Azor Ahai, he might very well have created a red blade of some kind, and then used his blade to stop his wife or significant other, especially if she'd been recently turned. And after that, the story got embellished and altered until it became the myth it was today.
But beyond his sword, which is seemingly very powerful, and possibly lit, we know very little about Azor Ahai. We know that he was a warrior of some kind in the distant past, we know he could make weapons, we know that he had a powerful sword, we know that said sword was used in some way on his love, that this love was a woman, and we know that for some reason, he was seen as being able to be reborn in different times. At this point, speculation broadens, but it seems reasonable to infer that he spent his time fighting undead who could convert the living into evil, alien beings of some kind, and that his name was at least potentially similar to Azor Ahai. Maybe it started with an A.
If only we knew of a person with all of those qualities . . .
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That's right ladies and gentlemen. Ash didn't go back in time when he opened a portal with the Necronomicon Ex Mortis. He went to ancient Planetos. And the Others/White Walkers are just the ridiculously over-serious Deadites that survived the battle with Arthur and Eric the Red.
Is it incorrect? Of course it is. But it's still amusing as all get out, which is the actual point of the exercise.Characters:
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2018-01-02, 11:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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“Evil is evil. Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.”
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2018-01-02, 11:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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Marvel had the Inhumans vs. X-Men crossover last year, which I largely skipped and I am glad I did so. However, I was following All-New X-Men, which had two tie-in issues to the event. In the issues directly before those Madelyn Pryor, the Goblin Queen, was brought back as an antagonist. Thank you, Dennis Hopeless, for giving me not just a romance comic cover, but also the means by which I can justify some of the plot to IvX. Who else but the spurned first wife of Scott Summers stands to gain from killing one version of Cyclops and having his newest wife ruin his name to the point that another version of Cyclops is constantly afraid he'll become a super villain? If Emma Frost were being controlled by the Goblin Queen the whole time, the awful turn to villain and the terrible costume make so much more sense.
Spoiler: Try to tell me this wasn't designed by the Goblin Queen.
I also count myself among those who are fine without there being canonical timelines to The Legend of Zelda. The scrolls in the opening to Wind Waker show just how well that can work. You can still have some versions of Link which are connected, like Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask, or Wind Waker and Phantom Hourglass, but it can also just be a story. I also would like the legend to be about Zelda to a greater extent at least one more time, so I will point out Aaron Diaz' Clockwork Empire.
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2018-01-03, 12:44 AM (ISO 8601)
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Haven't read through the entire thread, but I found an amusing head canon that Hermione Granger discovered her magic by being inspired by Ronald Dahl's Matilda and trying to move a pencil with her eyes and finding it works for her.
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2018-01-03, 01:27 PM (ISO 8601)
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The funny thing about that is that it is exactly the sort of thing Rowling would do - the writing in the early HP books had obvious stylistic influence from Dahl.
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2018-01-04, 03:20 AM (ISO 8601)
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I imagine Elminster's standard day begins like "Wake up, exit my completely impenetrable, spell-proofed bedroom to go to the bathroom, kill the inevitable 3 balors waiting there, brush my teeth, have a wizard fight with the archlich hiding in the shower, use the toilet..."
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The title character from Mr.Pickles is somehow related to the dog from the Son of Sam case that Berkowitz claimed had told him to kill all those people
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2018-01-09, 05:43 PM (ISO 8601)
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Couple of very minor MCU ones: Thor's electrical powers in Thor: Ragnarok were being charged up by the stun device Valkyrie used on him. Otherwise he's a god of thunder with a very weaksauce weakness.
The super soldier serum is continuing to change Steve Rogers. He really seems to have gone from just beyond normal human limits to truly super over the course of 5 movies.My Homebrew (Free to use, don't even bother asking. PM me if you do, though; I'd love to hear stories).
Avatar done by me (It's Durkon redrawn as Salvador from Borderlands 2).
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2018-01-10, 10:08 AM (ISO 8601)
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My favourite headcanon is about why the Empire were so useless in Star Wars.
The Empire was a bloated military that hasn't seen a real war in 20 years and is still fighting the tactics of the Clone Wars - powerful capital ships and swarms of troops. It's no surprise they lose battles against a small, elite force that focusses on leveraging the improvements in fighters and fighter-based weapons. Star Destroyers are amazing capital ships, but the war isn't being fought ship-to-ship anymore and with pretty much all the Academy pilots defecting to the rebels, the empires' pilot cadre was severely depleted. The choice of the TIE fighter which didn't even have hyperdrive was clearly a quantity-over-quality choice based on a military budget and assuming they'd be fighting a similar mass enemy, ie droids.
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"And if you don't, the consequences will be dire!"
"What? They'll have three extra hit dice and a rend attack?"
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2018-01-11, 10:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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Given that it was a prequel, it seemed a fairly conscious choice to make something which would bridge the gap. The big difference is, of course, without a hypderdive, there was also no need for an astromech droid. Yet, they were still hoping to eke the sort of piloting skills out of human beings that had been displayed by Jedi of all species, especially Saesee Tiin. To that end, the sequel trilogy's delegation of a gunner makes great sense to me. I was also going to bring up that it would make more sense if the Jedi starfighters were made by Sienar Fleet Systems, but as it turns out, SFS acquired the portions of Kuat Systems Engineering that made those. So, now I just have to imagine they had a black box which was used to study how the Jedi piloted.
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In The Force Awakens, DJ was actually a plant by the weapons dealers. His original intent was to aid the Resistance, and in doing so prolong conflict between both sides and increase sales. He sold out the Resistance when caught, having his employers pull strings to have him released with his reward money.
He wasn't "slicing" anything at all throughout the entire movie -- just using existing codes and back doors his employers had provided him.
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2018-01-13, 11:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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You are not wrong about that, at all. It also matches my piloting style in LucasArts TIE Fighter.
Wouldn't that employer need to be aware of the heist ahead of time? I guess the answers will be found in the eventual Maz Kanata television series which The Force Awakens was actually a backdoor pilot for.
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2018-01-14, 08:35 AM (ISO 8601)
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There's actually a secret conspiracy going in Marvel/DCverse where "super-heroes" are keeping humanity stagnant and unable to technologically advance anymore. Any who try are portrayed as mad scientists and criminal organizations. The comics/other media we see is all just propaganda from the "super heroes" point of view.
After all, why aren't the Earth of Marvel/DCuniverse normal militaries using all those fancy giant robots that are churned out by the hundreds/thousands? Why is anybody using old slug throwers when laser guns are a dime a dozen? How come nobody "good" ever reverse-engineered one of mr freeze's cold guns which would have plenty of pratical applications?
Also the "super-criminals" have excellent medical tech besides tools of war. You never heard of any villain being crippled for life after batman/caps broke half the bones on their bodies, did you? Actually they are often fully recovered in a matter of weeks/days!Last edited by deuterio12; 2018-01-14 at 08:36 AM.
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2018-01-14, 10:03 AM (ISO 8601)
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"Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."
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2018-01-14, 10:12 AM (ISO 8601)
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As already pointed out earlier in this thread, supes most efficient use of his time would be producing cheap energy for the world, but instead he prefers to go around punching petty criminals and smashing Lex's latest innovations.
Even if you claim "But Lex wants to use his super tech to conquer the world!", then would you rather we still be using stone tools and praying for a good weather or die of starvation instead of somebody developing metalworking, even if they intend to use such metal working to try to conquer the world with swords and armor?
The worst offender may be poor Peter Parker. His web shooters are nothing short of revolutionary tech, and he explicitly can mass-produce them out of cheap common materials since he isn't rich like Bruce or Tony. Yet he keeps their tech a close guarded secret. It's not like they're even a super dangerous weapon, but would do miracles for all sort of engineering fields and rescue forces and whatnot.
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The spiderman thing, I actually watched a video on him once where a guy who plays the part of a super fan, gets into this impassioned rant on WHY peter is such a dumb genius. Found it Its not perfect, im sure an ACTUAL superfan could pick like, a billion holes into it (Hey, it makes the theory look like a spiderweb, hur hur) But yeah, they talk about the web shooters and how dumb he is for not selling the patent to that and becoming rich and famous.
"Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."
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The atmosphere in Equestria has a very high index of refraction and a sonic rainboom is a form of cherenkov radiation.
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Not just kryptonian, how many alien races have the justice league dealt with? How much random tech has been captured from those invasions, or even from various time travelers? Honestly, there may be a legit reason to not toss this stuff onto the open market. Think star treks prime directive and why they made it. They sent out plans for advanced tech to every world they could locate and some destroyed themselves with stuff they werent civilized enough to use. So sure they could give us cold fusion, but within a year some tinpot dictator or terrorist will turn it into a country destroying bomb. Or use genetic engineering meant for treating all sorts of medical conditions to create their own set of augments, or some other eugenics based insanity.
And also, that would do a great job of proving lex's point. With all this incredible alien tech being handed out like candy, what reason do humans have to grow and evolve? They will be a generation or two away from even being able to attempt to innovate or improve on this stuff because its leapfrogging every field we currently have. Earthlings would probably turn into the humans from wall-e because they no longer need to do anything with all this future tech to provide for them."Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."