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Precipice of War - We Write Under The Sign Of The Goat

TheEvanCat said
Add me on Steam, brewski. We have talkings to do.

This is literally not hard. Same name. Same avatar.

The Irregulars -- An Art Improvement Group

Long door is long.

Precipice of War - We Write Under The Sign Of The Goat

And deal with crazy Russians across the border in their non-existent state. Complete with an abundance of meth and cheaply cut heroine. Get you some refugees with rotting legs or arms.

Zoe Quinn.

Dipper said
Not anymore. It seems Zoe's lackies hacked the charity in an attempt to stop 4chan from looking better than Zoe. Also they capitalized /v/, making it a /V/ - Something Phil Fish did.Oh, and it also appears that Zoe Quinn used to run hackathons, and would know people who can hack.THATS RIGHT PEOPLE, SOCIAL JUSTICE WARRIORS TOOK DOWN A CHARITY FOR COLON CANCER TO KEEP THEIR FOES FROM LOOKING GOOD.

God dammit.

Well /pol/ and /v/. What do now...

Zoe Quinn.

Magic Magnum said
Video game Journalism and Feminist Double Standards are starting to really hurt the game Industry. >.<

Gaming journalism as a whole sucks.

I recall reading a bit from a guy from Reuters who was looking into the credentials of gaming journalism stuff to include in their RSS Feed or some such as a niche thing. Reuters has a test they have to perform on someone to qualify for association. Out of a hundred points you have to score "at least" a 60. Most affiliated with them score well-above.

Test is designed to look at how many people of another company's staff they wish to work with have actual journalism degrees, if they're bribed by out-of-industry folks to say something they want them to say, editorial credentials, and so on. Of all of these the Gaming Journalist groups scored consistent zeroes. Evidently, they were all lucky to get anything higher than a 15. By comparison The World News and some tabloids average out at a 30 on their test, and Fox I think got a 40.

So Gaming Journalism just leaving a black mark? Oh God no, it's been doing that for a while. It's nothing new.

But at least Vivian James is here to save us.

The Banished Thread.

Discuss Banished.

For those who aren't aware: Banished is a town economic sim sort of game where you are charged with directing the survival efforts of a family (or families) of Exiles in a strange wilderness. You will need to allocate from their number those who will farm or gather the food, chop trees, chop fire-wood, and a number of tasks. The game can often be described as unforgiving, I've lost one town already because I failed to read the signs correctly and I almost lost my second in the throws of a crisis involving a severely aging population, I refer to such moment as having "Gone Japan".

However on the later bit I recovered and have reigned in my population and it has sense grown to over 60 individuals with all formerly abandoned posts refilled and expanded as I return to the steady climb in people and resources I wanted.

The game is currently being developed by a one-man team I believe. It IS being updated, but they come out infrequently. But so far I believe many of the initial complaints with the game at release have been addressed. And modding support has been released, all that needs to be done now though is Steam Workshop integration.

So I guess post here about it. Share your stories. Give out hints. Whatever.

Exile: A Sci-Fi RP On an Untamed World

Now I feel like I should mention giant caves in the back of the Kangchai mines. The sort of stuff that's considered too hazardous for them to pursue as a source of profit or exploration.

Precipice of War - We Write Under The Sign Of The Goat

Cancel said
Okay, so it's down to Poland and Japan, since I think the US might be a little too big for me to take on right now, since I'm just getting back into RPing again. Before I decide and fill out the sheet for one of them though, I wanted to know what the technology levels look like. Is it behind in this universe since WW2 never occurred? I'm sorry if it was in the intro, there was a lot of info to take in, and I might have looked over it for other things by mistake.

It's uneven.

In general the technological state could be best described as being Second World War or even pre Second World War. On the other hand, the time-line difference has sort of created inflated bubbles of growth or exploration in some fields in certain parts of the globe. As examples, the Germans have gone about reinventing airship doctrine and engineering to legitimatize their role in combat. Where as in China government interest in space as per an evolving air-force doctrine has seen the rise and development of rocketry and what we'd call Transistors (or as the Chinese call them: Electrical Control Gates or ECGs). Spain has a sort of rudimentary and primitive version of Skype involving telephone lines and a network or video-audio transmission connecting the various heads of state and companies in their nation. The US, Spain, and China have independently developed jet aircraft.

However, the current state of the international market and trade makes it unlikely a lot of this technology would spread very easily. The Chinese for example wouldn't readily trade their state developments to anyone, and even with their allies it's "last year's model". The economic world is really very broken and even within there it's unlikely the Great Power's developments would work around within those zones, there isn't incentive yet to share big secrets; it's all in stockpiling it in the event war breaks out.

Spain, China, and the US have by-and-far been considered the only nations really capable of having the industrial capabilities to explain this choppy spread of technology, because even if jet tech has existed on paper since before the First World War no one but them has really had the means to test the theories. And nations like Poland aren't old enough as a major power to be acting on the latest and Japan is sort of too bruised and beaten to try.

Vilageidiotx said
But if you read older posts from other forums, or from the wiki, you'll probably find mentions of tech that is more advanced. Ignore that. We are pretending it didn't happen.

And we also got to fix the shit in the Wiki. I don't want to be the only one to go on Wiki patrol.

Exile: A Sci-Fi RP On an Untamed World

The influx of humanity on Brahma happened fifty years ago with Earth's destruction. So a lot of the human stuff here is considerably new. Prior, it had been explored or surveyed for resources by Earth-based mining companies and interests. But it wasn't really heavy colonization until the Earth refugees arrived, fleeing the Listeners.

On Brahma Tkrai development has really been stunted by the Godzilla-tier megafauna that inhabits the moon-world outside of the human-built Safe Zone. To that effect I'm going to imagine a lot of everything outside would just as well end up as Vilage's concept of Kartago. Or a situation otherwise severely stressed and stunted out of having to fight, keep watch of, or move away from local monsters.

Exile: A Sci-Fi RP On an Untamed World

ASTA said
Before I go into some light detail about my idea, is there any information on the Tkrai other than that which is listed in the OP?

Nothing I can call up so far. The only people that have had any significant dealings with them so far would be me and Vilage. Googer was also somewhat responsible for their development.

On my end at least: the Tkrai live in the lowest quarter of Kangchai, that being formally known as the Under Quarter. Informally that area is known as Under Town, Bat Town, Cesspit, The Pit, and so on. And given its depth it only really gets light briefly when the sun is at the right angle over head and the gas giant Brahma is in orbit around isn't in the way, but that'd block the sun for that day or week or whatever anyways.

The Tkrai there largely live in squalor and are paid the minimum of international credits for their work keeping the pump houses working. There's not a lot of legit credits in circulation there so a lot of "trade" is done off the books with the improvised and currently over-inflated black-market currency known as "Likes".

I did writing about it in my last post and in my next I intend to explore the Tkrai there in full as I move ahead with my current central arc. So we'll meet the firs prominent Tkrai and the local Tkrai Advocacy Group representative.

Beyond the Kangchai Tkrai refugees there's likely no uniform culture so I wouldn't worry about representing the race as a whole. So long as you're aware of the numerous local groups for consistency purposes then you're fine, unless you're on the other side of the world from the safe zone.