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We're going to build a wall around Off Topic Discussion

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@Vilageidiotx

MANCHURIA OR DIE

We're going to build a wall around Off Topic Discussion

You did now.

Second gulag or wall, pick your side.

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"Why don't we have both?"

@Arkaquiavel

That feel when the wall can be the gulag.

The last two games you played will now fuse into one. What do you get?

Fallout 4 and Witcher 3.

A stellar post-apocalyptic fantasy world with incredible writing. Notions of black-and-white morality are dead, and there's an enormous level of gray in the politics and ethical quandaries of the world; like New Vegas but on steroids.

You play as a wanderer in search of a loved-one, all the way utilizing and developing character and combat skills as you fight, romance, and coerce your way through the wasteland. Monsters and humans of every type populate the wastes and are there to stop and kill you by any means necessary. But while the wasteland is full of death, so to is it full of life as at times you can help settle and build new communities across the countryside to provide refuge to not only poor wasters who ally to you, but yourself included.

But, while the core plot is the main character's search for a lost loved one, the story has multiple heads. Like a hydra, the politics of the wasteland are tightly interwoven with the character's search and he/she must battle the political forces of a motley coalition of local communities, a secretive society of scientists and militant androids-enslaving-other-androids that wishes to subjugate the wasteland for their scientific pursuits, and foreign invaders aplenty. The MC may go about his days uninvolved in the politics to the best of his ability, or to pick a side in the hopes of bringing peace and stability.

Combat is also smooth and responsive, with ranging possibilities in both the use of guns and melee weapons such as swords and clubs. To break-up the humdrum too is a rich diversity in mini-game activities including card-playing, gambling, pugilism, gladiatorial combat, and racing.

In the DLCs, you travel far beyond the core wasteland to experience newer, more terrifying and beautiful worlds in the pursuit of vampires, escaped androids, and heinous fuckery.

The sound-track is also superb and original; managing to have at its moments the typical SUMMER BLOCK BUSTER BIG SOUND, but contrasts beautifully with quieter, or simpler tracks with appropriate thematic elements.

Basically: it becomes the Fallout 4 we should have had.

After The End, A Tale of Rebirth (Remake)

Since this sort of thing honestly seems to happen a lot in RPs like this then I'd like to say something while this is still in its infancy, so we can at least discuss the trope or the cliche in such realms. This does not mean I am disinterested, I am in fact starved for a good NRP and this will have to fit the bill. But that topic is: guns.

Really, the fundamentals of fire-arms design isn't all that complicated and even after 600 years of difference between today and the time this RP is set during fire-arms probably wouldn't be phased out. They'd evolve for sure to meet the economic demands of a post-apocalyptic, politically decentralized/devastated part of the world but they probably wouldn't be gone for good. And that's because the fundamental process of building even a rudimentary fire-arm is very simple. In fact, if a society could manufacture a cross-bow they'd be able to manufacture a single-shot rifle/musket.

And basically the pipe-built guns of Fallout 4 isn't all the unrealistic. The fighters in Chechnya have been constructing crude pipe-based guns to use against the Russians for a while now.





So really, even after modern manufacturing dies the art of even the most crude gunsmiths could survive on using just the debris left behind and would be maintained after. The basic formula of gunpowder isn't very difficult at all, it's a simple three-ingredient compound using rather common components: carbon from charcoal or coal, salt-peter/Potassium nitrate from fertilizer or even urine, and sulfur mined from regions of volcanic activity or extracted is a byproduct of regular ore mining (but, I also refuse to believe that even after 600 years alternative processes for anything would be simply forgotten and not passed down into being folk-way methods).

Mixing these at ratios of 75:15:10 (Potassium-Nitrate:Charcoal:Sulphur), and wetting down with water to prevent the early mix from combusting during initial mixing will create rudimentary black powder. Black powder doesn't pack the same amount of force as today's smoke-less powder, which means any bullets fired from firearms using it will have a lower velocity that normal and shorter range but can still be used in a gun.

After it's just a matter of rigging a barrel to a shoulder stock with a tortion-operated trigger mechanism to ignite a flint, strike a smoldering rope to a flash-pan, or hammering against the back of a bullet to ignite a percussion cap to initiate the detonation of the powder and firing the bullet.

Economic conditions may vary the capability of and effectiveness of the gun in question which can vary between regions. But that's the real issue at question: the effect of regional economic ability and the extent a society can reach within the limits of technology. Clearly computers would be dead for reasons, and the total collapse of the modern metalurgy industry will destroy the capacity to produce a lot of heavy industrial metals. But that's all without saying. But none of this should destroy the capacity to make single-action rifles/muskets.

As so often is the case with Spam...

... in terms of the direction of travel, what they are saying is very valid. There has been no specific raiding attacks in the RPGuild, but pro-rata the RPGuild has taken in more young, male, internet migrants than any other website on the internet and there has been a dramatic rise in sexual shitposting in the guild. So much so: that Introduce Yourself is now the verbal rape capital of the internet, and some would argue perhaps the rape capital of the world. And the Guild News just doesn't report it.

The Octopus: A 19th Century Political/Crime RP

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We're going to build a wall around Off Topic Discussion

But we already have a gulag.
The gulag is named Spam Forum.

It would be blasphemy to build a second gulag as a complement to this one.
It would be saying this magnificent gulag wasn't enough of a masterpiece.

No, we must make Off-Topic Discussion great again through walls and deportations. It's the only way to keep Spam Forum great too.
_{Also, no, we won't stop, even if we're called a communist basket of gulag deplorables. We will make Off-Topic Discussion great again, believe me!}

@Arkaquiavel

The second gulag: Shit Spam Says

We'll call it S3.

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

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Fucking Canadians fam.

What reaches will Sotelo go to to meme on everyone?

We're going to build a wall around Off Topic Discussion

And make Articles and Guides pay for it.

A wild _____ appears.

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