Hank

The Elder Scrolls: Fruits of Contention - Chapter 1 (Completed)

Paying for books in our lord's year 2016? I seriously hope you guys don't do this. Well, if you can't find an e-book then it's another story.

@Peik

Why wouldn't you pay for a book? It's obviously very easy to get your hands on free digital copies using less-than-legal means but that deprives the author (or his estate) of (in my opinion) rightful compensation.

An Unholy Mass: Warhammer 40,000 RP [Black Crusade Inspired] [Mature Content]

Gormog has no mutations so far.

EDIT: Oh yeah, for future reference: mentions don't work if you edit them into a post afterwards. You'll have to create a new post if you want to ping us all.

Mass Effect: Borealis

No, you're actually right. He's in a perfect position to broadcast everyone's failings to the rest of the crew. I just hadn't realized that yet.

So... thanks?

Mass Effect: Borealis

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YAY, don't let her get eaten... Mirage would never let you live it down ever!

@Fallenreaper

Really? I must've missed that memo.

The Elder Scrolls: Fruits of Contention - Chapter 1 (Completed)

The most highbrow literature I've read would probably be stuff like Tolstoy's War and Peace and, in my own language, De Aanslag (The Attack) by Mulisch.

The Elder Scrolls: Fruits of Contention - Chapter 1 (Completed)

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I'll have to check those out. My book reccomendation is Swords Against The Senate, by Erik Hildinger. The book goes through all the fun little skirmishes, wars, and political mudslinging that led to the Republic getting all sorts of fucked up, covering most everything before Caesar enters the picture and tries to establish some semblance of order again through civil war and establishing a Triumvirate. The book goes into great detail about the Roman army as well.

@Frizan

Haha, see, Imperium covers the same period from the opposite point of view: Caesar is depicted as a ruthlessly ambitious megalomaniac that brings about the fall of the Republic, because that's what Cicero thought of him. Fascinating stuff.

The Elder Scrolls: Fruits of Contention - Chapter 1 (Completed)

I've actually read very little of Ancient Roman literary works. Mostly Aeneid, which my Latin class translated their graduating year. I do however have a collection of letters from Quintus T. Cicero to his brother Marcus, with side-to-side Latin to English translations. The letters detail Quintus' advice on winning an election in the Ancient Roman state. It's a good read actually and most of his advice rings true today.

@Frizan

If you're interested in the life of Marcus Cicero and the later years of the Roman Republic in general, you could read his speeches and his letters to Atticus, of course, or his 'published' books (like De Republica), but I recommend a novel called Imperium and its sequels by George Harris for a more relaxed and entertaining ride. It's fantastic historical fiction that takes relatively little artistic liberty and adheres strictly to everything we know to be true about his life, only filling in the gaps with (believable) fiction where necessary.

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Oh, I know, I know. I don't say anything I don't know the meaning of. Used to read up on Pompeii grafitti translations, they were pretty fun. Those and pedicabo kind of give you an insight into Roman society.

@Peik

Ah, righto, sorry. As you were.

The Elder Scrolls: Fruits of Contention - Chapter 1 (Completed)

Hey, that and delenda is all I know of Latin.

@Peik

Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo is the opening line of one of Catullus' poems. See if you can find an English translation; it's hilarious.

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[pedicabo intensifies]

@Peik

You're an animal.

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Akavir delenda est

@Peik

O tempora, o mores!

Quo usque tandem abutere, Kamali, patientia nostra? Quam diu etiam furor iste tuus nos eludet? Quem ad finem sese effrenata iactabit audacia?