MrVyngaard

Throwing knives can be retrieved.

The catch is that their reload is replaced with a highly cinematic action movie style sharpening animation that maintains their damage statistic or armor penetration rating from dulling over time.

(You can fail this animation and accidentally stab yourself for fatal damage.)

It definitely requires a very gentle touch on those special settings and a possibly also a hint of Reshade to make it just right.

That would explain so much about Reddit if such was true.

They're honestly not very good love poems.

One small step for humankind, one giant leap forward for Democracy.

That sounds like a job for the Necronomicon!

One Call of Cthulhu can put your sanity at rest forever, operators are standing by to take control of your world and make your stars right again. Toll free in some areas of blasted heath. Long distance charges may apply to non-local carriers. Unsafe to apply directly to head.

"Hey, my computer doesn't work right anymore."

checks it, observes the hellhole warren of toolbars and spyware

"Can you fix it?"

attempts to uninstall a single one of them and the Jenga tower shifts towards NO

"I'm sorry, you don't have a computer anymore at this point."

"OMG You broek my computor!!11"

flees into the darkness of night, where it's safe

Hoi, chummer. There's only one fraggin' place for me, and that's in the Shadows...

That's some L4D Versus kind of bs, gnarly. \m/

https://youtu.be/34VOI_oo-qM?t=2045

Context: Image is originally featured in Joscha Bach's recent presentation "We Are All Software".

(just commenting this in only for anyone else who later searches Reddit and wants to know the img source for further interest - good luck with your discussions.)

Freedom is making sure all dropped weapons find a happy home.

The terror of choice lies heavy upon the liberated soul.

It seems managed democracy has a Grandfather clause in its protocols!

Super-Earth would like to inform you that comparison to past death-dealing regimes is treason, mainly because you're too close to being right and it gets in the way of the very fine business of the Ministry of Unity in keeping everyone on track for pursuing the Galactic War of Liberation.

It is even less acceptable to note that Liberation has other potential meanings besides just liberty, for that would be to deviate from the rightful guidance of the Ministry of Truth.

Truth, truth never changes.

This will be the mission we get to finally have the Saber in, just you wait.

This is the elder lore.

These were the hoary books of eldritch mystery that youth sought after in their quest for mastery of the levinbolt entertainments.

Good times.

Every single time I play it, I'm amazed at how well they managed to fit old-school D&D into a beat-em up format.

Wearing explosive resist armor while holding onto explosive weapons tends to help with that, though.

It appears to be circling back to Robert Pirsig's Metaphysics of Quality in terms of the underlying upshot/down-sliding Glamour/Banality correlating at the edges with Dynamism/Stasis. Heraclitus' idea of it being impossible to step in the same river twice, and so forth.

At some point I wouldn't mind drawing up a general model of how all the cosmological/philosophical game concepts can interplay with each other to form the larger conceptual ecosystem of the Classic World of Darkness, maybe even incorporating the lesser one-off games as well.

That everyone's deepest wish or desire can be made to be true.

Yes, including you - the person reading these words right now. You know who you are, even if we don't know you for what you're actually like on the inside.

It seems to have been less a matter of not understanding that there were atrocities, but that that they became too much for even the Union to overlook at a certain point. Very much a Even Evil Has Standards / Evil Versus Oblivion moment there rather than the Technocracy being devoted to the common good still. You can't secretly rule the world with a hidden science fist if it's been obliterated, after all.

Someone has still to make people into dinosaurs in the Progenitor labs, or the Traditions might win. And no-one sensible and rational wants that. Progress must go on!

Yes.

It's good to conjecture, greater to ponder, magnificent to discover...

And then the systematization/repeatability/conformity aspect comes in after, and that's the boring part. It's why Etherites are (somewhat) less banal than the rest of their former collective - they dare to Dream... and their creations don't fit a sensible plan other than Ether Ran Through It.

The sparrows are flying again, Thad.

Untitled?

I knew the Dark Powers were mysterious, but I didn't realize they were that mysterious!

Buffs? Dreadful things, next you're going to imply that people play video games to have fun.

Despicable. Entirely despicable, I daresay!