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Fuedal worlds are a catagory of planet within the Imperium of man, they're basically exactly what you're looking for, planets with a dark ages to pre-industrial levels of civilisation set under the backdrop of a vast & crumbling interstellar empire held together only by the sheer innertia of the thing. they're often deliberately held back as harsher worlds produce hardier recruits for the Imperial Guard and Space Marines
the most frequent example are the home planets of knight houses, they're much like the knights of old with hirearchies and chivalric honour and courtly politicing, with the sole distinction being that the Knights in question are metres tall mechs capable of dropping a kiloton's worth of munitions in a single voley
Warhammer 40,000 as a setting is large enough and more or less has built in justification for running an army however the hell you want, right down to a horde of tiny guardsmen clad in knight armour
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People talk about how Lucanis isn't actually the one who's impressive and say he's only able to get a shot a Ghilanain because of Spite... But his handling of the Spite situation is deeply impressive to me.
He doesn't just hold out for an entire year, he makes a deal that means his worst concern is shared custody of his body. Most mages can't even do that.
Calivan says, "It was supposed to take a week, at most!" Thedas has five day weeks (we think).
There are three records that we are able to access (one note just says it goes on for pages and pages.) Prisoner 36 succumbed after 9 days. Prisoner 20 succumbed after 18 days.
The longest we have a record of anyone else holding out is 100 days, and after that time they were taken over by a demon of passivity.
He and Spite aren't just working together. He's already learned how to move in order to take advantage of Spite's wings. That takes practice, collaboration, and patience.
He's mentally and physically strong enough to hold a demon back while Spite is furiously trying to stab someone at point blank range.
Basically? Outside of the Avvar, what Lucanis has done is basically unprecedented. He's also experienced and talented enough to adapt to an entirely new fighting style within the span of one year.
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Can't help but appreciate how well the body language translates through VR.
The frantic head turning while looking for a place to stash the grenade, the double take as they realize the drawer they chose was FULL of grenades, and the "WTF" hand gesture as they point in disbelief at the drawer full of grenades? Chef's kiss.
In a 1996 by-election, one of the candidates for Australia's parliament changed his name to Steve Grim-Reaper so he wouldn't get mixed up with other candidates
Update: Thanks to some brilliant suggestions from you all, we have an even better contender - A man who ran in the 1998 federal election named 'Prime Minister John Piss the Family Court and Legal Aid' who received a whopping 183 votes for the party 'Abolish Child Support'. Sounds like a lovely guy.
Unfortunately for Mr Prime Minister Piss, this name change came back to haunt him after he was denied a passport a few years later due to the name. This led to this quite incredible entry into Australia's case law that is still frequently cited today:
Unfortunately for Pisso, the court ruled that the government was right to deny him a passport, on the grounds that the phrase "Prime Minister" might be considered by some to be offensive.
Australia went on to change the laws around name changes as a result of Mr PM JP, making him the first and last Prime Minister Piss we'll likely ever see on the ballot in our lifetimes, and democracy is all the poorer for it.
So we looked it up and yes, it was indeed the 'Dane' recording studio owner who attempted to stage a fascist uprising in Melbourne (of all places) in the 90s.
This was the last update we could find on him in the news, sounds like he's doing well for himself:
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People UNFAMILIAR with Bloodborne, which of these is NOT a boss fight?
I still have a blaze left this month and want to have some fun with it. Now that Elden Ring is a household name, let's travel back to 2015 and look at one of Fromsoft's weirder offerings! Bloodborne has earned a bit of a reputation for its bosses, and all of the ones listed below are literally actually in the game... except one. Which is it?
If you're familiar with Bloodborne, please choose the last option and share this to your friends who don't have your insight!
Which of these is not a Bloodborne boss fight?
A man in a cage who moans and flings tentacles at you
A magical spider guarded by a legion of spider-ostriches
Prince Phillip with a scythe
A deer monster who explodes its legs at you and shits lava everywhere
A baby who crawls out of its dead mother and wields its own placenta like a yoyo
A skeletal Dark Beast arcing with blue lightning ORIGINAL CHARACTER DO NOT STEAL
Three fat men with a single gun
Blue aliens from outer space who shoot lasers at you
A "horse" who spews sticky white fluid from its other mouth
A loving, caring wet nurse with no head and six swords
A vampire queen who literally cannot die and must be smashed into a pulp instead
I'm familiar with Bloodborne bosses, show me the results
Voting ended onJul 3
Also, while I've got the Bloodborne fans here, check out the hunter's mark tattoo I got a few years ago!
I showed my artist the hunter's mark symbol and asked him to put his own interpretation on it, and he came up with the metal shards, saying it represented the constant deaths being put back together into a whole. It was originally going to be black and white, but my blood seeping through made us both go "this is SICK" so I paid him extra and he put red into it!
(All images have alt text, check them if you can't make out what's happening!)
Thank you everyone for playing, and especially people who put their guesses in the tags!
The correct answer was... the vampire queen who literally cannot die and must be smashed into a pulp instead!
Annalise, Queen of the Vilebloods is in the game, but an NPC, not a boss fight! At the end of another character's arc, she is splattered to pieces offscreen, though you can help her reform later.
Below the cut is evidence of all the ACTUAL bosses, in all their insanity.
"A man in a cage who moans and flings tentacles at you"
Micolash, Host of the Nightmare is an absolute cretin. He wears a cage on his head, and can summon tentacles from the void to hit you.
And I was NOT kidding about the moaning.
"A magical spider guarded by a legion of spider-ostriches"
Rom, the Vacuous Spider is not really a spider, but she is magical, and she spawns actual spiders who jump up and stick their heads into the floor of the arena, like ostriches famously do (but actually do not.) Also the floor is the ocean but don't worry about that.
"Prince Phillip with a scythe"
Martyr Logarius guards the way to Queen Annalise! He uses his scythe to cast magic skulls at you, but will still hit you with it if he gets the chance.
Look at that. A perfect resemblance.
"A deer monster who explodes its legs at you and shits lava everywhere"
Laurence, the First Vicar is one of the hardest fights in the game and also one of the least-fun bosses overall. I sure do love having my nimble dodging game being turned into "the floor is lava".
"A baby who crawls out of its dead mother and wields its own placenta like a yoyo"
The Orphan of Kos is the DLC's final boss! I wonder how many people associate bloodborne with babies? I know someone who didn't pick this option because, in her words, "anything baby-related definitely a boss", and another who said it was "so fucking mental it couldn't possibly be fake".
"A skeletal Dark Beast arcing with blue lightning ORIGINAL CHARACTER DO NOT STEAL"
Darkbeast Paarl is Bloodborne's own Sonic OC! More edge than broken glass!
"Three fat men with a single gun"
The Merciless Watchers are three men with braziers, clubs, and a single gun between them! They are also regular enemies through most of the area where you fight them!
"Blue aliens from outer space who shoot lasers at you"
The Celestial Emissary is literally just a mob of blue aliens which you mow down until you figure out which one is the real boss and it gets mad at you. This one scored the highest but it's totally in this stupid, wonderful game.
This boss is so easy that the only way I found a screenshot of its laser attack was by looking up post-game challenge versions of it. There are no clear images of it. I have NEVER seen the laser attack myself. It dies too quickly to actually use it.
"A 'horse' who spews sticky white fluid from its other mouth"
Ludwig the Accursed/the Holy Blade is the first boss of the DLC, one of the hardest bosses in the entire game, and yet one of my favourite. The whole game builds up to this incredible experience, an entire character arc in a single fight: the man who became a beast and then found himself again. And the music...
If you look up a video of any of these bosses, please make it Ludwig.
"A loving, caring wet nurse with no head and six swords"
Mergo's Wet Nurse is one possible final boss of the game. Nobody really knows her deal. She's just there to protect the invisible aborted god-baby whose consciousness is kept alive by aliens. I wouldn't worry about it. This one got scored the lowest!
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If my understanding is correct, the term "frag" originates from Vietnam war times, and it did have to do with frag grenades. Specifically, disgruntled conscripts attempting to kill their superiors feigning misaimed grenade throws.
The way it arrived to competitive multiplayer gaming was during the development of Doom, wherein purposeful friendly fire kills in co-op mode were called "frags" informally, and through metonymy it came to mean kills in PvP modes.
'fragging' is the colloquialism for troops attacking their superiors in the vietnam war (not just officers, but just as often NCOs or even just peers they disliked). it was called that because it would typically be done with fragmentation grenade, but not usually during a battle or anything. that wasn't exactly very reliable, plus it didn't exactly leave you with an isolated target
rather, it was the use of fragmentation grenades *on base*; your classic fragging consisted of rolling a fragmentation grenade under the door into the latrines at night after your target went in. this was enabled by the fact that firebases (the typical field base used by americans in the vietnam war) would have crates of fragmentation grenades easily accessible, as the response to hearing something rattle against the barbed wire at night was to simply throw a grenade at it and wait until morning to see if you got anything rather than risk being lured out. so it was a very good anonymous tool for assassinations.
the scale and fear of fragging had an enormous cultural effect on the united states. in the military, it contributed to degrading morale and a variety of programs to counter it, including the first-ever anonymous tip phone line for soldiers to complain about officers. the realization that soldiers would simply kill their superiors if pushed seriously degraded effectiveness in a war where the primary tactic was to go out into the bush and deliberately pick fights. its a huge part of why the US military switched to a volunteer model.
when stories of fragging made it home, it was an immense culture shock for midcentury america, and cemented itself into the news and media. through the 70s and 80s, there was a *lot* of US media about the Vietnam War. the stuff in the 70s was largely extremely critical and extremely cynical, largely made by people who opposed the war, but in the reagan era you saw an uptick in war action movies which... while not typically set in the Vietnam War, were largely concerned with refighting and 'winning' it in the narrative, creating big, stupid action movies like the rambo sequels
this sort of dumbass action movies, along with heavy metal and the satanic panic, heavily influence early first person shooter games. Kevin Cloud, one of the artists on the original Doom, used 'frag' as a term to distinguish killing players from killing Doom's monsters. Doom was built as a single player game first, a cooperative game second, and a multiplayer versus game third, so the language of 'you fragged X' was ported from the cooperative game (where it was used to indicate you'd killed a friendly, idiot) into the multiplayer deathmatch.
from there, it made it to Quake and Unreal, the big arena shooters of the late 90s, and remained the term pretty much until all First Person Shooters were subsumed into the increasingly military-propaganda-y Call of Duty games post Modern Warfare. i have no proof of this, but i suspect it was a term that CoD wanted nothing to do with as they became increasingly reliant on connections to the military-industrial complex, so the term was carefully kept out of marketing and slowly killed it among gamers.
it still persists in places, though. my understanding is that in modern Counter-Strike's community, people still talk about 'frags', which confuses a lot of new people!
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