Happy FRIDAY

[GJK]

Now that I have a 40" monitor on my computer I might be able to see the units in all the Tiller games that I have- I'll have to see if I can finally play those!

[Toonces]

I played the crap out of CK2 last night. 

I picked up a saved game I had been playing.  I started as the Duke of Aquitaine.  I am still not entirely sure what happened.  I think I created a new Duchy at some point.  When I died I started playing as one of my daughters and my realm fragmented with a Duchy going to each of my daughters.  As the daughter my sister rebelled and declared a war on me to take Aquitaine.  In response I initiated a plot to kill her that got over 100% backing.  As this is going on I get killed leading my troops in battle.  This ends the war and now I'm playing as the other sister!

Unfortunately I still have that assassination plot I started, but now its against myself!  WTF!  Eventually it works, I die and now I'm playing as my aunt.

My aunt is married to someone from the HRE and now I have no heir to pass my dynasty on to so I'm facing endgame if I die.  I divorce my husband after two tries, change the succession laws to the one where your assets get divided up equally among your children, and I marry a guy matrilineally but I don't think he has any assets.  He dies leaving me nothing and now I'm so old that nobody will marry me.

I think I'm facing endgame again because my heir (half-son?) is colored red.  I think I'm in my mid-60's so there won't be much more time before I find out.  I don't really know what else I can do at this point.

So basically this has been a pretty short run, maybe 75 years.  Pretty pathetic!

[Gusington]

^I blame the weather.

[Jarhead0331]

^I blame the weather.

I blame Obama.

[Nefaro]

^I blame the weather.

.. or a dusty old vagina.

[panzerde]

Now that I have a 40" monitor on my computer I might be able to see the units in all the Tiller games that I have- I'll have to see if I can finally play those!

If you want to PBEM some, let me know! Maybe Jim and I can dragoon you into the three sided Sicily scenario sometime.

[Nefaro]

.. Maybe Jim and I can dragoon you into the three sided Sicily scenario sometime.

Hidden message in there?  ???

[Toonces]

Meh. I only had about 1 more year to play with my character in CK2.  She was 67 and I just couldn't find anyone with landed titles willing to marry her matrilineally.  So she died and it was game over; score was about 5800.  Pretty sad showing.   :-[

[MetalDog]

Agreed.  Must be the Uggs.

[GJK]

Now that I have a 40" monitor on my computer I might be able to see the units in all the Tiller games that I have- I'll have to see if I can finally play those!

If you want to PBEM some, let me know! Maybe Jim and I can dragoon you into the three sided Sicily scenario sometime.

I might do that.  I'll see what I have and try to familiarize myself with them.  I have 3 pbem's going at the moment for ASL, Combat Mission and Blood Bowl so let me wrap up some of those and then I'll check it out and let you know.

[JasonPratt]

I finished Metal Gear 3: Indulgence early this weekend, by which I mean I finished Metal Gear Solid: Insipidence.

And by "finished" I mean, "played until I couldn't stand the unending fight against the user interface in order to play a game dedicated to spreading out its hour of gameplay by using the most gratuitous repetitive backtracking and sucker-kills and inconvenient reload areas, not counting the plotty things, and then I found a cinematic on YouTube and watched the last hour of plot which felt like I was slowly having my life drained by a succubus except not in any fun way."

And then I (re-)played the first third or so of Batman: Arkham Origins: Blackgate, and was reminded how to do story and gameplay right. 

I'm sure I'll give Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty: Infestance a shot for a while to see if the gameplay has at least improved any, after which I'll just watch a cinematic and go on to the next stage in my Arkham/MGS playthrough. ;)

[GJK]

Hey JP, are you up for a pbem of Blood Bowl?  I could use another pbem game of it as one of my other 2 are wrapping up.

[JasonPratt]

I'll be looking into it soon.  8)

[GJK]

I'll be looking into it soon.  8)

My Necro team will be dying to defeat you.  Wait, they're all dead already!