JackZodiac

Not much about the inner circle's secret death cult, huh? All around, though, a great article.

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So, presuming that Nukes and/or Shivans are going to be nerfed no matter what...

...what form should the nerfing take?

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Limit them to PVP zones

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Boooooooo! They just need to be toned down. In the case of Shivans, they're ridiculously easy to get. The fact that they made them that powerful in the first place for such little effort surprises me.

If they tone down the nukes, though, they'll have to make the crap you go through to get just one of them easier. Warburg's a warzone where everyone, even other heroes or villains, are gunning for you. They almost seem reasonable so far as power is concerned considering how tough it is to get one on a busy day.

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Castling would be "ingenious" if it were a maneuver you could perform with the normal moves of the pieces, and someone had just noticed that moving the king like this and then the rook like that provided amazing defense in tough situations. (Watch, I picked the wrong two pieces or something. I haven't played chess in years.) But castling is a special case in the rules. Using a special case in the rules isn't ingenious, nor is adding one. I'm sure I could add some useful rules special cases, like the "rearrange the board so you have checkmate" maneuver.

"I won using the Iron Yeti proviso. Ingenious!"

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You can castle moving the pieces normally. It'd be a waste unless you absolutely couldn't do it normally, though. I'd trademark "Iron Yeti proviso" as so as you can if I were you!

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The move itself is pretty ingenious if only because of how unusual a move it is in itself.

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If castling is a novel move, en passant must seem like devil worship.

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Devil worship? Only if it's bait. Then you could entail "human sacrifice." And damned if that wouldn't make chess more interesting to a lot of people.

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I thought my Geekenese was pretty good, but I can't make heads or tails out of this conversation.

Then again, I never played chess.

Can we talk about D&D instead?

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NEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRR- oh, wait, we were just jawing on about chess, weren't we?

Meh, still... nerd!

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When you do, doesn't it give you a much better defense, especially when you manage to do it pretty early in the game?

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No. Its never a good idea to execute a castle too early in the game, giving the opponent the opportunity to concentrate on developing an attack on the castle's weak side. Its useful as a defensive move provided the game proceeds normally with the primary focus on the center of the board. But there are strong castling moves, and weak castling moves. Generally, neither are "ingenious." Ingenious implies non-obvious. A castle that turns into a non-sacrificing fork-check: that's ingenious (and your opponent is an idiot).

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No, I'm not saying castling on, say, your seventh or eighth move is an excellent idea, nor is starting off with the intention of doing it as soon as possible, but when the game's being played in the center of the board, before you need to actively defend your king, castling early's a sound move. Ingenious? The move itself is pretty ingenious if only because of how unusual a move it is in itself.

Also, my ingenious (yes, that's right, ingenious!) plan to defend my king, Ultimus, by distracting you guys with semantics is paying off in spades. Suckers.

No, not really. In fact, I've seen it used and used it most often before the active need to defend my king became present, meaning well before things weren't going my way.

When you do, doesn't it give you a much better defense, especially when you manage to do it pretty early in the game?

However simple it is, the maneuver's ingenious. Feel free to keep swinging at it, though.

Do you play chess often? Do you castle regularly?

I don't know, man... you'd figure a guy who named himself after a pretty ingenious chess manuever could come up with something better than a pun.

Although, puns are like coke. They're a tough habit to kick.

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So posting about it doesn't mean they are actually doing it or posting about it still makes it ok? Min/maxer is a min/maxer whether they post about it or not.

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What are you talking about?

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Just responding in kind. What were you talking about then if I misunderstood?

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"It doesn't make any difference if he talks about it or not since the devs can see everything from their third person omniscient perspective anyway so maybe people can let him share something he thought was cool without paranoid nerf ranting."

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Wastin' time, pal.

Nothing new here, ya' got that much right.

Quit being logical, Click. It's ruining everyone's fun. [censored] hole.

Hey, fella'! You knock that off right now. Don't soil a perfectly good thread with math.

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You know, to be honest, that wasn't that long ago and I haven't seen anything about it. So how about a little bit of politness or is that to hard for the 8 year olds that seem to hang out here sometimes.

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They aren't being impolite. They're being sarcastic. And typical. And probably bored.

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I call BS. No one is sarcastic on these boards. Ever.

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Dude, you're totally right! I don't even know what "sarcasm" means. Why did I just reference it?

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You know, to be honest, that wasn't that long ago and I haven't seen anything about it. So how about a little bit of politness or is that to hard for the 8 year olds that seem to hang out here sometimes.

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They aren't being impolite. They're being sarcastic. And typical. And probably bored.

[censored] that. I'd rather not dumpster dive into every one of those threads for the shiny turds.

http://uk.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/cityof...ml?sid=6164660

Check out the very first picture. Maybe one of the Invention temp powers? That's awesome. I've always wanted to fly on a broken screen door!

That works for me, but I think physically building a shrine to him would be better. Hop to it.

The Internet's a barrel of laughs.

Oh, and if it's worth anything (which I'm sure it ain't!), I one-starred it Ultimus. Just to see what one vote would do, which was nada.

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He admitted to hacking the website as well. He says he only changed stars but who knows what other programs he is running. With Cryptic using player feedback to determine future game changes who knows what else he's hacked to or what other personal or financial data he's trying to get access from through Cryptic's site. If he is still around I will be warning my bank about Cryptic's billing site being possibly compromised. What he is doing is not a joke or even remotely funny.

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No, it's deadly serious. A grave matter we should have Homeland Security look into before this fellow ruins our country from the inside out. Thank you, citizen!

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Are you sure, I see the impaled Corpses in the background. that is looks like a still from the intro scene of the Bram Stokers' Dracula game.
Soph

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No, it's Malek, Lead Seraphim Crusader. He was a puppet of the TimeStreamer, and for his failure to stop the Inner Seraphim Priest's murder at the hands of Vorador, he was encased as a spirit inside his armor so he would serve them for eternity, becoming a Scion for the Pillars of Nosgoth.

Then Kain killed him in his own Bastion, and ripped off his helmet as a trophy.

So..as much as the Lore cites him for being a Bad-[censored].. he is actually quite a wussy character over-all.

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I don't recall ever killing him. I know when you go to his bastion he novas and you have to run out. Then you get the axes. I just assumed he was still putzing around someplace.

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this will be the last chance ever I get to discuss the LoK series on these boards.

Do you guys wish they'd continue the series past Defiance? or did you get sick of it all? Me, I wish we had more games.

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You mean they aren't gonna' make another game where Kain ends it all? Man, that [censored] sucks...

Man, you kids are [censored] whiney.

Congratulations on the [censored] kicking you gave Ghost Widow, Ultimus.

Well, I'm outta' here. I've taken the ban stick to the [censored] once too many. See ya' around, Jo!

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I've always thought the Knives of Artemis were a branch of Malta, perhaps one that was willing to take on non-Malta jobs -- for the right price!

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Nope. Seperate group, all-female, centered around Greek goddess of the hunt, Artemis. They're "subcontracted" by the Malta, sometimes. And it's the lack of information on them that makes me wanna' see them next.

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While an expose on the Knives would be interesting, as of now, there really isn't much to this group. There are only three types of enemies (one of each rank), and they all have the same powers (with higher ranked ones having additional powers).

If more types of Knives are added to the game, as well as an Elite Boss or AV, plus some arcs that give a backstory, then that'd be different...

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Or, the article could be about the formation of the group, since we know nothing other than the "one hundred women" speil. Also, a little insight on the death cult aspect of the group would be enlightening.