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  1. Banned for being a Persona protagonist who isn't mute. That's just confusing!
  2. *bonk* Go to horny jail! Where we send all horny people! All the horny people, clumped up in a tight, confined space! ...I feel like somebody didn't quite think this concept through. Or maybe they thought it through very thoroughly and it's all part of their masterful (and probably horny) plan. They say that criminal jail breeds crime, so it stands to reason that horny jail breeds horny. I mean, I believe it's been recently established that Shrimpy = Rubenio. And Rubenio loves Fates. Well, at least the parts of Fates that include Garon.
  3. Banned for turning Sooks into a Persona protagonist. Truly the greatest of bannable offences.
  4. Continues to fight against cookies, which is just plain silly. I mean, who doesn't like a nice, delicious cookie? (By the way, who decided that a baked good should be named cookie? English, pls)
  5. Should know that those the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. Maaaad! Mahahahahahaaaaaad! Contrary to popular opinion, a loud, healthy laugh is almost certainly a sign of a healthy body and mind. Among experts, the worship of a completely ordinary human (or even one that barely clings to what can hardly be called 'life' anymore) is seen as a much more clear indication of a slipping mind. As medication, cookies are generally recommended.
  6. Yeah, that sounds about right. She's not that great because there's another fk-you dragon rider who's even better.
  7. Another entry in the category "funny names" (for English speakers) is Felix Mendelssohn Bartoldy's sister Fanny Hensel. However, it would do her a great disservice to not mention that she was a very talented musician and composer in her own right - but because both Felix and their father Abraham thought that it would be unbecoming of a woman to earn money, they both discouraged her from publishing any of her compositions and the father in particular basically told her to get back to the kitchen, and sure, I fully support music as your hobby, but what would the neighbours think if they saw you getting a job? Felix's attitute seems to be more of a "yeah, well, if she decides to try and publish her work, I'll support her, but I still don't really want her to". Instead, Fanny was only able to show her talent in a more private environment. In 1821 (when Fanny was 15-16 and Felix was 11-12), their father held semi-private Sonntagsmusiken (Sunday musics) to showcase his children's talent. Apart from Bach or Beethoven, they also featured compositions of the Mendelssohn children. However, in 1829, when Felix left Berlin and Fanny got married, these concerts were discontinued. Luckily, her husband (the painter Wilhelm Hensel) was much more supportive of Fanny's musical career (and, probably even more importantly, less condescending about it). In 1831, Fanny reestablished the Sonntagsmusiken under her own direction, participating herself as composer, musician, and conducting both orchestras and her own little choir. In that role, she absolutely had a noteable role in Berlin's cultural scene - these little concerts sometimes had up to 300 visitors. It also seems that Felix managed to at least loosen that giant stick up his arse a little. To his (partial) credit, he never was dismissive of her musical talent - he "just" had that 19th century bourgeoise attitude of "woman's job is housekeeping", but he always valued Fanny's opinion and suggestions about his works above anybody else's, and the two of them had a close relationship for their entire (unfortunately both too short) lives. Fanny's first published compositions were actually printed under Felix's name in 1827, and while that would've been kinda shitty if he had appropriated them for himself, he didn't seem to be shy about admitting that six of the songs in two of "his" collections were actually Fanny's. Only three years later, London musical magazine The Harmonicon (which, two years later, would also do the first "official" publication of her work) noted that this was the case. Still, this led to a funny little embarrassment for Queen Victoria, who told Felix that his magnificient piece Italien was her absolute favourite, to which Felix had to reply that, well, sorry, that's actually my sister's composition.
  8. Is upping the ante, eh? Is also a fool if he trusts in the benevolence of the Emperor.
  9. What-ever he says, deep down he knows that heresy is fun and good for you.
  10. The Wyvern classes have never really been contained, really, as far as I'm familiar with the series. It's always good for a character to be a wyvern. If a wyvern rider is in the mid or even low tiers (well, I can't think of one that's actually bad. One of the T776 ones, maybe?), it's not because of the class, it's because of their joining time and maybe because they're underleveled. It's almost telling that Radiant Dawn took measures to stymie cavalry, while wyvern riders still reign supreme. "Staffbot" would seem like a good answer, but they're actually not that great in either Tellius game. Rhys, Mist, and Laura are all varying degrees of OK, but never really game-defining. "Dancer" is the more consistent utility class, I'd say.
  11. WAT IS HIER LOS VERPISST EUCH IHR LAPPEN
  12. The invention of margarine was commitioned by the French government, specifically Napoléon III, who was looking for a cheaper butter substitute for the military and the armed forces. It was invented by Hippolyte Mége-Mouriès, a male chemist confusingly named after the queen of the amazons. Mège-Mouriès later, in 1871, sold his invention to a Dutch company.
  13. Update 4: Heya! Welcome to Nashkel. Heya. Heya. Heya Heya. Heya. Heya. Heya.
  14. Note: This isn't a new update. I just messed up some formatting when I posted this one three months ago, and for some reason, even though I can edit the previous posts, this last one is locked for whatever reason. So instead, I copied my correction into this new post and will then report the old one so that a friendly moderator might delete it. Sorry for the inconvenience - I hope that I'll be able to post the 4th update later today or tomorrow. It's mostly done, I just need to proofread and upload the images. Update 3: To Beregost
  15. Prester John achievement requires you to remain Coptic christian (I did that one years ago. But a recent patch added "convert Egypt to Judaism", and Ethiopia is the only tag with Jewish provinces at game start. Not that I mind, the region is genuinely fun to play in) The "Meet the European Christians" events/missions seem to be still the same - Pope Man still quite likes me because of one of them, although Portugal didn't want to make an alliance. But that might just have been RNG, or them having claims on some of my land.
  16. And me: "Hm yes, this 9-year-old game is all I need for the forseeable future..." (Africa remains a very fun continent to play EU4 in)
  17. Maybe a bit ironically, given that the American right likes to fearmonger about the left's "War On Christmas", the original War was waged by the English Puritans, i.e. the religious group that the Pilgrims of New England were part of. In short-lived Commonwealth of England, the Puritan-led parliament decided to ban christmas celebrations as a whole. In their eyes, christmas a) smelled like popery, b) the date was picked to match the heathen Saturnalia holiday and c) had no actual basis in the bible. But worst of all, d) people were having fun. And if there's one thing that a good Puritan just can't be having with, it's people being happy. And maybe setting up an interesting little historical "What If" scenario: Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell, at the time some rather unimportant backseat MP in the monarchy of England, noted that if parliament hadn't passed the Grand Remonstrance (a big list of grievances given to Charles I.) in 1641, he would've sold all his belongings and crossed the Atlantic to leave England behind forever.
  18. Nice Be a large city in the south-east corner of France. For the longest time, it was part of the Duchy of Savoy, and later the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia. However, in exchange for France's support for the unification of Italy under the king of Piedmont-Sardinia, Savoy and Nice were ultimately handed over to Napoléon III. In the videogame Europa Universalis IV, Sardinia-Piedmont Be a formable tag; quite popular for its toothpaste blue map colour.
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