Glass Ass: The OFFICIAL JGlass Thread
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I have to get up at 8 AM tomorrow to catch my flight to Florida. I'm not looking forward to this. It's a weekend trip to go celebrate my grandpa's 90th birthday, and he's a mean old man. The rest of my family is a mixed bag. On the one hand we have my mom's eldest sister and her family, and they're awesome. Both my aunt and uncle are really nice and they have two sons that are both older than me, but cool. One is studying to be a doctor, the other is a chemical engineer working to cure Hepatitis C or something. Then we have my mom's other older sister, and while both her and her husband are very nice, they're also hardcore conservative Christians that probably think everyone in my Jewish, Democratic family are going to hell. Then my mom's younger brother is okay, but kind of obnoxious, and he has an 11 year old son that is okay, but kind of obnoxious. Then my grandpa is mean, old, and losing his facilities like, all the time.
Oh, and you apparently can't fly straight from Boston to Florida, so I have to wait three hours for a connecting flight in Newark, NJ. Considering I'm planning to arrive at the airport around 9:30 and I land in Orlando at 6:30, I'm going to be spending over 9 hours traveling tomorrow. That's not even taking into account that there's no way everything is going to work out perfectly.
I'm trying to keep perspective (for instance, I have a friend that spent about 30 something hours traveling from Boston to Rwanda), but man this is annoying. The things you do for family, eh?
I really want to stay up until like, 5 AM playing Turtles in Time, but with all the flight changes and what not that I face tomorrow, I think I'd be better off getting some sleep than trying to take down Shredder. Playing that game in single player mode is freaking hard!
Oh, and you apparently can't fly straight from Boston to Florida, so I have to wait three hours for a connecting flight in Newark, NJ. Considering I'm planning to arrive at the airport around 9:30 and I land in Orlando at 6:30, I'm going to be spending over 9 hours traveling tomorrow. That's not even taking into account that there's no way everything is going to work out perfectly.
I'm trying to keep perspective (for instance, I have a friend that spent about 30 something hours traveling from Boston to Rwanda), but man this is annoying. The things you do for family, eh?
I really want to stay up until like, 5 AM playing Turtles in Time, but with all the flight changes and what not that I face tomorrow, I think I'd be better off getting some sleep than trying to take down Shredder. Playing that game in single player mode is freaking hard!
Richard Blonoff
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Where about in Florida are you headed? I'd guess Miami but I don't want to play to stereotypes anymore than I already did by chuckling to myself when you mentioned you had an older relative in Florida.
Am I an asshole? Probably.
Oh and fuck that game 1P, we always needed 2 to beat it.
I started a new Skyrim play through. I've decided to side with the Stormcloaks this go round. I want to see how the other half lives.
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He's says in his post he's landing in Orlando, so I'm guessing he isn't going to be in the Miami area, especially since Miami is like 3 & a half hrs. away from Orlando.
Richard Blonoff
Make America Rassle Again
When I last flew I had to land in a city an hour away from where I was going because the flight was cheaper.
I was more joking, playing to the stereotype that since J is Jewish his elder relative would obviously live in Miami, a city with a large number of retired Jews.
I was more joking, playing to the stereotype that since J is Jewish his elder relative would obviously live in Miami, a city with a large number of retired Jews.
Like I said, Orlando. No Disney World for me, though
.And you are an asshole, but only a tiny one. Give it enough time and you'll be a gaping anus one day, though you'll never be Gaping Anus.
And the game is still fun playing 1P, but it's difficult to beat. It doesn't help that it takes me two or three tries to beat that Slash dude.
On the one hand, I fully believe that if the people of Skyrim want independence from the Empire then they should have it, and there's a fairly strong support for the Stormcloaks in almost every city in Skyrim, except for maybe Solitude, but even they have a few citizens that seem to have Stormcloak leanings (the Blacksmith for instance).
On the other hand, Ulfric is a dick. He's a power hungry racist that wants to cement his own legacy by taking over Skyrim, and I really don't think he knows how to run an entire country. Hell, Windhelm is arguably the second most dangerous city in the game with a serial killer running around and a race riot just waiting to happen in the Gray Quarter. If he can barely run his own city, what makes him think he can run all of Skyrim?
I can talk about the ins and outs of the Skyrim civil war for hours, but both sides have their ups and downs. Both Tullius and Ulfric are strong, but morally flawed leaders. While Skyrim has the right to self-determinism, seceding from the Empire could be detrimental to their safety with the Thalmor already having a foothold in Skyrim. And while things will undoubtedly be better for the Nords (who will get to worship Talos again), what about the huge population of Dunmer in East Skyrim? What about the Bretons of West Skyrim? What about the Khajiit caravans and Argonian laborers?
Basically, neither side is entirely right or wrong. However, I've come to the conclusion that if you weigh out the pros and cons, siding with the Imperials will be better for the future of Skyrim and all of Tamriel.
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I seriously have no idea why I'd ever be in the Miami area. But if I do, you can bet we'll be hanging out. I have your mom's number, so I'll just give her a call.
Be nice to Pancake, his mother never taught him to read, you can draw your own conclusions as to why. Yazloz, on the other hand, has no excuse.
Richard Blonoff
Make America Rassle Again
We came to the same conclusion.
Banning the worship of Talos was a necessary evil. The Thalmor were on the verge of winning that war. In my opinion Talos was a great king and leader, but not worth worship, but who am I to tell people who they can and can't worship? The White-Gold Concordat, stuck it to the Nords a bit. I think guys like Ulfric and those who support the Stormcloaks are justified in their anger, but 90% of them are xenophobic. Ulfric is a charismatic guy, and I think it isn't a huge stretch to compare his rise to power to that of Hitler. He was in the right place at the right time, rallied angry masses with moving speeches, and made it look like everything that was wrong could be placed on the current regime and he had all the answers. He was power hungry though, and when he killed Torygg it was an unjustified act, simply to show his desire for power.
Plus outside of the Thalmor, most people rarely enforce the ban on the worship of Talos.
Ultimately Ulfric's isolationist policies would have been his downfall if he took total power. You see how he treated non Nords in his own city, their cries for help fell on deaf ears. The Thalmor(or any half assed organized group) wouldn't think twice to take him out.
The Imperials have their flaws, but they see the bigger picture, something I think the Stormcloaks fail to do.
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The balance of the sides in Skyrim is part of the beauty of the story.
I don't see the Stormcloak cause as all that racist but its biggest weakness is that Ulfric himself is. There is actually plenty of anti-Imperial sentiment from amongst the minorities in Skyrim that could be brought together to defeat the Imperials and then form an anti-Thalmor coalition with the likes of Hammerfell, the Orcs and the Argonians.
Ulfric ruins that. Replace him with the Dragonborn and we have an altogether different story.
The Imperials are little better though. Militarily weak and morally bankrupt by the White Gold Concordat. On top of that, the groups that might help the Imperials militarily - the Thalmor, Bretons and Forsworn - are hardly the most popular across Skyrim and beyond.
I am also not sold on the strength of the Thalmor - the Redguards and Argonians have proven that they are far from militarily invincible. The next chronological Elder Scrolls game could easily see a Daedra invasion to take advantage of a Tamriel-wide civil war.
I don't see the Stormcloak cause as all that racist but its biggest weakness is that Ulfric himself is. There is actually plenty of anti-Imperial sentiment from amongst the minorities in Skyrim that could be brought together to defeat the Imperials and then form an anti-Thalmor coalition with the likes of Hammerfell, the Orcs and the Argonians.
Ulfric ruins that. Replace him with the Dragonborn and we have an altogether different story.
The Imperials are little better though. Militarily weak and morally bankrupt by the White Gold Concordat. On top of that, the groups that might help the Imperials militarily - the Thalmor, Bretons and Forsworn - are hardly the most popular across Skyrim and beyond.
I am also not sold on the strength of the Thalmor - the Redguards and Argonians have proven that they are far from militarily invincible. The next chronological Elder Scrolls game could easily see a Daedra invasion to take advantage of a Tamriel-wide civil war.
FunKay the Inevitable
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So my mother has told me not to go to this year's Mania. Why? Because she's willing to pay for my part of a package deal to Mania 30, wherever that may be because I'll be 21by then. A good swap for me personally, though I won't get to meet you Jiggles which saddens me.
Yeah, the Talos ban wasn't enforced at all, so it really wasn't that big of a deal. Hell, there was that dude standing in the Cloud District of Whiterun screaming about how great Talos is in front of a Shrine of Talos.
But you're wrong when you say Talos isn't a divine, and there's a few pieces of evidence to suggest that he is. First of all, you receive an active effect after worshiping his shrine. Secondly, he's nowhere to be seen when you travel to Sovengard. Don't you think a legendary warrior, king, and emperor would be dining in the halls of Sovengard if he was a mortal?
And comparing Ulfric to Hitler is a little rough, but I see the connection. He's a strong nationalist, thrives on turning the fear of his people into fervor, and is very power hungry. The big difference is that I don't think he has the delusions of a "master race" like Hitler has. He doesn't think Nords are, at their core, superior to anyone else, he just thinks that the Nords above everyone else deserve to inhabit Skyrim and reap her riches.
Барбоса;4230095 said:
I always figured that by allowing Ulfric to carry out his racist policies, his supporters are guilty of silent consent. I'd like to think if a group of Stormcloaks raised a fuss about the racist policies of Ulfric, or at least appealed to his senses and pointed out that padding their ranks with Dunmer and Argonian support would be beneficial, he'd come around. On the other hand, Ulfric is very much hard headed and doesn't seem to be fond of taking the advice of anyone.
We've talked about potential alliances in the past, and at the moment I forget what would be inhibiting a Nord/Redguard/Orc alliance (I think there was a war between the Nords and Redguard in like, the second era?). The Nords seem fine with allowing Orc Strongholds in Skyrim, and the Nords and Redguard have enough in common that they would work together to stop a bigger threat. But with Ulfric in charge you have to ask whether or not he'd be able to trust another race enough to ally with them.
Bretons are fine, but most Bretons in Skyrim are Forsworn and many of the ones that aren't Forsworn are actually agents for the faction. But I see what you're saying: the only way for the Imperials to realistically win the war is to ally themselves with two of the most hated groups in Skyrim. Even if they won, their PR would not be at an all time high.
The Redguards benefited from fighting the war in Hammerfell, and I doubt anyone can win a war in Hammerfell against the Redguards. Furthermore, they repelled an occupation, and if history tells us anything it's that occupying forces always get kicked in the ass. And you'll have to enlighten me as to when the Argonians and Thalmor fought, as I can't recall the two having much interaction.
As for your theory of a Daedra invasion being the focus of the next game... we've already done that. I envision a revolution being started under a Thalmor ruled Tamriel. I think by the time the game comes out the next gen of consoles will come out, and we'll see the biggest Elder Scrolls game yet, one that stretches across multiple continents. Perhaps the anti-Thalmor revolution will start in the Imperial City in Cyrodiil, move into Skyrim, and then reach it's climax on the Summerset Isles, home of the Altmer when the revolutionaries bring their fight to the doorstep of the Thalmor.
Richard Blonoff
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This is just me, but I feel like any alliance that involves the Orcs would take work, but wouldn't be impossible. They aren't outwardly hostile, but they aren't immediately accepting of outsiders. They have their strongholds in Skyrim, but unless you play as an Orc, you aren't allowed to enter right away without hostility. You have to complete a quest to do so. I think the Orcs and Nords share that love of battle and have a mutual respect for each other as prominent warrior races, but I wouldn't call them allies. There is almost always one Orc in larger groups of bandits so I would think that when they want to accomplish something they are willing to work with others, even if the goal is killing innocent travelers. In Oblivion they were more integrated with the other races, there was even that one Orc who was a member of the Assassin's guild. He was completely out of place as a huge mother fucker with heavy armor and a war hammer in a group of stealthy assassins and murderers, but it was good for comedy.
Also is it just me, or does anyone else get the feeling that while Orcs are great foot soldiers, they wouldn't make good leaders?
And yeah, Ulfric would kick any non Nord race out as quickly as he could.
I've been debating whether I want to go back and replay Morrowind or just read up on the cannon storyline. It has been so long since I played I don't recall many of the events.
Also is it just me, or does anyone else get the feeling that while Orcs are great foot soldiers, they wouldn't make good leaders?
And yeah, Ulfric would kick any non Nord race out as quickly as he could.
I've been debating whether I want to go back and replay Morrowind or just read up on the cannon storyline. It has been so long since I played I don't recall many of the events.
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I would imagine that should the Stormcloaks win in Skyrim, the subsequent Thalmor invasion of mainland Tamriel would be more than enough to bring the Redguards into the war; the Bretons too but as Thalmor allies, perhaps the Forsworn as well but I see them being more likely on no one's side apart from their own - Basque like.
As for the Argonians/Thalmor, I may have been conflating two seperate conflicts there but any force that can repel the Daedra, which I think the Argonians managed alone during the Oblivion Crisis, could provide a substantial threat/ally to either side - the Thalmor could easily send the Khajit against them as a distraction. What Morrowind does might be the key.
Either way, a continent-wide conflict is almost certainly on the horizon.
I have heard rumours of an invasion by Molag Bal being the big bad in the next game.
As for the Argonians/Thalmor, I may have been conflating two seperate conflicts there but any force that can repel the Daedra, which I think the Argonians managed alone during the Oblivion Crisis, could provide a substantial threat/ally to either side - the Thalmor could easily send the Khajit against them as a distraction. What Morrowind does might be the key.
Either way, a continent-wide conflict is almost certainly on the horizon.
I have heard rumours of an invasion by Molag Bal being the big bad in the next game.
I'm sitting in an airport bar right now so I'll engage more deeply in the Skyrim convo later (and look forward to Ming weighing in), but I just wanted to adress the Molag Bal rumor. I think that applies to Elder Scrolls online, where he's rumored to be the main villain.
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Woohoo, 9 kills in Bl-ops2, a new high for me
I am terrible at this game.
I am terrible at this game.
Woohoo, 9 kills in Bl-ops2, a new high for me
I am terrible at this game.
Dude, you have no idea how much I suck at Black Ops. I've decided if I'm ever playing that game I'm running Crossbow, knife, and a throwing axe and just have fun with those.
Man, no one in my online class knows how to make a powerpoint. I open one up to see if I can write anything on it and the first thing I see is pink Comic Sans MS.
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Hopefully, Bethesda are not going to put all their eggs in the MMOPRG basket.
FunKay the Inevitable
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So, Daniel Bryan and John Cena, brothers-in-law?
How bizarre would that be? Especially with them both "being with" AJ in kayfabe and all.
How bizarre would that be? Especially with them both "being with" AJ in kayfabe and all.
I claim to be the "worst in the world" at Black Ops. I mean fucking dreadful at that game. I just say fuck it and run with a knife. I have a class set up that its just a knife. Nothing else.
Richard Blonoff
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That was been pushed back a couple of times, it is such a big project I worry it could end up scrapped.
I don't think they have released anything in terms of story, but I have heard the Molag Bal rumor. I've also heard a rumor that the story isn't going to be cannon. I doubt that ends up being true though.
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Барбоса;4230549 said:
I doubt they will, mostly because they have a poor history with the genre. I think they have tried to develop a Fallout MMO three separate times over the years with little success.
If they do go that road, there is reason to be concerned though. The current MMORPG is very saturated. WoW is still the king of the genre, but Guild Wars 2, Rift, Tera, and SWTOR all have a legit claim to #2. Plus Age of Conan, The Secret World, EVE, Lord of the Rings Online, and Runescape all have a hundred thousand plus players.
The entire genre is in a weird state right now though. Free to play and pay to win MMOs are the hot ticket right now. In the last year, excluding the most recent expansion because I haven't looked at those specific numbers, WoW has had a 20% decrease in monthly subscriptions. The free to play, and pay to win to a lesser extent, have a major issue though. Game evolution is not happening as fast as it needs to, due to the lack of a subscription to play. Monthly fee games can evolve faster, but often to make the game affordable to casuals they make it too easy to reach the end game content. Once you finish that, there isn't much to do. That is the problem WoW had until the recent expansion.
Then you have to look at what the game will consist of. To me, and I have a feeling others would agree, the story in the Elder Scrolls game is part of what makes it so great. SWTOR has an in game story that is equally impressive. That has been one of the reasons the series is so well received...plus it is Star Wars. The MMO focused heavily on the story, and to make sure the story stayed strong they didn't want to focus on group combat as much. Being forced to rely on a group sort of takes away from the story in a lot of people's eyes. In both The Old Republic series and the Elder Scrolls series you can defeat even the most powerful enemies solo or with a follower. Making people group together to take on enemies didn't work well in SWTOR, I imagine it would be similar with Elder Scrolls. Maybe there is some unwritten rule but it seems like the MMOs with great stories have mediocre group play, which is the selling point of an MMO.
On the flip side the MMOs like WoW, which do group play very well tend to not have the best story. If you take away the Elder Scrolls story you are left with a solid fantasy hack and slash, but would you play that enough to matter? Would you pay a fee each month to pay it? Probably not, because games like that are a dime a dozen.
So yeah, there are a lot of reasons to worry about Bethesda putting their focus completely on the MMO market, but I doubt it will happen.
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