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Status Updates posted by monkeypoacher
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man invision sucks
https://invisioncommunity.com/forums/topic/466728-markdown-editor/
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lord of the craft has ruined my life
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Anyone else here read homestuck?
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these "union of the (animal) and (animal)" posts are the pinterest wedding templates of the lotc world
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I would just like to say that this armor is more inaccurate to a high medieval setting than gunpowder
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(begin blog post)
This is Maximilian plate armor, which was developed in the early 16th century in response to the predominance of pike-and-shot warfare. People roleplay it on LoTC because it lets their character be virtually invulnerable to enemy swords (”your thrust bounces off my gorget”). Its actual battlefield purpose, if there was any, was to stop pikes from penetrating a rider at high velocity during a cavalry charge. It was heavy, impractical for hand-to-hand combat, and very, very expensive. Lighter armor made of cloth and chainmail (with metal helmets and cuirasses to protect vital bits) would have been used by footmen, who didn’t need to worry about a pike flying into their face as they charged toward the enemy.
Meanwhile, the 14th century saw cannons (towed or even handheld) used in sieges. Since the late 1200s, the Chinese had been using guns in skirmishes with Jurchen and Mongol raiders. The Mongols for their part, after conquering China, probably spread knowledge of gunpowder to Europe, Iran, and Arabia through their conquests. There’s no reason LoTC should ban the development and use of rudimentary firearms. I’d argue our setting is less accurate, and less fun, as a result of the “techlock.”
I think that synthesizing period-accurate and anachronistic elements to make our fantasy setting more fun is good, and we should do it more often. There is no reason that descendant history has to mirror real-life history. There is no reason we should strive for historical accuracy on a server with immortal elves and magic. If we race to the bottom trying to ban everything that isn’t “medieval” we’ll deprive ourselves of creative freedom. We’ll punish well-intentioned players for trying to roleplay. Repeal techlock pls
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I literally dodged a permaban by a hair today.
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Lolnope. Cendrus was about to take up merrymoogle's ***** char's deal and swing his silver hammer at her (I am assuming you understand this ban and what happened, so I shan't explain any further). I did this because I felt it'd be out of my character's nature to think this was amoral, and then all hell unleashed and I sat here dumbfounded. I really didn't do anything perma-worthy on second thought, but holy ****.
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Oh god no Anthos do not want
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Holy skah orc RP is fun.
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http://www.icongenerators.net/square.html
Is where you get the avatar.
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Anyone else here played MC 2.0?
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Someone needs to make an Oren Newsletter on the forums. I had been gone for a week and I have no idea what is going on.
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LoTC isn't dead and the PvP default isn't going to happen. If this much of the community despises this change it's not getting forced on us.
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You look at my profile? I gut you like sheep.
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Perma-killed one of my characters. It actually feels kinda good.
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Please remove the "Constant deprivation of fun" rule, Freya refusing to FTB with me is constantly depriving me of fun
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My character is addicted to Redstone~
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Pls make ores spawn in the actual map in 4.0 so that we're not dependent on stupid multiverse worlds
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Just so you know: Censorship is not the answer. All it does is shield your ego. I don't mean this to offends whoever removed my status; anyone who dedicates their time monitoring THIS forum is a saint to me.
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the takeaway from this highly classified drama is that if you're 20 something your social circle should not be 16-17 year olds on the internet
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Can we get like a mildly less annoying "DDoS protection" method? Perhaps one that doesn't cause you to lose paragraphs of work because of a Captcha?
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http://imageshack.com/a/img819/5715/07lq.png
No. It doesnt work.
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please someone hit 4chan with a trebuchet