LordCowCow

My Arena tickets can't seem to settle on which of several axe users, armor and infantry, to make me try and +10

oh right this reminds me don't have images atm but did +10 up Reyson and Naesala

3 hours ago, yui said:

 

8.5/10 some parts kinda weak but overall very good I dig it

They seem very polite

9 hours ago, yui said:

 

I mean I like the song in general I don't really see the remix adding much, and would in fact the part 2/3 in makes me like it less so, 7/10

1 hour ago, Skaia said:

 

Can't fully explain what I liked about it but I liked it a lot. It did feel oddly longer than it was though. 8.5/10

4 hours ago, cr47t said:

ok so i wanted to follow up Papalon and Round Up... with something that's still somewhat in the braindance/idm camp but was notably shorter. i also wanted to showcase one of my favorite artists in Boards of Canada but the thing is, most of their tracks are long and loop-based (like round up) and the ones that change up are mainly their under 3 minute interludes. there is one major exception in their released discog though and that is Oscar See Through Red Eye. i know five might still be a bit long but i hope it's an improvement from the last two

 

When I focused on it it was pretty cool but it was way too easy for me to lose focus on what I was listening to. 7/10 cause overall it was nice just didn't do much for me I guess

Sabrina felt somewhat down at the lackluster response the group had given. Was that really the proper way to react to learning that they had just met heroes? Maybe she hadn't been clear enough about that point but even when Gene said it in a more mundane way they didn't really react much.

Maybe it wasn't actually something that most people believed then? Were Luca and Rumian just....odd in that way? But, no, the other villagers seemed to believe it too...

She glanced over at the tarp again. "To be absolutely positively super duper certain....that's not actually hiding some sort of elder god which you intend to revive using the dark power of this storm?"

"No, it's...just our food and findings." Baffled at the girl's question he'll look to the others and ask, "what is...is she alright?" Then after a moment thinking about the situation he'll ask, "are these things you actually deal with?"

Was that a hint of awe she detected? Sabrina felt herself swell as she puffed up her chest and stand taller. "Of course! Totally! For sure!" she declared. "Well, I mean, I haven't dealt with any of those here yet....and maybe not in so many words back home...but it's absolutely something that I, that we, are equipped to take down! We've already faced off against truly mighty foes and we'll be facing even more in the future! Just you wait and see this place is gonna become suuuuper cool and not scary before long!"

Lana, alone in the church...unless?

Despite that it was getting darker outside the church was still lit as there were several candles around the area. In particular as Lana sat there, resting after her harrowing adventure, she saw the candelabra atop of the pulpit at the end of the room. Perhaps it was due to being tired but the flames seemed to be flickering more than was normal. The more she watched the more certain she became that the fire was moving. And then they went out entirely.

Moments later the candelabra itself fell off the pulpit and hit the ground with a ringing crash.

Silence reigned for some time after that. And then Lana felt something. Something cold touching her cheek.

"Hello." Anna said, having somehow managed to come in and stand behind Lana without her realizing. "Were you going to sleep there?" She asked, not moving her finger which was still poking Lana's face.

10 minutes ago, cr47t said:

thanks. in actuality when i saw this post i thought of another track by someone else. it's slightly longer in length, but is significantly more varied and changes up quite a bit quite often (at least until the cooldown starts at 6:35) with basically no loops up until then (that i notice anyway) so i thought you might not mind as much as with Round Up to the Inevitable End.

sorry if the embedding doesn't work right, it isn't always doing it on my end but it doesn't seem to be a problem with anyone else on NCM

I did like it more though some of it started to drive me a bit nutty, 7.5/10

merry christmas

12 hours ago, radio414 said:

 

do do do do do do

Pretty song, washed over me but not necessarily a negative way, 8/10

4 hours ago, cr47t said:

 

that's over 7 minutes long but fine

first, why do songs insist on being long yet have long stretches of basically nothing.

It's neat background noise would be cool in a game or show but on its own, kinda just there, after a while I instinctively tune it out if there's not much changing especially on things without lyrics

6.5/10 the end bit I liked more than the rest of it

9 hours ago, cr47t said:

here for the music not for the man, plus the official version is published by travis scott (as telekinesis) so i think its safe to say west doesnt get money from this video

some interesting things in there but overall didn't do a lot for me, 7/10 still

16 minutes ago, cr47t said:

 

I like it, not much to it, wouldn't sit down and listen to it but its nice background music, 7.5/10

am dead

As all of the adventurers narrowly escaped the remaining undead they would find themselves on a staircase much like the ones they had been on before. Lana would notice that the darkness she saw before simply faded away. Or rather it looked as though the darkness was moving down the stairs and revealing more of it until it vanished completely.

These stairs were a brief journey before it leveled off into a small, square, room. Directly on the right was a stone wall and across from them more stairs leading down. The room was mostly empty except for two things.

One, on the left-hand wall, was a portal like those they had seen before that would lead them back to the surface. Next to that was a simple wooden chest. Inside said chest was some coin as well as a single object. It was a wand of some sort that appeared to be made of bone. On the left of the wand were three white stones embedded into it and on the right three black stones.

Were they to take the portal to the surface they would find that night had fallen and they would be allowed to heal their wounds, though their fatigue was not so easy to heal, before being led out of the walled area protecting the entrance to the dungeon.

5 minutes ago, yui said:

 

Feels like a cross between animal crossing and legend of zelda music

8/10 I like it

11 hours ago, radio414 said:

 

5/10 I'm sorry it kind of drove me nuts

7 hours ago, yui said:

 

that's certainly some gap

6/10, wasn't too interested I don't necessarily write off the growls but when its almost all growls I lose interest real fast

Team JAA/AJA/AAJ

“Keep an eye on her,”

Leopold gave her a look that said "I was going to anyway" before looking away in obvious annoyance and following his trainer farther into the grass.

"If I were a stick, where would I hide..." Anneliese said as she wandered down a narrow path looking side to side. "Attached to a tree I bet. But there aren't that many trees around...Goodness, sticks are harder to find than I thought!" she noticed Leopold and started speaking to him. "I heard that some people need to use wood for heating in their own homes, isn't that amazing? I suppose this means that I shouldn't have to find much. If a whole house can be heated there's no way that it takes much for a camp fire..."

Leopold began to get antsy after some time and, figuring out that Anneliese was hardly finding anything, he began to run off to grab sticks himself and bring them back to her. Or rather dropping them in front of her for her to "find".

So engrossed in her adventure was she that Anneliese didn't notice it was getting darker. Not until she suddenly realized that she could hardly see the paths any more.

And once it hit her that it had gotten dark she froze up. She hadn't been outside without a source of light before and she began looking this way and that. Trying to find something that was lit up for her to focus on. When she couldn't she ended up crouched down with her head between her knees as she tried to instead ignore the darkness.

It was then that a creature that had been hiding in the grass started to inch forward. Slowly making its way towards the girl.

"Shiii!" The creature ducked back into the grass as the girl's Shinx came running up to her, carrying another stick, and nudged the girl.

"Oh, Leopold...oh my you, you found a stick. Good job." Shakily getting up she looked this way and that. "I suppose...that must be enough, yes? We should head on back."

Leopold noticed her hesitate, unsure which way to go, and so he took the lead and Anneliese followed her back to the camp.

Once she saw the others Anneliese breathed a sigh of relief and ran the rest of the way there. "Hello! I have discovered sticks!" she called out to them.

Team "B"QN

Quinn and Nate, the next day, would find that Belle had left and discovered the note left behind. Billy would inform them that he had noticed her leaving and "I thought I'd stop her but...it isn't really any of my business. I wouldn't want to butt in....sorry if that was the wrong thing to do."

He was about to offer them breakfast when suddenly there was a loud roar from outside. And through a window they saw a gout of fire shoot across their vision. "What in the world?" Billy exclaimed as he hurried outside.

They would see another man who looked just like Billy, only slightly longer hair and wearing heavy gloves instead of an apron, carrying a Smoliv in his arms and breathing heavy as if he had just been running.

"Bobby what happened?"

"It's Magmortar. She suddenly started acting up and began firing off Flamethrowers everywhere. I only barely got this little one outta the way."

"Goodness...what could have caused that?"

"Can't say for sure but...I did see someone running off that way, and it looked like he was carrying something. Might be that he took something from the girl." Bobby frowned and nearly growled. "I gotta make sure she don't hurt herself, or one of the other Pokemon, so I can't exactly chase them down..."

I knew I had to choose that option it was too good

The lycan was baring his fangs. And fangs they were. His mouth curled back longer than what would be deemed normal on a human and there were multiple sharp teeth shown. He had taken a few steps back as the fire washed over him but he was now standing still. Though that wasn't fully accurate. The man was breathing heavier, chest heaving with every breath, and he looked at Reinaan with an animalistic intensity. "I guess that's how it's going to be huh? Alright. Then I'll show you my trick next." Before Reinaan's eyes he saw the man seem to start to grow. The whites of his eyes turned yellow and the look in them became more feral.

But then he paused. For a brief moment his eyes flicked over to the side and out of nowhere he jumped backwards.

And dodged a long blade slashing through the air from above and to his right.

Damien stood there, sword held in both hands as its blade separated the lycan and Reinaan. He, too, was breathing heavily as if he had just been running a great distance. Keres noticed that there was blood on his blade despite having missed his target and, looking where he came from, realized that it was from the direction she had heard one of the six other lycans.

"Lucas. Stop." Damien said. He didn't look at the lycan but it was clear he was speaking to him.

Said lycan laughed, louder than before, and it seemed his sudden transformation had been put on hold. "And look who it is, the mutt has returned. I thought you were long gone?" His eyes went to the sword and grew cold, despite the smile on his face. "I see, so you did take it. I'm sure you realize now what taking it means right? Have you seen that general of theirs? I suppose I should be thanking you for wounding the bastard but you really should have just finished him off when you had the chance."

Damien then spoke to the group. "We need to go, right now."

But Keres knew that it was already too late. "They've covered the hole." she said. Already the remaining five lycans in the woods had shifted so there was less space between them.

And then they came out of the woods. From behind Lucas, a bit to the right, from the opposite side, and from the area between those two and to the right, three creatures stepped into the clearing.

Each of them stood around seven feet tall. They walked on two legs but were covered in dark fur. Their arms were muscular and ended in clawed hands, as did their legs with clawed feet, and their heads were that of a wolf's. The lycans stood at the edge of the clearing. In full view but not yet moving. Though they all crouched over as they glanced at their leader, barely holding back the urge to charge in and attack.

There were two more lycans still in the forest. There had been some noises, in one case a short yelp of surprise, and it seemed that the traps had at least delayed a couple of them.

Still with the three lycans within striking distance and the leader growing less patient as well it was clear that an all out fight was soon to start.

"Come on, mutt, is that any way to treat me after all this time? Why don't you look at me, boy. Your uncle wants to see what kind of face you're making right now..."

It was always strange to her how many places like Horseshoe Stadium there was. It was as if the city expected more people than it held. The fact had bothered Thessa for a long time but she could never quite figure out why this was the case.

At least it was better than not having places like it. It meant that there were multiple different places you could have multiple different events. Still the size was always a bit...strange feeling whenever she came here.

They ended up going through what Thessa would consider the front of the building. Coming here without a crowd certainly had a unique feel to it. It usually took much longer to get anywhere and yet they were heading for the entrance to the field in what felt like no time at all.

“Here they come!” from inside. “Alright, places everyone!”

"Aw, they're waiting for us, isn't that sweet. Wonder what surprises they have cooked up."

She didn't really need Cassiopeia's gesture, of course she'd go ahead, but she responded anyway. "Sure, I'll go crash the party then. Maybe I'll try and save some leftovers for you."

As she headed straight for the field she heard a voice again counting down from three as she crossed the threshold. Immediately upon hearing the voice she began to run forward, prepared to face whatever they throw at her head on.

"Zero"

There was an explosion at her feet, one of pretty decent power at that, which would have caught her had she not activated her power and leapt forward. As it was she felt the blast at her back but was able to avoid being hit directly. Once past the blast, and once she landed onto the field again, she turned back towards where she had heard the voice.

She saw a man with his head poking up behind a turn in the stairs. She didn't see him long before he vanished back up the stairs.

Thessa cocked her head to the side. "Alright. Well if that's how it's gonna be, guess I'll go Seeking huh?" She activated more of her power, shaving a bit more time off, just in case someone tried another sucker punch and decided to jump up towards the area that the stairs led. Unconcerned about whatever she might encounter up there.

53 minutes ago, cr47t said:

will we ever again in our lifetime see a triple-A game that prioritizes fun gameplay over being an interactive movie (and isn't from nintendo or valve)? possibly even incorporating the story into the gameplay like an Undertale or a Missile Command? or is indie the future of gaming (a la Pizza Tower, Rift Wizard 1, etc?)

(if you're wondering, i left out things like microtransactions and crunch because if there's one thing we can count on the suits to do, it'd be being stubborn)

Yes there are plenty already I have no idea why you'd think there wouldn't be more

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47 minutes ago, yui said:

What's the oldest gaming console you remember playing on? (Not necessarily the first console you used, if for example you stumbled into an NES way after its era or something)

Don't think ever got to use an Atari or anything earlier so it'd be NES cause we had an NES

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I imagine this as how Caesar imagines himself

45 minutes ago, radio414 said:

 

cute and catchy, 7.5/10 very pleasant.