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No, but that's the closest equivalent that the world of Avatar has to her becoming a member of the OLC.
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No, but that's the closest equivalent that the world of Avatar has to her becoming a member of the OLC.
I don't think this is the place to argue about this so let me just say that liking a poor sequel is fine, liking a bad game is fine, but you don't need to justify it or pretend like it's a good sequel or game.
In a lot of people's opinion F3 is a good game from their childhood, in a lot of old fallout fans opinions it's a poor sequel and in some it's just a bad sequel and bad game.
There is some concrete, objective measures of what makes a good or bad sequel and/or game and by those in my humble opinion Fallout 3 fails, the map is the worst that Bethesda ever made, there are some mechanics that are broken or outright useless, the game is ugly even for the time and the studio that made it, and the "Fallout" in 3 feels like a parody at worst and a Fallout theme park at best.
That doesn't mean people are wrong to love the game, I sure loved some massive pieces of shit that I played as a kid I just don't pretend they were diamonds.
Mostly I just want to wonder about what compels a man to make an eight hour video rebutting some other nerd's two hour video about why their nuclear vidjagames suck, actually.
This is a level beyond "touch grass" and may present a compelling moral case for the necessity of wedgies.
Saying 'touch grass' in an online discussion is just a way of admitting to have lost the argument while pretending not to have with a feeble insult.This is a level beyond "touch grass" and may present a compelling moral case for the necessity of wedgies.
Saying 'touch grass' in an online discussion is just a way of admitting to have lost the argument while pretending not to have with a feeble insult.
... I am just imagining Hell's reaction to finding out Constantine is now a type of demon capable of mitosis....I think Demon Constantine made another Demon Constantine as bait.
Sanderson looks over the edge at the drop. "Ah, how exactly is any of this 'orderly'?"
"It is closer to being orderly in the absolute sense, rather than in the limited human sense."
"Ah
"Massive arcane instability. Indeed, it may be thet the magic systems of the Earth become incapable of stability without an element of Order." He stops and turns around so that he can look directly into my face. "Please, do not do it
But I've seen Quinn with the Helmet dozens of times."
"He didn't have the same trouble."
"When was the last time you saw me?"
He considers me for a moment. Then some level of realisation dawns. "Azerbaijan. The General's place."
"Not today?"
"No." He smiles unpleasantly. "No, mate. I think you've been had."
I frown.
"That-. Can't, I-." I look around. If that was Quinn with us… Somehow, then this would be the time to attack, but… No, no one here. "What is this place
Too many. Regardless of whatever that actual numerical value may be.okay, what even going on anymore
how many Constantine clone is there
... I am just imagining Hell's reaction to finding out Constantine is now a type of demon capable of mitosis.
... I'm pretty sure ATLA has the concept of foreign organizations.No, but that's the closest equivalent that the world of Avatar has to her becoming a member of the OLC.
They don't have the concept of alternate universes or aliens. So a mysterious being who hasn't aged since the last time they saw them, which was decades ago, and claims to serve a spirit would get them to think this is spirit shenanigans.... I'm pretty sure ATLA has the concept of foreign organizations.
Hey, magical architecture doesn't have to follow conventional laws of topography. Be glad you're at least all walking on the same plane of 'Down'. It might be one of those kinds of passages where just walking along it is weaving a magical effect, and the pace and number of loops affects your eventual exit.8th November 2012
12:17 GMT -5
Alan frowns as we pass what appears to be the same door for the twelfth time.
"Are you sure we're going somewhere?"
As in, you're literally walking past different doors, made of different wood with different styles? Like I said, magical topography!Dr. Balewa smiles faintly as he nods. I glance to my left, watching the two brownies who are bringing up the rear as we ascend the Penrose stairs. We entered via a door in-. Well, about a third of the way back on the rotation, and we're been going around and around since. After the third I made a mark on the staircase just in case, and, yes, we've gone past it each time.
"Yes. Orange Lantern marked the floor, but not the doors. They change each time we rotate."
I... Would not go dashing off to check that theory out, OL. You might find yourself taking a very, very long flight across a suddenly infinite space.I knew that areas like this existed in the Tower of Fate, with a featureless void all around and staircases with variable gravitational pull all throughout it. I've just managed to avoid spending time here until now. In the distance I can see other staircases in the void, but they don't appear to connect to ours and I'm not sure what would happen if I tried flying to them.
Sanderson looks over the edge at the drop. "Ah, how exactly is any of this 'orderly'?"
Like a fractal image, then. That space where Order looks chaotic, yet is more orderly than you can imagine."It is closer to being orderly in the absolute sense, rather than in the limited human sense."
"Ah…"
...OL, No. Let's not dick around with the fabric of the universe again. Last time, you nearly triggered a Crisis by yourselves."The human mind is evolved to understand things thet it usually encounters in the world. But the world is not an orderly or rational place." He looks around at-. Yes, very droll. "Here is an order beyond anything thet you hev known. As orderly as can exist in and still interact with the material universe."
"If we cut the Plane of Order off from Earth completely, what happens?"
Let's hope he at least listens to that advice."Massive arcane instability. Indeed, it may be thet the magic systems of the Earth become incapable of stability without an element of Order." He stops and turns around so that he can look directly into my face. "Please, do not do it."
I acquiesce with a nod.
Just, you understand, so OL knows which ammunition to load first..."Here." Urisk takes hold of a door handle and pulls it open. "Demon spoor. The one who came with you."
"Who else?"
'Empty One'... Dark Druid, perhaps? Or someone we haven't seen yet in this episode..."Order. Chaos-." He jerks his hand away, wincing. "The Empty One."
I frown. "Doctor Mist, wasn't Blackbriar Thorn the primary vector for the Anti-Life fragment? Isn't that why the brownies are free?"
I mean, chunks of Anti-life to tend to have certain warning signs. Unless it's a piece that makes you entirely amiable and friendly, yet cold and calculating when needed, surely there would have been something off about him? <Friendship = Manipulation> sounds right up a Constantine's alley."We know thet there are more fragments. There being another is.. concerning, but hardly beyond our expectations."
Alan nods. "It's in Quinn, right? It would.. have to be."
Sadly, they don't have a proper tank to kick the door in, like any proper adventuring party. Though given the arcane nature of the place, having a big meatshield 'apply boot' probably would just end up with a large pile of smoking ash..."I hev been assuming so, but… No. Without some idea of what happened, there is no reason to assume so. It may be thet we hev already freed him."
He makes a motion with his hand and Urisk steps away from the door. Alan and I reengage our defences, then nod. He pushes it open and then walks briskly inside.
Want an idea of how it looks? Just look up any Jack Kirby 'ancient aliens' series like New Gods or Eternals. The King could design some crazy-looking gubbins.I follow-.
Huh.
A… Machine? A mechanism… In parts, at least. I can see rotating cogs and platforms with runic inscriptions whose shapes I don't recognise. Glowing crystals are.. common, forming patterns or.. just laid along the edges of parts of the device. There's a.. large screw in a central location. Nothing seems to be directly attached to it, though two platforms it sticking through their central hole.
I bet you can almost feel the devices in the 'empty' spots, can't you? Things that don't even exist in the same four dimensions as the rest, yet do an important thing regardless.Magic technology far in advance of anything I've seen before. But… Some parts…
"Is that New God technology?"
Did he set off an alarm? Is Quinn blasting along the corridors in full regalia as we speak?"You would be best placed to-." Dr. Balewa winces as golden lightning dances around his fingers.
Alan look concerned. "Are you okay?"
"It was not an attack. This much power, focused… It is like touching an electrified fence. It has been some time since I hev encountered…"
He takes a few steps forward, gazing up at the device.
"Something like this."
Little hard not to given it's got a direct line into his soul, but... Keeping an air-gap might work."Is it safe for me to fly?"
"Do not touch the Ophidian, but, yes."
I bet even the Ring's feeling a little awe at the complexity of this thing...Ring, start mapping.
Compliance. Warning, mapping high concentration magic devices not reliable.
Never asks for anything simple, does he?
Despite the sheer chaotic nature of its appearance? More of that 'higher level of Order' stuff the Doctor was talking about, of course."Doctor, are these all order-aligned?"
"Yes." He's still looking around, hopefully starting to put things together. "Everything integrated into the structure is resonant with Order."
...Admittedly, this has been all based on a couple of assumptions. After all... Who told you that Nabu's mind was 'gone' from the helmet?Alan comes up alongside me. "Something on your mind?"
"I always assumed that John would have an easier time with Chaos than with Order. If he was dumping Order in favour of Chaos, this all fits. But I've seen Quinn with the Helmet dozens of times."
Although, to be fair, I doubt a Justified Demon would employ any of his more insidious tricks."He didn't have the same trouble."
"And where is he? The Demon got grabbed… Thorn could have teleported him, but why? He's Justified. Unless someone told him otherwise, he'd just infect him and send at the rest of us."
Dun-dun-dun!"Oi! Up here!"
I looks up-. Can't see anyone, but there's a big wheel with thin spokes whose rim is blocking my line of sight. I fly up and around-.
Right, then. Who put him up there, and why?
...Pardon? Surely time isn't that fucked up in here that it's been, what, weeks or months for him?The Demon Constantine has returned to his decayed demonic form, and has lost his shirt. There's a burn scar across the left side of his chest, large but not particularly deep. Chains which look a little like my magic suppression chains bind him to a plinth, which is in turn attached to a series of gears. The whole assemblage looks like it's free to move around the room if appropriately directed by… Someone.
"What are you doing here?"
Oh, it is strange seeing that 'demonic speech' font again. Surprised the Demon hasn't been using it more, unless his 'true' form does something nasty to his throat that no amount of lozenges could soothe..."What?"
"What. Are. You. Doing. Here? I thought you and Quinn were mates."
Especially if it's only been an hour or two... Oh, dear..."What are you talking about, we-."
My eyes glow orange as I try getting a better look at his psyche. This… This isn't the man we came in with. Not unless he's had massive psychic chirurgery.
...Fuck. Fuckity fucking fuck. Someone rolled a trojan horse right inside OL's defenses."When was the last time you saw me?"
He considers me for a moment. Then some level of realisation dawns. "Azerbaijan. The General's place."
But by who? Quinn, playing a game for his own reason? Original John, playing an even more chaotic game? The Golden Boy, assuming Quinn isn't him? Oh gods..."Not today?"
"No." He smiles unpleasantly. "No, mate. I think you've been had."
...And the universe is now screaming, as it realises there are at least four Constantines in one world. Which is three Constantines too many!I frown.
"That-. Can't, I-." I look around. If that was Quinn with us… Somehow, then this would be the time to attack, but… No, no one here. "What is this place?"
We must save my family!But why?
All I'm getting is Sword Art Online: Abridged flashbacks with Yoko.
Thank you, corrected.
I mean, chunks of Anti-life to tend to have certain warning signs. Unless it's a piece that makes you entirely amiable and friendly, yet cold and calculating when needed, surely there would have been something off about him? <Friendship = Manipulation> sounds right up a Constantine's alley.
Admittedly, this has been all based on a couple of assumptions. After all... Who told you that Nabu's mind was 'gone' from the helmet?
And the universe is now screaming, as it realises there are at least four Constantines in one world. Which is three Constantines too many!
Seriously, it feels like multiple Constantine plans are colliding here. And OL, Alan, Sandy and Doctor Balewa are standing right in the point of impact