From the game "Underrail". Based?
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By the way, I am enjoying the game a lot. Has some similarities to the original two Fallouts.
Edit: If you succeed with the Persuasion check he has an NPC bluescreen, unable to answer, but gathers up his "comrades" (they are actually referred to as such in the text), and they leave without saying anything.
This is more accurate than you realize.
I'm an ex-leftist. A similar reaction to the truth is what started me down the road of realizing that almost everything I believed was dead wrong.
A lot of introspection followed. Months of it.
If you got through it in mere months, you're a much smarter man than I.
#GG is where I came to the clear realization that, "these motherfuckers are lying about everything," but it wasn't until the 2016 election that I was able to comfortably say, "I don't know what I am but I'm definitely not a Democrat."
I forgot to mention that it also involved getting right with God--I gave my heart to Jesus Christ around that time.
I'm probably going to get downvoted by certain people for saying that, but whatever. It's what really happened.
People who didn't live through 2001 as a conscious being (for some, that's ten or eleven years old, for others, fifty wasn't old enough) simply cannot understand the effect it had on people.
I would guess that our recent ancestors might have said the same thing about the nuclear scares of the Cold War, or the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, the Civil War, or our less recent ancestors the Black Death or the Fall of Rome.
I still distinctly remember 9/11 attacks when I was 3 ½ years old, watching a live broadcast of I think an Iraqi state television. That and 2003 invasion.
#GG has turned up a lot of info. The going theory is that Anita was part of a Saudi spy ring embedded in a Russian spy ring embedded in a British spy ring.
If you don't mind sharing more on what it was exactly that triggered your change, I would love to read it.
It started with the 9/11 attacks. Before then, I was a Green Party communist.
My reasoning was "Why do we spend so much on defense and war? It's not like anyone's going to ATTACK us!"
And then I saw the World Trade Center burn on my college student-union TV. I still remember that CNN.com was having trouble loading because of the immense amount of traffic to the website, so it had to go to safe-mode basic structure.
Gradually, I became much more of a conservative warmonger, not wanting anything even closely resembling that atrocity to ever happen to Americans again. I supported the 2003 Iraq invasion for the same reason--preventative measures.
This lasted almost a decade...until it finally occurred to me: "Wait. Shouldn't we have thoroughly kicked their asses by now? Why are we still over there? Why are we still letting our boys die for this?"
My first thought was that we had been too soft--that we should have just glassed the whole damn country to send a message.
Enter Donald Trump.
Through him and the The_Donald subreddit, which is now patriots.win and the foundation of this whole damn website, I realized that old Orwell quote was the absolute truth:
"The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous."
Because it means the rich get richer. War profiteers.
War is a scam. A fucking SCAM.
Amen, brother. This is true of all problems that leftists pretend to tackle. Half-hearted utopian bandaid solutions that accomplish nothing except winning elections, résumé-boosting, taxpayer money changing hands, and dividing the lower classes against each other. It's the eternal war over kicking the can down the road.
Thank you for sharing! You broke out, that's quite the achievement.
Yeah, it's that moment when you know that there's no response you can think of that isn't either something you know isn't true, or something that directly undermines the validity of your ideology.
So you say nothing, and silently acquiesce.
Maybe you go home and and you search for answers. Maybe you ignore it for months. But enough interactions like that and the only kind of person who sticks with their former beliefs is either some kind of psycho, or some kind of retard.
Never played it, but thoroughly enjoyed the SsethTzeentach review
Any love for the old Fallouts? If yes, give this one a shot.
Uhhh... he mentions Fallout 1 and 2, which is about as good as it gets from an attention-deficit afflicted African warlord. If you haven't seen any of his reviews they are a trip. :)
Almost forgot about that game. I bought it what feels like a decade ago when it was in early alpha. Never got around to playing it because they kept updating it and it never felt finished enough to finally start it :D
It has been updated just this November, so it is still active after like eight years or so.
If you have it anyway, and have any love for the old Fallouts you owe it to yourself to give it a shot.
Massive amounts of content, even without the DLC, which is a good buy too.
That's not really a good thing IMHO. Don't want to start now and then they'll patch bugs that I had to suffer through a month later.
I like to wait until games are stable and as bug free as they're going to be. Usually I wait at least half a year after the last patch before I start playing a game (with the exception of MMOs). Which is why I never got around to playing Underrail. They just keep fiddling with stuff to appease the "hurr durr game is dead" crowd.
They are working on a standalone expansion, so I don't think they will work on the first one too much.
I have not encountered any bugs at all, so I would say you can start playing it, if you feel like.
It's a great game. Plays a lot like Fallout 1/2 but with MUCH more modern and streamlined UI and game mechanics. It's a very mechanics-focused RPG but I didn't find it nearly as "brutal" as everyone says it is, unless you choose to play on the highest difficulties.
I play on Normal, and there were a few encounters that were quite difficult, but it is not brutal on that difficulty at least.
Which is the most unrealistic thing that would come from that. People don't like being told they are wrong. Karen syndrome would definitely kick in. It's weird how consistent the human psyche is and I really feel like that phenomenon needs to be studied more. It transcends culture and race. Every human on the planet has that creature lurking in the back of their minds. It's basically the flight or fight response.
Probably what happens if you fail the Persuasion check.
Another game I started but then kind of forgot about. Should really give it another try. I remember it being brutal at times and basically expecting me to have some kind of future sight to not softlock.
Is a game I had my eyes on for quite some time. Then I look at "howlongtobeat" and see 60+ hours.
I will play it... eventually... when my backlog is smaller.
If you like to play thoroughly, and not just the main questline, and add in the extra content from the DLC it is easily double that, maybe more.
Quite a fun game. I had one issue--after you do the starting quests, you're told to "go to the lower Underrail exit and find the next objective." The starting town has two exits, one at the top and one at the bottom. Naturally, "lower" underrail is the bottom exit, right? Nope, that's the "upper caves." Lol. So the upper exit leads to Lower and the lower exit leads to Upper.
Well, that's what happens when a game refuses to provide a quest compass. Once I figured it out and stopped trying to fight the higher leveled mobs in the caves below, I had a great time. Only turn-based tactical RPG i've seen combine Deus-ex style level design of alternate paths (ventilation ducts!), hacking, and sneaking so well.
The world can be confusing, I agree, which is why I printed out the global map, after tagging every area on it with what it's name is in the wiki.