Posts made by Emperor_Taiki

My roommate is really interested in languages ( as any wise person is) . I catch him watching Pokemon episodes in Japanese on YouTube sometimes. Its a good show.

The campaign is the best in the series

@Imperious:

thank you for joining the discussion Mr. Connor.

Well not really. He just got banned because he is a spammer. Anytime you see some blue link that has a name of some shoe, vitamin, medical pills, etc. This is the latest form of spamming. If you see them PM me.

lol, figures

@Dylan:

Actually to be honest I should be a bit more specific, what were some wars fought in these era?

Crusades had stuff like the 1st Crusade
Napoleon has stuff like 1st Coalition

There were hundreds of wars and thousands of major battles fought between these periods, and thats just in Europe. You cant name them all.

The Nazis had good tastes.

But then the soviets are just gonna stack their good stuff even further back. If used in AAG40 then Leningrad would be indefensible, right now you can accauly hold it as the russians unlike in preveious versions of the game.

@Imperious:

I really hate this “bad guy good guy thing” in movies. Its really played out. Id rather have all sides flawed and no clear outcome leaving everybody dissatisfied in the end. Faust was not a clear hero either and thats what made him great.

yes

@frimmel:

@Emperor_Taiki:

Sorry I missed your answer.

I had almost the opposite reaction. I didnt care at all for a bunch of religous freaks who were killing human soldiers because the humans wanted to develop their land.

I see absolutly no reason to sympathize with any of the whatever you call them. They wern’t real people as much as they were pretty CGI creations who through their height, blue skin and big eyes were tailored to make the audience feel sympathetic based on looks and not who they accaully were. If you swithced out the blue people for the Aliens from James Cameron’s other films(now Aliens is a good movie), nobody would feel any sympathy for those monsters no matter how many of their big trees were burned.

:-o

Well if your empathy only extends to people who look like you anything more I might say is likely just to make you angry.

I dont think thats what I said at all,
and who are you too say whats gonna make me angry :x :x :x.lol jk

My point is I dont see anything admirable about the Navs. If they are the heroes then there should be somthing good about them besides their physical appearance.

@frimmel:

@frimmel:

I enjoyed it. It is a fairly standard story but I rather like that particular story and it was told very well. I like stories where the ‘good guys’ win. I found myself very immersed and never questioned whether the Na’vii were ‘real’ and I was rooting for them out loud by the end. Cameron certainly understands the grammar of cinema.

It is a wonderful technical achievement even only seeing it 2D but I’d hardly say revolutionary. Although my GF said, “This must have been what it was like seeing Star Wars in 1977.”

It is a solid film by any objective cinematic standard.

But I’ll tack on…

All of the action scenes were terrific. They were well shot and well editied and that this was largely done ‘green screen’ is even more impressive. The scenes where Jake chooses and ‘breaks’ one of the dragons and then flys were invigorating and vertigo inducing. The times when Na’Vi and Humans were in the same shot were seamless.

Themes of where honor is to be found and navigating Faustian bargains while fairly standard are presented and handled well. It is easy to sympathize with Jake’s predicament seeking a reconciliation between the sides and trying to decide if his own goals are worth the price. Sam Worthington did a fine job in his role as Jake being confronted with this Faustian/soldier dilemma.

Sigourney Weaver was terrific as somebody trying to simply understand how Pandora worked which for sci-fi movie lingo they gave you enough that you didn’t feel it was McGuffin and not so much that the scriptwriters were just trying to make themselves sound smart. They kept it all internally consistent.

The film maker took a stand. “It is wrong to kill people and destroy their home simply because you want their stuff and think your need is more important than theirs.” He had something to say and said it without apology.

Sorry I missed your answer.

I had almost the opposite reaction. I didnt care at all for a bunch of religous freaks who were killing human soldiers because the humans wanted to develop their land. I see absolutly no reason to sympathize with any of the whatever you call them. They wern’t real people as much as they were pretty CGI creations who through their height, blue skin and big eyes were tailored to make the audience feel sympathetic based on looks and not who they accaully were. If you swithced out the blue people for the Aliens from James Cameron’s other films(now Aliens is a good movie), nobody would feel any sympathy for those monsters no matter how many of their big trees were burned.

I didnt like the main character either. When he was human he is loyal to them, now that he is blue, tall and has big eyes he is loyal to the Navs. Ok.

And the stand that the movie takes, “its wrong to kill and destory people and their stuff”, in my experience thats a very common popular culture idea.

Also what was Faustian about it? What do you mean by the soldeirs dilemma?

I thought the good guys lost.

@ABWorsham:

I think Jurassic Park, for it’s time, was a greater achievement than Avatar. Jurassic Park is one of my top five theater movies of all time.

Jurassic Park is awesome. great movie, unique and terrifing adventure with real characters, fast action and funny dailogue. It also has Samuel L. Jackson.

I am still waiting to hear what was good about Avatar.

Isnt it the same story as that disney cartoon Pocahontas.

I like 3D, but Avatar has the same plot and stupid dialogue as alot of other hollywood moives nothing particularly cool or intersting about the battle scenes either.

I have never heard anyone accauly say why they liked it except its in 3D or its “revolutionary”.

real men buy bombers

Oh thats cool, that should help out the UK defence.

Jet fighters is correct. So is increased factory production, except it also allows you to repair at half cost.

Back too the +5 Soviet NO, another condition is that sea zone 125 is free of enemy warships ships.

the NO for being at war is on the condition that the soviets have control of archangel and that there are no other allied troops in the Soviet Union.

These look great!

We didnt play with techs at GenCon, but I do remmeber reading the tech rules. Long Range aircraft only increases range by 1. And with heavy bombers you pick the better of two dice. Its seems much more balanced now.

@Krieghund:

Hmmm.  That’s odd.  I believe there were Soviet units in Scotland during the game we were observing on Saturday, as well.  Perhaps you’ve started a trend…

A trend was started, I must of watched bennyboys scotland attack on thursday and then I repeated it on Saturday. I was the kid with the mohawk and glasses.

A Soviet navy and Soviet troops in England seems like a good idea until its turn four and the german army is poised to take Leningrad :lol:.

From what I know, i’d guess the ottomans and austrians would have been disolved because of internal reasons, while the German and Russian empires could survive with the right reforms. The commonwealth does sort of exit today, and Germany Russia the UK and Turkey are still powerful countires.

@calvinhobbesliker:

Is it possible for the Brits to slow down Italay’s African conquests?

Have you had a game where Italy invaded Syria or Jordan to get the 3 Iraq inf and attack Egypt from the rear?

I recommend taking out the Italian battleship on UK1 with the UK carrier. Or you can just roll the dice really well.

No I didnt see that, it sounds plausible though. I know historicaly Hitler had plans for basing  aircraft in syria.

About the subs, i dont know. Three copies of Europe 1940 were raffled off, I dont know if the winners are on this fourm.

@marechallannes:

Good work, thanks.

Question:

There is no separate setup for the Global Game? :?

+18 soviet inf on the pacific board, and one ANZAC inf in Egypt

regarding the soviet fleet, yah thats a joke :lol:. although the soviets can buy a carrier and a battleship on turn one in the global game.