A Warz game:

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Sign up if you'd like to play. Happy to have you. It's fun to kill people you like.

Another reason I like Beren is that he became a fruitarian: Thereafter for four years more Beren wandered still upon Dorthonion, a solitary outlaw; but he became the friend of birds and beasts, and they aided him, and did not betray him, and from that time forth he ate no flesh nor slew any living t...

Are we doing quotes in this thread? One of my favorites, which I quoted in my Warz game: Beren before Thingol over the issue of the fair Luthien: Then Beren looking up beheld the eyes of Luthien, and his glance went also to the face of Melian and it seemed to him that words were put into his mouth....

@redwill, I bought the book because of how awesome the game was.

That may be the coolest thing anyone has ever said to me on these boards. Thank you, SDD.

I know few people care, but, as best as I can remember, relationships/powers in The Wars of Beleriand included: - Turin and Glaurung: this is the only one I remember. If Glaurung attempted to kill Turin, both would die. - Finrod and Barahir - Beren and Luthien - Morgoth's special power to CAPTURE a ...

If I thought I could have gotten 28 players I would have separated out the House of Finarfin and added maybe the traitorous swarthy Eastern Men (thanks for the racism, JRR).

But, wow, remember when we could get 21 for a game?

Of the posters in this thread, only @shafnutz05 played in the game and I doubt any of the other posters in this thread even look at Warz games.

twc posted earlier in this thread.

lynch redwill

Ah, so he did. My mistake. Thanks, Turgon.

Ha. I finally found time to dig this out of a backup drive. Five or six years ago, I did a Warz game on LGP based on The Silmarillion . It was called The Wars of Beleriand. RJ has hidden the forum so I can't link to the game (what a shame, but I understand). Anyway, this was the setup and the player...

Yeah, I heard of his death on NPR while driving today. It got my heart rate up. What audacity...

Seriously, does anyone have balls like that anymore?

Where was that? The cop killer was Richard Poplowski, his screen name was iEux or something like that. Holy crap. I didn't know that. He was a Warz player before I started playing. I saw his username in old games I read. I remember someone mentioning that he got banned for horrible stuff in chat bu...

Tyreek Hill, who has a history of domestic abuse, under investigation for breaking the arm of his three year old son.

Boy, what could have been with that Chiefs team.

Next we'll be hearing about Mahomes shooting a man in Overland Park. Just to watch him die.

Also, don't forget that the Dúnedain had an additional 3000 years during the Third Age. Guess how they progressed.

Now that I think about it: what if the Númenóreans had indeed progressed technologically to the point where they had, say, thermonuclear weapons?

The assault on Valinor may have gone a bit differently. Heh.

Does it also bother you that in actual human history there was like a quarter million years between the harnessing of fire and the invention of agriculture? And then 4,000 years to the wheel? And another 4,000 years until gunpowder? ;) At the start of that 3000 years, they had written language, lit...

The whole point of the Middle-earth tales was to give Britain its own legendarium. All of their best legends were co-opted from the French following the Norman conquest (King Arthur, Robin Hood, etc.), so he set out to make a uniquely British mythology. So all those inventions you list are the thin...

I've never done the audio book route. I've thought about it many times at work, but feel like I need to focus for something like Tolkien audio?

I only listen to them on long road trips. Focus-friendly.

If you've already read them, I strongly recommend the audio books read by Rob Inglis. I would also recommend The Silmarillion as read by Martin Shaw. I have it on CDs (!) and have listened to it perhaps a dozen times on road trips over the years. One of the things that gets me about Tolkien and a l...

Why are you so bad at Warz? I'm not trying to be a jerk. I just honestly don't get it. You're obviously very intelligent and thoughtful. I assume you have good strategic thinking abilities, too. But you're objectively awful at Warzin'. You mentioned in a game that you're too trusting and accepting o...

Because humans. Dogs didn't evolve naturally, they are a devolution from wolves. IMO there is no such thing as "devolution." Not biologically, anyway. Culturally, economically, politically, maybe. But not biologically. There is only evolution. Adapt to an environment or die. Moreover, there is no u...

What’s the nature of your curiosity? If I left it abstract and said general anxiety and depression, would that be descriptive enough? I’m just not sure of the nature of your question, and I’m honestly skeptical that it’s in good faith. It’s not “existence” as c2i thought, but your response to that ...

Mega ditto on the physical labor thing. Since I've worked on becoming more self-sufficient (it's mostly a prepper thing I admit) my countenance has improved.

Holy ****. Don't make me like you. Haha.

Since I feel like I can relate to some of shmenguin's comments, I'll chime in. For me, I guess it's about the quest for equanimity. And I think that starts with finding a reliable, scaleable something to guide how you live. Call it a personal philosophy, worldview, ethic, style. I'm not sure there'...

I mean, one does not lightly say something like "I went through Hell, pushed on through, and came out the other side."

What was your Hell?

And I don't know what a "bad faith signal" is.

I'm just not sure what your problem was. Determinism? Looking in the mirror and seeing a "machine"?