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Games / Re: Haven & Hearth 2: World 9 | A Blockland Tradition

« on: June 12, 2016, 02:16:13 PM »

What did i miss when i went to bed. Ill be online in like 5 hours

Claim's up.

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Off Topic / Re: Political Polls [Pt.1: Gun rights]

« on: June 12, 2016, 02:20:50 AM »

Poll is kind of bad, honestly. "Law-abiding citizens" includes felons, psychopaths, and all other kinds of people you'd never want owning a gun. Where's the option for sensible restrictions?

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Games / Re: Haven & Hearth 2: World 9 | A Blockland Tradition

« on: June 12, 2016, 12:30:32 AM »

http://ringofbrodgar.com/wiki/Haven_and_Hearth_Wiki

It's actually pretty stuff. It's a hodge-podge mix of new and legacy info. Although I'm gonna work on cleaning it up (and all of you should too).

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Games / Re: Haven & Hearth 2: World 9 | A Blockland Tradition

« on: June 11, 2016, 11:50:36 PM »

Sev and Bisjac discover a Haven & Hearth 2 dryad while boating to the river

To people who PM'd me, will respond in a bit. We're settling right now and have no ability to port you guys over here. Be prepared to make a new character though; it took several hours for us 4 to meet up.

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Drama / Re: Boner Strikes back: Lego sniper bitch armaggeton

« on: June 11, 2016, 11:16:21 PM »

He's a ~14-16 year old kid with diagnosed Oppositional Defiance Disorder. Which means that he's such an starfish both online and offline that he's actually managed to convince a real doctor that he has some kind of medical condition that explains it.

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Games / Re: Haven & Hearth 2: World 9 | A Blockland Tradition

« on: June 11, 2016, 07:30:53 PM »

Ive heard this game sucks now. Doesnt it cost money as well?

Nah it's great dude. Old isometric art style is dead, but it plays just like the original. The combat system is objectively a billion times better too.

The game is basically free. You can pay for cosmetic items and a very menial boost in crafting speed (like 25% faster crafting basic stuff. essentially just convenience).

At the beginning, they had a system where you'd get 30 hours to play per month, and you'd have to pay for more. There was a huge outcry and they got rid of it.

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Games / Re: Haven & Hearth 2: World 9 | A Blockland Tradition

« on: June 11, 2016, 06:14:24 PM »

world 4 we were gods and controlled a 6th of the map.

Is true. Good times were had in Tarn of Hotdog.

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Games / Haven & Hearth 2: World 9 | A Blockland Tradition

« on: June 11, 2016, 06:05:12 PM »

(click to go to website)

Gameplay video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaUMX3InfbU
Official trailer: Video on link
What is Haven & Hearth?

Haven & Hearth is a MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game) set in a fictional world loosely inspired by Slavic and Germanic myth and legend. The game sets itself apart from other games in the genre in its aim to provide players with an interactive, affectable and mutable game world, which can be permanently and fundamentally changed and affected through actions undertaken by the players. Our fundamental goal with Haven & Hearth is to create a game in which player choices have permanent and/or lasting effects and, thus, providing said players with a meaningful and fun gaming experience.

Players start the game surrounded by a vast and somewhat unforgiving wilderness, with only the most basic tools of survival at their disposal. The use of fire is a thematic focal point of the game's mythos, and an early and important task will be the simple lighting of one. As the first hearth fires disperse the darkness of the surrounding wilderness, more pressing questions will present themselves to the players: Who are they? Where are they? And, most importantly, where are they going? From this point on, players will have to blaze trails of their own into the unknown, the wilderness and the future, and explore and affect the world of Haven & Hearth using only their own best judgment and a chipped stone axe. Trust us, the stone axe is the stuff.

As players progress, they will be able to acquire new skills and abilities, allowing them to perform a variety of tasks—such as the claiming of land, the construction of buildings and the cultivation of crops—each step forward making the basic task of survival somewhat easier. Having progressed far enough, players will, in time, be able to organize themselves into societies, from simple tribes and villages, progressing through republics, nation states and, ultimately, empires.

Tl;dr
A bloodthirsty survival based game that features full-scale terraforming, a range of different skills, and a progression system based on crafting curiosities and eating different kinds of food.

What's changed since 2010?

The game has changed wildly over the past few years. In fact, about 8 months ago, it underwent a change into a completely new version: Haven & Hearth 2 (Hafen). There's 5x more content now and a completely different graphical interface than legacy Haven & Hearth. Everything is 3d now instead of isometric 2d, and the old, stuffty combat system has been revamped.

What's this business about 'A Blockland Tradition'?

You youngins on the forums might not remember this, but at a time, Haven & Hearth was the second most popular game thread on these forums. Different groups of forumers each ran their own towns, with Gamefandan, Bisjac, and Tikitai operating the largest villages. We'd all follow along as they'd expand, trade, and eventually get ransacked by other players.

Every time the world reset, we'd get a new thread. The largest of which was world 4. If you want to brush up on some ancient, 2010 forum politics, then head over to the old thread:
https://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=104507.0

Where can I join other people?

This game is best played with other people because accomplishing anything requires a significant time commitment on your own. Even with a group of four people, you can expect a simple operation like setting up walls or flattening some land to take many hours. For this reason, your accomplishments in this game have special meaning, and people will go through great lengths to defend their societies in Haven & Hearth. There is an entire section on the forums dedicated to bounties for criminals and vandals.

Bisjac and I are currently recruiting for the first all-Blocklander village in the new Haven & Hearth game. If you want to join us, send me a PM containing the following information:

Age:
Timezone:
How much time you can spend on the game(not requiring lots):
Experience in H&H(not required):
Skype/Steam Username:
What you would want to do in the game:

Blockland Villages:

Nothing here until people start establishing them! PM me if you want your group added.

Gameplay Pics:
(click to enlarge)

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Off Topic / Re: 2016 USA Presidential Race News & Discussion: OBAMA ENDORSES HILLARY (NEW POLL)

« on: June 11, 2016, 05:29:25 PM »

He's up against some of the worst establishment skills in the country who just happen to have a lead because they're feeding off the energy of the Obama presidency. But you know what? They still loving suck. Annoying Orange is one of the single greatest individuals in the world, he turned a small loan of a million dollars into billions and would have made more if not for constantly thinking about running for president. Maybe you should shut the forget up before you make handicapped posts like this. You know why? Because you're going to be embarrassed when Annoying Orange wins and somebody shows you a screencap of this. Oh look at that, a poll was released showing Annoying Orange ahead of Sanders. Are you a loving drunk? Are you handicapped? Are you autistic? You are a loving idiot and you should never make a post on this board again and I'm loving serious.

This could be a great copypasta some day.

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Off Topic / Re: itt everyone is chill until someone hits time triples

« on: June 11, 2016, 12:37:15 AM »

where do you find this

Hover over the thread title on your message. Alternatively, quote someone elses message, and it's in the tags.

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Off Topic / Re: itt everyone is chill until someone hits time triples

« on: June 11, 2016, 12:33:53 AM »

but since there are no post counters on blf u have to use the timestamp

Yes there are. This is thread #298244 and your message is #9093946

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Games / Re: Minecraft Megathread; all eight planets have aligned, 1.9 is out

« on: June 10, 2016, 11:01:45 PM »

So what new stuff has been added in the last few patches? Haven't played this game in years.

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Off Topic / Re: 2016 USA Presidential Race News & Discussion: OBAMA ENDORSES HILLARY (NEW POLL)

« on: June 10, 2016, 08:43:34 PM »

And the emails aren't the only thing she's done, despite that being a big part of it, including it being confirmed that her classified emails used for loving drone strikes,

That seems like a misleading summary of the article.

The 2011 and 2012 emails were sent via the "low side" -government slang for a computer system for unclassified matters

The emails, which did not mention the "CIA," "drones" or details about the militant targets, were written within the often-narrow time frame in which State Department officials had to decide whether or not to object to drone strikes before the CIA pulled the trigger, the officials said, according to the Journal.

So in other words, she exchanged unclassified emails regarding vague details about drone strikes. That doesn't sound criminal to me, and clearly it doesn't to the State Department either.

which she used through an unsecure phone despite being ordered to use a secure phone to prevent hacking, (Yes, she even dealt with the drones strikes over her insecure phone. The incompetence is real.) which then was promptly hacked and read by at least one person (who now has made a plea deal and has immunity), probably a lot more,

This is a fair criticism, but I don't think that it's a crime for a government official to own an insecure phone. Correct me if I'm wrong, since this isn't my area of expertise. It doesn't help to show her competence as a leader, but that's definitely not enough to sway me to vote for Annoying Orange.

had her emails run through a third party company without security clearance completely viewable by ordinary citizens or other hackers, (URL at https://www.yahoo.com/news/expert-clinton-emails-could-compromised-third-party-spam-024604076.html ) are confirmed to have put classified US operations in danger.

I don't understand this article. They're claiming that government officials have identified her emails as 'top secret', but that would definitely result in an indictment since transferring classified documents over personal email is a felony.

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Off Topic / Re: 2016 USA Presidential Race News & Discussion: OBAMA ENDORSES HILLARY (NEW POLL)

« on: June 10, 2016, 06:44:17 PM »

but i doubt he's going to go out of his way to find several when he could just link one and people could make inferences from that

And in turn, I can point out why that's completely ridiculous reasoning. Guess we've gone full circle here.

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Off Topic / Re: 2016 USA Presidential Race News & Discussion: OBAMA ENDORSES HILLARY (NEW POLL)

« on: June 10, 2016, 06:41:58 PM »

Some? She's an outright criminal.

I mean, people say this, but the State Department has all of her emails, including those that were previously 'deleted'. If she did destroy confidential government information, why haven't they indicted her? You either have to rely on increasingly tenuous conspiracy theories, or accept the fact that it was a political gaffe - not a crime.