• No characters under the age of 19 earth years (realism’s sake).
  
• Magic as a power is banned. This is a universe where magic doesn't exist.
  
• Characters registered are only members of the Orion Squad. Villains cannot be registered (some may be available to play in the near future).
  
• You can register a human, an alien, or a cyborg. Aliens can be whatever species you make up (home planets must be from the Solar System). I say cyborg rather than android/robot because from a logical standpoint, machines are a liability to the Union. Genma has forcibly recruited a good portion of his army using several different exploits (this story point will be covered more in-depth during the game). Cyborgs are less of a liability and they aren't as concerned with loss because their cybernetic body parts can be easily replaced.
  
• The max character limit is 2. You can choose to make a new one if one dies (you can choose when/if they die). Newly registered characters can’t be used until I give the go-ahead-- I will PM you. You should PM me in advance if a character is going to die so I can plan it with you accordingly.
  
• There is no limit on items/weapons, but be realistic about how much your character could carry without hindrance.
  

• You will select 1 role from the list below for the character. Use the "abilities" part to describe their role more specifically.
  
• Powers (optional) and regular abilities are not the same. General abilities should be described relative to the role/equipment you gave your character or their physiology; Special Moves are abilities/attacks granted from a ‘super’ power of sorts (think Ultimates from Overwatch, for example). Try not to end up with too many of one class.
  
• Your character can possess a Power/Special Ability; I recommend choosing one that would be beneficial for the role you want to play. You can currently have up to 2 Special Moves/Abilities. If you don't want any, just put N/A! These must also have a matching weakness/flaw.
  
• If you choose to give them Special Abilities, Powers that are banned include, but aren’t limited to: Magic/Magic Energy, Omnipotence, Omnipresence and Omniscience, Absolute Immortality, High-End Reality Warping, Instant-Death, Life-Drain (Death Version), Invincibility, High-End Intangibility, High-Level Space/Time Manipulation, Probability Manipulation, “Future Sight”, Time Travel & Manipulation.
  

• Mimicry: Able to either camouflage herself and become temporarily invisible, or mimic the appearance of an opponent for a short amount of time. (Weakness: Does not copy abilities since she isn't a cyborg/android with the proper circuitry for that, and taking too much damage destroys the temporary illusion.)
  
• Detonation: As a last-resort type of technique, Azumi can use the plasma in her pistols as an explosive by allowing its entropy to accumulate in dangerous amounts, resulting in an AoE explosion. (Weakness: This results in complete destruction of her pistols beyond repair, so this is when she's completely out of options. This attack can also hurt allies if they are in range.)
  

1. Two pistols that fire off plasma bullets at a high rate of fire.
   
2. helmet she wears when using her hoverbike that allows her to adjust to a planet’s environment if it's not adequately suitable for humans.
   
3. A strange item called a “Flux Engine” that grants her the Mimicry ability.
   

E3 2018 is coming up in a few days (EA conference already had their filled), so discuss anything related to this here. Reactions, thoughts, comments, whatever. You can double post in here if you want as well (and provide links to live e3 streams if requested). 

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Kingdom Hearts 3 got pushed to Jan 29th 2019

EA conference was pretty disappointing. Anthem looks promising though. 

@Tadashi @Freak@Ploep

what are your expectations of e3? What do you want out of this event?

Alexandra Ma Wrote:A class of eighth-graders graduating middle school have been given bulletproof shields as gifts to prepare them for potential mass shootings when they get to high school.

The students at St. Cornelius Catholic School in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, were given 10-inch by 12-inch ballistic shields to place in their backpacks.

According to their manufacturer, the shields would protect students from handgun and shotgun attacks if the students were shot from behind. They would theoretically also be able to protect themselves if they held up the shields in front of their bodies.

The shields were a gift from Unequal Technologies, a local sportswear which makes the shields. The company's CEO, Robert Vito, has a daughter at the school.

He gave a shield to every member of the outgoing class and an extra 25 to the school's faculty.

Vito told a press conference aired by the local WTXF TV channel: "It's sad the times have called for such a product to be invented, but we have answered the call."

The bulletproof plates are 10 by 12 inches large and a quarter-inch thick, and weigh about 19 ounces (1.19 lbs/0.5 kg). Each one has a retail value of $150.

There have been more 20 school shootings in the US in 2018 alone. A teenager student fatally gunned down 10 people wounded 10 others in Santa Fe, Texas, last month.

Seventeen people were killed at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school in Parkland, Florida this February, which prompted a school walkouts and national debate over US gun laws.

Discuss Atari's recent attempt to foray back into the world of gaming hardware once again with the Atari VCS.


Response to Tadashi from the Discord server where we held a short debate about the VCS:

So there is this new game, you go to dungeons to fight and loot at night, then at day time you go home (which is actually a shop) and sell your loot to NPCs from town.
Anyone played it? It's $20 right now so I'm assuming no.

I finished it in three days. It's super short. Gets a little bit boring by the time you reach the last dungeon, but it's too short for the boredom to make you stop playing (game ends before that point). I don't think it's worth $20, more like $5, unless more stuff gets added. But it was fun overall.
It has some annoying bugs, game crashed while I was at the ending dialogue, when I opened game again it had auto-saved after the ending dialogue so I had to watch it on YouTube.

Because I wanted to fix everything up and put it in running order, but it took me so long, I put the opening of the actual RP on a hiatus. Well, it ends today!

• Yes, I changed the name of the villain by one letter. Deal with it. B|
  
• This game has some required reading, which is found here (so you don't have to scroll back to the top). You have to read it in order to properly make characters. Thus, I ask you keep up with background information so things don't get distorted in-universe. Your character’s background information will match up well with the in-game setting as long as you follow the lore’s outlines. Once the game begins, I will not be altering any core lore that will be used for world-building.
  
• The story takes place in the Milky Way Galaxy/Our Solar System, so your character can't be from a made-up planet. See the Lore Thread for further information about planets.
  
• This is a Sci Fi/actiony themed RP: magic is not a thing! You will have the option to use powers however. (more on this later) A Sci-Fi/Futuristic RP like this doesn't require you to be a genius about rocket science or anything really (in fact most of what you see written by me is just uneducated guesses at how technology would work in the distant future) The lore should be enough to keep you afloat.
  
• You can register a human, an alien, or a cyborg. Aliens can be whatever species you make up. See bullet point #2 regarding planets.
  
• The maximum character limit is 2 at a time. You can choose to introduce a new one if one dies (you can choose when/if they die). Newly registered characters can’t be used until I give the go-ahead-- I will PM you.
  

• Character registration will have a simplified Class/Role system, so the battle system may be a bit of new ground in terms of what's been done on BG roleplay before. More on this soon.
  
• OOC posts by me will be bolded. Pay heed to these when I do post them, as I may place these for important information about a battle, thing, etc.
  
• Battles are turn-based, so players shouldn't make 64-chain combo attacks in just one post. You must cooperate with your fellow players if you don't want to get rekt.
  

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The title pretty much says it all.

I'm completely devastated by this turn of events as, out of everybody that I would call an influencer on my life, TB places second by far. His criticisms of shitty game devs and publisher practices really showed me what I should look for in a video game and helped me decide what I should and shouldn't give my money to. His criticisms have helped me find many games, some of which were ultimately saved by his showcasing of said games, such as Warframe. Of all the shitfests going on in Youtube, I felt like he was one of the only 'Tubers out there that I could watch, mostly due to the fact that he genuinely cared about his community and he genuinely cared about the gaming industry as a whole. He's a precious gem in the world of clickbaiters and controversy bandwagoners, and his loss has, much like myself, left pretty much the entirety of gaming journalism, some game developers and even the community at large completely devastated. As the big guy looking out for the small fry, he was very influential in getting our voices out to the industry.

RIP John Bain. You will be missed.

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Had Orochimaru not interrupted then and there who would've won the tournament? For the sake of this thread, we're assuming per the rule that you win if you incapacitate your opponent that Sasuke has defeated Gaara as he was knocked out for quite a while before the Shukaku transformation. So it picks up in round 2 with Naruto & Sasuke battling it out in the first fight and Shino and Temari fighting in round 2. Who wins both and who wins the final? 

All combatants strength, speed and abilities are obviously as they were in the leaf destruction arc and we assume no fights are totally blood lusted but I suppose just a little less intense. Each characters general fatigue levels are also considered and the length between matches would be too with regards to how much they recover round to round.