T w e n t y S i d e d
This coming Tuesday, Sept 3 2013, we will be doing a hangout. If you’ve been looking to hang out with the Spoiler Warning cast then this is probably your best bet for all your out-hanging needs. It’s at 8pm GMT, 3pm Eastern time, noon on the west coast.
Josh will be playing Rome II: Total War, a sequel to the regrettably flawed Rome: Partial War and WAY better than Rome: Diplomatic Negotiations Aren’t Going Very Well.
A post will go up on Tuesday with links to the stream and such. This post is just to let you make room on your busy schedule for wasting time on the internet.
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October? Did time travel happen and I missed it?
It’s good to plan ahead, though.
Whoop. Nice catch. I’ve been thinking about October today, and I guess the word crept into the post.
It crept into the title too…
If you’re referring to next week Shamus, it’ll be September…
Edit: Of course I was ninja’d.
But psst! Change the title too before someone else notices!
Bummer, a shame I’m gonna have to be at work. Might actually try watching some over there haha…or at least listen to you finetastic folks, over the headphones
It’ll probably be going for a while. I’ll start with a campaign for a few hours and then do a few hours of multiplayer stuff with Randy.
So about the Shogun campaign, Soonâ„¢?
What about 8 by Zombies part 2 hmm?
He burnt that one because in it Chris was teh awesome.
A lot of people were Chris that day.
Does “late” mean “past 5:30?” I suppose I can’t complain -I’ve been able to see all the other hangouts. But I really want to see Rome II. I love Rome: Total War (heck, I’m playing the Roma Surrectum II mod now), but I really don’t want to make the necessary upgrades to my computer to play it. Though graphics cards are getting cheaper, so…
I just realised GMT is UK time, so 8 PM GMT would be 9 or 10 PM for my time zone and that’d be prime entertainment time for me. Woo ^^
Actually, the UK is on GMT+1 right now, because Summer. So if you’re +1 from the UK, you’re +2 from GMT.
Hrmmm, the great dilemma.
I was planning to play Rome II all Tuesday.
Why not play Rome 2 all Tuesday while also watching Josh play Rome 2 all Tuesday?
On a second screen or Rome in windowed mode…. =)
Yo, dawg, I heard you liked Total War…
“Josh will be playing Rome II: Total War”
But….He said he will finish shogun before this comes out.Josh lied o us!
I lol’d at the cover image for this post. :D
I was just thinking that it’s been a while since your last hangout and that it was a lot of fun. Now I’m thinking “seriously, noon? On a Tuesday? Sad Panda”
Might drop by if you are still going when I get home from work… 5 and a half hours later. :)
Well what you call noon i call 9 o’clock in the evening, and if the hangout is in the american evening it will be well past midnight here.
if your playing “Rome: Diplomatic Negotiations Aren't Going Very Well” be sure to bring your diplomacy shotgun.
All jesting aside, I would be all over “Rome: Diplomatic Negotiations Aren't Going Very Well” if it existed.
I really felt like they bit off too much with Rome II: Total War. The scope was too big and everything felt watered down trying to get it in. I prefer the more intense narrowly focused action of Rome: Border Skirmish.
(Disclaimer: I may or may not have played any game real or imaginary mentioned in this post.)
“Rome: Border Skirmish” is a fine game, but while it correctly reenacts some historical border skirmishes, I feel that it somewhat romaticizes border skirmishes, and partly overlooks the horrors endured by the civilian population.
I more of a fan of Rome: Those Two Guys Who Had a Duel That One Time than any other game in series.
I’ve always been partial to the (IMO chronically underrated) Rome: Exchange of Colorful Language
I always liked Before Rome: Tension.
To nitpick, but it’s actually 8pm British Summer Time, as opposed to GMT. (And therefore technically 7pm GMT).
And it’s 5am for me. Well, I won’t be at work for the start….
I read the title as “Hangout Octal 3″ and spent a good F seconds trying to figure out why you would bother counting Hangouts in a different base.
Because they want to exclude anyone not clever enough to figure out what Octal 3 would be in base 10.
ugh, I have a 3 hour lab starting right at that time. That sucks. Maybe we can get done early, it IS the first lab after all… Does Rome 2 have a campaign multiplayer? Shogun 2 did, as I recall…
Hey! Rome and Barbarian Invasion are my favorite, and still the best imo, so mleh! >:P
As much as I’d like to catch this I don’t know if I’ll be able to. I guess we’ll see what happens.
Aww!
I have to work.
I always have to miss these.
I only managed to catch part of the Monaco hangout, and that’s it.
So will Josh actually be playing this time, or does he just plan to hang out on a island for 300 turns until he gets a diplomatic victory?
luckily that doesn’t work in total war. Or at least it didn’t. I think they’re adding new victory conditions, actually, like an economic/trading one…
I don’t remember when I’m working on Tuesday, but I’m pretty sure it overlaps with this.
Oh well. :[
Pardon me if I’m behind the times or if this is incidental to some sort of contentious litigation, but what’s with the “Woogles” handle?
Did I miss you changing your name to Wilbricht Osricson Osterwald Gautstaff Lindenholme Edouard Siegismund?
Or is it a code for “wise opinions on games likely excite Shamus?”
I decided that JPH is really boring as far as Internet Names go.
I thought of Woogles from League of Legends, actually. There’s an item in it called Wooglet’s Witchcap and I called it Woogley for short as a joke, and then a friend of mine called it Woogles to take the joke further and it just cracked me up.
I’m currently in the process of making it my new internet name.
I was just writing “Woo I can attend this!” when I realised that I have two separate events on Tuesday evening.
So why was it scheduled for Tuesday and not Monday when Monday is a holiday?
Because said holiday is likely to be spent with family, not internet weirdos?
Well, there’s that.
And the game doesn’t come out until Tuesday.
This may be my foreignness showing, but errr…What holiday is September 2nd?!
National Beheading Day. Probably something that Caesar Reginaldus Cuftbertius will heartily celebrate.
It’s also apparently Labor Day, but I don’t think that’s a major one – it certainly wouldn’t be worth a day off. It’s also Vietnam’s Independence Day apparently.
Huh. I always thought Labour Day was May 1st the world over. Silly anti-socialist Americans :P
Enjoy the holiday, and remember: Belgian Tax Freedom Day is even later in the year than we already are now, at leasy ou’re working for your own gain by now :P
This is both a boon and a curse to me.
It is a boon because the timing means I can actually join the hangout and watch AFTER I’ve had some time to play the game myself on Tuesday (pre-loading the game now, as I am sure that sale isnt going to hang around once launch day arrives).
It is a curse because, well, the alarm clock goes off really early on Wednesday for me. Stupidreallifestupidwork….
This should be fun.
Ooooo! This will be a nice break from watching all the Spoiler Warning episodes while I’m at work.
I’m also curious to see Rome II after seeing the panel at PAX where two guys from Creative Assembly talked about accuracy vs fun in games like the Total War series.
links?
nvm