Things to do during the Storepocalypse

kyoto kid

McGyver said:

Peter Wade said:

McGyver said:

The Blurst of Times said:

Crusader Queens :) (Paradox's Crusader Kings 3)... as Daurama, I was able to build the kingdom of Hausaland...err, Queendom. I survived assassination attempts from my former husband's Concubine (that fesking c-unit). I spun off some of my holdings to my sons, but Hausaland is a matrilinear/female-preferred society for inheritance, similar to the historical Hausa people in the Daura region. So my daughter will be the main inheritor for Hausaland.

I kind of want to punch through Oyo, claim Yorubaland, and get to the coast. Then, I'd run through the nascent Mali empire to the West (including Ghana). My natural "Empire" is to the East, though. Punching East would run into Kush/Abyssinia, which then runs up against the Islamic empires in North Africa. For the game achievement, I also need to spread the Bori religion throughout Africa (which also means displacing the Islamic and Christian groups, not to mention non-Bori African faiths... going to be a long, hard road).

It's a good challenge compared to playing as Vikings, who are super easy, IMO. Building an empire from a matriarchal African tribe is a little harder, although not that much harder since the game is pretty easy.

 

Before all these online world builder/alternate history/strategic simulation games came out the next best thing to do was dress hamsters up in period correct costumes and have them act out famous battles and pivotal moments in world history... 

I know that some people go with monkeys or apes because they can hold things better and the costumes are easier to make, but with hamsters your overall material costs are lower and for the epic battles you need less open space... but even I tapped out by the time I got to the battle of midway...

Carrier based sea battles are definitely not a hamster's strong point.

Finding a lake that was large enough wasn't so bad, but hamsters can't fly for shiznit and they just flew into everything and both fleets just crashed into each other, caught fire and sank... luckily hamsters will inflate their cheeks and use them as life preservers to swim to safety.

Too bad most of the parks around here banned me from my "historic simulations"... this would be a good time for such a distraction.

Sounds like a great project to pass some time. Did you ever consider going for smaller species to save space? I my youth I used to read american comics and they had adverts for Sea Monkeys. They certainly looked the part. In the ads they wore crowns, sat on thrones, held tridents. I'm sure they could be trained to fight ancient battles. Maybe being underwater would slow things down so you could watch the battles in slow motion. You couldn't buy them in the UK so I never had the chance to try.

Ah, yes... Sea Monkeys... 

The epitome of truth in advertising... 

Truly a "Bowl full of Happiness".

Mine were neither "frolicsome" nor "like a pack of friendly trained seals"... 

In fact within 48 hours of them "instantly" hatching, they were attempting a coup... luckily, despite being well armed they failed to achieve their goals of world domination... apparently one of the packets you were supposed to add to the water contained tiny weapons and armor.

Try as I might, I was never able to bargain with then and eventually they chose to die rather than submit to my demands for them to bring smiles and laughter to my home.

Also, it was less of a choice to die rather than to submit than they have ridiculously short life spans and are more fatally clumsy than frolicsome.

In the end I replaced them with some radioactive ants that were supposed to be more entertaining...

They weren't...

..Them,  Egads I still remember that film. 

Mistara

Eden Evergreen said:

Dusted off EmotiGuy, and had him show how I'm feeling.

He's green partly because, well, "Eden Evergreen" ... and partly because I'm not feeling well today.

does emodiguy have feelings for the green MnM?

The Blurst of Times

Mystiarra said:

Eden Evergreen said:

Dusted off EmotiGuy, and had him show how I'm feeling.

He's green partly because, well, "Eden Evergreen" ... and partly because I'm not feeling well today.

does emodiguy have feelings for the green MnM?

Not coincidentally, as I was playing my Daurama Daura/"Mother of us all" playthrough in Crusader Kings (she rolled up identifying as bisexual), her Daughter & Heir began a seduction plot targeting her.

Good ol' Crusader Kings. There's a whole reddit dedicated to the crazy things that pop up in this series.

(Best Game of Thrones simulator ever. Definitely have the Lannister twins/Targaryen thing already coded in the system.)

/conquered Igboland, now I need to crush Yorubaland to make sure my other daughter doesn't have to fight a more powerful neighbor in the next generation...