Downtown Khazan: Ice Cold Utopia

**Iron_Twister** · 08-26-2023, 11:46 AM

Bob Barker passed away.

99? Pretty amazing to reach that far. RIP

**master of read** · 08-26-2023, 02:39 PM

**Iron_Twister** · 08-26-2023, 02:46 PM

Originally Posted by master of read

I remember the days in high school where my pals and I joked that because of this scene, Bob is this super badass that can trade punches against Chewbacca.

**master of read** · 08-26-2023, 02:52 PM

Originally Posted by Iron_Twister

I remember the days in high school where my pals and I joked that because of this scene, Bob is this super badass that can trade punches against Chewbacca.

then he hosted raw and became a legend for wrestling fans.

**Postmania** · 08-26-2023, 03:37 PM

RIP

**master of read** · 08-26-2023, 04:08 PM

Originally Posted by Postmania

RIP

and they just keep coming this week.

**master of read** · 08-26-2023, 04:09 PM

remember that time hulk got funky and started wearing dreds? :P

**Iron_Twister** · 08-26-2023, 04:10 PM

...This is surprisingly a very tough week to conclude.

**bruceleegreyhulk** · 08-26-2023, 06:00 PM

**Iron_Twister** · 08-26-2023, 06:45 PM

You know what, gonna share another PS2 college days playthrough. This time, Romance of the Three Kingdoms 8.

I started a scenario of being one of many warlords in a coalition against the central government ran by a tyrant. Due to a ridiculous amount of luck, I captured said tyrant in a battle and with no hesitation executed him. The fallout of the event led to my forces capturing the capital and essentially becoming the Emperor's protector. Surprisingly, this made me untouchable as the other forces ignored me. So I slowly built a powerful empire that took half the country and it was only a matter of time I can negotiate the remaining scattered kingdoms to surrender.

Then my character died of old age.

My biggest mistake was to not play as my character's son and heir, but rather one of his closest friends during the early playthrough. My new character despite running the capital was treated poorly by the new leader that I felt that the game has essentially locked me into a dead end task that could never be accomplished and was waiting to get me into even more of a crappy situation. After attempts to build a friendship had failed too many times...I decided to call for a coup. I seized the capital but the new ruler fled to the nearby city and I only got 6 guys under me. This meant I'm literally not in a good spot. However, I realized something.

1. The Empire had admittedly became weaker over the years since the previous character died. It's essentially a paper tiger at the borders.

2. The remaining kingdoms are still there.

3. I have the capital with the Emperor. Other than my new enemy, no one has the balls still to touch my only city.

So I negotiated a massive coalition against the empire my previous character had created and the lesser kingdoms suddenly began to swarm and take as much land as they can while I settled my grudge against my nemesis who I set on fire in a battle and heard later he died of his wounds leaving the empire in total disarray as various kingdoms became stronger and then later turned on each other stronger than ever.

So I created an empire for hours...Then completely destroyed it out of pure spite towards the computer.

...Damn.