Author Topic: Unknown Armies (always recruiting) (Read 15416 times)

Blythe · « **Reply #425 on:** March 22, 2014, 10:19:12 PM »

Oh, good. ^^

darras · « **Reply #426 on:** March 29, 2014, 01:03:15 PM »

I'm back from the wetlands that are the UK! Stocked up on beer and cheddar and good to go

Remiel · « **Reply #427 on:** March 29, 2014, 02:54:45 PM »

Thank God you escaped that hellhole alive.

I mean, welcome back, darras.

Blythe · « **Reply #428 on:** April 03, 2014, 03:26:10 PM »

Welcome back, darras. ^^

Also--will work on a reply for this game sometime today or tomorrow!

Sorry about the continued wait, guys. RL has not been pretty at the moment, so I'll try to post when I can in the IC.

Kythia · « **Reply #429 on:** April 15, 2014, 08:20:27 PM »

I'm really sorry guys. Stupidly busy at work and quitting a 30/40 a day smoking habit has left me feeling shitty and with no concentration at all, really struggling to string posts together. I'm aware I'm holding everything up, and I'll be with it as soon as I possibly can, I promise.

Very sorry

Blythe · « **Reply #430 on:** April 15, 2014, 08:28:35 PM »

*pats Kythia on the back*

Considering it took me what, two weeks-ish to figure out my last IC post, I don't think you're holding things up. ^^;

Some of that honor belongs to me. I iz slow poster.

Remiel · « **Reply #431 on:** April 15, 2014, 08:30:18 PM »

No worries, Kythia. Real life always comes first. We're all pulling for you that you beat the grip of nasty icky nicotine.

darras · « **Reply #432 on:** April 16, 2014, 08:40:42 AM »

Likewise no worries! Real life happens and kicking cigarettes is a bitch and a half..

Kythia · « **Reply #433 on:** April 22, 2014, 06:36:23 AM »

Holy fucking shit, we have forward motion. Sorry about that guys and thanks for bearing with me. Back to normal now, or at least until the World Cup.

darras · « **Reply #434 on:** April 22, 2014, 02:07:04 PM »

Hurray you're back! Hope you had a good chocolate weekend at least

Kythia · « **Reply #435 on:** April 22, 2014, 04:42:50 PM »

So so. Chocolate, Church, beer and Moyes is gone but we went down 2-1 to the giant killing machine that is fucking Swansea. I can't reliably point to Swansea on a map (well, I can, I just refuse to) and they beat us.

darras · « **Reply #436 on:** April 23, 2014, 02:29:37 AM »

The positive side to Swansea is that they are slightly less Welsh than the rest of Wales. Still, no less humiliating I assume

Blythe · « **Reply #437 on:** May 09, 2014, 01:42:49 PM »

Ugh, will try to do an IC post soon (either today or tomorrow). Sorry for the lack of posting on my part again, guys. >_<

Kythia · « **Reply #438 on:** May 09, 2014, 03:16:54 PM »

Quote from: Blythe on May 09, 2014, 01:42:49 PM

Ugh, will try to do an IC post soon (either today or tomorrow). Sorry for the lack of posting on my part again, guys. >_<

No worries. Remiel's been away for a bit anyway so I've just frozen you two.

darras · « **Reply #439 on:** May 11, 2014, 01:28:01 PM »

Oooh is that a new avatar Remiel? Or have I just been really inattentive.. Either way, it's real nice.

Kythia · « **Reply #440 on:** May 11, 2014, 01:29:47 PM »

New avi?

*slopes off to turn avatars back on*

I'm posting now. I am, I promise. I can hear you mentally whinging at me for being shit. Will 2 xp each placate you?

Remiel · « **Reply #441 on:** May 11, 2014, 01:42:48 PM »

Quote from: darras on May 11, 2014, 01:28:01 PM

Oooh is that a new avatar Remiel? Or have I just been really inattentive.. Either way, it's real nice.

Thanks! It's the same person as before (Colin O'Donoghue, who plays Captain Hook / Killean Jones from Once Upon a Time) but I think this avi is much sexier, wouldn't you agree?

darras · « **Reply #442 on:** May 12, 2014, 12:49:22 PM »

Aaah that's where I've seen the face before. I agree whole heartedly, there's something in the eyes that's very magnetic. Excuse me while I go drool in the corner

darras · « **Reply #443 on:** May 12, 2014, 12:49:55 PM »

Quote from: Kythia on May 11, 2014, 01:29:47 PM

New avi?

*slopes off to turn avatars back on*

I'm posting now. I am, I promise. I can hear you mentally whinging at me for being shit. Will 2 xp each placate you?

And ooo xp! *placated*

Blythe · « **Reply #444 on:** May 12, 2014, 12:52:26 PM »

Quote from: Kythia on May 11, 2014, 01:29:47 PM

Will 2 xp each placate you?

....I am susceptible to XP bribes. *nodnod*

Consider me placated.

Remiel · « **Reply #445 on:** May 12, 2014, 01:07:17 PM »

I would be better placated if you guys loaned us Gerrard, Lampard and Rooney. *worries about the US escaping the Group of Death*

Kythia · « **Reply #446 on:** May 12, 2014, 02:27:42 PM »

Quote from: Remiel on May 12, 2014, 01:07:17 PM

I would be better placated if you guys loaned us Gerrard, Lampard and Rooney. *worries about the US escaping the Group of Death*

This again? I keep telling you, you're using the phrase Group of Death wrong. Group B has much better teams and Group D much harder games, there isn't really a true Group of Death this cup. We've been through this several times already haven't we?

Remiel · « **Reply #447 on:** May 12, 2014, 02:58:04 PM »

Pfffft. Chile, while good, is not the world power that Brazil and Argentina are; and while Costa Rica and Uruguay are plucky, you lot should have no trouble defeating them.

We, meanwhile, have to face juggernauts Germany, Portugal (with arguably the #1 player in the world), and Ghana, who beat us the last two World Cup outings. You might argue that the United States is not the same calibre as South America or Europe, and you'd probably be right, except we won CONCACAAF handily.

Kythia · « **Reply #448 on:** May 12, 2014, 03:12:33 PM »

Quote from: Remiel on May 12, 2014, 02:58:04 PM

Pfffft. Chile, while good, is not the world power that Brazil and Argentina are; and while Costa Rica and Uruguay are plucky, you lot should have no trouble defeating them.

We, meanwhile, have to face juggernauts Germany, Portugal (with arguably the #1 player in the world), and Ghana, who beat us the last two World Cup outings. You might argue that the United States is not the same calibre as South America or Europe, and you'd probably be right, except we won CONCACAAF handily.

All that tells us is that the US isn't (yet) good enough to guarantee a place in the final 16. You're not in a group of death, you're just slightly outmatched by the competition. The point is, no one outside of the Portuguese, Americans and Ghanese thinks the World Cup would be harmed by the absence of those countries in the final 16. Its a crap shoot for a second place that no one cares about.

Being beaten twice by Ghana makes you bad, not Ghana good (they're sat 37th in the ELO rankings). Might as well point out that Australia have been beaten by Iran. The exact same split as the Group G teams could be had from Croatia, Czechia, Australia and Norway. Look at it in those terms. Croatia would obviously go through and there would be a toss up between Czechia and Australia. Doesn't make it a tough group, makes it a group with one world class team, two on the high side of mediocre and one on the low side.

Every nation always thinks they have the hardest group - the English press is saying exactly the same thing. The issue with your group is that you're not quite good enough to guarantee a place, not that the group is hard.

There isn't a Group of Death this cup. There doesn't have to be one, it's entirely random.

Kythia · « **Reply #449 on:** May 12, 2014, 03:24:47 PM »

Oh and incidentally - you heard it here first:

We go out 2-1 to the Netherlands on 4/7 (I have tickets for that match, actually. Last one before we come home). Spain win.