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This is my first post, so I apologize if anything is wrong.

I decided to consider some moments of the Great Patriotic War. I think there will be many more articles dedicated to the holiday. The topic I decided to touch upon is overused… not to say how. But still, I decided to remember what I heard, saw and read, and put it together.

Preventive war

The German attack is a preventive measure to prevent the USSR from invading Western Europe.

Let’s remember the game War Front: Turning Point. The Cold War between Germany and the United States ends as Soviet troops begin to march across Europe. “What nonsense!“I decided at the beginning. And then I thought… Germany occupies all of Europe. This plays into Stalin’s hands. He understood who stood for the transformation of Germany, downtrodden after 1918, into a powerful power. According to Stalin’s plans, the Reich was supposed to capture England and move into Asia. So the German troops would be stretched thin, and uprisings would break out in the occupied territories. We get a colossus with feet of clay. And these legs would have been broken by the Soviet army, which would have become not an aggressor, but a liberator of all oppressed Europe.

Of course, War Front is a crapshoot, but as they say, there is some truth in every joke, despite the distortion of everything and everyone. Ultimately, Hitler had to understand that the Union could strike at the most inopportune moment. At least the Red Army was preparing for war. But only for an offensive war, and not as a non-defensive one (they weren’t even allowed to think about that).

Regarding the alliance of the USA, Great Britain and Germany. Such a balance of power could have taken place. After all, the war was started with the goal of weakening the USSR and, at the same time, Germany. And then Albion and America would dictate their terms to them. And when the Red Army drove the Nazis into their lair, the question arose about providing assistance to Germany from Britain and the USA. There is a book by Sergei Anisimov “Encore”. A similar state of affairs plays out there.

Germany’s capture of Russia would have a positive impact on the Russian people

Why Germany attacked the USSR is clear to everyone. This is both racial politics and the need for resources, and the Reich could not just keep someone who could attack it at its borders. But Hitler, his own generals, kept him from such actions. Only chance intervened in everything. The Germans occupied Yugoslavia without encountering much resistance. The Yugoslavs hoped that if they surrendered, the Germans would treat them more gently. Only after this Hitler decided that all Slavs are cowards. And the warriors among them are useless. So already at this stage we couldn’t expect any good from the invaders.

What would happen if Germany captured the entire territory of the USSR?

There will be more Slavs than Germans. Consequently, the Germans would not have been able to dissolve in themselves. Blue-eyed and blond-haired children would have been taken to Germany (this is actually what happened) for assimilation. The rest would be driven into concentration camps or sent to the mines.

And don’t forget what the Nazis did to those who ended up in concentration camps. The fat was melted down into soap, the skin was used for gloves, and the hair was used for wigs.

“The weather was beautiful, which the Russians for some reason dubbed Indian summer. They called their women women, but why the warm days of October were called their summer, un-Lebbel could not understand. The teachers at school were right: Russians are a stupid and inconsistent people. In the life of this strange people, two incompatible things played an important role – vodka and women. At least all the stories that un-Lebbel heard about Russians concerned vodka and women. And fights. The Russians considered themselves skilled fighters, although un-Lebbel could easily kill a dozen attackers in hand-to-hand combat if they were Russian. However, among them there were unique specimens possessing bear-like strength and snake-like agility. Once, while on leave, un-Lebbel and his comrades had to assist the civil authorities in apprehending a violent Russian. Hans still did not understand whether this Russian was an urban partisan, of whom, however, there were fewer and fewer every year, or whether he simply came into conflict with the auxiliary police over a drunken shop. But the fact remains that before Hans and five comrades from the team managed to subdue the violent Russian, he killed six civilians, and two of un-Lebbel’s comrades also had to be sent to the hospital with broken arms and a concussion. Nevertheless, such people were rare among Russians, and there were few sober ones among them – vodka for Russians was sold in every store and even in street kiosks and cost mere pfennigs.”.

"Half-Breed" Sergei Sinyakin

Stalin is shocked

The attack of Nazi Germany on the USSR was a blow for Stalin. As they said in one program: “Stalin was a Georgian. And he got used to living according to the laws of the mountaineers. Therefore, Hitler’s betrayal came as a real shock to him.”. Joseph Vissarionovich fell into depression and spent several days at his dacha. Therefore, it was not he who addressed the people, speaking about the beginning of the war.

But this story was invented by Khrushchev to debunk the cult of Stalin. In fact, the leader of the peoples was sitting in his office and conferring with the command. Proof: log of visits to Stalin’s office. And the fact that he wasn’t the one speaking was due to his, let’s say, modesty. He didn’t like public speaking. And if he spoke, then the people, most likely, would only be more frightened, considering that things were very bad.

Without the help of the allies, the USSR would not have survived / The USSR would have won without the help of the allies

Lack of confidence in one’s own abilities or mischief?

The defenders of the Brest Fortress held https://playcozacasino.co.uk/withdrawal/ the defense for more than a month. It took the Germans so much time to capture all of Poland (if the invasion began on September 1, and the last units of the Polish army capitulated on October 6).

Blitzkrieg failed even before the Battle of Moscow. Hitler’s plans were thwarted near Smolensk. Thanks to this event, the Japanese did not dare to attack the USSR. And Soviet aviation already bombed Berlin in August 1941.

What about coalition allied countries?? They opened a second front. But when? 1943 in Italy and in 1944 landed in Normandy (it is often forgotten that in addition to the Americans, the British, French and Canadians landed). The Allies began such full-scale actions, seeing the successes of the Red Army and fearing the capture of Europe no longer by the fascists, but by the communists. Of course, the British distracted the Germans’ attention to their colonies, and the Americans occupied the Japanese. But perhaps this is not the main thing. The main thing is the agreement on arms supplies to the USSR,

American aircraft arrived in the USSR under Lend-Lease. Pokryshkin flew the P-39 Airacobra. Soldiers and civilians ate American stew, nicknamed "Second Front". The famous BM-13 (“Katyusha”) was based on the Studebaker platform. Along with Soviet tanks, American tanks destroyed Wehrmacht armored vehicles. And we can’t forget about moral support.

So the question is not: “Would we be able to win??" Question: "At what cost? Would they be able to reach Berlin after expelling the invaders from the territory of the USSR??»

"Not a step back!»

Order No. 227, known as "Not a Step Back"!", is often perceived as one of the reasons for the failures of the Red Army. Meanwhile, everyone was waiting for this order. He said that the command and the government monitor the situation, morale, discipline and, so to speak, do not let anyone down.

In Call of Duty, in the first mission for the USSR, there is a moment with a commissar shooting everyone who retreats. In reality, the barrier detachments did not organize such meat grinders. In general, there are a lot of myths about penal battalions. I recently learned that there is even a myth about women’s penal battalions (I saw a documentary about penal battalions in fits and starts the other day, but due to the fact that I was preparing for an exam, I didn’t remember the name of the program and when exactly it was shown).

Those who were captured by Germans were not sent to penal battalions. They were usually given some kind of "probation" (usually related to intelligence, making them double agents), after which they were no longer picked on. In general, most of the Soviet prisoners of war who sided with the Nazis fled to their own people at the first opportunity.

The weapons of the Allied countries and Germany were superior to the Soviet ones / Soviet weapons were perfect

You can compare weapons for a very, very long time. In the end, it is not the one who has the best weapons who wins, but the one who uses the weapons better. So let’s consider only some points related to the arsenals of the parties.

In terms of small arms, we can talk about a certain balance between the parties. When they talk about a Soviet soldier, I think many people imagine him with a PPSh in his hands (in Red Alert 2, Soviet soldiers did not part with him even in the 70s). In Call of Duty 2, for the sake of balance, the PPSh-41, due to its high rate of fire and 71-round magazine, was inferior in terms of lethality to the MP-40. In reality, the PPSh was more powerful than the MP-40. It was inferior to the Thompson with 40 caliber. But the PPSh-41 had many shortcomings. It was heavy and had a high ammo consumption. And for each machine there were only two magazines. The clips from one PPSh-41 did not fit into another PPSh. The more successful PPS-42 is not so famous. This machine gun was lighter than the MP-40, had a decent firing range and a not so large clip (besides, there were no problems with the “uniqueness” of the magazines). The downside is the lack of ability to shoot single. But Soviet intelligence officers loved this machine gun and called it the best machine gun of World War II.

The most interesting weapons of the Germans. There are infrared sights of the “Vampire” system (something similar was depicted in Mortyr 2093 – 1944), and rifles that shoot around corners, and guided projectiles and much, much more. But all these experimental guns, worthy of taking a place in the cabinets of Übersoldaten from Wolfenstein, did not have time to become widespread. Many of them were rejected. But quite a few technologies (the Hornet Go-229 aircraft or such a seemingly simple invention as wings slightly laid back) subsequently played a significant role in the development of military technologies.

In the game War Front: Turning Point, Soviet tanks are inferior to German and allied ones. But in reality, German medium tanks did not have high performance. It was difficult for them to resist the Soviets. There was a time when several KVs shot at a column of enemy armored vehicles, receiving only a few dents from the shells. About the T-34 is a separate conversation. A German artilleryman told how, after a direct hit, only a dent remained on the T-34’s armor, and the tank continued to push towards enemy positions.

The famous "Tigers" and "Panthers" were quite unreliable. During the Battle of Kursk, many tanks broke down even before the battle (some say that flying saucers are to blame for everything). Such a thing as the fact that large rollers covering each other negatively affected the characteristics of the tank. Well, the advantages of these tanks disappeared when our tankers began close combat. So the turret of the T-34 rotates faster than that of the Tiger.

The British only got good tanks towards the end of the war. Before that they used mainly American tanks. The USA supplied its tanks under Lend-Lease to the USSR. Our tankers appreciated this technique, although they noted its low maneuverability. But our pilots were especially happy about American aircraft. In addition to the fact that at the beginning of the war the USSR lost quite a few aircraft and now needed to make up for the losses, American aircraft also had impressive firepower.

We can say that the USSR had very good weapons. But after the first German attacks, a lot of equipment was destroyed and the situation is reminiscent of today: the weapons are excellent, but what good are they if there are only two of them in the whole country?? At the same time, the army did not have many necessary things at all. For example, the command did not pay enough attention to mountain riflemen, and at the time of the war they did not even have special glasses and did not have enough cats. The Germans initially did not have such problems. And, it is worth noting, at the beginning they won many battles, being inferior in number to Soviet troops.

But our command was gaining experience. It’s worth at least remembering the breakthrough of the front in Belarus – “Operation Bagration”. Ours reached the Germans where the command did not expect them (Hitler had information about a possible attack in that area, but did not attach much importance to them). When infantry and even tanks passed through the swamps. And in no case should we forget about ordinary Soviet soldiers.

It’s not just soldiers who fight in war. War is also a confrontation between propaganda machines.

At the beginning of the war in the USSR, propaganda was not given much importance. It was said that it was Hitler who forced the German people to go to war. That is, the old slogans were used that everything was to blame for the “oppressors”. Soviet soldiers often did not shoot first, thinking that if the enemy was a worker/peasant, then they could negotiate with him. But in the Union they understood by what rules the war for people’s minds is now going on. And the slogans “Kill the German” appeared!». Many said that this slogan (as well as order No. 277) were needed in the current conditions.

Of course, this slogan could be one of the reasons that Soviet soldiers tried to take revenge on the German population. "Kill the German!" must have been some kind of trigger. There is a film “Three days of Lieutenant Kravtsov”. There, one of the heroes reflects on what will happen when he gets to Berlin. “I won’t forgive you,” he says. And our soldiers had frequent breakdowns when they entered a German house and simply started shooting everything: furniture, walls, windows. Naturally, they were punished for this. And there were people who liked to shoot captured Germans. Of course, it’s easy to say that this is all bad and immoral. But if you imagine that some Germans, because of some incomprehensible and stupid ideals, are burning your village with all your relatives, then you don’t know how you will act when you meet the Germans. So perhaps it’s worth not reproaching those who went through the war for wanting to take revenge on the Germans. They should be respected for the fact that they behaved with dignity. Not like those they fought against.

As one historian said: “Kill the German!"This is a cry of despair".

The year has struck, the turn has come,
Today we are responsible
For Russia, for the people
And for everything in the world.
From Ivan to Thomas,
Dead or alive,
All of us together are us,
That people, Russia.
And because this is us,
I’ll tell you, brothers,
Us out of this mess
Nowhere to go.
You can’t say here: I’m not me,
I don’t know anything,
You can’t prove that it’s yours
Today the house is on the edge.
It’s not a big deal for you
Think alone.
Bomb is a fool. Will hit
Foolishly straight to the point.
Forget yourself in war,
Remember the honor, however,
Get to work – chest to chest,
A fight means a fight.
And I won’t fail to admit,
I’ll give my assessment,
It’s not like in the old days, wall to wall.
It’s not like a fist here:
Let’s see whose heftiest – I would even say this:
It’s much worse here..
Well, what to judge about that – Everything is clear to the point.
It is necessary, brothers, to beat the German,
Don’t give a reprieve.
"Vasily Terkin. About war" Alexander Tvardovsky

"They want to destroy America!»

Such exclamations can be heard in various films and games. In Turning Point: Fall of Liberty, for example. German troops land in America and meet fierce resistance.

Everybody knows Henry Ford. But does everyone know that his portrait hung in Hitler’s office and he called Ford “American Fuhrer”? Ford was largely Hitler’s inspiration. Plus actively helped with the technological base. And not only him.

Even if you don’t count the columns of pro-fascists marching through the streets of New York, it’s enough to remember racial discrimination. Some of these moments can be seen in BioShock Infinite.

All Germans are evil / None of the Germans wanted to fight

“The Germans are an intelligent, educated and civilized people. How can they do this?“- this was probably one of the main questions among Soviet citizens.

The reasons for the war are clear. Humiliation after the First World War, revanchist sentiments, Hitler’s charisma (his speeches with waving his arms and screams look strange and even funny, but in fact they helped him quite well to win the hearts of citizens) and the help of, let’s say, countries that the USSR, to put it mildly, interfered with. But the actions of German soldiers themselves are sometimes impossible to understand.

Naturally, there were many German soldiers who were only thinking about how to quickly return to their homeland. Germans who did not understand why they had to kill people simply because they were a different people. I have heard more than once about smart and educated Germans who, if possible, even helped the Russians.

Unfortunately, now they like to whitewash everyone indiscriminately. But how many cases have there been of executions of not just civilians, but children (for example, the execution of refugees in the steppe near Stalingrad, when many children died). And the “hunt for people” of German pilots (they forced them to throw themselves to the ground and shot so as not to kill, but to seriously scare or injure). Well, I already mentioned the concentration camps.

Unfortunately, it was not even the Germans who were responsible for many of the bloody deeds, but our brothers – the Balts, Hungarians, Romanians and other Slavic peoples (well, the Germans are also not very distant relatives for us, if you think about it). For example, the atrocities of the 2nd Hungarian Army in Voronezh. But what’s even more terrible is that many atrocities were not even directed against Russians, but against Lithuanians, Latvians, Estonians like them… And only because they were suspected of having connections with the communists and to curry favor with the invaders. The latter did not particularly favor any Slavic peoples. Of course, many of them were anti-fascists and fought on the side of the Red Army.

In general, if you look at the actions of Nazi Germany, you can see that many of the monstrous acts of the main bastards shown in movies and video games have already taken place in history. For example, they once said in Novosti that the Wehrmacht did not shy away from feeding its soldiers drugs. This is of course not Haze level yet, but the fact itself is important.

To summarize, we can say that despite all the hardships and adversities, our grandfathers and great-grandfathers stood with honor and victory rightfully belongs to them.

Unfortunately, I don’t remember who said: “If you are not proud of your history, then at least accept it.”. I don’t think there’s anything to argue about here.

Now we know in this world
There is no room for fatalism
His laws were broader
More complex than the movements of the planets
We can only know the probability
Only chance is complete sir
Of all the possible scenarios
He presents us with one
Among the many potential
There’s only one real way
And what happened
Can’t wash it off, can’t cross it out
But if they reproduced
Exactly old years
Then predict the next plot
We couldn’t even then
techno-opera “2032: Legend of the Unfulfilled Future”

I have always believed that the true reasons for Russia’s victories are not even in skilled gunsmiths, a large territory and huge human resources. It’s all derived from two things. The first is love for one’s native land. And secondly, as the main character of the film “Brother 2” (and before him Alexander Nevsky from the film of the same name) said: “Strength is in truth”. I would add that not just in truth, but in Truth.

Can avid fans Dungeons & Dragons create an exciting RPG for computers? Is interactive entertainment capable of conveying the passions that simmer in the company of live gamers?? And is the return of “role-playing games” to their tabletop ancestors really a progress?? Employees of the independent studio will answer any questions Tactical Adventures answer in the affirmative. And as an argument they offer to go through a short (even too much) demo Solasta: Crown of the Magister. But is the crown according to the master??

"The best computer RPG in history"

You laugh, but this is exactly the future the development manager predicts for his brainchild Mathieu Girard (Mathieu Girard), which he clearly stated in his announcing video diary. So let’s not joke – people are trying. Meet the crown of labor and the revolution of the genre. After all, no one has ever collected four characters in one game: a knight, an archer, a mage and a healer. And it has never happened before that this entire quartet descended into a gloomy dungeon infested with orcs and spiders. Never-before-seen conversations between elves and dwarves are shaking the foundations of fantasy, and saving a person in trouble is completely new for an RPG. Can you smell the spirit of change??

The missing poor fellow, by the way, is called Hector, and he climbed into the catacombs of the imperial ruins for a reason. But his name and motives, as well as the plot about the next end of the world, are not very important, because the main task of the demo is to reveal the features of the gameplay. It, according to the authors, is inspired by board games and offers much more features than any Pillars of Eternity or Divinity: Original Sin. IN Tactical Adventures focus on three key features of their work.

First of all – on https://placardptcasino.co.uk/withdrawal/ a vertical location device. Even underground there are all sorts of stairs, ivy-covered walls and non-obvious passages through which you can get to a lower or higher level – somewhat reminiscent of Moria depicted in the film "The Lord of the Rings". Thanks to this solution, it was possible to create interesting traps: for example, you step on a rotten bridge made of wood, and it collapses. Usually in RPGs this leads to death, but in Solasta It is enough to use the levitation spell in time to calmly land on the floor below. Architecture is also important in battles: an archer on a hill works more efficiently, and if a guard is trampling under a boulder, the enemy can probably be pinned down with a block of stone by pushing it from a height.

Well thought out, but there is a problem. And the most obvious one is an inconvenient camera. It rarely allows you to fully assess the situation and consider the details. But every now and then the floors of the completed floors get into the frame, the lens falls somewhere into the rock and refuses to give a scene important for the passage from one angle. Here’s an example: in the catacombs you need to open a door by dropping a stone on it. But if you missed the first element of the puzzle and collected the characters near the treasured door, pointing the camera at the “ram” will no longer work. Although he is in the same room, just a little higher. And go figure, is this a script glitch or is it intended.

Enemies are not happy with the vertical levels: the AI-controlled spiders became dull and crowded on the walls, blocking each other’s line of fire.

The second feature of the gameplay is lighting. The point is not that the underground palaces are shrouded in eye-rolling darkness, which can only be dispelled by light from a torch or a magic staff. No, fire is tactically important: without it you can act covertly, and with it you can deal more damage to creatures of the night, such as spiders. And then, having divided the characters for any purpose, you need to make sure that everyone has lighting devices. Otherwise, there is a high risk of missing a treasure chest or getting lost in the darkness between three pillars.

Finally, a lot of attention was paid to the characters. For each character, they came up with a model of behavior, so in the dialogues there is a choice of a couple of lines from different people, and not from the group leader. Let’s say, a thug in armor is always in favor of solving problems by force and “It’s good to talk, let’s get out of here,” the elf is cunning and self-interested, and the magician usually throws in a middle solution – he panders to both ours and yours. However, a formidable big guy would look more interesting in the role of the most cautious party member – it’s a pity, and here the “industry veterans” think in stereotypes.

Not great, but not terrible either

IN Solasta There are a lot of nice little things: how about, for example, the ability to build bridges by dropping columns onto crevices?? But stirring up such minds in 2019 is a fool’s errand. On the other hand, the battles are really interesting: they are turn-based, in the spirit of “Move – Attack”, and in them each fighter also has a role. One takes a blow and really cuts with a sword, while the other is better hidden in a corner so that he can act at a distance. Nobody bothers you to use shelters, vials of potions and spell scrolls grabbed along the way, but they are of little use. But the blows, magic and skills that the heroes are endowed with from the very beginning are much stronger – that’s why they are released on coupons, in strictly limited quantities.

The party takes on the first battle fully armed, so it seems too powerful for the attacking weaklings. He threw a series of fireballs, flashed lightning, healed one of his allies – and the danger was gone. Only now, having used up all the ammunition, the next time you find yourself in an unenviable situation, especially if the opponents are outnumbered. And there is only one solution – they forgot to rest. To replenish strength between fights, the team can take a break. The short one restores skills partially, and the long one restores skills completely. But you can’t pitch a tent around every turn, because this requires food supplies. As a result, you have to plan your steps more carefully, saving your trump cards for the final battles.

Judging by the demo, "the best RPG in history" Solasta will never happen, even if they add a choice of races, a dozen endings and Keanu Reeves (Keanu Reeves). The developers think too standard when creating the world, heroes, enemies and scenario. But before the release there is still time to come up with more adventures and at the same time correct technical errors. Then Crown of the Magister may not be a masterpiece, but it will be a good role-playing game, which will not be a sin to while away an evening or two.

I bought this anthology in the store closest to my home back in 20XX (it seems the purchase took place after 2008). And if playing WWE RAW was, to put it mildly, unpleasant and inconvenient (and, to put it simply, disgusting, but since this was the only game in the series released on personal computers at that time, there was no point in complaining), Mortal Combatik won me over with the amount of work done and playability. Of course, I went online to find out how such a miracle was done, because it’s a no-brainer that it wasn’t the original creators of the series who did their best here, which means there’s some kind of secret hidden here from fan crafters. I downloaded Street Fighter vs Mortal Kombat, and then, having delved into the insides of the game, I was able to remove unnecessary characters from there and insert my own. And then off we go. I started building my own fighting game with blackjack and Sonya Blade. This activity instilled in me a love for fighting games, as well as for collecting them and collecting everything related to it. And please note that this program was mastered without any problems by a teapot like me. She allowed me to plunge into her world and study the mechanics and essence of the massacre genre. Convenience, simplicity and a huge amount of all kinds of content were hidden behind the cover of a strange hodgepodge of unbalanced and varied fighting games, fighters, musical themes and arenas. How can you call something so awkward and frivolous a fighting game engine?? Is it even possible to make a high-quality craft based on it?? Let’s find out with you.

Back cover of the box with this game. I just couldn’t say no to Motaro and Steve Austin

I’ll start with the https://basebetcasino.co.uk/mobile-app/ definition of the word MUGEN. It has Japanese roots. Translated as dream, fantasy, infinity, etc.d. Limitless possibilities even with a simple definition, although I’m used to the mysterious side of the Japanese soul, but here at least they didn’t decide to dodge and come up with something on the verge. The engine was released on July 17, 1999 by the Elecbyte studio in the C programming language using the Allegro libraries. From time to time they return to their brainchild and update it, and also add features, such as working on Linux and new versions of Windows. In the beginning there was an empty library with a character they created called Kung Fu Dude and an arena intended for training. The engine developers left everything else up to the conscience of the player and other programmers. Considering that MUGEN is free, there are a lot of people who want to touch this creation. They even asked permission from Capcom and SNK to use sprites of their game characters. They gave the go-ahead with great pleasure. Abbreviation M.U.G.E.N doesn’t really mean anything, or so the creators themselves say, but in the Readme files you can find references to the flying shooter genre (and not to fighting games, as one might initially think).

What the pirates didn’t offer back then, from emulated games to the snowy Gta San Andreas. However, it can be easy to find pearls and rare copies of unknown games and mods there.

(There was a Flash player, but since 2020 Flash is not supported by browsers)

What does the engine offer to a novice programmer and fighting game fan?? Space for creativity, this is, firstly. Secondly, basic features for those who want to create their own fighting game. There are different game modes: training, arcade mode, player versus player, watching computer versus computer battles and options. There are even internal modes: single, cooperative (provides the player who chooses this mode with a computer-controlled partner) and variable (for each new round, up to three people are involved in waiting for the next round, like in King of Fighters). The game engine allows anyone (no exceptions)!) a person can add and modify everything at will. If you just want to introduce new fighters, increase the number of their lives, add arenas, background music or even the appearance of the menu, as well as an intro or storyline, all this can be done even without understanding basic programming techniques (just read a couple of manuals or FAQ and you will become a master). Create sprites or take ready-made ones as a basis, as well as adjust balance and mechanics – in fact, you can do everything. Another thing is that the engine is not ideal in what it provides and those who work in it do not quite make quality products. Mugen is rather weak in power, can crash from time to time and takes a long time to load. You will almost never see true balance. There are many characters on the Internet with the power of gods and disgusting animation quality. Copies of characters known to us that are already close to the original may be far from what they were originally (I’m not talking about the fact that they may lack certain techniques and animations). Sometimes you can perform endless combos by pinning your opponent in a corner. All this gave rise to a bad opinion about Mugen. A silly hodgepodge where Peter Griffin fights the Simpsons or something like that. Simple fun, but not a serious contender for the title of a real fighting game. And even I am inclined to assume that this engine helps introduce people to the world of fighting games and acquaint them with the essence and mechanics, but creating a 100% good fight based on it is a difficult task and, in connection with the rumors about Mugen, not rewarding.

Here is the game The Black Heart made by one person named Andrés Borghi. It is a full-fledged fighting game that does not look like a hodgepodge or other engine-based fake. I already wrote about it in my review, so I’ll just say that this is a good example of how you can competently approach the creation of a game and produce workable game with mechanics and your own style, as well as gain fame in narrow circles. And this is not an isolated example. Here’s also Project Catch ‘Em All, where you can choose Pokemon as fighters, but the battle itself takes place, as in the original series, in a step-by-step mode with the ability for the trainer to choose attack teams. As you can see, Mugen allows you to modify yourself and remove the conventions of the genre itself and introduce new ones, if desired by the player or creator. And if anyone wants to play a game that was not released on a computer with the same characters and storyline (for example, Dengeki Bunko: Fighting Climax), then you can simply do this by adding all the elements that are in the game (or recreating them) in Mugen and see how it will look. The engine allows you to recreate 2D massacres as you remember them with minimal qualitative changes. This is a definite plus for collectors and fans of certain series of fighting games.

In the summer, the Internet was surprised how fabulous money can be paid for old cartridges with games Nintendo . What about the excesses sold from under them? Ebay is just offered to pick up a couple of packages Goldeneye 007 For Nintendo 64 for only £ 2,445 (about ₽241 677).

The goods include boxes from two versions https://waboom77casino.co.uk/games/ Goldeneye 007 -Release cover of 1997 and the re-release of 1999 in silver version with the mark "Choice of the players". Both items are placed in sealed transparent cases for safety. The seller writes that he does not intend to part with the boxes in separate.

The key feature of packages is the inscription "only for demonstration" on the back. According to the seller, the boxes are in pristine compressed form. The user explained why he asks for the goods so much:

I do not think that many [demonstration boxes] have been preserved, and if they are preserved, it is not in such a decent state, and even more so not in a compressed form, as if from a factory. Therefore, these [packages] are a unique find for fans Nintendo, N64, Goldeneye Or James Bond.

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Instead of a preface.
The world is simple. A person loves to think about how good it would be if there were miracles in him. A naive thought, similar to the one that, for example, in the Middle Ages lived well and romantic. There is no darkness in human imagination … It most often rejects it, because “what the hell that I came up with everything should be bad if I came up with … I’m not a masochist …” But where there is light, there is darkness … And if angels ride on modern trains, and alpha read the newspaper behind the wild forests, then not to run to the werewolfs of cannibals, in the comments, in the caves Do not stand demons, do not live in chimneys with evil fairies, but do not go to nightclubs … well, for example vampires? Oh yes, I dragged on … This is not my fairy tale and not another memoirs. I’m talking about Dark Vorld – a wonderful thing that seems to be a role -playing system, but has its own mythology, an alternative look at history, psychology, sociology and pancake simply with a huge cultural layer (including quite a few books, two rebutes of the universe and several videos … and probably a lot more). Initially, this post was supposed to be a memo for me a loved one to finish the remaining 6 out of 13 clans of vampires on the masquerade, but it turned out somehow dry, little, and too wikipedia. When expanding, the list grew and began to contradict himself. Delopting a little even into one clan and not noticing how eight hours they ran away somewhere, realizing that everything was not so unambiguous and boring even in one of the clans, I had the idea to start talking about each clan separately. I don’t know how much time it will take for it, (boring will be unlikely to be more than once a month, because I don’t even want to create porridge in my head) and if I will throw this business on the floor but, in general … And since the video bloggers are basically a lot, and I don’t know how to study … And I am too lazy to study (about the damned second curse of the Toreadors, which will not be in the text format … because why It would not – scribble was always my favorite form of art … And perhaps we will start with a tiny introductory.
In the world of Dark Vorld (gods, why am I writing it in Russian), undead in the form of werewolves, vampires, evil fairies, demons and hell knows what else, calmly survived to our days and exists in parallel with our ordinary life (like in Gari loss or, much closer to the topic, the film is another world). We are interested in the vampire segment. There are a lot of vampires, they are divided into different clans, depending on the worldview, values, psychological shifts and other things, do not turn all like all in a row, but only those who coincide with the general course of the clan, and earned the honor to share eternity with them. They are parasites (which, in principle, do not hide from themselves …), are forced to eat human blood, burn in the sun, they are afraid of fire, they did not care about garlic, and the stake in the heart plunges them in whom. Half of them observes, the so -called masquerade, so that people do not know about their existence and not cut out in the root. Everything seems to be. And yes, they are divided into 13 clans, about one of which I will now narrate, trying to bring all the set information and a little personal observations. And yes, this will not be a copy of the article from Wikipedia, and yes, I will express my biased opinion and yes, I can be mistaken, and this is not a fucking essay on the exam, and I will quote the chosen and I liked the pieces from everywhere, where it is appropriate, because if it is written more beautifully than I can formulate, then why to hip the bicycle ..
Damn no one has the right entry on the Word page, so they drove to hell with!

Toreadors.
“Eternity awaits us, but the life of mortals ends in the blink of an eye. Can we afford to waste time on wars and destruction? The secrets of the creative genius – this is what can bring us salvation, you only need to reveal them."

The main vectors
Humanity and art … Toreadors are extremely social, love people, art, everything that can be considered art, and everything that makes a person a person. And here you can dream of a dreamy to the ceiling, representing the Louvre, and at least an Hermitage, but the art of the Toreador can find in a broken cup (there should be a joke about contemporary art, accidentally thrown out by the cleaner to the landfill, but I am lazy), and people are not only written by poems, but for example, they are plowed with drugs in clubs and kill each other … It all depends on every specific Toreador – like him – like him – as he is like him. understands the essence of man and art. And yes, they can catch a buzz from three stucco stucco on the wall and see in Echi Garemnik, behind a series of panties and boobs a deep philosophical beautiful plot, but about art and people we will talk to the rest of the remaining article (because they are the main ones for Toreador) so that we moved further ..

Main feature:
(here I will quote Wikipedia a little)

“Any thrender, depending on the character and mood, can be elegant and stifled, smart and ridiculous, dreamy or dissolved. Perhaps the only quality that can be attributed to the entire clan as a whole is their reaching aesthetism to fanaticism. Whatever the Toreador does, he does it with passion. Whoever Toreador is, passion always lives in it. According to the Toreadors, an eternal life must enjoy. During life, many Toreadors were artists, musicians or poets, even more of their number spent a century of ridiculous attempts to prove themselves in painting, music or poetry. Of all the vampire clans, the Toreadors retained the closest connection with people. If other vampires look at the herd as chess figures or, in extreme cases, at the source of food, then the toradors are easily and naturally rotated among the canals, tasteing the pleasure of each era, as gourmins are losing rare delicacies. Of all the relatives, the Toreadors are most willingly falling in love with mortals, they surround themselves with the best, themselves elegant and most luxurious things – and people – of all that this world can offer. And therefore, the Toreador, who succumbed to boredom and abandoned aesthetic aspirations for the sake of senseless hedonism, is truly tragic. Such relatives turn into decadent Sibarites, preoccupied only with the satisfaction of their whims and whims. Toreadors keep the loyalty of Kamarilie and share the love of Ventra to the Higher Society, although the management routine does not attract them – in the end, managers are needed for this. Toreadors know that their task is to captivate and inspire witty conversations, elegant actions and their own sparkling existence."
(I don’t even know what exactly to add to this, because it is said much more beautiful than I would say and, in fact, is true … And we will delve into the details below …)

– Curse of the clan:
Um … here we will have to stop a little in more detail. First of all, the vampire clans are cursed, each in its own way. In addition to the main curse of Cain – namely, the existence between life and death, intolerance to sunlight and other things, each has its own separate curse, weakness and special … inconvenience, which, however, are deprived of other clans. So, with a deeper study of the material, at least from the point of view of the Toreadors, it turned out that the curses did not appear in themselves, but it was all of them that Cain cursed all separately, and the guys from whom each genus went, I must say it with a common riot, but … Perhaps this is an exalted version of the Toreadors themselves, but thanks to their common pacifistic and most of the peacefulness, I am inclined to it. believe. Cain imposed 13 curses. Here are just the founder of the Toreadorov clan (sculptor Arikel, if someone is interested) did not participate in the conspiracy, for the purpose of the murder and was not cursed. Cain, the ancestor of the vampires twice cursed the nose, once with everything for the company, and another time for amazing arrogance. We will return in more detail to this story when we will disassemble the nose (especially this will be interesting in conjunction with their version to those events), and returning to Arikel – Cain on the contrary blessed it. And the “curse” of the Toreadors really more like a blessing, allowing you not to succumb to the inner beast, not to fly off the coils, and not to chop all the oncoming and transverse, or say not to tear the lover’s head during orgasm, grinding in his blood by the command of the inner beast (which, however, sometimes happens). Their curse is an increased perception of the beautiful, or as the original “Toreadors say supernatural sensitivity to aesthetics and beauty, but sometimes such susceptibility turns out to be dangerous” Toreador can fall into a three -hour stupor, examining the picture, the bend of the female body, the shadow of the pile of garbage, or to any friend nonsense, which will seem to him perfectly perfect. What makes him very vulnerable at that time, and only with a great effort of will he can break away from the graffiti interested in the wall if he urgently needs somewhere, or for example, a dawn soon. By the way, a lot of Toreadors met the final death in an attempt to draw a dawn or sunset, or just meet him. For many, by the way, this is not the worst option of final death, if you can choose.

Some sources mention another curse of the Toreadors – their true curse, namely the inability to develop. Say, after the appeal, the artist, for example, will forever remain at the same level as it was … and there is a little personal: I dug up everywhere for a long time, in an attempt to find where this nonsense came from and found it. In the official book of Toreadors (in which, by the way, there is a full version of the adventures of a dancer with bulls and sculptor Arikel, if anyone is interested …) One African American Toreador ached that he could not sculpt his gypsum cards – they say he tried a couple of times and did not work out. But in the same book … uh … I will even quote another Thoreador:

"Take a look at this picture. Beautiful? No, this is not a photo. Take a closer look. I drew it in the style of pointerism, using only a horse hair as a brush. There are more details than in a regular photo, more than on the cover of the magazine and, of course, more than on the TV screen. It took me two months. You can take it if you want. During the time of technology, this is a masterpiece. Only a few people have enough patience for such a drawing technique. I showed this and similar work to the owners of galleries. The majority did not take her, considering it with some kind of deception or focus. No one was very interested. I can sell them, but if I need money, I can earn more by drawing portraits of spoiled rich. Naturally, it will take less time and effort. From an artistic point of view, this is shit. I wrote unnecessary garbage to anyone before Monet appeared. I tried, and took possession of the mechanics of cubism, abstract expressionism, surrealism, impressionism – name your poison. Each time the challenge, thrown to me with new technology, took my attention for years until I took possession of it perfectly. Then, like a fallen cup, their importance and meaning were broken over the half of eternity. Here is my best picture. I wrote it when I was the same neonate as you. She is a little careless, but she has a heart, feelings, depth."

We see two things from this passage – the first that the Toreador wrote his best picture, after the appeal, surpassing himself alive, and B calmly studied new techniques and styles, on his own zeal, hard work and desire, so I am inclined to attribute the nagging of the African American to the whining of a person who tried twice to become a higher class sculptor from zero, but encountering a failure, but colliding. He scored on the whole bolt, justifying himself by the notorious "Curse is not given, I’m not to blame …"

– Toreadors love:
people and art (yes, I understand that hesitabal has already repeated this, but what can you do) in the lists of their hobbies most often include sex (many torusors simply adore this business), eat deliciously (vampires there is no need to eat, many other relatives are perceived as a special form of Toreador perversion), drink good alcohol. Sometimes the list is complemented by drugs (for them that do not have side effects), gambling, go to a ball, a party or a club, dress stylishly, chic machines and high speed … and other passions of the human soul … as well as pictures, exhibitions, read and write books, watch and shoot films, upload something on the Internet, long dresses, lousy jeans … Any clothing that is in fashion, or in fashion, or in fashion, or in fashion, or in fashion, or in fashion, or in fashion, or in fashion. which Toreador considers fashionable and stylish, large and small cities … and other entertains of human society.

– Toreadors do not like:
When someone is digging to their style, clothing, hair, buttons, shirts and other things, when someone destroys works of art, or that the Toreador considers it for those when someone kills or in other ways harms the creators creating a beautiful one, or what the Toreador considers so, get into politics when their mistress pokes them as an aspen stake in the chest and leaves them to the bed with the bed. The petals of roses wait for dawn (but the bottle out of that champagne is still not to get to it, and the sun from such a state is not finally seen – lousy in general), when the Malkovian schizophrenic during a romantic dinner, another personality of psychopath, maniacs, and, besides, the lesbian, and she hate men with the right, gives the Toreador according with a chair with a chair and begins to dance on the ceiling (it is doubly offended if the restaurant is human and decent, and the Toreador is also a girl),And to be torn in the forest with a damned werewolf in the middle of the night … and in general most often they do not like to go far into the forests.

Places of the alleged work:
Yes, you can simply make a ghoul of the oligarch or businessman, but if the torusors worked (and why not really, because they are closer to people), then they would choose the first places that work around the clock (for all understandable reasons) secondly – those places where there are many people, and thirdly – places related to art associated with art. Toreador, or a potential Toreador, can be found working on a night shift in theaters and cinemas, exhibitions, museums (who have night exhibitions, of course, although I would not be surprised by the Toreador Vakhter or the watchman who simply catches the buzz with the fact that he belongs to all the pictures of the world, but still hunger for living people in the literal and figurative sense makes this one The probability of small, but the possibility of unpromising), as well as snacks, bars, supermarkets, nightclubs, strip clubs and perhaps brothels (and in any position from a prostitute and a cleaning lady to the mistress of this GM … establishment), and of course, photographers, musicians, artists, composers and other artists. And you do not have an idol that appears, gives an interview, and performs at concerts exclusively at night? %)

Homeland:
Toreadors, like the other relatives, are in principle universal, but historically it turned out that several places are considered to be family and almost domestic. This is the central Africa (who would have thought yes?), Italy and especially Rome (yes, it was the Thores, a couple of the Roman Empire, and yes, it was they who directed, inspired and sometimes even designed and built all these Vatican, the cathedrals of St. Peter, Venice, Florence, and other monumental and beautiful buildings), France and Paris (O … Cathedral of Parisian Paris The Mother of God … How many memories …) and America (but in America, in principle, everything is already now, and the Torahs there were more around the Indians initially, collecting legends).

Nicknames:
“Masters”, “Artists”, “Posers”, “Hedonists” “Raisins”,

Place among people:
Torah love people very much, live among them, sometimes in the literal sense, sometimes they start families and adopt children. Eating from relatives among certain Toreadors is considered a bad form. I don’t even know what to add to all this.

Place among vampires:
The Torahs support Kamaril with her masquerade with all their might. Respect (at least sometimes dislike) the venture. Serve as a bridge between the world of people and the world of vampires, when it is necessary.

Other distinctive features:
Toreadors love time, they have a rather strange relationship with him. Since the life of people moves in a different rhythm than the life of vampires (well, in fact faster), the Thoreadors perceive it differently, and getting used to galloping from one regime to another, some threesons learn to expand the range, and some are seriously studying time as such. Sometimes they are whiners and love to play like everything sad, falling into melancholy. Their attitude to someone else’s death is compromised – they do not like, but if necessary, then it is necessary, even though he can also freak out and go into dawn. Their attitude to their own death … is not that negative … and at the same time said one Thor: “Eternity awaits us, but the life of mortals ends in the blink of an eye. Can we afford to waste time on wars and destruction? The secrets of the creative genius – this is what can bring us salvation, you only need to reveal them."

Brief history of the clan:
There will be an extremely short summary of what happened to the clan over the centuries, in a more detailed story, if there is a desire suddenly, I recommend that you turn to the original (it is cool, I liked at least).

So, after refusing to participate in the murder of a group of persons by prior conspiracy, and receiving her gift for this, instead of a curse, Arikel escaped to avoid the wrath of her former colleagues of the founders, who, of course, were angry. She slipped to Gilgamesh, but gangrem arrived there, and she had to run again. In the end, the young Toreador clan cooled up with the Ventra (who treat the Toradors well) and founded the Roman Empire, lived happily until they first came to Bruja from Carthage, and then Christians, burning vampires to the right and left their nose. Some of the Toradors with the words “Well, nafig” separated and went to travel, and some reached Africa, but the other part tamed and penetrated into Christianity. Many relatives even lived in the monastery, such as this person: “My Sir, Theophano, spent about a hundred years in the Franciscan monastery, telling each abbot what he wants to hear. For one, she was an angel of God, sent in order to inspire Him by Greek knowledge so that he could maintain the wisdom of the ancients. For another, she was a succubus, to whom he gladly gave blood in exchange for “secret knowledge” and carnal joys. What a game."
Everything was quietly peaceful, temples were built and monasteries were erected, paintings and icons were written and then ..
Then the gangrem, Bruja, and Lasmra invaded the empire (who never lives calmly), together with the barbaric tribes and began to destroy everything and behave in lead – they burned Rome and did not build anything new.
After that, Lasbrah proposed to build a new world to Ventra, or to be exterminated by the Union of other clans. They agreed, and dragged the Toreadors with them, and began to build the French kingdom. Bruja, gangrem and the Tsimitsa drove the Vikings against them, but quickly quarreled among themselves. The Tsimitsa dumped into Eastern Europe, the Vikings fell apart, and some of them adopted Christianity, the territory expanded, the Ventra went to build England, the Torah began to manage France, and Lasubra laughter for the sake of arranged a centenary war and quietly retired in the shadows. Then there was a plague that hit the relatives no less than people … for example, one of the stories: “I had a close friend, Obrik (AUBRIC), who arranged a cozy shelter in the village of Paris. He possessed the power of forgetfulness of Leta; His victims never suspected anything. Like a caring shepherd, he looked after the village, took only from those who are strong enough to withstand, and regretted those who were weak. Then the plague began, and for a month half of his herd was already dead, and another quarter was dying. He could not eat from patients in fear of infecting healthy ones, but his attention was so weakened by those who resisted the plague that they soon went to another world. Other settlements zealously fought off refugees from infected territories, and there was no place for him to relax after the whole night on the run. In the end, Obika cut out the remnants of the inhabitants of the city, using their blood for speed and strength, and that he rushed to Paris.". And Lasobra was bored, and she actually almost created and helped the second Inquisition to develop. Which cut and burned almost all vampires in Europe. Miraculously survivors of the Toreadors and Ventra called several other, more or less adequate clans and formed a camaril, with a masquerade and a set of rules, so that people would not come across eyes. In addition to them, Bruja, Gangrel, Malcavian, tremors and nosferatu were included in Kamarila … (Gangrelers, by the way, will leave Kamaril at the end of the twentieth century at their own request). Lasbrah created the opposition Kamarilia along with Tsimitsa and the outcasts of camarile clans (and yes. There are, for example, outfits of Toreadors who draw paintings by the blood of babies taken out of the womb of the mother, but I personally do not consider these who have succumbed to the beasts for the Toreadors, but I have to mention at least once), and they called the whole thing of demonstrative killings of people and the open use of the Shabash force. Well, there were clans of the observed neutrality. And so they butt the foreheads to our time ..

Attitude to other clans: https://magicalvegasitcasino.co.uk/games/
(I better quote below quotes from the Toreador book, how the Toreadors reacted to the rest in the Middle Ages, when they had their own small army and as it is now. (Those who suddenly join the world of the masquerade from this work of my work, you can immediately scroll down a little lower, but maybe they will be interested, familiar with the world of the masquerade may smile.)

Assamites: They protect an excellent culture with great potential. It is a pity that they so desperately hate the rest of the clans.
Bruha: In anger, they destroy what they consider to be a mined preservation. If only they knew how to use their strength ..
Cappadocians: The past hides a lot of interesting things, but not paying attention to the present means letting the soul die.
Set followers: these sarrounds offer poisoned gifts, accompanying them with honey -free promises. Beware of the snakes.
Gangrel: There are many miracles in uninhabited places, but the animals paid too expensive for the opportunity to admire them.
Lasbra: how can they be at the same time as educated and so many ignorant? They have lost their souls with a reflection.
Malkaviana: I would like to know what such wisdom gave them and at the same time darkened their mind. I mourn them, for this is all that can be done for Malkavian.
Nosferatu: ah! These creatures are the most terrible of everything that is in the world of vampires. Maybe they see a lot, but I can not stand their history. Say me from this test.
Equal: these scammers and thieves steal things whose values ​​do not understand. Nothing is able to saturate their greed, so let them continue their dances until their anger destroys them.
Tremer: They were looking for immortality, but they misinterpreted goals, and now all vampires suffer from their presence. We grieve along Saulot and his brothers, for they were truly the most enlightened of us.
Tsimishi: none of the creations of Tsimishs and their henchmen deserves to survive the centuries. If we are lucky, they and usurpators will destroy each other, and then their "herd" will find out what it means to live.
Ventra: Royal Blood does not mean nobility, and the venture should understand this. Excuse me, but I will not stand at the stand "quietly" when they want it.
Baali: They should hate themselves, otherwise why would they choose such a way. Beware of them, for they are looking for a curse comrades for themselves.

Assamites: In what they do, there is its own beauty, but it is better to observe this beauty at a distance.
Bruha: On the first night, their passion scares. On the second night, their passion is amazing. In the third night, their passion inspires. And then … to be honest, their passion bored.
Set followers: a sophisticated creature, with a tendency to epicurestvo, over time inevitably begins to conduct business with … repulsive personalities. Write down all the transactions committed thoroughly and immediately pay for all the services rendered.
Gangrelers: as charming Dicky as a tiger, as well as attention as a cat.
Giovanni: They dress luxuriously and have pleasant manners. Why then they scare me so much?
Lasbra: their worthy pen Milton, vanity is terribly defiant, or defiantly, but they perceive everything too seriously.
Malkaviana: At first glance, a colorful kaleidoscope of their thoughts seems lovely. But you just have to look at him – and you will begin to suffer from nightmarish headaches.
Nosferatu: Gnousse creatures! And only think, they are allowed into a cultural society! What a shame ..
Equal: characters of many delightful stories are delightful until you yourself become a participant.
Tremer: You have to deal with butchers and bureaucrats because they make life easier for you. You kindly accept their professionally rendered services. But at the same time, you do not invite hired personnel to the evenings called and without food treat uninvited guests.
Tsimishi: The pleasure of the alien fruits of this clan is almost worth the requested price. Remember it is “almost”, my dear.
Ventra: each masterpiece should have a framing, each statue has a pedestal. The venture understands this and do their duties perfectly well.
Caitiffs: Great. Who let them in?
Kamarilla: under her protection, mortals and relatives can coexist in harmony and with mutual benefit.
Sabbath: Why would I dream of eternity filled with guts released?

The attitude of other clans towards the Thores:
For the most part, contemptuous (well, except for the ventilation), they say ordinary party -minded people, “degenerators”, whiners and weaklings. And the Torah is happy, if they are considered useless, no one will try to use them, but what they think they make them bad targets for paranoid. And they are in no hurry to debunk this myth.

– Parties:
Since we started talking about the Toreadors, we should also mention their parties. It looks like this:

“This is a solemn event. There she, a woman in a conservative black dress with diamond pendants. Yes, the one who went through with spirits. This is Emilia Pruens, one of the best violins of Quebec. And there is a man in red tuxedo. Only a baxter can look attractive in this disgusting rag. By the way, he is a chef, so he fucks a lot. Oh, I’m sorry, I did not know that you could still blush. I always feel uncomfortable in a tuxedo. It is too crowded in it. But today one of my paintings is exhibited, so I also decided to seem. You haven’t seen her yet? Then let me show it to you. This is one of my best. I think so."

And a little more citation, for I do not see the point of trying to retell with my language what is so written briefly and concisely:

“Toreador is arranged by frequent unofficial meetings called“ Class Events ”. They do not force anyone, but almost everyone comes-as you make someone envy if you do not defile with an important look? Events are often parties, “dinners” (inclusive power) or art exhibitions, although some Toreador also arrange more modern events. Too much effort is spent on minor disputes when we begin to discuss business, so important clan issues are almost not resolved here. Nevertheless, many Toreador use events in order to establish and strengthen their personal connections.
Local groups of the Toreador are called guilds, which are based on the consent of a part of the Toreador with complex rules of behavior, and traditionally once a month on the night of the full moon, they hold official meetings called balls. In practice, balls take place during an almost complete moon; Toreador arranging them love to play serious games with monthly dates, constantly trying to prove their importance and delay the ball in order to present their own program or to maintain their interpretation of the special laws of the guild. Those who are not in the guild can visit the ball only by personal invitation. Guilds may arbitrarily arise and disappear – in one city it was considered fashionable to be a member of the guild throughout the year, and next year the guild is already unacceptably outdated.
Outstanding Toreador and the elders of the clan like to hold a large ball for Halloween – one for each continent; It is arranged jointly by several guilds (or by childbirth, or by chiefs, or what is in fashion this year). The place changes every year, and many Toreador fights among themselves for the right to take up its staging. Recently, some of the youngest members of the clan will boycott a large ball in an attempt to confuse him to something else than to Halloween. They argue that it is stupid to arrange a large large ball for Halloween, that because of this the clan looks in the eyes of others with a pretentious crowd clinging to the stereotypes. Personally, it seems to me that this is right. Remember – always allow yourself to underestimate. And, to be honest, it is never difficult to find the features of the beautiful in the less pleasant sides of the world, although I must admit that I look romantic and mannerly now.
It is difficult to explain to an outsider what the guild is. Technically, guilds – regional groups, usually within the framework of a city or country. In other words, any Toreador Chicago theoretically consists in the Chicago guild. Nevertheless, some Toreador try to make from guilds, well, guilds. So you can find a guild, which calls itself a “guild of painters of Chicago”, or “Anabella Tiabel Society” or something like that. This inevitably leads to an even greater separation – but what about the designers of computer graphics, cooks, musicians and those who are against Anabella Tiabel? So or the guild gives rise to the rest of the alienation, which makes them leave, as a result of which it becomes a truly exclusive society, or the city’s torador is divided (and then those who feel “overboard” may try to create a second guild). Either it will become a “guild of sculptors and painters” if these two types of artists prevail, or it will be called the “guild of painters”, nevertheless, including the Toreador of all stripes.
The Toreor is characteristic of individualism, so we do not expect much from our guilds. In the end, if we hope that our guild at any moment rush and defend any threesh in the city, and – to be honest – well, to hell with it. Frankly, time can be spent with greater benefit. Most guilds are public clubs. This or that guild can be involved in the political games of brothers, and this will affect the interests of the Toreador in it, but not at the guild itself.
Once every twenty -three years, a Toreador gather for a carnival – a common weekly festival. Artists Toreador keep their best masterpieces to present them on the carnival. At the end of the celebration of the mortals, whom we recognized as the best of our generation, is given the formation. Or it is expected that this should happen. Honestly, two Toreador will never converge in what is the “best”, so they have to choose a compromise candidate. Recently, a proposal was received from neonas to enter categories. They want one mortal to stand for his skill in the visual arts, the other in literary and so on. In order to at least a slight reduction in bustling, the proposal was accepted.
There is a rumor that the carnival is all the toreador. At least, it is said by all neonates when they first hear about the exciting costume festival. Do you really think that we will show our entire clan in one city in one week, like ducks with a wedge flying past a hunting sight? Theoretically, each guild sends one representative there. In fact, each guild chooses one representative, and then those who think that they will not pay attention to him, are there on their own. In the end, we do not check the tickets at the entrance. Many elders refuse to appear due to paranoia-that is, danger.
The carnival is usually timed to some kind of mortal event held in the city where Toreador wants to spend their festival. This adds the event of fun – it seems that the city is never sleeping, and the atmosphere of celebration reigns everywhere. In fact, the carnival is nothing more than a set of small parties and ideas passing behind the backdrop of the festivals of the host city. Think about Mardi Gra or the Chinese New Year as a special Suare for VIP – brothers, which begins after sunset."

Attitude to power:
They prefer to stand at the back of the throne in the form of an adviser than to sit on it … and safer, and more freedom.

Ordinary disciplines:
The difference between disciplines and magic is that disciplines are a trained skill with understanding of the process A magic, well, this is magic … The following is a brief list of disciplines usual for the Toreador, with a brief description of each ..

This discipline gives the vampire incredible abilities of perception. First of all, “divination” significantly enhances all the feelings of relatives, but this is just the beginning. Having developed his abilities, the vampire can see the auras circling next to him, and even project his own thoughts into the mind of another creature. In addition, “divination” can penetrate through the disguise created by darling.

Such power over perceive gives the vampire a considerable advantage over mortals and even many supernatural beings. Since such skills allow him to examine the remote shelter, feel the mood of the prince or stretch secrets from the ghoul of a rival, “divination” is a powerful tool.
However, the vampire should be careful, because this aggravated sensitivity makes him be distracted by beautiful objects, tremble from loud sounds or experience stunning from disgusting smells. Sudden dynamic events can disorient the character that uses “divination”, unless he has enough willpower to isolate from them. The more powerful the source of irritation, the higher the complexity. Failure is stunning the vampire’s feelings, and as a result, he ceases to perceive the environment for a while.
Malcavans and Toreadors are most susceptible to such irritants. Treaches and Tsimisha’s relatives of the clans better control their sensory perception, but they are not fenced from random distracting events.
A high value of perception is an excellent help when using "propagation".

The appeal gives some vampires an amazing speed and reflexes. They can use user "erasing" in order to move with amazing speed in tense moments. Mortals, and even relatives who do not have this discipline, move, as if in a slow shooting compared to a stunning blurry followed, into which the vampire turns into.
"Swiftness" is widespread among assemblies, Bruja and Toreadors. Assamites enjoy this ability to plunge their opponents even before the victim even realizes the attack. Bruha enjoy the advantage that this discipline gives them against the superior number of opponents. Toreadors are more likely to use “swiftness” to gain supernatural grace in living ideas like dances or incredible speed when creating sculptures or paintings – however, they can be no less frightening than assamites or Bruja if they are opened.

This is a discipline giving supernatural attractiveness. Relatives practicing "presence" can cause fanatical zeal, tender passion or inexpressible horror both in mortal and immortal. This ability is one of the most useful vampire disciplines.
The “presence” is noteworthy in that, unlike most disciplines, some of its manifestations can be used on a large number of people at the same time. The vampire can attract large groups to his side, until his face can be seen by whom he wants to influence – for “presence” it is not even required to look into the eyes. Moreover, this discipline does not depend on the race, religion, gender, class and (most importantly) supernatural nature. Theoretically, the effects of “presence” with equal probability can affect both the elder and the taxi driver. In practice, however, let the “presence” be able to influence almost any immortal, old and more powerful relatives will be more likely to notice the influence and be able to resist it by the effort of supernatural will.
In addition to conscious use, the “presence” makes the vampire mysteriously attractive. Standing in the crowd, he wakes up attention (and often to awaken desire) located nearby, even if nothing does nothing. The higher the level of the “presence” of the vampire, the stronger the attractiveness, and the more powerful the influence on others.
Anyone can resist the “presence”, but the individual must continue to spend the willpower until the vampire is seen (or, in the case of a “call” until the effect is dissipated). The easiest way to achieve this is to turn around and not watch. Those who do not understand that they are dealing with supernatural influence (that is, in cases with most mortals) rarely think about such tactics, but this is a standard assumption for smart vampires. Vampires, whose generation three or more steps below the generation of the one who applies the “presence”, is enough to spend one point of willpower to ignore the effect throughout the scene.

The main drawback of "presence" is that it controls only emotions. It makes you feel certain feelings for the vampire, but does not give him complete control. Although people put orders given to the vampire high, their mind remains their own. Suicide or strange orders do not begin to sound more sensibly only because the surrender of them looks unusually attractive. However, the accompanying eloquence or considerable wealth, combined with this discipline, help the vampire push others to the desired course.

– outstanding personalities of the Toreador clan (just a list and one two paragraphs outlining a portrait)

The singer, the dancer and actress of the theater of one actor, Victoria Ash achieved that her hit “Unique Technique” lasted a week in the first place in 1997. That week, the impression was that her song was everywhere – on radio stations, supermarkets, clubs. David Letterman3 even somehow joked that she was stuck in his head. But the song came out of the charts as quickly as it got there. Nevertheless, throughout the week the whole world was listened to by Victoria Ash.

In 1950, Enver Freeshei cut off the woman’s lips with scissors for cutting tin. He squeezed her head between his knees, so that he could hold her jaws motionless while working. He did not even hold evil on her – he did this to get out with her brother, Lennart. Later he gave his lips to him that night.

Dear Rebecca! As promised, last night I took Katerina to Paris, where she has not been almost four centuries. She quite tolerably owns English and French, although rare anachronisms, nevertheless, slip between the most modern curses that she mastered simply great. She still does not wear any synthetic clothing, only wool, silk or cotton, and still claims that wearing panties is harmful, but I finally talked to her about wearing a bra and she quickly agreed. Her ideas about beauty have not changed. When I led her to Notre Dame for the evening performance of the choir, she fell silent for the first time since her resurrection. Bloody tears flowed down her cheeks, and she did not pay the slightest attention to me when I wiped them (fortunately, there was no one nearby who could see it). She was delighted again from the streets when she stared at Christmas lights with admiration. Its trance was interrupted only when the taxi driver developed high speed. This scared her so much that she released her claws and hissed, which in turn led to the frightened taxi driver crashed into the wall of the house. I think it’s good that he died. I will not even be surprised if he died of fright. To take the evening, I led her to the Goston club. I confess to you, I hoped to show her something that would calm her down, and I thought that the breakdown dances of the "metal-headed" at four in the morning would do their job. To my surprise, she burst into dancing without the slightest hesitation. When I later asked for dancing, her answer outraged me even more. She said that people dance as in the times of the Great Plague dance themselves with themselves in the madness before the face of steady death and the angry god. She called him the dance of death … "

I am a cartographer, the creator of the cards. Not pedestrian cards that you buy in bookstores and which help you find the way in the wandering of Cincinnati 14, but historical cards, bizarre cards, cards of the human mind. Rich families hired me so that I would draw and draw the complex maps of their estates, on which they always asked to mark something like “Dragon lives”-usually in those places where the main anfilade began.

– There would be good Toreadors (in my opinion) – Dorian Gray, Ray Bredbury, Siel Phantomhew, Peter Stamatin, Korvin Amberty, Egert Sol, Veronica (who decides), Master (who is with Margarita), Marinet (which bug), hearing, Frankie ("Madness"), KaEDE KAYANO, SOULL ITER, Meriel, guest, a piece of the abyss from themelumbra, Esmilda, Yogi, Arianna, Jura, Pollianna, Arno Dorian, Death, Mizarakl, April Ryan, Tyler Miles, Marquis de Sad, Genesis, Claud, Vincent, Nero, Max Collfield, Arthno, Bördman, Kate Walker ..

– Instead of conclusion:
To tell you about the Toreadors? In fact, I want so much, and still shove here half the book, a couple of tables of stats and … maybe I forgot something. Perhaps something turned out crookedly, and something is told too faded and sparingly, but … I hope that the general idea of ​​the clan all the same, and even though this material was partially interesting. I will slowly study on my mistakes, and I hope that the series will continue, but while the wall of the text did not go beyond all the very reasonable limits, I hasten to remove my pathos cylinder, and bowing to the candles, knocking with a cane on the lacquered floor to retire through the oak doors … with you – with me this wonderful night was the same for you, through the same century, through the centuries of the century … Cyril ..

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You do not understand the essence of the Sabbath, dear … However, what else to expect from feeding the Kamarilla? And yes, the centenary war was fun, wasn’t it? Such a field for games, deceit and intrigues … The construction of the French kingdom was not so interesting, but even though these vents for once came down to something. Sorry, then they behaved unreasonably, and we could achieve a lot together. Only now some have finally began to understand this. It’s a pity that only small handfuls. By the way, they are right to call their "apostates", and not "outcasts". It is among you that they may be outcasts, but we are waiting for them … after checking, of course.
By the way, I would insist on the name of “Tsimishi”, not “Tsimitsi”. I do not care at all, as you call monsters, although they are our allies, but if, for the Cain, this will be heard by one of my familiar archbishop, the torture will be very inventive, and he will spend them personally (so he usually does not spend personal time on the Kamarilians at all).

And seriously, a good article, grammatical and punctuation errors are only found. Well, it would be necessary to dilute more in which pictures to read easier, especially since you write about thorns.

In general, a good and cognitive article. Only she lacks some structural separation or something, it is perceived by all as a wall of the text that is difficult to digest, especially since we read the work of a work. And the comments are sometimes not at all appropriate, as if you are making excuses for the fact that you have nothing to add to what is written in the clanbook, you don’t have to. As mentioned above Inian, it would be nice to still dilute the text with pictures, and tighten spelling.

And please, enough to set fire to the fan feelings of a person who has passed VTM: B 6 times, and re -read half the thematic site with this name. The universe has always been called and called World of Darkness, no need to invent a bicycle and come up with variations for its own names.

In general, well done, I decided on a huge job, I hope you will be enough at least to illuminate the Kamaril clans, successes.

What? No, I don’t think so. What does it mean I wanted to offend us? Stop it, a person tried, this is a big work. Kh … ah, yes, what am I talking about. Come on about Melkavian.

For what? Chita – what? Readability, so. I think he himself will notice and will beat the walls of the text as at the beginning and end on the paragraphs.

Well, figs know him, also like artistry with elegant reverses not to occupy, then it prompted) I had to remember the clouds of facts and re -read different articles. In addition to lasobra, no one else came.

And please, enough to set fire to the fan feelings of a person who has passed VTM: B 6 times, and re -read half the thematic site with this name. The universe has always been called and called World of Darkness, no need to invent a bicycle and come up with variations for its own names.

Tobill translate the original into Russian, they do not write "The Dark World."
My feeling of beauty suffers from this. Do you not know how I gravitate to accuracy in the material that is stated in blogs.)

Immediately like the author did not consider himself to be them?

And I liked them like Tzimitsy: D

I hasten to remove my pathos cylinder, and bowing to the candles, knocking with a cane on the varnished floor to retire through the oak doors ..

It leads me to the idea that either the Kamarilsev or their ghoul. Although the text was sent two hours before dawn, so everything is obvious.

Funny joke. I would have scornfully to respond to the Toreadors, even being an apostate? And then, knowledge of the features of the clans (Sabbath, mainly), the author’s text and my own commentary easily lead to the correct answer. Try more.

Do you want to voluntarily sit on blood ties? We do not practice this dull in the Sabbath, but I would not refuse a free slave.
And the diableri will not have enough strength @ @. @