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Bone Temple As good as the previous one - with a hilarious climax. I think these two deserve a bit more love, I definitely didn't expect them to be as good as they were. Too bad so few went to see them.

The game still regularly freezes tightly (PC, Steam), despite the promises in each hotfix about improving this issue by 20%. Moreover, after the 0.3.0.2 hotfix, it is almost guaranteed to freeze when paused and switched by alt-tab.

That said: Even the greatest games in the world may struggle to find an audience if they're pitched to the public like canned tuna rolling en masse from the factory line. Case in point, TOW2's companion trailer. Bioware-style companions (get companion, unlock backstory and companion quest) are pretty cooked anyway (personal opinion, I know). But what was that? At worst, it's selling blandness without realizing. At best, it's meant to be a joke. However, it is a bad one. As it is always a joke on the designers. Like the one in The Outer Worlds 1 on Monarch, where after a string of boring fetch quests, there's a joke about how fetch quest-y the prior hour all was. Or the one in a gazillion bad adventure games, where after combining stinky cheese with dynamite and cat hair and maple syrup, you get the world's deadliest nuclear bomb. And to top that off, a line of dialogue is promptly rubbing it in of how ridiculous that just was. (There's actually great adventure games to this day, mind). Back to the trailer: Even making a joke about how bland and unremarkable and everyday your companions would be -- that's unlikely to make anybody more excited to spend any time with them. Say what you will about Larian (and I know they're divisive here, not a huge fan of at least DOS myself). But they've nailed how to sell their product. They've even nailed to sell the pitch of 80% of Obsidian (and even Arkane) games in existence. As their entire campaign for BG3 was focused on promoting player expression and could be summarized like this: "Do whatever you like... which may or may not include shagging a bear." Players sharing on TikTok how they'd turn themselves into cheeses to make cheeses boldly go to places no cheese had gone before, or Streamers promoting and sharing the many ways you could handle the Goblin camp in act one -- that got people talking. In the end, it was the perfect storm nobody could have anticipated, naturally. But the message and intent to actually get noticed by a few people was there from the go.

The name they wrote also started with a P, so perhaps something got mangled from some AI hallucination, but it was definitely not Pallegina. I felt like I was having a stroke I had to keep rereading this comment to understand what this person was asserting, it was so bizarre and wrong.

Well alright, all I really know about Billie Eilish is what she looks like and assorted headlines.

perhaps you would make that reasonable and nevertheless illogical assumption, but you would do so because they are sheep and not because of grammar. replace the sheep in your example with mother teresa and nobody but zor thinks mention o' the saint's bleating is a reference to a chronic habit of the founder and most famous member o' the missionaries of charity... nevertheless, such an observation also ignores how you were wrong about "plural" and basic freaking grammar rules. and needing basic grammar explained to you by a guy who posts as does Gromnir should be embarrassing, but am suspecting you are beyond the capacity for such self reliction. ok, that's a nonsense sentence and am not complete sure what is the "I claim," in this instance. your claim that Gromnir accused you o' constant bringing up blix? something else? is up to you to support the claim... so get to it. so far, your efforts to support have been complete turds, though if it makes you feel better, the only two times am recalling you bringing up blix is with your initial fumble, and the "mythical Hans Blix video" self-own. btw, thanks for the segue opportunity. irrelevant. again, you brought up blix. "Still, at least this time you've managed to find a transcript, unless your mythical Hans Blix video, and it's actually relevant. Small improvements, baby steps, but credit where due." the notion that our response o' ps: hans blix berkeley is an accusation o' zor constant bringing up blix is even more bizarre than your bleating grammar fail. given how, excepting all reason and rationality, zor invoked blix outta the ether in a gary johson aleppo post, our response were limited to pointing out, not for the first time, just how easy it was to discover the mythical video. you provided us with perfect fodder to question why Gromnir and blix were living rent free in your head, but instead o' picking up the gauntlet, we limited our response to "ps: hans blix berkeley," but thanks for highlighting. am not requiring any help, but your self immolation efforts is comedy gold. ok, see, now that is strawman. we made no such claim. if you were trying to learn something about a specific person, pahlavi in this case, a search engine is a swell start. age? date of birth? what pahlavi said at a news conference? am having pointed out that if you wanna find info about even the most obscure and irrelevant subjects, search engines is wonderful tools: eg., quail egg recipes. am able to populate page upon page o' quail egg recipes. however, doing so don't prove anything about the relevance o' quail eggs in western cooking. a targeted search won't show us whether or not western culinary media is attempting to embiggen quail eggs. you were trying to use search engine population results to prove the relevance and o' pahlavi and the western media's effort's to embiggen him. your lack of critical thinking skills is astounding. and so it goes, around and around and around. your response is as we predicted. so... how many o' those seventy three pahlavi articles were western news sources? want us to count 'em for you and then have you explain the discrepancy 'tween your 54 and the much smaller number from the real world? you just can't stop lying. is why am gonna continue to check your sources. HA! Good Fun!

Much respect for surviving in this industry for a quarter of a century -- and then by doing mostly RPG-Likes. But to be honest, Obsidian's management seems to suck a bit also. At least once it gets heavily involved with creative decisions.... which seems too often. Avowed got delayed and rebooted a couple times to hit in 2025 because the founders first wanted their $kyrim-Like in Eora. Then they shifted it all towards multiplayer (the trend of the mid 2010s, see also Bioware and Anthem, Arkane Austin (RIP) and Redfall). Then they decided that all of that wasn't to their strenghts and restarted another time. The Outer Worlds seemed to have started out as a similar shallow sales pitch: "Fallout-Like... in SPACE!" (Legend has it that Feargus kept neglecting Tim Cain's ideas until Cain proposed what Urquhart had been waiting for all along). Tim Cain is certainly on record as saying that the direction given was targeting a more "casual audience". Whether that helped to attract players and keep them excited long-term for mucho sequels, who knows. I'd argue it certainly didn't help the game to leave a more impactful footprint. Given that it's a game of heavy looting, but loot (and ammo) is to be had in such an abundance, it doesn't even matter. Same as with the "stealth", even the quest design seemed to assume an audience that would get lost in their own toilet, with everything being blatantly signposted -- in a game supposedly all about player expression! Nintendo shows more confidence all throughout Zelda than any this. Deadfire balooned in cost and workload because of the management's late decision to include Full-VO, contributing to the initial commercial underperformance. Even Josh Sawyer talked openly about this in a Post Mortem. Hindsight bias in parts, to be fair. As that decision was of course driven by Larian doing full VO at the time and Larian... well look at where they are now. Not sure if there's any truth behind the story about the development of Tyranny and how Paradox money was supposedly used... creatively (so let's not go there). It's too easy to look at the game as a confirmation all itself, given that it never had a proper ending (I still liked Tyranny). And then don't forget the Kickstarter and Pillars Of Eternity that helped saving the company back then. That was initially blocked by management, they were rather hesistant at the very least. Josh Sawyer and Adam Brennecke had to fight hard to get them to agree and give it a go. Later on, they were even threatened to get laid off if they wouldn't have met the final deadline. Seems "just", smacks me as big time disrespectful however, in particular considering how Sawyer had helped in saving management's ass at least once before (see the remarkable development and crazy deadlines of Icewind Dale II at Black Isle / Interplay). TL;DR: It seems that Obisidian is at its best when the creatives have a bit of leeway... Grounded initially was a small team project, Pentiment naturally never meant to be a big money machine, Mask Of The Betrayer a DLC that didn't have the pressure to deliver the revenue of a main release also. And back with New Vegas, it's easy to see an environment where developers could do a little bit more of their thing also. As the mere prospect of doing another Fallout, any Fallout after Bethesda's commercial smash of FO3 must have won Obsidian management over. Here's hoping for more Groundeds and Pentiments and Pillars Of Eternitys anyway... in whichever format!

microsoft can ruin windows as much as they did they can certainly ruin obsidian

And you'd know they were bleating more than once. Show your homework. Classic Gromnir: write something ill thought out in pidgin; expect others to work out what you really meant. Bit of a pattern and I suspect why you stick with the persona. Funny thing is, you very obviously do think what I claim, since every argument you make is semantic about me not proving it rather than just saying outright that you don't. Same as you very obviously wrote ignoring me as an option, but tried to back out of it later just because it made you look like you were trying to score cheap points. In the context of you refusing to source something, not wmd. I thought that was a mortal sin against argumentation or something, or is that only when other people do it? Again, it was you who brought up the wmd part and seemed inordinately proud of not providing links. Highly relevant for this argument since its Classic Gromnir: rules only apply to other people. As for the rest, I said all along I wouldn't argue with you. I'm telling you you're wrong, because you are, engaging with misrepresentations and fantasies from someone whose opinions you consider worthless is just a waste of time. Telling them they're wrong isn't, at least so much. And not when there's genuinely laugh out loud moments like: Absolute lol. If you're looking for something about a specific person you shouldn't search for them, according to Gromnir. Mentions of the person you're looking for are incidental. And the utterly hilarious thing is that that has been the essence of your argument. Don't search for reza pahlavi, search for iran protests. You do exactly the same, you're just a hypocrite about it. Your only problem is when it's someone else doing it, not you. Same as you hate speculation, unless it's you doing it. Hate people being ignorant about your country, but you being ignorant about theirs is fine. Think semantics is obfuscation, unless it's your semantics. etc etc In the end, for all the single examples that is the essence of Classic Gromnir: rules and ethics only apply to other people, they don't apply to Gromnir.

Microsoft's approach was awful. Super premium pricing discouraged both casual and dedicated initial interest; and that is just about impossible to overcome just with quality because no one likes the feeling they're being taken advantage of. Very odd choice to try a new higher pricing level on them. PoE/ Outer Worlds 1 were not Fallout and were not Baldur's Gate, indeed PoE2 did notably poorly at launch, but eventually made money. You can't price as if they're must haves. They will probably/ hopefully have decent tails at least, at a more sensible pricing level.

Yes pretty please I like building big bases and this is quite frustrating.

With inventory space being as limited as it is and bow users needing a minimum of 5 inventory spaces just for arrows this would be a wonderful quality of life improvement.

Hello Obsídio. My name is Lucca and I'm from Brazil. I'm 9 years old. I'd like to suggest some new insects and seasons. My first insect would be the black ox beetle. My second would be a big boss: the dragonfly. I'd also suggest new variations of beetles and the seasons: rain, snow, heat, and cold. Finally, a crow could attack us, but we wouldn't. Thank you.

That's wild. Did they maybe mean advice for Pallegina as a shield user? Could also be they just mixed up the sublcasses. I cannot find any statements (AI or not) about an official Shieldbearer (of St. Elcga) companion either. Surprisingly, Gemini and ChatGPT even tell me that there's only an official companion from the Frermàs mes Canc Suolias when I ask them about an official companion of the Shieldbearer order. 🤷‍♂️

if we were told the sheep were bleating, we would wonder when were the were bleating. sheep are frequent silent, so am wondering what is the significance o' the bleating observation. kinda a weird observation sans any other context. your single sentence don't prove what you think it does. a normal and not mental person might read the surrounding sentences to determine meaning. the sentence, the sheep were bleating, tells us nothing more than that at some unspecific point in time, more than one sheep was engaged in past continuous action o' making plaintive and feeble crying. 'course we aren't talk about sheep bleating are we? if we had observed that, mother terresa was bleating, and zor made the accusation that our observation about the dead saint were that she were "constant" making feeble and plaintive cries, everybody would think you are mental, and who would we be to gainsay them? 'course people would think Gromnir were mental for making such a vague and unspecific claim... unless we had supplied context in subsequent sentences. homework were shown, but you are too reading comprehension challenged to realize that fact. is not our problem you don't know english rules even when shown and provided links, and what you think doesn't matter to us. "were bleating," as used by Gromnir, is past continuous verb; "plural" is wrong. plural for a past continuous adjective clause only applies to subject agreement, and anybody who knows english would realize you is ignorant or lying by describing the action as plural. truthfully, on this am guessing you were talking out your arse when you first made the plural claim. now? also, anybody reading the post 'bout which you are revealing your grammar ignorance, would think you were mental to conclude Gromnir had accused o' constant bring up blix. your english grammar ignorance is disappointing but is unlikely to be unique. the bigger problem is your reading comprehension. is how we got your week+ failure to realize Gromnir were critical o' israel's recent attack on iran. that was amusing btw. am seeing you wanna skip our observation, as somehow revealing an accusation o' your constant bringing up blix. is possibly the first intelligent thing you have done in a couple weeks. "Still, at least this time you've managed to find a transcript, unless your mythical Hans Blix video, and it's actually relevant. Small improvements, baby steps, but credit where due." you posted about blix, unprompted by Gromnir, in a post about gary johnsosn's aleppo blunder... and then somehow tried to twist Gromnir's response into being proof o' an accusation that you are constant bringing up blix. lazy? ignorant? liar? either you didn't realize that you had made blix relevant without any prompting from Gromnir, or you knew and were trying the gaslight routine you employ whenever we catch you in one o' your all-too-common tyson fury impersonations. even so, am gonna admit am utter baffled by your continued efforts to fix your, "one wonders..." gaff. have given up on attempting to figure out your ongoing efforts to extricate yourself from the one wonders blunder, save to observe, uhm... but finding articles that include a mention o' pahlavi is incidental to what you were claiming to be doing. your claim were in regards to the mythical western efforts to embiggen, and pahlavi showing up in headlines and search blurbs were evidence o' the embiggen efforts. 'course you aren't even going with the headline effort anymore. if you had claimed that western cooking sites were disproportionate promoting a specific cooking ingredient as the fantabulous new thing, then it would be more than passing curious that by going to a dozen o' the most popular western food sites we could find no mention o' the ingredient, quail eggs perhaps, "above the fold" or displayed anywhere prominent. no mention o' quail egg souffle or quail egg toast or quail egg omelet. worse, what kinda quail egg relevance would there be if when doing a search on quail eggs specific, one would discover that a few o' the western cooking sites do indeed have quail egg recipes available, but most such recipes made effort to explain that quail eggs weren't enhancing dishes; an expensive ingredient with questionable upside. pahlavi appearance in headlines and ledes (HA!) were s'posed about relevance... but you even lie about existence. wanna go through that list we shared o' 73 and see just how many western stories there were in the bunch? already immortalized, so you can't fib your way outta the misrepresentation. and again, the biggest issue is your character problem. you don't mind accusing cops, politicians, un inspectors/diplomats and others o' moral turpitude without any evidence to back up the accusations. you rush to judgement and make claims o' wrongdoing even before there is any possibility o' there being a provable wrong, and you don't see anything wrong with your low character efforts. your only defense? whataboutism. also typical zor. HA! Good Fun!

Was just checking on feedback for my Deadfire gamefaqs guide as I consider another update, and saw that I had gotten one note that my guide wasn't helpful. The reasoning given behind that rating was that I had made no mention of or given advice on a shieldbearer paladin companion. Uh, a companion that most certainly does not actually exist in the game. I dare not actually write out more in case some bot crawler crawls this page and mistakenly interprets my post as more evidence that this companion exists to the next hapless person who asks about it. I'm not even sure where they got it from, since asking Gemini about it doesn't reveal anything. What an age we live in.

Have no issue with celebrities sharing their takes on things, everyone else shares their stances or causes with wildly varying degrees of informed status. Wager a good chunk of people praising Gervais spend their time watching Asmongold or Loomer.

Since the news has broke that The Outer Worlds 2 underperformed sales-wise, and that there will be no third one, will the 2 promised DLCs for TOW2 still be coming out? Haven't exactly heard any real news about it.

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worked for me thanks

Yep, it's the formula.

Looks like if there was a truce on Ukraine's energy sector- and even Zelensky seems to think it was a request only in his daily briefing- it's well and truly over after last night. Ukraine admits to 71 strikes getting through as well, which is unusual.

I know this has been talked about alot but one of the biggest issues with me playing the game right now is the hot bar not working. It wont save keybinds and having 6,7,8 forced on the hot bar makes those items basically unusable in combat. I like to play on hard and like to heal or use items and i usually have my closer key binds for weapons to switch to. I believe you guys will iron out this game like you did with Grounded 1 but as it stands i can barely play and its a huge bummer. Grounded 1 is amazing and I truly believe you all perfected it and am excited to see some of these issues fixed for Grounded 2. I wish these issues would get fixed before adding more content though, because coming from a seamless Grounded 1 experience makes playing Grounded 2 really unenjoyable. I do have hope though and cant imagine these fixes are easy so im willing to wait. Thank you for a great game and im excited for the future.

The sheep were bleating. If you told anyone that you actually meant the sheep bleated once, they'd think you mental. So, show your homework. If you didn't mean that, yet wrote it to stay in character, that is your fault not mine. Not the first time you've claimed people misrepresent you when it's your deliberate shtick that's the problem, and it's you misrepresenting yourself. Absolute Classic Gromnir. It's other peoples' fault that they aren't blessed with literal telepathy. No, you didn't. Your immediate response was: "oh and low energy zor is not gonna once again cowardly retreat from his blix misrepresentation. can't even be bothered to literal google "hans blix berkeley"?" I can understand you not wanting to write the correct response you made, because it makes you look like a massive hypocrite again due to refusing to provide sources- the thing you started complaining about here. Classic Gromnir. Accuses someone else of misrepresentation, then proceeds to do exactly what he accuses them of, accuses someone else of not providing sources, didn't provide them himself. No. Again, you're hiding behind Gromnir speak as an excuse. Again. You offered it as an option, and you've certainly misrepresented what you said at the time up to and including deciding that or . Classic Gromnir, accusing someone else of doing the same thing. That's what you said in defence; as if you cannot offer mutually exclusive options like eating a cake, or not. That either betrays complete ignorance of the meaning of words, or... I struggle for a different interpretation except the obvious one: you cannot stand being wrong or looking bad. Most people wouldn't care about being called on a stupid rhetorical device since it's a stupid rhetorical device, you obviously do. Either way: literal lol moment that. Jesus, this is embarrassing even for you. So, according to Gromnir searching for the thing you're looking for is 'ridiculous'. So, so, if you're looking for a specific recipe, just do a search for 'recipe'. If you're looking for information on a Toyota corolla, do a search for 'car'. If you're looking for information on measles do a search for 'disease'. Or maybe that's too precise for all of them, and you should just do a search for 'humans'. I'd call that reductio ad absurdum, except your whole argument starts off absurd. One might even say it's ridiculous. Double Classic Gromnir: say something objectively ridiculous like you shouldn't search for what you are looking for and doing so is 'ridiculous' and once again try projectile vomiting information at the screen in the hope the other person Just Gives Up.