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Stranger Things, season 5, part 1: On The Quest For Even More Subs. Quick note, I'm not going to spoiler tag anything before season five, it's been years. #dealwithit So, like, the series will be dropped in two installments, four episodes now, and apparently another round on Christmas. Hey, we gotta squeeze the maximum amount of Netflix subscriptions out of the show. Which has been the problem of the series ever since the first season wrapped up. Every season since the first was unnecessary, and while I still enjoyed them, season two in particular was basically just a rehash of the first one with worse writing. Season three vectored off into 80ies trash territory with the Russian plot and season four was, at least, a proper sequel, although it did suffer from sequelitits: in order to introduce a bigger threat parts of the original storyline were - if not retconned, then at least heavily expanded - and a new antagonist was created where none was needed. The parallel dimension with the eldritch horrors the show revolved around were incorporated into a hive mind controlled by someome who once was human. Henry Creel, also known as Subject 001, the first of the gifted children found and experimented upon by Dr. Brenner. By tradition he got a D&D nickname by the "kids" (who, at this point, where mostly at the cusp of becoming adults, if they weren't already) - Vecna. Vecna would have been fine for a second season. Less so in season four, but that is water under the bridge. With that out of the way, if you were unhappy with the show in the earlier seasons, then you'll not find anything in this one either. It is mostly more of the same - mostly because the pacing hasn't allowed a whole lot of breathing room or downtime. The first episode introduced the changes after the prior season, i.e. a military lockdown after the Upside Down bled into Hawkins. Anyway, the kids are on the prowl for Vecna, who they assume has survived and is still around. Spoiler: 'course he is. Wouldn't be much of a season without the antagonist. One of the problems the insanely long production time of the series brough is the actors growing up. It would have been an issue even if they came out with a season every year, but the lead actors are no longer kids, and even though they had Millie Bobby Brown wear a grey trackie the entire time, that did very little to hide the adult woman underneath, to the point where I wonder why they even bothered. In an inverse Golden Girls scenario, Dustin, who is amongst the oldest of the former child actors of the show, is the only who who still looks the part. With some heavy squinting. Yeah, anyway, there's no place I am going with this in particular. It's a pain in the suspension of disbelief, but in a series where a group of kids routinely outsmart high level military and intelligence officers as well as top secret government branches, them not looking like kids anymore might not be that much of a problem. A more discerning viewer's more like to ditch the series after the second or third season based on it getting worse. With that out of the way, I actually binged the episodes. This is at a time where I even finish movies I enjoy in more than one sitting, and it sometimes takes me several days to watch through an episode of Voyager, where I just recently finished a rewatch. Man, that series still has so many problems, but they do seem somewhat minor when compared to the problems of the series that came after. But I digress. What I mean by this is that no matter how ridiculous the setting, premis and storyline have become, I still enjoyed the episodes so far. A lot. Acting performances are once again top notch, and if they ever make a show that's just about Maya Hawke (who seems to look more and more like her mother every year) talking to Noah Schnapp, I'm game. To be perfectly honest, I think that's the primary reason I still enjoy the series as much as I do - I just don't care all that much for the storyline. It's the characters and the strength of the cast that's doing the heavy lifting. What pointless review. I wrote a lot, and yet said not much in it. The music is still fantastic, and the setting still makes me nostalgic (hey, 80ies). Camerawork and editing is good enough, and the CGI still is as it always ways: an eyesore. Hey come on Netflix, games do better physics effects at this point in time. Ah, well.

always make no sense that paradox insist on making bloodline 2 with random studio if paradox know the game are too much for themself why not at least commission a studio with a little more experience

Both on Xbox series x, Me and my friends game continuously crashes after the new update one we reach close to our main base. I started trying to load up the game myself to try to make it work and it still crashes everytime I get close. Finally after I somehow made it into my main base I noticed all of my stuff was gone besides the walls and floors, all my decorations are gone, beds are gone, all my doors and gates, dew collectors, storage chests, literally everything besides an empty shell of a base and the base is over grown with grass as well. I noticed others are experiencing the same issue but not sure to the same extent as how bad my game has crashed

Like featuring high lore or heavy potion use. Especially for solo.

Good afternoon, I live in Russia. I wanted to replay the game 100% and came across the fact that the game crashes after the screensavers and I can not continue the game. I've read a lot of guides, even from you developers, but nothing helps. I decided to check the pirated version (I do not approve) and find out if it will run on a PC, and to my surprise it ran smoothly without problems. How to solve the problem so that the game runs the paid version on Steam?

With the companion quests it is especially Kurt's quest that really matters, I understand the ending is affected by a number of things but will always end in the confrontation with that one major choice. I get that people think the devs wrote a naive fairy tale ending, but I find it refreshing not to be driven from one forced binary choice to the next, like a Telltale game, to be given the illusion of choices that matter. Do you want vanilla or chocolate ice cream is not a meaningful choice - you still get ice cream at the end. It was simply arbitrarily decided I get to only have one flavor (I still buy two scoops, as I don't get refunded half the game's price for never playing the other choice).

That is correct, Acane Dampener is an achilles heel. On the other hand there are so many drugs to find and buy (and they are cheap as well) that you can simply chuck downin another one after the dampening is over. Nalpazca has the benefit of generating wounds passively. In combination with Enduring Dance of Death and Whispers of the Wind this is extremely good because while doing WotW you are invisible - so no Dampener will hit you anyways - and you can generate enough wounds while doing it that you can spam it all the time, spending the majority of the fight invisible. At the start of the fight you stay stealthed and wait for enough wounds to start WotW from stealth and that's it for the encounter most of times. If you also use Ajamuut's Stalking Cloak that means lots of enemies will be stunned fo some time, too - which also reduces the risk of getting hit by stray dampeners. For a multiclass though I think maybe another subclass is better. Unless you use invisibility in other ways (Rogue, Wizard + Brilliant Departure) or are not involved in melee much (Psion, casters in general where you want the #ACC and INT from the Monk without doing melee much). I like Nalpazca because it motivates me to use consumables which I otherwise would just sell.

I'd say that the issue with Bloodlines 2 as released was the lack of experience on the developers' side (no idea what happened with the original team and their version). And I agree that Obsidian could have handled the title much better. Larian has demonstrated that older IP can be wildly successful, but they also had a strong playerbase interested in their work more than in a Baldur's Gate game. Given that Bethesda seems to be trying to release things alongside the TV series, I would bet on FO:NV2 as well, though I would prefer a new IP (or at least something not post-apocalyptic).

I am glad that you enjoyed the game. If I remember correctly, the choices do matter there. Especially one of the companion quests. Could you please share your thoughts on the ending? I have played the other Spiders' games and would probably prefer the style/narrative of The Technomancer. So, I found it frustrating.

Yeahh I get it and thank you for sharing it

I’m curious — which companion in The Outer Worlds has been your favorite and why? I’m still early in the game and trying to decide who to bring along more often. Would love to hear your picks!

I played practically the whole day without issue, but suddenly it crashed, I thought it was the GPU drivers as the game froze and some audio artifacts were heard but I reinstalled drivers and the same issue happens, now after restart, not 5 minutes in, the game crashes I checked integrity of game files and tested my rig, even though it is less than a year old and all is fine, memtest did not find any issues, and running the exe as admin made no difference. I am hoping that it is a reboot of the computer that is needed, but that will have to be tested tomorrow as I am ready to go to bed now.

And if you want to add another element of joyous, look up Daniel Craig's reaction to the above..

Played a little bit today with creating scripts for MKvsDCU Kombo challenges. This time for Sub-Zero. Took half the time than last time, so it seems, I am getting more used to it. Second Kombo Challenge Trophy unlocked 20 to go

Unlikely. There are still two story DLCs in the works. The next patch is probably being slowed by the end of year holidays and people taking PTO for travel and such. Which is fine, I just want to know when they expect the next patch to drop.

AL presionar la opción para visualizar con el BINOCULAR, que es el botón Y amarillo en el mando de mi xbox, el juego simplemente se apaga. Esto comenzó a ocurrir después de la ultima actualización 0.2.2.0 REL 2308929 del 3 de diciembre del 2025 Alguien ha experimentado este problema?

I think they've abandoned the game already.

No new portraits to share other than whatever the hell this was. But I did uploaded a new version of my watercolor conversion file with some basic instructions for it's use to nexus mods: https://www.nexusmods.com/pillarsofeternity2/mods/814 This is what I've used for most of conversions in the past. Some images require a fair bit of additional tweaks but it gets most images most of the way there. Could have sworn this portrait was from one of the older threads or from a portrait pack on nexus. Reverse image search isn't any use, so can't find the author of the original edit either... Ah well. Original image by Frittatart

Just like in ELEX I, Caja romance bugged out (?) and so I have to romance Nasty (lol) or Nyra

While the Houthis have not (mostly) been attacking shipping in international waters they have been attacking shipping in other country's territorial waters- mostly Djibouti and Eritrea- since shipping tends to hug the non Yemeni side of the Bab el Mandeb. Out of context that would usually be seen as being 'worse' than using international waters; but that does require ignoring any context. Of course outrage about those sorts of acts is highly selective. Unless, perchance, I missed Bruce's condemnation of Ukraine's recent attacks on neutral oil tankers in Turkey's territorial waters? I suspect I didn't though.

Takaichi-chan makes Liz look like Marcus Aurelius.

The Japanese PM is a pretty strident traditionalist and nationalist and for Japan there isn't much more traditional and nation defining than war with China. China is unlikely to do anything so long as she thinks that Taiwan will inevitably return peacefully or in a Crimea like low bloodshed manner.