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Watched AD Police Files. The creators really liked Blade Runner.

Restored VM Arena Fight.zip I've put together that restores this encounter into a mostly functional state. The fight is a level 18 encounter, but can be launched from the Pool of Memories at anytime during Seeker, Slayer, Survivor; provided that the free Critical Role Pack DLC is installed. A short conversation will play using audio from the Critical Role Pack voice sets. Though there will be no portraits for the character during the conversation. On first completion there is a reward of some currency and a couple of Exceptional quality weapons and armour. It should be compatible with the Standalone Seeker, Slayer, Survivor mod should you wish to jump right into it, or my own Early Seeker mod if you'd prefer. Apart from fixing some minor issues, the only major alteration I've made to the encounter is creating NPC variants of each character's corresponding Player Voice. This was done to remove most of the battle barks such as Low Health, Poisoned, Critical Hits/Misses and like. Otherwise the battle is just a heap of auditory clutter with Vox Machina and PC party shouting barks. I would recommend installing the Percy and Gilmore Voice Fixes, as the audio file issues present in those voice sets will crop up during the fight. Namely Gilmore asking "How can I help you?" while casting some spells and Percy's overlapping barks during his death and damaged cries. As for how the encounter plays? I haven't done a lot of testing on it, but I found it a pretty difficult encounter to beat. Though I am pretty rusty at the game, so I'd be interested what more experienced Deadfire players make of it. I don't have any intentions to make any further alterations to the encounter in the future. But should anyone want to do something with what I've done here they are more than welcome to!

The story, apparently, or the characters? The reviews bitching about that are so suitably skinny on details, it's hard to tell.

Damn, earlier than I thought. Let's hope it'll work out.

Even after four decades, you just can't get it out of yer head. (Later on I had one of those Action Replay cartridges though. Came with a turbo loader as well as simply hitting the C64's F-keys to shortcut the "loading routines".) Oh man, SKALD is actually good. I mean real good. It feels like those oldies but with updates where needed: No bloat, just an intriguing setup and off ya go. It's a narrative heavy game, too, but it doesn't drown you in exposition. I'd rather play focused games like these than a 100 hour campaign full of filler. The character system is complex enough, the battles are about the same. There's even a simple faction system in place. What kills it though is the vibe the guy was going for and manages to hit. Sure, it's pixels. But there's a skill check fairly early on whether your character can withstand the stench of rotting corpses in a cave... succeed, and all is well. Fail, and get a debuff 'til resting. This isn't a "poop your pants" kinda game. It's rather all very oppressive and feels like uncovering dark ancient secrets in the best of ways. There's even dynamic weather (and of course day/night cycles), with the island you visit apparently being fogged permanently. Clearly, the oft expressed notion that horror kinda themes and RPG's inherent level-up kinda power fantasy wouldn't gell is nonsense. Then substantial companies had shown such in the 1980s and 1990s. They just stopped trying it mostly with Bloodlines.

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From what I have seen it doesn’t seem terribly, but isn’t great either. Campaign not being great is a big „wait for a deep sale” for me. I still have remasters to finish anyway.

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I'm sure this was reported years ago, but the game still cuts out the audio at the beginning of some voice lines.

Tiny Glade demo - I've had it wishlisted for a bit. ...it's cute, but in the end I'm not sure I'm into the artstyle. I feel like I'm building something that would go into a rich person's ceramic collector fantasy curio cabinet. Which is odd because I might like some of such in a curio cabinet, but on-screen/game it doesn't appeal to me. But it is cute, the mechanics work well enough/are cool (maybe a bit finicky/over precise), and if the style is your thing, looks promising a small/chill time waster. One of those games with essentially no point but use tools to create a small castle/town in a small area.

I clicked on the "Deadpool and Wolverine Popcorn Bucket" video. I feel unclean.* *it is rather funny tho

... I know the (hilarious) intro is a comedic video edit, but - did some quirky AI take over this guy's brain? Seriously, some of those quotes.

One of the first Doctor Who companions, William Russell who played school teacher Ian Chesterton, at 99: https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/doctor-who-william-russell-dies-newsupdate/

Dunno, France had more direct blood trying to hold onto its empire as in Algeria or Vietnam, Britain had more indirect blood from incompetent? malevolent? map making and the like. Wouldn't exonerate them just because it wasn't British troops doing the slaughter and religious cleansing in India or Biafra.

God I have such high hopes, but I probably shouldn't.

Finished Agency, it was a weird book. Stuff just happens, the people from the future just solve every issue. Apparently the original plot was some alternate history where Trump won, and the future was trying to save that. Flynn is barely in this, is mostly Netherton in quantum Skype calls.

I missed the boat, again. I forgot to get tekken 8 at half price too.

woke spaceships ... how ?

I know this is just a gag thread, but having done some cyber security courses for my job, the vendor had a video covering a study that says goatse, 'rickrolling' and other famous meme link gags - has not improved cybersecurity awareness across the world's population. Surprised me.

France - lots more blood - and UK are more recent, their empires falling apart after those two, slightly.