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The person who made me watch the Chainsaw Man show and movie says they've been perfectly happy with part 2. I've now finished part 1, I guess I'll be seeing with whom I agree in the coming week or two.

Crimson Desert - another big patch. At this rate it's going to be 40% a different game in a month. I think they're mostly trying to simplify/smooth out the early sections/areas and MQ fights to maintain a better early impression/retention of masses. Y'know, the 70% of gamers who never get past the first 1/3 of most games (me sometimes included, heh. I've been pushing out to other zones/regions and general mobs are still easy to kill in two's and fours - but what they do is ramp up the numbers/patrols/waves so it gets harder to manage camps/forts, with more danger of being overwhelmed if one tries to Leroy in/gets cornered. the occasional tougher or "leader" or side boss to make you use up your healing items. Anyway - this is going exactly like Enshrouded did, for me, where I like the game a lot one moment, then almost dislike it the next It waxes and wanes depending what one is tackling at any point in time. Kitty cute note: I only use the other two playable chrs. when games forces me to, but did recently discover if I summon the female PC to base camp, all my (now 12 or so) parked pets immediately flock/run to her, with all the cats jumping onto her shoulder AT ONCE. Kind of a visual nightmare really, all the tails and faces moving around on top of each other. But it is hilarious, and with oodles of "meow, meow, meow" to go with.

No names mentioned, but I could just as well have posted this in the politics thread. Like, how Shopenhauer recommends dealing with Trump (some of his handlers seems to already having worked this out when manipulating him)

Based of all that very detailed information - thanks once again! ⸜(｡˃ ᵕ ˂ )⸝♡ - i think i may just stay clear of Debonair. I really, really thought that the Debonair gets the Tier 3 Body Inspiration, not the enemy x.x I think i might just go for Trickster then, as it seems the most unique of em all that doesnt buff the enemy haha. Or, well, maybe Psion. Vibe wise, just as special as Debonair seems to be. Likely with a Chanter Subclass stacked on top for maximum "i literally just stand 'round and ya'll vanish". Who needs knives and underhanded tactics if your mere presence is enough, right?... smth smth along those lines.

Single class Rogue is fine. Mostly because both Gambit and Vanishing Strike are good abilities and fun to use. By the time you get Gambit you will usually have over 10 Guile (+2 if you use the Devil of Caroc's Breastplate) which means the crit conversion when using Gambit is at 100% or only a bit below (Gambit's cost of 4 Guile gets substracted before the conversion check). That means unless you miss or graze you will critically hit all the time, giving you back the 4 Guile (if you are using a dual wielding setup, else only 2 Guile). This lets you spam Gambit endlessly which is very powerful, especially with weapons and other items that do something good on crit (see Ball and Chain, Rust's Poignard, Boltcatcher Gloves and so on). It also works well with ranged weapons such as hand mortars, blunderbusses and pistols so a Debonaire who doesn't want to go too near to enemies or doesn't want to leave allies can also make good use of it. If you have a party member who can charm all sorts of enemies for the Debonaire then the critical hits for Gambit are even more likely, at least for the first attack (which will flip the target back to hostile). Vanishing Strike gives you an invisibility that doesn't break until its duration is up. This means you stay invisible even if you are damaging enemies with attacks. Since the duration is rather short you want to: a) prolong it with high INT and items (Salvation of Time is not working because the spell will not hit you because you are invisible and not targetable) b) be very fast with your attacks while invisible to squeeze the most out of it. Both Assassin and Streetfighter are nice for this. The Assassin because of the Assassinate passive being at work while invisible and the Streetfighter because of the reduced recovery which allows more attacks while invisible. Debonaire can also use it of course. Obviously Backstab is a great ability to combine with Vanishing Strike. You can use both - like turning invisible and then slam Gambit - but imo it's better to concentrate on one of them to maximize the effect. Debonaire as a subclass is charming (pun intended) but its uses are fairly limited. Because charmed enemies immediately flip back to hostile if you hit them, the 100% crit conversion isn't a very exploitable feature. The added damage charmed kith do (if you charm them with the Debonaire's own Rogueish Charm) is okay but not really impactful. Imo something like a self-contained Skald/Debonaire (focus on the charm invocation + melee crits for phrases) or a Psion/Debonaire (charm and then use Disintegrate as an almost guaranteed crit, this doesn't flip back the enemy) is most fun, even if a combination of a dedicated Charmer + a Debonaire on the party is usually better in terms of action and resource economy. One charms and the other immediately profits (instead of having to wait for recovery to finish). Single class Debonaire works and can be used like any other Rogue with the known drawbacks of a Debonaire. I just find the other Rogue subclasses more suited for single class operation. Assassin in combination with Vanishing Strike, Streetfighter with Gambit and Trickster with stuff like Freezing Rake, Wall of Many Colors or even Gambit in combination with Wall of Flashing Steel. The Debonaire's special thing at level 18 is that the kith enemies they charm with Rogueish Charm get any tier 3 body inspiration. It's nice but very situational imo. Like... why would you want the charmed enemy to become Robust? So when looking at single class Rogues the Debonaire isn't more attractive than a vanilla Rogue to me. PS: iirc you can combine the Chanter's charm upgrade (charmed enemies deal more damage) with the Debonaire's body inspiration on the same (kith) target somehow (don't remember how I did it). Not really worth it though imo. The most annoying thing about a melee Debonaire is that Persistent Distraction doesn't work and is a trap choice because they cannot ever engage enemies in the first place.

Nice, the right to protest is often taken for granted in Western countries and especially where the LGBT community can openly participate Its one of the fundamental human rights that doesn't exist in countries like Iran or Russia And its good that you put the effort in to be part of this protest. RL activism is always appreciated and better than Internet activism

https://miningzimbabwe.com/zimbabwe-lithium-ban-policy-enforcement-not-inconsistency/ Here is another example of Chinese neo-colonialism and looting of African minerals Zimbabwe has basically banned Lithium exports because of abuse of how Chinese companies have been operating You dont hear much outrage and drama about this from most Afrocentric activists because its not a Western country involved

Seeing that you are going to add different candy attack bugs. There is a great opportunity to specialise armours to be strong and weak in different attacks. ie Armour is light, strong against spicy and stabbing, weak against poison and slicing. Add greater variety and the need for us to chase a larger variety of armours. Add a wheel to choose what armour set up we want with an armour setup, with weapon, trinket and mutations. We don't need to carry our armour or weapons now, unless they are not in the saved in the wheel. I would make tier 1, just normal, light, medium and heavy. Tier 2 armours are weak and strong against the types of attacks. Tier 3 and higher armours are strong and weak against different types of attacks and special candy attacks, including poison, shock and sizzle (if spicy is just damage and sizzle is the affect). I would still like their special abilities on them. We can still chop and change our armours, so when we are saving them to the wheel we don't have to save all the same armour type on that slot. Grounded 1 was great, but except for the weapons, which I changed depending on the bugs I was fighting, I'd only use 3 armour setups in the end for everything. In that if it is difficult to come up with more varieties of armours, they could just have a colour change only, and maybe an infuse option with the oven candy bricks, and/or something for the damage types. I'd rather limit that, so we are forced to build more full and different armours. In that, allowing superior protection when we need it, allowing players to either play skillfully, or strategically when needed, with less need to change difficulty of the game.

I can you increase the amount of how much lint drops. You have to wear it takes 4 lint for but floors and that’s is just about the amount it drops least make it lints drops about 8-10 and 10+ with special mutations

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/tanker-carrying-russian-oil-enters-cubas-exclusive-economic-zone-ship-data-says-2026-03-29/ Well that's good news for Cuba, the powerful nemesis to the US.

Hello, it is me again! This time i have a different question, or rather, i want to ask for experiences. After looking through some of the subclasses again, i noticed the description for the Debonair Rogue Subclass and instantly fell in love with the flair of it. Was curious about Rogue anyhow, so that was cool. So, anyone played around with Debonair before? Outside of the "Beguiler/Debonair" Combo i've seen much of? Maybe even SC? And on the same topic: Whats your opinion on Rogue as a SC overall? Probably will have a go at it next playthrough.

There is no border weirder than Oman and the UAE. Two Omani enclaves*, one with an Emirati enclave inside it. Whoever came up with that must have been taking the mick. The most likely scenario for Trump using a nuke is so he can claim he's 'destroyed' any Iranian nuclear material. By distributing it and a bonus amount over a large area of Iran, but still, it's Trump. Tactical nuke, not a strategic one. Plenty of people around who think they're fine [for their side] to use, and it's very likely Trump and Kegseth are two of them. Which is why it might be an actively good thing if Trump is bored. *as demanded of a true pedant: one is technically an exclave, since it borders the sea. Quoting myself as I forget to mention: also rather begs the question that if that AWACS is just 'damaged' what other stuff labelled as 'damaged' is, well, missing the equivalent of a third of its fuselage and all the equipment essential to its role. Labeling that as 'damaged' is actively damaging to PR, since it's very obviously destroyed to all practical purposes.

You still seem to think Trump is sane or rational. Hint: He isn't. Intellectually challenged and used to bully his way through life thanks to daddy Trumps inherited billions, he has no mental processes for dealing with adversity. He has the empathy of a cobblestone, the intellect of of a jellyfish and the cognitive abilities of a chimpanzee (although that would be an insult to some 4 year olds, who are smarter than chimps) If he can't have his way with something, his preferred option is to 1) break it and 2) pass the blame on someone else .All because he is a genius and a businessman without peer (trying to add the US to his list of major bankruptcies). But the worrying part is the tendency to destroy things he can't have. He has no concept of tomorrow, much less consequences of the destruction he orders done everywhere. Hypothetical speculation: Lets say the US somehow miraculously survives his presidency, how many years (and billions of dollars) do you think it would take to fully renovate the White House and turn it into a classy, stylish residence again. I mentioned it previously, half in fun, half seriously, he is the type of person that would blow up Mount Rushmore to make room for a new statue of himself. The biggest and the bestest statue the world has ever seen! So big and so best even the Colossus of Rhodes would turn green with envy, that's how best and biggest it will be! On a more lighthearted note, Denmark and Canada are not the only countries with a knack for sorting out borders

Must be a scarce species these days. Yeaess... Based on a Sting song.

I've realised why I was not getting to the threads from the Obsidian Community page directly - the links are bound only to the exact text and not the whole space where I would expect the link to be (e.g. the last poster or the date of the last post). Please add clearly visible buttons/borders around the active links. Also corners, only the UI designers are afraid of corners. 🔲

Participated in the Together Alliance (anti-far-right) march in London yesterday. The numbers were higher than the fash march last year (500K vs 100K). I did not stay for the speeches, as the bloc I was in (LGBTQ) was at the tail and moved slowly.

Do you really still expect redacted to apply reason or logic to problems at this point? He has an undisciplined mind and can't even properly communicate his reasons for going to war. We know he has immense difficulty accepting a loss, and nuclear weapons are the ultimate trump card for when events go badly wrong. "But he is not insane" Are you sure about that? He satisfies all criteria for "narcissistic personality disorder" in the DSM-5. There may be other co-morbibity conditions present, but narcissism explains most of his behavior.

I have a palisade all-round my base but recently creatures have started getting in. Is this a bug?

Another bunch of refueling planes and an AWACS (! total loss, couldn't have been done cleaner with a Ginzu) appear to have been hit at Prince Sultan Air Base by Iran. This is separate from the incident a while back where half a dozen were hit, and separate from the collision (or 'collision') that killed one of the plane's flight crew. That's as much as 10% of the total fleet out of action now, and even though they're being replaced a completely unsustainable rate of loss. (one might opine that it was highly incompetent leaving a dozen or so planes in a beautiful ordered formation on the tarmac after the experiences of Russia and Ukraine... but it probably isn't. If you don't have hardened shelters you don't have them; and they're big planes. Does make you wonder if a site as well defended as Prince Sultan is getting hit what other places are as well that we aren't seeing)

Gedonia (Steam shows 70 uploaded screenshots) A level 6 powerful wizard. I'd think that verbal abuse would decrease the defence, but whatever works. Threatening a minor. Better than looting from the corpse, I guess. How? And why? FPS dropped to 15. Is the mysterious assassin an assassin? Defeated 1 lurker at lvl21. Then there were 6 more deeper in the cave. The dagger was the same as the one I looted from a random chest in the next area. But good stats. A drakeling boss. Not hostile, but not recruitable either. Kings' Tomb it is not. Debating by tapping E. Was their demigod/Chosen One nailed to a cross too? Very hardcore barbarians - sunburn-resistant and brought wood with them. The main story I joined the not-Ewoks faction after completing several quests for them and still needed books to learn about them. The quest was the opposite of epic.

They are at 68% now, there are 18 days to go, and the game is going to be released either way, according to the FAQ on the page.

Finished Gedonia. I guess it is the "Crimson Desert we have at home". The writing, from the main story to dialogues to world building to environmental storytelling, is atrocious, while the bugs can softlock the game. The FPS in the cutscenes drops to 15 and the PC is auto-dialoguing in the main story with the player having no impact. 0 Alchemy skills? Does not matter, the PC still brews a potion. 1 Agility? The PC swiftly climbs a rope. Otherwise, it is a fairly charming action-RPG which reminds of the MMOs from the 00's, with the late-game bosses boasting tens of thousands of HP. It is also an impressive achievement for a solo developer. There are a lot of features, however shallow they are: you can recruit companions who have no quests and cease having a personality after joining. there are quests with different endings but no quest chains outside of the factions (which are linear and insultingly poorly made) and no further impact from the ones you complete. you can craft but the items are junk. you can build houses at a few very specific spots. I have not found out how to remove the things built, so one of them has a wall in the middle (the input is not disabled when you are in menus and selecting an object and placing it are the same button). you can explore the world, until you find a level-gated quest or dungeon, even if with your equipment you should be able to complete it. The visual style is the low-poly cartoon one, the sound design is fine, the VA makes me wish for the game to be VA-free. There are numerous bugs, from the input still working when the saving menu is open (so if the PC is in front of an interactive object, the interaction will occur) to the PC teleporting to random inaccessible locations if you try to skip the cutscenes. The game also sometimes ignores the settings which on one occasion resulted in having to sprint through an instance-type area at 15 FPS (I blame the grass). The positive aspects include: the controls are rebindable and generally comfortable. the saving is adequate (quick, auto-, and "hard" manual saves). the character creation and development systems allow to have diverse and unique characters. The equipment provides a good synergy with the skills and stats as well. exploration is fun when it works (some dungeons offer unique mechanics).

Nukes? Where did that come from, why would you ever think he would want to use nukes? That makes no sense. There is absolutely no chance Trump will use nukes in Iran. Its completely illogical and doesn't align to any military objectives that are inextricably tied to the economic fallout of this war Can you imagine what nuking Iran would do to global energy prices? Trumps arrogant, capricious, petulant and obsessed with his legacy and current popularity . But he is not insane Only a truly demented person would ever use nukes in this regional conflict

Eh. You get used to the notion. I think fires, lately, are more of a threat to any individual. Edit: when I was young, these small tremors happened all the time. They don't seem to occur as much in the past couple decades (where one can feel them at home, I mean), which could be a good or bad sign. Who knows.

Still love the game--definitely an All-Star all-time contender. I do have one thing to report, every once in a while, even with 1.1.0.1 I am still getting the occasional Arkansas crash. As much as I can see, it appears to happen at times when there's a major shift in surroundings, like for instance I'm in one area and load a game save in another area, and it seems to be related to a texture contention of some kind--either in the bus of my PCIE 5.x GPU or inside the onboard ram in my 9070 XT, or maybe not....;) I can start over and load the same save and proceed from there with no further problems--until the next Arkansas crash--some number of hours later under similar circumstances. It also happens occasionally when moving into a different area with different terrain. But other than that, it's all good...;) I will say that I I've started the game from scratch three times, at the advent of a new major patch, and regret none of it! Having a great time with it. Let me also add that in my lowly opinion, this is the best thing to ever come out of Obsidian! I own many of Obsidian's games dating way back (I remember when Feargus was in the B&B circus doing high wire acts and that is going way back, indeed!)...;)