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I'm really damn impressed with the voice actress of female V. She's really, really good at expressing emotions in a believable way.

Happy new year! So long 2020 and thanks for all the covid.

Happy 2020 NG+

Other people's mileage may vary (and probably does), but apart from a family members failing health (non covid related), 2020 was actually a damn good year for me. So no complaints about the old year from here. Happy New Year everyone. May 2021 be a good year

The character creator in Wasteland 3 is quite limited, so there's only so much I could do to make reasonable Robert Wagner and Stefanie Powers facsimilies, but I did the best I could:

Being the 31st December of 2020, I might to chime in with my own 2020 retrospective. Even though I purchased few 2020 games this year, I've spent my gaming time only finishing my backlog and racing Assetto Corsa on PC with my new Direct Drive wheel, and load-cell pedals. And organizing one sort of Academy Tournament for CZ/SK newcomers to sim-racing, in the cooperation with the Trained Monkey Modding team, famous with few of their historical Skoda and Tatra cars for Assetto Corsa. Anyway, here is the full list of my 2020 games, which I've finished 2020 14 games – 5 GoG games, 3 PS3 games and 6 PS4 games 1 - February 2, 21:00 – The first game of 2020 which I've finished is Pillars of Eternity: The White March – Part I expansion from GOG. Although me being kickstarter backer, I have never finished the base game, so I started to play vanilla game again from the beginning. I entered the expansion as level 8, so the content was pretty challenging, and I've enjoyed it a lot because of that. I was wiped clean few times, so I went for few hours back to vanilla to get little bit of relaxing content, and then back again, until I finished The White Forge as level 12. I still need to kill one dragon though 2 - April 6, 23:00 – My second finished game is Pillars of Eternity: The White March – Part II expansion from GOG. I had to quest until hitting level 16 in vanilla parts of the game to be able to finish it. I have turned on the scaling for the second expansion, so some of the fights were really crazy hard. Anyway, I was able to give back the memory to Abydon, but I was not able to temper him during the conversation with the Eyeless. We'll see what impact it will have on the final ending of the game. I think I liked this part little bit more than the first one. Well with the exception of monk fights in some of the encounters. 3 - April 11, 19:00 – The third one this year is the base game of Pillars of Eternity from GOG. I decided to go to the Burial Isle only after finishing every single quest I had in a journal. It took few hours and after that, I've descended into the Breith Eaman and Sun in Shadow areas and upscaled the encounters for final act. After few encounters with soul of Iovara, I've step in front of Thaos and after a lengthy dialogue, the fight have started. Well my party and thier builds were not optimal, so I spent a lot bitching about how some of them dropped down few times during the fight . In the end, the biggest help for me was the summon of Concelhaut, which was hitting Thaos from distance, while Aloth and Devil of Caroc kept knocked out repeatedly . Before his final breath, he managed dow to knock out also Edér, but in the end, it was not enough for him to defeat the rest of my party. After the fight, I’ve released his soul back to the cycle, while keeping his memories, as an adequate punishment for his deeds. In the last step, I’ve returned back the souls to all of the Hollowborn children, as promised to Hylea. The endings I’ve got were mostly positive, with the exception of Sagani, which got lost in the blizzard, and Devil of Caroc, which got torn to pieces by angry villagers. All in all one of the best RPGs, I’ve played in the last few years, and can’t wait to jump into Deadfire with my final save. 4 - May 5, 20:45 – Next game on my 2020 list is Vaporum from GOG. Steampunk dungeon-crawler RPG made in Slovakia. After I've found out, that this game was made in my home country, I purchased it immediately, and started to play few days later. I was not satisfied that much about game purchase in very long time. All what I have expected from the game was delivered and some things have been surmounted. AI on normal difficulty was satisfying, enemies challenging and puzzles were doable with little bit of thinking. The only one, which outmatched me, was the teleport puzzle in The Office level, where I was not able to find out any visual hooks to teleport in correct order to the final switch. Also the game was balanced pretty good for older people, with slower reflexes . Few timed puzzles were on the edge, but they added time stop feature to help you out. Although I haven't used it, I see that feature as a big plus for elderly gamers. The biggest negatives for me was little bit to dark levels for my linking, few of the hidden buttons were impossible to be found without map guides and me being to rusty for this type of games . 5 - May 16, 1:45 – After 2 and half year long break, I've went back to Final Fantasy Type-0 on my PS4. I quit the game somewhere in the middle, because I got tired of the gameplay system, and it got to me very fast again. Some of the quests were mildly of annoying, some of them very nice, but for me, the mildly annoying were more common. Despite that, I found enough fun in the later half of the game to finish it, and grind little bit for all the trophies the game had to offer. The game was made for multiple playthroughs, but for now, I do not think, that I will get back to it anytime soon. 6 - July 19, 19:30 – After 960 deaths, I was finally able to defeat Aldia, Scholar of the First Sin in Dark Souls II on my PS3, and finished the game for the first time ever. Most of the bosses, with the exception of Ancient Dragon were for my Sorcerer pretty easy to learn, but on some of them, my old bones were to slow to react, so I had to spent longer time wiping the floor there . Then there were areas like Shrine of Amana and Dragon shrine, where the enemy placement was so ridiculous, that it raised my death counter to sky high levels . Shrine of Amana has become for me officially the worst Souls level ever, beating by a long margin even the Blighttown and 5-1 area of Valley of Defilement. I still need to get into NG++ to be able to get all of the trophies for the game, but I need small pause to relax on a less demanding game . 7 - August 1, 15:00 – Today, I've finally started Journey on my PS4, after many recommendations from my friends. And I have to say, I am much more than impressed by this game. Took me just little bit over 2 hours to finish it solo, but this game easily blown away most of the games I've seen and played last few years. This game is artistic masterpiece and it is unbelievably relaxing to play after more than a month of Dark Souls 2 . 8 - August 9, 17:00 – Another session of Journey finished on my PS4. Took me around 2 hours again, but this time with a companion, who was helping me travelling around and has shown me how to get some trophies. It was a lot of fun, but this took away little bit of the feeling from the exploration of the world. 9 - August 10, 0:00 – One more trophy run of Journey finished on my PS4. This time, I've met 4 new companions. Just 5 more missing for the last trophy to pop-up . 10 - August 12, 23:15 – Last and final trophy run of Journey on my PS4 is behind me. Last trophy popped up after 3 hours of matchmaking . In the final session I've met 3 more companions. 11 - September 7, 22:45 – I've finished my second playthrough on New Game+ in Dark Souls II on my PS3. This time, because I knew most of the traps and also the bossfights, it took me only 292 deaths . The biggest issue to finishing the game was to my surprise Aldia, Scholar of the First Sin. The randomness of the fight, me being tired and triggerhappy meant, I needed for him 13 attempts. Not even Ancient Dragon made me so much trouble this time . 12 - October 17, 23:30 – After almost 10 hour long Saturday marathon of Dark Souls II New Game 2+ on my PS3, I've finaly achieved Platinum Trophy. This time, I have gone only for the mandatory bosses and left Lost Sinner as a last one. Up until her, it went very smooth and I had to my surprise inly 3 or 4 deaths. Then she decided to whip my ass with her big sword, and I went few time really angry. Especially when one of my controllers started to malfunction once in a while, which caused me at least 4 deaths. My DeathCounter stopped at 1474 :D, with only 36 deaths in this NG2+ run. In total, I spent little bit over 210 hours on this game, and enjoyed every single second of it, with the exception of Shrine of Amana, which sucked walrus balls! 13 - December 23, 00:15 – I have finally finished the main campaign of Shadowrun Hong Kong - Extended Edition Deluxe, the third installment in the series. The game is as good as two previous entries, with the exception of some of the extremely text heavy intermezzos in Heoi, which were in my opinion little bit bloated. This does not change the fact, that I had a lot of fun with the rest of the game. In the end, I was able to shut down The Fortune Machine, unfortunately with Raymond having to sacrifice himself . 14 - December 31, 03:30 – After two years break, I have decided to go back to my PS4 copy of Tales of Zestiria. After full clear of Hexen Isle, I went for second playthrough of Tales of Zestiria – The Strength of a Knight DLC, with the goal of getting 100% of Trophies. After getting to the Malevolent Crucible: Naraka, I've spent some time fusing the equipment and slowly started to learn to optimize the way how to approach the encounter, so I could defeat the boss in less than 2 minutes. After the first try, I was 15 seconds to slow. Not bad. In total, I have spent more than 2 hours to execute the fight properly with no mistakes, and missed the mark twice with less than 1 second behind the target time. In the end the Speedy Duo Trophy was mine, exactly at 3:30 in the morning, after the famous words One Last Try :D. The final time was 1:52.29.

Happy NY all, here is to a good 2021.....it cant be much worse than 2020 at least Has anyone got any exciting things they did or were able to do for NY? I stayed inside and watched CNN bring in the NY at different places and did some serious gaming

Faces melting off, starvation, diseased and dying siblings; six was about the age I first saw 'Watership Down'.

Did mean to finally binge watch Mandalorian season 2. Somehow I ended up re-watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 1....

When you do the He Waits In Fire quest, you can ally yourself with the Rathun instead of fighting them. If you do, they bestow Magran's Blessing on you before you go find Jadaferlas.

I have the game in my library but have not yet got around to playing it. Apparently it also has decent character development and even some additional RPG elements like crafting. The studio that made is now making a second game called Dark Envoy. Not a sequel; a completely separate game.

PC Games (Germany) said "engaging story" - so maybe it isn't that shallow in that regard? They also wrote that it's pretty hard though.

Having a slight break from Cyberpunk to do sci-fi survival and build things in Empyrion.

Yah, but that's what you pay developers for to realize something you point at. In theory, anyway. Yeah just if you scan them, would be nice to see that the car handles well, top speed, etc. I guess they aren't too varied though. Melee build is fun, well, except when I end up stuck after a pounce with the Mantis blades.

But that's where DLSS starts to look ... especially blurry, for lack of a better word ... to the point it doesn't meet my personal "graphics clarity" meter. Quality or even Balanced mode (as far as I'm willing to go) isn't enough to get Cyberpunk to be 4k/60fps even with dropping some things down to Medium. And yes I mean with RT off. Too much DLSS affects screenshots as well - that petroleum jelly lens look. Ick. Not that I mind too much not having a constant 60fps - altho that really depends on the game. Some games "feel" fine at stable 30-45 far as I'm concerned, while others do not.

They may well be too hard. As I said, I only attempted two of them, and both of them only once. (After reading these forums, I have realized that I am probably not a very good player when it comes to the battles. I would probably struggle on PotD in the main game, but then I'm mostly interested in the story and the sense of adventure, not battles as such, so I'm fine with being just average at fighting.) The megabosses also have the problem that they can realistically only be beaten at or near the end of the game. From this it follows that whatever items you're going to gain from them are not going to help you a lot, if at all. So there's no real motivation to beat them, except the sense of completing everything (which I don't have). I certainly like to do all the quests I can find, but beating all possible monsters is not on my agenda. So what happens if you chat with Aloth in Ukaizo after FS? I have no idea, I didn't do it...

Maybe this discussion point should be in politics but, eh...

This whole ****ing season:

I just (9AM so 9 hours ago) finished Rythm of War (Book IV of the Stormlight Archives). Like all Sanderson books it is very well planned out. This alone makes it a joy to read: knowing that information is there for a reason and not simply to fill pages. Especially as there are nearly 1300 of those once more. I like that the story is constructed and build up through logical building blocks. While new information may be introduced, it never is the result of the author simply having a new idea and throwing it in there, disregarding what they had written up 'till then. True, I may just be happy that close to 2000 pages ago some information was introduced which had me go "Oh, that in one of the future books this will happen" and it now happened. I like being right. I also like feeling clever. On the other hand, I find every Stormlight Archives book manages to take a character and make their chapters tedious for at least half the book. While Kaladin was a great underdog hero in the first book, he became less enjoyable to read in book two. Now, his continued fight with depression has become easier to read - he no longer appears selfish, just in need of serious need of psychotherapy. And that works. Perhaps Sanderson has done some more research into depression and has a better understanding on the subject now. Still, the depression was always there, just not always communicated as well. Shallan on the other hand is now the character who really needs to truly evolve. Sanderson seems to be unable to properly write female characters. Or more than his signature female character. And as Shallan gets so much more page time than nay of the others ever got, the problems with this archetype show more. Women don't grow by pretending to not be themselves. They don't grow by making up fake personalities. It worked in Mistborn for Vin/Valette because she had to infiltrate high society and suddenly a whole new world opened to the starving street urchin. But it can't be copied onto every other female protagonist. Vin, Vivenna, Firefight, Shai, Shallan, they all merge into one character, with Shallan becoming the one who makes the reader (i.e. me) say "Enough already. Yes, young women try to find their place in the world. They don't do it by playing dress up as if they were a Barbie doll." What seemingly has been presented as character growth is an awkwardly written multiple personality disorder. And woosh, in book four of the Stormlight Archives, after torturing the reader for over 5000 pages, Sanderson acknowledges this. Shallan isn't growing, she is at best regressing, but mostly a nutjob. But the length it took to reach this realization makes me wonder if perhaps this is the one part that wasn't planned. That perhaps readers did write in all these misgivings I didn't air. The biggest hurdle to enjoying the book is, as in the whole series, the flashbacks. While the information may be important and give insights, it breaks up the flow of the story the reader is actually invested in. Worse, in this book the "one year ago" actually is the "now of two books ago. We have seen Venli being Venli at the time. We didn't like her. Nobody liked her. Yes, now Venli also doesn't like herself, but the rest of us don't truly need a reminder of who she is. What is interesting about the book is that the Cosmere meta-plot that bound most of Sanderson's stories together (Mistborn, Elantris, Warbreaker, Stormlight Archives, Emperor's Soul etc) is now merging into the main plot. Hoit is no longer a cameo sprinkled through the story in a Where is Waldo for the fans. It remains to be seen if this meta-plot, that has been building over so many years, will live up to the build up. At least Vasher says the truth in this book: "Hoit is an ****". Takes one to know one, Vasher.

Jack O'Neill forever.

Here's my attempt at making these bonuses permanent. Doesn't seem to work for me, even though the files have the correct extension and contain no syntax errors. I double-checked and the directory structure is also accurate. Any ideas as to why it doesn't work would help. Permanent Per Rest Bonuses.rar

Nah, we're good. Traded it so many times, it will be fun to watch all the debtors trying to figure out who's soul it actually is.

Well, I'm not a parent, but I suppose one could look at it as an opportunity for discussion, like teaching/preparing re: death and terrible circumstances. That film is depressing, sad/traumatic, etc. but it's not a rah-rah violence as entertainment, at least. Or something. As to animation in general - hey, it's a "cartoon," must be ok for kids, right? I saw some of the weirdest animation stuff on PBS as a kid, with my parents watching. Books can be similar. My mother loved that I loved to read, that she hardly paid attention to *what* I was reading. So here you are, 8-9 years old, reading every horror/fantasy/samurai action anthology and novel, full of sex, descriptive violence, vengeance - my mom never looked at/checked my books - but I could only watch Little House on the Prairie and Popeye was "bad" for the casual violence.

RIP MF Doom