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You can spend that on the DLC.

Thanks @Wormerine. These are pretty much all things I would have said as well. I would add: The current crop of companions is very limited in multiple ways, and to me they're universally unpleasant and aggravating characters (edgy primadonnas with attitudes) I wouldn't want in my party. Not a single likeable one in the bunch. Furthermore, I utterly dislike Larian's 'origin' system and would only play a PC I entirely made myself. But such a PC is currently relatively bland (story-wise) in comparison with an 'origin' PC (i.e. playing one of the companions as your PC). In fact, in a current party, your PC is by far the least important/relevant person in the group. Larian also currently intends to 'close off' in some manner any and all companions you don't have in your active party at the end of Act 1, essentially party-locking you. Combat is also really tedious and aggravating. Bad enough having to deal with TB combat, although I've been willing to suck that up. But the only way to get through combat encounters in a normal way is to engage heavily in Larian cheese: abusing height advantage, backstab advantage, barrel bombs galore, overpowered consumables, shoving, jumping, elemental environmental surfaces, etc. If you refuse to engage in cheese abuse, then combat becomes exceedingly difficult and frustrating, and you have to reload a lot. Game seems to be made to be fun if you like playing the evil side, and goes out of its way to screw over playing a good-aligned PC. The Larian party movement system is painful. Probably could think of a few more issues if I have the time for it.

Well some brave choices were made, I expected there to be some differences from Whedon's take...

I'm thankful that I've been skipping enough of the ends of episodes I can't even recall her saying this. I had really grown to like Chibi-Usa from S, I don't want her to make me want to kill myself from just her uttering two words. Episode something: Episode what episode am I even on anymore I don't remember someone help meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee: Episode Sailor Moon save us all:

The Reddit "investors" (anyone remember GameStop?) are at it again... this time deciding to save the gorillas GameStop has now suddenly adopted a number of gorillas by supporting the Dian Fossey fund. Sort of a nice story for a change amidst all the misery. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56438230

So I watched it just now

I got jacuzzi and yakuza mixed up Now I’m in hot water with the Japanese mafia

About the Potion of Enlightment, I thought about a possible change today: Would people like it if the potion gave a random wound as a drawback? This would force people to use Adra Potions together with this Potion of Enlightenment (not sure how big of a functional change it could be). There could be times where you would rather wait until the 2nd or 3rd wound before using the Adra Potion to cleanse them (which may be risky if the enemies can inflict wounds), but other times where the 1st wound you get is awful for your build so you immediately use an Adra Potion. Thematically one could imagine that this happens because the user gets extenuated beyond the limits of his/her body, because this potion drains the very last bit of phyisical or soul energy from a random part of the body where there was no energy already. Just a crazy idea don't hate me for it, but I couldn't help posting it here

Who even has the patience to sit through the manga to figure out if it was written better? Honestly, it's so dull, .

Hello, Napazalca/trickster will work fine cause drug will generate wound passively. Fists will be better in early, and sabers/sword will be better when you unlock unique and upgrade them (fists are better when you pill up +PL wich will not be the case here) Both cipher work, question is how you wznt to play. Ascendant want to stop melee and cast spell when ascended, and soulblade want to pill up focus for heavy melee (you can still cast spell though ) Warcaller and harbringer can off tank well, i will go the skald way for cheap invoc and bonus phrase on crit Bloodmage or no subclass will be my pick. You can easily config ia for autobuff, so its not an hassle. Very. To the point it can start being boring . A bit less effective on megaboss cause you need to hit and damage to get ascended. If you have a priest with salvation on time you can enter godmod. Very. I play it as a nucker. Use sascha singing scimitar to empower eld nary, swap to blightheart arquebuse (get phrase back on kill). Recast. Usually everything is dead. Edit: ninja boeroer is in the place

Yes, the worst part is that SuperS throws out the character growth of S. From R to S it was somewhat natural. Chibi-Usa began as an annoyance to Usagi, then when she left they shared this great moment with each other, then she comes back in S, Usagi sometimes treats her as an annoying little sister, less than her daughter, but in the end they really worked everything out... ...and then SuperS happens. Suddenly we're back to early R, except all these characters now know who they are in relation to each other. Speaking briefly about the 30 page essay:

Throw in Mamoru with those two, and it literally just about brings out the worst in all three characters. Terrible idea...and it's off the heels of S where it seemed like Usagi and Chibi-Usa had finally come to a bit of a mother-daughter understanding, and Chibi-Usa had finally figured some things out. Sometimes, you still see hints of that understanding, but it's too rare by far, and them being openly adversarial is many times more frequent. (e): You ninja-ed me with the SU post: I...can't say anything, .

Skipping the assault scenes and the fights seems to be a really good idea. Maybe I'll do just that if I ever rewatch Sailor Moon again. Tha way the only thing left that's really terrible is how out of character the girls sometimes are. Eh, and the whole Chibi-Usa and Usagi are siamese twins thing. What the hell made them link their transformation and attack sequences like that. Gah! Regardless of the new focus of the show, studio interference or no, that was a bad idea from start to finish. Why would you ever limit your creative freedom like that?

It's 3 am again and I should get some sleep, but I'll reply in more detail later, and perhaps talk about the reason why this episode hit me as hard as it did. Keep us informed what your fiancee thinks when Pegasus successfully guilt trips Chibi-Usa in 10 or so episodes. Because that was top level cringe for me. Ugh. I usually don't, either. I'm not sure what prompted that. I wanted to figure out why I like Sailor Stars more than I "objectively measured" should. Huh. Man, I really need to go and sleep now. More later, I guess.

SpaceX Reportedly Wants to Fly First Starship to Orbit as Soon as July.

When I get annoyed enough I write confusing e-mails to the people involved at work so they stop messaging me. A while back when someone asked me how it's possible that situation X happened in the system even though I had just tried to explain twice that a user simply confirmed both packages as received even though only one was delivered I wrote them that my working theory is that there's been a macro level quantum entanglement event that automatically caused the status of the second package to switch in the moment the first one was scanned, and the second package also has the status received now, even though it's not even here yet, and that I fully expect to receive the nobel prize for finding a macro entanglement phenomenon. The only reply I got was "You sure you got the right job?" Yesterday I got an e-mail where someone told me that our status messaging to another system isn't working properly. I took a quick look at it and noticed it was simple user error, which... well, let's just say this was really obvious and everyone with half a brain would have figured out why it happened if they had looked at it instead of just asking right off the bat. This was the fourth or fifth time I've been asked about this. My reply was: "I'm sorry but this appears to be a persistent problem in the computational network of the wetware involved. It crashes at random intervals and resets to its default values, causing all sorts of problems in the system, and I have yet to find a way around that. It's one of two really weird issues that keep coming up, the other one is a random space time warp problem where packages teleport themselves into the goods-in area for long enough to be posted as received only to disappear immediately afterwards." Much to my surprise the reply I got was: "You mean user error, right?" Heh.

Heresy. It gave us this :

I have an Xbox series S. Just downloaded Murder on Eridanos. Every time I try to play it crashes and goes back to home screen. The rest of the game plays fine, just this DLC. If I leave The Unreliable and try to re-enter it crashes and also just after speaking to the bell hop. Anyone have any ideas? I'm not the most technically minded when it comes to console or game issues.

Phone cameras: there's that certain distance and lighting where they do fairly well. And then there is ... ...nope, that doesn't work for me.

Alrighty. I just made it through the Snyder Cut (credits are running right now). First things first: The only thing I remember from watching the original is the feeling of emptiness and disappointment. Everything else is basically wiped from my memory. That being said .... man, this movie was *so much better* than I expected. Crazy what you can achieve if you give your characters room to breath and develop their story. With very few exceptions I found none of the scenes wasted. Everything fit together nicely. Honestly, I don't really have much to complain about at this point. Did not fall asleep at 3/4 of it, which is a pretty big deal considering my track record with super hero movies. At this point I'd even go so far to say something super controversial ........ I liked it more than Avengers Endgame. Primarily because I *hated* the final CGI battle in Endgame. Marvel tried to throw every character they had into it, which resulted in everyone systemically getting 1 or 2 scenes and then you'd never hear of them ever again. With the 5 1/2 main characters in Justice League, this is never a problem. Needed to get used to the 4:3 screen resolution at first, but later didn't even notice it anymore. Weird decision, but ok. There is only one question I have right now.. After the ending.. That's all my thoughts about it for now.

if you want a very versatile character, try a shifter/XXX (replace XXX by any martial class). Bear form give lot of tankiness (huge universal armor) that you can combine with pala or barbarian bonus AR. Cat form is very nice with monk or rogue for attack speed. Boar form just shred boss or huge health pool ennemy with the RAW dot. You can heal, cast dot, cast burst spell, cc (don't underestimate druid cc power), deal heavy melee damage or tank depending of the situation. All in one.

am just gonna observe how trickster mythic path clear has the best spell list. as silly as they sound, a few o' 'em are highly efficacious. HA! Good Fun!

I bought Stellaris Nemisis, the Lords of the North content pack for Crusader Kings 3, the Heirs of Alexander content pack for Imperator Rome, & OOTP 22. The other $1357 I’m sure I’ll just waste.

The Outer Worlds 'Murder on Eridanos' expansion is released!

With time on your hands to read or watch something better.

Yeah, and we got the guy accused of raping a woman in college who loudly proclaimed his love for beer in his interview. I remember seeing that and thinking that even if you ignored the rape accusation(s?), no job I have worked would have hired me if I talked about my drinking habits like that.

If @majestic can watch Star Trek Discovery for three seasons, reading manga is nothing.

It can work cause you can still generate wound passively with an ability, and you can wait to be hit before casting trickster defensive spells, it will be more of a glass canon except if you invest heavily on RES and deviation stuff. If you want a very hard hitting glass canon, try hellwalker assassin and lvl up arcana. Duald wield sun and moon with sungrazer. You will hit really hard from stealth, can clear room from stealth with some hight lvl scroll (maelstrom for the win). Very dynamic multiclass with lot of way to fight (melee, ranged, scroll...). Need heavy micromanagement. Chanter/devoted will be way more sturdy. With some items and lvl, you can grind through any fight (except megaboss).

Since Nalpasca Monks gain wounds from drugs and since you can also use Mortification of the Soul and/or Enduring Dance it's not a big problem. You can also wear Hylea's Talons (gloves) which can be obtained quite early. They have a chance of putting a little DamageOverTime on you which helps generating wounds (this does not remove Mirrored Images and also doesn't remove Enduring Dance/Dance of Death). As in PoE1 you can use whatever weapon you want and be effective. There's no mechanic that makes weapons less viable than fists. AI: I believe so. For Soul Annihilation it doesn't really matter whether you dual wield or use a two hander. With a single handed weapon however you will miss less often with Soul Annihilation. Misses with Soul Annihilation are a bit frustrating because you'll lose all your focus but deal 0 damage. Just pick what you like best I'd say. Two particular weapons are quite nice for Soul Annihilation: Whsipers of the Endless Paths - because first of all it has a cone AoE and with Soul Annihilation you'll apply raw damage in that AoE (and the sum of the raw dmg is higher than your focus), secondly it has Offensive Parry which is neat because a Paladin/Cipher can actually have pretty high deflection. If enemies miss against you in melee you will retaliate and this gives focus(!). So you can gain focus while parrying and then use that focus for your offensive stuff. Sun & Moon: it hits twice with every attack. This means you'll have a better chance to not miss. Also, when the first attack roll hits and dumps all the focus into raw damage, the secons attack roll already regains focus which is convenient. Skald profits quite a bit from Fighters' Disciplined Strikes. Devoted also profits from crits especially - so my pick would be Skald. Here again Sun&Moon is a good weapon because 2 attack rolls per attack means 2 chances to land a crit an regain phrases. But everything that attack quickly and has high ACC works well. Killers Froze Stiff is great with a Skald because it's so cheap for him - and the hit-to-crit conversion paralyzed enemies suffer from is ideal for Skald. And that stacks with Disciplined Strikes - so crits are very common. Offtanking is no problem with a Fighter/Chanter. I'm not a big fan of Rogue/Chanter because I don't see as many synergies there. You can set the AI up to cast all buffs at the start of combat for you. Citzal's Spirit Lance + Clear Out is brutal. Also Unbending + Wall of Draining makes you basically immortal. Bloodmage is the best wizard subclass for melee multiclassing imo. How much? Don't know. It's pretty good though. For most players it's just a little too boring for most of the game I guess. But using Shared Nightmare + Time Parasite + Amplified Wave when ascended is def. a killer combo. Same as SC Ascendant basically: It's a bit plain during the mid game - but later on you get to the really good stuff. For example Eld Nary's Curse + Sasha's Singing Scimitar + Empower is really powerful with a Bellower and you can pull it off every encounter. Also Bellowers get really long durations with their summons so that's a viable strategy, too. But Eld Nary's Curse is just bonkers with all those power levels.

Wait, there's a vampire faction? Are they playable? Do I have to get this game after all?

With a party? Every class combination is able to complete the whole game including DLCs just fine. There's not a single one that wouldn't work. Fighter/Cipher or Fighter/Druid are no exception.

The episode with the paranoid lady is the one when Yes,

Yeah, don't worry, I am checking back with your write-ups for them after I watch them (I only read the ratings *before* I watch them, though). We're not necessarily focusing on all the exact same points for our issues with episodes, but there does seem to be a lot of overlap. That episode really sucked, especially because the entire first half was exclusively about Fishcreep. The second half...was improved because at least Usagi was acting normal, but if you wait until the second half to do anything fun, well, the second half is where several minutes of copy+paste action and resolution happens, so there's not really all that much time if you haven't already set stuff up. That SU episode is one of my season 1 favorites. It shouldn't be, because it's so dumb, but it is. Also, I did read your 30 page research paper on Sailor Moon Sailor Stars from the previous page, but as I haven't seen it (and also I don't usually analyze shows nearly as deeply as that), reading is basically all I can do, .

Watching the ballet one right now.

I'm at 147, which looks to be a Makoto episode. Is that the one you are talking about?

A bit like Gallaxhar trying to give orders his clones in MONSTERS VS ALIENS, I'd guess (tried to find the clip, but failed). While true, I was joking a bit too, since Archie doesn't use The Shield character a lot, Marvel's is safe from additional legal action as the suit isn't an active trademark (plus they redesigned the Shield's outfit to be less shield-y so it stopped having the distinctive look) so have used that shield for stories set in the period Cap carried it in the comics. EDIT: I looked it up, MLJ didn't sue, they asked Martin Goodman (who the MLJ founder, Louis Silberkleit, was friends with and I believe all three had worked with Goodman at an early point in their publishing career) to change the shield since they got there first. That's why the one shield only existed for the first issue and was changed to round for issue 2. As mentioned they subsequently went back after the trademark issue wasn't an issue and did re-introduce the original shield as historically happening in Cap's timeline.

The trials for Sputnik are as good as any approved vaccine except, ironically, the AZ one and have been peer reviewed by western academics plus published in The Lancet. Ironically ironic, a lot of the criticism of AZ comes from them being far more detailed with their information than anyone else including Pfizer, Moderna and J&J; and people mining that data for criticisms (eg the whole "can't use on over 65s" is not because it didn't work, but because not enough in the control got covid for that demographic. Couldn't tell if that were the case with others though, as the stats aren't detailed enough). At this point criticism of Sputnik is 100% FUD, unless you're criticising the others for the same things, and it has the best balance of efficacy and cost of any of them- and loses out marginally only to the J&J one when it comes to practicality due to that one requiring a single dose.

Dark Alliance actually looks really good for what it is intended, which is a Diablo-style hack n' slash game. Sadly that is just not my thing (too much and hard combat). BG3's announcement excited me a lot, but the game itself has turned out to be a bitter disappointment because of ridiculous stuff Larian has chosen to do with it. So now my excitement is for the Hidden Path Entertainment D&D game, open world in third-person. I can't imagine Wizards' first AAA open world game won't be set in the Realms as their current flagship setting, so I am hopeful, though unfortunately it is probably going to be a solo game and not party-based. The OtherSide Entertainment D&D game OTOH is probably going to be first-person horror set in Ravenloft. And then at least three more D&D games after that through 2025.

@Tagazielis monitoring the PoE and Deadfire forums I guess. Sometimes - when stuff is discussed here and the wiki gets altered shortly after - it was me. Not this time though.

On a mission to prove there can be only one -heim, the cultists of the Purple Toe go hunting for wyrdstone but find themselves surrounded by vampires and their minions: They try to grab strategic positions and pick their engagements against sometimes stupidly lucky opponents: It is a very close fight, but they survive, though one brother will suffer from lingering internal injuries and Thrice-Amnesiac Lopt the berserker reached a point where his goldfish like memory has him completely confused: They straight away headed back out to gather more loot. Again they were attacked (this time by a rival cult) but had time to regroup, grab a lot of loot and stash it in their wagon, then form a tight defense around it.