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My current Steam review for Evil Genius 2. It may be unfair. But do I care? The game looks pretty. Prettier than many base building games. Sadly that is what it has going for it.Controls are wonky. Having recently replayed the original game, everything about the controls in this one felt off.The game allows you to rotate the camera by keyboard with the Q and E keys or by mouse by holding the mouse wheel. Pretty standard - until you try to rotate while in build mode. Then keyboard rotation is blocked. Why?Some menues I can close with ESC. Not all menues.The UI is intrusive. It takes up too much of the screen when I would like to have room to see what I am building. The tutorial pop ups make things worse. Especially as, after having popped up, you can't make it go away. Traditionaly, when a message pops up, you are allowed to click OK. Not here. It is there to stay until it decides that it wants to leave. Of course it won't stay gone. It pops right back up. Again and again. Because large flashing messages increase your enjoyment of the game...Alerts for the world map will show up, but you can't tell what they are. Yo jsut know something is going on, not what.You may get a generic alert icon persistently sitting there on your screen that doesn't alert you to anything. So within the first couple of hours, the game is training you to ignore it.In preview videos - and there were a lot of amazing preview videos - the developer talked about the old game and how it forced you to build rows upon rows of lockers to get minions. How you ahd to build so many power generators. This game would slim that all down. Indeed. You build multiple lockers at once. Generators are slimmer. Yet, I have in the first hour, build rows upon rows of lockers, just as I would in the first game. Perhaps more. And I definitely have build more generators than I would throughout a whole game of Evil Genius 1, while still following the tutorial.I am not going to criticise the changes to the world map. I haven't seen enough of it to judge whether long term they make sense. Do I want to find out?There may be fun down the road. But with the way the UI is and the controls work, my eyes are too tired and I am too frustrated to care.

If that's true, looking at RPG forums....those kids were in a BAD way to begin with.

Grim Dawn and Chopin Vodka.

XIII giveaway for the next day and half on GOG.

I think there is a more important distinction here than what priests and chanters do, and it is how they do it. A chanter never permanently runs out of resources. They sing as long as they're alive and not crowd controlled, providing you the benefit of their chants. And these chants add phrases, and phrases allow you to use invocations. A chanter never runs out of steam, but you cannot tell your chanter to throw five invocations in rapid succession, because you can only stockpile as many phrases as your most expensive invocation costs. A priest (or wizard, or druid) on the other hand, has finite resources, but can spend them at their own leisure. Throw all your spells right after each other if you want, or space them out as the fight requires. Another thing you might not have picked up about chanters is that chanting is not something they do actively. You might be used to bards who cannot do anything else while singing, but that is not the case with chanters. Your chanter can attack or cast spells while singing without missing a beat. This makes them great for multiclassing as you pretty much get someone who provides chants + invocations while doing all the things the other class does. Nothing stops you from solving your dilemma by playing a priest/chanter multiclass. Mandatory addendum: Chanter is the best version of a bard I have seen in any RPG.

Dear god, its come full circle and Im part of the problem! As far as I can tell, its any individual (that has more than you), corporation or bank. For example, some bank lent me a tremendous amount of money at a laughable interest rate and then gave me 30 years to pay it back. But because they are making a profit off me, they are fatcats that need to be taken down a rung or two and should instead be paying me my due. Or something like that. Im kinda new to embracing this mantra.

For the random interest:

Not-a-Hack-Fraud Status officially confirmed, . Episode 2 of Sailor Stars:

Two things improve Evil Genius tenfold. 1) Turning off the tutorial. The message spam decreased. The annoying minion pop-up taking up too much space? Gone! The whole game becomes a lot less annoying. If I hadn't bought in on GMG, which didn't allow a refund (and it is the first time I thoroughly re-read the EULA to see if there was a chance), I would have refunded this game at 30 minutes playtime. Without the tutorial, and messing with keybinds, I played an hour without wanting to punch the devs. 2) Accepting that the game is not so much an Evil Genius sequel, rather a Protoss Base Simulator. The frequency with which the game tells me that I need additional pylons... erh power generators, is so starcrafty it can't but be intentional.

The beginning of the season is different. Later it will come back to normal episodes.

Episode 1 of Sailor Stars!

I like both Steel Garrote/Soulblade and Steel Garrote/Trickster with the Whispers of the Endless Paths as main weapon. Key is the enchantment "Offensive Parry". It will proc on every melee miss of enemies and will not only damge them but also daze them, unlocking the Steel Garrote's life draining. Soulblade: Offensive Parry will generate focus via enemies' melee misses. You can then release that focus with Soul Annihilation. Trickster: Offensive Parry stacks with Riposte and gains bonuses from Sneak Attack and Deathblows etc. Both variants are a fun and potent mix of offense and defense. You want max RES and get all RES- and deflection bonuses you can get. That means Cloak of Greater Deflection, Bracers of Greater Deflection, Entonia Signet Ring, Casita Samelia's Legacy or Nomad's Brigandine or Giphon Prudensco, Mask of the Weyc and so on. I personally like Nomad's Briganine best because it also has decent AR. Also use Blinding and other debuffs like a Priest's Devotions for the Faithful, Desponent Blows and/or a Wizard's Miasma of Dull-Mindedness to reduce enemies' accuracy. With Nomad's Brigandine you can also enchant it with "Tactical Withdraw" which makes you immune to disengagment attacks: it turns every disengement attack against you into a miss --> procs Offensiv Parry (and potentially Riposte, too). It's not necessarily your sole main tank but a great hybrid and versatile: tankyness, damage, healing, support, CC - all in one package. When some single targets are left over it's often best to switch to a weapon which is better against single enemies.

Everything wrong with metal condensed into one epic experience: Biggest vocal disconnect from the images on screen ever. Impressive falsetto... I think, for a moment I thought he was just dubbed by a woman. Much to my surprise also not a cover of an 80ies pop song. Heh. edit: Yep. I'm loving this.

So first impression of Evil Genius 2 is not overwhelmingly positive. As the review @Wormerine posted said, minions sent to the world map go poof. They are a resource to be spent. You can't choose who gets sent, so the super effective worker may rush off instead of the lazy one. That in turn makes the whole personality trait thing moot. As you can't use it, why pay attention to it? The UI is a little bit too big and too intrusive. Especially with the tutorial idiot npc. The tutorial is a bit too spammy. Instead of telling you to build a room and wait for you to finish construction or telling you to build "these three rooms", it asks you to build one, then the next, then the next. Shut up tutorial. There may still be a good game underneath it, but it definitely could have used some honest feedback for the first 10 minutes of gameplay. I can also see that reviewers, who do not have time to spend loads of hours to get a pre-release review in, will not be praising the game. 40 minutes in I made this post after all.

Got Disco Elysium after watching a streamer playing the final cut version, only to realize the patch is not yet out...at least it's out today...

LOL! What about a house and land too! I’m practically a plantation owner! Don’t worry Gftd, I’m the pantheon of evil you are not the worst.

I told you that two pages ago.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/family/article/role-playing-games-can-give-kids-a-mental-health-boost?

This is worrying. https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/new-covid-19-waves-sweep-through-asia Also this https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-56517495 And this https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-city-in-brazils-amazon-rain-forest-is-a-stark-warning-about-covid-to-the-rest-of-the-world/ These two strains give me a headache, how to approach the topic, and if we are not running head first into some major outbreak. Like we had an earthquake first, and now we will be caught by a tsunami.

It's from Houston, their glazed donuts are almost always hot and not nearly the sugar bomb of Krispy Kreme. Kolaches aren't really that great and their lineup is pretty basic so if you want weird **** you'll have to look elsewhere. Still the best chain donut place though, maybe Hurts beats it but it's also 3x the price. Nothing will beat red velvet and mexican chocolate donuts with fried chicken though. NOTHING.

Not every time. Have tried some bakeries that are lucky they were mafia fronts.

Sorry Gftd you struck out again. Bay area UBI experiment excludes white residents Edit: I should clarify. This experiments privately funded, they can give money to anybody they want. IDGAF about the plan deliberately selecting black participants. The whole point of this post was just to tweak our friend in Illinois

Put some more time into Warframe now that you can hire crew for your Railjack. It's better now, at least as you don't have to babysit the bloody thing quite as much anymore. While doing that I made it to Mastery Rank 29. Go me!

well said and QFT but we still must support hot twerking hip-hop models

Yes you right, you can keep quiet about the CCP human rights abuses or raise valid criticism but then face the risk of being banned in China. Each company must decide for themselves and the decision to criticize the CCP should be based on how this will impact the revenue stream of the company. The H&M link raises that only 5 % of their global business is from China so in that case its good to stand by your principles and raise issues with how the CCP governs the country I asked my uncle what is the hedge funds views about the CCP and do they criticize the policies. He said its a global standard within his company to never criticize any government in any country they operate in because they are a financial institution and they stay out of internal politics because this can be seen as bias and then impact the ability of the fund to operate I understand this and support this view because political commentary should generally be made by governments and private sector listed companies should stay out of it because they not suppose to be politically aligned

It doesn't fit the role, that white catholics could have been opressed, butchered, etc. The narrative is, they are all bad, and are now too conservative. People forget or are ignorant to the fact, that Poland prior to being wiped from the maps and later back in early 20s was one of the most tolerant countries, where jews (largest diaspora in Europe?) , muslims (Tatars) , christians (catholics, orthodox, and portestants to the lesser extent) etc. would live in peace and believed to be part of Poland. It's a shame, that in the years leading to WW2 regular people got convinced that all their woes were caused by those wealth hoarding jews. This view was shared among wider wetern populace though prior to the WW2. Unfortunately that led to some despicable acts, which we should stigmatize and remember about, but it would be a great injustice to claim, that this was a most common attitude. Quite the contrary... Jews back then, were like white straight men these days. They are evil manipulators, stealing our wealth and keeping us from all the utopian dreams.

Well, those investors keep their mouth shut, and make money. I imagine, that you'd quickly find out, that if a head of some large fund would utter such statements, their ability to run money in that region would be severly hampered.

This is something that is very painful to every Polish citizen that have a family members who were killed during WWII for helping Polish citizens of Jewish heritage. Which is the case for many including myself. Some uneducated journalist tried to score some points by spitting on Poland trying to blame them for the death of 3 millions Jews during WWII. https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-historians-under-attack-for-exploring-polands-role-in-the-holocaust/amp The article is already redacted due to pressure from various sides. https://abcnews.go.com/amp/International/wireStory/auschwitz-museum-damage-yorker-article-76756245 https://www.thefirstnews.com/article/jewish-organisation-ajc-says-poland-not-to-blame-for-3-million-holocaust-victims-20850 The author herself already tried to flip flop that she didn't wrote what she wrote: https://m.facebook.com/gessen/posts/10158485093519398

What an interesting story about using the books to solve the gaming problem, those were the days when you had to really think and or consult alternative sources to complete games like this. Nowadays when faced with a similar problem it takes 30 seconds to use the amazing invention of the Internet to find the same solution I really respect the effort you had to put in but I am glad we have the Internet to find things quickly nowadays and its not that I consider myself lazy but their is just so much to do in our modern era and time is of the essence White people in SA are different ethic groups the same as everywhere else and the Dutch association is only for Afrikaans white people. I am English and our surnames are generally the same as English surnames like Wainwright, Bollington, ****craft and then also Scottish and Irish influence. But we have no direct connection to the Dutch unless you changed your surname when you married an Afrikaans\Dutch person

I never got around to read the Danish version. Bear in mind, I would have been around 14 at the time and preferred comics over novels *cough*. We had Danish translations of most of the Belgian/French comics at the time. My love for Tolkien came way later when I got an adventure game "The Hobbit" for the Commodore 64. I was stuck getting killed in the dark in the goblin caves (where you're supposed to find the ring) and the only clue was to read book. The game came with an English version of The Hobbit and I ended up reading it (and found my clues! I had to find and turn 3 trolls into stone, so I could get the sword "Sting", which glows in the dark when orcs/goblins are near, so it could light my way through the caves). I was several years older at the time, around 17-18 or so, and suddenly found the story interesting. Went out and found both Lord of the Rings and Simarillion in English and loved them. Especially Silmarillion is something I read over and over, even to this day. I probably just assumed a while ago your name would be something like Bruce Van (Der) C...something Given the Dutch/Africaans influence on the language

I've been using Gorth first as a board game character since 1978, CRPG character since 1983 and online since 1991. Sort of feeling a bit attached to it Strangely enough, in online games and MMO's I'm known by a different name for the last 10 years. Sort of my secret identity No, not really. Just strange how names sometimes seems to "stick" to you and can be hard to get rid of again. Edit: as for the etymology, I had attempted to read the Danish version of Lord of Rings (courtesy of the public libraries), but it was just way too boring and too long. I did take a glance at an appendix page with a list of names and figured, oh, Gorthaur, cool name, I'm so gonna steal that. Right up until the first wargame on a tabletop and my opponent asked me to pronounce my generals name Nothing that couldn't be fixed by chopping off a few syllables until I could pronounce it. Sort of. Heck, one syllable left, how hard could it be???

Episode 188: Episode 189: Episode 190:

Oh, also, actually replying to what you said about Full Disclosure:

Literally just the intro song lmao. I don't hate it, and while I did end up liking the first intro I'm currently associating it with Super S so a break is good. I'll keep that in mind and will try my best to avoid memes or jokes that may spoil too much. Those YouTubers deserve to be launched into space, but that might be too good for them. At least it spares us tho. Edit: double quote, because I am a dumbass

I had that happen to me with a 20 year old Amazon account (age check with a passport, not a credit card obviously) three years ago. It's ridiculous.

The invocations "Thrice was She Wronged", "Seven Nights She Waited", and "So Singt thy Biting Winds o' Eld Mary" (plus their upgrades) all do very good damage. Going single class, upgraded Eld Nary alone will carry many fights. Make sure you invest in Might (most important for getting damage out of all three spells). The best subclass for spell DPS is the Skald. It can cast these damage spells much more often than other subclasses. The best balanced subclass for exploring everything the Chanter is capable of is Troubadour. Make sure you grab Sasha's Singing Scimitar and get the upgrade which restores your empower point every time you empower an invocation. Edit: BTW I wouldn't say that Chanters are more about buffing and debuffing - Chanters are better at summoning than anything. Buff/debuff and DPS are things they can do well but other classes can do just as well or better. No one summons better than a Chanter.

Best bakeries over here where, as we called them, social bakeries. For 2-3 dollars you could not eat all the things that you could buy. Good times.

I feel like I don’t even know who you people are anymore!

Reported for terrible taste.

Eh, he doesn't sound like he understood the game? Or the genre. It is a base building game a la Dungeon Keeper. You build, so you can build more cool stuff and have build something great that works more or less. Like Anno or Caesar games. What kind of criticism is "You defeat all opponents the same way, by having your minions beat them up or through traps" ? It is like complaining that in a first person shooter you shoot opponents instead of challenging them to poker or match 3 games for variety. The game may still end up being too shallow. The original was rather shallow and mostly grabbed people through theme. But this review hasn't given me anything to consider. The fact that minions sent out to the world do not come back, that sounds a bit sad - though I'll have to see if it is actually the case and they changed the system or whether he just didn't notice that minions can be lost but aren't always (just as in the first game).

I have a deep-seated fear of someone trolling me by making it so I can't switch back by taking my name themselves. Although I haven't been particularly attached to this name for over a decade (I do keep using it for consistent identity reasons however), it'd still be annoying!

Couldn't handle Miranda's ass.

STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl Aside from the headbob being so bad it's officially a headwobble, this game holds up really well. I played it way back in the day and always meant to give it another go. That said, I have 0 interest in running around doing sidequests. I'm just playing it for the main quest and it's plays very well for that.

https://www.cyberpunk.net/en/news/37768/whats-new-in-night-city-patch-1-2-development-insight

You are saying he grated on you?

Game needs a dedicated server. Be nice to have a world always there me and friends can join in whenever. Its fine at a 4 player cap.