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Playing that game made me say, "Man they should make a Wing Commander movie!". Then they made one.

Watched "Words bubble up like soda pop". It's a feel good slice of life story about awkward teens. The animations are very bright and colorful and I liked them overall. The story is solid too. I would give it a warm recommend.

It has been fixed by BPM for a while

Finished Horizon: Zero Dawn. After really rocky start I somewhat warmed up to it. It is still Ubosoft time waster at its core, so I suppose it's my fault for expecting something more... interesting considering all the glowing reviews. I still stand, that for how AAA the game seems it's incredibly janky. I don't know how much of it is game it self and how much is PC port and mouse&keyboard controls. Cutscenes are really basic for how well the models looks, and there is this awkard hair physics jiggle with every camera cut. Controls feel unresponsive - as far as I can tell there doesn't seem to be action queing, so if Aloy is stick in animation and I will press sprint or aim button, it won't start doing that once she is available. Still, while the story is predictable, once it starts rolling it is pretty well done, and characters well rounded. Lack of indepth quests design is prohibiting from being truly engaging, but it's still way better then AssCreeds. I think my biggest complaint is lack of game systems - combat is fine, but that's the only thing there to do. Stealth is really, really basic and with little reason to use it, "investigation" is barely a mechanic, and unlike Witcher3 it isn't used to tell interesting stories, climbing is rarely used and again, not really a mechanic, exploration as such doesn't exist either. I mean couple main missions are literally walking simulators - making your way through linear corridors and being told a story. I think there is a reason while Arkham games has been my favourite from the AAAs - and that's because they have enough stuff to fill their maps with. That's why I didn't like the Arkham Origins - I felt they didn't pace skillfully combat vs stealth vs puzzles. You put too many in the row, and players start noticing how uninteresting your game really is. DLC content is far better, with more elaborate mission design, and trying vary things up with other game systems - puzzle, navigation, platforiming is all expaded to an impressive degree considering how basic those systems are. Cutscenes and animations seemed to get an overhaul, making it look like proper AAA production and not overly ambitious AA EuroJank. Overall - it's alright. It's pretty. It would be disposable if not for the superb art direction.

Definitely. I'm playing solo which is different, but I've found that a nice perk of this Shifter/Assassin is that it's an Assassin/Caster that could for once play really well in a party: mostly because the Insect spells are Foe-only. This is really cool since you don't have to worry about hitting your frontline at all. At the same time, those spells are super powerful and scale extremely well but are balanced by targeting FORT (and for PoI, by being a poison effect ) which is where the +ACC from Assassin is amazing.

I'd just like to add that I also tried a shifter/assassin, and it was very fun and immensely strong. Due to the micromanagement required I'd only play it as my main character though. As with any stealth class. If you don't like stealth you probably won't like it like this. But it doesn't NEED to be focused on stealth at all. You can play shifter + any rogue - and start the fight with stealth kill, then transition into melee damage dealer just fine. You can even build the character around no-stealth. By using escape to move around and spend your resources on gouging enemies and finishing off targets with mortal blow or what it's name is. Whether you focus on stealth or not, a shifter/rogue is very potent. It can expertly destroy anything in a 1v1. The way I played it was to stealth kill a high priority target, then run around gouging striking everything - so that all enemies are on the doom clock. I enjoy the "outlast the enemy" style of play. Slowly dwindling them down. So I'm a big fan of gouging strike and burn brand of the paladin. There are many ways you can build a shifter/rogue. It will excel as stealth assassin, offtank, melee dps or any combination of that.

I was kinda hoping the second one TBH for extra weirdness, but I guess not. ...I'm not a hundred percent sure that's it, but sure, let's go with that! No, that's the scary bit: the series of clips you sent I thought were pretty funny (even if also facepalmingly cringey), so if I actually got to know and like the characters, I could really be in trouble. That would be unacceptable, for many reasons, . The only necessary response to them:

Yeah, and then he goes and attacks Dumb and Dumber and Beavis and Butthead, so maybe he was just a crotchety old man towards the end.

Funny, but a group of parents in Florida don't exactly represent the entirety of the US. I'm not sure what schools are removing it as 'pro communist' I taught Animal Farm in 7th grade for a couple years back when I was a ELA teacher. I also taught The Giver and a book about a rebellious serf called Crispin. I think I had a bit of a theme.

Massive spoilers obviously 1) Dereo, the crime boss in delver's row. Seemed pretty obsessed with the mural and finding Okaizo. Despite that, there was never any more dialogue with him regarding it as the main quest progressed towards that. I went back multiple times and checked. Why is it that Dereo, the pirate / crimelord so obsessed with finding that stuff - is the one least interested in it? Did I miss something? 2) I went for principe furrante ending. I did a lot of back and forth and scratching my head, as I seemed unable to find a way to unite the old bloods and the new bloods. I wanted to unite the pirates - but is that even possible? Seems you are forced to take a side on this? 3) There is a place where I encountered a crazy woman with some kind of "storm book", asking if Arkemyr sent us. But after doing his mission at the observatory he never gives you any more quests. So is this woman just referencing him as a part of the world building? Or did I miss a quest? Also on Arkemyr - I asked to join the college but he said no because I robbed his house. Is there a way to join or is our question to do so just a conversation option? 4) What in your opinion is the "good" ending for the watershaper guild? I released the dragon because it felt wrong to imprison it. 5) Speaking of imprisonment. This isn't a question, just a statement. It's kinda sad that Obsidian, being so good at writing and dialogue. Making gray characters... failed with the slavers. Why make the slavers so one dimensionally evil? You did great in this game humanizing pirates, what made the writers mess up with gray area and humanizing the slavers? Sad to experience that a sort of "moral judgement" from the writers was (maybe unconsciously) making them one dimensional. You made Benweth a complex personality. Cold blooded back stabbing killer. But also has a love for music and cheering up his men. Even a ghost saying Benweth isn't so bad. Why wasn't there a counter-weight to the slavers here? Humanizing all people is ok unless they are slavers feels like a failure of imagination and understanding of human nature imo. 6) I murdered everyone at the brass citadel, killed the queen of neketaka, and butchered the entire vailian trading company. Then went with pirate ending, and eothas destroys the wheel but uses his energy to inspire people to invent solutions. I felt it kinda ... weird. That something THIS significant isn't even mentioned in the ending. 7) I sacrificed Teheku to Skaen. Gutted that fish real good. And no one reacts to this? The entire game world acts as if he never existed. Felt kinda weird, just an observation. FINAL NOTE: I ****ing love this game. Well written. Love the characters, the story and the world. A more direct communication with the gods was very fascinating and fun, huge pay-off imo for having played the first game. Deadfire was a mastercraft imo. Loved it. I never gave it a chance because I hate pirates, sea and boats. Making me do a 180 on that is one hell of an achievement because I stubbornly dislike and hate stuff passionately. Which isn't a good thing I know. Just so well executed. Do I have more questions? Mmm... yeah kinda wondering what the mutiny triggers are? I know Serafen is selling out his friend, Maia you just need to slaughter the brass citadel, Pallegina kill one of the vailian families. But I never discovered what the mutiny triggers were for Teheku, Lantern-woman, Eder and Aloth. Can't wait to replay this game 10 times. Crazy replayability imo. At least 2-3 more playthroughs I think.

Hello guys, I saw this video and liked the concept I want to build something like this, but not exactly I like the ascetic and the howler ones, and I need two more. What do you suggest to the Death and Famine roles?

The Keion club is organizing a tea party for the Mio Akiyama fan club, and it includes a Q&A session with Mio. She's being really nervous when she has to make a speech, then bites her tongue, which goes over really well with her fanclub, because they just love how all these curious and embarrassing things keep happening to her. The fan club can't possibly know these things happen for the benefit of the viewers, so that makes sense... This is how she looks during the Q&A session: Heh. Poor Mio, I feel for you! See, that's charcter growth in action, last season if anything like that would have happened she'd look like this:

Well than I don't have anything really to help you. Everything else I've tried for myself is mostly a miss.

Well, yes, it is better than most trash made for children these days, but he's not really watching for the girly stuff though. His half-sister has her own horse and he's been tagging along her riding lessons ever since he was 4 or so. He's eight now, and likes the riding "action" scenes, and he has refused everything else I've tried to watch with him just so he stops watching these people on YouTube that kind of make me question my usually pacifistic disposition. Still don't like it, it looks awful and the German dub is shrill and kills my ears, and I'm probably biased too, so there's that. Netflix suggested the anime something fierce, I've ignored it so far. Still not sure if I want to try, even with the recommendation. That plot blurb on Netflix was kind of weird. That does sound like it would be better not to try. In my experience, buying marijuana is a waste of money. Just like with alcohol, I need to consume an exorbitant amount to feel something, and even then it's not nearly as much fun as everyone else seems to be having with it. It has the added advantage of not giving me alcohol poisoning in the attempt, so there's that, at least. Not that I particularily want to be drunk, I mean, I know how, uhm, awkward being around drunk people is. Energy drinks also don't really seem to have the intended effects. I haven't tried anything else, and I don't really want to, nor would I know where to get any of it. I just might be an utterly joyless person, except when watching the silly girly stuff, that always makes me laugh, or happy, or sad.

Thanks! I guess this won't be a problem for me, since I use BPM. BPM also gives you decay +PL when you pick wild strike corrode, which would benefit you I think with this build. Even though you have to cast the spells before shifting, I believe that once you shift, the ticks of decay spells like touch of rot will benefit from the damage boost due to higher PL.

No idea - never happend to me. If you kill enemies with a DoT effect (for example Deep Wounds or Blood Frenzy or Gouging Strike etc) it will not register as a kill done by Modwyr. Maybe that's the problem? Although it is very unlikely that this happend every time you killed a kith enemy...

Hand Mortar: Blinding Smoke (friendly fire - like powder burns) Fire in the Hole: Chain Shot (the AoE also jumps which makes landing crits for Stunning-Surge refunds even more likely)

You are absolutely correct that it won't affect the pure DoT Damage values, but landing a Hit especially, or a Crit will give you a better duration (+25% on a crit), so more total damage. In the case of a burst +DoT spell like Touch of Rot you win on every possible front (Burst DMG, PEN, Duration...) which is why it scales so well. Indeed, a Barb inflicting AoE Daze (-10 FORT) and/or or a Chanter with the -14 FORT Chant Debuff on top + an Assassin/Ancient or Assassin/Shifter to land those spells = enemies melting away while the party is safe from friendly fire. All these also help land the Relentless Storm CC (which should probably be last to not interfere with landing Insect spells from invis - since the pulsing attacks from the Storm will cancel invis). With just Insect Swarm, Plague of Insects and Relentless Storm (maybe a refresh of the Insect Swarm Cast) we are talking about 1200+ Raw/Shock damage per target, plus refreshing Stun AoE, AoE Sicken, all of it in a giant radius. And then you can potentialize everything for even more Raw damage with Infestation of Maggots. This is just with this one dude's PL2-3-5 spells!

For me the answer is no to both questions, which is why I always play blood mage when I'm playing a mage. However, if you want to use empower, Andrea Columbo made a mod that makes the rest bonuses permanent, so you can empower away without worrying about losing those bonii.

So assassinate helps you land the spells in the first place, right? But am I correct in recalling that it won't affect the DOT damage? Given how well this works in a party, I see that having a FORT debuffing barb on the team would be a big help.

Liberal use of Inception BWOMMMMMM sound - Excessive reflective surfaces so that you know it's "next gen" - Live service microtransactions shenanigans - Probably

Could this be fixed in the Community Patch or BPM?

New fail for me: Plague of Insects is secretly keyworded as Poison, but it does not benefit from the +2PL to Poison effects from Spider Silk Robe....

The same applies. Sailor Moon is a kids show, just avoid SuperS and Pedosus. Probably BRACK RADY as well. Or just go all in and let him watch JoJo, I'm sure that won't have any adverse effects on him. Or force him to watch TNG.

(Courtesy of xkcd)

I have all signatures disabled, because you people were causing too much screen noise for me with all your appendixes.

So it was your fault.

Maia as scout IMO is better. You can pick as many spells per tier as you want, but you are limited to 2 casts per tier per encounter. So for pure efficiency and not wasting skill points, I'd only take 2 per tier, 3 in a tier if the third skill is very good in a certain situation. I'm fairly new as well. I too wanted to roleplay a priest of Berath as my first characters. And as I was learning the game I kept rerolling. Note that I'm an RPG veteran, so normal difficulty was trivially easy. Veteran felt like normal, and PoTD just felt plain impossible. As a healer/support, any combination of druid, chanter and paladin is better than priest imo. - Druid is imo the best healer from a pure healing efficiency standpoint. They not only have many heals, but they are strong over time heals. Druid lacks instant heals and emergency heal / damage prevention. But a druid healer is the best classical healing archetype when it comes to healing overall. So druid gives lots of strong over time healing to your group. - Paladin has lay on hands, which is a quick instant heal + heal over time. It is a very powerful heal and great for emergency healing, supplemented by a passive healing aura that helps top off and cover "random damage everywhere". Paladin have strong support spells from the midgame also, and resurrect. - Chanter has a pretty good healing invocation. It has a CD so you can't spam it, due to chants, but the upside is that it never runs out. Chanter also have a passive 1 healing per sec AOE aura, with troubadour you can effectively have 1 healing and 1 support chant up at all times. While not strong enough at its own to support and heal a group, it exponentially increases the efficiency of a support/healing character when multiclassed with a paladin or druid. Because their aoe heal and support chant is ALWAYS ACTIVE. This means, the passive support/healing from chanter, is working at the same time you are using support/healing spells from another class. And if you are CC'd your support chant and slow healing over time is still active. Chanter also has a massive +50% healing done chant, which coupled with another healing class makes chanter the strongest healer no contest - the downside is that this skill comes WAY TOO LATE. The game is practically almost over by the time you get it, so unfortunately, while extremely powerful, it's only useful for like 5% of the game. So you want to play a support/healer? Here's the bad news and why I'm sharing all this - Priest sucks. Sorry to say. You have 2 minor heals, no heals at T2, and a mediocre AOE stationary heal at T3. Priest has inspirations for single target, but they are long recovery/cast, due to opportunity cost and actions taken over time and their impact to help you win, they are almost worthless. Priest has some AOE blessings which are decent. Mid-late game they get some more heals and support utility. But overall - IMO priest is the worst support and healing class. If you want to play a priest as support, but not healer. You can go a hybrid DPS/Debuffer priest. That would work. If you build a priest not around their helpful spells and buffs, but around damage and their debuffs, the priest class is worth the party slot imo. The debuffs and area debuffs + damage spells of the priest, actually makes the class a more efficient damage dealer and debuffer than a healer. So you can play a priest without it sucking, as support, if you focus your support on being a hybrid damage dealer and debuffer. So that you are supporting your team not by making your team stronger, but their side weaker. You can only do one action at a time. So that action needs to contribute and be worth it. Unfortunately, despite the priest having some strong spells for healing and friendly support, they are a failure as a support/healer overall because paladin, chanter, druid and any combination of those are better than a priest. You can combo priest with a chanter, druid or paladin though. Note that these are my opinions so far as an also fairly new player. Hope it helps you. Some people in this community will tell you priest is actually super strong, but those people are cheesing, exploiting or using very advanced metagaming knowledge to apply this - and is not relevant for us normal players. There are some extremely potent things you can do with a priest, but these strategies with the priest are things being abused to make anything trivial - and does not represent the average player who plays the game normally.

Yep.

Finally being able to reorder the research queue is nice.

Tried playing Earth 2140 again. Lost interest, but I guess I am too spoiled by modern games. Maybe will give 2150 a go. Soundtrack is pretty nice though

Mortars do pierce/slash dmg - so pierce immune enemies are not that much of a problem as if you used classic blunderbusses. On the other hand pierce immune enemies are often the ones who are most vulnerable to crush damage, so picking The Long Pain is still a good idea. It's also better against lonely targets. Stunning Surge with a Helwalker/Streetfighter and mortars is very effective. It's combined AoE CC & dps deluxe. Blinding Smoke (you should always pick that enchantment with Hand Mortar) unlocks Deathblows very reliably. No need to first use Debilitaing Strike or Blinding Strike. Just fire away with Stunning Surge. Check out Arkemyr's Brilliant Departure which is an additional source of invisibility on top of Smoke Veil. Its invisibility does NOT break on CC hits, only damage. That means you can cast debuffs/CC from invisibility with +25 ACC and then follow up with a +25 ACC/+4 PEN (and potentially +50% crit dmg) nuke.

If you want to try this option, I'd definitely recommend you consider thelee's Umezawa build. It's micro-intense but fun and powerful.

Yup, Deadfire for the most part is much more modding friendly than the first game.

Yuki Kajiura also makes amazing soundtracks.

Probably one of the less obscure observations, but Unbending and upgrades only work with hit-based damage and not DoTs, nor does it work with self damage I think (does not work with Blood Mage's sacrifice). If you're looking for a way to mitigate a Paladin's Sacred Immolation damage, just bring a priest or another paladin and use them to suppress the DoT until the fight is over. Conveniently, Paladins also get a soulbound weapon that suspends hostile effects on kill. Speaking of suspending hostile effects, you can have a lot of fun with Forbidden Fist in a similar way. You can use the Fist to your heart's content while your debuffs are suppressed, though you can quickly build up DoT ticks of several hundred damage that will kill you instantly afterwards, so you need Barring Death's Door to survive that. Still, if you can end the fight fast enough, you can deal insane amounts of damage. For me I was playing a Death Godlike Streetfighter/Forbidden Fist which dealt extreme damage by first building up the debuff stacks with Xoti's help in suppressing them, and then murdering everyone while I was at 1 hp.

is a decent question even so. fifty years has seen a substantial amount o' inflation. $7 million in 2021 dollars. most estimates we has seen suggest bernie is worth $2million. as such bernie arguable has another another five million to go before risking the stain o' immorality. am thinking we mentioned earlier in the thread how if you wanna retire at 65 in 2021, then you likely need more than $1million and that is IF you can count on social security supplementing the rather smallish yearly roi and IF you is willing to live someplace affordable. anybody confident social security is gonna be as robust twenty years from today? $1million sounds like lots, and if you are young and stoopid and not considering retirement yet, or if you is the half of the US adult population with literal more debt then assets, one million is indeed a large amount o' cash. such a recognition should be terrifying most americans, but many o' us, 'cause it feels like there is nothing we are able to do 'bout it, push those fears down as we try and get to sleep at night. in the US, $1,000,000 is far less than it seems. if you are not aiming to be at least a millionaire, then you are doing it wrong. HA! Good Fun!

I assumed Daven was having a jape, doing a very clever impersonation of a stupid person.

"Anyone gone through this?" My dad, my mom, and my biological father all died. Biological father died of cirrhosis when I was ~12. Dad died about 5 years ago. Mom died 2 years ago. I haven't talked to anyone in my family for over a decade at this point, although some of them tried to contact me for a while. I'm a hard guy, but not a malicious one. "Had the funeral today, I wrote the tribute/eulogy. tried to make it light hearted and people laughed a bit and also read a poem at the end." Good for you, daven. Sometimes levity is our only weapon against despair. Better to be strong enough to carry others than need to be carried by them.