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I might be adopting a cat. Vet friend had a 12 year old cat with diabetes brought in. The lady wants to have him euthanized. So the vet is looking into rescuing the cat.

Wrong.

Still trying to keep some creative edges going. As I mentioned the other week, I finished off sewing my Mando Flightsuit, I thought it might entertain you now I have pictures of it fitting: Now I'm plotting out my flak-vest to do, and I have a pile of materials ready to go... Just have to finalise making some patterns and the style of said flak-vest...

The rodents and birds may disagree.

That looks like the West Tek research center (where Fallout's FEV is made)

I think you have some bugs to work out in your game, your character model is T-posing.

Chaotic evil, but amusing

Regarding Mindstaller: Maybe you just didn't find the right combo yet? A Soulblade/Trickster combines good sturdyness and great damage output. You can combine Riposte + Offensive Parry (from the Great Sword "Whispers of the Endless Paths") with high deflection (from Mirrored Images + Borrowed Instincts, they stack). Those two is one of the best combos of melee offense, CC and defense imo. --- What I found most fun to play so far (in nearly 5K of hours played on Steam, although some of that is idle time): - Psion/Troubadour: strict caster, no weapons needed (you'll still have them of course - I used a small shield setup and fairly high deflection to demotivate enemies from rushing this guy). Non-stop spamming spells, resources refill automatically, super-versatile: can do dmg, support, disable, debuff, healing, summoning, mind control... - Helwalker with dual mortars (Serafen's Blunderbusses, obtainable quite early): unbelievable dmg output and awesome CC. The late game potential is enormous because of Resonant Touch + Whispers of the Wind. The mid game is also excellent bc. of Stunning Surge with AoE weapons. benefits a party setup that focuses on keeping enemies in a tight formation. So a main tank who draws attention first and a Wiz who can cast stuff like Pull of Eora or so. - Assassin/Bloodmage: not for the damage but for the awesome accuracy bonus from stealth or invisibility. A well-placed disabling or debuffing spell with +25 ACC trivializes most encounters. Arkemyr's Brilliant Departure makes you invisible (unique spell from a unique Grimoire) and has the unique feature that it doesn't break on non-damaging spells. That means that once you got that spell you can stay invisible and cast debuffs and disables while invisible all the time. Bloodmage lets you regain spell uses (but the self damage will break the invisibility, so proper timing is needed). There are a ton of other option which are all fun, but those stood out the most I think. For example Arcane Archer/Ascendant with Frostseeker is a well-known combo that seems to be fun for most players. But: with many builds the real fun starts after the early game. So it's difficult to judge your character only by the experience on Maje Island/pre Neketaka. But some combos start off really front-heavy and are fun right off the bat, for example when you use classes that start with a special feature right away, like Steel Garrote with the draining, Forbidden Fist, Streetfighter with blunderbuss+modal or so. For example Berseker/Streetfighter with Hunting Bow + modal starts really strong because of the triple speed buff (but won't improve a lot during the game).

The Fed explained in one meme

should it not be up there?

LOL. I just took down the messenger at low level in turn based using a hireling rogue to to tag him with Lovers Kiss and Gouging Strike. Took 130 rounds for the dragon to bleed out Still, I think it was worth it to get early game Vatnir and see how he plays.

Speaking of Netflix doing weird stuff: Netflix has some sort of thumbnail-picking AI that tries to pick the best thumbnail to appeal specifically to you. This is apparently the one that they thought was best for me, immediately after finishing an episode of Gilmore Girls. Yeah, okay, Netflix. ... *starts watching Seinfeld*

That film never existed.

Clearly, the best video game movie is Bloodrayne: The Third Reich from esteemed auteur Uwe Boll:

I remember reading somewhere that Fabio Leone actually hated all that high fantasy crap even though he was vocalist of some other power metal bands like Vision Divine. It was really Luca Turilli and Alex Staropoli who were the uber fantasy nerds.

I think every Pekola bit was the same, she's hungry and doesn't want to eat with devils but does it anyway. Really Pekola worked best when she was paired with the other fallen angel whose name is close to popcorn. Minos delivering milk is hilarious and it would have been fun to see her paired with Medusa for some hijinks.

Rest in peace, Bart. You were not my cat but you were still a cat.

Same as all other religions

https://www.gq.com/story/francis-ford-coppola-50-years-after-the-godfather Megaopolis sounds great, I hope Francis manages to make it.

I feel like one is fine if there's almost always somebody at home, two is the right number so they can play and not be lonely when someone isn't around (if people are at work/school a lot), three is the absolute limit before things start going haywire, and twenty means you're the opposite of a serial killer. I say "the opposite", because I'm not exactly sure what that would be, but it's the same level of intensity and frightening that the serial killer would have, just on the opposite side of the spectrum and without the actual killing. You're a pretty scary dude, Azdeus. I have an ancient one on what are probably her last legs right now - I used to have two, but the other one passed away within the last couple of years after an extended bout of declining health. I probably won't have another after this one for some time to come due to changing life circumstances making it difficult.

Late 70s and 80s was my pre-teen and teen years too! And Led Zeppelin is my #1 all-time favorite rock band. I have a large Stairway to Heaven poster hanging on my office wall, and it's funny that my students will often comment on it.

Could have been worse, could have become Rhapsody of Steel Been years I've known of this but this is too painful to watch each time

Gotcha Boeroer. You're full of great advice! Re: weapons, would it be prudent to stick primarily to greatswords/two handers for the majority of the game? I'm pretty fond of dual wielding personally, so I'm wondering if that will have an overly negative impact. Also, if it isn't too much trouble, do you think you could maybe look over this build for me and seeing if it still holds up/if there are any parts to it you'd change?

It's okay, I had 20+ cats when it was the worst, I've got 5 now. There wasn't a single rat or mouse to behold in the area where I lived

Based on what you said in your opening post, I would also say to go for a Cipher/Monk. Between their raw fist damage, Swift Strikes, and a Cipher’s melee damaging passives (and buffs), you should be swimming in focus. Plus, those are the two classes youre missing in your party. Cipher has a lot of fast cast spells, so you can fire them off and then go back to your punching. I would recommend more but dont want to add to your analysis paralysis lol While Assassin is a fun sounding class, I too find it somewhat…formulaic starting all battles with stealth nukes. Imo the most fun classes are ones that feel almost ‘opportunistic’, where you have a lot of offensive tools and you can use best one when theres an opening.

I think this is the part where I remember "wait, I dislike most music and especially most singers", . At the very least, the Deine Lakaien song was listenable (if very silly looking because I made the mistake of looking at the music video...whoops), whereas the next song...was not. I just can't into most metal - HOWEVER... Funnily, terrible power metal is one of the very few forms of metal that I actually like instrumentally to a degree - well, not specifically "terrible" power metal, but you get what I mean. Like, I can actually listen to nonsense like DragonForce...and I was able to listen to this silly Hammerfall song alright as well. The problem is that the combination of music, lyrics, and vocal style is all just so patently silly that I can never take it seriously. The end result is that I prefer to just listen to "video game metal", which tends to have a similar sound to power metal without quite so much of the absurdity. I don't really have anything that I would ever feel comfortable to claim as being the best of anything...I just like what I like, usually as a function of some combination of liking the vocalist and lyrical style and not being annoyed by the instrumentals, and that's fine. I also don't think I have anything that I grew so much out of where I was like "man, I'm embarrassed to have liked THAT!" either, though. Admittedly, some of that gothier darkwave 90s stuff wouldn't be anywhere close to the first thing I'd ever show or tell anybody about, but I still occasionally listen to it when the mood strikes, and it's fine. On the other hand, I don't have much I like that is distinctly either "the 80s" or "the 00s", which, from what I can tell, seems to be the two main decades of "well, that was embarrassing and I can't believe I was into that". Overall, I didn't "like" anything you linked, but the Deine L (I am not going to go look how to spell his last name again when I already had to Google it earlier) and Hammerfall songs were tolerated, Moonspell and Sirenia were not even slightly tolerated, and the Apocalyptica was "I don't like this, but I feel like if it was used in the proper context, I could", . Hello, dad-rock. Funny how we're all products of our respective environments. Sometimes how our specific environment was formed doesn't make a whole lot of intuitive sense (i.e. me), but our specific sensibilities by which we can be appealed through are still so much determined by that formative time.

I did just fine as a Swashbuckler - Trickster / Devoted to Estocs. In fact, I though it was a very strong melee build. The "Pierce immunity is common" I consider an Internet meme more then anything. So you have like 5 areas with a bunch of higher level skeletons where this applies (but which you should still easily beat beyond the starter island - either with your fist or another blunt weapon at -10 Accuracy) - with 2 of them strictly optional depending on faction choices AFAIR, plus a handful of generally solitary Lurker enemies that are no threat at all. Some enemies have higher Armor Rating vs Pierce, true. On the other hand, the Estoc has the highest Penetration value out of all weapons AFAIR. I've never really struggled with Penetrating AR with it, particularly when using rogue active abilities, which often come with a further Pen boost. In fact in a large portion of fights I had the +30% Overpenetration bonus on a large amount of mobs.

Your prediction of the beach episode. I didn't know that. Huh. Minos seems underused. I think we saw a ton of skits about Medusa and Jashin-chan or hungry Pekola, but Minos only got a handful of dedicated bits. I think the ice girls ended up with more time than 100% beef.

@majestic I actually have a few Apocalyptica cd's somewhere.... I guess my teenage years were the late 70's and early 80's Just too much good music from that period to really pick a good representation. Most of it heard over the radio. Some bought on vinyl when I could afford it (trying to catch your favourite songs from the radio and record on a tape recorder being too cumbersome)

I would settle for at least understanding *how* they organize it. It's not alphabetical, it's not by date, it's not in the order that I added them in... I'm once again thankful that streaming is not really my primary method of watching things (and I usually only have 20 items on my own personal Netflix list at any one time anyways), but if it were, I would be very annoyed with it. Progress is progress, I suppose... You know, it might be possible that if you waited long enough (like, say, years), whatever company is responsible for running this show (I know it's been mentioned many times before, but it's slipping my mind right now) might realize how terrible and embarrassing it all was and take it off the air and rob you of the opportunity to ever be able to finish it. Just a thought...

No, I didn't, but it took considerably less time than the posts I made before the mid-season break. So yes, definitely a MAJOR improvement.

Weekly Discovery post #... dunno, don't really care. Episode is called RUBICON because Book is probably going to step over a line from which his relationship with Michael isn't going to recover. Or maybe it will if she just cries hard enough. Maybe Michael will eventually clasp an asp to her chest. Wouldn't that be something? Too tired of this to be properly annoyed with how stupid everything is. Not the worst way to watch this. This episode also was only 44 minutes long, skipping the "last week" segment and the intro brought this down to a manageable 20 minutes.

And now, in the interest of actually correctly posting in regards to the thread's intended purpose..:

Checked it out in a different article. Seems like it's less about being 'too woke' or whatever and more about not getting their kids back into school, and not focussing on things like kids' mental health or allocating resources to kids. They're not mad at the renaming of schools because of what it is, but because it's not the focus on students that they want.

I vaguely remember playing the first one eons ago, but I didn't know there was a second one. ...No, there isn't a second one, so they're just doing a thing, I guess. I've had that installed for like...6 months, but I haven't even booted it up once. I'll get around to it...someday...maybe. No guarantees. I haven't been in a "gameplay" mood for a while now, so a number of games that I installed and intended to play a long while back never even got tried. (e): Uh, oops - how did I reply to a post from the "what're you playing" thread in here? "Special" talent from a "special" person...

Just today I thought about how an Assassin/Wizard with a well-timed Miasma from invisibility/stealth makes enemies' defenses collapse so nicely. It makes fighting overleveled enemies so much easier.

It's when they call you in to work on the weekends. Bonus work.

First game was pretty fun.

Scientists Make Breakthrough in Warping Time at Smallest Scale Ever When I want to make time speed up I just play Crusader Kings 3

Finished Death's Door. The start was slow - but the more time I spent with the game the more I enjoyed it. It's a simple, zelda-like affair, with a minor touch of mandatory Dark Souls influence but it's well done. Enjoyed exploration quite a bit. The only disappointment was end game - after main story there is "true ending" you can pursue. But outside two new combat encounters it is just running around empty maps 100% find-them-all chores. Payoff wasn't even remotly worth it.

Elegant bit of work.

This is so cool to see, and I'm looking forward to what it's successors can do! It even sort of sounds like one would expect!