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What, like this? https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2022/05/13/square-enix-details-its-elaborate-nft-plans-as-the-market-craters/?sh=6a97d2be1feb

BPM changed Fractured Volition to Hobbled and Enfeebled (from Weakened). The original was so bad I totally forgot it's changed.

Ok guys, sorry for forcing you to read that garbage, I have finally found the original transcript of the interview. The above "news" completely snippet their words out of context... The whole transcript is here: https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/opinions_196300.htm?selectedLocale=en And these are the sentences, which were ripped apart out of context:

The Fallout-style RPG teased by New Blood last week features big names in the classic Fallout scene Van Buren developer Adam Lacko, artist Red888guns, and original Fallout composer Mark Morgan are all working on the project. https://www.pcgamer.com/the-fallout-style-rpg-teased-by-new-blood-last-week-features-big-names-in-the-classic-fallout-scene/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=socialflow&fbclid=IwAR3_U_Ms6jVnRpuJyLRuxlrMY1YGMpjs0pwN5TA7PbLIg2TQ9l7O0fCLOUM EDIT: Yeah, this **** deserves its own thread...

There's nothing new about the build so I'd rather not waste everyone's time, though there're things I didn't quite expect before actually started. The Steel Garrote was an awful pick for me. More than half of the time I was casting or waiting for spell recovery, the healing from attacks is negligible while loosing an ability point to Garrote is huge, it's so replaceable by cipher spells. Survivability was better than I thought. I still got destroyed in a couple seconds in the first fight in The Bridge Ablaze several times, but after figuring out what to do with the starting focus and one gunshot I haven't used any consumable or empowerment for combat, which is one of the benchmarks needed for me to consider it at least legit for solo. I actually didn't need a strong melee weapon. In most cases I never had to switch out of Scordeo's Trophy + Kapana Taga combination, 2 hit for a Disintegration was good enough. Performance for boss fights are very polarized. Against "normal" bosses the inquisitor is extremely strong, always having an afflication for anyone that's not immune to everything and unlimited access to one of the best single target nuke trivialized every boss I fought so far. However megabosses have some extreme defenses, making the whole damage - focus - debuff circulation failing easily. Many legit martial builds can at least face-tank Auranic, however even trying Borrowed Instinct on phantom or bodyguards it was still too risky and difficult to keep a healthy hp. That said, paladin + cipher might be the best combo to cheese the megabosses. It's just a little bit disappointing. When facing the DLC enemies I still had to use Rekvu's Fractured Casque for some rogue heavy encounters, partly because I dumped RES again for smoother casting with high DEX. Hands of Light was another option, though having a long recovery and the limitation of Zeal made me give up the idea. I can't say it's totally unexpected but having the same problem as that awful melee mindstalker I played almost made me ragequit. At least the helmet did made those encounters very easy. In the end I also allowed myself to use Ringleader so I could continue to not use consumables.

Ah no, that wasn't my intention, I think it would be counter productive to force yourself to watch something that isn't working for you.

It's my sister's birthday today but we celebrated yesterday. I took her and her boyfriend out for sushi and afterward to a baseball game. The Charlotte Knights hosted the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp (I swear I'm not making that up) and lost, but at least they made it exciting; the Knights had the bases loaded in the bottom of the 9th. Anyway, a good time was had.

Heroes Chapters and Heroes 4 from GOG during the summer sale

And playthrough number 4 of Journey on my PS3 is behind me. Again, I was trying to meet some more companions for the Wonder trophy today, while getting the last glyph. This time, I was lucky with the glyph, but unlucky with the companions. Only two of them met today. Two online trophies to go.

It's perfectly fine to like this sort of thing, truly and honestly. I am by no means the ultimate arbitrator of what is and isn't O.K. to do in film, animated or otherwise. There's plenty of proof of that in this thread alone, where most everyone else here cannot even begin to understand what it is exactly that catches my eye and delights me in the various things that I've enjoyed that does absolutely nothing for the rest of you, while what individually appeals to and excites everyone else equally does nothing for me. It's pretty much exactly what I was talking about two pages ago when I said there is something inherently offensive to me in films like this and A Silent Voice. Their style and sensibilities in how they attempt to present characters, dialogue, and tone, how they try to convey ideas and plot is so quickly and so intensely wrong to me that I don't think we are reconcilable. It's setting something off in my brain that causes the same sort of extreme resentment for @majestic that makes it impossible for him to enjoy any aspect of nu-Star Trek, even the parts that are actually similar to the old Star Trek shows that he does enjoy...but the thing is, I also have a way lower tolerance for what I hate than majestic does, and so I can't keep watching something that violates my sense of how things should be done to its very core like he is able to. The most I can do is take a few minutes of it at a time if it's between other stuff that I do actually like. It seems like a very remote chance that if I were to watch another half hour that it's all going to start to click, or that I'm going to suddenly like the style and characters of the film when I so strongly did not for the first twenty minutes.

You should play BPM @Boeroer on my phone now but BPM adds enfeebled to one of the Cipher high level powers - can’t remember exactly which one.

considering the quality of the writing i wouldnt put it past them

I read four sentences of the first article you linked, the one on that national-conservative site. It was enough to convince me that it was either extraordinarily bad journalism or intentionally nasty stuff. One of the worst aspects of internet is that all kinds of rubbish can quite easily be made to look at least somewhat legit.

You probably already thought of this, but since youre now familiar with disassembling the wheel, maybe take it apart again and see if anything else jiggled loose inside?

Wolf Children (2012). @Sarex, look away - I could not even finish it. It's so extreme that I couldn't even get out of the prologue. I am now going to go on a completely insane and unhinged rant about anime drama films and why they almost never seem to work for me. Please do not take it personally, or better yet, don't even read it in the first place.

Edit: I was clearly out of my mind when I used words like impossible, there's one thing really great about Enfeebled affliction: it adds 50% to the total duration of hostile effects, not remaining time, and weirdly the game allows it to apply itself mutiple times to the same effect. For example I hit an enemy with a 40s Disintegration, when there's 10s left if I apply enfeebled to it, the remaining duration is extended to 30s instead of 15s, and it grows exponentially. For the Guardian I only have to be lucky enough to extend both Borrowed Instinct and Disintegration a couple of times in a row to get sufficient time to do other stuff before having to prolong them again, the relatively safe phase 1 is the perfect time to set things up. Without having to desperately waste all of the focus I can now have both statues dominated to keep the guardian busy.

Himitsu no Akko-chan aka The Secrets of Akko-chan, a post almost certainly only of interest to @majestic: Wikipedia seems to suggest that this is the very first shoujo manga(?), originally published in 1962...but not the first shoujo anime, as it came out in 1969 after a few others had already premiered. The premise is pretty simple: Akko is a young girl obsessed with mirrors, but accidentally breaks her favorite one. After giving it a proper burial, the goddess of mirrors descends from the heavens to give Akko a magical compact that allows her to transform into any creature or person when she looks into it. There were three different series of it made, but only a tiny bit of this franchise is available with English subtitles - the first episode of the 1969 show, the first episode of the 1998 show, and two short "films" (~25 minutes each) of the 1988 show, and I watched them all.

I have exactly zero motivation to even just attempt to watch Strange New Worlds ... After all the disappointment, there's a crapton of other shows that I rather watch instead.

Squeenix has probably become the most derivative publisher out there. If someone came up with an original idea in there, they'd probably fire them.

We're loving the Orville, it's everything I wish nuTrek would be. I'm afraid to start watching Strange New Worlds because I skipped out on STD after season 2 and Picard during season 1 so I'm not sure how good it will be without being compared to it's lesser cousins.

Spy x Family 11 Anya needs eight stars in four months. She gets horrible grades in her tests because she read the wrong people’s minds, so she decides to find out who is the best in each subject so that she can maximize her grades next time. Loid considers other ways to get a star and tries to find out if she is good doing something else, like art, music, sports... but she is a disaster in everything. Maybe that happens because she is two years younger than what they pretend she is? He ends up taking her to do some voluntary work in a hospital, where they are assigned with cleaning the dressing room. And that doesn’t work well either as she breaks a vase. Arranging the books in the library? Nope, she sits down and reads manga. In the kitchen, she drops a tray (who puts a child to work as a waiter????) and in the laundry room she falls asleep.

"it sure is a pity we can't lynch them n*****s any more" just call the police

I tried to get farther in that Guardians of Galaxy game (since I barely got off the intro-ship section), but there are too many sorta-like-QTE's - including in the middle of chattery dialogues - and "forced movement/path" moments. Plus the chrs. are constantly talking as you move along, that drives me crazy. Dunno if it lessens later but ... still, Rocket will never not be cool. Also - haven't played it in a while but whenever I run into those blue toothy creatures in Biomutant I feel like Blue Meanies had babies or something.

Oooh, nice. That is a game I actually wanted!

Giveaway today is https://www.gog.com/en/game/beautiful_desolation

And Another Giveaway on GOG today. Shantae and the Pirate's Curse. https://www.gog.com/en/news/claim_your_copy_of_shantae_and_the_pirates_curse

Venetica is the giveaway game today https://www.gog.com/en/game/venetica

Also few days ago, both Little Big Adventure games got 25th anniversary update, which added new game plus and controller support. https://www.gog.com/en/game/little_big_adventure

Sanitarium as a giveaway on GOG as a part of the Summer Sale for next 40+ hours. https://www.gog.com/en And as I've mentioned in the random news, SEGA joins the GOG club as well. https://www.gog.com/en/news/play_the_thrilling_alien_isolation_as_sega_is_partnering_with_gog

Warhammer 2022 goodies for free on GOG. Including Warhammer 40K: Chaos Gate. Old school WH Xcom-like. I can only recommend it https://www.gog.com/en/game/warhammer_skulls_2022_digital_goodie_pack

If you play Mars: War Logs remember to...

I found the constant backtracking in Mars War Logs a bit annoying so never finished it. And since I didn't finish War Logs I haven't played Technomancer since I first want to finish War Logs. Maybe I should simply play that...

Did you play Mars: War Logs, Technomancer, or Bound By Flame? If you did then you know what you are in for. I would say this is easily Spiders' best game so far. I liked it quite a bit. It's the most polished (still not AAA, mind you) and most open (still too many invisible walls for my taste) of their games. It's got a colonialism theme. You got the native tree huggers and the greedy colonists, though it's not quite that black & white.

Not sure if it was linked before: https://itch.io/b/1316/bundle-for-ukraine Celeste alone would be worth the asking price, but it ALSO has THIRSTY SWORD LESBIANS. Plus 989 other games...

Cats are not merchandise, they're your owners.

That's one good looking merchandise, but the red thing with CDs on the right thwarts the view. You should post another picture without it.

New merchandise!