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Chaos Gate Daemonhunters isn't a bad game. I'll start with the cons: The story. It is being let down by the fact it is 40K. Greyknights are simply not engaging protagonists, just like most space marines. For 40K fans the story is great. The premise is suitably epic. The adeptus mechanicus dominus in charge of your ship's maintenance is well written. It seems 40K writers like the adeptus mechanicus to lighten the grimdark. What makes less sense is how you get reinforcements and equipment sent from Titan. The Greyknights send a single, small shuttle with a single knight and a spare storm bolter? That seems silly. In that the old Chaos Gate did better: you had a roster of marines on board, and that was it. I can see how people can find the game getting repetitive. On the one hand you only fight Nurgle. Even though attempts have been made to give your opponents a large roster, it doesn't change that they all are Nurgle. On top of that, the maps start to repeat. A few of them add insult to injury by basically being a pretty corridor, with no choice but to advance down one single path. And there seem to only be two mission objectives. Last con: the soldiers just aren't memorable. Firaxcom managed to make you care about your troops and remember them, even though for the most part they were random grunts. Phoenix Point has the roster grow so fast, other than maybe your first squad, it is unlikely you'll think of any of them as anything but sniper, commando, heavy etc. Chaos Gate is the same, your marines are melee dude in terminator armour, melee dude in power armour etc, even though you may count your troops using your fingers. The pros: Destructible terrain makes everything better. Lots of bits to interact with to kill your opponents makes it betterer. If your opponent is hiding behind a statue, it is very satisfying to slam into the statue and bury them underneath the rubble. Enemy variety is actually quite good, even if the focus on Nurgle gives a feeling of repetitiveness. In reality though there may be more variety than XCOM. Boss fights seem to be thought out. I have done two big story missions. The first one had a good premise but was a bit let down by the Greyknightytness. It makes sense and allows for super fans to have some fanservice, but for the rest of us it's a "if I cared I guess I would care" moment. The second one was tough as well, but I beat it by using my marines abilities well, while realising there was a smarter way to do the mission. I like that: a boss fight I could beat two ways. Stuns/crits/Knockback etc all work quite well and give you some tactical choices. Crits are pip boy style targeting and make for some grotesque funny situations: stop an opponent from shooting their gun? Chop their arm off and disarm them. If I were the opponent I'd be dead after that, but people in the game are a bit tougher than that. Skill trees are quite large for this kind of game, so you could tune your marines the way you like. And with 8 classes you get to tune your 4-man team. Bloom actually works reasonably well as a mission timer. It increases every turn and every special ability you use. Later you may be able to reduce it or limit the passive increase to gain some breathing room. But it isn't a mission failure timer. It isn't drawing me in like Troubleshooter did or any good story based game will. I don't feel the need to fire it up to see what comes next. But when you have it launched, you may want to go for just one more mission.

we learned the info from watching a pbs series in the late 70s... were a bbc release in 1978 episode 8 is the installment which contains the gorrie reference. btw, even though connections is a 1970s science show, it holds up remarkable well 'cause is reflecting on past scientific discoveries and how those incremental advances... connect. highly recommend watching the series if you are able to find it. (edit) looks as if at least the first four episodes is available via youtube. is ten total episodes. HA! Good Fun!

The Baltic nations in general have been wonderful, but I agree that Lithuania is being superb. For anyone wondering why this may be: THEY KNOW. And they don't want it back after 30 years of something else. @Zoraptor: I absolutely may have used the term "front" wrong. Military matters are not my strongest point.

Damn, I really got to give massive kudos to Lithuania. Their railroad action against Russia has the whiney crybabies in Moscow going bat-crap crazy! They're literally losing their minds, because tiny Lithuania has come up with a completely legal under international law way to REALLY stick it to the Russians, and there's precious little Russia can do about it short of invading NATO territory. Every argument the Russians raise about how "wrong" this is can be turned right back around on them! Lavrov, Peskov and co. are so apoplectic its side-splittingly hilarious. I'm keeping my fingers crossed it pushes Palputin's ticker over the line. Man, Lithuania is ****ing brilliant!!

Rare 5-planet alignment peaks Friday when joined by moon | Space

I think the moral of the story is that sex overcomes all

I remember the first time I played F:NV and I was following the standard mission where you dont immediately get to travel to NV and you go to other places on the map as part of side quests After about 12-16 hours I was short of ammo, wounded and lost in the wasteland with a sniper companion when we were attacked by deathclaws....in order to survive I fled and left my sniper companion behind to make a final stand. His death screams will always haunt me but his sacrifice was appreciated It was night and the deathclaws started running after me and I realized death was imminent but then I went around a hill and in front of me I saw something that was the greatest sight I have ever experienced in any RPG....the lights of NV city, green and welcoming ...I was saved I have never been so happy to see a city, I entered NV and naturally did the most obvious thing any man would do who looked into the face of the Grim Reaper and survived. I immediately visited the brothel and took full advantage of my adult mods. Life never seemed so good

They have a small bit of footage here and boy...I love those few seconds. This game has me hooked like no other for the time being.

Hello obsidian, First off love the game. Reminds me of the movie " Honey I shrunk the kids" I watched as a child. In the movie they get caught in giant drops of water when the sprinkler gets turned on, which left them scrambling for shelter. I know there is a sprinkler in the game. I think it would be cool for it to get turned on randomly which could send giant drops of water throughout the yard possibly damaging your base. Or rain, same concept just with clouds. Thoughts.

Dammit, I had a feeling I forgot something. >.< Ten minutes in this looks like it is going to be "If Wishes Were Horses" on crack (literally). Great, just... great.

Not Civ 4.

Fairly large blackout in Siberia due to a fire at a power plant, and then this gas explosion elsewhere. I'd love to know how many mysterious explosions and fires Russia tends to have during "ordinary" times and how much their number has increased since the beginning of the war. Looking at this kind of stuff from northern Europe, Russia looks very peculiar, even if it is a huge country. (Like, are fires and explosions in Russia like mass shootings in the US, i.e. every day or every other day?) Nice bang by the way.

$9.99 US. So, still a bit enhanced Not worth it though - https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-blade-runner-games-new-remaster-looks-worse

Yeah, four is a single battery (NATO standard). And yes the Russians will be prioritizing them for targeting as well. Good thing they're extremely mobile, which is HiM- part of their abbreviation. 'Shoot and scoot' is how you are supposed to use them.

I'll have to look into that.

Well, yes, but they're just the first batch. And other countries have now also said they too will send HiMARS. And HiMARS is an awesome system for the Ukrainians for this one reason. The one thing that is truly hurting the UA badly right now is that the Russians are relentlessly and indiscriminately bombarding UA positions with massive amounts of artillery, which the UA cannot get at as they're out of reach. With HiMARS, not only do those Russian artillery systems come with reach, one HiMARS has the potential to wipe out an entire battery of artillery guns, and possibly even more, in counter-battery fire mode.

I told them I was under contract with my previous ISP for a year, so they offered it for free for that year. That kind of threw me back, so I thought what the heck. If I sign up for a bigger package in the second year they will discount it 50% for that year. But my installations are cat5 so even the 2gb is overkill. Although I will remedy that, when I get the time. Ah, traveling. Well that does suck. But it will do you good to see fresh faces which you can get to hate all over again. Maybe you even meet someone who doesn't suck, you never know.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/howcan-a-poll-of-only-100/

2 gbit and a free year ? What utopia do you live in ? Super busy week, have an interview tomorrow at 9, not too keen on the job the more I think of it, more pay but just a feeling I have about how they operate and what the job would be. Probably mostly inertia though, am part of the furniture around my current place

When I met my wife over 20 years ago, she was a registered republican with a gun at the foot of her bed and I had just voted for Ralph Nader. Political sports teams are given way too much importance.

Dark, season 1. Not entirely sure what happened at the end there, but it sure was provocative.

Just reread the whole part from when Two new chapters of Berserk out. All in all the style seems to be there, though in a more simplified manner. If you don't pay attention to the small details you won't notice much. We'll see if this holds true in the future chapters, as Miura could have done some work on these ones.

our first competitive open water swim were not our finest athletic moment. HA! Good Fun!

A new song by one of my favourite bands, Heilung was inspired by the texts written on ancient bracteates, many of which were inscribed with elder futhark runes from the migration period, with protective charms and spells.

I went into the anime completely blind. Was not disappointed at all.

mechanical ac were invented in 1850, and it didn't work as intended. yes, the invention cooled air and eventual led to modern refrigeration, but a doctor were attempting to prevent his patients from catching malaria. at the time malaria were believed to be caused not by disease carried and transmitted by mosquitos but by bad air-- fetid swamp gasses and the like. look at the word: mal aria. so dr. john gorrie creates a contraption for generating cool air which would displace the bad swamp air o' his hospital ward. as kinda an afterthought, doc gorrie recommended patient beds be surrounded by mosquito netting to make the sick and infirm more comfortable. point is, ac has been around a fair amount o' time, perhaps longer than many suspect. weren't a last couple days kinda situation, so the "grumpy" posts (multiple posts and plural grumpies) 'bout sacramento heat almost certain did not predate the availability o' ac. am predicting a long summer. the good news for grumpy cat is the utility bills is not near as bad as one might suspect, even with peak and off-peak hour bumps. we used more than 2x as much electricity in december 2021 as July 2021. 'cause o' summer rate hikes we most certain did not pay half as much for the july bill, but we did pay $61 more for our december bill ($220) as 'posed to july ($159)... and keep in mind we got a not new, 2800 sqft and two-story home... with a water heater way past its replacement date. the only energy saving features we got is our wash and dryer is newish and we replaced the shake roof with steel. regardless, our home is not a model o' energy efficiency by any stretch. regardless, am always surprised by how relative not terrible is our summer bills for electricity. yeah, for us this is the worst part. is one o' the numerous reasons why the wildfires make life less pleasant. even if it does cool down outside when the sun sets, from mid july all too often the literal hazardous air quality means you keep windows shut. HA! Good Fun!

Had you taken any cold medicine with a decongestant? Pseudoephedrine, ephedrine, phenylephrine, naphazoline and oxymetazoline are all supposed to raise blood pressure. Might also be a situational aspect to it as well (ie stress from going to the doctor and being sick). Making sure you're not dehydrated can also help with BP, as I understand it. Also

you mean adra ban? unless you have a mod, adra ban is finite, so you should save them exclusively for upgrading to legendary for your final gear selections, IMO. And even then you will need to rely on being smart with certain materials (e.g. the drop from the fire dragon) which you can also use to upgrade to legendary so that you're not blowing 4 adra ban on a single 2h weapon upgrade. it's the biggest surprising crafting trap in the game, since you could easily blow all your adra ban crafting a few scrolls if you aren't careful. i rely on the exotic herbs shop and una for most of my mats, though i feel like one of the precious gemstones doesn't spawn at una and i had to go to the treasure shop in dunnage (maybe i was just unlucky). some monster mats are "rare" and you need to wait a long time to get one (vithrack brains is one of them), though you can also just try to hunt out the monster (though again, vithrack are rare until FS).

So I decided to take the western path to Vegas (fallout new vegas) and I found north Vegas... I'm ashamed to say I had never found north Vegas in all the times I've played. Weird to play I game i thought I completely explored, only to find I've probably missed a lot of content

Steam summer sale starts tomorrow!

I just do not understand what is happening anymore. I have just for the sake of it, turned on my wheel again... And it worked... OMGWTFLOL... So I have just used the oportunity, and driven 4 short races to finish the GT4 part of Career Championship in Mercedes SLS AMG GT3 in Assetto Corsa. I bet, it will not work again tomorrow...

Nothing too interesting: That a drone? Huh. Where are you? *muffled something* Of course not. I'm not seeing. Not seeing... Did it dive? (boom!) ****!!!! **** **** ****ity ****ity ****!!! Plant got blown up! Go go go go go Radio: Drone had dived. Yeah, flied in, **** me. And that's that, my dudes, and thats that. NPZ went boom. Did it come from Ukraine? Really? Yeah, from that direction. Radio: We stopping working, no? Radio: It's on fire, get out! Radio: Plant got blown up! That fire will spread, we gotta gtfo. The video itself is lovely though.

I went bit crazy with the GOG summer sale and bought: Lands of Lore 1 + 2 + 3, Indiana Jones The Last Crusade + The Fate of Atlantis, System Shock Enhanced Edition, Anachronox, and Outcast 1.1.

Sniper Elite 5. It's on game pass so I figured I'd give it a shot. It's pretty good. There are some annoyances like only being able to scale walls in specific spots, so I can easily climb that 6 foot tall wall, but that other shin-high "wall" is impassable because reasons. Overall, though, it's a fun game of sneaking around. I fancy myself a stealth game expert, so I'm playing on authentic difficulty (the highest difficulty) across all difficulty options. This not only means enemies have more health and do more damage, but they also spot you much quicker. Plus I have no HUD. No ammo count, no indicator of whether I've been spotted, nothing whatsoever.

The price.

Round is a shape! But seriously, 54 is still young. You still have decades ahead of you, and the way some of this medical science is progressing, hopefully those can be good decades.

The Waylanders. It is a party-based RPG with RtwP combat. I guess, the developers tried to make something like Dragon Age, but it is not anywhere close. The levels and most of the dialogues are extremely linear, the exception being companions'. There are several classes and equipment, but very few abilities, though they are diverse enough. Missed 1 companion so far, because the recruitment cut-scene did not trigger. There are numerous missing descriptions and subtitles occasionally are different from the spoken lines, but the game has not crashed yet. Nioh 2. Completed the main game and tried the last DLC. Got repeatedly slaughtered by the boss in the first mission. I suppose, I was too underlevelled for it.

Solasta: Lost Valley. I was waiting because I heard there were some bugs and save files corrupted. Not sure it is still happening, but I got tired of waiting.

Dear Obsidian Thank you for fulfilling my crowdfunding tier in a way I didn't expect. Griffin's Blade was more than I expected. When I funded the game, I was in a terrible place, having lost both my grandfathers and my most trusted companion, my faithful dog Griffin. The story I gave you was very different to the route you took with it, and it was so true to life. I can't tell you how much it meant to me to find that sword, and it will always be the weapon I use in this game, no matter what I play. Thank you A Fan

This is a long time coming, and I apologize for the late reply, but I stumbled upon this post. I am the dev who had the pleasure of writing the background lore for this sword. I also designed the three upgrades for the blade. I want you to know that this particular item was very special to me. I know the pain of the loss of a companion, and the truth of your submission moved me and moves me still. Thank you so much for your contribution to this game. The world of Pillars is motivated by the truth of the experiences of all Kith. Characters and story are better for what you have added to their world. I re-read this post often because it brings me a (tearful) joy to know that what came about in the game brought you joy, even if that joy has tears. Thank you for playing.

Well, Pentiment is going to be an historical game. Just not an Ubisoft-style game, with which I am perfectly happy.

I have been on a kick with the people foundations. I'm literally paving any and any surface I can think of. Lol in this regard id like to see more foundational peices added. Like diagonal peices, 2x1 ramps to make inclines less steep. Round foundations would go well with the rounded walls they added. Maybe pepplet flooring? Like floor thickness(or half that of the foundations) but textured as pepplet.

I will have to read Hellsing, but I like those types of scenes generally.

Well, Conan Exiles expansion announced...aaaaand the game's getting a battlepass. No more details known, but given Funcom/Tencent's other products expectations are low. The lead designer immediately being apologetic after announcing it also says a lot, I'd say. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.

Elephant kills old woman, then returns to trample her corpse at the funeral - Life (mashable.com) and the internet doesnt disappoint: Elephant tramples woman, shows up at her funeral, and now it's an insa (thechive.com)