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I'm back from the range. I'm pleasantly surprised at how much accuracy I've retained given that I haven't fired a gun in close to a decade and never this exact gun before. The first target is me dialing in the red dot. I would fire off a grouping of 3, bring the target in, adjust the sight, lather, rinse, repeat: You can see how far the sights were off to start in the lower left corner. I was aiming at the center at about 10 yards. By the end of the 15 round mag I had her dialed in pretty well. Next grouping at 10 yards: 3 nasty outliers, otherwise a pretty solid grouping. I shot my 3rd mag (Glock is nice enough to give you 3 with the gun) at roughly 17 ot 18 yards: Getting used to the trigger pull is the biggest thing right now. The immediate goal is to eventually get groupings like my 10 yard grouping (minus the 3 nasty outliers) at 20 yards. Side note: The Glock 40 kicks like a mule and sounds like a bomb going off, just how I like it. A gentleman 2 lanes over was teaching his lady friend (wife?) to shoot a .22 (a sensible choice to start). It sounded like a BB gun compared to my Glock monstrosity. Not throwing shade, to be clear, the first gun I ever shot was a .22.

Funny, hadn't seen the latest episode yet, but I was just thinking about this today while biking. Would a post-scarcity society really be like Star Trek? I don't feel like it would. If material needs are gone, and you can have whatever you want at any time ... I do not believe that humans will be happy with that. We either become high on apathy, or people will get bored and start doing anything to get entertained. There's lots of evil that can be done, just for fun. Other than that, of course some people will want to become powerful instead. They will want to have control over other people in whatever way. I'm really not sure if we would be able to overcome such things. I like to think that humans would philosophically evolve to "trying to better themselves" instead of following materials needs ... but guess I have too little faith in that.

One thing North America and Australia has in common is the occasional freaky weather.... including a number of clips from where I live (Brisbane, Queensland)

Prey (2022) Actually good, maybe better than the original.

Yesterday afternoon I got asked to work today; so much for my 3 day weekend. This also means no trip to the shooting range today. Oh well, I'll go tomorrow morning. In the meantime, I field stripped my Glock (super easy) and lubricated the end of the trigger bar, the slide, and of course the barrel with Hoppe's 9 Lubricating Oil. I'm out of the loop on gun lubricants so I just went with the classic. It's entirely possible that more advanced oil exists, but Hoppe's 9 has worked great for decades, no reason it would suddenly not work great now.

As mentioned before, for extra giggles load up on Polar Rays on your blaster of choice (or equip a spontaneous caster with the Ring of Boreal Might) and you can one-shot those paralyzed mobs. A not insignificant number of high-level mobs like Balors and Vavakias had gone down with this method in my playthrough.

I was goofing off and made a Trickster going all into CHA and persuasion and getting the Trickster Persuasion 3 feat. It's hilarious watching almost everybody either freeze or kill themselves when they attack me.

Sandman first two episodes and the beginning of the third. They mostly stayed true to the comic and the visual are topnotch. So far so good.

Modwyr is cool but isn't that great for crit builds - one of the best combos for that is Grave Calling + Scordeo's Edge + Fair Favor (high accuracy and once you start freezing enemies you start chaining crits like crazy), however it takes some time to max your buffs and requires high INT to keep your stacks maxed. Grave Calling opens also some great combos with Chill Fog and your skeletons.

Can we get some gameplay, Atlus? Pretty please with a cherry on top.

Can't wait to see ya in a few days ranting about the terrible UI (which alone is a crime against humanity) and how lifeless the whole experience is.

ME: Andromeda = DA:I Hinterlands in spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace

But why?

I did indeed continue on to Bard's Tale 2, a decision many a gamer likely rued. Or potentially all of them, because that was the worst dungeon crawler I've ever had the misfortune of playing. Arcane riddles, sprawling maps that randomly kill your light, songs, or spells and severely grating fights againt hordes of spellcasters that take ages because fifty of the three hundred enemies you're facing decide to cast area of effect spells. The impact is lessened a little with some of the items that can be found and by simply running away, but in the end, for the final few dungeons, all I did was run from every single fight and re-cast buffs. It's so bad the developers realized it and eventually give you items that can cast buffs (with infinte charges) that are immune to the anti-magic zones, but those are too little, too late, usually, and they still don't work against darkness. Nothing more fun than half the map being dark. Walk walk, check map. Walk walk, check map. Walk. Check. Walk. *sigh* Yeah, not touching that. Like ever again.

AFAIK GOG blocked both Belarus and Russia