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I did the thing. I made crepes with sausage gravy and eggs. Yes, I paired biscuits and gravy with crepes and it's the bomb.com. Forgot to mention I did take Gromnir's suggestion of fried sage and my wife commented on how that was a nice touch.

I generally tend to plan out several playthroughs at once but have trouble going through with it. Like with WotR I've got a whopping six planned out (after the EE and DLC wave 2 drops) but will likely get derailed and do something else. My go to class is usually whatever kind of gish is avaliable (so Fighter/Mage for BG and Magus for Pathfinder), but I'll try to play differently for subsequent playthroughs. Generally I have the hardest time playing as Clerics for whatever reason, despite their mechanical strengths they just don't do it for me like mages, warriors, or rogues. I haven't managed to read a novel in years and have been occupied more with cinema and TV than games lately lmao. It's just harder to pull an all-nighter into a game than it was before, but give me some weird cinema like soviet era sci-fi or K-horror and I will be up all night.

At one point I will have another playthrough for sure. It's just that I am not one for replays and even when I do so I usually just go for the same thing, a Paladin. This is not exclusive to (c)RPGs, even with builder games I usually take a long break before coming back for another run. Nowadays, sadly, I am taking long breaks playing games at all and I don't know why because I still love playing them. Same with books. It's not like I don't have time either, but I guess one needs energy even for those things. @InsaneCommander Exactly.

When I played the EE, I cheated Minsc's stats and turned him into a Ranger/Cleric who had access to all Divine spells.

Redneck chique.

A good RUSI commentary on western response to mobilization. That response will be a even better indication of the future than the handling of upcoming energy squeeze.

I'm going to have to replay BG2 because I don't recognize the names of a few of the characters you guys are talking about.

Man thats convenient, it makes hunting so easy

@Hawke64 @BartimaeusI just noticed my version of Steelrising changed from 1.1.0 to 1.2.0. The update that adds NG+ is supposed to drop on the 29th, so it's probably not that. I can't find a changelog, not for lack of trying, so I have no idea whether this update is across all platforms and whether it addresses your issue, but it may be worth checking out, assuming you haven't refunded the game.

I bet those great patriots from Nashi likely were the first to flee to Georgia and Mongolia with their tail between their legs.

literal outside our office window at this moment no respect. HA! Good Fun!

What a interesting coincidence. As soon, as I have read the Darkpriest post, the YT noticed me, that the Austrian Army just made a video whcih speaks also about articles like the ones, he mentions in his posts 🤷‍♂️

There is little doubt, that this war doesn't go according to the Kremlin's plans. It was made unwinnable when the Kiev was a target. Should Russians focus all efforts from the start on the belt they still control now, we would probably be already after the conflict. Now, in economic terms, the war is more destructive to Western economies than it is to the Russian one. As in clockwork (end of Q3 beginning of Q4), we are about to experience a global crisis and a last hurrah of the USD. FED is trapped and too late to the game, and has to raise rates. Economies are still weak, EU is in shambles on its own wish with all the policies and sanctions, and Truss is probably the worst choice UK could have made after Boris (todays plan just confirms that) For those more interested in what's goin on, read this summary. It's simple enough for people who have at least some interest in economy and markets. https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/crash For non-ZH readers, free BBG article via yahoo -> https://finance.yahoo.com/news/wall-street-risks-breaking-point-201642016.html Now, in terms of impact on the EU, you will see more and more 'nationalists' coming to power, especially at the time of economic crisis and with more migrants inflows. Even Sweden turned right, Italy is about to go as well. France avoided that barely, due to bad timing of election and previous connections to Putin. Russia will send those conscripts to secure land after referendums. They want to hold south belt to Crimea as a status quo and their war loot. UA topic is about to vanish from main points of media interests. Give it until the end of year tops. In Europe, economic woes will take the front pages. (inflation, crashed currencies, stocks, unafordable energy and heating prices, unafortable food and poor food security outlook for 2023 - see this years poor global harvest data and high cost of production and processing of food in EU). Green policies are now dead, as Europe spends more and more on ship freight of energy resources, which contributes to more emissions and is probably also not enough to create security in the energy. Oil price caps just means that there will be less oil for the 'West' or EU will be buying resold Russian Oil from China/India same as they are doing now with LNG. It may be even enough to brinng back oil prices above 100, something that Sauds would love to see, as oil now crashed on global recession fears Anyway too many topics to write about

She's a pretty good character, as far as the NPCs goes. She's the best good-aligned Mage, so she's the best pick if you don't want Edwin. She has just enough Thief skills to make all rolls, sometimes with the help of a potion. If you don't go around backstabbing, there's not much reason to have a full Thief, so she's a pretty good choice.

With Instinctual Warrior Barbarian or (if data mining turns put to be right) Shifter, you can do the Wisdom to AC thing on non-lawfuls. Of course the Scaled Fist + Paladin + (Nature) Oracle to get CHA to saves and 2x CHA to AC is bonkers broken and you gotta be LG to pull that off.

I wanted to hit the 6 mythics paths with all the Good and Evil alignments, though Aeon turned into the secret path. Not really interested in becoming a Dragon or Swarm and if anything I'd bootstrap fork the Legend from one of the other playthroughs.

Yeah, I can see that it should work, there was plenty of set up for it, but for some reason it just felt like a jarring shift to me. I don't think the last third was bad, it's just that the connection between it and rest of the movie was not seamless to me, like there should have been something more in that scene. Maybe saying it went downhill was not the correct term, I liked the ending, but because it was disjointed from the first part it didn't have the emotional impact on me.

That is bad. I've been hearing conflicted things about RoP. There doesn't seem to be a consensus about wheter it is better than The Wheel of Time or not. That is enough for me to decide to skip it. I wonder how we can convince them.🤔 Maybe we tell them about beach episodes? Oops, I meant the JoJo version, of course:

I remember seeing once an "auto roll" program that would keep rerolling and automatically store the best results. Isn't it easier to go ahead and cheat? 🤣

I think it works. The big shame is that it didn't perform as well commercially, so studios will pump out **** like Jurassic Whatever or Top Gun: Bomb Iran Drop Freedom On Unspecified Country instead of stuff like this or Nightmare Alley.

You naughty Sarex ! Surly you must roll 10000000s of times to get the stats you want ? But for real, the game is ancient at this point and you've probably done several playthroughs so why stick with vanilla? Want to explore some of the unused class combos or kits? Go ahead, Swashbuckler/Mage multiclass Imoen or whatever you want to do. Mod the **** out of the game to boot. That you're having fun is what matters most.

As long as it is the 1992 anime either in the original with subtitles or the new Viz dub, everything else is, ah, well... the original English dub is an acquired taste, I guess. Except season four. The less is said about the creepy rape gang and the pedophile horse, the better. Would be fun to see the reactions from others as well. Particularily @Hurlshort's, who would probably get himself an aneurysm trying to figure out why @Bartimaeus and I basically hate everything he likes but love Sailor Moon. edit: Just realized I actually wanted to post about how boring Rings of Power is, even - or maybe especially - when it tries to be epic. They should also hire someone to revise the dialogue. Everything is basically Star Dreck Picard: Season Two Picard/Q interaction level of cringe. Sigh.

This is an unique crit from Mohora Tanga with a SC Assassin with Boltcatchers : 226 additional shock damages. The enemy dont have 2 afflictions here, but Deathblow is applied otherwise. Boltcatchers is superior than Hylea's Talon for melee Chain-Crit purpose, also for Effort (than can crit). With the Ajamuut's Stalcking Cloak and Vanishing Strike, the target is stunned as long the chain crit continue. With Entropy, that can be as long the invisibility stay.

That's a shame. Those Atilla cgi eyes give me the creeps. Come to think of it, isn't Robert Rodriguez doing a new movie? I hope it's good. By the way did you guys know JoJo was back?

I've also heard the real number of Russians to be mobilized is going to be much higher than 300k from my wife's Russian family. Their support is faltering a bit right about now.

Yes, but I guess those still use actual weapons (your fists)? They count as equipped weapons and have base damage for auto-attacks and so on. It's just a suspection though. I also suspect that CP's Inner Death wouldn't proc Carnage (using console to add Carnage to an SC Monk of course - just for testing purposes). It's tagged as melee weapon attack but it uses no actual weapon. And Carnage might search for an actual weapon in order to find out its base damage?

Stone Ocean 23-24 Jolyne gets back to the women's wing, makes a new friend, eats nice food, and... ? These episodes were tense. And this was one of the most satisfying scenes in the whole series:

Why The Lost Boys Is More Ridiculous Than Twilight (msn.com)

The corrosive attack is melee but I dont know if the Draining Touch is "weapon". However, the weakened affliction is not melee, meaning no chain-crir in this side! The push effect is also not melee, in other case the SF combo could be the most funny thing for a Sage, and I will have done a mod that rename the weapon to Llengrath's Warding Lol Staff! Sadly that doesnt work. Maybe it is because it is an ability. Is Carnage may working only on auto-attack?

So JoJo had been the compromise the whole time? Araki you sly genius.

That's part of the appeal, I'm a barrel strength man.

Watching JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is better than arguing about the Iraq War for the 10000000000th time. In fact everyone should watch JoJo so we can start communicating solely with memes and Ora repetitions.

Indeed, you would. With CP another subclass would be better, since you wouldn't have SF/HBD proc chances when using the FF attack in the unmoved game. But the FF attack is a bit weird. Even when playing with CP, I've noticed that the FF attack doesn't do any carnage damage when playing a ravager, despite the fact that it is counted as a weapon attack.

Eiyuden Chornicles: Rising. This game is beautiful.

@Zoraptor Wrong thread. Join us, join us, join us.

I really enjoyed Blood Song but the next two books in the series got progressively worse and I stopped following the author

Ok, so I swallowed my honor and repeated the first fight (which isn't hard, obelisks can be destroyed while stealthed, and that Void Blight can be more or less tanked while the rest of the party poke it with bows) Now my henchmen are lvl 16. Say hello to Gambit, Disintigrate and various stat boost. EDIT : so I have finally beaten those snakes. Now my party is level 17 and next fights I will be able to spam more symbols of Berath and Priest Fire spells 🙂 Probably the difficulty doesn't need adjustment that much. People can farm a bit if their characters have trouble vs a specific fight. No-repeat run would be challenging, but that's something players are sometimes looking for. It is fortunate that this first fight hasn't been removed as Noqn feared it at some point.