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I wonder what Sasha Grey is getting for Cyberpunk. 🤔 I hope she drove a hard bargain.

gonna admit, we didn't see it coming. HA! Good Fun!

I dunno about "don't seem to know", seems that everyone is familiar with this Sasha Grey lady.

Her oral skills are exceptional, I'm sure she negotiated a good deal.

Instead of the old "appeal to authority" fallacy, I'm thinking we should come up with a new one called "appeal to social media", where we are all immediately skeptical of anything that starts with someone throwing a hissy fit on social media. It's hard to believe, but some people just lie on the internet - imagine that, lying on the internet: how uncouth! I'm sure she has the offer in writing somewhere...kind of up to her to prove she wasn't lying. But honestly, I sometimes underestimate how dumb some people can be in assuming that someone's not going to flat-out lie about these sorts of things when it can easily be proven one way or the other. If you go on social media to drag someone or a company through the mud and you're straight up not telling the truth, surely it can't be a surprise when whomever you maligned punches back. Story quotes her as saying Platinum is lying but "I would like to put this whole bloody franchise behind me quite frankly get on with my life in the theatre"; sure sounds like an "ight imma head out" kind of statement to me. This also now makes a lot more sense why Jennifer Hale was hired...hire an actual professional when the old talent goes crazy, huh? Hey, speak for yourself: her voice is always a joy every time I hear and recognize it, .

"to live as we once lived in the Soviet Union" ... no thanks. : x

As a kid playing the Wing Commander FMV titles, I had no idea who Ginger Lynn was. Mrs Hamill sure did though.

Maybe she's looking to get a a rise out of it too? 😇

I am so upset. I haven’t had any issues, not a single problem and then I run into the biggest glitch I’ve seen. Was zip lining and this happened. The game crashed out of nowhere, which happens. I quit the game after the crash, hoping to clear the cache, but it didn’t work. It’s a shared world, but not mine. I had been hoping the save before would load but nope, I am still stuck on this. Won’t let me give up, won’t let me do anything. Food and water won’t go down, so I can’t die. I’m playing on an Xbox one S, Multiplayer. I don’t know what to do. Any suggestions? I tried loading a photo of it, but it’s saying it’s above the max size allowed to upload.

I have been running around in the shadow of the Black Gate getting ready for the assalut on Mordor. I am level 110 now. The storytellimg continues to be top notch in LotRO.

Eh, everytime I hear her, I hear Bastila doing a weird accent.

Guaranteed drops are not a good idea, but a trinket that increases the chance of getting gold cards (and the amount of loot from mobs along the way) would be very interesting.

NASA’s Webb Takes Star-Filled Portrait of Pillars of Creation | NASA

Russia lost its most advanced air defense system in Ukraine (defence-blog.com)

I always played male Shepard on my first playthrough and did FemShep for my second... For the first two games, I never replayed ME3 because, Jesus Christ, why would I do that to myself? Once was painful enough.

A couple of weeks ago I said here that Solasta Lost Valley was better than the original campaign. I'm not so sure about that anymore. Seems the deeper into I get into it, the more the seams appear, and the cut corners become more evident. Asset reuse increases a fair bit, and perhaps most importantly, their attempt at creating competing factions to choose between is their writing team biting off more than they can chew. No, no one should expect to be able to please all factions at the same time, reputation points ought to behave in a sensible way. But I expect better than to simply talk to a questgiver for one faction and having that immediately tank your reputation with another faction *which isn't even hostile to the first faction*. Looking into it a bit deeper and it appears this was done because eventually that other faction would have sent you to the same place to do something for them. They presumably wanted to make the quests mutually exclusive and did so in the clumsiest fashion possible. It's like, I dunno, Mr House who you've barely spoken to getting angry because you accepted a quest from the NCR to clear a Legion camp, because later in the script the game requires you to clear that camp on behalf of Mr House. And you haven't even done it, you've only accepted the quest. And you've only accepted the quest because in Solasta, talking to someone automatically accepts their quest. *facepalm*

Estonia has yesterday recognised Russia as State Sponsor of Terrorism. In May Lithuania recognised it as a first country. And in August Latvia as a second. And allegedly the resolution about Russia as State sponsor of Terrorism is scheduled for a vote in EU parliament in November as well. Allegedly, due to the fact, that I was able to find only Ukrainian and Azerbaijani media reporting on it yet 🤷‍♂️ https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/10/17/7372356/

My shared world is broken. When I load as host my screen is all white with the exception of my HUD. Can't access inventory, save or give up. Someone can join but can't see me on the map and gets disconnected after only a few seconds of joining.... No back-up save... please help

First of many to come?

I read some interesting comments by Margarita Zavadskaya who is dedicated to the study of Russian government and politics. Some of her points: - Russia's current constitution (from 1993) essentially ensures that the president can bypass all other elements of government that ostensibly make decisions. So, the biggest problem in Russian politics is that if someone unstable or unhinged happens to rise to power, the system can do absolutely nothing about it. There are no controls. (So, as pointed out by other people, the Duma is mostly for show: none of the Russian parties have any meaning.) - Were things to change, we have no idea what the political map in Russia would look like. No one knows how much support the various political ideologies and ideas have. - Most Russians are not nationalists, they are imperialists. - One of the strongest government-opposing phenomena in Russia today is the feminist anti-war movement.[*] - The liberals in Russia live mostly in big cities like Moscow and St. Petersburg, and it's precisely them who are currently fleeing the country. [*] "One of the strongest" probably still means "not strong at all".

Toss up between completely random and politics... but I guess WHO is unfortunately going to be a politically charged subject. An interesting graphic showing who the top donors to this particular branch of the UN is (no, it's not China, despite what many seems to think). At least all those money you spent on Windows ME went somewhere useful 😝 https://www.who.int/about/funding/contributors

Scrolls of Atonement. Not particularly RP-friendly/immersive, but efficient. Considering games cannot track the player's thoughts unless they are clearly expressed (e.g. setting the alignment at character creation) and most actions can have wildly different motivations, removing the alignment system and replacing it with faction-/NPC-specific affiliation/loyalty (e.g. Tyranny) seems preferable. Speaking of writing, comparing to the Larian games, Owlcat's feel tamer or more subtle, though both are rather sarcastic (not the right word, but "over-the-top humourous" does not fit either).

Hale would get flamed regardless, really. Gamers are subhuman trash and people knew who the new voice actor is. I think Schreier's reaching there to imply Taylor somehow incited it all. But oh well, consensus does seem to be that Taylor's victimizing Hale.

Not for me, I already had no sympathy for her. The moment she threw Jennifer Hale under the bus that went out the window; not because it was Jennifer Hale in particular, any fellow voice actor would be the same.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-18/bayonetta-3-voice-actor-s-pay-dispute-overshadows-nintendo-game Apparently they offered her up to $20k and not $4k ... Something ain't right here. Looks like it was $4k per session and 5 sessions in total... that completely changes the narrative.

Kinda funny. Was making a basket to hold the items for the ****tail recipe, clearly listed in the crafting list. But putting ****tail mats as the label on the basket is profanity. Maybe just put in the game options to turn the filter off.

Pity thread incoming. Probably would have had a III by now. Nothing scratches the itch - hell, even my yearly Infinity Engine game playthroughs don’t feel right anymore because I enjoy Pillars so much more.

These guys are coming to Brisbane next year... seriously considering getting tickets for their show

Scrolls of Atonement are a 750 gold bandaid on a bad implementation of a bad system. Nice to have and all that for the game, but dumb that a holy warrior who oozes holiness needs one because they picked too many (Good) choices. While I strongly prefer the reputation system in Pillars to D&D alignment, I think the fact that reputation can't degrade or cancel out was a mistake. If I spend half the game lying and the other half being honest or do a bunch of helpful stuff for a town only to go on a killing spree later, it's not great that the game tracks the reputations separately rather than have them cancel out. Doubly so when certain (sub)classes benefit from certain reputations while being hurt by others. Really I think the thing is to disentangle class mechanics from Alignment or Reputation to avoid creating a mechanical need to act in a specific way. I think Larian games are open about being a joke while Owlcat games are played straight. While we can wonder whether or not Owlcat was making a joke on the players or are being genuine, I think if you play an hour of either Original Sin you know it's a joke.

dropping resolve has a triple effect here - sparkcrackers targets deflection initially (i don't remember if i made it clear in the guide, but it makes no sense to drop sparkcrackers on yourself if you have a priest of wael deflection or escape buff up), and then targets will, and then has a duration that is modified by resolve's hostile duration effect. so even if it's just two more points to go down to a bare minimum of 3 with the blessing, it pays off 3x, -2 deflection, -4 will, and +6% duration (multiplied by explosives). without blunderbuss to fallback on, i'd say it's worth losing the extra resolve, even if it does make you all the easier to hit, even with your buffs (my suggestion: put it into constitution. you've already maxed intellect)

am kinda leaning in this direction as we don't see any signs o' self mockery or camp from owlcat. cartoony cringe as 'posed to subtle parody... which effective has us at the same place. regardless, if wotr purchasers is ok with the current situation, we don't see any motivation for owlcat change. that said, 40k is kinda an ideal property for the cringe+ approach. HA! Good Fun!

Exactly. But they could include the 9 alignments in alternate dialogues. Some options are already in the game, like the LE and CG above. Or they could at least include LG options for Paladins.

The (Chaotic) option outright says it's doing a good deed lmao. I don't think that it's really feasible to write out an option for all 9 alignments for every choice, but damn you end up with some absolute doozies. That (Lawful) option is pretty ****ing crazy for anyone who isn't some kinda creep. Imagine that you've put dozens or hours into this game as a Paladin or Monk and what makes you fall is preventing a demon from torturing her child. Real headscratcher ****. I get the alignment is almost certainly gonna be in any D&D or Pathfinder game because of "THE RULES" but **** me if the implementations of it could use more than a bit of finesse to work better.

The conversation with the mother of the boy diving into the abyss ocean is a good example of that. The Lawful option is clearly evil. And the Chaotic one is closer to CG. Maybe they didn't want to write more dialogue lines and simplified to using just these four? Edit: it could have been worse. There could be an option like (Evil) "I'm killing you and the boy!"

1) d&d legacy alignment is idiotic and anachronistic. ... really ain't much more need be said. alignment exists as a limit on role-play and it inhibits decent storytelling-- camellia being a useful example. as to making all wotr alignment dialogue choices axis specific, such would at least cure the nonsense wherein a paladin choosing "good" choices reflexive in wotr, absent a single chaos option, nevertheless falls from grace. however, as a practical matter, without serious increasing current dialogue option numbers, am suspecting a few alignments would be receiving very little attention... which just goes to show how idiotic is the alignment mechanic as any character with an alignment restriction is already needing game the alignment mechanic as 'posed to necessarily playing the character they envisioned when they started wotr. regardless, without additional writing investment, one need accept a few alignments would benefit from relative paltry coverage. an alternative would be to create significant additional trash (alignment) dialogues. huzzah. am personal fine with seeing a relative insignificant number o' dialogues for a few characters, but for some inexplicable reason players complain if their chosen whatever isn't identified in a crpg, even if the identification is managed with preternatural clumsiness. why would you want more bad dialogue options is baffling to us, but try and deny it wouldn't be a thing where some helpful person literal counted every alignment dialogue in the game to reveal how a few players were getting shortchanged. that said, this is kinda a dead horse, even for wotr. referencing an earlier post from november 2021 and no doubt ignoring multiple other such posts from the beta period mentioning how ordinary busted is wotr's application o' tired arsed d&d alignment. regardless, the real solution is exorcising alignment from d&d legacy systems such as pathfinder, which ain't near as difficult as you might believe as we have done so more than once in pnp. obvious ain't gonna happen in a pathfinder game, but am disappointed every time a pnp game developer updates their d20 based system to a new edition w/o dumping alignment. lost opportunity. HA! Good Fun!

Here's some red meat for a bunch of you - https://ekspress.delfi.ee/artikkel/120083694/human-life-has-no-value-there-baltic-counterintelligence-officers-speak-candidly-about-russian-cruelty

Wrestling is real in the sense that the stunts are performed by real people who can easily **** their bodies up. I agree that having explicit choices for the corner alignments would be an improvement. Mechanically speaking, it sucks to have a Paladin fall because you picked too many of the (Good) choices. But I like the way that Owlcat didn't treat Chaotic Evil as Evil Evil and instead all the Evil options are equally hilariously psychotic.

see, that is where am conflicted. owlcat efforts to pander to their audience is so extreme it feels like parody. is owlcat perhaps indulging a bit o' mockery o' their fans? it is possible the developers is doing their best and their best results in cartoony extremes. the thing is, as you note, a significant portion o' the wotr groupthink is encouraging owlcat to continue with the over-the-top antics. we will observe how if there is a setting which already embraces owlcat penchant for accidental or intentional parody level excess it is warhammer 40k. perhaps too many fans o' 40k fail to recognize the over-the-top and tongue-in-cheek qualities o' the grimdark setting, but that just makes the situation more amusing. HA! Good Fun!

As some might have recognised from the above... Ex-Porn Star Sasha Grey Will DJ A Radio In Cyberpunk 2077's DLC (kotaku.com)

My money is on that they know their audience. Like, Demon path is so edgy McEdgelordy it'd make a 15-yr old poetry writing black metal fan cringe with embarrassment, it literally uses "Assert dominance" unironically and there were tons of people over Reddit going "**** yeah Demon path! So awesome! So badass!"

WotR dialogues are like 1. "You're forgiven." (Good) 2. "You broke the Law. Die!" [Attack] (Lawful) 3. "General Bofa says I have to let you go." (Chaotic) 4. "I don't like you. Die!" [Attack] (Evil) If it's parody it is brilliant. I have seen countless discussions about wanting to be a serious villain in a videogame RPG and parodying that with some absolute cheeseball stuff to show how ridiculous wanting to be evil is would be an absolute power move. Unfortunately I do not get the sense that it is parody and instead is the continuation of very cheesy RPG stuff dialed up to 11. Anyways, I found out that Legend gets to fight a god now.

Federal Banana Republic of Austria The article quotes the press conferences wrong, for some reason. They really did say nothing left to find. Which implies something different than the translated "nothing will be found", of course. Anyway, there are no English links to the case brought forth by Die Tagespresse, but apparently I was wrong as the case was not dismissed (it was actually accepted), but Die Tagespresse chose to withdraw the action.

Obligatory Grzegorz!

Just played through the S4 mod today and have to say it was so good. The mod trims all the annoying **** out of the game like sailing around to buy all your items, uncharting the map, going between quest givers and just gives interesting battles for a more expedited experience. It's a great bite sized experience to try out classes, subclasses and items in. Super sick mod, only thing that'd make it better is if there was like custom arena battles afterwards. I suppose that'd be a bit different from maybe the design intent, nonetheleless banger mod!

That's neat marketing.