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To be honest, I thought Disco Elysium 2 would be very unlikely anyways. A game like this is a one in 20 years kind of thing and trying to top it or at least getting close to the first would be a tremendous task.

Should have hired Sasha Grey, she's been streaming D4 on Twitch

Laughable Centrist for steak cooking is probably using a microwave to cook it: pretty much guaranteed to unite everyone else in hatred. I think the thing that really annoys me about Kai Leng is that his problems are completely avoidable. Most of the other complaints are clunkiness, and problems due to ME2 not progressing the plot of the series except in its last dlc. Ultimately the traffic light choice is little different from the ending of Deus Ex (albeit that's often seen as the weakest part of Deus Ex too, but meh, ending things well is hard). Bioware can and did write decent antagonists, and some very good ones too even in ME. There is literally nothing good or redeemable about Kai Leng though, he's a terrible idea with terrible writing and terrible plot with equally terrible plot holes/ railroading. And definitely new sense terrible --> awful, worse than merely bad, not the old sense where it meant impressive but frightening. All made worse by the fact his creators seemed to think he was the most awesomest of things in the known universe. I'm sorry to say it, but Kai Leng is the Star Trek Discovery Season 3 of characters and I'm not even sure which one I'm insulting worse with the comparison. But still slightly better than WoT S1.

Iron Maiden have now, for the first time ever, played Alexander the Great in concert. Some of the transitions aren't all that smooth, and Bruce misses some lines, but I must say I'm well chuffed. They did it!

When you begin digging at the spot where the skeleton appears, nothing looks like it has been unearthed (though that’s normal with most dig-able objects), on the second swipe with the black ant shovel a bit of the skeleton is revealed, and the final swipe brings the entire skeleton in view.. for about half a second until it disappears. Lol hope this gets patched soon.

I personally think Sage is the most entertaining combo to play. Yeah, Godlikes - or rather their racial abilities - are not really that great. But for thematic reasons it might be still nice to pick them. Also Death Godlikes get some special dialogue options in the game.

It looks like they have Dark Ages of Camelot and Ultima Online right now, but I don't know what they've done to those games. TOR is also kind of stuck with the narrative experience of the game. Like, you can't rework the leveling system without messing up the storylines of the level 1-60 experience. They'd benefit from new classes or something fresh to attract people, but I don't think it would be simple to implement. WoW and LotRO have rebuilt the starting areas and introduced new classes numerous times to make it fresh.

Just a reminder that Ukraine was part of soviets as well

Finished watching the thing yesterday - this is a decent summary. Among wild accusations Josh Sawyer and Larian are mentioned as potential parties who were in contact with Kurvitz about illegally selling the IP. JS denied the allegations but Larian didn't comment. Nothing of substance, but likely an interesting bit to folks here. The exact timestamp is 1:59:30 The impression I got is that both parties seem to have valid grievances but also are being dishonest. It seems the DE2 could happen with one of the side have up their stakes in NewElysium but at this point it seems rather unlikely. Kurvitz was open about wanting to do the sequel - not continuing the story of Harry, but doing another story in the universe. The whole dispute is about him loosing control over the world he created.

Been linked before, but this channel is good for a laugh - https://www.youtube.com/@programmersarealsohuman5909

Inertia and critical mass. It's both baffling and extremely unfair, but I don't think there's anything you can do, other than what you just did. Once something becomes popular enough, its popularity alone will make it even more popular -- and this was true before the internet, by the way: you can bet that an awful lot of the sales of Dark Side of the Moon were because it had already sold so much. Conversely, people don't want to go near stuff that isn't popular.[*] [*] An extremely sad point concerning this last bit. There was an experiment intended for people who suffered from great loneliness. Hours were set up at various cafes so that they could meet and socialize. But the experiment had to be discontinuted quite quickly: people didn't turn up. Even lonely people don't want to be with (other) lonely people.

As a fan and player of Horus Heresy, you sometimes stumble over gaming groups that seems live in obscurity on the internet, despite making top notch work. Recently found a Malaysian group producing Youtube videos about different aspects of the hobby. Despite being around for some years and making quality videos, they still only have like 500+ subscribers. Makes you scratch your head But I found myself watching a number of their videos, including their backlog recently and really enjoying it (disclaimer: mostly for Horus Heresy enthusiasts I think) https://www.youtube.com/@fareastwargaming

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This'll get all the horny teenagers playing! Wait, Megan Fox? Horny 30 year olds then.

Of course, it can be due to a small hole getting bigger. But let me ask you? Who have blown up big portion of the dam during their special retreat operation? Who have been in control of the dam more than a year? And who was systematically raising the water level from record low of 14 meters to the record height of 17.5 meters out of maximum 18, which could be supported by the dam, and which has has caused dramatic increase of the water pressure on any possible leak in the dam? So yeah let’s ignore all these facts and pretend, that Russia has nothing to do with that, right? It does not matter at all if this was an deliberate explosion by russian army or destruction die to absolute maintenance negligence by russian occupation authorities, it’s crystal clear on who’s shoulders lies the fault of destruction of the NK dam. Oh, BTW, are you aware, that during 2.20 local time, the residents of Nova Kakhovka has reported in their local telegram chat groups series of explosions, and the same residents have around 3.00 reported, that russian telegram channels are claiming as well that the dam has exploded?

What do you like in WOTR? I'm playing an angel oracle atm, getting wrecked early game unfair. Played a sylvan sorcerer lich before, seemed a lot easier. Are you playing deadfire turn-based or RTWP? Most of us do RTWP and some builds work better/worse depending on this I can't seem to separate your paragraphs with double <enter> like normally so I'll just respond with numbers. You should try playing solo if the game is too easy. Or maybe a party of 2 or 3. Or add some magran's fire challenges. Like you I played Deadfire a bit when it came out, got bored, never finished the game, played other stuff, came back to it less than a year ago and started messing with solo builds and magran's fires. Well-built full parties are going to be overpowered in general. I've found builds that can solo everything with magran's fire challenges and deadly deadfire hardcore (even without cheese strategies), so if you add a full party to this type of character it could be overkill. 1) Why is tuotilo's palm a must? That shield is really only going to help you with a sage. Otherwise you're better off not using shields or if making a mage tank like arcane knight using akola's apex ward. 2) sage - you can use FF with the lance but the lance won't distribute the FF attack, it just works as normal single target FF, but if you trigger swift flurry or heartbeat drumming you do hit everyone. FF sages are best as tanks, using FF to heal themselves and wearing heavy armor while casting fast defensive wizard spells and using iron wheel. Helwalker sages are high DPS build, but you may need to deify yourself (potion of final stand + wall of draining) to not die given their squishiness. The lance is particularly good since it distributes monk abilities like stunning surge and skyward kick. In fact if you use it on a group and crit more than one enemy you can get back more than the cost of the surge. If your accuracy is high enough you can use stunning surge in this way to quickly rebuild mortification. Wounds build easily enough from blood sacrifices and damage, which is why it's best if you have a potion of final stand so you can really avail yourself of this incredible wound generation. Alternatively you could stay back and nuke things using dichotomous souls as fodder and +might for more spell damage. Shattered Pillar could possibly work okay with the lance since it hits multiple enemies, but I haven't really tried it. Any of these can solo the game once you get wall of draining, provided you use potions of final stand. 3) tactician blood mage can easily solo the game. DPS isn't as high as helwalker/blood mage but you are infinitely more tanky and brilliant is trivial to achieve if you have on berath's challenge. Just going invisible triggers brilliant, so if you're down on resources just use arkemyr's brilliant departure. You also get back fighter resources interrupting spells and abilities so the lance is weapon of choice given its AOE crush interrupt-on-crit attack, and you can also use mule kick with the lance to mule kick groups of enemies, which is pretty fun since it only takes a graze to kick them into the air. Can also interrupt with slicken and chill fog, I like to use these spells a lot with tactician battlemage. To stay alive unbending + wall of draining will eventually make you effectively immortal the way unbended stacks with itself, and even pre wall of draining it is extremely effective with max INT. Should note there are other ways to get tenacious/energized, like using slayer's claw. If you cycle the weapon it upgrades might inspirations, so even a "strong" inspiration (e.g. from lover's embrace) can be upgraded to energized and extended via wall of draining. Lance already interrupts on crit though so there's not a huge advantage of energized over tenacious unless you're casting offensive spells, which you mostly wouldn't need to do with a battlemage. Because of easy procs of brilliant you can theoretically cast lots of spells, you just wouldn't want to because mule kicking things with the lance is much more effective. 4) warlock - haven't played this one as much but it's interesting, would just go blood mage / barbarian personally (berserker if you use potions of final stand). Can theoretically do decent damage with lance + carnage, barbaric smash and crushing blow can be used with lance on groups to get back resources or recover very fast. Frenzy and other barbarian passives mean you attack very fast. Accuracy is not great. Savage Defiance can be extended with wall of draining for decent heals, but nothing approaching unbending so it's squishier unless you use potions of final stand. Should be noted with the lance though you can attack from behind your tank since it's a reach weapon, so you don't really need to facetank things. Can also do some casting with brute force and morning star but I pretty much always prefer the lance. 5) blood mage / fury is a top tier elemental caster, but you'll find it rather squishy. I guess blood mage / ancient (or animist or lifegiver) could be interesting once you're able to extend animal forms, though you will won't be all that tanky. There's some interesting caster interactions like combusting wounds with infestation of maggots, and lance of the midwood stag makes a superb stat stick for +2 power levels and woodskin. I generally prefer straight druids for their amazing tier 8/9 spells but if you want a caster sorcerers are pretty versatile 6) bellower / blood mage is quite strong once you get wall of draining since you can extend the bellower bonus power level and spam her tears. Probably works better with a wizard though due to the weyc items, sasha's singing scimitar, and least unstable coil, and their interaction with empowering abilities which allows you to get all tier 3 inspirations. bellower/wizard reaches its full power very late though since these are mostly dlc items. If you want to just cast tons of high damage spells this is a good choice, not as good as the others for beating things with sticks. Others you didn't mention 7) blood mage / priest of skaen - can easily solo the game due to barring death's door, salvation of time, and wall of draining. Used in many ultimate runs. One of the most versatile builds, probably best suited for solo. 8 ) blood mage / ranger - doesn't seem at first glance to have a lot of synergy but can give you a lot of accuracy bonuses and the pet makes soloing easier. @Boeroer has a geomancer build somewhere but I don't recall where it is. 9) blood mage / rogue - blood mage / assassin in particular is quite powerful, since you can use shadowing beyond and assassinate over and over. Can easily solo the game though personally I find the combat a little reductive. Blood mage / streetfighter is also interesting. You'll probably need potions of final stand but does a great deal of damage with streetfighter buffs and lance, also you can extend escape with wall of draining to make it pretty tanky. And again the lance applies abilities like gouging strike to everyone in the AOE. 10) arcane knights make top tier tanks. See this build for example a tank/caster (I'd probably go human not fire godlike unless playing with BPM) 11) Hierophants are incredibly strong. Blood mage / ascendant can extend ascended stage with wall of draining and murder things with cipher spells or just use bonus damage and lance, though this comes late and I don't really know how well they play before WOD. Blood mage / psion is a great caster, and there's a build I made here, though I haven't played it nearly as much as melee hierophants My favorite hierophant by far though is blood mage / soul blade. As far as I know this is the highest melee DPS build, possibly highest DPS period. I used it for an ultimate run. See this post I made and its links if interested

How about 69%?

Could try consoling in another akola's apex ward. Or possibly you can remove it with removestatuseffect player<tab> blood_rage_se_damage. Might take repeated applications if it's stacking.

Why I love my local media - CBC interviewing some Ukrainian MP who's saying this is proof Russia will destroy the whole planet if not stopped.

How naughty. Laughable centrist would be doing a reverse sear so you get no crust and medium well. Medium rare is good taste.

If there will be a lackluster reaction to this warcrime, Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant will be next… And it looks like, that Russians are already working hard on fabricating their “evidence…

I would plead -66% reload time for 10s then. Why ? Cause Pistol reload is 5s and min animation time is 1.67. So -66% would lead to reaching exactly the floor when no further modal/speed modifier is involved. I think it would be a good compremise between coming the closest possible from actual intent in most case and having a description that match reality. No reason not to do. It could have been broken indeed, if it hasn't been bugged.

I was thinking the funny thread or here...

I will never forgive Kai Leng for what he did to Thane. Dumb plot armour aside, he needed a fate worse than death for that.

https://www.pcgamer.com/diablo-4s-dollar21-bone-guy-armor-is-just-another-reminder-of-how-numb-weve-gotten-to-microtransaction-hell/ O tempora, O mores

Not gonna lie, I was kinda hoping it was a cooking channel.

What's Disco Elysium?

Hossein Khosrow Ali Vaziri

Herniated disc in the neck, life keeps on giving

IStar Wars: The Old Republic Going Third-Party as BioWare Focuses on Mass Effect and Dragon Age. I'm sure that Bioware, now unburdened with backbreaking labour of updating SWTOR with 5 hours worth annual content, will instantly propel Dragon Age from concept art stage and Mass Effect from repackaging.