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Passed my citizenship test today. Still need to do some ceremony where you swear loyalty or allegiance or some such to Australia 🇦🇺

To be fair, they do work hard to recreate Sven’s time with Ultima7 [harr, harr]

It's not so bad, I can understand like 3-5% of what they're saying 😄

Warning, everything on that page is in Icelandic 😎

I can't be bothered to dig through the webpage to find a direct link to the video, so here's a link to the article with the video of the Fagradalsfjall volcano first breaking through the ground. Looks pretty damn cool https://www.visir.is/g/20232439767d/grjot-og-mosi-thyrlast-upp-thegar-kvikan-bryst-i-gegn

Congrats. I assume you wrestle a crocodile at the ceremony.

Knock on wood, but this game has been surprisingly stable and bug-free so far. Quite a feat, given how buggy JA2 was.

Eh, I usually only stick with the Hepburn title if it's the title it's more known by even for English audiences. You don't see me ever calling Perfect Blue "Pafekuto Buru", Whisper of the Heart "Mimi wo Sumaseba", or Sailor Moon "Bishoujo Senshi". I edited the quoted text because I figured that name was more useful. I don't much like comedians myself, but I wouldn't call Bob Hope's act that bad. I guess. It's the dual-edged blade of modern anime: you're very occasionally able to get some odder and more interesting ideas produced that would've probably strayed too far from what was considered "safe" to make way back in the day, but then they shove in annoying crap and do little things wrong all the time because it's a modern anime and it drives me up a wall.

I know that Whoopi Goldberg has had some controversial opinions in recent years, but I don't know that she's quite Kissinger levels of bad. I kind of liked it too. There were some issues. I don't really think it would be KP's thing, though.

The manga was interesting to skim through in a over the top, train wreck sort of way, but at some point even that got boring. Made in the Abyss, but it sadly fails on the embarrassed point due to the art style and some other things. Code Geass if you haven't watched it already. Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso, but it's very heavy and probably doesn't have anything to do with what you asked. Hal I guess could fall in to the category, but it's more of a drama. Shoujo Shuumatsu Ryokou. @majestic liked it. Psycho-Pass is probably the closest, but it's not as good. Maybe give the Ghost in a Shell movies a rewatch?

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New release with AppearancePiece popup and a few fixes and features! Be aware that AppearancePiece values are also used elsewhere for weapon scabbards, as well as character heads, hair and beards. So those will also be available in the popup when you click EquippableComponent -> AppearancePiece. @Hoo Let me know if you think the menu gets to crowded or filled with irrelevant stuff, I can break them up into separate categories if you'd like _____ 2023-07-17 Added AppearancePiece "prefab path" selector popup. AppearancePiece's ModelVisualDataPath and SummonPath's Filename children are now hidden. Clicking AppearancePiece/SummonPath will bring up the prefab selector instead. AppearancePiece and SummonPath can be used directly in string queries, e.g. #Equippable.AppearancePiece &= "great_sword_naga" Pasting objects no longer populates child rows that are supposed to be hidden. Added new context menu options when right-clicking an Expression row: Copy Expression text to clipboard Clear Expression 2023-07-07 Expression editor can now parse GameData DebugNames containing spaces if the user types them out "surrounded with quotation marks".

Not much chance of it getting updated then. 😕 A few other annoying things: I have to click to use Jump instead of the game telling it's going to use it by itself. And even non-targeted abilities like Rage or Dash you need an extra click to make them happen. And Dash has an animation, why the hell. My favorite weird thing: I spent the first two rounds of the first combat encounter wondering why my attacks weren't hitting, only to find out I was targeting the floor instead of the enemy. Apparently even basic weapon attacks can target the floor, for whatever reason.

I think, it was quite similar in D:OS2. Also Solasta had less random junk items everywhere and generally better visibility (from fonts to GUI in general to environments). Though, the inventory systems are rather uncomfortable in both (few tabs and limited sorting).

The Vampire castle isn't that far in the campaign, maybe like 1/4?

Hmm. Having checked* it's definitely Sam Kirk at least informally for SNW- but presumably it is still George Samuel Kirk formally. Pretty sure it's actually specified in ep3 in some sort of detail, but I didn't like it enough to bother watching it again to check. *via Kirk's favourite search engine, duckduckgo. Makes a change from MS paying people to shoehorn Bing references into programs, I guess.

Wrangling Witcher 2 (made a chapter 2 choice, currently constantly getting lost in labyrinthine dwarf town) and Solasta. Stalled at the undead place with previous party, rolled caster-heavy new one and they're breezing through those low levels where the more traditional party was lumbering, though I imagine a party of druid, warlock, wizard and bard will have some problems in that undead castle. Speaking of undeads, googled that **** vampire fight, did her in, dinged level 6, took a look at my paladin and what the ever-living holy f†ck was I thinking, accepting those abysmal stats?! 🙀 Wasn't reroll available back then or did I just not try? V. much itching to restart from scratch, but level 6 is something like mid-campaign, so...sigh. Thing is, paladin's so good even with rubbish stats, I imagine what a powerhouse they must be with good ones. ..decisions, decisions...😟

Kerch Bridge attacked and damaged again. https://t.me/bazabazon/19608

Yeah, I've had zero issues with JA3. None, nada, zip, zlich. In a year full of terrible PC port launches it's refreshing when Probably because this isn't a PC port, it's a game made specifically for PC. I just did the assault on the Legion fort on the island. That's the first battle I've had where I nearly had a merc go down. Everyone survived, though, and scars build character. That was a fun battle.

am only a midling fan o' star talk as topics is dumbed down a bit too much, but we always check to see who is the guest 'cause frequent there is win. case in point, am rare turning down a chance to hear michio kaku though you are gonna get better quantum computing feedback than from this video. even so, is always worth a looksee and so we do. we also regular check out berkeley lectures series lunch poems series is worth the time but am admitting we only got an average ear for poetry. in addition to the oppenheimer lectures, we ordinary catch the nimitz speakers. two others: the linus pauling memorial lecture series and for something a bit different edit: in the unlikely event @Amentep @ShadySands or other trek fans have an urge to watch the leonard susskind video, am offering a word o' caution 'cause the stanford professor tangential points out how a few o' the scifi theories which is cornerstones o' trek lore are unsupportable based on current understandings o' quantum mechanics and general relativity. HA! Good Fun!

I don't know what you mean with low endurance or godlikes' endurance bonus. Do you mean healing? Like the racial ability "Silver Tide" of Moon Godlikes? Animal companions do not benefit from any equipment enchantment that only applies to your ranger (like Might +1 or something). But if you are a Moon Godlike and trigger a Silver Tide because you drop below 50% endurance for example, then your boar companion would get healed by Silver Tide like any other party member in range would get healed, too. Equipment like "Shod in Faith" boots also work well for a ranger: if the healing (Consecrated Grounds) of the boots gets triggered it will heal the animal companion and other party members. But in general: Animal Comanion and Ranger are two totally seperate characters. No individual stat buff the Ranger gets will be transferred to the Animal Companion or vice versa - unless explicitly stated otherwise like with the abilities "Marked Prey", "Defensive Bond" and "Vengeful Grief" (and those are the only abilities I recall that apply to the ranger AND the animal companion).

A bit behind due to vacationing and playing D4 in my free time, just watched Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season two, episode three. It was a wibbly wobbly timey wimey episode. One of the characters even mentioned the temporal (cold) war from Enterprise. It has a scene where La'An makes out with Kirk. No, really. While trying to fix the timeline with time running out on them. At times it almost felt like a Matt Smith era Doctor Who episode. Oh, yeah, sorry about that Kirk snogging La'An spoiler. In spite of all this, I still liked the episode. Looks like this season might be okay just as long as Alex Kurtzman is not on the writing credits. I still don't like the cackling engineering witch, feels like she should be part of a portrait in Hogwarts. However, there is a caveat. I looks like my judgment is compromised: I recently started rewatching the first two seasons of Voyager and found myself not hating the experience like I used to. I even managed to watch Threshold without facepalming or groaning. Someone help me.

aside, if you watch the vid in the linked thread where josh speaks about poe health/stamina you might be confused by the wound binding and field triage talents... though is doubtful many recall such board kerfuffles at this point. field triage in particular were almost useless beyond extreme early game. the poe goal o' no bad builds and no trash talents, spells or weapons were a smidge undermined by the existence o' release version field triage and wound binding. 'course is worth recollecting those talents were only added extreme late in development and 'cause so many backers howled 'bout the absence o' health recovery outside o' rest. obsidian threw players a bone and doing so resulted in a couple poe talents which were arguable trash and is doubtful many chose voluntarily. however, am gonna observe how field triage received a serious boost post release, restoring a % o' health as 'posed to a flat 50, which made it so kana were no longer stuck with a useless talent. even so, improving field triage were most assured functional running counter to the thematic rationale for no health heals for poe. for developers, health/stamina fixes were a damned if you do and damned if you don't conundrum which resulted in a thorough unsatisfactory solution which made few happy. cautionary tale. HA! Good Fun!

The karaoke in Sleeping Dogs was fun. Been ten years, though. EDIT: still a joke The Saboteur isn't on Steam.

Meanwhile, in the Isekai mod:

Played a bit of BG3 EA, and wow, the UI is way more cumbersome than Solasta. Hope it changes by release.

https://www.eurogamer.net/larian-on-signing-baldurs-gate-3-approaching-a-new-era-and-games-youve-never-heard-about

people will twist selves in knots to avoid saying, i hate how my character feels less powerful. many gamers sneer at the munchkin label, so is understandable folks will go to comical lengths to not admit they want moar powhaz. example: poe is hardly low magic. robert e. howard's conan setting? sure. martin's game o' thrones? yup. poe is low magic compared to d&d forgotten realms, but no reasonable person is gonna list eora as low magic. and how many readers o' the hour of the dragon would ever describe the setting as sterile due to lack o' magic and groovy-kewl items? few? any? funny part is, compared to bg, iwd, and ps:t, the 1007 in poe were having more developed histories and more unique powers, in addition to a crafting system which meant you wouldn't need ditch a nifty item after a few levels 'cause it were no longer powerful enough to be worth equipping. poe were more dynamic by far insofar as magic gear compared to the ie games referenced in the kickstarter... which am gonna repeat again were only bg, iwd and ps:t. speaking o' dynamic, note how those qualities you see as positives in favor o' poe, features meant to exorcise mindless ritual and stoopid rng reloads, is reimagined by sarex as examples o' sterility... which makes perfect sense if you change definition o' sterile to mean that your character feels less powerful. can't prebuff making self immune to near any potential effect as well as raising hit chance/accuracy to levels is impossible to miss. can't reroll a few timez to get the ideal result from a dialogue or skill check. etc. suggestion: reread "sterile" as a condemnation o' the relative poe character weakness compared to expectations one has when playing d&d or pathfinder titles. however, keep in mind we ain't saying there is anything wrong with players wanting to indulge their power fantasies through a crpg avatar. the most broken aspect o' wotr is the mythics, but am hardly surprised when we read or view online critiques o' wotr which opine that the mythics were the best part o' wotr, after all, the mythics make your knight commander a unique ÜBERMENSCH. wotr, ps:t and bg went all-in on making the protagonist unique and powerful... although edwin had serious advantages no bg mage could replicate, which predictable led to complaints. in poe and deadfire, the watcher were unlikely to be noticeable superior (heroic) compared to companions and a few o' the companions could be objective better at certain roles than could a watcher. example: pallegina had arguable the best paladin powha for those wishing to do damage. we read more than one post on the poe/deadfire boards which observed the existence o' pallegina made players not wanna play a paladin. regardless, without prebuffing and various degenerative gameplay exploits, poe characters arguable felt less powerful, particular as the system were new and often opaque which meant poe players didn't realize just how strongk they could be. didn't matter though 'cause for a poe protagonist it were only possible to have a couple buffs on a party and frequent a good outcome against a powerful opponent were reliable grazes... feel weak were the problem. obsidian never claimed poe would be an idealized bg 2.5 or bg3, but such were what many expected. am suspecting for many the "can't quite articulate," dissatisfaction with poe is largely tied to an aspect few would ever wish to admit: player powha... and is nothing wrong with that, but few will admit. instead we get complaints o' sterility and swiss watches. HA! Good Fun!

It wasn't so much launched as it was dropped. People said it was da bomb, so I guess it was well received?

I think what the Swedish government is worried about is misinformation created by Russian propaganda about NATO. Better to counter it than let it potentially fester and grow

The best thing about this is the Steam page for Divinity Original Sin 2, which says "from the creators of Baldur's Gate 3". Can we just not overhype stuff before they're out...

Wait 6 months, that way critical things are likely to be patched and maybe it will be on sale

When you bring a few friends to fight a Demon Lord.

I finished the story mode and what a way to cap it off: To put the cherry plum on top, I made Chris Jericho tap out to a stretch plum to win the world championship. Doesn't get much better than making one of the greatest of all time submit. The story was corny as ****, but it was really fun. I got to the point near the end where I had enough mastery with the controls that rather than just trying to win the match I was showing off, taunting the opponent, throwing in a couple extra flashy moves even when I had my opponent dead to rights just to pop the crowd. Gotta give the paying fans their money's worth. I'll definitely play through the story again. There are different things that can happen and I'm 95% sure the story begins differently if you are a male wrestler. Also there's an upcoming free DLC that's going to add the Stadium Stampede match, which will be glorious pandemonium.

I don't think the actual weebs would have me even if I were so inclined: from my interactions with a number of them online, it seems to usually be that I am repulsed by them, and they by me. It's a marvellous and perfectly natural symbiosis, I think. The Night Is Short, Walk on Girl (2017). I've had this on my watchlist for a number of years. It was an odd and interesting film, but they shoved too much annoying crap in and did little things wrong because it's a modern anime and it drove me up a wall. Yes, I suppose it was a predictable result.

Surrender to your inner weeb and accept the tropes.

High praise! 😛

As long as you don't have multiple 4k displays, yes. Then we're still talking like 94 watts idle power draw according to very recent tests by a German hardware magazine. Information is a couple of days old though by now.

I don't know if there's a single thing in the entire universe that I hate more than anime.