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No, since they started recording voice chat the toxicity and raging is gone from my games. Was the only thing worth playing for, to feed off The Hate.

I got the answer on Reddit from a great guy/gal called noqnnoqn. I'll post it here just in case someone else will wonder about this in the future;

The real Monkey Island sequel

I captured my first section of Fleatown. This was my most successful stealth assault. The firefights were few and short because the enemy numbers were whittled down and once alerted they walked straight into crossfires I had set up. Having Vicki slap a couple of oil filters onto the ends of her pistols was a good move. I took hardly any damage and zero wounds, which means I can immediately move on and not waste any time. I'm contemplating hiring Red to fill in my glaring explosives expert gap. It will take a while to get him to my team, though. Probably worth it in the long run, though.

I figured I'd start a thread on this since it seems like there are several of us playing this at the moment. I'm starting a new game now as I type this. I downloaded the Show Chance to Hit mod from the Nexus but other than that it's vanilla.

That was @Noqn And he meant "Diplomacy" instead of "Disposition" in the last sentence I guess. But anyway I think that leveling Intimidate instead of Diplomacy is the way to go for a Steel Garrote.

The stats are fine imo. Summoning weapons does not break ABD. I just recalled that Blood Sacrifice does break ABD - because you are dealing damage. It's self damage but it still counts unfortunately. I don't remember if the self dmg from Deleterious Alacrity of Motion also breaks ABD - but I guess it does.

My daughter made pozole for my family, who were visiting from Georgia. She made it super hot, so we all sat around fanning ourselves. They all finished it though, so it was definitely a good burn. It was a green pozole with chicken.

Beef bulgogi, caramelized kimchi, cilantro, carrots, jalapeno, red and green onions, and drizzled with a lime Sriracha mayo. Sorry, didn't plate or photograph that well E: thanks, now that song is in my head

Salted is fine, at least it's not glazed with a bunch of sugar, but I follow the teachings of the late great Ol' Dirty Bastard:

The consensus here seems to be JA3 is as good as Omryn isn't.

My wife and son like home renovation shows so we've been watching Hack My Home on Netflix. It's like the other shows of its type but the gimmick is "hacks" which you get tired of hearing really quick, and by which they refer to almost everything as. They do a lot of cool and neat projects where it's usually about optimizing space so they do a lot of hidden and transforming things. I do wonder about what the family is going to do if some of that tech breaks but since the show pays for literally everything, unlike almost all HGTV shows, I can give that a pass.

Xenonauts 2 early access has been released on GOG. https://www.gog.com/en/game/xenonauts_2

When I did the island fort assault I snuck in through a minefield. With no explosives experts in my crew let's just say I engaged in extensive save scumming to get through it with all my limbs intact.

https://collider.com/twin-peaks-season-2-bad-bob-iger/ I am now 10000% on board with the writers and actors burning down Hollywood. This is probably the first thing I've heard you be vocally negative about, which I assumes means it is very bad and/or tramples over nostalgic memories of a beloved series. I haven't read the books or watched the show so I wouldn't know. Let's not get carried away here, Harem in the Labyrinth of Another World may not be on the same tier as The Beast Tamer Who Was Exiled from His Party Meets a Cat Girl From the Strongest Race or I'm the Villainess, So I'm Taming the Final Boss....but it's not as bad as the Wheel of Time show. Which I only know of based on how much everyone here hated it.

Speaking of Rogue One....Nobody (2021) Bob Odenkirk becomes John Wick and Christopher Lloyd kills some guys with a shotgun. It's an action movie that's ridiculous and fun, nothing more needs to be said.

I did the same thing. That northern mine looks isolated and tempting, but that is a deadly crew guarding it. I might try it now that I have better gear and some levels under my belt. Explosives experts are pretty dang important. There is a lot of stuff rigged to blow up on the maps, plus a few minefields. Red is solid for the price. I'm trying to be nice to a bunch of communists in the northern part of the map, since they are helping me fight the Legion, but they are a bit annoying. Kind of like our forum commies.

Yeah, that mod didn't work as well as I had hoped. Atleast modders are starting to release mods outside of **** workshop. I wholeheartedly agree with the poor stealth system, I think it's worse than Jagged Alliance 1. Why they haven't kept cololur coded ammo counters is beyond me, not to mention the extremely lacklustre inventory system. Having my mercs deploy in the middle of the map all of a sudden instead of where I left them, at effective firing positions, and being forced to run to meet them feels very bad to me. And for some reason that is beyond me armies and mercs have started tig welding accessories to their firearms. Why I can't have two mercs teaching different things with one student is really annoying, but not as annoying as only having 10 "slots" in the repair queue so that you have to renavigate the operations menu every time they are finished fixing up their current things, just have the same kind of popup as when you train militia. Atleast the AI seems somewhat improved, atleast once better trained troops turn up. But I got some biscuits from Scope, so it's better now

Hi, they have low will and so scroll of paralysis can help. Which level you are? Maybe you have to come back after some upgrades and levels.

Yeah, I'm not saying to go full-time turn-based like XCOM, but more allowing us to manually toggle it, especially since enemies in this game are very fidgety and move around a lot when idle. That can make setting up ambushes annoyingly RTS-like. I welcomed the addition of the toggle in JA2 Strachiatella. I believe the same feature also exists in 1.13 but I have no desire to play 1.13. The most notable XCOM-like element is that the game is now cover-based. But it retains action points and aiming mechanics from JA2, so it's probably fair to say it's roughly halfway.

That was more than enough for Xena/ Gabrielle... (Moiraine/ Siuan book is entirely read-between-the-lines, as is the case with much of Jordan's stuff. Oddly enough Sanderson was a lot more direct despite being a Mormon. Partly that's due to the limited perspectives employed, ie Rand is a pretty conservative country bumpkin type who assumes two women he disturbs are plotting something when it's pretty obvious they were euphemistically 'plotting' 'something' and doesn't question why an important noble has never got married. You had a lot of aes sedai commenting about how close M/S were as novices/ accepted though, and inferences that a sexual relationship was believed, by them, to have been part of it. They were common enough that the rebel aes sedai ordered, um, Meidani? to resume her relationship with Elaida to spy on her despite it not having been active for, presumably, decades at that point. Not exactly conclusive, but at least a plausible read which is better than most of the wot s1 alterations were. The relationship continuing into the present though, pure garbage. The book versions would never take such a stupid risk for no advantage)

Can you show me on this Barbarian doll where the bad patch touched you? Feeding on gamer tears. Aaaaah. Exquisite.

One of you should want me to play this so much you'll buy it for me.

It's in these grimoires: Arkemyr's Grimoire (loot when killing Arkemyr) Arkemyr's Illuminating Discoveries (reward from Arkemyr for completing the quest "Berkana's Folly") Bekarna's Celestial Grimoire (Forgotten Sanctum stuff) Celestial Grimoire (Forgotten Sanctum stuff) The first two can be obtained as soon as you can either kill Arkemyr or complete Berkana's Folly. If you kill Arkemyr before completing Berkana's Folly the quest will fail, so I wouldn't do that even if it might be easier to kill Arkemyr instead of completing that quest. If you complete the quest and kill Arkemyr afterwards you can get both grimoires. The latter two are high level stuff as the placement in the Forgotten Sactum indicates. You can complete Berkana's Folly easily even if you are severly underleveled with an Assassin/Bloodmage if you go solo (or park the party outside of enemies' attention range), wear Bounding Boots (or have high stealth), Lover's Embrace as single weapon and use Gouging Strike as well as Smoke Veil (or Shadowing Beyond). Simply stab an enemy from stealth with a Gouging Strike and then retreat and hide - until the enemy is dead. Rinse an repeat. It will take a while because most of it is waiting - but's it's rel. foolproof even against the hardest enemies in that quest. Good thing that you can obtain that quest so early - just rob Arkemyr's vault asap. It's a piece of cake if you use the "wear Arkemyr's old robe" approach. So, all in all you can get Arkemyr's Illuminating Discoveries pretty early if you are willing to invest some idle time. Lvl 13 will be totally fine. Maybe you can even do the quest without all that stab and hide stuff and just brute-force it with a good party composition. But if not: stab and hide always works. You can use Concelhaut's Corrosive Siphon. DoC Breastplate only works with weapon crits. The effect of Healing Hands (superearly gloves) can be prolonged with Wall of Draining. Same with the healing from Blightheart shots. Any form of damage you deal (except from Wall spells) will cancel the invisibility of Arkemyr's Brilliant Departure - poison DoTs included. So if you put any DoT on an enemy (like Toxic Strike for example) you cannot profit from ABD while the DoT is ticking. ABD will break on the next dmg tick (as soon as an enemy suffers dmg). Shadowing Beyond and Smoke Veil won't do that. They break on grazes/hits/crits you roll against enemies. That's why I consider the use of DoTs + ABD as antisynergistic if you don't cleary separate a "debuff/CC" phase from a "damage dealing phase with DoTs" in combat. But since the CC/debuff spells donÄt last forever and you might want to refresh them it's not that easy to separate imo (unless the fights are rel. short). Also, DoT's dmg doesn't profit from Assassinate. So, best to go invis. with ABD, debuff the enemy into the ground and emerge from invisibility with a hefty direct-dmg spell like Shadowflame or so to deal the maximum damage with an Assassinate-crit. After that the DoT stuff can start without interfering with your invisibility.

Heh, I dont kill anything on purpose, including insects. Instead I "rehome" them by using a clear plastic solo cup to trap them, then slide a piece of printer paper under the cup, then out the door they go. Of course Ive never encountered a 6" spider just strutting across my floor, so that might necessitate a flame thrower.

I could have sworn he ended up dead. But apparently he survived being shot in the head by Deidranna... More interested if Calvin Barkmore is in, especially if he's recruitable. Those titanium bones would make for an excellent merc even if everyone else in the squad hated him.

https://www.tor.com/2023/07/18/babylon-5-the-complete-series-is-coming-to-blu-ray-for-the-first-time/

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

76 times the number of spells!

I was vocally negative about it from episode 1. I actually got the whole family to watch it and was excited, as the books were a big part of my teenage years. They were all smart and wandered off after the first episode. I kept watching, mostly because I was re-reading the books and it was somewhat interesting to compare them. They basically gave it the CW treatment. But yeah, I'm usually not vocally negative about stuff because I rarely watch stuff I don't like long enough to bother speaking on it.

I'm staying far away from this. In fact, I'd rather watch a trash isekai like Reborn as a Vending Machine, Now I Wander the Dungeon or Harem in the Labyrinth of Another World.

That at least is semi canonical- 'pillow friends' was the Jordan euphemism for Lesbian Until Graduation at the White Tower and there was a decent amount of evidence for Moiraine/ Siuan being a legit read in that regard. Of course in the books they then went to great effort to avoid seeing each other after said graduation, and didn't have apparently pretty regular clandestine nookie in a sex dimension like in the series. Plus both ended up married to blokes, so were technically bi. Obviously not a show I have much hope for, but it does seem to have a couple of the more memorable book scenes included- the Darkfriend social and Nynaeve's accepted test. I probably will end up watching it when I next have a Prime sub, with expectations set low.

One launcher to rule them all.

Bleh. Maybe I'll watch it. I finished the first season. I'm still pretty low on it though.

Diablo 4 got it's first big patch ahead of season 1, and people are generally up in arms about it. It looks like it'll make everything more tedious and slow, while not addressing any of the most common complaints from players. Asmongold sums it up pretty well. (The patch is mostly about late game, so if you're looking to just play the campaign, not much has changed).

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...