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Hmm. Bit of a Alpha Protocol re-release tease in one of GOG's 15 year interviews. Probably not quite as definitive as the autotranslate makes it sound, but you'd suspect they wouldn't use AP as an example unless they expected it as a release. (Then again, don't think Drakensang: RoT ever turned up and iirc it was in two GOG promo videos years apart)

Reached a satisfactory point in TESIII: Morrowind. I've got a house in Pelagiad and moved all my items from the magical corpse in Balmora to the various containers in the house (the corpse had unlimited storage capacity, the containers did not). I also tracked down and eliminated the Mournhold branch of the Dark Brotherhood and (after several attempts and looking up the most broken combinations of alchemical concoctions) their employer. Additionally, in Mournhold, it was somehow odd to have Levitation limited just after I had gotten used to have it. Overall in the expansion, in terms of design and gameplay, the "dungeons" being literal dungeons and the local sewers system became more noticeable, while the foes were hitting significantly harder than in the main game. I also had a rather unexpected side quest with an unfriendly and deadly normal-looking NPC. The encounter ended with me reloading. Though, I liked the concept of a large multi-area city that is not Vivec.

Approaching Vivec: Cool looking city but a pain to navigate.

Took a lunch break from doing leather dying. Discovered my glove had a pinprick hole in it, and my thumb is now dyed oxblood red. However, besides that, I now have an articulated torso plate set mostly done. And the back half... Keeping it all fairly simple as I learn and refine some of the basic techniques. Tomorrow will likely be figuring out making and attaching buckles and straps to connect and wear it...

TESIII: Morrowind Leaders need no helmets. I very much agree with the idea when I play a sniper. I think I broke the dialogue. Got blindness for the second time (the first time from some magic boots). Spoilers for the Tribunal expansion.

Hey I completely agree that the Administration dropped the ball on the crisis in Hawaii ... and also disasters in Ohio and Florida. But I would disagree that it is an either/or thing.

See! Thats why we need UHC, UBI, UFE and UFH! Maybe we can lower our defense budget to the next 7 nations combined, and hit the fatcats for the rest of the tab.

Fortunately, it's usually super quick and easy for companies to build up the trust and goodwill that they carelessly poured gasoline on before tossing into a bonfire for no reason.

Because we were waiting for PrSM to come online: Decision To Give ATACMS To Ukraine Is About To Become Easier (thedrive.com)

New update! Should fix the bug reported by @abot 2023-09-24 Added support for AIDecision trees! Fixed Quest StringTable entries being written with incorrect IDs. The save button is now properly disabled after unloading unsaved changes. Here's a video I posted a bit further up on this page showcasing AIDecisionTree modding

I found a hag support group, killed a hag, and got a bitchin rapier for my Bard. Also stopped a mob from killing Volo. Feels like I'm back in Act 1. I consistently use it with Shadowheart over Firebolt. It's good for undead and not a lot of things resist Radiant damage.

Who would have thought that roleplaying an intelligence 8 character would reveal so much about the plot? Gauntlet Trials: Some funny moments: I passed a deception check and convinced a guard that I live in Ketheric Thorm’s room. Or was it his wife’s? Withers got tired of dealing with Arabella and sent her away. I tried to prevent it, but he got angry, cast some sort of magic and Arabella was happy to go. I woke up in the middle of the night with the pets screaming or something. It was actually a nice moment showing that they are very good friends, until the Owlbear cub revealed that his mother ate his brother. Should I worry about the dog? I met with the Zhentarim vendor again and she admitted she is pretending she didn’t see me slaughter all of the goblins in act 1. Spoilers:

It's hard to believe they went that route after what happened with WotC.

Just casually flying my Tie Interceptor Fury over Hoth Microtech, taking in the sights.

Barbie (2023). I was told to expect feminist proaganda, but instead I got a movie that just tries to have a discussion about societal issues affecting not just women but also men (...though obviously especially women) coming from an interesting perspective. It's not the greatest or nothing, it's not really my thing to be so on the nose and accomplish it via toys, but it was alright. Horrible country music being the ultimate representation of patriarchy was pretty hilarious, though.

Im not convinced by that general point or argument that the US "should be spending on problem x and not problem y " because its a slippery slope that can lead to almost pointless debates For example you could argue " why is the US spending any money on support for NATO or the UN, why isnt all that money going towards border security, education or the FEMA fund " The US like all countries has a federal yearly budget and different departments would get money allocated to those institutions. But end of the day it has numerous international responsibilities that are reliant on the US funding them and this benefits the US as well around its global interests in most cases But I dont think the US should spend any money on any country or government that is hostile towards it or for example aligned to Russia which has become very anti-US since the invasion

The voice actors who voice the origin companions are playing D&D. I don't know if Jennifer English played BG3, but she certainly knows what to do as Shadowheart:

I've not seen or heard of the kid since. Draw from that what conclusions you will.

Lae'zel chilling and having a drink while the rest of the party deals with Raphael's plots: When you ask Shadowheart stupid questions: Gauntlet dungeon:

It took decades to get past floating weapons several inches behind the character's back or next to their hip in 3rd person view games and having characters with properly sheathed weapons (plenty of games STILL have floating weapons). How long until we get characters that sleep like people actually do? Just have the screen fade to black for a second then show your character in bed UNDER THE COVERS not on top of them like someone who got blackout drunk or a psychopath.

But this is exactly why even though I've been happy that Biden has supported Ukraine I still criticize him. What's the point of having waited so long to do this if you were going to do it anyway? If Biden had done this months ago, even a year ago, it would have made a huge difference to Ukraine's war effort. And he kept doing this exact same thing with weapon system after system ... again and again. Why???!!! Just so maddening.

Nah Bruce, Russia and China is never wrong, and only West is allowed to be criticized for double standards, due to our demand for cheap iPhones /s

It's not even out yet this is already GotY 2024:

You learned your lesson from BG well.

I just completed FO1 after about 40 hours or so. As I mentioned earlier it was an excellent CRPG experience that includes open world and a great sandbox overall experience no map quest hand holding on the area maps, you need to explore and ask people questions to complete quests. Like the Deathclaw quest in the Hub deep character customization and this allows you to really create different characters and that can influence your journey great lore and interesting quests unique towns and each one with there own characteristics I dont recall any bugs with Fixt but I might not have known because this is the first time I played FO1 but everything seemed to be fine I ended up getting a Plasma Rifle at Mariposa which made me deadly in combat and I enjoyed how the game provides so many different weapons. I really battled with the final Master fight, I was killed about 7 times before I adopted a winning strategy. I buffed up on drugs and then aimed for his eyes and fortunately scored critical hits and he died after about 5 rounds, I used super stimpacks and ignored the other enemies attacking I didn't particularly enjoy having to run out the Cathedral and Mariposa knowing there was 300 seconds but it was fun to get out the buildings and survive Now Im going to play FO2, Im really in the Fallout mood

No Man's Sky - well I'm up to 3.5 hours now. I got the ship repaired - slowly, with a lot of exploring/messing around inbetween the brief mission prompts - and it's telling me to fly it, but I think I'm going to continue messing around on what I assume is the random starter planet. Gathering materials until I can't carry anymore, and I still have to ID a couple animals for the planet I think. That part I like a lot at least - the wandering/identifying/mining, occasionally finding lost container loot or buildings - it suits my chill vibe brain. But I know I have to get off the rock at some point to open gameplay up. Later, later, I'm busy. I like that you can customize difficulty settings beyond the 3 presets - so I have a mixture of some easy and some Normal settings. I want a first-try that's casual and pretty low stress but not entirely devoid of surprises. Anyway, at least the planet exploration seems to suit me.

I beat sea of stars. It was good. I feel like 10/10s are so freely given with games. I'd give it a 7/10 maybe 8/10 if I was generous. Combat is good. A little easy though. I kind of suck at RPGs and I only died 3 times. Graphics and running around the environments was the best part. One of the prettiest pixel art games I can think of. The tools you unlock make traversing fun. Bunch of simple puzzles. only one I had to look up, because it had to do with colors and I'm colorblind... (at least I think it had to do with colors because I had no idea what to do... and the symbols had colors.) Fairly short, for a JRPG style game. Which is fine because the story was the worst part. It wasn't bad, there were some moments that made me laugh(ol). Just that the main narrative was a little bland. Special main characters save the world from an unbeatable foe. Not awful, just mostly forgettable.

An endless jetpack/flying cheat is fun.

No Man's Sky - "last played - two years ago" - "Playtime - 16 minutes." Don't even recall if I had any reason for such a short trial phase. ---an hour of install and feature fiddling later--- Oh yeah, I remember now. It uses Vulkan I guess, which seemingly means many 3rd party screenshot programs don't work. At least mine doesn't. Steam Overlay ss feature supposedly does, but I don't use/refuse to use that. Although weirdly, I can record video of the game w/my program and grab pic frames that way but more PITA. I have no idea why video recording works but a screenshot does not. Different hooks? And now I also remember that the start/tutorial stuff kinda bored/annoyed me with all the radiation and other survival hazards, starting menus/info navigation that felt a bit over-load-y. eg, I was too lazy to learn to play. So that plus no screenshots, plus I'm never sure if I really like outer-space settings - and I probably just never turned it back on. I'll give it a fair shake this time.

TESIII: Morrowind. Became a clan-friend of an Ashlander clan, the chosen of Azura (sort of?), and most importantly found several pieces of Daedric armour that I could not wear effectively and a merchant with 10,000 gold per day, successfully solving any financial issues for some time. Also found an ebony short sword and several pieces (not a set) of glass armour and became the highest-ranked Blade agent in Morrowind. The only issues so far are occasionally falling through the floors in Vivec, the inability to do main quests out of order (was visiting the Hlaalu councillor several times without the ability to ask him to make me the Hortator), and that Caius Cosades did not tell me how to get to Tel Fyr and I could not ask anyone (so had to look up online). Also, I probably should have started as an Argonian. Though, I do like the story so far.

The lighting at times completely erases a character's looks, Bethesda magic

TESIII: Morrowind Merchants equip the items bought. The Fighters Guild beds are assassin-proof. I fell through the floor in Vived several times. Now I remember the issue with the Cliff Racers.

Droppin' a deuce with the door open in full view of everybody. Bold choice! I like how everybody else is trying to look away while the archer is just staring at the lady taking a $#!+. I'm assuming they're keeping eye contact.

Finally a working bar! And after dozens of hours, I also found the first bathroom in the game. The companions stood guard. New bug: double arms. And they actually grow out of my character's elbows slowly when she folds her arms. New Wildshape, Sabre-Toothed tiger: The cat was the only one who wasn't afraid. The reaction bellow happens regardless of the Wildshape. Another moment Lae'zel disapproved: Camp events:

That reminds me of a Voyager episode. Where is Captain Janeway and Tom Paris?

Alice (1988). Super cool visuals and incredibly creative live-action take on Alice in Wonderland, combining many practical and stop-motion effects in a pretty awesome way to create a surreal and creepy adventure. Unfortunately, I kind of hated it, mostly because every time any character talked, it would cut to these gross close-ups of a mouth saying the dialogue. The stupid bastard who thought that literally every even momentary piece of dialogue should hard cut to and from this disgusting mouth should have their own sheared straight out of their skull. I got so aggravated that every time I even thought a character might possibly speak, I automatically started closing my eyes. It was miserable.

There's been a number of classic games over the years teased for re-release by GOG that have mysteriously never seen the light of day... Don't think they ever reveal why something that they expected to get done never quite came to be.

Can't argue with that. Worst spell in the game. Edit: Patch 3 is out. You can change your appearance now.