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Another point-and-click giveaway on GOG https://www.gog.com/en/game/truberbrook

Episodes 1-4 of Frieren. Excellent. They manged to capture the spirit of the manga fairly well.

Cryptz (2002) - A chance encounter on the street lures wannabe rappers Tymez Skawir, Fuzzy Down, and Likrish into the vampire underworld. This movie was not nearly as bad as I expected it to be, which may sound like a good thing but was detrimental to my watching enjoyment. It lands squarely in that unfortunate zone where it's not bad enough to be funny bad but it's nowhere near good enough to be actually good. It's watchable but not exactly entertaining. The best thing I can say about it is that it's only 78 minutes long.

Ok, time to try feeding/taming pets. ------------------------------------------------- "Nah....nah....nah...." "Too ticklish, made riding difficult." "Too delicate." "I want that one! ... what? I can't? Game sucks, 1/10" ...sadly, you can't control animal companions directly at all, even riding - they aren't true mounts. Mostly for fun and ingredient farming.

I made steaks as well. Paired it with honey glazed parsnips because my wife loves parsnips and crispy garlic baby bok choy because I like garlic and King Soopers (Kroger) had a sale on bok choy.

More camp scenes. Aylin didn’t wanna talk, said she wants to be with Isobel. And I’m not picking the “I didn’t get to know you yet” option with Halsin. The Guardian story advanced a lot. I saw on YouTube that there is a cutscene when you go meet with the Guardian. I didn’t see it in my game. Once again, I wonder how much content is bugged. Approaching Baldur’s Gate I met a child with a missing mom and mysteriously it’s not a quest. If it was a scam, then the amateur left with only a few goodberries.

Whatever, let's not dwell on this. The tactic with charming/dominating a dragon and Preservation might help you to prevent future wipes. It's never 100% foolproof, but I think it will help (together with Prayer ag. Fear and so on). Vs. Lagufaeth: besides Prayer against Imprisonment the shield Aila Braccia is extremely good. If you give it to the frontmost character with the best deflection (and boost the deflection up a bit further maybe) the Lagufaeth will shoot at that character, catch the reflected shots and paralyze themselves (they are not immune). This makes Lagufaeth encounter so much easier imo that it feels a bit like cheating. Because misses stay misses and all grazes will turn into misses, too (and get reflected). Also because in general it doesn't cost any resources to use it. It also works against Cleansing Flame from Broodmothers (which wrecked me often enough). And on combination with the Prayer those encounters turn from hard into story mode (sort of).

I don't know what you're trying to say. You have Returning Storm right there. Are you going to nitpick that I mixed it up with Unrelenting Storm? Yes, adragans can petrify. No, the adragans did not petrify me. Incidentally though, Prayer Against Imprisonment would have been a good thing to use for the lagufaeth hubris that ended a run two hours ago...

Our joke of a chancellor had a "hilarious" let them eat cake moment in the form of saying that he does not understand how a family cannot give their children a hot meal when a burger at McDonald's is only 1.4€. The difference being, of course, that he actually said that and there's proof in form of a video. Well, I guess he's also unlikely to be beheaded, but one can always dream, right?

I got some gorilla arms, wouldn't exactly call 'em preem, but I'm just starting out. I don't yet have the reflexes for dash, so for now I'm using regular ol' sprint with wrecking ball for damage mitigation while I charge right into punks. When I get low on health I activate berserk and I have 8 seconds of essentially invulnerability and unlimited stamina with which to turn skulls into fine chunks. It's rather basic, but it will do for now. I could have bought more chrome but I wanted to settle my debt to Vik ASAP. There's really nothing to gain from it and 21K eddies to lose, but I'm a man of my word.

I still don't know if I "love" NMS, but I will say this: if you like endless free roam exploration it's definitely a great time sink. Sure all the planets are vaguely the same after a while, but it still feels rewarding because suddenly you find a huge cave to get lost in, see a landscape formation, islands, sunken holes that you've never see. You're unlikely to ever explore even 5% of a given planet tho ... just take off and go to another one, or a new solar system. Saw one video where a guy land-ran the circumference of a planet and it took 25+ real time hours. ---if you have a quest or icon mark that's kinda far away, better off time-wise going to space and warping back to it vs. surface flying. ---tried the "car" that is basically a mech suit. Could be handy in some cases but overall, still don't like mechsuits. ---too many markers etc. can = a cluttered solar system icon skyscape. Makes me not want to place many beacons or even a teleporter-only base computer. At any rate, I think NMS is going to get paired with 7 Days to Die in terms of sandbox games that I can return to/waste multiple 100/s or even 1000's of hours on over several years. 😛

TESIII: Morrowind. Decided to check out Solstheim after all, then, after resolving the quest I came there with, returned to Pelagiad. And the memories of the modded experience came back. Also, the density of the combat encounters felt (not "was") somehow higher than on Vvardenfell. Unavowed. The MC needed at least 1 more pixel per eye.

Really excited to see all those random girl cartoon games remade

How NMS suddenly makes you want something you didn't originally want. Or: "I have got to get me one of these!" Or: "HEY, where'd you get yur pilots license?? I'm walkin' here!" Some planets defy gravity. I wonder if it would be "safe" to make a base on one of these floating rocks. They're like .... ant-squids? If you can tame one, do you need a giant aquarium? 🤔

Pan seared boneless ribeye with garlic butter and garlic mashed potatoes garnished with chives: Freakin' amazing! Like holy **** this is good! Granted, you dump butter on almost anything and it will be good, but still.

The manga is awesome for what it's worth.

Someone did a speed run of a furry hentai insemination simulator. It's convinced me that sometimes drone strikes on civilians may be warranted in some cases.

Sseth is now a world record holder:

Unity...

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Mostly because she's quite bemused, and sometimes confused, by my attempts, and some of the teasing is directed at me from giving her more attention than other drivers. I learned today that she doesn't read lips either since she's only ever really used sign language in school and in private. Thankfully (For me) she's good at shaping words, so I can read her lips more than try to follow along her blisteringly fast signing, since I'm hearing impaired I've always used lip reading as support for my bad hearing. That said, with the exception of three coworkers, 9 are young enough that I could've been their father without breaking any laws. Edit; Thankfully, they aren't childish enough to make fun of someones disability, except ribbing me a bit when I can't hear what the F they are yabbering about over the radio. 😄

I assumed the teasing is directed at Azdeus as he comedically uses sign language.

A deaf girl has started to drive for my workplace, and I've been hanging around her when she shows up to make sure she's ok, since I know a teeny lil bit of Swedish sign language unlike my colleagues. I feel bad for her when something is broken and her hands are full of grease and her only way of communicating is her tapping out messages on her cellphone. Naturally, merciless teasing has begun. 🙄 And I've to both of our amusement noticed how much of an automatic action it is for me to turn down the radio when I stop to talk to a driver 😄 It does sometimes fall into David Armand territory for me though 😅

Icey. A hack-and-slash action game with meta commentary on game development. The keyboard controls are rebindable, the mouse is not supported, the progress is saved at check points. It did not seem possible to change the difficulty level after starting the game, while the "true" ending seemed to require to collect all achievements in order to unlock, which in turn required to replay the game with its rather inconvenient restart system (could not interrupt a run, but could start from an unlocked location). The narrator was slightly annoying (intentionally) and sometimes spoke too slowly (unintentionally; also the lines are not skippable). There are several bosses. The combat system in general should be good - there are combos, dodges, "parries", it is possible to change the direction between attacks, etc., but the enemy movesets (attacks and speed) felt somehow unpleasant. It was entirely possible to get stunlocked/juggled by lasers and be defeated rather quickly, despite the i-frames and armour, while being unable to see which foe was attacking. On a positive note, there is no contact damage. The new attacks and other upgrades can be unlocked for XP earned by defeating enemies or finding chests (unless the optional path chosen leads to an ending). I guess, collecting the remaining achievements should take about 1-2 hours, while the game up to this point has taken 3, but I'd rather let it be. That is to say, it was fine, not deep or outstanding, but playable.

Barack Obama, is that you?

Soulstice is free on EGS. Crashed at launch for me and seems to use EGS DRM.

Hubby got a letter from Bank of America saying his CC something or other was denied. We don't have any Bank of America stuff. >.> Someone took out accounts with BoA in his name etc. Then got red-flagged trying to do stuff with them. We've been very careful/lucky in that all our lives but finally got hit with something. What a PITA.