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We're going to be heading to Estonia in a few weeks. Not really looking forward to traveling with a 1 year old but not as worried about the 5 year old. He's already done this flight and handled it well a couple of years ago. Forgot that was when I broke my tooth, 2 year ago while they were in Estonia. They just ripped it out and put in a fake tooth. It took a few months to get the actual tooth but my son loved to see the screw that was in there when he got home.

It reminds me of DA2. Also I really want to clock that Pixar smirk twąt mage in the face with a grandfather clock.

Okay, now this is technically a Balance Polishing Mod upgrade. You'll find Animal Companion, Bleak Walker, Darcozzi, Unbroken, Shred spells and Penetration Modal reworks as announced previously. (Note that for Darcozzi, the fire shield stacking didn't work... but it worked by stacking Lay on Hand fire Shield with GLoH/HoL fire shields (always has been). So I doubled the damages of the Tier 3 version and I added a note to state explicitly that it does stack) Deadfire Balance Polishing Mod at Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire Nexus - Mods and Community (nexusmods.com)

https://www.gog.com/game/tropico_4 Tropico 4 free. I feel silly for spending $8 on it 11 years ago now.

George Shevtsov in that role reminded me more of John Hurt than Ian McKellen, but close enough, I suppose. I reflexively skip any movie that I hear anybody describing as being "like a dream". Never my, uh, cup of tea, .

Kill the Xeno

I have to say

Lesson learned though. Wait 10 years to buy a game. I hear this "Skyrim" game is fun.

You should feel silly. If you had put that $8 into a savings account, it would be like $13 now.

This 'Holy Grail' Protein Repairs DNA And Could Lead to a Cancer Vaccine : ScienceAlert

Too sweet to be sour, too nice to be mean.

Yeah, I didnt think I would like Mad Max: Furiosa but it was pretty awesome. I swear to the Flying Spaghetti Monster that old tattooed guy is Gandalf.

It remains possibly the best 40K game when it comes to exploring the setting. But they don't know what makes a game tedious and un-fun.

If you are not fanatical enough in your conversations with Argenta, she has a crisis of faith, simply fails her companion quest and becomes a Repentia fan service nun for teenage boy Warhammer fans. She then gets an insignificant buff when not wearing armour. Incidentally, the only item in the game that also buffs characters when not wearing armour is for psykers and not for her.

Nearly done with Rogue Trader. Both as in nearly completed it, but also nearly at the point where it is more annoyance than fun. My party is so powerful, most fights are finished before the opponents get to act. Level ups are boring. I have run out of things to pick at level up, meaning most times I pick the options I chose not to pick earlier in the game, not because now they have become interesting, but because I already have everything else. I have gotten to the point where I don't necessarily do the level up right away and simply continue playing. There are way too many skill checks. And since you are at silly high skill levels, the game throws silly high penalties at you to make the checks *interesting* - Check for Lore-Xenos with a -100 penalty, since you have at least one character with 150 in any given skill. *yawn* Throwing arbitrary, ridiculous penalties around does not make the game interesting, it just shows your advancement system wasn't balanced. Companion quests are WTF. Suddenly at the end of chapter 4 you discover that all interactions fed into a hidden counter and suddenly your companion decides that she wants to be a masochistic nudist because at the end of the prologue you were nice to the orphans. It doesn't help that there are still bugs in the later chapters. The guy I executed early in Act 4 showing up at the start of Act 5 to help me. But god, that overabundance of skill checks. Those and the environmental hazards. At least I know I will not be getting the DLCs. No way I'll endure this game a second time.

Those two posts are surprisingly fitting. Once Hurlshot joins the HOA cult, Azdeus will give him an imhotep injection as well, and both will shamble down the street in Hurlshot's neigbourhood chanting "Imhotep. Imhotep."

I'm really hoping I get to roll out Jim Carrey's loser video again. Fun times.

I've been busy playing the latest expansion for Guild Wars 2 after I came back from Europe... no sleep for the wicked I guess

Yesterday, I have finally finished the Crown of the Iron King DLC. And it is a mixed bag for me. The majority of Brume Tower, is good and interesting design from my PoV. They made some areas filled with to much mobs, but, after few try and error attempts, they have become manageable. Only few Ashen Idols gave me some troubles. So after approx 5 and half hours after entering the DLC, I was able to defeat Fume Knight. All attempts have been made with two summons. This fight was pure DPS race. I had to make more damage to him before he wiped out my summons, and few of the attempts ended up with him with less than 5%. All in all I had 10 attempts IIRC, before being victorious. And even in that last attempt, he defeated both my summons, before I was able to land a finishing blow on him. So far so good only 15 wipes during this whole time. But this was the last part of the DLC which I have enjoyed. I have used the Tower Key and unlocked the way to Iron Passage... I should not have done this... **** it... The worst ever area in all of From Soft games, I have ever played. Multilevel areas, which were not completely accessible, filled with enemies, which sniped your ass into the otherworld in few seconds, if you were to slow to get into hiding spot or stayed to long out of it, fighting the melee waves jumping at you... **** it once again... And in the last room, just before the fog gate as a bonus oversized like-a-truck hitting mob, which destroyed half of HP of your summons... If by any miracle, I have survived up until the boss room, I became so pissed of at the whole gauntlet, that I was losing my concentration and made mistake after a mistake, so the boss has kicked my ass... Rinse and Repeat... For 3 and half ****ing hour... Until I was able to have enough concentration, to not mess up the boss fight... I hate you Myiazaki... 40 wipes in that session alone with hundred thousand plus souls lost, due getting gangbanged all the time... This area has completely discouraged me from playing the game further. I had so bad mood after that session, that I wanted to uninstall the game... Well, on the next day, I have tried to log into the game again, to check the latest area, which I still needed to finish, but the mood was still very very low... To my "surprise" another gauntlet... Thankfully, this time not as ridiculous as the Iron Passage, but it definitely did not make my mood for DS2 better... Anyway, I have done few tries on Sir Alonne and tried to learn his moves, when to heal, and when to avoid his moves at all costs. Due to me being down in the mood, my reflexes have been lousy as well, so I was not able to outroll or block all of his attacks, whenever he aggroed on me, so all the time, the fight ended up few seconds, after he got buffed after piercing me with his Katana... So I have quit the Brume Tower, and went to completely clear my head to grind 100 Mad Warrior kills, new Human Effigies, which I have lost in high numbers during my Iron Passage ball torture, and enough souls to fully upgrade Grand Lance to +10 (as I have noticed, that my Lightning Heide Lance is doing not as much damage, as I would expected on the boss - later I have found out, that he has a pretty high resistance against all of magic)... Stopped at 91 Mad Warriors, and went to sleep, pissed as much as the day before The only good part of the day was the interesting encounter with the 5 Prowler black phantoms, which have spawned on my way to the Bonfire before the Memory of the Old Iron King. After this, I went on a scheduled business trip, so I had no time to be pissed on the game anymore, so when I got back 3 days later, I had like two hours window, in my schedule, so I decided to boot the game again, with much clearer head. First I have finished the Mad Warrior grind, to acquire the Bell Keepers set, and from the new souls, I have put 1 more point into ADP Then I went back for the memory, and cleared the area up until the fog gate. There I've noticed, that I have enough souls to fully upgrade the Engraved Bracers, which increase the chance of critical hits, so I feathered back to a blacksmith. Cleared it one more time, fully healed my two summons, and readied my newly upgraded physical Grand Lance +10. Even though I was hit few times by the boss, which almost wiped me out, this time, I was able to avoid his buffing attacks, so the fight was a little bit easier, and my summons have taken much less damage. This helped tremendously with the DPS race, and made the fight much more manageable. To my surprise, I was able to defeat Sir Alonne on my first try. Which was absolutely unexpected, because I still had 50 minutes of my free time window, and I did not have any plans to move in the game at that moment Then I have remembered, that I still have to extinguish 1 Ashen Idol, and to pick up 1 Item, which was not accessible, when I have entered the Brume Tower. And one Crystal Lizard, but I was to lazy to try and run to it again The story, which almost turned into tragedy, has been finished. All three bosses down. This probably cost me few new gray hairs, but in the end, I was satisfied, that I have not given up on the game, although, I will probably never forget about that idiotic Iron Passge... Next stop, the last DLC, which I heard has some stupid design decisions as well. Hopefully not in the vein of Iron Passage. We'll see... Deathcounter: 250

IIRC the problem with having things like 999 second cooldowns in AI script is that it doesn't reset or stop counting when you finish a battle. You're likely to fight more than one battle every 999 seconds, but if you set it too low your guy starts doing stupid things mid-battle. IMO the best Arquebus user is generally a Scout with Chanter backup for Swift-Handed. Sneak Attack and Deathblows help offset the damage reduction from Driving Flight, with Maia using Red Hand I've seen extremely good damage from even the bounced shot, unless I build my watcher as a glass cannon she usually ends up with the highest damage output in my party.

Just jumping in here to say that I just reinstalled this game after backing it and putting in 200+ hours around release/dlcs after watching your Tier-list video! thanks for re-ignitinig my love of this game and making my mind whirr with lots of fun ideas for a fresh playthrough/build.

Found a creepy crawly on my neighbor's door. It looks like this (not the one from the door, but the same species). Things have been everywhere lately.

Soulstice Some combat screenshots. Though, they were taken at the end of encounters. There were some environmental hazards and quite a few large/teleporting/summoning foes. I don't think that it could take more. End-game spoilers (gore).

F F S Tooth broke again. 33 hours and 40 minutes after the dentist said "Eventually this part will break." Maybe not next week. Maybe in a year... He should have listened to me when I said he was being too optimistic.