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Almost done with Lamplighters. The story has really grown on me. I'm not sure why I need a roster of 10, since I use the same 4 people for every mission. But hey, they have good backstories.

Having meetings at 0800 should be illegal.

That reminds me of the good old times when my mother told me she bought seeds for hot peppers, because I like them. When they were all nice and grown, I bit into one to see how hot they really are, because normally what's being sold as hot peppers here tops out at Bird's Eye. Yeah, so it turns out she bought Naga Morich seeds. That was certainly an experience. One I don't necesssarily recommend.

Ok, might be hard to find the proper command name and maybe impossible then. I remember I tried to 100% the bestiary in PoE 1 as well, and never could find the new giant golem ennemies' names.

Some co-workers bought a box of different organic peppers ripe from the end of growing season for me, since I'm the "spicy food" guy (I'm not really that much of a hothead, but I do cook with and eat stuff like bird's eye, habaneros, and scotch bonnets, don't usually go much higher than stuff like that). I wasn't sure what would actually be in the box or how hot the peppers would be, and I ended up eating this lumpy and misshapen pale pepper called a "jay's peach ghost scorpion". Suffice to say, I suddenly remembered why I normally stick with the peppers that I do.

My solution using 5th grade maths in Greece If 100%=X and 75%=16 Then 100/75=X/16 | multiply both sides times 16 => 1600/75=X

Thanks Boeroer and Chaospread for the great ideas. I will definitely try these class combos!!

Oh I just forgot the underscore, silly me Thanks a lot Boeroer ! As for the Eoten Troglodyte I don't really remember either, maybe they were on temporary map locations ? Like the Sun-scorched Valley, I remember Eoten here. Or maybe other temporary SSS locations, I remember Eoten there as well, not sure. I know you fight one in the Pāhowane cave near Neketaka, but it's probably a normal one.

cre_bat_fire_elder cre_naga_shaman Cannot find that one. The only Eoten prefabs that I can find in the "Characters" bundle are: cre_eoten (normal) cre_eoten_dweller (in Drowned Barrows) It may be that the game just takes the prefab of an Eoten or Eoten Dweller and gives it a unique name when spawning it. It does so with Deathwarden Latuc (in Drowned Barrows, Eoten Dweller prefab) afaik. So maybe there is no specific prefab for an Eoten Troglodyte. There's also none for Eoten Drumheller. This can also mean there's no specific bestiary entry for them. But maybe there is a prefab for this and I just cannot find it by name search. Btw.: I cannot remember where to find an Eoten Troglodyte. Do you know where it is (which map)?

https://bsky.app/profile/sonic.bsky.social/post/3l7lkwmn6ks2t Kamala Harris' campaign has set up an island in Fortnite, another foray into the gaming space for Democrats. Trump's campaign also has an in-game presence as the antagonists in the classic franchise "Wolfenstein"

Man, must be nice to have such low standards, at least, based on other long reviews I've seen it's just further into "offline MMO" territory from DA:I. If he's into that sort of thing, more power to him, I guess...

Skill up isn't a fan. Curious what Mort will have to say. To me the question isn't "is Veilguard good or bad". To me it's "how bad is it when compared to Dragon Age 2 and Inquisition".

When there isn't any living soul in Gaza then war ends naturally, if Trump wins this outcome becomes more easily reachable when US don't anymore try to blackmail Israel to offer humanitarian aid to Gaze by withholding weapon deliveries and US will also "Blow Iran to Smithereens" and give Israel green light to destroy Iran's nuclear facilities So I can see why Trump is gaining support among Muslims and especially Arabs that are concerned about Israel's actions in Middle East and how people's lives there are destroyed, as he promises to rebuild Gaza best place in Israel .

If the Democrats had turned on full support for Muslims and Gaza, they would lose more independent votes than they would gain. It's definitely a headache for them.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, I think Trump is going to win by peeling at least Michigan. Feels like watching a trainwreck in slow time tbh, but this has been known for over a year at this point and not only are the dems not doing some very obvious things to appeal to voters there that would cinch the state for Kamala, they're actively doubling down by refusing to meet people or kicking out former democratic politicians from events. Frankly it's baffling that Kamala and her team thought it more advantageous to pal around with Liz Cheney than bother to meet with a single Muslim when everything shows the dems are loosing Muslims, who backed Biden by a large margin last time, in droves. But maybe I'm wrong and maybe there really is a massive base of hardcore anti-Trump conservatives out there who will come on out. Seems less likely than winning the lottery though.

My money has been on Trump. But Americans seem to be deranged and will vote for any psychopath, so the Dems might surprise me.

Given the rest of the site, it probably used ai. On Owlcat, I've spent loads of time on both of their Pathfinder games but they definitely tend towards being played as a spreadsheet more than tactically. No idea if the 40k game showed any growth on that front, but based on their track record I think an Owlcat PF 2e game would be pretty much unplayable as that system is very sensitive to numerical bonuses and there just isn't a way to stack the ever loving **** out of your stats.

I do not want to turn this into political debate, but since 2022, there is really not much nice, that Ukrainian can say about Amnesty International, due to some of their reports about the war, which were really “sloppy” there has been a lot of debate about these reports in Way Off-Topic threads during that time as well.

Oh, Man. I love that game. Not flawless, but nothing like that. Creating ice puddles for enemies to slipped on never gets old.

It is strong, especially with Frostseeker as main weapon. Then the best combo is Arcane Archer/Ascendant imo. Very high ACC, lots of crits and weapon damage->focus. Maybe you should give Streetfighter/Helwalker a try. Dual mortars (Hand Mortar + Fire in the Hole) gives you full AoE attacks to pair with your strikes, absurd reloading speed and sneak attack bonus (the blunderbuss modal triggers the Streetfighter passive). And the absolutely best combo is AoE mortars + Stunning Surge (Monk). Also Duality of Mortal Presence (INT) is aweseome with AoE weapons and affliction durations. Dual mortar is better than rod + blast in this case because you will profit from all your Full Attacks more (two shots instead of only one). Mirke can also use this combo, she can be a Streetfighter/Monk. No Helwalker then but that's not really important. I highly recommend Psion/Troubadour. The following is a party build. Just make sure the Psion isn't the weakest party member in terms of deflection so he doesn't get attacked/shot at a lot: But any caster class + Psion is great imo. How about a Brute (Barbarian/Fighter)? This combo can have a ton of engagement slots, high health, high AR, high defenses, great self heal and at the same time attacks very quickly for a tank and does reasonable weapon damage per hit (esp. when bloodied). You can counter the deflection loss while frenzied with a large shield. Or not use frenzy as much (althoug it raises Fortitude by 20 points alone which can be very useful). Many resistances, too (Unflinching + Fighter resistances etc.) I like this as a "Mataru" Huana warrior with Kapana Taga (club), Reckless Brigandine (brigandine), Cadhu Scalth (large shield) and Death's Maw (hidden) so it looks properly like a Huana. My subclass pick would be Vanilla Barb/Unbroken (more AR with a shield) but it also works fine with both vanilla or Devoted or so. For another look I would maybe take seomething like Gladiator Sword + Bronlar's Phalanx or so. Rekke can be a Brute, so he can fulfill this role as well. A Sorcerer can be a very nice healer (and much more) if you pair Livegiver(Cat form) with Bloodmage. Healing counters Blood Sacrifice's self damage. Infuse with Vital Essence makes Spiritshift and healing last longer, Cat Flurry makes you cast very fast. Spiritshift of a Livegiver grants +5 PL for all Rejuvenation spells. If Spirithift ends it's -5 PL - but you can keep up Spiritshift for a long time with Wall of Draining. This also prolongs healing and buffs on yourself, making you very tanky, too. But ofc. this is only possible at PL7: Fassina can be a Sorcerer. She isn't a Livegiver though - but ofc. a vanilla Druid still is a great healer. A Herald (Paladin/Chanter), especially Kind Wayfarer/Troubadour can be a great healer, too. White Flames + Exalted Endurance + Ancient Memory + Mercy and Kindness + Lay on Hands and so on makes for a great combo of passive and active healing. I actually like this best with dual pistols and not melee. It makes your positioning for White Flames less dependend on enemies' position, reloading weapons make it possible to immediately cast a healing after shooting (reloading can be canceled, unlike recovery), so it's more reactive. Pistols have a decent range unlike blunderbusses and not acc penalty (you cannot miss with White Flames else the healing doesn't happen) and you will get a Full Attacks (two shots) per FoD use which means 2*White Flames healing. It's also easy to create a custom AI setting for such a Herald since he doesn't need to move as much as a melee one. But of course a Herald can be tanky as heck, so with a bashing shield (see Magran's Blessing for example) he can at least be a great offtank behind the brute, if not more and still proc two White Flames. Herald with Magran's Favour (Battle Axe) and Sun & Moon (Flail) can get +4 Power Level to FLames of Devotion (also raises the healing of White Flames) which would make him better at melee dmg and healing but less tanky.

So, what did I do today? I got up, grabbed a coffee, and checked my YT feed. This was in it: Now, let me translate this simple math problem for you. It reads: A child weighs 16kg (feel free to use half the weight of King George's belt, or whatever pounds are defined as, it is not relevant to the problem anyway) plus one quarter of its weight. How much does it weigh? Now, as the thumbnail suggests it is not a trick question, hence 16 is crossed out, and it is also not 20, because clearly it cannot be twenty. A quarter of 20 is 5, and 20 - 5 is very clearly not 16. Any of you wanna weigh in here? Yeah, I'm getting my coat and showing myself out. That alone would not be enough to post about it, but there's an untold number of people in the comments insisting that 20 is the correct answer. Let it never be said that the German education system is any better than the US'.

New chapter of Berserk is out and it's a banger.

Before the US intervened the Taleban didn't control all the country, after the US intervention- or, lest we forget, a month before the end of it, in actuality- the Taleban controlled all of it. The question that the US needs to ask is why and how they managed to make things worse and how they made the Taleban look more attractive to Afghans than they did in 2001. Ultimately the problem was that as with every recent intervention the US spent its time building "a legitimate and internationally recognized government"- ie one that would do what the US wants- but very little into building a legitimate and internally recognised government. If you start everything off by saying that they could pick anyone for a leader so long as it was the US candidate (Karzai) you've told the country that the wants and needs of the US will always be paramount from the get go, and that the leadership will always be beholden to the US. Far and away the best strategy was to allow them to pick their own leader even if it wasn't the one you really wanted. Not like they were trying to install Hekmatyar, after all. Unsurprisingly, not many Afghans wanted to fight for US interests instead of their own so much so that many of the first provinces to fall to the Taleban were not the pastun heartland of the south but the old bastions of resistance in the north.

With a cipher and Time Parasite, you can stack another -25% action time malus, and the cherry on the cake should be to sing Thick Grew their Tongues (+ Eld Nary eventually), since every interrupt will add a malus to the action speed. Of course, switching the Thundercrack pistol in loop is turning the cake for the cherry to a cheesecake, but the regular use of the slowing enchantment (i mean without fast switching) is also a good malus for the armored enemies.

I have decided to buy Dark Messiah M&M and UnderRail I have only heard good things about both these games. I am going to play Dark Messiah first and then UnderRail UnderRail really seems to be what I enjoy around exploration and open world and I always appreciate post-apocalyptic settings like Fallout, METRO and STALKER

With his resume, not even Murdoch would be able to buy him a resident visa edit that's assuming the LNP (the center right coalition) stays away from power, after all they were happy to sell freedom to a convicted child rapist and let him breach Covid lockdown so he could go back to his dear papa Pope (who paid the millions of dollars the Morrison government estimated his freedom to be worth), just goes to show everything is for sale if the price is right (except Greenland)

Gorthfuscious did you guys see that Trump worked in a McDonalds Trump is a man who identifies with the working class because he works in a menial job. The first billionaire who also works in a McDonalds Not a staged photo-op at all

Good thing Australia has a very strict immigration policy... just in case the US completely crashes, burns and falls apart at the seams

About 20 hours into Drova and I have some negative things to say. Not having a minimap, highlights or fast movement makes this game an utter chore to play. I can relate to the idea of not guiding the player too much, but when every other quest is "talk to X, then to Y, then to Z", and I have no idea who and where this people are, it practically means I have to go through the whole town every time. The "not guiding" part only works if there's not a specific order you need to do things in. The lack of a minimap also comes into play in exploration, because the game uses elevation levels to block movement. Quite often I can see where I want to go, but I have to spend a while finding the right path there, because for no obvious reason you can just walk right up to it. Lack of fast movement comes into play because there's lots of occasion where you need to travel through places you've already been to, and hence where there's nothing interesting going on anymore. The game isn't that big though, so it's just barely below my annoyance threshold. Out of the 20 hours, I'd say about 5 is running through town searching for NPCs, running through already cleared maps, and pathfinding because everything needs to be a maze. The game does some neat things though, like the map, or the investigation mode, and the combat is pretty nicely designed, although I'm utterly hopeless at it.

Tried the demo for: Flint: Treasure of Oblivion has such a terrible tutorial, the demo doesn't deserve my time past that. I want a refund and I don't care that it was only 2 minutes of a free demo. Trash Goblin is probably a relaxing zen thing. They aim to be the power cleaner simulator for a fantasy trinket shop. Not sure games like this are really games... It is very cute, so it gets bonus points for that. DinoCop plays in a world where Jurassic Park like experimentation led to a society where humans and dinos coexist and you are the token dinosaur in the police force. Fun setting, controls a bit wonky in their simplicity. The fact that there is an ingame clock makes investigating a bit strange when you are a bit slow figuring things out. New Arc Line probably tried to be humorous in the dialogue of the first two npcs (you care nothing about) sending you off on some errant you care nothing about. I ran into some enemies I cared nothing about while trying to do the quest I did not care about. They killed me. For some reason I had an npc in my party. The one game I actually wanted to try. Turns out making a good demo is hard. Trash Goblin and DinoCop both had demos that didn't make me want to quit and actually give the games a chance. New Arc Line I removed from my watch list, Flint I decided not to put on my watch list. DinoCop may be something for Keyrock and other people who could enjoy a police investigation point & click & smell clues game.

Maybe he got lost on the way to the local school.

Maybe he wanted to shoot just regular people and not Trump. It's america after all.

When you turn spreading lies, fear and hatred into your livelihood... not really a surprise?

I think it's funny that Republicans spent years cultivating (accidental or purposeful is up in the air, probably both) a group of deranged lunatics who want to spray bullets into crowds for unhinged reasons (in addition to the cops I mean) and now that it's finally happening to their crowds instead of schools or grocery stores people have become so used to mass shootings it doesn't really register more than a shrug. Reap the whirlwind.

For a while now, I've wanted to write something about me and Obsidian. About the history, about the community, about the games. From Sith Lords and Project New Jersey up to Avowed and Outer Worlds 2. I've been here for 20 years. If it sounds like a long time, it's because it is. I first joined the forums on the day they opened, along with a bunch of people who had come here from the old Black Isle Community, which I was never a part of. Western RPGs were at a bit of a low ebb in 2004, especially PC ones. Bioware and Bethesda were the major RPG developers at the time, and already responsible for some of my favourite RPGs ever. However, while both Morrowind and Neverwinter Nights had a lot to offer, and I was very much looking forward to them, they ended up not quite meeting my expectations. Bloodlines came out that same year, and while great, it did not do as well as it deserved. To me, at least, it kind of felt like Obsidian would be the torchbearers for the kind of RPGs I wanted to play. C&C was the key design feature: Choice and consequence. Or as some of us used to say back then, "The Chosen One must choose!" I wanted games with multiple paths, where my gameplay choices affected the storyline and the world around my character. I wanted the sort of agency I felt I got in games like Fallout, Planescape Torment, or Baldur's Gate 2, but more so. I felt that the CRPG as a genre was good but could move forward and improve, and even back then I already felt that wasn't happening. With game budgets already ballooning, the trend was not to make games with loads of essentially optional content but rather to create games with very rigid critical paths, or open world games with very little gameplay depth. RPG features that I thought should be standard were falling by the wayside, instead of being improved and expanded upon. And that was what I often focused on when posting here on the forums. Or maybe not. Sometimes I did do some substantial posting, but frequently my posts were little more than short jokes, trying to get a laugh out of people. More often than not I was just lurking, perhaps silently agreeing with posters like Metadigital or Baley, while disagreeing with posters like Volourn or Hades_One. But it was without noticing that eventually the community became a part of my identity. It quickly became a daily online destination for me, a way to connect to like-minded people across the world. And it led to slowly making sort of online friends like Role-Player, Darth Drabek, or Rosbjerg, by being a part in events and side communities. I even met some forum denizens in real life, and thanks to the coming of Obsidian loot, I now go around in my everyday life with Obsidian stuff, be it a pen, a backpack or a t-shirt. My wife knows that Obsidian games are my jams, my kids sometimes used to wish they'd get gaming loot like me. Nowadays I don't post that often on the forums. I still lurk on a daily basis and help out a bit with stuff as time permits. What I think about, sometimes, are the people that have come and gone. People that have been around for a decade or more that I feel are still new users, users that were here for a short time but left an indelible mark. Forum posters that I cherished and enjoyed, and others who were infuriating and wrong. Essentially, in some ways I'm not the person I was when I joined. 20 years is a long time, I said. In the time I've been here I left a degree, went into another degree, got a job, started a career in an area I never thought I'd be in, became somewhat good at it, moved to another country, acquired a whole new family, lost my parents, learned to enjoy myself, developed a serious comic book reading habit. It's a lot and it happened without me noticing, really. But I'm still the same person, as well. I'm still a gamer, with a healthy focus on RPGs, I still furiously devour music and books and movies, I still have a terrible tendency to want to be right about everything, (to my own detriment "I'm right and you're wrong" brings me joy), I'm still a nerd, and I still want to finish that first degree. I also sometimes still wonder what it would be like to work at Obsidian. Even if I'm really not a fit for the company, or Irvine, or SoCal in general. Pretty sure my family would have liked it though.

Just read it on break. We're so back. No, I like to be surprised.

It takes about 10-15 completed runs to get the ending credits, as in your mom & dad reconcile. Can't remember the actual amount needed. It took me around 80 runs (not all completed) to get the epilogue for the final ending. So yeah, you have to like the mechanics to go through all that.

Yeah. I don't understand how it is close at all. But it is, so I'll just hold my breathe.

The only issue I am having with OW games is that they hold no repeatability for me. I thought the different legends would keep things fresh but it really didn't hold me. Although maybe I was better off just going through the main story instead of doing all the side stuff again. The 40k game is even worse on that front, or at least it was when it came out, but I still had fund running over the final boss.

Steelrising The game can look beautiful. The seat is unusable and I do not believe that it existed. The game at least tries to do social commentary (looking up the historical figures, though, does not increase the enjoyment). This door required me to progress the main quest. I was not able to break or anyhow unlock it myself. The NPCs are sitting in one spot and picking all the side quests together, then reporting back together led to this picture. The thing I really like is that the enemies' attacks hurt them as well. All NPC share the same pool of facial animations and sometimes they look rather odd. It was not sarcastic. The end-game map. The last area. Since none are exactly original, no spoiler tags for it. What did that meatbag do with the face? The final boss.