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yeah but it's start wars. They will find a way to make it lame.

https://www.thegamer.com/baldurs-gate-3-sales-15-million-larian-losses/ This is a old story but I found it interesting because of how Larian was running at a loss and BG3 sales numbers saved it. It was a small loss and would have been around the cost to develop BG3 which is expected " We now have a better idea of just how successful Baldur's Gate 3 was, with the Irish Independent reporting that the game sold 15 million copies. This comes after developer Larian reported €214,000 in losses prior to Baldur's Gate 3 launch. Now, it's being reported that Larian made €249 million in pre-tax profits - quite the turnaround after its losses. This puts the studio in a very comfortable position as it works on its next two RPGs, which are not Baldur's Gate related and therefore won't require the Dungeons & Dragons licence. "

Star Wars TurnBased Tactics game? ok!

^ I saw Little Girl Who Lives Down the Land on TV when I was maybe 11. I liked it a lot then. Surreal in a way. I guess Apoc. Now was what cemented M. Sheen in many minds? He's had a long career but I'm not sure I'd call most of his films/tv must watch. He played a not-creep/baddie in Gettysberg, just to say. I don't think he was that great in that, but it was more the long winded, pontificating script. Only Jeff Daniels came out shining in that one, imo. In other: I've decided I like "teasers" more than full trailers these days. This one (thriller/horror I gather) tells me nothing of the film, outside of the notion that some children are missing - but it's just weird imagery of kids running with arms akimbo. I may not see the movie, but I like the teaser.

In other news, USA now such a terrible destination that Mexicans prefer life under the cartels.

Hegseth could at least have given the traditional bastion of top secret military leaks, the WarThunder forums, a heads up instead of keeping it to select officials/ family/ friends/ the mailman and a journalist.

I feel ya. When I tried the beta, I struggled to switch to 4 button layout and kept pressing "Guard" instead of heavy punch. Wasting two base roster slots on odd real-humans killed any interest I had in the game for the moment. Might reconsider, once first season of DLC characters is done. That said, I am not sure if I have time for a 2nd fighting game in my life. SF6 might be enough for now.

I have decided to give a go to Fatal Fury: City of Wolves fighting game. The optimization is very good, I can play the game on Ultra Settings on my 4 year old Ryzen 9 5900X with Radeon RX 6900XT. I have went through all of the Tutorials, and then trained a little bit with one very good King of Fighters players. My biggest issue with that game is blocking. I have almost exclusively played Mortal Kombat games since Sega Mega Drive/Genesis days, where you have dedicated block button, and this game has the classic blocking with ⬅️ or ↙️ input, and I can’t force my brain into accepting that 😅 and of course, my opponents can easily exploit this. I am still having fin, but I will probably have to spent a lot of time to recondition my brain to different behaviour.

Star Wars Xcom during the Clone Wars seems like a slam dunk for me. I love all of those things.

I heard it's being made by some of the XCOM folks, so it could be decent.

Happy Easter

Im 36 hours into Pathfinder and I have just ended the Troll threat I am absolutely loving this game. It has a wide depth of mechanics and rules around the Pathfinder system but this is my first time playing Pathfinder and I have never been someone too concerned with a deep understanding of mechanics in these types of RPG, I obviously learn how to be effective in combat and what buffs and roles are best to adopt in a strategic way in battles And then I just have fun and go wild. And this game really delivers. Some components that are entertaining and really well done I love how you need to explore to find things like the troll lair. combat is obviously the best part of the game, very strategic and complex around how you need to use different approaches I like the lore and the history of the gods no level scaling from what I can see, when I get annihilated I come back at higher level and I can win battles loads of Easter Egg encounters like the Young Dweomercat and how he randomly appears to help me some really interesting companion side quests I am not sure how I should configure my XP gain around active party members only getting XP? Because the downside is when you select another party member they not on the same level but I now think I have my "ideal " party and its based on a combination of tanks, healing and combat magic This is my current party selection Gimar ( my main character ) as the primary combat magic user Amiri as a tank Valeri initially as tank but I have now adopted Ekundayo because his archery and dog companion seem much more effective? Octavia as thief and secondary combat mage ( I decided to replace her with Kalikke) Tristian as main healer and also combat mage Linzi as main buffs and very useful in combat with spells and healing (Tashas hideous laughter has literally saved me several times fighting trolls )

Goal nr. 5/2025 achieved. April 17, 16:30 – 8 years and 4 months after I have booted Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness for the first time on my PS4, I have finally finished my 3rd and final playthrough on hardest Chaos Difficulty. With that, I have acquired the last missing trophy. Skipping most of the quests and optional content, it took me about 23 hours. I had to repeat few boss encounters, because they hit harder than a truck, so my main character was knocked out a lot of times. And I have to say, without the special crafted Reserve Rush gear, which helped me to get faster my “ultimate attack”, it would be much harder and take much longer to finish the game on this difficulty. In total it took me about 185 hours to get the Platinum Trophy.

I think you can die even earlier than that if you pick the right (wrong) options in the first dialogue. (Not the earliest death in a game in any case, if you play Kingdom Come in hardcore mode you have a 90% chance of dying from measles/ childbirth/ smallpox/ typhoid/ cholera/ whooping cough/ plague/ misadventure/ non specific infection immediately after leaving the main menu. You even get an achievement for it)

I started playing Disco Elysium. I put on most of my clothes. Reached for my tie which was on a ceiling fan, then had a heart attack and died and went to the game over screen. That counts as completing a playthrough right?

Beat avowed. I enjoyed it. The worst part about is it that you are aedyran. Limits role playing. The best thing about the game is how they managed to make it feel like Eora. Don't want to go into particulars. Maybe I will write something in the avowed spoilers page. One thing is for sure. After playing kcd2 and avowed back to back, I am done with first person RPGs for a while.

Speaking of healthy food: Was pretty good.

In-game your saves are grouped by playthrough, so clearly the game can make sense of it. I see no cause for concern.

Pope Francis

Electronic Arts... I already see billions of premium currencies and pay to progress gameplay... *SIGHS*

The Supreme Court apparently seized the deportation case from Alito after he inexplicably didn't refer it to the Court and then summarily ruled on it without even giving him or Thomas any time to write their dissents at 1 in the morning. If that's not the Supreme Court in a late night panic trying to conserve the little power they have remaining (and in the face of two of their members willingly try to give that away, too), I don't know what is. Waiting for that Gromnir Easter scoop on this...

I tried to start a new playthrough of Outer Worlds - and try the dlc - but am realizing that I care so little for the story, I find it a chore.