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Wake the f* up, samurai. You're burning the wrong thread. That said, basic leather armor and a shield are enough to tank everything he can throw at you.

So, with the corona and all, I decided to start the game again, as it's clearly the best one around at the moment. And I also decided to give myself a proper challenge, ramping up the difficulty. Whoa. And I couldn't deal with it. I mean, the digsite is just too much. I tried using the clearly designed choke points and so on, but both the boar (in one of the fights) and the drake (in the other) were too much for me. I'm clearly not good enough. So I decided to take the stealthy route, entering the sub-level and finding Oderisi there so that I wouldn't have to fight any battles at all. Gorecci Street: ditto. I took the south route to avoid the battle altogether(*). And then, after leaving the first island... no problems. On the same difficulty level. I've done Fort Deadlight (no problem with the guards at the undergound docks -- I was able to use the gunpowder barrels to my advantage), Purakau and another bounty encounter. It's not exactly easy, but it's not difficult, either. I have to say this is slightly peculiar. I can't think of another game where the beginning is just incredibly difficult but everything gets so much easier immediately afterwards. I can't help but think that Obsidian made a bit of a mistake here. Of course the game is still great. (*) In other words: I was able to keep the difficulty level only because of my meta-game knowledge in both encounters.

Not sure where to post this, but I'll be rocking off to this for the rest of the night: xD Some background information.

Just sat on the couch doing nothing much with Netflix running and for some reason it suddenly played the third episode of Cardcaptor Sakura. Not sure how that happened. I'll mark the spoilers but really nothing that happens here is of any consequence, you're free to read. That "feelgood" tag the anime has on Netflix is well earned. Compared to Sailor Moon so far it's a bit more shōjo, but that's not something I mind... never did, not even when I at least was in the same age group as the regular shōjo target audience.

Looking out and enjoying the view after a storm...

Yeah, the literal Liberal party here in Sweden want to work with the Swedish Democrats to bring about free-market economy, privatize everything and basically **** the poor.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/apr/11/secret-history-monopoly-capitalist-game-leftwing-origins

Mussolini won the election in 1924... with a coalition of fascists, catholics, liberals (not to be confused with the American use of the word liberal) and conservatives. The parallels (edit: what feels attracted to what) are hard to overlook.

I saw the Minako episode of Super S. Despite some things it was one of the better ones if only because the focus was on something besides Usagi and Chibi-Usa fighting over Mamoru's attention.

Doh! Well, Valheim is the new cyberpunk, I think.

Don't sell yourself short, Shady. I bet you have the capacity to do great evil if you set your mind to it. I believe in you.

Huh... Steven Universe spoiler: And with that I think I'll be off hanging out on the couch a bit before dozing off. Gonna check out Netflix, I have a feeling it'll "randomly" play some Cardcaptor Sakura again, or perhaps an episode of JoJo or two. Nightynight!

Sailor Moon Sailor Stars' problems can be mostly ignored. It doesn't reach the greatness of S, and it looks ever so slightly different... and the... everything is... well... that's also why I totally avoid talking about it whenever I can (except for pointing out how stupid the ending of the manga was compared to the already not that great ending of the anime). I love Sailor Stars, but the problem is it has all the telltale signs of a season from other shows that I loved but everyone else I know who watched hated (or at least disliked). Like seasons nine and ten of Stargate SG1. All of my friends hated the Ori. I loved the idea and the episodes dealing with them (less so the constant problems you get when literal gods are involved in the plot). Like a show you really loved at some point that ran too long for a season or two? That's why I brought up How I Met Your Mother, because it feels a bit like the later seasons of that. I posted that before, but the show also had issues there and some really forced stupid sitcommy jokes (much like Sailor Stars has stupid forced conflict), but that's all in the background for me. Not so for others. edit: Also, not gonna lie, where the writers gave the idiot ball to Usagi and Chibi-Usa in SuperS, they handed it over to the Outer Senshi for Sailor Stars.

@majestic Heh, I saw the original English dub of a scene from that episode a while ago, as well as some other random bits and pieces of SuperS and Sailor Stars. From just the clips I've seen, you'd almost think SuperS and Sailor Stars were just as good as the first three seasons...but I guess it's a bit of selection bias, .

I haven't tried that variant yet, I'm still at brown sugar, irish whiskey (Sucks that I'm stuck with Tullamore DEW atm) with a whipped cream float. I can see some baileys working nice though Only problem is that I'd proabably only get one drink out of a bottle of baileys. I know myself. I know what will happen to that poor baileys bottle.

Yeah. Gorecci Street is a side quest, as you say, but you absolutely have to do the digsite. I don't know how many players would discover the stealthy option unaided, but probably not that many.

Yes, it's a bit much. Maybe Obsidian wanted to show that you don't need to fight every encounter but sometimes have to avoid fights. They did so with the bear cave in PoE. But that was a side quest. Gorecci Str. is also a side quest, but I don't understand the digsite. You can sneak past the Drake etc. - but chances that new players will become extremely frustrated are quite high. At least there should have been some tutorial-like warnings of explanations that it's always an option to void a fight and that XP from fighting is not very high anyway.

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Played the new mission in Troubleshooter. Tonight I'll play it again and send in feedback on the translation

It inevitably does because those labor laws and regulations are the very antithesis of free market and privatization. The Liberals want to dismantle the Employment Protection act for one. We have massive economic inequality here in Sweden, and it's growing each year, faster and faster due to the right wing politicians and the Social Democrats taking away several different taxes that only benefit the wealthy, the gift tax, the estate tax, the property tax has been set to a maximum of 0.75% of the property value. Capital gains tax and corporate taxes are below the OECD average. The only high taxes you pay in Sweden are income taxes, something which hits the poor way harder than the rich. So yeah. We need a new Stockholm bloodbath. Just with less Danes.

I watched this video today and decided it was more than enough Valheim for me. Not gonna dive into this game.

Nintendo recently sent me an e-mail telling me that I can buy coupons in the online store. 99€ for two full price games... means I just bought the most blatant cash grab in history, Super Mario 3D All-Stars and Bravely Default 2. I wanted both anyway, and with the clock ticking on 3D All-Stars that just sealed the deal. At least I can pretend to have minimized the effect for totally falling for a cashgrab by saving 20€, even though never having played Sunshine or ever finished Super Mario Galaxy (only the second one) would be justification enough, I guess. Now there's only one tiny problem that remains. How can I get my visiting nephew to stop hugging my Switch?

I picked it up because a few friends did it and set up their own server to run it. So running around voice chatting and combining our efforts. We were actually a bit paranoid about Eikthyr, so before we summoned him, we slapped down a worktable, and build a set of stockade walls with archery platforms to climb up around it, just to add a little extra. Then he went down fairly easily. The Elder is much more of a nightmare to face. Don't try it till you have a lot of bronze, and a whole bunch of fire arrows.

I haven't gone too much into most of them but

Yes it was spoilerman. Loaded up the manual save closest to when I had the fight, which is level 23, so let's say that whole quest gave me a level, so 22. I do tend to float both my attribute and perk points though, so it can be a little misleading. So I have 12 in Tech and Cool, and 9 in Int - also 3 in Body and 5 in Reflexes, both untouched since the game began. I started by grabbing all the non-combat perks in the Stealth tree, then the non-combat ones in Breach Protocol. I'd sort of exhausted both, so then I started putting them into Crafting, despite me crafting exactly zero items so far. So that last bit is kinda my fault I guess? In the end while looking through my stuff, I randomly tried Cripple Movement for the first time and to my surprise, it worked on him and indeed completely stunned him. This let me wail on him with a random purple stick I had in my bags for 40% of his life. Then I repeated the trick. Then just spammed healing potions for the rest (because I have no RAM regen). Awful, awful fight but at least it's over and there were no more bosses afterwards, except presumably one that's being telegraphed hard for the endgame. Thankfully an upgraded Cyberdeck with much more RAM was the actual only piece of gear I've bought throughout the course of the game, because if I had stuck with the starting one, I'd have been completely screwed - the repeated times I tried to shoot him only got him down to barely 90%.

I don't live there, I only read the web news, but every time somebody in the US uses the word 'Liberal' to describe someone or something, it's implied they means 'Commie' (or socialist) Cambridge defines it a bit differently https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/liberal And a liberal party... can be just about anything. When I was still living in Europe, the various western European countries liberal parties were centre-right parties favouring unregulated market economy, tax the poor and reward the rich kind of attitude. edit: the latter being why I don't think the US use of the word quite matches the perception of it elsewhere. edit2: The current Australian PM and his party are the 'Australian Liberal Party', biggest pile of vile scumbags you'll ever see in a western country.

Speaking of cable news...

I'm a sucker for FMV games and this one includes the actor that played Jenks (he's the best) in Contradiction: I'll wait for reviews as the studio only had made 1 game before this, a point & click with less than glowing reviews.

It's a Pavlovian response to when people end a sentence with "hah".

Hit a wall with this damn mission First Blood in Nexus, can't kill the enemy before I fail the objective. I did clear it but lost 2 ships I need for the next mission. And no way to turn difficulty down without restarting the whole game, hah.

I've cut back on alcohol a lot but last night I treated myself to a couple of old fashioneds. Definitely one of the top 2 or 3 that I've ever had.

So I bought Valheim before it as cool. Played about 30 minutes, had bad performance on my fairly new computer, and refunded it. Then everyone and their mother bought it, and I saw all the pictures posted here, and I am weak-willed, so I gave it another try. I'm enjoying it more but I still can't get it to perform well. I get a lot of lag whenever I try to sprint around. But it is fun building chimneys.

No, while the rampart is done, the interior of the keep is still fairly barebones. Ground floor - Crafting room: Second floor (or first floor depending on which side of the pond you are on) - Throne room: Third floor - bedroom: There's also a small attic. It's currently empty.

But do you have a lap pool? No zombie apocalypse is going to deprive me of my comforts, darnit!

It's only possible to override Item and Ability icons, not UI textures sadly. Which font color would suit you the best? Do you want to replace player dialogue options as well, or just the white text spoken by other characters? I had some success editing the Assembly-CSharp.dll to use specific hardcode font colors, for now just play responses as a proof of concept, but I think it would be possible to apply this to all conversation text if you are ok with this solution: If not, I would try to batch search/replace in the conversation stringtables like you mentioned.

I'm building my castle My building site has been "attacked" multiple times already. By "attacked" I mean enemies awkwardly trying and failing to get across the moat and sheer wall while I sit and laugh.

I think I'd end up foiling my own plot, being too annoyed at heroic incompetence.

I'd be the bad guy whose evil plots always backfire and accidentally help everyone

Very tempted to get Evil Genius 2.

Honestly I'd love to see all party members be horny bisexuals but all of them are completely uninterested in the player.

wrath of the righteous, unlike many premade pnp adventures, contemplated companion npcs who would join your party, albeit at a somewhat diminished level. the pnp ap contemplated romances with the companions and bisexual were arguable the default option. yeah, more than a few o' the companions in owlcat's wotr are unique to the crpg, but we would be surprised if paizo didn't have input on the choice o' romance preferences o' companions. for those familiar with the wotr ap, the romance preferences o' companions being inclusive as 'posed to exclusive is predictable. from our pov, companion romances in crpgs is always terrible. always. as long as such is kept optional and tangential, am not concerned. am finding weird how invested is people with not just the romances but the gender preferences. *shrug* optional and tangential, so who cares? is not as if owlcat invested a whole lotta effort into the writing aspect o' kingmaker, so is not as if adding romance options is some kinda resource sink. whatever. have spent some effort doing the army management. heroes o' might and magic is an obvious inspiration. the interface is less intuitive than we would want-- took us a few long minutes o' frustration trying to figure out how to split units. am understanding there is less o' quest on a timer aspect to army management than were the case o' kingdom building in owlcat's previous effort, but am not certain how that is gonna work in wotr? you gain resources based on a timer, so... am too early into the army management stuff to offer some kinda definitive opinion. am a bit annoyed that our default tactic when fighting powerful melee units involves offering sacrificial single units to be destroyed while our archers decimate. have become extreme reliant on cleric and leader healing to restore unit strength before the end o' a battle, which feels like cheese. am having difficulty impacting morale to any degree. etc. will offer more meaningful feedback when we have more experience. we will note the combat and army management doesn't appear bugged to any significant degree. like it or hate it, army management is working as intended. as we play more, we notice more bugs, and a few is irksome. having to toggle rapid shot is a pain to get the correct number o' attacks as we default to a single attack for our zen archer/sanctified slayer unless we do so. we took an animal companion as part o' our priestly domain, but the animal companion archetype did not carry over from animal companion generation to actual gameplay. maybe not a bug, but am having nowhere to purchase cold iron arrows/bolts early in chap 2, so archery value is diminished. skalds is busted every which way with the inability to apply keening spells or choose bard specific feats as well as archetypes defaulting to vanilla skald post character generation. pc slayers is similar busted when attempting to choose feats. mythic stuff is borked as often as not. can't get a second spirit for our spirit shaman companion, 'cause that option don't work. impossible domain is indeed appropriate named as is impossible for a cleric to add a third. etc. nevertheless, the bugs is still fewer in number and severity than expected and the overall stability o' the game is excellent. loading times is satisfactory and nowhere near as bad as were kingmaker when it were released. is not a deep rpg experience so far, and our pre-knowledge o' the ap perhaps undercuts some o' the impact pivotal events, but am not thinking fans o' kingmaker were looking for depth so much as breadth. kingmaker offered a huge range o' character development and gameplay options and wotr expands the menu o' choices. wotr is exceeding expectations so far. as an aside, one o' the recent developer gameplay streams was a h00t. we didn't watch anywhere near seven hours, but we wanted to. HA! Good fun!