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https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/whatever-the-fallout-tv-show-does-with-new-vegas-lore-josh-sawyer-doesnt-care-it-was-never-mine bla bla bla, Fallout, bla bla bla No new info regarding PoE2 production, but quite a bit of flavour from JS point of view:

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Yuppie Psycho, successfully 100%-ed! This time, I played through the 'true' ending, which actually properly resolved the central story once and for all... ...but it was personally much more horrifying for me. Steam lists these two game tags back-to-back, just like this, for Yuppie Psycho: It's honestly pretty accurate, and I think I'd say that cute horror is the best horror. The same developer is working on a similar game that I hope is at least 75% as good, and having now played this game twice (although really more like three times, what with the failed "no save" playthrough mentioned in my previous post having gotten me like 80% of the way there), I can now safely qualify this game as one of my favorite games of all time - it's stuck with me for years at this point, and I still love it. There's something about all the different little pieces that come together perfectly to make it a really personalized-for-me kind of game. Though I could probably play quality games in this genre (this kind of top-down exploration game with fun characters, world, and story) for probably forever if I had enough of them. If anyone knows of any more, feel free to recommend them to me. Though I've already played SIGNALIS, which was similar-ish and which I also really liked.

Finally finished Chapterhouse, the cliffhanger ending is more annoying than I recall.

Interesting that from what I've read, "voicing every character in the game" appears to be either a feature that doesn't particularly impress players or seems like a downright mistake (for me, it's a mistake, because it seems obvious that it constrained the writing too much and too early), and the fact that "Sawyer was blocked from cutting a major feature" (assuming it's naval combat, which I'm pretty sure it was) looks like a big mistake to an awful lot of players (in my view, all time spent on this feature was time wasted). So, "Obsidian", whoever that happens to mean exactly, seems to have made two big mistakes or at least two choices that made very little positive difference in the game, and Sawyer knew it and just had to soldier on with it.

Decided to take a break from Dragon's Dogma1, and reinstalled Final Fantasy7Remake to do a hard mode run. I wouldn't recommend it unless ones feels like doing a 2nd playthrough and want to untick remaigning achievements and the handful of extra battles. I am nearing the end, and it just hasn't been very interesting - the gimmick is that one can't use items. Which means MP used for casting spells is rather limited. After struggling with the first boss in the game, I switched to utilising non MP Materia's (Chaklra, Prey for healing, elemental and synergy for elemental damange).... and so far that's been pretty much it. Climbing through the ranks in SF6. Eached Platinum1, which I believe is most populated, most middle of the road rank. The game tends to funnel players into it, as up to this point leveling up is far easier than leveling down. It is quite interesting how quality of matches got worse - previously players often weren't great, but they tried. I had couple good matches in platinum, but most opponents where cheesy, one tricks ponies. It is also rare to get rechallenged after winning. Wierd bunch that platinum1. I sincerely hope I won't get stuck in that bracket.

The End of Sailor Moon: Sailor Moon Cosmos. I have no words for this. This travesty of a film is almost three hours long, and in order to save my sanity, I shall turn the playback to 2.0 speed. What in the everblazing infernos of Hell is that? This post might have less screenshots than usual since it will be much harder to capture stuff at 2 times the regular playback speed. After a brief opening scene, the intro begins, and thankfully it is over really, really quickly. However, I felt the need to punish myself and go look for it on YouTube, because it needs to be seen to be believed. Well, and heard. Heard too. Three minutes into the movie and I already want to kill myself. Okay, so this begins with Usagi waking up, then leaving the house. Chibi-Usa and Hotaru are holding hands and are gossiping, and Usagi complains about them being awfully close, to which Hotaru replies that she and Mamoru are also holding hands like that. Score one for the creepy romances. I mean if Chibi-Usa would have said that, it could have been her just teasing Usagi. Hotaru has no reason to tease Usagi. And, after not even five minutes, I already wish there would be actual brain bleach. Instead I will forever be stuck with the image of Hotaru and Chibi-Usa holding hands with Hotaru comparing it to Usagi and Mamoru. "The pain will only be passing. You should survive the process." -- Joneleth Irenicus Well, to be honest, Hotaru is a better choice than Pegasus the Pedophile Alicorn, and it is only natural after Hotaru's experiments with the crystal butt plug in season three, but why is this scene even there? We switch to everyone meeting at school, and by that I mean everyone. Haruka and Michiru are there, for no particular reason, and Setsuna is the school nurse. Sure, why not. Wait, wasn't she studying physics back in season three? Well, whatever. I already forgot the actual plot of the season from the manga, instead of Mamoru being hit by Galaxia's attack on the plane, this one happens right in front of Usagi's eyes. With Mamoru dead, Usagi falls into a catatonic stupor that nobody seems to notice. She tells everyone Mamoru arrived safely in the US, and everyone is just buying it. Chibi-Usa goes home, making the romance scene even dumber than it already was, and Minako sort of notices that Usagi is acting weird, but nothing comes of it. Oh. And now I have something to tortue @Bartimaeus with. Behold Sailor Moon Cosmos' version of Sailor Iron Mouse. She's at a Three Lights concert like this, and no one cares. Sure, it's Japan, but seriously, what? Okay, so we get the full girls transformation sequence, then Uranus and Neptune show up, and Sailor Star Healer just obliterates Sailor Iron Mouse. One shot kill. Boom. No Chopin for you this time, Mouse. Bye! Good use of a villain. Well, villain. Mind dominated pawn, as it were, but who cares about makin such minutiae clear to the audience. Usagi remembers Mamoru being obliterated, but then just forgets. Can I have the original series back please? Please? Chibi Chibi shows up, while Seiya is a creep and stalks Usagi. Why is everyone who is interested in Usagi a creepy stalker? Look at that, Haruka's boob job from Eternal went away, but she suddenly dresses like a teenage girl. Usagi is on the school roof and writing a letter to Mamoru, and I was staring at it for a bit and went "man, her writing is really terrible", and then the Three Lights show up. Yaten looks at the letter and tells Usagi that her handwriting sucks. Well, I laughed. A little. Haruka shows up and tries to defend Usagi. She's wearing the same school uniform. Hello, hey, uhm, hey writers. Anyone, hello? Two seasons ago, these characters were university students, why are they at Usagi's High School now? They all go to a concert, some stuff of no consequence happens, then Seiya finds Usagi on another rooftop, purely by coincidence. Sailor Aluminum Siren shows up and obliterates Sailor Jupiter and Sailor Mercury. Poof. In return, Aluminum Siren gets oblibterated by Fighter's Star Gentle Uterus. 30 minutes down, two hours and ten minutes left. Please, release me from my pain. Can I make this go faster and still read the subtitles? Let's try 2.25x playback speed. Uranus b*tch-slapping Venus. Because why the hell not? Hey look, I need to apologize to the writers of Sailor Stars. Haruka carrying the stupid ball and being all negative towards the Three Lights seems to be in the manga too. She threatens the three for absolutely no reason other than that they were on the roof too and helped with dealing with Aluminum Siren. Great. If nothing else, this is going to make me love Sailor Stars more than I already do. Some plot stuff happens in fast-forward, Usagi forgets that Makoto and Ami died, nobody gives a flying fart about that, and she takes off to talk to friends of Mamoru to see if he contacted them. Which obivously they did not. Then there is this scene. Hush little Rei, we are alone on the roof. Just relax. Also, please do not mind that I am coming from volleyball practice and am probably all sweaty and stuff. Quick question to anyone who has read up until here, tell me, do Japanese students really have access to the school's roof like that? Seems to me that in a land where suicide is as prevalent as in Japan, it might not be the best idea to present students with such an easy way to plunge to their deaths. Yes, that is actually what I am wondering about while Minako and Rei have their moment. Half a second later Minako is yapping about them finding boyfriends. Half a second later, we are back to the, uhm, implied lesbian shenanigans. We don't need boys, they say. Oh brain bleach, where art thou? Lead Crow shows up at Rei's temple and it is revealed that Rei's crows are actually Sailor Phobos and Sailor Deimos. They are from Lead Crow's home planet. How does that make sense? It does not. Does that matter? No! Nothing matters in this pile of garbage. Lead Crow kills Phobos and Deimos, then fights Venus and Mars until Sailor Moon shows up and Lead Crow is annihilated by Sailor Honeymoon Therapy Kiss. Must be some therapy, eh? You know, writers of this pile of garbage, you might want to think about adapting something in a way that makes sense. This is basically just stringing animated manga chapters together in a film and calling it a day. If that would work for a film, it would not have been released as a manga, but a freaking film script. Star Trek: Into Derpness is less disjointed than this. Galactica shows up and kills Venus and Mars in front of Sailor Moon. Well, at least that convinces Haruka to drop the idiot ball. Small steps. Meow. Uranus, Neptune and Pluto return to their castles (for anyone who forgot about that, they're all princesses with castles) to technobabble some protective shield around the Solar System. You know, given that you have had a whole bunch of alien and interdimensional incursions in the past, oh, four years, wouldn't that shield have been useful all along? Why is it not turned on? Galactica kills Pluto in half a second. Hotaru teleports away (they can all teleport when necessary but they never teleport themselves out of harm's way, the writing of this is so bad), then Seiya and company just storm into Usagi's room through her window because that's how and where all the creeps come into her home, and Chibi Chibi transforms and the Starlight's princess shows up. That was like in one of the last episodes of the original anime before the final plot starts, and we are at roughly an hour (of 2:40) into the film. No wonder the ending of the last season had pacing issues. Tin Nyanko is trying to kill Luna, Artemis and Diana in their human forms. The cats survive the attack because reasons (no animals were harmed in the production of this film, except Iron Mouse, Lead Crow and, eh, never mind), there's some more dumb exposition from the Starlight's Princess, and she's basically drooling over Usagi, the mostest powerfulest of all the most powerful Sailor Senshi. Seiya kisses Usagi. I mean, she just kisses her, unbidden. Why is everyone in this series assaulting Usagi all the time? Mamoru when she was drunk and sleeping, Haruka in season three, now Seiya. For crying out loud. 1:08 into the film, and Galaxia meets Usagi and proceeds to obliterate Tokyo. So, basically, I am looking forward to what, an hour and twenty minutes of fighting Galaxia? Really? Is that a joke? Usagi had a vision of all her friends being dead. Seriously? What the hell, Uranus, Neptune and Saturn had an off-screen death? Are you kidding me, film? Or maybe not. You could also just have Chibi Chibi deus ex machina away all the destruction. Yes, that just happened. This looks so bad it hurts staring at it. Galaxia blows the planet up because it is trash - can't disagree with that assessment, just look at how awful that CGI is. Tin Nyanko shows up to apologize for failing, and Galaxia Dath Vaders her arse. Is it just me or is her end in the original series much better? Having her black and white conflict before being destroyed. Exposition dump explains that stars are forged in the Galaxy Cauldron at the center of the galaxy. Usagi resolves to find Galaxia and dispense justice. We all know murder death kill Usagi's justice. First half over. Yay! Just how much of this insane manure riddled plot did the writers of the original anime drop? The next half opens with Usagi leaving home and her mother ominously saying that it feels like she is never going to return. When Seiya saw Sailor Moon's rad wings, she wanted to have wings too. Wings! For everyone! Must have been a Halloween costume sale somewhere. They're off to check what happend to Uranus and the others, and Pluto and Saturn get a flashback death. Take that Neptune and Uranus, you don't deserve nothing. Nothing. Usagi resolves to go to Saggitarius Zero Star, so basically the center of the galaxy. She's had it with Galaxia. Roll opening two. Why? Just why? Uhm, a giant CGI door opens and we meet someone new. Hello, I am Sailor Lethe, and your tour guide through a not quite accurate inspiration from Greek mythology. A ferryman in the middle of a desert. Sure. It's okay. Usagi, just keep one thing in mind: Usagi gets separated from everyone else, some weird girl shows up and finally kills Artemis, Luna and Diana. They even seem to disappear in the future of Chibi-Usa and Neo-Queen Serenity, just to drive home how dire the situation really is. Something's changing the past. Oh my. Chibi-Usa had it with people changing her life, and transforms, in come the Sailor Quartet, you know, the circus girls from the season with the pedophile horse guy. Sailor Mnemosyne shows up and talks to Lethe. Exposition dump how Galaxia destroyed their homes and they joined her. The exposition explains that they're twins, the imagery of the film implies they're not just really good friends, but really, really good friends, if you catch my drift. They let everyone go. Okay. Sisters, close friends, lo... erm. Yeah. Because this crap just can't stop having creepy scenes, and someone really seems to like incest. Naoko, is that you? Sailor Phi, who is Galaxia's gardener (no, really) shows up with Sailor Chi (uhm, also Sailor Galaxia's gardner) in tow. They can't have that betrayal and kill Lethe and Mnemosyne, and then the Starlights. Behold: Chaos. Well, we get a look at Lord Chaos, Galaxia's master, who looks like generic evil being #25 from stockcgivillainimages.com. Moon, Chibi Chibi and Kakyuu (the Starlight's princess) walk into a graveyard. They are crucified and greeted by, well, I can't even type it. I just need to show you. I am so glad to be done with this soon. Chibi Moon shows up and saves the day by just killing Sailor HEAVY METAL PAPILLON. I'd sign a contract with Galaxia. Well, they talk about how Chibi Chibi could be Chibi-Usa's daughter. You know, that would be less dumb than what Chibi Chibi really is (Sailor Cosmos, Sailor Moon's final form from the distant future). Phi and Chi show up and kill Kakyuu, Kakyuu and Sailor Moon share some last words, then Moon kills Chi. For some inane reason shadow copies of the Sailor Senshi show up to fight Sailor Moon. Not sure If I missed Phi dying in the fast forward action or if she just died off screen, but who gives a damn. Mamoru shows up and orders the Senshi to kill Sailor Moon. Sailor Moon Shinjis it out by standing there. Chibi-Usa is the only one with half a brain and realizes that these are just fake shadow copies made by Galaxia, but it's not like Sailor Moon listens to her. Then she has a change of heart, gets a power up and just obliterates everyone. She chases Mamoru to Galaxia who proceeds to kiss her. Wow, how original, that's what BRACK RADY did in this idiotic series three seasons ago. Galaxia gives some sob story about her cruel past (including an allusion to being raped) and then runs off to the Cauldron and Sailor Moon chases her. Galaxia throws everyone's crystals into the Cauldron, effectively killing them for real this time. Well, sort of. Maybe. Galaxia goes full level Bond villain and tells Sailor Moon her entire plan, Sailor Moon and Chaos will destroy each other and she will rule as the strongest Senshi left. With Mamoru gone, Chibi-Usa disappears before Chaos shows up and attacks Galaxia. Good thing no one saw that coming, but Sailor Moon saves her. Chaos' eyes are now more of a purple hue. Why? Who knows. Who cares. Chaos also goes full Bond villain, and he tells Sailor Moon that he was behind all the evils she faced in the past. Sailor Moon talks to Galaxia. There's some exposition about life and death, the fate of the galaxy, and peace meaning that the galaxy must die (the source of everything destroyed, as it invariably creates light and dark, and thus, conflict). This philosophical part isn't half bad. It's half-baked and comes out of nowhere, but it's not terrible. Galaxia randomly kills herself because why not kill yourself after your miniature-redemption. Sailor Moon is not into the whole peace through death thingy. Hands up, who saw that coming? Me neither. Blah, blah, blah, something, blah. Sailor Moon destroyed Chaos with OUR POWER COMBINED and turned into CAPTAIN PLANET, or something. Lambda power! Well, maybe not into Captain Planet, but Sailor Moon just remerged Chaos with the Cauldron and herself, basically pushing the reset button, and everyone starts being reincarnated. Sailor Cosmos reveals herself as, well, Sailor Cosmos to the Quartet, the only ones who are still around. Things get really surreal now, as Usagi wakes up wearing a night gown, with Mamoru and everyone else showing up, clad also in... nightgowns. Well, it beats Haruka's teenage girl getup from earlier, so that's something, I guess. Can you guys please make up your mind? Oh, no. I am sailing, I am sailing, home again, 'cross the sea... yes please more of this ship. Yay. Ami x Makoto confirmed?!!? Guardian Cosmos shows up (why not make up characters at the eleventh hour, that is always a great choice) and sends everyone home. Credits roll, and I feel free. Since I am watching on 2.27x the regular speed, I feel like I can just let them run, only to discover, much to my dismay, that there is a post credit scene! IT BURNS MY PRECIOUS. IT BURNS. NASTY. NASTY. OF ELVEN MAKE. IT BURNS. I am sorry, I can't come up with a caption for this. Mamoru proposes to Usagi. Marriage. Usagi feels a new star born inside her. Yay! It is FINALLY over. I AM FREE OF THIS. FOREVER FREE. If Toei ever decides to milk the franchise for more money, I hope nobody tells me. One last word, out of everything Sailor Crystal, this was the least terrible entry. Not that it was a good film, mind you, but it was the better than Eternal and the first three seasons. You know, in the way that lung cancer is better than pancreatic or stomach cancer, because it will kill you slower and you have more time left.

Oh no, it's incredibly cringeworthy. In addition to the fact they're creative black holes, it's because they're largely incapable of engaging with or even investigating anything outside of their bubble, so their satire is coming from a place that's not really aware of what they're trying to satire.

most non conservative satire are more sad than funny pretty difficult to laugh at the stupidity of conservative when most people are too busy suffering it

Babylon Bee does tend to try and bludgeon you to death with their satire. It lacks any of the self awareness and subtlety that you tend to see with The Onion.

Is it my bias and/or political leaning that makes right-wing/conservative satire always seem so incredibly cringeworthy, or is it just really just cringeworthy?

Don't let the reviews or the fanbyos fool you, good choice. AM5 had some serious teething issues, or maybe still has, supposedly the AGESA updates to improve compatibility with DDR5 helped. Just, uhm, make sure that your mainboard settings in the BIOS don't allow your CPU to overdose iself on power. There seems to be a creeping stability issue because current mainboard settings allow the current Intel CPUs to chomp too much power for their own good. Basically all new CPUs can overclock themselves depending on certain conditions, and with the 13900K and the current 14th "gen" CPUs, these limits seem to vector off into unstable regions if your mainboard allows the CPU unlimited power draw. Asus is particularily insane, with it's default setting allowing the CPU to pull up to 511A (in words five hundred and eleven, just to make sure you don't think this is a typo) through the VCC rail, which is way beyond the "extreme overclocking" limit set by Intel, and as the name implies, exreme overclocking just might not be entirely stable or safe for your CPU. Not that Intel is actively doing anything to discourage that, because it makes for bigger numbers in reviews, and bigger numbers is better. Biggerbetter, so to say. In the not very distant past, AMD didn't either, until their CPUs started exploding.

I've been trying to get into Fallout 3, but it's not going well. It's weird because I can play F:NV pretty much every year, but Fallout 3 is just a big dud for me. I played it at release and finished it, but I've never been able to give it another go. I hear the expansions are decent too, but I can't even get myself far enough along in the main story to give those a try. I don't know, it's just a very grey cement world filled with very dull people. Ah well, maybe I'll play Fallout 2 instead. It's been a couple years, I think.

7 Days to Die is going to leave Early Access this summer after 10 years. Version 1.0! ... and coming to console again! With a higher pricetag ($45)! But they still have a roadmap. And haven't put in those promised bandits yet. Or other stuff like weather and (PC) optimizations. Coming in updates thru and to maybe late 2025. Maybe with some costume DLC. So basically, it's a "gold" Alpha 1.0 release so it can be labeled as a not-early access release to console. I still personally like the game as a goof-around time, but, all I gotta say is: "Bwahahahahaaaaaa!"

Well done on the hard work and thank you for the response. I speak for myself when I say I'm stoked for the update!

Hi folks, sorry for the delayed response, we've been heads down working on the deployment of this patch. We're anticipating to release in the coming weeks, we're just locking in deployment on the various platforms now. Currently we are targeting Steam, Game Pass, GOG, and Epic Store for PC. We've also been working on Mac and Linux builds, which we're hoping to push in a separate patch along with more continued improvements and bug fixes. Thank you all for your patience and support.

A party of 5 chanters. Different flavours and types, if you so desire. At least one beckoner. The beckoner really should be an orlan so his or her skeletons match. Have all of them get the skeleton summoning spell and the skeleton summoning chant. Start a battle. Retreat to safety. Summon skeletons endlessly in safety and send in skeletal sorties to engage your enemies. Maybe send a few spirits, too. Roleplay that you are a death metal band, touring the Deadfire, and spreading musical mayhem wherever you go. Have your undead roadies clear the area of malcontents. A lot of people are probably scratching their heads right now, and that's fine. But trust me, this is cheesier than it sounds. Skeletons make for a surprisingly good boarding party, because most of the pirates have pistols and such. I discovered, quite by accident, that I could start boarding boats pretty much as soon as I left Port Maje. On PotD. After a few cautious attempts, I became the scourge of the seas, bringing death metal to the masses and sending them to suckle from Ondra's icy tit down in the briny depths.

Wouldn’t good satire be based on reality and actual quotes, just condensed to create absurdity? Just making up things doesn’t automatically make it funny edit: doesn’t mean made up stuff can’t be funny, but I would think of it as a joke, good or bad, not satire. Point in case, the (fake) announcement of Elon Musks death in the funny thread was funny, but I didn’t think of it as satire. It didn’t put words in his mouth either, as far as I know, he never claimed himself to be dead

Yuppie Psycho. I played through this game once years back and loved it, now I came back to replay it and also to tackle all the achievements. One of the achievements is to play through the whole game without saving even once (howlongtobeat.com says it's an 8-10 hour-ish game, not including the extended alternative/true ending content that's a little tricky to get). I got like 80% of the way through the game and then died during a short (5 second or so) cutscene. I'd pressed a button that revealed a passageway, which the game panned over to show me, but the game didn't actually pause during said pan, and a zombie hyucked acid barf all over me and I died right as it came back to me.

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