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Thank you, sir. I'm ok. They mostly hit military targets but yeah, it was scary. It's over now. Let's hope it stays this way.

NWN2 Enhanced Edition comes out tomorrow, so I decided to pick it up on GOG. I'm pretty excited to play it after so long. It doesn't look like they've done much graphically, but it was a decent looking game back in the day, so it should be fine.

Was watching some videos re: Trump/stripping naturalized US citizenship etc. I am a naturalized US citizen, since I was adopted in early 1971. I think they altered some laws 20-30 years ago where adoptees can be US citizens without actual naturalization process, but only applies to those adopted post-early 1980's, with certain requirements etc, or something. I don't know details on that. Anyway, while watching it occurred to me I should go doublecheck all my adoption/citizen paperwork/records, because moving a few years ago is chaotic + my memory/organization gets worse every year. Looked in file cabinet, closets, looked in some boxes (still packed re: moving homes), couldn't find them, started to panic. Then remember the "mom" box. I had put them in there. Phew. New safer place for those again. Hopefully, since I'm almost invisible to everyone but the DMV/taxman (haha), as long as I don't try to become a drug kingpin or accrue 1000 parking tickets in a few months, Trump won't notice me.* *Not really worried about my personal status/self, mind. Not what he's (currently) chasing after. But it's Trump - and things are crazy. I think I won't leave the US for vacation/anything for a while. Trump might not let me back in.

I jumped on my bike and kept going until I ran out of road and had to circle back. Before and after I ran out of city. + an obligatory instagram shot of the cold beer i thought i deserved for my troubles.

I'm picking it up too, graphic is fine as it is, but it didn't work for me on Win10. Even though I played basically every class and combination possible already, except fighter and barbarian types, but hey, what's another 100 hours, right.

Yesterday, while leaving CostCo and putting our stuff in our car: ---A woman nearly as tall as hubby and about our age approaches, says "don't worry I don't want money" then looks mostly at hubby and proceeds to say she has a bad back plus still recovering from recent surgery or something - could we help her get a giant watermelon/other heavy items out of her cart and into her car. ---I said "Sure, I'll do it" -- and pointed at hubby -- "He has a bad back too." and walked over to her car. --Watermelon was maybe 15+ pounds but easy. Stuff like that is hard on hubby/others because bending/pulling up out of an extra tall/deep cart is stressful - she kept asking if I was sure/was I ok etc - remember I'm super short and not 20 anymore either etc - I made the usual "I'm the strong one now" jokes. ---She and hubby then had a long convo re: backs, surgery/options/doctors as I unloaded our own full cart into our car. It was all rather amusing, from my point of view. Plus hubby was pleased to find someone else in near the same position as him to bounce off of.

Im 180 hours into WoRT and Im busy with all the final quests and choices before I complete the last quest at Threshold As I have mentioned in previous posts this game is one of my favourite party based RPG of all time Its impossible to list everything I love about this game but in summary deep and complex main narrative with a myriad of different choices around what Mystic Path to take and how that influences dialogue options engaging and worthwhile companion side-quests, the best in any RPG I have ever played. I ended up finally Romancing Arueshalae and accepting Camellias murderous nature ....no ones perfect very complex character and class customization combat is the best part of the game with all different strategies I love the Crusader management and mini-battles. Its a nice break from the normal RPG progression lots to explore and many side-quests the length of the game, I appreciate how long it is What an RPG, I wish we had a commitment for Pathfinder 3 from Owlcat

I'm currently replaying the OC. Still my retail copy.

Cultural icon Iggy Pop; 78 years old and the guy is still performing

Heh. Well it is the 50th anniversary of the movie Jaws, so the whole "I'm never going into the sea again" thing makes sense.

I should have years ago started convincing people to leave reviews on games "Melkathi suggested I should buy this game - so I did." Just to make devs wonder "Melkathi, melkathi who tf is melkathi?" and maybe even do a Smokie cover. Though we aren't at the 24 year mark yet, so you are spared. Oh, I don't know why he's posting, or how off topic this is gonna go, I guess he's got his reasons, but I just don't want to know Imagine getting spammed for 24 years by melkathi

Yes, he's looking into how to strip naturalized citizenship from people; the DOJ has made that a priority. You know, rather than go after actual criminals like the people DJT's pardoned. Anyway, Musk can afford to live anywhere. I'm sure he'll find a new home and invest his billions there instead.

Project Zomboid is a sandbox survival game without story. So keep that in mind. BG3 - you will need at least 130 hours of free time for this one. Cyberpunk 2077 - more casual shooter-y than rpg, imo. Fo4 - belongs into the trash.

Yay. My Pillars 1 run is done. ... Time to start a new Deadfire run

Still Arcanum... The dungeons here are really bad, they make even Owlcat's look almost lovingly handcrafted pieces of tunnel crawling art. But yeah, one does not simply play Arcanum for the combats. It's for the setting, the concepts (both in systems and world design) and that unique soundtrack, though it gets a bit repetitive due to its lack in tracks.

James Bond to be directed by Denis Villeneuve I'm sure this will be a must see for @Bartimaeus

Speaking for myself .... because outside of game forums, I am extremely asocial?

That should be fairly easy to understand. He posts policy, updates, and actionable items there along with his usual slop so people have to pay attention.

De-stressing from life and dealing with house valuation and the work juggle by grinding survival on Arrakis in Dune Awakening. Solo'ing around and exploring the world as I can.

Composer Mark Snow, probably most famous for his work on the X-Files. Back in the 90ies when I was a wee lad, we used to watch X-Files together. If there's one thing I miss about the linear TV experience, it is gathering once a week to watch a series we all watched, and then discussing the episode with my friends at school. We were probably a bit too young to watch X-Files. Still remember how my brother was quite afraid while watching Darkness Falls. Snuck up behind him and just touched him. Heh. Almost had a heart attack. Most certainly woke all the old people in the neighborhood with his screaming. Good times.

I ended up doing some very heavy refactoring on flowchart-related code. Everything should still work, but if you have some important conversation/chatter/quest projects in progress it might be a good time to take a backup on those just in case.

Finally, new release! Chatter Support! @Kvellen I changed the "highlight in folder"-button to instead play all matching files in the user's .wem associated media player, if available:

Incidentially, Great White Sharks have been rated the worst possible pet by Clint recently, coming even behind the previously lowest scoring pet (human children):

Happy Independence Day to you Americans.

https://www.stopkillinggames.com/ The counter ticked over 1 million earlier today, now we need to get a bit more to make sure to buffer against invalid signatures!

Hammerheads are really not dangerous to humans. Great whites, on the other hand, will bite you in half. When I swim in the ocean and I get separated from my group, every time my hand passes in front of my eyes on the downstroke, I get freaked out. What was that?!? Oh it's just my hand. There it is again!?! Oh, still my hand.

It's now being called the big spending bill, which is probably more apropos given that it's expected to add 5 trillion to the deficit. But at least the obscenely wealthy will be getting more money. Clearly a priority.

I have not used the Turn Based Mode - so I cannot say anything that would help you I'm afraid. I generally like Turn Based mechanics (for example I have sunk a lot of hours into Battle Brothers...), but since I started PoE and Deadfire with RTwP (and enjoy it) I saw no reason to switch the mode. Given that PoE's combat was designed around Real Time with Pause I'm inclined to say that it's the better mode for this game.

No, survival crafting games seem too much like work. Also it is labeled survival horror, which may make me forever stay away from beaches. That would be a shame living in Greece

Shouldn't Lexx be the one we force to play Lex Imperialis?

Yes, critical hits also raise spell damage. Direct damage gets raised like weapon damage with crits (+25%). Also crits provide more penetration (*1.5) which often leads to overpenetration. Overpenetration adds +30% damage. Spells which don't deal direct damage but damage over time (DoT) also profit from crits, but a bit differently (see below). Yes, I would recommend Ascendant for a Seer most of times. And yes, more INT = longer Ascension phase. More INT also means bigger AoEs (all AoEs) with spells and weapons as well as longer durations for all your spell effects (benefical on allies or hostile on enemies). This includes damage, see your Disintegration spell. That one deals raw damage (no armor, no penetration) in "ticks". Higher Might = more damage per tick. Higher INT = more ticks. Crits (in this case) = more ticks. A few points in an attribute (like Perception or Might) don't make a lot of difference. Abilities and gear are a lot more important than a few points of your attributes. You don't need to max out any attribute to have a great build. So if you feel forced to use a Pale Elf from the White that Wends just for the PER bonuses: don't. On the other hand: if you like that character concept in the first place then it surely doesn't hurt to have bonus perception. :). And a Pale Elf Seer from the White that Wends with Frostseeker is thematically very fitting. Bonus accuracy of hunting bows is fine, and the modal of hunting bows is also very good. Also the unique hunting bows are nice. But ultimately I don't think there's a better weapon for a Seer than Frostseeker. You can absolutely start with a hunting bow though. You will get enough weapon proficiency points to try both hunting and war bows. And once you get Frostseeker you can try it out and see if it performs better than your current hunting bow and if you like it or not.

I've played hundreds of hours of Zomboid and made some very popular mods for it as well. Got burned out later because the community sucks ass and I just didn't want to deal with it anymore. Game is ok. Imagine The Sims but there's zombies around you. One day you'll do some farming, next day you beat some Zs and on the third day you'll wash your clothes. It's kinda like that.

Completed the Brynlod bounty and the Adra Dragon. The Adra Dragon took many attempts. Finally managed it by swapping my monk tank for Eder who just had more tankyness and innate fear resist so he was better able to face tank the dragon for longer (he still dropped but by that time I'd killed all the other enemies and my Main-Character Paladin off-tank and a repeated weapon summons from my chanter were able to tank the dragon whilst everyone else pelted it from range. It was still one heck of a difficult fight (for me), but I'm so glad I finally got it down. Just got a few loose ends to wrap up and then I'm off to the burial ground to finish this, my first Pillars-1 POTD run

Satisfactory co-op with a 12-year-old: I'd love to say there's a hidden system in this chaos, but there isn't.

I completed WoTR after 210 hours Its gets 89/100 on the globally respected " BruceVC game rating system " only BG2 ToB has ever received a higher score I mentioned several times what is fantastic about WoTR so I wont repeat that I had an interesting ending, I always wanted to close the Worldwound but not at the expense of sacrificing my own life and all my achievements and what I can still do So when I defeated Areelu I decided to NOT kill myself and Im fine with that We will continue to oppose Demons and the forces of Deskari and Baphomet who come through the Worldwound. I was sorry to have disappointed Nocticula but I am not going to sacrifice myself for her either I have decided to play the DLC that occur at the end of the main narrative, I still have a Pathfinder "fix" before I move onto another game The only real criticism of WoRT is it could have been longer, maybe 60-80 hours?

Hegseth's ranting about the Iran bombing is something else. Also, calling it the most complex operation in history is peak Trump administration.

War? What war? It’s a US “special military operation”

Funcom just announced that they are increasing the PvE sections of the deep desert, making the past tier of the game more friendly to solo and non pvp players.

Also - pretty much what I hear in my head every time I try to watch/read any news lately. Just saying.

Migas à Alentejana

Apparently the anti-woke thing to do is boast about going to work today. Again, the Internet is a mistake.

https://www.nexusmods.com/pillarsofeternity2/mods/804 This should fix the bug described here: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/pc/227477-pillars-of-eternity-ii-deadfire/faqs/76599/bugs-and-oddities As I've understood it, this has been a pain point ever since patch 5.0 for many Credit to @ShadyDax for nudging me to check this bug out Note that this does not fix potions added by mods (I'm gonna have to patch Potion of Enlightenment later ) Going to sleep now