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Ah, it's so much more fun when you're just going with it and roleplaying a complete jerkwad. Also damn, I've seen very little combat. Am I just snarking my way out of it or something?

For me it was more... "What door?" I ****ING KNEW IT! "He's been here forever" MY SHINY METAL BEHIND!

I can deal with camp but I didn't expect it at all. So now I'm going in as Voldemort. How do I load up custom portraits? Noseless Ralph Fiennes coming in.

Well it wasn't just that name, it was just a bit of vocal point. Like I edited my previous post to say, it was walking straight into a field of heads and corpses on pikes and the opening shot of a giant statue crying blood. Twas a bit much. Well, dark isn't bad by default. Pillars was plenty dark what with the whole babies with no souls and murdering Gods and the whole reveal about said Gods. But I rarely felt it was cartoonishly so, which this game kinda unexpectedly punched me in the face with. Like I said, I didn't read anything about Tyranny in advance, I guess this didn't really fit my expectation of a new Obsidian Isometric RPG. I'll come back to it in a day or two with adjusted expectations, maybe I'll react to it better.

I can't help it, it forcibly reminds me of girls in black dresses with too much make-up pretending they're a witches coven or grown men and women sleeping in coffins because they truly believe they're vampires. I tried to get over it but every time I read it I dreaded the rest of the game being just as goth-bedtime-story edgy (which is why I'm asking if it is). Graven Ashe. It's about as subtle as Voldemort and it gets spammed at you over and over. Maybe I'm going about this wrong. I'll try again and make a character named Mortiferous Chaos or Killaman Slaughtermaster and just try to be as edgy as possible. EDIT: Seriously though, serious question, is there a lot of tryhard edgelord nonsense? It's not just the name, really. It's just demonstrative, but then there's the whole bleeding eyeball statue as the opening shot and the heads on pikes everywhere. Am I in for something that's trying way too hard to be dark? I went into this knowing literally nothing about the game, so I assume I just had the wrong expectations. I went into PoE with mostly a roleplayer mindset but that seems to be fairly difficult for me with Tyranny so far.

I just started Tyranny, but it hasn't grabbed me so far. About an hour in I got so annoyed at reading the edgelord name "Graven Ashe" that I quit. Does it get better or if that sort of thing annoys me am I in for a painful ride?

I like that you call the special lady you share a home with "your lactose intolerant". I don't know what you're talking about.

I think that's the point, redneckdevil. (Also, IMO Wikipedia is more trustworthy than most encyclopedias as long as you go the extra mile and verify or add to their sources. I'm an armchair archeologist, it stuck because I was a dinosaur nut as a kid, and I've yet to find an encyclopedia that isn't riddled with errors or outdated information about the subject. I use that as an example because it's something I can recognize mistakes and false information in, but I have no reason to believe the same doesn't hold true for any other subject and I just can't notice. Wikipedia as a user-generated platform has its flaws and can get screwed over on subjective or divisive topics and you're better off finding your own sources at all times, but **** the idea that old school paper encyclopedias are better.)

*Unless your lactose intolerant, of course. If my girl puts actual milk in her coffee my home atmosphere starts to resemble something like early 1940's German showers.

Adding milk to your coffee is already insulting to vegans. Why not everyone else too?

I saw the first episode of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. As someone who never read the book(s?) all I really have to say is... what the ****?

I loved Hunt for the Wilderpeople and I really wonder what the guy who made both that and the hilarious mockumentary What We Do In The Shadows is going to do with the next Thor movie, which is apparently an intergalactic buddy movie with the Hulk.

Highly recommend "Drive" by Daniel Pink as a nice starting point. He sums up and points to a lot of research regarding intrinsic and extrinsic motivation and how they affect algorithmic and heuristic tasks differently. I like to think that the reason Marxism off-shoots haven't worked is because they started from points where everyone's poor. Now people being under the poverty line is seen as a problem, not the standard so it's possible that western civilisations could make it work. The real test will be once a country or larger area decides to adopt the "basic income" idea. If that doesn't work, going steps further won't either. For all my cynicism and snark about current society, I wholehearedly believe we can solve it and we shouldn't be held back because "it sounds like this, and that didn't work before".

It advocates for bloody revolution to steal the property of others to enforce poverty.What do you think is the link between equity and poverty? People respond to incentives. This goes against all recent research on employee productivity, though. This seems to have been true in the industrial age where everyone did algorithmic tasks and everyone worked to survive, but a significant chunk of that has been replaced by technology with more to come. Incentives for heuristic tasks, especially for people who live comfortably, have been shown to decrease employee productivity and motivation enormously. Rewards in these situations work well, but only if people don't know they're coming. Nobody's yet figured why, but for western middle class or higher the wisdom of "people need incentives" doesn't hold true.

Pretty much. It's very much a "pot calling kettle black" situation. It's an irony I've found in stuff I've seen, even here, about the left losing because of their holier than thou demeanor. "I hate the left because they keep calling me names, those stupid SJW cucks". Makes me feel like they completely missed the lifetime of religious 'Murica decrying everything from rock music to race relations as deviant and satanist filth which bred that attitude in the first place. The right didn't win, the wheel is already turning away from them as steadily as it turned to them. Trump's red replaces Obama's blue replaced Bush's red replaced Clinton's blue. The wheel turns on and the American people still aren't moving as it comes to crush them. In terms of the internet, you're an idiot whether you steal your opinions wholesale from NeoGAF or 8-Chan.

Cultural-marxism is a broad term for anyone who disagrees with the alt-right, just like alt-right is a broad term for anyone who disagrees with cultural-marxists. Because everyone needs to put people they don't agree with into a box so they can generalize them away. The funny thing is that they're the same thing - people who are far too sensitive about people on the internet calling them names and both things don't actually exist at all.

This was a fun trip in history until I came across posts by Hades.

The alt-right is just a term for people who hide obvious hatred because they're ashamed of it with terms like "narrative"*. *Actually, the alt-right is just a term for those who read a comment like that and then get angry at SJWs because they assume it's about them. Why do they think it's about them, though? Why do they hear a word like "racist" and think "they must be talking about me?" Actually, the real racists are anyone who felt the urge to respond to my obvious trolling. If this offended you, guess what, you're a racist. :D WHAT IS THE REAL TRUTH. SOMEONE CALLED ME A RACIST ON THE INTERNET ONCE, MUST BE THE LIBRULS. EDIT: God, this election brought out my cynical side a bit too much.

RIP Leonard Cohen I'm thinking of getting this shirt.

Don't tell them that! Nothin to see here.

That sounds horrific. Sorry you had to go through it.

Another topic about the US Election that was just won by reality TV show star Donald Trump even though more people voted for lizard Clinton. Classic 'Murica. Snark aside, please keep personal attacks (on each other, be sure to rip into those politicians, blaming them for how much your life sucks is why they exist) to a minimum. EDIT: If this looks weird, I just moved over the last couple of posts instead of quoting them. Thought I'd try it out.

Half hour between someone else responding sounds like a good moment to say this slowed down enough to be replaced. New part coming up in a minute.

Is it just me or do the leads seem like some kind of haughty, pre-packaged action figure people? Is there a plot point about perfect cloned people in it or something? Anyway, saw two weirder titles. About Time, a time travel movie in which the time travel was superfluous and was mostly a painfully saccherine love story. And Hello, My Name Is Doris, a quirky but fun type indie movie about age that would have been meh but was elevated by Sally Field's wonderfully all-in performance.

That's what confused me since I had all the Quest achievements for MoP (bought Draenor and never really started playing that expansion), so I was wondering what I missed... Guess I stopped playing just before that final raid and those scenarios. Of course now there is the same problem they introduced Raid Finder for anyway: people missing out on content due to not being able to raid (or playing at the time), guess next up is a single player version of each and every raid . I mean not even a single mention to people that join or return after the fact is kinda...lame? Suddenly everything's changed and apparently nobody still talks about it. For something that was apparently a big deal that's kinda weird. Seriously some quest connecting things (just dialogues filling people in would be good enough) would have been nice. Then again WoW has always been pretty half-assed in this respect, compared to say, EverQuest 2 (where NPCS were still talking about the destruction (and rebuilding) of Freeport so even people that weren't around at the time, like me, still got the gist of what happened). Also given the fond memories most raiders have of M'uru I don't see the Naaru suddenly being the bad guys ending well, though players did manage to kill A'dal on my realm (Wildhammer-EU) during the Scourge Invasion, which was kind of hilarious ;-) Also, don't they dare devalue the awesomeness of my "Hand of A'dal" title! Oh yeah, and aside from WoW I'm still mostly playing Forza Horizon 3. Next major patch (expansion) to Warframe should be arriving this week too, looking forward to that since it'll be a lore patch! EDIT: typos, so many typos! Well, it is "heart" of a specific Naaru. Not the Naaru in general. And this heart was supposed to only be accessible to another Naaru, but that got killed and we somehow still got it to talk to us. Things seem fishy. That coupled with the fact that before Legion, Anduin was said (by Velen, the Prophet) to be what they're now saying Illidan is. And right before we accessed it, Velen just happened to have been traumatised into giving up the light, so the only one who could disagree now won't. Seems fishy to me, especially combined with some of the whispers of a current old-God related raid boss. And yeah, persistent world isn't WoW's forte even when they're not putting most of the significant lore in books rather than the game. I mean, when you're a new player you still fight Deathwing, then go back in time to deal with Illidan and the Lich King, then fight Deathwing again, then fight Garrosh and going back in time to fight his dad while the current time Legion invades old-time Draenor to get into current time Azeroth. I recently rolled a Panda monk to try it out because I skipped Pandaland and was surprised to find Garrosh talking to me while Vol'Jin sat on the throne next to him. I heard the same thing happens with the late Varian talking to alliance Pandas while Anduin sits on the throne surrounded by Demon Hunters.