Bartimaeus

Underhero, courtesy of @Oner. It was a Paper Mario-style RPG with timing-based combat elements. The premise is that you're going to play a rando minion that, rather than getting effortlessly brushed aside by the hero in battle, instead took initiative and concocted a plan to basically drop an anvil on the hero's head and instantly murder them while they were walking up to the main villain's lair, and now what is everyone going to do with the hero dead? It's an interesting premise, the environmental characters are appropriately wacky and zany like you might expect of a MOTHER/EarthBound-type game, it has solid enough gameplay, but the main characters and plot were written so flatly and by the numbers that I found myself completely checking out about half of the way through the game in a world-investment sense. The main character becomes the hero for no discernible reason (there was literally zero motivation for the protagonist doing anything at all the entire game - it felt really weird and inappropriate/nonsensical given that the first thing you do is murder the hero), and worse, there was a big "the villain isn't really the villain + let's all come together and do this" sequence a la Undertale at the end involving a completely unlikable cast of characters that fell so completely on its face that I started laughing at the game. Really unfortunate for an otherwise solid game that they went that direction. Still, it wasn't too bad - just a little disappointing.

Yeah, I got nothing, I don't use Twitch. Nothing useful from Google, either. Only thing I could think of is to always specify an extra bit of time at the end just in case it gets cut.

Were these livestreamed, or do you have the video on desktop?

Pursuer is one of the more tightly designed bosses of DS2 - with some exceptions, a lot of bosses just feel like they move, attack, and go through their AI routines kind of sloppily (consider the joke that is Flexile Sentry as an example...). Not Pursuer. He was one I had trouble with when I was trying to play with melee because of my struggles with the controls, but like Artorias of DS1, he feels like a boss that once you "understand", it's basically impossible to ever lose against him in the future because everything he does is so consistent and well-defined.

hey, don't spoil the worst part of the game for him, it's the best part

>No-Man's Wharf and all the undead buccaneers all the areas in this game were such a pain in the ass fixed

lmao - seeing that also reminded me of the fact that they really screwed with rolling in DS2 compared to DS1 and DS3, too...very bad iframes at low agility even at low weight. To be honest, I thought the boss design in DS2 was really underwhelming, and beat most within 1-3 tries. Ugh, that game was just so forgettable compared to the other Soulsborne games.

The only reason I finished that game at all was because I gave up and switched to a magic build. Still wasn't particularly enjoyable even so, though.

Maybe wearing masks will become a fashion thing a la some asian countries.

I wasn't gonna say anything, but since you brought it up, DS2 is easily the black sheep of all the Soulsborne games for me due to the horribly clunky controls/movement. Could never enjoy or get used to that game because of it.

Oops, in my previous I post, I had a brain fart in my previous post and wrote "AM5" - I *presumed* Zen 3 would have to be AM5 to necessitate this to begin with, but I guess AMD has its own set of socket issues. I've been getting more and more annoyed with my 4770k system over the past year or so - weird and inexplicable slowdowns and response times (with 32GB of RAM!) seem to occur much more frequently than they used to. Wonder if that's been the result of the various security patches Intel's CPUs have had forcibly applied? Making me want to upgrade sooner than I had planned...

AMD to create "one way ticket" BIOS upgrade path for X470 and B450 motherboards to support AM5 Zen 3 CPUs.

Yeah, I didn't enjoy the LotR books when I was in 3rd grade at all, and I think I also gave the Silmarillion a try at some point and didn't care for it either. Tolkien's style was...long-winded, to say the least. However, I did read The Children of Hurin years later and thought that was solid if a bit off-color for Lord of the Rings.

I read Fellowship, Towers, and Return in 3rd grade. I do not recommend for various reasons. The Hobbit, of course, is much more appropriate for that age: unless he's not much of a reader, I don't think it'd be beyond his reading level - but my perspective might be slanted, given that I was reading around 30-50 novels every year from the time I was about seven to when I was eighteen. Big-time book nerd when I was younger, sadly I don't read nearly as much anymore. The way it goes, .

I was listening to the Aurora song and was thinking, "Hm, this isn't TOO bad...", then I came back to the tab and saw the video and was like "welp I'm out". If your chosen music video is horrifically cringey, creepy, and/or embarrassing, you may wish to choose a different YouTube video of it when sharing to other people, .

Fred Willard, .

In case you want to do this yourself, don't read these spoilers: Overall, only missed a couple I shouldn't have. Not too terrible. Coincidentally, a few friends and I recently did this video game sound effect test: https://vg-sfx-quiz.herokuapp.com/ I ended up getting 33/60, which was the second best out of the people that I knew - a friend got I think it was 54 out of 60, but he is a no-lifer that has played just about every game under the sun.

Note that I said "mouthbreather", and he immediately conjured himself with a completely inapplicable scenario as a rebuttal. Draw your own conclusions, folks.

@Amentep re: no-knock raids: I'd be pretty shocked if anyone but the police themselves (...and maybe some of their most hardcore mouthbreathing supporters that say everything is currently perfect with our institutions) would disagree.

Three murderers break into Kentucky woman's home past midnight and murder her. The murderers were reportedly surprised that the occupants of the house would attempt to resist the burglary attempt after having been rudely awakened by the sounds of their home being broken into seconds earlier, and started blindly firing into their home, striking and killing the woman. The boyfriend of the woman who was murdered is currently in jail for defending himself and his lady against the plainclothes, breaking-and-entering, midnight murderers even after it turns out they were, in fact, unable to read, having executed their search warrant upon the wrong house. Oops, think I wrote "murderers" instead of "police officers" a few times there. C'est la vie: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/black-woman-shot-killed-after-kentucky-police-entered-her-home-n1205651 (e): FML, this is not the politics thread. Or, uh, wait...it turns out, they also had coronavirus! More to come...

Also, shingles sucks, and the chickenpox vaccine prevents it from ever occurring. Think I'll wait to see if there's a vaccine...

lmao, wouldn't worry about it. Tried to go back and play NWN1 a few years back, but I was super burned out by the time I got to Luskan and couldn't keep going.

Never got far enough in Hordes of the Underdark to know that Aribeth reappeared.

The behind the scenes of that was pretty good. They will often say that they can see what a filmmaker was going for or imagined something would be like vs. what actually got put on film, because when you have a horribly limited budget and a horribly limited amount of personnel (who might be loyal and enthusiastic, but nevertheless of relatively low professional skill), it's very, very difficult to make a genuinely good film. There's a reason B-movies get treated on a totally differently scale from Hollywood studio-made movies. Actually, it's all the more mystifying when those movies with relatively unlimited resources turn out so horribly over and over.

Listening to his empty, soulsucking generalities will quickly lull your consciousness into oblivion, too.