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Played a VN, "I was a teenage exocolonist". Well, a VN with card game attached but it was easy even for card game zero like myself, so a VN. The game sends really mixed signals and after multiple playthroughs (they're more or less mandatory if you want the full story, because the game branches quite a lot) I'm still undecided if the game is woke extreme or woke critique. Like, we're a vegan pacifist crew that fled the ****ed up by wars and climate change Earth on a museum spaceship that's fitted with AI that we treat like a regular sentient being, most of crew are transhuman but if our PC doesn't want body mods that's ok too. So woke, right? Except...we are a creepy cult complete with Supreme Leader and communal children, crew skillsets make the crew woefully unprepared for colonization, those body mods are often not just useless but downright harmful (like timid girl afraid of her own shadow equipped with hearing of a bat), we actually stole that AI, and I suspect that "veganism vs starvation" and "pacifism vs the world that wants to extinct us outta there" fights are slightly unevenly balanced. Then there's a non-binary character who is so infantile and undecided about anything in their life you cannot help but wonder if they're only non-binary because they can't decide on their gender either. Oh, and there's also a character that screams "Very horny furry bought a make-a-character kickstarter tier and this is where he and the devs compromised". There are romances too, because of course there are, and they're of the same "Disturbing dysfunction in cotton candy coating" flavor as everything else (that was a praise). Even the style follows the same pattern as text is often bleak and harsh (also often surprisingly sound at science fiction part) while art is this cutesy pokemons and other anime sh†t in pastels. In short, I loved it and thoroughly recommend it, particularly to people who like "WTF I just read/watched/played?" feeling and banana jalapeno pizza aficionados.

Finnish language is made for singing. Them diphthongs, them rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrroling rrrrrs....

Costner is like some sort of vague beige presence in those films with him I saw, that are very few considering that in nineties he was everywhere. Just what kind of pull did he have over Hollywood studios, to be so beige and yet so in demand? Or was that a deliberate decision, to cast a blank space so that viewers would have easier time to project themselves or something? I recall Avatar having similar blank space dude for a lead, and Hollywood was trying to make him happen for a while but somehow he didn't.

Quasit's seemingly easier because the game gives you 2 (or maybe even 3) myffik levels since Overtuned Furry on top of number of regular levels. I think he made me reload a couple of times because when he hits, he hits, but on Liches he was too busy putting his infinity+ buffs back to do anything. I do remember him well from super annoying bug, pardon, ~feature~ where you cannot loot him until he unpolymorphs like, hours later.

Why ya'll yakking in music thread without posting any music.

Finished 1899. It ended just as it got interesting. On the other hand, do I trust creators of Dark to make good science fiction with believable humans? No, I do not, so maybe it's for the best to mourn the might-have-been-great possibility than witness wtf-was-this. I probably just have to watch "The Expanse" already. And look for some series that progress plausibly and has "Well, that does make sense" ending.

Just there to say I love this week's matching deals on gog.

Yeah I know, but -- seeing where Dark went in S2 and S3 -- it may not necessarily be a bad thing? Oh, and forgot to mention that music in Dark was quite good and 1899's ending titles songs are fantastic

Dark. Very obviously inspired by Lost, too bad that inspiration came mostly from last season aka nadir of all things TV. Season 1 was pretty fine, even if some creator's ticks (like catapult nightmare) got a little irritating after a while. Seasons two and especially three went more laughable with each elevation of time travel shenanigans. I think if you want "What is time" stuff, you either go hard sci-fi, pure comedy or - if you want to leave dangling storylines and unanswered questions - leave that to David Lynch, because only him can pull sh†t like that in more or less satisfactory way. Now what I understood from it, is that time is like one of those Scotch tapes that are so gluey you can't find the end no matter how thoroughly you search for it so you just start splintering it randomly and ruin the whole roll. Still, I was entertained enough to start 1899 now when it's done already. Creator's ticks are there, and I'm particularly amused for this one: Character 1: ...blah? .... ...pause .... long needlessly long pause... Character 2: ...yadda (= cryptic bullsh†t that does not answer Char 1's question at all, but somehow they accept it instead of going "Dude that's not what I asked!") I'm also not a fan of magical creepy kid trope, even less so after Mass Effect 3, but so far that's outweighed by my undying love for ghost ship stories.

It's not just that. Remember those drafted convicts? Well, some of them already served (or "served". I'm reading there's a scheme running with rich and connected inmates getting "sent to war" on papers only) and are enjoying their freedom. Including, e.g., one who ordered a hit on his former business partner's family, two kids included. Even got a medal "For bravery", that one.

ME3 is DA:I reskin with moar fun combat, blander companions and equally inane story. Even some monsters had the same behavior pattern as DA:I's titanium-skinned lootless bears that would home in onto you from across the opposite corner of the map, stealth or not. What I remember the most from DA:I was a bug that allowed some fighter subclass be invincible and do, like 300x than supposed to be damage at the same time when doing a roll , so my dragon strat was to roll on'em to death. Also how crafting system allowed for splendiferously glorious garb combining yellow tartan and blue paisley. Good times. These memories sometimes make me nostalgic enough to think of replaying, but then I remember the rest of the game and yeah, nah.

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Chrome, from work, cookies cleared. Do you guys know Ghostery extension makes your "Accept cookies Y/N" thingy blink and disappear? IT TOTALLY DOES THAT

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Testing with 'murican VPN

Happened upon John Wick 3. They started hiring video game writers for films.

...I never knew there's a hidden dimension door boss in Colyphyr mines, granted I usually try to **** off outta there ASAP. Welp now I will have to find it in following playthroughs, because all stat books must be MINE! Also, why shortbow and not longbow for Zen Lann?

Not just ammo, there were military vehicles and other equipment parked there too. Really thougthful of Z-head brass to pack them all in all place, I hear that Himars rockets are quite costly. Shame about the cat that died in explosion, though; poor bastard definitely wasn't there to rape and torture people.

You can give secondary class to your characters now, meaning you can make everyone stealthy. Doesn't help with all FE/ET trash because there are too many that ignore stealth, but it does weed out some.

So bald old baboon commissioned nine rings as presents for CIS leaders and his precioussssss self, and again I'm thinking there's a creative and very bold saboteur in Kremlin's PR team.

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