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By the way, where is Sonicmage117? Is he okay?

I can understand why Epic rammed into this market like brutal smelly hog, it's very hard to win by playing nice and polite with the ultimate dominant like Steam. I still think this is odious practice that must be awarded with utter failure, alas, life is unfair and when it's about big money it's unfair10. It'd be funny if Epic pulled the stunt popular with telecommunication (and not only) companies, when they enter with dumped prices (or price cuts in this case) to lure clients in and then raise them over time, expecting those clients to stay out of inertia or unwillingness to go through the hassle again.

Heh, same. Played tutorial, realized I really hate movement and combat, quit. Some time after -- "hey, maybe I should try W2 again, kind of want to do them in proper order". Played tutorial, remembered why I didn't proceed past it last time. Quit.

I love loot booty in this game, it's so much more interesting than plain +N to <attribute>. Whenever I get a new shiny it instantly gets me thinking, "Ooooh, I wonder what build I could stick this to" and when I sorted my hoard right after doing all DLCs side by side my biggest wish was for the Watcher to have one hundred arms and ten heads to wield all the weapons and wear all the bling at once.

He's saying the game they are working on is called Top Secret. So it's kind of like turbo epic Alpha Protocol? I'm all for!!!

IPA is kinda situational for me. Feels fancy and refreshing if I've been on generic lagers for a while, but gets old if consumed regularly. I've noticed I'm getting sucrose intolerant in my old age, like, I need less and less sweet stuff and stuff too sweet tastes yucky. Meaning I cannot enjoy Hoegaarden no more, too sweet. Franziskaner still easy on them tastebuds, though. If this summer is going to be as hellish as the last one, it will be my saviour.

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Oh! Ooooh! Are we showing MMO alts? I have a lot of them in SWTOR! Here's a selection:

First, Deadfire. Second, I always feel like I'm communicating with a sentient being from the parallel dimension whenever someone puts Kingmaker's writing over, well, anything of Obsidian's (or Troika's, Bioware's and even that janitor's who writes for Bethesda). Because...how? It is blandly adequate at its best and at its worst (looking at you, Ophelia and Ragnarok) it's like written by someone who never actually bothered to read anything in the first place. Also Tekehu has plenty of development, Serafen is , even somewhat bland Maia has more personality than all P:K's cardboard cutouts stashed together, the NPCs are, like, from entirely different league (like, Atsura or Tayn versus This Whatsisname Cleric and That Dude With a Sword), the gods are better, the paladins are incomparably better, fight me irl.

I see what you slipped in here Anyway, I agree with most stuff you wrote, especially about cities -- for me is not a proper RPG without a city. Dungeons, eh, you saw one, you saw'em all, but cities are where's fun at. But yeah, the game has certain charm and me going for a replay despite of bland setting, bad to meh writing and assorted annoyances is a testament to that. Also, playing as a spellcaster is not much fun -- the setting seems to be inhabited by oddly willful (even the mangiest flea ridden wolf can dodge spells like a professional demilich ) but somewhat clumsy creatures so eventually all my casting was mostly mass freedom of movement and plop Webs everywhere. But guess what those suckers cannot dodge? Bombs. And what's better than a bomber in a party? Two bombers in a party! So yeah, grenadier is fun and so is being Lawful Evil -- plus I got better town music and design, complete with the gibbet (empty so far, here's hoping to remedy that). I don't think I'll finish the run proper though, different ending slides isn't worthy to suffer through the House again. And I can always go with my headcannon, where Charname and Jubilost clean out kingdom's treasury before leaving that swampy arse of the world to have adventures in more exciting places.

Owlcat's forums is a dry desert with an occasional tumbleweed of some insubstantial post lazily tumbling past at infrequent intervals, and its wiki is a graveyard of abandoned stubs. It's telling when the most substantial information on the game can be found of Reddit of all places. That ability can be very well bugged because why not, a lot of other things are. My own most fun thing to use were Jubiliost's bombs, that guy was such a mean little murder machine. I loved bombs so much I'm thinking on building me a Grenadier. Will name him Guvnor and make him Lawful Evil because I really want to do mean things to everyone* and everything in the game. *(except Jubilost, he's alright)

Disclaimer: not to tell professionals of their field how to do marketing here, just an observation (with a dash of "O, tempora! O, mores!") Indie title from two-dev team "Dawn of Man" hit #1 on Steam and they attribute their success largely to influence of Youtubers. There is also Frictional Games of "Soma" and "Amnesia" fame. Soma, while being arguably a better game -- smarter, more polished -- did not sell as well as "Amnesia", which again was very popular among youtubers. ...I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, I loathe the fact that something as obnoxious as Pewdiepie can influence what sells and what not. On the other hand, the horde of insipid lemmings that worship these harbingers of Idiocracy do not deserve to have money and making them part with it benefits whole civilization so they can -- and must be exploited without remorse.

Bought "Dawn on Man". Theoretically, I love zen city/civ builders. Practically, I fiddle with them for half a hour, get bored and go play some RPG again. And again. And again...

I sneaked past mean librarians in Forgotten Sanctum just fine with crackers. Took some trial and error and savescumming, as I never really used them before plus my Explosives was rubbish and Stealth mediocre, but it got the job done. Also, kinda half-wishing for Something Awful's paid userpic system now, Skull McHorns deserves more fitting avatar:

Sixties have all the best muzik indeed. Here's French lady singing about eternal rivalry between two football clubs (I think):

I'm playing "Masquerada: Songs and Shadows". It's kind of well written, colourful adventure game with turn-based combo-centered combat in very beautiful setting and with superb cast of VAs, including commander Shepard and our own* Matt Mercer. Reaffirms the importance of good voice acting in story and character heavy game. * Eder and Aloth is way more quintessential part of PoE for me than, say, soul recycling or **** constructs serving as gods.

You're not snobby enough, there are people out there who deem Cradle of Filth or Dimmu Borgir pop. Aaaanyway, I discovered Hammerfall when my snobbishness was already in decline, so I like quite a lot of their stuff. Like, this cover is truly great:

Uh, please don't tell me that's still going? I was a (bigger) fan of the DM of the Rings series that it apes, but I followed D&D for probably a year or so when it first started before I realized that I simply like reading and watching stuff in a big chunk rather than piecemeal weekly and decided I'd wait a few years before coming back...and I never did. It's been many years now. It's still going. Although they're bidding their time right now until the current trilogy is complete and post fluff once a week. As for fanfictional scientist, he might look into the curious phenomena of nothing f†cking changing throughout ages upon ages in that universe, ever. Seriously, everything -- guns, aircraft, fashion, British accents on Imperials -- is the same for Old and New Republic. And Empire.

Do you have any mods or unity mod manager installed? I read that modded game saves break after every patch, so you should uninstall them before patching and reinstall again. If not, the no ideas save for game reinstall.

Challenge accepted.

Yeah dude, do that edit. I clicked the thread expecting rowdy pirate shanty a la "15 men on the dead man's chest" or murdery rhyme like "10 little indians". It's mean to disappoint people like that.

And here I am, v. appreciative to POE for allowing me to give gods a piece of my mind and fuming at my inability to even side-eye those vapid twits of goddesses that foisted their will upon my Charname in P:K. Plus, not only you cannot play someone with a sense of humour (unless it's puns) in P:K at all, you cannot even play someone with a vocabulary larger than 50 words. So until some genius mashes two games together, the only thing we can do is enjoy the aspect of each game that we like rather than are annoyed at. (Or maybe I should try the game in Russian since you say the fault is in translation and I'm fluent anyway) As for that modern american thing (which isn't really exclusive to Americans), I'm afraid that the game with characters who go, like, "To the kitchen with you, females!" or "We elves are the master race, bow before us, you lowly inferior filth!" might draw wrong kind of attention and then it can be pain in the ass to explain you were just "exploring themes and topics". (And yet, Obz sneaked Durance in )

"Passionate" or "aggressive" -- unlike, say, "lawful" and "good", are not loaded, judgmental words and -- at least in me -- provoke different level of reaction. Like, if I do something I think is mellow and see that the game slapped the "passionate" label on that action, I just shrug and dismiss it as the writer and me having different ideas about passion, which is OK because emotions are highly personalized. But if I murder a bunch of civilians because their goddess is evulz, oh noez!!! -- then how the f†ck I am good? "Maya eagerly helps you clean Ruatai headquarters after refusing their quest and never notices it even happened" actually stands out because Deadfire's companions were usually vocal, opinionated and not shy to offer their input about current situation, while in P:K it was like travelling with a group of soulless mannequins who never reacted to anything save for an occasional inconsequential bark. Also, I don't remember "weird dwarf" sequence being that overloaded with needless adjectives; as for "rictus grin" -- "weird words" <> "purple prose".

It's not the pulpy-trashy feel that I find awful, it's this clumsy-bizarre way to form sentences I've only encountered in bad fanfiction, never in professional prose. You know -- "The half-elf giggled prettily as the half-orc crammed his tongue into blushing prettyboy cleric's ear while the snarky gnome tutted disapprovingly and the dark-haired barbarian guffawed rudely". Thanks, game, I memorized that she's a half-elf after your first five uses of her race for description, what's wrong with just 'she' or Olivia...pardon, Octavia. See, game? if you weren't so weirdly averse to proper nouns and pronouns it would be easier for me to remember her and her bf Reginald's names. Also, "verbed adjectively" must be used verily sparingly because if overused extensively it sucks terribly.