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I don't remember any other book where I adored the world and setting but hated the protagonist with a burning passion of a thousand blue suns. Actually cheered when Was team Irulan & Bene Gesserit all the way, and now when they cast Christopher Walken, team Shaddam IV too I guess. I liked the 84 better too, but very possibly because I was young and more easily impressed. The 21 looks awesome on the big screen. Great planetary scenes, spaceships lifting off is , killer soundtrack. People stuff? Meh, except Stellan Skarsgard.

Well if it's any help there's a brothel and it gives skill boosts instead of STDs, so that's that. Almost done with Sunless Sea, moping up some quest lines. Funny how this game low-key and without judging lets you be a heartless monstrosity who helps out with mass production of cigars made out of pain and torture or feeds tourists to spiders. Also I'm pretty sure I'm not me anymore after ritual beheading. Started Sunless Skies. Whoever said it's easier is a dirty liar. For starters, no savescumming, which combined with no possibility to sneak past enemies like in Zee is a Very Bad Thing for my preferred playstyle, so I keep getting owned by RNG and random floating monstrosities. Also, starter ship is tiny and steers like a drunken baboon.

Soooo reddit says Owlcats fortified Playful Darkness by making him do damage to swarms, so no more poetic justice of giving that mutt ignominious death by thousand flea bites. Because that's apparently what this game really needs, to make fights with ridiculous characters less fun. Fixing non-stop stuns from swarms and those stupid ass crystals? LOL.

I have Tidal and it only gives simple statistics without judging my genre variety or suggesting I should move somewhere. The only thing I was able to glean from it was that I disproportionally love soundtracks, so here's a piece from Altered Carbon (wished this lady played Takeshi Kovacs throughout all of season 2 instead of that dour humorless dude who did)

I saw that adaptation and it sucked. Could be a great example of how too literal an adaptation is a bad thing because of differences between mediums, e.g. while a writer can make hedge animals scary, a cinematographer most likely cannot.

Funny you mention that, for my Captain picked up certain...habits...and now, lets say, he does not exactly resort. If you get my meaning

Precisely. There's ****-and-ass adult, but there's also death-and-taxes adult which is no less adult. Playing "Sunless Sea". I think last time I tried it, it still was "One game, one save" thing. Now it allows to save in ports, and what do you know, turns out that diligent savescumming really helps enjoying a story-heavy Lovecraftesque adventure.

Mayyyyybe, but just a little. My enchanter is a Lich since I wanted something to fall back to when enchanting fails. He mostly sucked (in enchanting, not Lich things) throughout first half of Chapter 3 except for Blackwater where we had a field day, was passable in Fane and finally decent in Chapter 4 after getting some more gear. I have an unfinished court poet Azata who got really good at heightened Hideous Laughter spam after I got that Azata mythic thing that makes enemies roll twice and take worse result. Don't have Expanded Arsenal on that one but I read that Best Jokes got nerfed too. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Not Enchantment. Expanded Arsenal nerf means DC drop, meaning even the most developmentally stunted imp will be able to make saves.

Yeah, what Wrathfinder absolutely needed was caster nerf, blaster or not. Fortunately, you can set auto-patching off in GOG, and none of recent patches had anything of interest for me, so I'm good.

Please update on Colony Ship as you go along, will you. That setting looks really interesting, but I couldn't get over Age of Decadence's schtick of either metaing to heaven and hell up to very hand-tailored build following very narrow track, or constantly dying. P.S.: True "cowardly" way to deal with Malalalalak is to stick him with those adhesive grenades you've been hoarding throughout the game, pelt with other grenades from afar, rinse, repeat.

Mask of the Rose, a VN set in Fallen London universe, where you play a door-to-door surveyor with highly inappropriate questions and equally inappropriate notions to romance the sh†t out of anything they encounter. As a VN it lives and dies by writing, and it does deliver. Along the way it got obvious you'll need multiple playthroughs each focusing on 1-2 characters to get everything out of lore and stuff, not that I mind, because setting and lore is really fun to read and new runs with different characters already read surprisingly different, also I met a couple of new characters I didn't encounter in 1st playthrough. I didn't solve the whodunit either and that won't do at all. Made me dust off my old Fallen London characters I abandoned because the game got too grindy, wonder how I'll fare this time, I also want to go back to Sunless Sea...where, hm, I also stalled because of grind. Probably should look into some anti-grind mods if there are any. Oh and I romanced...something...that's likely a very big bat? Which is fine, because, a) it's normal-ish by Fallen London standards, b) if a big bat is good enough for Sadie Frost and Monica Belucci, it's good enough for me.

It also has the kid from Neverening Story Went to look for the reason of firing, and this is so f--ing Disney: "[...] That did not stop Disney from releasing it on VHS after Burton became famous, although only in a censored version."

It was the other way around for me. I was taken aback by the Trickster being really mean at first but grew kinda fond to its evil ways with time, whereas Azata's lolrandom My Little Pony ways made me enough to drop the playthrough in Act V. Out of others, Angel seems to be "The One True Way" (though I haven't finished it yet), Demon is laughable edgelord who uses phrase "Assert dominance" seriously and is angry all the time like a hormonal teenager, Legend is good for flipping Areelu off, Aeon has a powerful ending but everything that leads to it is meh, Swarm...hm...I actually had a lot of fun eating everything although it does not compare to that DLC of Dragon Age where you're a darkspawn killing your main game's party, and Lich...Lich is love.

I was disappointed with Aeon quests. I expected it to be something ineffable out of China Mieville or at least Fallen London (no idea why, now when I think, I played enough of both Owlcat's games to be familiar with their writing limitations), not a ridiculously petty pedant. Angel path, while predictable and cheesy, was at least consistent within a concept of "Rigid do-gooder with binary views does maxed out power fantasy". Aeon finale felt real satisfying though.

Symptoms are too damn generic to be of any use. Like, hell if I know if a joint aches because of Lyme of because of old age. I just did blood test after scraping a couple of those f†ckers off myself and shaking another ten outta trousers because ticks are very Lymey where I live, and voila. No big deal, antibiotics cure it well enough, but f†ck ticks all the same.

And I contracted Lyme disease. F†ck ticks, I hate those bastards so, so much, wish they'd just drop dead, all of them

Cookie thing is annoying. Search N7 day 2023 on youtube, but it's just 30 sec of some helmeted person in N7 trenchcoat walking, cut to Mass Effect logo. Yeah, probably MP, what else? They already have a new game that's not going to see daylight, ever.

I'm mildly curious about what EA is hyping here. There's already a remaster of the trilogy so re-remaster would be kinda silly; nobody in their right mind would bother to remaster Andromeda, so... a new live service skinner lootbox multiplayer shooter?

...I didn't think I was arguing about why it is OK to shoot up civilians because the answer is pretty obviously "It is never OK", even if they celebrate when their ruling terrorists do unspeakable things to neighboring countries civilians. I'm saying that different reaction to war crimes might be not as primitive and lazy as "Durr dem brown muslims and those other ones while christians", or not only, at least.

I would hazard a guess it's more "people who elected terrorists and openly celebrate their carnage" issue than "brown people with funny religions". Because fellow "brown people with funny religions" of Egypt keep their border with Gaza closed too for some reason...

I don't get separatist. Take a domain that your deity does not allow but it's gonna be weakened? Yeah nah, how about I take a different deity instead.

I hate those little sh†ts as much as a next person but I cannot but appreciate Bethesda's troll game when they turned the worst one from them all into a companion in FO4

Did the Swarm (respecced to kineticist and it was the most broken thing ever I saw in this game). Kind of meh, has nothing on MOTB evil ending. Loaded the save before to continue with Azata, now Charname is swarmed by butterflies and locusts. Azata is truly all-accepting.

Yeah, nah. That semi-sentient infected ballsack did not want to prevent anything for quite some time, if ever. On the contrary, it was itching for conquest lately and the only question is how much of that was pragmatism of grabbing rich lands/keeping zone of influence and how much revanchistic delusions of grandeur of aging mediocrity of a dictator whose grip on its country had't been challenged for a long, long time. It is wary of USA, not sure how much of that is inheritance of sovietistan's archenemy -- that thing is very fond of sovietistan's "legacy" -- or deliberately constructed bogeyman for its country's people that had gotten out of hand and affected those that created it in the first place, but it's there alright. It definitely didn't think EU was a threat, and to be completely honest it was deserved - have Ukraine folded overnight, I'm certain EU would just tut disapprovingly and invoke some weak-ass excuse of "sanctions", like it was with Crimea in 2015 or Georgia in 2008. So "NATO is a threat" is just a piece of propaganda. Anyway. It's kind of funny in "really not funny at all" way that russia's blitzkrieg turned into blyatzkrieg largely because of russia's signature penchant for lying about everything all the time and corruption of immeasurable proportions. Fingers crossed they will finish the job eventually.