bugarup

One of numerous things I'm baffled about Owlcat's storytelling is how they make an irredeemable villain and then give them a redemption arc. Those sekrit endings in both KM and WOTR are like, "And then Legate Lanius took up gardening for a hobby and lived happily ever after with Courier in cream colored cottage, fostering kittens and supplying ecological avocadoes to local hipsters"

My guess would be....urk......multiplayer.

Completely normal spell + Bubblebuffs mod = giant cheat and I love it. In other news, beer mug Azata summons aggroed next room tenants in that big circular room in Blackwater, who all rushed in right through the walls. The party was buffed up to the gills so wasn't big deal, but from now on that "Control Summons" option in toybox stays ticked, cheaty or not. (Also, missed such a chance to name shaman's wolf "Day Tripper"). In another playthrough, had the druid polymorphed into Shambling Mound, found "Grapple" toggle among its abilities, toggled it to see what it does, and what it does is break turn-based combat - when it is its turn, he slaps the other guy with its appendages and everything halts. Turn-based on/off, slap again. On/off, slap! Like four times, and then I regain control and slap the guy another four or five times, guess because we're hasted? I have no idea what is happening here and why but I like it. Makes sense too, Shambling Mound has a lot of appendages and they all are made for slapping.

That No Stars song start tricked me into believing there's gonna be guitar solo but there wasn't. So here's guitar solo.

It's them who are dying out there. Ghouls from safe, rich, fat places who complain that counteroffensive isn't ~showy~ enough for their tastes can go f*ck themselves.

Lol, judging by muzik Majestic was such a cheesy youth. Me, on the other hand, listened to edgier cooler things, like Scooter was for drunken parties only.

I was very happy with my Lich's romance with Daeran, when It was all so romantic.

We doing memorial service for the birdie?

Witcher, season 3. I somewhat liked it overall and even have ideas for its future -- i.e. the most natural way to swap Cavill with a Hemsworth would be replace all actors but Ciri and tell the audience she just shifted to another dimension which is totally book canon. Speaking of books. Seems like the show left itself a way to split the party like the books did, where CIri goes off with the Rats and then solo, Yen goes politicking and Geralt makes a new party (he has the bard and the ranger so far, the fallen Blackguard is definitely coming, not so sure about the rogue and Very OP Outsider. They might not want cast bloat, but on the other hand, they just did some culling). Might be interesting, might be crap. Hard to say with these showrunners. Liked the fighting in this season, esp. Vilgefortz getting his double saber Sith freak on, mage fight was fun to watch too (go, Tissaia! ). Shame about Cavill's departure. And just when I finally feel a little invested in further development.

Went in to see if anything crashes and just was about to report that "It works on my machine ¯\_(ツ)_/¯" when I remembered I rolled back the patch. Noticed another interesting thing, though - my party kills possibly a bit better and saves against all bullsh†t certainly better. Guess that big huge tl;dr patch fixed some of never-worked-from-the-start modifiers or something.

Everything can be music.

Summons are self-sabotaging idiots, the best you can do is throw them at something to waste spells and other things and pray they won't run to some lonely enemy at the opposite edge of the map, eating every attack of opportunity on the way. Toybox has the option for controllable summons, and turning it on ain't even cheating. Lich's Repurpose spell is hilarious even if raised minions are braindead. In Alushinyrra its effect never expired for some reason, so whenever I went there a small but growing army of Balrogs etc. happily hoofed to welcome me back. I felt so loved. I also repurposed the Overtuned Furry, but that one was on a timer and the dungeon was cleared anyway. You have that Triceratops figurine? Put your Lich on him if you want a mount. He's probably squishier than you are, but for some reason nobody ever targeted my Lich or his mount as if we were invisible, so won't hurt to try.

That's why you carpet the place with traps before they spawn.

Always been. My GPU doesn't fancy it much either, so much I have to cap FPS and avoid playing in hot weather. Launched it yesterday to see if patch rollback borked anything (it did, but reloading same save file helped for some reason) and if I want to proceed with my abandoned Aeon. Nah, not yet...but kinda want to make yet another Lich sorcerer. I read this is widespread disease in JRPGs. Me, I only played two of them, both had multiple incidents of this garbage and made me wish for a kill everyone playthrough. Speaking of Bioware, they had this "win the impossible battle" situation in Dragon Age: Origins. If you won, you got the impossible boss's Big F††ing Sword. If lost, you had to spring yourself from jail while your party of misfits tried to do the same from the other side of the door. Either result was rewarding in its own way and the whole scene was really good.

Oh, I know. That's the reason I use that thing only for music, phone calls, some (paid, ad-free) games for unavoidable queues and keep its email separate from ones I use on PC. I also know just how bad google tracking is, and that Windows does it too, but just because I have a mild parasite infestation does not mean I must be okay with every parasite that wants to come my way.

Yuck. Should have read the patch notes before clicking install. GOG allows patch reverting, but I kind of want to scrub it off my machine completely. P.S.: someone tech-savvy should test if ad sh†t was truly removed. Could be very well damage control lies.

Yeah, that feat is a must on casters. Countering buff hullabaloo is a Very Good Thing (side-eyeing you so hard, Wrathfinder ), but surely a caster should be able to wrangle more than one spell at a time, no? And I don't quite get the logic behind it, like, Mage Armor is not a concentration spell but Barkskin is?

Solasta. Really not a fan of that concentration thing, so much that I avoid picking spells with this tag when leveling. Why is this? To make casters less OP? Why not make a dude with a zweihander less boring instead?

One man's balance is another's idea of fun. I personally found PoE and especially Deadfire way, way more fun to play than that double-cheese deluxe aka Wrathfinder. It means I can get creative within given set of rules and experience this wondrous, liberating thing of playing with any possible class combination instead of "take loremaster for spellcasting gouda, take a level in monk for camembert style, (alignment? **** that, you can change it later anyway); rogue? Don't be stupid, play a vivisectionist, oh and did I mention fondue monk dip? () you totally should take that" etc. To each their own of course, but my fingers crossed for Sawyer not taking parmesan bites from Owlcat's charcuterie.

Andor is good, and IMO good good, not "good for Star Wars".

Trailer really wants us to remind us it's "From the director of Rogue One", but manipulative editing aside, methinks the director of Rogue One can do good things if he makes a decent main character and casts a charismatic actor for it. Which he unfortunately didn't in Rogue One. Maybe this time.

I imagine it's easier for some just to hire a bunch of coders to do them if-then-elses than employ more sophisticated brain areas and, you know, think something new.

Wrangling Witcher 2 (made a chapter 2 choice, currently constantly getting lost in labyrinthine dwarf town) and Solasta. Stalled at the undead place with previous party, rolled caster-heavy new one and they're breezing through those low levels where the more traditional party was lumbering, though I imagine a party of druid, warlock, wizard and bard will have some problems in that undead castle. Speaking of undeads, googled that **** vampire fight, did her in, dinged level 6, took a look at my paladin and what the ever-living holy f†ck was I thinking, accepting those abysmal stats?! Wasn't reroll available back then or did I just not try? V. much itching to restart from scratch, but level 6 is something like mid-campaign, so...sigh. Thing is, paladin's so good even with rubbish stats, I imagine what a powerhouse they must be with good ones. ..decisions, decisions...

So you play a divorced barbarian lady who has to fight through hordes of scantily clad monsters and bloodthirsty girls to get to her deadbeat no-good former husband and smack him with alimony hammer, right?

The middle person looks like Rachael from Blade Runner after she dumped Deckard's ass and started her own shadowrunning agency (with Jeff Goldblum-esque figure in the bottom right as her trusty second-in-command shaman), and I'd totally watch this movie.