bugarup

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.

I'm gonna wait for goatee GOTY Extended Edition going on at least 60% sale, so that's probably 3 or 5 years. Meanwhile, I'm gonna experience it vicariously through eye-rolling and teeth-gnashing on the forums.

Nice if a bit gloomy collab from Till Lindemann and Kovacs. Weird video format though.

Witcher 2. It appears CDPR implemented cheevos recently, but because everyone and their dog played the game ages ago, I get to enjoy Epic Achievements (0,9%, drank a potion). I remember where I stalled almost 3 years ago (got told to explode nekker nests without any instructions or directions). No idea why I thought I have time to look for them on my own back then, now promptly googled that sh†t and will do so anytime the game decides to be cryptic with clues. Also hoping I'll get to go somewhere more urban next, swamps and wilderness suck. Minigames are no fun, but the story and characters are engaging enough to mostly outweigh annoyances.

DAO's sex stuff was just kind of...awkward, nothing too bizarre? Anyway, I cringed wayyyyyy worse at the singing scene in Inquisition than DAO's sex. That said, from my experience with Larian, in the bizarre & lolrandom department they easily run circles around Bioware...though waitwaitwait. Bioware allowed you to romance Iron Bull, I doubt the bear could cause worse internal damage.

I keep hearing that Witcher season 3 is better than season 2 and these are comforting news as I just finished the 2 and it was bad. Like, "did they hire a video game writer for this or something" bad. I thought I had no expectations at all, but episodes 1 and 2 proved me wrong, tried to cling to little details like Yen and Cahir's cozy bickering, Dijkstra's cliche but badass entrance etc., but the last episode dragged me back down into the vortex of idiocy. I almost wish for S3 to be bad and kill my interest for good, especially with the new actor who I hear is too wooden for "Pinocchio: Origins". Oh well. I can always re-read books if I want to. And I still have two games to play, wish someone edited combat out of them already.

I'm playing Saints Row 3, never played any SR games before. It's strange; the game is full of things I normally hate in games - timers, checkpoints, driving, combos - and yet here I am, 25 hours in and never noticing how it's 2 am already. Maybe because the game is so chill and unserious about anything it's hard to be annoyed at it too? I even started enjoying my abysmal driving! Also some minigames are better than others, insurance fraud is probably my favorite; also love clearing the pink fist events with a tank.

Black Mirror season 5-6 mix and Bandersnatch. Latter was kinda useful as a component of Netflixverse that 'flix seems to be building, but hoo boy was it dull. And no, Netflix, just because you know it's dull too does not make it better. Season six episodes 1 and 2, Netflix is really serious about meta, isn't it? Anyway, I liked 1 and not just because some part of my brain is forever 12 and I was delighted about the church scene. Episode 2, totally called it, but otherwise forgettable. Aaron Paul episode was good but horribly depressing and I am so glad I chose to watch the Miley Cyrus one next because I really needed something positive and fluffy to counter that one. The one with gamer bros horny for each other characters was too serious for such a silly premise, the Andrew Scott one had sweet summer child energy now, when we can see an actual war on social media, and Season six's episodes 5 and 6 I think I already forgot.

Same here, only swap Galaxy Quest with Sergio Leone's Westerns.

Not me, but you got me interested in looking up leopard growl, and it appears that they growl just like other big cats. Although those in videos all were dry...so, uh, anyone willing to throw a bucket of water at a leopard for science?