Raithe
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Heh. I feel old. Buffy the Vampire Slayer aired for the first time on tv 20 years ago today. Hollywood Reporter - Buffy at 20
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which one? I think I was able to talk out from most crisis I didn't want to fight it (btw I just got into Bloom but I want to return to clear out that bad canibals) Sounds like he's talking the Endless Gate tomb.. Technically you can bypass those combats, but it makes the final "boss" of that section harder if you do end up sliding into the combat again. But you can still deal with him via non-combat routes if you hit the right dialogue. Also, remember to check things and pick up his merecaster before you enter the gate...
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Sue the T-Rex is running a D&D game on Twitter
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The Weird, Random, and Interesting things that Fit Nowhere Else Thread
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For that random msn article... Since the Azure Window in Malta collapsed into the sea yesterday, I expect we'll have a batch of these types of articles going around for a few days: Natural Landmarks that have been destroyed over the years -
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Hide is your friend with that one. It would just be nice to be able to hide to avoid ending up in those darn crisis points at times.
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Apparently there's a street artist going around putting up these...
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I have to say, in the pen and paper version, if you were playing runners who were sliiiightly professional, our GM always encouraged us to use non-lethal methods to disable security and the like on missions unless the mission directly called for it. Otherwise, you'd get a much bigger reaction out of Corporate Security, local Police and the like if you started dropping bodies all over the place. It was very much a "the guys chasing you are a lot more likely to allocate more resources to catching/punishing/killing your ass if you happen to be bloody minded idiots rather than sneaky thieves."
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Emotional PSA 'The One That Got Away' Raises Awareness About Abusive Relationships -
Saw Crysis 2 in the Origin Vault so thought I'd give it a try. Haven't played any serious shooter since Far Cry 4.
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I think it's a fine line to walk. When you're sat at a table playing the pen and paper (or hypothetically speaking a character in that universe) it's something that's fairly easy to keep in mind and part of the whole feel and atmosphere. When you're playing a computer game, you don't get the full effect of that, and you have a lot of in-grained habits from playing other computer games where the junk is the junk is the junk. Plus, to a certain point, you don't necessarily get all of that aspect pushed at you from a computer gamers point of view in-game, so unless you know the world previously it's not going to trip your mental switches to really keep an eye on? When your first dozen oddities are all "junk - sell" stuff, a lot of people shut down on checking the rest because they'll be focusing on the other things that have already shown themselves to be potentially relevant/important to the game. I know I kept most of the oddities I found for ages through the game thinking they might potentially be useful or involved in something else rather than simply flogging them off. But even then I didn't click to the aspect of being able to use them on their own and getting boosts until I was halfway through the Bloom.
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The Weird, Random, and Interesting things that Fit Nowhere Else Thread
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Also, for the feminist question (and keeping it out of the politics in general) for the amusing viewpoint from Emma Watson on the fuss about her Vanity Fair photoshoot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7OvCcxVlFo -
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New York Times is going to start running its' reporter's tweets inside the paper -
One thing I do think can be a bit of an issue, is that there's not a really good journal keeping track of information. I can understand on one level the approach, plus the whole throwing in of reading and old school feel to it, but at the same time, if I read something one night and save my game, then have life interrupt for a few days and come back to it.. my memory probably isn't going to be exact for all those little things I've read in walls of text. The writing is generally really well done, the universe is interesting, there's a lot of fun concepts. But it can be a pain to keep it in mind when you play for an hour or two, then have to go off and deal with life for several days before getting back into it.
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... ... ... Son of a bitch. Yeah. Check details for each oddity. If it just has "sell" it's a junk item to raise shins. If it has a "use" option, use it outside of a crisis and they normally open up a dialogue option choice and depending on how you go with it... You quite often end up with a Stat or Skill boost of some sort.
