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Wait what? I managed to solo the Heroic Star Fortress when my companion was only about influence 15. It's a bit of a grind, especially that last dragging point of facing down the Exarch (or at least, chasing them through the three rooms before the final battle), but it wasn't exactly problematic. I haven't really focused large time on the game, but been slowly running through the weekly flashpoints once more. Have the specialists in the 15-16 range at the moment, and it's taking, what about 5 - 7 supply crates to go up a rank? I've got Lana to about 29 influence, a couple are around 20, and about another 5 or 6 are at 15 influence. There's about 3 or 4 paladins to find to collect the set, and I haven't actually destroyed the Belsavis Star Fortress just yet.

Now I want to hear just how John Williams would do Ride of the Valkyries... I just have to stop hearing "Kill the Wabbit! Kill the Waaaabit!"

Oh yes, and the international trailer.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdAUiyeJMFQ

I only pre-ordered it because Greenman Gaming gave me a silly money off coupon for it... So far they've thrown a few 20% off the Season Pass my way, but I just can't stir myself for that. Well, pushing CV stuff around and doing all the job searches. It's kind of interesting that they keep throwing out senior jobs that I'm not qualified, then when I try to step the search back to lower levels, they only throw out graduate-internships. Joy. Went out to the crematorium today with my father and sister, picking up mom's ashes and decided how we were going to handle that. And of course it's being an utterly miserable raining and grey cloud English winter at the moment.

From what I remember seeing, it's not that you can upgrade your home base... But that you can build your own community areas as you wander around. Collect scrap and establish several "communities" in the game. But it's been a few months since I read those articles so who knows how it'll turn out in the final game. Also, it seems weird to have a Fallout trailer where Ron Perlman doing "War.. War Never Changes" isn't the first thing you hear....

The Verge - Jetman Jet Pack Along Jumbo Jet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VPvKl6ezyc

More... upbeat and optimistic than the usual snark. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pegJQPIzfs4

Heh, found out that a few years ago, three of the actors from the old Highlander tv show got together and filmed their own "fan version" of a couple of conversations. Peter Wingfield (Methos), Elizabeth Gracen (Amanda), and Jim Byrnes (Joe) reprising their roles. It takes place 10 years after the series between the fourth and fifth movies. Filming took place at Wingfield's beach home with the actors volunteering in their roles. The plot involved the characters discussing Methos' plans to get married and settle down with a mortal woman and her son.

Well I got this as well... Personality: INTP ("The Logician") Variant: Assertive Role: Analyst Strategy: Confident Individualism

Trying to figure out how on earth you can get writer's block on trying to write out a CV profile...

I tried some of the Belsavis dailies the other week but had an annoying glitch kept cropping up. Actually something I've noticed outside of Belsavis as well, when you have to pick up mission loot dropped by enemies for your mission to progress, half the time it seems to pick up the loot but not update the quest. Then enemies keep dropping it, but telling you that you can't pick it up because you already have x amount of unique item. Sometimes logging out, then back in will cause the quest to update, but half the time it requires several mission resets before it'll work properly.

So Limitless did a twist of a Ferris Bueller episode... Kind of amusing.

imgur - Nasa released 30 minutes of footage of the sun in 4k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tmbeLTHC_0

Control the high ground? If you've got enough ships scattered around you can keep a sensor watch on a planet for ships launching from a planet, and combine fire on where they're trying to reach escape velocity and leave the planet's gravity well? Or at least have time enough to flood their likely paths with fighters and general anti-ship weapons. And it's the Star Wars universe, so they could have a few Mass Generators in orbit to cause issues on people getting into hyperspace.. o O (Just playing devil's advocate)

It could be interesting depending on how in-depth and integrated it all turns out... GamesRadar - Deus Ex Mankind Divided: Reinventing the Side-Quest

For a return of the classics... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdvD4Fhc_K8

To get back to the literary side of things.. And for a mix of the snerk and humour in it... Answering questions about the zombie apocalypse and assorted writing. Buzzymag - John Ringo Interview

Well, in the general vein of news for this... Escapist - White Wolf CEO Interview

Okay, I didn't do the live action, but I spent some time with the pen and paper and still have my shelves high of assorted WoD stuff.... but the characters and the moods (apart from the combat heavy) seemed to be the ambience our old GM's pushed. Loss, politics, clinging to humanity while struggling to succeed as predators, manipulations, secrets... To be fair, Vampire the Dark Ages was much more likely to slide into the bloody combat than VtM and Redemption did start off there, so maybe that colours my perception of it. Of course, it has been a bloody long time since I sat down and played Redemption.