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STR in the PoE system would be a better fit for an Oriental setting, where it can represent qi, or ch'i. Western minds brought up on the nerd-power stereotype of frail wizards don't seem to wrap themselves around the idea quite as well.

DYNAMO, episode 1 of 6. Amateur acting, but some nifty effects via 3D modelling.

You encounter the Brotherhood of Tl;dr and they remonstrate with you to add more paragraph breaks...

You should. It's barely an RPG but still has its merits as a decent space opera thing. It's mostly driven by characters rather than by story itself. And the ending in the third game sucks. But until that it's pretty enjoyable. The mining mini-game in ME2 was pretty awful as well. Hopefully there won't be anything like that.

There aren't any deities left without challenges, are there?

Nicely done. This year was a somewhat of a disappointment, cRPG-wise, what with Underworld Ascendant, The Bard's Tale IV, and Fallout 76 getting not so great reviews. There was Kingdom Come: Deliverance plus Monster Hunter though, so some decent competition.

Will there be aliens? I get the feeling it's all human. Can't have sci-fi romance without at least one non-fleshy colored humanoid race.

Package Thief vs. Glitter Bomb Trap

I suppose to make things interesting they could do a "gaussian" glow rather than a simple icon. That is, spread out the indicator across a wide, blurred band, with the destination randomly located somewhere within (according to a std. normal distribution). I.e. you get a general sense of the direction but need to narrow it down by moving closer. As you get nearer, or if your sense of direction improves, the glow narrows.

Seems like load screens would be a good time to present lore. Read it or not at your option.

Why would it need to do anything else...? Keeps the others in line?

It's not like he's going to jump that far...

Who needs nunchucks? Nyuk nyuk nyuk.

Apparently the Chinese government is setting up an "ethics" board to review games they'll allow. I love the irony there.

"No sense of direction" flaw for those players who follow compass quest markers. It causes random quest markers to appear in odd directions.

Currently $10 at GoG as part of their Winter sale.

'bout right.

PETA -- Pillars of Eternity Terminated Animals

The past, the present and the future walked into a bar. It was tense.

The record for high-temperature superconductivity has been smashed again –23 °C. Pretty cool...