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Brian Mitsoda with fingerless leather gloves, according to RPS.

I haven't delved into the Epic Store, but now seiing stuff like this, it seems I've been living under a rock when it comes to that Fortnite luancher. Welp!

Babies...

I'm gonna disagree with you there. I was hesitant to use EGS simply because, yes, I like having my games library in one place: Steam. When this exclusivity was announced, I sighed and thought to myself "Well, I guess I have a reason to install the EGS launcher." But then, via this controversy, I discovered the issues with privacy and the implications of the kinds of exclusive deals they've been purchasing, and I changed my mind. I can't support the EGS. Yeah, this is really main reason too. I'm not some Steam fan, but it's grown on me as a practical library/communication platform, as well as for modding, in my case.

I'll join the chorus of those not buying this much anticipated game anymore because of this epically bad decision. Sure, as others have said, I'll buy it on a Steam sale 2-3 years from now for peanuts.

It feels like Cassandra in AC: Odyssey was in part modelled on Xena, at least it feels like it when I've been slaying countless enemies playing as that biceps wonder woman. Oh and "over/under" you say?

Why not at least three of those in a fast flurry of precision? [Youtube]

SIE made me realize I kinda like strong woymen, especially if they are armed with a big machine gun.

Hmm, the only Denuvo games I've played, it seems, are DA:I, Prey and AssCreed: Odyssey, and in part Dishonored 2 + Death of the Outsider (Denuvo was removed late last year for those two). EDIT: I must add Sniper Elite IV and Total Warhammer II, both of which I have just played a bit so far. But Monster Hunter World and Nier Automata are games I've been eyeing, and they have this system.

Looks cool, but I noticed that my rig's graphics card misses out even on the min reqs. I had a hard time playing Assassin Creed on pretty low settings, so I guess I need to upgrade my pc soonish.

*Drool* My SSD with best digital real estate is still a mere 512GB.

Last weekend I uninstalled 5 games clearing up 150 GB. This weekend I downloaded 4 games taking up 120 GB. The struggle is real. Yeah, since SSD and me was love at first sight, my old TB HDDs are but a haze now. The only good thing I can recall is all the generous space.

Diablo is now available on GoG DRM free exclusively. Good move from Blizzard.

I know absolutely nothing about GW classes and races, but nice assorted selection you've got going there, mate! My favourite, just judging by atmosphere/feelz, would be that bottom left undine. Very cool!

A D3 dev posted feedback on the Anthem itemization, and after a while Bioware responded positively, promising that they would heed his advice. Amazing to think that they hadn't hired an itemization pro when making a looter shooter. With that budget, it's just mind-boggling: https://www.reddit.com/r/AnthemTheGame/comments/aucj0d/a_lesson_i_think_anthembioware_could_learn_from/

And all VO is just a constant chanting: "Nemnok! Nemnok!" That was my favourite dungeon in the game, so I'd play this Nemnok challenge, but I can see if most people would get the jitters just hearing about this suggestion. At the very least, it would be enervating in spades.

Not by a long shot. They have another ageing curve altogether, and they really get into their groove when they leave the Statler and Waldorf phase and enter the undead section of aging, starting with the skeleton phase, and then you have: -Zombie -Ghoul -Ghast -Wight -Wraith -Ghost -Vampire -Demi-lich -Lich Where are my Banshees at? Also I didn't know Undeads can regrow .. flesh? As a skeleton, the grognard is freezing. so she collects flesh and sinews until she can tie herself a fleshy body onto her skeletal frame. However, as a zombie, that craving for flesh is so hard to reign in that she begins to eat the rotting flesh of dead corpses, and then she becomes a ghoul. And ghasts are more slender and evolved ghouls, you might say. Well, when there are no more flesh fuelling her undead craving, she gets infused with hatred and violence, leading to the ability to drain the life out of victims just by touch. And so the slightly ghost-like wight is born. A wraith is an even more ethereal and horrific version of a Wight, now leaving barrows for other spooky abodes. Not surprisingly, the ghost, of which banshee and revenant are subforms, take shape, an all-ethereal life-draining apparition. Here, it comes full circle, since the ghost has reached ethereal perfection it becomes obsessed with the essence of life and and its fuel: blood. And over time, this sanguine urge takes on a ferocious animalistic craving, inserted into a mastermind, and this leaves us with the vampire. After centuries of feeding and sleeping in coffins, it's easy to lose one's head, so the vampire does the opposite. In an effort to live forever, and keep this mastermind, they sacrifice all their abilities in order to become a master wizard in a cranial package: the demi-lich. But soon, this body envy ensues yet again, and we see this undead master wizard regain her skeletal shape, granting them a handy osseous construct that can carry robes, hats, and fancy rings and bracelets, albeit a rickety ride with skeletal feet planted into hundreds of years old boots.

Not by a long shot. They have another ageing curve altogether, and they really get into their groove when they leave the Statler and Waldorf phase and enter the undead section of aging, starting with the skeleton phase, and then you have: -Zombie -Ghoul -Ghast -Wight -Wraith -Ghost -Vampire -Demi-lich -Lich

Yeah, that's the worst of those epic beasts, for sure.

I just achieved Guardian during this D3 season (#16), and I had to check, but it's actually the first time I ever gone all the way. I've done seasons up until the stash tab reward and then stopped liek 3 times, so this tab actually made it so that I have 10 tabs in all. Very sweet! I've had some frustrations, obviously, but overall D3 2019 is still lots of fun, viewed as a time-killing machine. Perfect escape when RL issues are a bit too intrusive for my liking. I've ran three different wizard builds, all of them royal grandeur dependent in various ways. But my last build, a pretty standard fire meteor Tal Rasha variant, will work nicely with a full set as well when the season ends. There were other firsts as well. I managed to reach lvl 80 Greater Rifts and beyond. Also, when I reached lvl 70 GR, I got my first primal ancient item ever, a semi-decent helm. And my second primal ancient, my first "natural" primal drop - it happened at Greed's Vault tier XIII, and, amazingly, it was one of the items I actually had on my build. Just wow! As for the Conquests, I managed to solo the 20 min Tier X All Bosses except Vidian in-game thanks to my eternally teleporting wand set-up, but yeah, it was tight. I had 2 minutes to spare, and it was third time's the charm. One conquest more was the last thing to do on my Guardian chore list, and I picked Tier X Nephalem rift in 2 min, since my very fast wizard build had managed a tier XIII in 3 minutes, I even got some achievement for it being 3 minutes. Still, after hours of trying it solo, I just didn't have any perfect maps, and when I did, I was always 40 seconds short. That meant I had to enter the multiplayer jungle. I lurked in T10 rifts, played for several hours, until I got into a group with one of those super-fast Demon Hunters, which runs far ahead of everybody else, even my teleporting Wizard, and then just blast bolt barrages. So, now I get to flaunt a Guardian Season 16 Portrait Frame: And yep, I'm still mad about the boy (Lamb), as my pet... Perhaps there are differences between PS4 and PC in various ways when it comes to animation, framerates, etc. That would affect my view on the various pets quite a bit.

I have acquired two new pet acquaintances, and they are at both ends of my appreciation spectrum! The first new one is Charlotte the spider: -It moves just as bad as the Mini-Azmodan pet -And it gets stuck everywhere, and it also has a problem of keeping up, especially when I teleport. -It's a spider. Blargh! But it looks good in all its arachnid grandeur, even though its dark colour makes it hard to see, despite its shimmering outline -I'd rate this just below mini-Azmodan on my previous list The second new one is Lamb, the eager squire boy: Here you see Lamb landing the killing blow onto Malthael at Tier XIII. Not bad, my son! Not bad at all, says Templar Dad. -This is one of those NPC-like pets, and it's been competently programmed -It moves better than the Cow Queen and the Lady Sheep, and it has both of their best moves: swinging the weapon, rallying with the weapon raised -It looks beautiful on all maps, and adapts well to all lightning. -Lamb's relatively impressive stature makes him pretty easy to see -He runs and keeps up brilliantly, and picks up stuff decently (not like Murkomancer or the Starcraft spaceship, but still) -I love that I get to have a little nuclear family rocking the rifts like this. -I rate Lamb as the best pet out of all those I have at this moment in time!

I'm like level 53 and have only killed half the cultists. I've roamed freestyle, and I am a sucker for stumbling on side quests and finishing those. Plenty of them are good and some are excellent. I play this game pretty much as a I played Skyrim, doing what I feel like and avoiding the main quest. Well, at least I have levelled up that spear to lvl 5 out of 6.

Mrs Fortune smiled at me this evening! Within minutes, I ran into two menagerie goblins, so I have now had the opportunity to take two more pets for a spin: Phantom Hannah: -It has this disproportional left arm movement swiping over and over, like certain enemy ghosts, and this repeats itself in a short loop that got under my skin pretty quickly -It hovers pretty neatly, but it's hard to make out most of the time. You got those brass shoulder pads and an odd headpiece tagging along, crowning a blue glowing torn sheet, which is unassuming -It's slightly better than the Malfeasant Ghost, but that's just by a hair! The One That Can't Be Mentioned: -Well, it's a cow, but it's like one hundred times better than the Darkening of Tristam cow, the Cow Queen! -Yet another pet that moves like an NPC, and it moves almost the same as the Lady Sheep pet. -Instead of charging with a sword, it's sorta rallying my character by waving her weird spear -It's easier to see and even more colourful, literally and figuratively, than the Lady Sheep -Personally, I rank this, currently, as my no 4, just after the very neat Pierce Horsey

While the video game and violence connection borders on plain old tautology, investigations of biological differences between the sexes at least bear some academic merit (just think of the great individual variations, or the neurological complexity and the extremely poorly understood brains we have encased in our craniums), if we set aside the pushing of agendas and such, which actually all sorts of research fall victim to, even the natural sciences. The video game analyses on the other hand, they need to put better questions to the medium they study and its plethora of users.

Oh, and I just couldn't resist the temptation. I corrected this for ya!