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To clarify, the level scaling doesn't put Pathfinder: Kingmaker into the never ever buy category for me, rather it takes it from the mildly eager to play category to the maybe some day in the future category.

SAVAGE

^ Yes. I explicitly want there to be a possibility of running into enemies I have no business fighting and have to run away or die a horrible gruesome death. Clear enough? Edit: It's part of what I love about Elex so much. I love that I can be in a seemingly "safe" area exploring and killing low level mobs when suddenly... OH GOD OH GOD I'M SO DEAD. RUN AWAY! RUN AWAY! I'm weird like that.

How do you lose interest in a game based purely on a piece of information that it utilizes level scaling? Because I hate level scaling. I haven't replayed BG2 since I played it some 17 or 18 years ago and have no desire to, by the way.

One of the patches actually toned down encounters in first act a lot and made them level scaled Aaaaaaand there goes my interest in the game. $40 saved, I guess.

Agreed. Eli is finished. /hides from Volo

I scooped up Star Traders Frontiers, though I likely won't get to play it until I get home early next week. I'm so ready to start building my galactic marcantile empire. /rubs hands together

I hate both low level and epic level D&D. Levels 5-15 is where D&D really shines IMHO.

Do you have one of those belgian waffle makers? I kinda want to get one.

The end of the Sawx/Yanks ALDS was so tense. Great stuff. Sawx/Stros should be HOT FIYA. The Sawx may have won 108 games, but I think the Stros are the better team. The Sawx lineup is so ridiculous, though, that they always have a punchers chance in any game. On the flip side David Price is a liability in the postseason.

I'm glad I haven't picked this up yet (because my current lappy can't handle it and I'm almost never home to play it on my desktop). From all the talk I hear all over the internet of bugs, this sounds like the NWN2 launch. Hopefully by the time I get a new lappy the bugs will have been squashed.

The Texans won the Texas Mediocrity Bowl.

I'm secretly wishing we could get Oby back. He was my favorite troll poster.

GRAHAM GANO FROM 63 FOR THE WIN!

I'm watching Eli Manning and Cam Newton taking turns trying to give the game away. Edit: Riverboat Ron with the big cajones play call on 4th and 1 in the 4th.

Trudging along in Shin Megami Tensei Liberation Dx2. I've evolved my Alilat up to 6 star (max rank) and am now in the process of levelling it up to lev 50 (max level). The success rate with Mahashibaboo continues to be really high, so it wasn't just small sample size giving me skewed data, so I think I can pass on using Alilat's lass transfer slot on the Madness passive to further increase ailment infliction rate. The rate is high enough as is. Most likely I'll use the final slot to give Alilat some kind of single target nuke of an elemental type I'm missing; either Bufudyne (cold) or Mudodyne (dark). I have Bufudyne on Asherah right now, I transfreerd it to her some time ago, but I think I'll get rid of it in favor of using both her transfer slots to shore up her 2 elemental weaknesses (cold and dark, ironically enough). If I do that I can make a team with zero elemental weaknesses once I replace Wu Kong with Susano-o and give Susano-o resist fire. Enemy teams exploit elemental weaknesses mercilessly in late game MegaTen, as they should. Anyway, I've reached floor 35 in the Aura Gate dungeon and I've also been going through the story missions again and playing them on harder difficulties. I have chapters 1-5 100% complete on all 3 difficulties (normal, hard, and hell) and am about halfway through completing chapter 6 on hard difficulty. I think I can probably get to about around floor 40 of the Aura Gate dungeon with my current team, but past that I really need to get Susano-o. Wu Kong is just far too much of a liability, he has too many elemental weaknesses and is far too fragile to survive those deep levels.

The new AMD Polaris 30 cards are rumored to be releasing soon. Nothing earth shattering here, they're just a refreshed 570 and a refreshed 580 with the same exact core counts and higher clock speeds. AMD still has nothing for Team Green in the high end, but these new cards should be good bargains in the $150-$300 mainstream market segment.

Mighty Number 9. had more issues than not living up to nostalgia hype though. I take it that Megaman 11 is decent. It's better than decent, MM11 is good. Legitimately good.

She's clearly a RPG protagonist. If I was a resident of any location near there I would be really woried about any chests or cabinets in my house and barrels outside my house getting looted.

^ That sounds like standard cat behavior to me. ;p

It still stings to set myself back in my quest to fuse Susano-o so much, but fusing Alilat has definitely been worth it. My success rate with binding enemies when casting Mahashibaboo has been impressive, and I still have room to increase the infliction rate. Enemies are surprisingly easy to defeat when they can't act.

D4 will have 4 billion melee weapons and all of them will suck.

I hit the jackpot when I pulled in to the truck stop at Dandridge Tennessee to eat and shut down for the day today. Normally, I'm stuck with whatever crappy fast food is inside the truck stop and whatever food the convenience store has. Occasionally, there will be a Dennys or Iron Skillet or Country Pride restaurant, which is a small step up from your typical Subway or Hardees or Mickie D's. The Pilot I stopped at not only has a Subway inside, there are like 5 restaurants right next to the truck stop. I wound up eating at a place called Taste of Dandridge and got French Onion Soup and a Texas Melt. Pretty dang good. I gotta remember this place since I come through Tennessee a lot. I'll probably try the seafood restaurant next time.

Play some Mario games if you have a Nintendo system.