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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rehXsNdXjrg

Not much of anything. I've mostly been curled up in bed sweating then shivering then sweating then shivering, making frequent trips to the bathroom, not eating anything, and just all around hating life for the last day and a half. I'm starting feel slightly better, to where I had enough strength to walk to my computer. Hopefully, I'll be semi-human tomorrow and can go to work.

I like going through the game slowly, but then I'm a slow gamer in general. I spend most of the time in the game in scout mode slowly creeping around the maps inch by inch, and that suits me just fine. I'm in no hurry to get to the end.

21 hours in and I finally got my full party. I'm nearing Defiance Bay but my next trip will likely be back to Gilded Vale to sell off some stuff. I want to initiate the next round of stronghold upgrades but don't have enough cash on hand to do it, so I need to visit a merchant. I hate travelling while no work is being done on my stronghold. It seems so inefficient. I will almost certainly meet merchants in Defiance Bay, but I'm not sure how much further I need to go to get there and going back to Gilded Vale seems the safer bet.

I wasn't suggesting Alan was being a charlatan or sea-lioning. I was suggesting Alan was honestly trying to empathize with the people losing their **** over a limerick. My argument is that these people should not be empathized with because they are bullies, and empathizing with them is unwittingly helping enable their behavior.

"It's not you, gaming, it's me" For once, Ben Kuchera actually wrote something that's completely true.

Yeah, I do wonder what percentage of the people getting bent out of shape over the limerick: 1) Are current Obsidian Entertainment customers 2) Have at any point been Obsidian Entertainment customers 3) Would ever be Obsidian Entertainment customers in the future if they are placated We'll almost certainly never get the true answer, but I bet that if you added the percentages of 1, 2, and 3 together it would be in the single digits.

Dammit, Meshugger, I'm TRIGGERED... Triggered into a desire to listen to more Dubliners.

Seemed very much like that Alan did feel that way, which is why I wanted to quote his response. He probably won't have time to respond, but I think its a valid question regardless. Well, to me it seems like Alan is being an apologist for the bullies. While I don't think his motives are bad, nor do I think he realizes he's helping to spread bullying and terror, he's just trying to be sensitive to their feels, the fact is that apologists for the scumbags driving today's shaming culture are enabling them and indirectly helping the spread of shaming culture. The people driving shaming culture are bullies. They use fear and intimidation to make others submit to their demands at the threat of having their livelihood ruined; many have had their livelihood ruined, even after they submitted to the bullies demands. Some of these people, no doubt, derive great pleasure from ruining other people's lives. These people are monsters. They do not deserve to be apologized for. They do not deserve our pity. They deserve ridicule and contempt.

There is none, if you're a reasonable person. It's a silly limerick (limericks are, by their nature, often obscene) about a fictional person who's transphobic. The joke is at his expense. More importantly, it's just a joke. Not us, that's what the bullies are saying. They want to homogenize all media to their liking.

I dunno, Best Western has been around for some 70 years and they have over 4000 hotels worldwide. Clearly, they're doing something right.

Got my first crash to desktop in PoE. I suppose 1 CTD in over 18 hours of playing isn't bad. I save often so I only lost about 5 minutes of play time.

I hate spirits. I really really hate spirits. Shadows, phantoms, shades, etc. Holding the line? Tactical combat? Ahahahahahaha! They just teleport right through you. Status effects? It's really fun constantly having 2 or 3 of them stacked on your characters.

I very much disagree. There are many types of RPGs, from action oriented ones, to tactical ones, to hybrid strategy game/RPGs. There is room enough for all of these, the genre should not limit itself to just one style of gameplay. Furthermore, I feel that action combat is a perfect fit for The Witcher. Geralt is not a soldier, he is a Witcher. While he has (reluctantly) fought in wars, strategic combat with large numbers of troops, staying disciplined, holding formations and such is not his forte. Geralt is most at home fighting by himself against either a lone enemy or small groups of enemies. The enemies he is trained to kill are monsters. Monsters tend not to attack in an organized way, combat with them tends to be visceral rather than tactical, which is a perfect fit for action combat.

The only appropriate response: At best this "pressure" they're trying to put on Obsidian will get PoE some free advertising, at worst (and most likely) it will do nothing at all. Remember, these are largely the same people that have been trying to take Total Biscuit down for the last however many months. Q: How has that worked out? A: He's more popular than ever. Edit: As an aside, that's got to be a sad way to live; constantly going out of your way to look for things to get upset and outraged about (often on someone else's behalf). That can't be healthy for your psyche. I'd almost feel sorry for these people if they weren't such ***holes.

I've been lucky enough to avoid the bug as I've been drag and dropping everything. Hopefully the fix shows up soon, though, as I'm bound to double-click by accident sooner or later, especially since double-clicking is how you split stacks (it took me forever to figure that out since I'm so used to shift+click).

It turns out that Hard Difficulty in Pillars of Eternity is actually hard. My party's been savagely obliterated a fair number of times already.

Hard cider

I think we have experienced a catastrophic reactor overload; Pillars of Eternity broke the forums.

So, I wandered into the ruined temple in Gilded Vale by myself and decided to give it a go. I managed to get around a little bit of it by being sneaky and skillfully pulling enemies with a crossbow bolt then retreating and going melee, but then I got horribly murdered. Repeatedly horribly murdered. Turns out, there are packs of beasties in there that it's not advisable to tackle alone. I do love that though. If I do something stupid, like wander into an old abandoned temple all by my lonesome, I should get punished for it, and punished for it I got, by being repeatedly horribly murdered. Don't have enemies level scale with me, allow me to make my own mistakes and punish me for them severely. I do have a companion now (and another level under my belt), so maybe I can try that temple, but I'm going to head back to Valewood first and pay a visit to those bears. Good times.

My favorite Chinese dish: Ma Po Bean Curd.

I love reading the stories when you reach into people's souls; some really entertaining stuff there. I spent an hour walking around Gilded Vale and hardly did anything but talk to people and reach into souls, and I only visited just over half the town. I haven't even been to the inn yet. Good times.

Had a big greasy breakfast, took a walk outside once it stopped raining, lifted some weight when I got back, and now I'm finishing up laundry. Then it's all about that PoE.