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I have allergies. Can't go out without sneezing. Damn trees. Now that summer starts proper that should get better. Of course, exactly because my sneezing is allergies, it isn't actually dangerous, I guess?

Haven't really watched anything since I finished She-Ra... It was a bit obviously girlish, but when they finally wrap up the romance arc in season 5 and end the show, it all works. Probably the best romance in a cartoon. Made the mistake of trying to catch up with The Flash after. God that show is bad. How did I manage to watch 6 seasons of it? If She-Ra's Catradora romance is well written, Flash's attempt at drama is *shudder* so bad it even overshadows Black Lightning's daughter.

I think she likes likes me.

Civ6 is very Civilizationy. Because of the way resources were distributed - there was hardly any iron on my starting continent - I built my first airport at the same time I trained my first knight. By the time the knight reached the front line to charge Viking crossbowmen, my privateer fleet was being refitted to submarines. I also couldn't get any oil (there was one oil resource on my continent). In the second war against the Vikings I grabbed their port with oil (I felt very US American, even though I was the Roman Merchant Republic at the time). But when I got the oil rig up and running my tech had advanced so far that I didn't need it anymore. Suddenly I needed Uranium. Uranium held by my friends the Japanese (not trading for it), and my "It's Complicated" Egyptians (I swear, the way Cleopatra kept insulting me one turn to praise me the next, she had the hots for me). The Spanish (kept denouncing me since the early middle ages when Gandhi converted the Roman Republic to Hinduism) and Chinese (kept insulting me because I built more wonders) were faster than me in sending settlers to the two unclaimed uranium spots (though the Spanish, still using catapults and pikemen, didn't know what uranium was). The Chinese made peace with the Egyptians and declared war on me alongside my backstabbing friends the French. That blew my uranium trade deal with the Chinese. They were followed by the Egyptians ("What did I do?" "If you loved me you wouldn't need to ask.") and the Spaniards, who really should have known better after their failed attempt to conquer Hong Kong. I grabbed two small Chinese villages (using bomber jets, mech. infantry, machine gunners, and a balloon), which just happened to be their uranium mining operations, while my fleet blockaded Wuhan, where the Chinese army was embarking to return from their war with the Egyptians. Having secured access to all the game's resources I offered the Chinese peace. With the majority of their army a the bottom of the sea, and no more uranium to build their armor, they gladly accepted, sent me the last 10 tourists I needed and gave me cultural victory. Overall, was rather meh, since a lot of the time I was waiting for the AI to move the countless units it had spammed across the world, just so I could click Next Turn once more.

You needed multiple tries to beat bosses in Dungeon Siege 2? (also Dungeon Siege 2 was better than 1 )

If it is so great, why isn't it called Majesty?

Tried Civ6. Bad first impression. Just pressed Start New Game and it threw me right in the middle between 4 city states and three barbarian camps. All were producing units like crazy, so I could hardly move since there'd be a city state warrior unit running after barbarians wherever I wanted to walk. Also there was hardly any spot to build a new city. Meh.

Considering installing Civ6 since it is free on Epic.

Years ago, when the game told me to follow an NPC over there *waves in whatever direction the quest text said* and the NPC ran over that way *points in the opposite direction*

Lotro I never made it out of the tutorial.

Fallout 76 Free To Play Weekend. And somehow I still don't feel interested in playing it.

Release Date for Immortal Realms: Vampire Wars has been set as 28th August.

Just don't play a shaman. They had no idea what to do with that class.

There may be a hint hidden in Chimera Squad about XCOM 3 being planned for 2022.

Returns is the Kickstarter that made a nice sum, but which got mismanaged (changing engine halfway through development costs money apparently) and underdelivered on promises made. The story was refreshingly nice though. Dragonfall fleshed out the gameplay and still has a good story. No opinion on Hong Kong - got bored and gave up on it early on.

It is a bad day to be an enemy of Keyrock.

In Chimera Squad some skills are tied to Epic Weapons. Fan Fire is on a specific Epic Pistol.

Enjoying the sunset: Public opinion about Andromedons: Someone on the Steam forum insists Patchwork isn't useful: Listening to Minsk's advice:

I just one-shotted the final boss in XCOM: Chimera Squad with my first shot of the mission. On Impossible difficulty... (OK, technically I used Fan Fire, so it was multiple shots with one action)

Daggerfall Unity

Lyndon?

First you build up expectations, then you crush them.

So basically very brave, heroic NPC pilots attacked a destroyer and you used their noble sacrifice to steal their loot? And why didn't this story end with "I salvaged the destroyer; dragged it back to my base, only to find out I didn't have a big enough hangar bay." It is what a true keyrock X4 experience would be. Are you sure you are you?

Whisper: Don't let them get away! Torque: Let's break some ankles. Whisper: Torque... Torque: What? Ankles heal, don't they?

That is Mitsoda in general though. I don't think he likes anything he worked on.