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I loved the play/theater feel it had in some places as opposed to more organic neorealist fare like Sean Baker's recent work (which I love, but for different reasons), it sort of played up the absurdity of the situation and combined with the narration/narrator felt like we were seeing a story within a story. I don't think it's really comparable to The Banshees of Inisherin in terms of comedy or style. El Conde is much more explicitly a magical realist satirical horror-comedy with surreal aesthetics meant to separate it from real life while The Banshees of Inisherin keeps it's absurdist tendencies rooted in a historically accurate Ireland with natural compositions of the world. I honestly would not have thought of them in the same sentence if you hadn't mentioned it. I guess our brains are broken in different ways. And I think El Conde was silly enough, but I'll admit I would prefer more stuff like.....the smoothies to seeing the (middle-aged) kids talk. Like we get it

Looks like public education is under assault in Texas... again. In Texas the border areas tend to be less red than the state as a whole, with El Paso being particularly liberal. The idea that only now are libruls dealing with immigration is just absurd to anyone who has lived in the southwest.

I don't read reviews at all, at most I'll take recs from people I know and whose taste can align with mine. Anyways....Bioware is getting sued for not paying enough severance. I'd say I'd boycott anything Bioware puts out until they pay up, but everything they've put out for a decade or so has been mediocre bargin bin bait at best so it's not like I'd be buying it in the first place. Excuse you, I'm a (semi-)pro hater. Like The Monarch.

It's like the crime wave thing from a year or so ago, with the same people peddling it or falling for it.

While that may be true, the fact that 26 laws are being waived concerning things like environmental protection and indigenous rights is not great. Maybe this was also baked in with the money set aside, but it's still pretty ****ty and is going to **** up people's water, some graves, and endangered species for an ugly wall that doesn't work.

Look, just because those countries are largely responsible for Haiti's woes (and climate change) doesn't mean they should be the ones to take responsibility. Haiti needs to pull itself up by it's bootstraps so they can create $100 billion in industry from nothing and rise a few thousand feet into the air.

I can't say I'm surprised, while I don't understand the infamous "Bartimaeus love/hate broken brain", I did not get the feeling that this was something you'd love when I was watching it.

We got some more billionaires ****ting everything up.

The statue is real, and before they fixed it you could use the spell Command: Drop to duplicate a weapon. Now it's just a nice statue.

The last one is a Shaman. There's a guy on reddit who posts the datamines and he includes an abilities as well. My guess is the new bard archetype is going to be what the android uses, but the shifter dude has a unique subclass so who knows?

I went back to check some things and discovered that if you cast Heal on a Dark Urge, you can get a couple of different memories. Why did it take so long to figure out when I spent maybe a quarter of the game above level 11 and Shadowheart was always a fixture in the party? Because Planar Ally is too good not to use.

Probably the latter, many abilities that have the same name but different sources, like a Paladin and Cleric channel energy, are technically different abilities in WotR and scale independent of each other. This probably won't convince me to give Assassin a shot, it looks like it'd take a lot of investment to make work and doesn't provide as much as a dip as a Vivisectionist (little does to be fair) or a Thug. As written I just don't see assassinate target competing with a full attack while poison requires a lot of investment for some minor ability damage. I guess getting sneak attack on anything is cool.....but by the time you get it you've probably got many strategies to set up flanking or otherwise activate sneak attack. Honestly the Assassin seems more suited to be used against the player than be used by the player.

If it cannot break its egg's shell, a chick will die without being born. We are the chick. The world is our egg. If we don't crack the world's shell, we will die without being born. Smash the world's shell! ....which means I'll give it a shot. When it's free. But if I like it one of us has to start taking people on the Utena car rides.

I would, and I'd argue that denial isn't a binary of acknowledgment, but if you prefer revisionism to denial then go ahead with that. Regardless of what you want to call it the article itself is at best so afflicted with RDS it carries water for a SS member and at worst it's just ****ing evil. Either way it's vile and Hunka should have been shot. Maybe they replaced editors with AI. Certainly makes more sense than someone working for a major publication to give this the green light.

It's historical flattening on my part, but on a macro level I view Nazi client states/organizations like the Ustase as an extension of the Nazis. Not only do they share ideological currents but they were often installed by the Nazis as part of the larger political project in occupied areas precisely because they would enact the genocide(s) nazi fascism was predicated upon. What I said about all SS members deserving to be shot can also be applied to fellow travellers like the Ustase.

I saw without any exaggeration that this is the worst thing I have read all year. "This history is complicated because fighting against the USSR at the time didn’t necessarily make you a Nazi, just someone who had an excruciating choice over which of these two terror regimes to resist. However, the idea that foreign volunteers and conscripts were being allocated to the Waffen-SS rather than the Wehrmacht on administrative rather than ideological grounds is a hard sell for audiences conditioned to believe the SS’s primary task was genocide. And simple narratives like “everybody in the SS was guilty of war crimes” are more pervasive because they’re much simpler to grasp. Holocaust denial by the fifth paragraph. "According to Russia’s ambassador in Canada, Hunka’s unit “committed multiple war crimes, including mass murder, against the Russian people, ethnic Russians. This is a proven fact.” But whenever a Russian official calls something a “proven fact,” it should set off alarms. And sure enough, here too the facts were invented out of thin air. Repeated exhaustive investigations — including by not only the Nuremberg trials but also the British, Canadian and even Soviet authorities — led to the conclusion that no war crimes or atrocities had been committed by this particular unit." Nuremberg found ALL Waffen SS divisions to be criminal organizations. By being a volunteer for the SS Hunka was a member of an organization explicitly dedicated to genocide by eliminationism and the enforcement of racial hierarchy. That he may not have personally fired a bullet does not nullify his complicity in an organization built for atrocity. "And given Moscow’s own history of aggression and atrocities during World War II and its aftermath, there’s a special cynicism underlying the Russian accusations. Russia feels comfortable shouting about “Nazis,” real or imaginary, in Ukraine or elsewhere, because unlike Nazi Germany, leaders and soldiers of the Soviet Union were never put on trial for their war crimes. Russia clings to the Nuremberg trials as a benchmark of legitimacy because as a victorious power, it was never subjected to the same reckoning. And yet, both before and after their collaborative effort to carve up eastern Europe between them, the Soviets and the Nazis had so much in common that it’s now illegal to point these similarities out in Russia." As bad as the USSR, the US, and all of the other powers/actors in WW2 were during during WW2 no one is worse than the Nazis. Equivocating the USSR's WW2 atrocities to that of the Nazis is at best an ignorant both sides brain rot and at worst flagrant holocaust denial. There is no goddamn reason you have to carry water for this dried up old Nazi **** who should have been shot in the head, along with every other SS member, after WW2. You are taking a **** on the graves of 12 million people murdered by the Nazis and pissing on the legacy of everyone (including a lot of Ukrainians) who fought to end their reign of terror. You are neither going to help Ukraine nor own the Russian government by engaging in this kind of ****, if anything you are going to lend credence to their (hysterical, opportunistic, and untrue) accusations of Nazism. Giles should never write again and the editor should quit in shame.

I have not seen Suburban Sasquatch but I googled videos and saw a clip. The growl sounds like a monotone drunk guy trying to say "raw" or "roll" several times in a row.

I know, so much so that anytime a Bard or adjacent thing gets killed in something I watch or play I'm going to let you know. Speaking of which, my murderetwink Bard died a lot in the last fight of BG3.

Castlevania: Nocturne I'm confounded about how the hell this got approved by Netflix, and I say that utterly as a positive. The show presents the French and Haitian revolutions as good things with the nobility and the Catholic church low-key supporting vampires before and now supporting evil vampire God Queen building an eternal empire where vampires lord over the world in the name of stopping the masses. Not only is it a weird serendipity/synchronicity with El Conde, which also had a vampire turn into an unlife long counter-revolutionary in the wake of the French revolution, but it practically endorses beheading the aristocracy. Anyways some of the animation is rough and it is definitely sequel bait, but overall I enjoyed it. I think if you liked the first series you'll like this.....and @Bartimaeus would probably appreciate that the closest thing to a bard in the party gets killed off pretty quickly.

The levels are already there for a few cases and I've seen stuff for subclasses players can't select. Level 12 is fine powerwise but it feels like I spent 10-15 hours at level 12 without picking up anything and I wish some late game encounters were a bit harder. Also nerf irresistible dance, because by god it is ****ing broken. I think a hypothetical implementation of 7-9 spells in BG3 would definitely need curating to work. Obviously this is gonna favor control and blasting over utility....but when I think about my most used spells that's what they tend to he anyways. And the camp is pretty much MMM lmao.

I did a big test, found the last piece of Dribbles (which was within view of the circus lady), played a genie's game, raided the House of Hope, and put an end to this Absolute business. Which means it's over. General thoughts are that the level cap could easily be 2-4 levels higher with the game as is....and hell I think the full 20 would work with some tweaks to all three acts. Act 3 jank is certainly a thing and the last fights are complete bull****.

I think a lot of stuff is tied to taking Long Rests so if you're able to do a lot of stuff you can miss scenes. Like Dark Urge has one that requires you to rest almost immediately after escaping the prologue area. For me it's not a big deal because

I helped out a haunted married couple and some zombies, did a jail break, blew up a factory, and killed a dictator. We're at the end game now, with Wyll's quest, Raphael, and finding the rest of Dribbles being the only things left to do. I get the feeling Raphael's fight is going to be the hardest. But at this point I feel like I'm fighting the inventory more than anything, carrying around over 40 weight measurements of gold and a **** ton of potions. Also I don't use coatings much but I am really kicking myself over not using elixirs during the early game. I also have not used Wyll's Mystic Arcanum once lmao. Also I frequently forget that some spells require concentration, I think the game should have an option to warn you if you're doing something that'll break concentration.

I dunno, it seems like guys like your chancellor are very much trying to encourage people to bust out the guillotine.

Someone did a speed run of a furry hentai insemination simulator. It's convinced me that sometimes drone strikes on civilians may be warranted in some cases.