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If I had more disposable income I'd buy a lot of fireworks to setoff over the rest of the week in retaliation for being kept up all damn night before I have to go into work. Call me crazy, but it makes more sense to set off fireworks on July 3rd or the midnight of the 4th like you would for New Years. Let me enjoy a day off instead of waking up exhausted for work. Somewhat relevant, but my phone's has started giving me a moisture alarm whenever it's plugged into my vehicle. Tested with different cables and another phone to make sure, unfortunately the issue is definitely with the phone itself. So any firework money gets to go to a new phone instead of petty revenge against neighbors. Oh well.
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This post gets scarier as it goes on. Uncle DIO needs to nuke Netflix adaptations and chatgpt next season. I watched The Bear season 2. Which is good, it was a nice move to have the entire season being dedicated to renovating and opening a restaurant instead of doing a montage episode. The Christmas episode is probably one of the best episodes of television period, but Bob Odenkirk as an **** and Jamie Lee Curtis having a break down are very enjoyable watches.
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Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous, Part 6
PK htiw klaw eriF replied to bugarup's topic in Computer and Console
Unless you designed the game I can't see how you're to blame, trash bloat is endemic to the game. I too would prefer if stat bloat was confined to the Hard and higher difficulties, it sucks that a sword and board heavy armor tank will struggle on Core. Ditto on AI, but SCS is a labor of love that just won't happen on a commercial game. -
Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous, Part 6
PK htiw klaw eriF replied to bugarup's topic in Computer and Console
I was a little confused when I saw it the first time ngl. It's pretty much Normal but without the 20% damage reduction. -
Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous, Part 6
PK htiw klaw eriF replied to bugarup's topic in Computer and Console
I think they put in one between them, Daring or something. -
Cinema and Movie Thread: flickering images
PK htiw klaw eriF replied to Chairchucker's topic in Way Off-Topic
Inseminoid (1981) Imagine a mashup of Alien and 80's monster rape. This is that mashup, with extra plot induced stupidity ane incompetence added for good measure. Unfortunately it doesn't get into entertainingly bad but just makes you wonder why so many people struggle to kill a hundred pound white lady on a rampage. Not a good time, if someone told me an AI made this to mimic 80's B-Horror I might believe them. Leon: The Professional (1994) A beautiful balancing act of wacky silliness and harrowing brutality elevates what could have been a forgettable story of a nice guy criminal into one of the best action movies made. Just incredible performances punctuated with some serious goddamn style. It's also refreshingly small in scale, somewhat like Taxi Driver, which works better for me and let's the characters breathe more. Cocaine Bear (2023) Like Prey it's a movie with questionable cgi that somehow turned out to be good. Unlike Prey it's just a ****ing laugh from start to finish....which sounds strange to say about a movie about a bear mauling people but here we are. It wears being a joke ok it's sleeve and it works beautifully. -
Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous, Part 6
PK htiw klaw eriF replied to bugarup's topic in Computer and Console
While I can understand the random encounters on a design or lore level (there needs to be some danger to sleep and you are in a demon infested hellscape), in practice it's just annoying. Getting my unbuffed backline mowed down by archer gang #42069 is more annoying and tedious than challenging. I'm less inclined to cut quests than cut or condense the mobs in quests or specfix areas, but it's been a while and there are definitely certain quests that could be cut. Anything with Owlcat puzzles comes to mind. Some areas are fine, but others are packed so much you can throw a rock in any direction and hit a mob. Off the top of my head and several months removed from having played WotR, I think Wintersun and the Baphomet mazes would have both benefitted from less but better designed mobs. For a guy known as the most clever demon lord the goat man really should use more tricks besides minotaur pairs. It's definitely a hard agree on the environment. Dialogue is bad but I'd be lying if on a meta level "(Evil) I don't like you, Die! [Attack]" or "(Lawful) You broke the law, Die! [Attack]" didn't make me laugh. It sucks to play but it feels like Owlcat is trolling a specific type of edgelord who wants to be Doctor Doom and instead has to be an insufferable bureaucrat. -
Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous, Part 6
PK htiw klaw eriF replied to bugarup's topic in Computer and Console
Eh, I'm pretty sure the great dreamer would just look up a guide. I'd go as high as 2/3rds of the encounters getting axed, or at least get compressed together. For the most part a lot of individual battles are just bland and could benefit from some variety to make it more interesting. -
Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous, Part 6
PK htiw klaw eriF replied to bugarup's topic in Computer and Console
To be fair Iomeneigh can have good AC, maybe not monk dip + crane style good but better than Seelah at least. And I think fear is supposed to be mind affecting but eh, Owlbrew is weird. Regardless, I think that Owlbrew Pathfinder expects substantial optimization and cheese to make it on higher difficulties (I'm including Core here, despite that being the "normal" difficulty by the text), too much in my opinion. It's not very intuitive and user friendly (of note, last I looked Outflank and Spell Penetration aren't recommended feats, despite most advice putting them as premium for melee and casters respectively), so I feel for people unfamiliar with Owlbrew coming in and getting rocked by the game because they weren't expecting it to play the way it does. -
Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous, Part 6
PK htiw klaw eriF replied to bugarup's topic in Computer and Console
If you compare the stats of WotR monsters to the Pathfinder pnp source, a mid-late game demon from a random encounter on Core would probably be able to wipe out pnp Cthullu. But despite wonky balance and weird writing it's still one of the best games I've played in a long time. Somehow it beats games that I should objectively like better and I have no idea why. It is and it isn't, there's some stuff I wish there would have been a lot more of and could have used more stuff. Like mythic paths that aren't Angel or Demon. But generally I agree, it's a very long game which takes commitment to finishing. Not at all helped by rerollitis. Anyways I'm finished with a lot of the rush from work and with the heat dome making being outside miserable it's time to finally embrace being an undead monster and do a Lich run. For real this time. I hope. -
Well how many times did he use the phrase "wet leopard growl"?
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It would make sense, but perhaps the fact that I haven't really heard much about Gabbard regularly over the last few years or so (your mention of her I've seen in months and covid has destroyed my sense of time) shows that there is maybe a limit to the "I left the left" grift in terms of launching someone into the big leagues of the grift game. If RFK goes the way of Gabbard, it looks like he'll go from being the current "anti-establishment" fave to doing slots on FOX news and hosting a middling show that struggles to pull any big names in. Still will probably make more money than having to get a real job though.
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20th Anniversary Forum Event: Top 3 Dev Questions
PK htiw klaw eriF replied to Fionavar's topic in Obsidian General
When I saw that the only meme I had in mind was something about balance and Sawyer, but it seems like Obsidian is going more for references to their games rather than references to Obsidian/it's notable staff. -
It's helpful if he wants to pivot to being a media personality in the current era of "anti-woke" grifting, which is more likely than him winning the primary. The question is if he gets dropped by his fans when the current primary is over and he's no longer able to hit Biden with splash damage or if there's enough interest in another 60-year old man who thinks wifi gives you cancer to make it the grift game.
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Food Thread - Obsidian Gormand's Edition
PK htiw klaw eriF replied to ShadySands's topic in Way Off-Topic
Glazed pork chops, roasted broccoli, and agave roasted carrots. Broccoli was the weak link by a longshot, should have added some Pecorino Romano and some lemon zest instead of dried herbs, but I was tired and didn't have the cheese. Agave on carrots works better than honey, and I will fite anyone irl over this, but next time I'll add some heat to them. Pork was cooked perfectly thanks to a quick brine and the glaze was on point. -
Cinema and Movie Thread: flickering images
PK htiw klaw eriF replied to Chairchucker's topic in Way Off-Topic
I think we should have a movie where JK Simmons plays Nic Cage playing JK Simmons playing a guy who drives high end escorts in a repurposed wienermobile in Vegas so he can raise money for his daughter's cancer treatments. Call it "The Meat Seat". -
The All Things Political Topic - new edition
PK htiw klaw eriF replied to uuuhhii's topic in Way Off-Topic
I think it's deeply funny that out of all the Hunter Biden drama that has going around for the last few years the bombshell is that he is a tax cheat and had a firearm he wasn't supposed to, given the beliefs held and actions taken concerning taxes and guns that the Hunter hunters have. I'm sure this will all lead to a drive for rich people to start paying their fair share of taxes and stringent gun restrictions. I guess this may piss off liberals more than drugs and secks stuff tho. EDIT: lmao, beat by @Malcador -
The All Things Political Topic - new edition
PK htiw klaw eriF replied to uuuhhii's topic in Way Off-Topic
I think Howard Stern is more.....crude? Risqué? Naughty ? I dunno the right word for this, but as someone with mostly secondhand knowledge of Stern from at least a decade ago, I always associated Howard Stern with softcore porn aesthetics like some nudity or explicit sex talk. I don't think Rogan does that or has nearly as many women on as Stern seemed to. To me Rogan is like the combination of your childhood friend's weird uncle who smokes weed all day that can tell you how the Inca created submarines and a prototypical high school bully that wants to hang out with you. I guess there's appeal if you think the guests are interesting but for the most part they aren't (to me) and Rogan isn't a good interviewer or entertaining/knowledgeable enough in his own right to commit to 3 hour episodes. But take my opinions with a grain of salt, because (by the data) my most listened to podcast is a guy who has done many hallucinogens telling me about various dictators or grifters with the second being by a lady who wrote a book about hotdogs. -
The All Things Political Topic - new edition
PK htiw klaw eriF replied to uuuhhii's topic in Way Off-Topic
You also have Feinstein as a good example of that. We've got at least a few senators who predate the invention of chocolate chip cookies, many more of the politicians have been in some kind of power for decades, and you've got several positions that are for life without regards for health or competency. The present US is already a stark Gerontocracy tbh, and it's not working out particularly well. I just hope retirement still exists for working class folks in 20, 30, 40 years. Between skyrocketing rents and such I get the gut feeling old man KP will have to sell his organs while working at Wal-Mart to afford a small closet bedroom in the apocalyptic hellscape of the former gulf coast.