Agiel

None So Vile, the album from which the Cryptopsy track comes from, came out in '96 and is widely considered a landmark brutal tech death album, so probably would qualify as "Classic Metal."

Doom composer is hiring voices for a ‘heavy metal choir’ I would like to recommend that he get in contact with Dave Hunt of Anaal Nathrakh... ...and Lord Worm, formerly of Cryptopsy:

IWD2 could benefit from proper widescreen support. Modders have already done an admirable job implementing it for other IE games even before the Enhanced Editions came out, whereas IWD2 has only an imperfect fix. A shame given how if I were asked at any given moment between IWD2 and BG2 what was the best IE game I'd have to give it a long think before I could give an answer. The big thing about NWN2 I would change is some optimisation, which probably warrants a patch rather than an actual new product. The graphics by no means hold up particularly well, but as with the IE games they look as good as a "retro" game from 10-20 years ago needs to.

Would be quite a sight if Bungie wound up getting contracted to make new Halo games.

I swear it's a bit like John Malkovich entering his own mind: "Nazi nazi nazi nazi nazi, nazi nazi nazi. Nazi nazi nazi!"

Learned recently that Erik Lindmark, frontman and until recently sole remaining founding member of legendary death metal outfit Deeds of Flesh and founder of Unique Leader Records has recently passed.

Origin's "The Aftermath," or if you'd like "All the Sweeps."

At our FLGS we have a running Kill Team campaign which is great for having your best painted models out front and center and experiencing the highs and lows of a persistent experience. As one example of a low my best friend was utterly crushed when he had his Lictor get turned into a melted puddle trying to charge one of my Harlequins who managed an overwatch with her Fusion Pistol (for those not in the know the same short-range melta-gun designed for use against _tanks_ in a compact pistol form).

This is about the best explanation of why those of us into Games Workshop properties love them so, courtesy of 1d4chan:

Excerpt from a piece that I found particularly noteworthy: Worth remembering that in 2016 Clinton managed to take Orange County, an upper-middle class conservative stronghold that hasn't voted for a Democratic presidential candidate since FDR.

Actually I think the reverse is more the case; the places in the US with the greatest backlash against immigration tend to be the ones with the least exposure to immigrants, whereas suburban and even rural places like Erie, PA that have taken them into the fold come around to them. Perhaps the "white male deaths of despair" would not be so prevalent a phenomenon if those disaffected populations learned the joys of shawarma, pho, and tacos de pescado.

Doing a playthrough now with the Flame Dancer, which substantially increases fire resistance in an aura. Now Octavia and my own PC (who gets certain fire spells herself at level 8 ) can throw Fireballs nary any consequences to the rest of the party, in addition to no-selling enemy Alchemists. It was a class that I became aware of the potential of when I managed the Ratnook Hill encounter at level four.

As for the combat side I'm having fun with the Flame Dancer archtype that really came into its own in an encounter against the The class basically allows you to laugh at enemy alchemists chucking fire bombs at you, and with its ability to cast fire-based spells later on and on top of me building up her AC (she stacks up reasonably well compared to Valerie's AC) she can throw a fireball at her feet and do a pretty good impersonation of Adam Jensen with his Typhoon augmentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEDVuQ6rh68 And of course Octavia is generally free to throw her own Fireballs with reckless abandon.

I suppose it wouldn't be a game from Russia (or other former SSR) if it wasn't big in both ambition and jankiness on release. On the other hand I have to commend many of the quality of life improvements Owlcat has made on the cRPG formula without compromising on, well, what others might consider the "uncompromising" elements of the genre like encumbrance or not having arrows pointing to where you need to go to advance a quest.

The argument that INF tied the United States' hand vis a vis China (curiously the reasoning Putin tried to use when he attempted to take Russia out of it before) makes absolutely zero sense; the treaty only forbids _ground-launched_ cruise missiles, and its arsenal of both air and sea-launched missiles (be it from Mk. 41 destroyers and cruisers or submarines, though this would require refitting nuclear warheads onto Tomahawks, as the nuclear-armed missiles were taken out of service in the early 2000s) are more than sufficient for the deterrence role. Most likely scenario is that no new platform that would have violated INF will be deployed by the US in Europe (as the DoD previously didn't see the need) where Russia's programs will go into overdrive. Words by James Acton: https://twitter.com/james_acton32/status/1053793374090731520

There's a guy who'll take them off of you for way more than the standard merchant once you establish your barony, if you're talking about the crap that has in its description something like "an antiquities expert will pay well for it."

Obsidian still has that Tim Cain/Leonard Boyarsky project they're doing with 2K, don't they? Wouldn't an acquisition by Microsoft kind of be stepping on their toes?

Soon you can live the "Dance of the Vampires" for yourself:

You speak of the Technic League random encounter? I could generally take out the mages pretty quickly, but I'm finding that in this game when playing on normal received damage the enemy Fighters ain't no joke, and that any hit the manage to land can take out a third of Amiri's health.

Well to roughly quote Barbossa I suppose it's more a "guideline" rather than "rule". Certainly for classes that have to spread out points across multiple ability scores like a Cleric to get the most out of I've had to settle for a Dex score at 12. About the only thing I would say there ought to be zero compromise is to have at character creation enough Int to get all the skills you want for the length of the game.

Well the rule of thumb is that at character creation one should if at all possible strive for at least 14 in Dexterity so as to get the AC bonus from that.