Agiel

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.

As divisive a movie Mandy is, it has at least given the world this image:

A shame you can't be a cleric of Lamashtu. Though I suppose a crab claw hand or extra sets of breasts are beyond the breadth of the character creator.

Would be something to see a WeGo-type system like what is implemented for the Combat Mission games used for a cRPG. Seems like a decent compromise between turn-based and real-time with pause.

Paul Manafort has ‘cooperation agreement With his days as a freewheeling lobbyist over and given the fate of the Skripals I'd have to imagine Manafort will have to spend the rest of his days in witness protection: "And that's the hardest part. Today everything is different; there's no action... have to wait around like everyone else. Can't even get decent food - right after I got here, I ordered some caviar with smetana, and I got salmon roe with Daisy sour cream. I'm an average nobody... get to live the rest of my life like a schnook."

huh. swedish elections is a bit different than we expected. kinda disappointing. HA! Good Fun! I actually consider this a supreme form of election, atleast we would know that the people that are up for election really want to be there, and not just for the easy money. It would also motivate politicians to keep investing in healthcare and social security. Kind of hard to work when your arm has been cut off. sounds crazy, but wouldn't be any worse than most current systems. perhaps have candidates face a 50/50 chance o' either hand-to-hand combat or chess, with death being the result for the loser in either case. would almost necessarily get smart, dangerous and complete committed candidates. HA! Good Fun! How about Chess Boxing? And to top it all off in the comic...