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Well, with the D4 season almost finished for me (just need to kill one more world boss to get the final season journey rewards), I'll be joining you guys soon.

I never said I was reasonable. It is ridiculous to still be annoyed by all the time I lost supporting cheap prebuilts with AMD's wonderful Super Socket 7 (which is now a quarter century in the past), a platform where what passed as quality mainboards were unstable and buggy at the best of times, never mind the OEM trash. Bonus points when they came with an ATI Rage graphics card. Combine that with Windows 98, and you have a recipe for disaster. Particularily for work computers with special requirements. Was at least once a week I came home from school at 7pm only to be greeted by "I couldn't access <something or another, more often than not the small PBX system through the on board serial port>, can we go check now?" or "My <friend/collegue/business partner/guy I need a favor from has problems playing games, can we go check now?" *sigh*

Had a hearty laugh at Diablo 4's patch notes. Okay then, so these were sort of annoying. Not as annoying as Stormbane's Wrath and Lightning Storm, but it will somewhat reduce my salvaging of sigils. Same patch notes, down a ways: Okay. Why not fix some bugs related to a nightmare dungeon affix that is dropped with the same patch. Patch notes also claim that the Fury of Fate quest is fixed. Yay. So, maybe I can finally finish it, right? Yeah, no. Still bugged out.

Well, regardless of the impressive work, here's the rub: If you buy a prebuilt with a 4090, then... don't manhandle it during transport. Or have an actual shipping company deliver it to you. If they break something during shipping, they're responsible for the damage and have to pay for replacements, at least here in commie Yurop. Edit: With how large coolers have become, mounting on consumer grade hardware should be redesigned. The problem's not just with the 4090, although the enormous size makes it more susceptible to this type of damage. You can get broken PCBs or ripped pads on the larger AMD cards as well (the channel has a 6950 XT repair too), and on 30-series cards too.

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Well, now you made me tumble down memory lane: Oh look, it is also a cover. Sort of. Then there's an actual full cover of the Ultravox Classic that I have lying around here: Of course, there's also the Edguy cover: And for no other particular reason than that it fits with the 80ies vibe even though it is not an 80ies track, here's Edguy's Vain Glory Opera. Can someone just invent a time machine so I can just f*** off to the 90ies?

In an unmodded base game, transmutation effects stack even though they should not. If you cast Reduce Person on a Halfling before casting Frightful Aspect on them, you can put them on enlarged mounts other than horses, so you could try Beast Rider for some more fun setups. Thank me later.

Maybe, but I was thinking about a mounted mercenary with ideal stats using Smite and Mark of Justice to charge for insane damage. Sohei if you want Flurry, Gendarme if not. Well, 17 levels is a bit late, so when that Flurry comes in, it is barely necessary any more. Still can do it with a regular Paladin, of course. But there's a whole lot of overlap with other available divine magic anyway.

That depends. If you run a mercenary, Divine Troth can be worth it, as long as you do something else with the nine leftover levels. As a main character?

As evidenced by Björk. Kidding... mostly. Anyway, sine y'all enjoyed the last Scooter cover so much, here's one I'd argue is even worse:

Yeah, well, I am highly biased, and I'd reckon there are a lot of early AM5 adopters who have no issue whatsoever - the very vast majority, even, but there certainly seem to be issues more often on AM5 than on LGA 1700. Apples and oranges, AM5 is fairly new and will receive updates through 2026 (if AMD sticks to what they've said, that is - that documetary Gamers Nexus made had an interview where an engineer implied supporting AM4 for five years was not their wish, but an economic necessity), and LGA 1700 is on its way out. Yeah, and to be fair, defects happen on any platform and with any manufacturer, and this one is probably not related to AM5 teething issues (like, dunno, needing five minutes to POST at times). Wait, that reminds me, @teknoman2 do you really not get into the BIOS at all, or does it just not POST afterwards? Because that can take some time, and with entry level boards having no debug seven segment displays and, well, mostly useless debug LEDs, you might just need to leave the system until it is done memory training. Because... well, because.

MSI's support hell is becoming legendary. So, you can't access the BIOS at all? You press DEL and nothing happens, or if you set something up nothing works afterwards? #3: Don't buy into a first generation AMD platform if you don't want to deal with the hassle. Wait for the second generation of mainboards. Chances are that even if you could access your BIOS, something with the memory wouldn't work anyway. Not necessary to mention, I guess, but as long as you're on factory defaults, the your system is gimped to a point where it isn't even funny. You should definitely not choose to live with it.

Actually, that might be a good reason. To make loot memorable it does not even have to be particularily great, it just needs to appear impressive to the player*. Baldur's Gate 2 is full of beloved items with questionable effectiveness, like all those weapons with vorpal effects. The Ravager was pretty well received from what I remember from the Interplay forums, for its 10% instant kill effect with no saving throw. The math says the effect is not worth it, because the enemies that it can kill in Throne of Bhaal are also going to die within a combat round whether the effect happens or not. It does have a nice animation and it sounds impressive, and the Ravager is not a bad weapon by any means, but if you want to get the most out of a vorpal weapon, the Silver Sword is certainly going to instantly kill enemies more often (although outside of a few outliers, namely bosses Bioware forgot ot make immune to instant death effects, the same reasoning still applies, it is much less effective in reality than it appears on paper, but instantly killing enemies is kewl, and it is hard to argue against kewl). The inverse can also be seen in Baldur's Gate 2, with items like the Mace of Disruption, which does not sound spectacular at all due to being called Mace of Disruption +1/+2, but it carries a hidden +3 before and a +5 enchantment after the upgrade, making it a quite readily available weapon that works against any of the plentiful undead enemies in the game. Some of Deadfire's loot maybe falls into that category, it works well, is even overpowered when applied properly, but it does not appear too impressive at a first glance. Edit: Some of the items of the Collector's Edition vendor have the same problem. The Sling of Everard is a rather useful tool if one wants to explore very early battles against highly powerful undead enemies, and the Defender of Easthaven is arguably a better shield than any, uhm, actual shield in the game. Hard to know without in-depth knowledge of how the game and the items work. *Well, there's the other option, loot that is funny or has a unique effect that lingers for a long time, who has played Baldur's Gate and does not remember the cursed girdle from the very beginning? Not only did you have to fight a dangerous and large ogre to get it, it also turned out to be totally worthless. Probably plenty of players who just put it on without identifying it. I sure did. That said, the character that put the girlde on was a Fighter/Mage/Thief wielding halberds, arguably the very thing that Obsidian tried to prevent with Pillars of Eternity and Deadfire. Halberds are a terrible choice for weapons in Baldur's Gate 1. Well, how was I to know that starting out?

Well, guess that joke was funnier in my head, dunno, have you watched any of the videos? He just looks like he moved in next to Homer, with a dash of an Albert Einstein vibe. Eh.

My biggest takeaways: Chris Parker seems like a genuinely great person, Josh turned into Ned Flanders and YouTube comments are terrible. Uhm, scratch the last one, already knew that.

The day is off to a fantastic start when you come to the office and see that the report batch processing died over the weekend, and now there's a backlog of super important and super, super, super urgent reports that were not sent out. Reports that nobody actually reads. Nonetheless, there's always groaning and complaining when one of them does not arrive on time. *sigh*

Well, those are usually cat girls. Sometimes foxes. Eh... *runs*

Well, y'all entitled to your opinions...

Well, what do you know, I actually found it. I guess weird demon thingie still beats Yeston's waifu design, albeit not by much.

Season one of Diablo 4 delivered what the actual launch of the game failed to do. Crashes, lag, the inability to join games. Game booted me out of a malignant tunnel and now I can't get back in - neither on the Seasonal nor on the Eternal realm. Ah well, all's right with the world again.

Can you show me on this Barbarian doll where the bad patch touched you? Feeding on gamer tears. Aaaaah. Exquisite.

I have not watched Andor or Kenobi yet, but the only Post-Disney buyout Star Wars that I acutally liked, in an unironical fashion, were the first three episodes of The Book of Boba Fett, which pretty much puts me at odds with everyone else. How I would currently rate the movies: The Rise of Skywalker > Solo > Rogue One >The Force Awakens >>> dying of rabies > The Last Jedi My initial impression of The Force Awakens was better than it is now. I called it a better movie than the prequels here on the forum, which is a statement I would nowadays amend to more competently made movie. The only reason it is not dead last in the list due to being utterly uninspired is because The Last Jedi is, well, what it is. To address the elephant in the room. Yes, I actually liked Solo more than Rogue One. Not by much, and no real indication of any actual enjoyment there, but Solo was the more fun theater experience. The reason Rise of Skywalker ranks so high is because The Last Jedi killed the past for me, and I could just enjoy the film on its own "merit" - which is to say it was so bad that it became hilariously good. What an absolute blast where Palpatine, uhm, blasts an entire fleet with force lightning. Then there's the ending where Rey Potter fights Lord Sheevdemort. How can you watch the film and not love it for being so bad? I must add a caveat here, I watched all the movies in the theater and did not pay for anything, courtesy of a friend of mine being a member of a fan club that does get hired for promotional trouping. My disposition might be much worse had I paid any amount of money to be allowed to experience those travesties.

He does spiders, from time to time... In case anyone wonders what the worst rated pet on the channel is, with a whooping 0.6 out of 5 points: