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Oh, they already make a killing selling Team Fortress hats and it has a flourishing black market, imagine a CCG. Worshippers rejoice. :D

You know GoG actually changes classics if they need it, Dungeon Keeper 2 for instance (and that's a game you can't even buy on Steam, so there's that), but whatever. It doesn't have achievements or trading cards though. *shrug* Steam, or rather Valve, doesn't do anything of the sort. They just release what the developers give them. The Kotor 2 patch was developed by Aspyr who made the mobile version of the game - and the main difference between the original is that the patch comes with the restored content mod - which sort of is available for the normal versions as well.

For what it's worth, reinstalling the game fixes the savegame issues. Looks like Steam's auto-updater doesn't roll out the latest version of Grimoire.

I'm going to regret asking but which old ones? The ones with the overwhelmingly positive reviews on holy GabeN's Steam? I have the boxed versions, not sure if that makes a difference. The Steam versions are probably a bit better than the GoG/boxed versions per usual. I honestly don't know what you mean. I wanted to know which games you thought were a mess, not which versions.

Heh. Cleve's recent patch broke my game. Not only did my character library disappear (including the pre-made characters) the game now can't overwrite saves any more. It pretends to do, but simply doesn't - so just in case you're playing check if that happens for you too.

I'm going to regret asking but which old ones? The ones with the overwhelmingly positive reviews on holy GabeN's Steam?

Abusing that's is systematic at my workplace, which isn't a small charity or anything. It's got 30k employees and is government owned, but if you take on any position with responsibility you might get more working hours, but you don't get a raise or anything. The responsibilities, stress and general worries are slowly getting to me. I'm on the verge of becoming violent at people some days. Yes. A lot of charities do seem to have that in them. The gradual emotional pressure on volunteers to put more time in because "there's no one else to do it" and the "Can you just help us cover this because so and so is off sick" and then you've suddenly got them pushing you to volunteer over 30 hours a week and piling responsibilities on top. See, this is why empathy is a weakness. Be careful to not slip into apathy. Because apathy is death.

You're right, of course, Cultural Marxism as the Frankfurt School was once an academic term, before it got co-opted by fringe elements on the right to refer to an ongoing conspiracy to destroy the American Way of Life - or the Western culture as such. Insofar is name dropping Cultural Marxism in combination with "cis-gendered patriarchy" rather detrimental because it shows an affinity he distanced himself from in the disclaimer. As I said that doesn't invalidate some of the points he made but it gives a clear point of origin for some of the opinions expressed in the document. edit: Changed the wording of the post a bit.

The one thing that bothers me the most about the game is the intentional anachronism stew. On the one hand you have an automapper, a quest journal AND the ability to leave footnotes on the maps and on the other hand you can't even load your game without quitting it first, and while you can reroll as much as you like it's as much a pain in the arse as it can be. Roll three times, pick race again, roll three times, pick race... whatever for? Either give us infinite rerolls in a usable fashion or roll the bonus only once without rerolling. *shrug* Well, I got patience. At least all those hours spent grinding in MMOs are paying off now.

Aeorbs are the best race for Sages - by far, actually. They get a 2.0 bonus roll multiplicator. Templars are sort of paladins, high martial skills with access to cleric spells and a holy symbol for buffing (that barely ever works at level 1, which tells me that they really weren't meant to be rolled as starting class). My current lineup is Berserker, Metalsmith, Templar, Thief, Bard, Necromancer and Sage - and I picked up Little Rosy. There are two lockpicking minigames - the hangman one which uses lockpicking as skill and the chest one where... you do whatever. Cut wires, apparently. Because chests are da bomb. Geez.

Overflow doesn't really cut it I think. Wizard and Glass is 800 pages of backstory for what's worth maybe a hundred pages of useful history and Wolves of the Calla is a 700 page retelling of The Magnificent Seven (down to the characters joking that the plot it feels like The Magnificent Seven) with the only purpose to have the party split up at the end. I liked the two books on their own but in terms of fitting into the Dark Tower story King could easily have fused them into a 300 page gap filler between Blaine (who rhymes with Pain!) and Susannah giving birth without missing anything. edit: And to think he actually released another book with backstory for everyone who didn't have enough of it during Wizard & Glass.

Oi, no mention about how the ejaculate is acquired or tested. Poor bulls get to mount fake cows after being turned on by real ones or have massive anal probes inserted for electrical stimulation to induce ejaculation (well after someone had half their arm up their butt). Yeah. Industrial scale dairy farming isn't exactly nice, but it's not a picknick for the bulls either. Awesome topic by the by.

I found it rather interesting that the guy almost managed to write the entire document with nice charts, citations and links to make his point in a reasonable fashion. He even makes points everyone who is still somewhat rational would agree on - like the points about quotas and lowered requierments for diversity hires not being a good practice in the long term or that being progressive and open should also mean to allow dissenting viewpoints without supressing them. Slipped up at the end with the footnotes. Talking about the cultural marxist agenda against the white cis-hetero patriarchy. Got that close to pass as sensible. A pity, maybe next time*. *Minor disclaimer: Of course that doesn't mean the guy isn't right or that he doesn't have a point, but people who use the term cultural marxism in a serious fashion are on the same level as people who unironically use beta male.

I think I need to reroll. Again. Looks like berserkers are better than warriors in all ways except having access to certain weapons that templars can also use (and I have a templar in my library thanks to a lucky roll of 30). Templars and bards also effectively gain access to cleric spells after a few levels and the only casters worth taking seem to be the necromancer with what looks like the only unique spell list in the game and the sage for the ancient history skill they only have and having access to a lot of utility spells.

I found it rather irritating that Dany kept strafing the supply wagons rather than break standing spear formations trying to hold off her advance. I mean if all you have is light skirmish cavalry and the enemy fields apparently disciplined, armored fighters with spears holding the line you should use your air support to break those. Before charging several miles at full speed towards them. Good thing horses don't get tired. And maybe if you also have a bunch of horse archers harry the enemy before charging in. It's not like a line of spears with no support is mobile enough to do something about it. Good thing that the Lannister army under superior tactical genius Randyll Tarly managed to forget to scout ahead while guarding a supply train. Imagine if they saw the Mongol Dothraki horde coming and had time to prepare.

Point taken, probably shouldn't have used medieval here. I mean society and technology in Westeros seems to be stuck on a medieval level but the Maesters have much more in common with more modern scholars than medieval guesswork, especially when it comes to medicine. No antibiotics of course but hey, Sam just cured GRRM's version of leprosy by following instructions from an old book. Quite a feat. Besides if I recall correctly childbirth remained pretty dangerous until well into the 19th century when Ignaz Semmelweis figured out that proper hygiene helps to prevent childbed fever. Anyway, uhm, Dany really has the most incompetent military commanders ever. Did she buy them from Jon?

That's luckily cleared up, the latency is awesome - on top of that, they fixed the biggest issue since then - you can buy skill gems now! :D and the flicker strike glass cannon is still a viable build.. Time to patch...

Back when I played Path of Exile (there were three acts back then, heh) I had a glass cannon flicker strike build going for a while. It was probably the most fun aRGP build I ever played but the lag and desyncing was insane. I died to enemies that I didn't even see.

If you put your necromancer's unholy symbol back into the inventory you can utilize it with the "use" command during battle (right click -> use, then click on the symbol in the inventory). That let's you evoke it whenever you wish instead of having to rely on combat specials when fighting that probably won't happen because casters aren't supposed to whack enemies with their weapons. Character generation is a science of its own. Trial and error does a few things but not all of it. Every race and career combination has a roll mulitplier. Aerob sages for instance get a multiplier of 2.0 meaning the bonus roll is doubled, then used. Some combinations have a multiplier below 1. What the roll does is being used to fulfill the class requirements. If there are any leftovers you get to distribute them. You decide between skills, attributes, destiny (luck) or hitpoints during generation. Skills and attributes can be distributed in the character stat screen once in the game. If your racial pick allows a class without stat modification you get the full bonus roll (multiplied even) to distribute. A Saurian can be a warrior or berserker without stat modifications and both careers get a bonus roll multiplier of 1. Which means you can use your full bonus roll. Fun minor side thing, if you're really, really, REALLY patient you can actually make a level 1 templar. You need to pick Duarendil as race and roll at least 30. Which takes some doing. But it's not impossible.

I found a way to fix that. Set turning to "single step" - it just turns off the turning animation that causes the wall tearing, and it's more oldskool that way to boot. By the way, when starting out and if you play a race with natural weapons, go unarmed. Claw rending and biting deals a good deal more damage than the measly starter equipment.

Of course not, bones don't catch the insane. Braaaaaaaaaaaains do... Speaking of which, if anyone plays this and has a hard time with battles start over and make sure you bring loads and loads of crowd control. You can rest your magic and vitality points up anyway. Otherwise even a group of rats will eat you alive. Also, if you're one of those "elitist" anti-powergamer rest spamming is for pussies type then good luck and have fun. It's rest spamming and save scumming or the highway at the beginning.

Good old PoR 2... :D Hm, one of these days I'm going to finish that game. I wonder if I still have my old saves.

Played for half an hour so far. I only tried the quick start party while I'm waiting for the manual but the first few enemies I encountered where a tad, say, overtuned. Otherwise it plays a lot like Eye of the Beholder with a different rule set. I have some issues with scaling cutting off a part of the image (dare I suspect the game actually runs in a 16:9 pseudo old school resolution) and turning in th game world has very strange ghosting or bleedthrough issues. For a moment during the transitioning animation it looks like there are tunnels in solid walls. The UI is less intuitive than that of the classics. Which is actually quite an achievement and the games most prominent problem for me - I don't have any crashes or techincal issues.

More bugs than Starship Troopers was the most common saying on the few Steam reviews so far.

Huh, what? You know what's a cash grab? Having to pay the government for the use of public parking lots. Because those aren't optional when I'm going somewhere in my car. Not fastening my seat belt or going over the speed limit is purely optional. You can do it, of course, but don't go and whine when you get caught is what I'm saying. You want to be all manly and buff, fine. Then be all manly and deal with the consequences.