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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.

Maybe not, but they tended to make heirs by the bunchload. Queen Victoria had what, nine children and Empress Maria Theresa even 16. Having one or two viable heirs and no branches to pick up the slack seems terribly risky in a medieval society like Westeros.

They give autism to little children who then are cured by Mr. Jim Humble's famous sodium chlorite enemas, the one cure for everything that's being hushed up by the pharma lobby because you just can't patent sodium chlorite. Or do you mean if they should be mandatory, what with herd immunity and all that jazz. In which case the answer would be a resounding yes unless you're part of the paranoid company here or there are actual medical reasons to not get vaccinated (my brother for instance was too weak from prior illness to receive his measles shot and promptly contracted the disease - wasn't very pretty). Because any individual's right to his or her own stupidity ends when they endanger more than themselves by ignorant behaviour. Everything else is actual Nazism, by the by. Survival of the fittest, superior race and medicine being a traditionally Jooish thing. No, seriously. The entire anti-vaxx movement was maybe not started by the Nazis but greatly supported by them (The even made handouts with an obvisously Jewish doctor vaccinating terrified German children and the caption "Gift und Jud tut selten gut" - loosely translated poison and Jews are bad for you): edits: Added the picture and clarified something.

Unfortunately the update does say that those who backed will not be seeing refunds. Sorry to hear that, majestic. Eh, that's fine. I don't spend money on Kickstarter projects expecting refunds if the project goes kaputt and I'm really not going to miss the 50$ I spent on Resurgence.

There's no refund for a failed investment, no. There have been some instances where they were offered, but in this case NGS went bankrupt. There's nothing to get any longer. Comes with the turf and all.

That's one of the strangest things about GRRM's houses in Westeros. They all seem to have been dying out for a while before the books began. The highborn in Westeros trace their ancestry back at least a hundred generations (or more, depending on the source) yet each house has only a handful of heirs at best - and the Houses in the show have, for casting and budgetarian reasons, even less family members.

Got an update today, Project Resurgence, one of the Kickstarters I backed, failed and Nectar Game Studios closed down. Seems like being hearted by MCA isn't enough on its own.

I got a buddy with 700 hours on Rocket League. I spent over 10k hours on World of Warcraft and Star Wars: The Old Republic and some thousands of hours on Quake World and Quake 3 Arena. Apples and oranges a bit, no?

To be entirely fair to the crisis system the unavoidable ones aren't excatly about combat and more like not dying or getting the hell out of the way. Actual combat where you need to kill your enemies to win is far an in between, and completely optional. The truly disappointing part of the game were the companions. I found myself looking up their names just now. Except Erritis I didn't remember a single name, out of a game that came out early this year and I invested 60ish hours in. In comparison I spent less time with Pillars of Eternity that came out more than two years ago and I still remember the companions. *sigh* Like I said, 's not all bad and combat as the sole reason to not touch TToN feels wrong - it never was about that. Not even if inXile had released the game with the features they promised.

Does it suffer the same fate as the first? No, "combat" in TToN actually managed to be worse than in PS:T.

That's sort of the point. Except Euron's fleet having stealth capabilities (and that could be explained away with general incompetence if one is willing to push it that far) nothing that got shown on the show couldn't happen - the reduction in episodes and streamlining of the storylines however does reduce the time to properly set these things up, in a stark - no pun intended - contrast to the earlier seasons that could draw from more source material.