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There, you finally have your explanation. That is, for all intents and purposes, trolling. Although, interestingly enough, that's the least infurating video of hers that I have seen so far, although of course it still contains her usual favorites - showing scenes out of context (the footage Mass Effect footage of Miranda, for instance) to reinforce her point and claiming that doing the exact same thing to men doesn't reinforce stereotypes and is therefor not to be considered a proper balancing of the issue. She also leaves out the fact that the male gaze trope in itself is also enforcing a harmful stereotype against "straight white male" gamers. Poor sods have to look at pixel boobs and butts because they can't get any in real life, being nerdy and living in mom's basement. Right?

Eh, no, English is easy enough and it's not really the varied vocabulary that is a problem. One can make do with only a handful of words after all. The biggest issue is learning the messed up pronunciation, especially if you come from a language where the written word gives you clear instructions on how to, well, say it. Or in other words, something's a bit rotten in a language where good and food don't rhyme.

Those were in fact the " bad old days ", countries and there citizens were less safe and information gathering was less effective Yes, we are now living in good times due to the advancements of how governments can protect citizens from existential threats And you really wonder why posters think you're trolling.

Imagine for a moment any US company having their telephones cracked through a security flaw that is known to third parties but not to the developing company and this would cause some massive financial loss, e.g. due to a missed trade deal or undercutting, causing that money to go to say, some Russian company instead. Would you be up in arms and demand better protection for trade secrets or would you go like "ah well, that happens, at least them terrerists can't hide stuff111!!oneone"?

A reference to The Big Lebowski, John Goodman plays Walter Sobchak who is pretty much being an arsehole throughout the entire film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNGkHK8Umew Also, probably the best scene in any movie like ever goes to Jeff Bridges driving his car drinking beer and getting high. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo11SqLmuGc edit: Original video I posted had embedding disabled. *sigh*

How can you say something like this about our Lord and Saviour, The Great Gabe?

Of course she likes you. You may be her polar opposite in terms of world view but in every other way you're kindred spirits. Seriously, lob off your foreskin and dance away to Malaysia, imagine living your life with your soulmate, and you can even have lengthy debates on the worth of the West, and Muslims, and social justice to boot. Don't fight it, live it! edit: As for the statement of debating with her being tiresome and that she always had "another" view at the ready, I'll leave it to Bartimaeus to post a picture. I hope he clicks on this post of yours anyway, because this is much better than your post about Volo.

Bruce, stop making me agree with Volo.

Noooooo, there is only one Volo! Use the BBCode mode to edit quotes.

Something is really, really off with Irenicus' voice here. He's supposed to be cold and ruthless, an elf devoid of emotion, and while he certainly hammed it up in SoA every now and then David Warner is channeling his inner Shatner here, and the contrast with the incredibly grating voice over of the other guy he's talking to doesn't help either.

Elemental in Grim Dawn works like this: Flat damage is split evenly between fire, lightning and cold while everything in percentage is added or subtracted fully from each element. E.g. +12 elemental damage does 4 of each type while +30% elemental resistance means +30% to each fire, lightning and cold resistances.

You know oby, even for your standards this post makes absolutely no sense what-so-ever.

To narrow things down a bit, rare crafting materials have a chance to drop from their associated enemy class. Tainted brain matter drops from aetherial corruptions, Blood of Ch'Thon from ch'thonic creatures, Ancient Heart from beasts and manticore eyes from, eh, well, manticores. At least as far as I have heard, those things are apparently all born blind for all the chance you have to get one, and it sure doesn't help that manticores are not very plentiful and can easily kill you if you show up unprepared. After the recent patch treasure troves (the dynamite chests) can drop them too and dismantling epic 40+ loot gives more than a decent chance to get some. I got more rare crafting materials from dismantling useless epics than I got from hours of farming. Especially those bloody eyes. While Staunton Mine has a guaranteed dynamite in there I think if you can clear Cronley's Hideout fast enough it's the better alternative. The mobs can drop it too, and I've seen Moneybag drop two of them and most of the other enemies can drop them. Not to mention that you can generally reap a handful of epics to dismantle from all the hero and boss spawns in there. I've had runs in Conley's that yielded 5 dynamites and 4+ epics to use them on.

Okay, so I launched the game from Galaxy and scanned for internet multiplayer servers, of which the game found exactly zero. Which is a pity because it gives no indication of whether it doesn't work at all or if there simply is nobody hosting a game right now using Galaxy and it obviously means it cannot find games hosted by the Steam version. Looks like the matchmaking is limited to the respective ecosystem. Maybe someone else with the GOG version can scan for games during, uhm, better hours.

To be honest I didn't really intend to install Grim Dawn via Galaxy at all mostly because I'd lose a good bunch of progress towards the more grindy achievements, not to mention that in the past many Galaxy achievements were pretty much broken (I'm looking at you Satellite Reign and Rebel Galaxy). I just bought it to, uhm, vote with my wallet and all that consumerist jazz. I'm currently installing GD through Galaxy to take a look at the multiplayer lobby.

Actually, it is not necessary to recommend something else. Conjurer vitality caster builds are fun to play - you just said you wanted to melee which is something you won't be doing much because all the abilities you're going to use are spells. Take something like this as your baseline spec: http://grimcalc.com/build/hBgCdn It has the main damage buffs and abilities you need - loads of vitality damage and with Devouring Swarm an ability that lowers enemy vitality resistance. The rest is pretty much up to you but I would recommend some points in Grasping Vines, Curse of Frailty for some crowd control as you want them to stay close to your killing fields and Blood of Dreeg as an added layer of defense just in case. A point in doom bolt would give you a powerful single target nuke, points in Solael's Witchfire will buff your damage and the Shaman tree in general has a bunch of great health and suriviability buffs you can pick up. As far as Devotions go you'd need to pick up a few defensive ones even with the recent nerf and Wendigo is pretty much a given since it plays very much into your hands. Have fun dropping things on the ground and watching them die. :D

You can play a conjurer without summons, that isn't the big deal, and Occultist can be a decent mastery to buff melee, I'm just not sure that a lifesteal melee Conjurer would work all that well (there aren't that many synergies between the life stealing skills of both masteries and the melee abilities) - they're usually played as casters. You'd probably end up with a character that doesn't deal enough damage and has trouble surviving, exacerbated by your lack of gear and that recent defensive Devotion nerf. Head over to http://grimcalc.com/ and then post what you wanted to pick up. I've seen a lifesteal & vitality damage focused Conjurer before that didn't really summon anything aside from totems. It seemed pretty good, especially amazing against crowds because of the wendigo totem. Sure, but those builds are caster builds. They don't melee much, at least not in the traditional sense of the word, and have to drop a large amount of stat points into spirit to use their gear. You're just dropping totems, draw pentagrams on the ground and cripple enemies while watching them die. The actual amount of whacking done is pretty limited.

I'm pretty sure that he's got a special deal as small scale/indie developer.

There are two reasons for that - you essentially played a party of three and insane in IWD gives twice the experience that core rules/normal does. The doubled experience leads to the ridiculous situation where even a full party insane run becomes easier than a full party on core rules once you pass a certain point in the game which is roughly around the beginning of Dragon's Eye or thereabout. Now apply this to a single character hat is essentially half a full party and you've probably broken the game by the time you cleared out the yetis in the vale.

I just bought Grim Dawn on GOG even though I received a free key from a friend of mine who backed the game on Kickstarter on a high enough tier to get two keys. Why? Well, because I like GOG and I totally love Grim Dawn and feel like they deserve the money. Besides, 22€ for hundreds of hours of fun is a real killer offer.

Time to go farming that dynamite then.

Actually enemy damage on elite and ultimate was nerfed in the patch. Along with almost all defensive constellations and celestial powers that granted damage mitigation, resistances and pretty much everything health related. Devotions alone are no longer a viable replacement for a decent defensive concept and gear it would seem.

I generally think the best approach to the Devotion system is to simply use what makes sense for your character at the time as you'll be swimming in Aether Crystals before long. If you're looking for a more permanent setup try to balance a few defensive constellations - Dryad, Scales of Ulcama, Targo the Builder or The Behemoth are quite good regardless of your class and equipment - with some offensive ones that make sense for your playstyle, e.g. there's no reason to go for Solael's Witchblade for instance if you don't deal fire and chaos damage. There's another nifty thing that you need to keep in mind, constellations can be self-sustaining, which means you can remove prior constellations you needed to unlock or the crossroads points as long as you do not fall below the requirement for any constellations you spent points on. E.g. if you unlock the Jackal via the Crossroads point and complete it you will gain 3 Chaos Affinity. Now you have 4, so you can remove the crossroads point if you wanted. The Jackal constellation will then be considered self-sufficient.

Not to be picking nits but Sorcerer is what you get when you combine Demolitionist with Arcanist. Demo/Witch Hunter is Pyromancer.

I feel rainbow inside! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCxDJnHiLqs