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This is going to be hilariously useless, but I just cannot stop myself. Please name the element(s) in Veilguard that make it exclude straight males. Provide specific examples and give a proper contextual reading for those. Bonus points if you can make it about excluding straight white males. Posting a video from a self-proclaimed Russian sounding melodramatic c*nt (his own words, not mine) like Gorth gorthed into the discussion a while back does not count, so don't even try to post something with an Info Wars level of objectivity and integrity as proof, we've had enough of that nonsense back when a not very sharp one skarped in the politics thread. Is that a rhetorical question? Dragon Age: Veilguard is basically a medieval high magic fantasy version of Star Wars: Fallen Order and Jedi Survivor. Both of which were commercial successes for Electronic Arts.

She at least doesn't give you a five minute verbal lashing about how much of a failure you are if you are light side. 's a pretty cool moment though. "You have failed me. Completely and utterly.", "To have the Jedi Masters brought low by such a failure, there is no victory in that. You have not heard a thing I have taught, and for all I have said, you have never learned to listen." and "Stay here and die, apprentice, among the wreckage of all that remains of the Jedi. It is a fitting grave until the Sith come to end you. To end everything."

Surpsingly enough, yes. With some exceptions like the tempering system (tempering is great, the RNG of it that can destroy equipment worth a lot, well, not so much), the core gameplay and "endgame" of Diablo 4 are pretty solid, the best the game series and ARPGs are outside of Diablo 2 (and possibly Grim Dawn), but the seasonal mechanics are lacking, more often than not. I just recently learned that there's an odd and an even team at Blizzard working on seaons in parallel, which explains a lot. The odd team is clearly worse at creating fun seasons than the even one, as all the really good seasons were even numbered. The current one is season seven. That I can't stop myself from grinding out the seasonal objectives because they used to have a hidden achievement, well, that's hardly the fault of the game.

That would be true, but computers cannot really generate truly random numbers, as such there's always a mathematical function involved - and there are better or worse ones at generating numbers. If whatever Owlcat used is pretty bad - and it would seem to be, going by my experience as well - it is neither weird nor improbable. You'd need specialized hardware for truly random numbers.

So, like, I just finished grinding out the last season journey objective, which for me was raising 10 Witchraft powers to level 20 (any given build in the game uses five, so that was a waste of time), only to find out that there no longer is an achievement (well, Feat of Strength, that is) for fully completing the season. The one that there is I got yesterday already, because it is only tied to fully finishing the last tier of the season journey. So anyone playing Diablo 4 like @MrBrown and @Malcador - you don't need to bother with anything but fully finishing the Destroyer objectives if you want the Feat of Strength. The bitter irony of it is that I already had those finished before I passed Slayer - because those silly heads and altars were so hard to get prior to the recent larger patch. Googled a bit to see if I missed something, but nope, the change was apparently not communicated. Good job. Good to know for future seasons though. Unless they reintroduce a second Feat of Strength without telling anyone. Le sigh.

Done with the season journey, but not (yet?) with all the season journey elements. Blizzard patched something recently that increased the chances to find secret altars and fugitive heads. I found as much of that stuff in the past two days of playing than I did in the entire time from January 21st to February 6th. Not complaining though, I'll take it.

It is perfectly legitimate to not want to spend a couple of hours trying to overcome a combat system for the sake of a game perhaps becoming fun later, I was making a joke on the FromSoftware fandumb... although the opposite is of course also correct: it is just as legitimate to want these sort of challenges in games. It is a matter of preference.

Git gud. /thread

You should read Red Harvest, that'll turn you off of Star Wars books for a while. I mean, unless you like bad zombie apocalypse novels.

Eh, actually, most groups are just dead silent. I even pugged the "raid" on Torment IV last season to get the feats of strength and it was fine. Mostly. The first attempt was a disaster as I did not have enough defense to avoid death during unavoidable damage moments.

The season specific journey elements are pretty rough though, or perhaps I'm the unluckiest guy playing D4. Opened 20 silent chests, got one (1) roothold key. Spent hours grinding the headhunts, at 15 of 20 reputation levels, and I got a total of four fugitive heads. Still missing the last witch power too. And yeah, I am using the season elixir. Sigh. Yeah, no. When the game freezes for 20 seconds after using leap and then picks up exactly where it left off instead of having my character either dying or passively killed the mobs on the screen I'm fairly positive that it's server side lags.

That's one of the funniest parts of all the COVID vaccine conspiracies. If these vaccines were developed by <enter favorite secret society here> to <insert favorite nefarious purpose here> then why did Isreal hug all the dosages for their own population, going so far as to outbid other nations by paying double the asking price just to have enough? Have yet to see a single conspiracy nut answer that in some fashion. The joo is, after all, at the heart of most conspiracies...

7-12% improvement. Better efficiency. At least it still has the RTX 4080 Super MSRP. Steve sums it up pretty well when he says: boring.

In the days of yore there was no income tax in the US, but tariffs were levied and financed the federal government. Several attempts of introducing an income tax and the SCOTUS striking much of it down eventually led to the 16th amendment, giving congress the constitutional right to set income taxes without apportionment to the states. The amendment was ratified because Republicans and Democracts alike were of the opinion that tariffs unduly affected people with lower incomes, something a progressive income tax would not. The politicians of yore knew what the current Republican Administration apparently forgot: who actually pays for tariffs.

The Tangerine in Chief's conspiracy sphere seems to be slowly turning against him. People are already calling him a psy-op for wanting to make Canada the 51st state, which is apparently is one of the goals of the New World Order. He's also been called a deep state agent by supreme conspiracy nut David Icke for various reasons, like meeting with Bill Gates and coming back with a positive attitude towards potential new HIV vaccines.

No, he's still looking for that critical race theory curriculum.

You funny Lexx surly that is normal market behavior nothing strange there.

Paywalled, but still: Trump’s Oil and Gas Donors Don’t Really Want to ‘Drill, Baby, Drill’ Energy companies don't want a repeat of a price collapse by flooding the market? Who woulda thunk. So, let's see. Egg prices are on a record high, farmers' illegal work force is a no show in certain areas, Mexican and Canadian steelmakers refuse new orders from US companies and energy prices aren't coming down any time soon either, by the looks of it. But at least there's only two genders now, and the Gulf of Mexico is now called Gulf of America, but only in the US. The US won bigly so far, I hope to able to watch them win even biglier once Trump actually makes good on his tariffs (although for some reason there already seems to be some waffling on the promised tariffs for China).

KitGuru about to test Arrow Lake after Intel fixes, some preliminary results: Very poor showing by Intel here, sorry to say. If I want CPUs that default to mobile CPU settings just because Lunar Lake was developed before Arrow Lake and somebody forgot to flip the switch, I'll go directly to the company for fall-on-its-face launches like that and buy AMD (lolno I won't, but eh, obligatory dig has to be here). So boo Intel, don't do that again. Besides, the poor release is done and dusted, and nobody will remember Arrow Lake for anything but failures and poor showings. Anyway, here's the TL;DW: The 9800X3D is obviously still the fastest gaming CPU Arrow Lake game performance figures are now in line with Intel's marketing material What that means for gamers is the same conclusion that was reached earlier. In gaming, outside of the X3D models, it is a close race between the 14900K, the 9950X and the Core Ultra 285K. As far as upgrading from prior CPUs goes, this generation is a complete bust. Outside of the 9800X3D that is, whose existence in the wild is basically as confirmed as Bigfoot's. So if you're already on 13th gen or on AM5, there's zip all reason to upgrade your CPU. Especially with gaming on the 14900K still being, uhm, somewhat faster in many games. Time to wait for Leo's productivity tests. According to Intel's presentation, the poor showing in Photoshop should be fixed now. Productivity-wise the 285K was pretty good regardless, able to compete with the 9950X. The 9950X is still more efficient, but the difference is power draw between teh 14900K and the 285K is massive and certainly a step in the right direction. Suggestion for Intel: hire tech channel personnel for QA tests before launches.

Ah, yes, my bad. Such a great software. So many good people developing it. I have great people on my team telling me how great this software is. Obsidian won bigly using it.

This board software is something else. Double posted 10 minutes apart because I left the boards open in the background.

Any suprised reaction is predicated on Bruce clicking the link and properly comprehending the contents. I'm betting that you'll be the ones having a surprised Pickachu face when he replies.

Trump has nothing to do with Project 2025, silly leftists.