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Not taking Imoen with you and using Viconia over Anomen (instead of taking neither, thank you very much) is all fine, but it is a bit strange coming from someone who claims he values combat effectiveness over everything else. That's clearly not the case. Hexxat and Edwin, Jan and Edwin, or the silly combination of Hexxat and Jan, neither of those are as good as picking Edwin and Imoen, Jan or Imoen or, eh, Imoen and Neera. Edwin has the advantage of having more spells than any other mage and being the only specialist mage kit worth a damn* because divination is, outside of True Sight, a right worthless spell category (also solved by having Imoen around), but he also comes with a slight disadvantage - he can't equip the Amulet of Power. Edwin's advantage in spell slots per day becomes less and less impactful the longer the game goes on. It is arguably at its greatest in BG1. With the Robe of Vecna and the Amulet of Power you can get many worthwhile spells to a 0 cast time. With auto-pause on spell cast and Improved Alacrity, that allows for some rather cataclystic spellcasting action. *Esoteric special cases like doing a low level Enchanter/Cleric dual class for the bonus to enchantment spells nonwithstanding. That's... hardly worth it, though, but it is possible. Stupid discussion roped me back in. Sigh.

So, anyone up for a MIDNIGHT KALEIDOSCOPE for the ultimate DARK POWER? Dunno, I used to be 201% COMMITTED to replacing my ZOTAC RTX 3060 with a 4070, but now I'm just BRUTALLY overwhelmed and probably need an ANTI-GRAVITY DARK OBELISK with some BIONIC SHARK FINS. Sorry, FANS. Seriously, what? Feel a bit like Palpatine when his luggage went missing.

He can beat me fair and square if he can manage to. I suck at the game, it's just hat he sucks more right now. I don't practice without him, that's about as much of a handicap as I am willing to give myself right now. As for the ongoing BG2 discussion:

Yeah, that is definitely not how this should go. The tower should not even be reachable without the event. I wonder, if you don't do the quest, does a certain ancient elf even show up in Drezen? It wouldn't brick the game per se, but you'd miss out on a truckload of items and background history.

"When the sun rises in the West and sets in the East. When the seas go dry and mountains blow in the wind like leaves." Inb4 @Malcador: Still before Star Citizen.

Golf With Your Friends by Team 17, with, well, my nephew. Or rather, it's competitive, not co-op, but how would co-op mini-golf look like, anyway? The courses range from hilarious to ludicrous and the game's actually fun enough for the price I got it on Sunday (which was 11€). There's not much I can say, you pick a direction and set the strengh of your shot, that's basically all there is to it. Some of the later courses are more puzzles than mini-golf courses, what with gravity manipulation fields, giant stompers and my favorite, miniature black holes for slingshot maneuvers. It's more fun in the 'fun' sense of fun than Raft, but also a bit less interesting. I am also unsure how long my nephew will be fine with losing all the time, but I sure ain't going to let him win on purpose. Games are serious business. <Note to editor: Insert Conan quote about crushing your enemies here>

Well, that certainly was a major depature from the source material, and I think that might turn out to be a not a particularily good one. Sheesh.

Well...

So, what, you didn't like Usagi's weaponized scream or Tuxedo Mask? The scream goes away really quickly and Tuxedo Mask's role is greatly reduced from season two onwards.

Okay, tasteless hack.

It is the final location of Nenio's companion quest, and a hard requirement if you want to get the 'full' secret ending unless you're playing a Trickster or Demon. Between giant rotating heads casting Waves of Exhaustion or some variant of Firestorm at your party, a screen with endlessly respawning undead monsters and some of the worst puzzles in the history of puzzles in games since Dragonsphere's Ratsicle puzzle, ambushes of giant spider things with ludicrous stats and a frustrating boss fight, you're in for a real treat. Packs of roaming, stealthed rogues capable of killing half your party in a round if they catch you unaware flesh the experience out. You really deserve a medal for even trying.

Which Sailor Moon did you try, and which season was that? I imagine if anyone would start with SuperS for some silly reason that would leave a lasting and really bad impression. Yep. I'm going with that explanation before I call you a tasteless hack... and you can't ruin the TV thread any more than it already is (what's the worst that could happen, someone shows up and Hurlshot-defends some more trash? The horror...). Who cares about the music thread, we have our metal one anyway.

That 'r' slipped in there unintentionally. ROAD ROLLER DA!

Yes, well, that goes without saying. I haven't solved a single Wrath of the Righteous puzzle without a guide, not even the prologue's four colour puzzle. It takes two hours to get through Enigma with a guide, no way I'm ever doing this without one.

WWRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY stupid typo.

Enigma killed my will to live and I dropped the game for almost six months before forcing myself to finish the Unfair run I had going.

JoJo's isn't hammy, it's harmon-y.

Cynic in me says it's probably because two Turkish banks just suspended Mir payments after being threatened with sanctions and he needs some brownie points in light of the stock crash of said banks. On the other hand, he would never have made these comments if Russia wasn't really in a bad place right now, so it's not entirely worthless.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/turkey-president-erdogan-on-russias-invasion-of-ukraine-and-the-future-of-nato Not sure about the quality of the translation ("will" seems to be rather, ahm, optimistic, I suppose), but regardless, it looks like Putin's 'friends' are unhappy with the way his little conflict is interfering with their economic interests. Guess that was really supposed to be over long before winter. Of course, the good old Bosporussian (although in light of these comments, I probably should start looking for a new nickname) also drops this fun hypocrisy bomb: He kind of missed the footnote "unless it's against Kurds" I suppose.

@Azdeus get your friend to watch Sailor Moon with you. But for the love of god do NOT watch Sailor Moon Crystal or the films based on it. Ugh. Also get her to post here then. Please? Pretty please?

Sosiel doesn't really have a free slot for Last Stand unless you want to give up Elemental Barrage or one of the better domains or turn him into a cold damage spam bot*. Well, maybe on normal you can forgo Mythic Spell Focus, otherwise his Mythic rankups are full with getting the proper domains (Community, Animal**, Madness, maybe Nobility) and Abundant Casting as well as Domain Zealot. *Depends a little on your party composition, but it can work too***. Add a level of Cross-Blooded Sorcerer with Water and Silver bloodlines, then add a Second Bloodline: White to the mix and Ascendant Element: Cold. Give him Coldbite, Hide Armor of Elemental Carnage and Elemental Imbuement, then make sure he takes some cold damage from somwhere and watch your enemies explode. You'd need Greater Spell Penetration and Greater Spell Focus: Evocation as feats. On the bright side, no Elemental Barrage necessary. Guess on normal you could get away with dropping Madness. **Primarily there so he doesn't keel over in every fight. Medium Armor Focus on a DEX 10 character, not even Bioware could come up with that kind of gimping. What the hell, Owlcat? ***Here's the point where I once again mention how much easier this build is to pull off with a mercenary Cleric worshipping Erastil - getting Community and Animal as starter picks leaves only Madness to be taken, you can get all the good bits including Last Stand and have enough spell slots to blast away enemies all day. A mercenary also doesn't spend his first four feats on Selective Channel, Extra Channel, Toughness, and Medium Armour Focus. Jesus H. Christ.

I would suggest spending one of your mythic ranks on giving your characters Last Stand by the time you reach Mythic 5. You never know when an enemy archer decides to engage your backline for no particular reason and starts trouncing through your casters in two or three shots (less if they get off a crit). For Sosiel, Impossible Domain: Animal, and just put him on a boar.

Bandits are pretty good because they get rapid shot, but they also get the least amount of units per week. That probably won't matter much in the long run, but a gaggle of Marksmen still do better at piercing DR and have more units on the field. Wenduag's additions on the logistics council buff mercenaries and make them cheaper, which would be fine if Lann wouldn't give out similar buffs for the more numerous trained units. Her higher tier units are also, ah, well... Witches? Bloodragers, when you could take Dragon Slayers? Nope.

Raft has a Creative mode where you have unlimited materials and suffer neither hunger nor thirst, and it has no enemies. She gets one third and one fourth level spell over Anomen after his quest, and an additional two level one and two level two spells before that. If that is the difference between resting every encounter or not, then I would venture to say that having Viconia in the party staves off resting for half a real fight. That does not seen worth gimping your party any more than you would with Anomen in the group over a real companion. Can I interest you in a potion or a scroll, maybe?

Anomen has more hit points and more attacks per round. Anomen makes the combat in the game less annoying. Viconia doesn't. Case closed, discussion over. When was the last time you really needed those extra spells from a high wisdom score? Besides, the difference between 16 and 18 WIS is negligible. The solution is to take Jaheira and leave the clerics where they belong, in the trash bin, along with Cernd that human wasteland of a character.