majestic

Driving on the highway, rightmost lane, 55 mp/h speed limit, @majestic's is driving pretty much exactly 55 mp/h behind another car (with a more than comfortable distance between us) which is directly behind a truck with like half a yard between the two. Nobody's behind me. Exit coming up, the car before me is driving off the highway, I can see the idiot accelerating on the exit lane as he passes the truck, only to break hard before the upcoming corner. Yeah, so, I guess gas is still not expensive enough. Someone else is suddenly coming up from behind, takes the exit, accelerates past me, flips me the bird, then breaks hard before the corner. I'm a little unsure what the hell her problem was. I suppose she was sitting comfortably in my dead angle on the left lane and found it difficult to switch lanes. With, you know, the entire right lane empty, except that truck and the idiot in front of me. #Ihatedriving

Stealth has the advantage of being a very easy way of dealing with enemies that would otherwise be too high level for you to defeat, but outside of a few gigs that yield better rewards for being stealthy or a main mission or two where stealth is a soft-requirement for a cleaner way to handle it, well... it is fairly pointless. Unless you really hate being yelled at by your fixer. Some of the cyberpsychosis sightings can be handled with stealth, speeding up the missions by a lot. The biggest advantage it has is that it's basically free anyway. Cool has some really good perks for every possible build, there's no reason not to invest in the stat in some capacity, even if for some reason you want to max Reflex, Body and Tech. Better hardware definitely makes the game glitch out much less. On my old system when I played Cyberpunk 2077, floors would regularily not be loaded before I drove over them, making me fall through the world relatively often, or roadblocks would spawn inside my car or bike, causing all of my forward momentum to suddenly apply in an upwards direction. While it certainly was funny to see my bike take off like a rocket, having to reload afterwards was annoying.

Forum software be like:

It also happens more often in some threads than in others. I'm not sure but this might be the first gaming forum thread where it happens on a very regular basis, hence people suddenly being more aware of it.

As long as it is the 1992 anime either in the original with subtitles or the new Viz dub, everything else is, ah, well... the original English dub is an acquired taste, I guess. Except season four. The less is said about the creepy rape gang and the pedophile horse, the better. Would be fun to see the reactions from others as well. Particularily @Hurlshort's, who would probably get himself an aneurysm trying to figure out why @Bartimaeus and I basically hate everything he likes but love Sailor Moon. edit: Just realized I actually wanted to post about how boring Rings of Power is, even - or maybe especially - when it tries to be epic. They should also hire someone to revise the dialogue. Everything is basically Star Dreck Picard: Season Two Picard/Q interaction level of cringe. Sigh.

'Streamline' UI and 'make sure keys/buttons are consistently doing the same thing' are probably still two items on CDPR's kanban board. In the ultra low priority bucket.

I'm not entirely sure how you'd get to the good stuff, i.e. moonshine, unless you have contacts to an expat/immigrant community.

Don't worry, some of the names we're talking about are just Beamdog's fanfic content, or mods. You really do have a very odd idea of effective. You know what effective is? A Fighter/Cleric multiclass* dual wielding the Flail of the Ages and Defender of Easthaven with Draw Upon Holy Might, Improved Haste and Armor of Faith. You're still down two main hand attacks per round compared to a similar Fighter/Mage or Fighter/Druid** setup, but you're slowing the enemy, barely take any damage and can hit like a truck without bricking your spellcasting ability in the process. *One of the few cases where the multiclass setup edges out over a respective dual class in my opinion. While a Fighter(9)/Mage DC setup makes arguably the strongest possible character you could play (particularily since the EE's revised Grand Mastery removes the need to dual at 13), the fact that being a Fighter/Cleric multiclass allows you to pick Hardiness, which stacks with both Armor of Faith and Defender of Easthaven, is a big deal. Enough to make the MC edge out over the DC varieties. Having access to Fighter HLAs makes this build win out, and Cleric HLAs don't have the spell slot issue that Mage MC HLAs have. **Druids have Armor of the Faith too, but obviously can't use FoA or DoE. They have access to Belm as an off-hand piece and Iron Skin, making access to Fighter HLA not necessary, so any DC setup wins out, especially in light of their ridiculous experience table. The biggest downside is a Fighter/Druid DC's ludicrous stat spread - 17 WIS and 17 CHA required. Can dump a whole lot of INT as long as you stay away from Mind Flayers, but getting like 18/18/18/3/18/17 is kinda 'hard' (try impossible ). It's probably best to start this character in BG1 and fix stats up with the manuals (19 DEX makes no difference anyway, so starting with 17 DEX can get you 18 by the end of BG1). Weapon choices are somewhat limited, but if you don't mind waiting a whole lot and play with reduced party sizes, going for ** setups and a Fighter(13) DC will ease that problem - but there's not a whole lot of great weapons anyway, and in such a case you might as well use a multiclass. The Druid spells make up for it though. edit: Holy crap this thread is good at eating posts. I had to post this four times before it actually went through. GG forum software, that's a new low, even for you.

Yeah, I can totally see @Zoraptor trying JoJo's or being assaulted with Sailor Moon gifs. That'll be very, ah, convincing. Or like watching an ecchi parody without any frame of reference!

Just half the city.

You could post it here: I'd post it myself but I am afeared of running afoul of the powers that be.

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!