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That's pretty much every open world game I ever tried. Dragon Age: Inquisition's Hinterlands was already too large.

Looks like I will not be playing Wrath of the Righteous this weekend. Prior to 1.1.7, I had on and off problems with Steam's cloud syncing where Steam would not properly upload savegames - and only with Wrath of the Righteous. I got into a habit of manually uploading them to my Google Drive just in case. Except today, of course, because it's been working for a month now. Steam immediately started patching the game when I quit earlier today, and guess what's not synced? Hard spoiler!

I have one great example that doesn't feel phoney or ham fisted or forced at all, don't worry, it's time coded to link directly to the good parts. I like to call this one "Two gays talk about a non-binary person", and it's wonderful: The actors almost bursting out in laugther at the dialogue they're having to say really helps selling the point. *snort*

As far as I know the records of his personal physician had Hitler at 5'7", but fine, we can use Stalin just as well. Could also use Berlusconi instead of Sarkozy too, if corruption and underage prostitutes round the image out better than just plain old corruption. Oh, I don't disagree with you there, especially when it comes to having scary buttons that destroy everything, no one person should have full access to those. Nobody should have acccess to those regardless, but that's something else, I guess. I added a disclaimer to the original post and am sorry if that's a touchy subject for you. I'd vote for you if you ever ran for president.

I was thinking about Hitler, Putin and Sarkozy (to complete a murder, arson, jaywalking list ) when I made that comment, more in jest than anything, even though I wrote sorry not sorry for the suggestion. Carry on.

While it's not a film, I've been on and off debating with myself about rewatching Anne of Green Gables. I'm not sure if that's such a good idea in light how how not so well rewatches of Attack No. 1 and Robin Hood went so far (they're fine, but I loved those when I was younger). Plus it's not like I have much time for anything and way too much to watch anyway.

Heh, this is an argument that we've had in the past, only in reverse? I think all arguments that Putin is acting rationally went out of the window when the Russian troops actually crossed the border last week.

It's not really a question of economic strength, but one of "Will Putin incinerate the world on his way out?" and the answer most certainly is far too close to "it's entirely possible" than I'd like it to be.

そうですか？「輝かしい日本語」とはちょっと分かりません。でも、私の言語の勉強の中で日本語が一番難しいですよ。 I make no guarantee that any of the above is correct. I've been doing this for, *checks language course*, 101 days now. Also, pretty much the wrong topic for this, I guess.

I'm just an amateur dabbling in 言語, really, but it's best to be prepared, right?

If I give you my bank account number, will you start paying? I don't mind a bonus or two. How much are we talking about? Gotta be careful with the taxes and all.

Well, time for some food pictures. Some homemade bread, fresh from the oven... Local variant of goulash (more like pörkölt with no tomatoes) to go with it... And finally, while that was made for tomorrow as it's a staple for Ash Wednesday, one has to, ah, sample it, right? Herring salad. Minor spoiler how the sauce of herring salad is traditionally made, don't click here if you're faint of heart: Don't blame me for clicking, eh?

A maximum age for politicians wouldn't be the only thing necessary. I propose a minimum height requirement too, that way we can avoid most Napoleon-Complex idiots that need power to compensate for their short...comings. Yeah, sorry about that pun, not sorry about the idea. Just struck me looking at Putin standing as tall as Merkel. Yeah, no, if you're male and not at least an inch taller than the average height of your compatriots (or at the very least have yuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge hands!), no leadership position for you. edit: This is a joke, in case it wasn't clear enough.

There's another fun tidbit about me playing the Mass Effect series. I finished the trilogy on Insanity, and the looked up stuff and apparently realized it wasn't that hard, while I actually struggled with the initial stages of the first and second game, at least. Quake on Nightmare mode, for instance, was comparatively easy. In a thing that only ever happens to me, I missed that you're supposed to import a previous character played on another difficulty level when playing on Insanity. The first part is the most annoying to start as fresh Insainty character with, because everything almost one-shots you and the gameplay is pretty awkward at first. Kinda the same thing that made me go through Dark Souls while wondering how casters are supposed to be the "easy mode" of the game when bosses lose less than half of their health and I'm out of spells and forced into melee with a character not really built for it. Buying multiple copies? Why would I do that? I already got the spell. Right? Unintentional hard modes for the win! Strange how diametrically opposite our experiences are. I couldn't ever finish the original NWN2 campaign, and I actually finished the OC of the first NWN. I keep hearing how Mask of the Betrayer is one of the best (if not the best) of Obsidian, and yet I just can't get there, because I just can't start with it and the OC is so... off-putting, boring and, well, terrible that it breaks even my need to soldier on*, and that realiably. Quite a feat. I almost quit over that tutorial, and kept hoping it would improve. Right. It didn't. Dragon Age: Origins, meanwhile, I finished twice (noteworthy insofar as I barely ever replay games that length). However, I despied Awakening. What a terrible expansion. On the other hand I also did what I always do with games like that, build a character that plays itself. The "combat" of Dragon Age: Origins was making an Arcane Warrior and clicking some party scripts together, then watch it play out on its own. There's only a handful of fights that need direct control intervention. I'm fairly content with the game playing out this way, but it anyone wants an actual gameplay experience or riveting tactical combat from BioWare games I think they've been looking at games from the wrong company. It's not really like DA:O created the BioWare game template. *I actually finished Pools of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor. I don't think dwarves are allowed in Orgrimmar.

There's two answers, or rather, one answer with two components. First, the writers all have no concept of astronomical scales, but that's probably something Alex Kurtzman got from Jar Jar Abrams, or maybe it was the other way around. Han could watch the "Republic" die from Angkor Wat in The Force Awakens and Spock watched Vulcan disappear in a red-matter black hole too. The other is that since we barely have established any locations, Vulcan, Earth and Titan are the entire sum of the places the viewer is supposed to care about from the last season. In the third season, Discovery could jump to Titan because it was outside of Earth's sensor range, and the outpost on Titan was capable of launching raids on Earth without being discovered. All from a moon of a planet that's visible from Earth with the naked eye. Combine that and what does it matter that the DMA is large enough to encompass the entire Solar System and it's closest neighbours. Last minute addon to the series. Like, literally. Chakotay and Seven are seen having a date in the very last episode, with an undertone of "this has been going on for a while" while nothing of the sort ever happened in the series. After on and off teasing a potential romance between Mr. Boring and Ms. Bipolar.

Well, I played Andromeda and even enjoyed the ridiculous loot box multiplayer for a while, but it was riddled with constant disconnects and crashes, and that meant investing time and energy for no gain, which lead me to just stop playing. It wasn't the worst game I ever played, but not going to lie, some of the dialogue was CAN I SHOW YOU MY FORCE LANCE level of bad (Andromeda joke, sorry ) and the animations were hilariously broken after the launch. Gameplay wise it was probably better than Mass Effect 2 and Mass Effect 3, all things considered, but that's no real wonder, running on an adapted Frostbite 3 (I think it's pretty clear that BioWare's Unreal 3 implementation for Mass Effect just wouldn't give them any decent shooter gameplay). If it couldn't do the one thing right it was originally designed for then that would have been terrible. Please note that this doesn't mean Andromeda was a good shooter, it just played a whole lot better than the other Mass Effects. When it worked. Which it barely did. The comment however was mostly meant to be tongue-in-cheek, I thought linking Rich destroying Mass Effect DVDs made that clear. Mass Effect 2's excuse for a plot is a rehash of Dragon Age: Origins. Face impossible threat, assemble team, face impossible odds, prevail. I don't mean excuse for a plot as negatively as it comes across here, because that clearly wasn't the focus of the game, and story-wise, it apparently really did not have a focus while everyone was trying to figure out how to best mess up the groundwork laid by the first game in the third one. An excuse plot it was, nevertheless. A collection of small stories with barely any connecting tissue. Still, since I'm a sucker for character stuff, it was probably the Mass Effect I enjoyed the most. edit: I should also mention that I liked Dragon Age: Origins, and to a certain degree Inquisition, so I'm probably not the best person to judge things, at least going by the edgelords and art snobs on this forum, because DA:O is like the worst thing since Pool of Radiance 2, apparently.

The same thing Chakotay suddenly saw in Seven of Nine, out of nowhere. Lines of a script, written by hacks. A-koo-chee-moya. I shouldn't be too hard on Voyager. Voyager is pretty watchable compared to the other stuff that came afterwards. Like One Night in Sickbay, which was probably the worst Star Trek episode until These Are The Voyages... which was the worst until every other Discovery episode became the worst until the androids in Picard summoned Mecha-Cthulhu from Dark Space (tm). Oh how I wish I'd be exaggerating just how breathtakingly stupid this was... edit: Ah, minor tip here, I don't think it'll help, but try not to think about anything that happens in Discovery going forward. It'll just break your brain if you try to make sense of it. Just "enjoy" the ride. You'll get to watch Skynet ASSUME DIRECT CONTROL at some point. That'll probably make no sense yet, but unfortunately it will soon enough...

This is thread is sure going places. If it's an actual harem*, it might have been one of his daughters, sisters, wives, or any other woman of the household, rather than a slave. Wait, that doesn't make this any better, does it? *I think historical accuracy isn't part of Space Cobra, so that's unlikely, huh?

Wand of Call Lightning, there is one right at the beginning of the dungeon, and one more further in.

It's a good indicator of how much the show cares for getting the little details right. It's fine if a gamma ray burst doesn't kill everyone, that's why these ships all have fictional shielding technology, but once it's past the shields and is like a light flash on the bridge, it's everyone melts into goo time. And yeah, Earth getting hit by a gamma ray burst is a potential extinction event.

Yikes, I forgot to write my weekly Discovery diatribe. I'm not going to do that in as much detail as usual, but let is suffice to say that it was, once again, patently dumb and bad. Season four, episode 10. Don't really care what the title is. A few key things:

Clearing Blackwater was an unpleasant experience on unfair difficulty, and that's primarily attributable to me thinking it'll be all right to bring a few shock weapons and make due with the wands until you can grab Stormlord's Resolve. That wasn't the best idea, all in all. It works fine until you run into the augmented succubi who have an annoying tendency to take zero damage from the weapons and you need to get through both their spell resistance and their reflex saves for the wands to work. Battling mirror imaging, level draining demons with regeneration you just can't turn off properly is a tad... annoying. As per usual, the two actual boss fights were more than managable. Ember's supercharged enchanment DC and enemies not immune to mind altering conditions equals having a fairly easy time, comparatively. Picked up Agony on Ember for the first time too. Works well enough against enemies with weak (that's relative on unfair) fortitude saves and has twice the range of the other hexes. Isn't as powerful as slumber when it works, of course, but it's still a decent way to turn an enemy off with a bit of dice luck. Also ended up picking up a whole lot of Improved Initiative feats. On unfair, you really do not want to be caught flat-footed. Eh, and pretty big lol at the Brown-Fur Transmuter mercenary. The guy is well worth his money and then some. I'd call that a bargain, and he does a decent job at throwing Bolstered Battering Blasts at enemy lines when the buffing is said and done.

Keyrock liked Hercules in Space more than Andromeda, so... yeah, I don't think that's going to change his mind.