Everything posted by Sarex
- Ukraine Conflict - Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war
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The What Are You Reading thread (now with a simpler name)
It is. I need to get around to reading Children of Memory. I started it but never got back to it...
- Ukraine Conflict - Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war
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What are you Playing Now? - Back to the Grind
Fairly popular right now. People describe it as having the complexity of PoE but not requiring a degree in ARPGs to understand it's system. So much more friendly for new people.
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Anime and Manga - How do you Live? Edition
After watching the last episode of Delicious in Dungeon, I reread the whole manga series. There is something so good about manga that tell their story and leave it at that and not extend it as long as possible until they eventually let a whimper called an ending. The anime is just about to get in to the main story and I think will hook a lot of people who stuck with it so far, which I hope is enough to get it the full run.
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What are you Playing Now? - Back to the Grind
I watched a streamer lose all his willpower for playing the game when he completed a mission but could not escape in time and subsequently lost all the loot he gathered, needed to redo the mission from the beginning and had a broken car which he couldn't fix. He was having fun with it right up until that point. This game is either not intended for the general public, or the more likely scenario, they didn't test the difficulty curve enough. The issue is that the car is obnoxiously undriveable, which I'm almost certain is intended, and when combining that with the difficulty it's not a good formula to hook people to the game. But even all of that would not have been a deal breaker if only they made it clear what the consequences were in time, or at least made the first mission much shorter and thus reducing the consequence of failing it. edit: although I see now there are specific difficulty settings to remedy a bunch of things I mentioned.
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Youtube recommendations, let's beat the algorithm
- Anime and Manga - How do you Live? Edition
It has a formula I'll give you that, but there is a story intertwined through it. It's just that you get bits and pieces in the beginning of it.- Anime and Manga - How do you Live? Edition
Yeah, I think this season will end with the mage exam. The anime follows the manga, so yes.- Anime and Manga - How do you Live? Edition
The latest chapter of the manga.- Youtube recommendations, let's beat the algorithm
- Anime and Manga - How do you Live? Edition
First disappointing chapter of Frieren. It does seem like it's a set up for a future plot, but it was just so low effort. For some reason the author decided to wrap it up in 1 chapter and continue the story. Feels so jarring when compared to the rest of the short stories in the manga.- The All Things Political Topic - A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt
- The All Things Political Topic - A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt
- What are you Playing Now? - Back to the Grind
To me DoW1 came out when the market was flooded with RTS games and it didn't do anything special gameplay wise. It was just a reskin of a generic RTS game.- What are you Playing Now? - Back to the Grind
I think I am one of the rare few who liked DoW2 more than first one.- Anime and Manga - How do you Live? Edition
You just use the "I'm traveling" code which gives you 3 weeks I think. I don't think there is anything stopping you from reusing it, or at least I have not encountered it.- The All Things Political Topic - A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt
If he knows anything it's how to be irritating, I'll give him that. Things can always be worse, just look at who Romania had, but they at least got some infrastructure out of it... At this point whichever option lets us not have WW3 is what I'm for, but sadly day by day it's becoming more and more obvious it's going to happen in my generations lifetime.- The What Are You Reading thread (now with a simpler name)
I hate her writing with a passion, but I will need to give it another go one of these days. The feelings have cooled after a decade and I need to reaffirm them.- The All Things Political Topic - A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt
I think it's pretty obvious who is mentally unwell on this forum, not taking any political or ideological leaning in to account. But that is still not an excuse for tossing around words and phrases one has no grasp off. Again I will point you back to the start of the discussion, where a comparison was made and called on. I am well aware of the deficiencies and wrong of the system around and near me and certainly don't need your warped view or help in understanding it. As for the deficiencies and wrong farther away from me, well sadly I do not have a choice in ignoring it as it will not stop pushing it's own agenda where it affects me.- The All Things Political Topic - A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt
As Zoraptor says, that's from an a insiders point of view (and even then there are zealots and realists). The only difference the rest of the world saw was when Trump came to power. Your main stream media is a laughing stock and in it's own way is just as bad as the Russian media if not worse because it has more influence. This has been demonstrated multiple times in "recent" history. Just to be clear here, I have a very low opinion of all "journalist" (worldwide) in general. Also if you want to go in to how much change leaders effect in their own countries, again the US side is laughable compared to what was done in those countries. There is a reason why generally the Russian's love Putin and the Chinese love Xi. If you take a look at where Russia and China were 20-ish years ago and where they are now, it's an drastic difference. But to see that you would need to actually look or maybe even go there and see, instead of believing everything that is being served up to you. As for the current situation, I think, it would not be much different if the US or EU started general mobilization. You would have a lot of people running for the border and trying to dodge it. Also worth noting is that a lot of the people that left Russia did so to dodge sanction and to be able to continue making money. Considering how smoothly his death was glossed over, I personally would doubt that.- Anime and Manga - How do you Live? Edition
You just hating...- The TV and Streaming Thread: US Writers/Actors Strike Edition
The Vince Staples Show. Weird and trippy, not much else to say about it.- The All Things Political Topic - A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt
- Ukraine Conflict - Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war
- Anime and Manga - How do you Live? Edition