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More Pathfinder along this path....

Nice stuff in there. Glad Pentiment did "better than expected" when it came to reception. If anyone had asked me a few years ago, Grounded would have been my candidate for a niche game with a tiny cult following (and not 10 million players) Interesting bits about Avowed. Sounds like the decision to ram multiplayer down its throat at all cost was what cased it to hiccup and get in trouble at some point (until the focus changed)

Announcing your intent on the front months in advance is quite counter productive. It may help boost domestic morale, but it will in the end get more of your own people killed (needlessly). A situation where secrecy and the element of surprise would have worked wonders. But that is in an ideal world (of course, in an ideal world there wouldn't have been a war in the first place), in the real world, you have to work with what you have and that is being the fall guy for 15 western countries waging a proxy war against Russia (the latter only having themselves to thank for it). The west gets to feed its starving media and tabloids, Ukraine gets to do the dying.

A bit of light entertainment for the math geeks out there...

Speaking of nostalgia...

Childhood memories... yes, I know, this was a year or two before I was born, but my parents had radio and believe it or not, this stuff was played all the way to the end of the 60's

Not having an ssd drive to dedicate to a game means BG3 will go down the waiting list somewhat. My wallet thank you I suspect it has to do with a lot of frequent loading of smaller assets.

That's more than the total annual GDP of each of the countries 84-190 on the list of countries sorted by GDP Edit for those curious: https://www.worldometers.info/gdp/gdp-by-country/

What do you mean? Cyberpunk 2077 is almost ready to come out of early access!

You mean like someone carving out your eardrums with a razor blade?

If Bruce Dickinson wants more cowbell, we better give him more cowbell! Haven't heard BOC in I don't know how many decades... (you need VPN if watching from Australia, but it's worth that one extra click to watch it)

I challenge people to listen to 3 minutes of this and not run over a cliff side while screaming Ding! Dong! Ding! Dong!

I'm not sure how well it holds up to modern recordings (recording quality), but dang I listened to a lot of Accept during the early 80's.... first bought their albums on vinyl and later on cd during the latter part of the 80's, gradually phasing out my old vinyls as cd's became available

Sounds like a possible depression. Do not underestimate it!

It's probably two different messages for two different audiences. The foreign policy one as a "show of strength" to neighboring countries and a domestic one of being "the victim of international bullying", to rally support on the home front.

The day you hear a dolphin thank you for all the fish, it's time to finish any outstanding business and wrap things up asap

If you nitpick the term "pre-war borders", that would imply a restoration of status quo to early 2022? I.e. Crimea be the price of peace. Edit: What could make both the people living in Donbas and the government in Ukraine happy? I can't really see any compromises, that would ensure long lasting peace.

Regill didn’t stick around for my trickster game, but my barbarian was also very chaotic. He didn’t seem to appreciate that I’ll probably miss Seelah and her trusty steed Sybian, but that is Ok. I might still not be lawful enough for Regill when the time comes. He’s already being pushy, I have to go meet his buddies. I would like to keep him and his raptor mount (“Raptus”) around a bit longer this time

Continued from old thread... https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/131770-what-are-you-playing-now-games-dont-make-you-violent-lag-does/

New thread+

I wonder if Camelia is going to stick around in my Lich play. I suspect if I turn all "skeletal" at some point, she'll just decide, that there are more entertaining things to do with her time

Sometimes you just find a game, that somehow comes to personify an age or a genre for you. For me, there are a handful of games that despite being 30 years old are my "go to" games for different reasons. To this day, I still use a C64 as well as an Amiga emulator to play games that never made it to PC in a for me playable form (Lords of Midnight by MIke Singleton, Ultima IV by "Lord British", Elite by Bell/Braben, Carriers at War by SSI, Mech Warrior, Defender of the Crown etc.) as well as old PC games that runs on dos emulator like Gygax' War in Russia and Master of Orion 2 by Microprose and yes, also some "newer" games that runs on Windows like the original X-Com trilogy and Jagged Alliance 1+2. To be fair, if I wanted the original Elite experience, I should find an Acorn BBC-B emulator and the original BBC version But like the above history, sometimes, just sometimes you run into something that feels like a worthy successor. I had a similar feeling with Xenonauts after lamenting the inability of games developers to make proper X-Com type games (as in, I felt like celebrating and played it to death for a while, satisfying this deep seated need for something that felt like X-Com and I hope JA3 will be a similar experience) Edit: Forgot to mention a game like HoMM3, which to some degree got a similar game in Disciples II

That's based on the (wrong) assumption it's always consensual... but this is probably a discussion for a different thread.

Not "ha ha" kind of funny, just funny. Well I thought so. Couldn't quite decide where to share this little 1 minute clip of LoTR in an alternative culture

Not what I normally associate with "bush walking"