Gorth

Just left the doctors office 15 minutes ago. According to his test and the lab results from blood tests taken last week, I’m a perfectly healthy 30 year old… 🤔 I’m beginning to think my birth certificate has a typo 😂 Just kidding, I’m in (surprisingly) good health for my age and I appreciate being so

If it's the Hans Christian Andersen version of The Little Mermaid, it was published in Fairy Tales Told for Children collection (1837). If the title is anything to go by, it was aimed at a younger audience.

Good reasons... also, by the time this war is over it will most likely have come down in price too (or better yet, on GOG indeed) 😇 It does look interesting though.

Didn't Kim in North Korea do the same thing at some point? Friend or family "disappeared", including from old photos. Like an episode from Back to The Future.

That guy was a monster! Literally 😁 Rest in Peace

Not so much has played, as I'm curious if anyone here has played Atomic Heart? A soviet version of Fallout in an alternative 1955 scifi. Looks wacky in a fun way. I saw it on steam under new releases, caught my attention and I watched a few more trailers and gameplay videos on Youtube. Sorely tempted. Just a bit pricey. Edit: The steam reviewers seems to agree on it's best to keep the original language with English subtitles as the dubbing is somewhat subpar (putting it nicely) Edit2: and watch out for the horny fridge that tries to rape you at the start

Australia is busy testing its own homegrown drone... although that one is more likely aimed at China than Russia to be honest... https://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2023/2/27/australian-air-force-takes-drone-from-paper-to-flight-in-two-months Doesn't mean Ukraine can have a few toys donated to them https://www.skynews.com.au/world-news/australia-sends-33-million-in-military-drones-to-ukraine-and-imposes-new-sanctions-to-mark-one-year-since-putins-invasion/news-story/46a3d09c1d47e31e42fc2d7b46360896 "The $33 million drone package takes Australia’s total military support – which includes 90 Bushmaster vehicles, six M777 155mm lightweight towed howitzers and 28 M113AS4 Armoured Vehicles – to $510 million in helping Ukraine’s army and the millions of displaced residents."

I only watched the first one, but I think the first 7-8 episodes are out now

I watched first episode of something called Tomo-chan is a Girl. I'm fairly sure I have to watch more episodes of this 😂

In Soviet England, food rationing is about to be reintroduced (no kidding)

Europeans often talk about the US as "being on the other side of the pond"... (ok, I'll shut up now 😝) Maybe I'm slightly paranoid, but this *relative* quietness from the front makes me feel uneasy. I know it sounds like a pun on an old German book and in some ways applies, where even a quiet day results in lots of death and misery without it being considered newsworthy anymore.

Child labour alive and well in California 😁

Ironically Nemo is the only cgi heavy movie among those listed 😛 Industrial Light and Magic became famous for cgi effects.... mid to late 80's. The 70's and early 80's didn't have cgi (or should I say much cgi? when did the first Tron movie come out?). What they did sometimes was the animators putting a sheet of paper over movie stills and draw their characters on top of the still. One painstaking frame after the other to simulate natural movement (what you would use motion capture for today). I never liked cgi much. Hence why I liked the original Indiana Jones or the first Star Wars movie or the old Galactica etc. Something about models and cheesy effects, using models. smoke and mirrors just appeals more to me. My brain can process models as an abstraction of reality, cgi never convinced my brain of anything other than it being cgi (disclaimer/generalization warning, there are no absolutes, I've enjoyed shows with cgi and hated movies without it) I've skipped a number of animes simply because the first 2-3 minutes of the first episode were "obvious" cgi and I just couldn't stomach it. I suspect some of the shows I've enjoyed on the other hand may have been cgi too, but they would have "masked" it so well it wasn't obvious

One of my all time favourite games is Jagged Alliance 2... where I can control up to 18 party members (3x6 man/woman squads) in turn based combat (and that is part of its beauty for me) 😔

No idea what todays western animated films are like in general. I used to love the old Ralph Bakshi stuff like 'Wizards' or 'Fire and Ice'. That was from the 70's and 80's though. Special mention to 'Finding Nemo' and 'Korgoth of Barbaria', although I don't remember which years it was these came out

That was me inferring China being the source of Covid (not necessarily intentionally so)

I figured Wenduag would be the most likely to still share a bed with me if I went Fullskeletal Alchemist (anime pun)... 😇 (I'll skip all the bad boner jokes) And to be honest, I am curious about what she's about as a character because I went with Lann in my first game. All you got to see of her then (when going with Lann) is I wonder if there was more possibilities with actually having her in your party than that.

In the category of missing obvious stuff, it was only at the beginning of my second play through I noticed the tooltips for council decisions shows the game mechanic results of the choice. Sadly only after settling in at Drezen. No idea how I ended up with convicts as my basic foot soldiers, I must have listed too much to one of the Tieflings early on 😂

Did he ever get out of the way of anyone besides Zhukov? Mostly because the latter was so popular, no amount of secret police would be able to handle the repercussions of Zhukov falling out of a window. @Mamoulian War As for the speaking the truth to Stalin... you know you can't really trust truth extracted through torture 😝 Edit: Just to clarify, that made it look like it was your statement, it isn't, the quoted bit from FT/Pravda made the statement! Edit2: Reading the Pravda article, the logical conclusion is it's Covid's fault (let's all blame China for the war) for completely isolating Putin from the real world

Thanks for the heads up. I seem to remember from my first game, that spontaneous casters had a narrower choice per spell level than prepared casters (by keeping an eye on what Nenio could choose compared to Ember). I wasn't taking proper notes so to speak, playing low magic, all hack, slash and head butt character at the time. The combined spell book is a first time experience. I'll stick to sorcerer as the "base" class for now. Playing "normal" difficulty, so with a bit of thinking, persevering and luck, most obstacles should be possible to overcome 👍 Doesn't mean I won't experiment a bit in say 5 levels time, give or take a few. Did the same thing with my barbarian where I respecced a number of times at points in the game, just to try out alternative barbarian and fighter specializations, ending up returning to my original class again (or something close to) and continue the story (and the ending up with an obscene level 20+20 character) ☺️

"If you have a problem with me, you talk to my boss" 😂

SkyNet sends its regards...

Oh my.... /facepalm now that you mention it 😂 I suppose my necromancer could've been a bit braver and approach the enemy once the smaller demons were dead and the tree prone on the ground 😝 Edit: I think I acquired some kind of flaming cross bow at some point, but of course Ember has that one. Hugging it tightly while being busy being dead on the ground. Dangit Gorth... you're getting old. Potentially holding the answer in your own two hands the whole time

Three of my fireballs came from a staff (can't remember the exact name, most likely the one you mentioned). Sadly it resisted all 3 fireballs cast via the staff. edit: not helped by my sorcerer not having any focus on/in evocation (iirc, that's the school fireball belongs to?) And yes, in my first play through, I felt like I could open a garage sale with excess alchemist fire and the acid equivalent (I rarely found a use for them, except once or twice for exactly that purpose, overcoming regeneration). Of course I did not think at all about the 2 torches I had distributed to party members as secondary/tertiary weapons... 😖

That was the first one I fought (of the ancient ones) and the one that got down to -150hp when I realized I did not have a single alchemist fire bottle in any inventory (that I could access) 😖 Its magical resistance is still in full effect when down and regenerating, hence why none of the "secondary" casters could harm it with their paltry fire based spells. Ember most likely could have hurt it, but she was one of the first to go down (I underestimated the reach of that tree when when it decides to hit my back line with its abilities). But as mentioned, after 14 failed coup de graces, the 15th did the trick