Gorth

We'll have to disagree on that one Queen's "Tribute" to their first manager (Norman Sheffield, owner of Trident Records back then). Less swear words, but all the hatred felt for him condensed into lyrics...

Hey, that sounds like me!

Not really suspicious before Michelle proposes to Lula, asking if he wants to marry her

I had it happen way back in act i iirc (could've been act ii, was a while ago)... where you have to defend the camp/inn/haven (I can't remember the name), when the demons all leave a garrison and march towards your current hideout. That's where I realized real time could make the stalling game unstall and bring the arsonists to the fore again, so I could kill them (and progress the fight, spawning the boss) I suspect my next game is going to be on "normal" too. Curios to see if I won't find a number of those troublesome encounters somewhat easier with at least a little bit of game and mechanics knowledge under the belt (belt of wisdom +2 !!!)

Sounds like Eyes Wide Shut

Uh oh... Poor Gorth. Ended up in a bit of a bind. How to wing it in this situation? Ahah! Space bar!... Ok, fully scripted. At the end, Gorth is a legend! Which suddenly gave me a metric tonne of levels to level up. I just picked something, because I knew I had to go visit Hilor (was that his name?) in Drezen and respec. Two handfuls of Bard - Thundercaller for giggles It also gave me an insane amount of hitpoints... Edit: The preceding fight was moderately obnoxious, as it kept hanging and I had to redo it four times. Fourth time was when I realised I could fix the hanging game by switching to realtime and back to turn based again. The hanging seems to be caused by

First generation Intel Pentium processors would probably have arrived at: 2 + 2 = 3.99999999999999999 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug

There is case modding and there is case modding... I wonder if this PS5 isn't going to overheat inside all that polystyrene or whatever it is she made it out of

Australia... the aircraft carrier that doesn't sink

'Plot Armor'

For a computer: 00000010 + 00000010 = 00000100 When the end result is right but the way to the result not what was intended: 2 * 2 = 4... When integers are too simple (2 + 0i) + (2 + 0i) = (4 + 0i) Add more...

Trump, Bolsonaro Modi, Orban... the four horsemen of the apocalypse bringing about the death of civilization

I know the feeling. For me it's more a trip down the transcontinental highway with all the memories that has piled up over more than half a century. Sometimes wondering if that little 4 year old Gorth from my memories was real or just a figment of my imagination (of course similar when thinking back to teenage Gorth etc.)

What's wrong with the swamp? I love swamps in crpgs

Anya's original design (from another one off work). A character named 'Ashe'

I would have failed the lingon berry test too

I'm just about to buy tickets for a friend and I for a Halestorm concert in early February next year. We've seen them once before in Australia. That was just before Covid struck, so the last concert for quite a while any of us went to. Looking forward to pick up on regular concert/musical/theater etc. going again.

Moved a few posts from the Ukraine thread, as it was unrelated to events there...

As far as I know, nobody has touched Juice Media at the time of writing. Somebody who did get prosecuted: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/mar/17/friendlyjordies-producer-kristo-langker-considers-civil-action-over-nsw-arrest The charges came just weeks after Barilaro sued Langker’s boss, the FriendlyJordies’ comedian Jordan Shanks, for defamation over what he described as a series of “vile and racist” videos that had brought him into “public disrepute, odium, ridicule and contempt”. .. But police last week sensationally dropped the case, with the NSW police ordered to pay costs of $12,000 to Langker’s legal team. The tl;dr; the pretext was "stalking" because they follow the politicians (in public spaces) and document their activities Edit: The police effectively just barged in, knocked his mother over and handcuffed him, dragging him to a cell Video footage uploaded to YouTube of the arrest includes a period of commotion in which the camera is lowered, and his mother can be heard exclaiming she was knocked over and that a police officer had assaulted her. A police officer can be heard in the video denying that accusation, saying he tripped over. Edit2: NSW (a state in Australia) is ruled by the same party as Scott Morrison, the Australian Liberal Party. Hence why this takes place in NSW

Why do I have this nagging suspicion, that action was only taken by the New Delhi cops, after getting pressured by Austrian police?

My mouth has occasionally gotten me into trouble (since early childhood), but I wouldn't change my nature to appease a government. Besides, the current government isn't too bad. Those who got arrested were more prominent Youtube mini-celebs who called out the corruption of the right wing government. It wasn't only the few independent media, that Morrsion sic'ed the federal police on in order to silence them.

1) I haven't finished the game yet (in act v, working my way towards a place called Iz, slowly and steadily) and 2) I never played "real" rpgs, as in actual table top gaming sessions with a DM. But, while struggling through puzzles and getting increasingly annoyed (to put it very mildly, I'll leave out the cussing) with the number and complexity of them, I remember friends from my youth who did play table top rpg. One thing they discussed once was puzzles. If your character has Int 32, the character should be able to solve the puzzle for the player. The character should not struggle just because the player doesn't have Int 32. Similar 4th wall breaking stuff doesn't seem to happen with other stats. Ah, your barbarian needs to remove that boulder at the entrance? Be a good sport and go out in the garden and pick up a 200kg rock to show the player can do it just as well as his character At least let Nenio or some other high Int character give you more clues to the solution (instead of google).

Unfortunately that doesn't apply to Australia

Speaking of Lindsey Buckingham... probably my favourite Lindsey Buckingham "moment"? (yes, I know I posted this song some years ago, but probably long enough, that most people forgot I posted it)

If a statement is part truth, part lies, all spin. Just pick parts to believe, parts to dismiss, ignore all of it Edit: That's my inner programmer speaking. Information systems are only as good as their data...