I'm still kind of annoyed by Raedric, I missed a quest notification so the end of the game was
And then the undead Raedric killed everyone in Gilded Vale, if only someone had done something
And I'm like...what
He sends you a letter in act 2 saying, basically, "rarr, I'm back and now I'm a VAMPIRE come fight me under the flagpole" and I think he actually gives you like a 30 day deadline after receipt of the letter to come find him and fight
the letter may have gotten lost in the shuffle of all the other quest notifications that drop on you in Act 2 (which now includes all the DLC stuff on top of everything else)
Imma go back and get some more guys, I think. Sell some of this crap and buy myself some better gear.
Just don’t move, Raedric. And don’t look in your dungeon. And don’t install new traps or anything.
oh @Bogart have you messed with the weapon and armor enchanting systems at all?
it's pretty easy; you don't need to go to a "forge" or a "lab" or anything like you often do in these sorts of games. Just open up the weapon/armor description window and if there's a little button at the bottom that says ENCHANT, you can click it and do so, right on the spot. Even in the middle of a dungeon.
The Enchant menu offers a big long list of potential buffs to apply (fire, ice, +damage, resist such-and-such, etc). Those cost some amount of items, usually the random flowers, monster parts, and alchemical reagents you find in the world and probably have a sack full of. You can apply a certain number of enchantments; more powerful ones take up more "slots."
The very highest-level enchantments require rare materials like a dragon's scale or whatever (and those materials are rare - you only get one or two of them in the entire game), but the first several tiers only require common everyday items you can get anywhere.
I avoided engaging with the system for like the first 30 hours I played, partly just because there was so much else going on, but things got so much better once I finally did.
I never found the first fight at the keep hard but...
I always sneak in through the sewers or climbing the wall. Talk my way into a key for the secret door to him. And then kill him before anyone knows I am there. Then I loot the whole castle as nothing is aggressive anymore. Always treated that as the end boss for Act 1 anyway.
In playing tom Clancy games I usually find their politics amusingly by-committee bland compared to their actual reputations whereas a lot of shooters considered unpolitical can be frankly much more problematic (CoD etc)
The politics by-committee means there is a ton of extremely problematic stuff. The substanceless rah rah American patriotism mixed with "boo rules and corrupt government people getting in our way" and "it is A-OK to kill these drug smugglers, brown people, etc." stuff is both bland and problematic.
It is like how Farcry 5's nihilism is the result of playing it safe.
I guess we would have to start taking specific games here because this does not describe Division 1 or the parts of Division 2 shown thus far at all
Ghost Recon wildlands had zero American patriotism, but you did kill drug smugglers at the behest of the local government
Rainbow six is just “stop the bomb or free the hostage” most of the time
Farcry’s cavalier attitude towards depictions of torture and the games’ general tenor overall strike me as a hundred times more gross than Tom Clancy games of the last few years
I only finished about 3/4 of it but I thought Farcry 3 made your character look like a dick who had dissociated from the reality of trying to save your friends and gotten in way over your head.
I remember your handler in the first area seemed like an important guy you should listen to at first, and then seemed pathetic after the last quest he gives.
Basically giving you a "you fuckin did it guy! You killed a bunch of random dudes. Don't you feel special" vibe.
I just got out of a job interview at a big classy-ass firm and the interviewer was like, "love your energy blah blah blah but you gotta wait till I finish my sentence to answer... I know you're actively listening and want to jump in and you have great answers and ideas but it's something people notice"
We joked around a bit after and then I realized I was interrupting at the end for every single sentence of the post-interview jokey period
*vow of contemplative silence*
Ahhhh my life
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I just got out of a job interview at a big classy-ass firm and the interviewer was like, "love your energy blah blah blah but you gotta wait till I finish my sentence to answer... I know you're actively listening and want to jump in and you have great answers and ideas but it's something people notice"
We joked around a bit after and then I realized I was interrupting at the end for every single sentence of the post-interview jokey period
*vow of contemplative silence*
Ahhhh my life
this is me and nina
and unsurprisingly, the kids have started doing it too
and then we hypocritically correct them on it because we want them to be better than us
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In playing tom Clancy games I usually find their politics amusingly by-committee bland compared to their actual reputations whereas a lot of shooters considered unpolitical can be frankly much more problematic (CoD etc)
The politics by-committee means there is a ton of extremely problematic stuff. The substanceless rah rah American patriotism mixed with "boo rules and corrupt government people getting in our way" and "it is A-OK to kill these drug smugglers, brown people, etc." stuff is both bland and problematic.
It is like how Farcry 5's nihilism is the result of playing it safe.
I guess we would have to start taking specific games here because this does not describe Division 1 or the parts of Division 2 shown thus far at all
Ghost Recon wildlands had zero American patriotism, but you did kill drug smugglers at the behest of the local government
Rainbow six is just “stop the bomb or free the hostage” most of the time
Farcry’s cavalier attitude towards depictions of torture and the games’ general tenor overall strike me as a hundred times more gross than Tom Clancy games of the last few years
I only finished about 3/4 of it but I thought Farcry 3 made your character look like a dick who had dissociated from the reality of trying to save your friends and gotten in way over your head.
I remember your handler in the first area seemed like an important guy you should listen to at first, and then seemed pathetic after the last quest he gives.
Basically giving you a "you fuckin did it guy! You killed a bunch of random dudes. Don't you feel special" vibe.
It did not seem to glorify violence.
Far cry is fucking weird
I never played it, but having viewed the ending,
it's kind of an interesting take on the game a la Spec Ops - that engaging in the content is inherently damaging, you weren't going to shoot your way to a happy ending and that you should have turned it off
I think that exists as an interesting counterpoint to Wolfenstein TNC, with it's really on-the-nose catharsis violence against fascists. I think FC5 is punishing that mindset, given the promo materials of shooting up a bunch Last Supper evangelicals.
But it's kind of a mean trick, where Spec Ops puts the work in throughout the game
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My issue I work customer service for real estate agents. So people who's entire life stems from never getting to the fucking point, who will call for a fax number and give you a story about their god damn dog.
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
Wooo maxed out sick time last pay period while I had the flu and went over but no one in HR said anything so I get a surprise 800 dollar pay check. Neat!
@Styrofoam Sammich didn't someone else here recently get fucked because the company over payed them, and then demanded getting that money back?
"I will write your name in the ruin of them. I will paint you across history in the color of their blood."
So uh there's a Twitch Sings game that I signed up for. It's going to let me sing songs on my stream and potentially enter to win a whole trip to europe for a singing contest kind of deal.
I am prepared to embarrass myself on the internet.
So uh there's a Twitch Sings game that I signed up for. It's going to let me sing songs on my stream and potentially enter to win a whole trip to europe for a singing contest kind of deal.
I am prepared to embarrass myself on the internet.
Moreso than I already have I guess.
Is that the one that's like, either developed or co-developed by harmonix? I think I remember seeing news about that around some twitch conference thing.
The gf recounts all events with needless detail and it drives me crazy, but then when I do the same thing because of my compulsive description, I can see it irritates others
This is why text is superior
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It's fun to try and have a conversation using only glottal stops
I hate in person meetings for the most part. Do it through email, that way I can read your shit and make a comment or proposal from there.
In person meetings are garbage because no written record means you can't rely on instructions or decisions from superiors and can't provide evidence of your own work
Some days Blue wonders why anyone ever bothered making numbers so small; other days she supposes even infinity needs to start somewhere.
Sometimes when someone is going on and on and they clearly don’t want me to respond yet, but also I feel uncomfortable doing lots of nods and uh huhs and sures...
Sometimes when that happens I wish I were elsewhere ^_^;
So uh there's a Twitch Sings game that I signed up for. It's going to let me sing songs on my stream and potentially enter to win a whole trip to europe for a singing contest kind of deal.
I am prepared to embarrass myself on the internet.
Moreso than I already have I guess.
Is that the one that's like, either developed or co-developed by harmonix? I think I remember seeing news about that around some twitch conference thing.
Looking at the twitchsings twitter, it kinda looks like it but I don't see harmonix branding on there. I always do vocals in rock band and was in choir/musicals and whatnot so this sounds fun! I can't play any instruments, but I have some pipes damnit!
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The gf recounts all events with needless detail and it drives me crazy, but then when I do the same thing because of my compulsive description, I can see it irritates others
This is why text is superior
porp constantly gives me shit for going into needless detail and yet whenever we're swapping good stories with friends she's all "shark tell them you tell it better"
I see you
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Sometimes when someone is going on and on and they clearly don’t want me to respond yet, but also I feel uncomfortable doing lots of nods and uh huhs and sures...
Sometimes when that happens I wish I were elsewhere ^_^;
Sometimes this happens to me and then the person finishes and then begins reiterating what they just spent 10 minutes telling me and I hear my mind begin to scream.
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Just don’t move, Raedric. And don’t look in your dungeon. And don’t install new traps or anything.
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I think I wound up cheezing it with the NPC mage that runs on Focus or whatever instead of spells
the letter may have gotten lost in the shuffle of all the other quest notifications that drop on you in Act 2 (which now includes all the DLC stuff on top of everything else)
I’ll go back when I’m level fuck and I’m riding a dragon.
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Press X to hang up your rifle
Press RB to give your post-collapse craft beer a peppy, lightly patriotic name
Use the left stick to apply a label sticker onto the bottle of Hefeweizen
But by the time you can one-shot him, the XP and all the loot he drops will be useless to you.
I am itching to go home and play but also partially because work is crazy today and I am feeling overwhelmed
oh @Bogart have you messed with the weapon and armor enchanting systems at all?
it's pretty easy; you don't need to go to a "forge" or a "lab" or anything like you often do in these sorts of games. Just open up the weapon/armor description window and if there's a little button at the bottom that says ENCHANT, you can click it and do so, right on the spot. Even in the middle of a dungeon.
The Enchant menu offers a big long list of potential buffs to apply (fire, ice, +damage, resist such-and-such, etc). Those cost some amount of items, usually the random flowers, monster parts, and alchemical reagents you find in the world and probably have a sack full of. You can apply a certain number of enchantments; more powerful ones take up more "slots."
The very highest-level enchantments require rare materials like a dragon's scale or whatever (and those materials are rare - you only get one or two of them in the entire game), but the first several tiers only require common everyday items you can get anywhere.
I avoided engaging with the system for like the first 30 hours I played, partly just because there was so much else going on, but things got so much better once I finally did.
Far cry is fucking weird
Ahhhh my life
this is me and nina
and unsurprisingly, the kids have started doing it too
and then we hypocritically correct them on it because we want them to be better than us
I have to make a conscious effort not to try to speed-read people and like listen like a normal human being instead.
I can blame this place.
It's all your fault.
my fault yes I totally agree
I never played it, but having viewed the ending,
I think that exists as an interesting counterpoint to Wolfenstein TNC, with it's really on-the-nose catharsis violence against fascists. I think FC5 is punishing that mindset, given the promo materials of shooting up a bunch Last Supper evangelicals.
But it's kind of a mean trick, where Spec Ops puts the work in throughout the game
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@Styrofoam Sammich didn't someone else here recently get fucked because the company over payed them, and then demanded getting that money back?
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I am prepared to embarrass myself on the internet.
Moreso than I already have I guess.
Because, like, we're losing efficiency here, the faster I can express that I understand what they're saying the better!
But also I need my coworkers to know that I respect them and also like not plow right through potentially critical nuance
When was the last time the nuance was critical
Maybe if people didn't slowly dribble such PREDICTABLE SENTENCES out of their mouths...
I mean, nuance is critical all of the time, the amount of time that critical nuance is expressed in meetings...less so
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Is that the one that's like, either developed or co-developed by harmonix? I think I remember seeing news about that around some twitch conference thing.
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This is why text is superior
Anyway waiting is bad and akin to allowing your conversation partner to slowly choke you out which might be your thing I guess?
In person meetings are garbage because no written record means you can't rely on instructions or decisions from superiors and can't provide evidence of your own work
Sometimes when that happens I wish I were elsewhere ^_^;
Looking at the twitchsings twitter, it kinda looks like it but I don't see harmonix branding on there. I always do vocals in rock band and was in choir/musicals and whatnot so this sounds fun! I can't play any instruments, but I have some pipes damnit!
porp constantly gives me shit for going into needless detail and yet whenever we're swapping good stories with friends she's all "shark tell them you tell it better"
I see you
Sometimes this happens to me and then the person finishes and then begins reiterating what they just spent 10 minutes telling me and I hear my mind begin to scream.