Tali'Thread vas Clan Zorah nar BSN 6.0

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[Mazder]

I LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVE !!!!!!!!!!!!!


Thanks to Volrath I am able to get back into the site after the password request.

All that because I tried to switch my email and it got borked.

[Ragabul]

As for the Stag Lord, there were enough people who got reamed by the guy (check the forums), so if you found him easy on your first try, you are one f the gamers who is a cut above the average. ^^

I didn't get him my first try but it seemed pretty obvious what to do with him once you realize what kind of fight it is. Namely, clear out all his goons before they can raise the alarm, convince as many people as possible to help you fight him, and then get in his face with melee people because he's an archer. I dunno. Maybe people who just ran in guns blazing got hit hard but that kinda strikes me as not a great strategy in general. When I say he's easy I don't mean you have 0 reloads or don't have to readjust. I mean what you did wrong was easy to identify, easy to correct, and thus he's no problem beyond the initial encounter. This is one reason discussions of strategy and balance and such tend to be a dead end. It's so utterly subjective what is and isn't hard or appropriate. My own opinion on the topic is undefinable. The best I can come up with consistently is "it's bad if it's based on perfect build optimization or item spam. It's bad if there's only really 1 effective way to do it. It's good if it rewards you for thinking tactically and not just mathematically."

Didn't play last night but I'll probably go back to it today.

[Vol]

I LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVE !!!!!!!!!!!!!


Thanks to Volrath I am able to get back into the site after the password request.

All that because I tried to switch my email and it got borked.

Damn right you do. See the update thread for details, boys and girl.

There was a haze in NJ today, apparently from the wildfires out in Oregon. Which is impressive. But I was grateful, because I spent the day painting a deck, and even with the sun partially obstructed, it was unpleasant. At least I could smell the burning wood, time to time.

[NCLanceman]

Does anyone else play ARMA 3?

After years of getting filtered by the convoy ambush mission, I'm finally breezing through most of the campaign in that game and having a lot of fun! So long as I don't get filtered by this "defend against enemy armor" mission. But I've discovered that as fun as singleplayer can be, the reason this is mainly a co-op game is that friendly AI is... suboptimal, lets say. That and after I finally fucking beat The East Wind campaign, I wanna replay the Apex Protocol campaign and wondered if anyone would be up for that.

[Dragaros]

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[magnuskn]

As for the Stag Lord, there were enough people who got reamed by the guy (check the forums), so if you found him easy on your first try, you are one f the gamers who is a cut above the average. ^^

I didn't get him my first try but it seemed pretty obvious what to do with him once you realize what kind of fight it is. Namely, clear out all his goons before they can raise the alarm, convince as many people as possible to help you fight him, and then get in his face with melee people because he's an archer. I dunno. Maybe people who just ran in guns blazing got hit hard but that kinda strikes me as not a great strategy in general. When I say he's easy I don't mean you have 0 reloads or don't have to readjust. I mean what you did wrong was easy to identify, easy to correct, and thus he's no problem beyond the initial encounter. This is one reason discussions of strategy and balance and such tend to be a dead end. It's so utterly subjective what is and isn't hard or appropriate. My own opinion on the topic is undefinable. The best I can come up with consistently is "it's bad if it's based on perfect build optimization or item spam. It's bad if there's only really 1 effective way to do it. It's good if it rewards you for thinking tactically and not just mathematically."

Didn't play last night but I'll probably go back to it today.

Well, I'd say that doing what you did, i.e. killing / convincing the minions first without triggering the main encounter, is thinking tactically, i.e. good encounter design. Although having a mechanically powerful party of course always helps, but that's a system mechanic of Pathfinder. You totally can build your characters wrong by taking less powerful options and make things more difficult for you that way, just as much as you can take optimal options and make things easier for you. Since you are still low-level that isn't felt as much yet as it will be in later levels.

Let's just say that in the last chapter of the entire campaign there will be a long dungeon where you absolutely need to have some stuff prepared to not just uninstall the game out of frustration. Get back to me when you reach... the house. ^^

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"Superman: Footage of Canceled, JLU-Inspired Game Surfaces"

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[[ "Ghost of Tsushima Director’s Cut will launch for PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 on August 20, 2021. The Director’s Cut will cost $69.99 on PlayStation 5 and $59.99 on PlayStation 4. Users who purchase the PlayStation 4 version will be able to upgrade to the PlayStation 5 version for $9.99. And users who already own Ghost of Tsushima for PlayStation 4 will be able to upgrade to the PlayStation 4 version of the Director’s Cut for $19.99, or the PlayStation 5 version for $29.99.

As part of the Director’s Cut, you’ll be able to play a new story expansion featuring Jin, set on Iki Island with new locations to discover, characters to meet, tales to complete, and more. Jin’s journey begins when he discovers that a mysterious Mongol tribe has gained a foothold on Iki. They are led by a revered shaman called Ankhsar Khatun, known to her followers as “the Eagle.” As both a khatun and a shaman, she is not only a conqueror of nations, but a shepherd of souls. And the danger she presents to Jin and his people is unlike any they have faced.

The only way to counter this threat is for Jin to return to Iki Island. He’s been there once before. And in confronting a new and dangerous enemy, he will be forced to face old fears, and unearth deeply buried traumas. As you explore a new island and battle new threats, you’ll also delve into the dark past of clan Sakai… Our semi-fictional version of Iki Island provides a stark contrast to Tsushima. It is a wild, lawless land of raiders and criminals, scarred by memories of war, and fiercely independent; the samurai have not been in control there for decades. Skilled though he is, Jin can’t take on the Mongols alone. He will have to work with—or around—a coterie of unsavory characters to take the fight to the Eagle. The cost of failure is too high. If the Eagle and her tribe subdue Iki and muster the support of its people, Tsushima and the rest of Japan will be in grave danger.

The stories you find on Tsushima are filled with action and adventure. The same is true for Iki Island. In the fight to save Iki, Jin will encounter pirates and smugglers, mad monks and haunted caves. There will be new legends to hear, and new techniques to learn. Jin will have to bring all his skills to bear to defeat this new enemy. We’ll also continue telling intimate, emotional, personal stories. Stories about real people struggling to let go of old hatreds and survive in a time of war. Stories about how it feels to be caught between preserving cherished beliefs and defending your home. What it means to be Lord Sakai… and what it means to be the Ghost." ]]

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[Vol]

Does anyone else play ARMA 3?

After years of getting filtered by the convoy ambush mission, I'm finally breezing through most of the campaign in that game and having a lot of fun! So long as I don't get filtered by this "defend against enemy armor" mission. But I've discovered that as fun as singleplayer can be, the reason this is mainly a co-op game is that friendly AI is... suboptimal, lets say. That and after I finally fucking beat The East Wind campaign, I wanna replay the Apex Protocol campaign and wondered if anyone would be up for that.

I spent a lot of time cutting my teeth on Medieval 2, and that AI is, to steal a quote, "borderline experimental." Shit didn't _work_, to the point that running the battles without a timer was courting disaster. Enemies would refuse to move during siege defense, or send 1 ship blockades to your ports, which instantly is a declaration of war, for seemingly random reasons, and so on. Plus pathfinding outside of field battles was near useless. Trying to put a unit on or off the walls did not work, period. For some ungodly reason, they insisted of simulating every single man in the unit, and if one man got stuck trying to go up/down, then the whole production came to a halt.


So "mostly functional" is decent enough for me, is my point.

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2021/07/21/square-bases-and-kislev-ascendant-see-your-questions-about-warhammer-the-old-world-answered/

"Orcs." They have chosen...correctly.

This all seems really neat. My impending doom sense is tingling, but I can't explain why. It _seems_ neat.

[Mazder]

Been playing a campaign with the Lizardmen in Total War:Warhammer 2. A lot of fun.
And a lord with Maz in it's name being a big old fatty lizard is giving me all sorts of fun vibes.

I AM MAZDAMUNDI!!

[Vol]

Lizardmen is probably the best faction to learn to play with. High Elves are better overall, and provide the more general Total War experience, but juggling the tiers of melee, ranged, cav, monsters, magic, economy, etc., can be a lot to jump into. Whereas the scaly boys, the saurus are tough line infantry until end game, the skirmishing isn't great because it's LOS, but the monsters are so armored and strong you can effectively through them into combat and not worry about micro (to a point). Plus their magic is strong as fuck, not many trap picks.

[Mazder]

Lizardmen is probably the best faction to learn to play with. High Elves are better overall, and provide the more general Total War experience, but juggling the tiers of melee, ranged, cav, monsters, magic, economy, etc., can be a lot to jump into. Whereas the scaly boys, the saurus are tough line infantry until end game, the skirmishing isn't great because it's LOS, but the monsters are so armored and strong you can effectively through them into combat and not worry about micro (to a point). Plus their magic is strong as fuck, not many trap picks.

From what I have heard the only ones that are kinda traps are the Dwarves because they're easymode, the undead tomb kings because they are so different and vampires because they're all magic in comparison.

I just switched my surians to temple guards and holy shit they're good!
And the Salamanders, so mobile for a ranged unit that size!

[Dragaros]

Here it is.

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Hollow Knight + Castlevania + Bloodborne =

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"Come on you apes, you wanna live forever?!"

[Dragaros]

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[Alienmorph]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFndf7y4CeY

Hollow Knight + Castlevania + Bloodborne =

Why yes, I AM a KS backer, in case you were wondering.

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[Vol]

I was inspired by stuff and wrote a short story. About 3.5k words.

Rereading it, ended up revising it to 10k

Rereading that, ended up at 15k.

This is why I don't write often. That and the lack of skills.

From what I have heard the only ones that are kinda traps are the Dwarves because they're easymode, the undead tomb kings because they are so different and vampires because they're all magic in comparison.

I just switched my surians to temple guards and holy shit they're good!
And the Salamanders, so mobile for a ranged unit that size!

Dwarves are deceptive. They're very strong baseline, but take forever to access the breadth of their arsenal. And they need that to not get dunked in as soon as armor piercing, monsters, and magic becomes widespread. Which is like...turn 10 depending on your difficulty.

The usual safe plan is to take their starting province and bunker down, literally, and waiting for growth and tech, while enemies break themselves on your walls. And then even once you're situated, the old/new tech has very different requirements. You can't run a gunpowder army, at all, unless you know how to work line of sight and terrain. I've lost entire high tier dwarf field armies because of bad maps.

Tomb Kings are pretty fun. There's not many traps, no upkeep, slow pace, decent magic. Only thing to ever remember is to work on the unit caps or get overwhelmed because chaff can't hold a line.

VC are a mess. Rough position, strongest magic lores, great heroes, cool unlock system, but the way it plays, at least for me, is clunky. Maybe I'm doing it wrong.

Tough lizard, they are! The Ancient Salamander was way more terrifying at launch too. The hunting packs work good. The Trogs are fucking vicious in the AI hands, haven't tried them myselfs. Skink Priests, once they get their last mount, are ridiculous. Such a fun faction.

[Vol]

For the longest time, I thought those sites that paid you $.50 to spend 20 minutes doing a survey were a waste of time.

Then I discovered I could do one in about 10 minutes, and a few day adds up real fast to getting Popeyes delivered, entirely outside my usual budget. Sitting here, reading shit too fast and clicking buttons, as I normally do, had given me cheap fried chicken.

This is a dangerous thing to have in America.

But more seriously, it is bleak out there for safe investments. At least on my low level of financial literacy. Interest bearing accounts, CDs, the rate is less than worthless. I think the finest, double super platinum account at my bank had a yearly yield of .05%, and yes that's a decimal point. Gotta gamble it on the indexes and stocks and stuff, with this inflation, or it's actively rotting value. Filling out some surveys for a pittance has a better yield than a savings account, aaaaaah.

On the plus side, crypto is surging today for some reason.

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"Activision Blizzard Face Huge Lawsuit From California Over Horrifying Harassment Of Employees"

"Blizzard Devs Confirm Harassment Allegations, President J. Allen Brack's Response Draws Backlash"

"Ex Blizzard CEO Mike Morhaime: "To The Blizzard Women, I Am Extremely Sorry I Failed You""

"Blizzard Devs Furious As Exec Sends Employees The Worst BS Response To Harassment Allegations"

"High Steam Deck Demand Crashes Steam Store, Scalpers Already Selling Device For Thousands Of Dollars"

"Steam Deck Scalpers Suffer Blow As eBay Removes Their Listings For Violating Presale Policy"

"EA Is Being Extorted By Hackers Who Are Slowly Leaking 780GB Stolen Data To Demand Ransom Money"

"Titanfall Fans Dismayed, EA & Respawn Only Have 1 to 2 Devs Fixing TF 1 & 2 Hacks & DDOS Attacks"

"Black Market FIFA Farm Using 3800 PS4s To Mine Ultimate Team Currency Seized In Ukraine"

"Ubisoft's Skull and Bones Development Has Been An Anthem Level Nightmare According To Former Devs"

[magnuskn]

Damn, that Boba statue really got his facial features down pat. Hilariously, I can only think about "Aah, the Tatooine spa!", due to that viral commercial. ^^

[Ragabul]

Finally made more progress in Pathfinder: Kingmaker over the weekend. I finished the troll invasion and what I assume is a good percentage of the Act 2 sidequests. I went ahead and looked up a bunch of strategy whatnot because realistically this is probably not a game I will play again any time soon so I want to optimize story outcomes this time around. Namely, I looked up the "secret" ending and what is necessary to do it...and I have pretty much no desire to

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romance anybody in this game, let alone do a same sex romance with what is so far a flat NPC character.

I can't find anything about the other endings besides that one in any detail. Is getting a "good" ending utterly contingent on that or can you get a suboptimal but still fine one with competent kingdom management and doing all your companions' sidequests and such?

[magnuskn]

Yeah, there are quite a lot of variations, although most of them are more for the companion characters and overall how your kingdoms standing is at the end. However, how you end up can be quite varied as well.

Since you are spoiled to the secret ending, here are my thoughts on it:

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While forgiving Nyrissa is quite hard and romancing her was a bit "eh", I think it totally was worth it to destroy the real culprit behind all the suffering and death, the Lantern King. Nyrissa was overall a victim herself, robbed of her capacity to feel empathy and love and a forced to destroy and kill. You can see how she was before later in the story and, in my opinion, giving her back her capacity to be a good person was the right thing to do. And, oh boy, it felt satisfying as hell to kick the Lantern Kings ass, because that entity was the worst kind of evil... the kind which does evil shit for his own amusement, nothing more.

[Vol]

G@M1NG N3WZ

I was _just_ saying I needed some positive news to end the day on. This isn't that, but if we're resigned to the old titans, minus Valve, ending up like this, we'll find that (video game studio) nature loathes a void.

Any of my fellow Americans anticipating getting CoL raises to compensate for inflation? Given my work, wherever we're at by January, I'll get bumped up at least enough to what I was making, but I worry about the rest of us. It won't hit all at once, but given the trends since the freakin' 60s, I'm a bit concerned.

Also, here's a Persona 5 speedrun for the European Speedrunner Assembly:

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-WVSx3cByM