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dioxxys posted...

I remember how I've been modded just for mentioning incest before

Well, this talk of incest reminds me of all the people that used to stan for Jaime Lannister in Game of Thrones. He killed his cousin? It's okay, he fucks his sister. He dismembers people? No problem, he fucks his sister. Sure, sure, killing children seems bad through the moral lens of the real world, but have you seen how he fucks his sister?

Stumbled into this topic, and seen this game for the first time, and it seems like Internet assholes have tried to ruin things yet again. Nothing about the scene that was posted seemed to be 'glorifying' the incest. At the same time, even from that I'm guessing the taboo isn't entirely taboo in the back of their minds.

As for people ignoring the cannibalism, I'm guessing that it is due to the art style? If things are 'realistic' people can freak out a bit. The game Mortuary Assistant was like that, where you process cadavers and people streaming that game were repeatedly hit with demonitization or having their channel flagged into a restricted category; apparently 'contextualized content' only applies until it suddenly doesn't.

On a tangential note, someone mentioned Redo of Healer and that one definitely glorified the revenge, even as the dude remains emotionally broken and unsatisfied afterward. The author of that fully intended for it to be 'satisfying garbage'. For the person asking if that is hentai, the uncensored version of the anime adaptation seems to have a hentai scene in every episode. There are censored versions that just look at the wall for a minute. So you'll have to slog through the direct smut.

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The tricky part is how many things are assumed with expectations and never verbally communicated beforehand. Having a child is among the most transformative things that can occur to someone. It's evidenced by how people with kids usually break off close ties with everyone they know who doesn't have kids; outside of immediate family.

It won't be enough to say, after the kid has already arrived, that you're 'doing too much' and 'need more help'. Those are both vague, and yet all too common in relationships that fall apart after kids enter the picture. It's also too easy to let emotions flare, lashing out and building resentment. If have the view that the other party is a 'deadbeat', it's going to show in your actions so there shouldn't be any surprise when the other party throws up their hands, says, "**** all of this" and leaves.

Far fewer people are suited to being parents than the number that actually have kids. Culture in the US doesn't help either, with the focus on individualism rather than multi-generational family structure. That's not to say that the latter is perfect, but it does provide an outlet for some of the stresses of having a young kid around.

After level 50 you want to head to the high leveled systems. If you encounter the Starborn ships they can be worth 600 experience points each, spawn in groups of 3, and are easy to destroy. Planets with relatively weak swarming enemies at high levels can rack up XP as well since the high level ones are worth nearly 200 experience points each. On one planet I remember there were literal slugs that spawned in groups of a dozen or so and were basically easy XP farms worth several thousand XP when you happened upon them.

Heading to higher level systems also gives you access to the highest tier of weapons. They're currently bugged in their names, and still display 'Advanced' instead of 'Superior', but their damage and overall value will be higher. Look for weapons with 30k+ for their value.

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And in some cases those cops will go on public record stating that you can be ticketed for driving the speed limit in those places as you create an unsafe condition for those around you. So you better be going 80-85 mph there to avoid it.

ViewtifulJoe posted...

Did Starfield turn into Storefield yet?

Not yet. They've been dragging their feet on basic patches as well. I'm sure they put out some sort of media blast about their cash shop once it is online.

LividDK posted...

Still had the pet rock glitch when I eventually stopped playing too.

My ship usually just pulls enemy loot containers with it. Kind of funny in a way.

There's another glitch people get where ship crews on enemy ships just stop spawning. If you board a ship you'll find it will be a ghost ship. More annoying is that ships landing on planets no longer open their landing bays. This completely breaks the Matters of the Hart quest, thereby locking Sam Coe as your follower forever.

Cynyn posted...

TLDR: It's actually great for a single playthrough but doesn't have any replayability and fails to deliver on some narrative components you would expect for a Harry Potter game but does offer a decent combat system and a lot of open world exploration if you like getting lost in that. So of course it's not GOTY.

Well, there's a lot of reason to believe that a bunch of content was cut from the game. As you pointed out, it is really noticeable with Ravenclaw. Amit sort of shows up for one mission, and is otherwise just there around the school for astronomy stuff. The Ravenclaw unique mission was also the shortest and dullest: search cubbies in the owlry.

But more generally there are vestiges of crime and/or punishment in the game which were dropped for release. Moon talks about having to sneak around people's homes at night while invisible to track down Demiguise statues, but in the final game trespassing only occurs during, like, two quests, after which the zones open up for free exploration immediately when the quest objective updates as you leave them.

The classes you attend also get shorter and more forgettable as the game progresses. You go from antics in the classroom with pre-class and post-class chat, minigames, and some development for tertiary class mates, to non-interactable and unvoiced montages that last for 5-10 seconds.

So there will always be the question of what the game could have been if the developers had time to finish things the way they wanted.

Zwijn posted...

The moment you step out of Hogwarts you step into Ubisoftland.

For the most part, this. It's fun to fly around for a short while, but most of the countryside beyond Hogwarts(Hogsmeade to an extent as well) is just sort of there. So the draw is mostly the Hogwarts setting, and flinging spells about.

Left4Doge posted...

The IGN article mentioned his spirit helping him, so my assumption is the spirit does the normal sized person tasks and maybe even the POV comes from Charles

Mechanically he carries the survivors, or pulls them from lockers.

Spurner posted...

No more 5 dollar footlongs was worth it to be free of those damned commercials.

"Five dollar! Five dollar! Five dollar [actually 10-11 inch]longs!"

Basically Republicans say the quiet part out loud now and still get support from voters. But it's worse than that because you have know-nothing MAGA stooges getting into office and they offer jack and shit for the country, other than charlatan claims of 'sticking it to the libs'. The courts have been getting screwed over for decades as a previous generation of Republicans played the long game; and in general they go by a totally different and uninhibited playbook compared to Democrats.

Basically the country is heading toward some sort of political crash and reset. The amount of damage that will be done is unknown at the moment. Best case scenario though is that Republicans lose their grip on power and get sent all the way back to being a small political minority that is just strong enough to curb only the most outlandish aspects of what Democrats want. That's the only real healthy way they could contribute to the political system.

Ultima_Fury posted...

High school age. So 13-14 and above.

Yeah, in most areas you'll get the stink eye from people if you go door to door as a high schooler. Even in middle school some houses will be stingy with the candy to discourage you.

On the flipside, once you're an adult you can simply buy your favorite candy the day after Halloween when it is on markdown. Saves time.

pinky0926 posted...

Ah borderlands. The most common game series on my steam notifications, since it's on a new sale like 98% of the year.

Getting The Handsome Collection for $10(or even less) remains one of the best values in gaming if you're even remotely interested in the gameplay.

For BL3, yeah, the DLC isn't as great. The casino DLC has some fun class mods for the characters, and the tentacle DLC has some fun weapons and you might enjoy the Lovecraftian vibe, the western DLC has easy access to legendary gear, and the Krieg DLC is probably most remembered as a disappointment.

Multibarrel Torgue shotguns can be great, so long as you aren't firing at a fast moving target.

Standard Dahl weapons(i.e. no 'red text') tend to be weak garbage with long reload times and small magazines. If you get all the right parts matched up they can be decent for a level or two, but it is generally safe to ignore the ones without special properties.

Maya is fun. I generally run a Hellbinder COM for standard play, swapping out to a Cat for boss fights. Those two COMs even have Legendary variants at higher levels.

As for the weapons, you probably figured it out already, but the sections before Sanctuary really limit what kinds of weapons can drop. Maya is usually comfortable with SMGs and/or Maliwan gear.

As for building Maya's skill tree, I usually start by going down the left tree far enough to get Converge(making her action skill act like a Singularity grenade) and then the right tree to the bottom for Ruin(slags affected enemies).

Cloud Kill usage is up to you. It used to be a pathetic joke for like 6.5 years after release. Then it was buffed to suit UVHM difficulty, so it overkills Normal and TVHM. Seems broken, but then you could consider how the DLC characters, Gaige and Krieg, were generally specced to tackle those higher difficulties.

Hyperion weapons can be interesting, but their performance varies wildly based on the weapon barrel. Until it was patched their pistols and smgs used to be hot garbage unless they had a matching Hyperion barrel to let them zero in within a few shots. They're also ammo hogs, just a few steps behind Vladof weapons. If you find yourself running out of ammo a lot then Jakobs or Maliwan can help you extend how many kills you get.

Ammo drops are weighted for those types where you're currently under 40% total capacity, which means they can be influenced by choosing when and how you pick up ammo. What you want to do to refill a particular ammo type after a fight is to avoid picking up anything from enemies, find multiple ammo chests and open them, also without picking up anything, then sweep back around and pick up everything. Otherwise once you hit that 40% capacity from picking up a few drops the ammo RNG spreads out and you'll find a bunch of ammo you can't use. By waiting and picking up everything in one sweep you keep the weighted drops and your ammo can bounce from 20-35% capacity after a big fight back to 75-90%.

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That looks like some 'watching Judge Judy' BS right there... Where are the Law Brothers?

"distracting, frustrating, and slow experience" - yeah, they just summed it up right there

Forty_Niners posted...

I see it more as exposing myths or making all of us aware of issues we may have otherwise ignored.

John Oliver is basically doing a public service with Last Week Tonight.

As for left leaning, back when it was on the air Samantha Bee's show was probably the farthest to the left.

Considering that the oncoming train was honking its horn as it approached, there was nothing it could do.

At a governmental level though, crossing arms could be installed at that location that would remain down when trains were still approaching.

In this case the driver in the lead vehicle ignored the horns and proceeded without checking to see if it was safe.

Kim_Seong-a posted...

Love how sincerely hammy it is.

I mean, you'll still come across references to the opening dialog now and then, "What is man?"

pegusus123456 posted...

I wouldn't really bother with it though. It's so overpowered that it kinda ruins the gameplay tbh.

I mean, the Shield Rod can do sillier things, but the Criss is a convenient weapon.

R_Jackal posted...

Most romances and sex scenes in movies and TV are fucking terrible anyway

Yeah. Romances tend to be awkward most of the time. The other you can easily do without.

CassandraCroft posted...

We think it is just a complete waste of time

Well, from a psychology perspective Halloween is one of the times of year for people to have a cathartic release of pent up emotion. Most societies recognize the value of that and have some sort of holiday or festival for that purpose. Even if it isn't Halloween specifically.

Notti posted...

Check out older horror, it's often as slow.

Stuff like Rosemary's Baby takes like, an hour, IIRC, just to introduce the core premise of the film. It's like the polar opposite of films today that are paced for a generation of people used to TikTok.

Evil Dead could have been fun, but the 'players are 100% invincible during locked animations' thing coupled with a general lack of a sense of being able to shift momentum through skill doomed it. Texas Chainsaw Massacre is something that you really need to play with at least one buddy. If you're trying solo queue that game will just frustrate, on either side.

All in all, stale as it is, DBD is safe for now.

SoIidLegacy posted...

I too fear that the series will follow the atmosphere of the Bethesda-developed Fallout games (3, 4, 76), and the main plot will probably be about stopping the super mutants and/or Enclave, and of course the Brotherhood of Steel will be involved as a hero/vigilante faction.

Well the sets that were shown as sneak peeks were straight from Fallout 4/76. So aesthetically they're aiming for the Bethesda version.

In the case of Zane, not counting the DLC tree, he could pull off some crazy stuff with the capstone that gave the digiclone a copy of his current gun. In particular, I recall it being really good at rapid reloads with the right spec, which made it a close range monster with certain shotguns.

It is true though that his drone was a downgrade compared to Wilhelm's Wolf from The Pre-Sequel. Wilhelm's drone, with some support for the snowballing damage stacks and the kill skill that quadrupled its fire rate, along with the skill that extended its duration for killing marked targets, would find you literally competing with Wolf for kills.

DrizztLink posted...

By the time I moved on from BL3 I swear the patch notes were just "someone figured out how to make Amara do damage so we nerfed that."

I made a somewhat related joke once that the patch notes for one patch read, "Fixed an issue that caused people to actually use Atlas rifles". But it was definitely the case that the devs could just watch certain Youtubers, like Moxsy, see what glitches he was exploiting, and then immediately patch them. In his quest for quick clicks he basically did their QA work for them when it came to exploits.

Shotgunnova posted...

Age of Mythology: The Movie

Used to play that game all the time. Zeus was my go to pick most of the time, very satisfying to watch the Hoplites stomp up to a building and begin razing it.

These days I see fewer of the temu ads and more for something called motel that just features models standing around with zero clue as to what it is supposed to be selling.

Lordgold666 posted...

Someone bring a scale next time

Lets see how this works when it comes to something that is 100% within ones control

Reminds me of that viral social media post where a woman wrote "When his height starts with 5 foot" and a guy immediately responded with "When her weight starts with two hundred" and the responses took it from there...

haloiscoolisbak posted...

Also UBI when

10% chance of it only after the entirety of Europe adopts it first.

Hexenherz posted...

one of the coolest side quests I did was on Mars, to put up posters about a space frog for some little girl

it unlocks space frog decorations for outposts.

Those posters also start to appear at all the cities in the game, regardless of faction. Akila? Posters. Neon? Posters. I wouldn't be surprised if smaller locations like Gagarin or Hopetown have them too.

I put one of them up in the Sleep Crate you can purchase in Neon, since space is at a premium.

One of the things you learn quickly is that Sarah is judgemental about everything. If it isn't cheerleading for the UC she isn't interested in it.

By the time I went to Neon I was doing Sam's loyalty quest and he was generally cool with stuff so long as I wasn't going out of my way to kill people. He said something along the lines of the Strikers possibly being the only option available to deal with the Disciples or whatever they were called(the new gang that turns people into torture puppets).

Neon is one of those places were you just have to roll with the layers of vice occurring, maybe curbing a few of the more extreme instances. Play your cards well and you'll end up with a half dozen drug crafting recipes and some shiny new Class C engines available for purchase by the time you finish. Well, that and Ryujin giving you that free skill point for Manipulation.

I'm sure Blizzard will pressure Steam to void half of the negative reviews.

Inohira posted...

People mock the inexperienced but then bitch up a storm about "slut shaming". Absolutely ridiculous.

Makes you wonder what their ideal ratio is. Years as an adult divided by 3, minus years married? So if you're 40 you better have tagged 7 people in the sack or you're a sad, lonely lump forgotten by the masses?

After watching that episode, "Bro?!"

I also don't know what Victor Soto of Rotator was thinking, going weapon to weapon over and over. Each time it was clear as the match went on that he was getting the worst of each exchange. Then to challenge the result afterward, which the staff mentioned in passing to underplay it, is just like, "Really? Did you not experience the same match that I just watched? The judgement was the right one."

Anyway, next week's lineup should have some crunchy matches.

Yeah, it basically failed on all levels of execution. The shame in all of this is that the base premise held promise. The conceptual idea was sound, but things fall apart beyond that. A part of that is down to the game being a joyless project for those involved, resulting in a correspondingly low-effort presentation. But the game also don't really have a sense of purpose. You're just deposited in this bland world space with some missions and mechanics that barely go beyond MMO status.

Prior to release you also had this perfect storm of IGN really putting the 'ign' in ignorant with their exclusive pre-release gameplay and a weak AI that literally couldn't navigate around a table to save itself. The AI was also slow to respond, allowing players to casually stroll through groups of enemies for a few seconds at the start of an encounter and pick them off.

Lastly, the character powers and skill trees were similarly uninspired and felt half-baked. Like, the cryptozoologist character had an interesting traversal power that let him swap places with a teleportation beacon, but then the psychic character had a spectral elevator that was lame by comparison in both concept and gameplay utility: pops you twenty feet into the air. Half the skill trees for characters were universal 'carry more of this item' choices. That's even worse than lazy stuff like 'deal 10% more damage'. There are at least a few mutator choices for the character's powers.

Hayame_Zero posted...

the lowest was 3 a few days ago (which without crossplay, isn't enough to find a game in the lobby)

And yet there was some PR nonsense from the company about how they're not going to abandon the game... They're also still charging $70 and hoping to find 10 suckers on the planet per day to purchase it...

ZannoL posted...

If he's happy with you and you're having a good time, why are you bitching?

Whoopi with some sage words there.

I guess Bilson would prefer men follow the DiCaprio model? As in, trade in your girlfriend for a newer model before she reaches age 25? That would certainly get their 'body count' up to numbers she finds acceptable... -_-

Cool. I actually got wind of this yesterday and was going to send a PM to you if I didn't see anything about it today. Thanks for the mention.

AloneIBreak posted...

Idk what this is

It's a survival crafting game with combat that has you aiming shots/skills like a moba. Beat bosses, earn new spells, get higher tiers of equipment to unlock special weapon attacks, that sort of thing.

I played it early on, but stopped before the expansion dropped. It was also before they nerfed the chaos magic: especially that one spell with two charges that did a lot of damage against the brain dead AI.

It was an interesting game. Kind of a shame that weapon special attacks were gated behind higher tiers of gear. Made it boring in the early game.