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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    *camera opens on wasteland of broken posts* *Grizzled narrator begins* The walls of text are growing, showing signs of life stirring within. The future does not belong to the concise, succinct or to brevity. The future belongs to the prolonged, the excessive, to sagas of filth and drivel...
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    Elden Ring - From Software + George RR Martin

    Naw, the only challenge worth considering: melee only, lvl 1, no flasks, no maiden, no torrent, all bosses, unarmed. Anything less than that is just diluting the true Elden ring experience.
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    Elden Ring - From Software + George RR Martin

    Well, if you had both weapons equipped, you could use the main hand art by default and if you wanted to use the off hand art hold triangle/y/pouch inventory and press LB/the off hand attack button to switch to your offhand 2handed stance and then use that art. It's not ideal but it's fast...
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    Elden Ring - From Software + George RR Martin

    I rebirthed from a dual uchigatana samurai into a spell blade that uses the sword of night and flame, the carian knight shield and incantations. The big laser beam attack is meh... but the huge flame wave heavy attack feels really powerful. I am currently level 69 with 26 int and 29 faith...
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    So Ishguard is what a city in a souls game would look like before the: dark-demon-old-one-far-traveler-blood-crazed-abyssal-super-apocalyptic-extra-cataclysmic Armageddon, happens.
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    So putting sylas on ignore and reading the last few pages of comments gives a pretty honest and consistent description of the quests in ff14. Not having him on ignore though is rather grating and drags out the conversation unnecessarily. I highly recommend skipping the sylas portion of the...
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    Elden Ring - From Software + George RR Martin

    I started with keyboard and switched to a ps4 controller. Helped me regain my sanity. But for anyone who does wish to pursue the path of madness, make sure you remap the item keys from the default arrow keys to something much closer to the e key. Like 1234. This way you can press e+1 instead...
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    Elden Ring - From Software + George RR Martin

    What are you talking about, this game is littered with a confetti mine field of directions and commentary about every little aspect of the game. And only like 10% of it is helpful. As per this "advice" I have been walking into walls, jumping off cliffs, squatting on anything with a diameter...
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    Elden Ring - From Software + George RR Martin

    At least you didn't pick the 2x stonedagger key thing as your beginning keepsake and proceed to make your way to the ulcerated tree spirit before unlocking the ability to level. That was definitely a "hmm, I think I should come back to this later" moment.
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    Lost Ark Online

    Hmm, almost doesn't seem worth it. Funny glitch when you click the buy crystal button in the bottom left when in the Crystal tab of the shop. Actually, I can't seem to make it happen now. Also, the game is telling me I need to join a guild, is there a spot open in the alt guild? I am a level...
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    The D&D thread

    The only things that stand out are eldritch blast and haste. Unless you are going to take two levels of warlock to get the agonizing blast invocation, eldritch blast isn't really superior to firebolt. As was mentioned earlier it gets separate hit rolls for each shot which evens out the damage...
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    The D&D thread

    Just want to clarify this one bit. You can still only cast one spell and one cantrip even with quicken spell. So no double fireballs or anything like that. Twin spell is great for spells that are single target only. Twin spell on healing word is pretty nuts if more than one party member is...
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    The D&D thread

    Building a caster around a theme is fun. It gives a bit more focus to spell selection, like choosing a favorite element or signature spell school. As for understanding a spell caster. Each spell is a tool. Some tools are specialized and do one thing, some are very open ended and multipurpose...
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    Valheim - Viking Survival Game (Early Access)

    I purchased Valheim a few weeks ago. Been going solo. I worked my way up to fully upgraded iron equipment, took over an abandoned village that was on the coast in the meadows sandwiched between some patches of black forest. Currently have some large vegetable gardens, apiary, rasberry patch...
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    Horizon 2: Forbidden West

    Also freezing opponents then striking vulnerable spots with triple shot hardened arrows and max physical damage mods on your bow. Freeze damage slowly fills up a blue bar that when complete will lock the enemy in place for a few seconds and increase damage taken from physical attacks. Most...
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    Warhammer 40k

    I always wanted a movie centered on the inquisition doing horrifying things to its own citizenry and totally getting the audience to root for the underground resistance that opposes them. Until the final act when the resistance is fully revealed to be run by chaos cultists and the horror of the...
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    Elden Ring - From Software + George RR Martin

    I went through the catacombs my first time. I had played demon souls and all the kings field games prior so I knew Fromsoftware liked letting people walk into bullshit. It was "fun", rest of the game felt much more relaxed after all that. Now the ghosts in the flooded city on the other hand....
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    Bob Saget is DEAD

    I saw Bob Saget do standup in college. He was super dirty and fucked up. Which was funny in its own way. Show ended with an auditorium full of drunk college kids from Maine screaming and hollering as the audience did a sing along about getting fucked in the ass. It was an experience, I am just...
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    Kenshi - A Sandbox RPG

    If you haven't done this at least once, I highly recommend building a base in the southeast down near greenbeach or anywhere you get visited by "crustacean" raids. I just completed the series and it was a really good time. It was touch and go on the last one as I only have 9 people but a lot...
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    Kenshi - A Sandbox RPG

    Beak things are pain elementals. They do an aoe attack where the beak comes down. Have a heavy armor user with taunt and block on, approach first. Then cluster the rest of your gang and attack from the back or side. This should let you get a decent number of hits in before getting attacked...
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    Kenshi - A Sandbox RPG

    My first real playthrough I had no idea who beep was or what the fog islands were about. I had a rescued "holy nation escaped slave" as a party member. She didn't look like a slave anymore but I needed more books for research so I sent her to Stack with my bonedog for protection. On her way...
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    Kenshi - A Sandbox RPG

    The secret to this. Once you've rebuilt the mesh/ fixed your problem, the next time that area is unloaded. (Like when you switch to a party member across the map.) it should ask you if you want to save the changes made to the map. Select yes and the issue should be resolved for the rest of that...
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    Kenshi - A Sandbox RPG

    Fair point. I remember finding out the hard way on just about everything and having fun doing it. The base building tips are just pure aggravation savers though. Especially that navmesh thing. I guess the only question for bandwagon is... when you say you lost 75% of your guys... were they...
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    Kenshi - A Sandbox RPG

    Ah yes. The getting your ass kicked part of kenshi. Be careful of Wild life. Animals are scary in this game because some of them just eat you once you're down. If things are still rough try buying a house in a town. You can click on buildings and the ones for sale have a price tag in the lower...
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    Kenshi - A Sandbox RPG

    If you want to make lots of cats fast. Sell drugs. Venture into the swamp with at least 10k cats. Buy all the hash. Run to various united cities to sell it at 400% mark up. Tech hunters love this shit. Can create a lot of fun moments trying to smuggle stuff/ outrun wildlife. Smithing is...
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    Kenshi - A Sandbox RPG

    Training dummies only do melee attack in 5 level increments. A level 3 dummy can get you to 15 but those last few points will take a day or two. The rate of skill increase depends on the difference in skill level with your target. Find a target with really high stats and you'll get 25% of a...
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    Kenshi - A Sandbox RPG

    I explored quite a bit in my first game, but didn't explore everywhere. I am running into groups I had never seen before. Bumming around in the southeast part of the map right now. I got my revenge on the cannibals though. The piles of bodies and severed limbs was impressive. I have 8 people...
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    Kenshi - A Sandbox RPG

    It's a great game. Playing with a single character is very dangerous if you are just learning. Having at least two party members helps mitigate the chances someone bleeds out. This is important because getting your ass kicked is necessary to increase your skills. Keep struggling even if people...
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    I accidentally posted in this thread... So here is a random picture of a clown hole I found at work.
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    Kenshi - A Sandbox RPG

    I got a new computer and decided to give Kenshi another run. It's been twoish years since the last time I played it. I went with cannibal hunters start. I figured that would force me to remember how to do things quick. It was a mess. Both of my characters get knocked out, one is dying from a...
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    What has been your most liked / shared / viral post?

    Everytime I had to run around Ironforge as a human priest in WoW, I would yell in the public chat that I wanted everyone to "die in a fire (D.I.A.F.)". This was circa 2006 on the Gilneas server. The acronym caught on for a bit but hardly gets used anymore.
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    Cowboy Bebop

    Or the troll hole.
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    Get a free Kyle Rittenhouse at Culver's

    1st. There are a lot of felons in those places. 2nd. They still get aggressive and shoot each other knowing full well the other party is likely armed. You need an underlying amount of integrity before arming everyone in a location has a positive effect. You give everyone in Chicago a gun...
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    Get a free Kyle Rittenhouse at Culver's

    An armed [not black] society... We have plenty of armed black sub-societies (subcieties?) like Chicago that blow that theory out of the water.
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    Home buying thread

    If you don't have your health you don't have anything. The vaccine kills people every day. Losing a mortgage won't kill you, it will suck and may change your life, but you will still have it, the life that is. The government fucked up hard on this one. Mandating a substance that is shown to...
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    The D&D thread

    There are some quirky rules regarding initiative rolls. Since rolling for initiative is a dexterity check, certain abilities that apply to ability checks such as bard: jack of all trades, and champion fighter: remarkable athlete, can enhance a players initiative roll. Super easy to overlook...
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    Cowboy Bebop

    Yeah it feels like a massive hill for them to climb simply because the characters are going to sound completely different from the English dub. That alone is going to make the costumes and sets feel off, like a high-school production version of the show. I guess for people who never watched...
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    Boner Notification

    Probably this: Followed by this: If I am being honest though, currently the whole process start to finish sounds like this: Close your eyes, it's magical.
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    Telepathy in modern world

    The algorithm used to poop out this word salad is keeping someone amused enough to keep sharing the results with us. Either that or sindaael is a really shitty timelord.
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    Home buying thread

    Closed on my house last Tuesday. I got it for the asking price of 250 with 20% down. There was another offer at 265. I had a veteran agent, was pre-approved, was very knowledgeable about the property when I met the owner to see it, and just threw a nut of cash at it. I am glad I didn't go...