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Don't drink myself, and while I don't go out with people who are drinking (to the point of actual inebriation) very often, when I do I tend to find it more entertaining than anything. I get to be in a state of mind to enjoy the comedy of the stupid shit people do when they're plastered, and it's...

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir, book one of the Locked Tomb trilogy. An interesting science fantasy book--on the science fiction side you've got an interstellar empire, space travel, and general modern tech; the fantasy side brings in magic, specifically necromancy, and only necromancy, which...

Farming eternal ice used to be a very efficient way to get the currencies, but I believe that at some point they nerfed the eternal ice : other currencies ratio so that it's not quite as effective. Still, if you want a break from the S4 maps, it's at least a way to progress on the skyscale while...

From postings elsewhere, it's sounding like the Ubisoft thing was a swatting. No actual hostages.

She had a role in The Martian, if I remember correctly. Don't know off the top of my head if she's done other serious-ish movies.

A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab. A fantasy story based on multiple parallel universes (our own among them), with the main character being one of the vanishingly rare kind of mages that are capable of traveling between worlds. While he officially serves as a messenger, allowing...

There was a point back when I played--I think it was after Faydwer released--where the devs actually were going to deal with ability bloat. Naturally, players started throwing hissy fits that the devs were going to 'dumb down' the game if players didn't need to have 6-10 hotbars on screen at all...

Heh. The thunderwave one is pretty genius. That's one of the things you gotta love about this being a Larian game; not a lot of developers would bother programming in goofy-ass options like that.

A History of the Samurai by Jonathan Lopez-Vera. After beating Ghost of Tsushima, I was in the mood for something Japanese. In spite of the name, this ended up not so much being a samurai history, but rather a general history of Japan that just focused on the thousand or so years in which the...

On the gun forms, I pretty much exclusively ended up using the Pierce form. You need to be accurate with it--since you need to charge your shots, and only get two shots before it needs to reload--but each shot clears a huge chunk of the enemy's health. Very satisfying to hit with. And yeah...

The Burning White by Brent Weeks, book five in the Lightbringer series. I liked this series. I've said before that when it comes to fantasy, I'm a sucker for a good magic system--it's one of the reasons I rate Sanderson so highly--and this is one of the more Sanderson-esque magic systems I've...

Eh, assuming he's not playing specifically Amazing Spider-Man's version of Electro again, then sure, I've got no complaints.

Yeah, I've been trying to remember, isn't this the site that has a habit of just making shit up and declaring it an "exclusive"? I know I've run across something like that when looking for news that ties into comics and shit.

Nah, birthday gift from a family member.

As someone who's had three of the fuckers, getting a root canal is fucking child's play compared to needing a root canal. Being kept awake all night in a sweat because the nerves in your face are trying to burst out of your skull isn't a great experience. Back onto the PS5, has anyone heard...

If someone's committed to reading all the Cosmere stuff, then my recommendation would be: read all the novels, but for Stormlight stop after book two, pick up Arcanum Unbounded (the short story anthology, which includes Secret History) and read that, then continue with Stormlight. All the short...

Necros also have an ability called Spectral Walk that functions similarly to that. Also gives you a speed boost, which nets you longer jumps.

You could reasonably do either/or; you won't be losing out by going with one order or the other. That said, I would recommend reading Warbreaker before Stormlight, as it does have some narrative relevance; Warbreaker's only a single book though.

Sanderson's my personal favorite author nowadays, so I'll give my nod to him. Malazan's big and sprawling and convoluted, so I feel like you do need to read those books in relatively quick succession, which makes them something of a time commitment. Worth keeping in mind. Black Company's good...

Yakuza and Total War are both in a good place, and people still care about Phantasy Star. As for Sonic...yeah, mostly a meme, but at the same time, the Sonic Cycle is a thing for a reason. No matter how many times Sega trips over their own feet, people still turn out in the hope that this time...

Huh. Wasn't expecting to wake up to this. Well, in an ideal world this will mean Microsoft mandating a greater amount of quality control on game releases. That'd be nice. Worst case scenario...well, Fallout 76 already came out, so we're already in the worst case scenario; nowhere to go but up...

Honestly, if they had just drastically cut back on the map currencies needed for it (100 would've worked, if they really need to have that step), it wouldn't have been bad. Everything else was at least semi-interesting.

$500, and $400 disc-less. Not bad.

And there's the inevitable Vergil edition. Guess DMC5 is going to be a PS5 game for me.

They did a good job of making Miles's gameplay look distinct from Peter's. Shit looks good.

From checking out the game's subreddit, I'd say that it's a game where you'll benefit from giving them an extra month to crank out some patches before diving in--lots of little bugs and instabilities and shit. Of course, we're also rapidly approaching next gen, so I'm currently of the state of...

More or less. There's Ascended and Legendary stuff to chase after, but they are fairly incremental improvements over Exotic gear, which you can get with a little effort in the open world, or just buy relatively cheaply off the trading post. Most of the hunt for gear is actually the hunt for the...

If you're not familiar with the ruleset, one thing I would recommend is playing on a lower difficulty. They ended up tuning the difficulty higher in this game than you'd normally expect--essentially, expect playing on normal in Kingmaker can often feel closer to playing on hard in something like...

Yeah, I actually liked Sunshine better than Galaxy. Mostly because of the level design--Sunshine's levels had more of a sense of place to them, while Galaxy often just felt like random collections of platforms floating in the void. Plus, there was just something quietly satisfying about going...

Yeah; like I said, perfectly reasonable reasons why it won't happen. Would still be cool. Weirdly enough, from the voice acting perspective, tengu would probably be easier to manage than largos. Take one of the existing voice actor's recordings, slap a filter on them, maybe alter the pitch, and...

Have to admit, I'm holding out hope that we'll see a new race with EoD. There's plenty of perfectly practical reasons why it won't happen, but it would be nice to see something like the tengu or the largos make the roster.

I mean, if we're talking infuriating mobs, then pocket raptors win. They're not too bad now with mounts, but trying to traverse Auric Basin on foot could be the worst because of those little fuckers.

They just announced Kate Bishop as the first post-launch character (with Hawkeye coming second). From the Chadwick Boseman mention at the start of the stream, it sounds like they were also originally going to announce Black Panther as character #3, but cut the announcement out of respect for...

Yeah, as far as my personal hierarchy of the Arkham series goes, Origins was the strongest in terms of story and boss fights, while Knight was the strongest in terms of raw gameplay (even with the overuse of the Batmobile) and art style--especially liked the designs for Batman and Scarecrow...

Wonder how much of the movie is going to be in the ancient setting, because I'm getting heavy-duty Scorpion King vibes here.

One to four players Open world Metropolis Sounds like it's more of a shooter Officially part of the Arkhamverse

Not 100% sold on it, but there's nothing there that's absolutely killing my interest either; basically, as I've said before in reference to the Suicide Squad game, I'd rather see some games with the more mainline DC heroes, but I'm willing to give this a chance. That being said, the Suicide...

Well, there's no dismemberment, but there's a copious amount of arterial spray, as well as the ability to put mortally wounded enemies out of their misery as they crawl across the ground. Do with that as you will.

The game apparently has options to change the level of camera zoom. The patch notes also mentioned that they set the most zoomed out option to now be the game's default.