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  1. sakkath

    Path of Exile

    Simply not true. Like any mechanic harvests output can be greatly improved but it is perfectly profitable with 0 sextant, just alch & go. Obviously you block other mechanics in the atlas, that goes without saying. Most people's lack of income I expect is more likely speed related. If you take...
  2. sakkath

    Path of Exile

    You can generate currency by picking all essence and harvest nodes in the atlas and just running whatever maps you have "alch & go".. It's obviously nowhere near as efficient as a more robust atlas strategy but having those mechanics in the maps whereby all the loot directly translates into...
  3. sakkath

    The Last of Us

    Same here, know little about the game other than it's an apparently good zombie game, not even sure the genre. Show is excellent.
  4. sakkath

    M3GAN (2022)

    Wife & I both really enjoyed this. The middle of the movie before M3gan goes into killbot mode was the strongest I think. I laughed out loud at how good the use of movement and facial expressions on the robot was.
  5. sakkath

    Alice in Borderland

    It's very Japanese. If you like the high stakes games and philosophical conversations then it's good. If you don't then you'd probably hate it. Second half of S1 was a bit rough for me although it did pick up right at the end. S2 was mostly great IMO.
  6. sakkath

    Alice in Borderland

    This show is wild.. most of the games in s2 were excellent and the show actually ended cleanly.. such a rarity.
  7. sakkath

    Forspoken

    Aloy is a likeable female protagonist in a modern game. Not defensive or hostile, she is more understanding, stoic and compassionate. I think I commented earlier in the thread but the demo was enough to turn me off Forspoken because of how intolerable the main character (and bracelet)s banter was.
  8. sakkath

    The Menu (2022)

    I think you need to let go of the idea that things in the movie (especially peoples motivations) need to make sense. But in general yes, Chef Slowik didn't tell Elsa about the barrel, then chastised her in front of Margot about 'forgetting it' then sent Margot to go fetch it. He was also showing...
  9. sakkath

    The Menu (2022)

    His girlfriend broke up with him and he needed a +1 since they don't do bookings for 1 so he hired her.
  10. sakkath

    What did you just read?

    Nona the Ninth. Another fun read. Author must be having a good laugh coming up with the gimmicks for each book in this series. It was easier to follow than Harrow even though it dials the soul-of-one-person-in-the-body-of-another up to 11.
  11. sakkath

    The Witcher: Blood Origin

    This is very bad. It feels like a 10 episode show where they cut it down to 4, except most of what they left in what should have been cut first. The plot does contain the core of something which could have been a reasonable explanation for the conjunction of spheres but too many pieces have been...
  12. sakkath

    Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022)

    It was a lot of fun, very easy and enjoyable to watch. Plot holes you can fly the enterprise through but that doesn't even matter. Amazingly Kathryn Hahn is the weakest character in the movie and I love Kathryn Hahn. Burst out laughing when Benoir ruined the game, so funny!
  13. sakkath

    Avatar 2 (2020)

    Movie is just a beautiful tech demo. It's basically the same movie as the first one but even better looking. I didn't get bored, it was easy to watch but I did get the feeling that I'd really prefer to be doing something else. And it looks like the third movie is probably going to be the same...
  14. sakkath

    Warhammer 40k

    Primarch/Heresy stuff is what "everyone" will want, they just need Avatar level budgets. No problem!
  15. sakkath

    Final Fantasy VII Remake

    Has anyone played crisis core reunion and can report on how good it is/isn't? The game play videos I've seen make it look very similar to FF7R which I loved. I know nothing about the original crisis core.
  16. sakkath

    Path of Exile

    No those are pretty much all really low tier mods / rolls. The +1 to level of all skill gems is worth a few c, but apart from that its pretty garbage. Cannibalistic Rite is niche as well I think.
  17. sakkath

    Forspoken

    I enjoyed the actual gameplay of the demo but yeah I found both the protagonist and the talking wristband to be pretty cringe.
  18. sakkath

    Path of Exile

    Does that work? I thought I remembered reading that it didn't.
  19. sakkath

    Path of Exile

    I'm going to league start the new volcanic fissure skill via totems. I might be in for a bad time but fuck it.
  20. sakkath

    Stellaris

    I think of it more as them trying to change the meta so it doesn't get stale. I enjoy coming back to the game every year and finding things changed.
  21. sakkath

    Satisfactory

    I've started playing Satisfactory multiplayer recently. It's fun to work with others and see other people's build styles in game. I'm scaling up fuel production and building a computer factory while someone else is somewhere else working on a new motor and heavy frame factory.
  22. sakkath

    The Witcher

    Umbrella Academy, S3 was better than S2. All of us are Dead
  23. sakkath

    Andor

    The way the tension just slowly built throughout the episode was pure art. Probably my #2 show of the year behind Severance. Absolutely wonderful television!
  24. sakkath

    Stellaris

    I haven't played stellaris in quite a while but last time I did my usual strategy against FE was large ships at range. Artillery Battleships and support capital ships to give more range (ie Juggernaut with the range aura). Torp corvette swarm could also work if you don't have enough firepower...
  25. sakkath

    Roguelike... City Builder (Against the Storm)

    This is a great little game, I'm enjoying the randomness.. Like someone else said, there's no standard build order because objectives each map are so random and different. Because I'm still learning things I've made stupid mistakes like picking orders that are impossible to complete several times.
  26. sakkath

    Rings of Power: Tolkien's Shambling Skinsuit

    So I guess the 7 and 9 rings are not even going to exist in this show, unless Sauron is going to do it himself? Odd since the closing of the show was a song about the 7,9,3 & 1 rings.
  27. sakkath

    K-PoP SenSation

    On holiday in the US, NY specifically. Wife suggests we go out and see some live music. I say sure. She shows me a list of gigs for tonight. I look at it, don't recognise any of them, tell her to book whatever she wants that's suitable for the kids as well. She books the cheapest one on the...
  28. sakkath

    Washington D.C.

    Thanks I'll see if I can arrange that. Is there anywhere in the capital riverfront area of DC where there's decent concentration of retail shops like clothing etc? Area has heaps of food but little retail that I can find.
  29. sakkath

    Washington D.C.

    So far we've hit Jamaican in NJ, El Salvadoran in Gaithersburg, done the crabcakes and Ethiopian in DC. Been keeping an eye out for the pupusas but haven't seen them so far, all the food trucks seem the same, either bubble tea or a mix of Mexican and deep fried stuff. Pick of the litter so far...
  30. sakkath

    Washington D.C.

    Thanks, I've never heard of pupusas but they look good. Looks pretty similar to pide you can get from lebanese places over here. I will definitely try that if I find some!
  31. sakkath

    Washington D.C.

    The family & I are going to DC (&NY) for the next 3 weeks. Looking for good food recommendations, especially non Asian since I can get plenty of that here in AU. Specifically where is the best Mexican in DC? I love super strong flavours (Indian is my favourite) and good Mexican restaurants...
  32. sakkath

    House of the Dragon

    I think I read that not only is it canon, but that the targaryens from GoT are descendents of that particular incestuous couple. Could be fanfic though.
  33. sakkath

    Farthest Frontier

    It's definitely playable but i think it will be a much better game in 6-12 months
  34. sakkath

    Rings of Power: Tolkien's Shambling Skinsuit

    Bit defensive aren't you? I'm not giving anyone shade for noticing it. I obviously noticed it myself. If anything I'm giving the creators of the show shade for their half arsed effort at diversity. Either do it properly, or dont do it, the tokenism is laughable. What I also said is that the...
  35. sakkath

    Rings of Power: Tolkien's Shambling Skinsuit

    I mean it's obviously other reasons. There's one token black dwarf in a sea of whites, one token black elf in a sea of whites, one token black human in a sea of whites, and two(!) token black harfoots in a sea of whites. Zero asians that I've noticed. 100% obvious tokenism. Thing is that I'm not...
  36. sakkath

    Elder Scrolls VI

    My memory of this (which is pretty iffy since it was quite a while ago) - Bethesda pressured Obsidian to release the game when it wasn't finished so they had to cut a lot of QA which is a contributing factor to why it was so buggy (although Obsidian games are generally pretty buggy). A large...
  37. sakkath

    Path of Exile

    Is metamorph overtuned? I find them almost impossible to kill, they take me over a minute to burn down. Found a few with regeneration and I couldn't even move their HP bar.
  38. sakkath

    Rings of Power: Tolkien's Shambling Skinsuit

    Show is not bad at all, way better than I was expecting. I'm on board, lets goo!
  39. sakkath

    Untitled Horizon Zero Dawn Series

    All of the combat will be 1 shot stealth sharpshot bow arrows through the eyeball kills to save on CGI.