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  1. Caliane

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    Mauler was playing this yesterday. Amusingly, I think this is just 100% an art design problem. The game from what I could tell was an old school 3d platformer. like spyro, banjo-kazoioie, 3d donkey kongs. games that all used a very cartoony style.. this is totally a borderlands contour...
  2. Caliane

    Industrial Annihilation

    Interesting. I have always found Factorio to be a bit boring, and not engaging enough. Riftbreaker is way more fun like that.
  3. Caliane

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    harder diff might be hard to do with bg3. saying this without playing it... however.. 5e itself is more narrative built, not a tactical system. 3.5e/pathfinder can be built to be harder, and more tactical easier. Additionally, the smaller party size. which may seem like it would...
  4. Caliane

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    obviously, the line between optimum play and being a problem player can be fine. slow is not being a dick. Taking 10 summon spells, and summoning 16 wolves in every fight to overwhelm the enemies action econ is. there is a point where you as the player know the enemy has 1 attack per turn...
  5. Caliane

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    yeah, to be clear when I say exploiting action econ is a dick move/metagaming, I mean specifically in tabletop, where you have a living DM sitting there trying to design good encounters on the fly. and, actively trying to exploit action econ is just making their job harder on purpose. you are...
  6. Caliane

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    "Action economy" can refer to the entire scope of player actions versus enemy actions. Quality of an action, and raw amount. Its creation, and its most common use is as stated, raw number of actions per round however. (I feel like people are saying this, but dancing around the key point)...
  7. Caliane

    The Fall of the House of Usher

    I don't know how anyone could say Midnight mass isn't offensive to Christians. Muslim cop is super great guy, calls the Christians racist. Zero pushback on it. The Priest is a giant hypocrite, who completely undermines his faith. The main practitioners and "faithful" of the church are all dog...
  8. Caliane

    The Fall of the House of Usher

    I mean, yeah. the fall of the house of usher is a short story from Edger allen poe. not a supernatural horror story. I think I might just outright skip this one. I do like supernatural horror more. And Flanagans political and religious opinions are getting dumber and dumber, taking over his...
  9. Caliane

    The Fall of the House of Usher

    ooph.
  10. Caliane

    Rate Movies You've Recently Watched.

    Yeah. its weird, theres multiple listings. not all free on prime video. that prime vid link, takes you to the version I watched. to say more on it. probably not a must see outside the contexts of halloween movie. but its a very solid entry into these halloween haunt movies.. you don't...
  11. Caliane

    Rate Movies You've Recently Watched.

    + 1 on Haunt on prime. pretty solid.
  12. Caliane

    The Netflix Thread

    Trying to keep scott pilgrim going probably won't work. its a seminal growing up comic/movie. it was specific to that time period and those young adults. its like FLCL, etc.
  13. Caliane

    Totally Killer (2023)

    this is out on prime. about half way atm. its ok, to pretty decent. it is still one of those "totally 80's movie" as created by millennials and gen z'ers that have no idea what the 80's was actually like. but I've seen worse offenders. only one woke retard note so far. school mascot in...
  14. Caliane

    Desktop Computers

    that seems like a huge deal. anyone try these prebuilts? any issues with swapping out that vid card? take that $300 discount, and get a rtx 4060 at least? which is the current version of that card.. or something else entirely...
  15. Caliane

    Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous

    I ran out of steam on my second playthrough at the end of act 4. still have not played inevitable excess dlc, through the ashes dlc. the game is so long. 512 hours between first and second unfinished playthroughs. (turnbased.) The "treasure of the midnight isles" dlc is a real slog in the...
  16. Caliane

    Rate Movies You've Recently Watched.

    which version? did we have this discussion here? the original theatrical release was not as GREEN as the blueray.
  17. Caliane

    There's Something Wrong with the Children (2023)

    yeah, this was pretty ok. better then expected. iirc it starts off with some TERRIBLE music choices, and cinematography. but got pretty solid as it went. don't remember if I watched it on prime or netflix. I think its on prime.
  18. Caliane

    Game Pass for Xbox and PC

    haha.. I don't know the answer. But, for everyone else... he asked, Whats the best way to get game pass ultimate? buy 3 years worth of gamepass core, then get 1 month of ultimate, and convert it all?
  19. Caliane

    Moonring

    to clarify. Fluttermind is Dene Carter. co-founder of Big blue box studios. (along with simon Carter, and Ian lovett) https://fable.fandom.com/wiki/Big_Blue_Box_Studios https://fable.fandom.com/wiki/Dene_Carter http://www.fluttermind.com/
  20. Caliane

    Roguelite Enemy Hell/Bullet Heaven/Survivor catch-all

    yeah, slay the spire has ups and downs in difficulty. I'm not 100% certain its current balance. but, last I played. it was beatable at first. However, actually got harder with your first few unlocks. as RNG goes up, and its harder to make a coherent build. new items, but not new builds. as...
  21. Caliane

    Moonring

    always a debate on "indie game thread", or its own thread. going to give this one its own thread. So this one is a retro Ultima stylish game. very old school controls, and conversations. But with lots of new ideas too. its not chained to copying old games. World is proc gen, dungeons are proc...
  22. Caliane

    JRPGs

    Finished sea of stars "secret true ending". just a couple extra things you need to do after beating it once. it sends you back to the save before the boss, and lets you go do a few more tasks. The "true ending" doesn't actually go very far in closing up loose ends, or giving any real closure...
  23. Caliane

    Castlevania

    starting ep 4. The animation is an upgrade I think. But the script this season is ROUGH at best. offensively bad at worst. for example starts off with "we've been seeing more vampires lately, like 2-3 a month". then literally one day later we are shown that the ENHTIRE FUCKING French...
  24. Caliane

    Castlevania

    yeah, this is rough so far. we thought Ellis's "church is baaaad" was bad. this is even worse with it. also, monarchy bad, hamfisted slavery, etc. not a fan of Richters voice acting. richter even less mature then Trevor was. A child that needs the women in his life to be responsible...
  25. Caliane

    Rate Movies You've Recently Watched.

    yeah. Like I get it. its a radical departure from Pitch Black. hard to imagine it even takes place in the same universe. and its not a perfect movie by any stretch. But at the same time, you have to respect the attempt. ok, we were wildly successful with Pitch black. we don't have the...
  26. Caliane

    Rate Movies You've Recently Watched.

    D&D: honor among thieves via prime. not good. 5/10. I was expecting not to like it. The reason I expected was more on the side of disrespecting D&D, fantasy, and nerdom. like, ratqueens is all deconstruction and mocking fantasy. Atheist clerics and bullshit like that. It actually was...
  27. Caliane

    Mortal Kombat 1

    Timeline has been reset. so its now MK 1 era again, but different.
  28. Caliane

    The Red Letter Media Appreciation Thread

    idk, that japanese alien+kids AIDS one is pretty weird.
  29. Caliane

    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    I would disagree with the premise of "a different game" and changed in the dev process. they keep doing the same thing over and over. so its something they plan for. Yes, EVERY Bethesda game is 2-3 different games fighting each other. and each only half done. they all start as immersive sim...
  30. Caliane

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    you realize thermal paste does the opposite of an insulator right? the paste creates a connection that makes EASY transfer of heat from the cpu to the heatsink radiator. the cpu cools down because the heat is sucked out, and radiated out the radiator, via fans blowing on it. the paper on...
  31. Caliane

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    I'd place Terraria easily in top 5 games of all time list. very likely competing directly for #1. 1. It had constant periodic FREE content updates during its lifetime. like major updates. new bosses, difficulties. the game literally over quadrupled in size over its free updates.\ 2...
  32. Caliane

    Lies of P (Souls-like)

    its on gamepass. watching mauler play atm. man it looks so derivative. like, items are all direct copies from bloodborne, healing flask animation is a direct copy of dark souls/er consume.
  33. Caliane

    Castlevania

    300 year timeskip. Trevor- 1476 Christopher 1576 Simon -1691. Richter- 1792.
  34. Caliane

    Comic Books

    Alisson Rodrigues did the interior art. Who is apparently a guy. hahha.
  35. Caliane

    Wheel of Time

    This is not actually true. Equatorial populations tend to be dark skinned. Then, theres population movement. such as subsaharan africans still be black, despite no longer being in the desert, or equator. Theres deserts that are not along the equator. mongolian desert. mongols are not...
  36. Caliane

    The Red Letter Media Appreciation Thread

    you're in for a treat. though they showed much of it in their vid. I've discussed it, and linked youtubes of it before. I don't remember what thread specifically.
  37. Caliane

    JRPGs

    seas of stars and chained echoes are both on gamepass. doing sea of stars atm. a tip. when doing the daylight crystal puzzles, the light spins faster with a keyboard then controller. was failing the simplest puzzles over and over and couldn't figure out what the trick was... swapped to...
  38. Caliane

    One Piece

    I wasn't sure if Alvida was in a fat suit, or if her actress was just that fat. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6165060/ She's just fat.
  39. Caliane

    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    whats the min specs for bg3? https://www.dexerto.com/guides/baldurs-gate-3-pc-requirements-recommended-and-minimum-specs-2197517/ Processor: Intel I5 4690/ AMD FX 8350 Graphics: Nvidia GTX 970/ RX 480 (4 GB+ VRAM)...
  40. Caliane

    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    Basically a monopoly.