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  1. rhinohelix

    Elden Ring - From Software + George RR Martin

    So much about this damn game is mysterious and demands investigation. The ErdTrees, the Deathroot, the story involving the merchants, the Great Caravan and why the merchants all use the Frenzied Flame when attacked. All the different factions, the piecing together the reason for the state of...
  2. rhinohelix

    Elden Ring - From Software + George RR Martin

    Sword of Night and Flame was not really that amazing at only +5; I just upgraded my Dex now to 18, I need to go visit the Magma Wyrm and die a couple dozen times, I guess.
  3. rhinohelix

    Elden Ring - From Software + George RR Martin

    Finally making some progress but I still need to get good. Map revealed up to Carion manor, trying to get equipped, have Sword of Night and Flame up to +5, level 60ish with 40 Int; 33 hours in? Too much work and not enough play time.
  4. rhinohelix

    The Animated GIF Thread

    Someone needs to slap that woman in her nasty pie hole. Like she really gives a damn about what is on the concrete. This is solely about power; making that girl cry like that is a pure joy-stealing , Christmas-movie-villain Karen move.
  5. rhinohelix

    The Red Letter Media Appreciation Thread

    My dad named me after this guy at a time when there weren't many boys that included that particular name, because he grew up watching him on TV. Before you say "Why did he chose that name?", I spent three days named my two grandfathers: Jarvis Lenard. He called the hospital and had them change...
  6. rhinohelix

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    I loved this movie. Watched it as a kid on HBO; The Bomber vignette [Edit: B-17] scared the holy shit out of me. Years later couldn't remember for the life of me where the name I had heard the name "Taarna" and "Taarakians" before. This movie was unavailable on most media for years due to...
  7. rhinohelix

    Obi-Wan Kenobi

    Nah, this is 2022 Disney: Now they dock.
  8. rhinohelix

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Her secret is she's got Cocaine tits? Otherwise, she is either starting a high negotiating price and willing to come down, only looking for the one-in-a-million, or values her "genitalia" like too highly, like many women in 2022. Too much Self-esteem is a hell of a drug.
  9. rhinohelix

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    I have only seen it once, as opposed to a dozen + times for Batman Begins and a few times for The Dark Knight. Not a huge fan of Ann Hathaway but one of the few scenes I remember from the movie is the one right there where she arches her back on the bike. Yowza.
  10. rhinohelix

    I Found The Foler Alt.

    Tarisk and Moglyzoke have been forever, I thought? I honestly don't remember much about their politics other than being shocked by the vehemence of it, IIRC, on a few occasions in the past because we had never really interacted in that way, and then BAM, there it was. Not even that much, just...
  11. rhinohelix

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    So many hours spent in arcades. My grandfather would take me every Friday night to the mall as a kid, we would go the book store, then the "toy" store with a Tabletop RPG section and then 5/10 bucks in the arcade (he would let me roam and browse in the stores and meet me outside in the mall)...
  12. rhinohelix

    Elden Ring - From Software + George RR Martin

    Finally stopping exploring and focusing on leveling, I am so far behind everyone else, still at level 20 with my spellblade. I haven't been using Summons ashes because I thought there was a mechnical problem putting them in the pouch. When I was watch Dr Disrepect play he had no issues, so I...
  13. rhinohelix

    Elden Ring - From Software + George RR Martin

    Supposedly that's a DX12 thing? IIRC. This game, with its danger and mystery, its lack of handholding and its beckoning, addictive gameplay, is the first game in YEARS that gives me that Everquest vibe. Have I written that already? It still does. This feels like a massive best selling GOTY...
  14. rhinohelix

    NVidia GeForce RTX 30x0 cards

    Yeah, I just thought I would have a look and then said, nah. I will wait until Intel Arc hits in Q2 and see what that does to prices. $1500 for a 6800xt? GFYs BB and Amazon. Amazon I get, because shitheels can sell anything for anything but BB selling the same card for the same price? I...
  15. rhinohelix

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    I, too, know a couple who experimented, although at the girl's behest. Guy accepted, what could go wrong? Found himself on the broken up with as the girl explored her Sapphic side for a few years. Turns out it was a phase and now she is married to a a guy for a decade plus.
  16. rhinohelix

    Elden Ring - From Software + George RR Martin

    It kind of sucks that I never tried any of the other Souls like games, because it will be hard to go back now from this amazing, Cyclopean, open world creation they have made here will make going back hard. Or maybe not but this game seems like a pinnacle. The map and music, the visuals: It's...
  17. rhinohelix

    Elden Ring - From Software + George RR Martin

    When you guys are saying "souls" in the context of this game, you mean "runes" correct? Quick addition: I played a few hours, started as a Vagabond, figuring I could move into whatever I liked, and I really regret not starting as a caster. Died a fair amount vaguely following a "Pick up all...
  18. rhinohelix

    Elden Ring - From Software + George RR Martin

    So I sat down to play and realized I only had the vaguest idea about the classes; I have been watching a ton of videos about the game and the lore. So I started watching videos about classes and stats... Fast forward 3 hours. Paralysis by analysis. I just watched a 45 min long video by a guy...
  19. rhinohelix

    Elden Ring - From Software + George RR Martin

    I preordered this for the PS5 but haven't had a chance to play it yet. Never played a Souls game before, so I know I will suck but reading this thread, between that and the lore it seems like a freaking Christmas present. So exciting!
  20. rhinohelix

    Lost Ark Online

    I have had Naga whatever with 12 buttons for like 10+ years. WASD to move with abilities/skills on the numbers is just seemingly the default command scheme for everything and now this game is completely different. I have finally gotten used to it SORTA but will occasionally revert in combat...
  21. rhinohelix

    Lost Ark Online

    That's because all Gunlancers secretly *want* to be in the AOE. It's their natural state; No matter how you try to direct them out of it, they keep trying to dive back in.
  22. rhinohelix

    Lost Ark Online

    I don't say anything; I just see people come and go. I don't think I have ever seen anyone say anything in guild chat. For the first 25 levels I thought, "I wouldn't mind playing though this again on another character". For the last 12 or so, I thought "Fuck all these needy people and their...
  23. rhinohelix

    Lost Ark Online

    I kinda stopped focused on the MSQ/Side quests today and spent a bunch of time figuring out my stronghold, life skills, and more RL sleeping. Also watching the Wokerbowl but listening to the Greatest hits of the 90's Halftime show from the other room now. At some point I plan on writing a post...
  24. rhinohelix

    Lost Ark Online

    What population spike ever does?
  25. rhinohelix

    Lost Ark Online

    On Gunlancer, when fight advice is, "just stay out of AEs" I know it has been live in other regions for years but I think this has been the best overall launch I can remember.
  26. rhinohelix

    Lost Ark Online

    No worries, BDO came out close to that time frame, ish, in like 2015 in KR before coming to the West in 2016.
  27. rhinohelix

    Lost Ark Online

    It just came out in late 2019 in Korea. I was thinking "2018 was 6 years ago? Holy shit this is strong cough medicine."
  28. rhinohelix

    Lost Ark Online

    Leveling is so much faster when you just run/ride past most mobs. Not just trash packs in the open world but most trash mobs everywhere. I took my first death, from the Guardian in the Morai temple. I was trying to face tank him in Defensive mode and that shit was just not cutting it...
  29. rhinohelix

    Lost Ark Online

    BTW, After all of my bitching, the launch turned out to be one of the best first days in recent memory. I am having trouble right now thinking of a better one. Even seeing long 7000+ queues on regulos in the NA CST evening prime time, my kids got in within 30 min of queuing up. I was on all...
  30. rhinohelix

    Lost Ark Online

    I am leveling at a Zen pace. A) Play a Gunlancer, which is actually way better than I thought it would be. B) hardly ever be assed to ride the mount, horse or otherwise. C) fight lots of unnecessary packs of mobs D) Do all the quests after 14 hours I have Leveled the GL to 20 and another (an...
  31. rhinohelix

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    LET ME HELP YOU WITH THAT:
  32. rhinohelix

    Lost Ark Online

    I'm in on Regulas, after a queue that started at 700 and went down in just a couple of min.
  33. rhinohelix

    Lost Ark Online

    Add me to Unpack group, huzzah. It's going to be a snake swallowing a bowling ball all day, so get ready to find out where they've got infrastructure bottlenecks all up and down the line. The whole point of MS Azure/AWS virtualization was to be able to spin up enough temp hardware to handle...
  34. rhinohelix

    Lost Ark Online

    It's bouncing back and forth from "Download Queued" to "0%" in the Steam Client, and connection timeout when I try to launch directly from the shortcut. Yeah, getting to play today is always a crapshoot, its "roll a d12, that's the number of hours before its going to minimally available...
  35. rhinohelix

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Well, fuck. It just like normal feminist complaining to me. I didn't realize I was in a Babylon Bee headline.
  36. rhinohelix

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    You do realize the character in the "Male" armor is female, right? Samus is a woman.
  37. rhinohelix

    Lost Ark Online

    holy fuck these assholes. DIAF you shit company. Edit: In case I am not being clear, I mean Reddit, AGS, and anyone associated with this. It's not an overreaction. We have seen some screwups in 20+ years of MMOs and this would be the biggest. Fake Edit: Of course it's an overreaction.
  38. rhinohelix

    Reacher

    If that is your idea of "A+" and "gratuitous", <sad clown face>. I was going to say it's basic cable bullshit, but wasn't Spartacus on basic cable? Fake Edit: It was on STARZ, rather.
  39. rhinohelix

    Lost Ark Online

    After spending the day watching Lost Ark content, I am really all over the place on the starting character. I normally alt out and nice to have a game that encourages that but this, wow. Normally I start with tanks but I thinking of doing something different here; I was thinking Berserker at...