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  1. OU Ariakas

    Warhammer 40K: Rogue Trader (CRPG)

    You have a point there. Some of the talents, specialty classes, and interactions felt like they were unnecessary and a little opaque.
  2. OU Ariakas

    Warhammer 40K: Rogue Trader (CRPG)

    I finally got around to this and should have donevit sooner. I'm in act 2 now and this is fucking awesome. They nailed the WH40k ascetic and somehow mixed in a nostalgic dose of Mass Effect 1 planet scanning. I cannot point out a downside.
  3. OU Ariakas

    Investing General Discussion

    Haha, this is easy. A buyer is paid on how much money he/she can save the company. One of them saw a fat bonus by agreeing to a ridiculous, but less than reputable, contract. Turns out it was fake! Everyone is (not) surprised.
  4. OU Ariakas

    Path of Exile

    I don't play ARPG's to get a Dark Souls like feel. I play DARK SOULS to scratch that itch. GGG trying to fix problems that don't exist instead of the problems that are pretty fucking obvious in POE that hold it back from being uncontested #1 ARPG of all time instead of just #1 of all time...
  5. OU Ariakas

    Dragon Age: Why We Can't Have Nice Things

    The combat is fine, you will have to get used to Souls game combat. The exploration is what makes it excellent. Have you ever played a game with a map that doesn't tell you anything about where to go or what to do? How about one that absolutely rewards you for every single bit of digging into...
  6. OU Ariakas

    Dragon Age: Why We Can't Have Nice Things

    Elden Best game in the last 10 years, and it might not even be close Ring
  7. OU Ariakas

    Dragon Age: Why We Can't Have Nice Things

    The more I look back on EQ and WoW, the more I realize that my favorite parts of those games were the exploration, being truly excited/terrified of what was coming around the corner, and the satisfaction of completing a hard dungeon/raid. Every single one of those things was satisfied twice...
  8. OU Ariakas

    Borderlands

    Hey guys! Let's make a movie that is so obscure that we need the 18-40 year old male gamers who played and loved the game to flock to it in order to have a chance at making a profit. Oh, and the best way to so that is deviate as far from the story and characters as possible while studiously...
  9. OU Ariakas

    Dragon Age: Why We Can't Have Nice Things

    There are going to be more pronouns in this game than plot twists.
  10. OU Ariakas

    Elden Ring - From Software + George RR Martin

    I know, it was more just him telling people how to play ER. I think the main reason I find it to so compelling is that you can choose to do whatever, whenever and how difficult it will be. I beat the some of the Nights Cavalry pretty early by just using Torrent really effectively and timing my...
  11. OU Ariakas

    Elden Ring - From Software + George RR Martin

    If you are a total pussy.
  12. OU Ariakas

    All Stephen King Books

    I have decided it is because he writes people so damn well. In a few paragraphs he can craft a fully unique person that could almost live in the real world and you would believe that persons' motivations and reasoning. I have not read anything of his in a few years and it is shocking how much...
  13. OU Ariakas

    Dragon Age: Why We Can't Have Nice Things

    Larian is has some of the same lefty strands on their teams, but they have not allowed it to stop them from making a good game with a good story before cramming agenda shit into the nooks and crannies.
  14. OU Ariakas

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    This game has been highly anticipated for 20 years from a group of fans who grew up on BG/BG2. It was expected a few year after NWN because of the success of that game...and it still took them a decade to announce BG3. There were high expectations for the game because of Larian's past work...
  15. OU Ariakas

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    The real reason Larian was left alone was because there was almost ZERO expectation put on them for BG3. They were contracted out to make a game that was like their past ones because WOTC/Hasbro had no internal team that worked on the previous BG games and needed someone else to eek out a...
  16. OU Ariakas

    All Stephen King Books

    I picked up his last two short story collections because I have always been a sucker for them. I was sure that my reading was going to be colored by the fact that he is unhinged and fucking retarded on Twitter/TV now. I was dead wrong. The dude is a master at horror short stories and I am...
  17. OU Ariakas

    Elden Ring - From Software + George RR Martin

    Double post so I'll use this time to remind you to trust FromSoft since they are without peer currently when it comes to studio decisions.
  18. OU Ariakas

    Elden Ring - From Software + George RR Martin

    It's like you've never played a FromSoft game in your life.
  19. OU Ariakas

    Twitch.tv

    Almost as if he views using a child as a prop in a fetish video as uniquely abhorrent and hard to forget after you've been made aware of it.
  20. OU Ariakas

    Prey

    I just watched Prey a few months ago and thought it was great for a streaming movie. My question is why go back to the same formula with the same lead actress? They could make a great Alien 2 style movie where it is the whole tribe fighting a group of predators and trying to figure out ways...
  21. OU Ariakas

    Arcane

    We are in Zaun..... I need Mundo in this show.
  22. OU Ariakas

    The Fast Food Thread

    Let's check in on how retarded restaurants have decided to act. Cracker Barrel CEO says it needs an overhaul. Here's what to expect. Does anyone notice the mind-numbingly stupid part of the article? In what world does a struggling restaurant hire the former head of Taco Bell, a fast...
  23. OU Ariakas

    Elden Ring - From Software + George RR Martin

    I got the feeling that he was doing it out of an abundance of cation, but it doesn't change the fact that he has an image of a girl in a dress on the screen and calls her "they" in the singular it is annoying as fuck. He also started referring to non-gendered things as "they" instead of "it"...
  24. OU Ariakas

    Elden Ring - From Software + George RR Martin

    I fucking hate his liberal use of they/their for any of the characters that might have the dual male/female halves. The game makes distinct differences between the male and female parts of the beings, gives them different names, and never shows them in some sort of androgynous mixed form. St...
  25. OU Ariakas

    The Fast Food Thread

    Most likely from alcohol abuse. The only thing worthwhile to come from that documentary was counter-documentary Fat Head.
  26. OU Ariakas

    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    I'll give him some more credit. Supersize Me directly led to the counter-documentary Fat Head which changed the way I thought about saturated fats, cholesterol and fatty foods. That, in turn, led me to eating a ton more meat and eggs and a ton more fast food and the recognition that enjoying...
  27. OU Ariakas

    The Fast Food Thread

    You are the most autistic remaining member of this forum and it isn't even close.
  28. OU Ariakas

    The Fast Food Thread

    I hear that, soggy fries are a pass. BUT, if you get it right they have the fries super crispy and the fresh cheese & gravy are poured over it. Just like Nachos will get soggy if you let them sit for 10+ min, poutine needs to be eaten straight away to be enjoyable.
  29. OU Ariakas

    The Fast Food Thread

    Getting "authentic" Texas BBQ that comes with poutine is like getting "authentic" Chinese food that comes with a Bhan Mi sandwich. There is no such thing as authentic US poutine because it is a Canadian dish. For everyone else re: Queso vs. Poutine - They are too different to be compared to...
  30. OU Ariakas

    Lost

    Good. Show fucking sucked and the ending was terrible. I fooled myself into thinking it was good for a long time. Turns out all the writers and showrunners were trash and ruined a ton of other shit with their trash 'ideas' that never made sense.
  31. OU Ariakas

    The Fast Food Thread

    McChicken in Fort Bend County, TX is $1.39 up from the dollar menu pre-COVID. We have seen our share of things go up, but the lower end items at McDonald's are not huge like other places.
  32. OU Ariakas

    2024-2025 College Football. Now there will be 12

    Good, if they are going to go down this path then they might as well lock them up in true contracts to at least limit the crazy shit going on out there.
  33. OU Ariakas

    Home buying thread

    I get at least 2 a day and up to 10. They are all using robo-dialers which I thought were supposed to be illegal to use now...but here we are! Edit: I am an outlier because we own more than one house and they just scrape County Assessor records for their contact lists. If you have one house I...
  34. OU Ariakas

    Elden Ring - From Software + George RR Martin

    Any build with the right weapon and just use summoning ashes on every boss. I did a whole new playthrough determined to use either INT, FAI, or DEX and ended up just going STR again. Second time through was more enjoyable.
  35. OU Ariakas

    Home Improvement

    Can you tell me about your setup for this? I have been using Tougher Than Tom Mosquito TNT for the last few years and it seems to work well. I forgot to load up going into the summer and it is now an annoying problem
  36. OU Ariakas

    Home buying thread

    Did you go to college? What age were you when you started making $55k? Did you have any student loans that had to be paid back? I only say that because an 18 year old out of high school can go start at Costco or Aldi starting at $18 an hour and, if they just show up and work hard, will be at...