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Yeah the two big features I'd care about are difficulty modes and scalability. I've played a lot of Sim City but got bored mid-tier in Skylines because it was kinda easy and just felt like a city "painter" instead of a city builder.

Pharmakos is 100% correct in everything he's said. His deep understanding of how hot water swirls around when it boils is fundamental to connecting the speed of light with the concept of terminal velocity. These revelations are how civilizations break through great filters.

It can't be cleared up because dog autists disagree with each other. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pit_bull https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Pit_Bull_Terrier fwiw I agree with your take. If it looks like a monster beast and has a lineage of bulldog/terrier, it's a pitbull.

Can't wait for the 10 Elden Ring episodes of this.

I know, right? I'll answer that when I get this radar mod to work and fight these mages and see what kind of bullshit they come up with.

Nice, my super-modded BG1 install from 2019 works. Looks like I stopped playing on the Tales of the Sword Coast Ice Island right before the three mage fight. I think this was the first fight of my playthrough against multiple mages and their absolute bullshit abilities made me realize how...

In all the games I've ever played BG is the only one I know about that even tries to create this kind of protection vs stripping system. It's not as noticeable in vanilla BG2 because spellcasters don't attempt to play optimally, but SCS brings it to the forefront by turning every mage into a...

Control-wise I think the only autism I got into with UI was creating AHK scripts that would cast spells from a single button. The default game has bindable keys but it's super limited. I wonder if there are mods for that these days...

another good post I have saved on this problem.

Do you play with Sword Coast Stratagems ( Sword Coast Stratagems ) and the Tactics mod ( The Tactics Mod ) both of these ramp up the difficulty considerably. My problem is that a mage will have so many layers of protection isn't not just a matter of casting a few strip spells and you're good to...

So, my last playthrough of Baldur's Gate in 2019 was terminated when I started running into ridiculous mages that were casting multiple layers of spell protections. I put off playing until I could view spell buffs so I could know what the hell was going on. Looks like that was made recently...

+1 point if the ambient sound of the zone immediately surfaces in your brain https://www.eq-guessr.com/new

Yeah, BG1 to start is recommended for CRPGs. BG1 follows 20 years of CRPG development ( History of Western role-playing video games - Wikipedia ) but is a good insertion point and is still used as a barometer to compare CRPGs against before or after it. The QOL improvements from the enhanced...

Any time-keeping system used in space will have to handle drift that exceeds the kind of time dilation we'd see in manned vessels in the Sol system. Just about everyone in the near future is probably going to use UTC and there's not much reason to change that...

If it all works cleanly, that's great. Personally I view the distinction between BG1, BG2 and ToB so significant that the first goal of uniting them seems counter to the game. Trying to make BG1 areas accessible from ToB seems like it'd risk breaking a game. But if it works, that's really cool...

Sure, but after going through BG1, BG2 and Throne of Bhaal I imagine just about anyone would want a breather and do some, I don't know, battle royale games before moving on to more isometric crpgs. That trilogy is like, 300 hours of game depending on the difficulty settings and how tryhard you...

I was dragged into seeing this without knowing a single thing about it, even who was in it.

Unlike the other Disney first-time live-action adaptations I feel like Peter Pan needs a bigger twist than racial diversity to have a reason to be made. Whatever.

What would the advantage of that over UTC be?

Sorry

One time (~7 years ago in my previous neighborhood) I was running in a low-activity road in my neighborhood with a jogging stroller with my kid in it and a miniature poodle came blitzing out all crazy like. I picked it up by the collar and gave it to the owner who was upset I grabbed their...

My neighborhood has had an upward trend of people installing electric fences for their pets (fences are disallowed in the HOA) which I think is great. One of the houses on my normal family-walk route has an middle-aged golden retriever that's pretty chill and another has a younger german...

Any animal suitable as a family pet in a suburban neighborhood.

It's trolling and it's all the same murder beast to me. I'm sure someone who thinks pitbulls make good pets would make whatever arguments are here about the distinction. Are Pit Bulls And Staffies the Same? | Dog Breeds FAQ

I hope that part of that Dept's training they go ham on some 2x4 framed training houses with typical doorways and probably not much else. Really all I'm trying to say in this convo is that it's typical for 3 able bodied men with weapons to be unable to control a pitbull. The best they could do...

I'm getting paid 1k plat per post to convince nerds that if a pitbull wants them dead, there's probably not much they can do to stop it.

You should give firemen classes on how to swing fireman pickaxes.

What this article doesn't say is what the different agencies use that isn't UTC. Describing "moon time" as a time zone is misleading because it's not about what time moon farmers should wake up to milk their moon cows. Instead the problem is about relativistic time dilation. It's a mess but for...

People watching pitbull attacks and talking about what they'd do

You think he held back?

That's a good question. I'd say no. A family looking to protect what they have might enjoy having their own monster, so that's good for them against other humans. The roving bands of ownerless-pitbulls would basically be apex predators in most suburbia areas. Any benefit of pitbull on mushroom...

No but I did laugh at it. I feel like both breeds are energetic and good-natured and merely unlikely to turn into elderly-eating, fireman-fighting deathbeasts. Watching a pitbull shrug off a full power pick-axe swing from a trained firefighter really crystallizes how fucked you probably are if...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/san-antonio-dog-attack-man-killed-three-injured/ Staffordshire Terriers, not pitbulls. Decolonize your mind.

It's already happening. The attrition from older people dying in EQ is probably several standard deviations above the mean compared to MMOs. It'll never attract large groups of new, younger players. And it doesn't really have to.

As a layman I agree 100%. The idea of patenting game concepts that are as fundamental as a responsive NPC interaction scheme is crazy.

Got a link to that?

If ChatGPT could be trained to work within the framework of a game system this would be A++. Those quest steps aren't far from the kind of quest trees produced in something like Skyrim's radiant quests. Bethesda Tutorial Radiant Quests - Creation Kit Setting Up Locations for Radiance: Skyrim...

What did the robot say that was woke?

Moving my response to the Shadow of War thread. It's funny that you posted that because I just learned that Wonder Woman is finally building on the Nemesis system. https://www.escapistmagazine.com/wonder-woman-is-the-perfect-fit-for-the-nemesis-system/ Also saw this vid linked which is...