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Tricksy hobbitses? I have an important question if anyone wants to answer it: Do you get to raid the Balrog? Not necessarily THE Balrog (Durin's Bane? Was that his name?) but A Balrog that's like equivalently cool?

What is?

That's a good answer. Hell would almost certainly be playing defense the whole time and fighting on their own terrain. I never even considered the idea of Hell invading the Abyss and conquering it because such a thing seems impossible. And the attrition would be a big thing too. Somebody should...

You're probably not talking about me, but either way at least I'm talking about EQ-adjacent stuff. Been doing lore dives on D&D lately for Baldur's Gate and so forth.

Yeah. I got a small whiff of "lol white man dumb" early on when they were all in the bar and Phoenix was acting more like an overconfident ace pilot man than any of the actual men were and that one timid nerd showed up. But no, the movie didn't continue on that track at all. Everyone in the...

I'm not. When I do try, I generally find one. After having a streak of one after another from 2009 through 2018 I needed a fairly substantial break.

I picked up some of the suggestions in this thread! And speaking of the Hells, I just posed a question in my CRPG thread that probably should have gone in this thread instead now that I think about it, but yeah, I welcome any input on the subject: Rajaah's CRPG Blog If the link doesn't work...

Since the subject of D&D lower planes came up earlier, and "Descent Into Avernus" talks about the Blood War quite a bit, I've got a question for D&D lore hounds. If Hell and the Abyss fought to the death, which side would win? They're the two biggest and baddest monster-oriented planes in the...

That reminds me of how I discovered the Mailer-Daemon and how weird it was. In 1997 or so I was reading a guide on Gamefaqs or whatever the equivalent was back then. There was a major error in the guide and the guy said to email him with any corrections or additions, etc, so I did. His email...

@Raes Damn, I misread the definition of Gifted. I thought it reduced your SP gain by 5 per level. I think that's what the description says. So I thought that meant you only gained like 2 SP per level or something. Didn't know it was 5 percent. Almost considering starting over just to get it now...

Yep, one of the reasons I just don't like Switch visuals. It's basically stuck in 2014 (Wii U) level visuals. Similar to how Wii's visuals were pretty much the same as Gamecube's with added system innovations. I guess the Switch 2 or whatever is next will finally move the visuals forward if...

As for D&D, I managed to get ahold of the 2000 movie and its sequel I didn't know existed, Wrath of the Dragon God. Working on tracking down the third and final one, Book of Vile Darkness or whatever. Unsurprisingly that one is hard to find, I don't think anyone else knows it exists either...

John Wick 1 and 4 are both in my Top 5 action movies of all time. The rest of said Top 5? Aliens, Terminator 2, The Raid. So they're in good company. Get with it, @Burns !

FALLOUT UPDATE -Got a party member, the guy with big Aquaman hair in the first town. -Nobody has any gorram caps to trade so I can barely make any money from selling stuff. Have a bunch of stuff to sell at this point and nobody to sell it to. -There we go, got the 3 ropes in Sandy town. -Got...

SU-57 was my guess after looking at some "fifth generation" lists. Not certain Iran has those in the real world, but I'm still gonna stand by my assessment that the "enemy country" was Iran. Movie certainly isn't above taking liberties.

Yeah my question was about the in-movie reason, but the real world reason is also interesting. So basically they had to use F-18s and worked around it with a plot contrivance. And yeah I do consider that a plot contrivance, especially considering how outmatched they were. Don't see any reason...

I've never been clear on the difference between "demon" and "daemon" or if there even is one. In D&D there's a location difference in that daemons occupy a certain plane (Hades? IDK) while demons occupy the Abyss and devils occupy Hell. I think Hades / daemons represent neutral evil while...

Watched this on my huge 65'' OLED. Yeah, I wish I'd caught it in theaters but I think this'll suffice. Phoenix (Monica Barbaro) was hot as hell and everybody here was likeable. Great movie, but I'm a little confused. I think I missed something. Why did they use F-18s for the bombing mission...

This got posted in an EQ thread (for some reason) but it's pretty interesting due to the timeline involved going from top to bottom. Anyone have a higher-res version of it that's actually readable?

On a bit of a movie-watching crusade the last week or so, trying to clear a backlog I've had building up for a while. John Wick 4 - 11/10, already gave my thoughts on this in its thread and think that it's a contender for best action movie ever. Not certain though, Aliens/T2/Wick 1/The Raid are...

FALLOUT 1 TIME -Started out with the above stats. My character doesn't seem to be able to say anything besides guttural noises. Hilarious so far. Thinking about doing a murderhobo run since my character can't communicate with anybody anyway. -Have no goddamn clue what to do so I ran around...

I'm...I'm actually not sure.

Oh yeah, I forgot about how expensive N64 games were at launch. I couldn't afford the system + Mario 64. The N64 cartridges were also noticeably heavier than SNES which was kind of interesting. Ended up getting a PS1 instead a year later + FF7, and a used N64 some time in 1999 for like $50 from...

Plus, you can plug a PS5 controller into a PC and use it with emulators. So between that and the visual upgrade, it'd basically be like playing BOTW on PS5 if you have a decent size monitor.

Oh God, it's one of those games with a "MEGAMAN MEGAMAN!" character who doesn't shut up isn't it? Too late, I already bought it. Think it was when I got that massive trove of games in early 2021 that I'm still working through now. Another thing that'd get me plowing BOTW is if Zelda were...

Well, I just think I'm cursed. All this simulation talk is a bridge too far for me! Florida isn't actually that anti-gay. Or at least Gov DeSantis isn't. The "don't say gay" bill doesn't exist, seems to basically be a media creation. Far as I can tell the actual bill was just "don't teach sex...

Got Temple of Elemental Evil working on the second try at installing. This game is super nice-looking and has great music, glad I didn't give up on it. Back on the list! Unfortunately, Fallout Tactics won't install correctly, so it's off the list. It was a "maybe" as it is. FO1 and 2 both work...

Yeah I'm not sure you actually read the replies. We were being empathetic. Also I said to avoid drugs.

Lot of red going on here. Also a lot of cat hair, god damn

I think 2001-2008 was always penciled in by some very powerful people as a time when lots and lots of blood money was gonna be made. 9/11 was the kickoff, and the financial crash was their last "fuck you" going out the door. Every so often we have these kinds of "blood money orgy" timeframes...

I'm not sure which Doctor Sleep I saw. It was whichever one is on the Blu-Ray. I actually watched it twice. Only movie I've watched twice in a while, though I'll probably see Wick 4 a second time soon. Best 3 movies I've seen in the last 3 years or so all happened to be in the last several...

I disagree. Well, I'd see JW4 a second time anyway. Maybe I'll report back after that and say it wasn't as great as I initally thought.

I get it. Naw, not just saying "I get it" to be empathetic even though I don't. I actually do get it. I've run into roadblock after roadblock and denial after denial for my entire life to the point of ridiculousness. Yes, life is unfair. Yes, life doesn't hand people anything. But I've dealt...

I can't imagine spending money on this or anything else while John Wick 4 is in theaters. Unless you have seen JW4 already. If so, see it again. If you've seen it twice, then yeah, maybe this movie.

Holy shit you're right! AN ACTUAL REDHEAD.

This is a lot like the F&F series. Furious 7 was the PERFECT end point for it. Then they made more of them. Are F&F 8 and 9 good? I mean, they have plenty of crazy action and they serve up what the audience wants. They aren't necessary though. The series gained nothing from their existence, and...

I'm actually really interested in this particular subject. Cause in 98 there were rumors JFK Jr might do a White House run in 2000, and if that happened, no Gore or Bush. However the indications seemed to be that he was going to instead run for senate. Which means he beats Hillary for the...

This kinda looks like Officer Downe, a completely ludicrous movie about an immortal cop (played by Tig from Sons of Anarchy). Just saw it last week. Best part of that movie is the first scene where this hot woman has like 14 orgasms. I guess this kind of completely ludicrous (and graphic) movie...

Seriously! I just checked in with my guy and he says details Soon, and they will also make everyone mad.

Same here. That and the rampant puzzles. I'm not a huge puzzle guy, at least not in my action/exploration games. Wasn't crazy about Uncharted 4 or Immortals Fenyx Rising either because they both constantly ground to a halt to do puzzles. Funny thing is I have no issue at all with the puzzles in...