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  1. Phazael

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    As stated, if you actually hang on to the fire grenade items you get handed, this fight is mostly about controlling the phase spider adds and dropping the big bug on its ass for falling damage. Then you hope not too many of your crew are poisoned to death when she makes it up to you and starts...
  2. Phazael

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    Yeah the spider strat was obvious. My main issue is the inflated HP of what is supposedly a L5 monster. I did not realize that 4th edition started doing that with its creatures, but then again every edition of DnD since 3.5 has been hot garbage so I guess I should have considered that. And...
  3. Phazael

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    Again this is fine for Tactician and/or single player experience. Three people playing MP on normal are not going to have the patience to wait around for your sneak to stealth cheese the fights by stacking shit and explode barrels before the fight, using information probably gained from a...
  4. Phazael

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    Did your friends wife build her character for her and tell her what to do? Because thats basically one step up from just making a prefab party member. And I am in no way talking about massaged rules here. Show me a gnoll trash mob in any version of DnD with three attacks around. Show me a L5...
  5. Phazael

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    Single player tweaking things with solid knowledge of the system, sure git gud applies. But this being billed as a MP showcase and all but requiring that you respec any story character you bring along to make them hold up? I mean seriously who fucking designed these NPCs? They are worse than...
  6. Phazael

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    I like a lot about this game, but as someone playing couch co-op with their wife and another friend who occasionally jumps in online, Larian needs to admit it really wanted to make DOS3 instead of this. At least when it comes to the game mechanics. Story, art, graphics, and voice acting are...
  7. Phazael

    Mortal Kombat 1

    Played the early access a bit. Seems somewhat polished but strangely vanilla. I cannot say I am a big fan of the Kameo thing and it just seems like an excuse to have characters present without making the full roster available. The inputs are mostly good, though negative edge seems off...
  8. Phazael

    Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

    The musical episode pretty much single handedly eroded all the good faith this show had built with me. This was made worse by the fact that they did a similar episode (Doc's daughter and nebula alien making a fairy tale thing) that was handled so much better. This was beyond gay, like...
  9. Phazael

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    Are you each going to your own family separately on those holidays? Thats a recipe for her family to poison her head with disrespectful shit and resentment. Not saying your wife can't recognize and ignore it, but be on guard for that kind of crap.
  10. Phazael

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    Assert dominance here or be ready for them to start filling your wife's head full of disrespectful bullshit. She is already defending this shit as it is. Sack up and let them know that this sort of shit is unacceptable for family. They knew damn well what they were doing because they acted...
  11. Phazael

    The Paranormal, UFO's, and Mysteries of the Unknown

    You both need to read up on the subject of Entropy, paying special attention to the parts that talk about the eventual heat death of the universe. Life is the exception, not the rule. Religion aside, we are extremely fortunate, LITERALLY, to be alive let alone debating this topic.
  12. Phazael

    The Paranormal, UFO's, and Mysteries of the Unknown

    God of the Gaps, the intellectually chic version of being an agnostic, and that is demonstrably worse than being religious or an atheist.
  13. Phazael

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    You have seen me post in the political threads. Do you think I even sit within 20 feet of mine, let alone answer my phone at this point?
  14. Phazael

    The Flash (2023)

    Not as bad as the internet rage machine makes it out to be, but they clearly spend more money on it than they had to and it was too long of a movie. Also the end credits scene clearly shoes that Ezra and Mamoa buddy movie would have been better.
  15. Phazael

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    Wife and I completed the main story and fucked around in WT3 for w bit that same day, both L55. Have literally not even thought about touching it in the ten days since. We are casuals, what should be the market of an ARPG like this, and have completely lost all interest. @Utnayan needs to get...
  16. Phazael

    Barbie (2023)

    Why are you so desperate to make this movie more popular Ossoi?
  17. Phazael

    Barbie (2023)

    Having heard RL friends who saw this and seen the blubs on it, my opinion mirrors the Drinkers on this. They could have made a great satire for the ages with an actual uplifting message. Instead they made another man hate filled dystopian shitfest that will likely be forgotten quicker than the...
  18. Phazael

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    More than will be playing this game in two weeks.....
  19. Phazael

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    Microsoft might be pissed considering its looking like their big purchase amounts to a few burned out franchises that were overmilked and Overwatch.
  20. Phazael

    Sound of Freedom (2023)

    Antarius. That dude was also an Air Traffic Controller. I miss Ant Man sometimes.
  21. Phazael

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    I don't have all the aspects to make the best version of it, but I am running the Natures Fury Bear Druid. I have the trample set up to proc a dozen Landslides, which in turn procs a couple tornadoes and storms. I should probably dump the poison creeper for more raw ranks in the triggered...
  22. Phazael

    Sound of Freedom (2023)

    Mists daddy figure touched her in her no no places.
  23. Phazael

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    I dont care if they nerf the barrier based damage builds on druids, but if they fuck up the synergy based shit I am out. Its fucking ludicrously impossible as it is to scrape any cooldown reduction for that build and beyond stupid how every god damn druid build revolved around Earthen Bulwark...
  24. Phazael

    Foundation

    The show grinds to a fucking halt every time the Magical Space Nogs are on the screen. It makes zero sense because we are basically mostly completely off the reservation in terms of following the source material at the moment, so why is there such a disparity between the Empire and Henry stuff...
  25. Phazael

    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    If it were on PS5, this would be day one buy bugs and all. As is, I will likely never play it. Fuck you Microsoft, you lost the console wars. Accept it.
  26. Phazael

    Writers Guild Strike 2023

    Yes we are well aware of your track record as it pertains to entertainment critiques.
  27. Phazael

    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    I dont care if you are gay, but stop being a faggot.
  28. Phazael

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    Druid resource issue is overblown. They are stacked with great cooldown abilities on reasonable timers and if you are pulverize you are basically doing Maul Maul Pulverize with every second pulverize melting the screen anyhow.
  29. Phazael

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    Its astonishing how fast this game went from fun to brick wall. Wife and I were chugging along clearing up quests, leveling, and getting noticible improvements on the regular. Then we hit the Paragon levels and its like "oh boy lets grind all day for some stat gains and nothing I can ever use...
  30. Phazael

    Clockwork Revolution (inXile)

    On the one hand, I have loved most of what they have done (Tides of Numera not withstanding) and a couple of the guys there are personal friends from way back. On the other hand, the recent Xbox exclusive thing puts me off since I am a PS5 whore and I cannot help bot notice "strong kangress"...
  31. Phazael

    Gloomhaven

    Oh yeah lets all play Wokehaven the table top RPG, because the wokeness in DnD just isn't enough lately.....
  32. Phazael

    Foundation

    I can accept that the book as written is basically unfilmable. The merging of ideas from other books was something Asimov did himself, and where they did this with the Empire storyline it worked very well. Pallet swaps? Don't care if they could act (Magic Math and Magic Strong Wakandan could...
  33. Phazael

    Final Fantasy 16

    This is the worst thing I have ever seen posted on these boards.
  34. Phazael

    Kolchak: The Night Stalker

    ITs basically Cthulhu investigator the show. Lot of great memories of it as a kid and its holds up reasonably well for how old it was, mostly thanks to McGavin. Solid low budget character/story driven horror monster of the week type stuff. I am tankful no fucking idiot has tried to remake this.
  35. Phazael

    Dating

    This is my favorite cognitive dissonant aspect of modern women. If a dude gets shot down, most (soy fucks aside) rub some dirt in it and get back in the mix. Women, on the other hand, cannot even slightly handle rejection and lose their shit if they face even a hint of what the average man had...
  36. Phazael

    Street Fighter 6

    As an old fuck, its really forcing yourself to use light attacks for footsies and tap confirms. Scrub Blunder 101 is to never use anything other than fierce attacks, but the minute you start using lights it opens up a whole new world of gameplay. And this is what makes characters like Juri...
  37. Phazael

    Street Fighter 6

    My Livingroom is set up to be a party room (karaoke rig ect) and we couch play a lot of games, including fighters that are more casual accessible like the MK series. This is the first game I have been able to bet my wife to like (outside of a little MK) enough to want to play it with friends...
  38. Phazael

    Street Fighter 6

    Im a scrub, but have been having fun with Cammy and Chun Li, even rocking a pad. Yuri on classic is obviously strong thanks to her basic moves (great overheads and lows) and RYU is pretty much where he always is, but its nice to see Chunner and Cammy being as well rounded as they are in this...
  39. Phazael

    Games You Regret Spending Time On?

    I am pretty good at RPGs and had beaten Tactics Ogre more than once before I played FFT. but I confess I ended up having to replay the entire game my first run because I had no save file from before the Velius fight. Tactics Ogre's final boss is a lot rougher now than in the original (the no...