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God rest you, Dickey Betts. Son of Florida, mourner of Duane, mourner of Stevie Ray, mourner of Ronnie Van, an honest five foot nine:

I've played a few campaigns in ChaosRobie's Old World map - it's a lot of fun, but the map is absolutely enormous, and your campaign difficulty can vary wildly depending on the faction you choose. The last time I played, I did a Chaos Dwaves campaign as Drazhoath the Ashen. He starts near the...

LOOK ARISEN - FENTANYL! 'TIS A MOST POWERFUL DRUG INDEED! BEWARE ARISEN - POLICE! THEY ARE WEAK AGAINST VIDEO! ARISEN, I CAN NOT BREATHE!

Well, the original is almost 30 years old at this point, so I guess I can see the idea-deprived executives at Warner Bros. thinking it's due for a remake/reimagining/soft-reboot to introduce the new Deadly Weather Cinematic Universe. My problem is that the whole idea of "tornado chasers" seems...

My feral druid on Wild Growth-Alliance is at 32 now, still having a pretty good time with Phase 2 and SOD overall. I've got most of the new runes, the sleeping bag, tried out the new Blood Moon PVP event, etc. Running the Blackfathom Deeps raid post-25 is a lot of fun; it's fast and a ton of XP...

I'm on the Alliance Wild Growth team, too - playing casually as a feral druid (Aylix) so far. Gotta say that I'm having more fun with Season of Discovery than I've had with WoW in easily more than a decade. The new runes, the new specs it enables, the spread out level caps, the revamped raids...

I usually don't get annoyed or upset by the unending series of Hollywood remakes, race-swaps, and re-imaginings, but this honestly bothers me. Will Smith and Kevin Hart in a reboot of Planes, Trains, and Automobiles? I hadn't heard of this until now, and it's almost incomprehensibly awful...

She didn't actually have celiac disease - she just thought she did, in part because it was trendy. Her stomach pains and digestive issues were because she was lactose intolerant.

I love a good charcuterie board, as did my lady. Sadly, her guts did not appreciate that brie or gouda quite as much. Despite what the Brazilian Fart Porn industry would have us believe, it's hard to feel like a classy, cosmopolitan woman when you're holding in gruesome cheese farts.

This was my ex - she convinced herself that she had an allergy to gluten, and tried all those fad diets that were all the rage a few years back. When none of them actually worked, I managed to get her to see a gastroenterologist who confirmed that she did not have celiac disease. She just had a...

I'd go even further: ALL professional art and artistic endeavors must legally go through a hard reset. Everything goes back to the late Stone Age, and we work back from there and try to figure out where it all went wrong. Oh, you're an "artist"? Great, how wonderful. No more making pretentious...

I admit that I set myself up for that. Snow - cursed with the terrible sin of being a white Canadian doing rap - was never good. You know what was good, though? Suzanne Vega. In keeping with the spirit of this thread, the ubiquitous DNA remix of her 90s song, Tom's Diner, got pretty annoying...

I double-checked the thread, and I can't believe that no one has posted one of the worst earworms of the 90s:

I think this fits the thread criteria perfectly: First time I heard it, I thought it was catchy and fun! By the time I heard it on an episode of Friends months later, I was begging for temporary deafness.

One of the better takes I've seen on the passing of Jimmy Buffett:

The patch notes for 4.0 and the Shadows of Change DLC, both of which are coming tomorrow, are out: https://www.totalwar.com/blog/tww3-update-400/ The review embargo has also been lifted, and - as expected, given the community mood over the last few weeks - no one is recommending it. Here's a...

Legend of Total War weighs in on the latest CA debacle regarding DLC pricing, lack of bug fixing/patching, etc.

I live in a semi-rural area; there's not a lot of fast-food places that are convenient. One is a Kentucky Fried Chicken just off the main highway. However, over the years that KFC has developed a reputation as one of the worst fast-food restaurants in the county. They're often out of basic menu...

That's why you bring a certain Githyanki fighter companion along and let her take the chair for a test drive first.

My main character is a Berserker Barbarian, so up until now (early Act 2), I mostly kept Karlach on the sidelines. I felt bad about this, so when I got around to tackling her personal questline I also respecced her as an Oath of Vengeance Paladin. It kind of fit her backstory, plus I would...

The romance and sex in BG3 really remind me of playing Dungeons & Dragons back in middle school - everyone is obsessed with sex but no one seems to know how it actually works, so it comes up at random and inappropriate moments. This actually makes me like the game even more, though. It's very...

IIRC, in Baldur's Gate 3 you get +2 ability points to assign at levels 4, 8, and 12. These points aren't subject to the diminishing returns for increasing ability score points on character creation, so if you have a wizard with a 16 INT going into level 4, they can get boosted to 18 INT. Ability...

so that's why its called "Season of the Malignant" huh

It was very considerate of Blizzard to make sure that Diablo 4 Season 1 is going to suck ass and not be worth playing. With Baldur's Gate 3 coming at the end of the month, I wanted to clear my gaming schedule for quite a while. Plus, there are some really fun, cheap Vampire Survivor-style...

Halls of Torment is fun as hell - I've already logged over a dozen hours, and I can see getting at least a dozen more out of it. For $4, it's easily the best thing I've bought during the Steam Summer Sale.

Diablo 4 has really bad pacing overall. As noted, most classes feel like shit while leveling - especially the first class you play through the game with. However, once you complete the campaign and the capstone dungeon to unlock World Tier 3, you get that massive, massive power spike. From...

To steal a famous quote: Whenever I hear a video game dev talk about their "vision", that's when I reach for my revolver.

Do the Dew:

I've been playing again since the Chaos Dwarfs DLC dropped, and - while the actual content of the DLC is pretty decent - it's shocking how many performance issues, bugs, oversights, and general fuck-ups have been introduced in every single major and minor patch of TW:W3. For instance, there's...

More fun with AI, as the gals from the Red Scare podcast teach you about Pokémon:

Sounds like this game is a mess. Every review I've seen points out the terrible writing, shitty performance, and sub-par graphics. Also, why is there a superhero friendship simulator in a strategy game? Who thought that would be compelling gameplay? Shame - XCOM 2 is one of my most-played...

Oh, it's UW-Madison. That makes sense. Friend of mine went to grad school there; it's one of the hardest partying college towns I've ever seen. I don't know if it still exists, but last time I was there we went to Bennett's "Smut & Eggs" - where they serve up a breakfast/brunch buffet while...

So far, it looks like par for the course on TW:W3 patches - some much-needed changes accompanied by some terrible new ideas. In particular, the change to minor settlement battles makes it clear CA have exactly zero idea what to do with them. It's as though they looked at the feedback from the...

I picked this up last week through the Amazon Prime Gaming free promotion for October - I'm actually shocked at how much fun I've gotten out of it. Maybe it's because my expectations were so low and I paid nothing for it, but I'm having a really good time so far. I'm approaching the title like a...

What stuck out to me was how incredibly childish that video felt - as though it was intentionally aimed at very young children. The simple writing, the flat dialogue, and the call to adventure story hook (we're going exploring and collecting artifacts and taking pictures! really? that's the...

Now that some of the mods have been ported over, I'm having a lot more fun with IE. I started a new campaign this weekend playing as Archaon, and I'm using the Allegiance of the Damned: Chaos Confederation mod. It's been a lot of fun - I'm roaming the map, trying to beat down and then...

Holy fucking shit. Almost one full year ago in this very thread, I wrote this: So what did Volition do? Exactly what I feared they would do - an incredibly forced and hackneyed attempt at making these godawful embarrassing characters "relatable" via a pathetic karaoke rendition of an...

Yeah, I know the feeling. I just played 10 turns of a new Festus campaign, and it's already left me pretty indifferent. There's obviously so much that needs tweaking, fixing, revision, rethinking and outright removal (hi there stupid tower defense settlement battles) that it's really hard to...