latenightnoir

Think the problem is they don't much boing, either...

I just can't get these people... Do they seriously believe the nonsense they're spouting, or do they believe that we believe it?

Thanks! I have no idea at the moment, it's a tactical retreat and regroup after a failed year-and-a-half experiment, but I'll keep myself busy somehow:))

Nearly fell on top of it right next to the cab in the morning, my arms were pool noodles by that point=))

Well, lucky youu! I'm back to my 1080p 21 incher after carrying a mid tower with a 4080 and a Noctua cooler still inside on a 10-hour train ride! Gotta love impulse moves!

Edit: also, enjoy the buzz while it lasts! A nice dose of chemically induced anxiety is a good Memento Internal Screaming!:))

"Bllgh! Bllgh-glllgh-glllgh, gllgh-bl-blllglllh" ("Dude! Let me in, I'm a fairy" as heard underwater)

Y'know what? I'm throwing it for Miriel, they can have it! Hear, hear for the new Pope!

Except, you are all aware we'll all be long dead before Miriel manages to physically get to the Vatican, right? Just saying, not complaining...

Honestly, I've still yet to try the new-gen Divinity series, as BG3 broke my heart in ways which are hard to forgive and forget, and I've heard that those two suffer from the same withering of the story in the final Act.

I do love games for mechanics, but they count for nothing if the story craps on my heart (unless they're specifically mechanics-driven games, but there's no dish which couldn't benefit from a sprinkling of spices and herbs).

Good point, I guess it would be back to considering the permanence of The Cave allegory. I still have that gut feeling that humanity has a sort of in-built desire for freedom and self-determination which exists somewhere beyond the conceptual, something innate. Maybe its materialisation just takes a long enough timeline and that the species is offered relative stability in terms of genetics/psychological development (i.e. they don't just outright lobotomise us and turn us into Servitors, or smth...)

Am I the only one who prefers turn-based to real-time-with-pause combat for, like, really mathematically intense RPGs (i.e. not Bethesda's flavour of such as of late)? Even when playing Dragon Age, I kept trying to play it as a 3rd-person action RPG and it felt like playing WoW. Or the flipside of that, I end up building a ball of death and suddenly start playing StarCraft... Kenshi is a marked exception, because the ball of death is hilarious in that one.

Gimme a Rogue Trader, or a Baldur's Gate 3, or a Wasteland 2, and I'll wanna get OP just so I can take even more time during combat, trying to pull off stupid moves. I can't even count the amount of times I've save-scummed in BG3 just because I realised I could've done something funnier, or cooler. I do like the Fallouts even though combat in those is less about the action and more about the build, I find. I even enjoy KotOR, because that type of gameplay can barely be called real-time...

Edit: because I felt I left it too vehement, I do ike action RPGs as well! Love TES games (grew up with Oblivion), and I enjoy the improvements they've made starting with Fallout 4. New Vegas somehow managed to make me not hate the Fallout 3 gun play, which is why I can only play Fallout 3 through Tale of Two Wastelands now...

Punk a.f.

My brain wanted to ask what Lego set that was...

My morbid tendencies are fascinated by the idea, but I, myself, can't help but feel like staring at an incoming tsunami crest.