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Oh man, you just more to get me interested in this with that sentence than anything else I've seen about this (to be fair, I haven't actually followed PoE much). My favorite DnD character was a Dwarf fighter who had a high wisdom, and over the course of that campaign (it lasted decades in world), he gradually transitioned from a savage barbarian, to a holy warrior, to the moral leader of the group, more priest than warrior. I doubt an arc like that is possible, but a system giving you a reason to have interesting stat placement is something I would love.

On the aesthetic of Bloodborne, I think it's really following in the footsteps of the reserved nature of the Souls games. Just as the Souls games were a decrepit medieval land, Bloodborne is that filter laid over a Victorian/steam punk world. In any other game drawing on this look, you'd have a wacky inventor with a flying machine. Or like Dishonored, you've have a crazy mechanical facemask with built in binoculars. It's so much more reserved than any other game in this kind of fictional location would be. It also maintains the same kind of nihilism of the Souls games. A lot of the enemies in all these games aren't evil. They've been corrupted in some way. While that corruption has a physical component, it is mostly driven by a spiritual or emotional sense of complete pointlessness to everything, planting that seed of doubt that the world, and the gods, and everything actually has no meaning, and that starts a downward spiral of decay and despair. Dark Souls 1 really drives it home in a few places. Like when you meet your first god, and should you choose to challenge her, discover that she was only ever an illusion. Or when your ever jolly buddy the Sun Knight finally gives into either madness or despair. DS1 and 2 both cast some doubt as to whether or not you are even exploring a real space, or if it's just a fever dream created by your brain as you die in some other place, lands that truly have no meaning whatsoever.

Murder, She Wrote: The Game Murder, She Wrote 2: Return to Cabot Cove

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Has anybody done any co-op or invasions (or been invaded) yet? I thought about seeing if I could get help for the Gascoigne fight, but after biting the dust three times to him, my pride kicked in and I was bound and determined to do it myself. Also, apparently there are NPC summons in the game? Chatting with someone on Facebook this morning, I was told that before some of the bosses there are notes that actually act as NPC summons if you use the bell on them.

The lady has a personal obsession with civil engineering, road construction and traffic stuff (she seriously missed her calling in life by not going into engineering back when she was in school). You guys had her drooling talking about Cities: Skylines.

"notorious weedlord" has no hits (in quotes) in google, making this thread the prime destination online for people to learn about notorious weedlords. I sense an advertising opportunity here. Also notoriousweedlord.com is available. Also, yeah, totally agreed with Chris.

Broken Lizard has delivered more than failed (for me), so I think they've got a shot at making something good. I love Super Troopers, so so so much. Club Dread was not great, but it was an interesting experiment with trying to make sure none of the troop got typecast by their Super Troopers characters. I liked Beerfest a bunch, probably because it reminded me of all my old buddies. I just discovered they made another movie a few years ago, Slammin Salmon, which I have not seen, but will soon.

Yep, they persist until you die again, near as I can tell (whether in stain form or purple eyed bastard form). That hair is almost as scary as he was.

I disagree. If you've had multiple dates, but no physical affection (not even kissing), that's keeping things in a pretty ambiguous place. I favor clear communication over extended ambiguity. I didn't know that! Doing a bit of googling this morning, it sounds like some people favor smoked corned beef as a descriptor because it's more clear than pastrami, as pastrami has become more generic in that it can be from multiple cuts of meat, and may not even be from beef, whereas corned beef should always be from brisket.

The time is meow: Super Troopers 2. I'm way too excited about this.

Father Gascoigne can burn in hell. That fight should not have taken me as many times as it did. Fuck that guy.

\o/ Hooray! I won't question your Reuben expertise, but it is definitely corned beef on this one. It's only ever available on special at RJ's because they only take the time to make their own corned beef about once a month, then the Reuben is available for however long they have the meat for it. Some people draw a hard line that a Reuben doesn't use mustard, but after having had RJ's, I can't imagine it being better any other way.

Just copy-paste the Dinobots into Star Wars, done!

It was last posted back in December, that's like posting something in the Jurassic age in Internet times.

That's the one thing I cheated and looked up, because I couldn't figure out what it did. Picking up a badge unlocks new items in the store. Bosses drop them, and there are some hidden around the game.

Sorry, yes, that is exactly what I meant! Throw an oil flask, then throw a molotov, and BOOM! The base molotov was doing 160 for me on the boss, and the Oil Flask boosted molotov was doing closer to...350? I think. It was definitely in the 300s. You do have to throw a fresh oil flask each time though.

I generally prefer bbq sauce on most of my sandwiches. I did once eat a Reuben that nearly brought tears to my eyes, prepared by a french chef who now runs a bbq joint. The balance in flavors between the kraut, smoked corned beef, cheese and mustard was one of the most beautiful things my mouth has experienced. I just ate a baked potato, and now I'm hungry again.

Oh yeah, this is soooooo nice. It's just one of those little touches that completely eliminates a minor annoyance that exists in so many games. It's one of those ideas where once you see it, you wonder why ever game with a stash doesn't do it the same way. Also, I'm freaking shocked that you can sell items right from the beginning. It's also nice, a couple of times when I've died, I've sold all my extra bullets to afford a an extra molotov or two. Also, also, Oil Flasks! You only find a few of these, but they are buyable after the first boss. These might as well be a second stack of molotovs. They seem to more than double the damage of a molotov, or you can keep the torch in your off hand and switch to it to light someone up (I assume, I haven't actually tried this yet, I burned through all my found flasks on the dreaded twin bridge beasts and the first boss). Something I forgot to mention last night, the dearth of lamps/bonfires is actually a welcome change from DS2. The devs just threw bonfires at you in DS2, in some areas it had hardly seemed like you had explored at all and you found another one. So far I've found two, and tension building as you move further and further away from one is incredible.

Thanks! I wasn't really thinking about the much more limited weapon range in this game, thus eliminating some of the supply issues. Have you said what your starting build was? I didn't see where you did. With the cane I felt like I was struggling, but when I restarted with the Axe, I felt like I started booking it through areas I was familiar with. Also, use your consumables! Molotovs are cheap. Bullets are plentiful. As I started going back through areas, there were some easy spots to take out 2-3 enemies with a single molotov, speeding my time up a bunch. I also think the L1 combo is probably one of the stronger moves in the game (if you aren't already using it). From any other melee attack, you can hit L1, and you'll do a special attack as your weapon changes to its other form. Plus once you know for sure where an enemy is, a dashing attack will one shot a lot of enemies, or a jumping R2 if a weapon supports that move (not sure all forms do).

So this has been around for over a thousand pages, but somehow I had never heard of it, the webcomic Darths and Droids, re-imagining all the Star Wars movies as a dysfunctional gaming group. The first couple of dozen pages are certainly entertaining.

I, so far, am pretty happy with the simplification that has gone on. A lot of previous stat systems were just kind of pointless cruft, this seems to have really boiled it down a bunch. Yeah, I'm sure I'm being overly nitpicky for as early on as I am. In DS2, I spent my entire first evening just exploring the Forest of the Fallen Giants, but on subsequent playthroughs I was able to kill four bosses in under an hour at the start of the game. For people a bit further on, what are upgrade material supplies like? As I understand it, there is only a single material? If these are buyable or relatively plentiful, I'll just go ahead and pump what I have into my axe.

That, or it's lunch related. He found the perfect balance of bacon, lettuce and tomato, creating a sandwich that transcends all that we have ever known of the sandwich.

It's really passed the point of being infuriating and just become absurd. Hell, I can't even swear for sure that I won't ever buy a Logitech mouse again. The reality is that this is the first Logitech mouse I've ever had die within three years of buying, all the other ones have ended up being retired from age or I broke them myself. I have one of their trackballs in my desk from 16 or 17 years ago that I keep as a backup, because it still works great. That's a pretty great track record. Though this has knocked the hell out of their reputation in general for me. I've always recommended Logitech stuff without a hesitation, and that won't happen anymore.

Day 62 of my Logitech odyssey, I've been informed that even though I was promised my new mouse would ship out last week, unfortunately stock was low and it didn't, and for some reason now the claim has to be re-approved by the warranty department again before it will ship out. This is crossing over into Monty Python levels of customer service ridiculousness.