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Today, 03:28 PMYeah, Anakin is a great teacher and mentor, ignoring the giant pile of kids he chops up whenever he's feeling stressed. Personally, when evaluating...311 replies | 11800 view(s)
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Yesterday, 08:14 AMMostly I think the Jedi get nitpicked because they're a weird quasi-religious order that doesn't look like a fantasized version of the audience, and...311 replies | 11800 view(s)
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2024-04-12, 10:25 AMAs I said before, the Architect scene is to me the best part of the movie. It absolutely sizzles to me, precisely because it's the point where the...54 replies | 2517 view(s)
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2024-04-11, 08:42 PMwarty goblin replied to a thread What Are You Playing: 9 Years since the Last Dragon Age in Gaming (Other)Finally wrapped up Chapter 4 of Knight's Tale today, that being the end of the main story, with chapter being the endgame stuff. I started this in...1299 replies | 101149 view(s)
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2024-04-10, 06:08 PMThere is no right to pursue individual passions in that creed. There is the will to power for a single individual to do whatever they want. Yeah, I'm...311 replies | 11800 view(s)
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2024-04-10, 03:27 PM4d in what sense? We exist in 4d spacetime as it is, so every gun is 4d. If the gun and bullet occupy 4 spatial dimensions, you can miss in exciting...9 replies | 493 view(s)
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2024-04-10, 02:25 PMStates can be violent and oppressive, that doesn't mean they necessarily are. This is pretty much just fascism. Like, it's Umberto Ecco's...311 replies | 11800 view(s)
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2024-04-10, 11:33 AMThe Jedi method is not easy or instantly relatable, because it asks something of the practitioner, namely self awareness and understanding and...311 replies | 11800 view(s)
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2024-04-10, 10:15 AMwarty goblin replied to a thread Baldur's Gate 3 III: No Plans for DLC Or A Fourth Thread in Gaming (Other)I've never been able to get very far into WoTR's story, but it certainly didn't strike me as particularly engaging. The first thing that happens is a...93 replies | 3343 view(s)
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2024-04-10, 09:44 AMI found the Architect scene to be by far the best part of Reloaded. It didn't save the movie by any means, there's too much pointless action and the...54 replies | 2517 view(s)
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2024-04-10, 09:12 AMwarty goblin replied to a thread Baldur's Gate 3 III: No Plans for DLC Or A Fourth Thread in Gaming (Other)The best way to play Wrath of the Righteous is the roguelike DLC, where all the characters are custom, and the leveling pace is substantially higher....93 replies | 3343 view(s)
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2024-04-09, 03:13 PMI don't think it's a fair read to say that the Jedi supported an ineffectual Republic, it worked very well for a very long time. Nobody is going to...311 replies | 11800 view(s)
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2024-04-08, 10:05 AMwarty goblin replied to a thread What Are You Playing: 9 Years since the Last Dragon Age in Gaming (Other)Getting very close to finishing up Knight's Tale. The missions in the last chapter get really hard, with huge enemy counts, so a mistake in movement...1299 replies | 101149 view(s)
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2024-04-05, 01:29 PMI don't think series generally work well if they (try to) go on forever. Either they mutate into something unrecognizable and lose their original...311 replies | 11800 view(s)
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2024-04-05, 10:53 AMwarty goblin replied to a thread Baldur's Gate 3 III: No Plans for DLC Or A Fourth Thread in Gaming (Other)There's a reasonable design philosophy behind not letting you see all a class's possible choices at character gen, it puts the focus on choosing what...93 replies | 3343 view(s)
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2024-04-03, 06:19 PMwarty goblin replied to a thread Baldur's Gate 3 III: No Plans for DLC Or A Fourth Thread in Gaming (Other)Ship combat is tricky in an RPG context, particularly following the ST formula of a single capital ship, because then the player only has a single...93 replies | 3343 view(s)
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2024-04-03, 04:25 PMwarty goblin replied to a thread Baldur's Gate 3 III: No Plans for DLC Or A Fourth Thread in Gaming (Other)I meant lucky as in fortunate, enviable or rare, not getting where they are due to random chance. Could have picked a better word.93 replies | 3343 view(s)
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2024-04-02, 07:16 PMwarty goblin replied to a thread Baldur's Gate 3 III: No Plans for DLC Or A Fourth Thread in Gaming (Other)I'd rather not an actual licensed Star Trek game at this point - again Larien is too inventive and in the astonishingly lucky position to not be...93 replies | 3343 view(s)
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2024-03-30, 05:51 PMwarty goblin replied to a thread Baldur's Gate 3 III: No Plans for DLC Or A Fourth Thread in Gaming (Other)Preset protagonists are just fine, and pretty common in the wider universe of computer RPGs. In many ways I rather prefer them, as it makes the...93 replies | 3343 view(s)
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2024-03-29, 08:39 PMwarty goblin replied to a thread Baldur's Gate 3 III: No Plans for DLC Or A Fourth Thread in Gaming (Other)I find it slightly funny that everybody is talking about a GoT cRPG like a theoretical exotic form of matter when it's an actual thing you can just...93 replies | 3343 view(s)
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2024-03-28, 09:19 PMwarty goblin replied to a thread What Are You Playing: 9 Years since the Last Dragon Age in Gaming (Other)Reached Act 4 in Knight's Tale. As per previous act transitions, the dominant enemy has shifted from the Sidhe to the Formorians, because the game is...1299 replies | 101149 view(s)
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2024-03-28, 07:30 PMI thought he did fine for everything but the Napoleon is a charismatic general whose soldiers would follow anywhere bit. Which, admittedly, is a very...11 replies | 825 view(s)
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2024-03-28, 07:18 PMI thought the problem with Napoleon was that it was basically 1/3 of like 4 different movies; you had the history of France bit, the Napoleon is...11 replies | 825 view(s)
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2024-03-28, 06:50 AMwarty goblin replied to a thread What Are You Playing: 9 Years since the Last Dragon Age in Gaming (Other)I'd very much agree with this. If the game takes 20 hours to get to the good stuff, somebody somewhere screwed up because that's a lot of time to...1299 replies | 101149 view(s)
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2024-03-27, 07:11 PMI've never been exactly nuts about Star Wars in the first place. My favorites are hands down Empire Strikes Back and Revenge of the Sith, and it's...311 replies | 11800 view(s)
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2024-03-27, 10:05 AMwarty goblin replied to a thread Baldur's Gate 3 II: The Urge for a Second Playthrough in Gaming (Other)If you want low magic tactical depth, it's perfectly doable. You just need to get a bit more in the weeds with stuff that high fantasy treats as more...1483 replies | 117492 view(s)
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2024-03-26, 04:48 PMMostly I don't enjoy male leads like that because to me they don't make for an enjoyable story. I'm not putting my various dumbass and deranged...834 replies | 96100 view(s)
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2024-03-26, 02:48 PMI guess the thing that confuses me is that the premise isn't particularly fantastic. A magic sword quest with demons and whatnot is exciting and also...834 replies | 96100 view(s)
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2024-03-25, 04:49 PMwarty goblin replied to a thread Baldur's Gate 3 II: The Urge for a Second Playthrough in Gaming (Other)To be fair, GoT combat is sort of targeted directly at my personal biases, i.e. a bunch of big armored dudes smashing each other. Owlcat's Pathfinder...1483 replies | 117492 view(s)
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2024-03-25, 03:00 PMAn episodic style could absolutely work for Fallout, Star Trek Strange New Worlds is episodic and also fantastic. But if anything episodic shows...92 replies | 4862 view(s)
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Blood-red were his spurs i' the golden noon; wine-red was his velvet coat,
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Alfred Noyes, The Highwayman, 1906.
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