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Yeah this was a problem with some series in-production during the last strike. Especially ones where the director also has writing credits. It's not insurmountable, but it's far from ideal. Friend of ours had literally just gotten their WGA East credentials last month and was so happy that...

I triggered a bunch of Rook storms last night and just lured him into a safehouse UV area whereupon he promptly got ganked. For a game that is a co-op looter shooter the loot is just awful. Most of the parameters seem marginal at best.

Yeah they made Feyd pasty and bald its certainly an interesting choice, but it is consistent with the Harkonnen visual language in this version.

UV hasn't been effective against the few times I've fought a Rook. Perhaps my UV projector is just shit, or do you run to a UV protected area?

The new no-longer-One-D&D-but-not-still-5e playtest material has some interesting elements. I don't care for what they did to Warlocks and Sorcerers with this new spin on things. Im especially annoyed by the decision to have both of them hold off on subclass until 3rd level. Sorcerer I can...

They wanted to use Drizzt originally but went with Zenk instead. I think it's actually a smart choice.

Was absolutely not expecting this!

ChatGPT is great for 'stone soup' writing. It lets you avoid the numbing terror of a blank piece of paper and provides you with something you can work off of. I've used it myself for some D&D type stuff and while the end result contained essentially nothing from the AI output the stuff it...

There is indeed something buried in this mess. The zerg-rush nature of the setup wherein you get quickly ganked and then run a short distance back to continue fighting is just really weird. It results in almost no gravitas to the encounter and actually causes me to do things like willingly...

One of the players had a work trip so we did a watch party of this last night instead of our usual session. It was really good! I was genuinely shocked at how good it was. Snappy pacing, genuinely funny moments, the right level of authentic fanservice, Jarnathan...all prime stuff.

So after you finish the Redfall map based around the Firehouse (which is essentially a tutorial) you go to a second full town which is a suburb of Redfall with two more 'Vampire Gods'. I'm guessing their season pass will consist of adding in more and more of these maps with new content that...

This game makes Division 2 look like a masterpiece. The movement is janky as fuck, the AI and game balance is all over the place and the core game is just dumb. Here's an example: Health packs. You can carry 5 (initially) and the drop semi-infrequentlt from human mobs. You heal to full when...

It has maybe the worst tutorial in a games in recent memory. I can see a hint of an interesting concept, but it's as if they drew up a design doc and then hired our a Left4Dead modder to do a total conversion.

Doing a New Journey+ now and the optional 0-slot Perks are an interesting way to incorporate different things in that modality. You can choose to equip-or-not three different perks 1) New encounters 2) Vastly increased damage for everyone 3) Randomized cosmetics whenever you die. I am only...

They must have already been working on some of these... the patch approval process is usually a bitch yeah?

This writers strike is gonna be devastating amidst the cooling off of release cadences. I think the golden age of streaming products may be over.

Just finished Act 2 (they don't specify them...but it's clearly the second of three logical acts). I may take a break before I go through Act 3, especially with a ton of skillpoints to be found at the various side-quests and exploration stuff. Minor plot specific spoilers

Dont forget the upgrades you can buy with the various tokens you can find. I seem to have fucked up somehow as I'm running around with 4-slot perks and I only have 3 perk slots... :(

Given JMS's comments about physical media I'm guessing the thing we get this coming week is fully remastered Babylon 5 4k blu rays with all new cast commentary. Possibly with various episodes re-edited with additional footage that had to be cut for time etc.

You actually do upgrade the arm cannon in the side quests

Game is fine on Xbox Series X and I'm running on the 'pretty' setting, not the 'fast' one. There was one place in an open area with water where the graphics grew noticably sluggish but otherwise it's fine. Quite enjoying the plot so far.

Finally Unicron. What the fuck took them so goddamn long??

It sold $30M in the UK alone for 2022 (the UK tracks such stuff publicly for tax purposes) and Sony has claimed 10M copies have been sold (~2M bundled with PS5). Elden ring sold twice as many, but that was across multiple platforms including PC. Combine the initial sales with whatever they get...

You do get a really nice weapon from that whole side-quest sequence though. I do want to go back and do a New Game+ at some point and use all the weapons I never touched, like the disk thrower. The new mechanic of the elemental temporary enchantments for melee in Burning Shores was something...

The expansion was decent. The new weapon(s) were nice riffs on existing themes and there were some nice new puzzle areas to solve. Sam Witwer gnawed on the scenery in a pleasing way and it managed to give us a slightly different perspective on the whole era leading up to the Faro Plague. By...

I tried to launch it and got the "You're too early!" pop-up, but it then proceeded to download the rest of the files.

The latest Unearthed Arcana has lots of new things. The redesigns for several of the classes feel very Pathfinder-ish : https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/one-dnd/ph-playtest-5

Hmmm its still sitting at 44GB...any way to force it to download the 100+ GB?

The game pre-loads at 42GB .... well shy of its final release size.

Magic: The Gathering Fan Allegedly Set Upon by Pinkertons for Unreleased Cards Free publicity I guess? Seems a touch naive to assume that every link in your supply chain is going to notice that "Magic the Gathering -- March of the Machine: The Aftermath" is different than "Magic the...

Was very nice but also very sad to hear Lance Reddick in the epilogue to the expansion. Its clear that this leads to

What can be fun as a DM is to play the 'long game' with respect to murderhobo development. In my current game the party has mostly been in encounters where the enemy consisted of one challenging entity or a small group of moderately challenging opponents. They have thus optimized their...

Someone posted on Twitter that the post credit should have been Wesley popping in to meet his brother and... yeah that makes a lot of sense. Also Jeri Ryan is 55... good lord. She looks better at 55 than most of the 40 year olds I know.

I live with a huge Evil Dead fan and he saw it a few weeks ago as part of a PR screening and his assessment was that it was 'good, not amazing, but good'. This may not sound like a ringing endorsement but he is not at all shy about ranting on the subject of bad horror flicks and so a modest...

I just came here to share that. I genuinely thought it was some sort of bodycam 'found footage' type independent film maker short.

My God [/spoiler]

I have issues with Mandalorian surnames. Satine Kryze and Bo Katan Kryze are of royal house of clan Kryze. Tarre Vizla forged the darksaber and is the ancestor of Paz Vizla of clan Vizla.