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This is what happens when fun Gus is no longer having fun.

I focused on Jagged Alliance 3 this week. It’s comedic in nature and fun. The player rents the mercenaries they use, with a few exceptions. They have a map full of squares, and each square is a combat map. Move from place to place, explore, interact with npcs, capture objectives and kill the opposition. The enemies can be deceptive in strength from square to square. There’s like regular, veteran and elite and some squares have skewed distribution. Without information beforehand, one can easily get overwhelmed.. If also playing on ironman, mercenaries can be lost easily.

Anyway, I only have half a map done and there are raids, to it will take a while longer to reach the end, if I don’t burn out with turn-based games by then.

Hmm…

Several convoluted hoops to a conclusion later: Stalin was gay. He too was big on patriarchal imposed values and hated his eldest(?) son for not adhering to them. He also really disliked his home nation of Georgia for some unknown reason, giving hint of blaming his origin for his own repression.

It’s probably incorrect, but sounds plausible, so I’ll roll with it.

I believe those who committed crimes were spanked with wooden boards a number of times, based on severity. And not the gentle, sexy kind of spanking.

Really? The guy who hates Linux? Colour me shocked.

And we know for sure it’s not his mom who named them all?

The good ones are hidden in dusty libraries. The great ones are hidden in lost temples and underground labyrinths full of angry animals and rusty traps.

Sadly, I don’t enjoy huge anime tiddies. Large at most, as i feel the want to engulf them, not be engulfed. There are thighs for that. Each with their purpose, for me.

I heard a theory it happened due to unavoidable decadence and corruption where aristocrats controlled key administration and military roles and considered investing into exploration a risk to their consolidated wealth and power on the domestic side, so even if an emperor wanted to focus outwards, he was blocked on both manpower and economics.

Yeah. Easy enough game that can get more complicated with each unlock and rng picks. Made it past the last boss on the first run. Did the same with the second ship, but I lost randomly with the third. Plenty of ways to go at it with each unlock and bonus, while also increasing the difficulty, but it does get repetitive when you’re not in the mood for repetition.

Cartel of debtors, obviously.

Well, according to the poor explanation given shortly after, someone did do that.

Not saying it was like that here, but I’m giving an example for your understanding.

Two kinds of jobs are specialists, or someone who knows what they’re doing and drones, or someone who doesn’t have to know what they’re doing as long as they get things pushed their way done.

A drone doesn’t know and doesn’t care what those symbols are, they just do their job regardless of the connotations.

A specialist knows entirely what it’s all about and makes informed decisions.

Now a company can have, among other types, drones or specialists top to bottom or a random mix. So often enough there are cases where everyone just does what they’re told without wasting a single brain cell in the process, whether as drones who just do as told or as malicious compliance officers due to various constraints.

The world is large and diverse. Situations beyond our knowledge happen all the time. Which is why I’m opting for keeping an open mind. Otherwise, should anything beyond the ordinary happen to me, reality won’t matter anymore, just these fixed expectations of public opinion.

They might be getting ready for a break-up…

What’s the source and context for this post? Who’s the old dude? What is he wearing? Is that a duck in his pocket or is he just happy to see me?

You’re downvoted for throwing the Nazi word around like it’s cabbage. People might agree this situation was a fuckup, going full tilt on it though is an overreaction.

In itself, the argument is sound. A lot of media is censored specifically for China or predominantly muslim-governed countries. It’s just standard corporate bootlicking.

The context makes it awkward. For example, most of Asia neither knows nor cares about nazis because it’s not who oppressed them, so I don’t seem them having an issue with it in this sense. But then again, I’m not sure of Gog’s presence in Asia…

Uhm, 32 years apparently.

So it might be more about cheek clappers than knee ones, but we can’t be sure.

Yeah, no it’s Dark Arisen. I know about the merchant quest, but use outside guides because a lot of stuff is missable. Outside of gameplay, the questing is a mess and escorts are still a pain.

I mean, I was escorting a dude and a chimera showed up, so the dude went right at it just as it was spewing out poison. Like what the hell?

I enjoy the exploration, the combat, the skills and some bits of the lore. But it has some bad parts for sure.

Watching the floor get wiped with my carcass in Dragon’s Dogma. In hard mode. On the upside, in between all the retrying, i amassed 1.5 mil gold coins from just running around the map exploring and killing goblins and bandits.

This is one of those games where side quests get locked out by advancing the main story. I’m at a point where the main quest sends me right, but the side quests send me left, so I went the long way around. Now with hard mode, the exp gains are doubled from normal mode and mobs drop gold. I don’t know if it’s how it’s supposed to work, but all the weak goblins keep dropping 10k bags. I don’t mind it, because it definitely isn’t enough anyway.

My defense only matters for weak mobs, in case they gank me while I’m dodging the big guys and they tend to do that, wolves especially. The big guys mostly one-shot me, so I might as well run naked around them. Might be different at higher levels, but I’m a small time explorer for now.

I’m not sure I’m going to finish the story, but for now it’s fun. We’ll see how it develops further on.

Subterrain: Mines of Titan

I’m nearing the climax, I think. I guess it’s a roguelike in the original sense. Everything moves at the same time in turns. You have equipment, abilities, do quests, crawl a dungeon.

There are personal needs and base needs which need to be maintained, a lot of running back and forth, an overall story and collectibles which empower characters for future playthroughs. Though i doubt I’ll stick around for them as one run is lengthy enough.

If you like stuff like Maj’Eyal, cataclysm dda, dungeon soup, pixel dungeon etc, then this should feel familiar enough while it does its own thing.

XCOM 2, again. Why? Because I felt like it. With mods of course.

The reasons seem to be graphics. Set most of them to low and the problems disappeared for now.

Right now, my problem is technical. The first Witcher isn’t made for modern systems, so it crashes a lot.

• Cutscenes leading into loading screen will freeze the game. It happens when crossing from the prologue to first act.

• if lighting isn’t set go low in settings, cutscenes will start during combat

• game can crash during combat

• run too fast or too long, game crashes

• try to exit the game normally, it stops responding.

It definitely did not age well.

I’m going to try for the Witcher trilogy, but I can’t say I’ll follow through.

Agreed. The underperforming system in this case is clearly upper management. They should get rid of it.