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Baldur's Gate--- so I remembered that I happened to have a potion of animal speaking on me when seeing a blue jay here in the Grove....I tried it out to see what's up with that; he didn't say much, just was relieved like "ah, those monsters didn't touch my nest!" or something like that.... he had nothing else going on.   ...so yeah, I hit him with an Eldritch Blast anyway.

Murdering the druids was so delicious... this was right after that.  That one dude "Arron" is a real son of a bitch, man.  There was one time I had to reload the save because Kagha casted plant growth so we couldn't move... then this dude casted Darkness on top of the area so that was looking like checkmate right there, since this warlock character I have doesn't have Devil Sight...he also kept constantly saving Kagha by tossing heal potions on her whenever she was down to 1 or 2 HP.  Killing him was most satisfying.  On another character/file I'll come up with some extra creative evil punishment for him in particular. 

The adventures of Alastor the Warlock and his cohorts continues.... we're obviously not here to be the good guys.

whoah... this crazy bitch's name is "LUL".... "Top"?!?!  I'm sure no one else will notice that because the rest of the story involving her is so insane but damn... her name sounds like an internet meme.... (*also shows that men need to have some damn standards... amazing that some dude[s] actually knocked up a woman that looks like that...multiple times... but again I have to keep reminding myself that a lot of people just have extremely bad taste in various things so there's always that as an explanation there....)

As always, Anton is on point covering the increasingly fast decline in our society.

Edit---she tried putting her 3 year old in the oven at one point.  

ah, of course Vee is covering Blazblue Entropy Effect...he goes into some detail here:

Ok yeah I'm definitely sold on this game now...all these playable characters:

**I'm just now realizing there's different "start-up movies" for Steam Deck that you can acquire with points in the shop.... so finally I have something to spend all those points on.... there's a cool one I see already with Ranni the Witch from Elden Ring.

...now I'm looking at all the animated avatar options in there as well...it's sooo much better than what the other systems have going on in terms of profile customization....hahah especially Nintendo's pitifully small amount of profile pictures.

Currently on the MST marathon... this movie's title already sounds like a winner: The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed Up Zombies!!

A quick one from another one of my favorite pawgys Claire G... her thickness has continued to improve over the years:

I didn't know there was this much going on in the franchise... so there's a box set for Puppet Master, and this guy did a review....I haven't watched all of this just yet though:

I only have clear memories of the first 3 films from way back... and part 2 was my favorite though the 2018 "The Littlest Reich" I mentioned recently takes the new top spot.

*edit--- today I went to one of the "real" Walmarts here... the tv/movie section is surprisingly still decent enough... so today's acquisition was the "Beavis & Butthead The Complete Collection".  

10 hours ago, Hawkingbird said:

What you got against Tieflings? My character is a Tiefling. I saved my people too to get the robe. 

haha it's nothing against them in particular....I just usually prefer being the bad guy in rpgs, since other genres don't really provide that experience as an option.  Usually, we're set as the good guy/girl that's here to save the world and there's no choice in the matter...same with most movies and shows where the main characters are usually "the good guy side".....best you get is the anti-hero that occasionally does questionable shit.

I'll get around to it on perhaps a "morally grey" character some day where that's *one* of his good deeds.  You also have to make sure that Tiefling bard girl lives too, if I recall. (so Dark Urge players have to be extra careful there)

Prototype 2---- portable good times now, thanks to the Steam Deck....I've been on that the past few days now.  Even without being fully leveled up, the main characters in this series always feel so overpowered it never stops being an awesome power fantasy. (it doesn't go way overboard though; it's still possible to get overwhelmed and die)

I am not sure how I'd continue this series if making a part 3... (I'd prefer to continue it instead of doing the "reboot" thing so many companies do these days to milk an IP).... one thing that could've been interesting is to keep James Heller as the main character, but now "Alex Mercer" is also part of him...so there's an internal struggle going on with the "Mercer" voice/essence(soul?) in his head trying to influence or take control.  The main threat could still be Blackwatch or CIA or whatever other secret "agency" of government/military trying to capture Heller/Mercer and any other "evolved" beings that have shown up since the events of part 2...this involves your usual super soldier programs, secret high-level tech, perhaps even "men in black" agents being involved to tie up any loose ends and maintain as much secrecy as possible before shit hits the fan again.  It's easy; this stuff practically writes itself, imo.  A cool wildcard would be a cult or 2 that has popped up to worship Heller and the other "evolved" because they see them as "gods" or a sign of some prophecy, etc.

Sheeeit, this is a potential goldmine of material some company is sitting on with the IP and they sadly don't realize it.

5 minutes ago, DoctaMario said:

The damage to Disney's rep as a company that fulfills the expectation of quality every time around is, I would argue, the more damaging ramification. They're headed for Konami territory if they keep on the way they have been.

Oh yeah, the funny thing to me is that there was a time many years ago...when I saw their acquisition of Star Wars as a good thing since it would mean more Star Wars stuff was on the way......wooo boy look how that turned out.  Now if Disney is involved with something it's like a "stain" on that thing, imo.... almost as bad as that little consulting company "Sweet Baby Inc." in the games industry.  haha at this point some gamers have taken to checking their official website on occasion to see what games to avoid 🤣  

*On another note, I didn't know until now Disney had any involvement at all with the recent Boogeyman film.

Damn, imagine my disappointment when he mentioned to get this "best robe" ...."...you'll have to rescue the Tieflings.."

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-iKYrTU7ZvI

nah, I can't roll with that, bruh.

The current younger generations are learning much too late about why an "all streaming!", online-only future for entertainment is ultimately a horrible thing for the consumer, and is only a benefit to the companies.

I didn't even know "copies" were a thing on some of these services; I assumed people were *just* streaming shows and movies and that was it.  The idea of having a "copy" suggests that you have that for real and it can't be taken away unless someone broke into your place and stole it.

Y'know, I've never seen an example of a face tattoo looking cool... it just looks silly and dumb every time to me.  Every time I've seen that fat singer "Jelly Roll" lately in the entertainment news cycle or on social media (fb) I can't help but laugh at how ridiculous the visual is.  21-Savage is another one that keeps popping up lately as well....speaking of which that was pretty funny that he got caught on a live-stream recently trying to scam a live-streamer in some card game....like his buddy forgot there's obviously the camera right there and they were LIVE to a huge audience.

Also---for some reason facebook algorithm keeps thinking I want pictures of that weird looking girl Anya "TJ"....I'd rather not type out the name fully to avoid helping the all-powerful algorithm even more....but she just looks like a strange insect/human hybrid creature to me; best I can say is that her attractiveness is inconsistent.  There are some pictures where she can be "ok" or mildly cute but most of the time she looks odd.

It's so cool when you take a look in an old cd/dvd binder and find stuff that was forgotten about for years---- I still have the DVD of Urotsukidoji: Legend of the Overfiend!  I put that into a proper case asap.

Other random gold in there: Marvel vs. Capcom 2 on Dreamcast, a CDR that has some music from Legend of the Mystical Ninja (I really wish this would get a re-release some day), Aria & Friends (*oh yes... the absurdly hot Aria Giovanni), various other CDRs with game music, like Donkey Kong Country's water level, stuff from an old internet radio station "Radd Radio" (from early 2000s), Playboy "Girls of Reality TV", Seeing Double [a movie featuring S Club 7!], Uncovered [a movie where Kate Beckinsale got naked], the Class Act movie soundtrack, Monster's Ball and Swordfish [heh, obvious reason I bought those 2], the Bugsy movie soundtrack [by legendary Ennio Morricone], Boyz II Men's Cooley High Harmony, Cirque Du Soleil Nouvelle Experience, Batman: Mask of the Phantasm soundtrack, To The Limit [a movie featuring naked Anna Nicole Smith], 

WWF: The Music Vol. 4---yes, back when it was still called "WWF", not WWE.... Idle Hands [selling point = Jessica Alba] , Pharcyde's Labcabincalifornia album, An Erotic Vampire in Paris, Raze's Hell [Xbox game where you kill enemies that look like Teletubbies] the legendary "WWE Divas: Undressed" dvd, The Players Club, a FLCL/Furikuri soundtrack and so much more.

Man I forgot about Granblue Fantasy Relink already being out there, so that's my next major acquisition in the "new stuff" category for sure.

*ohhhh yeah it works on Steam Deck so of course I'm getting it there:

Ah yes... that rant is delicious..... it may be obvious just from the thumbnail pic what he's about to go off about:

...too bad that particular battle is over though.  No, there's no hope.

It doesn't help that they continue to let my precious Gears of War franchise just collect dust these days.... this fall it will have been 5 years since the last one was released, and that next one was supposed to be the conclusion of a trilogy, btw.

...and I wonder how many more years until that Fable game is finally out?  

...even though Kingdoms of Amalur already surpassed the Fable franchise in just about every way possible 12 years ago... then got the re-make treatment *with* new DLC about 3 years ago. 😆  

It would be a shame for the "nemesis" gimmick to just be left behind and forgotten... I kept hoping that would become a new trend or standard expectation in most games, especially rpgs.  It was one of the best and most interesting new things in gaming from recent years.  Diablo's version of it was a normal enemy gets "upgraded" to a nemesis monster by killing a player character.... then it can show up again later, either in your game or in the world of a random friend that also plays the game, and it appears with a title under it's name indicating "Killer of _____" (your gamertag...or if it's your game it re-appeared in, it will just have the name of your character it killed previously)...it also got stronger with each player kill.  Killing the nemesis gives you a guaranteed legendary item.

It was slightly different in Shadow of War (I think this was in Shadow of Mordor as well?)---there, the enemy that comes back as a "nemesis" also remembers certain things about your previous battle, and it was upgraded to be even stronger, with new abilities and less weaknesses... they move up the ranks as well.  This character could also appear in your friend's game.

ah, I figured videos had been made on the subject.... it's a simple concept that is genius....it naturally adds plenty of replay value:

Edit----ah, he mentions it right in this video, actually.... so there's a legal element at play since WB apparently had a patent on the nemesis system, so that would be the barrier to other companies using it.

Yep, YongYea had a vid on this in 2021:

...and someone just mentioned in the comment section----imagine if this feature could've been used on great ones of today like Elden Ring! 

Carl Weathers of course was also known for being part of the manliest handshake in the history of film:

Strange that I'm only just now finding out about this by browsing the Steam store a few minutes ago----oh yeah I like what I see so far:

^oh yeah I'll have to check that out in a minute... for anyone that may have forgotten by now, the story of Travis Walton was the basis for that movie Fire In the Sky.  (...that movie had aliens that looked like Joe Biden, btw; there's no way I'm the only one that notices the odd resemblance.)

...it's been a while now; that movie is now 31 years old.

I haven't seen her in a while so I had to look up the channel again...

Despite the rest of the problems and general unappealing nature of that Suicide Squad game.... that scene where the guy takes a piss on Flash...sheeeitttt that was goddamn hilarious to me....such an impressive level of degenerate disrespect right there.   haha imagine if he then shit on him too.  I'd be equal opportunity with it as well, unlike those behind this game from what I hear---- in my version, Wonder Woman's corpse would get pissed on too...maybe add a big wet fart on her face for good measure. 🤣

...and that just reminded me of the piss fatality in Primal Rage again; this is the first time I've seen such a thing since that game.  No shame here; it's down to my admittedly disgusting sense of humor.