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A shame I'll probably be too sleepy to enjoy this juicy drama for the flash-cast stream tonight; basically, YellowFlash got called out (by Ethan Van Sciver, who is still live streaming right now) for allegedly not paying the artist that's working on his book...and this comes up now as YF's usual weekend show is about to go live very soon....so of course the live-chat is a complete shit-show right now, fully derailed by this topic instead of what the normal topics would be....and the mods are out in full force deleting lots of comments.  Currently, the response has been that YF offered to pay the artist some money up front/now and the dude turned it down (he's in a bad spot and actually needs money at the moment)... but supposedly their deal has this artist owning 40% of the book though.  Oh yeah this should be good.  It's a safe bet that EVS will never be a regular guest on Flash's show ever again.

*oddly enough I just noticed that oddball "Lofti" character is a guest tonight; hell must have frozen over because I thought that bridge was burned forever as well (Lofti kept using the "f-word" slur on YF's show one night so he was understandably pissed since that could quickly get your show and channel taken down or banned probably)

no shame in my game here, folks... I can't get enough of the spicy youtube drama.  It's delicious.

Upcoming ice/snow weather mix---- reminds me that the unfortunate downside of the post pandemic "work from home" era is now this doesn't mean a free day off....they'll just tell us to work from home when the roads are iced over.

Creating another Skyrim character... "Vorador" (yep, the green elder vamp from Blood Omen; of course he's made as an Orc).... it reminded me that there should always be a way built-in to "open-ended" rpgs like that to skip the story/cinematic stuff at the beginning once you've seen it that first time.  I'm sure "Alternate Start" is one of the most popular little mods for that reason in Skyrim.  ...I remember that Borderlands 3 had a "skip" option as well that was patched in shortly after it launched....all these games should have that; if you have seen the story stuff already and are just making a new character, it's best to just get to the good "do what you want" part asap via a "skip intro sequence" option.

I may also get back into ESO again....I still wish it were a regular game instead of an mmo....

So.... real chicken-fingers one might say?  Bruh...

I noticed AlmightyTevin's recent re-stream popped up in my recommended section recently....so apparently our ol buddy Phil had the Mrs. on his stream again recently; I think it was the first time in years

I can only imagine the absolute goldmine of material going on in his live-chat section as this was happening....moderators probably had to put in serious work that day. "No this is not a pregnancy announcement, guys." bruh... 😆

ah, so Jasper the Cat is still there as well, I see.

hahaha a "BOW movement".  Oddly enough... I've never actually timed how long it takes to shit on average.

Isn't it annoying though, when you're needing to drop that deuce but someone else is already in there doing it too...?  This happened just the other day.  When it's a small bathroom, like only 2 or 3 stalls then I'm moving on to another room.  Imagine...you're in there shitting right next to another dude that's also shitting in the stall next to yours.  Nahhh.  Awkward doesn't even begin to describe that situation of shitting right next to another person that's also shitting...and imagine if the other dude tries to make small talk.....naw, bruh (it's already strange enough that some people will actually say something to the next guy while you're both pissing at a urinal).... it would also be too difficult to not laugh.

20 minutes ago, RSG3 said:

Great clip bit it does make me wonder how western games still really fail at selling the impact of combat in their action games. Those sound effects are weak, those hit stop animations and impact effects from Princes weapons are kinda...weak. 

 

I don't really understand why I can play an FPS from a western dev and pick up a shotgun that feels like it could carve out a new Grand Canyon, but then I play an action game from the west and it feels like I have toilet paper rolls for boxing gloves or something. 

 

Reminds me of Ebony and Ivory. Shoot them in DMC1 and they look and sound like they could put a hole in the earth and hit just as hard. Big ass fully custom 1911s. Then you play DmC and they are tiny little twisted up Baretta's that sound like Cap Guns and can barely stop the wind. 

This reminds me of a small gripe I have with the Gears franchise... I am not sure what happened, but the gun sounds and effects aren't hard-hitting anymore in the later games.... like the people who work on that franchise now either don't care much for firearms stuff or never bother to conceptualize or research how to really "sell" that effect of badass guns and violence in a game.  The guns in Gears 5 sound like you're shooting spitballs and green peas in comparison to the guns from the older Gears games....some of them actually sound like you're hitting enemy targets with a rapid fire paintball gun.  I still enjoyed the hell out of Gears 5 but that's sad.

...and once again I'd like to tell them in person----sure would be nice if they could remember this franchise exists, *hint hint*....it's been some YEARS since Gears 5, guys....c'mon now...

Oh how very surprising 🤣

It's another one of those I wouldn't even waste time on if someone gave me the game for free.

Skyrim--- sheeit, a Draugr Deathlord thought he had the drop on me... interesting shout power that removed my access to dragon shout powers for a while apparently; I came back in the vampire lord form and hit him with the "corpse curse" magical paralysis....so he could do nothing as the blood magic spell then drained his life away.  That enemy is one to consider resurrecting via "ritual stone" as an ally, actually....since he was tough with a great sword and shout power.

Ritual Stone is so insane...I don't remember if any other standing stone powers were this good... it lets you resurrect pretty much anything, so it isn't as limited as other methods of resurrecting things.  There also is apparently no limitation on how many can be raised with it either... I remember way back when the game was new, there was a cave with a master vampire and his servants in the back, but in an earlier room there was a shallow grave with a LOT of dead bodies, and yep...Ritual Stone raised all of them, so the vamp had no chance against my undead legion....it was one of the more memorable moments for me back then.  ...but yeah, necromancy tactics via "Ritual Stone" is so strong.  Another bonus is that when the effect ends, the bodies are still there (instead of crumbling to dust like with other options) and could be raised again.....the only thing balancing it is that status of being a "once per day" power.

https://elderscrolls.fandom.com/wiki/The_Ritual_Stone_(Skyrim)

ah, so there is a level limit, it's just really high:

"Only corpses level 75 and under can be reanimated, however this limit can be increased with the Necromage perk.

Once the time has elapsed, the reanimated will fall to the ground but will not turn into an ash pile."

Well, I was curious since I hadn't watched in a long time, and these early morning hours are around the time Dark Shadows would be on....turns out the "Decades" channel is dead----rebranded as some comedy-centric channel instead, which means no more Dark Shadows or any of the other non-sitcom stuff that was previously on there....fortunately for that particular series I already have the DVD collection though (physical media wins again)....but I'll miss having that as an option.  

"Antenna TV" is still on, fortunately.  Three's Company is on right now....Burns & Allen followed by The Jack Benny Program are up next on there.  (**Edit---it just hit me; it's kind of sad that there is more than likely no one from the Millennial and younger generations who have ever heard of or seen George Burns or Jack Benny. They are lost to time.)

"Terri" on Three's Company... she was hot, sure.. but Chrissy was slightly hotter, though as I've mentioned before, Janet was the real #1 hotness on that series....one of the finest girls in all of tv history, actually.  

...that would be a tough list (Hottest TV Actresses) to narrow down now that I think of it...since y'know, the default is that you have to usually be attractive to be a regular character on a show in the first place.  Janet would still be in that upper echelon of a top 100 list for me though.

This was on in the playlist at the gym the other day and it fit the intense pace of the workout so perfectly, I'm definitely adding this to my own playlist for workout songs....

The right music combined with the intensity can make that shit so hype; I love it.

Diablo 3----They do but only so much... it doesn't take long to get to a point where the player character's powerlevel leaves them in the dust.  With any of the "endgame" builds the player character stomps them all pretty easily.  

The difficulty still hits as you go up into the higher-tier Greater Rifts, because enemy health and attack power scales up to absurd levels the further along you go in that... the numbers are so insane in Diablo 3---at endgame level in high GRs, a player character could be doing billions and trillions damage and it will still take a while to kill some elites and the boss monster at the end of a Greater Rift. (*note---the Greater Rift system scales way beyond the normal difficulty settings.)  When a character is strong enough to be doing those high GRs, at that point the "regular" Torment difficulties are nothing...even Torment 16 enemies are nothing....though people will still play T16 areas for the crafting/etc. materials.

I was playing with my off-season/offline characters (haha something pc D3 fans can't do) on Switch over the holidays; mannnn that Necro I had from a couple of seasons ago that I named "Isaac" was the most godlike character I ever made... the stat "sheet DPS" was so crazy----3-million something DPS just on the sheet....at some times in the heat of battle, my defense points were 1-billion or so 🤣 It was a necro with the Trag'Oul set Death Nova/Simulacrum build.

Unpopular Opinion/Blasphemy Time....

I'd be interested in an Elder Scrolls side game where the timeline was much further along... similar to Fable, where the world now has simple firearms tech like flintlock pistol and the blunderbuss....that era is still fine for a fantasy rpg that still has magic and strange creatures, as Fable showed.

This would of course be like a spinoff and not necessarily a main-line title in the franchise though, at least that's how I'd do it.

nah, I've never heard of Ron Dee Voo.  In fairness, I also grew up as an extremely picky eater, usually reluctant to try new things...though ribs are generally "ok" with me, just annoying in how there's little meat on them that you have to pick off the bones, compared to other options.

It's good to see some people are trying to save themselves and moving away. (I'd rather the M-town "natives" go anywhere else but here though, of course...it's best to not have that city's riff raff trash contaminate the rest of the country)  One of my close friends from college seems happy to stay there which is just insane to me.

**just thinking about it again...yeahhh I miss those old days of Jack Pirtle's though; it ranked as the #2 in the tier ranking of fast food chicken for me, with Popeye's being the #1 of course....but damn that Jack Pirtle's was good stuff.  Too bad the rest of their food was kind of bland though.

Part of me would enjoy seeing the resulting humiliation of the Chicago reparations going thru.... only for it to have basically ZERO effect on the crime statistics.  Then of course the excuses would start piling up, like "well it's not an instantaneous effect, see...." and that would probably get repeated for years....that along with whatever amount being "inadequate", of course.  You'd see a lot of suddenly hood-rich folks spending on some flashy stuff and that's really all it accomplishes.  The crime situation there would be "business as usual".

After all these news stories showing what a shit show that city generally is in terms of crime... I've been wondering if it's actually worse than my preferred punching bag of ol' Memphis, TN.  I'm not sure how it compares in terms of the statistics but I still have doubts, actually.  "M-town" truly has no redeeming value.  

One of the only positives I used to bring up was the local news women... Memphis had some FINE ass girls on the local news (*note--which is unlike the rest of the city's population, btw; it's a barren wasteland when it comes to eye-candy just generally walking around; just awful), but even there... Nashville caught up on that front in recent years, and of course other cities already had that covered anyway---it's the natural rule in television that you should only be putting attractive people on if one is serious about ratings.

Another positive one could bring up is the local food situation... for chicken there's this place called Jack Pirtle's.  In my case it's a bit rare that I eat fried chicken anymore so that's become a non-issue for me....others would likely bring up BBQ, and I'm one of the rare southerners that isn't really passionate about that....it's just a "eh, ok" food for me....not something I'd go out of my way for.

Well, good to hear that Altar and Visions of Enmity will be permanent apparently in D3 though there's no more new stuff.... as some of us predicted, they'll simply rotate past season themes going forward:

https://us.diablo3.blizzard.com/en-us/blog/24046224/season-30-the-lords-of-hell-preview-1-5-2024

I never get tired of laughing at this mayor of Chicago....

whoah hold on a minute.... I know that no one else will focus on this detail... but the guy's name is Deobra (*they pronounce it "Dee-obra" here but other vids I've heard it pronounced the other way "Debra")... pronounced like "Debra"?!?  Damn...no wonder; that's probably part of the reason this piece of shit was destined for a life a crime.  Imagine all the teasing as a kid----other dudes calling you "Little Debbie" or making "Debbie Does Dallas" jokes because your silly ass mama decided to be "creative" with the name and figured that would be "cute", I guess.

....but how was he able to even reach the judge that fast?  I've always assumed there's no way in the world you would be able to get close enough to attack a judge before you're swarmed by whatever officers/baliffs are standing around in the court.

*Oh yeah, at least for now, the Best Buy I go to still had tv/movie stuff; I was able to get the 4k disc of Dracula (1992) just the other day.

Someone mentioned this on a Skyrim reddit form and I had not really noticed it until now...  Dark Souls also came out in 2011.  So... while the TES fans have been waiting on the next "proper" Elder Scrolls...

Dark Souls 1, 2, 3 + dlc content, Bloodborne and Elden Ring have happened as that whole genre became popularized as a big deal in the industry.... all while we continue to wait on one sequel that more than likely has had zero actual work done on it even at this point 12 years and 1 month later. 

Sad thing is I bet it's STILL many years away.  Little kids today will be grandparents by the time Elder Scrolls 6 is released and that's really a "maybe", imo.

I look forward to checking out the rest of that Katt interview; it already sounds like there's not enough "popcorn.gif"s in the world for the spicy shit he had to say about so many others....  yeahhhhh this should be good times....like we got at least a couple of hours of GOLD here, folks.

On another note; we had the pleasure of getting out of work early the other day since the internet went down... oh yeah it was awesome; I immediately was back into the world of Skyrim right at my desk, and eventually they just said everyone could just go on home since it was unlikely to be fixed anytime soon and it was already in the afternoon.

10 hours ago, VirginDefiler said:

even al gore, the most robotic man ever, is on that list. shits cray

This doesn't surprise me that much; there was some controversy years ago where it was revealed he liked indulging in certain "special" massage parlors, if I recall... and one of the women hilariously called him a "sex poodle", which is one of the oddest, funniest insults I've heard in a long time.  

So, apparently they'll just keep the MST marathon going indefinitely!

Damn I hate that I missed this live stream... of course you know this was bound to be a good one...

oh hell yeah and they get right to the good stuff with the "Just Friends?" topic; you know I can't ever resist that shit

It was mostly Diablo 4, Diablo 3 and Baldur's Gate 3, and Dead Cells for me in 2023...and probably still Elden Ring earlier in the year, I think....and of course just in the pat few weeks Skyrim has hooked me again.... my level 15 Imperial has more perks on the Vampire Lord skill-tree now, and currently on a mission for the great Lord Harkon.

I got the gym's monthly report on the numbers---this has been the best month for me there; my total calories burned was nearly 20k (19,700+), from 23 workouts; there's a leaderboard there so yeah I got the #1 spot on the board for the month.  That last workout on the last day of the year was goddamn amazing... I still had so much hyped energy to keep going after the end of it.

Man, a good gym membership is an incredible positive thing in life and people should always do it if they can and have the spare time....there's really no downsides other than it costing money.  At this point, any time I have a day off from work, I'm always tempted to go there for a class or 2... there's some days where I just stayed in the area for 2 or 3 classes in the same day. (of course with one of my portable systems there for the downtime)

Skyrim--- so I returned to the spot and found "Krosis" again; interestingly enough his health was still lowered from our previous battle; I forgot the game apparently does that... of course now as a vampire lord it wasn't even a contest at this point.  To be extra sure, I activated the Orc racial power and *then* changed into my monster form.... Krosis was destroyed in about 4 or 5 attacks since he was already at around half health or so.  One cool thing you get from killing the dragon priests--- the masks; I just like the way they look, but they also have powerful bonuses... this one gives an increase to 3 stats though I haven't bothered equipping it yet.  

...heading back to Whiterun, I was floating around in monster form and got too close to the city, saw the guards running over to attack...."oh yeah; oops, lol"...heh heh, I remember making that mistake before, way back on my first character... I went back out of sight around some corner and changed back to human form and returned to the city area.  That's funny to me that the guards have no idea that the monster they were chasing a little while ago was me.  ha, I can imagine my character telling them "hey be careful guys... there's some dangerous creatures out there; there was some big vampire in the area just a few moments ago...I managed to sneak past that thing and get here safely."