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I picked up where I left off, re-downloading Skyrim on Xbox (an odd thing happened a year or so ago that made me have to redownload/install everything for some reason)....on this other profile I had an Orc character, and it was good to be that again due to that godlike racial ability....but I did still run into some tough battles, like fighting a dragon and one of those super-powerful guys... I had to look it up online just to remember what type of enemy this is---a dragon priest named "Krosis".  I tried and tried forever to beat this guy but could not with my lowly level 5 Orc. 

The dragon was killed but Krosis was the real threat.  He's fast and can launch fireball attacks that have ridiculous splash damage...he has a frost aura so you take cold damage for getting close, then he can switch things up and start shooting ice magic/spikes at you.  One hit is a death sentence since that first hit seems to cut your movement speed to nothing....so you are guaranteed to take whatever followup attack after being slowed so much it's borderline paralysis.  He also keeps his distance to continue spamming magic spells.... as if that wasn't enough he can summon a Frost Atronach. and he can conjure a magical ward/shield on himself.  I was not a vampire yet on this character so I didn't have my usual benefit of the "vampire lord" monster form.  The best I could do after an hour or so of attempts was getting his health down to 60% or so... no choice but to give up and return to this fight later.

Edit----and so it begins; I made it over to Volkihar Castle and now have Vampire Lord status....I forgot how fast this goes when you kill things in that form; I already have several of the perks unlocked just from killing a few animals out in the wild and running thru a certain cave area, killing the "Falmer" folks.... I also made short work of a random dragon; he was nothing in the face of my new monstrous power.

ohooo the next vampire character I could make just popped up in mind----I should make "Vorador" from the Legacy of Kain franchise.  In the world of Elder Scrolls, an Orc will be the closest thing to the look already.

Remember that time they got comedian "Flex" to play Michael Jackson?  Double Toasted crew just had fun taking a look at that one... hilarious that Flex was in "white-face" to play MJ in the later years...

what in the hell...so they didn't even have the rights to the music for this movie....I shouldn't be surprised considering the pitiful budget but damn....

I am just recently finding out there have been some Diablo 4 figures (by McFarlane!) thanks to some recent trips to Gamestop... 

So far, I've seen 2 versions of Necromancer which happens to be my favorite character class.... and a Blood Bishop figure.  

The temptation is too strong here...and I have some Christmas cash to burn so.....oh yeah...

and here's a vid on the Blood Bishop...

Well, in one of the final trips to Best Buy for physical media... today I found the Predator franchise collection--- parts 1 and 2 + "Predators" and "The Predator". (*again that annoys me when they decide to NOT just go with numerical designations for things... like watch how the next Xbox will simply be called "The Xbox" or "New Xbox")

I also noticed they still have those ASUS ROG Ally systems... if I didn't already have a Steam Deck I'd be tempted to get that... or the Legion Go whenever it's out.

Skyrim---heh, man I can't wait to betray these Dawnguard chumps all over again on my new character... especially after a recent glitch that at first looked like it completely broke the questline...  (*if you have a bounty in Riften, the Dawnguard guys will immediately be hostile on your first visit, which is a problem since you need to speak to them to start it...getting in trouble "again" in Riften and then paying off the bounty will clear it though)

Oddly enough I didn't play that many of the other races in this game though... I've only ever played as an Orc (*BEST racial ability, imo.  DOUBLE damage, bruh.), Imperial and Redguard and High Elf.... 

The Khajit are an odd one---I think the concept is cool but the execution of their design just looks kinda goofy... I'd probably be more into playing one of those if they looked more like the Thundercats; that's a much better "cat people" design aesthetic, imo.

I mainly know him as one of the usual "hotep" type of dudes.... also he's hardcore against interracial dating for black people....one of those guys that will instantly look down on or wish to immediately banish anyone from this "tribe" for daring to be involved with a non-black woman (especially if the woman in question is white, of course)

Part of me does indeed love the fact that people like him exists though; it's a constant source of easy entertainment to point and laugh about, pretty much anytime he says something.

Oh there's also some school he was wanting to build...and he would keep getting occasionally roasted for taking so damn long with that; did he ever finish that, I wonder....that's funny if the school *still* isn't built...

Well, someone at work mentioned this story earlier... that woman Gypsy Rose got released today apparently

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/gypsy-rose-blanchard-who-pleaded-guilty-to-helping-kill-her-abusive-mother-is-released-from-prison/ar-AA1maoKi

man, what a sad, dumb sap her old boyfriend was... so he apparently killed her abusive mom for her.  They both of course were convicted over this shit...since he's the one that actually did the murder he's now stuck with a life sentence with no chance of parole.  Now--- she already moved on and was going to get married to some other dude recently.

Imagine being such a silly fool as to actually commit murder for your girlfriend... you both get time for it but she's out now and moving on with someone else while you will have to sit in prison for the rest of your life; no chance of getting out.  That's one of the biggest Ls I've seen in the news cycle in quite a while.  

There's a lot going on in that story though; I'll have to watch whatever special that was about it...but man, he threw his life away, ultimately for nothing but this life prison sentence.  

and so it begins... my Skyrim character hit level 11 so the Dawnguard content can start now.  Oddly enough I'm still a "regular mortal" at the moment... with the exception of the 1 character I made to be a werewolf, this is probably the longest period of time in that game that I've gone without being a vampire.  

I normally prefer to use 1-handed weapons; usually swords but the power of 2-hand like warhammers and greatswords is tough to resist....would be even more devastating if this were an Orc character (*due to their racial bonus involving temporary double damage....insane power-up there compared to the other racial bonuses).  Even without being an Orc... you can easily start one-shotting enemies pretty fast in the early game with the 2-handed weapons.

...between this ancient classic and the newer hotness of BG3, it may be a while before I get back to Spiderman 2, despite how much fun I've been having with it.

*also; I'm still not finished with the dlc for Kingdoms of Amalur, so there's that one as well.

Attack of the Doc! I've heard of this documentary from Chris Gore but never seen it until now.... this brings back so many memories....

So I've been back into the world of Skyrim yet again on Steam Deck lately... so far so good; it's actually been a stable experience, surprisingly.... my character Lucien (Imperial) is still fresh; just a meager level 6 at the moment. (at level 10 I can start the Dawnguard story and get my awesome vampire lord form and powers asap).  I found that tower on the way to the Greybeards where a woman stops ya, asking for a toll of 200 gold to pass; the option to persuade came up and she agreed to let me pass for only 50 gold instead.... once she turned around I pickpocketed the bitch and then killed her...took all her stuff and killed the other people in the tower as well....so naturally I got my money back and so much more.  See, I never get tired of playing the bad guy/asshole in an rpg....it's always a good time.  

Oh yeah tabs will be kept.... in looking her up I also noticed she's an Aussie and thus has THAT accent

...unfortunately the accent is not quite as strong/obvious as I'd like though; that's a shame.

Oh yeah and I was already interested in this the moment I found out Sofia would be in there; that girl is entirely too adorable

Even in the "Mummy" makeup some years ago she was looking like the finest mummy anyone has ever seen.  Yeah I'd eat that.

I found this movie on dvd not that long ago, actually.... cogan got around to making a vid about the vampire in this one....

ooh.... MST3K year-end marathon is live now

So---BG3--- my first character finally met up with "Auntie Ethel"....and yeahhh I'm still probably not quite ready to deal with all that.  I got into a battle with several "interesting" folks hanging out at Auntie's place, and it was a no-win situation there; I had to just reload an earlier save. (one can cast a magical curse that makes characters take damage on every turn of battle...eventually, all I could do was keep having Shadowheart heal people; no further chances to attack....besides, she tends to miss when doing an attack anyway so I just see her being the support role mostly at this point.)

This was a tangent though; I've already done the major thing with wiping out a certain village, and it appears that *technically* I could go into an area that starts Act 2, but it still looks like quite a bit of map isn't even explored yet just on Act 1, on this character. (Stefano the Sorcerer....oh and yeah my sorcerer has indeed laid pipe on Minthara's fine ass now.)

**oh---and this character has unlocked 2 illithid powers now---"Stage Fright" and Psionic Overload... so far Stage Fright is incredible; makes enemies attack at disadvantage...and each time they "miss" an attack they take psychic damage....one of my recent battles it appeared to work with the "opportunity" attacks as well, so 2 monsters in the Underdark got worn down pretty fast because they kept missing me and taking damage as a result.

The hood & cloak/robe looks cooler than the pointy-hat version of a wizard/witch.  

Ohhh and that just reminded me----"Xavier" was another one of my favorite Eternal Champions characters....it's such a great thing that so many of those older IPs may get another chance soon in the modern era.

I haven't watched all of this yet but noticed it recently on youtube

I didn't know Steam did the end-of-year report thing as well.... I enjoy seeing the stats on things like that; for me it says 45 achievements unlocked across 9 games...

Playtime = 28% was Dead Cells, followed closely by 27% Baldur's Gate 3, then 14% for Curse of the Dead Gods... Doom Eternal was 10%....of course 100% of my playtime was on the Steam Deck (the optimal way to enjoy pc gaming for me)

I suppose Last Faith didn't rank because I was mostly offline when playing that...usually on breaks and lunch at work...same deal for Warhammer Boltgun.

That clip of the German farmers dumping a huge pile of shit on the road was hilarious....there it was, literal "pile of steaming shit" in the middle of the road. 🤣 I wonder how many pounds of it that was?

More Megan the Silverfoxxx

haha, so yeah, I didn't really think about that until now.... Fortnite has introduced a whole new generation of promising young creeps to the greatness that is Chun Li.  That's good work.

Great choices out of that pornhub list too; Lady D is new on the scene but already worthy of legend status, I'd say.

Interesting that on this list--- Mercy, Widowmaker and Dva made the cut but NOT Tracer?

There is an X-Files remake on the way.... Ryan Coogler will direct it apparently....so the countdown begins to when we see a "blackened" Dana Scully, of course, and everyone plays their usual part in the internet shit-show cycle around it as they (Disney) hope for easy, free publicity as a result...along with the usual lazy (and shameful, imo) "oh you're just racist then" counter/shield to any criticism.   (*also looks like that website will have another redheaded character to go ahead and add to the big list they're keeping track of for the past few years)

It could potentially be better received if they just have the main characters be entirely different and new, (and perhaps Mulder and Scully are long gone, like retired or "missing" or whatever while these new agents are the focus of the story) but we all know that more than likely that's *not* how this will go.

It would be interesting to see if there would've been a different result if he claimed NB/they/them status like Ezra as a "shield" of sorts.  That's the play in Hollywood these days; just say that or "come out" as pansexual or something and apparently any kind of trouble you get accused of will be fine at least for a while.  

Hey, just sayin' it would be my gameplan.  Pre-emptive defense tactics.

holy shit look at what's going on with Skyrim mods these days

That new magic system... the new combat stances...

Another fascinating thing of mystery that's fun to wonder about... Mars and certain things there that look like they *might* not be naturally occurring objects...

I wasn't aware of NASA's apparent reluctance (oh what a surprise there) to take pictures for a while after people started wondering what's up with that one thing that looks like a monument of a humanoid face...

**also this is the first time I'm finding out that for all these years, they were using an orange filter for all pictures from there?!?!

haha I still have the Burger King games---- Sneak King and Pocketbike Racer.  Unfortunately they are not backwards compatible for the XB1 or Series X; I actually tried playing them several months ago out of curiosity to see if they would work on the new systems, so I'd have to fire up the old 360 to play those again.

I also had "YARIS" too....and those Doritos Crash Course games.  Doritos Crash Course still works on the Series X, actually; I played that one some months ago

(partly because I was looking for easy achievements--- back when the MS Rewards program was still a thing..... as of recently that Rewards program has been nerfed so damn hard it may as well not even exist.  I'd be willing to be that no one is going to bother with it anymore at this point; thanks for ruining a great thing, MS.  It wasn't even that long ago that I was telling a friend that I wish Nintendo and Sony would implement a rewards system that's even half as good as what MS had going on; it was easy to earn a decent amount of points each month but that'd dead for sure now.)

ah yes, there's some high quality picks on that "pornified" list---Raven, Starfire, Wonder Woman, Tracer, Widowmaker, Misty, Tsunade and Hinata... the good stuff.