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8 hours ago, Kal-El814 said:

 

If you have someone who can misty step a few times it's not that bad, otherwise it can be a drag to avoid getting murdered while you're lining up the masher / press.

I beat it on tactician just by giving Karlach a good bludgening weapon and buffing the shit out of her.

It was still the second most difficult fight in the game for me.

4 hours ago, Biggie said:

Do I have to do this or can I skip it? Really not a fan of some of the stuff you have to do in BG3. 

No its optional. However you will miss the best armor you will get until Act III. The boss also gives some good EXP.

Oh and be aware that he targets whoever attacks him last so its inadvisable to use spellcasters to attack him because hes resistant to all damage types except bludgeing and he will wafflestop them. 

21 minutes ago, Biggie said:

ok so pull the lever and fight that fire monster walking around in the lava?

The boss will be invulnerable unless it goes through the lava (it will be glowing when its vulnerable). So if he becomes invunerable you have to turn on the lava again and lure him through it. You can kill it by luring him in to the smasher and hitting the lever. Alternatively its vunerable to bludgening weapons so you can arm a fighter or barbarian with a bludgening type weapon and use the rest of your party to buff/heal the shit out of them while they go to town (ie haste, buffing potions)

3 hours ago, Biggie said:

How do you use the forge?  

You gotta turn on the lava first which will trigger a boss fight, then insert a mold then put the ore on the smasher part then pull the lever.

The lava has to be on for everything to work so you might have to turn it on again after the boss fight.

Also only do the Splint Armor (Heavy) or the Scale Mail (Medium) or the Shield. All of the weapons are garbage. 

Fucking with shipping has to be one of the more common reasons countries have gone to war throughout history. 

1 hour ago, CayceG said:

Resignation or not, sounds like Biden needs to line up a successor. Prostate cancer is no joke. 

Depends on the type. Most of the time at his age its the slow growing kind that can be treated with radiation therapy

Seems like these layoffs share the same root cause from the same cause as the desperate attempt to squeeze money out of locked in clients. 

3 hours ago, legend said:

Gale is awesome. 

Gale is the only male companion that doesn't annoy me for coming on to me despite me not romancing him because it actually feels like it makes sense for his personality. Haslin on the other hand feels out of nowhere and shoehorned. 

4 hours ago, TwinIon said:

Of the TVs I'm actually likely to buy, it doesn't seem like this year is much of an upgrade.

 

I've got one 65" TV that is a cheap Roku that I've been looking to upgrade to a bigger OLED, and with this lackluster upgrade cycle from LG, maybe this is the year to hunt for a good deal on the 2023 models.

Especially if you use Nvidia Shield that does that processing probably better. 

Also I refuse to connect any SmartTV to the internet. Fuck their forced ads and bloatware. 

I watched To End All War Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb so I knew everything before going in to the movie including the parts about his love life. I wanted a character study and Cillian Murphy did a damn fine job with what was given to him. 

Oppenhemer in the style of There Would Be Blood would have been fire.

The only reason why I didn't hate the movie was that Cillian Murphy's performance was very good.

No but I do think Epstein was popular among the elite because he could hook them up with young women/girls and keep it on the down low. 

The flight logs 

Sounds like this is a good game but its pretty buggy. Ill probably hold off until multiple patches.

6 hours ago, Greatoneshere said:

 

There was zero chance of this happening with Nolan, dude is all dramatization and stylization. Even Dunkirk, his most naturalistic film, is mostly a vibe movie and even that one has three different "timelines" going on.

I just think he was the wrong director for this movie. I think PT Anderson would have been a good choice.

I don't mind non linear storytelling either, hell Pulp Fiction is one of my favorite movies but this is a biopic. While yeah I understand the whole flashback thing it really hurt character development. It would have been much better served if we were allowed to see how the unfolding events changed Oppie.

I also felt like the dialogue was way too "Sorkinesque" where it was way too fast paced and snappy creating a feeling of heightened reality which I didn't care for in a movie like this. I wanted something less dramatized and more based in reality. 

I just watched this for the first time and tbh I think I'm over Nolan. While there are aspects of the movie I liked, the herky jerky nature of the time jumping and small snippets of dialogue that allow for lttle character development outside of a select few characters just left me flat. Its a common problem with many big blockbusters now a days where the director is so worried the audience will get bored they constantly throw shit in your face.

It tried to do too many things all at once and ended up failing on all fronts in an incoherent mess.

The documentary To End All War Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb was much more compelling and more importantly coherent. 

Edit: This movie would have been 1000x better if it was slower paced and linear where you actually got to know the characters and showed how they changed over over time. 

Just now, Greatoneshere said:

 

They can't even name who made up the Axis of Evil or even what that is if you don't mention WWII to help them out. I'm not giving the average CHUD any credit because the average person is stupid, so the average CHUD even moreso. They most likely believe what Fizzzle said, which is their families had their own farms and didn't own slaves or some bullshit.

 

 

How do you mean? 

Large swaths of the South have been taught "alternate" history about the Civil War.

37 minutes ago, Greatoneshere said:

She probably didn't say it was slavery because she wants the CHUD vote even if Trump has that tied up. She isn't stupid, she's just craven. Anyone with half a brain in this day and age (so not a lot of CHUDs) knows the Civil War was about slavery, whether that was spelled out or not at the time, and anyone like Nikki Haley who says otherwise is doing so for a reason.

I see you have never been to the South.

"Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery-- the greatest material interest of the world." - Mississippi

1 hour ago, GeneticBlueprint said:

I was going to say something very similar. He’s a leftist for people who were old leftists in the 90s. The left has absolutely changed in that time. Not as much as the right, of course. But Maher is correct. 

It almost like the left doesn't stay static and progresses forward. 

1 hour ago, ort said:

HeyyouDVD didn't shift from shit. He's always been a shit brained mealy mouthed vile little dipshit who believes in nothing... who's brain is a pathetic lump of malleable jello that has been molded into a ball of pure hate and lunacy by his cruel manipulative overlords who lead him around like a braindead little twerp idiot.

 

He is an irrelevant moronic vile idiot and who makes the world a worse place simply for existing in it.

He definately believes in things, he just cloaks them behind a veneer of peudointellectualism.