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11 minutes ago, Bacon said:

Yeah, I am not a Wyll fan. I only brought him along for his story bits but since he wasn't the MC his parts felt weak when compared to my Dark Urge stuff. Also, I think Warlock sucks balls, even when doing that 5/5 pallock was lame. I'm not a Wyll hater, but I don't care about him. At least if I hated him I could get some joy out of finding a way to kill him.

Wyll's "issue" is that he's surrounded by much more interesting characters. He for sure doesn't suck, he's reasonably well written, well acted, he has an arc, etc. It's just... he's a borderline straight man compared to most of the rest of the cast. Even Karlach...

I feel like in most other games Wyll would likely stand out, here he just doesn't really stand out even when the spotlight is on him. I suspect that's why some of the stuff in my previous post is part of his quest even though it doesn't really feel like it has much to do with him personally other than really obliquely. Most other companions have quests that feel a lot more personal around their conclusions.

On 1/24/2024 at 7:59 PM, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

Good God.

 

The Last Of Us Part II Almost Had A Lot More Senseless Death

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It's almost like Druckmann is a fucking goober and needs to be reined in constantly.

I will say that I think Wyll's storyline in general is one of the stranger ones. @legend @Bacon

4 minutes ago, legend said:

 

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Mizora try to stop you from rescuing him?

 

If not, that does seem like a bug. I more or less did what you did, but in addition to the thing above

 

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There is a conversation with Mizora and gloating in her face about saving him anyway. She responds by saying that she will still get him in the future and it's just a matter of time. 

 

See this video of the conversation here

 

 

On 1/28/2024 at 2:00 AM, Xbob42 said:

If you're in bed with SpaceX on just about any issue, you know you've got nothing but labor violations to offer the nation.

That’s uncharitable; there’s also a real chance you’re punish fucking the environment as well. 

8 hours ago, TUFKAK said:

I personally will never understand why the side opposed to my views are so concerned with the suffering of monsters. I’m not saying be needlessly cruel, but I’m not gonna lose any sleep over some monster suffering for a few moments. Don’t wanna be put to death, dont do horrible things seems a pretty easy bar to clear for me.

 

Philosophically, the state has the moral authority to take life violently, there’s no question on that. I just am willing to extend it out after the fact, especially in cases where the guilt of the monster isn’t in question like this case. I’m also willing to extend capital punishment to other crimes too and I make no apology for that either.
 

Im way more concerned with criminal Justice reform and rehabilitation of our incarcerated population than the tiny fraction of capital punishment cases annually, but since it’s an industrial complex now that’ll never happen as millions are getting made on recidivism over rehabilitation, but let’s keep focusing on monsters getting what they deserve I guess.

It costs me nothing and prevents the suffering of people who are potentially innocent? The notion that it’s fine when people who “we’re sure” are guilty end up suffering is lousy because even in those cases there is no pragmatic upside. 
 

Am I losing sleep over it? No, but it’s fucked to dork up executions because some people are “monsters,” whatever that is supposed to mean. 

1 hour ago, Bacon said:

 

It might be a bug? I did what you did, but there was no real interaction between the 3 characters all at once.

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Mizora should try to kill Duke during the rescue mission. There are these exploding spiders that she summons when you bust him from the cell. I believe there is a bug if you use the squid dude to teleport Duke to the sub. If you did that instead of waking him out normally that might have caused an issue.

 

What should happen is that Wyll and Pa reconcile, and when get back to camp and when you talk to Mizora you are all like, "lol we owned you dumb ass". But there is like no actual interaction between Duke and Mizora.

 

Maybe you have this bug? Not sure if it was ever fixed.

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If it's a bug, it's not the one you listed here. Seems like weird quest interactions. The quest to rescue that person is completed and written in the journal like the choice I made was final, but then that person was found later and the quest never updated. 

Question for anyone who's finished Wyll's quest. I just did and it feels kind of sloppy, which I haven't really seen in the other origin quests. Spoilers through act 3 for Wyll.

Did I run into a bug? This seems kinds weird.

8 hours ago, stepee said:

lol the old man who talks in rhyme but only some times, like commit to the bit or don’t dude 

I'm just here to appreciate the craftsmanship of this comment.

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Based on the personal quests I've done, I'd wager I'm maybe 33 - 40% through Act 3. I'm doing what I can to finish most quests I encounter and I think I've done almost all of them with the exception of one from the first Act that didn't close when it should've and then flunked at the end of Act 2. Pretty sure this is a bug and it should have closed or there was another trigger that the journal didn't let me know about and I actually missed it.

It's really great. I think my only laments are that now that I'm at level 11 or so... almost nobody can fuck with my party. It feels good to stomp some people and there's still an occasionally engaging fight, but most of the "challenge" at this point has come from mid fight triggers that I couldn't have predicted, or a bunch of mooks showing up out of nowhere immediately after a fight starts which will have Gale or someone caught with his pants down. I appreciate that I'm the architect of this issue; if I hadn't done almost every quest I could, I wouldn't be at close to max level. Maybe a Tactician run is in my future. 

Also the inventory management is lousy. We're not talking Starfield levels of derp, but... if I have a bottomless chest and through 95% of the game I can warp to it... just let me carry whatever I want. This isn't a survival horror game, holding infinite shit wouldn't change much other than preventing true stupidity like carrying every chest in the game at one time or something... I dunno. It just feels like added steps to warp shit I wanna sell to camp, then walk to a vendor, then warp to camp, pick up all my shit, then leave camp, then sell it. Maybe I should just munchkin less, whatever.

Anyway so far all the Origin characters have been really interesting, their quests and development have been really fun to play through. Larian does good work but if you'd told me that we'd get a sequel to BGII / Throne of Bhaal 20 years later and it'd be this awesome, I dunno if I'd have believed, but here we are. The biggest crime they committed is to the stat line of a returning character... but I get why they did that. I guess.  

Even god cannot funge a token 

8 hours ago, CayceG said:

This should be the final nail in the coffin for "we talked to prospective Trump voters" reporting. This guy is motivated by irrational anger and responds to those stimuli, as are all Trump voters. 

 

It is fascinating to me that someone has the political journey of supporting Obama, Trump, Burgum (!), Hayley, and then Trump. 

 

 

‘Our System Needs to Be Broken, and He Is the Man to Do It’ - POLITICO

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Ted Johnson sincerely thought he wanted a uniter not a divider. It didn’t last long.

 

These are the same chucklekfucks who insisted that a "beer test" was relevant for George W. Bush, who is sober. It's just astrology and virtue signaling from people who claim to hate both.

A significantly higher portion of Gen Z identifies as bisexual compared to previous generations.

If CDkeys is selling steam keys for FO4, you just buy from them, redeem the Steam key, and it’s in your Steam library like you bought it directly from Steam. 

The vibes are pretty good and the settlement building is fun if that’s your speed. The shooting combat is like Starfield but worse but it does have VATS. A couple of the companions are quite fun, but some are pretty boring and nobody really shines as bright as the BG3 cast does. The story is, I’d say, bad. It sets its sights on some lofty themes but I don’t know that the motivations of any of the principal players are all that interesting and some are nonsense. There are a couple dramatic and fun bits though. 
 

It’s a Bethesda Game Studios game of its era, with all that implies for good and for ill. 
 

edit - also the radiant quest system is trash. I got the same quest to save the same person something close to 10 times, they got brought to the same place where the same enemies respawned with the same loot every.  Single. Time. Despite playing a good character overall, I killed the family that kept giving me the same quest, convinced that the only reason it kept happening was them trying to have me killed. I regret nothing. 

40 minutes ago, legend said:

Yeah act one is tons of fun of course, but it all feels low key. The end of act 2 is when you start to feel like the heroes (or villains, I suppose  ) of the story.

 

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The scene where you free the Nightsong is so awesome, as is Shadowhearts lead up into it.

 

Yeah that bit was awesome. I’m doing a good aligned path. I can’t really bring myself to be evil in games where the characters are fleshed out well and I like everyone involved; I want them to be happy! And the good aligned vibes in that scene really hit in a nice way since I just let that person do what THEY wanted to do without trying to influence them or even roll dice… they just kept walking down the path we paved together so far. Hit that sweet spot where it felt natural and earned, but I still felt like it might have swung the other way or that the game wanted me to try to intervene instead of trusting them. Really, really well done. 

1 minute ago, Biggie said:

I'm serious lol

2 minutes ago, Biggie said:

They offer something called a southern crispy chicken biscuit but its not a sandwich and its not a piece of McChicken

Now you're just making things up.

1 minute ago, stepee said:

you can even look as some of the pictures twice 

CALM DOWN

I like McDonald's breakfast, but I find that I still feel hungry afterwards but can't actually eat anything since my stomach is full. It's a weird sensation. Doesn't stop me from powering through every now and again, though.  Do they still do breakfast sandwiches with the McChicken in there? That was tasty.

2 minutes ago, best3444 said:

But once you look at it one time, then what?

For people who like art, I don't think owning an art book is that different than someone who likes to read keeping books that they like. 

4 minutes ago, stepee said:

look at the art

CALM DOWN

10 minutes ago, best3444 said:

What does one do with these art books?

Just got past Act 2 for the first time. Game is so good, the whole end of that act is amazing.

Had a funny interaction as part of my Lae'zel romance.

I will say the only weird thing dialog wise when it comes to rejecting romance attempts from other characters is that I don't seem to be able to tell anyone that I'm with someone else? Me and Lae'zel pork in camp and there's no way she's quiet, everyone must know I'm into extraplanar ass play. Then someone else comes up to try and hit it (understandable) and I don't have the option to say "so sorry, I like them really mean"? Boo.